This may not really help with cleanup but we can at least agree that developed nations are 100% responsible for this plastic mess.
Are you sure about that? Most developed nations are pretty good about getting the plastic either recycled or into a landfill. It's the undeveloped nations that do not have the proper sanitation where a majority of marine plastic originates. Also, somewhat surprisingly, undeveloped nations tend to use a lot single use plastic products because they are cheaper. Many of these plastic products might be designed in developed countries and developed countries are also indirectly involved as their technology is used to both extract the oil in the middle east and manufacture the products in china but the developed countries themselves are not the ones allowing the plastic to get into the waterways.
Yep, it's indirectly charging the family members for the prisoner's care. Everything should be sold at cost. If they really want to charge the prisoner or the prisoner's family for their care then they should bill them directly. They shouldn't be trying to make a profit off of them. At least with most captive audiences like six flags or movie theatres you still have options to not participate. Prisoners don't generally have that as a realistic option especially when it comes to stuff like long distance but even in this case the prisoner made a reasonable contract with the prison that the prison has now reneged on.
The public might have very little sympathy for prisoners but even people I know who have little sympathy for criminals don't like seeing them taken advantage of. Most people aren't going to shed a tear about a prisoner not having access to a cell phone, hbo, or conjugal visits but most people are still sympathetic to prisoners as captive audiences being screwed by outrageously priced long distance or having something stolen from them that they legally purchased.
Firefox has done something similar for a while. I'm surprised there is a fuss now but kindof glad. Firefox's handling of subdomains especially autocompletion ignoring subdomains has annoyed me for a while.
Of course, most people of any race who commit crimes are young
There is likely a bunch of survivorship bias in that. Some people might "grow out" of being a criminal but this is likely small crimes. Hardened criminals aren't likely to suddenly stop committing crimes. Either they get good enough where they stop getting caught or they are removed from the pool via either prison or death.
My guess is that they are doing bulk licenses and exclusive licenses and not wanting to pay per viewing or likely even to let the other side even know how many times a show has been viewed. The long tail license holders likely also aren't interested in the tiny amount of money that they would be getting from Netflix. I've noticed a lot of movies on Netflix are movies which are part of a series where all parts of the series are not on Netflix. At $8 per subscriber and the average subscriber likely watching 30+ shows per month, the money exchanged per show is likely not what is driving content producers to allow Netflix to show their shows.
I used to have a router with a dialup "backup" line for if the main line goes down. Windows even supports creating a "hotspot" to share an existing connection which would presumably include sharing a modem. Granted, you would need a dialup account but the one nice thing about dialup is that the ISP could literally be on the other side of the world and it should still work. Tivo is probably assuming that even the people using the dialup option, most of them have some sort of internet whether it be satellite, cellular, or something else.
What surprises me is that this hasn't significantly affected cellphone prices. With laptops cheaper than cellphones you would think that would put downward pressure on cellphone prices and people would think twice before spending $500+ on a phone.
Cutting off the flow of money will prevent some students going to college
You don't need to cut off student loans but it should be limited. Only covering 80% of tuition and 0% of room/board should still allow anyone who wants to to go to college. If you need help with room/board there are other programs like SNAP/HUD that can help and you don't have to pay them back. I paid my own way thru college, worked part time, shopped at aldis, ate off the dollar menu and a lot of ramen noodles, drove a $500 car and was careful with student loans. I graduated with less than 8k in loans and had them paid off in under 3 years.
If you are going to do the CC first then check with the 4 year college you plan to attend. Most 4 year colleges keep a list of which classes they give credit for and how it matches up that way you don't end up taking classes that don't transfer.
Read the article - they are working with Facebook on that, but it takes a lot longer. Now, though, they should have 14 months to get it done.
What I wonder, though, is what sort of stuff could be in the account that would incriminate him? Surely the parents of the victim cooperated and provided *her* FB password, which would have given them access to any mutual communication?
The parents don't necessarily have the password. There are plenty of young kids with accounts that parents don't have passwords to. Most parents don't do a good job monitoring their kids activities otherwise they would likely detect a groomer long before something bad happened.
As far as what's on his phone, if he had something like child porn on his phone he would likely be convicted of the murder even if he had nothing to do with it.
if we had moved directly from handwriting to touchscreens, without the middle steps of the typewriter and keyboard, what would the input methods be like?
I feel that we are constrained by the keyboard. That we have adapted to it, more than it to us.
It's time to end the dictatorship of the keyboard.
The keyboard has one huge advantage over other types of input: SPEED and a close second which is accuracy. Nothing else is currently close. Voice could possibly come close to the speed if it could get the accuracy up. If you could invent an input method that had the same speed and accuracy of a keyboard then you could likely easily replace the keyboard. Noone is in love with the keyboard but it's the best we have currently.
Countless studies have shown benefits across the whole family when BOTH parents get time off to raise the child at birth.
Everyone benefits when they get more time off. School age kids benefit when they have a stay at home mom and when their dad is around more. Elderly benefit when they have a relative around. Dogs benefit when they have someone home more. Single people benefit when they get more vacation time. The USA has some of the worse paid time off of any developed country. I'm not sure why we are singling out new parents.
Everyone also benefits from more money. Maybe we should just give everyone a raise.
On a more serious note, if you want to benefit the most kids, getting rid of exempt employees and not allowing people to work more than 40 hours a week and giving ample vacation time and making it mandatory would likely get kids more one on one time with their parents.
I don't know what reality you live in, but you must be really lonely there. It sure as hell doesn't reflect the vast majority of Americans.
Although the OP might be a bit of an exaggeration, where I live most women still leave the workforce almost entirely after they start having kids. They might get a part time or work at home job once the kids go to school but there are still a bunch of single income families where I live.
The second part but it is predicated on the first part. The second amendment basically says "because a state needs to be able to protect itself, it's citizens should be allowed to own weapons". This was written in a time where state militias didn't own the weapons but rather the militia was made up of citizens who used their own personal guns. This also predates the federal standing armies. Basically, armies were adhoc constructions quickly created only when needed then disbanded. Basically the second amendment was so that states had the ability to quickly create armies to fight off tyrants foreign or domestic.
2) Even if it's true that technically UBI is financially neutral for most people, in practice, due to inflation, most people will be worse off.
If a majority are revenue neutral then there wouldn't be massive inflation. Everyone would still have approximately the same amount of money to spend. It's basically a restructuring of welfare for people on welfare and a tax and give back for people working and if a person loses their job there is no need to apply for welfare as they are already receiving it.
That being said, I find these 3 year studies stupid. Either study existing income for life lottery winners or work with an existing lottery to set up your exact criteria. Income for life lottery winners would be much more accurate than a short term study. 3 years isn't even long enough to quit your job and go back to college.
I know two elderly cancer doctors that have had many meals paid with goodwill. Something about saving someone's relative's life and they want to buy you dinner. Musicians on the other hand make most of their money from concert ticket sales which is why free music downloads and free plays on the radio are usualy a net benefit to the musician. It's also why many musicians intentionally give their music away.
The second amendment was to allow the states to protect themself from a overreaching federal government. Unfortunately today the states have lost most of their autonomy and are mostly just providences of the federal government and no longer function as individual countries.
It doesn't surprise me that broadcast-only is increasing especially if it includes people with broadband-only. If most of your entertainment is coming from netflix but you occasionally want to watch the news, it makes sense to get an antenna versus paying high prices for a cable service you don't need.
And I would gladly charge you those dollars, until my toolbox earned enough profit that I could move into a nicer neighborhood, where people own their own tools.
All else being the same, renting stuff you rarely use should let you keep more money and therefore have a higher standard of living. There are certainly break even points but even if you make a profit by renting out your tools, the person renting could still be saving money by not having to pay the full price for the item and not having to store the item. The average suburban family would likely never "wear out" a ladder yet are paying storage fees for this large ladder every month whether it is a storage unit or taking up space in their garage. For specialty tools that you use only once a year, it's even more so.
since they can't understand the concept that renting everything is far more expensive than buying outright.
Although this is true in many cases, there is no reason to assume this is true in all cases. Even in the cases where it is currently true, it is mostly due to overhead and friction that causes renting to be more expensive. There are many things that people buy that are considerably more expensive than renting. For instance, I know lots of people who own expensive boats that they use maybe 30 days a year. They would be much better off either renting a boat when they want one or joining a boating timeshare club than owning a boat that ages in their driveway for much of the year. Many city dwellers are finding that the case for cars as well. It is cheaper to just rent a car for an hour or weekend when you need it than pay the parking and upkeep on a car you rarely need.
The notion of "ownership" makes perfect sense for things like houses and cars. For books, DVDs, and other IP-based materials? Not so much.
I would go one step further. I think for many people ownership of cars, bikes, ladders, hammers, and many other things is very inefficient. The average person uses a ladder maybe once a month yet it takes up space in their home year around. The average car sits idle 23 hours a day. It wasn't that long ago that communities shared many more resources instead of the private castles we have today and it makes sense to move back in that direction. Just like fractional reserve banking, a neighborhood with 20 families could easily share 5 ladders and never run out of ladders. Some communities are already creating shared workspaces and I expect this trend to continue. I would gladly pay a few dollars a month for access to a toolbox and not have to keep a bunch of rarely used tools in my garage.
Google already has technology to drive without humans so why do you want to add human there?
Sure they do. Let me know when I can order one. I would love to buy a car with this magical technology for my grandma who can no longer drive. I would also love to buy an RV with this technology so I can go to sleep on a Friday night in the RV and wake up on Saturday morning in Florida. Just like the AI of the last 40 years, we are still 10 years from a break thru and likely will remain 10 years away for the foreseeable future.
Almost everyone I know who eats low carb does so for a reason. They are fat, prone to be fat, diabetic, celiacs, or some other health problem that made them switch to low carb in the first place. Otherwise healthy people generally don't choose low carb without a health problem first.
Who the hell is putting a mobile phone in their pockets? This has not been tested for humans.
You're supposed to keep the phone 5mm away from your body and head at all times.
(LOL, yes, but... that IS technically the standard. Not safe any other way.)
Yeah, that's their disclaimer. In reality, this is one of many massive uncontrolled experiments we are currently doing on the human race. Every guy I know keeps their phone in their pocket as well as every high school and middle school kid. Even most women do it if their pocket is big enough and/or they don't have a purse.
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This may not really help with cleanup but we can at least agree that developed nations are 100% responsible for this plastic mess.
Are you sure about that? Most developed nations are pretty good about getting the plastic either recycled or into a landfill. It's the undeveloped nations that do not have the proper sanitation where a majority of marine plastic originates. Also, somewhat surprisingly, undeveloped nations tend to use a lot single use plastic products because they are cheaper. Many of these plastic products might be designed in developed countries and developed countries are also indirectly involved as their technology is used to both extract the oil in the middle east and manufacture the products in china but the developed countries themselves are not the ones allowing the plastic to get into the waterways.
Yep, it's indirectly charging the family members for the prisoner's care. Everything should be sold at cost. If they really want to charge the prisoner or the prisoner's family for their care then they should bill them directly. They shouldn't be trying to make a profit off of them. At least with most captive audiences like six flags or movie theatres you still have options to not participate. Prisoners don't generally have that as a realistic option especially when it comes to stuff like long distance but even in this case the prisoner made a reasonable contract with the prison that the prison has now reneged on.
The public might have very little sympathy for prisoners but even people I know who have little sympathy for criminals don't like seeing them taken advantage of. Most people aren't going to shed a tear about a prisoner not having access to a cell phone, hbo, or conjugal visits but most people are still sympathetic to prisoners as captive audiences being screwed by outrageously priced long distance or having something stolen from them that they legally purchased.
Firefox has done something similar for a while. I'm surprised there is a fuss now but kindof glad. Firefox's handling of subdomains especially autocompletion ignoring subdomains has annoyed me for a while.
Of course, most people of any race who commit crimes are young
There is likely a bunch of survivorship bias in that. Some people might "grow out" of being a criminal but this is likely small crimes. Hardened criminals aren't likely to suddenly stop committing crimes. Either they get good enough where they stop getting caught or they are removed from the pool via either prison or death.
My guess is that they are doing bulk licenses and exclusive licenses and not wanting to pay per viewing or likely even to let the other side even know how many times a show has been viewed. The long tail license holders likely also aren't interested in the tiny amount of money that they would be getting from Netflix. I've noticed a lot of movies on Netflix are movies which are part of a series where all parts of the series are not on Netflix. At $8 per subscriber and the average subscriber likely watching 30+ shows per month, the money exchanged per show is likely not what is driving content producers to allow Netflix to show their shows.
I used to have a router with a dialup "backup" line for if the main line goes down. Windows even supports creating a "hotspot" to share an existing connection which would presumably include sharing a modem. Granted, you would need a dialup account but the one nice thing about dialup is that the ISP could literally be on the other side of the world and it should still work.
Tivo is probably assuming that even the people using the dialup option, most of them have some sort of internet whether it be satellite, cellular, or something else.
What surprises me is that this hasn't significantly affected cellphone prices. With laptops cheaper than cellphones you would think that would put downward pressure on cellphone prices and people would think twice before spending $500+ on a phone.
Cutting off the flow of money will prevent some students going to college
You don't need to cut off student loans but it should be limited. Only covering 80% of tuition and 0% of room/board should still allow anyone who wants to to go to college. If you need help with room/board there are other programs like SNAP/HUD that can help and you don't have to pay them back.
I paid my own way thru college, worked part time, shopped at aldis, ate off the dollar menu and a lot of ramen noodles, drove a $500 car and was careful with student loans. I graduated with less than 8k in loans and had them paid off in under 3 years.
If you are going to do the CC first then check with the 4 year college you plan to attend. Most 4 year colleges keep a list of which classes they give credit for and how it matches up that way you don't end up taking classes that don't transfer.
Read the article - they are working with Facebook on that, but it takes a lot longer. Now, though, they should have 14 months to get it done.
What I wonder, though, is what sort of stuff could be in the account that would incriminate him? Surely the parents of the victim cooperated and provided *her* FB password, which would have given them access to any mutual communication?
The parents don't necessarily have the password. There are plenty of young kids with accounts that parents don't have passwords to. Most parents don't do a good job monitoring their kids activities otherwise they would likely detect a groomer long before something bad happened.
As far as what's on his phone, if he had something like child porn on his phone he would likely be convicted of the murder even if he had nothing to do with it.
if we had moved directly from handwriting to touchscreens, without the middle steps of the typewriter and keyboard, what would the input methods be like?
I feel that we are constrained by the keyboard. That we have adapted to it, more than it to us.
It's time to end the dictatorship of the keyboard.
The keyboard has one huge advantage over other types of input: SPEED and a close second which is accuracy.
Nothing else is currently close. Voice could possibly come close to the speed if it could get the accuracy up.
If you could invent an input method that had the same speed and accuracy of a keyboard then you could likely
easily replace the keyboard. Noone is in love with the keyboard but it's the best we have currently.
Countless studies have shown benefits across the whole family when BOTH parents get time off to raise the child at birth.
Everyone benefits when they get more time off. School age kids benefit when they have a stay at home mom and when their dad is around more. Elderly benefit when they have a relative around. Dogs benefit when they have someone home more. Single people benefit when they get more vacation time. The USA has some of the worse paid time off of any developed country. I'm not sure why we are singling out new parents.
Everyone also benefits from more money. Maybe we should just give everyone a raise.
On a more serious note, if you want to benefit the most kids, getting rid of exempt employees and not allowing people to work more than 40 hours a week and giving ample vacation time and making it mandatory would likely get kids more one on one time with their parents.
I don't know what reality you live in, but you must be really lonely there. It sure as hell doesn't reflect the vast majority of Americans.
Although the OP might be a bit of an exaggeration, where I live most women still leave the workforce almost entirely after they start having kids. They might get a part time or work at home job once the kids go to school but there are still a bunch of single income families where I live.
The second part but it is predicated on the first part. The second amendment basically says "because a state needs to be able to protect itself, it's citizens should be allowed to own weapons". This was written in a time where state militias didn't own the weapons but rather the militia was made up of citizens who used their own personal guns. This also predates the federal standing armies. Basically, armies were adhoc constructions quickly created only when needed then disbanded. Basically the second amendment was so that states had the ability to quickly create armies to fight off tyrants foreign or domestic.
2) Even if it's true that technically UBI is financially neutral for most people, in practice, due to inflation, most people will be worse off.
If a majority are revenue neutral then there wouldn't be massive inflation. Everyone would still have approximately the same amount of money to spend. It's basically a restructuring of welfare for people on welfare and a tax and give back for people working and if a person loses their job there is no need to apply for welfare as they are already receiving it.
That being said, I find these 3 year studies stupid. Either study existing income for life lottery winners or work with an existing lottery to set up your exact criteria. Income for life lottery winners would be much more accurate than a short term study. 3 years isn't even long enough to quit your job and go back to college.
I know two elderly cancer doctors that have had many meals paid with goodwill.
Something about saving someone's relative's life and they want to buy you dinner.
Musicians on the other hand make most of their money from concert ticket sales which is why free music downloads and free plays on the radio are usualy a net
benefit to the musician. It's also why many musicians intentionally give their
music away.
The second amendment was to allow the states to protect themself from a overreaching federal government. Unfortunately today the states have lost most of their autonomy and are mostly just providences of the federal government and no longer function as individual countries.
It doesn't surprise me that broadcast-only is increasing especially if it includes people with broadband-only.
If most of your entertainment is coming from netflix but you occasionally want to watch the news,
it makes sense to get an antenna versus paying high prices for a cable service you don't need.
And I would gladly charge you those dollars, until my toolbox earned enough profit that I could move into a nicer neighborhood, where people own their own tools.
All else being the same, renting stuff you rarely use should let you keep more money and therefore have a higher standard of living. There are certainly break even points but even if you make a profit by renting out your tools, the person renting could still be saving money by not having to pay the full price for the item and not having to store the item. The average suburban family would likely never "wear out" a ladder yet are paying storage fees for this large ladder every month whether it is a storage unit or taking up space in their garage. For specialty tools that you use only once a year, it's even more so.
since they can't understand the concept that renting everything is far more expensive than buying outright.
Although this is true in many cases, there is no reason to assume this is true in all cases. Even in the cases where it is currently true, it is mostly due to overhead and friction that causes renting to be more expensive. There are many things that people buy that are considerably more expensive than renting. For instance, I know lots of people who own expensive boats that they use maybe 30 days a year. They would be much better off either renting a boat when they want one or joining a boating timeshare club than owning a boat that ages in their driveway for much of the year. Many city dwellers are finding that the case for cars as well. It is cheaper to just rent a car for an hour or weekend when you need it than pay the parking and upkeep on a car you rarely need.
The notion of "ownership" makes perfect sense for things like houses and cars. For books, DVDs, and other IP-based materials? Not so much.
I would go one step further. I think for many people ownership of cars, bikes, ladders, hammers, and many other things is very inefficient. The average person uses a ladder maybe once a month yet it takes up space in their home year around. The average car sits idle 23 hours a day. It wasn't that long ago that communities shared many more resources instead of the private castles we have today and it makes sense to move back in that direction. Just like fractional reserve banking, a neighborhood with 20 families could easily share 5 ladders and never run out of ladders. Some communities are already creating shared workspaces and I expect this trend to continue. I would gladly pay a few dollars a month for access to a toolbox and not have to keep a bunch of rarely used tools in my garage.
Google already has technology to drive without humans so why do you want to add human there?
Sure they do. Let me know when I can order one. I would love to buy a car with this magical technology for my grandma who can no longer drive. I would also love to buy an RV with this technology so I can go to sleep on a Friday night in the RV and wake up on Saturday morning in Florida. Just like the AI of the last 40 years, we are still 10 years from a break thru and likely will remain 10 years away for the foreseeable future.
Almost everyone I know who eats low carb does so for a reason. They are fat, prone to be fat, diabetic, celiacs, or some other health problem that made them switch to low carb in the first place. Otherwise healthy people generally don't choose low carb without a health problem first.
Who the hell is putting a mobile phone in their pockets? This has not been tested for humans.
You're supposed to keep the phone 5mm away from your body and head at all times.
(LOL, yes, but... that IS technically the standard. Not safe any other way.)
Yeah, that's their disclaimer. In reality, this is one of many massive uncontrolled experiments we are currently doing on the human race.
Every guy I know keeps their phone in their pocket as well as every high school and middle school kid.
Even most women do it if their pocket is big enough and/or they don't have a purse.