Much of the current UBI argument is that there will not be enough sufficiently productive jobs in the economy that the below-average are qualified for (and there is evidence that we're down that road already). At that point, it's worthwhile to pay people not to work.
The overlap between people who want to live on their UBI and people who would invest in rental properties is going to be pretty darn small. My guess is the null set. Also, the housing sector adds housing to the economy, which I consider fairly important.
Socialism isn't necessarily left-wing, and neither "Leftist" nor "Socialist" are valid insults.
Consider the "nationalism" movement started by Bellamy's "Looking Backward", which tended to be right-wing, or the "Showa restoration" proposal favored by quite a few hard-line nationalists in Japan in the 1930s. I suspect many proponents of either would be shocked to be called "socialist".
One big step would be government-paid health care. I've been told by people who should know that the biggest deterrent to getting off welfare is medical care.
I don't really care about the upper bound. I don't even think there is one. Let people make as much money as they can and want to work for, as long as they pay their taxes. I'm concerned about the lower bound, and raising that. If everyone has enough (leaving the definition as an exercise for the reader), why should I care that some people are rich?
The law says that the Queen is the head of the national religion, can veto laws, and can dissolve Parliament. In practice, the Archbishop of Canterbury is in charge of the Church of England (as much as anyone is; I don't have actual Anglican friends), and she has the power to veto one law and dissolve Parliament one time, after which the laws would be changed.
Sodomy: yes, the government allows people to be uncharitable to foreigners and the poor, which as far as I can figure was the sin of Sodom. I suppose the sin could be rape, which is illegal. I kept hearing things about the sin being sex practices considered unnatural, but I couldn't find anything about that in the Bible.
Abortion: are there any biblical references? I don't remember seeing any.
Darwinian evolution: about as non-biblical as recovery of the first stage in orbital launches. There are some idiots who take everything in the Bible as absolutely literally true when it'd convenient for them, although this doesn't seem to be justified by early practice. Most Christians, including the Roman Catholic Church, have no objection to actual science.
The Bible is on the same footing as other sacred literature, and Christian prayer on the same footing as other forms of prayer, in public schools. Don't ask me to finance your extremist religion. Creationism is a minority position among Christians, and less popular outside Christianity.
I'm going to want to know the details of the methodology for any such study. It would be so easy to make mistakes.
Determining whether a rape accusation is true or false is really difficult, and this is true even after the claimed victim recants. There's far too much crap going on, and there's lots of reasons why a victim might do so to avoid further hassle.
Let's be precise. This guy has claimed three false rape accusations and one rape. If he were selected at random, this would be alarming, but he wasn't. He's self-selected, which almost invariably leads to bad statistics. Out of a fairly large pool (I don't know how many people read this), he is very possibly the most serious case. I don't know whether he's to be expected, given the pool size, or whether he's an outlier.
I'm not accusing BronsCon of lying or misstating things, but I'm sure that, if we took a larger sample of people claiming false accusations we would have a fair amount of dishonesty, and cases where the accused had had sexual contact with the accusers (unlike BronsCon), and those cases are a lot more ambiguous.
Inevitably, when a source is provided, they will simply claim the source is biased or is not to be trusted.
The fact is, Mr./Ms. Coward, that I've seen you post a large number of varying nonsensical things, so I really don't trust you.
If someone makes a claim that seems plausible to me, I'll generally not ask for sources (I might ask for pointers to poke around further). If someone makes a claim I consider almost certainly false, I might well ask for sources. It happens that people who spout nonsense frequently get it from highly unreliable sources, so if I do ask for a source the source is likely to be bad in some way. I figure that, if a claim is reasonable, there's probably a reasonable source out there, so if all I get is dodgy sources I usually don't inquire further.
DNA can't show that no rape took place. DNA can show that this man did not commit that rape. The DNA exonerations are not evidence that women claim rape happened when it didn't.
Without digging through these cases, I'd suspect these were primarily cases of stranger rape, where the victim couldn't identify the rapist at the time, which means that the victims probably didn't start by making false accusations, but identified the wrong assailant.
False rape reports do happen, but I've seen no evidence that there's many of them. Given the stereotypical treatment of a rape victim, it wouldn't be the first choice for most women.
The big problem with rape is that it's very difficult to convict, and so in a situation like this, waiting for a rape conviction can result in a large number of preventable rapes taking place.
VC++ standards conformance has been lagging considerably behind g++ and clang. I'm not aware of anything in C++11 that isn't in VS2015, but that isn't saying much. They may have all of C++14 in there; I haven't checked.
As far as C++03 conformance goes, C++03 had the "export" facility for templates, which was completely removed in the 2011 standard. Only the Comeau compiler handled that, which is one reason it was removed.
Compilers still do a really crappy job of warning of potential overflow issues. They are happy to do it with an explicit conversion, but not (as far as I've seen) for values inside computations, and that's where you're most likely to be hit.
As a C++ programmer, I assure you that Visual Studio really doesn't just work. It's been getting better (VS2013 is a lot better than VS2008), but it isn't perfect. (Yes, I'd love us to upgrade to VS2015, and we will when that one software vendor releases the proper binaries. Yes, I agree that it's taking them inordinately long, but we need their stuff.)
How effective would you be while under attack by poachers while holding a slightly damaged AK-47? If the answer is not "reasonably", I suggest you be a little more understanding when people who do get in those positions lack some knowledge you have.
I donated two 1 year old laptops with Linux Ubuntu pre-loaded to a save-the-rhino group here in South Africa, only to find out a month later that they took their funds and purchased Windows 8 for those laptops.
Did you ever ask why? Do they use any particular software that runs on Windows? Do they use any software that might require some configuration? Ubuntu is very nice, but it hasn't implemented DWIM yet, and if someone is having problems with it there might not be someone who can figure out how to fix it.
No, instead you gave them what you thought they should use, without bothering to find out what their actual needs and resources are. It wasn't what they did use, and using what you gave them without changes was going to cause more hassle than paying for a couple of Windows licenses. Then you assert a right to complain because the donation of two laptops apparently allowed you to dictate how they operate.
Not in the US. An unexpected upgrade would violate the certification of the medical device, so it's the device manufacturer's job to prevent it from happening.
Man, you're pulling lots of stuff out of your ass and trying to attach it to me.
Has it struck you that I might actually care about helping the less fortunate? Did it occur to you that I wasn't actually advocating specific programs you dislike? Have you noticed that people start unequal, so that treating them as you would equals, and doing nothing more, perpetuates inequality?
The law already says that an H-1B can't be used to do something a US worker can do. It would be nice to enforce it.
However, one big reason for using H-1Bs is that it allows importation of workers who essentially can't protest about their treatment. Bringing in a competent guy from India is a lot more tempting if you can underpay and overwork him, less so if he can find another job easily if he doesn't like how he's treated.
AIUI, an H-1B is a visa tied to employment, and I consider that to be the bad thing about it. The important thing is that the visa allow the immigrant to come in and live normally for a time, without threat of deportation, not that it be permanent. Temporary vs. permanent is another argument.
People used to live in East Africa, probably at low altitudes. Then the species started expanding its range, and occupied greater and greater altitudes. First it was routine to live at low altitudes. Then it became routine to live at higher altitudes. People who live at high altitudes have physiological differences from people who live at low altitudes, whether by evolution or by being exposed to thin air all their lives.
However, nobody can survive on top of Mount Everest for long without some artificial way to breathe. Progress sometimes just ends.
Some people do great in lots of fields. Some people do great in some fields and think they do great in others. I'll pay attention to Musk when he's talking about rockets and electric cars and things like that. When he talks about Mars missions or vaccinations or social dynamics, I'll be more skeptical.
It wasn't senseless bashing. He was reporting his experiences. My experience with MS is that MS software just hates certain people, for no reason I can tell. You get somebody who thinks MS $PRODUCT is the greatest thing since sliced peanut butter and somebody who has problem after problem, and if you ask question after question and you can't find relevant differences.
What version are you using? Enterprise does come with the ability to not update. Pro comes with the ability to defer them. Home is basically pre-lubed.
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Much of the current UBI argument is that there will not be enough sufficiently productive jobs in the economy that the below-average are qualified for (and there is evidence that we're down that road already). At that point, it's worthwhile to pay people not to work.
The overlap between people who want to live on their UBI and people who would invest in rental properties is going to be pretty darn small. My guess is the null set. Also, the housing sector adds housing to the economy, which I consider fairly important.
Socialism isn't necessarily left-wing, and neither "Leftist" nor "Socialist" are valid insults.
Consider the "nationalism" movement started by Bellamy's "Looking Backward", which tended to be right-wing, or the "Showa restoration" proposal favored by quite a few hard-line nationalists in Japan in the 1930s. I suspect many proponents of either would be shocked to be called "socialist".
One big step would be government-paid health care. I've been told by people who should know that the biggest deterrent to getting off welfare is medical care.
I don't really care about the upper bound. I don't even think there is one. Let people make as much money as they can and want to work for, as long as they pay their taxes. I'm concerned about the lower bound, and raising that. If everyone has enough (leaving the definition as an exercise for the reader), why should I care that some people are rich?
The law says that the Queen is the head of the national religion, can veto laws, and can dissolve Parliament. In practice, the Archbishop of Canterbury is in charge of the Church of England (as much as anyone is; I don't have actual Anglican friends), and she has the power to veto one law and dissolve Parliament one time, after which the laws would be changed.
Sodomy: yes, the government allows people to be uncharitable to foreigners and the poor, which as far as I can figure was the sin of Sodom. I suppose the sin could be rape, which is illegal. I kept hearing things about the sin being sex practices considered unnatural, but I couldn't find anything about that in the Bible.
Abortion: are there any biblical references? I don't remember seeing any.
Darwinian evolution: about as non-biblical as recovery of the first stage in orbital launches. There are some idiots who take everything in the Bible as absolutely literally true when it'd convenient for them, although this doesn't seem to be justified by early practice. Most Christians, including the Roman Catholic Church, have no objection to actual science.
The Bible is on the same footing as other sacred literature, and Christian prayer on the same footing as other forms of prayer, in public schools. Don't ask me to finance your extremist religion. Creationism is a minority position among Christians, and less popular outside Christianity.
I'm going to want to know the details of the methodology for any such study. It would be so easy to make mistakes.
Determining whether a rape accusation is true or false is really difficult, and this is true even after the claimed victim recants. There's far too much crap going on, and there's lots of reasons why a victim might do so to avoid further hassle.
Let's be precise. This guy has claimed three false rape accusations and one rape. If he were selected at random, this would be alarming, but he wasn't. He's self-selected, which almost invariably leads to bad statistics. Out of a fairly large pool (I don't know how many people read this), he is very possibly the most serious case. I don't know whether he's to be expected, given the pool size, or whether he's an outlier.
I'm not accusing BronsCon of lying or misstating things, but I'm sure that, if we took a larger sample of people claiming false accusations we would have a fair amount of dishonesty, and cases where the accused had had sexual contact with the accusers (unlike BronsCon), and those cases are a lot more ambiguous.
The fact is, Mr./Ms. Coward, that I've seen you post a large number of varying nonsensical things, so I really don't trust you.
If someone makes a claim that seems plausible to me, I'll generally not ask for sources (I might ask for pointers to poke around further). If someone makes a claim I consider almost certainly false, I might well ask for sources. It happens that people who spout nonsense frequently get it from highly unreliable sources, so if I do ask for a source the source is likely to be bad in some way. I figure that, if a claim is reasonable, there's probably a reasonable source out there, so if all I get is dodgy sources I usually don't inquire further.
DNA can't show that no rape took place. DNA can show that this man did not commit that rape. The DNA exonerations are not evidence that women claim rape happened when it didn't.
Without digging through these cases, I'd suspect these were primarily cases of stranger rape, where the victim couldn't identify the rapist at the time, which means that the victims probably didn't start by making false accusations, but identified the wrong assailant.
False rape reports do happen, but I've seen no evidence that there's many of them. Given the stereotypical treatment of a rape victim, it wouldn't be the first choice for most women.
The big problem with rape is that it's very difficult to convict, and so in a situation like this, waiting for a rape conviction can result in a large number of preventable rapes taking place.
VC++ standards conformance has been lagging considerably behind g++ and clang. I'm not aware of anything in C++11 that isn't in VS2015, but that isn't saying much. They may have all of C++14 in there; I haven't checked.
As far as C++03 conformance goes, C++03 had the "export" facility for templates, which was completely removed in the 2011 standard. Only the Comeau compiler handled that, which is one reason it was removed.
Compilers still do a really crappy job of warning of potential overflow issues. They are happy to do it with an explicit conversion, but not (as far as I've seen) for values inside computations, and that's where you're most likely to be hit.
As a C++ programmer, I assure you that Visual Studio really doesn't just work. It's been getting better (VS2013 is a lot better than VS2008), but it isn't perfect. (Yes, I'd love us to upgrade to VS2015, and we will when that one software vendor releases the proper binaries. Yes, I agree that it's taking them inordinately long, but we need their stuff.)
How effective would you be while under attack by poachers while holding a slightly damaged AK-47? If the answer is not "reasonably", I suggest you be a little more understanding when people who do get in those positions lack some knowledge you have.
Did you ever ask why? Do they use any particular software that runs on Windows? Do they use any software that might require some configuration? Ubuntu is very nice, but it hasn't implemented DWIM yet, and if someone is having problems with it there might not be someone who can figure out how to fix it.
No, instead you gave them what you thought they should use, without bothering to find out what their actual needs and resources are. It wasn't what they did use, and using what you gave them without changes was going to cause more hassle than paying for a couple of Windows licenses. Then you assert a right to complain because the donation of two laptops apparently allowed you to dictate how they operate.
Not in the US. An unexpected upgrade would violate the certification of the medical device, so it's the device manufacturer's job to prevent it from happening.
Man, you're pulling lots of stuff out of your ass and trying to attach it to me.
Has it struck you that I might actually care about helping the less fortunate? Did it occur to you that I wasn't actually advocating specific programs you dislike? Have you noticed that people start unequal, so that treating them as you would equals, and doing nothing more, perpetuates inequality?
The law already says that an H-1B can't be used to do something a US worker can do. It would be nice to enforce it.
However, one big reason for using H-1Bs is that it allows importation of workers who essentially can't protest about their treatment. Bringing in a competent guy from India is a lot more tempting if you can underpay and overwork him, less so if he can find another job easily if he doesn't like how he's treated.
AIUI, an H-1B is a visa tied to employment, and I consider that to be the bad thing about it. The important thing is that the visa allow the immigrant to come in and live normally for a time, without threat of deportation, not that it be permanent. Temporary vs. permanent is another argument.
Which is why people live on the top of Mount Everest, and nobody feels pressured to leave the Zone of Death fast?
People used to live in East Africa, probably at low altitudes. Then the species started expanding its range, and occupied greater and greater altitudes. First it was routine to live at low altitudes. Then it became routine to live at higher altitudes. People who live at high altitudes have physiological differences from people who live at low altitudes, whether by evolution or by being exposed to thin air all their lives.
However, nobody can survive on top of Mount Everest for long without some artificial way to breathe. Progress sometimes just ends.
Some people do great in lots of fields. Some people do great in some fields and think they do great in others. I'll pay attention to Musk when he's talking about rockets and electric cars and things like that. When he talks about Mars missions or vaccinations or social dynamics, I'll be more skeptical.
It wasn't senseless bashing. He was reporting his experiences. My experience with MS is that MS software just hates certain people, for no reason I can tell. You get somebody who thinks MS $PRODUCT is the greatest thing since sliced peanut butter and somebody who has problem after problem, and if you ask question after question and you can't find relevant differences.
What version are you using? Enterprise does come with the ability to not update. Pro comes with the ability to defer them. Home is basically pre-lubed.