1) Taxes? I believe I mentioned that. They're kind of a key feature of any government function.
2) I'm well aware of how far $10k doesn't stretch, since I live on less than that. I'm on SSI. To get by, I have to live with my mother, also on SSI, and my grandmother, retired. But I do get by. It is normal for people of low-income to cooperate in this fashion, and I'd hope it would be seen as even more normal in the near future, considering that automation is about to collapse the labor market. Maybe someday it'll be normal enough that you can still get a date if you have to do it!
3) They don't. But it's better to have $10k than to not have it. I was homeless in Seattle for a little while. There was a very clear divide between me and other homeless people: I had money and they didn't. I wasn't completely reliable on the shelter system for food. I could replace my socks if I needed to. I didn't have to schedule showers a week in advance, because I got a gym membership when they were on sale. $10k isn't enough to be comfortable, but it is enough to stay alive and sometimes even be human.
As for salaries and infrastructure: there wouldn't need to be any. The entire point of UBI is that first letter: universal. The total cost of a program where everyone, regardless of need or demographic, just gets some money is about 0.1% more than the actual money doled out by it. All you need is to verify a person's identity and whether they're alive or not. We already do that for a bunch of other stuff. Just use the existing infrastructure.
"And what the fuck will happen to world politics when the US completely defunds its military?"
Uhh, I dunno. What the fuck will happen to your argument when you explain what that has to do with anything?
Social Security and various federal aid including SNAP (food stamps) total, from what I'm reading, about $1.2 trillion. Those programs can and obviously should be completely eliminated if we instituted UBI. That leaves $1.8 trillion, and I'm sure there programs I haven't thought of that could also be counted against this number.
The number is still big. It's going to be. Of COURSE you need higher taxes if you have UBI. But it isn't apocalyptic, because we're replacing a number of far less efficient benefit systems.
There are plenty of pesticides, including many natural ones, which are not harmful to humans. They're just not nearly as effective. The thing about toxic pesticides is that the cure seems worse than the disease. If it's on the food, we're eating it.
I don't trust them, but I do trust the many scientists saying it's not a problem. GMO crops are a good thing. The problem is what Monsanto specifically does with them. Facilitating the use of toxic pesticide and introducing DRM to the fucking food supply is comic book evil. Get rid of those assholes, not GMO in general.
Watch that 20% balloon if it ever gets cheaper than the real thing. There are people on food stamps and in college just waiting for this, even if it sucks. Just about everyone will try it, and if it's not total garbage, I'd bet about 80% stick with it. That number will probably wind up fluctuating in lockstep with unemployment rates.
Sold save some electricity by giving them a place to land, then. Like, say, a little tower? The drones could just pop out of little alcoves and sit in top of the towers. Or heck! Why bother with the alcoves! They can just sit there the whole time! Maybe even weld them right into the towers so they don't fall off.
I'm not sure what you'd call these towers with little cell radios on them, though. They don't fly anymore... Just COWs I guess? Oh, I know; you're saving alot of money, so you can call towers with cell phone drones attached to them Cash COWs!
I'm disabled. While it may be true that I have an unreasonable amount of time to waste, my disposable income is incredibly tight. Despite this, I have a gaming rig, built a few years ago, that still runs most new games with excellent stability and decent performance at 1080p. All told, it cost about $700, which means something better than this one should be significantly cheaper right now. Me and my friend threw the parts list together in the matter of a few hours, because my previous rig had just shit the bed and I needed something in a hurry.
If you can't build a passable gaming PC, you're incompetent, lazy, or both.
Will this interface allow me to grab a website, tear it to shreds, light the shreds on fire, and sweep the ashes into a dustbin? I'd like to start with Slashdot Beta.
Well, their heart's in the right place, but doing this now is... unfathomably stupid. By the time such a measure would actually be warranted, there will already be massive civil unrest due to the labor market ending, and having such legislation now will only make it worse. It's like they want us to start a war against robots.
I am not in that business or, in fact, in any business, however I can tell you exactly what all of those words mean in this context, and those meanings are directly and intuitively related to their meaning outside this context. OP just has a reading comprehension deficiency.
"Of course, people stopped upgrading and customizing PCs about a decade ago."
I'd upgrade every three years if I could afford it, you stupid ass. As it is, I still manage every five or six. How does somebody who cares so little about computers manage to get a job writing articles about them?
Slashdot Mirror
I believe that consists of tumblr, Answers, and ???
1) Taxes? I believe I mentioned that. They're kind of a key feature of any government function.
2) I'm well aware of how far $10k doesn't stretch, since I live on less than that. I'm on SSI. To get by, I have to live with my mother, also on SSI, and my grandmother, retired. But I do get by. It is normal for people of low-income to cooperate in this fashion, and I'd hope it would be seen as even more normal in the near future, considering that automation is about to collapse the labor market. Maybe someday it'll be normal enough that you can still get a date if you have to do it!
3) They don't. But it's better to have $10k than to not have it. I was homeless in Seattle for a little while. There was a very clear divide between me and other homeless people: I had money and they didn't. I wasn't completely reliable on the shelter system for food. I could replace my socks if I needed to. I didn't have to schedule showers a week in advance, because I got a gym membership when they were on sale. $10k isn't enough to be comfortable, but it is enough to stay alive and sometimes even be human.
As for salaries and infrastructure: there wouldn't need to be any. The entire point of UBI is that first letter: universal. The total cost of a program where everyone, regardless of need or demographic, just gets some money is about 0.1% more than the actual money doled out by it. All you need is to verify a person's identity and whether they're alive or not. We already do that for a bunch of other stuff. Just use the existing infrastructure.
"And what the fuck will happen to world politics when the US completely defunds its military?"
Uhh, I dunno. What the fuck will happen to your argument when you explain what that has to do with anything?
Social Security and various federal aid including SNAP (food stamps) total, from what I'm reading, about $1.2 trillion. Those programs can and obviously should be completely eliminated if we instituted UBI. That leaves $1.8 trillion, and I'm sure there programs I haven't thought of that could also be counted against this number.
The number is still big. It's going to be. Of COURSE you need higher taxes if you have UBI. But it isn't apocalyptic, because we're replacing a number of far less efficient benefit systems.
There are plenty of pesticides, including many natural ones, which are not harmful to humans. They're just not nearly as effective. The thing about toxic pesticides is that the cure seems worse than the disease. If it's on the food, we're eating it.
I don't trust them, but I do trust the many scientists saying it's not a problem. GMO crops are a good thing. The problem is what Monsanto specifically does with them. Facilitating the use of toxic pesticide and introducing DRM to the fucking food supply is comic book evil. Get rid of those assholes, not GMO in general.
Watch that 20% balloon if it ever gets cheaper than the real thing. There are people on food stamps and in college just waiting for this, even if it sucks. Just about everyone will try it, and if it's not total garbage, I'd bet about 80% stick with it. That number will probably wind up fluctuating in lockstep with unemployment rates.
"Meat is incredibly easy to raise cheaply."
Then why is the dollar menu dead? And why haven't I been able to afford a steak on my birthday for five years?
Sold save some electricity by giving them a place to land, then. Like, say, a little tower? The drones could just pop out of little alcoves and sit in top of the towers. Or heck! Why bother with the alcoves! They can just sit there the whole time! Maybe even weld them right into the towers so they don't fall off.
I'm not sure what you'd call these towers with little cell radios on them, though. They don't fly anymore... Just COWs I guess? Oh, I know; you're saving alot of money, so you can call towers with cell phone drones attached to them Cash COWs!
I'm a genius.
I'm disabled. While it may be true that I have an unreasonable amount of time to waste, my disposable income is incredibly tight. Despite this, I have a gaming rig, built a few years ago, that still runs most new games with excellent stability and decent performance at 1080p. All told, it cost about $700, which means something better than this one should be significantly cheaper right now. Me and my friend threw the parts list together in the matter of a few hours, because my previous rig had just shit the bed and I needed something in a hurry.
If you can't build a passable gaming PC, you're incompetent, lazy, or both.
Speak for yourself. Spirit and Opportunity will remain forever in my heart. ;_;
Huh. "The joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing." So, kind of a... united aerospace coproration?
I only see begging in the summary. Way to go, editors.
Will this interface allow me to grab a website, tear it to shreds, light the shreds on fire, and sweep the ashes into a dustbin? I'd like to start with Slashdot Beta.
Well, their heart's in the right place, but doing this now is... unfathomably stupid. By the time such a measure would actually be warranted, there will already be massive civil unrest due to the labor market ending, and having such legislation now will only make it worse. It's like they want us to start a war against robots.
"Right now any headphone maker in the world can make any headphones they want for the standard jack. Not so with the Lightning port."
...That is not even wrong.
That's... bad?
"Apple could use the extra real estate to stuff in more battery juice."
About three minutes' worth, yeah.
"Gruber adds that "enabling, open, and democratizing" have never been high on Apple's list of priorities for external ports."
That is exactly the complaint, yes.
"If it weren't for Apple we'd probably still be using computers with VGA and serial ports."
God, people who use Apple are horrible.
Anyone that can afford this shit needs a manual drive option for when they need to get away from rioters or assassins.
Elon Musk Gets Totally Baked, Flouts Thermodynamics in Attempt to Philosophically Construct Secular Afterlife
I mean, I don't even think he's completely wrong, but holy shit the way he's saying this makes it clear he was toasted.
I am not in that business or, in fact, in any business, however I can tell you exactly what all of those words mean in this context, and those meanings are directly and intuitively related to their meaning outside this context. OP just has a reading comprehension deficiency.
Didn't see this coming at all! Nope! Huge surprise!
Can't wait to try "Get Hit by a Bus Simulator."
"Of course, people stopped upgrading and customizing PCs about a decade ago."
I'd upgrade every three years if I could afford it, you stupid ass. As it is, I still manage every five or six. How does somebody who cares so little about computers manage to get a job writing articles about them?
Any value system which considers this pessimistic can take its puritanical bullshit off my planet.
All their users can just switch to Discord instead. :^)
Who needs an Arduino or some shit like that? It's such a hassle programming one to be a light switch that sends telemetry data to Amazon on my own.
When I was a teen, I thought I was addicted to Green Day.
They'll be fine.