Again: Would you consider an omniscient, omnipotent being that can not only transcend space and time but also create worlds and life as ORDINARY? Then what the hell would you consider extraordinary, please explain this.
It's irrational to assert that something defined as unobservable cannot exist because it is unobserved.
Something that is unobservable is also irrelevant by scientific standards.
About you claiming I have a "belief". My "belief" is the lack thereof. You make a claim (the existence of an extra-dimensional, or however you wish to define it, being) and I reject that claim and do not believe it. That's where my "belief" ends: At not believing.
And no, you do not have to justify your position on an empirical basis. But then you should also not expect it to be taken serious from a scientific point of view. Or demand that it should be taught as if it had any scientific merit.
I am really tempted to sell calorie free water. With exactly the same taste as regular water, tested in a scientifically solid double blind study it was proven that it is impossible to taste the difference!
Why? He did something to please his girlfriend, he didn't say that he believes in the whole bullshit.
Seriously, I get laid if I put a sticker on my laptop? In a month you'd have to look carefully to find a place on it that isn't in three layers of stickers.
I have a much simpler system in place: I drink when I'm thirsty. Lo and behold, it works. Why? Because if it didn't, we wouldn't live anymore. Back a few million years nobody had time to spend time to pore over bullshit like when to drink how much and why.
Then put a lid on those H1-Bs and only let the ones that create the jobs and not the ones that take the jobs in.
It's your country, make your rules as they benefit YOU. There's no reason to keep the job creators out. An Indian creating jobs for people in your country? Hell, if you don't want him, send him over here!
But last time I checked they didn't chop off the heads of the peasants, that time 'round it was a different kind of people that got their neck aired out.
The reason that wasn't a problem back then (and up until now, it didn't happen only once) was that new industries emerged that hoovered up the available workforce.
When farms needed fewer hands, it was actually a beneficial situation because there was actually a shortage of workers for the at the same time emerging industries. The former farmers flocked to the booming industry towns (with all the ensuing problems), but at least these people did have a job again.
When industries automated away the conveyor belt workplaces with industry robots, the service industry was quite happy to take the former industry workers and use them as restaurant waiters, supermarket cashiers and fast food restaurant burger flippers.
The thing is that these jobs were all quite menial jobs, requiring low skill, little training and could be done by pretty much anyone. The skill requirements for raking hay, putting a sheet of metal under a press and pushing a button or carrying a tray of glasses is quite negligible. The problem now is that all those jobs have been automated, and there isn't anywhere to go for those people that isn't either already automated as well or won't be in a few years. Technology is at the point where it can do what someone with a low IQ can do, and since computers can work 24/7 and don't form unions, they are simply more attractive as "employees".
Up until now, you could argue (and rightfully so) that a new kind of market would emerge that needs those low qualified, low intelligence workers as cheap labor. Today, this simply isn't the case anymore. We have arrived in a time where it is indeed possible to replace some people with a very small script.
This works as long as they're few. It works as long as the majority of your population is not in that group and can actually be simultaneously kept in fear of becoming part of it and being happy that they have something to look down onto as "those lazy bums". That way you keep them busy working for you.
We're nearing critical mass, though. At some point you'll have to resort to violence to keep them from going at your throat. You can of course do what we do now and pit them against each other, but that bears the threat that at some point someone might emerge that is charismatic enough to unite them when he says "follow me!"
And then we have Paris 1789, Moscow 1917 or Berlin 1933, depending on how it's going to pan out.
We're talking about the US government here. The same government whose very reason to exist is to screw the population over and enable corporations to increase their profits infinitely.
Simple. There is some part that deals with the networking. And only one such part will be acknowledged by the other end of your network as being "yours". If you need to replace that part, you have to inform the other end of your contract that this is now the part that should be allowed on their network and immediately the other one ceases to work.
It's one of the things you can't oppose and sell it to anyone in the population. No matter what your agenda, "right to repair" is something you would get behind, no matter where you sit on the political spectrum. If you're leaning right, you get jobs from China back to the USA, if you're leaning left, it's empowering people to escape the stranglehold of corporations.
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Don't be surprised if that workaround gets outlawed because the maker of the appliance has bigger rights to it than you, its mere owner.
Again: Would you consider an omniscient, omnipotent being that can not only transcend space and time but also create worlds and life as ORDINARY? Then what the hell would you consider extraordinary, please explain this.
It's irrational to assert that something defined as unobservable cannot exist because it is unobserved.
Something that is unobservable is also irrelevant by scientific standards.
About you claiming I have a "belief". My "belief" is the lack thereof. You make a claim (the existence of an extra-dimensional, or however you wish to define it, being) and I reject that claim and do not believe it. That's where my "belief" ends: At not believing.
And no, you do not have to justify your position on an empirical basis. But then you should also not expect it to be taken serious from a scientific point of view. Or demand that it should be taught as if it had any scientific merit.
The same. They are essentially in the Tablet market what MS is for Desktops. And the phone market they share with a company that's just as bad.
Find a cactus.
Poe's Law is strong in this whole thread, I wouldn't immediately attribute to idiocy what can be explained with sarcasm.
Soandso now makes Snake Oil too? I gotta get it, his scalar frequency generator is awesome!
I am really tempted to sell calorie free water. With exactly the same taste as regular water, tested in a scientifically solid double blind study it was proven that it is impossible to taste the difference!
Actually, I'm waiting for the first snakeoil peddling celeb to accuse anyone calling the bullshit out racist or misogynist.
Why? He did something to please his girlfriend, he didn't say that he believes in the whole bullshit.
Seriously, I get laid if I put a sticker on my laptop? In a month you'd have to look carefully to find a place on it that isn't in three layers of stickers.
I have a much simpler system in place: I drink when I'm thirsty. Lo and behold, it works. Why? Because if it didn't, we wouldn't live anymore. Back a few million years nobody had time to spend time to pore over bullshit like when to drink how much and why.
Not gonna fly. At least not in any country remotely religious.
Because ... well, the Catholic Church has deep pockets and would be a prime target, way before any other snakeoil peddler.
Last I heard that you then get a beaver, but a badger?
Ok. Grab your gun and meet me somewhere in the rich parts of the town. Shaking them down feeds more people than rounding up the poor.
You know, when enough poor assemble, rich people get recycled as pinatas.
Then put a lid on those H1-Bs and only let the ones that create the jobs and not the ones that take the jobs in.
It's your country, make your rules as they benefit YOU. There's no reason to keep the job creators out. An Indian creating jobs for people in your country? Hell, if you don't want him, send him over here!
But last time I checked they didn't chop off the heads of the peasants, that time 'round it was a different kind of people that got their neck aired out.
Hush, you know they'd fuck it up, let's just be glad they didn't try.
The reason that wasn't a problem back then (and up until now, it didn't happen only once) was that new industries emerged that hoovered up the available workforce.
When farms needed fewer hands, it was actually a beneficial situation because there was actually a shortage of workers for the at the same time emerging industries. The former farmers flocked to the booming industry towns (with all the ensuing problems), but at least these people did have a job again.
When industries automated away the conveyor belt workplaces with industry robots, the service industry was quite happy to take the former industry workers and use them as restaurant waiters, supermarket cashiers and fast food restaurant burger flippers.
The thing is that these jobs were all quite menial jobs, requiring low skill, little training and could be done by pretty much anyone. The skill requirements for raking hay, putting a sheet of metal under a press and pushing a button or carrying a tray of glasses is quite negligible. The problem now is that all those jobs have been automated, and there isn't anywhere to go for those people that isn't either already automated as well or won't be in a few years. Technology is at the point where it can do what someone with a low IQ can do, and since computers can work 24/7 and don't form unions, they are simply more attractive as "employees".
Up until now, you could argue (and rightfully so) that a new kind of market would emerge that needs those low qualified, low intelligence workers as cheap labor. Today, this simply isn't the case anymore. We have arrived in a time where it is indeed possible to replace some people with a very small script.
Pretty much what any modern RPG offers, just without the game interrupting the cutscenes?
This works as long as they're few. It works as long as the majority of your population is not in that group and can actually be simultaneously kept in fear of becoming part of it and being happy that they have something to look down onto as "those lazy bums". That way you keep them busy working for you.
We're nearing critical mass, though. At some point you'll have to resort to violence to keep them from going at your throat. You can of course do what we do now and pit them against each other, but that bears the threat that at some point someone might emerge that is charismatic enough to unite them when he says "follow me!"
And then we have Paris 1789, Moscow 1917 or Berlin 1933, depending on how it's going to pan out.
We're talking about the US government here. The same government whose very reason to exist is to screw the population over and enable corporations to increase their profits infinitely.
timeo danaos et dona ferentes.
Simple. There is some part that deals with the networking. And only one such part will be acknowledged by the other end of your network as being "yours". If you need to replace that part, you have to inform the other end of your contract that this is now the part that should be allowed on their network and immediately the other one ceases to work.
That was easy. Try a more difficult one.
That protects jobs in China. Repair shops in the US would create jobs in the US.
He's really trying hard to appear likable.
It's one of the things you can't oppose and sell it to anyone in the population. No matter what your agenda, "right to repair" is something you would get behind, no matter where you sit on the political spectrum. If you're leaning right, you get jobs from China back to the USA, if you're leaning left, it's empowering people to escape the stranglehold of corporations.