Whole reimplementations have survived. IBM BIOS was the only original BIOS for PCs. Phoenix Technologies had a team read the source code for IBM BIOS (it was published in the user manual for troubleshooting) and wrote a specification for it which a different team wrote software from, making IBM compatible machines possible
I don’t know what law an emulator could be killed under, unless a license holder breached the user license as part of the development
Boot lickers?
When you vote in private, on paper, none is always an option. You can deposit a blank form, a form with 1 in every box, a form with zero in every box, a sketch
We can. And pre-poll votes. We don’t need to mail forms to everyone as most people can and will make it to a polling place on the day.
We can also vote out of state or from outside the country at an embassy or High Commission
And you can buy a sausage on a slice of bread
Yep. Us Aussies can only waste our vote deliberately. If we want to vote we can number every box. And because we have a single transferable vote we have a lot of boxes, the last senate vote form had more than 40, and you could vote any of them first
And if the rest of your electorate didn’t rate your number 1, you might agree on number 2
News reports call out the losers — this party is last, its votes get distributed per the voters’ forms and you watch for which bars on the graph grow as the shooters and hunters party (I didn’t get to vote in the election where the sun ripened warm tomato party failed to get elected) is excluded. A forty horse race is better than a two horse race
It’s also nice to choose your actual preference, even if it isn’t popular
I knew it would be that Tom Scott video
You’d have states mandating voting, and passing laws that businesses must give staff time off to vote. That’ll never get up
A hundred more on a thousand dollar device sounds exactly like the 10% duty we pay on things we import