My Minis didn't last anywhere near that long. Comparable PCs have outlasted them by a wide margin. Normal PCs just keep on chugging along until you don't know what to do with them any more.
Plus you can upgrade them (PCs) and extend their useful lifespan even further, long after a Mac would be an obsolescence driven doorstop.
Insured deposits are nice and all but the mechanics of implementing all of that takes TIME. Meanwhile, you are SOL. You can't get at your money. At the same time, people who you owe money too have no interest waiting on your bank getting it's sh*t sorted out.
You need access to you money when the bills are due, regardless of circumstances.
We have cash and hard currency for just that kind of situation.
Self sufficient adults need to be able to plan and account for any contingency, even the unusual ones.
> Letting a young one have cash seems far more irresponsible - that creates a target for robbing, which I understand is a real concern for American children....um, yeah, whatever...
The only people for whom getting mugged is a real everyday concern are also the same sort of people that would have trouble getting any sort of bank account and will otherwise be completely victimized by the banking system.
Gaza is more like the island of Manhattan in Escape from New York. It's strictly under the control of the Gazans. The state of things "on the island" are more the responsibility of their version of "The Duke of New York".
At least keep your groups of "poor downtrodden victims" straight.
They don't need to "hide" anything. You're failing to acknowledge the scale of the problem. You simply can't watch everyone. Trying to do so is a fool's errand.
Ultimately the only thing you will do is compromise everyone else's security.
The idea that they could have stopped it if only they could have spied on more people is a moronic, innumerate, fantasy.
He's not incorrect about the pointy knives. He might be wrong about the hemisphere though. Brits are certainly getting their panties in a bunch about knives these days. Dunno if that applies to the Aussies or not. Although bleeding heart liberals are probably birds of a feather. I can't wait for American Democrats to discover the evils of knives.
I personally know someone that used to fly into London for one of the major airlines. He wasn't even allowed to land the thing himself. So pilots in the UK wetting themselves over lasers doesn't impress me so much. Sounds more like the usual hysterical nonsense gripping the Brits lately.
Also, it is important to have some degree of financial independence simply so that you can survive the occasional reversal of fortune. If you are living paycheck to paycheck then you are always on the brink of disaster and the slightest little hiccup could cause your life to fall apart.
Even being part of the way of the rat race puts you in a better position to deal with life's little surprises. Just deciding to save something for a rainy day can make all the difference in the world. It can help you avoid bankruptcy and prevent you from becoming yet another digital beggar.
There's no reason to buy into the mindless propaganda and beat up on the US system in particular. Medical care costs a lot of money. It's expensive even if you do stiff the people doing the work or the R&D. That doesn't change even if you alter the venue.
UBI isn't going to be enough to pay for hip surgery in Spain.
People that aren't saving up for a rainy day now, won't suddenly do so when their money is given to them rather than being forced to work for it.
...except some of us have actual experience with these kinds of arrangements, or know those that do.
The end result may be a system where there is little economic incentive to have any sort of ambition. Your only motivation might be to avoid digging a ditch. If you eliminate even that motivation, then you may find it difficult to recruit anyone to do anything.
Soviet communism led to the Slashdot-type crowd being paid less than retail store clerks. The motivation to even bother with a STEM job was the fact that unemployment was a crime and it was better to not have to dig a ditch.
Take away the criminal aspect of not working and a lot of people probably would not bother. A lot of people in corporate jobs suck at them and have no motivation as is.
All of this stupid "take it from the rich" rhetoric ignores the fact that the rich can actually defend themselves. They have political influence to distort legislation can craft loopholes for themselves. They can also pay for hired guns to help get them from under any measures that are actually passed. This is why they are rich in the first place.
So the people that will really get clobbered are the successful bits of the working class. The propaganda groundwork is already being laid for this. Liberal journalists are already trying delegitimize successful working professionals and stoke the fires of intra-class envy.
It's the people that are already living the European city lifestyle in the large American coastal cities that will get clobbered the most by the ensuing taxation feeding frenzy. The "rich" will protect themselves. It's the top end of the working class that will get hammered instead.
That's the problem with social welfare in general.
There's always a Tory lurking around the corner waiting to trash your little Utopia.
Then your perfect little system gets corrupted and distorted and is no longer any better than what got replaced. It's likely FAR worse. Except now it's some government entrenched monopoly. The proles may even desperately clutch onto it despite having no real reason to.
Roads represent a natural monopoly. They also represent an area where there have been well documented historical abuses. You should only go full retard when it's necessary. You should not start out going full retard.
This is the difference between communists and the rest of us. You think that the government is the solution to try FIRST regardless of how many bad examples we might have of that practice.
Imposing a government monopoly should be the ABSOLUTE LAST option you try after everything else has failed.
The same idiots and thieves that you can't trust to run their own lives are the ones running the government.
As it is now, Slysoft is actually contained. They make money off of their work, so they aren't inclined to share. This limits the impact of their work considerably.
Successfully liquidate Slysoft and their "nuclear option" may be to just open source everything.
My lawyer will cart my collection into the courtroom and hand one DVD banker box and one binder to every member of the jury. There will still be a pile of binders and boxes sitting on the floor in front of the jury box while they each peruse their own box and binder.
At that point, they will probably wonder what the complaint was again...
> Region free or unlockable players have been around since the late 90's. How can you not know this?
I first started using HTPCs because my last region free player wasn't all it was cracked up to be. It advertised features it didn't actually have.
On the other hand, I am in full control of my viewing experience with an HTPC because I'm the one that's building it. I can also impose the same interface on all of my players and make sure that interface stays the same over time.
I also never have to worry about unskippable content or intentionally misleading menus on an HTPC. I also don't have to worry about the fact that every new DVD menu is it's own special snowflake that may or may not be terribly usable.
Plus BD consoles are just plain SLOW. It's amazing how much time it takes a BD disk to load in a "proper player" vs off of a media center.
The 'Tivo' or 'Netflix' or 'iTunes' style standardized interface is much more usable.
Physical media is a great token of ownership. It allows consumers to be in control of the supply and transfer of product. The interface on spinny disks is an improvement over VHS in some ways but still inferior to other options.
Except it's not just the drugstore, it's pretty much every where. Although the $20 price tag seems a bit odd since all sorts of B&M stores have been selling deeply discounted DVDs for the last 10 years and don't seem to be letting up.
Physical media is sold at a wide variety of retail outlets at various price points and rental kiosks are similarly widespread.
Inside of our little echo chamber here we tend to forget that we're the 1% of technology users. What we do or what we think other people should do really has no relationship to what happens with the population at large.
Shielding employees and stockholders is the entire POINT of a corporation.
This WHY a corporation should never be considered a person. It exists primarily to avoid the moral awareness and responsibility that an actual meat bag has.
...except when we don't agree with that country. Then the corporation should do everything they can to flaunt local laws and allow citizens to completely violate whatever objective that government is trying to enforce.
I would be shocked if the hypocrisy level in this regard is any less than 100%.
...only if you're targeting other Mac users. Since everyone else in North Korea is using PCs, Kim might not be using the right tool for the job.
Of course some people think Macs are great status symbols. Kim probably thinks that he's the envy of all his Generals. They probably just think it's a big and intolerable dufus with this whole Apple think just being the tip of the iceberg.
Never mind nearby towns. Google isn't even smart enough to realize that perhaps you want the closest variant of "streetname" rather than one 2000 miles away. This aspect of Google maps never ceases to annoy.
Tech built into cars is always behind after market devices including replacement in-dash units.
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My Minis didn't last anywhere near that long. Comparable PCs have outlasted them by a wide margin. Normal PCs just keep on chugging along until you don't know what to do with them any more.
Plus you can upgrade them (PCs) and extend their useful lifespan even further, long after a Mac would be an obsolescence driven doorstop.
Insured deposits are nice and all but the mechanics of implementing all of that takes TIME. Meanwhile, you are SOL. You can't get at your money. At the same time, people who you owe money too have no interest waiting on your bank getting it's sh*t sorted out.
You need access to you money when the bills are due, regardless of circumstances.
We have cash and hard currency for just that kind of situation.
Self sufficient adults need to be able to plan and account for any contingency, even the unusual ones.
> Letting a young one have cash seems far more irresponsible - that creates a target for robbing, which I understand is a real concern for American children. ...um, yeah, whatever...
The only people for whom getting mugged is a real everyday concern are also the same sort of people that would have trouble getting any sort of bank account and will otherwise be completely victimized by the banking system.
You are confusing Gaza and the West Bank.
Gaza is more like the island of Manhattan in Escape from New York. It's strictly under the control of the Gazans. The state of things "on the island" are more the responsibility of their version of "The Duke of New York".
At least keep your groups of "poor downtrodden victims" straight.
Cars ARE used as weapons against civilian targets by Palestinians. They've had to start beefing up barricades around bus stops in Israel.
They don't need to "hide" anything. You're failing to acknowledge the scale of the problem. You simply can't watch everyone. Trying to do so is a fool's errand.
Ultimately the only thing you will do is compromise everyone else's security.
The idea that they could have stopped it if only they could have spied on more people is a moronic, innumerate, fantasy.
> Except for the Criminal Rights crowd
You mean like the Son's of Liberty? THAT "criminal rights" crowd.
You're such an ignorant moron.
He's not incorrect about the pointy knives. He might be wrong about the hemisphere though. Brits are certainly getting their panties in a bunch about knives these days. Dunno if that applies to the Aussies or not. Although bleeding heart liberals are probably birds of a feather. I can't wait for American Democrats to discover the evils of knives.
On the other hand, I don't have to "Google" shit.
I personally know someone that used to fly into London for one of the major airlines. He wasn't even allowed to land the thing himself. So pilots in the UK wetting themselves over lasers doesn't impress me so much. Sounds more like the usual hysterical nonsense gripping the Brits lately.
I'm surprised it took them this long really...
Also, it is important to have some degree of financial independence simply so that you can survive the occasional reversal of fortune. If you are living paycheck to paycheck then you are always on the brink of disaster and the slightest little hiccup could cause your life to fall apart.
Even being part of the way of the rat race puts you in a better position to deal with life's little surprises. Just deciding to save something for a rainy day can make all the difference in the world. It can help you avoid bankruptcy and prevent you from becoming yet another digital beggar.
There's no reason to buy into the mindless propaganda and beat up on the US system in particular. Medical care costs a lot of money. It's expensive even if you do stiff the people doing the work or the R&D. That doesn't change even if you alter the venue.
UBI isn't going to be enough to pay for hip surgery in Spain.
People that aren't saving up for a rainy day now, won't suddenly do so when their money is given to them rather than being forced to work for it.
...except some of us have actual experience with these kinds of arrangements, or know those that do.
The end result may be a system where there is little economic incentive to have any sort of ambition. Your only motivation might be to avoid digging a ditch. If you eliminate even that motivation, then you may find it difficult to recruit anyone to do anything.
Soviet communism led to the Slashdot-type crowd being paid less than retail store clerks. The motivation to even bother with a STEM job was the fact that unemployment was a crime and it was better to not have to dig a ditch.
Take away the criminal aspect of not working and a lot of people probably would not bother. A lot of people in corporate jobs suck at them and have no motivation as is.
All of this stupid "take it from the rich" rhetoric ignores the fact that the rich can actually defend themselves. They have political influence to distort legislation can craft loopholes for themselves. They can also pay for hired guns to help get them from under any measures that are actually passed. This is why they are rich in the first place.
So the people that will really get clobbered are the successful bits of the working class. The propaganda groundwork is already being laid for this. Liberal journalists are already trying delegitimize successful working professionals and stoke the fires of intra-class envy.
It's the people that are already living the European city lifestyle in the large American coastal cities that will get clobbered the most by the ensuing taxation feeding frenzy. The "rich" will protect themselves. It's the top end of the working class that will get hammered instead.
That's the problem with social welfare in general.
There's always a Tory lurking around the corner waiting to trash your little Utopia.
Then your perfect little system gets corrupted and distorted and is no longer any better than what got replaced. It's likely FAR worse. Except now it's some government entrenched monopoly. The proles may even desperately clutch onto it despite having no real reason to.
You mean large standing armies... yeah kind of.
Roads represent a natural monopoly. They also represent an area where there have been well documented historical abuses. You should only go full retard when it's necessary. You should not start out going full retard.
This is the difference between communists and the rest of us. You think that the government is the solution to try FIRST regardless of how many bad examples we might have of that practice.
Imposing a government monopoly should be the ABSOLUTE LAST option you try after everything else has failed.
The same idiots and thieves that you can't trust to run their own lives are the ones running the government.
As it is now, Slysoft is actually contained. They make money off of their work, so they aren't inclined to share. This limits the impact of their work considerably.
Successfully liquidate Slysoft and their "nuclear option" may be to just open source everything.
Yeah, that's going to go over well.
My lawyer will cart my collection into the courtroom and hand one DVD banker box and one binder to every member of the jury. There will still be a pile of binders and boxes sitting on the floor in front of the jury box while they each peruse their own box and binder.
At that point, they will probably wonder what the complaint was again...
> Region free or unlockable players have been around since the late 90's. How can you not know this?
I first started using HTPCs because my last region free player wasn't all it was cracked up to be. It advertised features it didn't actually have.
On the other hand, I am in full control of my viewing experience with an HTPC because I'm the one that's building it. I can also impose the same interface on all of my players and make sure that interface stays the same over time.
I also never have to worry about unskippable content or intentionally misleading menus on an HTPC. I also don't have to worry about the fact that every new DVD menu is it's own special snowflake that may or may not be terribly usable.
Plus BD consoles are just plain SLOW. It's amazing how much time it takes a BD disk to load in a "proper player" vs off of a media center.
The 'Tivo' or 'Netflix' or 'iTunes' style standardized interface is much more usable.
Physical media is a great token of ownership. It allows consumers to be in control of the supply and transfer of product. The interface on spinny disks is an improvement over VHS in some ways but still inferior to other options.
> Higher quality?! Than what? I doubt many people are still buying VHS casettes.
Higher quality than any streaming service.
If you actually care about the actual content, then there's still no substitute for a bit of spinning plastic.
Except it's not just the drugstore, it's pretty much every where. Although the $20 price tag seems a bit odd since all sorts of B&M stores have been selling deeply discounted DVDs for the last 10 years and don't seem to be letting up.
Physical media is sold at a wide variety of retail outlets at various price points and rental kiosks are similarly widespread.
Inside of our little echo chamber here we tend to forget that we're the 1% of technology users. What we do or what we think other people should do really has no relationship to what happens with the population at large.
Summary judgement based on nothing more than an accusation.
Shielding employees and stockholders is the entire POINT of a corporation.
This WHY a corporation should never be considered a person. It exists primarily to avoid the moral awareness and responsibility that an actual meat bag has.
...except when we don't agree with that country. Then the corporation should do everything they can to flaunt local laws and allow citizens to completely violate whatever objective that government is trying to enforce.
I would be shocked if the hypocrisy level in this regard is any less than 100%.
...only if you're targeting other Mac users. Since everyone else in North Korea is using PCs, Kim might not be using the right tool for the job.
Of course some people think Macs are great status symbols. Kim probably thinks that he's the envy of all his Generals. They probably just think it's a big and intolerable dufus with this whole Apple think just being the tip of the iceberg.
Never mind nearby towns. Google isn't even smart enough to realize that perhaps you want the closest variant of "streetname" rather than one 2000 miles away. This aspect of Google maps never ceases to annoy.
Tech built into cars is always behind after market devices including replacement in-dash units.