My wife is finishing up her BA in business right now - and did it for about $24K, total, over 6 years (part-time, evening studies). No need for big money spend to get a degree.
I got my degree for free. I just said I had one and that was it. 25 years later this hasn't caused me any problems...
The difference is, in the feudal, USSR, or North Korean models - there is no way to climb the pyramid. In the US - and most of Western Europe (which is capitalist in its economic models), you can climb the pyramid from the bottom to the top.
The word is 'Social Mobility', and some countries are better at it than others (hint: the US isn't very good)
> I'll never buy though because I want to do stuff with my device that Apple doesn't allow
Like what? I'm about to give up my BlackBerry (the *real* phone Slashdoters love to hate), leaning towards iPhone, but am not very cognizant of the box into which I could be climbing.
To be honest I can't remember all of them but some that come to mind at the time (a few years ago when I made the decision) was the keyboard, ie load any keyboard you like with Android such as Swype), and the file manager (Apple doesn't let you see the file system..
I've also noticed that in the last 5 years, in the tech savvy space I operate in almost everyone had iPhones 5 years ago, now almost no-one has them, and everyone you ask says the same thing - too restrictive.
We've dumped aircraft carriers on the sea floor before, but only after they've been stripped of anything that might be considered a threat to sea life.
You're obviously not taken into account the hundreds to thousands of ships at the bottom of the sea floor full of cargo, weapons and humans due to unexpected causes (war/weather etc).
A couple of extras won't make a difference, especially if the location is chosen carefully.
Agreed... an unlocked iPhone is probably the original posters best "non-ideologically-pure" option. Smooth, fast UI, good camera, great support, secure, continued OS security and functionality upgrades... and I'm going to call shenanigans on receiving a "DOA" iPhone 7 unless they bought a stolen used one. Apple backs up their products better than almost anyone. But Apple is the one Slashdot loves to hate, so...
I hate Apple but agree. It's probably the best experience fro non-tinkerer types, and Apple has the best support by far.
I'll never buy though because I want to do stuff with my device that Apple doesn't allow. It's Phone by Fisher Price. And if you're the technology equivalent of a 4 year old then its the best option by far.
You can disagree, but you've also set up a false dichotomy fallacy. Both humans and machines can be vulnerable, that can happen.
It's less about human vs machine and more centralised vs distributed.
The manual/human system has vulnerabilities but it's a lot harder for thousands of humans to suffer the same vulnerability at the same time than it is for one computer system. Humans also only suffer form or two possible vulnerabilities which makes those risks much easier to mitigate. Computer have nearly unlimited ways of being compromised, including all the same ones that affect humans (because you can attack the human admin of the computer and apply the same attack).
US voting is a corrupt as any third world tin pot dictator voting and it's not Russia hacking, it's the deep state and shadow government hacking.
The simple fact that felons cannot vote is enough to consider the US democracy a fraud. All you have to do to manipulate the polls is target voters of the opposing team and get as many of them as possible of convicted and presto you've given yourself an automatic swing. And hey what do you know, as if it's a surprise the US just happens to also the highest conviction rate in the world.
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You have clearly - whether you're aware of it or not - implied that the world's population isn't growing. Perhaps you should start over?
I have no idea of the numbers, but the logic still makes it possible to have a lot of countries with stable population and still have overall growth.
eg If 190 countries are flat or slightly negative growth, and the other 10-20 countries are up, then the net rate can be up (depending on the numbers).
That, and policy is set based on political boundaries, so each country needs it's own figure in order to measure the effectiveness of any policy change.
Unfortunately, here on Slashdot, a troll is defined as anyone who points out that they are burning through cash faster than they can earn it.
I don't know much about investing* or Tesla, but my scratch and sniff test says this is troll talk. Much like how Microsoft would be dead soon, or Apple or Facebook...
My completely unqualified opinion tells me that Elon is a clever guy, and like Donald Trump, as much as you hate the personality, clever people have a way of finding success. So based on that alone, I think Tesla will succeed.
*the little I do know about investing is that throwing a dart at a dartboard is about as useful as investment advice as any 'expert'. And this is all any regular person needs to know.
Nope. Everyone one of those countries have market based economies and the businesses are neither government nor worker controlled.
Definition of socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
As I already said, it depends on your definition. There are millions of pages on this subject that describe it better than the over-simplification given above.
Here's some more elaborate definitions that other people use that may help with your confusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you want a local example take your local garbage collection. It is owned and regulated by the public via government administration. Schools, Hospitals, Fire services, and Military are other socialist services (ie owned and regulated publicly) that work better than any market driven model.
Based on this, the happiest and highest quality of life countries all have a strong mix of market based and socialistic models for delivering services. Not everything can be reduced to black and white.
So when the noise is heard, the camera showing the parade shows a *lot* of what look like soldiers fleeing the scene. Isn't it their job to run towards the battle?
If I was president of a tinpot dictatorship like Venezuela or America (boom! boom!) anyone fleeing would face the firing squad.
Funny how fans of socialism always proclaim "that wasn't socialism" every time it fails.
Depends on your definition of 'socialism' and 'fails', or if you are capable of a granular conversation. "Socialistic' countries make up the top of the highest quality of life, health, education, equality etc.
Funny stuff indeed...
You can do the same with a Pi or some other mini-computer. You just have to set up the software once, then you can easily take it anywhere just the same.
This post explains why nerds get picked on by the cool kids...
So sales are up, losses are up - but they're on track to make a profit? Really? Something's not adding up... Losses for Q1 2018 were 17.5% of revenues. Losses for Q2 2018 (just announced) were 17.9%. Increasing losses as a percent of revenue does NOT lead to profit.
There is not enough information to say either way. Any new industry generally loses big before it can possibly make big.
They could equally continue to lose, but losing now is not enough to be a predictor of future state.
Earth will never run out of resources. Why? Supply and demand.
We have examples of some previous civilisations dying out because they tipped the supply demand ratio too far. It has happened before so would be naive to think it can't happen again just because....
If you want more problems with guns? Pass more gun control. Well known, this goes clear back past the Roman Empire BTW with swords and knives. Same arguments. Same bullshit. Same results. Whenever they say "common sense", don't believe it. Facts
Facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Outside of a handful of crazy countries in South America, the US has the most lax firearms laws and the highest gun violence rates. Facts....
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The US Constitution protects the rights of US Citizens.
We can assume by this comment that you have no idea what is actually in The Constitution....
My wife is finishing up her BA in business right now - and did it for about $24K, total, over 6 years (part-time, evening studies). No need for big money spend to get a degree.
I got my degree for free. I just said I had one and that was it. 25 years later this hasn't caused me any problems...
The difference is, in the feudal, USSR, or North Korean models - there is no way to climb the pyramid. In the US - and most of Western Europe (which is capitalist in its economic models), you can climb the pyramid from the bottom to the top.
The word is 'Social Mobility', and some countries are better at it than others (hint: the US isn't very good)
WTF is this Cosmo magazine? Is it a homework assignment?
This place is going to shit....
> I'll never buy though because I want to do stuff with my device that Apple doesn't allow
Like what? I'm about to give up my BlackBerry (the *real* phone Slashdoters love to hate), leaning towards iPhone, but am not very cognizant of the box into which I could be climbing.
To be honest I can't remember all of them but some that come to mind at the time (a few years ago when I made the decision) was the keyboard, ie load any keyboard you like with Android such as Swype), and the file manager (Apple doesn't let you see the file system..
I've also noticed that in the last 5 years, in the tech savvy space I operate in almost everyone had iPhones 5 years ago, now almost no-one has them, and everyone you ask says the same thing - too restrictive.
We've dumped aircraft carriers on the sea floor before, but only after they've been stripped of anything that might be considered a threat to sea life.
You're obviously not taken into account the hundreds to thousands of ships at the bottom of the sea floor full of cargo, weapons and humans due to unexpected causes (war/weather etc).
A couple of extras won't make a difference, especially if the location is chosen carefully.
Bulk steel in the US costs roughly $1000 per metric tonne ... aluminium and copper (which, to be fair, are work 2-4 times that of steel),
Copper is closer to 100 times the value of Steel as scrap...
That's why China is still Importing all kinds of waste from all kinds of places.
China just stopped doing that about 3 months ago https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/1...
Agreed... an unlocked iPhone is probably the original posters best "non-ideologically-pure" option. Smooth, fast UI, good camera, great support, secure, continued OS security and functionality upgrades... and I'm going to call shenanigans on receiving a "DOA" iPhone 7 unless they bought a stolen used one. Apple backs up their products better than almost anyone. But Apple is the one Slashdot loves to hate, so...
I hate Apple but agree. It's probably the best experience fro non-tinkerer types, and Apple has the best support by far.
I'll never buy though because I want to do stuff with my device that Apple doesn't allow. It's Phone by Fisher Price. And if you're the technology equivalent of a 4 year old then its the best option by far.
You can disagree, but you've also set up a false dichotomy fallacy. Both humans and machines can be vulnerable, that can happen.
It's less about human vs machine and more centralised vs distributed.
The manual/human system has vulnerabilities but it's a lot harder for thousands of humans to suffer the same vulnerability at the same time than it is for one computer system. Humans also only suffer form or two possible vulnerabilities which makes those risks much easier to mitigate. Computer have nearly unlimited ways of being compromised, including all the same ones that affect humans (because you can attack the human admin of the computer and apply the same attack).
US voting is a corrupt as any third world tin pot dictator voting and it's not Russia hacking, it's the deep state and shadow government hacking.
The simple fact that felons cannot vote is enough to consider the US democracy a fraud. All you have to do to manipulate the polls is target voters of the opposing team and get as many of them as possible of convicted and presto you've given yourself an automatic swing. And hey what do you know, as if it's a surprise the US just happens to also the highest conviction rate in the world.
C-O-R-R-U-P-T
Just read the comments here and realize we have arrived at stage 3 of the 4-stages of climate disaster denial:
Denial and despair are twin evils, either of which can keep us from moving ahead in life, from achieving our goals. - Rabbi Barry Block
I've read that a human population with all modern technologies is fully sustainable to a limit of 500 million.
It must be true then.
How far past that sustainable limit are we now...
Well since the first part exists only in your head, the rest doesn't matter.
You have clearly - whether you're aware of it or not - implied that the world's population isn't growing. Perhaps you should start over?
I have no idea of the numbers, but the logic still makes it possible to have a lot of countries with stable population and still have overall growth.
eg If 190 countries are flat or slightly negative growth, and the other 10-20 countries are up, then the net rate can be up (depending on the numbers).
That, and policy is set based on political boundaries, so each country needs it's own figure in order to measure the effectiveness of any policy change.
Unfortunately, here on Slashdot, a troll is defined as anyone who points out that they are burning through cash faster than they can earn it.
I don't know much about investing* or Tesla, but my scratch and sniff test says this is troll talk. Much like how Microsoft would be dead soon, or Apple or Facebook...
My completely unqualified opinion tells me that Elon is a clever guy, and like Donald Trump, as much as you hate the personality, clever people have a way of finding success. So based on that alone, I think Tesla will succeed.
*the little I do know about investing is that throwing a dart at a dartboard is about as useful as investment advice as any 'expert'. And this is all any regular person needs to know.
Nope. Everyone one of those countries have market based economies and the businesses are neither government nor worker controlled.
Definition of socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
As I already said, it depends on your definition. There are millions of pages on this subject that describe it better than the over-simplification given above.
Here's some more elaborate definitions that other people use that may help with your confusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you want a local example take your local garbage collection. It is owned and regulated by the public via government administration. Schools, Hospitals, Fire services, and Military are other socialist services (ie owned and regulated publicly) that work better than any market driven model.
Based on this, the happiest and highest quality of life countries all have a strong mix of market based and socialistic models for delivering services. Not everything can be reduced to black and white.
So when the noise is heard, the camera showing the parade shows a *lot* of what look like soldiers fleeing the scene. Isn't it their job to run towards the battle?
If I was president of a tinpot dictatorship like Venezuela or America (boom! boom!) anyone fleeing would face the firing squad.
What definition of "workable" is that?
Never mind the police state.
Dude they own your president. That is as workable as anything gets....
Funny how fans of socialism always proclaim "that wasn't socialism" every time it fails.
Depends on your definition of 'socialism' and 'fails', or if you are capable of a granular conversation. "Socialistic' countries make up the top of the highest quality of life, health, education, equality etc.
Funny stuff indeed...
You can do the same with a Pi or some other mini-computer. You just have to set up the software once, then you can easily take it anywhere just the same.
This post explains why nerds get picked on by the cool kids...
So sales are up, losses are up - but they're on track to make a profit? Really? Something's not adding up... Losses for Q1 2018 were 17.5% of revenues. Losses for Q2 2018 (just announced) were 17.9%. Increasing losses as a percent of revenue does NOT lead to profit.
There is not enough information to say either way. Any new industry generally loses big before it can possibly make big.
They could equally continue to lose, but losing now is not enough to be a predictor of future state.
Earth will never run out of resources. Why? Supply and demand.
We have examples of some previous civilisations dying out because they tipped the supply demand ratio too far. It has happened before so would be naive to think it can't happen again just because....
Read (pdf version of more guns less crime) https://www.hoplofobia.info/wp...
'Site can't be reached'.
If you want more problems with guns? Pass more gun control. Well known, this goes clear back past the Roman Empire BTW with swords and knives. Same arguments. Same bullshit. Same results. Whenever they say "common sense", don't believe it. Facts
Facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Outside of a handful of crazy countries in South America, the US has the most lax firearms laws and the highest gun violence rates. Facts....
Even in the US, you're more likely to be hit by a car on the way home from school than encounter a spree shooter.
That sure makes me feel better about being shot. As long as car accidents are worse we should just never do anything about it...