I've heard people claim that a minimum wage is worthless, but I've never seen a source or heard it explained just how else we're supposed to protect workers from being royally f*cked.
Large, national sales tax. Standard Monthly rebate for every man, woman, and child in the United States that's just a bit more than the poverty level. National health care.
There are many things this plan would do, one is to provide for people after the robot revolution.
If there's less work to do, we need to improve the quality of life per unit of work ratio to keep people from falling into poverty simply because there's no work for them to do.
Yep. Also, machines are replacing entry level jobs faster than advanced jobs. There will always be C level jobs at a company, but if there are no jobs that can lead to the upper levels, you get a permanent class of CEOs who will only hire their offspring for other C level jobs.
Yes, it's good to work hard and pass your money to your offspring, but from society's point of view, what's the difference between someone living off the dole, vs. someone living off a trust fund?
The latest greatest new language always promises to allow either normal people to be programmers, or one programmer to do the work of ten.
With either of these, there's eventually no need for hack programmers knocking out business logic programs. Just a few OS level guys maintaining everything else.
The real myth is that there *is* a flat earth society. Anyone can put up a website. What you are seeing is the results of a debating society, the "members" don't have to really believe that crap. It's the same way you can hire a lawyer to defend you no matter how guilty you are.
Preservatives are necessary for multi-dose vaccine delivery. There's always some contamination when you break the seal.
If you only use one dose bottles, then yes, just sterilize it and you don't need a preservative.
Too much gamma radiation causes organics to break down, the trick is killing all the microbes, without destroying the proteins that are important for the vaccine to work.
The problem with toxicity studies, is that they would exclude people who are already on the edge of mercury poisoning. Plus, many poisons work together to multiply their effect.
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Contempt for customers
He then goes on to demonstrate several instances of where the local TV stations screwed the audience.
You are not TV's customers. You are the product being sold to the advertisers.
One Time Warner exec when so far as to say that people who TiVo shows and fast forward through the commercials are thieves. (As well as people who switch channels, or use the euphemism during a break)
Then I decided, one could probably have a tax-free AND health inspector free "non-restaurant" where folks bring their own food for you to prepare for them, for a "service" fee only.
Might work, depending on the state. Years ago, when I lived in Tennessee, restaurants that couldn't get a liquor license, would allow people to bring there own bottle of wine. They would change a "corking" fee so you could drink it with your meal.
Courts have ruled that police don't have any duty to protect you [disinfo.com] for the most part.
Yep, and other courts have ruled that in some instances, you aren't allowed to protect yourself or your property*. Thus the police have a monopoly in the protection racket.
If the officer acts like a potential leaker, sending an encrypted email or using an unregistered thumb drive, the analyst might push a button and watch a screen video of the officer's last hour of work.
So, then, the analyst becomes the leaker. (Or the spy that a 3rd party hires)
A more likely senario, is that the "officer" (who is an analyst himself), plays it safe, and doesn't gather enough intel together to actually figure out what the real bad guys are doing.
Non-profits aren't supposed to have revenue positive programs. The charter for most land-grant Universities includes Education, Research, and Community Outreach, not "Make a lot of Money"
Plus, there's no proved correlation to having a high paid coach, and maximum profit. A well run losing team can be more profitable than a winning one.
Like most science, it won't do any of that immediately, but if it proves itself, it might make most of that better & cheaper.
Taxes pay for GPS. Farmers use GPS to track crop yield so they can fertilize more efficiently. Using high accuracy GPS to repave roads, or build bridges properly is a no-brainer. GPS might help the ambulance get to you and back to the hospital seconds *before* you're dead. So yes, a better clock can improve all those aspects of your life. SWEET!!
Remember, most of your audience on slashdot does not do what you do. Where I work, some software is freeware, and some is licensed over $1,000,000 per year.
I know it's tough but to verify, they could put a long fiber optic along the route, and then measure the time of flight of light forwards and backwards.
If light, using the same measurement system takes the same amount of time West to East as East to West they know there's nothing monkeying with their measurements.
most/all jurisdictions allow "personal sales" between neighbors, which allow things like changing your neighbor's oil or having your kid mow their lawn or babysitting or whatever. Have you actually looked into this?
If you're not a lawyer, stay away from DIY law. There's no way an individual (non-lawyer) in the US can possibly know enough local, state and federal law to safely do this. They've stopped little girls from having lemonade stands for $DEITY's sake.
Corporate income it too nebulous a concept to remove *all* the loopholes.
For your average wage slave, income it pretty simple. It's your paycheck.
For a corporation, income = gross revenue - expenses.
We can monkey with both revenue and expenses. It's obvious that raw materials are an expense, but is the CEO's limo a necessary expense? If a customer places a big order with a contract that covers many years, when is the corporation required to report that as income? What happens when you report income, but the costumer goes bankrupt and the bankruptcy judge takes back a payment?
Hollywood has the most egregious examples of "creative" accounting, but all corporations do it. What you call a loophole, an accountant calls business as usual.
Making a popular set of bike brakes wasn't really the point of the project,' says blogger Kevin Fogarty. 'The project was to find out how to make the wireless connections between two components of a system that has to operate in real time – with milliseconds of difference between success and failure (PDF) – more reliable than systems that are normally connected by a wire.'"
New project: Getting into space by jumping. The purpose isn't to actually get a satellite into orbit, just to find out how to get there by "Jumping Real Hard (tm)".
If FedEx, UPS and USPS worked with the Credit Card companies and the Police, this could be stopped quickly. Once a known fraudulent card is used to ship to an address, mark all shipments to that address as suspicious, and track them down to their source.
Yes, it'd be a huge data mining operation, and yes Congress would have to pass some laws to bypass anti-trust laws, but it's feasible. No, you'd never get the legislature, law enforcement and business to agree on enough to make this work.
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I've heard people claim that a minimum wage is worthless, but I've never seen a source or heard it explained just how else we're supposed to protect workers from being royally f*cked.
Large, national sales tax. Standard Monthly rebate for every man, woman, and child in the United States that's just a bit more than the poverty level. National health care.
There are many things this plan would do, one is to provide for people after the robot revolution.
Your lawnba will cut your grass
It's called an Robomow, and yes, it cuts my grass. (I have the iMow version) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Robotics
Much of the world's current problems are distribution problems. The rest are caused by men with guns.
So the obvious solution is Robotic Overlords (dum, dum, dumm)
If there's less work to do, we need to improve the quality of life per unit of work ratio to keep people from falling into poverty simply because there's no work for them to do.
Yep. Also, machines are replacing entry level jobs faster than advanced jobs. There will always be C level jobs at a company, but if there are no jobs that can lead to the upper levels, you get a permanent class of CEOs who will only hire their offspring for other C level jobs.
Yes, it's good to work hard and pass your money to your offspring, but from society's point of view, what's the difference between someone living off the dole, vs. someone living off a trust fund?
The latest greatest new language always promises to allow either normal people to be programmers, or one programmer to do the work of ten.
With either of these, there's eventually no need for hack programmers knocking out business logic programs. Just a few OS level guys maintaining everything else.
Only people who own significant amounts of land will be well off.
The rest get to eat roboticly baked cake...
The real myth is that there *is* a flat earth society. Anyone can put up a website. What you are seeing is the results of a debating society, the "members" don't have to really believe that crap. It's the same way you can hire a lawyer to defend you no matter how guilty you are.
Good question. Even though I sort of know the answer, I'd like a better explanation. Even a scientist like John Dobson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronomer), questions the standard answers.
There are non-mercury, liquid metal thermometers available. http://periodictable.com/Items/031.6/index.html It's gallium, indium, and tin.
Preservatives are necessary for multi-dose vaccine delivery. There's always some contamination when you break the seal.
If you only use one dose bottles, then yes, just sterilize it and you don't need a preservative.
Too much gamma radiation causes organics to break down, the trick is killing all the microbes, without destroying the proteins that are important for the vaccine to work.
The problem with toxicity studies, is that they would exclude people who are already on the edge of mercury poisoning. Plus, many poisons work together to multiply their effect.
Contempt for customers
He then goes on to demonstrate several instances of where the local TV stations screwed the audience.
You are not TV's customers. You are the product being sold to the advertisers.
One Time Warner exec when so far as to say that people who TiVo shows and fast forward through the commercials are thieves. (As well as people who switch channels, or use the euphemism during a break)
If TV exec's could Ludovico you, they would.
Then I decided, one could probably have a tax-free AND health inspector free "non-restaurant" where folks bring their own food for you to prepare for them, for a "service" fee only.
Might work, depending on the state. Years ago, when I lived in Tennessee, restaurants that couldn't get a liquor license, would allow people to bring there own bottle of wine. They would change a "corking" fee so you could drink it with your meal.
Courts have ruled that police don't have any duty to protect you [disinfo.com] for the most part.
Yep, and other courts have ruled that in some instances, you aren't allowed to protect yourself or your property*. Thus the police have a monopoly in the protection racket.
*Varies, state by state.
If the officer acts like a potential leaker, sending an encrypted email or using an unregistered thumb drive, the analyst might push a button and watch a screen video of the officer's last hour of work.
So, then, the analyst becomes the leaker. (Or the spy that a 3rd party hires)
A more likely senario, is that the "officer" (who is an analyst himself), plays it safe, and doesn't gather enough intel together to actually figure out what the real bad guys are doing.
Non-profits aren't supposed to have revenue positive programs. The charter for most land-grant Universities includes Education, Research, and Community Outreach, not "Make a lot of Money"
Plus, there's no proved correlation to having a high paid coach, and maximum profit. A well run losing team can be more profitable than a winning one.
Not everything a government does is socialism. Some is fascism or cronyism, and let's not forget plain old waste and fraud.
(:-) for the humor impaired.
Like most science, it won't do any of that immediately, but if it proves itself, it might make most of that better & cheaper.
Taxes pay for GPS. Farmers use GPS to track crop yield so they can fertilize more efficiently. Using high accuracy GPS to repave roads, or build bridges properly is a no-brainer. GPS might help the ambulance get to you and back to the hospital seconds *before* you're dead. So yes, a better clock can improve all those aspects of your life. SWEET!!
It might surprise you to know that Dick Clark was actually the test subject for this drug.
No, no it wouldn't. (:-)
What does it sell for?
Remember, most of your audience on slashdot does not do what you do. Where I work, some software is freeware, and some is licensed over $1,000,000 per year.
I know it's tough but to verify, they could put a long fiber optic along the route, and then measure the time of flight of light forwards and backwards.
If light, using the same measurement system takes the same amount of time West to East as East to West they know there's nothing monkeying with their measurements.
most/all jurisdictions allow "personal sales" between neighbors, which allow things like changing your neighbor's oil or having your kid mow their lawn or babysitting or whatever. Have you actually looked into this?
If you're not a lawyer, stay away from DIY law. There's no way an individual (non-lawyer) in the US can possibly know enough local, state and federal law to safely do this. They've stopped little girls from having lemonade stands for $DEITY's sake.
A global corporate income tax would stop this.* (:-)
*Cue the UN black helicopters...
Corporate income it too nebulous a concept to remove *all* the loopholes.
For your average wage slave, income it pretty simple. It's your paycheck.
For a corporation, income = gross revenue - expenses.
We can monkey with both revenue and expenses. It's obvious that raw materials are an expense, but is the CEO's limo a necessary expense? If a customer places a big order with a contract that covers many years, when is the corporation required to report that as income? What happens when you report income, but the costumer goes bankrupt and the bankruptcy judge takes back a payment?
Hollywood has the most egregious examples of "creative" accounting, but all corporations do it. What you call a loophole, an accountant calls business as usual.
Making a popular set of bike brakes wasn't really the point of the project,' says blogger Kevin Fogarty. 'The project was to find out how to make the wireless connections between two components of a system that has to operate in real time – with milliseconds of difference between success and failure (PDF) – more reliable than systems that are normally connected by a wire.'"
New project: Getting into space by jumping. The purpose isn't to actually get a satellite into orbit, just to find out how to get there by "Jumping Real Hard (tm)".
If FedEx, UPS and USPS worked with the Credit Card companies and the Police, this could be stopped quickly. Once a known fraudulent card is used to ship to an address, mark all shipments to that address as suspicious, and track them down to their source.
Yes, it'd be a huge data mining operation, and yes Congress would have to pass some laws to bypass anti-trust laws, but it's feasible. No, you'd never get the legislature, law enforcement and business to agree on enough to make this work.