Birth control by smart intelligent people who care about the planet is just a way of handing it over to stupid uneducated people who don't use birth control and don't care about the planet.
If you wouldn't vote for people like that in an election, why on earth would you hand the future of the planet over to them and their descendants?
I haven't watched that movie. However, I would suggest, given your quick summary, that it vastly over-simplifies the problems faced by humanity, blames poor people for being poor, and was written by someone who's understanding of genetics does not include the idea of regression toward the mean.
I do agree with everything you said. However, you are looking at the long term future of employment, which does not address the immediate needs of poor people. Raising the minimum wage does address immediate poverty, as nobody is going to automate everything overnight. Obviously it will have negative effects on some businesses, but the market will correct itself eventually, if guided properly (I would describe myself as a free-market socialist, not a capitalist. Systems can have multiple equilibrium points, and we should expend the effort to push them into the most desirable ones)
I've never understood the argument that minimum wage increases increase unemployment. People on minimum/low wages spend all of their money, and usually locally. People who can save money invest it where they get the best return, which is likely not locally. Increasing the minimum wage is the best thing you can do for an economy, as long as it isn't taken to ridiculous lengths where wages exceed production.
The term does indeed refer to going beyond "The Pale", the wall around Dublin. It was seen as a dangerous thing for an Englishman in medieval Ireland to do.
The Celts, according most thinking on the subject, originated in Central Europe or there abouts some time in the bronze age, something like 1200BC. The earliest evidence of humans in Ireland, according to the BBC article quoted in the OP says:
Since the 1970s, the oldest evidence of human occupation in Ireland has been the hunter-gatherer settlement of Mount Sandel on the banks of the River Bann, County Derry, which dates to 8,000 years ago.
Actually, just today in the news that has been pushed back to 12500 years ago. But this article is about remains from ~4000 years ago.
So then disable the update service entirely so that it doesn't even run.
Also, Windows 7 isn't Windows XP.
I am aware of both of those, and have not used XP myself in many years. I was merely commenting on the previous "It's not like Windows 7 will magically just stop working" remark. Microsoft have shown their willingness to allow old OSs degrade when they are pushing a new product. I'm not complaining, it provided an impetus for customers to replace ancient pieces of crap they expected me to provide support for.
It's not like Windows 7 will magically just stop working.
If you used XP and kept it fully updated in the run-up to EOL, it did stop working at an acceptable level. The windows update service started doing crazy shit to machines, apparently processing update supercedence lists. Windows XP took about 30-45 minutes after switching on to become useable when Microsoft were on their big upgrade drive.
Ok, relax, I wasn't being (too) serious. People can do what they want with their time and money, be it watching celebrities on TV, people running around a field after an inflated bladder, or playing games like that. None of my business. But that game sounded awful from the review I read of it. Fair enough, I am not their target audience.
If they really wanted to, they could make their own game and see how well it holds up under public scrutiny. My guess? Dismal failures much like the various walking simulators and games like Gone Home(note the disconnect between reviewers and gamers).
I was going to say that the "make their own game" comment was a bit unfair, but had never heard of Gone Home. I looked it up and.... please do not let them make any more.
You could improve the mod system a bit by having it detect "controversial" comments - those with many both up and down mods (just find the statistical outliers). Those should always be kept visible. We need downmods to self-police garbage posts, GNAA posts, APK, and so on. But we need someway to prevent a comment being censored if 10 people mod it up and 12 people mod it down - any such comment is interesting and should be kept visible, rather than becoming a scale of the political leanings of the mods. Maybe mark it in some way and disable further moderation.
Interesting idea you have there. It would be nice to be able to filter to see the most moderated posts, as well as those with a particular score threshold.
If everybody is speeding, maybe the speed limit is too low.
Probably not, as The Fine Article states near the top: "... installed a camera on his roof and began writing speed-monitoring software after a 12-year-old pedestrian was injured by a car last October."
How fast was that person going? Was it a drunk driver? Was it a half-blind OAP? None of those details regarding the aforementioned accident are in the article, only the fact that some people drive down this guy's street at the breakneck speed of 34mph.
Ireland does not generate the revenue, it just allows tax cheats to shift that revenue to another location to cheat on taxes, they are scum as this is done intentionally and they should be subject to international sanctions. Don't generate the revenue, then you are not entitled to the taxes on that revenue, all tax havens should be destroyed via economic sanctions.
Ireland does not make tax cheats, incompatibilities in tax laws across jurisdictions do. The Irish government really doesn't care where multinational companies get taxed, it knows the profits aren't being earned in Ireland. All it is interested in is those multinationals creating jobs in Ireland, and they have created a huge number. And if you want to go after tax havens, maybe look at some of the big ones, like Switzerland, or the British Crown Dependencies.
Not this bullshit again. Ireland has an efficient tax system where companies actually pay close to the tax rate that is advertised. Many countries in the EU have much higher official tax rates, but the actual rate paid after various incentives, remits and rebates is much lower. For example, the actual average rate paid in 2014 in Belgium, with an official corporate tax rate of 34.5%, was 6.5%. Comparing tax rates while ignoring all the ways various countries provide for ignoring them is pointless.
Not just government, lots of large companies will have things quietly churning away in the background that people don't get rid of because they've been there so long nobody knows what they are and they're afraid to touch. I've seen Avions running DGUX that have only recently been scrapped. A customer last year asked us to have a look at something, and I'm not really sure what it was, it looked like an old dumb terminal with 2 5.25" floppy drives built into it, we just handed to some guys about to retire to look at. I looked at a SCO Xenix system within the last 6 months. Just this week, I saw an AIX server that isn't used but is kept around just in case they need to look up old accounts. I had a look at it out of curiousity, and saw the radiusd process chewing up processor time so gave it a reboot, first time it was restarted since Oct 2009.
FTFA: "He said that the airline told them that they would not be refunded the $13,340 cost of their flights. They were also forced to return everything they bought at the airport’s duty-free shops before being escorted from the airport."
EU law states that: If you are denied boarding or your flight is cancelled or overbooked, you are entitled to either:
transport to your final destination using comparable alternative means, or
having your ticket refunded and, where relevant, being returned free of charge to your initial departure point.
Our digestive systems are not as good as cows' for processing that stuff.
Yes, but it's not orders of magnitude worse. To eat a cow, you have to grow it to the point where it's worth slaughtering before you cut it up and get some delicious sizzling steaks.
How many meals do you think the cow eats in that time?
Apparently they're slaughtered at between 3 and 16 weeks for good beef. How many meals do you think they eat in that time?
3-16 weeks? Cattle will be slaughtered at around 3 years age. Are you thinking of chickens?
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I suggest you download and watch Idiocracy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...
Birth control by smart intelligent people who care about the planet is just a way of handing it over to stupid uneducated people who don't use birth control and don't care about the planet.
If you wouldn't vote for people like that in an election, why on earth would you hand the future of the planet over to them and their descendants?
I haven't watched that movie. However, I would suggest, given your quick summary, that it vastly over-simplifies the problems faced by humanity, blames poor people for being poor, and was written by someone who's understanding of genetics does not include the idea of regression toward the mean.
I do agree with everything you said. However, you are looking at the long term future of employment, which does not address the immediate needs of poor people. Raising the minimum wage does address immediate poverty, as nobody is going to automate everything overnight. Obviously it will have negative effects on some businesses, but the market will correct itself eventually, if guided properly (I would describe myself as a free-market socialist, not a capitalist. Systems can have multiple equilibrium points, and we should expend the effort to push them into the most desirable ones)
I've never understood the argument that minimum wage increases increase unemployment. People on minimum/low wages spend all of their money, and usually locally. People who can save money invest it where they get the best return, which is likely not locally. Increasing the minimum wage is the best thing you can do for an economy, as long as it isn't taken to ridiculous lengths where wages exceed production.
The term does indeed refer to going beyond "The Pale", the wall around Dublin. It was seen as a dangerous thing for an Englishman in medieval Ireland to do.
The Celts, according most thinking on the subject, originated in Central Europe or there abouts some time in the bronze age, something like 1200BC. The earliest evidence of humans in Ireland, according to the BBC article quoted in the OP says:
Since the 1970s, the oldest evidence of human occupation in Ireland has been the hunter-gatherer settlement of Mount Sandel on the banks of the River Bann, County Derry, which dates to 8,000 years ago.
Actually, just today in the news that has been pushed back to 12500 years ago. But this article is about remains from ~4000 years ago.
And today, the world power is the USA, with worse teeth than the British.
A mesh network supplied by a swarm of small drones could provide blanket coverage and obfuscate positioning.
...what? Is there an editor in the house?
Unfortunately, the implanted device converted his neurons to electronic signals.
It's all over the place on the web, this one has a few of his chat logs
So then disable the update service entirely so that it doesn't even run.
Also, Windows 7 isn't Windows XP.
I am aware of both of those, and have not used XP myself in many years. I was merely commenting on the previous "It's not like Windows 7 will magically just stop working" remark. Microsoft have shown their willingness to allow old OSs degrade when they are pushing a new product. I'm not complaining, it provided an impetus for customers to replace ancient pieces of crap they expected me to provide support for.
It's not like Windows 7 will magically just stop working.
If you used XP and kept it fully updated in the run-up to EOL, it did stop working at an acceptable level. The windows update service started doing crazy shit to machines, apparently processing update supercedence lists. Windows XP took about 30-45 minutes after switching on to become useable when Microsoft were on their big upgrade drive.
Ok, relax, I wasn't being (too) serious. People can do what they want with their time and money, be it watching celebrities on TV, people running around a field after an inflated bladder, or playing games like that. None of my business. But that game sounded awful from the review I read of it. Fair enough, I am not their target audience.
If they really wanted to, they could make their own game and see how well it holds up under public scrutiny. My guess? Dismal failures much like the various walking simulators and games like Gone Home(note the disconnect between reviewers and gamers).
I was going to say that the "make their own game" comment was a bit unfair, but had never heard of Gone Home. I looked it up and.... please do not let them make any more.
You could improve the mod system a bit by having it detect "controversial" comments - those with many both up and down mods (just find the statistical outliers). Those should always be kept visible. We need downmods to self-police garbage posts, GNAA posts, APK, and so on. But we need someway to prevent a comment being censored if 10 people mod it up and 12 people mod it down - any such comment is interesting and should be kept visible, rather than becoming a scale of the political leanings of the mods. Maybe mark it in some way and disable further moderation.
Interesting idea you have there. It would be nice to be able to filter to see the most moderated posts, as well as those with a particular score threshold.
If everybody is speeding, maybe the speed limit is too low.
Probably not, as The Fine Article states near the top: "... installed a camera on his roof and began writing speed-monitoring software after a 12-year-old pedestrian was injured by a car last October."
How fast was that person going? Was it a drunk driver? Was it a half-blind OAP? None of those details regarding the aforementioned accident are in the article, only the fact that some people drive down this guy's street at the breakneck speed of 34mph.
Ireland does not generate the revenue, it just allows tax cheats to shift that revenue to another location to cheat on taxes, they are scum as this is done intentionally and they should be subject to international sanctions. Don't generate the revenue, then you are not entitled to the taxes on that revenue, all tax havens should be destroyed via economic sanctions.
Ireland does not make tax cheats, incompatibilities in tax laws across jurisdictions do. The Irish government really doesn't care where multinational companies get taxed, it knows the profits aren't being earned in Ireland. All it is interested in is those multinationals creating jobs in Ireland, and they have created a huge number.
And if you want to go after tax havens, maybe look at some of the big ones, like Switzerland, or the British Crown Dependencies.
Not this bullshit again. Ireland has an efficient tax system where companies actually pay close to the tax rate that is advertised. Many countries in the EU have much higher official tax rates, but the actual rate paid after various incentives, remits and rebates is much lower. For example, the actual average rate paid in 2014 in Belgium, with an official corporate tax rate of 34.5%, was 6.5%. Comparing tax rates while ignoring all the ways various countries provide for ignoring them is pointless.
I just don't want to be double taxed or taxed at all, for that matter.
You'll pay less tax in the US than here. If you're working in a good IT job, you probably get paid more in the US as well. Stay where you are.
Not just government, lots of large companies will have things quietly churning away in the background that people don't get rid of because they've been there so long nobody knows what they are and they're afraid to touch. I've seen Avions running DGUX that have only recently been scrapped. A customer last year asked us to have a look at something, and I'm not really sure what it was, it looked like an old dumb terminal with 2 5.25" floppy drives built into it, we just handed to some guys about to retire to look at. I looked at a SCO Xenix system within the last 6 months. Just this week, I saw an AIX server that isn't used but is kept around just in case they need to look up old accounts. I had a look at it out of curiousity, and saw the radiusd process chewing up processor time so gave it a reboot, first time it was restarted since Oct 2009.
Or it could be that this is the rubber stamp that is always applied to medical records when they are requested.
It is above the pay grade of the low level bureaucrat to make the distinction between animal and human (if there is one).
Does the Department of Agriculture perform many human autopsies?
FTFA: "He said that the airline told them that they would not be refunded the $13,340 cost of their flights. They were also forced to return everything they bought at the airport’s duty-free shops before being escorted from the airport."
EU law states that:
If you are denied boarding or your flight is cancelled or overbooked, you are entitled to either:
transport to your final destination using comparable alternative means, or
having your ticket refunded and, where relevant, being returned free of charge to your initial departure point.
http://europa.eu/youreurope/ci...
I'm surprised the entire debate here is about tax, and everyone overlooked the bit slipped in at the end:
"Rose interviewed Cook before last month's terror attacks in Paris, in which the attackers used encrypted messages to communicate with each other. "
They're still pushing that lie in every place they can, when everyone now knows they were sending normal text messages.
Grass-fed cattle are usually slaughtered at about 18 months.
Maybe that is true in America. I grew up on a beef farm, so I have a fairly good idea how things work here.
Our digestive systems are not as good as cows' for processing that stuff.
Yes, but it's not orders of magnitude worse. To eat a cow, you have to grow it to the point where it's worth slaughtering before you cut it up and get some delicious sizzling steaks.
How many meals do you think the cow eats in that time?
Apparently they're slaughtered at between 3 and 16 weeks for good beef. How many meals do you think they eat in that time?
3-16 weeks? Cattle will be slaughtered at around 3 years age. Are you thinking of chickens?