I like renting. I'm lazy, and I like problems to be someone else's. I value the service provided, not just by the property management company that that replaces the water heater and takes car of the greenery and roofing work without any effort from me, but the property owner, who provides the up-front capital so I don't have to. Sure, I could buy a condo, but I don't want the risk, so I'm glad someone else does.
Your reproductive organs work at that age, but your brain hasn't fully developed until your mid-20s.
The only way to learn responsibility (and thus become mentally an adult) is to be given responsibility. Smarter cultures would give the teens responsibility, impresses on them how important it all is and how the consequences are all theirs, then have an adult watching unobtrusively so that when the kid inevitably fucks up, the damage is quickly contained.
But that was back in the day when there was work to be done, and you were expected to pitch in by 16 (much younger if on a farm, of course).
(Similarly, judgement requires experience, and doesn't come at any particular age, but instead from some years of living through mistakes.)
Have you not seen Life of Brian? It was well-researched.
Prophets were everywhere - the idea that there wasn't one named "Jesus" is statistically insignificant. The (non-miracle) stories are all credible - maybe he did these things, maybe it's an amalgamation of stories of different prophets. Overall though it does make more sense as mostly a single guy, who publicly insulted prominent people in his community enough to be executed for his efforts.
By Apocalypse do you mean Revelation? It always made sense to me as obfuscated contemporary political commentary - predicting the fall of rulers in power at the time he wrote it (and this is a very common interpretation among non-cultists).
You don't need to have any Google presence on your Android phone if you don't want the Google store. Heck, if they still sell Fire phones, those were good build quality - people didn't like them because the Google part was missing.
Sure, if you don't mind a lossy copy. And presumably you don't if you're the sort to buy iTunes-standard low bitrate MP3s and listen to them through Beats headphones, then, sure, no problem at all.
People try to find ways to not pay taxes anyway. I like to assume that's already accounted for because everyone's dodging all taxes they can, and just work from reported income as the measure of income.
That's not how it works these days (it was different in the 70's when everything was loopholes). There's a cost to avoiding taxes - you end up with less money, but if the tax rate is high enough you net out ahead.
Is your plan to have individuals invest in stocks, or the government own the means of productions, or is it based on very optimistic assumptions about bond returns?
A one-time pad is a long as the message. If you have a method to securely send the one-time pad, why not use it to send the message instead?
The point, however, is that the low-order bits in images and sounds aren't as uniformly random as encrypted data. Now, you could generate a one-time pad using the same sort of data you're trying to hide in, and that can sometimes work, but there's that practical difficulty mentioned above. If you just want to send short, simple messages, use a code instead of a cypher.
They are very expensive programs per person, even at the levels we're funding them (which isn't nearly enough to be sustainable as the Boomer retire), compared to most suggestions for UBI. My promised SS income is over $24k/year, and Medicare is more expensive than SS. Unless you're proposing a UBI of $50k, I hope you see the problem?
And you understand that "single-payer health care" isn't going to be magically cheaper (to fund) than Medicare, right? It will likely be more expensive, if you expect it to replace the Medicare supplemental insurance most senior carry.
When taxes get too high, people find ways to stop paying them - mostly the at highest income, where there's the most flexibility in when, where, and how you get paid. And you're paying a larger crowd a percentage of a smaller crowd, so I'm not sure it could add up to much. Maybe you could get away with 10%, since most people pay a very low tax rate overall, but the median income is only ~$30 k (average might be a bit higher), less than half of Americans work, so maybe you could manage to pay $3k.year. Not enough to really matter, even if the highest income folks didn't start hiding/moving their income.
Welfare other than SS and Medicare is small by comparison, "only" $300 B. You're comparing $1.8 T with 0.3 T, which is indeed an increase.
SS and Medic* combined are over $1.9 T - there's just no way to replace them with basic income and still pay everyone else too. That's what everyone keeps missing here: half of the US budget is already SS and Medicare. We can't afford Basic income on top of that, and we definitely can't afford to pay everyone the same as we'd need to pay seniors if we dropped those two programs.
If you care to debate Christian scripture, I'm not the best to debate with. I do know Christ said something to the effect of: scripture is complex and can be confusing, so if it seems to be telling you to hurt someone else,that's how you know you're reading it wrong. How consistent he was with that message, I don't know.
That passage from Leviticus is in a long list of trivial "crimes" and is given the same weight as, say, wearing a shirt made of two fabrics (i.e., almost none).
As far as Ephesians, yup, that's how families were structured for many centuries. It's not like Christianity was somehow unusual in that regard, nor did it have much to do with how decisions were actually made in a relationship, as anyone who's been in one can tell you. Even if you have the Word of God that you get to make the final decision, woe be unto he who pisses off his wife. It's not comparable to the modern practice in many nations of brutally punishing women for being rape victims on the basis of scripture.
The noise bits in images, sound, etc, aren't random in the same way that encrypted bits are, is the thing. They're both "random" in an informal sense, sure, but there are lots of different random distributions.
This would require a ~50% increase in federal spending. America has tried many tax structures over the years, but nothing has ever sustained government revenue over 20% of GDP. We're currently spending 18% of GDP. There's no evidence that it's possible under any tax program to get revenue anywhere near that.
For symmetric keys 256 bits is enough forever - quantum computers don't help with most algorithms. 128 bits is enough for quite a few years - maybe not forever, but decades.
We're not that important. The Middle East isn't really focused on us, we're just a convenient demon in line behind Israel to vilify at political rallies. ISIS had been brewing for a long time, and would likely have emerged the moment Sadam could not hold power. It's pretty much inevitable any place where there's no job prospects and no safety net that you get a militarily aggressive dictator focusing the energy of the area's youth to the dictator's benefit. Terrorism is constant in the area: we just get some spillover; most of the victims are closer to home.
The crackdown on that has started. You can no longer host a workshop where you explain to people how to do it, and let them use your tools with your guidance. I miss the good old days when we were a constitutional republic.
I don't think the legal fiction of which part is the "gun" part is that relevant here, but here's a great photo documentary of making an AK47 from a shovel. (Somewhere there's an entertaining write-up by the guy who did it, but I can't find that link.)
The barrel is the hard part to source, really, the upper and lower receiver pieces I could totally believe you could do in a small amount of code - the AK is as simple as you can really make it.
Christianity has a New Testament, and a Reformation, is the thing. Theocracies of all stripes have done horrors, but then that's true of most forms of government, and I think is more about government than religion. But if you look at the rules and advice actually contained in scripture, there's a reason that "Old Testament" is slang for harsh and unyielding. And Islam only has an Old Testament, full of "put the infidel to the sword", without the moderating influence of a Scripture 2.0 full of needed patches about how being nice to people is really desirable.
Steganography isn't perfect - thus far it seems you can always statistically distinguish between "random" bits in images, sound files, etc, from "random"-seeming encrypted data. There's no proof that this is necessarily true, however, so it may be lack of public-sector work in the area.
If the goal is to send encrypted messages without going to jail for it, methods like you describe could work in a nation with jury trials and presumption of innocence, as the complex technical arguments and probabilities would likely fall flat with a jury. You'd still likely get raided, however, and if you were involved in something nefarious the physical evidence might be laying around. Plus the raid itself is fairly strong punishment for what should be a non-crime.
Mostly, if you don't want to draw government attention, the best bet is to comunicate in ways that don't themselves draw attention (like constantly send RAW files back and forth) online (where it's easy to search everyone). I don't want to give suggestions, but it's not complicated.
That's fine as long as you deliver a flawless product. Fixing mistakes after the product is in the hands of consumers can get very expensive.
I see you're out of touch with the modern game industry. A game that actually works the first week after release is newsworthy, and game disks often contain only a Steam installer (and the few console games I've played similarly downloaded the whole game before they were ready to play, and often did again within a couple weeks after they came out).
Steam refunds are working on making the "release crap and (optionally) patch later" strategy less profitable, but it's still quite common.
One major difference: when MySpace when into decline, it was because everyone moved to Facebook. Where can we move to now? What are the real alternatives?
The kids have already moved to Snapchat. Old people will no doubt stay with Facebook forever, but that's the end of growth and growth is holy in Silly Valley. FB will become more aggressive in monetizing it's existing user base over time.
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I like renting. I'm lazy, and I like problems to be someone else's. I value the service provided, not just by the property management company that that replaces the water heater and takes car of the greenery and roofing work without any effort from me, but the property owner, who provides the up-front capital so I don't have to. Sure, I could buy a condo, but I don't want the risk, so I'm glad someone else does.
Your reproductive organs work at that age, but your brain hasn't fully developed until your mid-20s.
The only way to learn responsibility (and thus become mentally an adult) is to be given responsibility. Smarter cultures would give the teens responsibility, impresses on them how important it all is and how the consequences are all theirs, then have an adult watching unobtrusively so that when the kid inevitably fucks up, the damage is quickly contained.
But that was back in the day when there was work to be done, and you were expected to pitch in by 16 (much younger if on a farm, of course).
(Similarly, judgement requires experience, and doesn't come at any particular age, but instead from some years of living through mistakes.)
Paying to house a kid isn't parenting.
Have you not seen Life of Brian? It was well-researched.
Prophets were everywhere - the idea that there wasn't one named "Jesus" is statistically insignificant. The (non-miracle) stories are all credible - maybe he did these things, maybe it's an amalgamation of stories of different prophets. Overall though it does make more sense as mostly a single guy, who publicly insulted prominent people in his community enough to be executed for his efforts.
By Apocalypse do you mean Revelation? It always made sense to me as obfuscated contemporary political commentary - predicting the fall of rulers in power at the time he wrote it (and this is a very common interpretation among non-cultists).
He's talking about streaming services, which the industry really doesn't like.
You don't need to have any Google presence on your Android phone if you don't want the Google store. Heck, if they still sell Fire phones, those were good build quality - people didn't like them because the Google part was missing.
Sure, if you don't mind a lossy copy. And presumably you don't if you're the sort to buy iTunes-standard low bitrate MP3s and listen to them through Beats headphones, then, sure, no problem at all.
People try to find ways to not pay taxes anyway. I like to assume that's already accounted for because everyone's dodging all taxes they can, and just work from reported income as the measure of income.
That's not how it works these days (it was different in the 70's when everything was loopholes). There's a cost to avoiding taxes - you end up with less money, but if the tax rate is high enough you net out ahead.
Is your plan to have individuals invest in stocks, or the government own the means of productions, or is it based on very optimistic assumptions about bond returns?
A one-time pad is a long as the message. If you have a method to securely send the one-time pad, why not use it to send the message instead?
The point, however, is that the low-order bits in images and sounds aren't as uniformly random as encrypted data. Now, you could generate a one-time pad using the same sort of data you're trying to hide in, and that can sometimes work, but there's that practical difficulty mentioned above. If you just want to send short, simple messages, use a code instead of a cypher.
They are very expensive programs per person, even at the levels we're funding them (which isn't nearly enough to be sustainable as the Boomer retire), compared to most suggestions for UBI. My promised SS income is over $24k/year, and Medicare is more expensive than SS. Unless you're proposing a UBI of $50k, I hope you see the problem?
And you understand that "single-payer health care" isn't going to be magically cheaper (to fund) than Medicare, right? It will likely be more expensive, if you expect it to replace the Medicare supplemental insurance most senior carry.
When taxes get too high, people find ways to stop paying them - mostly the at highest income, where there's the most flexibility in when, where, and how you get paid. And you're paying a larger crowd a percentage of a smaller crowd, so I'm not sure it could add up to much. Maybe you could get away with 10%, since most people pay a very low tax rate overall, but the median income is only ~$30 k (average might be a bit higher), less than half of Americans work, so maybe you could manage to pay $3k.year. Not enough to really matter, even if the highest income folks didn't start hiding/moving their income.
Welfare other than SS and Medicare is small by comparison, "only" $300 B. You're comparing $1.8 T with 0.3 T, which is indeed an increase.
SS and Medic* combined are over $1.9 T - there's just no way to replace them with basic income and still pay everyone else too. That's what everyone keeps missing here: half of the US budget is already SS and Medicare. We can't afford Basic income on top of that, and we definitely can't afford to pay everyone the same as we'd need to pay seniors if we dropped those two programs.
If you care to debate Christian scripture, I'm not the best to debate with. I do know Christ said something to the effect of: scripture is complex and can be confusing, so if it seems to be telling you to hurt someone else,that's how you know you're reading it wrong. How consistent he was with that message, I don't know.
That passage from Leviticus is in a long list of trivial "crimes" and is given the same weight as, say, wearing a shirt made of two fabrics (i.e., almost none).
As far as Ephesians, yup, that's how families were structured for many centuries. It's not like Christianity was somehow unusual in that regard, nor did it have much to do with how decisions were actually made in a relationship, as anyone who's been in one can tell you. Even if you have the Word of God that you get to make the final decision, woe be unto he who pisses off his wife. It's not comparable to the modern practice in many nations of brutally punishing women for being rape victims on the basis of scripture.
The noise bits in images, sound, etc, aren't random in the same way that encrypted bits are, is the thing. They're both "random" in an informal sense, sure, but there are lots of different random distributions.
This would require a ~50% increase in federal spending. America has tried many tax structures over the years, but nothing has ever sustained government revenue over 20% of GDP. We're currently spending 18% of GDP. There's no evidence that it's possible under any tax program to get revenue anywhere near that.
For symmetric keys 256 bits is enough forever - quantum computers don't help with most algorithms. 128 bits is enough for quite a few years - maybe not forever, but decades.
We're not that important. The Middle East isn't really focused on us, we're just a convenient demon in line behind Israel to vilify at political rallies. ISIS had been brewing for a long time, and would likely have emerged the moment Sadam could not hold power. It's pretty much inevitable any place where there's no job prospects and no safety net that you get a militarily aggressive dictator focusing the energy of the area's youth to the dictator's benefit. Terrorism is constant in the area: we just get some spillover; most of the victims are closer to home.
The crackdown on that has started. You can no longer host a workshop where you explain to people how to do it, and let them use your tools with your guidance. I miss the good old days when we were a constitutional republic.
I don't think the legal fiction of which part is the "gun" part is that relevant here, but here's a great photo documentary of making an AK47 from a shovel. (Somewhere there's an entertaining write-up by the guy who did it, but I can't find that link.)
The barrel is the hard part to source, really, the upper and lower receiver pieces I could totally believe you could do in a small amount of code - the AK is as simple as you can really make it.
Christianity has a New Testament, and a Reformation, is the thing. Theocracies of all stripes have done horrors, but then that's true of most forms of government, and I think is more about government than religion. But if you look at the rules and advice actually contained in scripture, there's a reason that "Old Testament" is slang for harsh and unyielding. And Islam only has an Old Testament, full of "put the infidel to the sword", without the moderating influence of a Scripture 2.0 full of needed patches about how being nice to people is really desirable.
Steganography isn't perfect - thus far it seems you can always statistically distinguish between "random" bits in images, sound files, etc, from "random"-seeming encrypted data. There's no proof that this is necessarily true, however, so it may be lack of public-sector work in the area.
If the goal is to send encrypted messages without going to jail for it, methods like you describe could work in a nation with jury trials and presumption of innocence, as the complex technical arguments and probabilities would likely fall flat with a jury. You'd still likely get raided, however, and if you were involved in something nefarious the physical evidence might be laying around. Plus the raid itself is fairly strong punishment for what should be a non-crime.
Mostly, if you don't want to draw government attention, the best bet is to comunicate in ways that don't themselves draw attention (like constantly send RAW files back and forth) online (where it's easy to search everyone). I don't want to give suggestions, but it's not complicated.
Honest question, is GIT really that hard to understand and integrate into your process?
https://xkcd.com/1597/ pretty much says it all.
That's fine as long as you deliver a flawless product. Fixing mistakes after the product is in the hands of consumers can get very expensive.
I see you're out of touch with the modern game industry. A game that actually works the first week after release is newsworthy, and game disks often contain only a Steam installer (and the few console games I've played similarly downloaded the whole game before they were ready to play, and often did again within a couple weeks after they came out).
Steam refunds are working on making the "release crap and (optionally) patch later" strategy less profitable, but it's still quite common.
You might want to get out of your mom's basement more often.
I tried that one, but the Day Star burned me!
One major difference: when MySpace when into decline, it was because everyone moved to Facebook. Where can we move to now? What are the real alternatives?
The kids have already moved to Snapchat. Old people will no doubt stay with Facebook forever, but that's the end of growth and growth is holy in Silly Valley. FB will become more aggressive in monetizing it's existing user base over time.