Look, I'm as scared and confused about this as you are, but AC is right this time. It was a painfully stupid question. Everything has.pdf manuals online somewhere now. If you actually want to read it away from a screen, print it yourself. This will cost you probably less than a dollar unless you don't have a printer. Then you might need to go to the library and spend two dollars. Printing manuals for all the people who actually read them means they also print them for all the people who don't, and it costs thousands of dollars.
Are there things with incomplete, shitty, or truly non-existent manuals? Yes, just about as often as was the case with print manuals.
I would never have any reason to assume that opinions about pop culture products signaled political affiliation if critical reactions to things didn't always begin with "here is what sexism and racism have to do with this product" and end with "here is what Russian trolls have to do with this product." The trolls don't need to exist at all for this division to take place. Both producers and critics have declared that All Art Is Political, therefore all art has an arbitrary political alignment based on who likes it and who hates the people that like it. This is completely their fault.
I remember being called an idiot, a lunatic, and a bigot when I saw politically-motivated media collusion take place against gamers. This is totally something only conservatives and Russians do.
The very existence of Gender Studies is predicated on the idea that Gender Studies "experts" need the right to give unsolicited Gender Studies talks at events related to everything that isn't Gender Studies.
You're the fucking government. Go away.
As a person with a disability of executive and cognitive function, I find it very insulting that people try to protect me by yanking words out of people's mouths.
We already have something to reduce conversational entropy when our natural hierarchical socialization isn't enough. It's called parliamentary procedure, and you can have it on a conference call by having the organizer (or committee chair, if the tool you're using allows the assignment of roles) control the floor according to that procedure. Mute people who don't have the floor, require people to ask for it in the text chat, and appoint somebody to record minutes in the text chat. Fixed.
I didn't think it was possible for them to find a way for internet businesses to double down on how badly they've fucked up the star rating system, but here we are.
Amazon doesn't know who gets government cheese. The government does. As a result, unless this bill is a trainwreck in implementation, Amazon can't really do anything but raise wages or pay the bill.
If a social media network banned a high-level government official, it would alert people to the fact that corporations are the real government and they can't be allowed to act as censors. They can eliminate peons that sound exactly like Trump by the millions, but his account is invincible.
Somebody with a weak heart is going to be pretty susceptible to things that most people normally brush off. Something that we've recently come to understand is that men make people tense. They don't need to have done anything wrong or have any threatening mannerism; the response is triggered by pheromones and subconscious psychological processes. What would be a barely noticed vague unease for anyone else could be fatal for somebody already teetering on the edge.
This. I can do without treehuggers' alarmist handwringing about how we'll all die if the oceans move, but they're very good at planning and administrating cities that are clean and pleasant to live in, even if you have to sleep in a park like I did for a while.
Due to having substantially lower overhead, the program would cost less than Social Security does. Medicare could stay, I think; health insurance is a different kind of thing. Those "able bodied young people?" They have old relatives. They'll be fuckin' fine.
We have needs-based programs. They suck ass. They keep people from working when they can. Equally importantly, they have massive overhead. In order to test whether people are legitimately needy, you need a massive bureaucracy. It is much cheaper to just let anyone walk in and get some free shit.
Learning useful skills is its own incentive. People don't refuse to become electricians and shit because they think it's boring. They refuse to do it because we keep pushing people into four-year colleges and then shunting all the people who can't go from there to med school or law school into pointless desk bullshit. Now they have a bunch of debt so they can't learn a trade. Oops.
You have completely misinterpreted what I mean by "taking people out of the production loop." I am talking about producing the same or a higher amount of shit with less people. That is what is happening, and more of it will happen.
The reason we have all that production, and the reason it will continue to double, is automation. Robots don't need incentives.
That aside, why are people convinced that humans need incentives? Most of them really like doing things. UBI is meant to solve the problem of having more people that want to do things than there are things to do.
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Look, I'm as scared and confused about this as you are, but AC is right this time. It was a painfully stupid question. Everything has .pdf manuals online somewhere now. If you actually want to read it away from a screen, print it yourself. This will cost you probably less than a dollar unless you don't have a printer. Then you might need to go to the library and spend two dollars. Printing manuals for all the people who actually read them means they also print them for all the people who don't, and it costs thousands of dollars.
Are there things with incomplete, shitty, or truly non-existent manuals? Yes, just about as often as was the case with print manuals.
I would never have any reason to assume that opinions about pop culture products signaled political affiliation if critical reactions to things didn't always begin with "here is what sexism and racism have to do with this product" and end with "here is what Russian trolls have to do with this product." The trolls don't need to exist at all for this division to take place. Both producers and critics have declared that All Art Is Political, therefore all art has an arbitrary political alignment based on who likes it and who hates the people that like it. This is completely their fault.
I remember being called an idiot, a lunatic, and a bigot when I saw politically-motivated media collusion take place against gamers. This is totally something only conservatives and Russians do.
The very existence of Gender Studies is predicated on the idea that Gender Studies "experts" need the right to give unsolicited Gender Studies talks at events related to everything that isn't Gender Studies. You're the fucking government. Go away.
Hasn't mainline bittorrent been a giant piece of ad-serving spyware since forever ago?
As a person with a disability of executive and cognitive function, I find it very insulting that people try to protect me by yanking words out of people's mouths.
Computers are dead. You can go home.
When are we going to start? It's been too long already.
It must be really depressing when you can't base your career on sucking billionaire cocks all day.
Terraforming is a pretty cool idea, but I think it should generally be reserved for planets that aren't already habitable.
We already have something to reduce conversational entropy when our natural hierarchical socialization isn't enough. It's called parliamentary procedure, and you can have it on a conference call by having the organizer (or committee chair, if the tool you're using allows the assignment of roles) control the floor according to that procedure. Mute people who don't have the floor, require people to ask for it in the text chat, and appoint somebody to record minutes in the text chat. Fixed.
I didn't think it was possible for them to find a way for internet businesses to double down on how badly they've fucked up the star rating system, but here we are.
Amazon doesn't know who gets government cheese. The government does. As a result, unless this bill is a trainwreck in implementation, Amazon can't really do anything but raise wages or pay the bill.
If a social media network banned a high-level government official, it would alert people to the fact that corporations are the real government and they can't be allowed to act as censors. They can eliminate peons that sound exactly like Trump by the millions, but his account is invincible.
There's no reason to raise the standard if it's already not being met.
Somebody with a weak heart is going to be pretty susceptible to things that most people normally brush off. Something that we've recently come to understand is that men make people tense. They don't need to have done anything wrong or have any threatening mannerism; the response is triggered by pheromones and subconscious psychological processes. What would be a barely noticed vague unease for anyone else could be fatal for somebody already teetering on the edge.
This. I can do without treehuggers' alarmist handwringing about how we'll all die if the oceans move, but they're very good at planning and administrating cities that are clean and pleasant to live in, even if you have to sleep in a park like I did for a while.
Not all cities, man. I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I also lived in Seattle for two years. Nice place, wish I could go back.
Ah! So this was just a huge scam to get a bunch of disabled people to give up their benefits. Genius shit.
Due to having substantially lower overhead, the program would cost less than Social Security does. Medicare could stay, I think; health insurance is a different kind of thing. Those "able bodied young people?" They have old relatives. They'll be fuckin' fine.
We have needs-based programs. They suck ass. They keep people from working when they can. Equally importantly, they have massive overhead. In order to test whether people are legitimately needy, you need a massive bureaucracy. It is much cheaper to just let anyone walk in and get some free shit.
Learning useful skills is its own incentive. People don't refuse to become electricians and shit because they think it's boring. They refuse to do it because we keep pushing people into four-year colleges and then shunting all the people who can't go from there to med school or law school into pointless desk bullshit. Now they have a bunch of debt so they can't learn a trade. Oops.
You have completely misinterpreted what I mean by "taking people out of the production loop." I am talking about producing the same or a higher amount of shit with less people. That is what is happening, and more of it will happen.
The reason we have all that production, and the reason it will continue to double, is automation. Robots don't need incentives.
That aside, why are people convinced that humans need incentives? Most of them really like doing things. UBI is meant to solve the problem of having more people that want to do things than there are things to do.
Oh, I see. Yes. Instead of UBI, we can just gas anyone who is not smart enough to design a robot. Much better idea.