Under the guise of compassion, UBI really just turns us from stakeholders or even citizens to mere consumers
There is nothing in the article that supports this. One thing is clear: the author wants a more radical patch to the "economic operating system". But why is UBI a bad patch to the current system?
Imagine Elon Mask showing up to a Tesla event in diesel VW. He may have good reasons, say he may need to travel longer than the current range of Tesla cars. But how idiotic would it look?
The same applies here. I don't buy your excuses. Jim Zemlin is a disgrace.
So what is the point of withdrawing from a voluntary agreement other than scoring political points? Paris agreement is toothless, but it sets a precedent and has a symbolic value. It is like having elections where the autocratic leader wins with huge majority. It isn't democracy, but it is better than a monarchy.
For me its completely the opposite. When I try to fix a problem with Windows, I google it. Then there are suggestions to click on this, click on that and then untick a certain box. I do it, and the problem doesn't go away. So go to the next solution: click on that, click on this, tick some other box instead. This doesn't work either. Of course the same problem (e.g. no sound) can have multiple reasons. And if your problem doesn't come from a common reason, good luck on ever figuring out what is going on.
Instead, if you run a command in terminal, it gives you output. If you run with debug options, it gives you more output. So you can at least have an idea of what to look for. It's not everyone's cup of tea, I get it. But I suspect most fans, like me, love Linux precisely because of the terminal. Why do you want us to get rid of it?
If you require dedicated parking for every single business you need to attend, then no city worth living is going to be conductive to having a family. My feeling is exactly the opposite. I used to live (with my small family) in a city in UK where parking was hell, but buses were OK and cycling was good. Now I've moved to a city in Canada, where every shitty convenience store has a huge parking space. You can see very few people walking and even fewer people cycling. The city is lifeless, even for Christmas they didn't bother to decorate the centre a bit. But hey, everyone can park their pick up track, what more do people want, right?
Well, in Britain I used to have a mobile plan with 200min/unlimited text/500MB for 6.90GBP. Since I've moved to Canada, the cheapest decent plan I could find is 40CAD. Sure it has more of everything but my usage for the last month was 44min/19text/53MB. Nevermind, I am sure Canada is a world leader in 4G! Hurray!
It certainly can't be that policies won. Trump had none of them, he just made things up as he went. The guy is a misogynistic narcissistic racist and the fact that 60 million people voted for him does not change that. The America that voted for Trump has a long way to go to be great.
I think the point of TFA is that facebook hid most of its profits by accounting magic rather than distribute them to employees. The figure for employee bonuses is presented to highlight the scale of profits facebook should have been making.
The common sense suggests that this entirely depends on the project under question. Say if there are five independent tasks each taking a month for a team of five, then a team of 25 will complete it in one month. On the other hand a woman "produces" a baby in 9 months but 9 women can't "produce" a baby in one month.
Not questioning scientific consensus by a layman is very pro-science. Scientists should question consensus in their respective areas, not slashdot readers. Imagine everyone questioned whether the earth was round or whether general theory of relativity is correct.
As things stand, Ubuntu won't switch to Wayland but instead to their in house display server Mir. So for a standard Ubuntu user Wayland definitely won't solve anything.
But few have been demonstrated to be an artifact of a spreadsheet error like austerity and then shown to be a failure in practice as well as in theory.
I am sure there are plenty of other papers that argue for austerity and plenty of papers that argue against.
If you are a contractor and have a bad month, selling off the tools of your trade isn't a good way to recover.
Cutting down early retirements sounds more like cancelling your trip to Maldives rather than selling your tools.
Just about every economic theory has been "discredited" in some academic paper. More than an economic theory, austerity is about common sense: if you are short on money, you cat your spending.
You are presuming that she is going to blame her possible future low pay on "pay inequality". There are plenty of men unhappy with their career. The question was not about gender and lets leave it that way.
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There is nothing in the article that supports this. One thing is clear: the author wants a more radical patch to the "economic operating system". But why is UBI a bad patch to the current system?
Left accuses BBC of right wing bias. Right accuses BBC of left wing bias. I think this means that BBC is pretty neutral.
Vevo had a video-hosting website? Never heard about it.
Imagine Elon Mask showing up to a Tesla event in diesel VW. He may have good reasons, say he may need to travel longer than the current range of Tesla cars. But how idiotic would it look? The same applies here. I don't buy your excuses. Jim Zemlin is a disgrace.
Comparing the starting pay at Tesla to the national average for auto workers doesn't seem very fair.
I see... Your opinion is that others shouldn't express their opinions. So why did you bother expressing yours again?
So what is the point of withdrawing from a voluntary agreement other than scoring political points? Paris agreement is toothless, but it sets a precedent and has a symbolic value. It is like having elections where the autocratic leader wins with huge majority. It isn't democracy, but it is better than a monarchy.
For me its completely the opposite. When I try to fix a problem with Windows, I google it. Then there are suggestions to click on this, click on that and then untick a certain box. I do it, and the problem doesn't go away. So go to the next solution: click on that, click on this, tick some other box instead. This doesn't work either. Of course the same problem (e.g. no sound) can have multiple reasons. And if your problem doesn't come from a common reason, good luck on ever figuring out what is going on. Instead, if you run a command in terminal, it gives you output. If you run with debug options, it gives you more output. So you can at least have an idea of what to look for. It's not everyone's cup of tea, I get it. But I suspect most fans, like me, love Linux precisely because of the terminal. Why do you want us to get rid of it?
So I wonder could it possibly be that people actually are submitting leaks from Russia and China and Wikipedia isn't publishing them?
Wikipedia has nothing to do with wikileaks.
Why can't communities be global? Do you really have to divide people into "us" and "them" based on nationality?
If you require dedicated parking for every single business you need to attend, then no city worth living is going to be conductive to having a family. My feeling is exactly the opposite. I used to live (with my small family) in a city in UK where parking was hell, but buses were OK and cycling was good. Now I've moved to a city in Canada, where every shitty convenience store has a huge parking space. You can see very few people walking and even fewer people cycling. The city is lifeless, even for Christmas they didn't bother to decorate the centre a bit. But hey, everyone can park their pick up track, what more do people want, right?
Yahoo has 1 billion accounts?? Surely most of them are dormant.
Well, in Britain I used to have a mobile plan with 200min/unlimited text/500MB for 6.90GBP. Since I've moved to Canada, the cheapest decent plan I could find is 40CAD. Sure it has more of everything but my usage for the last month was 44min/19text/53MB. Nevermind, I am sure Canada is a world leader in 4G! Hurray!
It certainly can't be that policies won. Trump had none of them, he just made things up as he went. The guy is a misogynistic narcissistic racist and the fact that 60 million people voted for him does not change that. The America that voted for Trump has a long way to go to be great.
As a former Soviet country Armenia never was a third world country (unlike Switzerland, Finland and Ireland). Nor is it a dictatorship.
"We gave users storage and they have used it. So we are going to cut it." That is the dumbest argument I have ever heard.
I think the point of TFA is that facebook hid most of its profits by accounting magic rather than distribute them to employees. The figure for employee bonuses is presented to highlight the scale of profits facebook should have been making.
The common sense suggests that this entirely depends on the project under question. Say if there are five independent tasks each taking a month for a team of five, then a team of 25 will complete it in one month. On the other hand a woman "produces" a baby in 9 months but 9 women can't "produce" a baby in one month.
Not questioning scientific consensus by a layman is very pro-science. Scientists should question consensus in their respective areas, not slashdot readers. Imagine everyone questioned whether the earth was round or whether general theory of relativity is correct.
Of course it is up up down down left right left right B A! It's the Konami Code.
As things stand, Ubuntu won't switch to Wayland but instead to their in house display server Mir. So for a standard Ubuntu user Wayland definitely won't solve anything.
But few have been demonstrated to be an artifact of a spreadsheet error like austerity and then shown to be a failure in practice as well as in theory.
I am sure there are plenty of other papers that argue for austerity and plenty of papers that argue against.
If you are a contractor and have a bad month, selling off the tools of your trade isn't a good way to recover.
Cutting down early retirements sounds more like cancelling your trip to Maldives rather than selling your tools.
Just about every economic theory has been "discredited" in some academic paper. More than an economic theory, austerity is about common sense: if you are short on money, you cat your spending.
You are presuming that she is going to blame her possible future low pay on "pay inequality". There are plenty of men unhappy with their career. The question was not about gender and lets leave it that way.
I see another "poster girl" raising awareness of the "pay inequality" in the making...
That is incredibly presumptuous towards the woman in question, and towards other so called "poster girls".