Well, then you have someone like my wife, for the first 10 years of having kids she didn't work, because she wanted to take care of the kids. (doing the maths we worked out that daycare at somewhere we trusted for 3 kids would eat almost all her income, so wasn't worth her working- after childcare costs we'd be getting very little return). Now, the last 3 years she's been back in college.
She is unemployed, but she has had no intention of finding a job the last 13 years. It's wrong to count EVERY work-age adult. There are lots of unemployed parents in a family where only one parent works- and they intend it to be that way.
It's IBM, International Business Machines not DBM, Domestic Business Machines.
All they're doing is being true to their name. Now if Apple would go back to selling fruit, and Amazon started selling warrior women the world would be less confusing.
A lot less devastating than an airplane though. If the bomb doesn't kill you itself, you're much more likely to survive. The train is less likely to hit a building or other people, and there would be less of a psychological impact.
Never heard of Hornby? I'm not a toy train fan but I'd be surprised if almost everyone didn't know who Hornby is? I don't play with dolls but I've heard of Barbie. You don't have to play with cars to know who Hotwheels and Matchbox are.
Have you ever been able to trust it? I doubt it, so nothing has really changed in this regard and the timing of this question seems partisan.
To a degree, yes. Obviously a healthy amount of skepticism is needed and you need to be aware that governments can and will lie if there is a pressing need.
Individual politicians? No, don't believe a word they say without fact checking. Government agencies you tend to believe because they are large bodies with multiple employees paid to analyze data. In the era of Trump though I think I will be more suspicious of even government agencies than usual. We've already seen a press release filled with bare-faced "Alternate Facts". We've already seen the National Park service censored for publishing inconvenient data.
I think it's going to be more and more important to get news on domestic issues from overseas sources such as the BBC. Not only is our own media already polarized to the left or the right instead of just reporting facts, Trump threatened several times during his campaign to treat it as illegal for the press to criticize him. At what point will he try to enforce that?
If you get a full basic income per child, that would be bound to stimulate abuse though. I want a 6 figure income, just pop out a few more kids. There needs to be a careful balance so that enough income is provided to care for kids without encouraging abuse.
I think the voice assistants on the phone are. They're funny for a few days looking for easter eggs then they get boring.
The Amazon Echo and Dot are useful though, especially when you connect them to your home lighting- we've got a few rooms rigged up now. I use it mostly asking what the weather is going to be like, what time is it, what's on my calendar, set an alarm, etc... I get it to convert Farenheit to Centigrade for communicating with folk back home.
all stuff I can do with my phone, but when I'm home I don't always have my phone on me. It's a nice to be able to just say out loud what you want, and it takes care of it. yes, the kids use it as a toy, asking for jokes and running the "meow meow" app to freak the cats out; but, I use it multiple times a day for real life uses.
It's certainly not an essential appliance, but it's a nice convenience. I never used the voice assistant on my phone though... what's the point, if I have my phone in my hand, it's quicker to tap.
Probably couldn't get a job with a taxi firm because of the rise of Uber. Probably can't afford to start his own taxi firm because Uber has now made him poor.
That's not entirely true, you can own a gun in the UK- most people can't own concealable handguns, but sporting guns you can. The guns that are allowed are tightly regulated.
The result: very low gun crime. I've often thought the US should follow a similar policy. Most gun crime is committed by people with concealable handguns. You don't have to ban guns completely, you can have a right to bare arms, maintain an armed citizenry that can protect itself, without completely banning guns.
If you ban handguns, you eliminate most of the crime.
The purpose most people state for right to bare arms, is so that the government can't run rough-shod over the people. If that's true, if you're going to mount an insurrection, you're going to want to do it with rifles, not small handguns.
The problem with replacing all other benefit programs with a basic income is that, a basic income for a single person. ($12k enough to survive but not thrive?) would not work for some woman with 6 kids who's boyfriend has left her with all the kids. Those kids would starve.
Yeah, you could say it's that woman's fault for getting pregnant so much, and you'd probably be right (especially if you put equal blame on the boyfriend) but it wouldn't be fair on the kids who were born to the shiatty parents in that situation! So unless basic income included extra money for the kids I wouldn't favour it replacing other benefits.
At the same time, you don't want having kids to be a financial reward. Nowadays some people get pregnant just to get more money. You want to avoid that.
Overall, I think it's probably too soon for basic income though. I think there are still enough jobs and enough people who can work, that all basic income would do is cause massive inflation.
I think we will have Basic Income one day. We have to, with more and more jobs being automated.
The problem is, if you implement it too early all it will do is cause rampant inflation and everyone will be poorer. One day it will be needed, but I think it's still too early. We're not completely taken care of by machines yet.
DDG is still small fry compared to google. I think most people TRY duck duck go, hoping to switch (I know I did), the problem is, when you do try using them you quickly find how inferior they are as a search engine.
I really hope they improve and become a true competitor (even if I don't trust any tech company is really privacy-first), right now though, they're not very good. I went with DDG for a month- but then switched back to the big evil that is Google.
She's a criminal. People who commit war crimes are criminal, but that's not what this discussion is about. If I follow your logic, you are pro-pedophilia because you're talking about the Manning leaks instead of pedophilia!
Of course some of what Manning released was bad, no question about that. Why discuss something obvious?
Early days of a war, Russia would probably make a lot of ground, but Europe's combined military is larger than Russia's. Presumably, any way between Europe and Russia would start with Russia annexing another country they have no business being in- having more troops on the border and having the element of surprise, Russia could probably advance through several Eastern European nations before being halted- but Europes combined military would be able to hold Russia from advancing too far, and over time Europe would win land back, and eventually topple the current militant regime.
Also Europe has several countries individually with higher economic output and higher industrial output. Any war lasting longer than a year and Russia would quickly become dwarfed. Europe has multiple times the economic output of Russia.
That's a rather big stretch for determining largest country. Yeah, the US would have to throw out Alaska, Texas, most of the Midwest and half of Dixie... who would want to live in those places?
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Well, then you have someone like my wife, for the first 10 years of having kids she didn't work, because she wanted to take care of the kids. (doing the maths we worked out that daycare at somewhere we trusted for 3 kids would eat almost all her income, so wasn't worth her working- after childcare costs we'd be getting very little return). Now, the last 3 years she's been back in college.
She is unemployed, but she has had no intention of finding a job the last 13 years. It's wrong to count EVERY work-age adult. There are lots of unemployed parents in a family where only one parent works- and they intend it to be that way.
It's IBM, International Business Machines not DBM, Domestic Business Machines.
All they're doing is being true to their name. Now if Apple would go back to selling fruit, and Amazon started selling warrior women the world would be less confusing.
He's right though. Most 9 year olds I know aren't working. They should be sent to work in the coal mines to help make America great again!
Damn lazy kids going to school and playing Mario Brothers instead of working the coal mines like they're supposed to.
A lot less devastating than an airplane though. If the bomb doesn't kill you itself, you're much more likely to survive. The train is less likely to hit a building or other people, and there would be less of a psychological impact.
Never heard of Hornby? I'm not a toy train fan but I'd be surprised if almost everyone didn't know who Hornby is? I don't play with dolls but I've heard of Barbie. You don't have to play with cars to know who Hotwheels and Matchbox are.
Maybe they have an NSA that likes to spend two hours doing anal cavity searches.
Hyperloop anal cavity searches are quicker.
Have you ever been able to trust it? I doubt it, so nothing has really changed in this regard and the timing of this question seems partisan.
To a degree, yes. Obviously a healthy amount of skepticism is needed and you need to be aware that governments can and will lie if there is a pressing need.
Individual politicians? No, don't believe a word they say without fact checking. Government agencies you tend to believe because they are large bodies with multiple employees paid to analyze data. In the era of Trump though I think I will be more suspicious of even government agencies than usual. We've already seen a press release filled with bare-faced "Alternate Facts". We've already seen the National Park service censored for publishing inconvenient data.
I think it's going to be more and more important to get news on domestic issues from overseas sources such as the BBC. Not only is our own media already polarized to the left or the right instead of just reporting facts, Trump threatened several times during his campaign to treat it as illegal for the press to criticize him. At what point will he try to enforce that?
If you get a full basic income per child, that would be bound to stimulate abuse though. I want a 6 figure income, just pop out a few more kids. There needs to be a careful balance so that enough income is provided to care for kids without encouraging abuse.
I think the voice assistants on the phone are. They're funny for a few days looking for easter eggs then they get boring.
The Amazon Echo and Dot are useful though, especially when you connect them to your home lighting- we've got a few rooms rigged up now. I use it mostly asking what the weather is going to be like, what time is it, what's on my calendar, set an alarm, etc... I get it to convert Farenheit to Centigrade for communicating with folk back home.
all stuff I can do with my phone, but when I'm home I don't always have my phone on me. It's a nice to be able to just say out loud what you want, and it takes care of it. yes, the kids use it as a toy, asking for jokes and running the "meow meow" app to freak the cats out; but, I use it multiple times a day for real life uses.
It's certainly not an essential appliance, but it's a nice convenience. I never used the voice assistant on my phone though... what's the point, if I have my phone in my hand, it's quicker to tap.
Probably couldn't get a job with a taxi firm because of the rise of Uber.
Probably can't afford to start his own taxi firm because Uber has now made him poor.
That's not entirely true, you can own a gun in the UK- most people can't own concealable handguns, but sporting guns you can. The guns that are allowed are tightly regulated.
The result: very low gun crime. I've often thought the US should follow a similar policy. Most gun crime is committed by people with concealable handguns. You don't have to ban guns completely, you can have a right to bare arms, maintain an armed citizenry that can protect itself, without completely banning guns.
If you ban handguns, you eliminate most of the crime.
The purpose most people state for right to bare arms, is so that the government can't run rough-shod over the people. If that's true, if you're going to mount an insurrection, you're going to want to do it with rifles, not small handguns.
The problem with replacing all other benefit programs with a basic income is that, a basic income for a single person. ($12k enough to survive but not thrive?) would not work for some woman with 6 kids who's boyfriend has left her with all the kids. Those kids would starve.
Yeah, you could say it's that woman's fault for getting pregnant so much, and you'd probably be right (especially if you put equal blame on the boyfriend) but it wouldn't be fair on the kids who were born to the shiatty parents in that situation! So unless basic income included extra money for the kids I wouldn't favour it replacing other benefits.
At the same time, you don't want having kids to be a financial reward. Nowadays some people get pregnant just to get more money. You want to avoid that.
Overall, I think it's probably too soon for basic income though. I think there are still enough jobs and enough people who can work, that all basic income would do is cause massive inflation.
I think we will have Basic Income one day. We have to, with more and more jobs being automated.
The problem is, if you implement it too early all it will do is cause rampant inflation and everyone will be poorer. One day it will be needed, but I think it's still too early. We're not completely taken care of by machines yet.
Yet another reason why they're just like taxis and taxi drivers.
I'm impressed you can get Oprah to run, all I can get is a little bit of running, then it crashes hard.
The main problem I have is all the pop-up ads telling me I've won a car.
That's really not a bad idea, thanks!
I have bad news for you.
Your four year old is Russian.
Steve Jobs would say "you're holding it wrong."
If only someone at the Oracle could have foretold this.
DDG is still small fry compared to google. I think most people TRY duck duck go, hoping to switch (I know I did), the problem is, when you do try using them you quickly find how inferior they are as a search engine.
I really hope they improve and become a true competitor (even if I don't trust any tech company is really privacy-first), right now though, they're not very good. I went with DDG for a month- but then switched back to the big evil that is Google.
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So, they're selling your data too in other words.
And you would rather talk about straw-men.
She's a criminal. People who commit war crimes are criminal, but that's not what this discussion is about. If I follow your logic, you are pro-pedophilia because you're talking about the Manning leaks instead of pedophilia!
Of course some of what Manning released was bad, no question about that. Why discuss something obvious?
Don't give him ideas. He's going to use climate change as an excuse for nuking someone.
Early days of a war, Russia would probably make a lot of ground, but Europe's combined military is larger than Russia's. Presumably, any way between Europe and Russia would start with Russia annexing another country they have no business being in- having more troops on the border and having the element of surprise, Russia could probably advance through several Eastern European nations before being halted- but Europes combined military would be able to hold Russia from advancing too far, and over time Europe would win land back, and eventually topple the current militant regime.
Also Europe has several countries individually with higher economic output and higher industrial output. Any war lasting longer than a year and Russia would quickly become dwarfed. Europe has multiple times the economic output of Russia.
That's a rather big stretch for determining largest country. Yeah, the US would have to throw out Alaska, Texas, most of the Midwest and half of Dixie... who would want to live in those places?