Then you haven't tried web-browsing on an iPad... Having done so, I honestly can't imagine trying to use the web on a regular basis without an ad blocker.
I won't pay someone for a app to block something that allows me to view a site for free. It won't end well down the road and these ad blocker people are simply short sighted in how they deal with ads. Be careful what you wish for because ad blockers might be the medicine but not the cure.
Yet the Internet was a much more useful place before ads.
Sites weren't loaded up with megabytes of crud, because people couldn't afford the bandwidth. You could actually go out and find the information you wanted, without having to fight through two hundred sites that just scrape content from other sites in order to appear high in the Google search results so they can collect ad revenue.
If every site that can't make a living without ads goes away, few people will be complaining.
Really what kind of idiot wants to dismantle a system that has kept the world peaceful for 70 years.
I'm pretty sure that, if we had access to the KGB files, we'd see that most of the 'nuclear disarmament, wow, man!' crowd were actually Soviet subversion agents working to disarm the West so their Soviet masters could roll in.
Commie useful idiots are precisely the kind who'd want to dismantle a system that had kept the world (relatively) peaceful for decades.
If a factory installs hundreds of robots and now no longer needs to hire people, there needs to be a way to redistribute some of those savings otherwise those who own the machines will gain all the advantages.
So, uh, why is anyone going to build a robot factory when they know you're just going to steal all their stuff?
By their replies, I see here a lot of people slave to their job, as it was the sole meaning of their life.
Uh, no, it's the Basic Income Nutters who think people are slaves to their jobs, and will keep working even if they don't have to.
The rest of us are well aware that most of the population would quit those jobs overnight if they could live decently on FREE MONEY. As history has proven, 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs' results in a world with lots of needy people and very few able people.
I currently pay too little taxes and wish people like myself were taxed more so that the roads could be maintained and the kids be healthy and well educated.
I presume you send a cheque to the government every year for the amount you think you're taxed too little, right?
Our reproduction rate in the US is already below maintenance level.
Why do you care?
Industrial-era governments wanted more people to work in the factories. Those jobs no longer exist.
What would be the benefit to breeding more people who'll spend their entire lives just living off the productive? Other than to vote for left-wing politicians who promise them MOAR FREE STUFF?
No. Communism is a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Not remotely the same thing.
Exactly the same thing, in the minds of the 'Basic Income' nutters who fantasize about a world of government-run robot factories that make the money that's then handed out as 'basic income'.
It amazes me how many people think the world will just grind to a stop if 'everybody' becomes a pure consumer, with disposable income, but outright stops doing all the things they used to do.
Who's going to clean the sewers if they can live a decent life doing nothing?
Everyone who wants stimulation or more money than is required for basic subsistence?
So, basically, you seem to agree that no-one will want to do any job that they currently do for pay rather than love? Hint: most people who aren't fighter pilots or astronauts don't actually love their jobs.
And there are tons of people who currently willingly work difficult jobs for mediocre pay.
Most of whom will quit those jobs once they're making that 'mediocre pay' for doing nothing.
Yes, exactly. 'Basic income' is the last, desperate attempt to impose communism, before we move into a post-industrial economy where communists are irrelevant.
'Seize the means of production, comrades!' 'Uh, I have it in my garage. It's called a 3D printer.' 'You! Seize his means of production, brother!' 'Why? I already have one.'
As long as it is enough to cover a small apartment and food this would be awesome. My love is reading and the library has all the books I want. I could finally quit my job, get a small place near the library and just read books all day everyday!
And.... you've just demonstrated why it can't possibly work. Few people will want to work if they've just given enough money to live a decent life without working.
But, hey, from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs, comrades!
1, The iPad Mini 3 is about to be replaced by the iPad Mini 4. 2. It runs Android or Windows, which both need better hardware specs than IOS. 3. It runs Android or Windows. In the former case, it's a security nightmare that the manufacturer will probably stop supporting in a year or so, and, in the latter, it's a privacy nightmare.
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Maybe an ad-blocker should default to showing the ad and then just let you manually "hide ads like this" by clicking on them.
Too late. By then, the malware has already pwned your machine.
Yes. As far as I'm concerned, the two most important features of iOS9 are:
1. The keyboard shows you which case you're typing.
2. Ad blocker support.
Don't much care about being able to swipe Twitter in from the side of the screen at any moment, or whatever else they added.
I haven't seen any in years...
Then you haven't tried web-browsing on an iPad... Having done so, I honestly can't imagine trying to use the web on a regular basis without an ad blocker.
Yes. Several manufacturers have this in their owners' manuals. Some claim as much as a quart per 600 miles is 'normal'.
Not that that makes it suck any less.
Depends which emissions they're concerned about. Diesels (as I recall) are worse for particulates and NOx, but better as far as CO2.
Yes. Worse for the things that actually kill people, and also worse for plant food.
I won't pay someone for a app to block something that allows me to view a site for free. It won't end well down the road and these ad blocker people are simply short sighted in how they deal with ads. Be careful what you wish for because ad blockers might be the medicine but not the cure.
Yet the Internet was a much more useful place before ads.
Sites weren't loaded up with megabytes of crud, because people couldn't afford the bandwidth. You could actually go out and find the information you wanted, without having to fight through two hundred sites that just scrape content from other sites in order to appear high in the Google search results so they can collect ad revenue.
If every site that can't make a living without ads goes away, few people will be complaining.
Really what kind of idiot wants to dismantle a system that has kept the world peaceful for 70 years.
I'm pretty sure that, if we had access to the KGB files, we'd see that most of the 'nuclear disarmament, wow, man!' crowd were actually Soviet subversion agents working to disarm the West so their Soviet masters could roll in.
Commie useful idiots are precisely the kind who'd want to dismantle a system that had kept the world (relatively) peaceful for decades.
People who want to do more than scrape by.
So your 'basic income' is just going to allow people to 'scrape by'?
Then what's the point? What will the people do who can't 'scrape by' on that money, and can't get a job?
If a factory installs hundreds of robots and now no longer needs to hire people, there needs to be a way to redistribute some of those savings otherwise those who own the machines will gain all the advantages.
So, uh, why is anyone going to build a robot factory when they know you're just going to steal all their stuff?
By their replies, I see here a lot of people slave to their job, as it was the sole meaning of their life.
Uh, no, it's the Basic Income Nutters who think people are slaves to their jobs, and will keep working even if they don't have to.
The rest of us are well aware that most of the population would quit those jobs overnight if they could live decently on FREE MONEY. As history has proven, 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs' results in a world with lots of needy people and very few able people.
Happiness plateaus at ~80k for a household
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
I currently pay too little taxes and wish people like myself were taxed more so that the roads could be maintained and the kids be healthy and well educated.
I presume you send a cheque to the government every year for the amount you think you're taxed too little, right?
Our reproduction rate in the US is already below maintenance level.
Why do you care?
Industrial-era governments wanted more people to work in the factories. Those jobs no longer exist.
What would be the benefit to breeding more people who'll spend their entire lives just living off the productive? Other than to vote for left-wing politicians who promise them MOAR FREE STUFF?
Oh, I think I answered my own question.
You seem to be under the misapprehension that Orion is something to do with sending astronauts into space.
No. Communism is a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Not remotely the same thing.
Exactly the same thing, in the minds of the 'Basic Income' nutters who fantasize about a world of government-run robot factories that make the money that's then handed out as 'basic income'.
It amazes me how many people think the world will just grind to a stop if 'everybody' becomes a pure consumer, with disposable income, but outright stops doing all the things they used to do.
Who's going to clean the sewers if they can live a decent life doing nothing?
Everyone who wants stimulation or more money than is required for basic subsistence?
So, basically, you seem to agree that no-one will want to do any job that they currently do for pay rather than love? Hint: most people who aren't fighter pilots or astronauts don't actually love their jobs.
And there are tons of people who currently willingly work difficult jobs for mediocre pay.
Most of whom will quit those jobs once they're making that 'mediocre pay' for doing nothing.
So what do you do with those people? Let them die on the street? Force their kids to go hungry and not have health care?
We could do what communists do with people who don't work.
Then those jobs will need to pay a higher wage.
I think you misspelt: 'then those jobs will be automated away or offshored'.
Yes, exactly. 'Basic income' is the last, desperate attempt to impose communism, before we move into a post-industrial economy where communists are irrelevant.
'Seize the means of production, comrades!'
'Uh, I have it in my garage. It's called a 3D printer.'
'You! Seize his means of production, brother!'
'Why? I already have one.'
As long as it is enough to cover a small apartment and food this would be awesome. My love is reading and the library has all the books I want. I could finally quit my job, get a small place near the library and just read books all day everyday!
And.... you've just demonstrated why it can't possibly work. Few people will want to work if they've just given enough money to live a decent life without working.
But, hey, from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs, comrades!
So who's actually going to do the work to pay the taxes?
This is presumably intentional, so 'Telemetry' will show that hardly anyone uses the Start Menu, and now they can remove it. Again.
The real question is: who, within Microsoft, hates the Start Menu so much, and why?
And SD cards are pretty much useless in modern versions of Android, anyway.
1, The iPad Mini 3 is about to be replaced by the iPad Mini 4.
2. It runs Android or Windows, which both need better hardware specs than IOS.
3. It runs Android or Windows. In the former case, it's a security nightmare that the manufacturer will probably stop supporting in a year or so, and, in the latter, it's a privacy nightmare.
Why not patch the current version? Especially for devices that are not covered by iOS9.
Is there a single device which is supported on 8.4 that isn't supported on 9?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but, unlike Android's obsoleting devices every revision or two, I don't believe any device was obsoleted by IOS 9.