It wasn't enough to simply report the news - to fill 24 hours of programming "news" agencies had to throw their opinions into the mix as well.
Opinions, by their very nature cause division. Eventually you will push enough people away from your narrative and you will lose the information war.
If the mainstream media is honestly and truly concerned with winning the information war they need to bring back old school journalism. Only publish if you can get two reliable sources to corroborate a story and NEVER give your own damn opinion on the matter. Do that for the next 5 years and you might just get the respect you once had.
This last election cycle turned me away from all national TV news. Local news is as close as you can get to unbiased news and even then you need to be skeptical.
If you lose data due to a corrupt filesystem - it's not the filesystem's fault that you didn't backup your data.
Even if you had the most reliable filesystem in the world - it would, most likely be running on spinning disks or flash media - both fail quite regularly.
Backup your data frequently and test your backups regularly.
The "Labor Theory of Value" says that the value of an item is equal to its labor input component.
That's a nice theory - but ignores the concept of scarcity. Even if you have unlimited energy (which we don't) and unlimited labor (provided by robots in theory), you still have the problem of scarcity of materials.
Our economic world has unlimited demand. Humans generally are not satisfied with what they have and want more. Scarcity of materials will still require some sort of cost structure to satisfy the supply/demand curve.
So long as humans compete for scarce resources, there will need to be an economic system to facilitate that. Free labor won't eliminate it.
If the robotic means of production are owned by the few - the remaining many may simply revert back to a barter system (you reload ammo for me and I'll grow food for you...etc).
The other possibility is that the robotic means of production become SO cheap that everyone owns a robot to take care of their immediate needs. It's a futuristic stretch of the imagination, but think of a 3D printer on steroids - the robot(s) build your house, grow your food, treat your medical needs...etc.
That would be an interesting way of distributing the methods of production among all.
The dystopian "robots take all the jobs away" option doesn't seem all that likely.
In a world where no one works, and no one earns income - who is left to buy the output of the robots?
Capitalism driven production REQUIRES consumers with disposable income. The one cannot exist without the other. To save capitalism, you need to save the consumer.
Verizon also made me an offer I couldn't refuse - a triple play at the double play price. The installation tech said that he had to activate the box, but that I didn't have to use it.
So he powered up the box, activated it, and then stuck it on a shelf in my basement.
I guess Verizon was hoping I would rent a movie from them instead of Amazon.
Software is a written work like any other - it should be protected via time-limited copyright and that's it. This would go a long way to clearing the courts of patent trolls.
The only proper role of government in the economic realm is to protect property rights, adjudicate disputes, and provide a legal framework in which voluntary trade is protected..
I don't know of any Libertarian that would consider a tractor, whole or in part, that would belong to John Deere after a farmer has voluntarily paid for it.
Around here, you can do two years in a community college and transfer all the credits to a bunch of decent 4 year state schools.
In the end, you get the same 4 year degree as everyone else - while saving a boat load of money.
Sure, mom and dad don't get to put an Ivy League sticker on their car, and Mary and Johnny may have to live at home and commute to the college - but that's what the smart money does.
Stop paying for country clubs for your little crotch fruit.
A flat consumption tax has many advantages, one of which is simplicity.
Taxing things usually results in less of those things. Taxing income, property, and profits without exemption will result in less of those things - or moving those things to where the tax liability is the least.
No one wants an economy with less income, property, and profits - so we create a perverse system of deductions and tax incentives - another system to be gamed.
Let's just scrap all taxes and move to a consumption tax. Those that consume more will pay higher tax. Those that consume less will pay a lower tax.
Tesla is producing real products (unlike Theranos) and is delivering slightly more cars per year than that little Stuttgart automaker Porsche.
However, unlike Porsche, Tesla is investing in one of the largest and most cost-effective battery factories in the world. It is possible that when Gigafactory is running at full-scale, most of the electric auto manufacturers and power companies will be buying batteries and energy storage systems from Tesla.
Tesla isn't anything like Theranos. I predict MBA's will be reading about Elon Musk - but not in the context you describe.
All of your engineers will need healthcare at some point. You could probably save a mint if your engineers could diagnose and treat some simple medical problems on their own.
A prosperous society allows individuals to specialize in their chosen profession. This allows each of us to focus our talents and achieve things not possible if we were all simply "Jacks of all Trades".
With all the automation coming, we should have no problem finding enough humans to narrowly specialize in their respective skill sets.
With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level.
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
She (and her stooges) broke the law - but did so "without intent". So the next time you are arrested - just tell the cops you didn't "intend" to break the law.
I suspect that if your last name is not Clinton - it will not go well for you.
Hillary ran her own server in her basement and had her three stooges delete 30,000 wedding and yoga emails. Pence used an AOL account - the contents of which could have been obtained via subpoena at any time.
The former stinks of coverup - the latter just looks like an old guy using AOL because he didn't know any better.
and I haven't written a lick of code since college.
I'm a network/system admin - and the job required a BS in Computer Science - that is probably completely unnecessary to do the job.
People interviewing candidates for tech positions need to ask broader questions about work experience. Asking a candidate about implementation details for a bubble sort or the syntax of Cisco iOS commands doesn't tell you if the candidate is a total psycho that can't work with people and can't solve problems.
Slashdot Mirror
It wasn't enough to simply report the news - to fill 24 hours of programming "news" agencies had to throw their opinions into the mix as well.
Opinions, by their very nature cause division. Eventually you will push enough people away from your narrative and you will lose the information war.
If the mainstream media is honestly and truly concerned with winning the information war they need to bring back old school journalism. Only publish if you can get two reliable sources to corroborate a story and NEVER give your own damn opinion on the matter. Do that for the next 5 years and you might just get the respect you once had.
This last election cycle turned me away from all national TV news. Local news is as close as you can get to unbiased news and even then you need to be skeptical.
If you lose data due to a corrupt filesystem - it's not the filesystem's fault that you didn't backup your data.
Even if you had the most reliable filesystem in the world - it would, most likely be running on spinning disks or flash media - both fail quite regularly.
Backup your data frequently and test your backups regularly.
The "Labor Theory of Value" says that the value of an item is equal to its labor input component.
That's a nice theory - but ignores the concept of scarcity. Even if you have unlimited energy (which we don't) and unlimited labor (provided by robots in theory), you still have the problem of scarcity of materials.
Our economic world has unlimited demand. Humans generally are not satisfied with what they have and want more. Scarcity of materials will still require some sort of cost structure to satisfy the supply/demand curve.
So long as humans compete for scarce resources, there will need to be an economic system to facilitate that. Free labor won't eliminate it.
There are a number of ways this could play out.
If the robotic means of production are owned by the few - the remaining many may simply revert back to a barter system (you reload ammo for me and I'll grow food for you...etc).
The other possibility is that the robotic means of production become SO cheap that everyone owns a robot to take care of their immediate needs. It's a futuristic stretch of the imagination, but think of a 3D printer on steroids - the robot(s) build your house, grow your food, treat your medical needs...etc.
That would be an interesting way of distributing the methods of production among all.
The dystopian "robots take all the jobs away" option doesn't seem all that likely.
In a world where no one works, and no one earns income - who is left to buy the output of the robots?
Capitalism driven production REQUIRES consumers with disposable income. The one cannot exist without the other. To save capitalism, you need to save the consumer.
So the pirates will need to spend $20 on one of these:
https://smile.amazon.com/ViewH...
They aren't a huge company, but they got scammed for $40 million:
http://fortune.com/2015/08/10/...
Verizon also made me an offer I couldn't refuse - a triple play at the double play price. The installation tech said that he had to activate the box, but that I didn't have to use it.
So he powered up the box, activated it, and then stuck it on a shelf in my basement.
I guess Verizon was hoping I would rent a movie from them instead of Amazon.
Software is a written work like any other - it should be protected via time-limited copyright and that's it. This would go a long way to clearing the courts of patent trolls.
Libertarians believe very strongly in property rights and that one of government's most important functions is to preserve property rights:
https://www.lp.org/platform/
The only proper role of government in the economic realm is to protect property rights, adjudicate disputes, and provide a legal framework in which voluntary trade is protected..
I don't know of any Libertarian that would consider a tractor, whole or in part, that would belong to John Deere after a farmer has voluntarily paid for it.
What does it say that a tech company like IBM can't effectively use technology to get their teams to collaborate?
Remember when Slashdot used to be News for Nerds, News That Matters?
Pepperidge Farm remembers....
Around here, you can do two years in a community college and transfer all the credits to a bunch of decent 4 year state schools.
In the end, you get the same 4 year degree as everyone else - while saving a boat load of money.
Sure, mom and dad don't get to put an Ivy League sticker on their car, and Mary and Johnny may have to live at home and commute to the college - but that's what the smart money does.
Stop paying for country clubs for your little crotch fruit.
A flat consumption tax has many advantages, one of which is simplicity.
Taxing things usually results in less of those things. Taxing income, property, and profits without exemption will result in less of those things - or moving those things to where the tax liability is the least.
No one wants an economy with less income, property, and profits - so we create a perverse system of deductions and tax incentives - another system to be gamed.
Let's just scrap all taxes and move to a consumption tax. Those that consume more will pay higher tax. Those that consume less will pay a lower tax.
This guy shot down a drone spying on his daughter with a shotgun - way cheaper than a Patriot missile.
https://www.cnet.com/news/judg...
Unless your definition of the "Average American" really means "Average City-Dwelling Californian" - the election results disagree with you:
By every other measure Trump won in a landslide.
http://www.investors.com/polit...
Number of states won:
Trump: 30
Clinton: 20
Trump: +10
Number of electoral votes won:
Trump: 306
Clinton: 232
Trump: + 68
Ave. margin of victory in winning states:
Trump: 56%
Clinton: 53.5%
Trump: + 2.5 points
Popular vote total:
Trump: 62,958,211
Clinton: 65,818,318
Clinton: + 2.8 million
Popular vote total outside California:
Trump: 58,474,401
Clinton: 57,064,530
Trump: + 1.4 million
Trump won more counties than any candidate since Ronald Reagan:
http://alexanderhiggins.com/tr...
The "average American" did vote for Trump.
A Theranos comparison? Really?
Tesla is producing real products (unlike Theranos) and is delivering slightly more cars per year than that little Stuttgart automaker Porsche.
However, unlike Porsche, Tesla is investing in one of the largest and most cost-effective battery factories in the world. It is possible that when Gigafactory is running at full-scale, most of the electric auto manufacturers and power companies will be buying batteries and energy storage systems from Tesla.
Tesla isn't anything like Theranos. I predict MBA's will be reading about Elon Musk - but not in the context you describe.
All of your engineers will need healthcare at some point. You could probably save a mint if your engineers could diagnose and treat some simple medical problems on their own.
A prosperous society allows individuals to specialize in their chosen profession. This allows each of us to focus our talents and achieve things not possible if we were all simply "Jacks of all Trades".
With all the automation coming, we should have no problem finding enough humans to narrowly specialize in their respective skill sets.
Modern nuclear makes as much electricity as you need - and can desalinate water as well.
When I worked for an FDIC insured bank, our network and systems were audited by the Office of Thrift Supervision.
If the federal government is subsidizing e911 - is there an agency that audits that spending and the network?
With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press...
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
She (and her stooges) broke the law - but did so "without intent". So the next time you are arrested - just tell the cops you didn't "intend" to break the law.
I suspect that if your last name is not Clinton - it will not go well for you.
Hillary ran her own server in her basement and had her three stooges delete 30,000 wedding and yoga emails. Pence used an AOL account - the contents of which could have been obtained via subpoena at any time.
The former stinks of coverup - the latter just looks like an old guy using AOL because he didn't know any better.
If you can take it without restriction into a residential swimming pool - it's waterproof enough.
The S5 is only "waterproof" for 30 minutes at 1 meter. My pool is 8 feet deep.
That's just stupid. I want to hang out in a pool for hours - listening to music and taking pictures. 30 minutes is no where near enough.
As far as stupid comments go - no consumer wants to go to the bottom of the Marianas Trench with a cell phone - that's a stupid comment.
Your S5 is IP67 certified - dust and water resistant - not waterproof.
http://www.samsung.com/us/supp...
and I haven't written a lick of code since college.
I'm a network/system admin - and the job required a BS in Computer Science - that is probably completely unnecessary to do the job.
People interviewing candidates for tech positions need to ask broader questions about work experience. Asking a candidate about implementation details for a bubble sort or the syntax of Cisco iOS commands doesn't tell you if the candidate is a total psycho that can't work with people and can't solve problems.