What you call a "fad" used to be a social movement. Don't you think it's a little sad that things are a media frenzy for a while and then nothing really gets done?
With no economy people have to work, otherwise they don't have a roof over their head or food to eat. The work is planting potatoes, chopping trees and cutting firewood.
I've read all of them. Also Sandy Pentland's When Things Begin to Think". A less Rosy view IIRC, but all of these were close to twenty years ago when I was into this stuff.
It really wasn't so much forced labor as much as complete indifference because you got paid no matter what. This led to low quality pretty much everything. I wish I could remember all the details a friend told me about a flight he took and went up to talk to.the pilots and they were complaining that none of the instruments worked. It was kinda funny, but very sad.
The Soviet Union had something close to a basic income. Everyone got money. Everyone had a job too, but there were basically no expectations and you couldn't be fired. There seemed to be little pride in workmanship, faucets hooked up randomly (Hot - Cold), live electrical wires sticking out of walls, hanging from the ceiling, out of street posts (I walked into one of these), big holes in sidewalks, high rates of alcoholism (on and off the job). All construction was nonsquare and misaligned.
This guy has a good youtube channel, Real Russia of what it's like to live in Russia and remember this is 25 years after it fell.
Fired? You mean like just like when you sat on a customer's seat at that car wash that I worked one summer, vacuuming 1 car/minute for 8 hours when it was 46C out, and we only got one 30 minute water break?
Not according to Plato. The people who wrote the US constitution were the leading philosophers and scientists of their time and were very afraid of democracies, and wrote as such, which is why the us US a republic.
Google maps lists businesses even if companies don't join or pay for it. I can google my name and find it listed on dozens of mylife.com type websites. And I wonder how many professors on ratemyprofessor.com actually signed up for that feature?
I know lots of people with gigabytes worth of music that companies specifically indicated that they did not want people collecting using the reason that information wants to be free. In fact I think most people on slashdot promoted this.
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As an electrical engineer, this made me dumber.
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What you call a "fad" used to be a social movement. Don't you think it's a little sad that things are a media frenzy for a while and then nothing really gets done?
Internet time
The internet was great for the first ten years or so in the 80's and 90's.
With no economy people have to work, otherwise they don't have a roof over their head or food to eat. The work is planting potatoes, chopping trees and cutting firewood.
You do know that orders of magnitude means hundreds, right?
He did a good job predicting that society would become addicted to their smart phones when the Apple Newton was state of the art in PDA.
Equality for the handicapped.
I've read all of them. Also Sandy Pentland's When Things Begin to Think". A less Rosy view IIRC, but all of these were close to twenty years ago when I was into this stuff.
I think I read this about 30 years ago. I think there were stranded there from a cruise ship.
Also depends on the instantaneous tide state.
skills.
It really wasn't so much forced labor as much as complete indifference because you got paid no matter what. This led to low quality pretty much everything. I wish I could remember all the details a friend told me about a flight he took and went up to talk to .the pilots and they were complaining that none of the instruments worked. It was kinda funny, but very sad.
The Soviet Union had something close to a basic income. Everyone got money. Everyone had a job too, but there were basically no expectations and you couldn't be fired. There seemed to be little pride in workmanship, faucets hooked up randomly (Hot - Cold), live electrical wires sticking out of walls, hanging from the ceiling, out of street posts (I walked into one of these), big holes in sidewalks, high rates of alcoholism (on and off the job). All construction was nonsquare and misaligned.
This guy has a good youtube channel, Real Russia of what it's like to live in Russia and remember this is 25 years after it fell.
And then came the Assumptions
And the Assumptions were without form
And the Plan was completely without substance
And the darkness was upon the face of the Workers
And the Workers spoke amongst themselves, saying
"It is a crock of shit, and it stinketh."
And the Workers went unto their Supervisors and sayeth,
"It is a pail of dung and none may abide the odor thereof."
And the Supervisors went unto their Managers and sayeth unto them,
"It is a container of excrement and it is very strong,
such that none may abide by it."
And the Managers went unto their Directors and sayeth,
"It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength."
And the Directors spoke among themselves, saying one to another,
"It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong."
And the Directors went unto the Vice Presidents and sayeth unto them,
"It promotes growth and is very powerful."
And the Vice Presidents went unto the President and sayeth unto him,
"This new Plan will actively promote the growth and efficiency of this
Company, and in these Areas in particular."
And the President looked upon The Plan,
And saw that it was good, and The Plan became Policy.
And this is how Shit Happens.
What other kind of fired is there? The only one I know is where they tell you you are no longer employed; don't bother coming to work tomorrow.
There probably a dozen public websites with my address because I happened to get an FCC license.
That was never stipulated nor implied.
Fired? You mean like just like when you sat on a customer's seat at that car wash that I worked one summer, vacuuming 1 car/minute for 8 hours when it was 46C out, and we only got one 30 minute water break?
Truman got us into Vietnam, heavily ramped up by Kennedy and Nixon got us out.
Not according to Plato. The people who wrote the US constitution were the leading philosophers and scientists of their time and were very afraid of democracies, and wrote as such, which is why the us US a republic.
Google maps lists businesses even if companies don't join or pay for it. I can google my name and find it listed on dozens of mylife.com type websites. And I wonder how many professors on ratemyprofessor.com actually signed up for that feature?
I know lots of people with gigabytes worth of music that companies specifically indicated that they did not want people collecting using the reason that information wants to be free. In fact I think most people on slashdot promoted this.
PREPA is the only entity authorized to conduct such business in Puerto Rico, making it a government monopoly.