My favorite would be 30 hour week, 5 six hour days, at a minimum of $600/week*, and there would be four shifts. And nobody should be required to work more than 10 years before being allowed to collect their social security (absent UBI). I'm not concerned about it being expensive because our prosperity warrants it and can easily afford it. There is plenty of money that is presently sequestered in the stock/commodities/derivatives markets to go around, so the people that say "work or starve" can go to hell.
But automation and UBI have to be inseparable, a matched set. Prices should go down as the robots fill in.
* the analogy goes like this, nobody should have to work more than an hour to buy a case of decent beer. So this can work in any country.
When the government fails to help, we have to help ourselves. So get out your cameras and keep them rolling. On the other hand, the electronic machines with no paper printout kinda makes the issue moot. Too bad there is insufficient demand for real paper ballots. We never will really know the true count, mostly due to lack of interest.
The singular "hard" problem is the human element. Since World War 2 the technology has become trivial. We can put anything anywhere. Only the lack of will to apply it makes it difficult.
Blackouts and brownouts hurt revenues for everyone.
I sure wish that were true. The links I provided say otherwise. We live under a system where the only failure is getting caught. The facts of this will come out in time, just like before. I don't know why you won't acknowledge that corruption is the sole cause of this problem and every other shortage we suffer, food, fuel, banking, all of it. It is a truly massive problem. And here people want to babble on about "supply and demand" as if it actually means something. The evidence shows exactly the opposite. This isn't a classroom here, the theories do not apply.
Australia has one of the best, if not the best, voting systems on the planet.
That may be, but this story is not a good reflection on that system. You end up with many of the same problems the American system suffers. If people believe the propaganda coming out of mass media, the type of voting system is irrelevant. And if people don't call for an early election over this, they are not using it to its full advantage. Heads should roll, and a full restructuring is in order.
It doesn't need the vast very profitable infrastructure other drugs need for processing and distribution. You can just throw the seeds on the ground and wait three months, and it will be "good enough" for most people outside the connoisseurs. And, as Colorado is finding out, this is driving down prices, and the tax revenues that were promised by legalization. The gold rush will be brief and will hit a brick wall when it is legal everywhere. Prices and profits will plummet. And that is what the game is about. The "morality" issue is a distraction played by the prohibitionists to sell their trade
Nonsense. Companies will only have power as long as we vote for their puppets and let them string us along. We have the power to turn our backs. Use it or lose it. Don't scapegoat the objects of desire. You can turn their money into useless confetti.
Some people really were that stupid, naive or greedy.
Yeah, many of the responses to the story make perfectly clear that they still are. Gotta ask the (rhetorical) question, where does all this chatter here about supply and demand come from? Why does it persist? I think we all know the answer...
Venezuela is under attack, from within and the outside, and is effectively under the dictatorship of martial law. The rules there are in flux at the moment. If you are interested in something that actually relates, look at what happened to California, where the light of deregulation shines so bright for all to see, and apparently ignore, after reading the overall response to the story.
The grid operator does not use rolling blackouts to demand higher prices.
Guess you're not interested much in recent history...Market manipulation is SOP, which makes me wonder, what's the deal, eh? Why ignore the obvious with this phony supply/demand nonsense?
Boilerplate QOTD: We take our business and compliance with regulations very seriously.
Of course they do...
this is a test. if something happens, i will post the result
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Ad hominem much, hypocrite?
Ah, There ya go, you are hiding something. Makes perfect sense... thankyouverymuch
Otherwise, she would've been prosecuting those cases, would she not have?
Political theater. The picture scared people into doing something to appease the radical right.
and that "stop Trump" site you linked to
Ah yes, kill the messenger because you don't like the message.
Are you being paid to be such a mouthpiece? Or are they going to put you on a boat if you refuse? What's your story?
My favorite would be 30 hour week, 5 six hour days, at a minimum of $600/week*, and there would be four shifts. And nobody should be required to work more than 10 years before being allowed to collect their social security (absent UBI). I'm not concerned about it being expensive because our prosperity warrants it and can easily afford it. There is plenty of money that is presently sequestered in the stock/commodities/derivatives markets to go around, so the people that say "work or starve" can go to hell.
But automation and UBI have to be inseparable, a matched set. Prices should go down as the robots fill in.
* the analogy goes like this, nobody should have to work more than an hour to buy a case of decent beer. So this can work in any country.
Unsupported and unsubstantiated accusations.
Yes, of course they are... to you. Your righteous indignation is duly noted.
I've always thought that restrictions on political donations was a violation of the 1st Amendment.
Yes, they are a violation. And it is why the democrats want to chip away at it, or repeal it entirely... The entire Bill of Rights will go down with it. Too many people think that's a good thing.
Yeah, yeah, we all know it's only evil when the *scary black man* does it. I would think you would be happy that your peeps are much more effective at this kind of thing...
When the government fails to help, we have to help ourselves. So get out your cameras and keep them rolling. On the other hand, the electronic machines with no paper printout kinda makes the issue moot. Too bad there is insufficient demand for real paper ballots. We never will really know the true count, mostly due to lack of interest.
Yes
And to save you the trouble, everybody should have the same right. It is universal.
I wish we could do the same with DSL
Y2K thing. Or it's Intel's fault...
The singular "hard" problem is the human element. Since World War 2 the technology has become trivial. We can put anything anywhere. Only the lack of will to apply it makes it difficult.
Blackouts and brownouts hurt revenues for everyone.
I sure wish that were true. The links I provided say otherwise. We live under a system where the only failure is getting caught. The facts of this will come out in time, just like before. I don't know why you won't acknowledge that corruption is the sole cause of this problem and every other shortage we suffer, food, fuel, banking, all of it. It is a truly massive problem. And here people want to babble on about "supply and demand" as if it actually means something. The evidence shows exactly the opposite. This isn't a classroom here, the theories do not apply.
I bought $40 of fuel in May and haven't used it all yet.
Doesn't that stuff gel after a while? How long does diesel fuel keep? I hope longer than an inkjet cartridge...
Australia has one of the best, if not the best, voting systems on the planet.
That may be, but this story is not a good reflection on that system. You end up with many of the same problems the American system suffers. If people believe the propaganda coming out of mass media, the type of voting system is irrelevant. And if people don't call for an early election over this, they are not using it to its full advantage. Heads should roll, and a full restructuring is in order.
Oh! The pain! Please stop!
This is obfuscation. They have a common interest.
It doesn't need the vast very profitable infrastructure other drugs need for processing and distribution. You can just throw the seeds on the ground and wait three months, and it will be "good enough" for most people outside the connoisseurs. And, as Colorado is finding out, this is driving down prices, and the tax revenues that were promised by legalization. The gold rush will be brief and will hit a brick wall when it is legal everywhere. Prices and profits will plummet. And that is what the game is about. The "morality" issue is a distraction played by the prohibitionists to sell their trade
Yes
Nonsense. Companies will only have power as long as we vote for their puppets and let them string us along. We have the power to turn our backs. Use it or lose it. Don't scapegoat the objects of desire. You can turn their money into useless confetti.
Their power comes from us, the people who listen and believe.
Don't vote for bling this election. Resisting temptation is our power to use or lose. The choice is personal, not political.
Some people really were that stupid, naive or greedy.
Yeah, many of the responses to the story make perfectly clear that they still are. Gotta ask the (rhetorical) question, where does all this chatter here about supply and demand come from? Why does it persist? I think we all know the answer...
It's all about statistics.
I'm sorry, but the story here is about manipulation. Is the elephant that small?
Venezuela is under attack, from within and the outside, and is effectively under the dictatorship of martial law. The rules there are in flux at the moment. If you are interested in something that actually relates, look at what happened to California, where the light of deregulation shines so bright for all to see, and apparently ignore, after reading the overall response to the story.
The grid operator does not use rolling blackouts to demand higher prices.
Guess you're not interested much in recent history...Market manipulation is SOP, which makes me wonder, what's the deal, eh? Why ignore the obvious with this phony supply/demand nonsense?
Boilerplate QOTD: We take our business and compliance with regulations very seriously.
Of course they do...
this is a test. if something happens, i will post the result
You can't hide a conspiracy that big.
Yes you can, for a while...
But keep believing in your Utopia, and whine more about how the real world works.
Your trolling is duly noted.