Agreed. Part of the reason for this is the absolutely poisonous attitude people have when debating safety net programs. The discussion devolves to welfare queens vs not caring about the poor. When I talk to liberals about reforming safety net programs they immediately become suspicious that I'm trying to destroy them. When I talk to conservatives, I get lumped in with liberals. I don't mind "helping" people, but in my opinion it isn't really helping people to keep them cooped up subsisting in ghettos or trailer parks with no way to support themselves. The government bureaucrats need to be incentivized to get people off of assistance, but not the way it was done in the past. The so-called "welfare reform" from the 90s did indeed remove people from welfare roles, but really just shuffled them over to long-term disability. That's not what I mean by "helping":) On the recipients side, they need to have proper education and given some carrots to move to where the jobs are. You can train someone to be the best widget maker in the whole world, but if there isn't a widget factory nearby it won't help them.
Taxing and redistributing is not socialism - that is just a safety net, usually called social democracy. Socialism is centralized control of production, and the only places you see this in Europe are in healthcare and, in a few places, petroleum extraction - and that last one is self-limiting when the petroleum runs out. All corporations are created by government through some kind of charter, and some have a public ownership component - occasionally even a controlling interest. But it's still nothing like a philosophy of socialism - the economy is overwhelmingly driven by private sector allocation of capital.
Part of the reason for that is the US political parties defy classification... our system practically demands only two parties, and so almost everyone is forced into a tent with other people who may or may not be like-minded. Roughly 1/4 of the US electorate is "liberal" (in the sort of modern progressive sense), and almost all of them are in the Democrat tent. Around 1/3 are "conservative" (in the classically liberal and/or social sense), and virtually all of them are in the Republican tent. The remainder of the population is "moderate" and picks one camp or the other for some reason. Exceptions to this include blacks, who may be very liberal or very conservative - but one way or the other will mostly register and vote Democrat for historical reasons.
If we had some electoral reform that left room for more than two political parties, I think you'd see a lot more alignment between political party affiliation and ideological bent.
This is a reasonable discussion to have. I tend to favor market forces wherever possible, and I think the concept of a welfare state is a flawed one. I do support using the government as a safety net, but I believe the goal of the safety net should be to get people back on their own two feet if at all possible. I think this can be achieved by rejiggering incentives for the people running and participating in the programs.
That's one part of a two-part problem. The first part is that there is a concerted marketing effort by a large chunk of progressives to redefine "social democrat" to simply "socialist". I think this may be some kind of political Darwinism as people try to emulate the stadium-filling success of Bernie Sanders by cargo-culting his misuse of the word "socialism".
Then on the other side you have people who know that their ideological opponents are misusing the term, but pretend that they are in fact referring to centralized control over production. So the resulting criticism is not about Denmark, but rather Venezuela. I suspect they are doing this because it makes their opponents an easy target.
So here we are with a discussion overwhelmingly dominated by people making dishonest arguments, and apparently we've done such a poor job educating our young people that many of them are oblivious to the total sham of a discussion going on.
Well, now you lost me. I have no idea how you are adding up that time. Patch Tuesday just happens in the background. Linux also needs to be updated... not seeing a big difference here. Dicking around with the laptop for a half day or so isn't high on my list right now, that's all. I just want it to work. Like you say, if I find myself dicking with it anyway, then maybe I'll try to load Linux while I'm at it.
It does take more time to install if the laptop was preinstalled with Windows. It's Windows: 0, Linux 0 + n. If the hard drive dies we'll revisit - that's how one of my other PCs went from 8 -> 7.
For the same reason that I don't get continued royalties for work I did 40 years ago. I mean, welcome to what 99% of the population experiences, where you only get paid when you work!
I'm not suggesting that we overturn trademark law - just that the original 1980 game code not be subject to copyright anymore. You can make and sell a life saving drug from 1980 without paying the inventor a red cent, but you can't make a replica Pac Man cabinet without paying Namco? That's crazy.
Why resort to name calling? If it weren't for "cheap grubby hands" using free shit, we wouldn't have most of the Disney animated movies that are now protected basically forever. Reusing prior work is awesome and a large part of how we differ from other animals.
I'm suggesting that we treat entertainment IP the same way (~20-30 year protection) that we treat medicines. Certainly medicine is more important than Dig Dug?
What is this big fear of other people using your work? If you do almost any occupation, people are using your work. The idea is that you have time to make money from it, so you'll keep making work.
If you worked at Toyota, people would use your work. I make equipment for industry - literally so that other people can make tons of money making stuff that other people can use. It's GOOD when people use your work - it means you are doing something useful.
This just shows that copyright terms are too long. Copyright is meant as an incentive to produce new creative works, and no one (especially a business) is significantly motivated by what might happen after they are dead. Make it roughly equal to patent protection and move on - Toru Iwatani didn't create Pac Man because he thought royalties would be paid to Namco for 90 years, he did it because Namco paid him to fulfil an immediate need they had to sell competitive arcade consoles. If they only had 5 or 10 years of protection, they still would have paid him to create Pac Man.
I use both 7 and 10 on a daily basis, and I can authoritatively say that I'm more productive in 7, even though the hardware is older and slower. With that said, 10 continues to improve and eventually my 7 machine will die. 8 was an abortion (my 7 machine had 8 on it for a year before the drive mercifully died and prompted me to install 7). And again, this all distracts from my point, which is simply that one can prefer an older version of the OS. Even if this is not true from 10 to 7, it was certainly true from 8 to 7 or from Vista to XP, or XP to 2000, or ME to 98. Hell, the first version of OSX was pitiful compared to late OS9 versions.
I'm not really arguing your points, but for me it's just not worth the time. Like I said, if I have a rainy weekend to kill or something I might but otherwise it's just not worthwhile to me. I get plenty of Linux time in the VM and on the Raspberry Pis. If I needed Linux to have direct HW access to the laptop it'd be a different story, but mostly that isn't the case.
Not only was it a coal transport, but it was one based on a design that had several known failures. Two sister ships went missing near Europe while carrying heavy loads. Another similar ship was observed to sink in calm seas, and erosion of structural members was observed in other similar ships carrying corrosive loads. Finally, it was overloaded with Brazilian manganese when it disappeared.
I don't think there is much of a mystery here, rogue wave or not.
I Googled it for shits and giggles and it's the usual thing - some people saying it works and other people complaining about Wifi or some other peripheral. I think I'll just stick to the factory OS on this one and keep Linux in its VBox. Windows even has a Linux subsystem these days, though I can't say I've used it for much other than "Yay, bash!" If I'm trying to kill a rainy weekend or something I'll try dual booting. Most of my home hobby Linux time is spent on Raspberry Pis. At work they put it in a VM as a standard development environment.
As an American (on a US website, BTW) I share your frustration, but if it's any consolation our engineering schooling requires being fluent in both sets of standards, which is a pain in the ass. Look up slugs as a unit of mass if you want to crawl out of your skin.
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Agreed. Part of the reason for this is the absolutely poisonous attitude people have when debating safety net programs. The discussion devolves to welfare queens vs not caring about the poor. When I talk to liberals about reforming safety net programs they immediately become suspicious that I'm trying to destroy them. When I talk to conservatives, I get lumped in with liberals. I don't mind "helping" people, but in my opinion it isn't really helping people to keep them cooped up subsisting in ghettos or trailer parks with no way to support themselves. The government bureaucrats need to be incentivized to get people off of assistance, but not the way it was done in the past. The so-called "welfare reform" from the 90s did indeed remove people from welfare roles, but really just shuffled them over to long-term disability. That's not what I mean by "helping" :) On the recipients side, they need to have proper education and given some carrots to move to where the jobs are. You can train someone to be the best widget maker in the whole world, but if there isn't a widget factory nearby it won't help them.
I tend to favor approval or ranked voting systems as well. I'd like to see such reform extended to general elections.
In your example, why not simply go with the Condorcet winner?
Taxing and redistributing is not socialism - that is just a safety net, usually called social democracy. Socialism is centralized control of production, and the only places you see this in Europe are in healthcare and, in a few places, petroleum extraction - and that last one is self-limiting when the petroleum runs out. All corporations are created by government through some kind of charter, and some have a public ownership component - occasionally even a controlling interest. But it's still nothing like a philosophy of socialism - the economy is overwhelmingly driven by private sector allocation of capital.
Part of the reason for that is the US political parties defy classification... our system practically demands only two parties, and so almost everyone is forced into a tent with other people who may or may not be like-minded. Roughly 1/4 of the US electorate is "liberal" (in the sort of modern progressive sense), and almost all of them are in the Democrat tent. Around 1/3 are "conservative" (in the classically liberal and/or social sense), and virtually all of them are in the Republican tent. The remainder of the population is "moderate" and picks one camp or the other for some reason. Exceptions to this include blacks, who may be very liberal or very conservative - but one way or the other will mostly register and vote Democrat for historical reasons.
If we had some electoral reform that left room for more than two political parties, I think you'd see a lot more alignment between political party affiliation and ideological bent.
This is a reasonable discussion to have. I tend to favor market forces wherever possible, and I think the concept of a welfare state is a flawed one. I do support using the government as a safety net, but I believe the goal of the safety net should be to get people back on their own two feet if at all possible. I think this can be achieved by rejiggering incentives for the people running and participating in the programs.
That's social democracy. Even Denmark's PM is frustrated by this new push to change the definition of socialism.
Also what is your definition of socialism?
That's one part of a two-part problem. The first part is that there is a concerted marketing effort by a large chunk of progressives to redefine "social democrat" to simply "socialist". I think this may be some kind of political Darwinism as people try to emulate the stadium-filling success of Bernie Sanders by cargo-culting his misuse of the word "socialism".
Then on the other side you have people who know that their ideological opponents are misusing the term, but pretend that they are in fact referring to centralized control over production. So the resulting criticism is not about Denmark, but rather Venezuela. I suspect they are doing this because it makes their opponents an easy target.
So here we are with a discussion overwhelmingly dominated by people making dishonest arguments, and apparently we've done such a poor job educating our young people that many of them are oblivious to the total sham of a discussion going on.
My utility (PECO) will give you money if you let them cut your high-drain appliances at peak times.
Well, now you lost me. I have no idea how you are adding up that time. Patch Tuesday just happens in the background. Linux also needs to be updated... not seeing a big difference here. Dicking around with the laptop for a half day or so isn't high on my list right now, that's all. I just want it to work. Like you say, if I find myself dicking with it anyway, then maybe I'll try to load Linux while I'm at it.
It does take more time to install if the laptop was preinstalled with Windows. It's Windows: 0, Linux 0 + n. If the hard drive dies we'll revisit - that's how one of my other PCs went from 8 -> 7.
Why shouldn't he still benefit from that?
For the same reason that I don't get continued royalties for work I did 40 years ago. I mean, welcome to what 99% of the population experiences, where you only get paid when you work!
The 5-10 years line was just to get people thinking. I actually advocated the same terms as patent protection in my post.
I'm not suggesting that we overturn trademark law - just that the original 1980 game code not be subject to copyright anymore. You can make and sell a life saving drug from 1980 without paying the inventor a red cent, but you can't make a replica Pac Man cabinet without paying Namco? That's crazy.
Why resort to name calling? If it weren't for "cheap grubby hands" using free shit, we wouldn't have most of the Disney animated movies that are now protected basically forever. Reusing prior work is awesome and a large part of how we differ from other animals.
I'm suggesting that we treat entertainment IP the same way (~20-30 year protection) that we treat medicines. Certainly medicine is more important than Dig Dug?
I think we are actually making the same argument. He does not care what the copyright term is, and that is my point. Either way, we'd have Pac Man.
What is this big fear of other people using your work? If you do almost any occupation, people are using your work. The idea is that you have time to make money from it, so you'll keep making work.
If you worked at Toyota, people would use your work. I make equipment for industry - literally so that other people can make tons of money making stuff that other people can use. It's GOOD when people use your work - it means you are doing something useful.
This just shows that copyright terms are too long. Copyright is meant as an incentive to produce new creative works, and no one (especially a business) is significantly motivated by what might happen after they are dead. Make it roughly equal to patent protection and move on - Toru Iwatani didn't create Pac Man because he thought royalties would be paid to Namco for 90 years, he did it because Namco paid him to fulfil an immediate need they had to sell competitive arcade consoles. If they only had 5 or 10 years of protection, they still would have paid him to create Pac Man.
I use both 7 and 10 on a daily basis, and I can authoritatively say that I'm more productive in 7, even though the hardware is older and slower. With that said, 10 continues to improve and eventually my 7 machine will die. 8 was an abortion (my 7 machine had 8 on it for a year before the drive mercifully died and prompted me to install 7). And again, this all distracts from my point, which is simply that one can prefer an older version of the OS. Even if this is not true from 10 to 7, it was certainly true from 8 to 7 or from Vista to XP, or XP to 2000, or ME to 98. Hell, the first version of OSX was pitiful compared to late OS9 versions.
I'm not really arguing your points, but for me it's just not worth the time. Like I said, if I have a rainy weekend to kill or something I might but otherwise it's just not worthwhile to me. I get plenty of Linux time in the VM and on the Raspberry Pis. If I needed Linux to have direct HW access to the laptop it'd be a different story, but mostly that isn't the case.
I don't know how people function at the Pentagon all day.
Not only was it a coal transport, but it was one based on a design that had several known failures. Two sister ships went missing near Europe while carrying heavy loads. Another similar ship was observed to sink in calm seas, and erosion of structural members was observed in other similar ships carrying corrosive loads. Finally, it was overloaded with Brazilian manganese when it disappeared.
I don't think there is much of a mystery here, rogue wave or not.
Well done.
I Googled it for shits and giggles and it's the usual thing - some people saying it works and other people complaining about Wifi or some other peripheral. I think I'll just stick to the factory OS on this one and keep Linux in its VBox. Windows even has a Linux subsystem these days, though I can't say I've used it for much other than "Yay, bash!" If I'm trying to kill a rainy weekend or something I'll try dual booting. Most of my home hobby Linux time is spent on Raspberry Pis. At work they put it in a VM as a standard development environment.
Well, from now on you can't feign ignorance!
As an American (on a US website, BTW) I share your frustration, but if it's any consolation our engineering schooling requires being fluent in both sets of standards, which is a pain in the ass. Look up slugs as a unit of mass if you want to crawl out of your skin.