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1901 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia.

Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.

Baseball's American League declares itself a Major League.

J. P. Morgan buys mines and steel mills in the United States, marking the first billion dollar business deal.

First public telephones at railway stations in Paris.

Edward VII opens his first parliament of the United Kingdom.

U.S. Steel is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan as the first billion-dollar corporation.

The United Kingdom Census 1901 is taken. The number of people employed in manufacturing is at its highest-ever level.

New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.

The U.S. stock market crashes.

Cuba becomes a United States protectorate.

Bureau of Chemistry established within the United States Department of Agriculture.

The 1,282 foot (390 m) covered bridge crossing the St. John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world.

The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.

Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner in the United Kingdom.

Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.

The body of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.

The British Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.

Auguste Deter is first examined by German psychiatrist Dr Alois Alzheimer, leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name.

The new Constitution of Alabama requires voters in the state to have passed literacy tests.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu in England to Newfoundland, Canada; it is the letter "S" in Morse.

Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive.

Europium is isolated by Eugène-Anatole Demarçay.

William S. Harley draws up plans for his first prototype motorcycle.

New Zealand inventor Ernest Godward invents the spiral hairpin.

German Oscar Troplowitz invents for German company Beiersdorf AG the medical plaster patch called Leukoplast.

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Just finished applying for a job at the county... My parents already work for the county... Now I'm getting ready to play Star Trek Online... Or maybe Rust... Or maybe something else... Or maybe...

1899 - Spanish rule ends in Cuba.

Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City.

The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.

Opel Motors opens for business.

Spanish–American War: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.

Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.

In an accident at Grove Hill, Harrow, London, England, Edwin Sewell becomes the world's first driver of a petrol-driven vehicle to be killed; his passenger, Maj. James Richer, dies of injuries three days later.

In Washington state, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.

Felix Hoffmann patents aspirin and Bayer registers its name as a trademark.

At Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.

Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmits a radio signal across the English Channel.

Students at the University of California, Berkeley steal the Stanford Axe from Stanford University yelling at leaders following a baseball game, thus establishing the Axe as a symbol of the rivalry between the schools.

New Richmond Tornado completely destroys the town of New Richmond, Wisconsin, killing 117 and injuring more than 200.

Three Denver, Colorado newspapers publish a story (later proved to be a fabrication) that the Chinese government under the Guangxu Emperor is going to demolish the Great Wall of China.

The paperclip is patented by Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor.

America's first juvenile court is established in Chicago.

Marshall "Major" Taylor wins the world 1-mile (1.6 km) professional cycling championship in Montreal, securing his place as the first African American world champion in any sport.

The White Star Line's transatlantic ocean liner RMS Oceanic sails on her maiden voyage. At 17,272 gross tons and 704 ft (215 m), she is the largest ship afloat, following scrapping of the SS Great Eastern a decade earlier.

Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is registered for copyright as ragtime music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States.

The American Line's SS St. Paul becomes the first ocean liner to report her imminent arrival by wireless telegraphy when Marconi's station at The Needles contacts her 66 nautical miles (122 km) off the coast of England.

During the new moon, a near-grand conjunction of the classical planets and several binocular Solar System bodies occur. The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn are all within 15° of each other, with Venus 5° ahead of this conjunction and Jupiter 15° behind. Accompanying the classical planets in this grand conjunction are Uranus (technically visible unaided in pollution-free skies), Ceres and Pallas.

A large standing stone at Stonehenge falls over, the most recent time this has happened.

David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book Grundlagen der Geometrie.

Oxo beef stock cubes introduced by Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.

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Hiram Percy Maxim develops the muffler in conjunction with the suppressor.

1897- Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction.

The first Boston Marathon is held, with fifteen men competing, and won by John McDermott.

"The Stars and Stripes Forever', the American patriotic march by John Philip Sousa, is performed for the first time.

Irish-born theatrical manager Bram Stoker's contemporary Gothic horror novel Dracula is first published (in London); it will influence the direction of vampire literature for the following century.

The Klondike Gold Rush begins when the first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle.

The Oldsmobile is founded in Lansing, MI by Ransom E. Olds.

The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.

The Battle of Saragarhi: Twenty-one Sikhs of the 36th Sikh of the Sikh Regiment of British India, defend an army post against 10,000 Afghan and Orakzai tribesmen. The battle occurs in the North-West Frontier Province Afghanistan, now a part of Pakistan, which then formed part of British India.

The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.

The word "computer", meaning an electronic calculation device, is first used.

Bayer first produces Aspirin.

Dos Equis is first brewed in anticipation of new century.

J. J. Thomson discovers the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the nucleus).

Hiram Percy Maxim develops the muffler in conjunction with the suppressor.

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Welcome to the forums.

Trying to make Firefox on Fedora 20 KDE play Netflix. I started at 8PM last night.

Not bad... I liked the 3rd the best.

Last game I played: How fast can I reinstall Fedora 20 KDE so I can see if installing different thing makes it work better.

Well, that's the thing... There isn't a good 2d, or maybe even 3d graphical representation system available to describe most of the political individuals today. Half the old terms have mutated to mean the exact opposite of what they meant 20 years ago.

Banned for incorrect capitalization, improper use of punctuation, and bad spelling.

This time you didn't use improper punctuation.

Messing with my other laptop... Making Fedora 20 KDE play videos with audio that goes through the HDMI cable.

The Elder Scrolls Online Beta. Very fun. I have an NDA with them, so I can't tell you anything about it except to say that you need to get it when it comes out if you ever enjoyed any of the other Elder Scrolls games.

My opinion is that everyone has the right to their own opinion. (in other words, you can't really offend me with an opinion)

Are they calling for prosecution and penalties of illegal by the banks? Do they speak out against unfair tax avoidance of large corporations (like Google, General Electric, Exxon, Apple, etc. all paying single digit or less in taxes?). What is their solution for people in poverty? Do they speak out against CORPORATE welfare (for instance? How would they solve the current problems we have?

How often do you listen to their radio shows? They actually do cover all that... (and it's pretty comprehensive opinions too if you pay attention, but I don't have the time right now to find their opinions and put them here) The only problem with getting anything made into law, is that the 'status quo Democrats' control the majorities in the house, the senate, and the presidency... (kinda keeps all the good ideas from being able to be passed)

From what I know of Hannity and Limbaugh, their stances are a lot of the noise that gets in the way of more serious debate.

It's only 'noise' because when they try to put it through in a bill, they are ridiculed by Democrat controlled media, and the the Dem controlled (in every area possible) government refuses to vote favorably on the bill. (Hannity was seriously considering running for president last time to see if he could change it)

I mean I even found a link of him defending Super PACS, which I see as a signficant step towards moving power away from the average voter towards big money.

Didn't look like he voiced his opinion on it either way to me. Try to keep his personality in mind... He's highly sarcastic most of the time, and loves to talk about ANYTHING that might annoy the Democrats. (he may even be referencing something from a previous show or book in there, as he frequently does without informing you) From my point of view, he didn't say whether he supported or opposed it, he just informed us of the ruling.

To give them credit though, I did some research and noticed he DOES speak out against quantitative easing, so kudos for that, although I think that's incorrect framing QE as a liberal issue, many liberals hate QE also, just apparently not the Obama administration. This is kind of what I mean about the "noise" however. The way QE is being used I think is highly irresponsible, but the thing is both Obama AND Romney were in favor of maintaining the status quo with the federal reserve. So calling it "liberal" or "conservative" I think is intellectually dishonest and is just playing people against each other. An issue like that is essentially independent of both sides, since again, I think both republicans and democrats are more or less at the call of big money.

I haven't read/heard enough about QE to have a strong opinion on it yet, so I won't say anything concerning it.

Plus, the second part of your sentence says to me either you were just speaking off the cuff, or else you may be ignorant of the actual extremist left. I think this could be terminology however.

It probably is the understanding of the terminology. I've had misunderstandings like that in the past.

I want to be clear, if we're not talking social issues, I don't consider any of the Obama administration or even most of modern day democrats to be the radical left.

And that's the thing. The current version of the 'radical left' is only about 'social issues', and hoarding power.

I see them as highly centrist, in some categories more right wing than Republican candidates of the past.

Right and left doesn't correspond to Democrats or Republicans, and hasn't for over 50 years. (it used to, but there's some kind of conspiracy or something going on trying to confuse people)

When I hear "radical left" I'm thinking of Noam Chomsky,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky%27s_political_views

According to that, his views are very moderate... Actually quite similar to my own, and even to those of Limbaugh and Hannity. (though his opinion on war is a bit different)

Chris Hedges,

A socialist.

Bernie Sanders,

Another socialist.

Robert Reich,

The only true leftist on your list...

etc.

I find no reference to this person on Google.

I think the MAJORITY of people want to change the situation, but there is so much misinformation and obfuscation that it's unlikely to happen without drastic actions.

Very true.

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Well besides it being easier to just manufacture more USB ports rather than USB ports AND PS/2 connectors, part of the reason those were phased out is because there's more power going through a PS/2 connector and in rare cases could actually damage the motherboard if ever unplugged while active (though I haven't really heard of those situations since the 90s). Actually the PS/2 does offer a minor advantage for keyboards as it means more keys can be pressed at once (look up "n key rollover") if you want to know more about that.

There are actually a few n-key rollover USB-only keyboards out there now... One is made by Ducky.

America is not fully "dominated" by anyone.

I would disagree, I think America is dominated by big money. In 2013, over 3 billion dollars were spent on lobbying. We have more millionaires in congress than any point in history. I've read that since the recession, 95% of our economic gains have gone towards the upper 1%. Our system is essentially rigged to snuff out third parties. In my opinion, that's not democracy. I've read before that nowadays we essentially have the one-party system, the party of business, with two different factions.

 

I mean our answer to the 2008 financial crisis was to essentially bail people out, slap on the wrist penalties for most companies, nobody went to jail, and no serious legislation was passed to prevent the same thing from happening all over again. HSBC was found guilty of laundering money (and CONTINUING to do so) for Al-Qaeda, the Mexican cartel, and many other criminal organizations, yet the only penalty was a fine of 5 weeks of profit for them. No one went to jail over that and the justice department even came out and said it was afraid to press harsher penalties for fear of damaging the economy. It's essentially an admission that large banks are above the law. I think neither the left nor right establishments are seriously going to challenge this order, because they're also being funded by it. The only people who are serious about wanting to stop corruption in our system are essentially radicals now, as the mainstream just accepts it and debates things like social issues instead.

I do have to agree with you there... Unfortunately the only "radicals" that want to do anything to fix the situation are the "extremest right". (people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, or me)