Looks as though Finland may be officially giving up on the long-standing idea that government policy should be to encourage full employment, which is generally defined as keeping 97% or more of the work force employed. The challenge: if social peace is to be achieved by subsidizing everyone up to a basic level of income, is there any way to do this without disincentivizing work by those on the job? Would Finnish culture degenerate into a society in which everyone is officially unemployed and drawing the basic dole, with motivated workers taking hidden side jobs for extra cash?
If you didn't have the memory of a goldfish you would have noticed that the battery improvements written about ten years ago have gotten out on market now.
Which makes all the Luddite whinery out there even less relevant. Most ebooks are read off tablets and special-purpose devices, rather than off computer monitors.
"If the prototype was taken from NASA without permission, technically it's stolen government property. They can just take it back without paying the guy anything."
More precisely, the government can claim that a given artifact was stolen and just grab it even if it has no proof. If you have a sufficiently large amount of money and a period of years to devote to the effort, you can make them give it back eventually.
" The last thing we should be doing is accepting advice from communists from hostile governments."
Relax. If China were to actually adopt the US healthcare system, it would be bankrupt in a decade. It would make as much sense as the US adopting the Chinese legal system. There has to be some other reason why they are looking into our system. Probably they are developing a new hit sitcom.
New Zealand must be a particularly flagrant case. Roughly one of of three businesses there seem to be "panelbeaters" or body shops. I'm not sure what accounts for the accident rate.
I suspect that the whole "backlit screens cause eyestrain" meme comes from some magazine article written circa 1985 by a liberal arts major who, after reading one of the first etexts off a crappy VGA screen, decided to write off the technology for all time to come. One of the reasons I went to ebooks is because I'm vision-impaired and wanted to reduce eyestrain. For me it's much easier to read an illuminated screen in a font that I choose in a size that I control. Now I don't care about looking for the exact place where the light is at the right angle.
"It's as if all progress in the humanities has ended by fiat."
In fact, the notorious model with the "interfering engine": if the timing belt broke at high revs, the pistons would collide with the valves. The result: entertainment for all onlookers.
"This is the same fake outrage we saw when anti-vaxers became a news item. Most of those awful "Liberals" turned out to be libertarians asserting their "sovereign individual" fantasy."
Wow, I never knew that Hollywood and Marin County were so packed with libertarians!
The other problem is that the refugees are not all Syrians. Large numbers of them are arriving in Europe from war-blasted places that make Syria look like Massachusetts.
Dealerships may be horrible places to buy cars from - why else would an increasing number of us buy new cars through a specialized agent who knows how to shop around - but there is a major value in the service component of the dealership model. The traditional service model for electronics is in this case just as bad as the traditional sales model for cars.
When something goes wrong wrong with your Tesla, would you want to have to mail it back to a distribution center and wait several weeks?
By the time it reached end-of-life, the first space station became famous for hosting fungus mats of an unknown species: http://www.straightdope.com/co...
No it doesn't need a live connection with the card carrier, except when tou set up each card in the phone's payment app. It snaps a picture of the front-side number and expiration, and encodes that in its onboad tokenization chip. At transaction time, the tokenization chip computes the one-time code that gets sent to the retailer's NFC reader.
I heard they initially tried educating the fetuses, but it was more trouble than it was worth. First there's the time consumed in getting each mother miked up to communicate, then you have the fetuses disrupting the classroom by spouting Republican talking points in their tiny high voices.
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Looks as though Finland may be officially giving up on the long-standing idea that government policy should be to encourage full employment, which is generally defined as keeping 97% or more of the work force employed. The challenge: if social peace is to be achieved by subsidizing everyone up to a basic level of income, is there any way to do this without disincentivizing work by those on the job? Would Finnish culture degenerate into a society in which everyone is officially unemployed and drawing the basic dole, with motivated workers taking hidden side jobs for extra cash?
"I wish I had an actual breakthrough battery for every battery breakthrough story I've seen "
To put it another way: If I had a nickel for every one of those stories, I would have my own asteroid by now.
If you didn't have the memory of a goldfish you would have noticed that the battery improvements written about ten years ago have gotten out on market now.
Hey, quit carping about my memory!
Does anyone make a little ruggedized case for an SD card that you can swallow?
If they were stolen, how could a government with all the legal power in the world lose the case?
Because the Mexican version can punish everyone. It's a form of equality through oppression.
Now our job market will be flooded with software developers from south of the border.
Which makes all the Luddite whinery out there even less relevant. Most ebooks are read off tablets and special-purpose devices, rather than off computer monitors.
"If the prototype was taken from NASA without permission, technically it's stolen government property. They can just take it back without paying the guy anything."
More precisely, the government can claim that a given artifact was stolen and just grab it even if it has no proof. If you have a sufficiently large amount of money and a period of years to devote to the effort, you can make them give it back eventually.
To see what I mean, look up 'Langbord Coins".
Cue the obligatory toothbrush joke.
" The last thing we should be doing is accepting advice from communists from hostile governments."
Relax. If China were to actually adopt the US healthcare system, it would be bankrupt in a decade. It would make as much sense as the US adopting the Chinese legal system. There has to be some other reason why they are looking into our system. Probably they are developing a new hit sitcom.
New Zealand must be a particularly flagrant case. Roughly one of of three businesses there seem to be "panelbeaters" or body shops. I'm not sure what accounts for the accident rate.
I suspect that the whole "backlit screens cause eyestrain" meme comes from some magazine article written circa 1985 by a liberal arts major who, after reading one of the first etexts off a crappy VGA screen, decided to write off the technology for all time to come. One of the reasons I went to ebooks is because I'm vision-impaired and wanted to reduce eyestrain. For me it's much easier to read an illuminated screen in a font that I choose in a size that I control. Now I don't care about looking for the exact place where the light is at the right angle.
In fact, a small increase in the Earth's albedo would more than make up for heat imported from space-based solar arrays.
My solution was to go all ebook. No borrowing, and I can carry a whole summer vacation of beach reading in an iPad.
So that's why I keep seeing the Crucial logo projected on clouds with searchlights.
But the demographic that came off worst was men.
"It's as if all progress in the humanities has ended by fiat."
In fact, the notorious model with the "interfering engine": if the timing belt broke at high revs, the pistons would collide with the valves. The result: entertainment for all onlookers.
"This is the same fake outrage we saw when anti-vaxers became a news item. Most of those awful "Liberals" turned out to be libertarians asserting their "sovereign individual" fantasy."
Wow, I never knew that Hollywood and Marin County were so packed with libertarians!
The other problem is that the refugees are not all Syrians. Large numbers of them are arriving in Europe from war-blasted places that make Syria look like Massachusetts.
Dealerships may be horrible places to buy cars from - why else would an increasing number of us buy new cars through a specialized agent who knows how to shop around - but there is a major value in the service component of the dealership model. The traditional service model for electronics is in this case just as bad as the traditional sales model for cars.
When something goes wrong wrong with your Tesla, would you want to have to mail it back to a distribution center and wait several weeks?
By the time it reached end-of-life, the first space station became famous for hosting fungus mats of an unknown species:
http://www.straightdope.com/co...
No it doesn't need a live connection with the card carrier, except when tou set up each card in the phone's payment app. It snaps a picture of the front-side number and expiration, and encodes that in its onboad tokenization chip. At transaction time, the tokenization chip computes the one-time code that gets sent to the retailer's NFC reader.
I heard they initially tried educating the fetuses, but it was more trouble than it was worth. First there's the time consumed in getting each mother miked up to communicate, then you have the fetuses disrupting the classroom by spouting Republican talking points in their tiny high voices.
"Prenatal support" means that the program serves pregnant women, not that we're educating the fetuses.