Not any form of FTL travel. Warp drives as currently proposed don't allow travelling into the past and there might be tweaks to relativity or other as yet unknown methods like worm holes, etc.. that allow faster travel.
Until you long to become a makeup counter salesman or birth a child, there will be some jobs that will attract nobody.
Sitting in a cube working on spreadsheets should be reserved for the most capable.
What makes you think nobody wants to do either of those jobs? Just because you don't doesn't mean other people don't. I have a male friend who loves to sell makeup. I also know plenty of people (male and female) who want to have the childbirth experience. On that same note, you couldn't pay me enough to sit in a cube and work on a spreadsheet all day. One of the main reason that there are gender difference in jobs is that men and women like to do different things and pick their jobs and careers accordingly. They also value different things. Many high paying male dominated jobs require long hours and require you to sacrifice "family time" which men are generally more willing to do than women.
Randomly getting stuck in a pit with no way out was fun? Or every screen being identical?
Are you sure you are not talking about pitfall? I never did figure out that game. It was a giant loop where you jumped over pits, etc... but didn't seem to have any objective or ending.
My brain, however, rebels at the fatuous argument that says just because things 'might be a little better', then it means things are 'ok'.
So how would you define an "ok" society? Yes, we have our share of problems but can you think of something better? Even the utopian societies of fiction come with their share of problems. What would it take to be "perfect" or even "ok"? I'm not talking about world peace, I'm talking about what would it take for the people in a country to be considered "free" by your definition. Is it possible? Has it ever happened? Obviously we need to eat to live and the food comes from somewhere but I would argue that the average middle class american is pretty free. He probably works less hours than the average furtune 500 ceo and has more leisure time. Until we no longer need manual labor to produce food and other necessities "free" cannot equal "doesn't work" so just because someone provides for themself doesn't mean they are a "slave" neither does it mean someone is a "slave" just because he isn't 100% self sufficient.
Unfortunately, slave labor and pirates aren't really rare. Everyone in North Korea except the ruling class is pretty much a slave.
How free are the poor worldwide? I mean really, how free are they? In how many regimes worldwide do people have a really good shot at changing who their masters are?
What chains are YOU wearing that you're not even aware of?
--PM
The great myth of childhood is that as an adult you can do what you want. That being said, I (like most people in the US) have a day or two off a week, get a couple weeks off a year for vacation, I am never physically assaulted by anyone. I can visit my family, go swimming, relax by the pool, visit other countries, get proper medical care, have more than enough food, and have very little risk of being attacked while asleep, etc... I am way better off than even the king of england was a thousand years ago. Even the person on minimum wage working at walmart can go swimming, read a book, etc.. on the days they don't work. No they can't easily change who their master is but they also aren't working 12 hours a day 7 days a week and most can afford luxuries like TV, electricity, running water, a refrigerator, a telephone, etc.. I just read recently that the rich actually work more hours per week than the poor do now. You can't compare forced labor where someone might have a 2-3 year life expectancy and nothing to their name to someone on minimum wage with a house, tv, cellphone, etc.. who still has the option of quiting at any time and hitchhiking to another state if they really wanted to.
There is some truth to this. I worry what happens when personal spacecrafts are available. We are slowly "civilizing" the planet. Slave labor, pirates, etc.. are somewhat rare. What happens when you can kidnap someone and create a slave camp on a random planet millions of miles away? I hope we develop AI and other technologies first so that we can prevent ourself from regressing once there are places to hide again.
Unlikely. As stellar evolution goes, ours is one of the later stars.
Yes but many of those earlier stars and solar systems didn't have the same complexity of elements which may be necessary for life. It's possible only 3rd or 4th generation stars, etc... support life. I also read recently that someone calculated the age of our dna based on a certain metric and their number came out older than earth's age. If this is true then it gives credibility to the panspermia theory. Another interesting observation based on the big bang is that the universe went thru a brief period of time where liquid water was everywhere. This would have been a prime time for life to have developed.
Even if you wanted to replace the battery cover. Where are you getting the drawing from? Are you going to scan in the now missing/broken one? Are you going to draw it from scratch? Is the manufacturer going to give it to you? How many prints will it take for you to get one that fits right?
Even if you had a 3d printer available it would probably be easier and cheaper to just buy a new remote.
I've actually considered something similiar a few times. I've considered getting a dumb phone with bluetooth tethering and a decent tablet but the options aren't that great and tethering is usually an additional fee.
The cost of an ipod is less than an iphone but that's not what's happening in most cases. The cost of an iphone is cheaper than the cost of an ipod PLUS a second device to make phone calls and surf the web. Most people are going to want a cellphone so the ipod is an additional cost AND and additional thing you have to carry. Even for people who don't need a phone an iphone is sometimes cheaper than an ipod. My son uses a deactivated iphone which although if bought new would be more expensive when received out of contract it's basically free.
Except you can't if you were a LIR. And RIPE wanted you to be a LIR if you had more than/19. If you charged money for IPs and not for the internet service, RIPE could revoke all your addresses.
Most ISPs and even cloud providers seem to charge me for IPs. The price range anywhere from $1 per month per IP to as high as $20 per month per static IP sometimes even more as they will sometimes require you to upgrade to "business class" to have a static IP.
People are greedy, even with something as seemingly simple as reclaiming unneeded addresses.
So why not use the greed to your advantage? Charge $10/ip and see how quickly they give back the ones they aren't using. ARIN could do the same thing. If ARIN charged just $1/ip per month you would see a huge influx of returning ips.
I think the obvious thing missing is the two giant elephants in the room.
1) If a 15 year old boy can do this so can someone with a bomb. Where are the cameras and the security guards watching the cameras. It's much easier to find someone to plant a bomb on a plane if they don't also have to be a passenger. We should stop strip searching the passengers and spend this money on actually monitoring the runway.
2) This is not the first time that extreme cold + lack of oxygen has caused a human to go into suspended animation. I would love to see more research on exploiting this for trauma victims and space travel.
The kid is just a single stupid kid that got incredible lucky. Interesting soundbite but that's about it. I think longterm (for everyone except the kid), these other two points are way more important.
Assuming the maintenance costs are built into the cost of a kilowatt-hour and your budgeting process assumes a minimum usage to recoup each customer's share, customers that dip below the minimum would necessarily need to pay more.
The real question is why they feel the need to change the base rate (the most politically difficult route, as you have to convince the Public Utilities Commission of your state) instead of adding a "co-generation fee" or something similar to make up the difference.
A co-generation fee would only make sense if it was extra work for them. The baserate is the correct place to do it but not the way they are doing it. They shouldn't charge a different baserate to different customers. There should be a "connection fee" and a "per kilowatt" fee. The "connection fee" should be the same whether you use 0kw, 1kw, 100kw, or negative kilowatts. Whether and how much you should get credited on the "per kilowatt" side if you go negative should be the only thing being debated. On a somewhat related note, I kindof like how alot of other countries do utlities and charge progressively. The first kilowatt is cheap but if you are a high user (i.e. business or rich) then each additional kilowatt gets progressively more expensive. This encourages conservation and is a decent type of consumption tax (assuming they reduce taxes elsewhere) as it allows the poor to get basic electricity for free but charges a "luxury tax" on richer high usage consumers. Of course this works better in countries where the government owns the electricity.
major reduction in the population so instead of having 50,000 people running on a store to gather a weeks supply of food, you will have 20,000 instead- perhaps even less.
There will be quite a few dead people like me where a good supply of canned goods
It depends on what that major reduction is caused by. If the major reduction is caused by disease and/or rioting then yes there should be plenty of food. If that major reduction is caused by starvation then the people are going to consume their "good supply" before they die.
But what is the "black market rate" for 1 million credit card numbers? $20 a piece? What is the cost to the company if they lose 1 million credit cards? This is a job for the bean counters but in some cases it might be worth it not to pay for the bug if you think it'll cost you less than $20 million in mitigation of reputation,etc.. In other cases, it might be worth alot more than $20 million if for instance a lose of 1 million credit cards causes Bank of America to lose $100 million of business. I think the best strategy is probably to break it up into smaller domains so that noone can ever get 1 million credit card numbers. If we do that and the maximum they can get is 10k credit card numbers then you've both reduced the value on the black market and the value you should have to pay for the bug. Basically the best way to prevent a breach is to make the amount of reward less than the amount of effort. That's the reason that a house with more expensive stuff in it needs better security than a house with nothing of value and why a jewelery store has better security than a pet store. It's also the reason that you see signs that say "driver carries less than $20 in cash". Criminals are always going to go for the low hanging fruit which is what gives the most reward for the least amount of risk and effort so reducing the reward is probably one of the best and cheapest ways to increase your security.
There is literally nothing to be gained by splitting the company up except fictional paper valuations. Gutting the company so shareholders can profit is such a boneheaded, shortsighted idea that I thought for a second we'd been teleported back in time to the corporate raider 80s.
Technically they wouldn't be spiliting the company up but rather just selling their shares of the other companies as they don't own the other two companies only a percentage of them. It would be similiar to microsoft selling the shares of apple they owned. This doesn't gut microsoft.
It's not about leaking. The reason I'm not alone in the security community to rage against this "responsible disclosure" bullshit is not that we fear leaks, but that we know most of the exploits are already in the wild by the time someone on the whitehat side discovers it.
Every day you delay the public announcements is another day that servers are being broken into.
So are you going to take your server offline until there is a patch? Or are you going to write a patch yourself? I think giving the software vendor 2 weeks to fix the bug (1 week if it's trivial or you provide the patch) is reasonable as 99% of people are not going to be able to do anything about it until there is a patch anyways. As soon as the patch is available then it should be publicly announced.
I did this while I was married with 3 kids. I still do it now that I'm single with 3 kids. 50k is solidly middle class where I live. Most of my friends who work at the local university, etc... with bachelor degrees and sometimes masters degrees make less than 50k as do most of my relatives. I could upgrade to a higher lifestyle but I have no desire. My kids and I have everything we need and then some. We also have more disposable income than most of our peers which would make it easy to keep up with the Jones but I have no desire to keep up with anyone. The USA is strange in that our spending on housing and cars goes up almost linearly with income. This doesn't make sense to me. Why should I buy a house or car twice as expensive just because I make more money?
I make 90k a year. Not an especially large amount for a computer programmer. I spend about 50k per year which is more than most non programmers make. That gives me 40k a year worth of savings. 1M/40K = 25 years to be a millionaire. Some of the 40K is money spent on my house and other assets but I would say that's pretty common. It's hard to spend 90k a year and not accumulate some assets.
Not only are they already taxed progressively, the reason they are lower is because they are a double tax. The corporation has already paid corporate taxes on that money. So capitals gains is an additional tax on money already taxed.
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Not any form of FTL travel. Warp drives as currently proposed don't allow travelling into the past and
there might be tweaks to relativity or other as yet unknown methods like worm holes, etc.. that allow
faster travel.
Until you long to become a makeup counter salesman or birth a child, there will be some jobs that will attract nobody.
Sitting in a cube working on spreadsheets should be reserved for the most capable.
What makes you think nobody wants to do either of those jobs? Just because you don't doesn't mean other people don't.
I have a male friend who loves to sell makeup. I also know plenty of people (male and female) who want to have the childbirth experience.
On that same note, you couldn't pay me enough to sit in a cube and work on a spreadsheet all day.
One of the main reason that there are gender difference in jobs is that men and women like to do different things and pick
their jobs and careers accordingly. They also value different things. Many high paying male dominated jobs require long hours
and require you to sacrifice "family time" which men are generally more willing to do than women.
Randomly getting stuck in a pit with no way out was fun? Or every screen being identical?
Are you sure you are not talking about pitfall? I never did figure out that game. It was a giant loop
where you jumped over pits, etc... but didn't seem to have any objective or ending.
My brain, however, rebels at the fatuous argument that says just because things 'might be a little better', then it means things are 'ok'.
So how would you define an "ok" society? Yes, we have our share of problems but can you think of something better?
Even the utopian societies of fiction come with their share of problems. What would it take to be "perfect" or even
"ok"? I'm not talking about world peace, I'm talking about what would it take for the people in a country to be
considered "free" by your definition. Is it possible? Has it ever happened? Obviously we need to eat to live and the
food comes from somewhere but I would argue that the average middle class american is pretty free. He probably
works less hours than the average furtune 500 ceo and has more leisure time. Until we no longer need manual labor
to produce food and other necessities "free" cannot equal "doesn't work" so just because someone provides for themself
doesn't mean they are a "slave" neither does it mean someone is a "slave" just because he isn't 100% self sufficient.
Unfortunately, slave labor and pirates aren't really rare.
Everyone in North Korea except the ruling class is pretty much a slave.
How free are the poor worldwide? I mean really, how free are they? In how many regimes worldwide do people have a really good shot at changing who their masters are?
What chains are YOU wearing that you're not even aware of?
--PM
The great myth of childhood is that as an adult you can do what you want.
That being said, I (like most people in the US) have a day or two off a week,
get a couple weeks off a year for vacation, I am never physically assaulted
by anyone. I can visit my family, go swimming, relax by the pool, visit other
countries, get proper medical care, have more than enough food, and have
very little risk of being attacked while asleep, etc... I am way better off than
even the king of england was a thousand years ago. Even the person on
minimum wage working at walmart can go swimming, read a book, etc.. on
the days they don't work. No they can't easily change who their master is but
they also aren't working 12 hours a day 7 days a week and most can afford
luxuries like TV, electricity, running water, a refrigerator, a telephone, etc..
I just read recently that the rich actually work more hours per week than the
poor do now. You can't compare forced labor where someone might have a
2-3 year life expectancy and nothing to their name to someone on minimum
wage with a house, tv, cellphone, etc.. who still has the option of quiting at
any time and hitchhiking to another state if they really wanted to.
There is some truth to this. I worry what happens when personal spacecrafts are available.
We are slowly "civilizing" the planet. Slave labor, pirates, etc.. are somewhat rare.
What happens when you can kidnap someone and create a slave camp on a random planet
millions of miles away? I hope we develop AI and other technologies first so that we can
prevent ourself from regressing once there are places to hide again.
Maybe we're just the first to develop?
Unlikely. As stellar evolution goes, ours is one of the later stars.
Yes but many of those earlier stars and solar systems didn't have the same complexity of elements
which may be necessary for life. It's possible only 3rd or 4th generation stars, etc... support life.
I also read recently that someone calculated the age of our dna based on a certain metric
and their number came out older than earth's age. If this is true then it gives credibility to the
panspermia theory. Another interesting observation based on the big bang is that the universe went
thru a brief period of time where liquid water was everywhere. This would have been a prime time
for life to have developed.
Even if you wanted to replace the battery cover. Where are you getting the drawing from?
Are you going to scan in the now missing/broken one? Are you going to draw it from scratch?
Is the manufacturer going to give it to you? How many prints will it take for you to get one
that fits right?
Even if you had a 3d printer available it would probably be easier and cheaper to just buy
a new remote.
I've actually considered something similiar a few times.
I've considered getting a dumb phone with bluetooth tethering and a decent tablet but the
options aren't that great and tethering is usually an additional fee.
And it costs far far less than an iPhone.
The cost of an ipod is less than an iphone but that's not what's happening in most cases.
The cost of an iphone is cheaper than the cost of an ipod PLUS a second device to make phone calls and surf the web.
Most people are going to want a cellphone so the ipod is an additional cost AND and additional thing you have to carry.
Even for people who don't need a phone an iphone is sometimes cheaper than an ipod.
My son uses a deactivated iphone which although if bought new would be more expensive
when received out of contract it's basically free.
Except you can't if you were a LIR. And RIPE wanted you to be a LIR if you had more than /19. If you charged money for IPs and not for the internet service, RIPE could revoke all your addresses.
Most ISPs and even cloud providers seem to charge me for IPs. The price range anywhere from $1 per month per IP
to as high as $20 per month per static IP sometimes even more as they will sometimes require you to upgrade to
"business class" to have a static IP.
People are greedy, even with something as seemingly simple as reclaiming unneeded addresses.
So why not use the greed to your advantage? Charge $10/ip and see how quickly they give back the ones they aren't using.
ARIN could do the same thing. If ARIN charged just $1/ip per month you would see a huge influx of returning ips.
I think the obvious thing missing is the two giant elephants in the room.
1) If a 15 year old boy can do this so can someone with a bomb. Where are the cameras and the
security guards watching the cameras. It's much easier to find someone to plant a bomb on a plane
if they don't also have to be a passenger. We should stop strip searching the passengers and spend
this money on actually monitoring the runway.
2) This is not the first time that extreme cold + lack of oxygen has caused a human to go into suspended
animation. I would love to see more research on exploiting this for trauma victims and space travel.
The kid is just a single stupid kid that got incredible lucky. Interesting soundbite but that's about it.
I think longterm (for everyone except the kid), these other two points are way more important.
Assuming the maintenance costs are built into the cost of a kilowatt-hour and your budgeting process assumes a minimum usage to recoup each customer's share, customers that dip below the minimum would necessarily need to pay more.
The real question is why they feel the need to change the base rate (the most politically difficult route, as you have to convince the Public Utilities Commission of your state) instead of adding a "co-generation fee" or something similar to make up the difference.
A co-generation fee would only make sense if it was extra work for them. The baserate is the correct place to do it but not the way they are doing it.
They shouldn't charge a different baserate to different customers. There should be a "connection fee" and a "per kilowatt" fee. The "connection fee"
should be the same whether you use 0kw, 1kw, 100kw, or negative kilowatts. Whether and how much you should get credited on the "per kilowatt"
side if you go negative should be the only thing being debated. On a somewhat related note, I kindof like how alot of other countries do utlities and
charge progressively. The first kilowatt is cheap but if you are a high user (i.e. business or rich) then each additional kilowatt gets progressively
more expensive. This encourages conservation and is a decent type of consumption tax (assuming they reduce taxes elsewhere) as it allows the
poor to get basic electricity for free but charges a "luxury tax" on richer high usage consumers. Of course this works better in countries where the
government owns the electricity.
PETA: Pork, Eggs, Tenderloin, Alligator.
I can't believe there isn't a beef cut that doesn't start with an A.
Angus Beef is a very popular premium beef or at least sold at a premium.
Whether it actually tastes better is probably a matter of opinion.
major reduction in the population so instead of having 50,000 people running on a store to gather a weeks supply of food, you will have 20,000 instead- perhaps even less.
There will be quite a few dead people like me where a good supply of canned goods
It depends on what that major reduction is caused by. If the major reduction is caused by disease and/or rioting then yes there
should be plenty of food. If that major reduction is caused by starvation then the people are going to consume their "good supply"
before they die.
Actually it's worse than that. It's really something like this:
Without ethanol:
33 mile trip = 1 gallon of pure gas
With ethanol:
33 miles = 1.02 gallons of gas + 0.1 gallons of ethanol
So not only are we burning corn for no reason but we are actually burning more gas too.
But what is the "black market rate" for 1 million credit card numbers? $20 a piece? What is the cost to the company if they lose 1 million
credit cards? This is a job for the bean counters but in some cases it might be worth it not to pay for the bug if you think it'll cost you less
than $20 million in mitigation of reputation,etc.. In other cases, it might be worth alot more than $20 million if for instance a lose of 1 million
credit cards causes Bank of America to lose $100 million of business. I think the best strategy is probably to break it up into smaller
domains so that noone can ever get 1 million credit card numbers. If we do that and the maximum they can get is 10k credit card numbers
then you've both reduced the value on the black market and the value you should have to pay for the bug. Basically the best way to prevent
a breach is to make the amount of reward less than the amount of effort. That's the reason that a house with more expensive stuff in it needs
better security than a house with nothing of value and why a jewelery store has better security than a pet store. It's also the reason that you
see signs that say "driver carries less than $20 in cash". Criminals are always going to go for the low hanging fruit which is what gives the
most reward for the least amount of risk and effort so reducing the reward is probably one of the best and cheapest ways to increase your security.
There is literally nothing to be gained by splitting the company up except fictional paper valuations. Gutting the company so shareholders can profit is such a boneheaded, shortsighted idea that I thought for a second we'd been teleported back in time to the corporate raider 80s.
Technically they wouldn't be spiliting the company up but rather just selling their shares of the other companies
as they don't own the other two companies only a percentage of them. It would be similiar to microsoft selling
the shares of apple they owned. This doesn't gut microsoft.
It's not about leaking. The reason I'm not alone in the security community to rage against this "responsible disclosure" bullshit is not that we fear leaks, but that we know most of the exploits are already in the wild by the time someone on the whitehat side discovers it.
Every day you delay the public announcements is another day that servers are being broken into.
So are you going to take your server offline until there is a patch? Or are you going to write a patch yourself?
I think giving the software vendor 2 weeks to fix the bug (1 week if it's trivial or you provide the patch)
is reasonable as 99% of people are not going to be able to do anything about it until there is a patch anyways.
As soon as the patch is available then it should be publicly announced.
I did this while I was married with 3 kids. I still do it now that I'm single with 3 kids.
50k is solidly middle class where I live. Most of my friends who work at the local
university, etc... with bachelor degrees and sometimes masters degrees make less
than 50k as do most of my relatives. I could upgrade to a higher lifestyle but I have
no desire. My kids and I have everything we need and then some. We also have
more disposable income than most of our peers which would make it easy to keep
up with the Jones but I have no desire to keep up with anyone.
The USA is strange in that our spending on housing and cars goes up almost
linearly with income. This doesn't make sense to me. Why should I buy a
house or car twice as expensive just because I make more money?
I make 90k a year. Not an especially large amount for a computer programmer.
I spend about 50k per year which is more than most non programmers make.
That gives me 40k a year worth of savings. 1M/40K = 25 years to be a millionaire.
Some of the 40K is money spent on my house and other assets but I would say
that's pretty common. It's hard to spend 90k a year and not accumulate some
assets.
Every time money changes hands it is taxed. That the person who held it before you [p]aid taxes is completely and totally irrelevant.
But the money didn't change hands. If Bill Gates owns Microsoft he pays corporate taxes on the money and then pays
capital gains on that same money.
Not only are they already taxed progressively, the reason they are lower is because they are a double tax.
The corporation has already paid corporate taxes on that money. So capitals gains is an additional
tax on money already taxed.
makes all traffic go over Tor.
Doesn't this slow things down considerably? Can you do normal activities like ssh or youtube in this type of setup?