By that logic you should be able to confiscate their gun at some point in the future, but you can't, unless they are a convicted felon. So your argument is not valid.
At a minimum, it should be offered as an option, like a frequent flier card or drivers license or hunting license to get a certified background check to buy guns for like 3 or 5 years, so one does not have to pay $60 or more each time a gun is purchased... They could pull the license if you are convicted of a crime or become a mental patient. The fact is that the progressives want it expensive because they hate guns, and they know that the high cost of guns keeps certain people, especially low income people, from owning one.
The solution to this is laughably simple. IF (and thats a big if) society develops a glut of workers, you reduce the hours in the full time work week to compensate for the reduced demand on labor. The robots still need maintenance and a human interface at some level, and those people will make more than the minimum wage earners they are replacing.
LOL no. I am a hardcore gamer. I have virtually every console since the Atari 2600 (mostly my original consoles, not off Ebay). I have been playing PC games since SpaceWar! (Google it). I currently game on PS4, Xbone and PC. My sub $150 Geforce 1050 Ti SSC 4GB looks great on every game I run on the PC. In terms of graphics and experience, it seems like $700 might net me 120 FPS instead of 60-90 FPS (which I don't really appreciate, try a double blind with some friends sometime and see if you can tell which is which) or 4K; unless you are gaming on a 40" or bigger screen at less than 2' view distance (which is damn uncomfortable in my book) you can't even see the difference between 1080 and 4k. 90% of these cards will probably be sold for gaming, and it just doesn't make sense. I am not mocking the hobby, just spending $700 instead of $200
I can see this board used for other uses like game devs, scene rendering, 3d modeling for video; 3D modeling for architecture/engineering is going to be using Quadro boards, which are more $ ($4k) but a lot more RAM(24GB).
I would buy a Mustang at $25K, or maybe a 911 that is a few years old and have fun driving it and save the rest because pissing money away will eventually leave you with none (just ask most multi-million dollar lottery winners http://fortune.com/2016/01/15/... and a slew of celebrities http://www.foxnews.com/enterta... ). People who buy $100k plus cars very likely have tiny dicks and got their money by being lucky, not good. That or they have so much money they don't know what to do with it.
To be clear, the console life cycle is somewhere around 7 years.
"there is almost always something at a much better price/performance ratio available. Compared with consoles, high end PCs are a completely different and superior gaming platform if you can afford one. "
This is my point exactly. I have been a gamer since ~1981. I have virtually every console ever made as well as having gamed on the PC since the IBM clone 386 days and the original space war... Gaming on the PC is just different, not always better. I have spent more hours than I can count dealing with driver quirkiness or other incompatibilities trying to game on the PC. Console games "just work". These days I don't have the time to dick around trying to get a PC game to work, so I find I do most gaming on a console, even though I have hundreds of games on Steam. Empirically, the PC may have much higher specs, but qualitatively I don't notice any difference on cross platform games. The frame rate may be higher, but once you hit 60FPS, there is not really a perceptible difference. The textures might be a bit more detailed etc, but nothing that makes a difference to playing the game. My Geforce 1050 Ti SSC 4GB looks great on every game I play and it was under $150.
Real gamers don't buy into the PCMR BS any more than being a Nintendo or Sony fanboy. Real gamers play on every platform and don't shill for any one platform (yes, PC is a platform by definition) and they evaluate how the games look and plays across platforms, not the specs of the platform. PC has always had better specs, but a lot of those specs get gobbled up by all the overhead that a PC has to carry and inefficiencies that game developers have to build in to PC games to accommodate the myriad of PC configurations out there.
It is not retributive, it is preventative. Within 5 years of release from prison, over 75% of criminals are re-arrested for another crime. Certain crimes are so bad for society that those criminals should be permanently be removed from society: murder, violent rape, etc. If you want to pay out of your personal pocket to keep these dirt bags incarcerated for their entire lives, great, but don't force me to, and don't release them because you ran out of room or money.
That was a terrible occurrence, but also literally one in probably 70,000,000,000. It has happened, but is also so rare that this is the only instance I have ever heard of in 40 plus years of watching the news on a daily basis.
I am not arguing that cyclists should be allowed to violate the rules, rather that violating the rules has different levels of risk, and operating a large, heavy drone over a crowd for entertainment purposes is immoral, sociopathic and illegal and an avoidable risk that is also quite a high risk of injuring someone compared with riding down the sidewalks on a bike (when I was a kid, myself and every kid I knew rode our bikes down the sidewalks, and no one I ever knew or heard of was seriously injured or injured someone else). Most kids I see still ride their bikes down the sidewalks with impunity and no one flips their shit because they are paying attention and not going too fast.
Right, and the drone operator in this case specifically ignored those rules and flew over crowds of people, striping away the safety margins in a reckless and dangerous manner (thus reckless endangerment conviction).
Fair enough, for business, if it makes business sense and is more profitable, then I can see that making sense. I thought that industry primarily used the Quadro line, but I can see for game devs and the other areas of industry where it makes sense. Good, well argued response, thank you.
Sure, because under no circumstances where people are conflating the issue and confusing people is it appropriate to put extra emphasis on your response...
"... unexpected reboots are disruptive if they happen at the wrong time."
No shit Sherlock. A 5 year old could figure that out in 2 minutes and this has been the case since Windows XP. The truth is your users are rebelling because you are were taking an FU we do what we want approach to your customers and MS is discovering that with tablets and smartphones and Windows 7 install base, most customers are not all that locked into MS products.
Who in their right mind spends that much for a video card? Seriously, I want to know. Unless you are a trust fund PC master race worshiper, why would you sink 2x the cost of a console into a card that will be obsolete in a year or two?
Some people seem to have completely lost sight of the whole point of playing games: it is to have fun...
The sad thing is that Uber as a concept was a great idea, but it has slowly spiraled into an evil disaster of a company. It is very likely rotten from the top, and if I were a shareholder, I would kick this CEO to the curb and find someone who was both competent and fair to clean house and shape up the company. Uber has been on the wrong side of so many stories lately. I suspect that their strategy is to try and hold on and keep marketshare until they can introduce autonomous driving cars, which will net them massive profits and let them kick all those pesky "contractor" drivers to the curb.
This is a tautology and not a reason. A legit reason might be: When I need to report the 911 operator I am calling is murdering me. Except that that is unlikely in the extreme, if not physically impossible. The tinfoil hats think their phone calls have been private, but in reality, all the government needed was a warrant and they could get years of call history from the phone company, and calling 911 always ran a trace on the phone number to get it's location from the phone company. The recent changes in VOIP services and appliances is what has created this anonymous phone problem, and it needs to be fixed so that we can again have trust in our phone systems.
Random employees in a large corporation may not give a shit, but typically their managers care about their underlings customer ratings, and bad ratings reflect poorly on the manager and usually impact his annual bonus, so he/she makes random employee give a shit when I call to complain or he fires them for cause. So yes, they may not personally give a shit, but professionally they know they had better give a shit. Care to try again?
I have shipped a lot of business packages both nationally and globally, some valuing in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and Fedex has never lost a single one. A few have been delayed in customs, but they also helped facilitate getting them through customs. Your laughter is not a valid argument...
Name two "inane" regulations that the USPS has to follow that politicians have put in place at the USPS to hamstring them and prevent them from being efficient and profitable... I pay pretty close attention to what the government is doing and have for over 30 years and have yet to hear of this travesty...
Competitive private industry always does it better, faster and cheaper than the government (note I said competitive).
"This is purely a religious statement, with plenty of contradictory evidence. Competitive private industry does many things quite well, it's true, but the one thing competitive private industry never does is ubiquity. It can sometimes come close, especially for portable things, but when it comes to utilities, private industry never achieves ubiquity unless both coerced and incentivized by government to do so. This has been repeatedly demonstrated for centuries, ever since capitalism became an -ism."
Please point to one instance where government is more efficient and customer centric than competitive private industry. It is not religious, it is fact. The simple solution is to require all delivery services to deliver to every person in the country, just not every physical address. As I said, the more efficient solution is to deliver mail to a postal depot in the closest town and then the residents can pick up their mail at their leisure. There are plenty of instances of interfaces between government and private utilities monopolies that are worse, but lets see:
DMV: horrible disaster EPA: regularly rapes businesses and individuals alike for an abstract benefit that has nothing to do with clean air and clean water. Regularly pollutes the environment criminally with no consequences. Department of Education: Quality of education has become demonstrably worse since it was founded. VA healthcare: demonstrably inferior to private health care in terms of care and customer service Medicaid: demonstrably worse than private health care There is a list as long as my arm.
There are things that private industry shouldn't do, like the military and police force and other things that we have agreed as a society government should facilitate like public roads that have virtually universal benefit etc. In the US we distribute power such that government is inherently weakened and less efficient and additionally we currently have zero incentives for government employees to serve the citizens or perform well. In countries where they have a strong central government, it is even worse because bureaucrats like all humans are inherently selfish and chose to use their power to serve themselves, so you get mass starvation in communist Russia while the communist party elites wine and dine on imported goods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As far as farming goes, I expect full automation to be available within 5 years and full adoption within 20 or so. I don't need a farmer to tell me how rough he has it, it is his choice to try to compete with the huge corporate farms. Farming was always labor intensive and repetitive, a perfect task for automation. Then there will be no one to complain how hard it is to grow the food I eat, just a profitable corporation and rich, happy investors. And more engineering work to design the next iteration/generation of automated farming equipment.
Fair enough, but more and more people (myself included) consume online media on our tablets and smart phones, as it is more convenient in many respects than a traditional TV.
BTW, there are only about 3 million Roku total sold on the planet. It seems like there is about 1 smart phone for every human on the planet...
The HD screen on my smartphone held 12" from my face is about the same size as my 55" TV, and I already have the smart phone in my pocket virtually everywhere. I can stream and watch most content on it. Why would I need more TVs? To watch cable TV that is chock full of commercials and forces me to watch what they want me to watch on their schedule? The entire cable TV industry is dying a slow death. They would be dead already except for the fact that they are a monopoly and they also have a monopoly on high speed internet in most markets...
This exactly. ISPs are a Monopoly or Duopoly utility. It is high time that they were treated as such. If they don't like it, tough cookies. Any time they can jack up rates 30% in 5 years, introduce data caps, throttle 3rd party content and not lose any subscriber base, you know it is a monopoly.
OK, so split the legal function of address location and zip code and leave that part of the federal government with a few hundred employees. As far as delivering legal things, private companies can easily fill that gap with a delivery confirmation service. Private companies already provide all kinds of legal services, from authorized notary to lawyers to... serving confirmed legal notice... If you live 200 miles off in the sticks, your private mail should be delivered to a post box in the nearest town, and you can pick it up once a month if you want. Why should I subsidize people living that far from civilization, especially when all banking and bill payment can be done online as well as correspondence? 95% of the mail I get these days is junk that goes immediately in the trash. I cant stop it from coming because the USPS makes money on this junk mail that I never use. Competitive private industry always does it better, faster and cheaper than the government (note I said competitive). Government is monopolistic, sedentary and there is no drive to compete or improve.
All of the states and laws you cite are based on the ubiquitous existence of the USPS. If the USPS ceased to exist, it is trivial to amend them to allow private, state certified services to serve notice (i.e. UPS/Fedex/other private entities).
Except they don't hit pedestrians 99% of the time, they typically are going toe to toe with 2000lb cars, and if they are too crazy, they get crushed, so kinda natural selection.
I think it is probably a good idea to license cyclists/bikes who ride on public roads, especially if they are over 18. That way, if they are violating the rules of the road, my dashcam will record their stupid asses and license numbers and they could get a nice $300 fine in the mail.
I think you mean negligent injury? Violent crimes are typically categorized as containing intent, while negligent crimes, regardless of level of injury, do not require or contain intent.
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By that logic you should be able to confiscate their gun at some point in the future, but you can't, unless they are a convicted felon. So your argument is not valid.
At a minimum, it should be offered as an option, like a frequent flier card or drivers license or hunting license to get a certified background check to buy guns for like 3 or 5 years, so one does not have to pay $60 or more each time a gun is purchased... They could pull the license if you are convicted of a crime or become a mental patient. The fact is that the progressives want it expensive because they hate guns, and they know that the high cost of guns keeps certain people, especially low income people, from owning one.
I supposed it may be because I am in the US and that kind of thing really is rare here.
Risk averse CEOs who don't want to sink in the R&D to make carbon based chips because there is risk of it not working.
A synthetic diamond transistor was first built and tested over 13 years ago at 81GHz: http://www.geek.com/blurb/81gh...
More recently they developed a 300GHz Graphene transistor, but that was still 7 years ago: https://www.bit-tech.net/news/...
The technology is there and proven, but scaling it up to processor scale would be a massive investment and a big risk.
The solution to this is laughably simple. IF (and thats a big if) society develops a glut of workers, you reduce the hours in the full time work week to compensate for the reduced demand on labor. The robots still need maintenance and a human interface at some level, and those people will make more than the minimum wage earners they are replacing.
LOL no. I am a hardcore gamer. I have virtually every console since the Atari 2600 (mostly my original consoles, not off Ebay). I have been playing PC games since SpaceWar! (Google it). I currently game on PS4, Xbone and PC. My sub $150 Geforce 1050 Ti SSC 4GB looks great on every game I run on the PC. In terms of graphics and experience, it seems like $700 might net me 120 FPS instead of 60-90 FPS (which I don't really appreciate, try a double blind with some friends sometime and see if you can tell which is which) or 4K; unless you are gaming on a 40" or bigger screen at less than 2' view distance (which is damn uncomfortable in my book) you can't even see the difference between 1080 and 4k. 90% of these cards will probably be sold for gaming, and it just doesn't make sense. I am not mocking the hobby, just spending $700 instead of $200
I can see this board used for other uses like game devs, scene rendering, 3d modeling for video; 3D modeling for architecture/engineering is going to be using Quadro boards, which are more $ ($4k) but a lot more RAM(24GB).
I would buy a Mustang at $25K, or maybe a 911 that is a few years old and have fun driving it and save the rest because pissing money away will eventually leave you with none (just ask most multi-million dollar lottery winners http://fortune.com/2016/01/15/... and a slew of celebrities http://www.foxnews.com/enterta... ). People who buy $100k plus cars very likely have tiny dicks and got their money by being lucky, not good. That or they have so much money they don't know what to do with it.
To be clear, the console life cycle is somewhere around 7 years.
"there is almost always something at a much better price/performance ratio available. Compared with consoles, high end PCs are a completely different and superior gaming platform if you can afford one. "
This is my point exactly. I have been a gamer since ~1981. I have virtually every console ever made as well as having gamed on the PC since the IBM clone 386 days and the original space war... Gaming on the PC is just different, not always better. I have spent more hours than I can count dealing with driver quirkiness or other incompatibilities trying to game on the PC. Console games "just work". These days I don't have the time to dick around trying to get a PC game to work, so I find I do most gaming on a console, even though I have hundreds of games on Steam. Empirically, the PC may have much higher specs, but qualitatively I don't notice any difference on cross platform games. The frame rate may be higher, but once you hit 60FPS, there is not really a perceptible difference. The textures might be a bit more detailed etc, but nothing that makes a difference to playing the game. My Geforce 1050 Ti SSC 4GB looks great on every game I play and it was under $150.
Real gamers don't buy into the PCMR BS any more than being a Nintendo or Sony fanboy. Real gamers play on every platform and don't shill for any one platform (yes, PC is a platform by definition) and they evaluate how the games look and plays across platforms, not the specs of the platform. PC has always had better specs, but a lot of those specs get gobbled up by all the overhead that a PC has to carry and inefficiencies that game developers have to build in to PC games to accommodate the myriad of PC configurations out there.
It is not retributive, it is preventative. Within 5 years of release from prison, over 75% of criminals are re-arrested for another crime. Certain crimes are so bad for society that those criminals should be permanently be removed from society: murder, violent rape, etc. If you want to pay out of your personal pocket to keep these dirt bags incarcerated for their entire lives, great, but don't force me to, and don't release them because you ran out of room or money.
https://www.nij.gov/topics/cor...
That was a terrible occurrence, but also literally one in probably 70,000,000,000. It has happened, but is also so rare that this is the only instance I have ever heard of in 40 plus years of watching the news on a daily basis.
I am not arguing that cyclists should be allowed to violate the rules, rather that violating the rules has different levels of risk, and operating a large, heavy drone over a crowd for entertainment purposes is immoral, sociopathic and illegal and an avoidable risk that is also quite a high risk of injuring someone compared with riding down the sidewalks on a bike (when I was a kid, myself and every kid I knew rode our bikes down the sidewalks, and no one I ever knew or heard of was seriously injured or injured someone else). Most kids I see still ride their bikes down the sidewalks with impunity and no one flips their shit because they are paying attention and not going too fast.
Right, and the drone operator in this case specifically ignored those rules and flew over crowds of people, striping away the safety margins in a reckless and dangerous manner (thus reckless endangerment conviction).
Fair enough, for business, if it makes business sense and is more profitable, then I can see that making sense. I thought that industry primarily used the Quadro line, but I can see for game devs and the other areas of industry where it makes sense. Good, well argued response, thank you.
Sure, because under no circumstances where people are conflating the issue and confusing people is it appropriate to put extra emphasis on your response...
"... unexpected reboots are disruptive if they happen at the wrong time."
No shit Sherlock. A 5 year old could figure that out in 2 minutes and this has been the case since Windows XP. The truth is your users are rebelling because you are were taking an FU we do what we want approach to your customers and MS is discovering that with tablets and smartphones and Windows 7 install base, most customers are not all that locked into MS products.
Who in their right mind spends that much for a video card? Seriously, I want to know. Unless you are a trust fund PC master race worshiper, why would you sink 2x the cost of a console into a card that will be obsolete in a year or two?
Some people seem to have completely lost sight of the whole point of playing games: it is to have fun...
The sad thing is that Uber as a concept was a great idea, but it has slowly spiraled into an evil disaster of a company. It is very likely rotten from the top, and if I were a shareholder, I would kick this CEO to the curb and find someone who was both competent and fair to clean house and shape up the company. Uber has been on the wrong side of so many stories lately. I suspect that their strategy is to try and hold on and keep marketshare until they can introduce autonomous driving cars, which will net them massive profits and let them kick all those pesky "contractor" drivers to the curb.
This is a tautology and not a reason. A legit reason might be: When I need to report the 911 operator I am calling is murdering me. Except that that is unlikely in the extreme, if not physically impossible. The tinfoil hats think their phone calls have been private, but in reality, all the government needed was a warrant and they could get years of call history from the phone company, and calling 911 always ran a trace on the phone number to get it's location from the phone company. The recent changes in VOIP services and appliances is what has created this anonymous phone problem, and it needs to be fixed so that we can again have trust in our phone systems.
Random employees in a large corporation may not give a shit, but typically their managers care about their underlings customer ratings, and bad ratings reflect poorly on the manager and usually impact his annual bonus, so he/she makes random employee give a shit when I call to complain or he fires them for cause. So yes, they may not personally give a shit, but professionally they know they had better give a shit. Care to try again?
I have shipped a lot of business packages both nationally and globally, some valuing in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and Fedex has never lost a single one. A few have been delayed in customs, but they also helped facilitate getting them through customs. Your laughter is not a valid argument...
Name two "inane" regulations that the USPS has to follow that politicians have put in place at the USPS to hamstring them and prevent them from being efficient and profitable... I pay pretty close attention to what the government is doing and have for over 30 years and have yet to hear of this travesty...
Competitive private industry always does it better, faster and cheaper than the government (note I said competitive).
"This is purely a religious statement, with plenty of contradictory evidence. Competitive private industry does many things quite well, it's true, but the one thing competitive private industry never does is ubiquity. It can sometimes come close, especially for portable things, but when it comes to utilities, private industry never achieves ubiquity unless both coerced and incentivized by government to do so. This has been repeatedly demonstrated for centuries, ever since capitalism became an -ism."
Please point to one instance where government is more efficient and customer centric than competitive private industry. It is not religious, it is fact. The simple solution is to require all delivery services to deliver to every person in the country, just not every physical address. As I said, the more efficient solution is to deliver mail to a postal depot in the closest town and then the residents can pick up their mail at their leisure. There are plenty of instances of interfaces between government and private utilities monopolies that are worse, but lets see:
DMV: horrible disaster
EPA: regularly rapes businesses and individuals alike for an abstract benefit that has nothing to do with clean air and clean water. Regularly pollutes the environment criminally with no consequences.
Department of Education: Quality of education has become demonstrably worse since it was founded.
VA healthcare: demonstrably inferior to private health care in terms of care and customer service
Medicaid: demonstrably worse than private health care
There is a list as long as my arm.
There are things that private industry shouldn't do, like the military and police force and other things that we have agreed as a society government should facilitate like public roads that have virtually universal benefit etc. In the US we distribute power such that government is inherently weakened and less efficient and additionally we currently have zero incentives for government employees to serve the citizens or perform well. In countries where they have a strong central government, it is even worse because bureaucrats like all humans are inherently selfish and chose to use their power to serve themselves, so you get mass starvation in communist Russia while the communist party elites wine and dine on imported goods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As far as farming goes, I expect full automation to be available within 5 years and full adoption within 20 or so. I don't need a farmer to tell me how rough he has it, it is his choice to try to compete with the huge corporate farms. Farming was always labor intensive and repetitive, a perfect task for automation. Then there will be no one to complain how hard it is to grow the food I eat, just a profitable corporation and rich, happy investors. And more engineering work to design the next iteration/generation of automated farming equipment.
Sorry, you must be new to the interwebs. All caps is shouting, used for those with denser cranial structures.
Fair enough, but more and more people (myself included) consume online media on our tablets and smart phones, as it is more convenient in many respects than a traditional TV.
BTW, there are only about 3 million Roku total sold on the planet. It seems like there is about 1 smart phone for every human on the planet...
The HD screen on my smartphone held 12" from my face is about the same size as my 55" TV, and I already have the smart phone in my pocket virtually everywhere. I can stream and watch most content on it. Why would I need more TVs? To watch cable TV that is chock full of commercials and forces me to watch what they want me to watch on their schedule? The entire cable TV industry is dying a slow death. They would be dead already except for the fact that they are a monopoly and they also have a monopoly on high speed internet in most markets...
This exactly. ISPs are a Monopoly or Duopoly utility. It is high time that they were treated as such. If they don't like it, tough cookies. Any time they can jack up rates 30% in 5 years, introduce data caps, throttle 3rd party content and not lose any subscriber base, you know it is a monopoly.
OK, so split the legal function of address location and zip code and leave that part of the federal government with a few hundred employees. As far as delivering legal things, private companies can easily fill that gap with a delivery confirmation service. Private companies already provide all kinds of legal services, from authorized notary to lawyers to... serving confirmed legal notice... If you live 200 miles off in the sticks, your private mail should be delivered to a post box in the nearest town, and you can pick it up once a month if you want. Why should I subsidize people living that far from civilization, especially when all banking and bill payment can be done online as well as correspondence? 95% of the mail I get these days is junk that goes immediately in the trash. I cant stop it from coming because the USPS makes money on this junk mail that I never use. Competitive private industry always does it better, faster and cheaper than the government (note I said competitive). Government is monopolistic, sedentary and there is no drive to compete or improve.
All of the states and laws you cite are based on the ubiquitous existence of the USPS. If the USPS ceased to exist, it is trivial to amend them to allow private, state certified services to serve notice (i.e. UPS/Fedex/other private entities).
Except they don't hit pedestrians 99% of the time, they typically are going toe to toe with 2000lb cars, and if they are too crazy, they get crushed, so kinda natural selection.
I think it is probably a good idea to license cyclists/bikes who ride on public roads, especially if they are over 18. That way, if they are violating the rules of the road, my dashcam will record their stupid asses and license numbers and they could get a nice $300 fine in the mail.
I think you mean negligent injury? Violent crimes are typically categorized as containing intent, while negligent crimes, regardless of level of injury, do not require or contain intent.