Social/cultural constructs are real, and we don't have to listen to your silly definitions. We know that by the scientific definition of race the human species has no races, but we also know the historical context of what groups the word "race" in the human context has defined and what physical characteristics went into that, and we can use it.
There are middle class politicans, like Bernie Sanders:.. and some politicians are in considerable debt, though it's fair to say you have to be rich to be in extreme debt: http://www.politifact.com/trut...
So I'm now a center-right Jill Stein voter and California National Party member, just because I believe in a tax rate below 100% and dislike absurd laws. Interesting. I had no idea before that liberalism was a hive mind and it's impossible for them to oppose any type of regulation.
If your doctor hasn't already told you not to eat certain foods because of your liver, how does the app have any more probability of harming you than your own subjectively selected diet? If the doctor has warned you but you weren't listening, then how is the app any more likely to be harmful than your own subjectively selected diet?
Not really. The wall is estimated at $25B and will doubtless end up far more expensive than that after various lawsuits are sorted out and they learn that smugglers dig holes and decide to make the wall a hundred feet deep.
Think back to, oh, 1600. Imagine the conversations in taprooms in England- "there's no economic benefit to a colony in North America, so it's really just for show anyway"....
But nobody actually thought that. Columbus came to America searching for a lucrative trade route to the riches of India. Those who followed him came to loot the gold of the american people and enslave them, with a clear quick profit in mind.
We know for a fact that Mars had warm seas when life was getting started on Earth. How it could've started on Mars is no mystery. Whether it could've survived to today underground is the mystery.
Either you tax products made of un-recycled parts up to the point that recycling becomes profitable, or you publicly fund free recycling. We see a lot more of the latter, but I'd prefer the former approach -- a lot of people won't bother to recycle for free but will bother to recycle if businesses are offering them money for it.
How come wiring the whole country for POTS was not considered "expensive"?
It was. So expensive, in fact, that there was a tax added to each phone bill to subsidize rural phone line expansion. People simply don't consider fiber important enough to go to the same extremes.
On Earth, water pretty much has to be the source for hydrogen, and hydrogen is one of the elements that make up all LAWKI (that is, CHONPS). That says absolutely nothing about whether water must be the source of hydrogen, or whether forms of life that don't use hydrogen are possible. It just says that life on Earth is well adapted to build itself out of the elements found on Earth. Well, duh, that's going to happen by definition.
Water is literally the most abundant compound in the universe. It's silly to look for organic chemistry that uses some rare compound when the universe is drowning in water which we already know works great.
The UK "civilized" India by taking what had been the largest, most thriving economy on the planet with thousands of years of rich culture admired by Europeans, and turning it into a poverty-stricken corrupt backwater?
I still have to wonder how sound their business model is. Have they actually turned a profit yet?
Googled that for you. As of November 2nd 2016: "The social media giant said Wednesday that third-quarter revenue soared 56% to $7 billion and its quarterly profit nearly tripled to $2.38 billion"
Sounds like a pretty profitable business model to me.
California doesn't have a high cost of living, only specific localities like Fremont and the bay area in general. Tesla could pay the same wage in Sacramento and it'd be perfectly fair because it'd go at least 3x further. They chose to build their factory in Fremont apparently because those are the people they really wish to hire, so it's time to pay them for their apparent specialness.
Turning have-nots into haves is by no means the goal of UBI. Cannot even sensibly be achieved by a program that aims at providing a basic general income because that basic income can by its very definition not be higher than what is absolutely necessary to enable someone to survive.
The basic income itself only allows people to subsist, but the presence of that cushion can have the secondary effect of enabling people to escape poverty. Right now, a poor person has to keep working their 60 hour a week factory job to support their family. With a UBI, that person gains the option of self-improvement -- they can afford to quit the job, study for something else, or even to try out their own business idea knowing they can still eat if they fail. Children of wealthy people go on to much higher incomes than everyone else in part because they know they have a cushion and can take risks and take their time, and the UBI gives everyone some of those advantages.
Even a rubber stamp is useful for documenting a trail of who did what and their claimed reasons. Far better than not documenting it, and will make people think twice about having a look just for fun/blackmail.
If your only target audience is the wealthy. If you're trying to reach the general public, storage space is very important. My phone has 1.27 GB, and that's more than any of my previous phones had. I always have to delete an app to install a new app.
I loved E16 back in 1999 (I used it as a window manager for GNOME though which gave me the best of both worlds). Tried E17 maybe 5 years ago and wasn't impressed with it as a standalone desktop. I though probably give it another try though, thanks for the reminder.
Everything on linux desktops was more configurable 15 years ago than today, unfortunately. It's the apple effect, people believe that to make something user friendly means to eliminate all the choices.
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Social/cultural constructs are real, and we don't have to listen to your silly definitions. We know that by the scientific definition of race the human species has no races, but we also know the historical context of what groups the word "race" in the human context has defined and what physical characteristics went into that, and we can use it.
There are middle class politicans, like Bernie Sanders:.. and some politicians are in considerable debt, though it's fair to say you have to be rich to be in extreme debt: http://www.politifact.com/trut...
Who could be better qualified to complain about the rich than one of them? If a poor person complains about the rich, they're just jealous.
And what unpaid person do you make the arbiter of blatant unconstitutionality?
So I'm now a center-right Jill Stein voter and California National Party member, just because I believe in a tax rate below 100% and dislike absurd laws. Interesting. I had no idea before that liberalism was a hive mind and it's impossible for them to oppose any type of regulation.
Until we have manufacturing facilities on the moon (not happening this century), it's easier to just launch another space telescope.
If your doctor hasn't already told you not to eat certain foods because of your liver, how does the app have any more probability of harming you than your own subjectively selected diet? If the doctor has warned you but you weren't listening, then how is the app any more likely to be harmful than your own subjectively selected diet?
Google Analytics came in 2005 when they bought urchin. There was plenty of online advertising going on before that, including the whole bubble.
Not really. The wall is estimated at $25B and will doubtless end up far more expensive than that after various lawsuits are sorted out and they learn that smugglers dig holes and decide to make the wall a hundred feet deep.
But nobody actually thought that. Columbus came to America searching for a lucrative trade route to the riches of India. Those who followed him came to loot the gold of the american people and enslave them, with a clear quick profit in mind.
We know for a fact that Mars had warm seas when life was getting started on Earth. How it could've started on Mars is no mystery. Whether it could've survived to today underground is the mystery.
Either you tax products made of un-recycled parts up to the point that recycling becomes profitable, or you publicly fund free recycling. We see a lot more of the latter, but I'd prefer the former approach -- a lot of people won't bother to recycle for free but will bother to recycle if businesses are offering them money for it.
It was. So expensive, in fact, that there was a tax added to each phone bill to subsidize rural phone line expansion. People simply don't consider fiber important enough to go to the same extremes.
Water is literally the most abundant compound in the universe. It's silly to look for organic chemistry that uses some rare compound when the universe is drowning in water which we already know works great.
The UK "civilized" India by taking what had been the largest, most thriving economy on the planet with thousands of years of rich culture admired by Europeans, and turning it into a poverty-stricken corrupt backwater?
Googled that for you. As of November 2nd 2016: "The social media giant said Wednesday that third-quarter revenue soared 56% to $7 billion and its quarterly profit nearly tripled to $2.38 billion"
Sounds like a pretty profitable business model to me.
I often use my browser to listen to music. A volume control on each tab isn't very practical.
Actually, the northeast corner (Susanville area) is a desert too. It's basically a piece of Nevada mistakenly placed in California.
California doesn't have a high cost of living, only specific localities like Fremont and the bay area in general. Tesla could pay the same wage in Sacramento and it'd be perfectly fair because it'd go at least 3x further. They chose to build their factory in Fremont apparently because those are the people they really wish to hire, so it's time to pay them for their apparent specialness.
Or better yet, just skip straight to the developing world so you can even more fully exploit people.
The basic income itself only allows people to subsist, but the presence of that cushion can have the secondary effect of enabling people to escape poverty. Right now, a poor person has to keep working their 60 hour a week factory job to support their family. With a UBI, that person gains the option of self-improvement -- they can afford to quit the job, study for something else, or even to try out their own business idea knowing they can still eat if they fail. Children of wealthy people go on to much higher incomes than everyone else in part because they know they have a cushion and can take risks and take their time, and the UBI gives everyone some of those advantages.
Even a rubber stamp is useful for documenting a trail of who did what and their claimed reasons. Far better than not documenting it, and will make people think twice about having a look just for fun/blackmail.
If your only target audience is the wealthy. If you're trying to reach the general public, storage space is very important. My phone has 1.27 GB, and that's more than any of my previous phones had. I always have to delete an app to install a new app.
I loved E16 back in 1999 (I used it as a window manager for GNOME though which gave me the best of both worlds). Tried E17 maybe 5 years ago and wasn't impressed with it as a standalone desktop. I though probably give it another try though, thanks for the reminder.
Everything on linux desktops was more configurable 15 years ago than today, unfortunately. It's the apple effect, people believe that to make something user friendly means to eliminate all the choices.