Similar to the sex offenders registry we shoul have a public registry with name and address of all cops who have used excessive force. Name and shame these guys.
The flip side of bad working conditions in China is a higher standard of living in USA. If US consumers had to pay the real cost of production lots of poor Americans would be living a poor Chinese lifestyle and lots of Middle Class Chinese would be living an American Middle Class lifestyle. Be careful what you wish for.
What do taxes fund? 80% of it goes to Law and Order, Courts, Military, Business councils, regulatory bodies all of which make capitalism possible and make it possible for capitalists to earn a return on their capital. Very little benefit of taxes goes to the poor though they still end up paying 40% of the total tax burden. So the rich pay 60% of the taxes and get 80% of the benefits and the poor pay 40% of the taxes and get 20% of the benefits.
Most "Libertarians" are sucking at the govt teat much more than any welfare mom.
Google's customer are the companies who pay money to Google for ads. You do not pay any money to Google so how can you be their customer? You and your profile is Google's product which Google sells to advertizers. They take care to anonymize the data not because you will stop paying money to them (how can you ? you dont pay anything today) but because if profiles end up in their advertizers hands the advertizers can market directly and dont need to go through Google. Ditto Facebook. Apple actually gets money from you and me so it cares what we think .
Given that after the fracking boom , the US is a net oil exporter; reducing dependance on oil only hurts Texans and Alaskans not Saudis. And EVs are charged using electricity from coal which is a lot dirtier than ICE so the environmental argument fails too. The only argument that is valid is that Tesla is based in California while other car companies are in the Southeast or the midwest. Totally makes sense for California to encourage EV adoption. Why the federal govt is paying for it? 56 Reps in Congress. Thats why.
USA is so outraged by Russian interference in US elections. All Russia "allegedly" did was air Clinton's dirty laundry and post ads on facebook. They didnt change any votes or rig any voting machines or tell any lies, "again allegedly". Yet USA is outraged and investigating and crippling a democratically elected President.
Yet Americans see no irony in trying to interfere in Iran's internal politics?
Americans understand very well the concept of a deep state. You have the fairly democratic elected President Trump and then the FBI led deep state which is trying to trash and derail his agenda. The Ayatollahs are the deep state in Iran
We already have Untouchables in the USA. They are locked up on reservations. But the Untouchables of USA are getting back at larger society by fueling their gambling addictions:)
In a democracy rights and diuties go hand in hand. You want to decide how everyone's life is run then its your duty to at least learn what you are voting for. Voting is not an inherent right of all citizens- children are citizens but cant vote. This is not about rich vs poor . Plenty of ignorant rich folks around too.
There is a very simple way to do this. Have an electronic voting machine with a paper printout. Voter votes, prints out his ballot and puts it into the ballot box. When counting the electronic count is used but with 10% of the paper votes counted by hand to verify the counts are good. If the counts dont match up statistically or the election is close the backup paper ballots get counted by hand. You get speed and you get accuracy. You have a national level organization standardize the machine format to be used by all local authorities. Heck in India there is a National Election Commission whose only job is to conduct elections. They are pretty multipartisan as their terms overlap across elections and every party which comes to power gets to put its appointees on the commission but that would never work in US as the US distrusts federal solutions.
I feel the electronic voting machines should have a few questions on the constitution and civics and only after you answer them correctly should you be shown the screen which allows you to vote. Too many people who have no idea of what democracy means vote hence making the whole exercise a farce where the one with the most TV time (and by extension the most corporate lobbies) wins because most people dont know what they are voting for. The questions can be pulled from a rotating questionbank so no 2 people get the same 5 questions and if some party is willing to educate their voters on the right answers to all 5000 questions well now you have an informed voter.
90% of butts in seat not the folks who see a movie once in a while. Moviepass is happy to sell cards to those folks as its a profit to Moviepass but the core target is the folks who buy popcorn at the movies. Once Moviepass owns their loyalty then they can use them as a bargaining chip with the theaters to share some of the popcorn money.
If you think the iPhone is not a copy go ask a Motorola exec about their Rokr phone. Motorola spent a year teaching Apple how to build phones as they thought they were in partnership and all the time Apple was working on the iPhone in secret and using Motorola's teachings to figure out how to build a phone (mostly supply chain stuff)
The plan of course is once 90% of the movie going public goes via Moviepass, moviepass negotiates with the movie theaters for a cut or they stop supporting that theater and the theater overnight loses 90% customers. its literally an offer the movie theaters wont be able to refuse. At that point once they have squeezed the theaters for all they can and the theaters are bleeding and in the red, they can pick up the theaters on the cheap and then start squeezing the studios. Once that is done they start increasing the monthly rates a dollar at a time till they are finally making money. No wonder the theaters are fighting it as hard as they can. They recognize that this plan is only viable if the end game is to squeeze them.
Apple has always copied. Apple's strategy has never been of the innovator. The strategy has always been the fast follower strategy. They let other be on the bleeding edge and learn from their mistakes and come in with a much more polished, dumbed down and well integrated version. What this does is by the time Apple brings a product to market the market is ready for it but also frustrated with the incumbents and ready to accept fewer functionality for greater reliability and ease of use. The Mac was a copy of Xerox PARC Mac OS is a copy of Unix The iPod was a copy of various cheap mp3 players The iPhone is a copy of the Motorola Rokr - the first phone to play iTunes as well of various Windows Phone 6 Touchphones from HP The iPad is a well put together version of countless Samsung tablets The Watch is a copy of various Android gear smartwatches Apple Pay is a copy of countless systems which have been there in Japan for almost 25 years now The Homepod is a copy of Alexa, Google Home etc
Almost nothing Apple does is original . It just does it better and takes over a market.
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And you would know how?
Similar to the sex offenders registry we shoul have a public registry with name and address of all cops who have used excessive force. Name and shame these guys.
Why steal the plans. Its probably going to be manufactured in a Chinese factory or do you think USA has any manufacturing capability left?
The flip side of bad working conditions in China is a higher standard of living in USA. If US consumers had to pay the real cost of production lots of poor Americans would be living a poor Chinese lifestyle and lots of Middle Class Chinese would be living an American Middle Class lifestyle. Be careful what you wish for.
Seems like the Air scrubbers out of the SimCity future technology pack
What do taxes fund? 80% of it goes to Law and Order, Courts, Military, Business councils, regulatory bodies all of which make capitalism possible and make it possible for capitalists to earn a return on their capital. Very little benefit of taxes goes to the poor though they still end up paying 40% of the total tax burden.
So the rich pay 60% of the taxes and get 80% of the benefits and the poor pay 40% of the taxes and get 20% of the benefits.
Most "Libertarians" are sucking at the govt teat much more than any welfare mom.
The actual practice of power in the US is also via PACs , thinktanks, media houses, AIPAC, ACLU etc. The elections are for show.
The soviets did get to Space first so not like being beaten by Communists is something new for USA
20 years? Try 10
We should have a 2nd Amendment for Nukes where all countries have nukes. May just make USA more polite and stop poking into others' backyards.
You know the solution to not having a nuke go off in USA?
Stop pissing off people. There solved and did not need turning USA into East Germany.
Google's customer are the companies who pay money to Google for ads. You do not pay any money to Google so how can you be their customer? You and your profile is Google's product which Google sells to advertizers. They take care to anonymize the data not because you will stop paying money to them (how can you ? you dont pay anything today) but because if profiles end up in their advertizers hands the advertizers can market directly and dont need to go through Google.
Ditto Facebook.
Apple actually gets money from you and me so it cares what we think .
Given that after the fracking boom , the US is a net oil exporter; reducing dependance on oil only hurts Texans and Alaskans not Saudis. And EVs are charged using electricity from coal which is a lot dirtier than ICE so the environmental argument fails too. The only argument that is valid is that Tesla is based in California while other car companies are in the Southeast or the midwest. Totally makes sense for California to encourage EV adoption. Why the federal govt is paying for it? 56 Reps in Congress. Thats why.
USA is so outraged by Russian interference in US elections. All Russia "allegedly" did was air Clinton's dirty laundry and post ads on facebook. They didnt change any votes or rig any voting machines or tell any lies, "again allegedly".
Yet USA is outraged and investigating and crippling a democratically elected President.
Yet Americans see no irony in trying to interfere in Iran's internal politics?
Americans understand very well the concept of a deep state. You have the fairly democratic elected President Trump and then the FBI led deep state which is trying to trash and derail his agenda. The Ayatollahs are the deep state in Iran
Iran will unblock Twitter when USA unblocks Kaspersky.
We already have Untouchables in the USA. They are locked up on reservations. But the Untouchables of USA are getting back at larger society by fueling their gambling addictions:)
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In a democracy rights and diuties go hand in hand. You want to decide how everyone's life is run then its your duty to at least learn what you are voting for. Voting is not an inherent right of all citizens- children are citizens but cant vote. This is not about rich vs poor . Plenty of ignorant rich folks around too.
There is a very simple way to do this. Have an electronic voting machine with a paper printout. Voter votes, prints out his ballot and puts it into the ballot box. When counting the electronic count is used but with 10% of the paper votes counted by hand to verify the counts are good. If the counts dont match up statistically or the election is close the backup paper ballots get counted by hand. You get speed and you get accuracy. You have a national level organization standardize the machine format to be used by all local authorities. Heck in India there is a National Election Commission whose only job is to conduct elections. They are pretty multipartisan as their terms overlap across elections and every party which comes to power gets to put its appointees on the commission but that would never work in US as the US distrusts federal solutions.
I feel the electronic voting machines should have a few questions on the constitution and civics and only after you answer them correctly should you be shown the screen which allows you to vote. Too many people who have no idea of what democracy means vote hence making the whole exercise a farce where the one with the most TV time (and by extension the most corporate lobbies) wins because most people dont know what they are voting for.
The questions can be pulled from a rotating questionbank so no 2 people get the same 5 questions and if some party is willing to educate their voters on the right answers to all 5000 questions well now you have an informed voter.
90% of butts in seat not the folks who see a movie once in a while. Moviepass is happy to sell cards to those folks as its a profit to Moviepass but the core target is the folks who buy popcorn at the movies. Once Moviepass owns their loyalty then they can use them as a bargaining chip with the theaters to share some of the popcorn money.
If you think the iPhone is not a copy go ask a Motorola exec about their Rokr phone. Motorola spent a year teaching Apple how to build phones as they thought they were in partnership and all the time Apple was working on the iPhone in secret and using Motorola's teachings to figure out how to build a phone (mostly supply chain stuff)
The plan of course is once 90% of the movie going public goes via Moviepass, moviepass negotiates with the movie theaters for a cut or they stop supporting that theater and the theater overnight loses 90% customers. its literally an offer the movie theaters wont be able to refuse. At that point once they have squeezed the theaters for all they can and the theaters are bleeding and in the red, they can pick up the theaters on the cheap and then start squeezing the studios. Once that is done they start increasing the monthly rates a dollar at a time till they are finally making money.
No wonder the theaters are fighting it as hard as they can. They recognize that this plan is only viable if the end game is to squeeze them.
Apple has always copied. Apple's strategy has never been of the innovator. The strategy has always been the fast follower strategy. They let other be on the bleeding edge and learn from their mistakes and come in with a much more polished, dumbed down and well integrated version. What this does is by the time Apple brings a product to market the market is ready for it but also frustrated with the incumbents and ready to accept fewer functionality for greater reliability and ease of use.
The Mac was a copy of Xerox PARC
Mac OS is a copy of Unix
The iPod was a copy of various cheap mp3 players
The iPhone is a copy of the Motorola Rokr - the first phone to play iTunes as well of various Windows Phone 6 Touchphones from HP
The iPad is a well put together version of countless Samsung tablets
The Watch is a copy of various Android gear smartwatches
Apple Pay is a copy of countless systems which have been there in Japan for almost 25 years now
The Homepod is a copy of Alexa, Google Home etc
Almost nothing Apple does is original . It just does it better and takes over a market.