All of which are socialist, all of which are quite successful, even with relatively high tax rates.
Tax rates in Canada are only slightly higher than the US for the average person. I think maybe 2% higher for the average person, and I feel like we get a lot of value for that minimal tax increase. Other countries on your list I don't know.
As a non-American I never look to US based news sources, it's all biased one way or another and full of editorial or advertising posing as news. Actual news reporting is dead in America.
This is the futuristic forecast by Stanford University economist Tony Seba. His report, with the deceptively bland title Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030, has gone viral in green circles and is causing spasms of anxiety in the established industries.
No it isn't, this report is being ignored because it is ridiculously optimistic. This is the reason that AI isn't taken seriously by anyone that knows anything about it, it is always 10 years away no matter how many people tell you AI and robots are going to replace 50% of the workforce within 5 years. All futuristic predictions of this sort are intended to get a reaction, and never come true. All they do is damage the credibility of futurists. To me they don't have any to start with.
Roundabouts don't work as well for pedestrians since the cars rarely stop. In Australia they have plenty of them and pedestrians do not always have the right of way, meaning watch the hell out. Any large road with a roundabout is a nightmare to walk.
i'd be mad as hell if i lived in one of these places and was subsidizing experiements to give people money without them contributing in any way
This is already happening, they are already getting money either from welfare or unemployment insurance, or some other kind of subsidy. The point of this study is to see if the cost of supporting these people is less with, and if they are more incentivised to get a job. You obviously have your prejudice against it, but you don't actually know how it would work without trying it.
That is basically what this is, you get the basic amount and it is not affected by you working or not working, so there is no disincentive to work.
The part where you don't get your full salary if you get a job is where this scheme falls apart. But it should at least give less of a disincentive to work, and save administrative costs vs the current system as the people who will receive this are currently receiving some other kind of assistance.
You'd have to actually live apart for that to be true, if you live together for 6 months (I think?) you are considered common law partners and would thus not qualify as separate. Also neither 17k nor 24k is a lot of money for anyone in Canada, remember these are Canadian dollars and things are much more expensive than in the US. I suspect this study would have much different results in Vancouver or Toronto where rents and cost of living are insane.
The amazing thing is how many commenters, presumably American, think that that having consumer protections and enforcing them is a somehow a bad thing! As a Canadian I truly cannot understand this. I suppose it's the internet tough guy approach to everything: I have complete knowledge of everything and make perfect decisions every time therefore nobody else should ever need more. But what about your 90 year old grandmother who doesn't know any better and assumes that business are acting honestly? Companies are only after money and will happily rip off your grandmother, and they should absolutely be prevented from doing so. We all should expect and demand truth in advertising.
Don't worry about the various languages and technologies you learned in school, they will be obsolete in 10 years. Learn how to design software, write requirements, manage people and projects, communicate and work with people. Those skills will be much more important than knowing any particular language or technology because they will always be useful and are much harder to learn (I think). There will always be younger, cheaper, smarter code monkeys coming along, you want to be able to manage them not compete with them the rest of your life.
- a BA who used to like to code
I don't understand responses like this, I switched to 10 before the free upgrade ran out and my computer has literally never rebooted without my permission. All I get is sometimes when I want to shut it down the only option is to apply updates and then shut down, which is fine by me. It's a powerful desktop and the updates take maybe a minute to apply so I don't much care.
Why are people having such problems with this? Is it just on laptops?
I don't consider it an excuse to pirate it, but i can certainly understand why so many would download it illegally when they have no legal means of acquiring it.
I suspect that many of the supposed illegal "downloads" they counted are actually legal in the country downloaded to. I also wonder if they are counting people who stream it as downloads, since they have given zero justification for their statistics they are probably garbage.
I know that here in Canada it is ok to stream things that you do not have rights for because a stream is not considered a download. So since amazon prime video is not available in Canada, the alternative of streaming it via Kodi is completely justified and also not illegal.
Indeed, the internet is becoming unreadable due to lower information density and an abundance of click bait garbage posing as links to articles.
Does everything need to be dumbed down? I hope not.
Be careful what you ask for, this is Brexit style voting which can go awry.
Although I actually don't think Johnson would be as bad as either of the main candidates, so it would be fine if he won and actually more of a middle finger to the established parties awful choices. Just be aware what happens when you vote for someone or something you don't think can win to make a point: sometimes they do win.
The law doesn't mention IMDB at all. The idea where sites where people are posting their reusumes looking for work should not be required to provide birthdates or ages is perfectly valid, just remove the 'entertainment' part and apply it to any industry. In the tech industry, as in entertaintment, age discrimination is real. Older tech works find it extremely hard to get work in some places, so I would think that slashdot of any place would see through the IMDB crap and understand why this makes sense. Oh well.
This is even more of a non-story since surge pricing is extremely common. In Melbourne I had to pay 1.7 times just because it was raining during rush hour once. Surge pricing is initiated by a surge in demand for any reason. Are people angry that uber is profiting off the rain? Ludicrous, this is part of their business. At 1.3 or 1.4 times I bet it was still a lot cheaper than a taxi in NY.
The taxi companies need to stop complaining so much and trying to get ride sharing services blocked and start trying to compete with them. A little improvement of the quality of the taxi vehicles themselves, improvement of taxi drivers etiquette and demeanor, and develop an app like Uber that allows people to get a price estimate for the trip, hail a cab, and pay for it, all via the app and Uber would have a MUCH harder time taking their business away. Competition from ride sharing services should foster improvement in the taxi industry or they deserve to die out.
How nice for you. However you're totally ignoring the original commetors' point: Not everyone lives in a HOUSE, many people live in apartments or other places where it becomes very very problematic to have to plug in a vehicle to charge it overnight. No apartments I ever used to live in would tolerate people running extension cords out their back windows every day, and that's assuming you could even park that close.
That is a very minor point. If you own your apartment, and you own your parking, then you can get it wired for an EV. House vs apartment isn't the problem, it's renters vs owners. There will come a time when a selling point of your apartment or house will be that it is already wired for EV charging, and then there will come a time that a selling point for rentals is that it is already wired for EV charging. And then it will be simply assumed because it is so ubiquitous, just like being wired for internet or having air conditioning or any number of items that were once rare and are now everywhere.
This is slightly tangential, but if you've 'upgraded' to Win 10 you can revert back to Win 7. I did this myself as I had issues with Win 10 breaking my router (as in it stopped working for all devices not just the PC) and I didn't know you could revert, but found some instructions online. If you've been hoodwinked into Win 10 and are not happy I suggest googling the steps to revert back to what you had before.
Who says ban all the guns? What I see people actually calling for is gun control and not an outright ban. It is possible to believe in a person's right to own guns but also want some sensible controls and limits in place, including mandatory training prior to owning a gun that might prevent such negligence.
I would really like to know the most newbie friendly Linux today to try it out. I have no interest in learning the nuts and bolts during the install I just want to click next a bunch of times and start using it. Is there such a thing? Like many I can't cut ties to Windows due to gaming but I'd like to give Linux a try despite not having a lot of time to learn a new OS.
Call me a "religiphobe" all you want. I have good reasons for it and in proud of it.
Religion is outdated nonsense that causes wars and suffering. It also leads to all sorts of bad laws and morals, like being abti-abortion or gay marriage.
There's no reason to be religious in this modern world. People who are religious are idiots and should be treated like second class citizens.
What you are is anti-theist in addition to being atheist. Most atheists are happy to live and let live, but anti-theists are not. I wish people who feel like you would self identify as anti-theist so that all atheists do not get painted with the same brush as anti-theists.
Anything that would affect them personally is instead incentive to cover it up, or help cover up their partner's abuses. They will close ranks more than ever.
The focus should be on reducing the abuses first which I would argue requires more transparency. We can worry about how to punish people after we figure out how we can tell it is happening in the first place. I think the police body cameras are a good start, and probably a better deterrent to the bad behaviour than simply increasing punishment.
I read slashdot at work on a 1280x1024 19 inch monitor, and on that format everything about the redesign is terrible. The wasted space is atrocious and the comments unreadable due to the extreme narrow column of text. On a 23 inch widescreen monitor in full screen it actually doesn't suck that badly although it is in no way an improvement.
In conclusion: slashdot needs to buy me a new monitor at work if they want me to continue visiting after classic goes away:P The beta is completely useless if you have a small monitor or are used to reading in a non-maximized window. I suppose the kids who designed it didn't even know there WERE 4:3 monitors and all their iPhone and Metro apps are fullscreen only...
Frankly since monitors went to 16:9 nobody gives a crap about efficient use of space.
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All of which are socialist, all of which are quite successful, even with relatively high tax rates.
Tax rates in Canada are only slightly higher than the US for the average person. I think maybe 2% higher for the average person, and I feel like we get a lot of value for that minimal tax increase. Other countries on your list I don't know.
As a non-American I never look to US based news sources, it's all biased one way or another and full of editorial or advertising posing as news. Actual news reporting is dead in America.
This is the futuristic forecast by Stanford University economist Tony Seba. His report, with the deceptively bland title Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030, has gone viral in green circles and is causing spasms of anxiety in the established industries.
No it isn't, this report is being ignored because it is ridiculously optimistic. This is the reason that AI isn't taken seriously by anyone that knows anything about it, it is always 10 years away no matter how many people tell you AI and robots are going to replace 50% of the workforce within 5 years. All futuristic predictions of this sort are intended to get a reaction, and never come true. All they do is damage the credibility of futurists. To me they don't have any to start with.
Roundabouts don't work as well for pedestrians since the cars rarely stop. In Australia they have plenty of them and pedestrians do not always have the right of way, meaning watch the hell out. Any large road with a roundabout is a nightmare to walk.
i'd be mad as hell if i lived in one of these places and was subsidizing experiements to give people money without them contributing in any way
This is already happening, they are already getting money either from welfare or unemployment insurance, or some other kind of subsidy. The point of this study is to see if the cost of supporting these people is less with, and if they are more incentivised to get a job. You obviously have your prejudice against it, but you don't actually know how it would work without trying it.
That is basically what this is, you get the basic amount and it is not affected by you working or not working, so there is no disincentive to work. The part where you don't get your full salary if you get a job is where this scheme falls apart. But it should at least give less of a disincentive to work, and save administrative costs vs the current system as the people who will receive this are currently receiving some other kind of assistance.
You'd have to actually live apart for that to be true, if you live together for 6 months (I think?) you are considered common law partners and would thus not qualify as separate. Also neither 17k nor 24k is a lot of money for anyone in Canada, remember these are Canadian dollars and things are much more expensive than in the US. I suspect this study would have much different results in Vancouver or Toronto where rents and cost of living are insane.
The amazing thing is how many commenters, presumably American, think that that having consumer protections and enforcing them is a somehow a bad thing! As a Canadian I truly cannot understand this. I suppose it's the internet tough guy approach to everything: I have complete knowledge of everything and make perfect decisions every time therefore nobody else should ever need more. But what about your 90 year old grandmother who doesn't know any better and assumes that business are acting honestly? Companies are only after money and will happily rip off your grandmother, and they should absolutely be prevented from doing so. We all should expect and demand truth in advertising.
Don't worry about the various languages and technologies you learned in school, they will be obsolete in 10 years. Learn how to design software, write requirements, manage people and projects, communicate and work with people. Those skills will be much more important than knowing any particular language or technology because they will always be useful and are much harder to learn (I think). There will always be younger, cheaper, smarter code monkeys coming along, you want to be able to manage them not compete with them the rest of your life. - a BA who used to like to code
It's not Fitbit's fault; it's the entire business model of the Cloud.
Vector chose to sell. Why did they do that? Why is this not Vector's fault for selling out, cashing in, and thus depriving their customers of support?
I don't understand responses like this, I switched to 10 before the free upgrade ran out and my computer has literally never rebooted without my permission. All I get is sometimes when I want to shut it down the only option is to apply updates and then shut down, which is fine by me. It's a powerful desktop and the updates take maybe a minute to apply so I don't much care. Why are people having such problems with this? Is it just on laptops?
I don't consider it an excuse to pirate it, but i can certainly understand why so many would download it illegally when they have no legal means of acquiring it.
I suspect that many of the supposed illegal "downloads" they counted are actually legal in the country downloaded to. I also wonder if they are counting people who stream it as downloads, since they have given zero justification for their statistics they are probably garbage. I know that here in Canada it is ok to stream things that you do not have rights for because a stream is not considered a download. So since amazon prime video is not available in Canada, the alternative of streaming it via Kodi is completely justified and also not illegal.
Indeed, the internet is becoming unreadable due to lower information density and an abundance of click bait garbage posing as links to articles. Does everything need to be dumbed down? I hope not.
Be careful what you ask for, this is Brexit style voting which can go awry. Although I actually don't think Johnson would be as bad as either of the main candidates, so it would be fine if he won and actually more of a middle finger to the established parties awful choices. Just be aware what happens when you vote for someone or something you don't think can win to make a point: sometimes they do win.
The law doesn't mention IMDB at all. The idea where sites where people are posting their reusumes looking for work should not be required to provide birthdates or ages is perfectly valid, just remove the 'entertainment' part and apply it to any industry. In the tech industry, as in entertaintment, age discrimination is real. Older tech works find it extremely hard to get work in some places, so I would think that slashdot of any place would see through the IMDB crap and understand why this makes sense. Oh well.
This is even more of a non-story since surge pricing is extremely common. In Melbourne I had to pay 1.7 times just because it was raining during rush hour once. Surge pricing is initiated by a surge in demand for any reason. Are people angry that uber is profiting off the rain? Ludicrous, this is part of their business. At 1.3 or 1.4 times I bet it was still a lot cheaper than a taxi in NY.
The taxi companies need to stop complaining so much and trying to get ride sharing services blocked and start trying to compete with them. A little improvement of the quality of the taxi vehicles themselves, improvement of taxi drivers etiquette and demeanor, and develop an app like Uber that allows people to get a price estimate for the trip, hail a cab, and pay for it, all via the app and Uber would have a MUCH harder time taking their business away. Competition from ride sharing services should foster improvement in the taxi industry or they deserve to die out.
How nice for you. However you're totally ignoring the original commetors' point: Not everyone lives in a HOUSE, many people live in apartments or other places where it becomes very very problematic to have to plug in a vehicle to charge it overnight. No apartments I ever used to live in would tolerate people running extension cords out their back windows every day, and that's assuming you could even park that close.
That is a very minor point. If you own your apartment, and you own your parking, then you can get it wired for an EV. House vs apartment isn't the problem, it's renters vs owners. There will come a time when a selling point of your apartment or house will be that it is already wired for EV charging, and then there will come a time that a selling point for rentals is that it is already wired for EV charging. And then it will be simply assumed because it is so ubiquitous, just like being wired for internet or having air conditioning or any number of items that were once rare and are now everywhere.
This is slightly tangential, but if you've 'upgraded' to Win 10 you can revert back to Win 7. I did this myself as I had issues with Win 10 breaking my router (as in it stopped working for all devices not just the PC) and I didn't know you could revert, but found some instructions online. If you've been hoodwinked into Win 10 and are not happy I suggest googling the steps to revert back to what you had before.
Who says ban all the guns? What I see people actually calling for is gun control and not an outright ban. It is possible to believe in a person's right to own guns but also want some sensible controls and limits in place, including mandatory training prior to owning a gun that might prevent such negligence.
I would really like to know the most newbie friendly Linux today to try it out. I have no interest in learning the nuts and bolts during the install I just want to click next a bunch of times and start using it. Is there such a thing? Like many I can't cut ties to Windows due to gaming but I'd like to give Linux a try despite not having a lot of time to learn a new OS.
Call me a "religiphobe" all you want. I have good reasons for it and in proud of it.
Religion is outdated nonsense that causes wars and suffering. It also leads to all sorts of bad laws and morals, like being abti-abortion or gay marriage.
There's no reason to be religious in this modern world. People who are religious are idiots and should be treated like second class citizens.
What you are is anti-theist in addition to being atheist. Most atheists are happy to live and let live, but anti-theists are not. I wish people who feel like you would self identify as anti-theist so that all atheists do not get painted with the same brush as anti-theists.
..I would say it is approaching 100% They just do all of the stupid things I tell them to, they should know better! ;)
Anything that would affect them personally is instead incentive to cover it up, or help cover up their partner's abuses. They will close ranks more than ever. The focus should be on reducing the abuses first which I would argue requires more transparency. We can worry about how to punish people after we figure out how we can tell it is happening in the first place. I think the police body cameras are a good start, and probably a better deterrent to the bad behaviour than simply increasing punishment.
I read slashdot at work on a 1280x1024 19 inch monitor, and on that format everything about the redesign is terrible. The wasted space is atrocious and the comments unreadable due to the extreme narrow column of text. On a 23 inch widescreen monitor in full screen it actually doesn't suck that badly although it is in no way an improvement. In conclusion: slashdot needs to buy me a new monitor at work if they want me to continue visiting after classic goes away :P The beta is completely useless if you have a small monitor or are used to reading in a non-maximized window. I suppose the kids who designed it didn't even know there WERE 4:3 monitors and all their iPhone and Metro apps are fullscreen only ...
Frankly since monitors went to 16:9 nobody gives a crap about efficient use of space.