I think not. Somalia was not a free country when it started its fight against the oppression. It was under the oppression of the British, of the Soviets, anybody at all would just go there and subjugate the people. For you to sit here and to talk about 'freedoms' found in Somalia shows me that you have no understanding of it at all.
On the other hand USA was a free country at one point, a country where there was no armed robbery by the collective, stealing any income or wealth from people at all, that's why it was an actual beacon of hope and freedom before the government was taken over by collectivists and the Republic was destroyed over a hundred years ago.
The only 'appreciation' of taxes I have is how much more civilized the armed robbery has become, the collective doesn't start taking your money with guns, they only finish the job with the guns and the guns are in the hands of hired goons.
A man: Alexa, I need a sandwich and a blowjob. A woman: what did you say? He: I said Alexa, I need a sandwich and a blowjob. She: and why would I give you either? He:... Well, I was asking that device over there but now that you mentioned it go ahead, you do it.
Slaps her on the butt.
I think that is the scenario that might play out. I think it should play out!
But someone showing a â1M income paying only â50k in taxes has some explaining to do.
- the only 'explaining' they 'have to do' is so that others can also try and do the same. AFAIC income and wealth taxes are robbery, armed robbery regardless if it is 100%, 50% or 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%
I hear so much of this: millennials this, millennials that, can poor millennials ever catch a break? They have inherited a shitty economy, a weird climate, a never ending war on so called 'terrorism'. They are under impression that all that can really help them is more collectivist action because they got convinced that free market capitalism is all that is wrong with the world though they rarely actually experienced free market anything.
Millennials only have 5 to 6 second attention span for ads... guess what, I am definitely not a millennial and I have even less of an attention span for ads, I don't watch them at all, I turned them all off and if I see one here or there I learned to pay exactly 0 attention to them, skipping them and never remembering them (and never really even knowing what the hell they were about).
The only ads I care about is for products that I am specifically looking for, then I pay attention to what is advertised when I research a product. This has nothing to do with being a millennial, it has to do with living in a modern advertisement saturated world.
Money became a 'construct' when it was no longer linked to any actual hard asset of any kind. It is a construct because it is not real, it is not a real thing but it should be a real thing.
Money is time and effort that people put into something and it is not some ephemeral concept, it really is time and effort subtracted from our lives, the time we could spend doing anything else instead of working, it has value to us, to individuals who spend this time and effort.
Money is exactly the same as human lives, there is no difference except this: money is a store of time that we create for ourselves.
If you want the benefits of a US citizen, pay the taxes.
- what benefits? Tell me, what benefits?
Do you know what benefits USA citizens *used to have*? They used to be the wealthiest people around, they used to be the freest people around, they used to *NOT* pay income or wealth taxes at all. All of this is gone, what benefits are you talking about?
health and safety of the workers, environmental protection, workplace environment rules, etc. Most people would agree that these rules are in place for what they might call moral reasons, or, it's the right thing to do.
- no, they are a completely wrong thing to *via government regulations* because that's what you are actually talking about.
You are talking about the cost of government and the cost of government is unstoppable and infinite and thus it ends up consuming all productivity, regardless of the amount you can produce the government can consume it all and tell you that you must give it more.
The problem is the government. As to safety of workers and such - there is a free market concept that should be dealing with it. The cost of having the free market deal with this is infinitely smaller than the cost of government dealing with it. I include all the actual deaths and any other incidents where people get hurt into the cost.
The total cost of government must also take into account the loss of individual liberty and freedom, which is (in my not so humble opinion) the only thing that actually matters, thus it is priceless.
The cost of government is infinite and anything with a cost of that magnitude must either be stopped or it will destroy everything around itself.
You are right, I want my own nuclear powered flying car and I want it now. I will not take public transit, I would rather tear my brain out through my nostrils and will not ride a bike, that is a stupid mode of transit especially because I have to be on the road so much. So I would absolutely pay what it takes for a nuclear powered flying car.
The system is going to collapse one way or another. If UBI is attempted the cost of running it will collapse the system and whatever so called 'civilization' will cease to exist.
The costs are already above what the system can afford anyway with all the government taxes on income and property, with taxes that are regulations on business, with all the fake money and price and wage manipulation. The systemic collapse is working its way through every facet of the economy and society already, UBI will accelerate this but whether it is implemented or not the system is collapsing. The collapse is inevitable under the conditions that the system has been operating for over a century, with the taxes, regulations, price controls, laws and regulations (which are also taxes), the productivity of most individuals has been destroyed and the cost of an unproductive individual is already too high for the system to keep going. It's over whether you all like it or not and UBI will simply make it end faster.
It is really fairly simple, do not accept a contract you do not like and do negotiate. However to say that a contract is invalid because 2 sides are unequal in terms of their status or savings is ludicrous, then no contract ever at all can be valid. No two sides are ever equal.
Since 2009 I almost never had this problem and my teams have all been distributed since then, seems to me you have not used a proper distributed source control. You may want to educate yourself on an actual distributed source control and how to merge ignoring spaces.
I don't know if I am 100% out of date on this, but in Eclipse I just use Ctrl+Shift+F and the thing formats it for me the way I want (it kills the spaces and replaces them with tabs, each tab equal to 4 spaces for me, thank you very much).
Every company only has X number of days until it has to shutdown, that's especially true if the revenues are smaller than expenses.
The question is really this: is the business sound enough to survive on its own *ever* or not? A business can be in a tough spot when it is doing a lot of investment and development that *hopefully* brings new revenue in the future. In those situations a business is burning money that it saved or borrowed, the question is: can a business survive at all once it gets through a hurdle like that?
This. If I didn't want my wife and family around I wouldn't have married my wife and start a family.
- well, you don't really know what you are getting into. You don't know what you are getting into when you are born, you don't know what you are getting into when you get married, you don't know what you are getting into in quite a few situations, without experience in those matters you don't really know and you cannot get experienced without trying it.
Some people are luckier than others, some people have it worse or better than others, as we know YMMV.
If a bias can be used quickly to approximate reality then the exact reasons behind the reality are not that important. Most people are not going to write a doctorate on the subject but they do have to live in the real world most of the time and in the real world biases work well enough to approximate reality and to make possibly a life saving decision without delay.
Can you smell the blood in the water? The lawsuits that will come as a results of AI actually reflecting average data in its decision making processes are going to be fun to watch.
A virus is really not an organism and it doesn't have higher consciousness to understand the consequences of its activities, we do, we choose to do what we do, we are quite different creatures than viruses in that regard.
I watched the Matrix seven times in a theater in the 3 weeks following the premier. That idea though, I thought about it enough to realize it is a nonsensical non starter. Humans do spread to an environment on the one hand, however on the other they do not leave, they modify the environment and make it liveable for very long periods of time. Any environment is constrained by the availability of resources but being in balance with all other systems and resources means not to progress forward at all, it means stagnation and stagnation kills just as well as consuming all of the resources does in the first place. Dinosaurs were supposedly 'in balance' and yet where are they? (don't say chickens, please.)
What is the virtue of being 'one' with the environment, what is the virtue of being 'in balance' with the 'natural order' of things? The natural order of things is being born and then dying, well I think that the natural order is crap, it is bullshit and the sooner we end this natural order crap the better.
Being in balance with the surrounding environment? I think not. I don't like balance and entropy, I say we must spice things up.
Nobody should ever be bailed out by any government action, all companies that were bailed out are dead AFAIC anyway. Those who did not need a bail out would have been better off in the first place if those who failed wouldn't have been bailed out. Fuck off with this 'help' ideology. Nobody should be subsidised, including colleges, etc. We don't need theft and subsidies to live on this planet.
Tax cuts? Tax cuts are a joke. There shouldn't be any tax cuts at all because what should be done has nothing to do with cutting taxes. What should be done is the dismantling of the entire concept of income and wealth taxation and redistribution.
What should be done is dismantling of the collectivist system that uses mobocratic power structure to push its socialist ideology and agenda, it should be stopped at all and any costs, all and any costs.
Government must be stopped from borrowing or lending money, it must be stopped from regulating businesses, it must be stopped from setting wages and prices, it must be stopped from stealing from anybody who makes money or has money. It should be stopped from any type of collectivist activity and action. Government's role must be singular: protect individualism and the way of life of an individual as the supreme and sovereign entity.
It worked out great so far, I really hope that the disease that is democracy is destabilized. However you are 100% wrong about this: there is no such thing as the 'underlying ideals of the US democratic system'.
USA has no underlying democratic ideas nor should it have. USA Constitution doesn't mention anything about any democracy at all. USA was established a Republic, democracy as well as any form of aristocracy or dictatorship are against the principles that USA was actually established upon. You couldn't keep the Republic of-course.
Stealing from some people to 'helping' other people (paying off actually) is fucked and shouldn't be happening. Everybody should be exactly and precisely on their own rather than using collectivism to enslave those who can do better than others.
Yeah, well, you are a jackass if I am a 'dying breed'. A 'dying breed' of people who are *not* going to blame others for their own issues.
I am all for nuclear energy but I would never in a million years force somebody to go from a convenient and inexpensive energy source to an inconvenient and expensive one by any form of decree and I would not participate in stealing from people, especially from people who actually earned their money by providing *everybody* with a product that everybody actually needs.
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I think not. Somalia was not a free country when it started its fight against the oppression. It was under the oppression of the British, of the Soviets, anybody at all would just go there and subjugate the people. For you to sit here and to talk about 'freedoms' found in Somalia shows me that you have no understanding of it at all.
On the other hand USA was a free country at one point, a country where there was no armed robbery by the collective, stealing any income or wealth from people at all, that's why it was an actual beacon of hope and freedom before the government was taken over by collectivists and the Republic was destroyed over a hundred years ago.
The only 'appreciation' of taxes I have is how much more civilized the armed robbery has become, the collective doesn't start taking your money with guns, they only finish the job with the guns and the guns are in the hands of hired goons.
A man: Alexa, I need a sandwich and a blowjob. ... Well, I was asking that device over there but now that you mentioned it go ahead, you do it.
A woman: what did you say?
He: I said Alexa, I need a sandwich and a blowjob.
She: and why would I give you either?
He:
Slaps her on the butt.
I think that is the scenario that might play out. I think it should play out!
I make nothing at all, running a business is like that.
But someone showing a â1M income paying only â50k in taxes has some explaining to do.
- the only 'explaining' they 'have to do' is so that others can also try and do the same. AFAIC income and wealth taxes are robbery, armed robbery regardless if it is 100%, 50% or 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%
If Slackware is a millennial, does it mean it only has 5-6 seconds of attention span for ads?
I hear so much of this: millennials this, millennials that, can poor millennials ever catch a break? They have inherited a shitty economy, a weird climate, a never ending war on so called 'terrorism'. They are under impression that all that can really help them is more collectivist action because they got convinced that free market capitalism is all that is wrong with the world though they rarely actually experienced free market anything.
Millennials only have 5 to 6 second attention span for ads... guess what, I am definitely not a millennial and I have even less of an attention span for ads, I don't watch them at all, I turned them all off and if I see one here or there I learned to pay exactly 0 attention to them, skipping them and never remembering them (and never really even knowing what the hell they were about).
The only ads I care about is for products that I am specifically looking for, then I pay attention to what is advertised when I research a product. This has nothing to do with being a millennial, it has to do with living in a modern advertisement saturated world.
Money became a 'construct' when it was no longer linked to any actual hard asset of any kind. It is a construct because it is not real, it is not a real thing but it should be a real thing.
Money is time and effort that people put into something and it is not some ephemeral concept, it really is time and effort subtracted from our lives, the time we could spend doing anything else instead of working, it has value to us, to individuals who spend this time and effort.
Money is exactly the same as human lives, there is no difference except this: money is a store of time that we create for ourselves.
If you want the benefits of a US citizen, pay the taxes.
- what benefits? Tell me, what benefits?
Do you know what benefits USA citizens *used to have*? They used to be the wealthiest people around, they used to be the freest people around, they used to *NOT* pay income or wealth taxes at all. All of this is gone, what benefits are you talking about?
health and safety of the workers, environmental protection, workplace environment rules, etc. Most people would agree that these rules are in place for what they might call moral reasons, or, it's the right thing to do.
- no, they are a completely wrong thing to *via government regulations* because that's what you are actually talking about.
You are talking about the cost of government and the cost of government is unstoppable and infinite and thus it ends up consuming all productivity, regardless of the amount you can produce the government can consume it all and tell you that you must give it more.
The problem is the government. As to safety of workers and such - there is a free market concept that should be dealing with it. The cost of having the free market deal with this is infinitely smaller than the cost of government dealing with it. I include all the actual deaths and any other incidents where people get hurt into the cost.
The total cost of government must also take into account the loss of individual liberty and freedom, which is (in my not so humble opinion) the only thing that actually matters, thus it is priceless.
The cost of government is infinite and anything with a cost of that magnitude must either be stopped or it will destroy everything around itself.
You are right, I want my own nuclear powered flying car and I want it now. I will not take public transit, I would rather tear my brain out through my nostrils and will not ride a bike, that is a stupid mode of transit especially because I have to be on the road so much. So I would absolutely pay what it takes for a nuclear powered flying car.
The system is going to collapse one way or another. If UBI is attempted the cost of running it will collapse the system and whatever so called 'civilization' will cease to exist.
The costs are already above what the system can afford anyway with all the government taxes on income and property, with taxes that are regulations on business, with all the fake money and price and wage manipulation. The systemic collapse is working its way through every facet of the economy and society already, UBI will accelerate this but whether it is implemented or not the system is collapsing. The collapse is inevitable under the conditions that the system has been operating for over a century, with the taxes, regulations, price controls, laws and regulations (which are also taxes), the productivity of most individuals has been destroyed and the cost of an unproductive individual is already too high for the system to keep going. It's over whether you all like it or not and UBI will simply make it end faster.
It is really fairly simple, do not accept a contract you do not like and do negotiate. However to say that a contract is invalid because 2 sides are unequal in terms of their status or savings is ludicrous, then no contract ever at all can be valid. No two sides are ever equal.
Since 2009 I almost never had this problem and my teams have all been distributed since then, seems to me you have not used a proper distributed source control. You may want to educate yourself on an actual distributed source control and how to merge ignoring spaces.
I don't know if I am 100% out of date on this, but in Eclipse I just use Ctrl+Shift+F and the thing formats it for me the way I want (it kills the spaces and replaces them with tabs, each tab equal to 4 spaces for me, thank you very much).
What part of 'legal' is the part that makes you think that it is 'demanded to be accepted'?
It is legal for a 21 year old to drink, but it is not demanded that he/she drinks.
Every company only has X number of days until it has to shutdown, that's especially true if the revenues are smaller than expenses.
The question is really this: is the business sound enough to survive on its own *ever* or not? A business can be in a tough spot when it is doing a lot of investment and development that *hopefully* brings new revenue in the future. In those situations a business is burning money that it saved or borrowed, the question is: can a business survive at all once it gets through a hurdle like that?
This question is not addressed in the story.
This. If I didn't want my wife and family around I wouldn't have married my wife and start a family.
- well, you don't really know what you are getting into. You don't know what you are getting into when you are born, you don't know what you are getting into when you get married, you don't know what you are getting into in quite a few situations, without experience in those matters you don't really know and you cannot get experienced without trying it.
Some people are luckier than others, some people have it worse or better than others, as we know YMMV.
If a bias can be used quickly to approximate reality then the exact reasons behind the reality are not that important. Most people are not going to write a doctorate on the subject but they do have to live in the real world most of the time and in the real world biases work well enough to approximate reality and to make possibly a life saving decision without delay.
Can you smell the blood in the water? The lawsuits that will come as a results of AI actually reflecting average data in its decision making processes are going to be fun to watch.
A virus is really not an organism and it doesn't have higher consciousness to understand the consequences of its activities, we do, we choose to do what we do, we are quite different creatures than viruses in that regard.
I watched the Matrix seven times in a theater in the 3 weeks following the premier. That idea though, I thought about it enough to realize it is a nonsensical non starter. Humans do spread to an environment on the one hand, however on the other they do not leave, they modify the environment and make it liveable for very long periods of time. Any environment is constrained by the availability of resources but being in balance with all other systems and resources means not to progress forward at all, it means stagnation and stagnation kills just as well as consuming all of the resources does in the first place. Dinosaurs were supposedly 'in balance' and yet where are they? (don't say chickens, please.)
What is the virtue of being 'one' with the environment, what is the virtue of being 'in balance' with the 'natural order' of things? The natural order of things is being born and then dying, well I think that the natural order is crap, it is bullshit and the sooner we end this natural order crap the better.
Being in balance with the surrounding environment? I think not. I don't like balance and entropy, I say we must spice things up.
Nobody should ever be bailed out by any government action, all companies that were bailed out are dead AFAIC anyway. Those who did not need a bail out would have been better off in the first place if those who failed wouldn't have been bailed out. Fuck off with this 'help' ideology. Nobody should be subsidised, including colleges, etc. We don't need theft and subsidies to live on this planet.
Tax cuts? Tax cuts are a joke. There shouldn't be any tax cuts at all because what should be done has nothing to do with cutting taxes. What should be done is the dismantling of the entire concept of income and wealth taxation and redistribution.
What should be done is dismantling of the collectivist system that uses mobocratic power structure to push its socialist ideology and agenda, it should be stopped at all and any costs, all and any costs.
Government must be stopped from borrowing or lending money, it must be stopped from regulating businesses, it must be stopped from setting wages and prices, it must be stopped from stealing from anybody who makes money or has money. It should be stopped from any type of collectivist activity and action. Government's role must be singular: protect individualism and the way of life of an individual as the supreme and sovereign entity.
It worked out great so far, I really hope that the disease that is democracy is destabilized. However you are 100% wrong about this: there is no such thing as the 'underlying ideals of the US democratic system'.
USA has no underlying democratic ideas nor should it have. USA Constitution doesn't mention anything about any democracy at all. USA was established a Republic, democracy as well as any form of aristocracy or dictatorship are against the principles that USA was actually established upon. You couldn't keep the Republic of-course.
Stealing from some people to 'helping' other people (paying off actually) is fucked and shouldn't be happening. Everybody should be exactly and precisely on their own rather than using collectivism to enslave those who can do better than others.
Yeah, well, you are a jackass if I am a 'dying breed'. A 'dying breed' of people who are *not* going to blame others for their own issues.
I am all for nuclear energy but I would never in a million years force somebody to go from a convenient and inexpensive energy source to an inconvenient and expensive one by any form of decree and I would not participate in stealing from people, especially from people who actually earned their money by providing *everybody* with a product that everybody actually needs.