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There are a limited number of combinations in which a sentence can be written in a given language with a given vocabulary. The more people live in the world, the more they write about the same topic, the greater the chance of repeating ("plagiarizing") the same sentence, from someone else living in the past or present.. and you can't have a clue about it..

Too ambiguous title. Free from what? Free from regulations? Free because products are given away for free? Product exchanged for other product? Sounds like current world..

These days, if you ask many young people "what do you want to be when you grow up?", they will answer "I want to be an influencer" Certainly more interesting than digger, but still silly TBH..

Can you demonstrate that this premise is true? E.g. In the 19th century and earlier, when one wanted to build a tunnel or canal, tens or hundreds of thousands of people were employed to dig with pickaxe and shovel, in later years with help of dynamite, such as the London Tube. Now you use Tunnel boring machine. Tens or hundreds of thousands of people are no longer needed.. ..and they need to find alternative jobs.. This is a very inefficient method of work. Without fertilizers, the soil is quickly depleted after a few years. Work on the farm is easy to automate (if you're engineer and computer programmer)

That's what some Africans and Mexicans are doing now.. They are moving to Europe and the United States because they are no longer in their comfort zone.

If it bothers you so much that you have to start a thread about it, you can intelligently give your relative a sign that you know he's a crook e.g. "Unbelievable! Look at this site URL, they have a suspiciously verbatim copy of your answer to my puzzle. What a coincidence! "

Next time create your own unique quiz question, don't "borrow" it from the Internet - that's also plagiarism if you didn't say where you "borrowed" them from..

@kenny1999 You should ask somebody who used AOMEI..

I understand. But it's time to learn something. It's not too difficult, especially when I've told you everything you need to know. It is impossible to create a perfect mirror image of the system disk that is currently running. It's like a surgery on your own hearth. When one sector is copied, something changes what has just been read, and something else changes what has not yet been read. It is quite usual. Therefore people use VirtualBox. And can make mirror of virtual partition file when they need to.. I've told you everything that was general that I could think of. Everything else will depend on the application.

..cash register.. ? ..billfold.. ?

It depends on the application. There are applications with license key files that are time (date) limited. The motherboard has a built-in real-time clock (RTC). It has a battery (therefor you need to replace it from time-to-time when it is exhausted). The operating system can be configured (and usually is) to update the time from the Internet (if you have network access). 1:1 is binary mirror created by dd on Linux mentioned in the other thread. Disconnect from the Internet, change the date, restart the computer and work a bit (a few days) on it and the installed applications, you will see if they work or not, without the Internet connection. Some applications verify the validity of the license key over the Internet.

You can make a binary mirror of the entire disk. To do this, you need.. Linux. And use the dd command. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) Usage: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb iflag=direct oflag=direct bs=16M status=progress Where /dev/sda is your source device, and /dev/sdb is your target device. It will save also MBR with partition table. Read the Wikipedia article for other examples of use. Such copy is indistinguishable from original. i.e. every byte and bit will be in the same place as in source. It can copy all sectors of an HDD/SSD from one device to another (equal size or bigger is required). You don't need to install Linux on any disk. All you need is a Live Linux flash drive. e.g. Kali Live. The procedure for creating such a bootable flash drive is described in this article: https://www.kali.org/docs/usb/live-usb-install-with-windows/ Obsolete 2 GB flash drive is needed if you will use Kali 2019.4 Light ("Lite") version. Obsolete 4 GB flash drive is needed if you will use Kali 2020-2023.2 Live version. Obsolete 8 GB flash drive is needed if you will use Kali 2023.3 Live version. The latest one at the moment. It depends on the application you are trying to copy. In a simple application you don't need to copy any registry and it will work fine, a complex application will fail miserably because it requires and has many dependencies, such as classes, services.. You can experiment without worrying about destroying the main system on a virtual operating system created by VirtualBox, for example: https://www.virtualbox.org/ Working in a virtual environment and copying the virtual disk file is a common practice to store/restore the state of a virtual machine. A complex application can check the computer's specifications, e.g. processor, graphics chip, and install only the necessary parts, which means that copying application files from another computer with different specifications will not succeed..

Isn't death the ultimate punishment for an atheist?

To paraphrase you, "What are the benefits of the existence of an A.I creator, asked by an A.I?" "What are the benefits of a parent's existence, asked by a child?

..in trace amounts.. https://www.google.com/search?q=iron+in+seawater https://www.google.com/search?q=iron+in+mainland+water

Have you heard of Tiberius Gracchus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Gracchus "Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (c. 163 – 133 BC) was a Roman politician best known for his agrarian reform law entailing the transfer of land from the Roman state and wealthy landowners to poorer citizens."

Baronial landowners did not allow princesses to be reigning queen after the death of a king who had no male descendants. Leaving a male descendant to the currently reigning king was always in their minds. Centuries passed when the first ruling queen appeared and was accepted by male barons without mutiny. I understood you quite well from the first post. I was simply continuing the discussion and expanding on it..

..and you think more abstractly.. Husbands voted against their own wives, daughters and mothers. An example of self-interest.

Isn't the red color on my map exactly an example of what you are talking about? They wanted to maintain the status quo, that is, not to allow women to vote.

Past democracies? We don't have to go back in time that long.. Women in the US gain suffrage just in 1920. For majority of the existence of the United States, they were not admitted and treated as second-class citizens. "Black people were theoretically equal before the law, including theoretical suffrage for Black women from 1920. Black men were given voting rights in 1870, while black women were effectively banned until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_suffrage It is interesting to see a picture showing which states voted in favor and which against:

In a direct democracy, laws or executive orders are voted on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy In the 20th century and before, representatives were needed because of the inability to gather all the people in the country in the same place. In the 21st century, representatives are not needed anymore because everyone has a method of communication (smartphone/computer) that connects people to remote locations in real time..

All you are saying is indirect democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy Where all eligible citizens elect their representatives from time to time. The representative (whatever is called) expresses (or usually lies about) his beliefs and makes election promises. IIRC I heard in the past we had a case a person sued his representative for not keeping his election promises (or even doing the opposite) and lost the case. Bizarre. So basically, anything a representative tells you to get elected can be full of nonsense and lies and will not be punished for it.

What do you know about Pythagoras' triangle/theorem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem There is everything... Just read the Wikipedia article from the link above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_trigonometric_functions

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