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Heh heh

/whoosh

It's called Imaginary Property to show the absurdity of how broken the current legal system is.

Due to your profession's excessive greed you guys are even patenting Math !?!?!?! Worse, the fucking algorithm is even named, Carmack's Reverse, after the person who independently discovered and shared it. Yet assholes like you think it is OK that a company can "own" another man's original and independent thought -- preventing the idea from being implemented.

The fact that you defend patents proves that you are nothing more then a leech upon society when your profession patents bullshit like "a single click for buying", illegal numbers, TWO prime numbers (512-bit and 1024-bit) (WTF???), or even a fucking minimal web page!?!

Your (blatant) greed is a cancer upon society and I will continue to call out your Imaginary Property bullshit while you continue to "justify" and provide excuses for a corrupt system based on flim flam definitions.

> But feel free to explain how the law does not define property,

ALL (Legal) Laws are ARTIFICIAL contracts. Physical property can't be copied and shared like "Intellectual Property." Gee, maybe you should pay more attention to the principal author of the Declaration of Independence when he said:

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." -- Thomas Jefferson

Hijacking the term "property" and trying to refine the "definition" of Property in context of "Intellectual Property" to be treated the same way as physical property is nothing more then a charade for plutocracy propaganda. You produce nothing of "value" except what you can profit from the work of others -- without inventors you would have nothing to patent! Pretending that you think you "own" an idea doesn't make it so regardless of how much legal intimidation you try to use. Someday you will realize it is better to share knowledge instead of hoarding it and profiting off of artificial scarcity. Children hoard, Adults share. It sounds like you missed that kindergarten class? /rhetorical

> whereupon I shall be freed to appropriate that vehicle that you use to get to work.

I walk to work. Maybe you should stick to facts instead of conjecture. How LONG have you been practicing law again???

Now kindly please fuck off when you realize there are more important things then money.

/whoosh

It's called Imaginary Property to show the absurdity of how broken the current legal system is.

Due to your profession's excessive greed you guys are even patenting Math !?!?!?! Worse, the fucking algorithm is even named, Carmack's Reverse, after the person who independently discovered and shared it. Yet assholes like you think it is OK that a company can "own" another man's original and independent thought -- preventing the idea from being implemented.

The fact that you defend patents proves that you are nothing more then a leech upon society when your profession patents bullshit like "a single click for buying", illegal numbers, TWO prime numbers (512-bit and 1024-bit) (WTF???), or even a fucking minimal web page!?!

Your (blatant) greed is a cancer upon society and I will continue to call out your Imaginary Property bullshit while you continue to "justify" and provide excuses for a corrupt system based on flim flam definitions.

> But feel free to explain how the law does not define property,

ALL (Legal) Laws are ARTIFICIAL contracts. Physical property can't be copied and shared like "Intellectual Property." Gee, maybe you should pay more attention to the principal author of the Declaration of Independence when he said:

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." -- Thomas Jefferson

Hijacking the term "property" and trying to refine the "definition" of Property in context of "Intellectual Property" to be treated the same way as physical property is nothing more then a charade for plutocracy propaganda. You produce nothing of "value" except what you can profit from the work of others -- without inventors you would have nothing to patent! Pretending that you think you "own" an idea doesn't make it so regardless of how much legal intimidation you try to use. Someday you will realize it is better to share knowledge instead of hoarding it and profiting off of artificial scarcity. Children hoard, Adults share. It sounds like you missed that kindergarten class? /rhetorical

> whereupon I shall be freed to appropriate that vehicle that you use to get to work.

I walk to work. Maybe you should stick to facts instead of conjecture. How LONG have you been practicing law again???

Now kindly please fuck off when you realize there are more important things then money.

Ah, but he didn't mention New York. Rural locations might have more wildlife.
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

See subject: One that "gets the job done" as efficiently as possible vs. script trackers/ads/DNS requestlog tracking/botnets/malcripted sites/malware downloads/email malcious payloads etc.) & I do ok by registered /.ers (& I have DOZENS more) https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

* Technically no genius here since IQ tests I've taken scored 130-140 (& iirc, "genius" is what? 180++??)

APK

P.S.=> I'm sick of crap being pulled on people so I built APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?... OR APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p VS. thieves online the most efficient way that does more for less resources NATIVELY vs. "Bolt-On-'MoAr'" ILLOGIC-LOGIC in things full of security bugs (DNS/Antivirus/Addons that don't work by default (adblock)) - no SINGLE other 'solution' does as much for so little FREE... apk

Or a Philco phone.

You could design it around miniature vacuum tubes and market it to audiophiles.

California has always burned. Burning is built into the ecosystem there.

Yeah, but for 10,000+ years prior to whitey showing up here, the natives set fires yearly that kept the brush and understory down without destroying the forests. But that's not what's happening now. Environmental devastation aside, it's going to be interesting to see what happens to Lake county when tourism dries up. We lost Boggs forest in the last big round of fires, which meant a big reduction in mountain bikers. Cow Mountain and all the conveniently-accessible parts of the Mendocino National Forest are burning down (or have burned down) in this one. Lake county used (long ago) to be one of the hottest tourist spots in California. That's true right now, too, but in a different way...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

you have to take care of their basic needs first. In America 80% of us live paycheck to paycheck. When you're living hand to mouth you don't really care about 20 years from now.

Some of that is poverty, but most of that is personal finance. For whatever reason a lot of people can't save money, give them a raise and you'll raise their standard of living, but they'll still be living paycheck to paycheck.

You can't wait until you've fixed every other problem on the planet until you start addressing global warming, you need to start fixing it now.

There IS NO SUCCESS RATE. FAIL!

https://wattsupwiththat.com/20...

MANY more here:

https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

The first hit in this google search.

you have to take care of their basic needs first. In America 80% of us live paycheck to paycheck. When you're living hand to mouth you don't really care about 20 years from now.

You don't need 80%. You need the 1% who control most things. The oil companies put us back decades because profits, but at some point they should be beginning to realize profits don't help if you destroy the planet.

you have to take care of their basic needs first. In America 80% of us live paycheck to paycheck. When you're living hand to mouth you don't really care about 20 years from now.

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

APK Hosts File Engine trims it down shearing away ads + scripts faster vs. any other method APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

For Windows & Linux + BSD variants keeping you SAFER & FASTER online as well as more reliably connected (vs. DNS redirect poisoning security issues OR being down) + more anonymous (vs. script tracking + DNS request log tracking too).

* Enjoy...

APK

P.S.=> ... & accept NO substitutes for the best (see above)... apk

Rest assured I don't do it in my APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

* MULTIPLATFORM for Windows/Linux/BSD makes you SAFER vs. threats (botnets, cryptominers, malware, malscript etc.) & FASTER online + more reliably connected (vs. DNS redirect poisoning security issues/down) + more anonymous (vs. script + DNS tracking).

See subject: My code doesn't transmit YOUR data outward!

3 things show I do it right:

1st = User praise my hosts engine https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

2nd "ATTACKS" I GET (by UNIDENTIFIABLE ac as Elon Musk got https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... )

3rd BEING IMITATED = https://linux.slashdot.org/com...

APK

P.S.=> Lastly: Too bad on CCleaner BUSTED this way - it's decent... apk

See subject: Buffer overflows can happen in C++. Null-term'd strings = in use BY DEFAULT (like C) & can be exploited 4 buffer overflow exploit.

* Workaround = Change to "pascal style strings"

Pascal INCORPORATES LENGTH in strings. C/C++ default doesn't.

It's partially WHY I DIDN'T USE MY OTHER FAV (C++) vs. Object Pascal on APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Plus rest of why?

ObjectPascal BEAT MSC++/JAVA/VB to a PULP in 4/6 tests (Visual Basic Programmer's Journal 1997 oct issue "Inside the VB5 Compiler")

Especially on strings hosts use I process! ~ 4x++ performance & DOUBLE in math (every program deals in both) of even MSVC++!

APK

P.S.=> I took NO chances in a program GEARED for security/speed for users vs. threats & used BEST TOOL for the job... apk

Buffer overflows can happen in C++. Null-term'd strings = in use BY DEFAULT (same as C) & can be exploited as buffer overflow exploit.

* Workaround = Change to "pascal style strings"/std string!

Pascal INCORPORATES LENGTH in strings. C/C++ default doesn't.

It's partially WHY I DIDN'T USE MY OTHER FAV (C++) vs. Object Pascal on APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Plus rest of why?

ObjectPascal BEAT MSC++/JAVA/VB to a PULP in 4/6 tests (Visual Basic Programmer's Journal 1997 oct issue "Inside the VB5 Compiler")

Especially on strings hosts use I process! ~ 4x++ performance & DOUBLE in math (every program deals in both).

APK

P.S.=> I took NO chances in a program GEARED for security/speed for users vs. threats & used BEST TOOL for the job... apk

Can happen in C++. Null-terminted strings are in use BY DEFAULT (same as C) & can be exploited for buffer overflow exploit.

* Workaround = Change to "pascal style strings" in std string!

Pascal INCORPORATES LENGTH in strings. C/C++ (by default), don't.

It's partially WHY I DIDN'T USE MY OTHER FAV (C++) vs. Object Pascal for APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Plus - ObjectPascal BEAT MSC++/JAVA/VB to a PULP in 4/6 tests (Visual Basic Programmer's Journal 1997 oct issue "Inside the VB5 Compiler")

Especially strings (that hosts have) by ~ 4x++ performance & DOUBLE in math. Every program deals in 'em!

APK

P.S.=> Took NO chances 4 PERFORMANCE & SECURITY in a program GEARED for security + speed for users vs. threats online & used BEST TOOL for the job... apk

Rest assured I don't do it in my APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

* MULTIPLATFORM for Windows/Linux/BSD makes you SAFER vs. threats (botnets, cryptominers, malware, malscript etc.) & FASTER online + more reliably connected (vs. DNS redirect poisoning security issues/down) + more anonymous (vs. script + DNS tracking).

See subject: My code doesn't transmit YOUR data outward!

3 things show I do it right:

1st = User praise my hosts engine https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

2nd "ATTACKS" I GET (via UNIDENTIFIABLE ac as Elon Musk got https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... )

3rd BEING IMITATED = https://linux.slashdot.org/com...

APK

P.S.=> Lastly: Too bad on CCleaner BUSTED this way - it's decent... apk

Rest assured I don't do it in my APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

* MULTIPLATFORM for Windows/Linux/BSD makes you SAFER vs. threats (botnets, cryptominers, malware, malscript etc.) & FASTER online + more reliably connected (vs. DNS redirect poisoning security issues/down) + more anonymous (vs. script + DNS tracking).

See subject: My code doesn't transmit YOUR data outward!

Too bad on CCleaner BUSTED this way - it's decent!

APK

P.S.=> 3 things show I do it right:

1st = User praise my hosts engine https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

2nd "ATTACKS" I GET (via UNIDENTIFIABLE ac as Elon Musk got https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... )

3rd BEING IMITATED = https://linux.slashdot.org/com...

Sometimes weeks and months without power after damage from tropical storms. Granted, the sun still exists, but its usefulness is diminished after the solar farms are transformed into a toxic wasteland.

See subject & MIDDLEMEN & "the internet was created for a better way for guys to jerk off", lol - yea, maybe but I think of it the BEST library so we share ideas.

I TRY make it better per inspiration from Cliff Stoll of "the Cuckoo's Egg" who spoke to me here on /. as I told him his work inspires others like me in his telling me "It's YOUR TURN now" http://it.slashdot.org/comment...

APK

P.S.=> I do so via APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?... MULTIPLATFORM for Windows/Linux/BSD keeping you SAFER & FASTER online vs. threats (botnets, cryptominers, malware, malscript etc.) + being more reliably connected (vs. DNS redirect poisoning security issues/being down) + more anonymity (vs. script + DNS request log tracking)

See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

* MULTIPLATFORM for Windows/Linux/BSD keeping you SAFER & FASTER online vs. threats (botnets, cryptominers, malware, malscript etc.) + being more reliably connected (vs. DNS redirect poisoning security issues/being down) + more anonymity (vs. script + DNS request log trackings).

For FASTEST local verified resolution hosts do what you wish: Even CHINA imitated me via an idea I implemented before 'em http://theregister.co.uk/2017/04/26/boffins_supercharge_the_hosts_file_to_save_users_plagued_by_dns_outages/

APK

P.S.=> Used for my TOP 100 fav sites I spend most time @ online to assure I reach them faster + more reliably (supplementing DNS) too placing 'em @ TOP of hosts cached in RAM & you can too... apk

See subject: I'd never have had to release APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux & BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p (remove spaces between characters & download) OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?... ... apk

MULTIPLATFORM for Windows & Linux + BSD variants keeping you SAFER & FASTER online vs. a myriad of threats (botnets, cryptominers, malware, malscript etc.) as well as more reliably connected (vs. DNS redirect poisoning security issues OR being down) + more anonymous (vs. script tracking + DNS request log tracking too).

* ... & neither would Malwarebytes (whose subsidiary hpHosts both HOSTS & RECOMMENDS my work above) in their new addon https://blog.malwarebytes.com/...

APK

P.S.=> ... & accept NO substitutes for the best (see above)... apk

... inserting dopant-level hardware trojans.

Yes, that actually is a thing, nowadays.
*Throws everything out of the window*

APK Hosts File Engine trims it down shearing away ads + scripts faster vs. any other method APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p (remove spaces between characters & download) OR APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

For Windows & Linux + BSD variants keeping you SAFER & FASTER online as well as more reliably connected (vs. DNS redirect poisoning security issues OR being down) + more anonymous (vs. script tracking + DNS request log tracking too).

* Enjoy...

APK

P.S.=> ... & accept NO substitutes for the best (see above)... apk

To think that at one time, /. was where intelligent conversations were held. Now, the idiots come to troll.

See subject: Delphi = awesome & can build STATICALLY compiled VCL single .exe programs. I used it for APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?... that even registered /.ers like & use (small sampling w/ dozens more like it in reviews by /. peers) https://linux.slashdot.org/com...

THEY DID PUSH IN THAT DIRECTION FOR LINUX!

* TRY FreePascal 3.04 + Lazarus 1.8.2 IDE for it (EXACT duplicate of Delphi @ syntactic level + IDE)!

I used it to PORT the program above to Linux APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p

APK

P.S.=> Delphi BEAT C++ & VB in 4/6 tests in Visual Basic Programmer's Journal 1997 oct issue "Inside the VB5 Compiler" & tied 1 w/ C++ & lost only 1 (so did C++) to VB (ActiveX formload) ESPECIALLY in MATH & STRINGS by 2-4x FASTER... apk

how do you even know where to begin learning about any subject?

• By having enough to eat/a place to stay such that your immediate survival isn't in question. Learning is hard if you're starving.
• By putting down the distraction rectangle(TFA above is a good example)
• opening the door to your office/desk/work environment, and being open to how other people might be interested in what you can do for them in that area
• By desiring to know about the subject, and making a map of the terms involved that you don't know or suspect are being used as terms of art.
• By finding other people interested in learning about it(Hackerspaces are a great place to do this), and engaging with them with the explicit reason of learning about the topic. Finding or building media that allow you to coordinate this task. Bonus points if you can find people to *teach*.
• By being humble about what you know and don't, and expecting your initial expectations to be incorrect(especially for softer fields like Economics/Political Economy). And especially: publish your results in a way that other people can replicate.
• By collecting relevant data, seeking out sources on relevant data, and if they aren't easily accessible trying to reproduce them yourself while being careful to keep track of what you are doing to obtain said data, what that data is, forming hypotheses and testing them.
• Try to think of a project you can do that relates to your topic of interest, and try to do it.

It doesn't matter if your adviser is Deepak Chopra, if you follow where the data tells you to go and are careful enough. I've helped people from the age of 4 to 80+ learn topics from algebra to video game development and there is no reason why lectures are particularly better suited for learning, or should be exclusively sought after, though they can be the cheaper option (especially in well-beaten paths like intro-to-programming or intro-to-stats).

The average smartphone user isn't prepared to use external sources, and if they do, it's going to end up like malware on Windows.

It doesn't have to end up like malware on Windows. OSX and Linux don't have the same problem, despite being open platforms.

How many kids game on either of those, seriously?

Click here for "Fornite with all dances unlocked" ...

You're correct, but there's more to it.

https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

This is where I grew up. See how the roads are spaced pretty regularly? Those aren't kilometers.

There's a huge amount of our country that's based on imperial measurements, and those for whom metric makes more sense - such as in science - already use metric. There's really no reason to change.

"That said...isn't a 50% reduction in multiple chronic health problems so huge a result as to reflect an almost guaranteed causation?" ââ"â"â" no, see for example this graph:. https://www.google.com/search?... Note that it also doesn't rule out some kind of correlation, like having more free time to sit in a sauna, or drinking more water as a result of sitting in a sauna.

Has anyone else noticed that the Phoenix area seems a bit over the top with the neighborhood names? I live in NYC and don't know Phoenix well, but it seems like every 30 - 100 houses have their own name. People can't really use these, right? Just take a look Pueblo Hermoso, for instance, looks like it's about one building, and appears to be some kind of a strip mall. I'm used to NYC, where even a small ("newer," some would say fictional) neighborhood like NoHo might have 5,000 residents, and 100+ buildings, with stores and restaurants in it. Obviously, this is because of the density of Manhattan. However, in Phoenix, are people even using these names? Would a local even know where "Henry Leo Place" is? Would love to have a local weigh in.

Most of you are too young to remember, but once upon a time, everyone's real-life identity was transparent on the Internet. Everyone used their real names, most people even included their phone number and work address. If all you had was an email address (bang path), you could use it to finger them and get their info. Being able to skirt around this and do things anonymously was considered a bug which needed to be fixed.

As I recall it, anonymity took off when AOL joined Usenet. An AOL account granted you 5 usernames, ostensibly so a family could share a single AOL account. But a lot of AOL users used the extra identities to create pseudonyms so they could post on Usenet anonymously. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth over this among the pro-real identity folks, and a lot of heated arguments, but I don't remember there being any death threats over it. And eventually the pro-anonymity side won out.

It's interesting that the pro-anonymity folks aren't as tolerant of opinions different than theirs. For a democracy to function, there has to be a free exchange of ideas. People with different opinions must be allowed to express and practice what they think is a better way to do things. Their idea should be evaluated by each individual who hears it, and either accepted or dismissed. An individual or a group proactively preventing other individuals from learning about a different idea by threatening the people advocating them is corrosive to democracy, and will lead to a tyranny by an apparent majority. Nobody will know if the "majority opinion" is really held by the majority, because everyone is too afraid to contradict it.

The premise behind the need for basic income is flawed.

It goes around the idea that efficiency improvements means taking away the jobs that are needed by people. We hear this every 40-50 years or so, When there are some major changes to the workforce.

That's the common argument, yes; and it's ludicrous.

I proposed a Universal Dividend--similar to a Basic Income, but not paying "enough to live", instead just a fair share by taking a percent of all income as a FICA tax and distributing it evenly. The American Citizen's Dividend is modeled on a 12.5% (1/8) FICA, redistributed flat among all adults, and manages to act as an effective tax cut at all levels.

That's difficult to explain, largely because it's a huge amount of math and quite counter-intuitive. The short version is we have an inefficient social insurance system, and I reworked it on an efficient model with the Dividend as a foundation. Social Security's Retirement and Disability benefits are paid in total with the Dividend (i.e. a recipient of OASDI gets the same from the three benefits in total, rather than additional on top of what OASDI pays now); while other means-tested welfare includes the Dividend as part of your income, thus reducing the amount of other welfare paid (because people are less-poor).

The slightly-longer version involves walking through the various income groups, their FICA burden, and the percent of the benefit which is represented by the FICA. If you get $6,000 and you pay $6,000 or more into FICA, we illustrate the "cost" of the benefit as $6k less; if you pay $4,000, then we illustrate the "cost" of the benefit as $4k less. That $2k that you receive in excess of your FICA paid essentially is represented by $2k somebody else paid in excess of the Dividend received, and that symmetrical number represents the "cost".

When you add it all up, I restructured $1.1 trillion of Federal spending into $2.0 trillion, with about $1.2 trillion going back to the same pockets from which it was taken--overall, $1.1 trillion becomes $0.8 trillion, or thereabouts. The Dividend itself only represent a $300 billion expense itself, in those terms, and somehow comes out with a more-efficient fiscal structure.

So... not a Basic Income; it's a social insurance against structural change: everybody pays an even share and receives an equal share.

This means if we become 10% wealthier (purchasing power income over time per adult) as a whole and you become 10% wealthier, you keep it; if you become 100% wealthier, you only become 87.5% wealthier due to the Dividend's FICA; if you become 5% wealthier, you end up paying 1/8 of that 5% and getting 1/8 of 10% (you come out with an extra 1/16); and if you lost your job, you are receiving 1/8 of everything. That FICA is an insurance premium against missing out or, worse, being the sacrifice to obtain progress.

That's the rationale between a Universal Dividend: it makes our social insurances efficient; it protects the losers from structural change without taking ever-more from the winners and forcing them to gain little to no benefit; and it has a huge pile of downstream effect that amount to bailing out collapsed local economies and rebuilding towns like Detroit, Blackwater, Flint, and Baltimore to middle-class, able to support a decent average local wage.

In other words: it's a zero-deficit-spending economic stimulus, perfectly targeted even to micro-recessions (single household losing income), with its greatest impact wherever poverty is most concentrated. It starts fixing recessions before they become recessions--or, worse, depressions, as we saw in the 2008 Depression (2008 was the first year since the Great Depression in which the United States per-capita income was not higher than the per-capita income of every preceding year in history--and you call that a

This idea that we're heading towards a society where people won't need to work, or where jobs won't exist, is as old as society itself. There is no free ride. There never was, there never will be. The labor market is ever evolving and ever present.

The per-person productivity of the US(*) is now about $58,000.

This means that if everything were distributed equally, every man, woman, and child could be given $58,000 to spend. And they would get another one next year. If you restrict it to adults, that figure goes up by another third.

The rise appears to be exponential, with the "doubling time" roughly 16 years, more or less depending on the growth rate of the economy in past decades. You can easily see this in the Google chart by tracking down to half the current amount (1995), half that amount (1981), and so on.

A few moments though should convince you that exponential rise is the expected outcome - increases in productivity tend to beget more increases in productivity.

For a sense of the time periods involved, note that the US has about 4% of the world population, so if the per person GDP continues to rise as shown, the US will be able to supply the world population with twice that amount in four doublings, or 64 years from now.

Also: other countries are on this same curve and are not accounted for.

By the end of this century we will be at the utopian ideal seen in many science fiction novels, and kids today will live to see it.

...if that wealth can be equally distributed.

As mentioned, we could distribute $58,000 to everyone in the country today, or we could wait 16 years (one doubling) and distribute $58,000 to everyone and still be on that exponential curve.

At some point we will simply have so much wealth and so few jobs that it makes sense to reinvent our economy to compensate.

UBI seems inevitable.

(*) I realize the OP is talking about Canada, but US is the info I have at hand. It should be the same there as here.

Why does Slashdot have an article on this app every couple of days?. It's an app for buying movie tickets, who the heck cares? 1 article talking about their horrible security and privacy is enough, I don't need to know every time they add a new feature, every time a competitor makes yet another app like it, and every time the price changes.

There were definitely libraries in ancient Rome intended to serve the masses, although they mostly date from slightly later than this (e.g. the Library of Celsus, built in 139 CE in what is now Turkey).

One of the perqs of being a politician in Ancient Rome is that it afforded you a chance to amass a private fortune. But since you had to be rich to play that game to begin with, what did you spend that new money on? Buying popularity.

The ultimate examples of that were what we misleadingly call Roman "baths", which by the imperial era had become a combination bath, gym, beauty salon, mall, theater, restaurant, art gallery, and library. Basically they were crammed with every entertaining thing the politician could imagine. Now, granted, wealthy Romans had baths in their home and slaves to feed and groom them, but Romans were a sociable lot; it wasn't enough to be rich, you had to be seen being rich, and generous too.

Of course baths were so expensive in their engineering only the very richest politicians could afford to donate them to the public, which is why the great era of Roman bath-building was the imperial era. But earlier on politicians donated less grand (by Roman standards -- plenty grand by any other) public works, including public libraries. Gaius Asinius Pollio, patron of the poet Virgil and an accomplished writer himself, donated the first public library in Rome with money he looted from Iran. That was built around 39 BC.

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Fucking apps. Everything is a goddamned app.

You should write a letter listing your concerns.

Here's a link to the Complaint Letter app.

Chromebooks can function offline and sync when Wifi is available just fine.

Provided that the web application that you are using on your Chromebook uses Service Workers to work offline. How widespread is full support for Service Workers? This topic claims that things like Amazon Cloud9 IDE don't support it.

Now, we had heads of state meet and tensions are calming.

Maybe. We can see that NK is dismantling the engine test stand at Sohae, but it looks like they've resumed construction at the factory that assembles ICBMs. Their work at Sohae is generally complete, so they can dismantle that without losing capability, and naturally they can built it again if they need it. You keep saying that we haven't given them anything that we can't take back (which is not completely true), but the same is true for them. They have given us nothing that they can't undo (in fact, they have given us nothing). We, still, have given Kim a propaganda victory that he can use at home and that we cannot undo. They can show him as legitimate, and blame any problems on us, while he continues to built ICBMs and warheads. There is one and maybe two uranium enrichment facilities that are undeclared (one of them is here, the Kangson facility). We think that he has continued to produce fissile material, and he can enrich it at places where we can't tell. This is still true, and as Trump did not push for nor even mention any inspection regime at all, it's going to continue. So, what does that mean? That means that Kim can make a show of destroying somewhere around 20 warheads, which looks great, and makes everyone happy, and he will still have nuclear weapons and the capability to make more. So, tensions appear to be calming, but Kim is more legitimate than ever and he's on track to continue his weapon development with new missiles, new warheads, and new factories. This is going according to his plan, not ours. He has been busy for a while, that new factory will produce parts for his rockets that will go to other places to be assembled and then deployed. That construction is as recent as this month.

Yes, it would have been nice but not getting the optimal isn't the same as not getting something favorable.

Yes, you're correct. And, in this case, we have gotten nothing at all. If you disagree, let me know what we've gained in our talks, what NK has given up or done. So far they have dismantled an engine test stand that they are finished with (in the process, anyway, and again they can rebuild it if they need it), and we have 55 sets of remains from the Korean war. Maybe they're even American soldiers, so I guess that's 55 down and 5,300 or so to go, if that's important to you. Personally I think it's nothing more than a token gesture. Again, it does not change their capabilities in any way.

I would agree but everyone knows what the goals are. Both sides know what they want and know what the other-side wants.

That doesn't matter. When we say we want de-nuclearization, and Kim says he pledges to de-nuclearize, the first step is to define what that means. Because I guarantee we aren't speaking the same language. We want one thing, and he's agreeing to something else. If this is not in writing then it doesn't mean anything.

"... international roaming..."

Roaming is expensive.

Many Blu phones have dual SIMs and cost less than $100. Quoting: Dual SIM:

A Dual SIM gives you several advantages... If you have two SIM slots in your mobile device, you don't need to worry about these issues: (The writing on the Blu web site is poor. I improved it.)
1) Exchanging SIM cards from one phone to another.
2) Carrying two phones in your pocket.
3) Remembering to charge two devices.
4) You can take advantage of different voice/data plans for better rates, better coverage, and separate bills.
5) You can separate personal and business phone calls.
6) For the international traveler, a Dual SIM phone can avoid roaming charges by having a domestic carrier SIM and an international carrier SIM.

Go visit My Noise website or for Android. There are a lot of OTHER noises there as well.

We moved to an open-office space a few years ago. I was occasionally going NUTS with all of the background babble. At times I needed to solve a problem but all I could hear is my next door neighbor talking -- I guess NOT trying to listen made it even worse. I purchased noise-canceling headphones and when I just had to concentrate they went on. Nice, icy, cool quiet.

Here is an alternative that would have helped cover it up. Voices not saying anything, but still covering up the actual ones that ARE.

RIP Doug, you were one of the unsung heros of Star Trek. Thanks for your work. (I just wish you hadn't made those Daleks so screechy-annoying.)

First, I'd like to address the notion that this is "my concept." I don't know whether or not UBI is the way forward, all I was doing is pointing to what an advocate would say in response and some of the reasoning behind it. These ideas are important to discuss. Next, I'd like to swat down the things that are completely irrelevant to the discussion, like how cynical I am or am not and whether your assessment is accurate as well as what kinds of people are talking about these ideas. All completely immaterial to the discussion.

That out of the way, I'd like to address the substance here.

I don't understand why you handwave replacing existing welfare systems for "obvious political reasons." It's not obvious to me why that would be, especially because the people on the many disparate welfare systems would probably be better off under a UBI. A lot of them require status checks, paperwork, etc. so unless the resources granted by the many disparate programs are significantly greater, the time-efficiency is rewarding enough to offset the switch alone. And because they don't generally get you many resources, covering the basic costs of living is probably an improvement in resource terms as well. It would also remove a lot of the perverse incentives to stay out of work or things like that. You dismiss the idea out of hand and proceed to attempt to demoralize the position without actually arguing any points here. Even if we assume that you're correct and the welfare state is deeply entrenched, you still need to go further and demonstrate that UBI conflicts with that.

I also don't care if people see it as an addition to the welfare state instead of a replacement. I would argue with them that this is stupid as well. You can't lump me in with them for no reason because that's not what I'm saying. This is what we call a strawman.

I can't help but notice that you ignored the part about machines in the bit about specialization. Wonder why that might be?

In any case, there are doubtless productivity improvements that come from specialization. I don't care at all about your strawman argument which casts all specialization as doctors that are also lawyers that are also farmers. You should know this is an absurd argument. Those are all immensely deep fields of study that can be adequately broken down into smaller subfields. We would be talking about things like flat semi-truck drivers vs van semi-truck drivers. Or maybe drivers that go from Ohio to Pennsylvania and drivers that go from Ohio to Michigan. Either arbitrary distinctions or nearly arbitrary distinctions simply to fill the job guarantee. There is some degree of specialization in everything that yields benefits but everything also has a point beyond which meaningful specialization isn't possible. There's some point - which may or may not be the same - where you divide up jobs into boring, fungible, high-turnover positions.

The relationship between specialization and job satisfaction isn't well-understood and there aren't a lot of research materials related. There is some evidence for both sides. Or in this case, it appears that both are useful but on different scales - focusing within a single day is beneficial and having variety over the

Maybe they should form a union.

My state's constitution makes unions illegal.