Actually, without the right to repair, you throw it away, we're drowning in garbage and China sells more of the junk to us to replace what we had to throw away.
If anything, that "right to repair" is about the most pro-US thing you can do right now.
He isn't trolling, the question is valid. We are eliminating low qualification jobs. Which is by itself a good thing, we don't need 100 farm hands to do what a single machine can do better, faster and more efficiently. But what are we going to do with the 100 farm hands. Putting a shovel into someone's hands and telling him to dig from here to next Wednesday is something you can do to everyone (some handicapped people excluded). If you replace them with a machine, retraining those 100 people to write computer programs is not going to work.
Jobs that require an IQ of 80 can be done by nearly everyone. Require an IQ of 100 and half the population is excluded. Require 120 and you'll have a quite hard time finding work for a sizable amount of your people.
And jobs get more "brainy". The low qualification, low intelligence jobs have been eliminated from production. We're now, as you can see in this example, doing the same with services. Where should these people work now? We cannot retrain them all to be programmers, analysts and consultants, they don't have the mental capacity, and we simply don't need so many middle managers, which are equally being eliminated. For the same reason.
Like I said before, give me a way to make people spend money without them having a job and I could ignore that requirement. Until then, we need people to have jobs so they have money so they can spend so they prop the economy up.
Keeping people busy is keeping people earning money. People earning money can buy things. People buying things is what keeps our economy going.
In case you haven't noticed, the big economy crunch happened when people suddenly couldn't refinance their homes and hence couldn't spend money. It was no mere coincidence that these two things happened at the same time.
If you have a way to keep people spending without them having jobs, great, please run for an office because you found the solution to the economy crisis.
We could still start with not fucking up this planet in the first place, then there's no reason to terraform it later.
And choice... sorry, I've seen the choices offered. Some worse than others, but none where I really could have said "That's my man/woman, I WANT that person in office!"
It already started with the prequel trilogy. The whole shit felt like some pimple-faced teenager retold his "life story" the way he wishes it would have happened, including turning "bad" and bent on destroying the world when he hit puberty.
Ron Howard has made quite a few movies. None of them broke any boundaries or even pushed envelopes. What Howard is great at is to make movies that are "safe bets". He's going to deliver a solid movie without any rough edges or bumpy patches. It will go down smoothly like a typical hamburger meal, you'll simply get what you expect and needn't worry about bad surprises.
Or good ones.
It will be technically solid. But don't expect anything that is going to take the franchise into a new direction or anything you could call "artistic". Then again, considering the past few "experiments", I can't really say that this is a bad thing...
At that rate? As long as you only have to give part of your loot to the government, and even that only when you get caught, you'd be stupid not to do it.
Are you kidding? There's more private banks in Austria than in the rest of the EU. It's also the only country left (outside a few places you either don't want to go or cannot go) where there are anonymous accounts. Can't open new ones, but you needn't declare yourself until you want to access it...
Again, the time penalty dwindles to zero when you can get a sleeping cabin on a train for the price of a sardine can seat on a plane. Provided of course that you can travel by night.
Because in the end, I have to be at the destination by 7am and could either fly 4-6am or use the train from 10pm the day before to 6am, I actually gain time when using the train. Because they have WiFi there now, and I have the room to work sensibly while being inside.
This is pretty much what graphics drivers do today, too. To optimize for a game when they detect it as the foreground application. And I highly doubt that anyone considers this a bad or even illegal practice. That's also pretty much what I WANT the driver to do, to get out of the hardware that I have the maximum for the game I play.
The complaint here is that this was done to artificial tests that had zero benefit for actual, real-life, applications but was used to mislead people into thinking it had.
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Actually, without the right to repair, you throw it away, we're drowning in garbage and China sells more of the junk to us to replace what we had to throw away.
If anything, that "right to repair" is about the most pro-US thing you can do right now.
Aww, please tell me you really believe that. That's so adorable.
Nobody tell him Santa doesn't exist!
He isn't trolling, the question is valid. We are eliminating low qualification jobs. Which is by itself a good thing, we don't need 100 farm hands to do what a single machine can do better, faster and more efficiently. But what are we going to do with the 100 farm hands. Putting a shovel into someone's hands and telling him to dig from here to next Wednesday is something you can do to everyone (some handicapped people excluded). If you replace them with a machine, retraining those 100 people to write computer programs is not going to work.
Jobs that require an IQ of 80 can be done by nearly everyone. Require an IQ of 100 and half the population is excluded. Require 120 and you'll have a quite hard time finding work for a sizable amount of your people.
And jobs get more "brainy". The low qualification, low intelligence jobs have been eliminated from production. We're now, as you can see in this example, doing the same with services. Where should these people work now? We cannot retrain them all to be programmers, analysts and consultants, they don't have the mental capacity, and we simply don't need so many middle managers, which are equally being eliminated. For the same reason.
Busy work, no. People getting paid for it, yes.
Like I said before, give me a way to make people spend money without them having a job and I could ignore that requirement. Until then, we need people to have jobs so they have money so they can spend so they prop the economy up.
Keeping people busy is keeping people earning money. People earning money can buy things. People buying things is what keeps our economy going.
In case you haven't noticed, the big economy crunch happened when people suddenly couldn't refinance their homes and hence couldn't spend money. It was no mere coincidence that these two things happened at the same time.
If you have a way to keep people spending without them having jobs, great, please run for an office because you found the solution to the economy crisis.
We could still start with not fucking up this planet in the first place, then there's no reason to terraform it later.
And choice... sorry, I've seen the choices offered. Some worse than others, but none where I really could have said "That's my man/woman, I WANT that person in office!"
So ... we should be allowed to contaminate other planets with our droppings?
The raw print is right underneath you, fire away.
I'm curious, what would you see as the alternative?
It already started with the prequel trilogy. The whole shit felt like some pimple-faced teenager retold his "life story" the way he wishes it would have happened, including turning "bad" and bent on destroying the world when he hit puberty.
Ron Howard has made quite a few movies. None of them broke any boundaries or even pushed envelopes. What Howard is great at is to make movies that are "safe bets". He's going to deliver a solid movie without any rough edges or bumpy patches. It will go down smoothly like a typical hamburger meal, you'll simply get what you expect and needn't worry about bad surprises.
Or good ones.
It will be technically solid. But don't expect anything that is going to take the franchise into a new direction or anything you could call "artistic". Then again, considering the past few "experiments", I can't really say that this is a bad thing...
It already did the moment Jabba started the race.
I don't dare to find out whether Rule 34 applies.
Now where's the profit in that?
At that rate? As long as you only have to give part of your loot to the government, and even that only when you get caught, you'd be stupid not to do it.
It was still racist. On a scale from black to white, this was at least Mexican.
No. Fists only.
There's nearly a 100 million who want a piece of him, too. Don't be selfish, learn to share with others.
I fail to see the problem. Sell his organs for all I care.
Everyone he called has the right to 5 minutes with him. Unsupervised.
Or is that in violation of the 8th?
Are you kidding? There's more private banks in Austria than in the rest of the EU. It's also the only country left (outside a few places you either don't want to go or cannot go) where there are anonymous accounts. Can't open new ones, but you needn't declare yourself until you want to access it...
That's some of the services the Chamber of labor provides. Unions provide similar services to their members, too.
Austrians rarely go on strike. Personally, my guess for the reason is that you wouldn't notice the difference...
Again, the time penalty dwindles to zero when you can get a sleeping cabin on a train for the price of a sardine can seat on a plane. Provided of course that you can travel by night.
Because in the end, I have to be at the destination by 7am and could either fly 4-6am or use the train from 10pm the day before to 6am, I actually gain time when using the train. Because they have WiFi there now, and I have the room to work sensibly while being inside.
I'm less concerned about the 16% oxygen than the 4% CO2.
This is pretty much what graphics drivers do today, too. To optimize for a game when they detect it as the foreground application. And I highly doubt that anyone considers this a bad or even illegal practice. That's also pretty much what I WANT the driver to do, to get out of the hardware that I have the maximum for the game I play.
The complaint here is that this was done to artificial tests that had zero benefit for actual, real-life, applications but was used to mislead people into thinking it had.
It does? For real? Without first having to learn about them, you were born with a perfect immune system?
Mind if I draw a few pints of your blood? I have a hunch that it would sell for a few millions.