It sounds like they want to end the practice of gifts/bonuses for employees. If they cut off cold turkey they'd have endless complaints. So on year one they give the gifts to charity so people will feel like assholes if they complain. Next year they'll do nothing at all.
I'm sure if they shop around they can find a rubber stamp somewhere. Then they'll come in and literally rip the sheet rock off the walls looking for drugs. Then they'll leave without so much as a vague grunt of apology haven broken literally everything in the house. Be sure to board your pets with friends first if you don't want them shot. Probably should send the kids off too, just to be safe.
My regular old umbrella already does that by following a simple procedure. Look in back seat. If I don't see the umbrella, it will rain. If I do see it, clear skies.
I think the real reason the phones keep getting thinner is that the components keep getting smaller and while a larger battery could be added, this would add to the weight of the device, which is what I think manufacturers really want to minimize.
Apparently not. It is now known that the note 7 exploded because the battery had no slack space for expansion. That 0.5mm of open space wouldn't have weighed much. Better rigidity of the phone wouldn't add much weight either.
One thing we do know, the less survival stress people feel and the more other things they can do, the less kids they tend to have. That has proven out in the U.S. and Europe. Knowing that come what may, money for the basics will arrive next Monday and continue to arrive month after month is sure a big stress reliever.
Providing for yourself and your family used to include establishing a foundation of some sort. Turning a plot of land into a farm, for example. These days, it's not even debt service often enough. No matter how many times you pay the rent, the rent will come due again and the amount can only go up. No amount of faithful service will produce a pension (even people who supposedly have a pension plan may find it gone before they retire) or even a genuine effort to not downsize you. Fully half of the American workforce has no retirement to look forward to, only a day when they will no longer be able to go to work. Stocking shelves, sweeping floors or fixing cars will not have any lasting effect on anything. Even physicians have become interchangeable. THE family doctor does not exist anymore.
Only a few can afford to start a business and even fewer can afford a second try at it.
Sorry to be a downer, but that's the current economic conditions.
If not checked somehow, the last free market transaction will be a mugging. Two people who each own half of everything and need nothing that the other has..
Your argument says more about you than the basic income.
Are you saying that if you were given a basic income you would just sit on your ass all day watching TV? That you have no marketable skills whatsoever? That even if you did something for free the consensus would be that we're better off if you stop?
Or do you imagine that everyone else is like that but you're a uniquely talented special snowflake in a field of dirt clods?
The problem with the old welfare is that the recipient is made to feel like a parasite. They're not paid enough to DO much of anything but sit in front of the tube and if they accidentally make too much spare change, they end up with less than ever. That's what kills them and makes them bad neighbors.
If the basic income provides enough money to do something and they aren't afraid of accidentally doing too much, they will probably be able to find something better than sitting on the couch. Since everyone would get it, there's no shaming people for it, so they might actually feel like they can be a part of something. It may take a generation to fully work that out, some people are already too damaged by the current system to find their way out of it.
People have generally been able to find a purpose. Our current economic system is what prevents that since they have to make enough money to live before they can even think of something more meaningful to do than make someone else a lot of money.
The CO2 buildup does cause the gasp, but the O2 provided is what gets/keeps the heart going.
Exhaled air is about 16% O2 and 4% CO2. Not at all good, but not fatal. Basically, you would have nausea, fatigue, and perhaps a headache, not unlike the way many people feel when dieting.
They absolutely do have a point. The provider is passing off their hacked up linux distro as Ubuntu, playing off of the brand. That's exactly what trademark law is intended to prevent.
You're missing the point. The mechanical possibility that the car can lock someone in is a safety hazard. Sure, it's great when it locks a car thief in on purpose, not so great if it locks someone in accidentally on a hot day or if the car has been in an accident (especially if it's on fire).
It's not a theoretical matter, people have died that way.
When I do contract work, I always request that any credentials I might have had be revoked, both to encourage good practice and to make sure I don't get blamed for whatever might happen after I leave.
Sometimes they do and sometimes (after entering anopther contract with them) I find my old creds still valid.
That shouldn't cause a lot of false lockups since it has to be different sites. How often do you even use your credit card on 2 different sites within one minute?
The real issue is, as you say, the crooks will just go low and slow to avoid the lockout. It's the same problem with password guessing. Since they don't care which particular card is solved when, they can just do many in parallel, all just below the lockout threshold and still solve cards at a high rate.
It wouldn't make the clause illegal in the sense that there would be no penalty for the party that put it in the contract. It would simply be unenforceable.
Arguably, it already is, this law just clarifies that and allows a judicial shortcut to the correct decision.
You've probably heard that it takes money to make money. It's true.The more money you have the more you can make. Loop forever.
More concretely. Lets say you and I both start businesses making widgets. People like widgets. But I have more money than you, so I can get a 10% discount on widget parts by ordering in larger quantities. So I can sell my widgets for less than you can. So I sell my widgets and make money and you get stuck with a stock of widgets.
It could be a number of factors. Perhaps I can afford to sell at a loss long enough to drive your business under (AKA dumping). Perhaps I own my factory building outright and you have to pay rent for yours. Every month, I see ROI on my property and you flush rent down the toilet. Your landlord might make more money on your business than you do.
This will always be true (as Marx suggests) unless government specifically intervenes and makes it a regulated market.
Perhaps we should heed Smith's admonition to hand out corporate charters extremely sparingly. He understood that markets need hundreds of competitors selling to buyers who were more or less on an equal economic footing. Also the part where he said that markets require regulation to remain functional.
That doesn't sound much like the thing we pass off as Capitalism today.
No. No good has ever come from greed. Enlightened self interest can do great things, but it is greed that removes the enlightened part.
It is technology that raised the peasants of old to a modern standard of living and it is greed that is trying to horde all of the advances for the enjoyment of the rich alone.
Enlightened self interest leads a CEO to build a company that provides decent employment to thousands. Greed leads the corporate raider to make unsustainable cuts, cash in on the stock options, and deploy the golden parachute before his cuts take the company down in flames.
Sure, but the cops are a lot more likely to believe the guy just dropped dead as you walked past if witnesses aren't saying they saw you shoot or stab him.
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It sounds like they want to end the practice of gifts/bonuses for employees. If they cut off cold turkey they'd have endless complaints. So on year one they give the gifts to charity so people will feel like assholes if they complain. Next year they'll do nothing at all.
Once they've broken everything you own and emptied your wallets and jewelry box, they'll magnanimously let you "off the hook".
I'm sure if they shop around they can find a rubber stamp somewhere. Then they'll come in and literally rip the sheet rock off the walls looking for drugs. Then they'll leave without so much as a vague grunt of apology haven broken literally everything in the house. Be sure to board your pets with friends first if you don't want them shot. Probably should send the kids off too, just to be safe.
My regular old umbrella already does that by following a simple procedure. Look in back seat. If I don't see the umbrella, it will rain. If I do see it, clear skies.
It's much too dangerous to let kids play outside. They might be kidnapped by the police or child services "for their own good".
I think the real reason the phones keep getting thinner is that the components keep getting smaller and while a larger battery could be added, this would add to the weight of the device, which is what I think manufacturers really want to minimize.
Apparently not. It is now known that the note 7 exploded because the battery had no slack space for expansion. That 0.5mm of open space wouldn't have weighed much. Better rigidity of the phone wouldn't add much weight either.
One thing we do know, the less survival stress people feel and the more other things they can do, the less kids they tend to have. That has proven out in the U.S. and Europe. Knowing that come what may, money for the basics will arrive next Monday and continue to arrive month after month is sure a big stress reliever.
Providing for yourself and your family used to include establishing a foundation of some sort. Turning a plot of land into a farm, for example. These days, it's not even debt service often enough. No matter how many times you pay the rent, the rent will come due again and the amount can only go up. No amount of faithful service will produce a pension (even people who supposedly have a pension plan may find it gone before they retire) or even a genuine effort to not downsize you. Fully half of the American workforce has no retirement to look forward to, only a day when they will no longer be able to go to work. Stocking shelves, sweeping floors or fixing cars will not have any lasting effect on anything. Even physicians have become interchangeable. THE family doctor does not exist anymore.
Only a few can afford to start a business and even fewer can afford a second try at it.
Sorry to be a downer, but that's the current economic conditions.
Sure, God knows we don't want the peasants to actually understand the law of the land. We should probably write laws in Latin.
If not checked somehow, the last free market transaction will be a mugging. Two people who each own half of everything and need nothing that the other has..
Your argument says more about you than the basic income.
Are you saying that if you were given a basic income you would just sit on your ass all day watching TV? That you have no marketable skills whatsoever? That even if you did something for free the consensus would be that we're better off if you stop?
Or do you imagine that everyone else is like that but you're a uniquely talented special snowflake in a field of dirt clods?
The problem with the old welfare is that the recipient is made to feel like a parasite. They're not paid enough to DO much of anything but sit in front of the tube and if they accidentally make too much spare change, they end up with less than ever. That's what kills them and makes them bad neighbors.
If the basic income provides enough money to do something and they aren't afraid of accidentally doing too much, they will probably be able to find something better than sitting on the couch. Since everyone would get it, there's no shaming people for it, so they might actually feel like they can be a part of something. It may take a generation to fully work that out, some people are already too damaged by the current system to find their way out of it.
People have generally been able to find a purpose. Our current economic system is what prevents that since they have to make enough money to live before they can even think of something more meaningful to do than make someone else a lot of money.
The CO2 buildup does cause the gasp, but the O2 provided is what gets/keeps the heart going.
Exhaled air is about 16% O2 and 4% CO2. Not at all good, but not fatal. Basically, you would have nausea, fatigue, and perhaps a headache, not unlike the way many people feel when dieting.
They absolutely do have a point. The provider is passing off their hacked up linux distro as Ubuntu, playing off of the brand. That's exactly what trademark law is intended to prevent.
A haven't thus far, but I am considering it seriously.
You're missing the point. The mechanical possibility that the car can lock someone in is a safety hazard. Sure, it's great when it locks a car thief in on purpose, not so great if it locks someone in accidentally on a hot day or if the car has been in an accident (especially if it's on fire).
It's not a theoretical matter, people have died that way.
sudo mod this up!
When I do contract work, I always request that any credentials I might have had be revoked, both to encourage good practice and to make sure I don't get blamed for whatever might happen after I leave.
Sometimes they do and sometimes (after entering anopther contract with them) I find my old creds still valid.
That shouldn't cause a lot of false lockups since it has to be different sites. How often do you even use your credit card on 2 different sites within one minute?
The real issue is, as you say, the crooks will just go low and slow to avoid the lockout. It's the same problem with password guessing. Since they don't care which particular card is solved when, they can just do many in parallel, all just below the lockout threshold and still solve cards at a high rate.
Basic install uses SysV and rsyslog, at least that's what I got from the first Beta.
It wouldn't make the clause illegal in the sense that there would be no penalty for the party that put it in the contract. It would simply be unenforceable.
Arguably, it already is, this law just clarifies that and allows a judicial shortcut to the correct decision.
You've probably heard that it takes money to make money. It's true.The more money you have the more you can make. Loop forever.
More concretely. Lets say you and I both start businesses making widgets. People like widgets. But I have more money than you, so I can get a 10% discount on widget parts by ordering in larger quantities. So I can sell my widgets for less than you can. So I sell my widgets and make money and you get stuck with a stock of widgets.
It could be a number of factors. Perhaps I can afford to sell at a loss long enough to drive your business under (AKA dumping). Perhaps I own my factory building outright and you have to pay rent for yours. Every month, I see ROI on my property and you flush rent down the toilet. Your landlord might make more money on your business than you do.
This will always be true (as Marx suggests) unless government specifically intervenes and makes it a regulated market.
Perhaps we should heed Smith's admonition to hand out corporate charters extremely sparingly. He understood that markets need hundreds of competitors selling to buyers who were more or less on an equal economic footing. Also the part where he said that markets require regulation to remain functional.
That doesn't sound much like the thing we pass off as Capitalism today.
No. No good has ever come from greed. Enlightened self interest can do great things, but it is greed that removes the enlightened part.
It is technology that raised the peasants of old to a modern standard of living and it is greed that is trying to horde all of the advances for the enjoyment of the rich alone.
Enlightened self interest leads a CEO to build a company that provides decent employment to thousands. Greed leads the corporate raider to make unsustainable cuts, cash in on the stock options, and deploy the golden parachute before his cuts take the company down in flames.
Sure, but the cops are a lot more likely to believe the guy just dropped dead as you walked past if witnesses aren't saying they saw you shoot or stab him.