No, they're a fact of an under-damped controlled system. Regulations are the damping factor in economies, and the years that separate cause and effect are the latency, and it should be obvious to anyone that has studied control systems that we need more derivative feedback. When the economy starts moving, is when it's time to back off the forces that we're using to push it.
That's only because the amount that the terrorists demand for the same return of their captives is normally beyond the means of the captives families, and obviously the government doesn't generally give much of a damn about them, so they don't pay. If Terrorists did what the ransomware guys do, which is to price the ransom at the level of the "families" (being companies, in this case, obviously) can afford, and to automatically catch large numbers of "victims" (data, since this is a computer situation), in a way that exposes the bad guys to almost zero risk, well - than in that case we'd have a comparable situation.
But that's not how it works, which would be because ransomware is one hundred-percent a totally different thing from terrorists capturing the nationals of rich countries. This is just another example of how looking for an analogy fails to help you understand problems in the real world.
By your definition, both groups are equally free. You're free to kill, but will be punished if you do. Cops are free to ignore you, but will be punished if they do. No difference.
This seems like Uber is an information company connecting two market participants.
They sure take a big cut, just for that. Plus, they set the rate, set their cut, which you cannot negotiate, so the driver half of the 'market' have exactly zero power.
What is the benefit to society as a whole?
Having worker's rights upheld has enormous societal benefits.
You know eventually the public will force the supply of generic user replaceable batteries
Literally the only product in the world that has generic replaceable rechargeable batteries, is cars. Maybe this is why car analogies are preferred above all others.
I mean, sure, some things run on AAs, but AAs are shit, and pretty wasteful of space, and mostly only used in toys and tv remotes. For a while you could get products that ran off NiMH AAs, and included charge circuitry, but not really any more.
that people watch the same amount regardless of quality
Think about it. Cities full of streets full of houses full of people sitting in relative silence in front of television screens. It's a frightening reality, it's why no-one knows what's going on, it's why dangerous fools get voted into power. People don't watch television because what's on TV is any good, and the TV companies realised this decades ago. People watch television to fill in the time before they go to bed, because they literally have nothing else to do. It's unspeakably depressing.
No-one gives a shit about sound quality anyway - they never did. People like buying records because they like owning a physical object with the music literally stamped into the surface of it. People who buy vinyl, do play it. Of course they do.
If the definition of a 'side job' is one that pays insufficiently well to live on, then sure, being an Uber driver is a side job. Would you consider being a taxi driver a side-job too? If not, what is the difference between the two things?
not every job should be meant to earn a living soley from that activity.
If you're a grown adult, and the job in question takes up your working day, then you're damn right that it should remunerated well enough to be enough to live on. If it's not, then that person either has to work two jobs, and spend more time working, or they have to take government handouts, or they steal your car. If they end up having to take handouts, then this is effectively the government subsidising the wage bill of the company, something that I presume that you would be against.
And so are these macbooks / mac minis. What's going to happen to your eight-year old laptop if its mainboard breaks? Same thing as the macbook, you'll get no joy from the original manufacturer, and you'll hit ebay for a kockoff or new-old-stock replacement, and you'll be happy.
As much as I mourn the loss of USB-A ports, it's not quite the case that you need a bunch of dongles. USB-C is pin-compatible, and what you actually need are different leads. USB-C to USB-mini, for example.
Unsubstantiated claim of seriously broken USB-C support.... or, maybe, it's actually more like this
I don't know if that's PC, or just self preservation. I think that if Time had named Bin Laden as person of the year, they would have had their offices firebombed. More than once.
"man" because this "person" crap is another piece of unnecessary PC
No it isn't. If you're awarding a 'man of the year' award, doesn't it sound strange to give it to a woman? Isn't that because the word man, means male? What's wrong with wanting to name an award that's open equally to men and women, without resorting to calling it "man or woman of the year"?
I know nothing whatever about the events you refer to. But you will find that whenever you are personally involved in a situation that later becomes 'news', that what's finally printed in the papers, or reported on television, or spoken about on the radio, is always, at the very best, a distortion of the truth.
Do you know why this is? It's not always because the newspapers have some agenda to push, or that somewhere down the line, between the events themselves and your eyes and ears, someone is manipulating the media. No, it's normally just because, in a situation like you describe, every single participant will have experienced something different. You say a mob of pro-IS supporters randomly attacked you, but as is noted already, you provide no information that might back up that claim. I'll bet other people involved in the same situation recall the encounter differently. I did attempt to find some news items about the incident, but you provided insufficient detail.
This is from a daily mail article about the story.
The flight ban comes after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for all Muslims to be stopped from entering the US.
Now, this sentence cannot be directly interpreted as blaming Donald Trump for the ban, it's just an observation that one event preceded another. But people are gullible, often don't read properly, and certainly don't remember accurately what they do read. So I can understand how you ended up with the belief that the news outlet painted a particular narrative. They didn't "paint" it, but they certainly sketched it in the margins.
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I expect that number to disappear.
Well. They might starve to death.
Economic cycles are a fact of realty
No, they're a fact of an under-damped controlled system. Regulations are the damping factor in economies, and the years that separate cause and effect are the latency, and it should be obvious to anyone that has studied control systems that we need more derivative feedback. When the economy starts moving, is when it's time to back off the forces that we're using to push it.
It was an aspirational date,
"Aspirational" is another word for bullshit.
That's only because the amount that the terrorists demand for the same return of their captives is normally beyond the means of the captives families, and obviously the government doesn't generally give much of a damn about them, so they don't pay. If Terrorists did what the ransomware guys do, which is to price the ransom at the level of the "families" (being companies, in this case, obviously) can afford, and to automatically catch large numbers of "victims" (data, since this is a computer situation), in a way that exposes the bad guys to almost zero risk, well - than in that case we'd have a comparable situation.
But that's not how it works, which would be because ransomware is one hundred-percent a totally different thing from terrorists capturing the nationals of rich countries. This is just another example of how looking for an analogy fails to help you understand problems in the real world.
By your definition, both groups are equally free. You're free to kill, but will be punished if you do. Cops are free to ignore you, but will be punished if they do. No difference.
This seems like Uber is an information company connecting two market participants.
They sure take a big cut, just for that. Plus, they set the rate, set their cut, which you cannot negotiate, so the driver half of the 'market' have exactly zero power.
What is the benefit to society as a whole?
Having worker's rights upheld has enormous societal benefits.
You know eventually the public will force the supply of generic user replaceable batteries
Literally the only product in the world that has generic replaceable rechargeable batteries, is cars. Maybe this is why car analogies are preferred above all others.
I mean, sure, some things run on AAs, but AAs are shit, and pretty wasteful of space, and mostly only used in toys and tv remotes. For a while you could get products that ran off NiMH AAs, and included charge circuitry, but not really any more.
Also, if your arm is chopped off, you've evolved to have only one arm. I think I'm beginning to see how this works.
Educated in America, it seems.
that people watch the same amount regardless of quality
Think about it. Cities full of streets full of houses full of people sitting in relative silence in front of television screens. It's a frightening reality, it's why no-one knows what's going on, it's why dangerous fools get voted into power. People don't watch television because what's on TV is any good, and the TV companies realised this decades ago. People watch television to fill in the time before they go to bed, because they literally have nothing else to do. It's unspeakably depressing.
With Netflix, you need never watch reality TV
Without Netflix, you never need to watch TV at all. This will improve your life.
No-one gives a shit about sound quality anyway - they never did. People like buying records because they like owning a physical object with the music literally stamped into the surface of it. People who buy vinyl, do play it. Of course they do.
Touché
I use windows 7 at work, and OSX at home. Maybe my preference is also in some way related to preferring to be at home, rather than at work.
"Uber driver" is a side job
If the definition of a 'side job' is one that pays insufficiently well to live on, then sure, being an Uber driver is a side job. Would you consider being a taxi driver a side-job too? If not, what is the difference between the two things?
not every job should be meant to earn a living soley from that activity.
If you're a grown adult, and the job in question takes up your working day, then you're damn right that it should remunerated well enough to be enough to live on. If it's not, then that person either has to work two jobs, and spend more time working, or they have to take government handouts, or they steal your car. If they end up having to take handouts, then this is effectively the government subsidising the wage bill of the company, something that I presume that you would be against.
And so are these macbooks / mac minis. What's going to happen to your eight-year old laptop if its mainboard breaks? Same thing as the macbook, you'll get no joy from the original manufacturer, and you'll hit ebay for a kockoff or new-old-stock replacement, and you'll be happy.
I would say the Dell XPS 13 and XPS 15 are becoming more "MacBook Pros" than what Apple offers.
People buy macs because of OSX. This is because Windows, even today, is still horrible.
As much as I mourn the loss of USB-A ports, it's not quite the case that you need a bunch of dongles. USB-C is pin-compatible, and what you actually need are different leads. USB-C to USB-mini, for example.
Unsubstantiated claim of seriously broken USB-C support.... or, maybe, it's actually more like this
Unlike, you know, every other company in the entire world. Plus, selling you hardware in exchange for money, isn't what "monetize" means.
I don't know if that's PC, or just self preservation. I think that if Time had named Bin Laden as person of the year, they would have had their offices firebombed. More than once.
"man" because this "person" crap is another piece of unnecessary PC
No it isn't. If you're awarding a 'man of the year' award, doesn't it sound strange to give it to a woman? Isn't that because the word man, means male? What's wrong with wanting to name an award that's open equally to men and women, without resorting to calling it "man or woman of the year"?
I know nothing whatever about the events you refer to. But you will find that whenever you are personally involved in a situation that later becomes 'news', that what's finally printed in the papers, or reported on television, or spoken about on the radio, is always, at the very best, a distortion of the truth.
Do you know why this is? It's not always because the newspapers have some agenda to push, or that somewhere down the line, between the events themselves and your eyes and ears, someone is manipulating the media. No, it's normally just because, in a situation like you describe, every single participant will have experienced something different. You say a mob of pro-IS supporters randomly attacked you, but as is noted already, you provide no information that might back up that claim. I'll bet other people involved in the same situation recall the encounter differently. I did attempt to find some news items about the incident, but you provided insufficient detail.
people voting for Trump are evil racist bigot thieves who should have no right to free speech.
There. Fixed that for you.
This is from a daily mail article about the story.
The flight ban comes after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for all Muslims to be stopped from entering the US.
Now, this sentence cannot be directly interpreted as blaming Donald Trump for the ban, it's just an observation that one event preceded another. But people are gullible, often don't read properly, and certainly don't remember accurately what they do read. So I can understand how you ended up with the belief that the news outlet painted a particular narrative. They didn't "paint" it, but they certainly sketched it in the margins.