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...your preferred RFC. For me it is RFC 2324.

Just use 'corporation'. It takes less keystrokes.

This is not really a problem. I expect corporations in which I have an ownership stake (shareholder) to operate up to the limits allowed by laws* to maximize profits. Nothing more, nothing less. Not wasting money or avoiding opportunities based on some unquantifiable touchy-feely nonsense.

*Whose laws? Facebook is a US corporation. The fact that an Australian, located in New Zealand chose to use it as a streaming platform isn't the fault of FB. And we have a culture of free speech and honesty here instead of covering up societies warts with some rose-colored glasses and censorship. Unlike some of the more totalitarian regimes that attempt to sweep their problems under the rug.

What MMT really is; not what you thought it to achieve.

Is more what they are than morally bankrupt...

Hanlon would agree.

Tractors benefited land owners who could buy them, not farmers using them.

Massive numbers of slaves benefitted large land owners, not the common wage workers of Rome who became welfare cases on a Universal Basic Income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The slave-ification of the Roman economy was a process that in many ways was similar to automation since it was a massive infusion of extremely cheap un paid labour so here are historical precedents indicating that this is not guaranteed to end the way you predict. UBI in Rome was simply a mechanism the wealthy slave owners used to keep the masses from arming themselves and coming for them. This was an ever-present danger since many of Rome's free citizenry were veterans of Rome's constant wars to secure resources and pre-emptively neutralise potential competitors which was one of the few career options still open to those who wanted something more out of life than just subsisting on a UBI. That last part about constant wars over resources of course has no parallels in post WWII US history ... or does it?

Congrats, you pointed out one namespace collision out of the two dozen listed on wikipedia.

I'm sure your mother will print out your post and put it on the fridge next to your fingerpainitng.

You are aware that the futurists grew into the Italian fascists?

I hate to say this but I think at least some people who love Linux love it because it is so difficult to use.

I find your hypothesis preposterous.

State should ideally provide UBI and promote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I am typing this on a Fedora29 system. It's "Software Center" (apparently called "Discover") is a non-functional hot mess. There appear to be several diffrent software managers installed by default and they seem to all be unaware of eachother and incompatible and none of them fully functional.

Oh, and I'm running Fedora29 because I stupidly allowed the previous Fedora install to auto-update, after which it refused to ever boot again. I put in a new drive and installed a new Fedora and then put the old drive in as a second drive to recover my files before re-formatting that previous mess. NONE of this garbage in in the slightest way "friendly" for an average user.

Linux, being a volunteer effort, is plagued by a version of the tragedy of the commons . In the case of Linux, developers appear to focus on the stuff that particularly interests them or the stuff where they have what they think is a spiffy new idea, and the most basic functionality and useability is completely neglected. It's 2019 and Linux is only now able to play an MP3 file by default - but it still cannot play most video files unless you monkey-about with repository settings and then perform a list of functions to install goofball-named obscure files from unknown repositories on the other side of the planet (I once had a person misunderstand me an think Linux involved "suppositories"...) We still do not have a good standard audio setup, including a good audio API that supports both open- and closed- source programs. We still do not have any decent support for printers and printing (going through a Web Browser? SERIOUSLY? how do you explain THAT to an average user????).

Oh, but there's new desktop and GUI stuff with every release! You may not be able to figure out how to make your printer work on Linux, but those desktop windows sure fade-in and out and snap to edges nicely!

Linux will NEVER take over the desktop, no matter how evil and obnoxious Windows gets, as long as using Linux is such a complete pain in the posterior and such a mystifying and confusing experience for a typical user.

(Oh, and please kill-off the evil idea that an end user wants "help" from either a manpage, or from a webpage loaded from a remote webserver that may not even be accessible to the user! Help files are, by definition, a sign that something is WRONG, so they need to be local and the assumption must be that one of the problems might involve the lack of a high speed internet connection [doh!].

The Linux community needs to switch off the stupid, get out of the geek bubble, and consider the needs of a typical user.

People want something which works. For all the whining about Microsoft and Apple, their software works. Linux, not so much.

There is one version of Linux which just works. Android's market penetration surpassed Windows several years ago.

If the people making these Linux distros are asking themselves why people aren't adopting their distro, maybe they'd learn more by comparing themselves to Android rather than to Windows.

60% of educational laptops come with Linux installed by default. Not sure what the Chromebook market is overall, but yeah, you're not going to get many people installing an aftermarket OS on their laptop. What is the point?

The Prius was not the 1st mass produced "green" car. Honda Insight beat it.

The Prius was a full 2 years before the Insight. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Bull-fucking-shit. Look at people who have been on welfare for a couple generations. Their kids don't even know how to DO 'work'.

That's because existing welfare programs strongly discourage working. I have a friend on SSI Disability (in practice the only cash welfare program in the US) who was freaking out recently over having too successful a month at work because people on disability are not allowed to have savings or make any non-trivial amount of money (the limit is <$2k, I think) or they get kicked out of the system. And due to the savings limits, they'll be homeless and starving before they could possibility manage to get back on.

One of the main arguments for UBI is that welfare is incredibly wasteful of all of that potential. It called the welfare trap. Those people not working aren't lazy: the current welfare system has given them an ultimatum: don't work or you'll get thrown out onto the street. Given that, it's not surprising that they don't work.

Bull-fucking-shit. Look at people who have been on welfare for a couple generations. Their kids don't even know how to DO 'work'.

That's because existing welfare programs strongly discourage working. I have a friend on SSI Disability (in practice the only cash welfare program in the US) who was freaking out recently over having too successful a month at work because people on disability are not allowed to have savings or make any non-trivial amount of money (the limit is <$2k, I think) or they get kicked out of the system. And due to the savings limits, they'll be homeless and starving before they could possibility manage to get back on.

One of the main arguments for UBI is that welfare is incredibly wasteful of all of that potential. It called the welfare trap. Those people not working aren't lazy: the current welfare system has given them an ultimatum: don't work or you'll get thrown out onto the street. Given that, it's not surprising that they don't work.

It is nothing but a bunch of tubes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The Prius came out in Japan in 1997. Patents last for 20 years. The value of these patents is in steep decline already.

Advertisers started demanding that their ads only show up on videos that the advertiser agreed with the content in the video.

The advertiser is the customer in this story. That mainstream advertisers were ever monetizing PewDiePie in any way is the only real anomaly in this YouTube story.

Google is not even an advertising company. They're an advertising display company. They own the billboards, not what goes on the billboards. Apart from their own needs, Google has no advertising creative team whatsoever.

Brand management has been a big deal for most of recorded history.

In Pompeii, circa 35 CE, a manufacturer of fish sauce branded his amphora which travelled across the entire Mediterranean.

And it only snowballed from there.

You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
        — Dr Strangelove

The only amazing thing here is the PewDiePie escaped the wrath of the Coca-Cola company for as long as he did.

Modern medicine and scientific approaches to medicine focus on a pathogen and it's specific cure. The discovery of a pathogen and how to kill it and prevent it's spread probably sparked this paradigm (Louis Pasteur & Rabies), which was reinforced by Koch's Postulates surrounding tuberculosis and anthrax, and cemented by Fleming's discovery of penicillin. This is outlined brilliantly in the book "Microbe Hunters" by Paul de Kruif.

Now we are discovering that we live in a massively interconnected biological system, and we are playing whack-a-mole. Also, should climate change actually warm things up a bit, I suspect we'll discover all sorts of new breeding grounds for microorganisms that won't play well with us.

Sadly, it may be required that we re-engineer much more than greenhouse gasses to preserve our concept of a modern society. Humans have significantly changed many aspects of habitats around the globe, which may cause the evolutionary behavior known as Punctuated Equilibrium to create biological changes faster than we can keep up.

We might want to worry less about losing our job to AI, and start utilizing AI, along with whatever innate intelligence we may think we have, to survive, period.

Evolution is a tough bitch, and Gaia eats her young, and we may have just given her a new condiment.

Modern medicine and scientific approaches to medicine focus on a pathogen and it's specific cure. The discovery of a pathogen and how to kill it and prevent it's spread probably sparked this paradigm (Louis Pasteur & Rabies), which was reinforced by Koch's Postulates surrounding tuberculosis and anthrax, and cemented by Fleming's discovery of penicillin. This is outlined brilliantly in the book "Microbe Hunters" by Paul de Kruif.

Now we are discovering that we live in a massively interconnected biological system, and we are playing whack-a-mole. Also, should climate change actually warm things up a bit, I suspect we'll discover all sorts of new breeding grounds for microorganisms that won't play well with us.

Sadly, it may be required that we re-engineer much more than greenhouse gasses to preserve our concept of a modern society. Humans have significantly changed many aspects of habitats around the globe, which may cause the evolutionary behavior known as Punctuated Equilibrium to create biological changes faster than we can keep up.

We might want to worry less about losing our job to AI, and start utilizing AI, along with whatever innate intelligence we may think we have, to survive, period.

Evolution is a tough bitch, and Gaia eats her young, and we may have just given her a new condiment.

Modern medicine and scientific approaches to medicine focus on a pathogen and it's specific cure. The discovery of a pathogen and how to kill it and prevent it's spread probably sparked this paradigm (Louis Pasteur & Rabies), which was reinforced by Koch's Postulates surrounding tuberculosis and anthrax, and cemented by Fleming's discovery of penicillin. This is outlined brilliantly in the book "Microbe Hunters" by Paul de Kruif.

Now we are discovering that we live in a massively interconnected biological system, and we are playing whack-a-mole. Also, should climate change actually warm things up a bit, I suspect we'll discover all sorts of new breeding grounds for microorganisms that won't play well with us.

Sadly, it may be required that we re-engineer much more than greenhouse gasses to preserve our concept of a modern society. Humans have significantly changed many aspects of habitats around the globe, which may cause the evolutionary behavior known as Punctuated Equilibrium to create biological changes faster than we can keep up.

We might want to worry less about losing our job to AI, and start utilizing AI, along with whatever innate intelligence we may think we have, to survive, period.

Evolution is a tough bitch, and Gaia eats her young, and we may have just given her a new condiment.

Modern medicine and scientific approaches to medicine focus on a pathogen and it's specific cure. The discovery of a pathogen and how to kill it and prevent it's spread probably sparked this paradigm (Louis Pasteur & Rabies), which was reinforced by Koch's Postulates surrounding tuberculosis and anthrax, and cemented by Fleming's discovery of penicillin. This is outlined brilliantly in the book "Microbe Hunters" by Paul de Kruif.

Now we are discovering that we live in a massively interconnected biological system, and we are playing whack-a-mole. Also, should climate change actually warm things up a bit, I suspect we'll discover all sorts of new breeding grounds for microorganisms that won't play well with us.

Sadly, it may be required that we re-engineer much more than greenhouse gasses to preserve our concept of a modern society. Humans have significantly changed many aspects of habitats around the globe, which may cause the evolutionary behavior known as Punctuated Equilibrium to create biological changes faster than we can keep up.

We might want to worry less about losing our job to AI, and start utilizing AI, along with whatever innate intelligence we may think we have, to survive, period.

Evolution is a tough bitch, and Gaia eats her young, and we may have just given her a new condiment.

Means test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Working? No UBI unless income falls to poverty level.
Part time work? No UBI unless hours fall and income is reduced.
Not working for any reason? UBI.
Gov approved education? UBI and extra support.
Citizenship tests for all UBI payments. UBI only goes into an approved new type of bank account with photo ID and gov ID.
No getting the UBI outside of the nation.
That would reduce costs to the working tax payers of a nation and let people with no ability to work have the UBI security they need.

You seem pretty bewildered. It is clear that you don't know very much about what makes a diet healthy. That puts you in the at-risk category.

How do you respond to this new knowledge? Do you reject it because it doesn't agree with your forgone conclusions or your preferences? Do you reject it because you one example disagrees with the statistics gathered from huge numbers of examples?

Or do you think, "huh, maybe I should study up on this whole diet thing?"

Yes, red meat is unhealthy, and here is some information about that.

The article didn't say "Wheat", it said "whole grains," which would of course include rice. But even so, the current fad to think wheat is bad is just that, a fad. Humans have been subsisting on wheat since before the dawn of recorded history! Read all about it!

You really do need a clue.

I've seen this idea before, it's called The Ark.

Why do you feel that Alzheimer's Association is an industry organization? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Not saying it is or isn't - I don't know anything about it; just wanted to know why you think it is.

I don't think it is an industry association. But if they can suddenly claim that asymptomatic people are suffering from Alzheimer's, research money can be demanded. The issue is that Alzheimer's is invariably fatal. The medicines used to treat it simply extend the inevitble timeline. This is like extending the timeline of incurable incendiary cancer. Live a few more months in terrible pain, allow your family to suffer as they see you suffer.

Ever see a lot of people with Alzheimer's? While some are happy, most are crying, miserable for the times they aren't asleep. So in addition to the drugs that merely slow the progression, they are miserable for that much longer. Fear not though, as other drugs can be administered that might take a little bit of the edge off that misery. This isn't like insulin. This is people who are already demented having the length of their dementia extended. And that means maybe another year on some mighty expensive drugs.

It doesn't have anything specific that is the fault of any association, it is the pharmaceutical industry, and the nursing industry that can realize increased profits the longer an Alzheimer's patient lives. Another year of life, and they can realize a hundred K or even much much more. The goal is to extract the patient's wealth, then after they are destitute, for them to die. I've seen it with family members. The last two years of my Mother in law's life cost $675,000 dollars for care, without the meds. With the meds, it was edging toward a million. There's a lot of money to be made by having people be ready to die, but extending that as long as possible.

While some folks seem to think I'm talking about a conspiracy, this is not. It is simply a successful and rather cruel business model that I have been though a few times. I dunno if any of y'all have gone through the US death business. Your retirement account is emptied, then any real estate you might have is sold and the proceeds go toward more upkeep. When you are finally destitute, the socialized medicine takes over, but it simply isn't as profitable as the rates they charge you while you have money. When they can, and if you appear to have afew more years in you, the for profit industry will ship you off to the county home. Your socialized medicine bed can be much more profitably filled with someone who still can pay full price.

There are a fair number of couples who divorce so that the interred person will be destitute and won't destroy the estate. That however, takes special conditions, where the patient is ill but still of sound mind, which is not the case for dementia.

And now, we have the real reason that single payer medicine is vehemently fought by one of the political parties in the US. There's too much money in it, and plenty of bribes to be made, and profit to be had.

I'm sure there is a way to fix that.. Perhaps put tubes underground for the drones? Perhaps the droned could then even be propelled by compressed air? I'm sure that will be the NextBigThing(TM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Cringely?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yup. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Why do you feel that Alzheimer's Association is an industry organization?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Not saying it is or isn't - I don't know anything about it; just wanted to know why you think it is.

I mean, I can point to Pat Robertson as an example of the homosexuality stuff and the President of the United States for the immigrant shooting.

Can you provide a single prominent member of the left who advocated violence and bigotry of some kind?

You've got the SJWs I suppose. So lets see. On the right we have a religious leader with millions of followers and the POTUS openly advocating violence on national TV. On the left you've got a handful of annoying blue haired college girls that nobody listens to except the guys trying to get down their pants.

Then again, and I hate to admit this, if you're trying to get down the pants of a blue haired college girl she seems like she's got a lot more power over your life than Robertson or POTUS...

Precisely.

If "Cosko "became angry" at Republican senators questioning Kavanaugh -- so he posted contact information for Senators Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee, and Orrin Hatch " (all Republicans) didn't convince you, then a quick check of Wiki would confirm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Maggie Hassan is a democrat.

reasonable as the project of that 20 year-old that was supposed to clean up the ocean plastic.

Also, see Jules Verne's Propeller Island.

This is a technology site. You should know this.

Here's one: "Why diversity of opinion is vital". Or a more sensationalist variant: "How the decline in tolerance of opposing viewpoints is killing us and our kittens"

I think the Paradox of Tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... covers your topic statements. No previous topic in this discussion? Or at least you didn't reply to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

For context. But is your comment supposed to be a recursive joke?

If not, then obviously the question wasn't directed to you.

The Tenerife crash is a case study at the Naval School of Aviation Safety for crew resource management. It's basically summed up as "no one is too junior to say something and no one is too senior to listen."

Democrats have no grounds to complain when Republicans filibuster a supreme court pick in the final year of a Democrat president (Obama's nomination of Garland) because Democrats started that tradition.

Really? Which nominee did they filibuster for over a year? (If you want to save some time, they didn't.)

Also, you're wrong about "filibustering" Garland. McConnell wouldn't even let there be a hearing in the Judiciary Committee, so there was no filibuster.

Democrats have no grounds to complain when Republicans refuse to impeach a sitting president, because during Obama's campaign he convinced his party not to impeach George Bush for cause

Wow do you not have a very good grasp of time.

The person who blocked impeachment was Pelosi. Obama's campaign had not started yet in January 2007, when Pelosi declared "Impeachment is off the table". Also, Obama at that point had very little institutional power, since he'd only been a Senator for a short time by that point.

(This despite Democrats holding firm majorities in both houses at the time.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Senate was 49+2 yielding a truly massive one seat majority.
House was 233 to 202, yielding a 31 seat majority.

For those who are not quite familiar with the Constitution, conviction in the Senate requires 67 votes.

Which 16 Republicans do you think would actually place party over country and convict? Keep in mind that almost all of those Senators are still in the Senate, and exactly zero of them are willing to put country over party under the Trump administration.

Thank goodness no American companies conspired to kill the electric car industry.

There is apparently a bubble of stupid that encompasses the biggest cities, and is where articles like this one seem to originate.

The author seems to be unaware of the late great Adam Smith and the basic idea that consumers, all other things being equal, will do what's best for themselves. Most Americans do not have cheap broadband. Vast swaths of the country either have no broadband, or there is broadband "available" but not actually affordable, or they have broadband with monthly data limits and steep fees for violating those limits. There are plenty of places in America where DSL is as good as the internet gets, and a greta many places where only dial-up is available. Most of my extended family either has no internet, or they have dial-up service with a serial modem. Nobody in that situation is gonna stream video!

With dial-up you can do e-mail (if you care to), and you can go to web pages that do not have auto-loading video ads, but if there's a video ad it might take an hour to load the page.

These people are NOT buck-toothed inbread uneducated hicks - one has a doctorate in physics. These people simply love life in rural America. They love the slower pace of life, the tranquility, not needing to lock everything and have security cameras on everything, they love getting their produce fresh and going fishing, camping in the summers and ice fishing and snowmobiles and skiing in the winters. They simply value life in the real world over life on Facebook.

Incidentally, the entire tech world seems to be completely ignoring this reality. "the cloud" will never work for these people. Junked-up web pages will never work for these people. The new Microsoft Windows idiocy of running thing like Office on the MS servers and having the user's PC be effectively a GUI terminal will not work for these people. Linux, as completely fouled-up as most new distros now are, will not work for these people (not with installers and package managers that assume high-speed net connections to repositories). Streaming video services and "live" gaming schemes will not work for these people.

Isn't whining a requirement at any Operation Mockingbird News Network?. After all, you have been mind controlled by at least one. (hint: they are all owned by the cia)

The general modern opinion is that they were in fact a Greek myth.

You sure about that? The glorious Wikipedia says overwise -- please cite if you do...

see here. It's been like this since trade became a thing.

Indeed. It was much worse in the past, when companies raised armies and waged war in their own name.

Today's multinationals are toothless compared to their predecessors.

see here. It's been like this since trade became a thing.

Indeed. It was much worse in the past, when companies raised armies and waged war in their own name.

Today's multinationals are toothless compared to their predecessors.

The Culture War era was a reactionary pushback to the gains made by minorities and women preceding the Regan era. It was an example of blaming the victim, a tactic being used by Trump and the Republican Party right now.

Culture Warriors like Bennett demonized their targets and used racial fear and hostility for political propaganda. Bush 41 used the infamous Willie Horton political ad in his election campaign.

Many other commentators remarked that the Bush presidency, and back to the Horton ad of the campaign, stoked racial animosity. Even if there was not an intentional race-bating or similar dog whistle in the ad, the fact that he was black is still a key part of how the ad is still discussed.

Bennett and the Heritage Foundation contributed to the current political situation where Trump made excuses for Nazis marching in North Carolina. The next day an innocent woman was killed by one of the right wingers in a hate crime. You OK with that?

It's not quite that simple though, and there's legal precedence that first amendment rights can apply to private property as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama. The argument really will come down to what extent Twitter is a public space. If it is viewed as one they will lose some ability to regulate what content can be posted there.

Or some web-forum analog of a number station?

see here. It's been like this since trade became a thing.

Longest river in the world, #1!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The feck you talking about Genocide.

yeah fuck you Gravis Zero (I know it's you chicken shit posting AC).
There's like a hundred links with the label "genocide" in the wiki article.