Just upload the ROMs to the internet archive. Half its catelogue appears to just be copies of torrents and other copyrighted works. And they are legaly exempt from copyright claims from my understanding.
This. I almost exclusivly buy games i pirate. I am looking at 2 indie adventure games on steam at the moment, and would be more than willing to purchase them, but i simply wont unless i get to play a pirated copy first. Maybe a demo would suffice, but i have never been too fond of demos. Looking back through the list of game purchases i have made, 90 cents out of 100 that the gaming industry gets from me are a direct result of pirating.
Musk, the CEO and largest shareholder of the electric car maker, said on Twitter on Tuesday that he has secured funding from a private buyer. He implied that the funding values the company at $420 a share. The stock had been worth about $342 a share before Musk's tweet, and shares quickly jumped as high as $371.
1. Go Public 2. Realise that the stock has been doing slightly left of nothing for a year now and you are losing money hand over fist as your stock underperforms. 3. Announce that sometime soon, some mystery money will appear and pay everyone a hundred dollars over market value for any TESLA stock. 4. Profit
It should provide for *healthy* subsistence in a reasonable market and require careful management of money to do so.
Based on how reasonable your post seems, I was hoping to ask what this sentence is supposed to mean? Due in part to a global marketplace, and fairly reasonable shipping fees. For shippable goods, pretty much everyone on the planet can feed, cloth, etc themselves for similar prices. The majority of the world lives healthy lives on $3 a day. Rice, cheap noodles, and corn products can be gotten for cents a day, and all of these have long histories of providing everything a person needs to live. Similarly, globally speaking, clothing is free. Africa is overloaded with cloths that don't fit any of them, I am sure they would be more than happy to ship some of those back to America for a few dollars a ton.
TL;DR When you say basic no frills living, do you mean: "average global SoL (something like $300-$1000 a year)". Or something far over that?
Yes, all this happened before during the industrial revolution. We did not get UBI then. All the poor people just died, everyone else lived in abject poverty for generations, and a few globalists made a load of money.
And you are not thinking very much about how coffeebots will be different to to Starbucks.
For the sake of argument, lets say that a Starbucks employs 20 employees at $15 an hour. Starbucks is now reopening as coffeebots. Those 20 employees are now fired and coffeebots has bought 10 baristabots . They did this because it saved then 3% over having employees.
So now every year coffeebots sends $42,000*10 to the Indian business who makes baristabots and has $900*20 dollars to provide UBI to the 20 homeless and starving ex-employees. Assuming businesses like running at cost to provide UBI to the unemployed, you can still expect the populous to lose over 90% of their income post robot-revolution.
Even if you disagree with my numbers, the robots have to cost something. This is wealth taken straight out of what used to be people's salaries. And then you have a poorer populous less able to buy your products, meaning you generate less profit, and have even less money to give to UBI. It's a downwards spiral.
Explain where my logic is wrong? In what scenario does the automation-revolution do anything but strip 90% of everyone's salaries and give it to business owners in countries not running UBI?
Under the project, a single person could have received up to about $17,000 a year, minus half of any income he or she earned. "A couple could have received up to $24,000 per year." People with disabilities could have received an additional $6,000.
That is not UBI. That is is just how workers comp works right now by a different name.
You are wildly switching terminology when those terms means wildly different things. Wealth != Income.
As a farmer, I am a millionaire on paper in WEALTH, while I live on less than minimum wage INCOME. It is literally impossible to tax my wealth without just repossessing it and taking away my ability to make any income at all.
Other millionaires and billionaires are not much better. They own companies and investments assets which have million dollar and billion dollar evaluations, hold 60%-80% of that those evaluations in debt, and draw 1%-.01% of that wealth as a salary. Companies generate huge wealth on paper, but in reality take 99% of that wealth to pay their employees. They are only viable by a few percentage points of profit. It does not matter how huge and profitable the business is, Mcdonalds, Amazon, etc when you start taking away even 1% you make it completely unsustainable.
Also our democracy has protections built into to protect the minority from being subjugated by the majority. Just because you can outvote a group, does not give you unlimited power over them.
Except no one said anything about muffins or coffee (which by the way are one of the most expensive foods). He said Ramen noodles, but he might as well of said rice or any type of cheap noodle. Foods that 90% of the earth eat for every meal and still manage to outlive Americans.
In reality, if facebook were being sued for 10% of its value its stock price would likely plumet far more than 10%. In reality, if it were forced to pay out 10% of its value, it would just go bankrupt.
That is the difference between Wikipedia and a paper Encyclopedia. Wikipedia can be in-depth about more topic than a paper book can even mention. While the Encyclopædia Britannica is 32 volumes long, Wikipedia put in a similar format would be about 3000 volumes long. Making it bigger than most libraries.
And while a paper Encyclopedia cannot ever be updated or corrected, and anything it says just has to be taken as true because even if it contains a citation, good luck getting your hands on every single book an Encyclopedia cites. That would be a task that would take a lifetime.
I have absolutely no doubt that it would cost the government billions to retire these windmills. As for land owners, they are just huge piles of scape worth many 10s of thousands of dollars.
They haven't panned out because the government has never issued a license for them. The government is very risk adverse, to the point of being crippled to make any changes to the rules on licensing. We've been making the same reactor with minor variations on a theme for 60 years. People ask for a new license and the government says, "We don't know if this is safe." The response is, "We'd like to prove to you it is safe by building a demonstration reactor." "How can we know that is safe" "We can do that with these plans and simulations." "We'll need to see a working prototype first." "That's what we are asking for, a license to build a working prototype." "We can't issue a license to build anything until you can show it's safe."
Who pays for these things? First you state that it takes billions of dollars over and above the substantial construction costs to build these things. They you say that it takes literally 2 generations for them to even start making a profit. Then you say people are lining up around the block to build these things but the government will not let them.
Where are these investors coming from who want to throw away billions upon billions of dollars, so that their grandchildren might make a profit if nothing ever goes wrong in the interim?
I don't mean (why don't we use this to allow humans to fly), but why for example junkyard electromagnets do not float when such high current is run through them (ar they at least lighter?). Certainly they must have a higher energy potential per mass than the spider and its silk?
Or do electromagnetic forces work completely differently than electrostatic forces?
Are these spiders even drifting primarily north, or is this not even related to magnetic north in the slightest?
From what I understand, the most significant force is the pull towards magnetic north. Do all these spiders drift north?
And since pure magnets do not even have the force required to do anything noticeable(they are not even particularly light), now in the hell does a spider? How does a spider generate more electromagnetic force per mass than the strongest magnets ever devised? I have never heard of any technology where humans were able to create something that hovered using ambient electrostatic forces.
She was a sexist jerk for years before she was ever fired. She was fired because her policy of hatred, anger, and insult slinging finally garnered her a big enough following to potentially affect the profits of the people she worked for.
I don't think you understand UBI. It is an additional $17,000. So if you can find a job that pays $1000 more, you still get the whole $17,000 from the government. And if you start a business that nets toy $1,000,000 profit, you make $1,017,000 that year. The only cases where a raise will make it not worth it when it would push you over a tax bracket. Not that that is altogether that unlikely, minimum wage + $17K is just under a 5% increase bracket.
That, in my opinion, is the saving grace of UBI. Studies show that basically everyone on welfare lose some job opportunities because they don't want to interrupt their welfare. UBI is the only system that makes that a non-issue.
Except we do not have a student shortage. More people become and remain students in far greater numbers for far longer than ever before. We have a glut of students.
Of course only a very small number of people are given the ability to hire people at will. Most managers don't hire anyone without authorisation. And if you have a computer system in charge of the process, probably only a single CXX would have unlimited access. Imagine what a disgruntled employee could do with the ability to automatically lock anyone or everyone out of the buildings and computer systems.
Which I think is the main thing to take away from this. Your systems should not be integrated and they should not be automated. No manager or IT guy should have the power to automatically disable everyone's key cards and computer accounts. It is easily worth it to Intel or IBM pay people to do those tasks instead of risk even a disgruntled CXX from locking everyone out of even a single one of their headquarters for a day.
Bricked is relative. If I brick my router while installing DD-WRT that does not mean that the manufacturer could not plug into their dev port and fix it, or anyone could not open the box and do some soldering work. It means that you cannot fix it. Bricked is used pretty much exclusively for software, and sometimes for minor hardware damage caused by software. In all cases the devices can be easily fixed, just not by the typical user, and not without using non standard channels (standard with respect to how a user is supposed to interact with the product).
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Just upload the ROMs to the internet archive. Half its catelogue appears to just be copies of torrents and other copyrighted works. And they are legaly exempt from copyright claims from my understanding.
This. I almost exclusivly buy games i pirate. I am looking at 2 indie adventure games on steam at the moment, and would be more than willing to purchase them, but i simply wont unless i get to play a pirated copy first. Maybe a demo would suffice, but i have never been too fond of demos. Looking back through the list of game purchases i have made, 90 cents out of 100 that the gaming industry gets from me are a direct result of pirating.
Musk, the CEO and largest shareholder of the electric car maker, said on Twitter on Tuesday that he has secured funding from a private buyer. He implied that the funding values the company at $420 a share. The stock had been worth about $342 a share before Musk's tweet, and shares quickly jumped as high as $371.
1. Go Public
2. Realise that the stock has been doing slightly left of nothing for a year now and you are losing money hand over fist as your stock underperforms.
3. Announce that sometime soon, some mystery money will appear and pay everyone a hundred dollars over market value for any TESLA stock.
4. Profit
It should provide for *healthy* subsistence in a reasonable market and require careful management of money to do so.
Based on how reasonable your post seems, I was hoping to ask what this sentence is supposed to mean? Due in part to a global marketplace, and fairly reasonable shipping fees. For shippable goods, pretty much everyone on the planet can feed, cloth, etc themselves for similar prices. The majority of the world lives healthy lives on $3 a day. Rice, cheap noodles, and corn products can be gotten for cents a day, and all of these have long histories of providing everything a person needs to live. Similarly, globally speaking, clothing is free. Africa is overloaded with cloths that don't fit any of them, I am sure they would be more than happy to ship some of those back to America for a few dollars a ton.
TL;DR
When you say basic no frills living, do you mean: "average global SoL (something like $300-$1000 a year)". Or something far over that?
Yes, all this happened before during the industrial revolution.
We did not get UBI then. All the poor people just died, everyone else lived in abject poverty for generations, and a few globalists made a load of money.
And you are not thinking very much about how coffeebots will be different to to Starbucks.
For the sake of argument, lets say that a Starbucks employs 20 employees at $15 an hour.
Starbucks is now reopening as coffeebots. Those 20 employees are now fired and coffeebots has bought 10 baristabots . They did this because it saved then 3% over having employees.
So now every year coffeebots sends $42,000*10 to the Indian business who makes baristabots and has $900*20 dollars to provide UBI to the 20 homeless and starving ex-employees. Assuming businesses like running at cost to provide UBI to the unemployed, you can still expect the populous to lose over 90% of their income post robot-revolution.
Even if you disagree with my numbers, the robots have to cost something. This is wealth taken straight out of what used to be people's salaries. And then you have a poorer populous less able to buy your products, meaning you generate less profit, and have even less money to give to UBI. It's a downwards spiral.
Explain where my logic is wrong? In what scenario does the automation-revolution do anything but strip 90% of everyone's salaries and give it to business owners in countries not running UBI?
Under the project, a single person could have received up to about $17,000 a year, minus half of any income he or she earned. "A couple could have received up to $24,000 per year." People with disabilities could have received an additional $6,000.
That is not UBI. That is is just how workers comp works right now by a different name.
You are wildly switching terminology when those terms means wildly different things.
Wealth != Income.
As a farmer, I am a millionaire on paper in WEALTH, while I live on less than minimum wage INCOME. It is literally impossible to tax my wealth without just repossessing it and taking away my ability to make any income at all.
Other millionaires and billionaires are not much better. They own companies and investments assets which have million dollar and billion dollar evaluations, hold 60%-80% of that those evaluations in debt, and draw 1%-.01% of that wealth as a salary. Companies generate huge wealth on paper, but in reality take 99% of that wealth to pay their employees. They are only viable by a few percentage points of profit. It does not matter how huge and profitable the business is, Mcdonalds, Amazon, etc when you start taking away even 1% you make it completely unsustainable.
Also our democracy has protections built into to protect the minority from being subjugated by the majority. Just because you can outvote a group, does not give you unlimited power over them.
Except no one said anything about muffins or coffee (which by the way are one of the most expensive foods).
He said Ramen noodles, but he might as well of said rice or any type of cheap noodle. Foods that 90% of the earth eat for every meal and still manage to outlive Americans.
This even in the most expensive California cities you can still feed yourself for under 50 cents a day.
In reality, if facebook were being sued for 10% of its value its stock price would likely plumet far more than 10%.
In reality, if it were forced to pay out 10% of its value, it would just go bankrupt.
We used to not be able to say things against kings and barons. Now we cannot say things against corporations or Jews.
That is the difference between Wikipedia and a paper Encyclopedia. Wikipedia can be in-depth about more topic than a paper book can even mention. While the Encyclopædia Britannica is 32 volumes long, Wikipedia put in a similar format would be about 3000 volumes long. Making it bigger than most libraries.
And while a paper Encyclopedia cannot ever be updated or corrected, and anything it says just has to be taken as true because even if it contains a citation, good luck getting your hands on every single book an Encyclopedia cites. That would be a task that would take a lifetime.
Wikipedia solved all these issues.
I have absolutely no doubt that it would cost the government billions to retire these windmills. As for land owners, they are just huge piles of scape worth many 10s of thousands of dollars.
They haven't panned out because the government has never issued a license for them. The government is very risk adverse, to the point of being crippled to make any changes to the rules on licensing. We've been making the same reactor with minor variations on a theme for 60 years. People ask for a new license and the government says, "We don't know if this is safe." The response is, "We'd like to prove to you it is safe by building a demonstration reactor." "How can we know that is safe" "We can do that with these plans and simulations." "We'll need to see a working prototype first." "That's what we are asking for, a license to build a working prototype." "We can't issue a license to build anything until you can show it's safe."
Who pays for these things?
First you state that it takes billions of dollars over and above the substantial construction costs to build these things. They you say that it takes literally 2 generations for them to even start making a profit. Then you say people are lining up around the block to build these things but the government will not let them.
Where are these investors coming from who want to throw away billions upon billions of dollars, so that their grandchildren might make a profit if nothing ever goes wrong in the interim?
I don't mean (why don't we use this to allow humans to fly), but why for example junkyard electromagnets do not float when such high current is run through them (ar they at least lighter?). Certainly they must have a higher energy potential per mass than the spider and its silk?
Or do electromagnetic forces work completely differently than electrostatic forces?
Are these spiders even drifting primarily north, or is this not even related to magnetic north in the slightest?
But what is the difference between a static charge, and an electromagnet?
From what I understand, the most significant force is the pull towards magnetic north. Do all these spiders drift north?
And since pure magnets do not even have the force required to do anything noticeable(they are not even particularly light), now in the hell does a spider? How does a spider generate more electromagnetic force per mass than the strongest magnets ever devised? I have never heard of any technology where humans were able to create something that hovered using ambient electrostatic forces.
She was a sexist jerk for years before she was ever fired. She was fired because her policy of hatred, anger, and insult slinging finally garnered her a big enough following to potentially affect the profits of the people she worked for.
Yes, work outputs goes down after so many hours, but programming output also goes down the more people you add to a project.
I don't think you understand UBI. It is an additional $17,000. So if you can find a job that pays $1000 more, you still get the whole $17,000 from the government. And if you start a business that nets toy $1,000,000 profit, you make $1,017,000 that year. The only cases where a raise will make it not worth it when it would push you over a tax bracket. Not that that is altogether that unlikely, minimum wage + $17K is just under a 5% increase bracket.
That, in my opinion, is the saving grace of UBI. Studies show that basically everyone on welfare lose some job opportunities because they don't want to interrupt their welfare. UBI is the only system that makes that a non-issue.
Except we do not have a student shortage. More people become and remain students in far greater numbers for far longer than ever before. We have a glut of students.
Of course only a very small number of people are given the ability to hire people at will. Most managers don't hire anyone without authorisation. And if you have a computer system in charge of the process, probably only a single CXX would have unlimited access. Imagine what a disgruntled employee could do with the ability to automatically lock anyone or everyone out of the buildings and computer systems.
Which I think is the main thing to take away from this. Your systems should not be integrated and they should not be automated. No manager or IT guy should have the power to automatically disable everyone's key cards and computer accounts. It is easily worth it to Intel or IBM pay people to do those tasks instead of risk even a disgruntled CXX from locking everyone out of even a single one of their headquarters for a day.
Bricked is relative. If I brick my router while installing DD-WRT that does not mean that the manufacturer could not plug into their dev port and fix it, or anyone could not open the box and do some soldering work. It means that you cannot fix it. Bricked is used pretty much exclusively for software, and sometimes for minor hardware damage caused by software. In all cases the devices can be easily fixed, just not by the typical user, and not without using non standard channels (standard with respect to how a user is supposed to interact with the product).
So everyone is not surveilled 24/7. But we all get $200 checks in recompense!
OK, I have heard enough from Californians to know that they will be giving the money to upper middle class white men.