The problem is "what is needed to live" is very subjective.
no, for the population as a whole, it is pretty objective. We know how much food people need to eat and we know how much it costs. We know how much housing costs. We are not calculating custom living levels for every person. We are calculating a value that is the same for everyone.
That has been said but in reality 95% of people won't get up at 4:30am to make your coffee.
in reality there are not enough jobs to go around, so it's actually good that we have lazy people who are not going to waste resources competing for non-existent employment
And that's why it won't work in the long run. It'll acclimate people to the idea that they have a right to public money just because they showed up, not because they're part of society and it's part of a set of reciprocal rights and duties.
that's precisely why it WILL work in the long run, as mechanized society takes away more and more jobs, nobody is going to expect to get an actual job
The simple fact of the matter is that some people enjoy torturing other people. Why give money to poor people when you can make them beg? Get them to grovel and beg. Make them fill out useless paperwork and force them to reveal their personal lives to random strangers. And then you can call them names and you can get everyone else in society to look down on them. Isn't that so much more fun?
So those social workers would also prefer to have a high inheritance tax, because people who inherit enough to live without working will lose the will to improve themselves, end up with depression, etc., right?
Only about %0.1 percent of the population cares about inheritance tax
Do YOU care about inheritance tax? WHY? FREE MONEY COMING SOON???
The evidence of history is that the new program will just sit atop the older programs, adding complexity without a corresponding decrease in complexity elsewhere....
The ACTUAL evidence is that our history is filled with defunct agencies
Who is selfish? The one who wants to benefit from the society be safe and law abiding, but doesn't want to pay the costs for that society to exist.
Who says "they" don't want to pay? Citations required. Do you even know who "they" are? How do you presume to speak for them? Are you asserting there are enough jobs for everyone, and that jobs are available if you only work hard enough?
You do realize that when there are not enough jobs, if you work harder, you're just displacing someone else.
...and you get only $300 worth of quality and performance. If you buy a low-end econobox car, you'll get the same quality and performance as a low-end econobox car.
For $300 you can get a very nice chromebook, zippy fast, very tiny, decent quality. They run various flavors of linux so you're not stuck in google land.
The keyboards are awful (bad layout and bad feel), they run very hot, and the battery life is poor.
Both the last two points are Apples fault
Whatever you say, I have a dell, it behaves just like your apple machine. The apple is a solid piece of metal and the dell is a cheap piece of plastic that flexes when I type on it. Its battery life is just a couple of hours, I have to leave it plugged in all the time. The Dell has terrible driver problems, sound is totally broken and the nvidia driver crashes occasionally with a big screen flash and a lovely error dialog. No such problems with my mac.
As for build quality and durability, Macs are not as solid as machines like business Thinkpads or Panasonic Let's Note (Toughbook). They are just not designed to be.
??? huh ??? WTF ??? wow !?!?!
Aluminum body MacBooks are just crazy durable. My wife and I are both terrible klutzes, we break phones and remotes all the time. We both have 2008 MacBooks and they both look close to new. They have both been dropped on the floor many times. They run like they did when we bought them seven years ago. We also have friends and relatives with macbooks, they all say the same thing, totally rock solid.
The Macintosh version actually did a few things. Mostly to help alleviate Classic Mac OS's piss poor memory management where you had to pre-allocate a contiguous chunk of memory to each process -- manually.
this is a necessary step on any hardware that doesn't have virtual memory, regardless of operating system
The Enforcement Bureau’s investigation revealed that Smart City automatically blocked consumers from using their own “rogue” Wi-Fi networks at several convention centers the company serves, including the convention centers in Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Orlando, Florida; and Phoenix, Arizona.
Do you really assert that corporations are going to hire lawyers, fill out depositions, etc. to recover an $80 fee? you are dreaming. There is no way it is worth the effort.
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The problem is "what is needed to live" is very subjective.
no, for the population as a whole, it is pretty objective. We know how much food people need to eat and we know how much it costs. We know how much housing costs. We are not calculating custom living levels for every person. We are calculating a value that is the same for everyone.
Fallacy, there are ways to have a society that is safe and law abiding without paying the willfully lazy
what is wrong with having people who are accepting of the fact that society does not produce enough jobs for everyone?
That has been said but in reality 95% of people won't get up at 4:30am to make your coffee.
in reality there are not enough jobs to go around, so it's actually good that we have lazy people who are not going to waste resources competing for non-existent employment
And that's why it won't work in the long run. It'll acclimate people to the idea that they have a right to public money just because they showed up, not because they're part of society and it's part of a set of reciprocal rights and duties.
that's precisely why it WILL work in the long run, as mechanized society takes away more and more jobs, nobody is going to expect to get an actual job
The simple fact of the matter is that some people enjoy torturing other people. Why give money to poor people when you can make them beg? Get them to grovel and beg. Make them fill out useless paperwork and force them to reveal their personal lives to random strangers. And then you can call them names and you can get everyone else in society to look down on them. Isn't that so much more fun?
society considers you to be a parasite for not sharing
So those social workers would also prefer to have a high inheritance tax, because people who inherit enough to live without working will lose the will to improve themselves, end up with depression, etc., right?
Only about %0.1 percent of the population cares about inheritance tax
Do YOU care about inheritance tax? WHY? FREE MONEY COMING SOON???
Looks good on paper. But when enough people stop working and still expect a "basic income" check every month, it will quickly collapse. F
citation required
The evidence of history is that the new program will just sit atop the older programs, adding complexity without a corresponding decrease in complexity elsewhere....
The ACTUAL evidence is that our history is filled with defunct agencies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_agencies_of_the_United_States_government
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I have no choice but to pay in, it doesn't really matter whether I'm selfish or not?
correct me if I'm wrong but nobody is forcing you to earn so much money
Who is selfish? The one who wants to benefit from the society be safe and law abiding, but doesn't want to pay the costs for that society to exist.
Who says "they" don't want to pay? Citations required. Do you even know who "they" are? How do you presume to speak for them? Are you asserting there are enough jobs for everyone, and that jobs are available if you only work hard enough?
You do realize that when there are not enough jobs, if you work harder, you're just displacing someone else.
before Apple started aggressively obsoleting their own hardware every year or two.
huh? my 2008 macbook is seven years old and still fully supported in OSX yosemite
You can buy a new PC for $300.
...and you get only $300 worth of quality and performance. If you buy a low-end econobox car, you'll get the same quality and performance as a low-end econobox car.
For $300 you can get a very nice chromebook, zippy fast, very tiny, decent quality. They run various flavors of linux so you're not stuck in google land.
The keyboards are awful (bad layout and bad feel), they run very hot, and the battery life is poor.
Both the last two points are Apples fault
Whatever you say, I have a dell, it behaves just like your apple machine. The apple is a solid piece of metal and the dell is a cheap piece of plastic that flexes when I type on it. Its battery life is just a couple of hours, I have to leave it plugged in all the time. The Dell has terrible driver problems, sound is totally broken and the nvidia driver crashes occasionally with a big screen flash and a lovely error dialog. No such problems with my mac.
As for build quality and durability, Macs are not as solid as machines like business Thinkpads or Panasonic Let's Note (Toughbook). They are just not designed to be.
??? huh ??? WTF ??? wow !?!?!
Aluminum body MacBooks are just crazy durable. My wife and I are both terrible klutzes, we break phones and remotes all the time. We both have 2008 MacBooks and they both look close to new. They have both been dropped on the floor many times. They run like they did when we bought them seven years ago. We also have friends and relatives with macbooks, they all say the same thing, totally rock solid.
Don't they know it's not cool nowadays to be associated with gasoline?
Performance studies indicate that you want the highest flash point
I personally pretend a technology doesn't exist until I see it widely available in the channel with the various price points.
remind me not to hire you for budget forecasting
Is it better than current SSD/Flash?
It doesn't exist yet, so it would be hard for it to be better
You can't call them "flash drives" if it isn't flash memory, can you?
that would depend on how you define the word "flash"
is it impossible for this word to encompass new technologies?
The Macintosh version actually did a few things. Mostly to help alleviate Classic Mac OS's piss poor memory management where you had to pre-allocate a contiguous chunk of memory to each process -- manually.
this is a necessary step on any hardware that doesn't have virtual memory, regardless of operating system
CPUs, especially on modern machines that typically have around four cores, are very rarely at 100% utilization in real-world scenarios.
On a laptop/tablet/phone the battery usage is going to be the larger consideration than straight CPU utilization.
using compressed ram instead of spinning up a drive to swap is a huge win
swapping on a small system is truly miserable because you're swapping on your one and only block device, shared with all other access
The Enforcement Bureau’s
investigation revealed that Smart City automatically blocked consumers from using their own “rogue”
Wi-Fi networks at several convention centers the company serves, including the convention centers in
Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Orlando, Florida; and Phoenix, Arizona.
the purpose of justice is to remove offenders from the community to keep the rest of us safe
"Revenge is for suckers" - Gondorff, The Sting
Do you really assert that corporations are going to hire lawyers, fill out depositions, etc. to recover an $80 fee? you are dreaming. There is no way it is worth the effort.
RTFA:
"As part of the settlement, Smart City will cease its Wi-Fi blocking activities"
Where is the loophole? Consent decrees are intentionally made very simple and straightforward so there are no loopholes.