Remember "Love Canal"? This is what happens with no regulation, minimal regulation, or simply ignoring regulation.
You mean the waste dump the local government pushed the company to sell to them and then built a school on, after having been warned that it was, in fact, a waste dump?
Yes, if only government had been more involved in that debacle, it would clearly have been much better.
It's about as sensible as Columbus producing an 'Integrated America Plan' for how America would develop, or someone in the 50s producing an 'Integrated Computing Plan' for how computers would develop until 2050.
All we need is cheap access to space, and plain old unplanned, couldn't-give-a-crap-what-you-think humans will do the rest.
You do realize that a car takes a while to heat up when the air is forty below zero, right? And that you don't want to get frostbite from having to take gloves off to touch a screen to turn the heat on before it heats up?
6:35 a.m. Like 17 million other Americans, you have asthma. But as you get out of bed you notice that you are breathing freely this morning. This is thanks in part to government clean air laws that reduce the air pollution that would otherwise greatly worsen your condition.
Except asthma has been increasing while air pollution decreased. Personally, I suspect it's much due to government regulations which reduce ventilation of housing in the name of 'energy efficiency'.
Toyota had a long history of producing reliable and relatively cheap to run vehicles, which was a good enough reason for many people to buy them. GM... doesn't.
Out of interest, what apps are big enough for doubling their size to matter, yet most of their storage usage isn't data of some kind that can be shared between both versions?
Games, for example, might be a few megabytes of code with tens or hundreds of megabytes of game data.
Casual gamers are moving to tablets and phones, while hardcore gamers play PC games. There's not much room left for consoles, particularly when the new generation are just low-end gaming PCs.
But, uh, then they'd lose all that lovely money. What they should have done is changed all the other hydrants to ensure that more people get parking tickets.
Ha-ha-ha. Yes, the old 'you can have any phone so long as it's black Bakelite, and we've got a slot to install it next year' Post Office Telephones was just so, so much better than the BT of today.
That is not specific to socialism, or a reason for socialism to fail.
Of course it is, because in socialism the 'people in power' control everything. Socialism is the control of the means of production by the State, and the State is a gang of hungry troughers who want to steal as much as they can from the productive.
This is why just about every socialist nation on the planet is on the verge of bankruptcy, and the few exceptions are primarily resource-heavy economies raking in the cash from selling crap they dig out of the ground.
I like how they conflate "minimum" and "living". The quoted councilman is doing it for effect, obviously, but it's not the same thing, and it won't be.
It's just standard Leftyism. First you get a 'minimum wage', because, after all, no-one could be against having a mimimum wage for those poor people in low-paid jobs, could they? Where's your compassion? Then, when that's done, they move on to 'living wage', because no-one could be against those poor people in low-paid jobs earning enough to live on, can they? Then, of course, they'll have to set a 'maximum wage', because those EVIL CEOs earn way too much, how could you be opposed to preventing them from earning so much on the back of the low-paid workers? Then, eventually, they'll set the minimum and maximum wages to the same levels because how could you be opposed to eliminating inequality by having everyone paid the same?
It's so tediously predictable to be just plain boring these days.
Yes he was. But the outcome of either system is the same - a small group of elites exerts control over the masses - they just differ on who the small group of elites should be.
Yes, exactly. Socialists whine about 'equality', then when they're in power they steal money from the poor taxpayers to pay for their Zil limos; but that's OK, because they don't actually own the Zil limos, they just use them.
People have nearly always put their damned fingers on the screen when they wanted things to happen.
Since when? I've never seen anyone put their damned fingers on a PC screen and expect it to do something.
A mouse (and especially a touchpad) -- that's a crappy interface device for a civilization that can't manufacture good touch devices and program good touch software.
About the only things a touchsceen is better at than a keyboard and mouse are finger painting, or clicking huge icons in a fast food store. For anything that requires any kind of precision, a touchscreen is an appallingly bad interface.
They've just promised that some other group of politicians will raise it years from now?
This seems to be the way so many new laws work: they're delayed until after the next election, so today's politicos can take the praise for passing the law, and the new bunch will be the ones in power when the problems become apparent.
Software has made people complacent with regard to code quality. You can always patch, can't you? Well, you can't. Get it right!
No. The Internet made them complacent; before that, patches were a major task, as the end user had to download them from a bulletin board somewhere, or an engineer might have to fly half way around the world to install it for you.
But the same Internet that has made patching easy has also made the lack of patches a remotely-exploitable route for hacking into random crap that should never have been on it in the first place.
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Yes, but that would help users block tracking and advertising, so it's a no-no.
The absurd permission demands from simple, crappy applications is why I'd love to see a real alternative to Android that doesn't cost Apple prices.
Remember "Love Canal"? This is what happens with no regulation, minimal regulation, or simply ignoring regulation.
You mean the waste dump the local government pushed the company to sell to them and then built a school on, after having been warned that it was, in fact, a waste dump?
Yes, if only government had been more involved in that debacle, it would clearly have been much better.
People that drive these cars only keep them a few years, depending on the length of the lease.
You do realize the car doesn't just disappear when it's returned at the end of the lease, right?
It's about as sensible as Columbus producing an 'Integrated America Plan' for how America would develop, or someone in the 50s producing an 'Integrated Computing Plan' for how computers would develop until 2050.
All we need is cheap access to space, and plain old unplanned, couldn't-give-a-crap-what-you-think humans will do the rest.
If your heat works, why do you need gloves?
You do realize that a car takes a while to heat up when the air is forty below zero, right? And that you don't want to get frostbite from having to take gloves off to touch a screen to turn the heat on before it heats up?
I haven't figured out how I'm supposed to use a touch-screen in my car when it's forty below zero and I'm wearning thick gloves.
6:35 a.m. Like 17 million other Americans, you have asthma. But as you get out of bed you notice that you are breathing freely this morning. This is thanks in part to government clean air laws that reduce the air pollution that would otherwise greatly worsen your condition.
Except asthma has been increasing while air pollution decreased. Personally, I suspect it's much due to government regulations which reduce ventilation of housing in the name of 'energy efficiency'.
It takes a genuinely insane person to make such a claim.
No, just someone who knows what they're talking about.
Somalia may be a crap-hole, but it's usually been less of a crap-hole than neighbouring parts of Africa which have governments.
Not this crap again. Pre-funding benefits only accounted for about 1/3 of the Post Office's losses last year.
But very simply, why doesn't NASA ditch the rest and just stick with SpaceX instead of throwing money down the drain?
Because Congress says they must build the Pork Launcher.
Toyota had a long history of producing reliable and relatively cheap to run vehicles, which was a good enough reason for many people to buy them. GM... doesn't.
Out of interest, what apps are big enough for doubling their size to matter, yet most of their storage usage isn't data of some kind that can be shared between both versions?
Games, for example, might be a few megabytes of code with tens or hundreds of megabytes of game data.
They'll just print it, silly. Taxing and balancing a budget is just so 20th century.
Casual gamers are moving to tablets and phones, while hardcore gamers play PC games. There's not much room left for consoles, particularly when the new generation are just low-end gaming PCs.
But, uh, then they'd lose all that lovely money. What they should have done is changed all the other hydrants to ensure that more people get parking tickets.
Ha-ha-ha. Yes, the old 'you can have any phone so long as it's black Bakelite, and we've got a slot to install it next year' Post Office Telephones was just so, so much better than the BT of today.
That is not specific to socialism, or a reason for socialism to fail.
Of course it is, because in socialism the 'people in power' control everything. Socialism is the control of the means of production by the State, and the State is a gang of hungry troughers who want to steal as much as they can from the productive.
This is why just about every socialist nation on the planet is on the verge of bankruptcy, and the few exceptions are primarily resource-heavy economies raking in the cash from selling crap they dig out of the ground.
I like how they conflate "minimum" and "living". The quoted councilman is doing it for effect, obviously, but it's not the same thing, and it won't be.
It's just standard Leftyism. First you get a 'minimum wage', because, after all, no-one could be against having a mimimum wage for those poor people in low-paid jobs, could they? Where's your compassion? Then, when that's done, they move on to 'living wage', because no-one could be against those poor people in low-paid jobs earning enough to live on, can they? Then, of course, they'll have to set a 'maximum wage', because those EVIL CEOs earn way too much, how could you be opposed to preventing them from earning so much on the back of the low-paid workers? Then, eventually, they'll set the minimum and maximum wages to the same levels because how could you be opposed to eliminating inequality by having everyone paid the same?
It's so tediously predictable to be just plain boring these days.
Yes he was. But the outcome of either system is the same - a small group of elites exerts control over the masses - they just differ on who the small group of elites should be.
Yes, exactly. Socialists whine about 'equality', then when they're in power they steal money from the poor taxpayers to pay for their Zil limos; but that's OK, because they don't actually own the Zil limos, they just use them.
That's the nature of capitalist society, capitalism naturally breeds inequality.
Indeed. As Orwell said, 'all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.'
Oh, hang on. Sorry, he was writing about socialism, wasn't he?
People have nearly always put their damned fingers on the screen when they wanted things to happen.
Since when? I've never seen anyone put their damned fingers on a PC screen and expect it to do something.
A mouse (and especially a touchpad) -- that's a crappy interface device for a civilization that can't manufacture good touch devices and program good touch software.
About the only things a touchsceen is better at than a keyboard and mouse are finger painting, or clicking huge icons in a fast food store. For anything that requires any kind of precision, a touchscreen is an appallingly bad interface.
The price of burgers and lattes will go up.
Nah. With interest rates at roughly 0%, this will just accelerate automation of low-skilled jobs.
They've just promised that some other group of politicians will raise it years from now?
This seems to be the way so many new laws work: they're delayed until after the next election, so today's politicos can take the praise for passing the law, and the new bunch will be the ones in power when the problems become apparent.
Software has made people complacent with regard to code quality. You can always patch, can't you? Well, you can't. Get it right!
No. The Internet made them complacent; before that, patches were a major task, as the end user had to download them from a bulletin board somewhere, or an engineer might have to fly half way around the world to install it for you.
But the same Internet that has made patching easy has also made the lack of patches a remotely-exploitable route for hacking into random crap that should never have been on it in the first place.
And who, exactly, wants a touchscreen on a laptop? Touchscreens are a crappy interface for devices too crappy to include a keyboard and mouse.