Forcing people to vote isn't going to be a good thing. If you force someone completely uninterested in politics to vote, you get exactly what you do NOT want: Someone who will fall for whatever ad he sees.
Instead, try more direct democracy. We are already voting on issues, so why do we need the sponges anymore anyway?
I don't get the standalone angle, since you'll most likely have to use it in a static environment anyway, so why the standalone requirement? I can easily see it as a PC accessory, that angle doesn't bother much. People already have a PC and most people interested in (and financially able to afford) VR will also already have powerful enough hardware. The level of hardware power required is pretty much on par with last-gen technology, so it's going to be a long time before you'll see that anywhere near affordable and in a mobile form factor.
I'd give you the wireless, but not only does it exist, it also isn't that big a deal to be honest. You barely notice the cable.
VR technology is pretty close to "ready for primetime", I'd say. Tracking technology is there, funny enough, the problem is display quality and actual content that isn't just trying to use VR as a gimmick.
But I'd guess that's a development process. When you look at movies, you'll notice that the first few also resemble mostly theater productions that make little use of the features film adds that could simply not be done in theater, early cinema mostly resembles theater productions, and you have the same with VR in comparison to traditional games.
It takes time. The technology is on a pretty promising track.
Be it as it may, the economy depends on people being able to buy and consume. No consumption, no economy. Funny enough, communism and capitalism had the same symptoms with vastly different diseases. In communism, the economy collapsed because there simply wasn't anything to buy. In capitalism, it's about to because while there's plenty to buy, nobody has the means to do just that.
Interest rates skyrocketing? Where? Sure ain't where I'm living, I'm basically paying my bank to be host to my money rather than getting interest by now.
The reason nobody takes out a loan even at rates bordering on 0% is that there is nothing to invest in. When you want to run a business, you have to have someone to sell to. Producing makes you poor, only selling makes you rich.
And with no money on the demand side of the economy, well, why produce?
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If I was digging up coal I'd shut up, too. Simple self interest.
I believe that once I can shoot one and it stays dead.
Forcing people to vote isn't going to be a good thing. If you force someone completely uninterested in politics to vote, you get exactly what you do NOT want: Someone who will fall for whatever ad he sees.
Instead, try more direct democracy. We are already voting on issues, so why do we need the sponges anymore anyway?
Eternal growth is impossible. Simple physics. If you base your economy system on the need for eternal growth, you set yourself up for disaster.
WTF... please don't try to learn history from weird Hollywood movies.
You are aware that North Korea actually calls itself a Republic, yes? And GDR stood for German Democratic Republic (aka East Germany).
What a country calls itself means jack shit.
False dichotomy. There is a middle ground between state-run planned economy and corporation run governments.
It's more that certain businesses are deeply entangled in virtually every aspect of government.
But the right is way ahead of them, as usual!
Only the ones that deal with the planet's resources.
It doesn't take a climate scientist anymore to see that we're fucked.
Well, mostly by not being able to fuck up, no matter the greed.
Today we have that option. And the greed to take it.
I fail to see the connection to what you replied to.
I don't get the standalone angle, since you'll most likely have to use it in a static environment anyway, so why the standalone requirement? I can easily see it as a PC accessory, that angle doesn't bother much. People already have a PC and most people interested in (and financially able to afford) VR will also already have powerful enough hardware. The level of hardware power required is pretty much on par with last-gen technology, so it's going to be a long time before you'll see that anywhere near affordable and in a mobile form factor.
I'd give you the wireless, but not only does it exist, it also isn't that big a deal to be honest. You barely notice the cable.
I was under the impression, with Disney's recent purchases, that they're starting to aim at an older audience...
VR technology is pretty close to "ready for primetime", I'd say. Tracking technology is there, funny enough, the problem is display quality and actual content that isn't just trying to use VR as a gimmick.
But I'd guess that's a development process. When you look at movies, you'll notice that the first few also resemble mostly theater productions that make little use of the features film adds that could simply not be done in theater, early cinema mostly resembles theater productions, and you have the same with VR in comparison to traditional games.
It takes time. The technology is on a pretty promising track.
Dammit, I wanted that VC money!
Kids are a growing segment? We obviously live in different countries. In mine, single households (without kids) are on the rise, big time.
HR's job is to disrupt the hiring process, after you're hired, middle management is responsible.
And hopefully the beheadings will be put online so everyone can enjoy them.
Be it as it may, the economy depends on people being able to buy and consume. No consumption, no economy. Funny enough, communism and capitalism had the same symptoms with vastly different diseases. In communism, the economy collapsed because there simply wasn't anything to buy. In capitalism, it's about to because while there's plenty to buy, nobody has the means to do just that.
Interest rates skyrocketing? Where? Sure ain't where I'm living, I'm basically paying my bank to be host to my money rather than getting interest by now.
The reason nobody takes out a loan even at rates bordering on 0% is that there is nothing to invest in. When you want to run a business, you have to have someone to sell to. Producing makes you poor, only selling makes you rich.
And with no money on the demand side of the economy, well, why produce?
Great! You have a real job for them? Why didn't you say so!
Be it as it may, but in the end, who do you think brings in the money? People that watch a movie once, or the ones that watch it 20+ times?
In Europe, maybe. Not in the US. Everything's bigger there.