I suspect that the old practice of wealthy families employing full-time household servants will make a significant comeback over the next couple of decades,
Unluckily, it was often a very abusive relationship and might come back for that reason, some people love to abuse others.
There's all types of people including those whose preferences run more into anime. I still think the majority of men prefer women. I know I'd never pay for anime strippers and have paid to watch women removing their clothes. And yes, waiters will be a luxury item, the expensive restaurant will be the only place they're found.
It may turn out that people prefer real strippers and even real waiters and bartenders. You'll know you're in an expensive restaurant because they have real live waiters etc.
Perhaps when Germany declared war on you, you should have surrendered. At least we wouldn't have to listen to your bullshit about saving the world out of the goodness of your heart when it was purely self defence. You've done very well by sitting out the serious wars as long as you could and finding weak countries to dominate. You've also done very well by forcing the world to use your dollar so you can borrow like there's no tomorrow, therefore artificially jacking up your economy. What kind of shape would the USA be in if they had to actually pay for stuff. Wish I could run my household like that, put everything on the credit card and brag about how successful I am while buying tons of weapons on credit to threaten my neighbours and support some of the worst human rights violators in the name of freedom.
So what you're saying is that since you know the internals of a Tesla car's computer, you assume everyone here is as knowledgeable. Personally, if I was that knowledgeable about the subject, I wouldn't have clicked the link.
There seems to be a lot of people that can't be convinced that vaccines are a positive, the Earth is not flat and various other things, so even if the black box is very simple, a sizeable number of people will not understand it or won't believe it is actually what it says on the box. It's the advantage of paper, pencil and simple boxes, everyone can understand it.
All you really need is that the system be straightforward enough that most people know somebody they trust who is capable of understanding the system well enough to assure them that it's trustworthy.
Well, I don't know anyone that I'd trust to know the system is trustworthy and I probably know more techs then the average person.
Much better to have armed men with little liability hiding in the bushes ready to jump out and shoot you if accidentally scratch an itch in a suspicious manner.
Even an independently tested, audited, open-source, electronic voting system with perfect security isn't good enough unless the average, or better, most all, people can understand it. As long as it is a black box to the average voter, there won't be any trust.
Why not just count them at the polling place with members of all parties and any interested members of the public watching? Then do your labeling in case a recount is ordered.
Depends on how you define executive. In the Commonwealth for example, the executive is the Queen and never proposes laws or even gets involved in law making besides rubber stamping laws passed by Parliament. It can be argued the defacto executive is the PMO (Prime Ministers Office) or Privy council but they have to introduce laws in Parliament and private members, whether part of the government or not, can introduce private member bills, which occasionally even pass.
The US has had a relatively strong central government since 1789. Canada is a Federation, a Monarchy and democratic and the central government has gotten weaker compared to the Provinces over its lifetime. It was designed to have a strong central government after watching the how the US failed in the 1860's and since the courts have given more and more power to the Provinces.
Sometimes there's long periods of job shortages before those new jobs materialize such as the 3 generations (70 years) after the Luddites. We've also shrank the labour force and continue to do so to make up for those missing jobs. Kids no longer go to work at 5 years of age, instead going to school for longer and longer chunks of their life. Lots of people on disability too. Generally the work week has also been cut by quite a few hours with most people working closer to 40 hours then 80 hours a week. In the past there was also a bunch of new lands opened up for the unemployed, you could go to N. America or Australia and homestead for example.
Here in Denmark we're at the highest employment level ever. Never before in history there was this many people with jobs, both in numbers and in percentage of the population.
Before the industrial revolution, employment was pretty close to 100%. By 5 years of age, you were working, even if only on the farm. If you were crippled, you had a job begging. Today, I bet a good chunk of Denmark's population is involved in things like getting educated instead of going to work at the age of 5.
It was also a time of enclosing the commons. The rich discovered they could pass laws making common areas private, and they did this in a large way, forcing many farmers off the land, removing the little wealth they had and forcing them into the city where there was basically no work available. 6.8 million acres enclosed between 1604 and 1914 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Losing your livelihood, even if it was subsistence farming, was getting poorer and one of the reasons that the industrial revolution was a nightmare for the majority for generations. Things didn't really get better until the workforce was reduced in size, child labour laws removed a lot of labourers, shorter work weeks spread the labour around, for a while, women were moved from labourers to stay at home moms. Wars also created a lot of demand. There was also large amounts of emigration (both forced and voluntarily) to countries with lots of basically free land.
Actually, in the meaning of copyright infringement, perhaps since 1603 and the 1886 Berne convention mentioned it by name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... What has change is that "piracy" meant for profit copyright infringement until recently when referring to peer to peer sharing. Me, I was taught that sharing was good and showed a positive character.
There's a bunch of beta refugees at comp.misc which has some interesting posts. Lots of other interesting groups still out there as well. Not much spam either now.
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I suspect that the old practice of wealthy families employing full-time household servants will make a significant comeback over the next couple of decades,
Unluckily, it was often a very abusive relationship and might come back for that reason, some people love to abuse others.
There's all types of people including those whose preferences run more into anime. I still think the majority of men prefer women. I know I'd never pay for anime strippers and have paid to watch women removing their clothes.
And yes, waiters will be a luxury item, the expensive restaurant will be the only place they're found.
It may turn out that people prefer real strippers and even real waiters and bartenders. You'll know you're in an expensive restaurant because they have real live waiters etc.
America voted in a trust fund reality TV star as President.
Actually any other government could block his shit tier platform from their country
If you're artificially limiting competition to get that salary, then yes.
Perhaps when Germany declared war on you, you should have surrendered. At least we wouldn't have to listen to your bullshit about saving the world out of the goodness of your heart when it was purely self defence.
You've done very well by sitting out the serious wars as long as you could and finding weak countries to dominate.
You've also done very well by forcing the world to use your dollar so you can borrow like there's no tomorrow, therefore artificially jacking up your economy. What kind of shape would the USA be in if they had to actually pay for stuff. Wish I could run my household like that, put everything on the credit card and brag about how successful I am while buying tons of weapons on credit to threaten my neighbours and support some of the worst human rights violators in the name of freedom.
You might be forced to use proper biodegradable dog poop bags, which might run a couple of bucks a month, pretty horrible.
It's the being able to metabolize it part that is the genetic mutation.
So what you're saying is that since you know the internals of a Tesla car's computer, you assume everyone here is as knowledgeable.
Personally, if I was that knowledgeable about the subject, I wouldn't have clicked the link.
There seems to be a lot of people that can't be convinced that vaccines are a positive, the Earth is not flat and various other things, so even if the black box is very simple, a sizeable number of people will not understand it or won't believe it is actually what it says on the box.
It's the advantage of paper, pencil and simple boxes, everyone can understand it.
All you really need is that the system be straightforward enough that most people know somebody they trust who is capable of understanding the system well enough to assure them that it's trustworthy.
Well, I don't know anyone that I'd trust to know the system is trustworthy and I probably know more techs then the average person.
Much better to have armed men with little liability hiding in the bushes ready to jump out and shoot you if accidentally scratch an itch in a suspicious manner.
Even an independently tested, audited, open-source, electronic voting system with perfect security isn't good enough unless the average, or better, most all, people can understand it. As long as it is a black box to the average voter, there won't be any trust.
Why not just count them at the polling place with members of all parties and any interested members of the public watching?
Then do your labeling in case a recount is ordered.
Depends on how you define executive. In the Commonwealth for example, the executive is the Queen and never proposes laws or even gets involved in law making besides rubber stamping laws passed by Parliament.
It can be argued the defacto executive is the PMO (Prime Ministers Office) or Privy council but they have to introduce laws in Parliament and private members, whether part of the government or not, can introduce private member bills, which occasionally even pass.
The US has had a relatively strong central government since 1789. Canada is a Federation, a Monarchy and democratic and the central government has gotten weaker compared to the Provinces over its lifetime. It was designed to have a strong central government after watching the how the US failed in the 1860's and since the courts have given more and more power to the Provinces.
Parliament is Supreme (well after Brexit) in the UK and can and has fired the Monarch, even beheaded one.
Sometimes there's long periods of job shortages before those new jobs materialize such as the 3 generations (70 years) after the Luddites.
We've also shrank the labour force and continue to do so to make up for those missing jobs. Kids no longer go to work at 5 years of age, instead going to school for longer and longer chunks of their life. Lots of people on disability too.
Generally the work week has also been cut by quite a few hours with most people working closer to 40 hours then 80 hours a week.
In the past there was also a bunch of new lands opened up for the unemployed, you could go to N. America or Australia and homestead for example.
Here in Denmark we're at the highest employment level ever. Never before in history there was this many people with jobs, both in numbers and in percentage of the population.
Before the industrial revolution, employment was pretty close to 100%. By 5 years of age, you were working, even if only on the farm. If you were crippled, you had a job begging.
Today, I bet a good chunk of Denmark's population is involved in things like getting educated instead of going to work at the age of 5.
It was also a time of enclosing the commons. The rich discovered they could pass laws making common areas private, and they did this in a large way, forcing many farmers off the land, removing the little wealth they had and forcing them into the city where there was basically no work available.
6.8 million acres enclosed between 1604 and 1914 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Losing your livelihood, even if it was subsistence farming, was getting poorer and one of the reasons that the industrial revolution was a nightmare for the majority for generations.
Things didn't really get better until the workforce was reduced in size, child labour laws removed a lot of labourers, shorter work weeks spread the labour around, for a while, women were moved from labourers to stay at home moms. Wars also created a lot of demand.
There was also large amounts of emigration (both forced and voluntarily) to countries with lots of basically free land.
Actually, in the meaning of copyright infringement, perhaps since 1603 and the 1886 Berne convention mentioned it by name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What has change is that "piracy" meant for profit copyright infringement until recently when referring to peer to peer sharing.
Me, I was taught that sharing was good and showed a positive character.
Yes, Usenet is much better now that the spammers have moved to reddit.
I hope so. I've been thinking about it recently.
You can get a free text-only Usenet account here:
https://www.eternal-september....
Then install and configure Pan or Thunderbird.
Also free accounts at http://www.aioe.org/ and if you don't mind paying, http://www.astraweb.com/ where I payed $10 for 25GBs. 25GBs is a lot of text posts.
There's a bunch of beta refugees at comp.misc which has some interesting posts. Lots of other interesting groups still out there as well.
Not much spam either now.