Trump will be ending Obama's illegal abrogation of the welfare to work program legally passed by the Republicans in the 90s and signed into law by Bill Clinton. When that program goes back into effect, you have to be actively seeking a job or training to get welfare benefits and welfare benefits taper off $1 for every $2 you earn. It reduced the welfare rolls dramatically for 15 years until Obama illegally suspended it.
Docking pay is illegal in the US and if you are a legal worker, it does not happen. In college I worked hard manual labor 10-12h days all summer to pay for college. It was good for me.
I can guarantee that I could afford apples at double $60/ton picking wage, or even $120, but it would cut into the growers profits and probably make them less competitive with foreign imports from Chile. As I said in a post yesterday, when the illegals are gone, engineers and technicians will take their jobs, just a lot fewer engineers designing picking robots that work 24/7 and don't defecate in the fields, giving the customers food poisoning. It is a net win all the way around (except for the illegals that have to go home and get in line for legal immigration/guest worker programs).
Actually, agricultural companies would be forced to invest in harvesting machines and robotics that can pick the fruit. In the long term, it provides higher paying engineering and manufacturing jobs and actually reduces the cost of the fruit (robots are always cheaper, but they have a high entry cost. This will not happen until the cheap imported labor goes away though, because if you have $500 in cash you can hire 10 illegals for the day, whereas you are talking probably $10k/robot to pick fruit, even though it replaces 4 workers and doesn't give your customers salmonella from defecating in your fields...
Same thing with the garment industry and landscaping. We already have a number of mower equivalents to the Roomba in the $500-$1000 range, but people still want the illegal to come mow their lawn for $20 every week because it is cheap in the short term, even though the simple payback for a robotic mower is less than 2 years.
All those factories used to be in the US, they were moved to China and Asia for the cheap labor, not the natural resources or space... Singapore is less than the size of LA county for crying out loud. Most of the CMs like Foxconn are shifting heavily to robotics manufacturing anyway, at which point it doesn't make sense to pay all the overhead of manufacturing in China (foreign language, long distances, time differential, 3rd world employees and government, rampant corruption, rampant piracy, shipping costs, import costs and delays, etc) when you can for essentially the same cost locate those CM facilities in the US, especially if the US starts to be more reasonable on the regulatory and environmental requirements (clean air and water, but not the batshit crazy Obama regs).
The US doesn't need to be 60% of the world's GDP, or even 20%. Assholes like you need a history lesson though.
We took our 60% GDP in that era and fed and clothed and rebuilt your ungrateful ass (and/or that of your parents and grandparents) through direct financial support, as well as imbalanced trade agreements. The goal was never to rule the world (or America would have immediately after WW2, we exclusively had nuclear bombs, as well as the world's largest industrial base and strongest military). But we didn't want to then and we don't want to now. Instead we used our economy to support democracies throughout the world and the spread of peace and democracy abroad. However, that task is largely completed, as you say, the GDP of the rest of the world has risen significantly (the GDP of the US has not fallen, contrary to your implication, others have just risen which in turn changes the fraction.) Making America great again has to do with returning to the posture of strength both financially and militarily as well as eliminating extraneous constraints on our economy internally. If you don't like that posture, by all means, do what you can to subvert US efforts abroad. You are subverting the nation that behaved as described above when it could have taken over the world. Conversely, I hope you like speaking Russian or Mandarin, because those are your two other options in the real world.
That BS might get you a +5 on Slashdot, but it is false on the face of it....now STATE SPONSORED MONOPOLIES have realized that doing a poor job yields higher profit, so we end up getting worse services for more money when STATE SPONSORED MONOPOLIES provide them... (FTFY) Let me know when Apple or Samsung start making shit phones that rake in the cash, then your statement would be accurate...
The problem that we have in the US right now is that MONOPOLIES sponsored by the state and local government are controlling the internet access. If we had 3 ISPs competing head to head in every major market and a law that they must offer access to all the market and surrounding rural areas at the same prices, quality and speed would go up and prices would go down. That is just the way the market works. Right now ISPs have their infrastructure built out with 10 year old hardware and paid off. Their cost to provide internet service is somewhere around $15/month, yet they are charging between $60 and $90/month and the cable MONOPOLIES are laughing all the way to the bank. In some areas, internet service is propping up Cable TV companies that would otherwise collapse from lack of users. However, look at cities where Google fiber has come in (or even threatened to come in). The cable internet and DSL providers have built up their infrastructure, improved service and cut their rates (i.e. competition). Where I live, I have one choice of cable internet, or I would have to use dialup... and I live surrounded by 240,000 people (like within a 5 mile radius) and still I only have one choice...
" when the government provides a service, it's cheaper. When private companies provide the same service, it's much more expensive, because they have to make a profit."
Bullshit. Have you been to your local DMV? Government is in the same boat as these monopolies and their gross incompetence eats up more than any private company would make in profits. There is no market forces for them to provide better service or cheaper service. Whats worse is government has lethal force backing it up (don't believe me? try not paying your taxes and disobeying the armed GOVERNMENT agents that they send to your door.) You will likely end up dead.
I would rather pay $85/month for the same speed at every website than $80/month and have Netflix and other services throttled by my ISP so they can make it un-usable and try to force me to subscribe to their shitty cable TV service.
You are the moron for thinking that the regulation of MONOPOLIES has anything to do with big government. What we really need to start seeing is a federal law paving the right of way for local fiber co-ops, where you buy in and amortize the cost of your hookup over a 2 year contract and then you pay a fractional rate that covers your percentage of the total operational cost of the co-op. The greedy cable companies and DSL just need to die in a fire.
If you can't withstand a little regulation that prevents you from contaminating the quality of the service that you offer for sale as a MONOPOLY, you are just incompetent and deserve to go bankrupt and be taken over by municipal ISPs..
So called experts have been predicting the depletion of coal and oil reserves for about 40 years or so (google it). They have been wildly wrong. Just saying.
Nothing is free, if you are not paying, you are the product. This has been going on for a long time now (Facebook, Google etc.) Anyone who is surprised at this point has not been paying attention.
Because Dgstoyevsky apparently never learned the basic tennants of Christianity, chiefly humility. The loss of our Christian core in Western Civilization in general is where all the hate is coming from. Tolerance comes from love and humility, and humility comes from understanding and accepting your own imperfection and need for help.
I have seen so many couples split because they cant stand the other one because they have these quirks. Guess what... we are all imperfect and to love someone as Christ loves them accepts their flaws and all. Most of these people in search of perfection go on to find dissatisfaction again and again, in their marriages as well as life in general.
OK, but even in the US, how do they achieve the lofty, high minded goal of promoting science and arts? By creating a profit motive for the creator to share with the world (i.e. copyright). So you can be pedantic, but my original statement still holds true to the key intent of copyright, which is to enrich creators and distribute their work to the people to the greater benefit of both sides. The net result is BOTH to promote science etc. AND profit the creator.
"Immigrants are less likely to join unions." Cite a source please. From what I have read and seen personally over the last 40 years or so, low skilled laborers are about 80% of unions (yes, teachers are included here, because regardless of what they would have you believe, the job was done quite well for over a hundred years by high school graduates.) Low wage, low skill immigrants are squarely in the domain of union membership, while engineers, scientists, professors, MBAs, and the like are not. Since we are importing the former and not the latter in the case of illegal immigration, your statement appears false on the face of it.
Copyright should not preclude fansubs or fandubs until there is content in that language for sale/rent to the public. If you won't serve a market, there is no reasonable expectation for financial benefit and thus fair use precludes you from shutting out fansubs and the like.
That was one of the reasons that Americans hated fresh off the boat immigrants in the early 1900s (Irish need not apply and all the rest). Americans knew (unlike most people today) that fresh immigrants would work for less and drive down wages and were also creating a glut in the labor market. From your example, employers can only "race to the bottom" when there is a glut in labor force. If paying too low a wage or working too long hours causes you to lose employees that you cannot find replacements for, you go to extra lengths to avoid losing those employees (better pay, better hours etc.). For 75 years since then, we had immigration laws that capped legal immigration (its about 1M per year these days, far more than any other country, but not too much for us to absorb). This kept us from developing a glut of low skill workers. However, big business (who wants cheap labor) and the unions (who want more members) and the Democrats (who want ignorant voters) have all been colluding for the past 40 years to import ignorant, low skilled workers from the third world illegally and then try to legalize them. In the 1980s, the voters fell for the canard that legalizing the illegals then would fix the problem and the government would get strict on illegal immigration, but it didn't happen. The corporations got an infusion of cheap labor, and the state of California has never voted Republican in any presidential race since. Obama was selling this same crap again, but a lot of voters are fed up with it and voted for putting the American worker first in this last election. They do not want another 12 million illegals to be made citizens (along with 24M of their families, which is what some of the Dims proposed), they want them out so their wages can go up and their vote will not be diluted by ignorants from the third world who vote only for the person offering them the most free stuff and have no knowledge or respect for American values or culture...
How does this compare with someone solving a complex mathematical model, or performing large computations in their head, or playing complex, strategic time sensitive games like chess or Starcraft?
The thing about psychedelic drugs is that they don't stimulate the brain so much as cross wire it and cause things like synesthesia and hallucinations by projecting archived memories or agglomerations of memories into the waking consciousness. All that extra activity is misfiring neurons, which is, if anything a lower state of consciousness, not a higher state. A higher state of consciousness would be either increased intelligence or increased perception (or conversely, a slowing of the perception of the passage of time).
The key inflection point is coming soon. When you can buy 25 year warranty 10kW of solar panels for $5000 (1600kWh/month generation and if batteries get really cheap and high energy density (48h of household run time/1000 mile range per charge vehicle range) the main barrier cost of EVs disappears. An industrial motor for an economy car is around $500 including the motor driver vs an ICE at $900 plus a $900 transmission that you don't need with an electric motor. If you can start selling economical EVs for $15k, people will rush to stop paying $2000/year for gas/gas taxes. The big rush to adoption will happen when those factors align. Until then, EVs are a toy for the rich (i.e. Tesla).
Yes, that's a solution until the day that Windows 10 updates with a new "always on" feature that requires windows to be able to open whatever ports and connect to any IP in the world in order to let you log in to your own damn PC. MS saw how successful Apple has been with the walled garden, the problem is they are building a damn prison, complete with the rubber hose and regular guard beatings...
The other problem with your approach even now, is how many people using Windows will be able to set that up? The vast majority of windows users barely know how to install software on their PC let alone how to create a white-list of IPs and properly configure a firewall.
Let me know when you figure out the science behind using people as sources of electricity. My bill last month was really high and I have some noisy neighbors... just sayin.
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Computer targeted laser powered mosquito killer could be adapted to kill other bugs, and even ignore good bugs like bees and ladybugs.
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Trump will be ending Obama's illegal abrogation of the welfare to work program legally passed by the Republicans in the 90s and signed into law by Bill Clinton. When that program goes back into effect, you have to be actively seeking a job or training to get welfare benefits and welfare benefits taper off $1 for every $2 you earn. It reduced the welfare rolls dramatically for 15 years until Obama illegally suspended it.
This exactly (but you forgot the engineers who design those robots.)
Docking pay is illegal in the US and if you are a legal worker, it does not happen. In college I worked hard manual labor 10-12h days all summer to pay for college. It was good for me.
I will be happy to wait the rest of my life (and a few thousand years past that).
I can guarantee that I could afford apples at double $60/ton picking wage, or even $120, but it would cut into the growers profits and probably make them less competitive with foreign imports from Chile. As I said in a post yesterday, when the illegals are gone, engineers and technicians will take their jobs, just a lot fewer engineers designing picking robots that work 24/7 and don't defecate in the fields, giving the customers food poisoning. It is a net win all the way around (except for the illegals that have to go home and get in line for legal immigration/guest worker programs).
Actually, agricultural companies would be forced to invest in harvesting machines and robotics that can pick the fruit. In the long term, it provides higher paying engineering and manufacturing jobs and actually reduces the cost of the fruit (robots are always cheaper, but they have a high entry cost. This will not happen until the cheap imported labor goes away though, because if you have $500 in cash you can hire 10 illegals for the day, whereas you are talking probably $10k/robot to pick fruit, even though it replaces 4 workers and doesn't give your customers salmonella from defecating in your fields...
Same thing with the garment industry and landscaping. We already have a number of mower equivalents to the Roomba in the $500-$1000 range, but people still want the illegal to come mow their lawn for $20 every week because it is cheap in the short term, even though the simple payback for a robotic mower is less than 2 years.
All those factories used to be in the US, they were moved to China and Asia for the cheap labor, not the natural resources or space... Singapore is less than the size of LA county for crying out loud. Most of the CMs like Foxconn are shifting heavily to robotics manufacturing anyway, at which point it doesn't make sense to pay all the overhead of manufacturing in China (foreign language, long distances, time differential, 3rd world employees and government, rampant corruption, rampant piracy, shipping costs, import costs and delays, etc) when you can for essentially the same cost locate those CM facilities in the US, especially if the US starts to be more reasonable on the regulatory and environmental requirements (clean air and water, but not the batshit crazy Obama regs).
The US doesn't need to be 60% of the world's GDP, or even 20%. Assholes like you need a history lesson though.
We took our 60% GDP in that era and fed and clothed and rebuilt your ungrateful ass (and/or that of your parents and grandparents) through direct financial support, as well as imbalanced trade agreements. The goal was never to rule the world (or America would have immediately after WW2, we exclusively had nuclear bombs, as well as the world's largest industrial base and strongest military). But we didn't want to then and we don't want to now. Instead we used our economy to support democracies throughout the world and the spread of peace and democracy abroad. However, that task is largely completed, as you say, the GDP of the rest of the world has risen significantly (the GDP of the US has not fallen, contrary to your implication, others have just risen which in turn changes the fraction.) Making America great again has to do with returning to the posture of strength both financially and militarily as well as eliminating extraneous constraints on our economy internally. If you don't like that posture, by all means, do what you can to subvert US efforts abroad. You are subverting the nation that behaved as described above when it could have taken over the world. Conversely, I hope you like speaking Russian or Mandarin, because those are your two other options in the real world.
That BS might get you a +5 on Slashdot, but it is false on the face of it. ...now STATE SPONSORED MONOPOLIES have realized that doing a poor job yields higher profit, so we end up getting worse services for more money when STATE SPONSORED MONOPOLIES provide them... (FTFY) Let me know when Apple or Samsung start making shit phones that rake in the cash, then your statement would be accurate...
The problem that we have in the US right now is that MONOPOLIES sponsored by the state and local government are controlling the internet access. If we had 3 ISPs competing head to head in every major market and a law that they must offer access to all the market and surrounding rural areas at the same prices, quality and speed would go up and prices would go down. That is just the way the market works. Right now ISPs have their infrastructure built out with 10 year old hardware and paid off. Their cost to provide internet service is somewhere around $15/month, yet they are charging between $60 and $90/month and the cable MONOPOLIES are laughing all the way to the bank. In some areas, internet service is propping up Cable TV companies that would otherwise collapse from lack of users. However, look at cities where Google fiber has come in (or even threatened to come in). The cable internet and DSL providers have built up their infrastructure, improved service and cut their rates (i.e. competition). Where I live, I have one choice of cable internet, or I would have to use dialup... and I live surrounded by 240,000 people (like within a 5 mile radius) and still I only have one choice...
" when the government provides a service, it's cheaper. When private companies provide the same service, it's much more expensive, because they have to make a profit."
Bullshit. Have you been to your local DMV? Government is in the same boat as these monopolies and their gross incompetence eats up more than any private company would make in profits. There is no market forces for them to provide better service or cheaper service. Whats worse is government has lethal force backing it up (don't believe me? try not paying your taxes and disobeying the armed GOVERNMENT agents that they send to your door.) You will likely end up dead.
I would rather pay $85/month for the same speed at every website than $80/month and have Netflix and other services throttled by my ISP so they can make it un-usable and try to force me to subscribe to their shitty cable TV service.
You are the moron for thinking that the regulation of MONOPOLIES has anything to do with big government. What we really need to start seeing is a federal law paving the right of way for local fiber co-ops, where you buy in and amortize the cost of your hookup over a 2 year contract and then you pay a fractional rate that covers your percentage of the total operational cost of the co-op. The greedy cable companies and DSL just need to die in a fire.
If you can't withstand a little regulation that prevents you from contaminating the quality of the service that you offer for sale as a MONOPOLY, you are just incompetent and deserve to go bankrupt and be taken over by municipal ISPs..
So called experts have been predicting the depletion of coal and oil reserves for about 40 years or so (google it). They have been wildly wrong. Just saying.
Nothing is free, if you are not paying, you are the product. This has been going on for a long time now (Facebook, Google etc.) Anyone who is surprised at this point has not been paying attention.
Because Dgstoyevsky apparently never learned the basic tennants of Christianity, chiefly humility. The loss of our Christian core in Western Civilization in general is where all the hate is coming from. Tolerance comes from love and humility, and humility comes from understanding and accepting your own imperfection and need for help.
I have seen so many couples split because they cant stand the other one because they have these quirks. Guess what... we are all imperfect and to love someone as Christ loves them accepts their flaws and all. Most of these people in search of perfection go on to find dissatisfaction again and again, in their marriages as well as life in general.
OK, but even in the US, how do they achieve the lofty, high minded goal of promoting science and arts? By creating a profit motive for the creator to share with the world (i.e. copyright). So you can be pedantic, but my original statement still holds true to the key intent of copyright, which is to enrich creators and distribute their work to the people to the greater benefit of both sides. The net result is BOTH to promote science etc. AND profit the creator.
"Immigrants are less likely to join unions." Cite a source please. From what I have read and seen personally over the last 40 years or so, low skilled laborers are about 80% of unions (yes, teachers are included here, because regardless of what they would have you believe, the job was done quite well for over a hundred years by high school graduates.) Low wage, low skill immigrants are squarely in the domain of union membership, while engineers, scientists, professors, MBAs, and the like are not. Since we are importing the former and not the latter in the case of illegal immigration, your statement appears false on the face of it.
Other than that, it appears that you agree?
Copyright should not preclude fansubs or fandubs until there is content in that language for sale/rent to the public. If you won't serve a market, there is no reasonable expectation for financial benefit and thus fair use precludes you from shutting out fansubs and the like.
That was one of the reasons that Americans hated fresh off the boat immigrants in the early 1900s (Irish need not apply and all the rest). Americans knew (unlike most people today) that fresh immigrants would work for less and drive down wages and were also creating a glut in the labor market. From your example, employers can only "race to the bottom" when there is a glut in labor force. If paying too low a wage or working too long hours causes you to lose employees that you cannot find replacements for, you go to extra lengths to avoid losing those employees (better pay, better hours etc.). For 75 years since then, we had immigration laws that capped legal immigration (its about 1M per year these days, far more than any other country, but not too much for us to absorb). This kept us from developing a glut of low skill workers. However, big business (who wants cheap labor) and the unions (who want more members) and the Democrats (who want ignorant voters) have all been colluding for the past 40 years to import ignorant, low skilled workers from the third world illegally and then try to legalize them. In the 1980s, the voters fell for the canard that legalizing the illegals then would fix the problem and the government would get strict on illegal immigration, but it didn't happen. The corporations got an infusion of cheap labor, and the state of California has never voted Republican in any presidential race since. Obama was selling this same crap again, but a lot of voters are fed up with it and voted for putting the American worker first in this last election. They do not want another 12 million illegals to be made citizens (along with 24M of their families, which is what some of the Dims proposed), they want them out so their wages can go up and their vote will not be diluted by ignorants from the third world who vote only for the person offering them the most free stuff and have no knowledge or respect for American values or culture...
How does this compare with someone solving a complex mathematical model, or performing large computations in their head, or playing complex, strategic time sensitive games like chess or Starcraft?
The thing about psychedelic drugs is that they don't stimulate the brain so much as cross wire it and cause things like synesthesia and hallucinations by projecting archived memories or agglomerations of memories into the waking consciousness. All that extra activity is misfiring neurons, which is, if anything a lower state of consciousness, not a higher state. A higher state of consciousness would be either increased intelligence or increased perception (or conversely, a slowing of the perception of the passage of time).
The key inflection point is coming soon. When you can buy 25 year warranty 10kW of solar panels for $5000 (1600kWh/month generation and if batteries get really cheap and high energy density (48h of household run time/1000 mile range per charge vehicle range) the main barrier cost of EVs disappears. An industrial motor for an economy car is around $500 including the motor driver vs an ICE at $900 plus a $900 transmission that you don't need with an electric motor. If you can start selling economical EVs for $15k, people will rush to stop paying $2000/year for gas/gas taxes. The big rush to adoption will happen when those factors align. Until then, EVs are a toy for the rich (i.e. Tesla).
Yes, that's a solution until the day that Windows 10 updates with a new "always on" feature that requires windows to be able to open whatever ports and connect to any IP in the world in order to let you log in to your own damn PC. MS saw how successful Apple has been with the walled garden, the problem is they are building a damn prison, complete with the rubber hose and regular guard beatings...
The other problem with your approach even now, is how many people using Windows will be able to set that up? The vast majority of windows users barely know how to install software on their PC let alone how to create a white-list of IPs and properly configure a firewall.
Watched Tremors with my much younger brother and he was scared to walk on unpaved ground for months lol.
Pretty sure that An Inconvenient Truth has been moved to the Fantasy category.
My troll detector just went off. After Howard the Duck, the MPAA should have burned Lucas' directors chair and banned him for life.
Let me know when you figure out the science behind using people as sources of electricity. My bill last month was really high and I have some noisy neighbors... just sayin.