Do we also need to get it notarized by God and submit it while rubbing our bellies, patting our heads and hopping on one foot?
Would you actually accept that or would you just punt saying lucky guess.
Perhaps you don't pay attention to the news, but Ca has indeed experienced an extended drought and is now seeing floods. Sorry, but nobody was able to predict the rainfall down to the mm.
Weather in a lot of places has been getting steadily stranger.
OK, so one of the biggest performers of all time managed to get some royalties from one of his songs that managed to get on the must play at Christmas list.
And he's still getting royalties on it in spite of internet music piracy.
Personally, I find most IDEs unusable compared to the CLI tools. They tend to be laggy and crashy and at the same time unable to handle some fairly simple things that vi handles easily. They also seem to have no way to handle anything vaguely 'special' in the build process.
It might be easier to use the CLI tools while wearing mittens than it is to use an IDE.
The last time I used the parallel port that way was for a cheap and dirty JTAG interface to un-brick a WRT54. It's a shame that USB parallel ports weren't specified adequately to retain that capability. The closest you can get now is to use an Arduino (or clone).
Poking was a reference to the BASIC POKE, but as tends to happen, it started to mean affecting hardware by writing values to it even when not done in basic (sometimes called bit banging or just direct hardware access).
Pascal in general was crippled by it's own design. There were just too many necessary things you couldn't do without somehow violating the spec.
It's still not dead on servers, but it's more hidden. Now the serial console attaches to the management system and can be seen as Serial Over LAN. The BIOS still supports redirecting the old text mode display to serial, sometimes as a screen scrape and sometimes as an intercept of the old BIOS character display calls.
The nice thing about that is that unlike many of the brain damaged "KVM" support, they don't require some Java applet in your browser that requires an obsolete version of JVM, a particular "brand" of JVM, or somehow defies connecting to it through an SSH tunnel.
Now, overlay the population of the U.S. (count H1-B). Further, switch from the binary of employed or not to inflation adjusted pay. According to those stats, if 1000 highly skilled engineers get laid off and are forced to take 10 hour a week jobs at McDs, there is no change in employment. If a high school kid also gets one of those jobs, things are looking up according to them.
I'm going to need to see some evidence for that. Employment participation is down and pay is stagnant. Those suggest the opposite. If demand was really outstripping supply, wouldn't cost (pay) be rising faster than inflation?
Not really, no. Fear of ending up on the street with no food is a special level of desperation that won't exist under UBI. There will be plenty of people who really want more than the basics and will happily work for that, but they won't be truly desperate.
You're not just shifting the flow of money, you're greatly increasing income security. In addition, with the employer only providing a portion of the income, they'll have to treat the employees with respect or they will walk.
The problem with welfare goes deeper. Let's say you get offered $900 a month. If you take it, you lose welfare so you paid $100/month for the job. When the job craps out 3 months later (not unlikely if it's seasonal work), it'll take several months to get back on welfare.
The thing is, poor management is generally MORE work for the rank and file, they jkust don't have anything to show for it later because management took it's eye off the ball. Replace the management and they will likely be very happy to find they're doing less pointless work and actually have something to show for it.
There is no work out there that doesn't seem twice as hard when you know it's pointless.
The productive population was enslaved long ago by the idle rich. Knowing that come what may food, clothing, and shelter (and these days healthcare) are covered represents a greatly expanded freedom known to few today..
It may well be the fun stuff, but it has contributed billions of dollars to the economy. Take some of that savings and use it to pay people to work on Peoplesoft templates.
I note your attempt to sidestep the point that people can and will do useful things in their free time.
He said not everyone would be. Are you claiming that the entire thing is an utter failure if "that guy" actually veges out on the couch until his circulatory system collapses?
Consider that Rowling has brought enough money into the UK's economy to cover a few hundred thousand person years of the dole.
Others might make somewhat lesser contributions, but probably not zero.
Have you considered that that says more about you than it does about the basic income?
As for evidence against your couch potato theory, I present to you Linux, volunteers in all sorts of charitable organizations, various community projects, and retired people I have known who took part time jobs to relieve boredom and be with people.
The latter showed me some of the reasons the capital class fears the basic income. Though the retirees didn't really bargain that hard for maximum pay, they absolutely had to be treated with civility and respect or they would walk out on the spot and never return.
You can play that game forever, ending with what happens if the quantum vacuum collapses to a lower state, what will you do then, Huh!, HUH!
Of course, would you rather restore to a state where you had your data but there's a virus about to wipe it again, then try to kill the virus or would you rather just lose it all with no chance?
Risk will NEVER be zero. The objective is to take a few steps that can reduce the risk by orders of magnitude. With N=2 backups, you greatly reduce your risks. Add in less archiving of your backup and immediate archiving of any data you know will be needed for years (such as video evidence of a crime), and you reduce the risks another few orders.
In practice, he won't get nearly the max and will be eligible for parole even sooner. Personally, I would be fine with a suspended sentence as long as he never sends or receives another email.
Though in fact, you're not. Each person, including torrent users pays a monthly ISP bill. The ISPs haven't proven to be even slightly shy about imposing caps, hiking prices, or throttling users to make sure nobody uses enough to make that transaction unprofitable.
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Do we also need to get it notarized by God and submit it while rubbing our bellies, patting our heads and hopping on one foot?
Would you actually accept that or would you just punt saying lucky guess.
Perhaps you don't pay attention to the news, but Ca has indeed experienced an extended drought and is now seeing floods. Sorry, but nobody was able to predict the rainfall down to the mm.
Weather in a lot of places has been getting steadily stranger.
OK, so one of the biggest performers of all time managed to get some royalties from one of his songs that managed to get on the must play at Christmas list.
And he's still getting royalties on it in spite of internet music piracy.
And of course, ANSI animations in BBS messages that depended on the limited modem speed to play back at a reasonable speed.
Personally, I find most IDEs unusable compared to the CLI tools. They tend to be laggy and crashy and at the same time unable to handle some fairly simple things that vi handles easily. They also seem to have no way to handle anything vaguely 'special' in the build process.
It might be easier to use the CLI tools while wearing mittens than it is to use an IDE.
The last time I used the parallel port that way was for a cheap and dirty JTAG interface to un-brick a WRT54. It's a shame that USB parallel ports weren't specified adequately to retain that capability. The closest you can get now is to use an Arduino (or clone).
Poking was a reference to the BASIC POKE, but as tends to happen, it started to mean affecting hardware by writing values to it even when not done in basic (sometimes called bit banging or just direct hardware access).
Pascal in general was crippled by it's own design. There were just too many necessary things you couldn't do without somehow violating the spec.
It's still not dead on servers, but it's more hidden. Now the serial console attaches to the management system and can be seen as Serial Over LAN. The BIOS still supports redirecting the old text mode display to serial, sometimes as a screen scrape and sometimes as an intercept of the old BIOS character display calls.
The nice thing about that is that unlike many of the brain damaged "KVM" support, they don't require some Java applet in your browser that requires an obsolete version of JVM, a particular "brand" of JVM, or somehow defies connecting to it through an SSH tunnel.
Now, overlay the population of the U.S. (count H1-B). Further, switch from the binary of employed or not to inflation adjusted pay. According to those stats, if 1000 highly skilled engineers get laid off and are forced to take 10 hour a week jobs at McDs, there is no change in employment. If a high school kid also gets one of those jobs, things are looking up according to them.
I'm going to need to see some evidence for that. Employment participation is down and pay is stagnant. Those suggest the opposite. If demand was really outstripping supply, wouldn't cost (pay) be rising faster than inflation?
Not really, no. Fear of ending up on the street with no food is a special level of desperation that won't exist under UBI. There will be plenty of people who really want more than the basics and will happily work for that, but they won't be truly desperate.
You're not just shifting the flow of money, you're greatly increasing income security. In addition, with the employer only providing a portion of the income, they'll have to treat the employees with respect or they will walk.
No. They will offer enough to convince a non-crazy person it's worth showing up for. That will be more than $100.
The problem with welfare goes deeper. Let's say you get offered $900 a month. If you take it, you lose welfare so you paid $100/month for the job. When the job craps out 3 months later (not unlikely if it's seasonal work), it'll take several months to get back on welfare.
The thing is, poor management is generally MORE work for the rank and file, they jkust don't have anything to show for it later because management took it's eye off the ball. Replace the management and they will likely be very happy to find they're doing less pointless work and actually have something to show for it.
There is no work out there that doesn't seem twice as hard when you know it's pointless.
Considering that the issue is that due to automation, there's less work to be done, I fail to see the problem.
The productive population was enslaved long ago by the idle rich. Knowing that come what may food, clothing, and shelter (and these days healthcare) are covered represents a greatly expanded freedom known to few today..
It may well be the fun stuff, but it has contributed billions of dollars to the economy. Take some of that savings and use it to pay people to work on Peoplesoft templates.
I note your attempt to sidestep the point that people can and will do useful things in their free time.
And then they take part time jobs or volunteer in church, babysit the grandkids, provide peace of mind to parents in the neighborhood, etc etc.
The ones who actually do nothing are the ones who die within a couple of years of retirement.
He said not everyone would be. Are you claiming that the entire thing is an utter failure if "that guy" actually veges out on the couch until his circulatory system collapses?
Consider that Rowling has brought enough money into the UK's economy to cover a few hundred thousand person years of the dole.
Others might make somewhat lesser contributions, but probably not zero.
Have you considered that that says more about you than it does about the basic income?
As for evidence against your couch potato theory, I present to you Linux, volunteers in all sorts of charitable organizations, various community projects, and retired people I have known who took part time jobs to relieve boredom and be with people.
The latter showed me some of the reasons the capital class fears the basic income. Though the retirees didn't really bargain that hard for maximum pay, they absolutely had to be treated with civility and respect or they would walk out on the spot and never return.
That's why parole and probation officers exist. If he re-offends, that whole sentence comes down on him without the need for a new trial.
You can play that game forever, ending with what happens if the quantum vacuum collapses to a lower state, what will you do then, Huh!, HUH!
Of course, would you rather restore to a state where you had your data but there's a virus about to wipe it again, then try to kill the virus or would you rather just lose it all with no chance?
Risk will NEVER be zero. The objective is to take a few steps that can reduce the risk by orders of magnitude. With N=2 backups, you greatly reduce your risks. Add in less archiving of your backup and immediate archiving of any data you know will be needed for years (such as video evidence of a crime), and you reduce the risks another few orders.
In practice, he won't get nearly the max and will be eligible for parole even sooner. Personally, I would be fine with a suspended sentence as long as he never sends or receives another email.
How do you feel about "subsidizing" Netflix?
Though in fact, you're not. Each person, including torrent users pays a monthly ISP bill. The ISPs haven't proven to be even slightly shy about imposing caps, hiking prices, or throttling users to make sure nobody uses enough to make that transaction unprofitable.
Big artists have NEVER made any money from recordings.
It is clearly documented that putting your hand in a spinning saw blade will cause severe injury, but we still have a blade guard.