Haha the Fair Tax would result in an offshoring of wealth on an unprecedented scale. Earn here, spend there, drain an economy in no time. The local economy would only see some airline ticket sales, banking fees, and the sales tax from us peasants who only hold about half of the wealth.
After so many stories came out this year of revised data showing effects worse than previously predicted? I really hope they're not holding back for fear of being labelled "alarmist" by the denialists.
According to previous articles, it was to prevent him either directly using his 'leet' computer skills to destroy evidence relevant to the case, or co-ordinating with others to do so.
Wow, and they only kept Kevin Mitnick away from phones because the dumbass prosecution lawyer said he would start a nuclear war with one and the dumbass judge believed it without question...now we throw computer "criminals" in solitary just to be safe. Progress.
Having it work differently is kind of the point. Pessimism is one thing, but you presuppose that all possible alternatives will fail in the same manner?
Not in the third world. China and India are doing just fine.
Really? China is at the same level as the US and India is only slightly better:
Why do you think there's anything wrong with how that economy serves that civilization?
Wow...because I'm not a feudalist? It's a horrible system that harvests the lions' share of productivity from the masses (who haven't seen ANY return on those improvements in decades) to enrich a small leisure class to somewhere between Ludicrous Wealth and Plaid Dollars. This is happening just about everywhere, including places that don't have the US' pet problems. Find a way to blame that on government. It happened in the first Gilded Age too.
You're putting the current economic system (and your worship of mythical Randian supermen) ahead of the civilization that economy is supposed to serve. I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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Why does "not doing everything we can get away with to make more money" have to equate to "screwing?"
They abstain from a wide range of other immoral, legally gray actions that would certainly be profitable, so why not tax-dodging too?
Haha the Fair Tax would result in an offshoring of wealth on an unprecedented scale. Earn here, spend there, drain an economy in no time. The local economy would only see some airline ticket sales, banking fees, and the sales tax from us peasants who only hold about half of the wealth.
It's worth noting, one of the biggest stories that didn't make Slashdot is that Assange's DNA wasn't found on the condom presented as evidence.
I do. I could save a little money with tax dodges, I don't.
Huh, I wonder which way this guy who's now in bed with the NG industry affected the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage project, which is now dead...
Just the fact that he left the university rather than the NG company says it all...
Spammer spotted.
Impressive amount of work you put into it.
Hmm both posts modded down. So nobody else watched Borat?
But then again, what would the Microsoft do if they were in their position, suddenly play fair?
Exactly. I'm so glad Microsoft is being bitten in the ass by lock-in from the new bully on the playground, muahahaha it's delicious!
If you were straight, or if I was a woman, I'd totally ask you out.
Bad news, that's most of the tech industry.
And you'll have delicious cooked poultry falling from the sky! :-P
[Siteation kneaded]
FTFY!
They very nosey people with bone in their brain.
Looks like a protective cover to me.
Aw man the link doesn't work :-(
After so many stories came out this year of revised data showing effects worse than previously predicted? I really hope they're not holding back for fear of being labelled "alarmist" by the denialists.
According to previous articles, it was to prevent him either directly using his 'leet' computer skills to destroy evidence relevant to the case, or co-ordinating with others to do so.
Wow, and they only kept Kevin Mitnick away from phones because the dumbass prosecution lawyer said he would start a nuclear war with one and the dumbass judge believed it without question...now we throw computer "criminals" in solitary just to be safe. Progress.
And this is worse than the "new economy" how?
Having it work differently is kind of the point. Pessimism is one thing, but you presuppose that all possible alternatives will fail in the same manner?
Not in the third world. China and India are doing just fine.
Really? China is at the same level as the US and India is only slightly better:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient (See map on right)
Why do you think there's anything wrong with how that economy serves that civilization?
Wow...because I'm not a feudalist? It's a horrible system that harvests the lions' share of productivity from the masses (who haven't seen ANY return on those improvements in decades) to enrich a small leisure class to somewhere between Ludicrous Wealth and Plaid Dollars. This is happening just about everywhere, including places that don't have the US' pet problems. Find a way to blame that on government. It happened in the first Gilded Age too.
You're putting the current economic system (and your worship of mythical Randian supermen) ahead of the civilization that economy is supposed to serve. I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I don't think creative robots are far off, we'll probably get them well before advanced AI:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2009/09/virtual-composer-makes-beautiful-musicand-stirs-controversy/
https://creativity-online.com/news/robot-creativity-turns-sweet-dreams-into-datadriven-art-for-ibis/237564
The good news is that the easiest target, Hollywood writers, will be first on the chopping block.
Well-put, and this is only one problem with the rosy view of automation in a capitalist economy.
People with money are not stupid
Often they are, but generally they are at least well-informed by not-stupid employees.
The same company that does it for dozens of other automated factories? And yes there may be more robots involved.
Do you think that a robot manufacturer and their service team will hire anywhere near as many as all those factory workers they replaced?