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During a part of my life I don't look back on too fondly, I lived in an accursed state called West Virginia (not Virginia). At that time they had what were called "Blue Laws" - which, in a nutshell, were legally enforcing Sunday as the day of rest for all because the Christians insisted it be so. Businesses had to be closed.
Now, to your point:
Businesses had to be closed, but that didn't include restaurants, food stores and laundromats. For you see, when these people left church on their day for rest they may have wanted to have a Bar-BQ or picnic afterwards. Or do their laundry for work the following day.
So - the day of rest didn't apply to those places . . . those workers . . . much as you noticed. Because those that make the rules don't want to inconvenience themselves.
After I had been there a couple of years each county, with few exceptions, voted to remove said laws. I'd like to take credit for it but am too modest.
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Its the other way round - we may survive but they cant. Its when we are closed and they open when they generate maximum moolah...
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Why not may 12th?
Or better still, August 27th?
Or, if we're really into making people celebrate other peoples idea of a holiday, why not close everything for your birthday?
Or, presuming your view stems from a political view of "May Day", consider the following:
Marx, Engles, etc. were brilliant.The experiment was triedIt failedTime for everyone to get over it<edit fixed='font changes'>clarification</edit>
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W∴ Balboos wrote: why not close everything for your birthday?
Probably because nothing would be able to open, ever. 
And what about old-folks homes? Hospitals? Fire services?
Eventually, there would have to be world-wide restrictions on when you could have sexual relations, so that children are born only on alternate days (even days of the month only, perhaps) so that shops could open on the other ones, and civilization wouldn't collapse because nobody could buy food.
Of course, first we would have to have a wave of purges of anyone born on a odd-numbered day - which might not prove popular... 
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You should have taken my response literally: the 'your' part was referring explicitly to the BD of he to whom I replied.
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I get complained at when I take things literally! 
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Agreed - who needs an eight hours workday? 
W∴ Balboos wrote: The experiment was triedIt failed
That is a bit too black and white. It is not a binary choice
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
That is a bit too black and white. It is not a binary choice
Actually, I agree.
Humans are a social species - our strength only shows it self when working as a commune(ity).
My observation is that employers would exploit their workers to any degree they can get away with if not stopped by laws (or unions).
My observation is that employees would like to not work at all for more money then they already are getting.
Admittedly, there are some of us who do what we do because we enjoy it - and they pay us - but most people don't like what they're doing. The power of Unions - that protected workers - protected them out of their jobs in many (former) US Industrial areas (such as Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and steel making, NY city garment district, Southern USA furniture manufacture, etc.)
Somewhere is the proper balance. It needs to be designed by good people and adopted by good people. I'm not holding my breath.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It failed
Not everyone realizes this. That's why the experiment is still going on.
Unfortunately, nobody graded them, and gave a score card. Or, they don't want to be graded
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My birthday IS a national holiday in the country I was born in
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Why didn't you just buy your burger yesterday?
Or 5 years ago[^], to be safe to not forget it? 
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Not sure whether the purpose of making May 1 as a holiday has been served.
What was the purpose? They call it Worker's Day, but workers have remained so for the last century
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the name says it all 
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We can, but an other law says to not waste food (or other perishable good). Therefore everything that has to do with food is open, also services that guarantee proper care for injuries and so on have to be open for the case. The problem is, that basic goods must be suppliable 24/7.
Therefore we never will be able to get a 100% workfree day 
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"Basic goods" don't have to be supplied 24/7: until the end of last century it was very normal for all shops in the UK to be shut all day Sunday, half day on Wednesday, and only small "corner" shops would be open past 18:00. It just takes a little organisation on teh shopper's part.
More important than "basic goods" are services: hospitals, old folks homes, police, fire, ambulance. Emerganecy cover is also needed for some phones, water supplies, electricity, and gas. Even the military must operate 24/7 or countries would be invaded at 18:00 on Friday, and wouldn't be able to respond until Monday morning!
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Yeah you got me wrong on that. I meant not the retailers, but the ones transporting it. And also i said that services need to operate 24/7 where i also implied hospital, water, energy and all of that.
I mean, shops have closed on sundays everywhere i was, so that's just normal, but food transports are allowed and have to drive on sundays
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its ok, only food outlets that are closed
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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What if on a holiday I wouldn't want to cook and eat at a Fast Food? I couldn't, the Fast Food wouldn't get money.
Not only that but most supermarkets reamin open with reduced opening times, mostly because if everything should close on Sunday and holidays most of the people wouldn't be able to access to them - meaning there would be less revenues, less markets/restaurants.
Well, a nice punch to thos Capitalistic dastards? No, just a lot of unoccupied clerks, cooks, cleaning personnel and so on.
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Possibly but then we'd have to cook for ourselves instead so how's that a holiday for us? And why stop at McDonalds and KFC? Why should their workers get the privilege but not Wendy's or Taco Bell or Pizza Hut? Or, come to that, nurses, police, fire services, coastguards, the navy, TV and radio, baseball players .... well, you get the idea!
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I could survive if they closed there doors permanently! Don't visit either one.
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I've been waiting years for Visual Studio on my Mac
This release looks reasonably basic, but I'm sure it'll improve. Times are a'changing! 
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Some of the commenters over at ArsTechnica have dug into it, and it's a bit underwhelming. Not to dissuade anyone from trying it out, and I applaud MS's movement in this direction, but when it comes right down to it, all they did was re-brand the atom editor[^].
(also, it's not a full-blown IDE. No compiler, no debugger. Just edits source files)
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ArsTechnica have issued an update to their original article..
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/29/microsofts-new-code-editor-is-built-on-googles-chromium/[^]
Whatever it's built on and in spite of it's limited functionality in its first release, I think it's a good thing that Microsoft at least appear to be taking an interest in supporting other platforms for development.
Looking at the changes in ASP.NET 5/MVC 6, we're only at the beginning
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Me too. I have been doing some Python development for the raspi
https://github.com/joesox/raspiai/wiki[^]
My son and I have been developing in VS Community then copying the files onto the raspi, then using Geany[^] to do the fine tuning on the raspi itself.
Geany is great and lightweight, which is needed for the raspi, so I can't wait to go home and see if I can use MS Code instead.
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