If you look at the Native American population, you can see the results of this 'experiment'.
It disincentivizes work and plummets the community into further poverty. I've lived around reservation land and the monthly government check is a corrosive, corruptive, practice. Natives receive monthly allotments and in many cases even more from tribal casino money, free education (including college if they want it), yet few choose education and the regions with these 'benefits' are some of the poorest in the country.
The problem is not one of minimum wage - the problem is that good jobs have been sent overseas and changing economic times.
. We have people with degrees working at MickeyD's. Since the 1990's - the average age of a fast food worker has risen from 17 years old to 27 years old. People in their productive years are working for minimum wage because good working jobs are gone. Former high school workers now scramble and complete with college educated to scrub pots and pans. Look at the billions of dollars face book generates. All those advertising dollars used to support writers, editors, ect - and we - consumers of news and investigative journalism - received truth in the process. All those editors (who were very highly paid) are gone, their jobs gone, and the dollars once paid to them now support simple, instant gratification 'likes'.
I don't even need to talk about good manufacturing jobs.
All this really says is that civilizations emitting IR were not found in Y regions of the galaxy at time X in history.
Since these regions are different 'light years' away in distance, what reaches us is not the current state of what's going on there.
An advanced planet 500 light years from Earth looking today for other advanced race would not find us since 500 years ago we were not creating IR signatures.
Likewise, if we found such a signature, the possibility exists that during the time the IR got here, that civilization ceased to exist.
Though I agree with your premise, I disagree with your suggested outcome. I would submit that humans are no longer evolving. Since the dawn of our species, those individuals with mutations adverse to survival died thus not furthering that specific mutation. The stupid would do dumb things and get killed or be considered undesirable. Today, every single individual is considered 'important' and extreme resources are expended to save and even the most life threatening mutations. There's no resource contention for superior mutations to adapt and proliferate. It's actually worse today - the insidiously stupid are not only rewarded (ie: given their own reality show) but encouraged to pass on a host of clearly useless qualities and/or genetics..
There’s a reason companies have free lunchrooms stocked with food and snacks, workout with shower facilities and entertainment rooms – those companies expect you to live there! Even though it’s not written (nor could it be) institutional culture in those companies frowns upon not giving them your soul.
I’m in Seattle in the Tech industry. Everyone knows quite a few who have toiled in these chi siphoning golden palaces of despair – and the story is fairly universal. You either quickly burn out or borg out (99-1 ratio) – there is no happy middle ground.
One of the things that these companies are causing – that few are talking about - is the negative affect on social culture of the City. Seattle is traditionally quite liberal with very much an openness and acceptance of others (it’s one of the things that drew me here). However with the massive transplanting of so many young, single males – in addition to rampant gentrification, violence against some communities has increased in once kitschy areas. It’s quite sad to see hate crimes on the rise.
Not everyone shares the same interests or skill sets. The blanket statement that everyone should learn to code is ludicrous.
All these examples in this chain site people from the tech industry; within tech - coding is a useful skill that can, with the right idea, skill and luck make one fabulously wealthy .
The notion shared by many people to sit at a desk for hours uninterrupted is inconceivable drudgery.
I have friends in the medial industry worth 10s of millions who quite honestly do not possess the mental tendencies necessary to become a superstar programmer.
There are other disciplines for which the ability to code is not only useless, but most likely counter productive.
Give me 1 reason Russel Wilson should learn to code...Or why he would want to.
An acquaintance of mine owns a chain of nursing homes.... coding- not even on the radar, and he lives in a palatial residence in the same neighborhood as Bill Gates.
You can teach a horse to stomp his feet counting numbers to a point.... this isn't an example of calculus, and the horse really isn't any better for it outside of a circus.
No, i'm not equating those who don't program to horses (I have to say that, there's some very literal tools on list).
I have many relatives and friends in law enforcement, from local to the federal level. This has been a topic of discussion for 30 years. Many, many minorities apply for law enforcement positions – the problem is passing the background test. The job requires a secret clearance level. Perfect credit, no arrests, college graduate - very few African American’s pass the background check. You can’t even bounce a check once you’re hired. Look at the low rates of graduation and high rates of incarceration for the African American community, it all skews against Federal law enforcement.
The reality is the Feds would love minorities in investigation positions. Street experience and the ability to interact with criminals and/or look the part is critical for sting operations.
There’s also a cultural problem with millennials. I was talking with a recruiter (as a friend, not perspective employment), he’s in his late 40’s and was describing how the millennial attitude makes it difficult for millennials to get hired. Generally speaking, there’s a lack of determination, mental toughness and focus needed for any level of law enforcement that many millennials just don’t have. Even those who get hired have 90% washout rate .
Unfortunately - a majority of the people for whom those issues are not settled, are in politics and supported by the oligarchy who actually run this country,
Agree or disagree with the confederate flag – just remember – True freedom is the right to proclaim you’re beliefs in the face of those who would spend their lives fighting those beliefs.
Crazies will find an outlet, killing freedom won’t stop them. Vigilance and education is the best weapon against ignorance.
All that happened here is the further squashing of freedom.
When the Chinese have proven themselves time after time to be untrustworthy, and responsible for innumerable hacking, how does 'more contact' resolve that?
Do some research on the Sandia National Labs hack... The Chinese had a spy AT the lab.
Disclosure: I run a small ISP.. the VAST majority of hacking attempts against my organization originate from China. Just this week, I blocked 3 class C ranges that belong the the University of China.
As a 52 year old in the tech world, I vouch for the accuracy of this statement. GPA means nothing after a few years of experience. I just changed jobs 2 year ago (only took 3 months to find a new position once deciding to change companies). So... in my case... a high GPA would prove I have mastery of what? a PDP 11? ya. right. GPA hasn't been a topic in 20+ years. Interviews have been discussions about processes, my levels of understanding of current technology specifically related to the job on topic. Projects, effectiveness, insights, organizations, personnel interactions.. .
There will always be need for some local ‘hands on’ help. Networking is highly local, cabling, fiber , technicians, etc.
However, so long as scum bag companies (like Disney, firing 100’s of US programmers then claiming they can’t find help and pushing for an increase of H1B’s), the job problem will only get worse.
The fact is, the oligarchy that runs this country only cares about market cap, eps, and shareholder value. Screw American jobs, if they can reduce a cost by a penny, it’s done. If you’re at the top of the living scale country, you’re screwed – if you live in a 3rd world sh#t hole with no environmental, intellectual or labor laws, you’re king.
They only way to stop the trend is to take big money (IE: corporate dollars) out of politics. Use tariff’s like they are intended, recognize corporations are NOT people (neither are chimps) for the simple fact that no one is ever held accountable . So, unless you all want to start crapping in outhouses over rivers in which you bath and drink from (google river pollution in India – the nexus of where your job likely went) , get politically active and vote OUT anyone opposed to campaign finance reform.
Kill off nascar, mechanics, after market upgrades, personalization this is the type of crap that will push everyone against the DCMA resulting in wide spread copy write law reform. I hope these greedy bastards get exactly what they want in the short term then get blind sided by the tidal wave of consumer revolt that ensues.
Technological evolution, like biological evolution gradually move from simple to complex. Simple being the wood (trees) next to your village. Oil used to ooze out of the ground and coal could be easily collected lying on the ground in shallow dug pits. Trees may not have repopulated, and easily to gather fossil fuels are no longer plentiful and easy to get. Copper and tin are not easy to access either – thus no bronze age or early metals. There will be no raw materials to forge heavy goods. Nope, when mankind reboots, its tribal for good.
You're number is a bit shy... If you add in all the future obligations including federal wages, retirement benefits, social security obligations, veteran benefits, the real number is in the range of $64T
Last year after a horrible accident I put good friend. It was painless, peaceful and almost instant. It was in a vet’s office. My dog was hit and dying and in great pain. The vet described the process as ‘the same chemicals used for anesthesia before surgery, just more of it”. I was with him and held him as he simply layed his head on my arm and went to sleep within 3 seconds of receiving a single injection. If we can quickly and humanely put pets to sleep, we can darn well use the same process on people except for the lawyers.
Yet another mind boggling ignorant proclamation from the republican tainted south.
Quick, let’s elect its head (AKA Jeb Bush) leader of the free (?) world.
The statement displays a profound lack of religious principles.
Most Christian faiths believe the soul enters the body at the moment of conception; thus making the zygote pure .
Since AI, no matter what level of autonomy is never conceived, it never has a soul, thus need not convert.
Disclaimer: former Lutheran, raised in Catholic schools, now a devout atheist.
Move manufacturing out of China... it's simple. They won't buy apple goods, move the 1 MILLION FOXCONN apple workers to a different country.
That will get someones attention... quickly
Most government agencies are mere puppets for the owned representatives in office. Like the FDA, the EPA will not protect the interest of the citizens but rather corporate interests. Many victims of fracking where once fertile land has become toxic have found the EPA's sole job is to protect the frrackers, not the land they supposedly steward. Commerce Department is another example. The Commerce Departments job is to protect and secure 'commerce' not individuals but huge corporations. The FBI diligently attacks people who illegally share music - with the same ferocity as mass murders or terrorists.
Net neutrality will become another victim. It will eventually die since It 'burdens' profiteers.
.
Our rights as citizens is a veneer. Till we change how campaigns are financed, corporate puppets will continue to operate with impunity sealing more and more wealth from the masses for the benefit of the few.
Other issues..... It didn't automatically install dual core processor support, I had to add that later. I didn't recognize and install the WiFI driver, I had to manually download and install the separately..(via a USB from another machine what PITA).
Like I said... too much 'tweak'.
I had an older laptop that was running XP just fine. It was an HP convertible with a touch screen. I loved the foot print but couldn't keep unsupported windows.
I tried several flavors of 'Nix on it. I settled on Mint due to the older hardware and I wanted a smaller software foot print.
However – there’s 3 annoying issues
1 – There’s a message on the screen before the GUI starts about invalid user. From the research, this is a debian bug. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t affect anything. I ignored it.
2 – There’s no support for Netflix?!? This surprised me, as it would be similar problem with any version of Linux. According to posts on the internet, this is because Netflix requires Microsoft Silverlight, which is not available on Linux. I really, really have to say I don’t believe this at all. I have Netflix on both my android phone and my iPad. Both have a Linux connection. There’s no excuse not to run Netflix.
3- This is the killer -. After the initial install of Linux Mint, I performed an update. The update killed the OS. No boot, just a brick. I re-installed Mint and it worked, however I didn’t perform the update.
Issue number 2 makes the device unusable for the majority of my entertainment. Issue number 3 makes the device just plain untrustworthy.
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If you look at the Native American population, you can see the results of this 'experiment'. It disincentivizes work and plummets the community into further poverty. I've lived around reservation land and the monthly government check is a corrosive, corruptive, practice. Natives receive monthly allotments and in many cases even more from tribal casino money, free education (including college if they want it), yet few choose education and the regions with these 'benefits' are some of the poorest in the country. The problem is not one of minimum wage - the problem is that good jobs have been sent overseas and changing economic times. . We have people with degrees working at MickeyD's. Since the 1990's - the average age of a fast food worker has risen from 17 years old to 27 years old. People in their productive years are working for minimum wage because good working jobs are gone. Former high school workers now scramble and complete with college educated to scrub pots and pans. Look at the billions of dollars face book generates. All those advertising dollars used to support writers, editors, ect - and we - consumers of news and investigative journalism - received truth in the process. All those editors (who were very highly paid) are gone, their jobs gone, and the dollars once paid to them now support simple, instant gratification 'likes'. I don't even need to talk about good manufacturing jobs.
"Complexity free"? That statement is incorrect.
likewise the statement 'hostility to god' is an opinion - and a rather ignorant one -
,
All this really says is that civilizations emitting IR were not found in Y regions of the galaxy at time X in history.
Since these regions are different 'light years' away in distance, what reaches us is not the current state of what's going on there.
An advanced planet 500 light years from Earth looking today for other advanced race would not find us since 500 years ago we were not creating IR signatures.
Likewise, if we found such a signature, the possibility exists that during the time the IR got here, that civilization ceased to exist.
Though I agree with your premise, I disagree with your suggested outcome. I would submit that humans are no longer evolving. Since the dawn of our species, those individuals with mutations adverse to survival died thus not furthering that specific mutation. The stupid would do dumb things and get killed or be considered undesirable. Today, every single individual is considered 'important' and extreme resources are expended to save and even the most life threatening mutations. There's no resource contention for superior mutations to adapt and proliferate. It's actually worse today - the insidiously stupid are not only rewarded (ie: given their own reality show) but encouraged to pass on a host of clearly useless qualities and/or genetics..
There’s a reason companies have free lunchrooms stocked with food and snacks, workout with shower facilities and entertainment rooms – those companies expect you to live there! Even though it’s not written (nor could it be) institutional culture in those companies frowns upon not giving them your soul.
I’m in Seattle in the Tech industry. Everyone knows quite a few who have toiled in these chi siphoning golden palaces of despair – and the story is fairly universal. You either quickly burn out or borg out (99-1 ratio) – there is no happy middle ground.
One of the things that these companies are causing – that few are talking about - is the negative affect on social culture of the City. Seattle is traditionally quite liberal with very much an openness and acceptance of others (it’s one of the things that drew me here). However with the massive transplanting of so many young, single males – in addition to rampant gentrification, violence against some communities has increased in once kitschy areas. It’s quite sad to see hate crimes on the rise.
Not everyone shares the same interests or skill sets. The blanket statement that everyone should learn to code is ludicrous. All these examples in this chain site people from the tech industry; within tech - coding is a useful skill that can, with the right idea, skill and luck make one fabulously wealthy . The notion shared by many people to sit at a desk for hours uninterrupted is inconceivable drudgery. I have friends in the medial industry worth 10s of millions who quite honestly do not possess the mental tendencies necessary to become a superstar programmer. There are other disciplines for which the ability to code is not only useless, but most likely counter productive. Give me 1 reason Russel Wilson should learn to code...Or why he would want to. An acquaintance of mine owns a chain of nursing homes.... coding- not even on the radar, and he lives in a palatial residence in the same neighborhood as Bill Gates. You can teach a horse to stomp his feet counting numbers to a point.... this isn't an example of calculus, and the horse really isn't any better for it outside of a circus. No, i'm not equating those who don't program to horses (I have to say that, there's some very literal tools on list).
I have many relatives and friends in law enforcement, from local to the federal level. This has been a topic of discussion for 30 years. Many, many minorities apply for law enforcement positions – the problem is passing the background test. The job requires a secret clearance level. Perfect credit, no arrests, college graduate - very few African American’s pass the background check. You can’t even bounce a check once you’re hired. Look at the low rates of graduation and high rates of incarceration for the African American community, it all skews against Federal law enforcement.
The reality is the Feds would love minorities in investigation positions. Street experience and the ability to interact with criminals and/or look the part is critical for sting operations.
There’s also a cultural problem with millennials. I was talking with a recruiter (as a friend, not perspective employment), he’s in his late 40’s and was describing how the millennial attitude makes it difficult for millennials to get hired. Generally speaking, there’s a lack of determination, mental toughness and focus needed for any level of law enforcement that many millennials just don’t have. Even those who get hired have 90% washout rate .
oh, I'm sure companies will be all over hiring 11 people for 1 job... So long as they're all willing to split the pay and bennies 11 ways.
the comments about this on the foxnews site are just crazy. the postings are exploding with rage... its kinda scary.
Unfortunately - a majority of the people for whom those issues are not settled, are in politics and supported by the oligarchy who actually run this country,
Agree or disagree with the confederate flag – just remember – True freedom is the right to proclaim you’re beliefs in the face of those who would spend their lives fighting those beliefs.
Crazies will find an outlet, killing freedom won’t stop them. Vigilance and education is the best weapon against ignorance.
All that happened here is the further squashing of freedom.
When the Chinese have proven themselves time after time to be untrustworthy, and responsible for innumerable hacking, how does 'more contact' resolve that? Do some research on the Sandia National Labs hack... The Chinese had a spy AT the lab. Disclosure: I run a small ISP.. the VAST majority of hacking attempts against my organization originate from China. Just this week, I blocked 3 class C ranges that belong the the University of China.
I'm sure this does not effect moral at all......
As a 52 year old in the tech world, I vouch for the accuracy of this statement. GPA means nothing after a few years of experience. I just changed jobs 2 year ago (only took 3 months to find a new position once deciding to change companies). So... in my case... a high GPA would prove I have mastery of what? a PDP 11? ya. right. GPA hasn't been a topic in 20+ years. Interviews have been discussions about processes, my levels of understanding of current technology specifically related to the job on topic. Projects, effectiveness, insights, organizations, personnel interactions.. .
There will always be need for some local ‘hands on’ help. Networking is highly local, cabling, fiber , technicians, etc.
However, so long as scum bag companies (like Disney, firing 100’s of US programmers then claiming they can’t find help and pushing for an increase of H1B’s), the job problem will only get worse.
The fact is, the oligarchy that runs this country only cares about market cap, eps, and shareholder value. Screw American jobs, if they can reduce a cost by a penny, it’s done. If you’re at the top of the living scale country, you’re screwed – if you live in a 3rd world sh#t hole with no environmental, intellectual or labor laws, you’re king.
They only way to stop the trend is to take big money (IE: corporate dollars) out of politics. Use tariff’s like they are intended, recognize corporations are NOT people (neither are chimps) for the simple fact that no one is ever held accountable . So, unless you all want to start crapping in outhouses over rivers in which you bath and drink from (google river pollution in India – the nexus of where your job likely went) , get politically active and vote OUT anyone opposed to campaign finance reform.
Kill off nascar, mechanics, after market upgrades, personalization this is the type of crap that will push everyone against the DCMA resulting in wide spread copy write law reform. I hope these greedy bastards get exactly what they want in the short term then get blind sided by the tidal wave of consumer revolt that ensues.
Technological evolution, like biological evolution gradually move from simple to complex. Simple being the wood (trees) next to your village. Oil used to ooze out of the ground and coal could be easily collected lying on the ground in shallow dug pits. Trees may not have repopulated, and easily to gather fossil fuels are no longer plentiful and easy to get. Copper and tin are not easy to access either – thus no bronze age or early metals. There will be no raw materials to forge heavy goods. Nope, when mankind reboots, its tribal for good.
You're number is a bit shy... If you add in all the future obligations including federal wages, retirement benefits, social security obligations, veteran benefits, the real number is in the range of $64T
Last year after a horrible accident I put good friend. It was painless, peaceful and almost instant. It was in a vet’s office. My dog was hit and dying and in great pain. The vet described the process as ‘the same chemicals used for anesthesia before surgery, just more of it”. I was with him and held him as he simply layed his head on my arm and went to sleep within 3 seconds of receiving a single injection. If we can quickly and humanely put pets to sleep, we can darn well use the same process on people except for the lawyers.
Yet another mind boggling ignorant proclamation from the republican tainted south. Quick, let’s elect its head (AKA Jeb Bush) leader of the free (?) world.
The statement displays a profound lack of religious principles. Most Christian faiths believe the soul enters the body at the moment of conception; thus making the zygote pure
. Since AI, no matter what level of autonomy is never conceived, it never has a soul, thus need not convert.
Disclaimer: former Lutheran, raised in Catholic schools, now a devout atheist.
Move manufacturing out of China... it's simple. They won't buy apple goods, move the 1 MILLION FOXCONN apple workers to a different country. That will get someones attention... quickly
Most government agencies are mere puppets for the owned representatives in office. Like the FDA, the EPA will not protect the interest of the citizens but rather corporate interests. Many victims of fracking where once fertile land has become toxic have found the EPA's sole job is to protect the frrackers, not the land they supposedly steward. Commerce Department is another example. The Commerce Departments job is to protect and secure 'commerce' not individuals but huge corporations. The FBI diligently attacks people who illegally share music - with the same ferocity as mass murders or terrorists.
Net neutrality will become another victim. It will eventually die since It 'burdens' profiteers.
. Our rights as citizens is a veneer. Till we change how campaigns are financed, corporate puppets will continue to operate with impunity sealing more and more wealth from the masses for the benefit of the few.
Other issues..... It didn't automatically install dual core processor support, I had to add that later. I didn't recognize and install the WiFI driver, I had to manually download and install the separately..(via a USB from another machine what PITA). Like I said... too much 'tweak'.
I had an older laptop that was running XP just fine. It was an HP convertible with a touch screen. I loved the foot print but couldn't keep unsupported windows. I tried several flavors of 'Nix on it. I settled on Mint due to the older hardware and I wanted a smaller software foot print.
However – there’s 3 annoying issues
1 – There’s a message on the screen before the GUI starts about invalid user. From the research, this is a debian bug. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t affect anything. I ignored it.
2 – There’s no support for Netflix?!? This surprised me, as it would be similar problem with any version of Linux. According to posts on the internet, this is because Netflix requires Microsoft Silverlight, which is not available on Linux. I really, really have to say I don’t believe this at all. I have Netflix on both my android phone and my iPad. Both have a Linux connection. There’s no excuse not to run Netflix.
3- This is the killer -. After the initial install of Linux Mint, I performed an update. The update killed the OS. No boot, just a brick. I re-installed Mint and it worked, however I didn’t perform the update.
Issue number 2 makes the device unusable for the majority of my entertainment. Issue number 3 makes the device just plain untrustworthy.