Communism: technically the government runs everything. Very autocratic- usually one party. People are responsible to the government (not the other way around). No private ownership.
Socialism: democratic- government answers to people and human rights valued.. Some private ownership but for things that are intended for the good of the public there is public ownership (such as mass transit, healthcare, public education). Socialist states try to "even out" wealth by placing progressive taxes on higher earners and taxing poorer people less. The goal is to be as egalitarian as possible and for the common man to have ownership of his future. Society protected from abuses by industry through regulation. (such as dangerous materials banned from food)
Capitalism: usually democratic but under a pure capitalistic society the democratic vote is skewed because only the rich can afford to run and get their name out. Very little public ownership to none- most things, like education, transit, healthcare privatized. Little to no redistribution of wealth- human rights may take back seat to economic drivers in a pure capitalistic society. The goal is for people to earn more by striving to be richer because wealth brings about a higher quality of life. In theory people will work harder because they want more money to live a better life. Little or no regulation of industry to protect society from things like dangerous materials in food... as it is believed consumers will stop buying unsafe things by themselves.
Most western nations (including the US) are somewhere between capitalism and socialism- which is probably for the best. Most people wouldn't fare well in a purely capitalistic society; but some capitalistic tendencies are needed for a healthy economy.
OK speculators... now the time to buy? A rebound due? Or are we seeing the death throes of Crypto coin as an investment option and a return to just being used in the underground.
It is nice that Paul Allen is actually funding things that really help society. Finding coral that can deal with the heat is really important to a lot of ocean life.
Probably different species involved than the species that can't survive the heat. Yeah, fantastic that there is a survivor; but there is still going to be a mass extinction of coral species unfortunately.
I have an old tablet with some old version of Android on it- probably 5. I daren't connect it to Wifi. I don't trust the security of the operating system. I still occasionally play some old games on it I installed long ago when bored but never anything that requires internet.
So, we have demonstrably proven that the Chinese are conducting Cyber-warfare against us. This includes shipping pre-hacked devices to the United States, such as networking equipment and video surveillance systems.
Yet we impose a tariff on Canadian steel for national security purposes? WTF
The tariff's on Canada are to punish Canada for exporting Justin Bieber to us.
"Women do not like confrontation or long hours" Do you even hear yourself? This is the stuff you tell yourself, there's not a shred of evidence to demonstrate it. Specifically, I challenge you to find any half-decent studies showing a meaningful difference between women and men on their preference for confrontation or working long hours.
I'm too lazy to google it, and I'm not saying the study is accurate; but I did read one study a long time ago that looked into why women still earn less and earn fewer promotions held on to personal dynamics. Yeah, sexism plays a major role too- but when it comes to office politics, women were shown (in this one study) to be more likely to hold onto a grudge and remember a disagreement more than men. Women were 4 or 5 more times more likely to say that they have a boss or coworker who they consider a "foe or enemy" than men were. Typically if men had a disagreement at work, after a few weeks they'd forget about it. Women were less likely to forget what they considered a slight on them.
If this study were accurate (and I've no clue how accurate it is, its something I read a few years ago and I don't remember the details) - it could explain why in todays world where sexism is tolerated less and women are achieving more than men academically fewer women reach the top of corporations. They could be treating like enemies the very people who would promote them.
Again, I'm not saying I agree with the study, just throwing it out there as something I read- and it sounds plausible.
Yea Forcing Diversity in to things at the expense of people that could be more qualified has never been a bad idea.
Well, and technically, because of the amendment saying you can't discriminate based on sex- you could probably get a lawyer to force an all woman board to accept a man onto their board too. There are a few corporations out there that have taken the stance of only hiring women to top positions- they should be forced to take a man on their board now by this same law.
Will centralized authoritarian communistic-capitalism spread to nations
We still don't know if it's sustainable. You can never conform people, they always want more. Eventually, the living standards of the average Chinese should be so high that they will start claiming ether more money or more freedom that the system can provide.
It has lasted more than 20 years now in it's current freer form. Barely slowing down yet. Without modern technology they couldn't keep the people subjugated but modern technology makes it so much easier to squish the common man.
To send a fax, you stick the paper into the document reader, dial the number and press start. The machine will figure out what to do and your pages are magically sent off to the recipient. Hope you got your number right.
A previous company I worked for had the fax number incorrect on a lot of their documentation that was handed out to clients, including fliers and business cards. The number listed as a fax number for the company was actually an "adult services" phone number. We never found out if that was done intentionally as a joke by someone or just a simple error. (the number was two digits off the correct fax number).
No client ever reported a problem and to my knowledge the mistake was never discovered... we almost never received a fax- and if we did it was from already established clients who had known the correct number already.
Remind me again why our hot water heaters need to be online?
My guess is efficiency? If you work 8 to 5- no need to have the water heating up during that time. If you hurt your back on the job and come home early for a soak, you can use your phone to turn your heater on earlier than expected and be ready for you.
Dunno- I have a brand new heater and it is a regular old dumb water heater- I'm not in the smart-water heater income range so didn't even consider it.
Faxes are still used, whether digitized or old-fashioned, because of the court system. A signed and faxed form carries the weight of a physical contract. A signed and emailed form does not.
Which itself is a bit odd, because you can print out an e-mail and then fax it. So it's not like Faxes prevent some sort of image editing fraud that could happen with an e-mail.
The average energy drain of modern refrigerator is 25-40 watts. Actual power drain while the compressor is running is 100-150 watts. If they have any power at all on a 24 hour basis they should be able to run a refrigerator, though perhaps not open the door for part of the day to keep the compressor from kicking on. Since they do have power part of the day for sure, a 0.5 kWh battery should cover the refrigerator nicely.
Google beats doctor... but your doctor won't share your data with companies all over the web and start advertising to you based on what condition it discovers and trying to take advantage of you financially based on what ails you. (they will just milk you a bunch for your visit instead).
If they are the dominant force who will they copy from?
Why would they need to copy from anyone? They can make their own stuff once they overtake us. Our companies will probably be stealing IP from them 100 years from now. They're already publishing more scientific papers than we are and making more discoveries than we are.
China is just the new asian menace like Japan was in the 80s / 90s. Where are they now?
Other than being Asian there is very little similarity between China and Japan. Very different politically, culturally, and economically. Japan, despite having only a little over 120 million people are the third largest economy in the world (only behind the US and China) that's where they are now.
China has 10 times the population of Japan- if they reach the same per-capita wealth as Japan they would easily dwarf the US.
How exactly does this work, is this some sort of injection attack- where a badly formatted image file somehow includes code to take over the fax machine's operating system instead?
If so this is really poorly designed- an incoming fax should be isolated from everything except printing off the incoming fax.
Tibet? Taiwan? A cartoon about a talking bear?......Enjoying that internet sovereignty on social media?
The scary thing is; they have more population that the US and Western Europe combined- their economy is growing rapidly. Their political system whereas as not very citizen-friendly, allows them to maneuver in ways democracies can not. They have many advantages that countries that care about their citizens do not.
100 years from now, China is the most powerful nation on earth... as the dominant nation on earth- how much of their culture, government, censorship and way of life will rub off on the rest of the world. America, for all it's evils, being a democracy and the major world power for the last 100 years has helped spread democracy to countries that want to emulate them or aspire to be them. It has had many positive influences on the world. (yeah, we know the bad things it has done too).
100 years from now, when China has had a number of decades as the most influential country... how will the world look. Will centralized authoritarian communistic-capitalism spread to nations. Survival of the fittest, will governments have to suppress the common man more in order to advance their nations and compete?
Any criticism of any major religion like Islam or Christianity, but particularly Islam, gets you an instant ban. It's a cesspit of safe space mentality
There are other places on the web that are not "safe-place mentality" but for some reason most people avoid them. It's almost like most people don't want to be in a constant slinging match of bigotry and hatred. 4Chan is pretty popular if you want total freedom to post any view you like- if you don't want to be censored posting hate speech- go there.
The problem with the CEOs big dreams is he can't pick one - Tesla, SpaceX, the Hyperloop, Solar City, the Boring company - what does Elon Musk want to do when he grows up? He can't decide.
Don't you wish other companies were having those same big dreams... and bringing as much hype to some futuristic technologies though? I do question how involved Musk can possibly be in these companies- and I suspect that he hires smart people and gets them doing most of the running of the companies. Musk may be an idea-man and is definitely a PR man; but I can't imagine he actually does much hands on running of his companies- he would be spread too thin.
Reddit is full of pictures of big white dicks and big black dicks. Probably makes all their women feel horny for western cock and their men feel inadequate.
We must browse different subreddits. I've never seen one on reddit.
I can't see myself buying another flagship one, and I'm sure i'm not alone.
I've never bought a flagship phone... I was fairly late to the smart phone game with my first. A galaxy 2 (I think 4 was out at the time). I've never spent more than $200 on one of mine- most expensive was a Moto X Pure 18 months ago $200- I've spent more on my wife- her last one was $400, but won't spend that much on myself.
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What's the difference?
Communism: technically the government runs everything. Very autocratic- usually one party. People are responsible to the government (not the other way around). No private ownership.
Socialism: democratic- government answers to people and human rights valued.. Some private ownership but for things that are intended for the good of the public there is public ownership (such as mass transit, healthcare, public education). Socialist states try to "even out" wealth by placing progressive taxes on higher earners and taxing poorer people less. The goal is to be as egalitarian as possible and for the common man to have ownership of his future. Society protected from abuses by industry through regulation. (such as dangerous materials banned from food)
Capitalism: usually democratic but under a pure capitalistic society the democratic vote is skewed because only the rich can afford to run and get their name out. Very little public ownership to none- most things, like education, transit, healthcare privatized. Little to no redistribution of wealth- human rights may take back seat to economic drivers in a pure capitalistic society. The goal is for people to earn more by striving to be richer because wealth brings about a higher quality of life. In theory people will work harder because they want more money to live a better life. Little or no regulation of industry to protect society from things like dangerous materials in food... as it is believed consumers will stop buying unsafe things by themselves.
Most western nations (including the US) are somewhere between capitalism and socialism- which is probably for the best. Most people wouldn't fare well in a purely capitalistic society; but some capitalistic tendencies are needed for a healthy economy.
OK speculators... now the time to buy? A rebound due? Or are we seeing the death throes of Crypto coin as an investment option and a return to just being used in the underground.
And, strangely enough, man needs the oceans to be healthy.
Man needs to eat.
It is nice that Paul Allen is actually funding things that really help society. Finding coral that can deal with the heat is really important to a lot of ocean life.
Probably different species involved than the species that can't survive the heat. Yeah, fantastic that there is a survivor; but there is still going to be a mass extinction of coral species unfortunately.
I have an old tablet with some old version of Android on it- probably 5. I daren't connect it to Wifi. I don't trust the security of the operating system. I still occasionally play some old games on it I installed long ago when bored but never anything that requires internet.
So, we have demonstrably proven that the Chinese are conducting Cyber-warfare against us. This includes shipping pre-hacked devices to the United States, such as networking equipment and video surveillance systems.
Yet we impose a tariff on Canadian steel for national security purposes? WTF
The tariff's on Canada are to punish Canada for exporting Justin Bieber to us.
"Women do not like confrontation or long hours"
Do you even hear yourself? This is the stuff you tell yourself, there's not a shred of evidence to demonstrate it. Specifically, I challenge you to find any half-decent studies showing a meaningful difference between women and men on their preference for confrontation or working long hours.
I'm too lazy to google it, and I'm not saying the study is accurate; but I did read one study a long time ago that looked into why women still earn less and earn fewer promotions held on to personal dynamics. Yeah, sexism plays a major role too- but when it comes to office politics, women were shown (in this one study) to be more likely to hold onto a grudge and remember a disagreement more than men. Women were 4 or 5 more times more likely to say that they have a boss or coworker who they consider a "foe or enemy" than men were. Typically if men had a disagreement at work, after a few weeks they'd forget about it. Women were less likely to forget what they considered a slight on them.
If this study were accurate (and I've no clue how accurate it is, its something I read a few years ago and I don't remember the details) - it could explain why in todays world where sexism is tolerated less and women are achieving more than men academically fewer women reach the top of corporations. They could be treating like enemies the very people who would promote them.
Again, I'm not saying I agree with the study, just throwing it out there as something I read- and it sounds plausible.
Yea Forcing Diversity in to things at the expense of people that could be more qualified has never been a bad idea.
Well, and technically, because of the amendment saying you can't discriminate based on sex- you could probably get a lawyer to force an all woman board to accept a man onto their board too. There are a few corporations out there that have taken the stance of only hiring women to top positions- they should be forced to take a man on their board now by this same law.
Will centralized authoritarian communistic-capitalism spread to nations
We still don't know if it's sustainable. You can never conform people, they always want more. Eventually, the living standards of the average Chinese should be so high that they will start claiming ether more money or more freedom that the system can provide.
It has lasted more than 20 years now in it's current freer form. Barely slowing down yet. Without modern technology they couldn't keep the people subjugated but modern technology makes it so much easier to squish the common man.
To send a fax, you stick the paper into the document reader, dial the number and press start. The machine will figure out what to do and your pages are magically sent off to the recipient. Hope you got your number right.
A previous company I worked for had the fax number incorrect on a lot of their documentation that was handed out to clients, including fliers and business cards. The number listed as a fax number for the company was actually an "adult services" phone number. We never found out if that was done intentionally as a joke by someone or just a simple error. (the number was two digits off the correct fax number).
No client ever reported a problem and to my knowledge the mistake was never discovered... we almost never received a fax- and if we did it was from already established clients who had known the correct number already.
Vulnerable to hacks? My local representative IS a hack!
Remind me again why our hot water heaters need to be online?
My guess is efficiency? If you work 8 to 5- no need to have the water heating up during that time. If you hurt your back on the job and come home early for a soak, you can use your phone to turn your heater on earlier than expected and be ready for you.
Dunno- I have a brand new heater and it is a regular old dumb water heater- I'm not in the smart-water heater income range so didn't even consider it.
Faxes are still used, whether digitized or old-fashioned, because of the court system. A signed and faxed form carries the weight of a physical contract. A signed and emailed form does not.
Which itself is a bit odd, because you can print out an e-mail and then fax it. So it's not like Faxes prevent some sort of image editing fraud that could happen with an e-mail.
That means no fridge running all day and night.
The average energy drain of modern refrigerator is 25-40 watts. Actual power drain while the compressor is running is 100-150 watts. If they have any power at all on a 24 hour basis they should be able to run a refrigerator, though perhaps not open the door for part of the day to keep the compressor from kicking on. Since they do have power part of the day for sure, a 0.5 kWh battery should cover the refrigerator nicely.
Refrigerators use more power when upside down.
Google beats doctor... but your doctor won't share your data with companies all over the web and start advertising to you based on what condition it discovers and trying to take advantage of you financially based on what ails you. (they will just milk you a bunch for your visit instead).
If they are the dominant force who will they copy from?
Why would they need to copy from anyone? They can make their own stuff once they overtake us. Our companies will probably be stealing IP from them 100 years from now. They're already publishing more scientific papers than we are and making more discoveries than we are.
China is just the new asian menace like Japan was in the 80s / 90s. Where are they now?
Other than being Asian there is very little similarity between China and Japan. Very different politically, culturally, and economically. Japan, despite having only a little over 120 million people are the third largest economy in the world (only behind the US and China) that's where they are now.
China has 10 times the population of Japan- if they reach the same per-capita wealth as Japan they would easily dwarf the US.
How can i block it from google search results other than move to china?
You can block any website you like from your personal google search results. Google "Personal Website Blocklist"
How exactly does this work, is this some sort of injection attack- where a badly formatted image file somehow includes code to take over the fax machine's operating system instead?
If so this is really poorly designed- an incoming fax should be isolated from everything except printing off the incoming fax.
Tibet? Taiwan? A cartoon about a talking bear?... ...Enjoying that internet sovereignty on social media?
The scary thing is; they have more population that the US and Western Europe combined- their economy is growing rapidly. Their political system whereas as not very citizen-friendly, allows them to maneuver in ways democracies can not. They have many advantages that countries that care about their citizens do not.
100 years from now, China is the most powerful nation on earth... as the dominant nation on earth- how much of their culture, government, censorship and way of life will rub off on the rest of the world. America, for all it's evils, being a democracy and the major world power for the last 100 years has helped spread democracy to countries that want to emulate them or aspire to be them. It has had many positive influences on the world. (yeah, we know the bad things it has done too).
100 years from now, when China has had a number of decades as the most influential country... how will the world look. Will centralized authoritarian communistic-capitalism spread to nations. Survival of the fittest, will governments have to suppress the common man more in order to advance their nations and compete?
Any criticism of any major religion like Islam or Christianity, but particularly Islam, gets you an instant ban. It's a cesspit of safe space mentality
There are other places on the web that are not "safe-place mentality" but for some reason most people avoid them. It's almost like most people don't want to be in a constant slinging match of bigotry and hatred. 4Chan is pretty popular if you want total freedom to post any view you like- if you don't want to be censored posting hate speech- go there.
This is the year of the Linux soft-top.
Nissan has an advanced self diving programme, for example.
Tell me more about this amphibious, submersible Nissan. :)
Meh, Lotus had one years ago, there was even a documentary of a man named Bond driving one into the ocean. Nissan is decades behind Lotus.
The problem with the CEOs big dreams is he can't pick one - Tesla, SpaceX, the Hyperloop, Solar City, the Boring company - what does Elon Musk want to do when he grows up? He can't decide.
Don't you wish other companies were having those same big dreams... and bringing as much hype to some futuristic technologies though? I do question how involved Musk can possibly be in these companies- and I suspect that he hires smart people and gets them doing most of the running of the companies. Musk may be an idea-man and is definitely a PR man; but I can't imagine he actually does much hands on running of his companies- he would be spread too thin.
Reddit is full of pictures of big white dicks and big black dicks. Probably makes all their women feel horny for western cock and their men feel inadequate.
We must browse different subreddits. I've never seen one on reddit.
I can't see myself buying another flagship one, and I'm sure i'm not alone.
I've never bought a flagship phone... I was fairly late to the smart phone game with my first. A galaxy 2 (I think 4 was out at the time). I've never spent more than $200 on one of mine- most expensive was a Moto X Pure 18 months ago $200- I've spent more on my wife- her last one was $400, but won't spend that much on myself.