The link for the security concerns doesn’t really apply to Apple Pay. And for the most part it is more secure then you credit card or a chip card. Because Apple Pay normally requires a form of authentication. Passkey or more common biometrics. In terms of compatibility you don’t look for the Apple Pay logo you look for the fact the card reader accepts proximity cards.
I am able to do my Saturday chores which include. Gas, Petstore, and grocery store all with My phone. I carry my wallet mostly because that is where my license is, and for the occasional once a year failure in the readers.
No I live in a rural area and do my shopping in a small town and there is rather good compatibility with it.
I normally will have my phone ready to look at. So it is easier to pull out then a wallet.
In short I found Apple Pay more convenient and safer then the alternatives.
These look like a rehash of the old Netbook PC's from the Mid 2000's. Cheap Low End laptops. They had limited success because the economy in 2008 was bad. So people needed a cheap device. However shortly after that with the growth of the iPhone and Android Competitors which offered strong competition people found that their mobile devices, could do the same thing as their netbooks could do, but actually better, because the software was written to work for the slower systems.
Now Google has success (in America) with the Chrome book. But these are not so much a Netbook but more of a thin client to google services. So it runs stuff in the cloud all the time.
The low end Microsoft Windows Laptop, still bring back all the problems with the Netbook. And it is worse now, because the PC is no longer really a Personal Computer, your mobile devices do that, they are more of a Personal Workstation which you want to do real work with. Thus you really need more power then the cheap netbooks can offer.
A lot of the issue is getting the right balance. A laptop should be thin enough to fit in a book bag, and carry one handed and be with you all day. a Phone should be thin enough to fit in a rather tight fitting pocket. But trying to make performance laptops like the Macbook pro, and making them thin enough to go against its own Mcbook air is counter productive. A Macbook Pro can be about 1" thick and small enough to be portable and useful, but thick enough to hold modern features people want, and more then just a USB-C which no one seems to really support.
As a counterpoint, if you are working for a company longer, you are not a whiny job hopper, who leaves a job, because you have to do work that you just don't like to do.
"Management was a nightmare. I got penalized because I never checked in my work to source control!" "I am a programmer, it isn't my job to help plug in and setup a printer"
They are being a progressive company with a positive HR policy. The old way would be yanking out your fingernails for a bad or mediocre review. Let the beatings commence until moral improves.
I would put more bet on a Space Elevator then on a transporter. The technology and theory is still basically impossible (We teleported a Proton, not even a full atom). There will be decades or century of debate on the ethics of a Transporter. When being transported do we get killed and then a copy made of us.
Sure back in the olden days. Water Closets were a luxury for the rich. Running water, a place to take your output somewhere where you don't need to think about it. This was something only the Rich had. It took generations of infrastructure and improvement in processes for the average person to have running water in their houses, and their own WC.
As with most technology. At first only the ultra rich can afford it, then the normal rich, over time price will come down until it is practical for most people.
Right now a launch into space will cost about 60 million dollars. lets say retrieval would be double that 120 million. So lets say the full process will be 200million dollars.
With the ability to do 200 hearts at once, that would be a million dollars per heart. That would possible for the normal rich people. If the process can be expanded to 1000 hearts then that can bring the price down to $200,000 something the upper middle class can afford, or something a good insurance company may be able to pay for.
<Sarcasm>Yea, there is a chance that such an experiment may not work. So why bother trying at all. Sure the benefit can mean a way to save lives. But there are variables which are untested and we don't know 100% what the results are. So lets not try. </Sarcasm>
For a site, that is suppose to cover science and technology news, there is a heck of a lot of posts of people just coming up with reasons out of the blue, on why it will fail miserably. While Scientific reporting is general really bad, but there are a lot of things that are worth a shot to try. Especially, if a success could be beneficial.
The Quest for Thinner and Lighter, is actually causing a lot of problems in general. Remember the Note 7 catching fire. That is because they made the device too thin, and jammed the battery in too tight that it didn't allow for the battery expansion.
Being that the displays with the computing force behind it, is thinner, then the plastic bevel covering the glass CRT from my first Computer. We are in general (not just Apple) is sacrificing too many features for thin and light, where most of the devices are already not too heavy or too thick to be practical.
Me I don't care that I lost my headphone jack on my iPhone, but a lot of people do, and I understand why they do mind. The reason for waterproofing, and giving extra space for the battery and keeping it thin and light, we are at a point where thin and light means feature sacrifice, perhaps we should temporarily step away from that goal.
Kids will do stupid stuff. Some kids will lead in doing stuff, others will follow the kids doing stupid stuff. We have the Victorian idea of the good child. Who stays out of trouble, because they have their head in a book. Now this idea looks good on a Norman Rockwell painting, but even the heavy reader kid, will put down the book and get into trouble.
We blamed Comic Books, Television, Video Games... Something new every generation for the fact that these kids are not being model citizens, happily going to school every day, getting A+ on all the their school work, going home happy, have a dinner with their family and discuss the issues of the day, then do their homework and go to bed early and wake up the next morning wide awake and ready to start a new day.
Kids are curious about the world, and what their peers are doing, and seeing how they stand up against them. This means they will get into trouble. We see kids now instead of vegging out in front of the TV (watching TV, or playing Video Games) we see them in front of their phone, chatting with other people.
Kids are not going out to play, because society won't let them.
Business failures, are not always overall failures. A lot of lessons can be learned from the attempt. I much rather see a company put in some risk and try something new, then just do the same old as before because doing something new is risky.
Now if it fails, they may have spent millions, but they also have an interesting case study on why it had failed. Technology isn't up to snuff, not enough demand, gain valuable insight in customers needs. Just doing the research alone with marketing could cost a company millions, and not solve the question, will it actually work.
But Slashdot in general are not good at seeing the next trend. We are too bound to the old ways of doing things. And new ideas and approaches we see as scary, wrong, or had tried it in the past and it failed then, and will fail now.
the iPhone was predicted to fail by Slashdot, Because the Newton was such a failure, and didn't have an external keyboard. the iPod was predicted to be such a looser, because we focused on the limitations (No WiFi and less space then the Nomad) and not its benefits (very small, thin, long battery life). Slashdot has been predicting the fall of Windows and the Year of Desktop Linux to be any time now.
Linux itself has got a lot of love, not because it was free and open source, but because it was very close to the Unix OS, so the old school unix guys didn't have to worry about switching to those new fangled gui OS's
But if the technology works correctly, it could solve a lot of problems with logistics. A lot of time is wasted with the delivery person handling the last mile problem. Because the delivery truck may have space for say 50 - 100 deliveries, and he is spending all his time in serial going from house to house. If these 50-100 deliveries could be on automated small cars, that have a 10 mile range (5 miles in and 5 miles back). A truck can stop at each town, deploy the packages, where they all in parallel go out to all the houses, and drive back, even if they are just having a max speed of 10 mph. A whole town can be covered in little over an hour.
Who needs this? People who needs to go from Point A to Point B. Who doesn't have a bike of their own, or it is difficult to store it. (Street Apt on the 8th floor) Who is asking for this? People who wants services like Uber, but doesn't necessarily need a Car. What is the problem that this is trying to solve? Getting a Person from Point A to Point B, without having a Car, or paying for a physical driver, because it is difficult to fit a driver onto a scooter.
Now this wouldn't work for me. And especially today where it is -1 degree outside. But for people who live in cities, having a scooter drive up to them, vs lugging down their bike, is a good way to get them to point B.
Now I don't live in the City, and the Weather where I live is currently way too cold. But for those who live in the right area, it probably solves a lot of problems.
The United States doesn't a a Justice system, but a punishment system. It is running off the Old Idea. If we treat the population like pre-teen kids, where punishment is an effective way to curve behavior, and prevent this from happening.
Now lets not straw man this, and talk about murderers, and the harden criminals, where harsher sentence are needed. Most Americans Jailed are for lower level crimes, crimes of passion, or crimes because they couldn't find an effective legal way out. The cost of keep these people in jail, is often far more then their hindrance too society that they caused.
We can be tough on crime, without jailing everyone. Jailing should be used only if the criminal is considered too much of a risk to the general public. They are other ways to punish and rehabilitate criminals. Such as Home Confinement or Monitored Home Confinement, where the criminal can still go to work, and live their life, but just cannot travel anywhere he wants and when. Giving them a life, while making sure they don't go out of bounds. There is also just general relocation, sometimes the criminal causes crime, because they are living in a place that fosters such activity. Then there should be more effort in educations, and showing people a better way out. People shouldn't be able to get away with criminal activity. But just locking them up isn't justice. It is just being cruel, and wanting revenge for their damage.
The biggest part of the problem. Is that most people have crappy speakers... Including me. I watch TV with the speakers that are on my TV, Which I expect are in the back because I have no idea where they are at. When I listen to music, I may have the default Apple Earbuds, or a set of headphones. I have a good pair which does make a noticeable improvement. However still I am listening to an audio signal with a speaker that vibrates air in less then 1mm distance. Compare that to a good set of speakers which can vibrate air in about 1 inch of distance. This just gives it that much more range in detail to play audio.
Now if you have a good set of speakers, you may be able to get the difference between no compression vs lossy compression. Mainly because you will be able to feel the notes that you cannot hear. Sound and music if often beyond just what you can hear, they are low and high frequencies. That we cannot hear but feel. Sub Sonic sounds, just resonate in your chest, while ultrasonic sound just causes a little more tension in your ear.
All that said, if you are listening to newer music. Made in the past 20 years or so. The music has been composed to be heard on such a compressed channel. So going to uncompressed there is no difference even with superior sound speakers.
Gene editing itself isn't unethical. However unapproved and non-monitored experiments on humans is. Lets say I have a hypothesis that whisky can cure cancer, so I just go start injecting people with whisky and track them over a few decades and see if they get cancer, that would be unethical. However I use this hypothesis, go threw proper channels, start my studies on extracted cancer cells, understand what is happening, then with animals, then if that seems to be working correctly with approvals, peer review and backing by my employer, then I can go onto human trials. Or more likely it would show it as a failed hypothesis earlier on, and no one will get hurt.
Science isn't some new age magic. It is a rigorous process used to help learn and understand. Is it perfect? No. But it is better then the other alternatives.
For every Eureka! from a single guy who made a discovery and works right from the start. They are millions of others who are no less smarter then him, who did something that just didn't work. Gene editing humans, while may work, still isn't in that phase of the processes. Skipping steps could hurt people and cause damage.
That is assuming that he would be allowed to leave China. China has high-tech public shaming system. That uses facial recognition to let everyone around you know that you have somehow shamed China, thus you should be shunned. Businessmen have been put on this list for things like late payment of their bills.
Being the high visibility of this guy got, he is up for a tough life now on. China may not give him a ticket out of the country, because they would just want to continue the shaming.
Well Trump claimed on national TV that he will own the shutdown. That was extremely stupid of him. Because of that the blame will go to him. Now don't expect any politician to actually care for who is getting hurt, they are all in to winning the next election.
Now Trump is getting all the blame. The house of representatives, who had a big win (Many along districts along the border, where the wall is to be built) for the democrats, because people wanted to fight Trumps evil motives. The democrats have the ability to make Trump and the GOP suffer.
Now that $57 on a 44k budget is a big deal. $44k isn't a lot to live on, and the $57 can go to useful things, like new clothing, healthier food, or just making this months rent.
Also to note, the Tax Cut last year which was suppose to super charge the economy, kinda failed to do such. The Ultra rich who benefited the most, just bought back stock. They didn't reinvest in their company to make them grow. Other companies lowered the amount of raises, because of the extra money people got from taxes. So now we have less money for services. So it is like this guy who made 44k use to make 45k last year, and still had all the expenses. so the $57 is even more painful.
Save money by not changing the oil in your car. You may be able to get by expanding your change schedule, and perhaps missing a few change sessions. But if you go too long without change your oil. Your car will suffer more damage that is more expensive then those oil changes are.
What is happening now, is we are starting to show the value of these "non-critical" government employees. While we can get by for a little while with out them, over time things just getting worse.
Opening the government is easy. Allow the spending plan that had previously pass both the House and Senate during a time with both sides were GOP controlled, that didn't have Wall spending.
He did say that before it happened, then he let it happened, so he is responsible.
Trump is hurting people and causing suffering, because he is having a fit, because the other areas of government doesn't want him to build a monument to causing suffering.
The wall has nothing to do with border security. The cost of the wall far exceeds its overall benefit. Most of the crime that comes from the border comes from the legal ports of entry.
Lets face it. If your goal is to be a criminal, and sell black market goods, your margins are rather slim, to risk your life wondering the desert or crossing tough mountains, or just having to traverse many miles to sell such goods. Just isn't worth it. You are better off risking a random check at the borders.
Our national border, is protected by the fact there are wide areas of no infrastructure, making crossing such border a difficult action.
The cost of such wall could be better used in different areas, including areas of border security which are better proven to work. The areas where there is a wall, isn't as much as a way to keep people out, but more to direct them to the legal ports of entry. Anyone can get over a wall. But if there is an easier option people will follow it.
Even not being a Helicopter parent. A child under 4 is still mastering skills such as no going poop in their pants (they may be potty trained, but accidents still happen a lot), being able to walk steadily, and have enough discipline to avoid danger even if there is something shiny in the middle of it. That is why Kindergarten normally starts after the age of 4 years (normally at the age of 5). While some kids 3 and 4 may be mature enough to handle being alone, that wouldn't be anywhere near a good rule of thumb to follow.
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The link for the security concerns doesn’t really apply to Apple Pay.
And for the most part it is more secure then you credit card or a chip card. Because Apple Pay normally requires a form of authentication. Passkey or more common biometrics.
In terms of compatibility you don’t look for the Apple Pay logo you look for the fact the card reader accepts proximity cards.
I am able to do my Saturday chores which include. Gas, Petstore, and grocery store all with My phone. I carry my wallet mostly because that is where my license is, and for the occasional once a year failure in the readers.
No I live in a rural area and do my shopping in a small town and there is rather good compatibility with it.
I normally will have my phone ready to look at. So it is easier to pull out then a wallet.
In short I found Apple Pay more convenient and safer then the alternatives.
These look like a rehash of the old Netbook PC's from the Mid 2000's. Cheap Low End laptops. They had limited success because the economy in 2008 was bad. So people needed a cheap device. However shortly after that with the growth of the iPhone and Android Competitors which offered strong competition people found that their mobile devices, could do the same thing as their netbooks could do, but actually better, because the software was written to work for the slower systems.
Now Google has success (in America) with the Chrome book. But these are not so much a Netbook but more of a thin client to google services. So it runs stuff in the cloud all the time.
The low end Microsoft Windows Laptop, still bring back all the problems with the Netbook. And it is worse now, because the PC is no longer really a Personal Computer, your mobile devices do that, they are more of a Personal Workstation which you want to do real work with. Thus you really need more power then the cheap netbooks can offer.
A lot of the issue is getting the right balance. A laptop should be thin enough to fit in a book bag, and carry one handed and be with you all day.
a Phone should be thin enough to fit in a rather tight fitting pocket. But trying to make performance laptops like the Macbook pro, and making them thin enough to go against its own Mcbook air is counter productive. A Macbook Pro can be about 1" thick and small enough to be portable and useful, but thick enough to hold modern features people want, and more then just a USB-C which no one seems to really support.
As a counterpoint, if you are working for a company longer, you are not a whiny job hopper, who leaves a job, because you have to do work that you just don't like to do.
"Management was a nightmare. I got penalized because I never checked in my work to source control!" "I am a programmer, it isn't my job to help plug in and setup a printer"
They are being a progressive company with a positive HR policy. The old way would be yanking out your fingernails for a bad or mediocre review.
Let the beatings commence until moral improves.
Most of our organs were grown in a neutral buoyant environment, which has a lot of the same effects of being in 0g.
I would put more bet on a Space Elevator then on a transporter. The technology and theory is still basically impossible (We teleported a Proton, not even a full atom). There will be decades or century of debate on the ethics of a Transporter. When being transported do we get killed and then a copy made of us.
Sure back in the olden days. Water Closets were a luxury for the rich. Running water, a place to take your output somewhere where you don't need to think about it. This was something only the Rich had. It took generations of infrastructure and improvement in processes for the average person to have running water in their houses, and their own WC.
As with most technology. At first only the ultra rich can afford it, then the normal rich, over time price will come down until it is practical for most people.
Right now a launch into space will cost about 60 million dollars. lets say retrieval would be double that 120 million. So lets say the full process will be 200million dollars.
With the ability to do 200 hearts at once, that would be a million dollars per heart. That would possible for the normal rich people. If the process can be expanded to 1000 hearts then that can bring the price down to $200,000 something the upper middle class can afford, or something a good insurance company may be able to pay for.
<Sarcasm>Yea, there is a chance that such an experiment may not work. So why bother trying at all. Sure the benefit can mean a way to save lives. But there are variables which are untested and we don't know 100% what the results are. So lets not try. </Sarcasm>
For a site, that is suppose to cover science and technology news, there is a heck of a lot of posts of people just coming up with reasons out of the blue, on why it will fail miserably. While Scientific reporting is general really bad, but there are a lot of things that are worth a shot to try. Especially, if a success could be beneficial.
The Quest for Thinner and Lighter, is actually causing a lot of problems in general. Remember the Note 7 catching fire. That is because they made the device too thin, and jammed the battery in too tight that it didn't allow for the battery expansion.
Being that the displays with the computing force behind it, is thinner, then the plastic bevel covering the glass CRT from my first Computer. We are in general (not just Apple) is sacrificing too many features for thin and light, where most of the devices are already not too heavy or too thick to be practical.
Me I don't care that I lost my headphone jack on my iPhone, but a lot of people do, and I understand why they do mind. The reason for waterproofing, and giving extra space for the battery and keeping it thin and light, we are at a point where thin and light means feature sacrifice, perhaps we should temporarily step away from that goal.
That is why you use more powerful lasers. That way you shoot the clouds with data.
Kids will do stupid stuff. Some kids will lead in doing stuff, others will follow the kids doing stupid stuff.
We have the Victorian idea of the good child. Who stays out of trouble, because they have their head in a book. Now this idea looks good on a Norman Rockwell painting, but even the heavy reader kid, will put down the book and get into trouble.
We blamed Comic Books, Television, Video Games... Something new every generation for the fact that these kids are not being model citizens, happily going to school every day, getting A+ on all the their school work, going home happy, have a dinner with their family and discuss the issues of the day, then do their homework and go to bed early and wake up the next morning wide awake and ready to start a new day.
Kids are curious about the world, and what their peers are doing, and seeing how they stand up against them. This means they will get into trouble. We see kids now instead of vegging out in front of the TV (watching TV, or playing Video Games) we see them in front of their phone, chatting with other people.
Kids are not going out to play, because society won't let them.
Business failures, are not always overall failures. A lot of lessons can be learned from the attempt. I much rather see a company put in some risk and try something new, then just do the same old as before because doing something new is risky.
Now if it fails, they may have spent millions, but they also have an interesting case study on why it had failed. Technology isn't up to snuff, not enough demand, gain valuable insight in customers needs. Just doing the research alone with marketing could cost a company millions, and not solve the question, will it actually work.
But Slashdot in general are not good at seeing the next trend. We are too bound to the old ways of doing things. And new ideas and approaches we see as scary, wrong, or had tried it in the past and it failed then, and will fail now.
the iPhone was predicted to fail by Slashdot, Because the Newton was such a failure, and didn't have an external keyboard. the iPod was predicted to be such a looser, because we focused on the limitations (No WiFi and less space then the Nomad) and not its benefits (very small, thin, long battery life). Slashdot has been predicting the fall of Windows and the Year of Desktop Linux to be any time now.
Linux itself has got a lot of love, not because it was free and open source, but because it was very close to the Unix OS, so the old school unix guys didn't have to worry about switching to those new fangled gui OS's
It seems like a better idea then a Drone.
But if the technology works correctly, it could solve a lot of problems with logistics. A lot of time is wasted with the delivery person handling the last mile problem. Because the delivery truck may have space for say 50 - 100 deliveries, and he is spending all his time in serial going from house to house. If these 50-100 deliveries could be on automated small cars, that have a 10 mile range (5 miles in and 5 miles back). A truck can stop at each town, deploy the packages, where they all in parallel go out to all the houses, and drive back, even if they are just having a max speed of 10 mph. A whole town can be covered in little over an hour.
Who needs this? People who needs to go from Point A to Point B. Who doesn't have a bike of their own, or it is difficult to store it. (Street Apt on the 8th floor)
Who is asking for this? People who wants services like Uber, but doesn't necessarily need a Car.
What is the problem that this is trying to solve? Getting a Person from Point A to Point B, without having a Car, or paying for a physical driver, because it is difficult to fit a driver onto a scooter.
Now this wouldn't work for me. And especially today where it is -1 degree outside. But for people who live in cities, having a scooter drive up to them, vs lugging down their bike, is a good way to get them to point B.
Now I don't live in the City, and the Weather where I live is currently way too cold. But for those who live in the right area, it probably solves a lot of problems.
The United States doesn't a a Justice system, but a punishment system.
It is running off the Old Idea. If we treat the population like pre-teen kids, where punishment is an effective way to curve behavior, and prevent this from happening.
Now lets not straw man this, and talk about murderers, and the harden criminals, where harsher sentence are needed.
Most Americans Jailed are for lower level crimes, crimes of passion, or crimes because they couldn't find an effective legal way out.
The cost of keep these people in jail, is often far more then their hindrance too society that they caused.
We can be tough on crime, without jailing everyone. Jailing should be used only if the criminal is considered too much of a risk to the general public. They are other ways to punish and rehabilitate criminals. Such as Home Confinement or Monitored Home Confinement, where the criminal can still go to work, and live their life, but just cannot travel anywhere he wants and when. Giving them a life, while making sure they don't go out of bounds. There is also just general relocation, sometimes the criminal causes crime, because they are living in a place that fosters such activity. Then there should be more effort in educations, and showing people a better way out.
People shouldn't be able to get away with criminal activity. But just locking them up isn't justice. It is just being cruel, and wanting revenge for their damage.
The biggest part of the problem. Is that most people have crappy speakers... Including me.
I watch TV with the speakers that are on my TV, Which I expect are in the back because I have no idea where they are at. When I listen to music, I may have the default Apple Earbuds, or a set of headphones. I have a good pair which does make a noticeable improvement. However still I am listening to an audio signal with a speaker that vibrates air in less then 1mm distance. Compare that to a good set of speakers which can vibrate air in about 1 inch of distance. This just gives it that much more range in detail to play audio.
Now if you have a good set of speakers, you may be able to get the difference between no compression vs lossy compression. Mainly because you will be able to feel the notes that you cannot hear. Sound and music if often beyond just what you can hear, they are low and high frequencies. That we cannot hear but feel. Sub Sonic sounds, just resonate in your chest, while ultrasonic sound just causes a little more tension in your ear.
All that said, if you are listening to newer music. Made in the past 20 years or so. The music has been composed to be heard on such a compressed channel. So going to uncompressed there is no difference even with superior sound speakers.
Or hired by the Indian government to make a superior clone of Ricardo Montalban or Benedict Cumberbatch.
Gene editing itself isn't unethical. However unapproved and non-monitored experiments on humans is. Lets say I have a hypothesis that whisky can cure cancer, so I just go start injecting people with whisky and track them over a few decades and see if they get cancer, that would be unethical. However I use this hypothesis, go threw proper channels, start my studies on extracted cancer cells, understand what is happening, then with animals, then if that seems to be working correctly with approvals, peer review and backing by my employer, then I can go onto human trials. Or more likely it would show it as a failed hypothesis earlier on, and no one will get hurt.
Science isn't some new age magic. It is a rigorous process used to help learn and understand. Is it perfect? No. But it is better then the other alternatives.
For every Eureka! from a single guy who made a discovery and works right from the start. They are millions of others who are no less smarter then him, who did something that just didn't work. Gene editing humans, while may work, still isn't in that phase of the processes. Skipping steps could hurt people and cause damage.
See ST:TNG Ep 116 "Ethics"
That is assuming that he would be allowed to leave China.
China has high-tech public shaming system. That uses facial recognition to let everyone around you know that you have somehow shamed China, thus you should be shunned. Businessmen have been put on this list for things like late payment of their bills.
Being the high visibility of this guy got, he is up for a tough life now on. China may not give him a ticket out of the country, because they would just want to continue the shaming.
Well Trump claimed on national TV that he will own the shutdown. That was extremely stupid of him. Because of that the blame will go to him. Now don't expect any politician to actually care for who is getting hurt, they are all in to winning the next election.
Now Trump is getting all the blame. The house of representatives, who had a big win (Many along districts along the border, where the wall is to be built) for the democrats, because people wanted to fight Trumps evil motives. The democrats have the ability to make Trump and the GOP suffer.
Now that $57 on a 44k budget is a big deal. $44k isn't a lot to live on, and the $57 can go to useful things, like new clothing, healthier food, or just making this months rent.
Also to note, the Tax Cut last year which was suppose to super charge the economy, kinda failed to do such. The Ultra rich who benefited the most, just bought back stock. They didn't reinvest in their company to make them grow. Other companies lowered the amount of raises, because of the extra money people got from taxes. So now we have less money for services. So it is like this guy who made 44k use to make 45k last year, and still had all the expenses. so the $57 is even more painful.
Save money by not changing the oil in your car. You may be able to get by expanding your change schedule, and perhaps missing a few change sessions. But if you go too long without change your oil. Your car will suffer more damage that is more expensive then those oil changes are.
What is happening now, is we are starting to show the value of these "non-critical" government employees. While we can get by for a little while with out them, over time things just getting worse.
Opening the government is easy.
Allow the spending plan that had previously pass both the House and Senate during a time with both sides were GOP controlled, that didn't have Wall spending.
He did say that before it happened, then he let it happened, so he is responsible.
Trump is hurting people and causing suffering, because he is having a fit, because the other areas of government doesn't want him to build a monument to causing suffering.
The wall has nothing to do with border security. The cost of the wall far exceeds its overall benefit. Most of the crime that comes from the border comes from the legal ports of entry.
Lets face it. If your goal is to be a criminal, and sell black market goods, your margins are rather slim, to risk your life wondering the desert or crossing tough mountains, or just having to traverse many miles to sell such goods. Just isn't worth it. You are better off risking a random check at the borders.
Our national border, is protected by the fact there are wide areas of no infrastructure, making crossing such border a difficult action.
The cost of such wall could be better used in different areas, including areas of border security which are better proven to work. The areas where there is a wall, isn't as much as a way to keep people out, but more to direct them to the legal ports of entry. Anyone can get over a wall. But if there is an easier option people will follow it.
Even not being a Helicopter parent. A child under 4 is still mastering skills such as no going poop in their pants (they may be potty trained, but accidents still happen a lot), being able to walk steadily, and have enough discipline to avoid danger even if there is something shiny in the middle of it.
That is why Kindergarten normally starts after the age of 4 years (normally at the age of 5). While some kids 3 and 4 may be mature enough to handle being alone, that wouldn't be anywhere near a good rule of thumb to follow.