Yet, horses didn't become extinct. Not in the slightest. We still have _LOTS_ of horses around here. Some farms still use them for horsepower - it's a personal preference. Many people use them for pleasure. They're better off than they were before - more pampered. Soon you like the horse will be just a pleasure item for your robot overlords and happier for that.
There's this thing called a search engine but since you're just spewing rather than understanding or able to do your own research I've done it for you. Enjoy.
"non-deadly defensive tools are preferable to deadly tools."
The problem is that the stun guns are deadly and being miss used _BY_THE_POLICE_.
The police in our rural area have killed two people in recent years using stun guns.
I'm not making an argument about right to bear stun guns (or to arm bears) but just point out that stun guns are deadly and to think otherwise is counter the evidence, e.g., wrong.
Personally I think we need to arm the bears and bear the arms and all keep are arms bare but that's a different issue.
Taking pictures of people infringes on the implicit copyright by their parents on that gene sequence which created that phenotype. You need to not just blur out the faces but the entire Chef, all of the German nuts in government, etc. Wouldn't want to upset their parents.
That's fine. I'm not worried about you. You'll sit around for a while and then maybe you'll start doing something creative or helpful. Or maybe you won't. You don't really matter. This is an issue of statistical significance. Small outliers like yourself are irrelevant to the theorem. Enjoy your free time.
No, if you are valuable then you will continue to make $30K a year. If your company does not value you then you have the option of quitting and seeking another company that does offer $30K or more per year and during that interim period you know you'll have money to pay your rent/mortgage, buy food, etc. Then when you get work again you can once again afford luxuries.
Since you have an easier time quitting and finding new work your existing company is going to want to retain you more strongly and will offer you a $2K/yr raise so now you'll get $10K from the government, $30K of your old salary and the extra $2K for a total of $42K per year. Bravo!
And since you are now a free agent you decide you can follow your lifelong dream of inventing the zeetlbutmodugneruums widget that you've had on the drawing board at home. You quit your job, finish inventing, start your company, begin manufacturing and sales, it's a great success, you hare ten people to help you the second year and then the third year you buy out your old company so you can use their dodidooamoa design with your widget. You're now making $1,000,000 per year and you look back on that paltry $10K per year and donate it each year to a local charity because you are such a good girl.
Very interesting. (I wish you felt secure enough to post as yourself to facilitate discussion - but I understand.) This is similar to what I suspect is true, the cost of administering and policing the current system is onerous.
One of the interesting aspects about this is that 15,000 per household (be it $Canadian, $US or Euros is irrelevant) would be a below poverty income in some places and a very good income in other places. My fear is that some would argue that it should be thus adjusted so that someone living in New York City gets a minimum income of $100,000 while someone living in West Topsham, Vermont (a third world nation just south of Canadian border) would get a $8,000 minimum income. That would then create a migratory pressure dumping people into the high cost areas where they would get higher minimum incomes thinking they were actually getting more - they aren't. It would be better to keep it a flat national $15,000 which would encourage people to live in the places where the living costs are lower reducing the pressure on services and infrastructure in those high urban areas.
I'm not worried about 'cheaters' who won't work - non-issue. They are not statistically significant.
"What's with everyone predicting with certainty what will happen? Absolutely none of you know what will happen!"
Actually, I have a very good idea of what will happen. We already have this system - in our family. We each get shelter, food and a basic allowance of cash. Yet everyone still works hard and does extra work to earn more so that we can have other good things. I see a system like this working very well. I see it as a way of reducing government and providing a simple basic security net that is easy to administer. It does work on the small scale and can work on the large scale.
Don't worry so much.
(I'm not a liberal. I'm not a conservative. I don't fit in little check boxes. My values spread across the spectrum on different issues. I've worked all my life and always been self employed although you might not always recognize what I do as work. It's a lot fuzzier than one might think by the classic modern stereotypes.)
Okay... but how much is that minimum living? If you're in London it is perhaps, what 15,000 pounds? Yet here in rural Vermont that same 15,000 pounds would be a huge amount of money. I built my home for only 3,500 pounds. My land cost only 250 pounds an acre. In London it's what, 250 pounds per square meter and a year's rent might be 7,000 pounds? Everything's out of wack.
You can't simply say you're going to pay people more in the cities or more in particular cities because their cost of living is higher. That's unfair and impossible to manage logistically. Additionally it will have unintended consequences of shifting populations in nasty ways and then you'll have to incentivize the payments to convince the poor rural folk like me to not move to your nice shiny cities where we'll get more dole.
There are some things about this idea that sound good but this fundamental question is going to mess it up. I like the idea of replacing the minimum wage, welfare, subsidies and a whole lot of other programs with a simple flat allowance that EVERYONEâ gets no matter what their income or situation. This would avoid a lot of wasteful oversight and policing of the system. Probably save money. It would free people up to be able to do some interesting things. It does need to be low enough that you can't live comfortably - just live, probably with room mates.
âYou'll note I did put a qualifier on EVERYONE. That's because people in prison should not get an allowance. As long as they are incarcerated they're getting their allowance applied to pay for their incarceration and it should also be applied to pay restitution. HOWEVER, once they're out they should get the allowance once again. Otherwise you're just creating another problem that we already have.
Lightning striking in the same spot repeatedly is a lot more likely than people think. The reason lightning may have struck a spot is due to there being a good path. Thus lightning is likely to strike that easy path again.
We have that. We live on a mountain where there is a large copper vein running under us. I have watched lightning strike repeatedly in the same spot.
There are videos of lightning repeatedly striking tall buildings during a single storm.
More over, lightning does not need to be very close to do a lot of damage. In a recent storm we had nine nearby strikes - not all in the same spot but spread out over at least a square mile of our land. We lost many miles of wire because of the EMP that the lightning strikes generated got picked up by the wires and overloaded them causing the wires to melt. Some sections of fence wire simply vanished. Google could have had a few nearby strikes that did that. This happens.
Yes, the Best Windows machines are Macs. This has been the case for a looong time. Not only are they less expensive for the lifetime of ownership, longer lives, more powerful, more fully featured but as a bonus you get to use the MacOSX and better integration with iOS. Total win.
You can't pay me in BitCoins. No real food. No firewood. No rent. No clothing. Millionaires starving out on the street because all they have are BitCoins. Sad.
People need to get over this idea of fixed deadlines. This is research. Research is filled with unknowns. That's the whole point. If it was easy then everyone would be doing it and all the problems would already be known and solved. The reality is you don't even know what you're talking about. You don't know what the problems will be. You can't know what the solutions will be. It will require years, perhaps decades, and a lot of money to figure out what are the problems and what are the solutions. People will die. Time will pass. That's research.
Eventually it will turn into production mode and you'll be able to buy a ticket with a predictable schedule to get to Mars and back. Just like flying to Washington, DC. Oh, wait, even that isn't predictable!
The sooner Flash dies the better. I run with it turned off unless for some bizarre reason I come across a site with a feature I want that still uses this dinosaur technology that sucks CRU. Then I debate, to Flash them or move on. Usually I move on. They lose.
Did you know that marshmallows are a real plant? They're a flower growing out in our fields. It's the original plant used for making real marshmallows candies, the white puffs. Pretty and cool. Very easy to grow.
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I'm amazed at how many people take such things so seriously.
Yet, horses didn't become extinct. Not in the slightest. We still have _LOTS_ of horses around here. Some farms still use them for horsepower - it's a personal preference. Many people use them for pleasure. They're better off than they were before - more pampered. Soon you like the horse will be just a pleasure item for your robot overlords and happier for that.
It was a joke. I'm sorry you lost your sense of humor. Here, I'll help you look for it...
I own all my companies. Don't sell out. If you sell out it is your own choice.
Here you go, a whole slew of articles:
http://www.livescience.com/364...
http://www.bing.com/search?q=s...
There's this thing called a search engine but since you're just spewing rather than understanding or able to do your own research I've done it for you. Enjoy.
"non-deadly defensive tools are preferable to deadly tools."
The problem is that the stun guns are deadly and being miss used _BY_THE_POLICE_.
The police in our rural area have killed two people in recent years using stun guns.
I'm not making an argument about right to bear stun guns (or to arm bears) but just point out that stun guns are deadly and to think otherwise is counter the evidence, e.g., wrong.
Personally I think we need to arm the bears and bear the arms and all keep are arms bare but that's a different issue.
Taking pictures of people infringes on the implicit copyright by their parents on that gene sequence which created that phenotype. You need to not just blur out the faces but the entire Chef, all of the German nuts in government, etc. Wouldn't want to upset their parents.
Old programmers own the company. Or you, an old or young programmer, work for them.
That's fine. I'm not worried about you. You'll sit around for a while and then maybe you'll start doing something creative or helpful. Or maybe you won't. You don't really matter. This is an issue of statistical significance. Small outliers like yourself are irrelevant to the theorem. Enjoy your free time.
No, if you are valuable then you will continue to make $30K a year. If your company does not value you then you have the option of quitting and seeking another company that does offer $30K or more per year and during that interim period you know you'll have money to pay your rent/mortgage, buy food, etc. Then when you get work again you can once again afford luxuries.
Since you have an easier time quitting and finding new work your existing company is going to want to retain you more strongly and will offer you a $2K/yr raise so now you'll get $10K from the government, $30K of your old salary and the extra $2K for a total of $42K per year. Bravo!
And since you are now a free agent you decide you can follow your lifelong dream of inventing the zeetlbutmodugneruums widget that you've had on the drawing board at home. You quit your job, finish inventing, start your company, begin manufacturing and sales, it's a great success, you hare ten people to help you the second year and then the third year you buy out your old company so you can use their dodidooamoa design with your widget. You're now making $1,000,000 per year and you look back on that paltry $10K per year and donate it each year to a local charity because you are such a good girl.
Anything could happen...
Very interesting. (I wish you felt secure enough to post as yourself to facilitate discussion - but I understand.) This is similar to what I suspect is true, the cost of administering and policing the current system is onerous.
One of the interesting aspects about this is that 15,000 per household (be it $Canadian, $US or Euros is irrelevant) would be a below poverty income in some places and a very good income in other places. My fear is that some would argue that it should be thus adjusted so that someone living in New York City gets a minimum income of $100,000 while someone living in West Topsham, Vermont (a third world nation just south of Canadian border) would get a $8,000 minimum income. That would then create a migratory pressure dumping people into the high cost areas where they would get higher minimum incomes thinking they were actually getting more - they aren't. It would be better to keep it a flat national $15,000 which would encourage people to live in the places where the living costs are lower reducing the pressure on services and infrastructure in those high urban areas.
I'm not worried about 'cheaters' who won't work - non-issue. They are not statistically significant.
"What's with everyone predicting with certainty what will happen? Absolutely none of you know what will happen!"
Actually, I have a very good idea of what will happen. We already have this system - in our family. We each get shelter, food and a basic allowance of cash. Yet everyone still works hard and does extra work to earn more so that we can have other good things. I see a system like this working very well. I see it as a way of reducing government and providing a simple basic security net that is easy to administer. It does work on the small scale and can work on the large scale.
Don't worry so much.
(I'm not a liberal. I'm not a conservative. I don't fit in little check boxes. My values spread across the spectrum on different issues. I've worked all my life and always been self employed although you might not always recognize what I do as work. It's a lot fuzzier than one might think by the classic modern stereotypes.)
"pay everyone what would be needed to live on."
Okay... but how much is that minimum living? If you're in London it is perhaps, what 15,000 pounds? Yet here in rural Vermont that same 15,000 pounds would be a huge amount of money. I built my home for only 3,500 pounds. My land cost only 250 pounds an acre. In London it's what, 250 pounds per square meter and a year's rent might be 7,000 pounds? Everything's out of wack.
You can't simply say you're going to pay people more in the cities or more in particular cities because their cost of living is higher. That's unfair and impossible to manage logistically. Additionally it will have unintended consequences of shifting populations in nasty ways and then you'll have to incentivize the payments to convince the poor rural folk like me to not move to your nice shiny cities where we'll get more dole.
There are some things about this idea that sound good but this fundamental question is going to mess it up. I like the idea of replacing the minimum wage, welfare, subsidies and a whole lot of other programs with a simple flat allowance that EVERYONEâ gets no matter what their income or situation. This would avoid a lot of wasteful oversight and policing of the system. Probably save money. It would free people up to be able to do some interesting things. It does need to be low enough that you can't live comfortably - just live, probably with room mates.
âYou'll note I did put a qualifier on EVERYONE. That's because people in prison should not get an allowance. As long as they are incarcerated they're getting their allowance applied to pay for their incarceration and it should also be applied to pay restitution. HOWEVER, once they're out they should get the allowance once again. Otherwise you're just creating another problem that we already have.
Toner?
Paper?
Scissors?
Rock?
What's that???
Why you printing?
Rarely is needed.
Xerox doomed.
Lightning striking in the same spot repeatedly is a lot more likely than people think. The reason lightning may have struck a spot is due to there being a good path. Thus lightning is likely to strike that easy path again.
We have that. We live on a mountain where there is a large copper vein running under us. I have watched lightning strike repeatedly in the same spot.
There are videos of lightning repeatedly striking tall buildings during a single storm.
More over, lightning does not need to be very close to do a lot of damage. In a recent storm we had nine nearby strikes - not all in the same spot but spread out over at least a square mile of our land. We lost many miles of wire because of the EMP that the lightning strikes generated got picked up by the wires and overloaded them causing the wires to melt. Some sections of fence wire simply vanished. Google could have had a few nearby strikes that did that. This happens.
See:
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/2015/0...
and
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/2015/0...
As long as it runs X-Plane really well we're golden...
Is there any other purpose or test of desktop computers? The gold standard.
Yes, the Best Windows machines are Macs. This has been the case for a looong time. Not only are they less expensive for the lifetime of ownership, longer lives, more powerful, more fully featured but as a bonus you get to use the MacOSX and better integration with iOS. Total win.
I couldn't resist setting you up with the straight line. You're welcome and thank you for responding! :)
An interesting and awkward solution to virtual money.
You can't pay me in BitCoins. No real food. No firewood. No rent. No clothing. Millionaires starving out on the street because all they have are BitCoins. Sad.
You will be ruled by the King of Rats...
I think not.
Irony is not lost on silicon.
People need to get over this idea of fixed deadlines. This is research. Research is filled with unknowns. That's the whole point. If it was easy then everyone would be doing it and all the problems would already be known and solved. The reality is you don't even know what you're talking about. You don't know what the problems will be. You can't know what the solutions will be. It will require years, perhaps decades, and a lot of money to figure out what are the problems and what are the solutions. People will die. Time will pass. That's research.
Eventually it will turn into production mode and you'll be able to buy a ticket with a predictable schedule to get to Mars and back. Just like flying to Washington, DC. Oh, wait, even that isn't predictable!
The sooner Flash dies the better. I run with it turned off unless for some bizarre reason I come across a site with a feature I want that still uses this dinosaur technology that sucks CRU. Then I debate, to Flash them or move on. Usually I move on. They lose.
Die, Flash, Die.
If you don't like the working conditions then form your own business and work for yourself. It's that simple.
Did you know that marshmallows are a real plant? They're a flower growing out in our fields. It's the original plant used for making real marshmallows candies, the white puffs. Pretty and cool. Very easy to grow.