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  1. Far sighted move on SAP Partners With Apple To Expand iOS In The Enterprise (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And a step to the future. And a competitive edge.

    A lot of work is done by people doing it remotely. Approvals, postings, reviews.

    If software is implemented properly it can be a huge boost of productivity.

  2. Airing will cost money.Trump doesn't like spending on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    I wonder how he is going to do it.

    Trump has barely spend any money at all by today's standards. To air dirty laundry you need to convince a lot of media sources to give you air time to pour through that dirty laundry.

    Media sources are really torn. Trump generates a lot of viewership and extraordinary ratings, which means money to the media sources. However most mass media pundits clearly dislike Donald.

    I am putting my money that Media will go after the ratings and money. People will be entertained. The show must go on. This is America!

  3. Can Reduce our Dignity? on Snowden: 'Governments Can Reduce Our Dignity To That Of Tagged Animals' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think it already had reduced beyond dignity. Just visualize airport lines.

  4. I have heard that SKYNET is local service provider on Robots Battle In 25th Annual FIRST Competition (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I have heard that SKYNET is the local internet servicer provider in St. Louis, MO, also providing artificial intelligence services to certain robot teams.

  5. You have tenure you can pull off stints like that on CV of Failures: Princeton Professor Publishes Resume of His Career Lows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In a professional environment mentioning failures is considered a bad tone, left for the performance evaluation review or equivalent meeting.

    There is a more appropriate and more relevant word, called experience.

    Most of us with a lot of success, we also have many many failures. We know better than anyone most of our failures, and we are extra careful when doing our work.

  6. Quantum science is in it's infancy on Can Quantum Entanglement Create Faster-Than-Light Communication? (mit.edu) · · Score: 0

    Quantum world weirdness has already been proved with quantum delayed choice experiment.

    Somewhere there is a 130+ IQ point scientist and sometime this scientist will come up with another thought experiment, which will later be supported by actual experiment which will provide a different spin, and potentially a breakthrough in quantum mechanic understanding. We just don't know how old that scientist is or even if he or she already born.

    My grandfather did not believe in satellites. Several hundred years ago people did not care about heliocentric model. Modern people are so limited, as such they have made a practical simplification to treat speed of light as a constant. Quantum delayed choice experiment is a first salvo, a first spin to this oversimplification.

    There is a legion of geeky nerds who are racking their brains around quantum mechanic phenomena and more experiments more discoveries will expand our knowledge horizon.

  7. Expect more of the guilting by association on Bernie Sanders' Second Life Headquarters Besieged by Trump-Supporting Swastikas (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Many of the Bernie supporters spend a lot of time with computers and on the internets.

    Expect more and more association by guilt. I will not be voting for Trump (I will not be voting for anyone, as a matter of principle), but trying to tie Trump is with nazis is absurd.

    I am also getting sense, that anyone who is perceived as Trump leaning gets zero pointed here /. pronto.

  8. Most of swastikas are false flag on Bernie Sanders' Second Life Headquarters Besieged by Trump-Supporting Swastikas (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    In United States most of the attempts to insult by spraying swastikas and delivering pig heads are mostly false flags. There is even term coined for this phenomenon: http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/S...

    That means that upon police investigation it is determined that swastikas are painted by the victims to get more publicity.

    I don't know who is disturbing Sander's imaginary homes in Second Life, but this statistics must always be kept in mind prior to trying to pin the blame.

  9. Re:$499 for a Chromebook!!!! WTH on HP Announces All-Metal Chromebook 13: Thinner Than MacBook Pro, Costs $800 Less · · Score: 1

    You are being conditioned to think that everything that does not cost four digits, meaning $999 or less, is affordable.

  10. That is how you legitimize the caps on Comcast Is Raising Its Data Caps From 300GB To 1TB (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In the past Comcast has never specified what the caps were. And I am talking about residential plans. They were only reporting top 5% users (or in their thinking abusers). Theoretically in the past you could have used 2TB. They would have included you in the shitlists, but that would have been it if you only were flamboyant for one month.

    Right now it is a cap that been added. Some might think it is yuge, that they will never use it.

    Several things will happen:
      - More people will switch to Netlfix and their clones
      - More people will no longer be buying television. Only the internet. To watch Netflix.
      - Netflix will have even more HD, or 4KHD movies

    Well, at some point when they will need to increase profitability they will reduce the cap. Believe me.

  11. The most famous fringe site is Washington Post. Here is the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    Those who do not see the results, are too sensitive to scroll down the results page in google query. Nobody reads page #2 of google results anyway.

  12. Re:It was tried before. Did not work. on Greece's Former Finance Minister Explains Why A Universal Basic Income Could Save Us (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    They did have guaranteed income, it is called income in kind. It is a next level in socialist society.

    They have even removed those annoying rich and non-working people from their eyesight.

    If you give guaranteed $2,000 income in San Francisco, next day you will be getting complains that you can't buy anything for it. People will get guaranteed housing. And schooling. And fixed food prices.

    They have tried. Always and always society has stratified into the following main categories: The ruling class (that does not care about rationing). The guards, that have guaranteed food and privileges, but do not have the luster of the ruling class. Guards also include creative people, such as writers, actors and media - all to protect the status quo. The largest class - the working class: they get to do all the work, are fed with the promises about bright future. Now, if you are some sort of inventor, entrepreneur or non-complying artist who gets by working less than day of work a week, you are considered a moral hazard, for most of the criticism and free speech is coming from this layer of society.

    So which layer do you represent?

    The Soviets, North Korea, Venezuela is not just a socialism. It is democratic socialism. The one you are advocating.

    If you are really that obtuse, go find ex Soviet Socialism system survivor and interview. Ask about guaranteed food, education, healthcare and housing. Then comeback and continue preaching free money for everyone.

  13. They did it for rain water.They will do it for sun on Tesla Will Install More Energy Storage With SolarCity In 2016 Than The US Installed In 2015 (electrek.co) · · Score: -1

    In approx 15 years privately owned unaccounted Tesla Wall will be illegal.

    Why?

    Because it allows free use of sun, and no taxes are paid. None. In a bunch of socialist states collecting rain water is illegal. Why would sun users be getting a free pass?

    Free sun generating unaccounted devices will be considered a felony, for those who are using free sun will not be paying their fair share of taxes. Autonomous living and living off the grid mean automatic inclusion to pre-terrorist list.

  14. You can't call that campaign on Symantec: Cruz and Kasich Campaign Apps May Expose Sensitive Data (go.com) · · Score: 0

    You can't call Kasich performance a campaign.

      It is a deli tour. I sincerely think that governor Kasich is in a race because of the free food that they can get.

  15. Overture to different business segments on Facebook Is Building A Standalone Camera App To Encourage Its 1.6 Billion Users To Share More (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, facebook is a public company, as such shareholders need to be promised ever increasing returns.

    Video streams seem like a nice overture to the tripple X business, eventually. After all, most of the FB users are adult anyway, right?

    Just imagine the possibilities that can be opened.... and the reach... and the fans...

  16. My neighbor has noticed this phenomena ten years ago.

    When he was drunk and was peeing in the middle of the parking lot, he noticed that splashes do resemble pattern, as shown in scientific article.

    Scientific article also says that water is "...simultaneously present in all six symmetrically equivalent positions". My neighbor noticed he peed all over his shoes and splashes where everywhere.Spot on match description of quantum behavior.

    Opportunity to nab a Nobel price lost. Again.

  17. Divide et impera on Your Pay Is About To Go Up (gawker.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Take arbitrarily selected number, 40%.

    Those above it: shove it

    Those below it: take it

    Reality is that most of unpaid overtime is done by faceless, nameless IT workers, project managers, accountants, office workers with the salary band of $50K to $100K.

  18. Re:It was tried before. Did not work. on Greece's Former Finance Minister Explains Why A Universal Basic Income Could Save Us (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    Illegal immigrants family can get free tuition (childrens go to school, average cost per child per year is approx 11K). School is benefit and very material benefit.

    Illegal immigrants get to benefit from the governmental laws that guarantee healthcare irrespective of ability to pay. Unpaid medical bills falling on the rest of the payers is, eventually, a government provided benefit.

    Rationing by need was precisely the slogan coined by Louis Blanc and popularized by, yup, your friend Karl Marx.

    If you think that rationing is good, please talk to the veteran getting care at VA. Or somebody who has dealt with socialist healthcare, the most fairest and progressive healthcare in the world.

    Few decades from now don't be surprised wondering whether you misheard your doctor looking at your papers and murmuring that you need to be delivered to hospital or hospice care. Don't be surprised because you, nor your family, will have no say in the decision.

  19. Competition used to be treated as a positive force on US Justice Dept Approves Charter's Time Warner Cable Purchase With Conditions (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    FCC just won in the Olympics of logical reasoning.

    Less competition means protection of competition.

    Less competition does not mean there will be more broadband deployment. In the past there was a theoretical chance for competition. With two companies merging to two: not a chance

    New Charter has agreed to refrain from telling its content providers. Well... by this time we already know that it is not always necessary to speak to get your message across.

    Body language, mimic, sometimes a tone contradicting the main message can be very very informational.

    Long story short: I will never get optic fiber internet below $50 in my town.

  20. Higher CO2 increases productivity on Does More Carbon Dioxide Mean Increased Crop Water Productivity? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Higher CO2 does increases crop yield in agriculture. Higher output means higher crops. Eradication of hunger and starvation used to be the goal of SJW's.

    I bet there will be much more happier, healthier fed souls alive on this earth, rather than if all of the sudden CO2 levels drop.

    SJW need to be confronted with the logic, for they cannot bring any logic to the debate.

    P.S. Climate changes. It does change. It changes all the times. All it does it changes.

    Here is the link to consider:
    https://www.prageru.com/course...

  21. NHTSA does not have moral authority to shame on U.S. Goverment Shames Texting Drivers on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NHTSA has account since 2009 and they have 39K followers. They have a budget of approximately $0.9Billion and 600 employees. That means $1,500,000 per employee.

    Feels like another overpaid, appear busy, do nothing agency. Nobody questions their intentions, but a private consultancy could probably not only bring the message but also do everything they do cheaper, at probably 5% of the cost.

    When slashdot shames agencies on their $10,000 hammers, $495 paper towel rolls or $385,000 to study duck penises, nothing really changes.

  22. Re:It was tried before. Did not work. on Greece's Former Finance Minister Explains Why A Universal Basic Income Could Save Us (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    Do your research, old lazy stupid ass.

    Call socialism the way you want. Redistribution, whether you call it free house, medicine or education, is the same as guaranteed income. It is called guaranteed living, or income in kind.

    Travel back to Venezuela or North Korea (or wherever you came from, commie), that have guaranteed income. Think once again if you want to comeback.

  23. Re:Let's call taxation as contribution on 40% of Silicon Valley's Profits (But Not Sales) Came from Apple (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Please review original post. For the record, I do know really well how finance and taxation works, no need to hire tax professional.

    I have clearly stated that marginal tax rate is 50%. That means any additional efforts that would benefit society will be taxed at 50%.

    I do understand the concept of effective tax rate. Reality is that even remaining revenues have significant allocation to the property taxes. Further, first time you are attempting to spend you are likely to hit to approx 7% sales/excise tax, included in your daily expenses, gas. Further within the selling price of, say, restaurant check of $100, most of it is spend towards all kind of taxes.

    Final conclusion is that redistribution is a really high burden to the productive salaried people who really have no further incentive to excel. This logical observation is partially described as Laffer curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Economy of scale allows larger organisations to utilize (all proper and legal) different methods of tax planning. As I mentioned, all legal.

    I am getting back to the original argument that existing tax rate would have been considered confiscatory a generation or two ago.

  24. Let's call taxation as contribution on 40% of Silicon Valley's Profits (But Not Sales) Came from Apple (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    No practical society thrived without its members contributing. By being drafted, dying in wars, by building defensive buildings, by giving away some of the crops, or fruits of their labor. That is beside the point, because some contribution to common good and to others is a long tradition. Discussed in Bible, discussed in koran, I assume other religions have it too.

    The problem is when dual intercrossing taxation kicks in:

          - For a professional, marginal income tax rate in united states is approx 50%. (let's say that you are in federal income tax bracket of 33%, in california let's pick a bracket of 10%. Add Medicaid, Medicare, Social security taxes, tapered of tax credits available to others, and you are easily well above 50% effective tax rate).
      - If you are 50 years old individual and at birth you were given $10,000 gift, the value of it would be approximately $1,500 in current dollars.

    The problem is not contribution.

    The problem is how much taxation is being imposed on productive, middle class, members of the society.

  25. It was tried before. Did not work. on Greece's Former Finance Minister Explains Why A Universal Basic Income Could Save Us (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The universal income has been tried before in Soviet Socialism.

    It has been above and beyond universal income. In a socialist system most of the people had a place to live, a job, education was free, healthcare was free, one or two years maternity and the pay was more or less the same for all professions. Socialism failed miserably and It will keep failing every single time.

    It is called rationing. If healthcare is free, that means a random client/patient will be rationed. Education, even if it is free, is not available to everyone in their selected field. A job that paid something: people on average were non-productive and looking for opportunities to steal. Well, if housing is free everyone wants would want to live in most beautiful place. However there is not enough desirable places for everyone.

    It was tried before. Did not work then will not work now. Imagine in US they make it a basic income, of, say, $2000 per month. Once rumors are confirmed by less fortunate 50% of the world population, you can guarantee that population of US will double in 10 years. Even Trump's wall will not help, for underground high through capacity tunnels will be developed to meet demand.

    Once somebody becomes entitled for $2000 a month, and becomes a voter, it is impossible to change that habit.