That would be a small change for iOS if were made into a desktop system.
However I feel the biggest issue is that we don't need a desktop/laptop Personal Computer. But for those who need to do real work, will need a Workstation/Portable Workstation. While the hardware is the same, the OS and software should be rewritten for the focus of productivity over general attractiveness and no longer targeting grandma. A Workstation OS, will need to be able to handle multiple apps running, and be viable and usable
Mobile systems such as iOS and Android are meant for single use app, or perhaps a couple. Even Windows 10/8 split screen has massive limitations.
The progressive tax system, runs under the idea, the more you make the higher percentage you pay. This is because the percent is just a stupid way of taxing. Because to survive you may need $25,000 a year, a 2,500 in taxes cuts into your ability to survive. while if you make $250,000 25,000 in taxes is manageable and you still would have a good quality of life. However the problem is the system is so complex, that the richer you are, the more resources you have to move your money into tax free methods.
A sales tax, is currently way to complex to fit in a progressive tax system, so it will normally need to be fixed, independent of ones income. A value add tax, will often offload the tax in terms of more expensive products, and encourage companies to make products with less purchased items.
A good tax system, needs to be reasonable, so people are putting in what they really can, and not hinder growth.
The biggest issue is that Small Businesses who are trying to grow, normally have to pay the bulk of the corporate taxes. We really need to get some bravery in government. Either stand up and say, we are just not going to have corporate Taxes, and make it difficult to hide share holders living and luxury expenses under corporate spending. or say we are going to have Corporate Taxes, and make sure the Money they show to the share holders, is the same money they show to the IRS.
Oddly enough the biggest problem facing businesses isn't the amount of taxes, or cost of employees. But just how the system puts all the players on different playing fields. Small companies trying to get a foothold, have to pay a lot of tax, while if they become big, then they can avoid it all together.
20 years ago, we would say that about streaming video. We use to have waited about 20 minutes for a video to buffer to a level where it could play without a stop (for a 15 minute video at much lower resolution then today)
High speed urban internet 20 years ago was about 256kbs Today it is 1gbs (4000x faster), rural area is around 100mbs (400 times faster)
I have never heard of your company before, nor have I ever thought of connecting to it. Is trying to get an interview on an ageing and declining website the best you guys can think of for advertising?
Something I have learned over time, it is generally a bad idea to try to bate people to get angry at you, or worse a false persona of you. A sarcastic comment, could lead to some guy actually taking you seriously.
Where do you think these flat earthers came from? Probably from some guy trying to use sarcasm to explain the flaw, in some Anti-Science policy that is popular at the time, so they made the most crazy statement they could think of "The earth is flat" and fill it with flawed logic. There will be someone who doesn't pick it up, and followed it. Just because someone is an idiot, it doesn't mean they are not influential.
Foreign movie directors are just as bad as getting American Culture correct too. Heck look at Doctor Who. When ever there is an American, there is some guy with a Gun, usually overly confident and rude. If they take American Stories, they will rewrite them so it matches the culture of the country involved.
I am not disagreeing with you, however looking at the other side... Streaming cloud gaming, could mean we are not needing to spend a lot of money on expensive upgrades for game pcs, and consoles anymore. If we can get streaming video to display in 4k with lag less then 1/60th of a second. I could see massive could server farms, doing all the rendering and streaming your frames to your pc over the network. No need upgrade your device every 4 years, because the Cloud Games would render all the stuff with the modern technology and more horse power then most of us could afford. Now with today's technology, this seems like a bad idea, however if we can get wide area network speeds for home consumers at around 2tbs which is probably in an other 20-30 years.
(Mental note, take stock out of consumer hardware makers when I retire)
They are plenty of times, where I have wrote something where someone irreverently got insulted, due to the fact the tone of my message, wasn't properly convayed. Granted I try to reread, and rephrase my messages.
The government works for the people. This will be more money for services for the people. It isn't like we will use this money for some political stunt, that will only make the lowest common denominator of our population feel good, but offer no real practical benefit.
I haven't been up on the news recently let me check on some stuff...
No cable 24 hour news did that. There isn't enough interesting news to really cover a 24 hour news cycle, So they filled 80% of the time with people with editorial opinions. To keep it interesting, we will put in too crazies with diametric opposite opinions so it becomes less of a discussion on important events, but a sporting event of yelling at each other. Some stations have a political agenda, so they pick guests to make one side seem like they have it in order, while the other size is just a raving lunatic.
For example back in 2003 for the Gulf War, Fox News pitted a Sr. Bush Administration Official, against some college kid, who organized a anti-war protest. After watching that debate, I lost all credibility towards Fox news. Because it was intentionally one sided, and just showed how Stupid those LiBeRaLs are. Because you have an Experienced debater, vs a kid with a strong opinion.
"As for NYC, you can't compare it with living anywhere else." So for someone making a 7 digit salary, can afford an apartment, smaller then a home a family making 5 digit salaries, 200 miles away has. Perhaps it is the noise of Constant City traffic and people? Oh I get it. You get a penthouse on top of the tallest building, so you can see a skyline, of black tar roofs, and industrial AC units.
Sorry NYC is a dirty crowded city. It has its pluses and wonders, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Well you need to get off the Right Wing media news. What modern progressives need are "good men" who will not bully, harass, and general make the lives more difficult for transsexuals, ladyboys, gays, lesbians, furies and cross-dressers.
There seems to be something missing in the dialog, where if you identify as part of the current power base (white, christian, heterosexual, male) that somehow tolerating other groups at a minimum, or welcoming them into your power base somehow will diminish you and your identity.
Teenage girls get violent too, often for the same reasons. But you are not going stop the competition to get the attention of the desired sex, no matter how much community service and sports. It is like almost everyone has been a product of sexual urges for millions of years.
The real problem with Toxic Masculinity is the lack of good roll models. If a child doesn't have a good roll model, then they will follow what the other kids are doing. Because this other kid is the roll model (even if he has a good adult roll model) is still working out what it means to be a male, so will do a lot of things wrong, and teach the other kid the wrong messages as well.
Being a Teenager is a source of aggression. It is an interesting combination of near adult intelligence combined with an emotional maturity of a kid, then added to it, during that stage of development, their risk center of their brain is getting rewired.
So they know when they are not being treated fairly, their emotional state cannot be easily calmed, and let it just be ignored. The risk of being violent to the source that hurt them, isn't properly weighed. All in all just a bad combination. Video games, organized sports, music, comic books, at least do a good job of distracting them enough to allow what ever slight against them, to be forgotten or at least given enough time for the intelligent part of the person to take over. Probably the worse thing to do, is allow the kid to stew in their own anger, only feeding back to itself. But a game even a violent one, just changes the topic.
Only to have that other city, to over promise, and run in server debt for decades, by the time they break even, to have Amazon move out. Leaving the town an expensive infrastructure, without a tax base to hold it.
The thing that bugged me is that New York City has a huge economy by itself. Those Amazon Jobs wouldn't put a real dent in the local economy. Now if they were 100+ miles in upstate, then those would be a big benefit to the local economy.
Metro NY shouldn't have to bend over backwards for Amazon for a fraction of a percent increase in its local economy. While a small town, say a post industrial town, Amazon could bring in new life.
I hoped that Amazon got a lesson from this, that even though you are a big company, don't expect everyone to bend over backwards to kiss your butt.
The problem is, even in my job, I need to be conscious of my personal ethics all the time. They are so many things that I could get away with, which I don't attempt due to my ethical standard. And usually a few times a week, I need to ask myself, what it the Right thing to do. Not the Best thing to do. You need to be sure that you do do not cross the line, and the sliding scale is easy to tip. Small lapses makes it easier to do larger lapses, until you have crossed the line, or if your lucky got close enough to see the edge.
You could be honest and say I will never do that again... However over time if you have a poor ethical self perception, you will start sliding back into your activities.
Oddly enough White Collar crime is more prone to reoccurrence and harder to stop. Because for a lot of the blue collar crimes, if you take the person out of the environment they can get better.
That and the outsider would spend a lot of time trying to figure out what the insiders are doing. Look all these Apple employees buying stock, that means we should buy it too. (a good way to raise the rates) Look all these Apple employees selling stock, SELL! SELL! SELL! Then all those Apple Employees buy the stock right back at a discount, moments before Apple releases the iDevice X4.
Stock Prices should me controlled by the "Invisible Hand of capitalism". However people found a way to trick it, thus we now need laws to stop all the tricks.
Just as we tech people say. Lets hire a convinced black hat hacker, as your IT security expert, because they would know how it is done. Lets hire a lawyer convicted in insider trading to stop other employees from doing it, because he knows how it is done.
There are two problems witch such logic. 1. the Convicted part: They got caught... So how good can they be. 2. They have shown a history of poor ethical thinking skills. Such jobs with high level of responsibility and general access to information, a strong ethics background is needed.
The difference between a Cell phone which a Premium model peaks at around 1k vs a Laptop which could peak at around 10k, Desktops the sky is really the limit.
At high prices, there is a personal cost choosing Premium vs middle of the road. If at the grocery store, they had the world best tasting Orange for $10 a piece, vs the OK ones at $1 a piece. And I was in a mood for an Orange, Chances are I may decide to splurge to buy the expensive one, at least once to know how the world best tasting orange taste like.
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That would be a small change for iOS if were made into a desktop system.
However I feel the biggest issue is that we don't need a desktop/laptop Personal Computer. But for those who need to do real work, will need a Workstation/Portable Workstation. While the hardware is the same, the OS and software should be rewritten for the focus of productivity over general attractiveness and no longer targeting grandma. A Workstation OS, will need to be able to handle multiple apps running, and be viable and usable
Mobile systems such as iOS and Android are meant for single use app, or perhaps a couple. Even Windows 10/8 split screen has massive limitations.
Being that it is suppose to be a parody of white men dancing, that would probably get really muddy.
The progressive tax system, runs under the idea, the more you make the higher percentage you pay. This is because the percent is just a stupid way of taxing.
Because to survive you may need $25,000 a year, a 2,500 in taxes cuts into your ability to survive. while if you make $250,000 25,000 in taxes is manageable and you still would have a good quality of life.
However the problem is the system is so complex, that the richer you are, the more resources you have to move your money into tax free methods.
A sales tax, is currently way to complex to fit in a progressive tax system, so it will normally need to be fixed, independent of ones income. A value add tax, will often offload the tax in terms of more expensive products, and encourage companies to make products with less purchased items.
A good tax system, needs to be reasonable, so people are putting in what they really can, and not hinder growth.
The biggest issue is that Small Businesses who are trying to grow, normally have to pay the bulk of the corporate taxes.
We really need to get some bravery in government.
Either stand up and say, we are just not going to have corporate Taxes, and make it difficult to hide share holders living and luxury expenses under corporate spending. or say we are going to have Corporate Taxes, and make sure the Money they show to the share holders, is the same money they show to the IRS.
Oddly enough the biggest problem facing businesses isn't the amount of taxes, or cost of employees. But just how the system puts all the players on different playing fields. Small companies trying to get a foothold, have to pay a lot of tax, while if they become big, then they can avoid it all together.
20 years ago, we would say that about streaming video. We use to have waited about 20 minutes for a video to buffer to a level where it could play without a stop (for a 15 minute video at much lower resolution then today)
High speed urban internet 20 years ago was about 256kbs Today it is 1gbs (4000x faster), rural area is around 100mbs (400 times faster)
I have never heard of your company before, nor have I ever thought of connecting to it. Is trying to get an interview on an ageing and declining website the best you guys can think of for advertising?
Something I have learned over time, it is generally a bad idea to try to bate people to get angry at you, or worse a false persona of you. A sarcastic comment, could lead to some guy actually taking you seriously.
Where do you think these flat earthers came from? Probably from some guy trying to use sarcasm to explain the flaw, in some Anti-Science policy that is popular at the time, so they made the most crazy statement they could think of "The earth is flat" and fill it with flawed logic. There will be someone who doesn't pick it up, and followed it. Just because someone is an idiot, it doesn't mean they are not influential.
Foreign movie directors are just as bad as getting American Culture correct too.
Heck look at Doctor Who. When ever there is an American, there is some guy with a Gun, usually overly confident and rude.
If they take American Stories, they will rewrite them so it matches the culture of the country involved.
I am not disagreeing with you, however looking at the other side...
Streaming cloud gaming, could mean we are not needing to spend a lot of money on expensive upgrades for game pcs, and consoles anymore.
If we can get streaming video to display in 4k with lag less then 1/60th of a second. I could see massive could server farms, doing all the rendering and streaming your frames to your pc over the network. No need upgrade your device every 4 years, because the Cloud Games would render all the stuff with the modern technology and more horse power then most of us could afford.
Now with today's technology, this seems like a bad idea, however if we can get wide area network speeds for home consumers at around 2tbs which is probably in an other 20-30 years.
(Mental note, take stock out of consumer hardware makers when I retire)
They are plenty of times, where I have wrote something where someone irreverently got insulted, due to the fact the tone of my message, wasn't properly convayed.
Granted I try to reread, and rephrase my messages.
The government works for the people. This will be more money for services for the people. It isn't like we will use this money for some political stunt, that will only make the lowest common denominator of our population feel good, but offer no real practical benefit.
I haven't been up on the news recently let me check on some stuff...
Oh... Now I feel sad.
No cable 24 hour news did that. There isn't enough interesting news to really cover a 24 hour news cycle, So they filled 80% of the time with people with editorial opinions. To keep it interesting, we will put in too crazies with diametric opposite opinions so it becomes less of a discussion on important events, but a sporting event of yelling at each other.
Some stations have a political agenda, so they pick guests to make one side seem like they have it in order, while the other size is just a raving lunatic.
For example back in 2003 for the Gulf War, Fox News pitted a Sr. Bush Administration Official, against some college kid, who organized a anti-war protest. After watching that debate, I lost all credibility towards Fox news. Because it was intentionally one sided, and just showed how Stupid those LiBeRaLs are. Because you have an Experienced debater, vs a kid with a strong opinion.
"As for NYC, you can't compare it with living anywhere else."
So for someone making a 7 digit salary, can afford an apartment, smaller then a home a family making 5 digit salaries, 200 miles away has.
Perhaps it is the noise of Constant City traffic and people? Oh I get it. You get a penthouse on top of the tallest building, so you can see a skyline, of black tar roofs, and industrial AC units.
Sorry NYC is a dirty crowded city. It has its pluses and wonders, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Well you need to get off the Right Wing media news.
What modern progressives need are "good men" who will not bully, harass, and general make the lives more difficult for transsexuals, ladyboys, gays, lesbians, furies and cross-dressers.
There seems to be something missing in the dialog, where if you identify as part of the current power base (white, christian, heterosexual, male) that somehow tolerating other groups at a minimum, or welcoming them into your power base somehow will diminish you and your identity.
Teenage girls get violent too, often for the same reasons.
But you are not going stop the competition to get the attention of the desired sex, no matter how much community service and sports. It is like almost everyone has been a product of sexual urges for millions of years.
The real problem with Toxic Masculinity is the lack of good roll models. If a child doesn't have a good roll model, then they will follow what the other kids are doing. Because this other kid is the roll model (even if he has a good adult roll model) is still working out what it means to be a male, so will do a lot of things wrong, and teach the other kid the wrong messages as well.
I can still remember this over many years... but let me Google the link... fond it XKCD
Being a Teenager is a source of aggression.
It is an interesting combination of near adult intelligence combined with an emotional maturity of a kid, then added to it, during that stage of development, their risk center of their brain is getting rewired.
So they know when they are not being treated fairly, their emotional state cannot be easily calmed, and let it just be ignored. The risk of being violent to the source that hurt them, isn't properly weighed. All in all just a bad combination.
Video games, organized sports, music, comic books, at least do a good job of distracting them enough to allow what ever slight against them, to be forgotten or at least given enough time for the intelligent part of the person to take over. Probably the worse thing to do, is allow the kid to stew in their own anger, only feeding back to itself. But a game even a violent one, just changes the topic.
Only to have that other city, to over promise, and run in server debt for decades, by the time they break even, to have Amazon move out. Leaving the town an expensive infrastructure, without a tax base to hold it.
The thing that bugged me is that New York City has a huge economy by itself. Those Amazon Jobs wouldn't put a real dent in the local economy. Now if they were 100+ miles in upstate, then those would be a big benefit to the local economy.
Metro NY shouldn't have to bend over backwards for Amazon for a fraction of a percent increase in its local economy. While a small town, say a post industrial town, Amazon could bring in new life.
I hoped that Amazon got a lesson from this, that even though you are a big company, don't expect everyone to bend over backwards to kiss your butt.
The problem is, even in my job, I need to be conscious of my personal ethics all the time. They are so many things that I could get away with, which I don't attempt due to my ethical standard. And usually a few times a week, I need to ask myself, what it the Right thing to do. Not the Best thing to do.
You need to be sure that you do do not cross the line, and the sliding scale is easy to tip. Small lapses makes it easier to do larger lapses, until you have crossed the line, or if your lucky got close enough to see the edge.
You could be honest and say I will never do that again... However over time if you have a poor ethical self perception, you will start sliding back into your activities.
Oddly enough White Collar crime is more prone to reoccurrence and harder to stop. Because for a lot of the blue collar crimes, if you take the person out of the environment they can get better.
That and the outsider would spend a lot of time trying to figure out what the insiders are doing.
Look all these Apple employees buying stock, that means we should buy it too. (a good way to raise the rates)
Look all these Apple employees selling stock, SELL! SELL! SELL! Then all those Apple Employees buy the stock right back at a discount, moments before Apple releases the iDevice X4.
Stock Prices should me controlled by the "Invisible Hand of capitalism". However people found a way to trick it, thus we now need laws to stop all the tricks.
Just as we tech people say. Lets hire a convinced black hat hacker, as your IT security expert, because they would know how it is done. Lets hire a lawyer convicted in insider trading to stop other employees from doing it, because he knows how it is done.
There are two problems witch such logic.
1. the Convicted part: They got caught... So how good can they be.
2. They have shown a history of poor ethical thinking skills. Such jobs with high level of responsibility and general access to information, a strong ethics background is needed.
The difference between a Cell phone which a Premium model peaks at around 1k vs a Laptop which could peak at around 10k, Desktops the sky is really the limit.
At high prices, there is a personal cost choosing Premium vs middle of the road.
If at the grocery store, they had the world best tasting Orange for $10 a piece, vs the OK ones at $1 a piece. And I was in a mood for an Orange, Chances are I may decide to splurge to buy the expensive one, at least once to know how the world best tasting orange taste like.
You were really intent on getting that Mindcraft server to yourself wern't you?
They have been games popular with kids before, and they will be them after Fortnite, becomes the game for old people.