Already commented so I can't moderate. Please mod this way the hell up. Even if it's already +5. The Kindle 3G is not a perfect device but it is astonishingly close.
#1 market for e-Ink readers: beach books. iPads are barely usable at max brightness in the shade - no chance against the sun. Tropical noon makes an e-Ink device look better
The problem is that the bottom of the barrel can't do much that's useful, and those who are capable of being useful are so darned useful that they get paid - a lot. And they aren't going to resist the temptation to add 50% to their income by working longer hours.
You see this all over the place in health care (my industry), although there the licensure requirements help limit the supply. Plenty of healthcare workers work two or even three jobs, entirely voluntarily, and not just because they can't get enough hours at one of them (though that sometimes happens too).
Dialing 1 for long distance is actually something that goes farther than the country code. Until about twenty years ago calls within an area code did not require you to dial the area code, but you did have to dial a 1 for long distance. The requirement for always using the area code was phased in after that. I do recall being in DC and calling from National Airport to a hotel or something - because the airport is in Virginia (different area code), you had to dial the area code to connect to DC, but it was billed as a local call, no 1 needed.
Given that mobile phones have you enter a number and then press a separate button to connect the call, I would say it would not be a problem. Locals who would call from a fixed line (where the system has to be able to interpret on the fly) will already know the correct number; visitors who only have mobiles are the ones who need this.
What is your proposed solution for - let us be honest - the massive reduction in the number of humans that would have to occur in a SHTF scenario? I don't think they'll take lightly to a lottery that ends in gas chambers.
In practice, this will be running on raster-style screens, since almost everything is a flat screen these days, but at least in theory a vector CRT is driven very differently from a raster CRT.
No shit. Best TV advice I ever got was "buy the biggest decent TV you can afford". I'm a little bummed that DLP is going the way of the dodo for that reason.
While I don't know the product line, Wikipedia says the S81 had a minimum of two processors, making that 192 MB/processor. Still, impressive at the time. I remember buying a 486/66 in 1993 with 16 MB of memory and a 540 MB hard drive (Connor, may they rest in hell, that sucker was fast but never played nice on an IDE bus with another drive). That was a hardcore piece of work for the average Joe at the time and cost me almost $5000.
Always figured it had to be the principle of the thing - people who first got into it back when Linux really was a way to make your computer do things that it could never have done under Windows or DOS. Now that Windows is capable of running servers, etc., it's much less important.
back when they were new enough that they didn't know how to shield aircraft systems properly
Not quite. Radios have been banned for a long time, but I used to listen to music on cassette and CD while taking off and landing back in the 80s and 90s.
I'm not an anarcho-capitalist. Just pointing out that, no matter how reasonable the choice may be, it is still a choice that is being made. Besides, why limit the discussion just to the easy cases like cars?
An ignorant Brit, unable to read the sentence? The problem of local abuse of national resources wouldn't even exist if there weren't such a database in the first place, or if it were unavailable to any local council.
Government is itself good but the people in it are not always worth our trust.
The second part of that statement is why so many of us want it limited - more powerful government attracts nastier people, because you can use it to do nastier things more often. Why do you think of the government as "good"? Necessary, perhaps, but it's like insurance - you need to have enough to protect yourself, but diminishing returns and exponential price increases set it really quickly if you try to turn that protection into a bulletproof cocoon.
You're right, but unfortunately the value of a low capital gains tax is that it encourages people who have lots of money to invest it in businesses that employ the rest of us.
Americans aren't even particularly violent. We do have a high murder rate, but violent crime otherwise is fairly low. If you don't participate in high risk behaviors like street prostitution or the drug trade, and don't live with a violent, abusive SO, your chances of being murdered are almost nil.
I work part-time at a state mental hospital, and through that job have met two people who actually qualified for the label and yet are normally well-behaved enough that they can be allowed out of the criminally-insane building. One killed his parents and a sibling while home on a break from college. If you don't treat his psychosis, he becomes withdrawn and violent. If you treat it too well, though, he comes out of the fog, remembers what he did, and goes into severe depression over it. Tough balancing act. The other is an ex cop who came home one day and tried a murder-suicide. The murder worked. The suicide didn't. Messy.
There, ladies and gentlemen, you can see the entire case against limited government: anarchy is incapable of providing basic services, and so you need a European welfare state at minimum in order to provide such services as roads, weights and measures, and courts. Anything less is, well, just move to Somalia, ok?
I mentioned personal property tax only because it's one of the ways that states get their money out of drivers. Some choose to tax fuel more heavily (popular in the Northeast), some charge large fees for annual registration/license plate/inspection/whatever sticker, some through a "personal property tax". Since you mention straight-up property tax, I'm guessing you have lived in Texas?
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Already commented so I can't moderate. Please mod this way the hell up. Even if it's already +5. The Kindle 3G is not a perfect device but it is astonishingly close.
#1 market for e-Ink readers: beach books. iPads are barely usable at max brightness in the shade - no chance against the sun. Tropical noon makes an e-Ink device look better
You've never heard of aged beef?
The problem is that the bottom of the barrel can't do much that's useful, and those who are capable of being useful are so darned useful that they get paid - a lot. And they aren't going to resist the temptation to add 50% to their income by working longer hours.
You see this all over the place in health care (my industry), although there the licensure requirements help limit the supply. Plenty of healthcare workers work two or even three jobs, entirely voluntarily, and not just because they can't get enough hours at one of them (though that sometimes happens too).
Dialing 1 for long distance is actually something that goes farther than the country code. Until about twenty years ago calls within an area code did not require you to dial the area code, but you did have to dial a 1 for long distance. The requirement for always using the area code was phased in after that. I do recall being in DC and calling from National Airport to a hotel or something - because the airport is in Virginia (different area code), you had to dial the area code to connect to DC, but it was billed as a local call, no 1 needed.
Given that mobile phones have you enter a number and then press a separate button to connect the call, I would say it would not be a problem. Locals who would call from a fixed line (where the system has to be able to interpret on the fly) will already know the correct number; visitors who only have mobiles are the ones who need this.
What is your proposed solution for - let us be honest - the massive reduction in the number of humans that would have to occur in a SHTF scenario? I don't think they'll take lightly to a lottery that ends in gas chambers.
In practice, this will be running on raster-style screens, since almost everything is a flat screen these days, but at least in theory a vector CRT is driven very differently from a raster CRT.
No shit. Best TV advice I ever got was "buy the biggest decent TV you can afford". I'm a little bummed that DLP is going the way of the dodo for that reason.
While I don't know the product line, Wikipedia says the S81 had a minimum of two processors, making that 192 MB/processor. Still, impressive at the time. I remember buying a 486/66 in 1993 with 16 MB of memory and a 540 MB hard drive (Connor, may they rest in hell, that sucker was fast but never played nice on an IDE bus with another drive). That was a hardcore piece of work for the average Joe at the time and cost me almost $5000.
Always figured it had to be the principle of the thing - people who first got into it back when Linux really was a way to make your computer do things that it could never have done under Windows or DOS. Now that Windows is capable of running servers, etc., it's much less important.
You ever seen a 386 with 256 MB? 16, yeah, maybe 32. But I don't ever recall seeing 30 pin SIMMs with more than 4 MB/stick.
back when they were new enough that they didn't know how to shield aircraft systems properly
Not quite. Radios have been banned for a long time, but I used to listen to music on cassette and CD while taking off and landing back in the 80s and 90s.
I'm not an anarcho-capitalist. Just pointing out that, no matter how reasonable the choice may be, it is still a choice that is being made. Besides, why limit the discussion just to the easy cases like cars?
An ignorant Brit, unable to read the sentence? The problem of local abuse of national resources wouldn't even exist if there weren't such a database in the first place, or if it were unavailable to any local council.
Government is itself good but the people in it are not always worth our trust.
The second part of that statement is why so many of us want it limited - more powerful government attracts nastier people, because you can use it to do nastier things more often. Why do you think of the government as "good"? Necessary, perhaps, but it's like insurance - you need to have enough to protect yourself, but diminishing returns and exponential price increases set it really quickly if you try to turn that protection into a bulletproof cocoon.
GOP = Grand Old Party. The O is capitalized.
You're right, but unfortunately the value of a low capital gains tax is that it encourages people who have lots of money to invest it in businesses that employ the rest of us.
Not in the 80s, but I did use some old cat 3 with 10baseT for a home LAN in the mid 90s. It works.
World's most awesome NES Duck Hunt/Hogan's Alley station?
Americans aren't even particularly violent. We do have a high murder rate, but violent crime otherwise is fairly low. If you don't participate in high risk behaviors like street prostitution or the drug trade, and don't live with a violent, abusive SO, your chances of being murdered are almost nil.
That's not exactly an easy verdict to get.
I work part-time at a state mental hospital, and through that job have met two people who actually qualified for the label and yet are normally well-behaved enough that they can be allowed out of the criminally-insane building. One killed his parents and a sibling while home on a break from college. If you don't treat his psychosis, he becomes withdrawn and violent. If you treat it too well, though, he comes out of the fog, remembers what he did, and goes into severe depression over it. Tough balancing act. The other is an ex cop who came home one day and tried a murder-suicide. The murder worked. The suicide didn't. Messy.
There, ladies and gentlemen, you can see the entire case against limited government: anarchy is incapable of providing basic services, and so you need a European welfare state at minimum in order to provide such services as roads, weights and measures, and courts. Anything less is, well, just move to Somalia, ok?
I mentioned personal property tax only because it's one of the ways that states get their money out of drivers. Some choose to tax fuel more heavily (popular in the Northeast), some charge large fees for annual registration/license plate/inspection/whatever sticker, some through a "personal property tax". Since you mention straight-up property tax, I'm guessing you have lived in Texas?
Your persistence in conflating minarchy and anarchy points solidly to the end of this conversation.