Homeless shelters have been in the news lately because they are far from safe. Kids are developing anemia because they are so drained by bedbugs. And it's not just kids either. There are also numerous other complications.
Once someone gets that low, how does anyone expect them to get back on their feet? Far better to prevent it in the first place. The people who rant on about how it's somehow wrong better hope that karma doesn't bite their ignorant asses.
The government collecting taxes is legal. If you don't like it, you're free to leave. But you're still here, because you like the benefits those taxes provide, like roads, police, defense, food inspection, etc.
1. You're taking money away from people who earned it and giving to to people who didn't
As opposed to what? As fewer jobs become available, the alternatives are give a portion of it or have it all taken by force. Do you really want history to repeat itself?
2. What happens to people on basic income who have too many kids? Just keep paying them even more?
Most of the western world in the northern hemisphere is already below zero population growth. Countries have already experimented with paying people to pop out more kids, it doesn't work because people know that extra children are a financial burden in uncertain economic times. Basic income would not be high enough to offset that.
3. We already have enough illegals and freeloaders as it is. Paying half the country to do nothing will only make more of them.
Be happy that those illegals are doing jobs that you wouldn't do, like agricultural work. Do you really want to pay $5 for a tomato, because that's the alternative.
And what about all those seniors, who are "freeloading" because they aren't working. Japan already has 26% of their population over 65. Throw in those too young to work, and the infirm, and the unemployed, and that's pretty much half the population already. (total population 127 million, employed 64 million).
And the US is already worse. Only 151.5 million people work out of a total population of 319 million.
It's like communism? You don't have a clue as to what you're talking about. Socialism is not communism.
Also, funding for helping people to get training and jobs is no longer a solution. We already are in a downward spiral where people are paying ever more money to get ever more education for ever fewer jobs. As automation destroys more jobs, there's simply not going to be enough jobs to go around. Job training won't fix that.
Training also won't help people get jobs when their handicaps would "impose an undue burden on the employer." Or when the employer can get someone younger. Most "job training programs" are make-work programs that provide jobs to the trainers, and temporarily reduce the official unemployment rate because people in training aren't counted as unemployed.
In the past it didn't really matter, because after each downturn people could find jobs, even if they had nothing to do with their "training." That's no longer the case because (1) economic recoveries are now long, drawn-out affairs that leave many people permanently employed as whole sectors disappear, and (2) jobless recoveries (the term was first used in 1935) are now a fact of life.
Have you taken into account all the negative effects of NOT having a basic income? Including that historically, when enough people get desperate, they take what they need anyway rather than just conveniently crawl into a hole and die?
In other words, whatever the cost, it's probably still cheaper than a revolution.
Seriously? People kept saying that union costs were responsible for GM's bankruptcy, whereas the truth is that even if all the union employees worked for free, GM would have still gone bankrupt. They were producing Hummers when gas prices were through the roof.
Bullshit. It's not the unions that decide what the road specs are, who the suppliers of the raw materials are (and their quality or lack thereof), or how much time is spent on preparation. The unions only supply the labour - and they are hired and directed by the contractor, not the union.
Politicians, lowest bidder, etc., have nothing to do with unions.
Even if they get a positive, all it will do is be positive on the identity you are displaying, not your other identity. So what? That's what you want.
Anyone in the process of transitioning from one sex to the other will at one point be maintaining 2 identities. The latest stats are 3 per 1,000. Do you see that many? No, and you probably get a lot of false positives, same as the people who were shown pictures of three XX women and three Trans women, and asked to pick out the trans - and got it wrong almost all the time.
Trans learn at a very young age to be someone they are not, because the consequences include getting the crap beaten out of you. Being who they really are is actually hard at first, because it's hard to drop the role. But if you want someone who knows how to pull off two identities, trans people would make the perfect recruits.
Even our own mothers wouldn't recognize us:-) Some people refuse to believe even after you make full disclosure - and that's priceless to watch.
Again, there are more than enough test subjects to state that drug use among welfare recipients is far lower than the general population. Remember, they also do pre-screening to pick out those most likely to fail. Oh wait - you want them to waste tax dollars testing people they already are pretty sure won't fail the test.
And if it was so weak that you can't tell what it was, you don't need to worry about it. Sinkhole? If you didn't sink into it, what's your problem? If you're thinking of staying in a wildfire area until you hear the propane tanks blow, you deserve your darwin award.
Oil well explosions and underground gas storage venting don't represent an immediate threat to anyone who is not nearby - not even that big one out west.
Seismic activity by itself doesn't mean shit. Go stand next to a D9 moving dirt - you'll feel the earth shaking a lot more than a minor quake. And lets face it - quake alerts won't tell you about toxic gases in the air.
You'd be far better off looking for unusual activity by wildlife. They get the message before the fact, whether it's earthquake or hurricane. Looks like they're the smart ones, taking action before disaster strikes.
So, calling it Gnu/linux is a marketing strategy, nothing else. A marketing strategy by freetards that never caught on with the masses, btw, because freetards don't have either foot in the real world.
Caught you again. You obviously paid attention to it - that's what is known as "reading." Or are you really that much of a redtard freetard not to understand that?
As for writing offensively, I find freetards insisting on calling it gnu/linux offensive. So do many others. Maybe you should practice what you preach about not being offensive if you don't want to be labeled a freetard.
Especially since the GPL is not a free license, unlike the BSDs. Only a freetard would argue otherwise.
Look, you got caught bullshitting that "Perhaps that's because it's the same for OSX and BSD. It makes sense to abbreviate BSD/BSD as BSD," because OSX is referred to solely as OSX, despite it's underpinnings. It's linux, not GNU/linux, even according to your example, same as OSX and BSD. Just fess up to it that being a freetard isn't going to cut it with people who haven't swallowed the purple flavorade.
And also keep in mind that the GPL (all versions) is less free than the BSD license, which lets you use the code any way you wish, with no restrictions on distributing BSD code in your work. That, after all, is why both Sony and Apple use it.
Learn how to do statistical sampling. Learn what a valid sample size is. Oh, wait, you'll need to get your head out of our ass first. Sorry - carry on.
Then I guess they'd have to get together with everyone else in the same boat and pay someone to reverse-engineer the thing. It's not like it's impossible, and probably cheaper in the long run since they'd then get the source as well as someone able to maintain and modify it.
Can't be done. Ever hear of rain and umbrellas? Hoodies? Snow and layers of winter clothing, including parkas and scarves? If you can't identify who's under that umbrella, sun hat with the broad brim, or winter parka with the hood, you can't say who came and went. And of course, people park their cars indoors, so you can't even tell who's in the car. Getting close and personal with your drone gives the game away, but unfortunately even then, you don't have many of the metrics (height, build) that you have when someone is walking, and they can just stick on an anonymous mask while driving.
And yet you continue to respond after claiming that anyone who uses the term freetard is not worthy of reading any further.
Seems that makes you a retard freetard. Now, why would I continue to try to argue at a higher level with a retard? That would be retarded; better to use words and concepts you can understand and respond to, even if only retardedly.
And before you get all pissy - you're the one whose actions defined you as retarded.
Freetards are free to do whatever they want, doesn't mean that it's not retarded. And you not only read on, you replied, so obviously I must be some sort of brilliant exception if you deemed to not only read, but reply:-)
We don't call it OSX/BSD, even though just the BSD kernel, without any userland, is not going to get you very far. Same with windows, just the windows kernel won't get you much. Same with any kernel. However, that's how people refer to their operating systems - not by add-ons, because those can vary extensively and any one part is optional, whereas you usually need a kernel of some sort...
So you're saying Ubuntu is wrong when they say that "ubuntu for windows" isn't linux? Sheesh - why not go tell them that, I'm sure they really would like you to correct their mistake.
Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle knew how to defeat gait. Just put a small pebble in your shoe. Or wear shoes that are too large, or too small. By altering your posture in subtle ways, you can vary your height by 2 inches easily. Even your apparent sex can be changed either temporarily or permanently, eliminating 50% of all possible matches in one shot.
Any system we can devise, others can devise ways of defeating. Remember those Windows 95 install screens saying that this newest system was immune to viruses? The space shuttle being safe enough for a civilian school teacher to travel on? The enigma machine? Gummy bears for stealing finger prints? A picture or a video on a laptop to defeat facial recognition? Skimming passport and credit card data via rfid? Plastic and ceramic guns and knives to get past metal detectors?
The original poster claimed it was necessary to have photo id to enter a federal building. Obviously, even your answer acknowledges that this is not necessarily the case.
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Homeless shelters have been in the news lately because they are far from safe. Kids are developing anemia because they are so drained by bedbugs. And it's not just kids either. There are also numerous other complications.
And shelters are dangerous.
Once someone gets that low, how does anyone expect them to get back on their feet? Far better to prevent it in the first place. The people who rant on about how it's somehow wrong better hope that karma doesn't bite their ignorant asses.
The government collecting taxes is legal. If you don't like it, you're free to leave. But you're still here, because you like the benefits those taxes provide, like roads, police, defense, food inspection, etc.
1. You're taking money away from people who earned it and giving to to people who didn't
As opposed to what? As fewer jobs become available, the alternatives are give a portion of it or have it all taken by force. Do you really want history to repeat itself?
2. What happens to people on basic income who have too many kids? Just keep paying them even more?
Most of the western world in the northern hemisphere is already below zero population growth. Countries have already experimented with paying people to pop out more kids, it doesn't work because people know that extra children are a financial burden in uncertain economic times. Basic income would not be high enough to offset that.
3. We already have enough illegals and freeloaders as it is. Paying half the country to do nothing will only make more of them.
Be happy that those illegals are doing jobs that you wouldn't do, like agricultural work. Do you really want to pay $5 for a tomato, because that's the alternative.
And what about all those seniors, who are "freeloading" because they aren't working. Japan already has 26% of their population over 65. Throw in those too young to work, and the infirm, and the unemployed, and that's pretty much half the population already. (total population 127 million, employed 64 million).
And the US is already worse. Only 151.5 million people work out of a total population of 319 million.
It's like communism? You don't have a clue as to what you're talking about. Socialism is not communism.
Also, funding for helping people to get training and jobs is no longer a solution. We already are in a downward spiral where people are paying ever more money to get ever more education for ever fewer jobs. As automation destroys more jobs, there's simply not going to be enough jobs to go around. Job training won't fix that.
Training also won't help people get jobs when their handicaps would "impose an undue burden on the employer." Or when the employer can get someone younger. Most "job training programs" are make-work programs that provide jobs to the trainers, and temporarily reduce the official unemployment rate because people in training aren't counted as unemployed.
In the past it didn't really matter, because after each downturn people could find jobs, even if they had nothing to do with their "training." That's no longer the case because (1) economic recoveries are now long, drawn-out affairs that leave many people permanently employed as whole sectors disappear, and (2) jobless recoveries (the term was first used in 1935) are now a fact of life.
Have you taken into account all the negative effects of NOT having a basic income? Including that historically, when enough people get desperate, they take what they need anyway rather than just conveniently crawl into a hole and die?
In other words, whatever the cost, it's probably still cheaper than a revolution.
Personally, I'd happily work for free to build the technology to put every man, woman, and child on the planet out of work. In fact, I currently do.
You work for free? Do you realize that not everyone has that option?
Seriously? People kept saying that union costs were responsible for GM's bankruptcy, whereas the truth is that even if all the union employees worked for free, GM would have still gone bankrupt. They were producing Hummers when gas prices were through the roof.
Bullshit. It's not the unions that decide what the road specs are, who the suppliers of the raw materials are (and their quality or lack thereof), or how much time is spent on preparation. The unions only supply the labour - and they are hired and directed by the contractor, not the union.
Politicians, lowest bidder, etc., have nothing to do with unions.
Even if they get a positive, all it will do is be positive on the identity you are displaying, not your other identity. So what? That's what you want.
Anyone in the process of transitioning from one sex to the other will at one point be maintaining 2 identities. The latest stats are 3 per 1,000. Do you see that many? No, and you probably get a lot of false positives, same as the people who were shown pictures of three XX women and three Trans women, and asked to pick out the trans - and got it wrong almost all the time.
Trans learn at a very young age to be someone they are not, because the consequences include getting the crap beaten out of you. Being who they really are is actually hard at first, because it's hard to drop the role. But if you want someone who knows how to pull off two identities, trans people would make the perfect recruits.
Even our own mothers wouldn't recognize us :-) Some people refuse to believe even after you make full disclosure - and that's priceless to watch.
Again, there are more than enough test subjects to state that drug use among welfare recipients is far lower than the general population. Remember, they also do pre-screening to pick out those most likely to fail. Oh wait - you want them to waste tax dollars testing people they already are pretty sure won't fail the test.
And if it was so weak that you can't tell what it was, you don't need to worry about it. Sinkhole? If you didn't sink into it, what's your problem? If you're thinking of staying in a wildfire area until you hear the propane tanks blow, you deserve your darwin award.
Oil well explosions and underground gas storage venting don't represent an immediate threat to anyone who is not nearby - not even that big one out west.
Seismic activity by itself doesn't mean shit. Go stand next to a D9 moving dirt - you'll feel the earth shaking a lot more than a minor quake. And lets face it - quake alerts won't tell you about toxic gases in the air.
You'd be far better off looking for unusual activity by wildlife. They get the message before the fact, whether it's earthquake or hurricane. Looks like they're the smart ones, taking action before disaster strikes.
So, calling it Gnu/linux is a marketing strategy, nothing else. A marketing strategy by freetards that never caught on with the masses, btw, because freetards don't have either foot in the real world.
Caught you again. You obviously paid attention to it - that's what is known as "reading." Or are you really that much of a redtard freetard not to understand that?
As for writing offensively, I find freetards insisting on calling it gnu/linux offensive. So do many others. Maybe you should practice what you preach about not being offensive if you don't want to be labeled a freetard.
Especially since the GPL is not a free license, unlike the BSDs. Only a freetard would argue otherwise.
Look, you got caught bullshitting that "Perhaps that's because it's the same for OSX and BSD. It makes sense to abbreviate BSD/BSD as BSD," because OSX is referred to solely as OSX, despite it's underpinnings. It's linux, not GNU/linux, even according to your example, same as OSX and BSD. Just fess up to it that being a freetard isn't going to cut it with people who haven't swallowed the purple flavorade.
And also keep in mind that the GPL (all versions) is less free than the BSD license, which lets you use the code any way you wish, with no restrictions on distributing BSD code in your work. That, after all, is why both Sony and Apple use it.
Learn how to do statistical sampling. Learn what a valid sample size is. Oh, wait, you'll need to get your head out of our ass first. Sorry - carry on.
Then I guess they'd have to get together with everyone else in the same boat and pay someone to reverse-engineer the thing. It's not like it's impossible, and probably cheaper in the long run since they'd then get the source as well as someone able to maintain and modify it.
Less so than in certain US states, that's for sure.
Can't be done. Ever hear of rain and umbrellas? Hoodies? Snow and layers of winter clothing, including parkas and scarves? If you can't identify who's under that umbrella, sun hat with the broad brim, or winter parka with the hood, you can't say who came and went. And of course, people park their cars indoors, so you can't even tell who's in the car. Getting close and personal with your drone gives the game away, but unfortunately even then, you don't have many of the metrics (height, build) that you have when someone is walking, and they can just stick on an anonymous mask while driving.
Seems that makes you a retard freetard. Now, why would I continue to try to argue at a higher level with a retard? That would be retarded; better to use words and concepts you can understand and respond to, even if only retardedly.
And before you get all pissy - you're the one whose actions defined you as retarded.
Freetards are free to do whatever they want, doesn't mean that it's not retarded. And you not only read on, you replied, so obviously I must be some sort of brilliant exception if you deemed to not only read, but reply :-)
We don't call it OSX/BSD, even though just the BSD kernel, without any userland, is not going to get you very far. Same with windows, just the windows kernel won't get you much. Same with any kernel. However, that's how people refer to their operating systems - not by add-ons, because those can vary extensively and any one part is optional, whereas you usually need a kernel of some sort ...
So you're saying Ubuntu is wrong when they say that "ubuntu for windows" isn't linux? Sheesh - why not go tell them that, I'm sure they really would like you to correct their mistake.
sorry, can't check out the quote - the site is down.
Doesn't explain why you don't call it osx/freebsd, so no, it's not the same for OSX.
Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle knew how to defeat gait. Just put a small pebble in your shoe. Or wear shoes that are too large, or too small. By altering your posture in subtle ways, you can vary your height by 2 inches easily. Even your apparent sex can be changed either temporarily or permanently, eliminating 50% of all possible matches in one shot.
Any system we can devise, others can devise ways of defeating. Remember those Windows 95 install screens saying that this newest system was immune to viruses? The space shuttle being safe enough for a civilian school teacher to travel on? The enigma machine? Gummy bears for stealing finger prints? A picture or a video on a laptop to defeat facial recognition? Skimming passport and credit card data via rfid? Plastic and ceramic guns and knives to get past metal detectors?
The original poster claimed it was necessary to have photo id to enter a federal building. Obviously, even your answer acknowledges that this is not necessarily the case.
Forget Arse Technica - this should have been reported here instead?