> Modern smartphones are already as powerful as 5-7 old PCs
No they aren't, not by a long shot.
People only manage to do simple PC tasks with mobile devices. The really interesting things are offloaded to some server in the cloud or a local desktop like Siri or Plex.
Overpriced video cards aren't driving the market. They aren't compelling enough to enough people to keep the bottom of the market falling out.
Most PC users are content with whatever default resolution that Windows gives them. They've been underutilizing PC hardware since at least 2006. So LCD vs LED is not a big deal either.
Besides, there were "sleek thin" laptops 15 years ago. Apple fanboys are such narcissists. It's a wide market with a lot of vendors offering all kinds of options for many different tastes. Some of us go for the glorified terminals. Some of us don't. It's been that way for awhile now. The market is mature and saturated.
I dunno about that. Sounds like the anti-workers comp nonsense from the 80s. Yellow journalists had a field day with it and caused an anti-welfare backlash. State workers comp systems were gutted. Now they all tend to be pants. Stuff like this is why I think that welfare just doesn't work in the US. You will end up with jackasses that want to micro-manage food stamp recipients.
Since I know a number of genuinely disabled cancer patients, I am highly skeptical of this. It can be a royal pain to get a legitimate approval for disability. It can require multiple appeals and sometimes the help of an attorney specializing in this area.
That's despite some very clear rules in the federal guidelines and conditions that are very easy to quantify and document.
W2 employment is not required to contribute and I doubt if any of you bleeding hearts contribute in that way either. In fact, you get your panties in a bunch if that kind of thing is added as a requirement to getting welfare as it is.
An adult should have enough pride that they don't want to be a worthless layabout.
Someone still has to be willing to "provide". In a society where you aren't encouraged to contribute, you will have trouble finding enough people to bother. If you tax the rich to death, they will just move or not bother. Resources have to come from somewhere and you are just assuming that there will be enough people wiling to contribute or those that you can steal from.
This isn't software where all you have to do is drag and drop to duplicate something. Beyond everything else, real estate is a scarce and expensive commodity.
You don't need basic income for that. You can just decide to move. In fact, the modern corporate employee is already a bit of a nomad. If anything, you need to apply artificial pressure to keep people bound to a particular location.
Working in America is nothing like being assigned to a company and an apartment like you would have been in communist Russia.
Both China and the US could tell the rest of the world to f*ck off and do pretty well. We're large countries with a lot of useful land and ample natural resources. People like to fixate on the US as an industrial power but we really never stopped being an agricultural one. That's what ultimately matters in the end.
The Iowa farm boy can likely adapt to what comes. It's the urban city dwellers that will suffer first and worst.
Moral authority is best achieved through leadership by example.
Americans in particular are better paid, get to keep more of what they make, and have more effective disposable income. They also have choices that citizens of other industrialized nations simply don't have.
If you spent 20% of your income on charity, you would still be ahead of Europeans.
Grok is actually a pretty useful term. The fact that it was fabricated by a novelist is no good reason to shun it. It's a meaningfully distinctive term.
Most people don't actually grok this stuff. They just repeat what others have said. It's total appeal to authority nonsense like quoting lines out of the Bible. It's even less sophisticated than that actually.
The climate fear mongers have to desperately address the fact that the facts on the ground are contrary to the media narrative. You can only insult people so much before they just tune you out.
This is why "Global Warning" is now called "Climate Change".
An obvious response to the retort "then it must be boiling someplace else" might be to point to the geopolitical complications of climate change. Much like with GMOs, it's not always about the "but science". There are a wider range of issues to be considered.
Climate hysterics are usually absent any suggestions regarding how to handle the situation. The who's and how's are actually the least interesting part of the discussion.
One of the British talking heads actually gets this and has moved on to the "now what" part of the discussion.
No. Andrew Jackson is much more of a divisive figure and a bigger jackass than anyone else on our currency. That's a big part of the SJW campaign to get him replaced.
That's funny considering that I've never found it distinctive enough from Ubuntu to be with moving to. Since Ubuntu has no problem with this, I would expect the same out of Mint.
The French have the right idea in this case. There's no reason to pamper this monster and give him a lifestyle potentially better than law abiding citizens.
Allowing indoor smoking would violate the spirit of worker protection laws. I think that was Bloomberg's approach to smoking and it's a pretty sensible one you can't really argue with.
It might. Then again you aren't dragging it around and sitting next to people with it. You likely only contaminate your own air with it. If anyone else can notice it, then it's just barely.
Basically, it's a pretty irrelevant example because it ALREADY conforms to all of the restrictions that the vast majority of people would place on you.
Very few people care enough to rescue your children from the pollution you create.
Cigarette smoke contains known carcinogens. Some of these are directly implicated in various cancers.
Beyond that, there's just an obvious problem of "smoke inhalation" that's considered obvious in any other context. It's so obvious that even politicians in the 1500's understood the dangers of smoking. This is not exactly anything new or surprising.
> I hate tobacco as much, if not far more, than the next person but there's no need to be so hateful towards smokers; rest assured their own self-loathing - due to their inability to quit - is more than adequate.
Smokers that insist that they have a right to harm the rest of us deserve all of the derision they receive. They're not like drunks or even junkies who only poison themselves.
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It's like I've said before. If all you need to be a "scientist" or "engineer" is the degree, then all patent lawyers are engineers.
> Modern smartphones are already as powerful as 5-7 old PCs
No they aren't, not by a long shot.
People only manage to do simple PC tasks with mobile devices. The really interesting things are offloaded to some server in the cloud or a local desktop like Siri or Plex.
The guys at Bell Labs were especially proud of themselves over the US phone system.
Overpriced video cards aren't driving the market. They aren't compelling enough to enough people to keep the bottom of the market falling out.
Most PC users are content with whatever default resolution that Windows gives them. They've been underutilizing PC hardware since at least 2006. So LCD vs LED is not a big deal either.
Besides, there were "sleek thin" laptops 15 years ago. Apple fanboys are such narcissists. It's a wide market with a lot of vendors offering all kinds of options for many different tastes. Some of us go for the glorified terminals. Some of us don't. It's been that way for awhile now. The market is mature and saturated.
WHY would the init script for MySQL need to be a mess? Just what is it doing that's terribly complex or the least bit subtle?
Neither variant should be that interesting actually...
I dunno about that. Sounds like the anti-workers comp nonsense from the 80s. Yellow journalists had a field day with it and caused an anti-welfare backlash. State workers comp systems were gutted. Now they all tend to be pants. Stuff like this is why I think that welfare just doesn't work in the US. You will end up with jackasses that want to micro-manage food stamp recipients.
Since I know a number of genuinely disabled cancer patients, I am highly skeptical of this. It can be a royal pain to get a legitimate approval for disability. It can require multiple appeals and sometimes the help of an attorney specializing in this area.
That's despite some very clear rules in the federal guidelines and conditions that are very easy to quantify and document.
W2 employment is not required to contribute and I doubt if any of you bleeding hearts contribute in that way either. In fact, you get your panties in a bunch if that kind of thing is added as a requirement to getting welfare as it is.
An adult should have enough pride that they don't want to be a worthless layabout.
> Remember that when you're 80 and have shat yourself yet again.
I am a productive citizen, I have earned my orderly. Although I could just pay for one out of my own funds if it came down to it.
Perhaps you would like to apply for the job?
Someone still has to be willing to "provide". In a society where you aren't encouraged to contribute, you will have trouble finding enough people to bother. If you tax the rich to death, they will just move or not bother. Resources have to come from somewhere and you are just assuming that there will be enough people wiling to contribute or those that you can steal from.
This isn't software where all you have to do is drag and drop to duplicate something. Beyond everything else, real estate is a scarce and expensive commodity.
You don't need basic income for that. You can just decide to move. In fact, the modern corporate employee is already a bit of a nomad. If anything, you need to apply artificial pressure to keep people bound to a particular location.
Working in America is nothing like being assigned to a company and an apartment like you would have been in communist Russia.
It turns out that "alienated layabouts" are the number one target for ISIS recruitment in Europe.
It seems like the welfare state even in the socialist utopia is not all that. "Being useful" appears to be valuable in it own right.
> So you're comparing government strings attached to ... governments putting strings on your private property? And you don't see the hypocrisy?
If you don't understand the difference, then you simply haven't been paying attention.
You're really not sufficiently well informed on this subject. You should just STFU and keep your ignorance to yourself.
Both China and the US could tell the rest of the world to f*ck off and do pretty well. We're large countries with a lot of useful land and ample natural resources. People like to fixate on the US as an industrial power but we really never stopped being an agricultural one. That's what ultimately matters in the end.
The Iowa farm boy can likely adapt to what comes. It's the urban city dwellers that will suffer first and worst.
Moral authority is best achieved through leadership by example.
Americans in particular are better paid, get to keep more of what they make, and have more effective disposable income. They also have choices that citizens of other industrialized nations simply don't have.
If you spent 20% of your income on charity, you would still be ahead of Europeans.
Grok is actually a pretty useful term. The fact that it was fabricated by a novelist is no good reason to shun it. It's a meaningfully distinctive term.
Most people don't actually grok this stuff. They just repeat what others have said. It's total appeal to authority nonsense like quoting lines out of the Bible. It's even less sophisticated than that actually.
The climate fear mongers have to desperately address the fact that the facts on the ground are contrary to the media narrative. You can only insult people so much before they just tune you out.
This is why "Global Warning" is now called "Climate Change".
An obvious response to the retort "then it must be boiling someplace else" might be to point to the geopolitical complications of climate change. Much like with GMOs, it's not always about the "but science". There are a wider range of issues to be considered.
Climate hysterics are usually absent any suggestions regarding how to handle the situation. The who's and how's are actually the least interesting part of the discussion.
One of the British talking heads actually gets this and has moved on to the "now what" part of the discussion.
No. Andrew Jackson is much more of a divisive figure and a bigger jackass than anyone else on our currency. That's a big part of the SJW campaign to get him replaced.
Any "irony" here is entirely intended.
I've never found either of those to be terribly problematic.
Linux "dependency hell" seems to be an invention of trolls more that anything else.
That's funny considering that I've never found it distinctive enough from Ubuntu to be with moving to. Since Ubuntu has no problem with this, I would expect the same out of Mint.
Pretty much.
The French have the right idea in this case. There's no reason to pamper this monster and give him a lifestyle potentially better than law abiding citizens.
Allowing indoor smoking would violate the spirit of worker protection laws. I think that was Bloomberg's approach to smoking and it's a pretty sensible one you can't really argue with.
It might. Then again you aren't dragging it around and sitting next to people with it. You likely only contaminate your own air with it. If anyone else can notice it, then it's just barely.
Basically, it's a pretty irrelevant example because it ALREADY conforms to all of the restrictions that the vast majority of people would place on you.
Very few people care enough to rescue your children from the pollution you create.
> No study
Cigarette smoke contains known carcinogens. Some of these are directly implicated in various cancers.
Beyond that, there's just an obvious problem of "smoke inhalation" that's considered obvious in any other context. It's so obvious that even politicians in the 1500's understood the dangers of smoking. This is not exactly anything new or surprising.
> I hate tobacco as much, if not far more, than the next person but there's no need to be so hateful towards smokers; rest assured their own self-loathing - due to their inability to quit - is more than adequate.
Smokers that insist that they have a right to harm the rest of us deserve all of the derision they receive. They're not like drunks or even junkies who only poison themselves.