What a wonderful self perpetuation system on a path to total tyranny. Perhaps a shutdown is a good thing, Perhaps we can keep it shut down for a year or two and find out that things actually get better.
This seems to come up every once in a while. I vaguely remember trying mist and thinking 'ehh' when it was new. I see articles about it every once in a while and wonder if there was something I missed. Just youtub'ed it and realized I was right to begin with.
We have an entire department ~10 people devoted to reviewing open source code at our company. Mostly a cursory review with fortify and checking in on everything it reports, which admittedly isn't very robust, but I doubt we are the only ones doing similar.
It's nice to hear that another country has found a fair and balanced way to quantify "good work." because here in the US it's all about what you can convince someone as "good work" leading to requiring far more political/sales/marketing skills and the research itself is secondary to that.
So what is the fair and balanced weighting of "good work" to which you employee?
This is the cycle of the current non-free market, touted as free market. Companies start by filling a need better and cheaper than before. That company than grows quickly and gains influence. Then they "buy" regulation to insure that what they just did can't be done again. The next generation has to fight the big government/corporation complex in order to grow and fill the roll as the cycle continues. It seems terrible in the short term because it always feels like a new company has some form of total control. Nearly all fortunes and big companies got that way by providing a good or service cheaper/better/faster than it could be done prior, thus society as a whole did benefit from them getting that way. Reducing government involvement would help some, mainly in the limited liability, regulatory capture and corporate welfare points.
I am big and little 'L' Libertarian, not because i believe in a libertarian utopia, but because we are so far in the opposite direction it is self destructive to our society. Government as an organization will, like any other organization, will begin to exist primarily to sustain itself, with it's original charter/constitution being secondary to that goal. You can't vote for bigger government through welfare, healthcare, social security etc... and not get larger military that gets bored and needs adventures to go on, big security theater to inspect every citizen when traveling or spying to make sure that there are no threats to the government as a whole.
We can only continue with a 100% across the board reduction in government spending. Reduce the bureaucratic waist, cut every budget by 5% per year and require any government organization to provide the same level of service as the previous year or fire the top 4-5 levels of management. No exceptions. No sequestering anti dog and pony shows. When a budget gets cut you don't cut the most visible task in order to foster public outcry rather than the actual fat that needs to be trimmed.
Vote libertarian not to get the libertarian utopia, but to fix the current conglomerate distopia. You don't fix government cause problems by voting for more government.
Government utilities are good at things that have very mature and long proven technologies that are not likely to change much. There's few breakthroughs in road building, or delivering water. Power was taken over a bit too early, and stifled innovation. Internet would be a terrible idea as we'd be stuck at the current state pretty much for ever.
Because things are considerably cheaper now then they have been in the past. To pay someone to repair something is going to cost a repair company in the $40-60 range just to get a tech to look at it. (hourly pay + shop + transportation etc...)
Then you'd be looking at the techs hourly pay of ~$20 or so an hour plus cost of parts, etc it's hard to provide a repair service call for less than ~$120. That's only going to be the start. If a part is required then that cost is added, if the task is difficult than that's going to be added, by the time you're done a repair is going to be in the $250+ range. The last few appliances I've bought have been in the $500-1200 range. is nearly half the cost of new worth living with an aging device?
Of course some large items (home maintance, HVAC, Vehicles) that are expensive enough to warrant repairing will be so. Most smaller items just are not worth it.
My riding mower threw a rod and plunked a hole in the crank case. New this model is ~$2200. I looked on craigs list and found one in good running order around $1200, also looked around and found a brand new complete drop-in motor was $520. Ordered the engine, dropped in (5 bolts, a wire harness plug, fuel line and a hot wire to the starter) up and running good as new within 2 hours.
Aside from a number of loudly touted exceptions, privatization works very well. It's only when the government and other organizations have greedy fingers embedded deep in the service being privatized that it causes issues.
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We can't allow facts to get in the way of restricting freedom.
What a wonderful self perpetuation system on a path to total tyranny. Perhaps a shutdown is a good thing, Perhaps we can keep it shut down for a year or two and find out that things actually get better.
Yes, google needed 3. (not in name but in effect anyway)
This seems to come up every once in a while. I vaguely remember trying mist and thinking 'ehh' when it was new. I see articles about it every once in a while and wonder if there was something I missed. Just youtub'ed it and realized I was right to begin with.
ehh
No, it would have been for your own good 15(*) years ago when you were a new user.
(*) your number may vary
bash is the flagship Linux desktop.
We have an entire department ~10 people devoted to reviewing open source code at our company. Mostly a cursory review with fortify and checking in on everything it reports, which admittedly isn't very robust, but I doubt we are the only ones doing similar.
Government spending isn't such a bad thing, government taking is.
Every transaction has profit on both sides. Cash one one side, goods or services on the other.
but my scale is really really big. Spanning form west to east Venezuela.
It's nice to hear that another country has found a fair and balanced way to quantify "good work." because here in the US it's all about what you can convince someone as "good work" leading to requiring far more political/sales/marketing skills and the research itself is secondary to that.
So what is the fair and balanced weighting of "good work" to which you employee?
This is the cycle of the current non-free market, touted as free market. Companies start by filling a need better and cheaper than before. That company than grows quickly and gains influence. Then they "buy" regulation to insure that what they just did can't be done again. The next generation has to fight the big government/corporation complex in order to grow and fill the roll as the cycle continues. It seems terrible in the short term because it always feels like a new company has some form of total control. Nearly all fortunes and big companies got that way by providing a good or service cheaper/better/faster than it could be done prior, thus society as a whole did benefit from them getting that way. Reducing government involvement would help some, mainly in the limited liability, regulatory capture and corporate welfare points.
I am big and little 'L' Libertarian, not because i believe in a libertarian utopia, but because we are so far in the opposite direction it is self destructive to our society. Government as an organization will, like any other organization, will begin to exist primarily to sustain itself, with it's original charter/constitution being secondary to that goal. You can't vote for bigger government through welfare, healthcare, social security etc... and not get larger military that gets bored and needs adventures to go on, big security theater to inspect every citizen when traveling or spying to make sure that there are no threats to the government as a whole.
We can only continue with a 100% across the board reduction in government spending. Reduce the bureaucratic waist, cut every budget by 5% per year and require any government organization to provide the same level of service as the previous year or fire the top 4-5 levels of management. No exceptions. No sequestering anti dog and pony shows. When a budget gets cut you don't cut the most visible task in order to foster public outcry rather than the actual fat that needs to be trimmed.
Vote libertarian not to get the libertarian utopia, but to fix the current conglomerate distopia. You don't fix government cause problems by voting for more government.
"think about it for a second: generalized automation means that there won't be enough work for everyone."
Hmm, I guess it also means stuff will be so cheap you wont need a job to obtain what you need anymore. We're getting pretty close to that already.
It's currently cheaper has less penalties and less jail time to be charged with fleeing the police than it is to get a DUI. Both legally and socially.
Just say'n
Somebody who gets it.
Government utilities are good at things that have very mature and long proven technologies that are not likely to change much. There's few breakthroughs in road building, or delivering water. Power was taken over a bit too early, and stifled innovation. Internet would be a terrible idea as we'd be stuck at the current state pretty much for ever.
Because things are considerably cheaper now then they have been in the past. To pay someone to repair something is going to cost a repair company in the $40-60 range just to get a tech to look at it. (hourly pay + shop + transportation etc...)
Then you'd be looking at the techs hourly pay of ~$20 or so an hour plus cost of parts, etc it's hard to provide a repair service call for less than ~$120. That's only going to be the start. If a part is required then that cost is added, if the task is difficult than that's going to be added, by the time you're done a repair is going to be in the $250+ range. The last few appliances I've bought have been in the $500-1200 range. is nearly half the cost of new worth living with an aging device?
Of course some large items (home maintance, HVAC, Vehicles) that are expensive enough to warrant repairing will be so. Most smaller items just are not worth it.
My riding mower threw a rod and plunked a hole in the crank case. New this model is ~$2200. I looked on craigs list and found one in good running order around $1200, also looked around and found a brand new complete drop-in motor was $520. Ordered the engine, dropped in (5 bolts, a wire harness plug, fuel line and a hot wire to the starter) up and running good as new within 2 hours.
In mothers voice, "Damn it Voyager, In or out make up your mind and close the damn door."
I think you may need to adjust the subtlety of for your sarcasm detector.
Aside from a number of loudly touted exceptions, privatization works very well. It's only when the government and other organizations have greedy fingers embedded deep in the service being privatized that it causes issues.
Why do you hate the poor so much? As if the poor can't help them selves?
I love liberal white guys, but after my daughter was killed by a fast car headed to the ski slops I hate skiers and fast car drivers.
Most Libertarians (both big and little "l") don't want state sponsored corporations with special privileges not afforded their individual members.
Except nobody "Banned" Teslas.