Cheap food isn't evil, fake food is. Most of what the dollar store sells has little nutritional value, but it still displaces real food stores which sell real food. Congratulations on failing to understand the argument, but commenting anyway.
"There's nothing inherently special or irredeemable about shithole neighborhoods either. "
In my experience, there absolutely is. For example, the shitty part of lake county ca is the city of clear lake. That's the side of the lake with the most mercury contamination. Or in yuba-sutter, olivehurst is the place with the most flood risk. Even in Santa Cruz county, it's way hotter in watsonville, and the beach flats are the flood plain.
There is at least a historical reason for shithole neighborhoods, if not an ongoing one, whether you have sussed it out or not. IME, ongoing.
Their batteries are garbage. They have no quality control whatsoever, and they don't keep whether you use them or not. Same as the worthless batteries at harbor freight.
Are there any actual one price shops any more? There used to be "everything's $1.00" but they seem to be gone. Dollar tree and general both have some higher priced items, and Daiso is chock-full of them. (Daiso is also the only one of these stores I will go into, because all the other are filled with toxic garbage.)
". Tell me, why is it you cunt fascists are all such lying sacks of shit? Did it start with your parents not teaching you about integrity?"
They taught them, all right. They taught them to say one thing while doing another. They learned it from religion, which despises while calling it love.
It's also true that if Trump weren't a sociopathic sleazebag there would be no shutdown, and it's also true that a border wall is a stupid idea on all levels since it won't work. If you get near a point, make it.
"Why aren't the Trump-loving libertarians opposing this on the fact that it will be the US taxpayer paying for the wall when their dear leader promised them the Mexicans would pay for it? "
Libertarianism is a red herring. It's irrelevant to this discussion. Why aren't Trump supporters etc. The answer is that they are stupid. To wit, they have demonstrated a willingness to believe that Trump is somehow getting the money from Mexico. Now they can blame the situation on Congress.
"Could it be libertarians are just a bunch of hypocritical cunts?"
They are, because they will claim others are ignoring reality when that is literally their whole thing, specifically pretending that anarchy does not lead naturally to feudalism because none of us are islands. However, it's not clear what that has to do with this. Most Trump supporters are not libertarians, they are boring old Republicans.
"Well, screw/. because I just lost my entire post by switching the format to plain text,"
If you are using anything but the classic view, shame on you, you should know better. If your browser doesn't restore form contents on back navigation, shame on you, you picked a crap browser.
The easiest way (that is, while retaining capitalism) is to print money.
Printing money creates inflation, which is good because it discourages cash hoarding, which means it encourages investment. Rich people are sitting on trillions because they can.
You print the money and hand it to the people. They spend it, creating jobs.
In the bargain you get to bring back piece work, and eliminate the minimum wage and basically all social programs except universal health care, which means an enormous boost to business.
This scheme transfers wealth directly from hoarders to circulation, where it can do work. As such it is basically ideal.
It's probably a waste of time to send people to Mars for purposes other than scientific exploration and research at this time. If you want to build stuff on Mars, it would be smarter to figure out how to get robots to do it. Humans are going to need some substantial infrastructure when they get to Mars, and the more can be there when they get there, the better.
Nations cant cover that "the universal part means everyone gets it." part with a tax system that expects most of the normal population to work, have jobs and pay "tax".
You still don't get it. No matter what, a system which expects most of the "normal" population (whatever the hell you mean by that) to work is doomed to fail, because there is not going to be enough work for that. If that's one of your basic criteria, you can only imagine systems which will fail.
You don't get it. If it includes means testing, it is not UBI. The basic income part means you get it whether you "need" it or not, and the universal part means everyone gets it. What's so hard to understand about this?
But that's bullshit, UBI is to be paid whether you make more or not. If they take away money when you make money it's no different from welfare schemes like we have here on the USA. When you start to make enough that you don't need them any more, they cut you off and you fall back into poverty.
From 2020 on, electric look to on the way to dominating the consumer vehicle market.
No sooner than 2025. There are too many infrastructure issues to work out. If they could work out charging them, EVs would suit the needs of the majority of the population, but as it is, by 2020 they will probably still work for less than half of them. If it's anywhere near half, though, that's still quite a bright future for EVs.
Intel bet everything on their 10nm process, and now they are faltering. Many mocked AMD for getting out of fabbing their own CPUs, but now it looks like they made the correct decision after all. Intel needs to either get out of the fab business ASAP, or get their 10nm process fixed stat. Otherwise they're going to fall behind AMD bigly.
Yeah, no. If you want affordable housing it is not in the city. That ship sailed basically everywhere.
That's a situation we've created with zoning and permitting, and it's a situation we can fix in exactly the same way. We did it with earthquake safety. We're doing it with electrical demand, with solar requirements. We can do it with housing.
My guess is that the equipment is highly specific. Or it is obsolete even though it was purchased 2 years ago. Or the amount of work/expertise required to install is more than any school can afford. Or a combination.
Almost certainly the correct answer is "already obsolete." It often takes governments so long to get their act together that the equipment is already past its prime by the time they get it in their hands, because of all of their ridiculous process and procedure which doesn't actually stop malfeasance anyway.
Not many jobs will let you work 2 months, leave for 9 and return again.
Nah, there are loads of jobs like that, especially in the summer, at least in places worth visiting on vacation. That does of course mean that they are less prevalent in Kansas. However, none of them pay anything.
There's really only one reasonable solution to the problem: force developers who want to build a commercial building larger than a breadbox to build housing enough for all employees who will work in the building into the building itself, or on the same campus, and to prioritize rentals to employees. And over some other size threshold, they also have to install a food store. Onwards towards arcologies! If the free market won't deliver it, then we must demand it. Anything else is essentially insane. Cities are only efficient when people can live near work.
Center of empire has moved on to China, which is more economically free than the US and Europe,
China literally executes people for cheating on their taxes, then takes them away in death vans and their family never sees the corpse again because they break them up for parts and sell their organs to the highest bidder. Tell us again about Chinese economic freedom.
The problem is the "older and richer neighbors living in a nearly identical house". Stop trying to shape a city with demographics.
The problem is paying for things with property taxes. They should be paid for with income taxes. California tries to do this, but it still can't kick property taxes completely, which would be the only fair thing to do — on one's first dwelling. Commercial property can still be taxed, second+ homes can still be taxed, vacation homes etc. Any home that the owner or their immediate family occupies less than 50% of the year, that is. And the owner would still only get the taxes off of one residential property of their choice per year.
Property taxes are inherently regressive, and thus inherently unfair.
The idiot mocked Trump supporters as meth addicts.
Aww, feelings hurt much?
I wonder whether he would hang himself if he found out that the racial statistics behind meth use have switched since 10 years ago or such from white trash using it to blacks moving from crack to meth by a good portion.
Could you provide a citation for that? All the available data seems to state the opposite, but everything I can find is pretty old. samhsa.gov seems to be designed to hide information on this subject, they have a quick link to data on cocaine and opioids but not meth. (They also require javascript even though their site appears to do nothing which requires it...)
This is the bigger issue of backward compatibility. How long should a vendor support a feature they no longer want to support simply because someone is using it?
If they don't want to support it, they should bring out a new version, and open source the old one. If the new version if better, then people will use it. If it isn't, then they don't need to bring out a new version, do they?
I thought you couldn't create VMs with Player, only run them?
You can create VMs. You can't snapshot them, that takes Workstation. AFAICT there are no other limitations of consequence... looks like they also disable cloning, remote connections, and maybe take some settings out of the GUI. I'm fairly sure that you can still make the same sorts of changes manually, in the vm config file. They even let you boot partitions. I run Win7 and Linux, and I can boot each from the other. Everything pops up and works for the most part, except I haven't got it to where I can have GL on Linux in both contexts without reinstalling things. Windows, on the other hand, delivers graphics acceleration either in the VM or on the bare metal without any manual intervention.
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Cheap food isn't evil, fake food is. Most of what the dollar store sells has little nutritional value, but it still displaces real food stores which sell real food. Congratulations on failing to understand the argument, but commenting anyway.
"There's nothing inherently special or irredeemable about shithole neighborhoods either. "
In my experience, there absolutely is. For example, the shitty part of lake county ca is the city of clear lake. That's the side of the lake with the most mercury contamination. Or in yuba-sutter, olivehurst is the place with the most flood risk. Even in Santa Cruz county, it's way hotter in watsonville, and the beach flats are the flood plain.
There is at least a historical reason for shithole neighborhoods, if not an ongoing one, whether you have sussed it out or not. IME, ongoing.
Their batteries are garbage. They have no quality control whatsoever, and they don't keep whether you use them or not. Same as the worthless batteries at harbor freight.
Are there any actual one price shops any more? There used to be "everything's $1.00" but they seem to be gone. Dollar tree and general both have some higher priced items, and Daiso is chock-full of them. (Daiso is also the only one of these stores I will go into, because all the other are filled with toxic garbage.)
". Tell me, why is it you cunt fascists are all such lying sacks of shit? Did it start with your parents not teaching you about integrity?"
They taught them, all right. They taught them to say one thing while doing another. They learned it from religion, which despises while calling it love.
It's also true that if Trump weren't a sociopathic sleazebag there would be no shutdown, and it's also true that a border wall is a stupid idea on all levels since it won't work. If you get near a point, make it.
"Why aren't the Trump-loving libertarians opposing this on the fact that it will be the US taxpayer paying for the wall when their dear leader promised them the Mexicans would pay for it? "
Libertarianism is a red herring. It's irrelevant to this discussion. Why aren't Trump supporters etc. The answer is that they are stupid. To wit, they have demonstrated a willingness to believe that Trump is somehow getting the money from Mexico. Now they can blame the situation on Congress.
"Could it be libertarians are just a bunch of hypocritical cunts?"
They are, because they will claim others are ignoring reality when that is literally their whole thing, specifically pretending that anarchy does not lead naturally to feudalism because none of us are islands. However, it's not clear what that has to do with this. Most Trump supporters are not libertarians, they are boring old Republicans.
"Well, screw /. because I just lost my entire post by switching the format to plain text,"
If you are using anything but the classic view, shame on you, you should know better. If your browser doesn't restore form contents on back navigation, shame on you, you picked a crap browser.
The easiest way (that is, while retaining capitalism) is to print money.
Printing money creates inflation, which is good because it discourages cash hoarding, which means it encourages investment. Rich people are sitting on trillions because they can.
You print the money and hand it to the people. They spend it, creating jobs.
In the bargain you get to bring back piece work, and eliminate the minimum wage and basically all social programs except universal health care, which means an enormous boost to business.
This scheme transfers wealth directly from hoarders to circulation, where it can do work. As such it is basically ideal.
It's probably a waste of time to send people to Mars for purposes other than scientific exploration and research at this time. If you want to build stuff on Mars, it would be smarter to figure out how to get robots to do it. Humans are going to need some substantial infrastructure when they get to Mars, and the more can be there when they get there, the better.
Nations cant cover that "the universal part means everyone gets it." part with a tax system that expects most of the normal population to work, have jobs and pay "tax".
You still don't get it. No matter what, a system which expects most of the "normal" population (whatever the hell you mean by that) to work is doomed to fail, because there is not going to be enough work for that. If that's one of your basic criteria, you can only imagine systems which will fail.
You don't get it. If it includes means testing, it is not UBI. The basic income part means you get it whether you "need" it or not, and the universal part means everyone gets it. What's so hard to understand about this?
But that's bullshit, UBI is to be paid whether you make more or not. If they take away money when you make money it's no different from welfare schemes like we have here on the USA. When you start to make enough that you don't need them any more, they cut you off and you fall back into poverty.
From 2020 on, electric look to on the way to dominating the consumer vehicle market.
No sooner than 2025. There are too many infrastructure issues to work out. If they could work out charging them, EVs would suit the needs of the majority of the population, but as it is, by 2020 they will probably still work for less than half of them. If it's anywhere near half, though, that's still quite a bright future for EVs.
Intel bet everything on their 10nm process, and now they are faltering. Many mocked AMD for getting out of fabbing their own CPUs, but now it looks like they made the correct decision after all. Intel needs to either get out of the fab business ASAP, or get their 10nm process fixed stat. Otherwise they're going to fall behind AMD bigly.
Yeah, no. If you want affordable housing it is not in the city. That ship sailed basically everywhere.
That's a situation we've created with zoning and permitting, and it's a situation we can fix in exactly the same way. We did it with earthquake safety. We're doing it with electrical demand, with solar requirements. We can do it with housing.
My guess is that the equipment is highly specific. Or it is obsolete even though it was purchased 2 years ago. Or the amount of work/expertise required to install is more than any school can afford. Or a combination.
Almost certainly the correct answer is "already obsolete." It often takes governments so long to get their act together that the equipment is already past its prime by the time they get it in their hands, because of all of their ridiculous process and procedure which doesn't actually stop malfeasance anyway.
Not many jobs will let you work 2 months, leave for 9 and return again.
Nah, there are loads of jobs like that, especially in the summer, at least in places worth visiting on vacation. That does of course mean that they are less prevalent in Kansas. However, none of them pay anything.
There's really only one reasonable solution to the problem: force developers who want to build a commercial building larger than a breadbox to build housing enough for all employees who will work in the building into the building itself, or on the same campus, and to prioritize rentals to employees. And over some other size threshold, they also have to install a food store. Onwards towards arcologies! If the free market won't deliver it, then we must demand it. Anything else is essentially insane. Cities are only efficient when people can live near work.
Center of empire has moved on to China, which is more economically free than the US and Europe,
China literally executes people for cheating on their taxes, then takes them away in death vans and their family never sees the corpse again because they break them up for parts and sell their organs to the highest bidder. Tell us again about Chinese economic freedom.
The problem is the "older and richer neighbors living in a nearly identical house". Stop trying to shape a city with demographics.
The problem is paying for things with property taxes. They should be paid for with income taxes. California tries to do this, but it still can't kick property taxes completely, which would be the only fair thing to do — on one's first dwelling. Commercial property can still be taxed, second+ homes can still be taxed, vacation homes etc. Any home that the owner or their immediate family occupies less than 50% of the year, that is. And the owner would still only get the taxes off of one residential property of their choice per year.
Property taxes are inherently regressive, and thus inherently unfair.
I just plan on going into my Amazon account every few weeks and deleting all voice recordings.
Do you plan on having Amazon actually delete those files from their database? Because if you do, you'd better make a new plan which is more realistic.
The idiot mocked Trump supporters as meth addicts.
Aww, feelings hurt much?
I wonder whether he would hang himself if he found out that the racial statistics behind meth use have switched since 10 years ago or such from white trash using it to blacks moving from crack to meth by a good portion.
Could you provide a citation for that? All the available data seems to state the opposite, but everything I can find is pretty old. samhsa.gov seems to be designed to hide information on this subject, they have a quick link to data on cocaine and opioids but not meth. (They also require javascript even though their site appears to do nothing which requires it...)
This is the bigger issue of backward compatibility. How long should a vendor support a feature they no longer want to support simply because someone is using it?
If they don't want to support it, they should bring out a new version, and open source the old one. If the new version if better, then people will use it. If it isn't, then they don't need to bring out a new version, do they?
I thought you couldn't create VMs with Player, only run them?
You can create VMs. You can't snapshot them, that takes Workstation. AFAICT there are no other limitations of consequence... looks like they also disable cloning, remote connections, and maybe take some settings out of the GUI. I'm fairly sure that you can still make the same sorts of changes manually, in the vm config file. They even let you boot partitions. I run Win7 and Linux, and I can boot each from the other. Everything pops up and works for the most part, except I haven't got it to where I can have GL on Linux in both contexts without reinstalling things. Windows, on the other hand, delivers graphics acceleration either in the VM or on the bare metal without any manual intervention.