What happens to the government workers that represent a portion of that 15 Million?
Laid off?
Probably not, so not the savings you would think from trying to get rid of the 15 Million overhead.
They'll go on basic income if they haven't got skills other employers want. They can use their time to acquire more skills, rather than the "if you go to school we'll cut off your unemployment" toilet mentality (toilet mentality because it's just going round and round and then you are are flushed like a turd).
China (one of the BRICs) has enough foreign reserves to pay off its foreign debt twice over and still have change. The US only has enough foreign reserves to pay of 4% of its debt. It's pretty obvious that if push came to shove, China (which already on a purchasing parity basis has a larger economy than the US, and will have a larger economy than the US ignoring differences in purchasing power by 2020), can do whatever it wants, because dumping their US-denominated foreign reserves will pretty much be the sword of Damocles, the elephant in the room, in the calculus for any potential military confrontation.
Everyone has known since the accumulated debt passed $10 trillion that it will never be paid back. The question is, who will pull the trigger, and who will be left without a seat when the game of musical chairs stops.
The idea is that with the basic income, all those other benefit schemes that you say won't disappear, will in fact disappear. It also removes the disincentive to work because "I'll lose my benefits."
People will also be able to retrain without worrying quite so much about having to work full-time and squeezing it in.
The slashdot mobile web site sucks in comparison to apps like simply slashdot in terms of performance and NOT COVERING BUTTONS WITH CRAP! Plus, the slashdot mobile web site doesn't use the phone's back button correctly, because it IS just a dumb web app. Post a comment, then hit the back button after your comment is displayed, and look - you're back at the post comment screen. Bad functionality. But that's the way web browsers work (unlike real apps).
Close - but the correct answer is to add "So, now you want me to download the UI and all the code necessary to run the app every time I open it, open slower, and use more bandwidth on our crappy data caps instead of just the data? How is this a benefit? We already use ad blockers to keep from wasting bandwidth."
Then use one of the stalls. Problem solved.It will also help with your paruresis.
I can just picture them leering over the top of the urinal divider, trying to catch a glimpse of my cock. It disgusts me that people could try stuff like that.
I think most people would be alarmed that you think this is a problem. You must be one of those supporters of "bathroom laws" because "everyone knows transsexuals just want an excuse to spy on women."
The situation in example given in the article could have been avoided entirely if it had been done right:
to assign per-session tokens to users. They thought they were fine, because the chances of a collision were vanishingly small if the PRNG was doing its job.
How stupid do you have to be to use any value as a "unique" token without verifying that it is not currently in use? Even truly random numbers will still have the rare collision. In other words, "vanishingly small" != unique.
If (proto)life or traces of it is found on any other planet in our system that will blow the "rare" factor away
Not at all. There's been over 100 meteors from Mars found on earth. There's no reason life couldn't start on planet, then contaminate others even if life didn't start there.
An offer under an invitation to treat is not a sale. However, once accepted by the one offering the invitation to treat, it creates mutual obligations which, if not met, leaves the one defaulting in debt to the other, either for specific performance, damages, or both. Any transaction that is not gratuitous in nature will always have the potential to create debt, just as a fraudulent invitation to treat will. Also, either the offer may specify sequential performance, and/or sequential payment terms, in any tender (these are actually quite common). Both create future obligations (aka debts to the other party).
It's going to be hard for a fluid to match pressures when there's 8,000 feet of rock pushing down on the deposit, and gas tends to bubble up through fluids, expanding as the pressure goes down.
And no, I'm not being foolhardy. It's called "paying it forward." You can't "pay it forward" in honor of those who have been open in the past if you hide.
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You forget the biggest - if they take the vacation time, they're seen as a slacker and not a team member. Big problem in the tech world.
What's to prevent two people combining their basic income to rent a place with two bedrooms? It's not like 2 bedrooms cost twice as much as one ...
It is simple. They don't live.
I hear they're making a remake of Logan's Run. You volunteering so they don't need special effects to off people?
What happens to the government workers that represent a portion of that 15 Million? Laid off?
Probably not, so not the savings you would think from trying to get rid of the 15 Million overhead.
They'll go on basic income if they haven't got skills other employers want. They can use their time to acquire more skills, rather than the "if you go to school we'll cut off your unemployment" toilet mentality (toilet mentality because it's just going round and round and then you are are flushed like a turd).
China (one of the BRICs) has enough foreign reserves to pay off its foreign debt twice over and still have change. The US only has enough foreign reserves to pay of 4% of its debt. It's pretty obvious that if push came to shove, China (which already on a purchasing parity basis has a larger economy than the US, and will have a larger economy than the US ignoring differences in purchasing power by 2020), can do whatever it wants, because dumping their US-denominated foreign reserves will pretty much be the sword of Damocles, the elephant in the room, in the calculus for any potential military confrontation.
Everyone has known since the accumulated debt passed $10 trillion that it will never be paid back. The question is, who will pull the trigger, and who will be left without a seat when the game of musical chairs stops.
People will also be able to retrain without worrying quite so much about having to work full-time and squeezing it in.
You can drag one atop the other and they will appear like they were in a folder when you touch the icon.
Indeed. One (JavaScript) thread should be enough for anyone. Effing web developers.
It is - anything more than that, you shouldn't be using javascript.
So does dragging the URL onto the phone's home screen.
I like the limitations of web browsers. They stop developers being asshats.
+1 Funny :-)
It also ignores that fact that you have to download all the code and ui resources every time you "load" a web app. Moronic article.
Have you even tried the mobile site on a smartphone?
The slashdot mobile web site sucks in comparison to apps like simply slashdot in terms of performance and NOT COVERING BUTTONS WITH CRAP! Plus, the slashdot mobile web site doesn't use the phone's back button correctly, because it IS just a dumb web app. Post a comment, then hit the back button after your comment is displayed, and look - you're back at the post comment screen. Bad functionality. But that's the way web browsers work (unlike real apps).
Close - but the correct answer is to add "So, now you want me to download the UI and all the code necessary to run the app every time I open it, open slower, and use more bandwidth on our crappy data caps instead of just the data? How is this a benefit? We already use ad blockers to keep from wasting bandwidth."
I can just picture them leering over the top of the urinal divider, trying to catch a glimpse of my cock. It disgusts me that people could try stuff like that.
I think most people would be alarmed that you think this is a problem. You must be one of those supporters of "bathroom laws" because "everyone knows transsexuals just want an excuse to spy on women."
Since seed values are important, why not just use the comments in slashdot - some of them are REALLY random.
Or use the latest presidential campaign statements - can't get much more random than that (for some definitions of random).
to assign per-session tokens to users. They thought they were fine, because the chances of a collision were vanishingly small if the PRNG was doing its job.
How stupid do you have to be to use any value as a "unique" token without verifying that it is not currently in use? Even truly random numbers will still have the rare collision. In other words, "vanishingly small" != unique.
If (proto)life or traces of it is found on any other planet in our system that will blow the "rare" factor away
Not at all. There's been over 100 meteors from Mars found on earth. There's no reason life couldn't start on planet, then contaminate others even if life didn't start there.
An offer under an invitation to treat is not a sale. However, once accepted by the one offering the invitation to treat, it creates mutual obligations which, if not met, leaves the one defaulting in debt to the other, either for specific performance, damages, or both. Any transaction that is not gratuitous in nature will always have the potential to create debt, just as a fraudulent invitation to treat will. Also, either the offer may specify sequential performance, and/or sequential payment terms, in any tender (these are actually quite common). Both create future obligations (aka debts to the other party).
It's going to be hard for a fluid to match pressures when there's 8,000 feet of rock pushing down on the deposit, and gas tends to bubble up through fluids, expanding as the pressure goes down.
Nah, it only means that China is now imitating the west.
Ah, but can the government legally stop accepting cash? Cash is legal tender, good for all settling debts, public or private.
Don't look now, but your old cell phone pings towers frequently, so it can be used to track you.
I always spray them down at the sink once I'm done serving before residue has a chance to harden or congeal and require scrubbing in the first place.
Dogs are great for getting even baked-on grime off of pots and pans. They'll just lick and lick and lick until there's nothing left.
And no, I'm not being foolhardy. It's called "paying it forward." You can't "pay it forward" in honor of those who have been open in the past if you hide.