From the summary, it doesn't sound to me, as though he thought he was pushing any boundaries. He was just playing a game, and thought he'd share it on social media. It wasn't a depiction of shooting students or civilians, only literal monsters. This genuinely sounds like an overreaction to me.
The corporations making the profit can be taxed, and the UBI can also be funded by the local natural resources that the corporations are paying for (an interesting case in point is Alaska and its oil). Currently, I don't think either of these offer a sufficient solution, but if we balance things right, the cost of goods goes down, and therefore, so does the cost of living. That might make it a bit easier to fund a UBI. It's going to be a rocky few years in transition, but eventually, the daily needs to be comfortable will be met for free, or nearly free.
This is a post-scarcity economy that we're working toward. At some point, the corporations stop working toward monetary profit, because it no longer makes sense to do so. There's not much profit to make, when no one has any money. Whatever alternative currency or barter system you shift over to, soon becomes a closed and diminishing loop. A large business might be able to remain viable if they're paying out their entire (or near entire) profits, whether through taxes or just paying their employees are higher wage, or even hiring people to do nothing. There are a lot of directions this can go, really, but none of them see businesses continuing to operate the way they currently do. I'm pretty interested to see how it all plays out, myself.
Party loyalty. It doesn't matter that Donald Trump is Donald Trump. It matters that he's a Republican. The political parties in this country really whip their members up into a boiling mess, when the other party has a success, though the Democrats seem to be better at that, than the Republicans. George Bush sends soldiers to the Middle East, he's just trying to extract oil from the area, but a few years later, Barrack Obama sends soldiers to the Middle East, and no one says a damned thing, either because their own party did it first, or because now their party is doing it.
Case in point, you'll find that a lot of people were quite vocal about wanting Bernie Sanders over Hilary during the primaries, to the point of speaking out against Hilary. When the primaries were over, though, and Hilary was chosen as the Democrats' candidate, those same people turned around, and started chanting in favor of Hilary. There are exceptions to this, no doubt, but it's something I saw quite a bit of on Twitter during 2016.
Ultimately, who the candidate is, really isn't so important to people at large, even if they go out of their way to say things for or against that person. Which party they represent, on the other hand, is almost everything.
While possible, it's unlikely, due to the conditions that lend themselves to extreme longevity. People tend to die relatively young in undeveloped cultures, because they lack the medical care that enables long life. It's those developed countries that have the advanced medical care, that also provide public records, which can be used to identify the super-old. The only other possibility, is that there could be a developed country (India or South Korea, perhaps) that didn't have very good public records at the end of the 19th century.
OEM Windows keys won't activate a Retail copy of Windows. It'd actually be a hell of a lot easier for him to just use the manufacturer's installer. The OEM version of Windows has a simplified activation procedure, and the last time I had to do an install using it, I didn't even need to type in the key.
The first thing that you need to understand, is that making a thing illegal doesn't necessarily make it go away. If you want a thing to stop, then the laws you make need to address what causes whatever it is that you don't like. Sometimes, minimizing the extent of a problem starts by legalizing and regulating it. Consider drugs in Portugal, for example. While heroin isn't exactly legal there, it's been decriminalized. Portuguese do not go to prison over heroin, unless they're found with more than a ten day supply. This evidently hasn't meaningfully changed the addiction rate since the policy was introduced in 2001, but the rate of deaths and transmission of HIV among users has been dramatically reduced.
Using prison as an arbitrary deterrent is medieval thinking. In the 21st century, wr should be thinking about how to get the results we want from the legal systems we put in place, rather than relying on the threat of prison, alone.
Bill Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000, left the company in 2006, and hasn't been involved at all since 2014. You're blaming him for stuff he's got nothing to do with, and the versions of Windows that did happen under his watch, were quite popular. Except for Windows ME. No one liked Windows ME.
There's also brettanomyces lambicus for Brett beers (and the funk that comes with them), and lactobacillus, used in sour beers. Then there's lots of variety even within a species.
There's a practice of making a culture from whatever you can find in your neighborhood, and that's what a wild beer is about. It's also how brettanomyces lambicus was discovered.
I've generally stopped shopping there, altogether. I have two fundamental complaints. First of all, if I'm paying the premium to get a new copy, I need to receive that game disc in a factory-sealed case. Unless it's a brand new title, it's usually tucked away in that drawer the cashier has behind the counter, which makes it indistinguishable from a used copy; I'm still not convinced that they aren't trying to sell used copies as new. The second thing, is that they are required ridiculously to push their loyalty program. I don't want to subscribe to that magazine, and I'm not keen on buying used games, which makes the membership an entirely useless waste of money, to me. Beyond that, when you decline a loyalty program offer at any other retailer, they drop the subject and just continue with the sale. At GameStop though, declining the offer gets you another ten minutes added to the sale, of the cashier asking you why you don't want it. Should I ever set out to make a purchase there again, should the harassment begin, I'll threaten to cancel my purchase, should the harassment continue.
Instead of money, people will trade something else. Fuck, it could be damn bottle caps for all I know. Just not money as investors consider it.
Would such a new medium of exchange not, in turn, also be money? Sure, it might start out as something practical, like bottle caps or, indeed, precious metals, but once it starts gaining momentum, the same math that applies to the cash dollar, would then apply to your Nuka-Cola lids. Just the same, when that becomes useful for the exchange of goods and services, it's not clear to me that the rich would be hesitant to snatch that up, too. Just the same, the poor folk who acquire sufficient stock piles of these units, would likely be keen to spend them on their own automation products, just to get them up in to Rich-People-Land.
"I'll make my own money, with BLACKJACK and HOOKERS!"
White Labs' Super High Gravity Ale Yeast (WLP099) can already ferment up to 25% ABV, before the alcohol is enough to kill it. It'd certainly be interesting to see if this method can produce a strain sufficiently resilient to get higher than that.
The generation who pounded every fascist in Europe into the ground or until they surrendered taught their 10 year old sons how to shoot rifles, routinely drank while driving, smoked cigarettes ubiquitously, expected women to be feminine and subservient to their husbands, and threw around racial slurs both with and without hate. If it were up to GP's SJWs to stop the Nazis, we'd have run out of Jews a very, very long time ago.
When I tried out Bit Defender in 2014, it would fill up my RAM, and I'd have to reboot once a day. It's been some time now, since I've used it, and I don't know if they ever got around to fixing that or not.
I can't believe I'm about to defend this ridiculous place...
BUT
I was born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley, and what you say doesn't even begin to resemble my experience. While it's certainly true that I've known a handful of racist white people, they've been an oddity in my life. As for segregated neighborhoods, I'm a white guy surrounded by Mexicans. I've also had Black neighbors in this same neighborhood, in years past, so I'm really not seeing where you're coming from, there. Furthermore, I've never seen anyone turned away from a bar, due to their race (granted, I don't spend a lot of time in bars).
As for the Bi-Lingual Education thing, that came about because Spanish-speaking students had a lower collective GPA than English-speaking students. The thought was that the students were failing because they couldn't understand the language in which the lessons were being taught. So, they teach the primary curriculum to them in Spanish, and then they're supposed to also teach them English as a Second Language. I went through the local public school system, and I haven't met any Mexicans who both grew up here and don't know English. Generally the Mexicans I know who don't speak English very well, are immigrants, and especially immigrants who came over here later in life. I've had friends whose elderly grandparents didn't learn English at all, but if you're 75 and immigrating just to be with your kids and grandkids, then I think that you can be forgiven for not learning the language, and I don't think I'd expect you to, let alone require it.
Don't get me wrong. We've got an abundance of hateful, intolerant people in this state, but they're usually not racists, unless they're racist toward white people, but even that isn't terribly common around here. There's a lot of man-haters, rich-people-haters and Trump-haters (can't swing a cat without hitting one), but people hating on Mexicans, Black people or Asians are strange and unusual. If you told me that this was the most hateful state in the union, I'm not sure that I could disagree so easily, but to describe California as racist just doesn't mix with what I see around me.
We're moving in that direction, but we're not there, just yet. I think we'll have a rough couple of years, while the automation steps in. Eventually, it'll make things cheaper, but I would imagine that the prices of things will remain on the same gradual increase they've always been alongside inflation, for a while, at least. Eventually, the reduction of full-time employment among the general population will drive prices down. Ultimately, it'll break capitalism, assuming that Congress doesn't step in to make laws preserving it (i.e., banning excess of automation). I can't imagine that we'll be in a place where a UBI is practical for another 15 to 20 years, though. There's just too many problems to solve, first.
Either a worthy candidate will appear for the Democrats in the next four years, or they'll pick the same kind of nobody bullshit candidate that the Republicans have been running since Bush ran the first time. It doesn't seem like they'd run Hillary again, though it wouldn't surprise me if she turns up for the primaries.
Jesus' real name, if you wanted to translate it by the same rules as has been done with other people who had that name in the Bible, is Joshua.
The trouble is that Jesus' message is largely misunderstood. People get tied up in obedience and the Hell-and-Damnation, self-righteous preaching style of modern evangelists. They tend to think that this is what Christianity is about, and you're most certainly right-- if Christ were to walk among us today in the way that he walked among the Romans, he'd be flipping tables at a great deal of American churches, just as he did with the Pharisees. Occasionally though, you do encounter a congregation that gets it right-- where they understand that Jesus' message had to do with love. That God loves us, and that we should show our love for Him, by loving eachother. Even Christ's sacrifice is misunderstood; people compare it to the Jews sacrificing doves and lambs to God, but really it's more like Abraham sacrificing his son to God; except that in Jesus' case, the roles are reversed. We didn't sacrifice God's son to God, but God sacrificed His son to us. That's what people don't get. The whole point of the thing is that we are more important to Him than anything else, including His own flesh.
Does that sound more like something you might be able to get into?
The trouble is, a good deal of the price gouging we see in the United States, is a result of the pharmaceutical industry trying to subsidize the low prices in other countries. A thing costs a given amount, and if they don't making it up somewhere, the won't be around to make anything at all.
I don't know what the solution looks like, but we definitely need to remove profit as a motivator from the entire medical industry, as those two things just don't mix very well. Too much of medicine is assuring people they're being helped, while burglary is being done. The tricky part is removing the money from the equation, while still maintaining a system that people want to participate in. I fear we may never get there, without a post-scarcity economy.
This thinking really bothers me, and while I know the principle you cite is generally true, I can't help but think that by far, I'd prefer to live next to a slob than someone who's going to tell me what I can and can't do on my own property. I can't speak for anyone else on this, but I, for one, would abandon any bargain on the sale of a house, upon being told that there's an HOA involved. That is a total deal breaker. If I'm going to buy a house, I'm buying a place to live. If it's an investment that I want, I'll try venture capital, trade goods or the stock market. Or comic books, as I'm already doing that.
Thermal expansion. Hard reset means that the components stop receiving a current for a brief period, allowing them to cool, and therefore, shrink. You might get the same, or similar results from just putting it down and leaving it alone for a few minutes.
Do you have a suggestion for a different client? I originally chose Torrent, because it was lightweight and unobtrusive, but those qualities have been lost over time, but I just don't use it often enough to be assed to go do the research on a new client, myself.
Soooo... Instead of an informed, or at the very least, considered, rebuttal, you resort to name-calling? Look at this website. Does this seem like the kind of place where people read a half-baked accusation and go, "GASP! He's right!"? Try again when you've finished puberty.
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From the summary, it doesn't sound to me, as though he thought he was pushing any boundaries. He was just playing a game, and thought he'd share it on social media. It wasn't a depiction of shooting students or civilians, only literal monsters. This genuinely sounds like an overreaction to me.
The corporations making the profit can be taxed, and the UBI can also be funded by the local natural resources that the corporations are paying for (an interesting case in point is Alaska and its oil). Currently, I don't think either of these offer a sufficient solution, but if we balance things right, the cost of goods goes down, and therefore, so does the cost of living. That might make it a bit easier to fund a UBI. It's going to be a rocky few years in transition, but eventually, the daily needs to be comfortable will be met for free, or nearly free.
This is a post-scarcity economy that we're working toward. At some point, the corporations stop working toward monetary profit, because it no longer makes sense to do so. There's not much profit to make, when no one has any money. Whatever alternative currency or barter system you shift over to, soon becomes a closed and diminishing loop. A large business might be able to remain viable if they're paying out their entire (or near entire) profits, whether through taxes or just paying their employees are higher wage, or even hiring people to do nothing. There are a lot of directions this can go, really, but none of them see businesses continuing to operate the way they currently do. I'm pretty interested to see how it all plays out, myself.
Party loyalty. It doesn't matter that Donald Trump is Donald Trump. It matters that he's a Republican. The political parties in this country really whip their members up into a boiling mess, when the other party has a success, though the Democrats seem to be better at that, than the Republicans. George Bush sends soldiers to the Middle East, he's just trying to extract oil from the area, but a few years later, Barrack Obama sends soldiers to the Middle East, and no one says a damned thing, either because their own party did it first, or because now their party is doing it.
Case in point, you'll find that a lot of people were quite vocal about wanting Bernie Sanders over Hilary during the primaries, to the point of speaking out against Hilary. When the primaries were over, though, and Hilary was chosen as the Democrats' candidate, those same people turned around, and started chanting in favor of Hilary. There are exceptions to this, no doubt, but it's something I saw quite a bit of on Twitter during 2016.
Ultimately, who the candidate is, really isn't so important to people at large, even if they go out of their way to say things for or against that person. Which party they represent, on the other hand, is almost everything.
While possible, it's unlikely, due to the conditions that lend themselves to extreme longevity. People tend to die relatively young in undeveloped cultures, because they lack the medical care that enables long life. It's those developed countries that have the advanced medical care, that also provide public records, which can be used to identify the super-old. The only other possibility, is that there could be a developed country (India or South Korea, perhaps) that didn't have very good public records at the end of the 19th century.
OEM Windows keys won't activate a Retail copy of Windows. It'd actually be a hell of a lot easier for him to just use the manufacturer's installer. The OEM version of Windows has a simplified activation procedure, and the last time I had to do an install using it, I didn't even need to type in the key.
The first thing that you need to understand, is that making a thing illegal doesn't necessarily make it go away. If you want a thing to stop, then the laws you make need to address what causes whatever it is that you don't like. Sometimes, minimizing the extent of a problem starts by legalizing and regulating it. Consider drugs in Portugal, for example. While heroin isn't exactly legal there, it's been decriminalized. Portuguese do not go to prison over heroin, unless they're found with more than a ten day supply. This evidently hasn't meaningfully changed the addiction rate since the policy was introduced in 2001, but the rate of deaths and transmission of HIV among users has been dramatically reduced.
Using prison as an arbitrary deterrent is medieval thinking. In the 21st century, wr should be thinking about how to get the results we want from the legal systems we put in place, rather than relying on the threat of prison, alone.
Bill Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000, left the company in 2006, and hasn't been involved at all since 2014. You're blaming him for stuff he's got nothing to do with, and the versions of Windows that did happen under his watch, were quite popular. Except for Windows ME. No one liked Windows ME.
There's also brettanomyces lambicus for Brett beers (and the funk that comes with them), and lactobacillus, used in sour beers. Then there's lots of variety even within a species.
There's a practice of making a culture from whatever you can find in your neighborhood, and that's what a wild beer is about. It's also how brettanomyces lambicus was discovered.
I've generally stopped shopping there, altogether. I have two fundamental complaints. First of all, if I'm paying the premium to get a new copy, I need to receive that game disc in a factory-sealed case. Unless it's a brand new title, it's usually tucked away in that drawer the cashier has behind the counter, which makes it indistinguishable from a used copy; I'm still not convinced that they aren't trying to sell used copies as new. The second thing, is that they are required ridiculously to push their loyalty program. I don't want to subscribe to that magazine, and I'm not keen on buying used games, which makes the membership an entirely useless waste of money, to me. Beyond that, when you decline a loyalty program offer at any other retailer, they drop the subject and just continue with the sale. At GameStop though, declining the offer gets you another ten minutes added to the sale, of the cashier asking you why you don't want it. Should I ever set out to make a purchase there again, should the harassment begin, I'll threaten to cancel my purchase, should the harassment continue.
Instead of money, people will trade something else. Fuck, it could be damn bottle caps for all I know. Just not money as investors consider it.
Would such a new medium of exchange not, in turn, also be money? Sure, it might start out as something practical, like bottle caps or, indeed, precious metals, but once it starts gaining momentum, the same math that applies to the cash dollar, would then apply to your Nuka-Cola lids. Just the same, when that becomes useful for the exchange of goods and services, it's not clear to me that the rich would be hesitant to snatch that up, too. Just the same, the poor folk who acquire sufficient stock piles of these units, would likely be keen to spend them on their own automation products, just to get them up in to Rich-People-Land.
"I'll make my own money, with BLACKJACK and HOOKERS!"
White Labs' Super High Gravity Ale Yeast (WLP099) can already ferment up to 25% ABV, before the alcohol is enough to kill it. It'd certainly be interesting to see if this method can produce a strain sufficiently resilient to get higher than that.
The generation who pounded every fascist in Europe into the ground or until they surrendered taught their 10 year old sons how to shoot rifles, routinely drank while driving, smoked cigarettes ubiquitously, expected women to be feminine and subservient to their husbands, and threw around racial slurs both with and without hate. If it were up to GP's SJWs to stop the Nazis, we'd have run out of Jews a very, very long time ago.
Well, beer is both bitter and toxic, but we love it, anyway.
When I tried out Bit Defender in 2014, it would fill up my RAM, and I'd have to reboot once a day. It's been some time now, since I've used it, and I don't know if they ever got around to fixing that or not.
I can't believe I'm about to defend this ridiculous place...
BUT
I was born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley, and what you say doesn't even begin to resemble my experience. While it's certainly true that I've known a handful of racist white people, they've been an oddity in my life. As for segregated neighborhoods, I'm a white guy surrounded by Mexicans. I've also had Black neighbors in this same neighborhood, in years past, so I'm really not seeing where you're coming from, there. Furthermore, I've never seen anyone turned away from a bar, due to their race (granted, I don't spend a lot of time in bars).
As for the Bi-Lingual Education thing, that came about because Spanish-speaking students had a lower collective GPA than English-speaking students. The thought was that the students were failing because they couldn't understand the language in which the lessons were being taught. So, they teach the primary curriculum to them in Spanish, and then they're supposed to also teach them English as a Second Language. I went through the local public school system, and I haven't met any Mexicans who both grew up here and don't know English. Generally the Mexicans I know who don't speak English very well, are immigrants, and especially immigrants who came over here later in life. I've had friends whose elderly grandparents didn't learn English at all, but if you're 75 and immigrating just to be with your kids and grandkids, then I think that you can be forgiven for not learning the language, and I don't think I'd expect you to, let alone require it.
Don't get me wrong. We've got an abundance of hateful, intolerant people in this state, but they're usually not racists, unless they're racist toward white people, but even that isn't terribly common around here. There's a lot of man-haters, rich-people-haters and Trump-haters (can't swing a cat without hitting one), but people hating on Mexicans, Black people or Asians are strange and unusual. If you told me that this was the most hateful state in the union, I'm not sure that I could disagree so easily, but to describe California as racist just doesn't mix with what I see around me.
We're moving in that direction, but we're not there, just yet. I think we'll have a rough couple of years, while the automation steps in. Eventually, it'll make things cheaper, but I would imagine that the prices of things will remain on the same gradual increase they've always been alongside inflation, for a while, at least. Eventually, the reduction of full-time employment among the general population will drive prices down. Ultimately, it'll break capitalism, assuming that Congress doesn't step in to make laws preserving it (i.e., banning excess of automation). I can't imagine that we'll be in a place where a UBI is practical for another 15 to 20 years, though. There's just too many problems to solve, first.
Either a worthy candidate will appear for the Democrats in the next four years, or they'll pick the same kind of nobody bullshit candidate that the Republicans have been running since Bush ran the first time. It doesn't seem like they'd run Hillary again, though it wouldn't surprise me if she turns up for the primaries.
Jesus' real name, if you wanted to translate it by the same rules as has been done with other people who had that name in the Bible, is Joshua.
The trouble is that Jesus' message is largely misunderstood. People get tied up in obedience and the Hell-and-Damnation, self-righteous preaching style of modern evangelists. They tend to think that this is what Christianity is about, and you're most certainly right-- if Christ were to walk among us today in the way that he walked among the Romans, he'd be flipping tables at a great deal of American churches, just as he did with the Pharisees. Occasionally though, you do encounter a congregation that gets it right-- where they understand that Jesus' message had to do with love. That God loves us, and that we should show our love for Him, by loving eachother. Even Christ's sacrifice is misunderstood; people compare it to the Jews sacrificing doves and lambs to God, but really it's more like Abraham sacrificing his son to God; except that in Jesus' case, the roles are reversed. We didn't sacrifice God's son to God, but God sacrificed His son to us. That's what people don't get. The whole point of the thing is that we are more important to Him than anything else, including His own flesh.
Does that sound more like something you might be able to get into?
The trouble is, a good deal of the price gouging we see in the United States, is a result of the pharmaceutical industry trying to subsidize the low prices in other countries. A thing costs a given amount, and if they don't making it up somewhere, the won't be around to make anything at all.
I don't know what the solution looks like, but we definitely need to remove profit as a motivator from the entire medical industry, as those two things just don't mix very well. Too much of medicine is assuring people they're being helped, while burglary is being done. The tricky part is removing the money from the equation, while still maintaining a system that people want to participate in. I fear we may never get there, without a post-scarcity economy.
This thinking really bothers me, and while I know the principle you cite is generally true, I can't help but think that by far, I'd prefer to live next to a slob than someone who's going to tell me what I can and can't do on my own property. I can't speak for anyone else on this, but I, for one, would abandon any bargain on the sale of a house, upon being told that there's an HOA involved. That is a total deal breaker. If I'm going to buy a house, I'm buying a place to live. If it's an investment that I want, I'll try venture capital, trade goods or the stock market. Or comic books, as I'm already doing that.
Can we all just take a moment to acknowledge how awesome Guido Fetta's name is?
I'm somewhat less concerned about the vibration, and more concerned about how they're protecting the computer from that speaker's big damned magnet.
Thermal expansion. Hard reset means that the components stop receiving a current for a brief period, allowing them to cool, and therefore, shrink. You might get the same, or similar results from just putting it down and leaving it alone for a few minutes.
Do you have a suggestion for a different client? I originally chose Torrent, because it was lightweight and unobtrusive, but those qualities have been lost over time, but I just don't use it often enough to be assed to go do the research on a new client, myself.
Soooo... Instead of an informed, or at the very least, considered, rebuttal, you resort to name-calling? Look at this website. Does this seem like the kind of place where people read a half-baked accusation and go, "GASP! He's right!"? Try again when you've finished puberty.