and now the peecee agenda is enabling a mass of immigrants to turn into an Islamic state.
Somewhere there's an Islamic citizen wondering why we let the damn British back in here.
I wonder, what does a country with testicles do? Stop the "demographic changes"? So more Brits than Arabs then. That's more civilized? Speak up, what are you getting at here. We can always let in a lot more Mexicans if we don't want it to become Islamic.
Kids last year and the year before that had people that went into a rage. This nostalgic notion of kids on swings looking up on clouds -- what, they valued life more back in the good old days? What kids need is not to have a kid with a real gun in the room. There are always going to be people falling into a rage and there will always be good and bad parents. We've had good parents with bad kids -- it happens.
I mean is this complicated? A mass shooting requires a gun.
There's only one nuclear power plant going up and it's here in Georgia. It cost more than three times projected and it's running late. That's the norm for nuclear power. So it doesn't look like there's much will to go to the enormous expense and effort to build these plants.
The US was on the verge of being the leader in Solar Panels before China helped their companies via subsidies or buying out ours. So if we want to, we can easily support a US company to take the lead again on solar panels.
For the cost of over $16 Billion, there could be more kilowatt hours of energy in Georgia and they'd already be on homes before the power plant is built. Also; homeowners could pay money back by supporting the grid.
So people can talk about nuclear power, but the facts are all the growth is in solar and the numbers will only get better. We can either be part of that or let the China own it.
Yes at "some point". But we had a lot higher taxes and more unions during the 1950's -- so obviously we are at the other end of that bell curve now. I'll be screaming "too far" if it gets there.
We also don't want too much or too little oxygen -- just like capitalism.
Taxpayers already footed the bill to create the internet backbone that the ISPs piggy-back off of. Why aren't you complaining about the deadbeat ISPs not paying us back?
While I get that there might be too much thought police going on with with criticism of "dark humor" -- your excuse regarding; "We shouldn't be held responsible for something because the Liberals have Rick and Morty." If it weren't Rick and Morty -- which is hilarious -- then was your backup excuse for why the military can never be held responsible going to be "Family Guy"? I mean, there are more cartoons. It could take thousands of years to clean all this Liberal stuff up.
Are we talking about Germany in WW II? They had a totalitarian government that partnered with private corporations and picked the winners (who favored the government in return), and went on a made dash to take over the world with military might. Personally, I think that was fascism -- but whatever "ism" you might think it was, their government and way of ruling didn't FAIL -- they were beaten militarily by about half the planet.
And it was damn hard at that. If they had only chosen the USSR or Europe and not both, they probably would have won -- Europe and the USA being the easier of the two.
I'd add to your comment to point out that the "keep 'em busy" has been around since the Pyramids. Because THAT was a clever idea to keep people active, make it part of their religion.
Now I think that more than the military, we have paperwork. Need more people to soak up time? Make the accounting rules more complex. Require some paperwork here and there to "protect" whatever. Facebook and Google have all my birth to death data, but hey, someone has to sign a HIPAA release now!
So you're saying, that when the white guys are "protesting" taxes and holding automatic weapons and doing a stand-off with police, there's a CHANCE that someone might shoot them?
Socialism is merely guaranteeing that people are supported when they need it. It doesn't change anything in the mechanism of taxes. Democratic Socialism means that voters choose what is guaranteed.
I think you are confusing the onerous responsibility of paying taxes with a type of governance. There are good and bad socialist countries. I was shocked to learn that many Europeans have guaranteed health care AND pay less in taxes in some cases.
This mental dropping was modded to "5: insightful"? Anyone who doesn't recognize that most of the developed world -- including the United States -- has elements of socialism is someone who doesn't know history, economics, politics, and may be unreachable by reason.
Are there now brigades on Slashdot hell bent on voting up people promoting a certain message, regardless of how poorly it's made?
What we wouldn't give today for accurate recordings of how the Greeks and Romans spoke 1200 years ago. Over time, languages change, so there is also a difference between Greek 2000 years ago.
I can think if so very many reasons why we'd want to keep a language that is no longer spoken -- but the point is; if we don't preserve it before it's lost, what can we do if we find a really, really good reason?
In science, fundamental research supports huge progress and commerce and it all came from something that had no viable business use at the time. Quantum entanglement will one day yield communication devices.
What the fuck did you think was going to happen when you banned hate speech?
I think you've landed on the best argument I've ever heard for allowing free speech. There is no organization better equipped to turn people off to xenophobic fascists than letting them get a good whiff of what those fascists are cooking.
Sometimes you get someone so unhinged all you can do is sit back and say; "You were saying,..."
The only problem is when there are radical youth out there who suddenly think because old keyboard warrior is talking nasty and tough, it's OK to say it out loud. So you have to balance the "free expression of creeps" with the impressionability of people who aren't getting the medical treatment that perhaps they should have.
Law enforcement should be difficult. It's getting so that only the people running the system can abuse it. How will future terrorists who help the US go to war have a chance to convincingly board an airplane and do some damage?
"I see here that the All Pervasive, All Knowing AI was turned off the entire time Al Bombolla took his one way trip to the capital." And the "Super Financial Transaction Crime detector will need a built in flaw on any transaction over $1 Billion unless they want to be constantly waking people up at the Fed.
All this technology will be intrusive right up to the point before it can actually guarantee safety, because scaring the public to get more funds and allowing people in power to steal a bit more -- those are cherished, American traditions.
The difference is with a person, we can maybe determine they are lying to promote a business. If people knew out of the gate that this was a corporate construct of PR, they'd know immediately to ignore everything that was said.
If the 20% of working adults were making a median household income of $200k, and the 80% of unemployed / underemployed adults had a median household income of $50k, there would likely be plenty of incentive for the 20% of economically useful adults to keep working.
This is pretty much the economy NOW. Not when 20% more jobs have been automated never to return. The incentive for people right now is not starving, because there isn't a backup plan. $50K is a dream salary for most people now, so they don't have insurance, a safety net, piano lessons for the kids.
Most people who make $200K think there are safety nets for people to fall back on. They are hard to get and most people don't have backup. So there's absolutely no margin for more economic stress or flat tires.
Microsoft got upset because they deliberately want it to be very difficult to get old, but still legal version of Windows working this way because they want people to just give up a buy a new copy, which makes money for Microsoft.
I think you got the reason right there. Charging $.25 for a printed CD is not a profit, he's providing these at a loss. "Pleasing guilty" is not an admission of ACTUAL GUILT, in the real world it means; "I don't have the money to pay for defending myself and they threaten much harsher penalties if I fight it." The fact that fighting for your innocence can get you more jail time than being guilty shows how broke our legal system is.
Your synopsis is welcome -- but it just shows me what I expect; broken system.
That area is subsiding. It has been for a very long time, just as sea levels have been rising for a long time. Virginia is a rich state, especially right near the coast. Perhaps they should formulate their own plan to use their own resources to deal with their problems.
Tide goes in, tide goes out, can't argue with that. Of course, "subsiding" or sea level rise are two different things. And we aren't talking 100,000 years but 50 or less years.
Yes, Virginia can formulate a plan; move. Build a sea wall. -- but my favorite is to "retroactively prosecute people who actively participated in dis-informing the public about global warming and prudent steps to prevent sea level rise, and then packing them up and putting them on Marshall Islands, so they can discuss the cultural value of their position that this isn't a big deal so stop whining about it."
Bridenstine is not only not good at science, he's only good as a politician because Fossil Fuel companies like him kissing their ass.
What the heck is wrong with Slashdot that this is labeled insightful? Are the Koch brothers hiring people to ruin discourse on this website or are people being "sub-optimal" for free?
Where'd all the smart people go? This getting ridiculous.
Well, by this logic, let's pay the poor ZERO, then all the stuff will get cheaper to accommodate!
In reality, yes, basic items will be more expensive -- but it's all about a relative curve.
This UBI type money is already fed into the system -- ever time a bank gets a deposit, it gets to factor and give out 10 or more times in loans. The rationale for this is that the economy grew and thus fiat currency can represent that growth and allow for liquidity.
Instead of giving the money to banks -- we can just give it to everyone in equal measure. Then, if we notice the economy grows (and it will), the amount of UBI that goes out will be commensurate with the amount of liquidity the system demands.
Inflation isn't really the worst thing in the world as long as wages rise to meat it. What will end up happening is the rich will be a little less rich. This country did fabulously well when we shared the wealth and had more Socialism after FDR and we can do a good job solving these problems AGAIN.
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and now the peecee agenda is enabling a mass of immigrants to turn into an Islamic state.
Somewhere there's an Islamic citizen wondering why we let the damn British back in here.
I wonder, what does a country with testicles do? Stop the "demographic changes"? So more Brits than Arabs then. That's more civilized? Speak up, what are you getting at here. We can always let in a lot more Mexicans if we don't want it to become Islamic.
Kids last year and the year before that had people that went into a rage. This nostalgic notion of kids on swings looking up on clouds -- what, they valued life more back in the good old days? What kids need is not to have a kid with a real gun in the room. There are always going to be people falling into a rage and there will always be good and bad parents. We've had good parents with bad kids -- it happens.
I mean is this complicated? A mass shooting requires a gun.
When the headline is; "Expired Copy of TurboTax Replaces CEO" then I'll know they are serious about automation.
The RNC was also hacked but that information, for some reason, was not let loose on WikiLeaks.
There's only one nuclear power plant going up and it's here in Georgia. It cost more than three times projected and it's running late. That's the norm for nuclear power. So it doesn't look like there's much will to go to the enormous expense and effort to build these plants.
The US was on the verge of being the leader in Solar Panels before China helped their companies via subsidies or buying out ours. So if we want to, we can easily support a US company to take the lead again on solar panels.
For the cost of over $16 Billion, there could be more kilowatt hours of energy in Georgia and they'd already be on homes before the power plant is built. Also; homeowners could pay money back by supporting the grid.
So people can talk about nuclear power, but the facts are all the growth is in solar and the numbers will only get better. We can either be part of that or let the China own it.
Yes at "some point". But we had a lot higher taxes and more unions during the 1950's -- so obviously we are at the other end of that bell curve now. I'll be screaming "too far" if it gets there.
We also don't want too much or too little oxygen -- just like capitalism.
Taxpayers already footed the bill to create the internet backbone that the ISPs piggy-back off of. Why aren't you complaining about the deadbeat ISPs not paying us back?
While I get that there might be too much thought police going on with with criticism of "dark humor" -- your excuse regarding; "We shouldn't be held responsible for something because the Liberals have Rick and Morty." If it weren't Rick and Morty -- which is hilarious -- then was your backup excuse for why the military can never be held responsible going to be "Family Guy"? I mean, there are more cartoons. It could take thousands of years to clean all this Liberal stuff up.
Are we talking about Germany in WW II? They had a totalitarian government that partnered with private corporations and picked the winners (who favored the government in return), and went on a made dash to take over the world with military might. Personally, I think that was fascism -- but whatever "ism" you might think it was, their government and way of ruling didn't FAIL -- they were beaten militarily by about half the planet.
And it was damn hard at that. If they had only chosen the USSR or Europe and not both, they probably would have won -- Europe and the USA being the easier of the two.
Finally, someone who gets it.
I'd add to your comment to point out that the "keep 'em busy" has been around since the Pyramids. Because THAT was a clever idea to keep people active, make it part of their religion.
Now I think that more than the military, we have paperwork. Need more people to soak up time? Make the accounting rules more complex. Require some paperwork here and there to "protect" whatever. Facebook and Google have all my birth to death data, but hey, someone has to sign a HIPAA release now!
So you're saying, that when the white guys are "protesting" taxes and holding automatic weapons and doing a stand-off with police, there's a CHANCE that someone might shoot them?
Socialism is merely guaranteeing that people are supported when they need it. It doesn't change anything in the mechanism of taxes. Democratic Socialism means that voters choose what is guaranteed.
I think you are confusing the onerous responsibility of paying taxes with a type of governance. There are good and bad socialist countries. I was shocked to learn that many Europeans have guaranteed health care AND pay less in taxes in some cases.
This mental dropping was modded to "5: insightful"? Anyone who doesn't recognize that most of the developed world -- including the United States -- has elements of socialism is someone who doesn't know history, economics, politics, and may be unreachable by reason.
Are there now brigades on Slashdot hell bent on voting up people promoting a certain message, regardless of how poorly it's made?
>We know where their sympathies lie by their sedition against the current government
The NSA is practicing sedition? If they were, it's likely they'd be releasing some phone calls instead of deleting old emails.
What we wouldn't give today for accurate recordings of how the Greeks and Romans spoke 1200 years ago. Over time, languages change, so there is also a difference between Greek 2000 years ago.
I can think if so very many reasons why we'd want to keep a language that is no longer spoken -- but the point is; if we don't preserve it before it's lost, what can we do if we find a really, really good reason?
In science, fundamental research supports huge progress and commerce and it all came from something that had no viable business use at the time. Quantum entanglement will one day yield communication devices.
What the fuck did you think was going to happen when you banned hate speech?
I think you've landed on the best argument I've ever heard for allowing free speech. There is no organization better equipped to turn people off to xenophobic fascists than letting them get a good whiff of what those fascists are cooking.
Sometimes you get someone so unhinged all you can do is sit back and say; "You were saying,..."
The only problem is when there are radical youth out there who suddenly think because old keyboard warrior is talking nasty and tough, it's OK to say it out loud. So you have to balance the "free expression of creeps" with the impressionability of people who aren't getting the medical treatment that perhaps they should have.
Law enforcement should be difficult. It's getting so that only the people running the system can abuse it. How will future terrorists who help the US go to war have a chance to convincingly board an airplane and do some damage?
"I see here that the All Pervasive, All Knowing AI was turned off the entire time Al Bombolla took his one way trip to the capital." And the "Super Financial Transaction Crime detector will need a built in flaw on any transaction over $1 Billion unless they want to be constantly waking people up at the Fed.
All this technology will be intrusive right up to the point before it can actually guarantee safety, because scaring the public to get more funds and allowing people in power to steal a bit more -- those are cherished, American traditions.
The difference is with a person, we can maybe determine they are lying to promote a business. If people knew out of the gate that this was a corporate construct of PR, they'd know immediately to ignore everything that was said.
If the 20% of working adults were making a median household income of $200k, and the 80% of unemployed / underemployed adults had a median household income of $50k, there would likely be plenty of incentive for the 20% of economically useful adults to keep working.
This is pretty much the economy NOW. Not when 20% more jobs have been automated never to return. The incentive for people right now is not starving, because there isn't a backup plan. $50K is a dream salary for most people now, so they don't have insurance, a safety net, piano lessons for the kids.
Most people who make $200K think there are safety nets for people to fall back on. They are hard to get and most people don't have backup. So there's absolutely no margin for more economic stress or flat tires.
"Hey, the 1800's called and wanted their industrialization dogma back!"
I'm going to go with "bullshit reason protecting us from stuff that never happens so that it's harder for the EPA to regulate" for $800.
It's been a few months for Trump cronies so they have to work hard to rush out good ways to make the EPA toothless.
Microsoft got upset because they deliberately want it to be very difficult to get old, but still legal version of Windows working this way because they want people to just give up a buy a new copy, which makes money for Microsoft.
I think you got the reason right there. Charging $.25 for a printed CD is not a profit, he's providing these at a loss. "Pleasing guilty" is not an admission of ACTUAL GUILT, in the real world it means; "I don't have the money to pay for defending myself and they threaten much harsher penalties if I fight it." The fact that fighting for your innocence can get you more jail time than being guilty shows how broke our legal system is.
Your synopsis is welcome -- but it just shows me what I expect; broken system.
That area is subsiding. It has been for a very long time, just as sea levels have been rising for a long time. Virginia is a rich state, especially right near the coast. Perhaps they should formulate their own plan to use their own resources to deal with their problems.
Tide goes in, tide goes out, can't argue with that. Of course, "subsiding" or sea level rise are two different things. And we aren't talking 100,000 years but 50 or less years.
Yes, Virginia can formulate a plan; move. Build a sea wall. -- but my favorite is to "retroactively prosecute people who actively participated in dis-informing the public about global warming and prudent steps to prevent sea level rise, and then packing them up and putting them on Marshall Islands, so they can discuss the cultural value of their position that this isn't a big deal so stop whining about it."
Bridenstine is not only not good at science, he's only good as a politician because Fossil Fuel companies like him kissing their ass.
What the heck is wrong with Slashdot that this is labeled insightful? Are the Koch brothers hiring people to ruin discourse on this website or are people being "sub-optimal" for free?
Where'd all the smart people go? This getting ridiculous.
Well, by this logic, let's pay the poor ZERO, then all the stuff will get cheaper to accommodate!
In reality, yes, basic items will be more expensive -- but it's all about a relative curve.
This UBI type money is already fed into the system -- ever time a bank gets a deposit, it gets to factor and give out 10 or more times in loans. The rationale for this is that the economy grew and thus fiat currency can represent that growth and allow for liquidity.
Instead of giving the money to banks -- we can just give it to everyone in equal measure. Then, if we notice the economy grows (and it will), the amount of UBI that goes out will be commensurate with the amount of liquidity the system demands.
Inflation isn't really the worst thing in the world as long as wages rise to meat it. What will end up happening is the rich will be a little less rich. This country did fabulously well when we shared the wealth and had more Socialism after FDR and we can do a good job solving these problems AGAIN.