I'm pretty sure that's the reason communism and socialism always fail on a country-wide scale.
Socialism always fails on a country-wide scale? Good thing nobody told that to any Scandinavian countries, Denmark, arguably many European countries, etc...
This thing would be perfect if you want to gargoyle it up, you'd just need a handheld control device and a head-mounted display.
This is getting closer to my ideal smartwatch concept: Where the smartwatch is your primary, maybe only computer, with a basic interface because you're not really meant to use the watch as an interface. You'd use something like a phone, tablet, or laptop sort of like a remote desktop terminal to interact with the computer on your wrist. Something like this might be practical in about 20 years.
We've only seen a fraction of the warming that amount of CO2 increase will cause. But how much has it cost us indeed? How much less severe would Katrina and Sandy have been? Would the Syrian revolt have started without the immigration influx started by a drought? What about the costs of the California drought? Would Mexico be set to get flattened quite so hard right now by history's most powerful hurricane? It's hard to tell, but there are definitely hefty costs to it.
You're right that we'd still have to contend with natural climate change, and if the change is minor adaptation may be the best solution for that. If natural climate change in the future threatened to cause the kind of major warming we're facing now, we might want to deal with it in the same way we're dealing with (or planning to deal with) today's man-made climate change - except we'd call it geoengineering. If the planet's warming up by itself, emitting less CO2 and sequestering more might be a good solution. If it's cooling down, releasing sequestered CO2 could help.
Not all countries have the same climate or will be affected in the same way, and the countries that are going to be worse off vastly outnumber those that will be better off with climate change.
And here's something on the costs of global warming adaptation:
Climate change is going to be bad for the planet on average (especially food production) and the costs of adaptation would be worse than the costs of prevention. I encourage you to do your own research for a source, if you're interested in facts.
Wow $9, that's "well above" minimum wage and totally livable. Thanks, we'll all swim in riches now! Except those table-waiting scoundrels who were already secretly rich apparently.
Home server downloads and stores the torrents, and serves a Samba share containing a neatly organized library of symlinks to the media files. I can play these back on any general-purpose computing device. One of them is a dedicated HTPC in the living room.
I'm pretty sure WalMart isn't giving out above-minimum-wage jobs on demand, that would be big, big news among Gen. Y'ers. Instead there are people with "useful" degrees waiting tables. If you can name the form that you need to fill out for WalMart to issue you this job I know some people who'd be interested.
If someone is making slave wages, it is really time they improve themselves, not blame rich people for their lack of money. Minimum wage jobs were never meant to be lived off of, they were meant for the kids in high school to gain work experience.
And this is the crux of the problem. No matter how much you wish that everyone would just grab onto their bootstraps and pull up real hard, a lot of people are making minimum wage and employers won't pay more out of the goodness of their hearts no matter what those employees are capable of. Insisting that minimum wage wasn't meant to be lived off of does nothing for the fact that many have no choice.
People can improve themselves as much as they want these days, the world population is going up and the number of good-paying jobs is going down. There are only enough seats at the table for a few of the most talented (or well-connected) people.
I'd thought of doing exactly this, just a few years working among the hipsters while camping out of a vehicle for a near-zero housing cost could leave you with a quarter or maybe half a million in the bank.. Just daydreaming though, since I'm not a US citizen.
I don't and I'm pretty sure I do. But I'm trying to find the lower limit (if it exists) of what proves trickle-down's effectiveness in terms of pay and the employee's alternative choices, since you argue that by definition anyone working for a rich man is proof of its effectiveness. Substitute a sweatshop worker for the slave if you like, does their employment prove that trickle-down economics works?
FDR had nothing to do with that. Keep in mind that a lot of his policies had to be reversed in order to fight the Second World War.
The increase in income was proportionally about the same pre-WW2 under FDR's administration as the following post-WW2 boom, if you don't want to give him any credit for that.
if they decide they like their tax shelters more than their country, at least moving away will honestly show where their loyalties lie
Who wouldn't? We don't live in a democracy to get loyalty tested. That's Big Brother stuff.
I'll bet that more than half wouldn't. Their loyalties are tested every day, if they all moved to Monaco or better yet the ungoverned regions of Somalia they could get some nice big tax breaks right now. What are they waiting for?
And what happens when their business isn't worth expanding?
That's the beauty of the thing, their only choices are spending it on their business, or pointless corporate cash-hoarding. They could try to find new tax loopholes again, and with no credible communist enemy to prove anything to they won't hold back, but we know how to design less-leaky tax policy these days, and if they decide they like their tax shelters more than their country, at least moving away will honestly show where their loyalties lie.
Perhaps. It's worked before, and maybe it would encourage business owners to not be so stingy with wages. Do we have less bloated lethargic monopolies now?
Where are my mod points today? These people do not need to be comforted. If they want to stop feeling guilt and isolation, they either need to take a lesson from tinpot dictators and embrace and accept how horrible they are, insulating themselves from the peasants entirely, or they can fix the problems they've created.
Only if you think that the government makes the money it receives disappear through a black hole rather than doing any good with it. Many would disagree.
You seem to be clinging to the same trickle-down economic theories that have created this mess. How is more of the same supposed to lead to a different result?
The GP was recommending policies that seem to have worked in the New Deal era. Forcing rich people to keep their wealth in their business led to business expansion instead of high scores racked up in Swiss bank accounts.
I was thinking the same thing, if this is an interstellar signal lamp, it would probably display a repeating pattern since anything else could be mistaken for a natural occurrence. When they find a star also displaying a repeating pattern, then they know they've got 2-way communication and could try to send a meaningful message. Too bad about the latency though...
You're gonna block all Internet access to your house pretty soon with a total block on HTTPS.
Also IT won't pay well under any circumstances for much longer, since Facebook and MS have fooled the US' politicians into believing in a "STEM shortage."
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I'm pretty sure that's the reason communism and socialism always fail on a country-wide scale.
Socialism always fails on a country-wide scale? Good thing nobody told that to any Scandinavian countries, Denmark, arguably many European countries, etc...
This thing would be perfect if you want to gargoyle it up, you'd just need a handheld control device and a head-mounted display.
This is getting closer to my ideal smartwatch concept: Where the smartwatch is your primary, maybe only computer, with a basic interface because you're not really meant to use the watch as an interface. You'd use something like a phone, tablet, or laptop sort of like a remote desktop terminal to interact with the computer on your wrist. Something like this might be practical in about 20 years.
We've only seen a fraction of the warming that amount of CO2 increase will cause. But how much has it cost us indeed? How much less severe would Katrina and Sandy have been? Would the Syrian revolt have started without the immigration influx started by a drought? What about the costs of the California drought? Would Mexico be set to get flattened quite so hard right now by history's most powerful hurricane? It's hard to tell, but there are definitely hefty costs to it.
You're right that we'd still have to contend with natural climate change, and if the change is minor adaptation may be the best solution for that. If natural climate change in the future threatened to cause the kind of major warming we're facing now, we might want to deal with it in the same way we're dealing with (or planning to deal with) today's man-made climate change - except we'd call it geoengineering. If the planet's warming up by itself, emitting less CO2 and sequestering more might be a good solution. If it's cooling down, releasing sequestered CO2 could help.
One where we don't hand-wave away problems with hilariously oversimplified answers:
http://www.preventionweb.net/f... (jump to page 58 for the spoilers)
Not all countries have the same climate or will be affected in the same way, and the countries that are going to be worse off vastly outnumber those that will be better off with climate change.
And here's something on the costs of global warming adaptation:
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
Hope you learned something.
Climate change is going to be bad for the planet on average (especially food production) and the costs of adaptation would be worse than the costs of prevention. I encourage you to do your own research for a source, if you're interested in facts.
If people had the same attitude toward human rights as they do toward climate policy, we'd do away with them because North Korea won't participate.
Wow $9, that's "well above" minimum wage and totally livable. Thanks, we'll all swim in riches now! Except those table-waiting scoundrels who were already secretly rich apparently.
Home server downloads and stores the torrents, and serves a Samba share containing a neatly organized library of symlinks to the media files. I can play these back on any general-purpose computing device. One of them is a dedicated HTPC in the living room.
I'm pretty sure WalMart isn't giving out above-minimum-wage jobs on demand, that would be big, big news among Gen. Y'ers. Instead there are people with "useful" degrees waiting tables. If you can name the form that you need to fill out for WalMart to issue you this job I know some people who'd be interested.
Why haven't you moved to VeraCrypt yet?
If someone is making slave wages, it is really time they improve themselves, not blame rich people for their lack of money. Minimum wage jobs were never meant to be lived off of, they were meant for the kids in high school to gain work experience.
And this is the crux of the problem. No matter how much you wish that everyone would just grab onto their bootstraps and pull up real hard, a lot of people are making minimum wage and employers won't pay more out of the goodness of their hearts no matter what those employees are capable of. Insisting that minimum wage wasn't meant to be lived off of does nothing for the fact that many have no choice.
People can improve themselves as much as they want these days, the world population is going up and the number of good-paying jobs is going down. There are only enough seats at the table for a few of the most talented (or well-connected) people.
I'd thought of doing exactly this, just a few years working among the hipsters while camping out of a vehicle for a near-zero housing cost could leave you with a quarter or maybe half a million in the bank.. Just daydreaming though, since I'm not a US citizen.
I don't and I'm pretty sure I do. But I'm trying to find the lower limit (if it exists) of what proves trickle-down's effectiveness in terms of pay and the employee's alternative choices, since you argue that by definition anyone working for a rich man is proof of its effectiveness. Substitute a sweatshop worker for the slave if you like, does their employment prove that trickle-down economics works?
That's an odd way to describe the post-WW2 boom
FDR had nothing to do with that. Keep in mind that a lot of his policies had to be reversed in order to fight the Second World War.
The increase in income was proportionally about the same pre-WW2 under FDR's administration as the following post-WW2 boom, if you don't want to give him any credit for that.
if they decide they like their tax shelters more than their country, at least moving away will honestly show where their loyalties lie
Who wouldn't? We don't live in a democracy to get loyalty tested. That's Big Brother stuff.
I'll bet that more than half wouldn't. Their loyalties are tested every day, if they all moved to Monaco or better yet the ungoverned regions of Somalia they could get some nice big tax breaks right now. What are they waiting for?
You seem to be clinging to the same trickle-down economic theories that have created this mess.
Just because your perception is broken doesn't mean that I'm clinging to "trickle-down".
If there are any differences between what you're advocating and the textbook definition of trickle-down economics, they're too minor for my liking.
The GP was recommending policies that seem to have worked in the New Deal era.
Such as create a bunch of non-competitive oligopolies and then watch the economy circle the drain?
That's an odd way to describe the post-WW2 boom, but that massive increase in real median income would be sweet no matter what you call it!
And what happens when their business isn't worth expanding?
That's the beauty of the thing, their only choices are spending it on their business, or pointless corporate cash-hoarding. They could try to find new tax loopholes again, and with no credible communist enemy to prove anything to they won't hold back, but we know how to design less-leaky tax policy these days, and if they decide they like their tax shelters more than their country, at least moving away will honestly show where their loyalties lie.
Slave-owners spent enough resources on their slaves to keep them alive, does that prove that trickle-down economics works?
Perhaps. It's worked before, and maybe it would encourage business owners to not be so stingy with wages. Do we have less bloated lethargic monopolies now?
In other words, "Don't hate the player, hate the game" - the criminal's creed.
Where are my mod points today? These people do not need to be comforted. If they want to stop feeling guilt and isolation, they either need to take a lesson from tinpot dictators and embrace and accept how horrible they are, insulating themselves from the peasants entirely, or they can fix the problems they've created.
Only if you think that the government makes the money it receives disappear through a black hole rather than doing any good with it. Many would disagree.
You seem to be clinging to the same trickle-down economic theories that have created this mess. How is more of the same supposed to lead to a different result?
The GP was recommending policies that seem to have worked in the New Deal era. Forcing rich people to keep their wealth in their business led to business expansion instead of high scores racked up in Swiss bank accounts.
I was thinking the same thing, if this is an interstellar signal lamp, it would probably display a repeating pattern since anything else could be mistaken for a natural occurrence. When they find a star also displaying a repeating pattern, then they know they've got 2-way communication and could try to send a meaningful message. Too bad about the latency though...
A better approach than blocking HTTPS in terms of surveillance effectiveness, yes :-P and many corporate networks indeed do this.
You're gonna block all Internet access to your house pretty soon with a total block on HTTPS.
Also IT won't pay well under any circumstances for much longer, since Facebook and MS have fooled the US' politicians into believing in a "STEM shortage."