...although it did nullify the "pre-existing conditions" problem.
So we don't have to force everyone to be stuck with the crapulence of Medicare, Medicaid, Disability, or the VA in order to solve this particular problem.
As someone with such a condition, the LAST thing I want is to be in the clutches of any sort of American variation on socialized medicine.
> Why would I want my web browser to give me desktop notifications? Why the hell would I want a website to give me push notifications even if my browser is closed?
web applications.
The same reason for a normal application. You might not have your eyes glued on it 24/7 and you might want some indication that you need to go look at it again.
No. It's just obvious that infastructure that spans across the state is a much more effective investment then pandering to a large corporation and giving them a stadium they should be able to pay for on their own.
A 100 mile fiber run into the farm belt can be used by more than just the farmers.
Statements like yours explain how lottery winners can wipe themselves out in less than 2 years and how people can be fiercely proud of the fact that they get reamed by corporations paying 2x or 3x what they really need to.
I'm sure Steve would not view $800M as nothing, even with the other $211B. Self made men are funny that way.
Chances are that every single lawyer you've met is also ineligible to be part of the patent bar. You seem to be ranting based on total ignorance of how things actually work.
You represent the current problem with the patent system. You think that just rearranging the deck chairs is something that is worthy of granting a 20 year long industry crushing monopoly to.
People treat this stuff like candy when it's more like toxic waste.
Patents are meant to encourage people to disclose useful trade secrets. It's supposed to make industry MORE efficient rather than less. It's not supposed to be some lame virtual land grab.
> Mostly because lawyers are typically very dumb, and lawyers are who file the patents.
Patent lawyers are required to have degrees in STEM fields. They don't just let any Tom,Dick, or Harry esquire become a patent attorney. You are not dealing with someone that did underwater basket weaving as their undergrad degree.
(that probably makes the situation all the more sinister)
> USB2 still sucks, and is still far far slower and less reliable than any FW implementation.
Perhaps with Apple devices. Take those out of the equation and it seems to work well enough. I don't see a lot of rubes (Mac users included) really pushing USB hard enough to need something better.
The world is won by "good enough". Someone who's an obvious fan of a platform that fancies itself a Unix should understand that.
...except in "Brave New World" everyone was engineered for their role in society. It's kind of the opposite of what they SJWs are trying to do smashing square pegs into round holes.
That's not courage, that's insanity. The fringe Republican base have given up on the idea of governance. The old guard had already done that to some respects which is why they were pandering to the fringe to begin with. Now they have a perfect storm of idiocy where no one is interested in being a statesman anymore and anyone that tries gets shouted down by the fringe.
This problem of the fringe driving the selection of candidates is a problem with both parties.
This is also a problem with the 2 party system where your wing nut "coalition" members get embedded into your party instead of being some outside group (like in Israel).
No. This ruling is utter bullshit. It's the kind of thing that makes people think that they need to fend for themselves Mad Max style because they have to really. It completely undermines the idea of civilized society or even the basic idea of specialization.
That nonsense just feeds into gun culture and justifies it.
The existence of cops should largely negate the need for personal weapons.
It's one thing to have a special action squad for the occasional well armed robber or kidnapper but it's gotten to the point where it's the day to day SOP.
There are plenty of liberal weenies crying for the disarmament of the American citizen right now. They've forgotten about the need to demilitarize the cops.
If you are afraid of civilians with guns then you need to be even handed about it and take them from cops too.
> Except people won't lust after these things in a post-scarcity economy because the primary information channels won't be saturated with messages instructing us to lust after these things.
Why not? Who is going to stop them? Are you saying that the Federation is some sort of communist nightmare with information tightly controlled so that ideas contrary to the agenda of the ruling party is never seen.
That is the sort of thing that explains offworld colonies and fleeing to the Cardassian frontier.
Is this the voice of experience or are you just some idiot bleeding heart born with a silver spoon in his mouth?
As the voice of actual experience, I agree with the OP. Material want is not the problem with our "urban poor". Security is. All of those scary gun statistics are driven by people for whom the meager welfare state is insufficient. They have some ambition. They want more and they see crime as the way to get it.
In a strange, perverse, warped way the drug criminals are showing that they are worth something to society. Their energy is just misdirected.
Fixating on "self improvement" would help but nobody in the really poor neighborhoods really buys that.
By DS9, you didn't see many humans engaging in economic activity anymore. In TOS, there was plenty of it. By TNG, that sort of thing just didn't happen anymore.
...exactly. If everything is all sunshine and roses on Earth after first contact, then there's no reason for anyone to go offworld and start forming colonies. There's certainly no reason for humans to flee as far as the Klingon or Cardassian frontier.
Again, things don't add up in Trek because reality is distorted to suit the plot du jour. There doesn't actually seem to be a real, consistent framework. The universe isn't designed beyond some poorly thought out platitudes.
...well, there's the whole gold-pressed-latinum thing. Clearly it can't be manufactured in some trivial manner. Otherwise it would not be considered valuable by the Ferengi. That's an example of one thing that likely can't be replicated.
That too was just baseless assumption that he never really thought through. He just thought his fair godmother would wave her magic wand and we would be left with some slightly idealized version of current society.
He never really gave any thought of the true implications of his ideas.
For that, you need to investigate literary science fiction.
The society of Trek is just a sonic screwdriver. It has whatever characteristics the current episode requires of it.
That's stated but never really supported or fully explored. None of the obvious implications of it seem to really exist in Trek. One glaring example is how a brilliant legacy candidate could not easily get into Starfleet academy on the first try, or why people even bother with Starfleet to begin with.
Want to explore the stars? Just have your own ship and as much of a crew as you want.
Although the "humans are now perfect" theme just made people less interesting, eliminated sources of drama, and just made Trek need to use one dimensional aliens as a crutch to represent interesting human characteristics.
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...although it did nullify the "pre-existing conditions" problem.
So we don't have to force everyone to be stuck with the crapulence of Medicare, Medicaid, Disability, or the VA in order to solve this particular problem.
As someone with such a condition, the LAST thing I want is to be in the clutches of any sort of American variation on socialized medicine.
> Why would I want my web browser to give me desktop notifications? Why the hell would I want a website to give me push notifications even if my browser is closed?
web applications.
The same reason for a normal application. You might not have your eyes glued on it 24/7 and you might want some indication that you need to go look at it again.
No. It's just obvious that infastructure that spans across the state is a much more effective investment then pandering to a large corporation and giving them a stadium they should be able to pay for on their own.
A 100 mile fiber run into the farm belt can be used by more than just the farmers.
Nope. You're still an idiot, an innumerate idiot.
Statements like yours explain how lottery winners can wipe themselves out in less than 2 years and how people can be fiercely proud of the fact that they get reamed by corporations paying 2x or 3x what they really need to.
I'm sure Steve would not view $800M as nothing, even with the other $211B. Self made men are funny that way.
Chances are that every single lawyer you've met is also ineligible to be part of the patent bar. You seem to be ranting based on total ignorance of how things actually work.
Nope. Invention should be just that.
You represent the current problem with the patent system. You think that just rearranging the deck chairs is something that is worthy of granting a 20 year long industry crushing monopoly to.
People treat this stuff like candy when it's more like toxic waste.
Patents are meant to encourage people to disclose useful trade secrets. It's supposed to make industry MORE efficient rather than less. It's not supposed to be some lame virtual land grab.
> Mostly because lawyers are typically very dumb, and lawyers are who file the patents.
Patent lawyers are required to have degrees in STEM fields. They don't just let any Tom,Dick, or Harry esquire become a patent attorney. You are not dealing with someone that did underwater basket weaving as their undergrad degree.
(that probably makes the situation all the more sinister)
> USB2 still sucks, and is still far far slower and less reliable than any FW implementation.
Perhaps with Apple devices. Take those out of the equation and it seems to work well enough. I don't see a lot of rubes (Mac users included) really pushing USB hard enough to need something better.
The world is won by "good enough". Someone who's an obvious fan of a platform that fancies itself a Unix should understand that.
Precisely. I don't use an ad blocker. I use a script blocker. All of the crap that gets dragged in by a modern site is somewhat mind boggling.
There is no way for ANY ONE to vouch for the safety of all of that.
Stop whining news media. Solve the underlying problem.
...except in "Brave New World" everyone was engineered for their role in society. It's kind of the opposite of what they SJWs are trying to do smashing square pegs into round holes.
Nope. It's more like "the original" or "the grand daddy of".
This is something that should have "popped" on Slashdot about 10 years ago.
The NYT is basically your embarrassingly uncool parent of a teenager here.
That's not courage, that's insanity. The fringe Republican base have given up on the idea of governance. The old guard had already done that to some respects which is why they were pandering to the fringe to begin with. Now they have a perfect storm of idiocy where no one is interested in being a statesman anymore and anyone that tries gets shouted down by the fringe.
This problem of the fringe driving the selection of candidates is a problem with both parties.
This is also a problem with the 2 party system where your wing nut "coalition" members get embedded into your party instead of being some outside group (like in Israel).
No. This ruling is utter bullshit. It's the kind of thing that makes people think that they need to fend for themselves Mad Max style because they have to really. It completely undermines the idea of civilized society or even the basic idea of specialization.
That nonsense just feeds into gun culture and justifies it.
The existence of cops should largely negate the need for personal weapons.
That ruling is fundementally anti-social.
> So you whackos want to disarm cops too now?
Yes. It's time to take away their SWAT gear.
It's one thing to have a special action squad for the occasional well armed robber or kidnapper but it's gotten to the point where it's the day to day SOP.
There are plenty of liberal weenies crying for the disarmament of the American citizen right now. They've forgotten about the need to demilitarize the cops.
If you are afraid of civilians with guns then you need to be even handed about it and take them from cops too.
HA!
I wish I had mod point to mod you funny.
I may just have to steal that line...
> Except people won't lust after these things in a post-scarcity economy because the primary information channels won't be saturated with messages instructing us to lust after these things.
Why not? Who is going to stop them? Are you saying that the Federation is some sort of communist nightmare with information tightly controlled so that ideas contrary to the agenda of the ruling party is never seen.
That is the sort of thing that explains offworld colonies and fleeing to the Cardassian frontier.
> Wow, can I have... uh... your blindfold?
Is this the voice of experience or are you just some idiot bleeding heart born with a silver spoon in his mouth?
As the voice of actual experience, I agree with the OP. Material want is not the problem with our "urban poor". Security is. All of those scary gun statistics are driven by people for whom the meager welfare state is insufficient. They have some ambition. They want more and they see crime as the way to get it.
In a strange, perverse, warped way the drug criminals are showing that they are worth something to society. Their energy is just misdirected.
Fixating on "self improvement" would help but nobody in the really poor neighborhoods really buys that.
How much is "enough" and who decides?
That's a point of contention across the board.
Harvey Mudd was considered a criminal.
By DS9, you didn't see many humans engaging in economic activity anymore. In TOS, there was plenty of it. By TNG, that sort of thing just didn't happen anymore.
Why not? They have Dixon Hill?
You could have Darth Vader and Cookie Monster wandering around your holodeck.
...exactly. If everything is all sunshine and roses on Earth after first contact, then there's no reason for anyone to go offworld and start forming colonies. There's certainly no reason for humans to flee as far as the Klingon or Cardassian frontier.
Again, things don't add up in Trek because reality is distorted to suit the plot du jour. There doesn't actually seem to be a real, consistent framework. The universe isn't designed beyond some poorly thought out platitudes.
If you make 70K, you aren't richer than your neighbors. You get richer neighbors.
However, you are quite right about "keeping up with the neighbors". This is tends to get WORSE as the houses and incomes get larger.
Although if you really are "richer than your neighbors", then you stand a chance of getting out of the rat race entirely.
...well, there's the whole gold-pressed-latinum thing. Clearly it can't be manufactured in some trivial manner. Otherwise it would not be considered valuable by the Ferengi. That's an example of one thing that likely can't be replicated.
> Actually he does answer that- repeatedly.
That too was just baseless assumption that he never really thought through. He just thought his fair godmother would wave her magic wand and we would be left with some slightly idealized version of current society.
He never really gave any thought of the true implications of his ideas.
For that, you need to investigate literary science fiction.
The society of Trek is just a sonic screwdriver. It has whatever characteristics the current episode requires of it.
That's stated but never really supported or fully explored. None of the obvious implications of it seem to really exist in Trek. One glaring example is how a brilliant legacy candidate could not easily get into Starfleet academy on the first try, or why people even bother with Starfleet to begin with.
Want to explore the stars? Just have your own ship and as much of a crew as you want.
Although the "humans are now perfect" theme just made people less interesting, eliminated sources of drama, and just made Trek need to use one dimensional aliens as a crutch to represent interesting human characteristics.
That's not politeness, that's treating someone as a weak inferior. It's too easy to be mistaken for chauvanism.