If you're in prison, you didn't just wake up there one day. You got there for a reason. As a felon, you lose rights (voting, guns, etc). They are paid a very meager wage according to your article, but I'm just saying that even on balance, the Chinese workers probably STILL have it worse.
So because they're criminals, it's okay to treat them like slaves?
Man, we're a bunch of idiots. Why deport all of those illegal immigrants when we can just arrest 'em and have 'em work real cheap!
Not profitable enough? Better write up some harsher penalties to increase the labor pool. After all, if SpudCo Prison Management doesn't turn 10% growth this quarter, I might not get that campaign contribution!
Yeeeeeeeee-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW *fires six shooter in the air*
Moreover, there are loads of people who are genuinely introverted and/or afraid to go out in public or talk to people in person at all. I imagine quite a few of them would be much more comfortable communicating and interacting with people when there's a digital wall between them.
They would together have to send back 16,800 kilograms worth of pure gold, or roughly 100 times the weight of a rover in gold, for the mission to start turning a profit..
Wouldn't it have to be even more than that? Adding an extra 16,800 kg of gold to the world supply will surely lower the price...
Just to be pedantic, but there's nothing stopping you from hooking up four USB gamepads to a USB hub, loading up ZSNES, and getting some four player Turtles in Time action going on.
Pretty much any console prior to the current generation is playable on the PC, so... yeah. Why have 10 or 15 consoles hooked up to the television when you could instead just have one PC with a bunch of emulators and ROMS and some USB controllers? And that's not to mention all of the games you can play exclusive to the PC that are fun in their own right, such as Frets on Fire.
Yes, but here they're showing that the membrane allows WATER through but will stop HELIUM. If I'm not mistaken, helium molecules are smallerthan water molecules. That's the freakish quality.
So for instance, a graphene membrane condom would fit me, but it wouldn't fit CmdrTaco?
I had an acquaintance who worked as a contractor for Google for a year. According to him, generally things are really rough as a contractor but get way better if they elect to bring you on as an employee.
(Of course, my story is jhust as anecdotal as the preceding one by an AC, so take both with a grain of salt or two.)
"ACTA? It's like that SOAP or PIPE thing them kids been screamin' about on the Facebooks? Who cares, let those cheese-eating surrender monkeys go out and buy some good ol' American films, the thievin' little shits!"
This is for North America, Europe and Asia [China/Japan], so their governments/industry partners can silently kill specific things without people readily knowing about it. So you still have the appearance of free speech, without actually having it.
This would be trivially easy to test. Hell, it'd be trivially easy to *block*:
1) Set up a bunch of VPNs/proxies in every country.
2) Suspect a link has been "disappeared"? Copy/paste it into this magic website.
3) Website reads and returns the text of the tweets from each country with an error message for those who blocked it.
It's be a pretty great barometer for how much of a shithole your country is when it comes to freedom of speech.
You know, this is like the fifth time that I've seen this on Slashdot in the last week. Even so, this is copypasta I can get behind.
At least it doesn't start "Fear, control, etc." and then start ranting about the Zionist conspiracy towards a one world government or something like that...
Well for starters, we're in a State of Emergency as a country. See, Bush declared said SoE after September 11th. The National Emergencies Act exists to prevent an indefinite state of emergency (to some degree), but that's basically what's been happening. It has to be renewed every year or two and Obama has signed it every time (here's 2009, just an example). Why? Because being in a State of Emergency also grants the Executive Branch around 500 additional powers that it wouldn't otherwise have.
Maybe, but between the two which do you think your average American would say is more important?
I'd be fine with paying more taxes - 40-50% - if we got the same level of social care and the same sort of safety net that exists in countries such as Sweden or France.
Hahaha. Sorry but in the 80's a lot of people (including me) thought that industrial robots would replace factory workers and by the early 21st century and we would all be working 3-4 days a week instead of 5-6. To a large extent factory workers have indeed been replaced by robots on a massive scale, the robots also took over a lot of clerical jobs such as bank tellers, but despite all the "spare time" these robots have created we're still working the same hours to maintain the same standard of living.
That actually has already happened in some places IMO. In France, for instance, the work week looks a lot more like 30 hours instead of 40. The economy can't sustain the old workforce at 40 hours, so it reduces the hours. Here the same thing has happened, but rather than hire 2 people to work 30 hours at a fair rate we hire one person to work 60-70 hours at a low rate.
It's entirely feasible. We'll never get back the old 40 hours a week economy, and every new piece of machinery that automates some task reduces the likelihood of that happening. The only solutions really are to reduce the workweek or have a permanently unemployed underclass. Right now, America and a lot of the world seems to be going for the latter.
We don't even have to invent doublespeak. The current system has the people so ignorant and riled up that they don't even know what the hell the words mean. It's basically the same effect of disenfranchising people through the doubleplus ungoodness of language.
When you work 70+ hour weeks, it's kinda hard to give a fuck about using your precious downtime on expanding your mind. If it can get you out of the hellhole that is your current job, then it might be worth sacrificing some of that time. Blame the current shitty, pro-employer economy for this mindset.
communism does not provide sufficient incentive to the individual to contribute to the public good.
Star Trek is the endgame of a socialist/communist utopia.
When you never have to worry about food, housing, medical care, education, and entertainment, then the only things you have to do are either sit on your ass, explore the human condition (through philosophy, art, etc.), or contribute to the human race as a whole.
The thing a lot of people don't get is that in such a perfect society, you don't need an incentive. There's no need for currency or anything of the like because you are taken care of. Therefore there is no need to work (how many of us would quit our jobs if we hit the lotto?). Since you don't have to work, you would probably pursue something.
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If you're in prison, you didn't just wake up there one day. You got there for a reason. As a felon, you lose rights (voting, guns, etc). They are paid a very meager wage according to your article, but I'm just saying that even on balance, the Chinese workers probably STILL have it worse.
So because they're criminals, it's okay to treat them like slaves?
Man, we're a bunch of idiots. Why deport all of those illegal immigrants when we can just arrest 'em and have 'em work real cheap!
Not profitable enough? Better write up some harsher penalties to increase the labor pool. After all, if SpudCo Prison Management doesn't turn 10% growth this quarter, I might not get that campaign contribution!
Yeeeeeeeee-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW *fires six shooter in the air*
I'd just say it's about them double-dipping and trying to work around the first-sale doctrine.
Once a game is bought new, the creator shouldn't be able to say shit about how it's used. Licenses and CD-keys should be 100% transferable.
You think that's bad? My bedroom was bathed in a dark red light ALL DAY!
Incidentally, I've purchased some new curtains as well. Completely unrelated.
Moreover, there are loads of people who are genuinely introverted and/or afraid to go out in public or talk to people in person at all. I imagine quite a few of them would be much more comfortable communicating and interacting with people when there's a digital wall between them.
They would together have to send back 16,800 kilograms worth of pure gold, or roughly 100 times the weight of a rover in gold, for the mission to start turning a profit..
Wouldn't it have to be even more than that? Adding an extra 16,800 kg of gold to the world supply will surely lower the price...
Just to be pedantic, but there's nothing stopping you from hooking up four USB gamepads to a USB hub, loading up ZSNES, and getting some four player Turtles in Time action going on.
Pretty much any console prior to the current generation is playable on the PC, so... yeah. Why have 10 or 15 consoles hooked up to the television when you could instead just have one PC with a bunch of emulators and ROMS and some USB controllers? And that's not to mention all of the games you can play exclusive to the PC that are fun in their own right, such as Frets on Fire.
Yes, but here they're showing that the membrane allows WATER through but will stop HELIUM. If I'm not mistaken, helium molecules are smallerthan water molecules. That's the freakish quality.
So for instance, a graphene membrane condom would fit me, but it wouldn't fit CmdrTaco?
I had an acquaintance who worked as a contractor for Google for a year. According to him, generally things are really rough as a contractor but get way better if they elect to bring you on as an employee.
(Of course, my story is jhust as anecdotal as the preceding one by an AC, so take both with a grain of salt or two.)
I'm sure a lot of that is done for the same reason that medical conferences always seem to take place on sunny, tropical islands.
Just because CmdrTaco left doesn't mean that he doesn't still have access to the Geeknet Orbital Ion Cannon...
"ACTA? It's like that SOAP or PIPE thing them kids been screamin' about on the Facebooks? Who cares, let those cheese-eating surrender monkeys go out and buy some good ol' American films, the thievin' little shits!"
So basically, you're saying "It's different, therefore I find it scary and view it with suspicion."
Yeah, great. That mindset has served mankind very well over the years.
This is for North America, Europe and Asia [China/Japan], so their governments/industry partners can silently kill specific things without people readily knowing about it. So you still have the appearance of free speech, without actually having it.
This would be trivially easy to test. Hell, it'd be trivially easy to *block*:
1) Set up a bunch of VPNs/proxies in every country.
2) Suspect a link has been "disappeared"? Copy/paste it into this magic website.
3) Website reads and returns the text of the tweets from each country with an error message for those who blocked it.
It's be a pretty great barometer for how much of a shithole your country is when it comes to freedom of speech.
You know, this is like the fifth time that I've seen this on Slashdot in the last week. Even so, this is copypasta I can get behind.
At least it doesn't start "Fear, control, etc." and then start ranting about the Zionist conspiracy towards a one world government or something like that...
Well for starters, we're in a State of Emergency as a country. See, Bush declared said SoE after September 11th. The National Emergencies Act exists to prevent an indefinite state of emergency (to some degree), but that's basically what's been happening. It has to be renewed every year or two and Obama has signed it every time (here's 2009, just an example). Why? Because being in a State of Emergency also grants the Executive Branch around 500 additional powers that it wouldn't otherwise have.
So yeah, there' that.
Yeah, only a Nazi like Hitler would do something like tha-
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Maybe, but between the two which do you think your average American would say is more important?
I'd be fine with paying more taxes - 40-50% - if we got the same level of social care and the same sort of safety net that exists in countries such as Sweden or France.
Hahaha. Sorry but in the 80's a lot of people (including me) thought that industrial robots would replace factory workers and by the early 21st century and we would all be working 3-4 days a week instead of 5-6. To a large extent factory workers have indeed been replaced by robots on a massive scale, the robots also took over a lot of clerical jobs such as bank tellers, but despite all the "spare time" these robots have created we're still working the same hours to maintain the same standard of living.
That actually has already happened in some places IMO. In France, for instance, the work week looks a lot more like 30 hours instead of 40. The economy can't sustain the old workforce at 40 hours, so it reduces the hours. Here the same thing has happened, but rather than hire 2 people to work 30 hours at a fair rate we hire one person to work 60-70 hours at a low rate.
It's entirely feasible. We'll never get back the old 40 hours a week economy, and every new piece of machinery that automates some task reduces the likelihood of that happening. The only solutions really are to reduce the workweek or have a permanently unemployed underclass. Right now, America and a lot of the world seems to be going for the latter.
Scary thought:
We don't buy into the BS, so they purposefully let something bad happen like a shooting at an airport or something. "See?! We're NEEDED!"
Let me put it in Americanese.
"Jesus threw out the moneychangers, and so should you!"
When your country (and the world) is going to shit all around you, the only thing you can really do is laugh.
So if US cops "demands" Iran hand over the details of their nuclear scientist's e-mail traffic it is just going to happen?
No, it won't. That's when we go to Plan B, which is demonize the hell out of Iran as justification for an invasion.
It is already happening.
Oh god, it's happening, isn't it?
We don't even have to invent doublespeak. The current system has the people so ignorant and riled up that they don't even know what the hell the words mean. It's basically the same effect of disenfranchising people through the doubleplus ungoodness of language.
When you work 70+ hour weeks, it's kinda hard to give a fuck about using your precious downtime on expanding your mind. If it can get you out of the hellhole that is your current job, then it might be worth sacrificing some of that time. Blame the current shitty, pro-employer economy for this mindset.
communism does not provide sufficient incentive to the individual to contribute to the public good.
Star Trek is the endgame of a socialist/communist utopia.
When you never have to worry about food, housing, medical care, education, and entertainment, then the only things you have to do are either sit on your ass, explore the human condition (through philosophy, art, etc.), or contribute to the human race as a whole.
The thing a lot of people don't get is that in such a perfect society, you don't need an incentive. There's no need for currency or anything of the like because you are taken care of. Therefore there is no need to work (how many of us would quit our jobs if we hit the lotto?). Since you don't have to work, you would probably pursue something.