"Overpopulation can be dealt with by moving people to other planets"
Or, we could just gradually lower our fertility rate as life extension catches on. This normally takes place anyway when an agrarian society industrializes and the five children per family become two.
Exactly. We need something like 2.2 children just to maintain the same number of people. Also, reversing aging really doesn't buy as much time as most people think. If you eliminate aging, the average life expectancy would jump from about 80 years to about 250 years even if everyone had the same probability of dying each year as a 25 year old does.
Congratulations! But even if you have the cure for aging you'll have to solve some (quite big) problems:
* The danger of overpopulation. If old people don't die, and young people keep making babies, our planet will become overcrowded soon. Which system should be implemented? A policy where you need permit by the government to have babies? Will we make a gigantic ponzi scheme where we put those extra humans on mars, then on other plantes, colonizing the galaxy? What when the whole galaxy is colonized? Intergalactic travel outside of our local group is quite hard, as expansion of space will make those galaxies leave us faster than light before we can get to them.
* The danger of cancer. Often when rejuveniating cells you put them in a mode where they like to multiply. You artificially increase the likelihood for cancer with this to an extent of almost certainity.
The summary specifically mentions that they found no increased chance of cancer and besides cancer and overpopulation are not reasons not to pursue it. If you could keep someone healthy to 150 and then just took them out in the streets and shot them that would be preferable to what we have now which is where a 100 year old is frail and decrepit.
There are other problems too that need to be dealt with. Society changes because the older generation dies out. If you think the top.01 percent of the rich are bad now, imagine how much worse it would get if they never died and could continue to amass wealth and power indefinitely.
This is a serious issue with CDMA Carriers that GSM carriers do not have. USian CDMA Users (Sprint, Verizon, and their Virtual Operators) have no SIM cards to pull from their devices. These people can't just pull a SIM out and put it in another device. Issues like this are why Canada is discontinuing all CDMA as of January 1st 2017.
But in this particular case, this is a benefit. With CDMA you can just invalidate all the CDMA serials but still allow them to call 911. CDMA would seem to make this easier. Even if that's not possible, I still don't understand why they want to brick the phones. Why not push out an update that only allows the phone to have a 50% charge and only allows it to call 911 and customer service? The update could even disable all apps, change the background to a message telling them to call or even make half the lcd black. There are lots of ways to cripple a phone that doesn't introduce a new safety issue.
I've been burned too many times when the stuff I bought stopped working.
I bought a basis watch several years ago. Intel bought them out and their latest watch had a major recall so intel decided to shut it down. Intel gave me a check for $234 for my watch even though it wasn't even part of the recall and I had already used it for over 2 years. I found this kindof amazing but it still would have been better if they open sourced their app so that people could continue to use their watches. Ideally, devices would be created on open standards with simple apis and without vendor lock-in so that consumers could continue to use their hardware. Either that or you need to assume it's a lease with a finite lifespan. If you are storing pictures on facebook, google, etc... you really need to still have a backup elsewhere because any time they want they can pull the plug and take it all with them.
Why do people insist on calling those thing renewable? How exactly do you renew sun or earh?
The sun should probably be called reusable as nothing we do on earth can affect the output of the sun. We can block it from reaching the surface with pollution but we can't change it's output. Many of the other "green" technologies I wonder about. Wind power is a good example. How much energy can we take out of the air with windmills before we start seeing an effect on the weather? Is it really completely free? Massive geothermal is another example. How much energy is down there and are we going to screw things up by depleting it? Even if there is plenty of energy down there we are still releasing extra heat into the system so we are still adding to the global warming problem. I wonder if 100 years from now if we find out that some of our free and green energy sources are not as free and green as we originally thought.
What's wrong with saying we will not report on lawful private behavior under any circumstance?
It's not private behaviour if your employer is paying for you to do the work or attend the conference. If it's for budget purposes maybe a better request would have been for the Trump Team to request a summary of number of attendees, cost, etc... but it still seems like a reasonable request to want to know who is doing what in a organization that you are responsible for. Even if he disagrees with what that organization is doing, he is still the one ultimately tasked with managing it.
WTF? Have you sen the many positions filled and statements offered? You are not merely political, you are maniacal.
Exactly the opposite. I'm mostly apolitical. I didn't vote for Trump or Hillary. I think they are both crooks as well as secretly (not really that secret though) friends. I will say, though I haven't really paid much attention, it does seem like he is appointing people to run departments that they personally dislike. Before he started doing it I never would have thought about appointing people who dislike a particular department to run it. In hindsight, I think it's kind of brilliant. If you really want to end and/or clean up a department appointing an outsider opposed to the very existence of that department makes them very motivated to find places to cut where ever they can.
Instead of just immediately refusing the request, has anyone bothered to ask the Trump Transition Team why they want the list? Everyone seems to think they want this so they can blacklist them. Maybe they want this so they can hire the proper people for certain cabinet positions. Especially to ask for the list this early in the game, it seems weird that it would be for a blacklist. Generally you would wait until you were in office to go after the opposition.
That reads like a who's who list of crap I wouldn't waste my money on if I saw it in the store.
I bought a couple of these for my kids a few years ago when they were in their destructive stage and I was working on teaching them how to properly take care of things. At that point a $30 tablet that they could play angry birds on and look at wikipedia was all they really needed. I had suspected malware as one of them started having unwanted popups even after I reflashed it.
Plus, they are encrypted themselves, and only mounted during the actual backup window.
So the malware needs to be really smart to catch that window, and then it has to be smart enough to catch the verify cycle.
Again, none of this matters. A virus doesn't need to know anything about your backups, your backup windows, your encryption or even whether the backups even exist to infect them. In order for a virus to be effective it has to lay low for a while so that it has time to propagate. It's the reason that ebola is not really a huge issue. It kills too fast. By the time that a virus announces to you that you are infected then likely all your backups are also infected. It just has to wait a few weeks for you to back up your system like normal. Now once you discover that the virus is there, the backups are static copies so if you're lucky they aren't encrypted yet but in order to prevent them from getting encrypted you have to locate all copies of the virus on the backup and remove them before you restore. If it's an older well known virus and you can identify it then you might get lucky and find a tool that can clean your backup. The other option would require a person to dissect the backup and figure out where the virus is hiding which is beyond the skillset of most users.
My own personal backup system doesn't have offsite storage in a fireproof container inside a guarded vault.
And since probably 80 percent of users have no backup at all, there is a lot of low hanging fruit before the bad guys get to multiple file backups and multiple image users.
It's not about the quality of the backup. It's that in order to effectively propagate a virus needs to lay low for a while so that it can get to multiple systems. If it immediately bricks your system then it can't propagate. This means that by the time it announces to you that you are infected that you have likely been infected for quite a while so all your backups are also infected. If you're lucky and your backup files aren't already encrypted then it might be possible to clean the backup before you restore it but that's assuming a person even knows enough about the virus to know where it is hiding to be able to remove it from the backup before restoring.
I'm reminded of Austin where there is a Chick-Fil-a catty-corner from a McD's. The Check-Fil-a has their drive throughs (plural) backed up into the street and had to completely raze and build their store from the ground up to handle the traffic demand. The McD's? Usually empty.
The chick-fil-a is busy in my town but so are all the mcdonalds. The mcdonalds near my house has 2 lanes constantly full while the burger king next door is usually empty. I've always found this strange because I've always thought Burger King had better food than Mcdonalds.
Are there any Netgear Wifi routers with easily replaceable firmware?
Yes. I've put dd-wrt on several netgear wndr3400v2 routers. It was literally as simple as finding the right firmware and using the gui on the netgear router to select the file from the list and hit update.
A quick glance shows that the R7000 mentioned in the article not only supports dd-wrt but is also one of the fastest consumer grade routers on the market that does: https://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index....
Are there any Netgear Wifi routers with easily replaceable firmware?
Yes. I've put dd-wrt on several netgear wndr3400v2 routers. It was literally as simple as finding the right firmware and using the gui on the netgear router to select the file from the list and hit update.
You should also go one step less. I suggest one, or two, days per week that are electricity-free. Permitted would be sports, hikes, splitting wood, gardening, or just time spent at the kitchen table with a large artist's pad full of blank sheets of paper, with a stack of pencils, pens and sharpies nearby.
I agree with this. The only thing I would add is that sometimes you also need to change up and limit the choices too. One of my sons actually spends most of his free time at the kitchen table with blank paper and a pencil. I think this is great but just like a kid that spends all his free time reading, I feel that sometimes it's the parent's job to encourage a kid to try different activities other than their standard fallback activity.
That's still a pain for a single day but any properly written ransomware could easily stay dormant long enough to either infect all your backups or make them old enough to be mostly worthless.
In the unlikely event this actually would happen, then I would restore.
My backups are secure. So I would restore from a backup. That wasn't too hard was it?
Backups work great for random acts of god but not necessarily for ransomware. It would be fairly trivial to create ransomware that slept a random amount of time before encrypting your files or even worse encrypt your files and then continue to function like normal for several weeks before alerting you. By that time, all your backups are also infected and even if you have a really old backup you won't have any of the recent stuff from that last several weeks or months since the initial infection. For all the people on here that are bragging about backups, even if you catch it the same day and restore it is still a huge pain and chances are if written properly it could easily be written in a way that the backups are also infected.
I agree with the lego bricks and if you want to go one step further, get a mindstorm ev3. Yes, mindstorm is expensive but it beats almost any stem toy on the market. It has a low learning barrier to entry but is still pretty powerful and most importantly is not single use. I have bought my kids quite a few other stem toys like sphero, ozobot, mbot, snap circuits, littlebits, preprogrammed toy robots, etc... but most of them either have limited customization or you have to be a programmer to make them do anything cool. The mindstorm kit was the most expensive stem toy I have ever bought but it is the only one that my kids still play with on a regular basis as the rest are now mostly just collecting dust and collectively all the other dust collecting stem toys cost more than the mindstorm set and the mindstorm can basically replicate the functionality of all of them. The only real problem my kids have with mindstorm is that they can only create one thing at a time and must destroy it before creating something new.
I have no pity for idiots laying out thousands for pointless SmartCrap. There's no good reason for a fucking doll (or refrigerator or thermostat or dog bowl or...) to have goddamn internet access.
It's like some irresponsible asshole buying a gun then crying when he leaves it out and the baby shoots the TV.
I don't own any but I don't see it as pointless. I can see a very good reason for it. Adults ask siri and google thousands of questions a day via their smartphones. A logical extension of this is a teddy bear for a 4 year old where the 4 year old can ask questions like "what is a raccoon?"
The media companies are playing a game they can't win. The only thing they can do is move copyright infringement to the gray area where it's more convenient for a percentage of their customers to buy it. I'm surprised torrent link sites haven't moved to tor yet. Tor seems like the perfect place to store links. Tor is too slow for streaming but it would a perfect place to catalog where on youtube you can find the videos a person wants to watch. As currently, it's still legal to watch pirated movies, the only thing that needs to be protected is the cataloguing of where the movies can be found. This seems like an ideal use of Tor.
But it's an error to project an intern's monthly pay over the entire year. The amount they earn is for a small number of months, and has to last them the remaining 9 or 10 until the next time they can intern.
Where did you get this? Intern money is not designed to support someone for the entire year. It's designed to give them a little bit of experience and maybe a little bit of pocket change. Some interns don't even get paid. They are not paying you more because it's only a short time. Projecting it over a full year seems perfectly reasonable. Also, how many people actually do more than one intern? Most people I know do one their Junior year and that was it.
Yeah. Like I'm going to go "have a reasonable discussion with someone I don't agree with".
I have reasonable discussions with people I disagree with all the time. I can have conversations with far left liberals and far right conservatives with no problem. Now there are some that I can see are violently opposed to a different opinion and I quickly end those conversations or steer to more neutral ground. If someone thinks republicans are evil and mentioning John Stossel causes smoke to come out of their ears then you need to back off and pick at the edges as you aren't going to have any meaningful conversation trying to go head on but most people can discuss issues they disagree with without going postal. I personally like to talk to people with opinions different than me because I like to understand how the other side thinks.
Iframe or hyperlink, the issue is that someone is creating an organized list of infringing items that they have uploaded to youtube. The stuff is not suppose to be on youtube and youtube is supposed to be policing it but youtube is playing whack a mole. If youtube doesn't know where the mole is then most of their users won't either. A 3rd party site can bypass this as they can index it on their side and they don't necessarily have to even name it correctly on youtube's side which makes it even harder for youtube to find it. This is the reason that the media companies have used the courts to go after hyperlinks and iframes. With cloud computing and thousands of sites, it's pretty easy to dump something into an anonymous ftp, dropbox, youtube, amazon instance, etc... that isn't owned by you. You could even store it piecemeal in comments on a wordpress site, etc... It's practically impossible to stop someone from hosting data somewhere but if you can restrict someone from organizing that data then it's not near as useful as there is noway to really find it.
Guaranteed Income and the like may not be the right answer, though it's certainly the common thought right now. We definitely have to look into the issue further.
I think a better solution that Guaranteed Income would be reduced work hours and mandatory vacation. If people were forced to work less hours then those hours could be given to other people. This works as long as middle class jobs that can't be automated continue to exists. It reduces the supply of labor which should increase the demand for labor and therefore the pay. It doesn't work for jobs that can just be automated away though because if labor cost goes above the automation cost then those jobs just vanish. The only thing that is currently keeping unemployment from spiralling out of control is that it's currently cheaper to pay someone $8 per hour than it is to automate that job away. Increase minimum wage to $15 per hour like many are suggesting and you will likely see any job that can be automated or eliminated like cashier, waitress, stocker, drive thru worker, etc... automated away.
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"Overpopulation can be dealt with by moving people to other planets"
Or, we could just gradually lower our fertility rate as life extension catches on. This normally takes place anyway when an agrarian society industrializes and the five children per family become two.
Exactly. We need something like 2.2 children just to maintain the same number of people. Also, reversing aging really doesn't buy as much time as most people think. If you eliminate aging, the average life expectancy would jump from about 80 years to about 250 years even if everyone had the same probability of dying each year as a 25 year old does.
Congratulations! But even if you have the cure for aging you'll have to solve some (quite big) problems:
* The danger of overpopulation. If old people don't die, and young people keep making babies, our planet will become overcrowded soon. Which system should be implemented? A policy where you need permit by the government to have babies? Will we make a gigantic ponzi scheme where we put those extra humans on mars, then on other plantes, colonizing the galaxy? What when the whole galaxy is colonized? Intergalactic travel outside of our local group is quite hard, as expansion of space will make those galaxies leave us faster than light before we can get to them.
* The danger of cancer. Often when rejuveniating cells you put them in a mode where they like to multiply. You artificially increase the likelihood for cancer with this to an extent of almost certainity.
The summary specifically mentions that they found no increased chance of cancer and besides cancer and overpopulation are not reasons not to pursue it. If you could keep someone healthy to 150 and then just took them out in the streets and shot them that would be preferable to what we have now which is where a 100 year old is frail and decrepit.
There are other problems too that need to be dealt with. Society changes because the older generation dies out. If you think the top .01 percent of the rich are bad now, imagine how much worse it would get if they never died and could continue to amass wealth and power indefinitely.
This is a serious issue with CDMA Carriers that GSM carriers do not have. USian CDMA Users (Sprint, Verizon, and their Virtual Operators) have no SIM cards to pull from their devices. These people can't just pull a SIM out and put it in another device. Issues like this are why Canada is discontinuing all CDMA as of January 1st 2017.
But in this particular case, this is a benefit. With CDMA you can just invalidate all the CDMA serials but still allow them to call 911. CDMA would seem to make this easier. Even if that's not possible, I still don't understand why they want to brick the phones. Why not push out an update that only allows the phone to have a 50% charge and only allows it to call 911 and customer service? The update could even disable all apps, change the background to a message telling them to call or even make half the lcd black. There are lots of ways to cripple a phone that doesn't introduce a new safety issue.
I've been burned too many times when the stuff I bought stopped working.
I bought a basis watch several years ago. Intel bought them out and their latest watch had a major recall so intel decided to shut it down. Intel gave me a check for $234 for my watch even though it wasn't even part of the recall and I had already used it for over 2 years. I found this kindof amazing but it still would have been better if they open sourced their app so that people could continue to use their watches. Ideally, devices would be created on open standards with simple apis and without vendor lock-in so that consumers could continue to use their hardware. Either that or you need to assume it's a lease with a finite lifespan. If you are storing pictures on facebook, google, etc... you really need to still have a backup elsewhere because any time they want they can pull the plug and take it all with them.
Why do people insist on calling those thing renewable? How exactly do you renew sun or earh?
The sun should probably be called reusable as nothing we do on earth can affect the output of the sun. We can block it from reaching the surface with pollution but we can't change it's output. Many of the other "green" technologies I wonder about. Wind power is a good example. How much energy can we take out of the air with windmills before we start seeing an effect on the weather? Is it really completely free? Massive geothermal is another example. How much energy is down there and are we going to screw things up by depleting it? Even if there is plenty of energy down there we are still releasing extra heat into the system so we are still adding to the global warming problem. I wonder if 100 years from now if we find out that some of our free and green energy sources are not as free and green as we originally thought.
What's wrong with saying we will not report on lawful private behavior under any circumstance?
It's not private behaviour if your employer is paying for you to do the work or attend the conference. If it's for budget purposes maybe a better request would have been for the Trump Team to request a summary of number of attendees, cost, etc... but it still seems like a reasonable request to want to know who is doing what in a organization that you are responsible for. Even if he disagrees with what that organization is doing, he is still the one ultimately tasked with managing it.
WTF? Have you sen the many positions filled and statements offered? You are not merely political, you are maniacal.
Exactly the opposite. I'm mostly apolitical. I didn't vote for Trump or Hillary. I think they are both crooks as well as secretly (not really that secret though) friends. I will say, though I haven't really paid much attention, it does seem like he is appointing people to run departments that they personally dislike. Before he started doing it I never would have thought about appointing people who dislike a particular department to run it. In hindsight, I think it's kind of brilliant. If you really want to end and/or clean up a department appointing an outsider opposed to the very existence of that department makes them very motivated to find places to cut where ever they can.
Instead of just immediately refusing the request, has anyone bothered to ask the Trump Transition Team why they want the list? Everyone seems to think they want this so they can blacklist them. Maybe they want this so they can hire the proper people for certain cabinet positions. Especially to ask for the list this early in the game, it seems weird that it would be for a blacklist. Generally you would wait until you were in office to go after the opposition.
That reads like a who's who list of crap I wouldn't waste my money on if I saw it in the store.
I bought a couple of these for my kids a few years ago when they were in their destructive stage and I was working on teaching them how to properly take care of things. At that point a $30 tablet that they could play angry birds on and look at wikipedia was all they really needed. I had suspected malware as one of them started having unwanted popups even after I reflashed it.
There are many copies and most of are offline.
Plus, they are encrypted themselves, and only mounted during the actual backup window.
So the malware needs to be really smart to catch that window, and then it has to be smart enough to catch the verify cycle.
Again, none of this matters. A virus doesn't need to know anything about your backups, your backup windows, your encryption or even whether the backups even exist to infect them. In order for a virus to be effective it has to lay low for a while so that it has time to propagate. It's the reason that ebola is not really a huge issue. It kills too fast. By the time that a virus announces to you that you are infected then likely all your backups are also infected. It just has to wait a few weeks for you to back up your system like normal. Now once you discover that the virus is there, the backups are static copies so if you're lucky they aren't encrypted yet but in order to prevent them from getting encrypted you have to locate all copies of the virus on the backup and remove them before you restore. If it's an older well known virus and you can identify it then you might get lucky and find a tool that can clean your backup. The other option would require a person to dissect the backup and figure out where the virus is hiding which is beyond the skillset of most users.
My own personal backup system doesn't have offsite storage in a fireproof container inside a guarded vault.
And since probably 80 percent of users have no backup at all, there is a lot of low hanging fruit before the bad guys get to multiple file backups and multiple image users.
It's not about the quality of the backup. It's that in order to effectively propagate a virus needs to lay low for a while so that it can get to multiple systems. If it immediately bricks your system then it can't propagate. This means that by the time it announces to you that you are infected that you have likely been infected for quite a while so all your backups are also infected. If you're lucky and your backup files aren't already encrypted then it might be possible to clean the backup before you restore it but that's assuming a person even knows enough about the virus to know where it is hiding to be able to remove it from the backup before restoring.
I'm reminded of Austin where there is a Chick-Fil-a catty-corner from a McD's. The Check-Fil-a has their drive throughs (plural) backed up into the street and had to completely raze and build their store from the ground up to handle the traffic demand. The McD's? Usually empty.
The chick-fil-a is busy in my town but so are all the mcdonalds. The mcdonalds near my house has 2 lanes constantly full while the burger king next door is usually empty. I've always found this strange because I've always thought Burger King had better food than Mcdonalds.
Are there any Netgear Wifi routers with easily replaceable firmware?
Yes. I've put dd-wrt on several netgear wndr3400v2 routers. It was literally as simple as finding the right firmware and using the gui on the netgear router to select the file from the list and hit update.
A quick glance shows that the R7000 mentioned in the article not only supports dd-wrt but is also one of the fastest consumer grade routers on the market that does: https://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index....
Are there any Netgear Wifi routers with easily replaceable firmware?
Yes. I've put dd-wrt on several netgear wndr3400v2 routers. It was literally as simple as finding the right firmware and using the gui on the netgear router to select the file from the list and hit update.
You should also go one step less. I suggest one, or two, days per week that are electricity-free. Permitted would be sports, hikes, splitting wood, gardening, or just time spent at the kitchen table with a large artist's pad full of blank sheets of paper, with a stack of pencils, pens and sharpies nearby.
I agree with this. The only thing I would add is that sometimes you also need to change up and limit the choices too. One of my sons actually spends most of his free time at the kitchen table with blank paper and a pencil. I think this is great but just like a kid that spends all his free time reading, I feel that sometimes it's the parent's job to encourage a kid to try different activities other than their standard fallback activity.
Wipe and restore from backup. Nex!
That's still a pain for a single day but any properly written ransomware could easily stay dormant long enough to either infect all your backups or make them old enough to be mostly worthless.
In the unlikely event this actually would happen, then I would restore.
My backups are secure. So I would restore from a backup. That wasn't too hard was it?
Backups work great for random acts of god but not necessarily for ransomware. It would be fairly trivial to create ransomware that slept a random amount of time before encrypting your files or even worse encrypt your files and then continue to function like normal for several weeks before alerting you. By that time, all your backups are also infected and even if you have a really old backup you won't have any of the recent stuff from that last several weeks or months since the initial infection. For all the people on here that are bragging about backups, even if you catch it the same day and restore it is still a huge pain and chances are if written properly it could easily be written in a way that the backups are also infected.
I agree with the lego bricks and if you want to go one step further, get a mindstorm ev3. Yes, mindstorm is expensive but it beats almost any stem toy on the market. It has a low learning barrier to entry but is still pretty powerful and most importantly is not single use. I have bought my kids quite a few other stem toys like sphero, ozobot, mbot, snap circuits, littlebits, preprogrammed toy robots, etc... but most of them either have limited customization or you have to be a programmer to make them do anything cool. The mindstorm kit was the most expensive stem toy I have ever bought but it is the only one that my kids still play with on a regular basis as the rest are now mostly just collecting dust and collectively all the other dust collecting stem toys cost more than the mindstorm set and the mindstorm can basically replicate the functionality of all of them. The only real problem my kids have with mindstorm is that they can only create one thing at a time and must destroy it before creating something new.
I have no pity for idiots laying out thousands for pointless SmartCrap. There's no good reason for a fucking doll (or refrigerator or thermostat or dog bowl or...) to have goddamn internet access.
It's like some irresponsible asshole buying a gun then crying when he leaves it out and the baby shoots the TV.
I don't own any but I don't see it as pointless. I can see a very good reason for it. Adults ask siri and google thousands of questions a day via their smartphones. A logical extension of this is a teddy bear for a 4 year old where the 4 year old can ask questions like "what is a raccoon?"
In America, unpaid internships are illegal.
No they are not. But in the USA, in order to not have to pay them minimum wage you do have to meet certain criteria:
http://smallbusiness.findlaw.c...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/th...
The media companies are playing a game they can't win. The only thing they can do is move copyright infringement to the gray area where it's more convenient for a percentage of their customers to buy it. I'm surprised torrent link sites haven't moved to tor yet. Tor seems like the perfect place to store links. Tor is too slow for streaming but it would a perfect place to catalog where on youtube you can find the videos a person wants to watch. As currently, it's still legal to watch pirated movies, the only thing that needs to be protected is the cataloguing of where the movies can be found. This seems like an ideal use of Tor.
But it's an error to project an intern's monthly pay over the entire year. The amount they earn is for a small number of months, and has to last them the remaining 9 or 10 until the next time they can intern.
Where did you get this? Intern money is not designed to support someone for the entire year. It's designed to give them a little bit of experience and maybe a little bit of pocket change. Some interns don't even get paid. They are not paying you more because it's only a short time. Projecting it over a full year seems perfectly reasonable. Also, how many people actually do more than one intern? Most people I know do one their Junior year and that was it.
Yeah. Like I'm going to go "have a reasonable discussion with someone I don't agree with".
I have reasonable discussions with people I disagree with all the time. I can have conversations with far left liberals and far right conservatives with no problem. Now there are some that I can see are violently opposed to a different opinion and I quickly end those conversations or steer to more neutral ground. If someone thinks republicans are evil and mentioning John Stossel causes smoke to come out of their ears then you need to back off and pick at the edges as you aren't going to have any meaningful conversation trying to go head on but most people can discuss issues they disagree with without going postal. I personally like to talk to people with opinions different than me because I like to understand how the other side thinks.
Iframe or hyperlink, the issue is that someone is creating an organized list of infringing items that they have uploaded to youtube. The stuff is not suppose to be on youtube and youtube is supposed to be policing it but youtube is playing whack a mole. If youtube doesn't know where the mole is then most of their users won't either. A 3rd party site can bypass this as they can index it on their side and they don't necessarily have to even name it correctly on youtube's side which makes it even harder for youtube to find it. This is the reason that the media companies have used the courts to go after hyperlinks and iframes. With cloud computing and thousands of sites, it's pretty easy to dump something into an anonymous ftp, dropbox, youtube, amazon instance, etc... that isn't owned by you. You could even store it piecemeal in comments on a wordpress site, etc... It's practically impossible to stop someone from hosting data somewhere but if you can restrict someone from organizing that data then it's not near as useful as there is noway to really find it.
Guaranteed Income and the like may not be the right answer, though it's certainly the common thought right now. We definitely have to look into the issue further.
I think a better solution that Guaranteed Income would be reduced work hours and mandatory vacation. If people were forced to work less hours then those hours could be given to other people. This works as long as middle class jobs that can't be automated continue to exists. It reduces the supply of labor which should increase the demand for labor and therefore the pay. It doesn't work for jobs that can just be automated away though because if labor cost goes above the automation cost then those jobs just vanish. The only thing that is currently keeping unemployment from spiralling out of control is that it's currently cheaper to pay someone $8 per hour than it is to automate that job away. Increase minimum wage to $15 per hour like many are suggesting and you will likely see any job that can be automated or eliminated like cashier, waitress, stocker, drive thru worker, etc... automated away.