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  1. The supply doesn't force it's rated power and cause the load to fry. The supply only produces enough power to supply what the load consumes. Circuits will only fry if they are poorly designed.

  2. Re: Seems like Microsoft isn't ready for USB-C on Microsoft Thinks USB-C Isn't Ready For the Mainstream (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need a fist full of adaptors. If every device you have fits into a USB A port on your surface, then all you need is one adaptor, a C to A.

  3. Re: Seems like Microsoft isn't ready for USB-C on Microsoft Thinks USB-C Isn't Ready For the Mainstream (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    Serial cables were pretty ubiquitous too. I remember the day where I only had to carry one around and it would work for everything.

  4. Re: Free money!!! on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Because no proposal would ever give people a UBI with the expectation that it would just be taxed right back. That's idiotic.

  5. Re: Free money!!! on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No precisely the opposite. I can't help your failure to understand economics. Even basic supply and demand theory.

  6. Re: Employees fired by Trump: on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, but the point is misleading.

  7. Re:How's that for gratitude on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And John Podesta. He helped a lot. So did Carlos Danger.

  8. Re:Employees fired by Trump: on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Stop being misleading. He's fired a lot more than those three.

  9. Re: Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Since Cuba is ruled by a totalitarian dictatorship, don't you think it's possible that the regime supplies the data to WHO?

  10. Re: Free money!!! on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A better question is what is the point of giving poor people money, if you're just going to confiscate it in fees and taxes.

  11. Re: Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Where does WHO get their Cuban data from?

  12. Re: Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, certainly a little bit of socialism in our health insurance system has not made anything less expensive. Nor has it had a benefit in our education system. It seems the more we try to subsidize to make things affordable, the more expensive they get. Socialism is not water.

  13. Re: Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The healthcare is good

    According to whom?

    but the grocery stores are bare.

    Why are the grocery stores bare?

  14. Re: Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is that they have an amazing healthcare system inspite of this.

    According to whom>

  15. Re: Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Cuba has one of the best health care systems in the world.

    According to whom?

  16. Re: Free money!!! on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    People who don't drive, don't generally pay road taxes (fuel taxes, property taxes). And certainly someone who can't afford a used car, doesn't pay any income taxes.

  17. Re: Free money!!! on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. The maximum price the market will bear. If lower income people, who would be the ones buying used cars, each get 5k to buy a car, the maximum price the market will bear goes up. That's what happens when demand changes without a change in supply.

  18. Re:explanation for dummies on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically you just want to increase taxes on people that make more than you.

  19. Re:Free money!!! on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not what I'm talking about. If you give low income people 20K per year for basic expenses, the cost of basic expenses will go up by 20K per year. If you give everyone 5K to buy a used car, the cheapest used car available will be 5K.

  20. Re: Never fly in the USA. on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A powerful state confiscating earned wealth and distributing it someone that did not earn it, is not libertarian. It is authoritarian to it's core.

  21. Re: Never fly in the USA. on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A collective solution to a problem is the anitithesis of individual freedom. No one ever said libertarians were smart.

  22. Re: Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just the socialized healthcare system, it's the entire socialized economy. I don't buy the argument that a lot of socialism is bad, but just enough (which happens to always be more than the current amount) is just right.

  23. Re: Socialism on the march on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Far lower cost? Are you kidding? Look at the shithole that is Cuba. It has had a nonexistent economy for decades. That is the cost of socialism.

  24. Re:explanation for dummies on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Why don't we just confiscate all income that exceeds the median income? I mean you don't really have to make more than 50K a year to get by. You don't need big screen tv's or a personal vehicle for every family.

  25. Re:Nothing wrong with the concept. on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously you havent been paying attention to our education system and media.