you're still living very, very well. Also, these high level marginal tax rates are about the only thing that I've ever seen that solves the problems with income inequality.
Income inequality is only a part of the problem -- it's wealth inequality which becomes the real issue. This is why estate taxes are a good idea, they prevent the pooling of massive amounts of wealth over generations. Many of the super-rich never had an income, it all come from the folks.
Do your homework before building a hackintosh. I've built several over the past five years, and Apple is quietly making them less compatible, at the moment by restricting iMessage and Facetime to machines with legitimate serial numbers.
This. My Hack was fantastic (I built it to be able to have a proper, upgradeable graphics card on a "Mac"), but the fact that imessage no longer worked made it infeasible as a main machine.
Your software on the Mac is horrible: - Randomly hangs - Randomly disconnects from the cloud service and forgets its password - Doesn't recognise when apps are started (to switch profiles)
Given how bad the software was, I gave away the mouse before it got enough mileage to develop hardware issues.
Medicine is free, your health insurance (provided for free, of course, by the government) will pay for pretty much any medicine out there.
Others have answered, but here is an additional detail: the "public" health insurance costs you about 14% of your gross salary (usually paid half by your employer, half by you). If that is "free", I have a bridge to sell you.
> Or how about we stop this barbaric practice? It's 2015. We're not living in the fucking middle ages anymore.
So, you have someone who unrepentantly rapes, dismembers and possibly even eats little children. Don't make me look up serial killers, it's not hard to find someone this horrible. What do you suggest we do with them?
A) Let them free after X years. B) Lock them in a tiny box for life. C) Kill them.
Please feel free to explain your reasoning as to which option is most humane. Also, please assume that their next victim, should they be released will be you or someone you love. They will strike at a time you are unable to fight back.
a) should not happen b) is what is done by civilised countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik for an example) c) is done by barbarians (Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China, USA..... -- pretty cool list to be on, right guys? Human Rights FTW)
And don't get me started on when you find the wrong person guilty......
Find a buddy at university (or the buddy of a buddy) -- they can often access material like that under the university's general subscriptions (ie no additional cost to you).
Schneier isn't even a credentialed cryptographer. He's the guy who wrote the popularized book that the establishment didn't want published. He's a popular writer, and a pundit.
Schneier is more then a "pundit". Before he wrote the "popular" stuff, he proved that he was heavy on the technical (http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Cryptography-Protocols-Algorithms-Source) for example, as well as the various algorithms he (co)-invented.
It seems to me that it's more like walking around saying that Yellow Pages Inc. (or whatever, your favorite phone book) allows the immoral John Doe to list himself in their book.
And on top of it, you're asking that the Yellow Pages keep John Doe's listing, but put in someone else's phone number!
He wrote one of the seminal (mathematical) books on the subject, (co)designed several high-quality algorithms which have stood the test of time and then had a somewhat damascene conversion on how security is much more dependent on people than on the technology, and has written several books on the subject. He is not the only expert (arguably, there is no field of research where there is just one expert), but he is a leading light.
You mean the stuff which blows away in the wind? Go read up on how hard it is to actually deliver those payloads (especially if you're constrained to a very light vehicle for delivery).
This is how captialism works - you start up, you make some money, you make barriers to entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry) for other potential entrants to the market.
As for your comments on Wall Street types - I don't disagree with that at all. Making money at all costs isn't good for anyone. However, ethics and responsibility are hard to engender on people who have none.
Capitalism, red of blood and claw, allows you to build barriers and abuse monopoly powers. We (and I use "we" loosely here) have long ago identified that unfettered capitalism actually worsens society's prosperity (the rich get very rich, the poor generally revolt, causing much death, mayhem and bloodshed). Hence, we regulate, and disallow abusive behaviour, and lock up the worst offenders (or so I thought, been proved wrong too often recently).
Take a look at the income and asset distribution in the USA, land of the free. It's so frighteningly skewed towards the 0.1% it's not even funny. And the entire top 50% are in favour of keeping the status quo (ie the actually think they'll make it to the 0.1% one day -- pipe dream). How the hell is this sustainable??
HFTs make money for themselves, so they will pay the tax/costs themselves. You don't go to an HFT firm to buy/sell/trade anything, you invest in them to do your gambling for you.
No, this is arbitrage, not HFT. If Jon knew about the market apple @ 30c, he would buy it. Extensive information (which modern markets provide) ruins arbitrage, which is probably fine, but your example has NOTHING to do with HFT (except that arbitrage gaps nowadays are extremely short-lived, so only HFTs can benefit from them).
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If these problems were so easy to fix, they would be fixed already. There is a ton of devil in the details.
Why does no one object when I place a camera on the floor of a factory for safety reasons?
They do object. In most unionised countries, the unions will (in my experience) object as the footage could be used to prove theft, inefficiency etc.
We have solid evidence to support their detention. But that evidence is classified.
You have been told there is solid evidence. By organisations which we know tell lies (CIA etc). Why do you believe them now?
You say that, Switzerland has been doing this to great effect for hundreds of years. And it works, too.
shotguns are specifically designed for safely shooting arial targets.....
I didn't know you had to pick your gun based on the font used on the target. I take it water pistols are then the appropriate choice for Comic Sans?
you're still living very, very well. Also, these high level marginal tax rates are about the only thing that I've ever seen that solves the problems with income inequality.
Income inequality is only a part of the problem -- it's wealth inequality which becomes the real issue. This is why estate taxes are a good idea, they prevent the pooling of massive amounts of wealth over generations. Many of the super-rich never had an income, it all come from the folks.
Do your homework before building a hackintosh. I've built several over the past five years, and Apple is quietly making them less compatible, at the moment by restricting iMessage and Facetime to machines with legitimate serial numbers.
This. My Hack was fantastic (I built it to be able to have a proper, upgradeable graphics card on a "Mac"), but the fact that imessage no longer worked made it infeasible as a main machine.
Your software on the Mac is horrible:
- Randomly hangs
- Randomly disconnects from the cloud service and forgets its password
- Doesn't recognise when apps are started (to switch profiles)
Given how bad the software was, I gave away the mouse before it got enough mileage to develop hardware issues.
Medicine is free, your health insurance (provided for free, of course, by the government) will pay for pretty much any medicine out there.
Others have answered, but here is an additional detail: the "public" health insurance costs you about 14% of your gross salary (usually paid half by your employer, half by you). If that is "free", I have a bridge to sell you.
> Or how about we stop this barbaric practice? It's 2015. We're not living in the fucking middle ages anymore.
So, you have someone who unrepentantly rapes, dismembers and possibly even eats little children. Don't make me look up serial killers, it's not hard to find someone this horrible. What do you suggest we do with them?
A) Let them free after X years.
B) Lock them in a tiny box for life.
C) Kill them.
Please feel free to explain your reasoning as to which option is most humane. Also, please assume that their next victim, should they be released will be you or someone you love. They will strike at a time you are unable to fight back.
a) should not happen
b) is what is done by civilised countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik for an example)
c) is done by barbarians (Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China, USA..... -- pretty cool list to be on, right guys? Human Rights FTW)
And don't get me started on when you find the wrong person guilty......
Beautiful -- thank you.
Well, I was always surprised nobody seriously tried to allow laptops to use external, desktop video cards
Ask and ye shalt receive, MSI has just unveiled exactly that: http://www.pcper.com/news/Mobi...
Or "Tho am I, but it wath fun, wathn't it?|
Webcam / screen sharing.
Find a buddy at university (or the buddy of a buddy) -- they can often access material like that under the university's general subscriptions (ie no additional cost to you).
It's the volts that jolts, but it's the mills that kills.
Schneier isn't even a credentialed cryptographer. He's the guy who wrote the popularized book that the establishment didn't want published. He's a popular writer, and a pundit.
Schneier is more then a "pundit". Before he wrote the "popular" stuff, he proved that he was heavy on the technical (http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Cryptography-Protocols-Algorithms-Source) for example, as well as the various algorithms he (co)-invented.
You, however, are an ignorant troll.
It seems to me that it's more like walking around saying that Yellow Pages Inc. (or whatever, your favorite phone book) allows the immoral John Doe to list himself in their book.
And on top of it, you're asking that the Yellow Pages keep John Doe's listing, but put in someone else's phone number!
+1 for the followup
He wrote one of the seminal (mathematical) books on the subject, (co)designed several high-quality algorithms which have stood the test of time and then had a somewhat damascene conversion on how security is much more dependent on people than on the technology, and has written several books on the subject. He is not the only expert (arguably, there is no field of research where there is just one expert), but he is a leading light.
Not intuitive, but very useful. That shortcut actually works for a bunch of Mac applications ("clean start").
You mean the stuff which blows away in the wind? Go read up on how hard it is to actually deliver those payloads (especially if you're constrained to a very light vehicle for delivery).
This is how captialism works - you start up, you make some money, you make barriers to entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry) for other potential entrants to the market.
As for your comments on Wall Street types - I don't disagree with that at all. Making money at all costs isn't good for anyone. However, ethics and responsibility are hard to engender on people who have none.
Capitalism, red of blood and claw, allows you to build barriers and abuse monopoly powers. We (and I use "we" loosely here) have long ago identified that unfettered capitalism actually worsens society's prosperity (the rich get very rich, the poor generally revolt, causing much death, mayhem and bloodshed). Hence, we regulate, and disallow abusive behaviour, and lock up the worst offenders (or so I thought, been proved wrong too often recently).
Take a look at the income and asset distribution in the USA, land of the free. It's so frighteningly skewed towards the 0.1% it's not even funny. And the entire top 50% are in favour of keeping the status quo (ie the actually think they'll make it to the 0.1% one day -- pipe dream). How the hell is this sustainable??
HFTs make money for themselves, so they will pay the tax/costs themselves. You don't go to an HFT firm to buy/sell/trade anything, you invest in them to do your gambling for you.
No, this is arbitrage, not HFT. If Jon knew about the market apple @ 30c, he would buy it. Extensive information (which modern markets provide) ruins arbitrage, which is probably fine, but your example has NOTHING to do with HFT (except that arbitrage gaps nowadays are extremely short-lived, so only HFTs can benefit from them).