Isn't letting people keep the money they earned, regardless of their income level ALWAYS going to be better than taking it away and giving it to the government?
No, because this way I don't have to spend time shopping for a private army to protect me, and know I won't starve to death even if I were to lose my job.
...I don't think that's a workable idea with current humanity, sorry.
Creating a huge underclass for which society is just something to take stuff from, legally or otherwise, is one of the worst ideas explored in modern democracies.
The reason it was explored is that the alternative - a huge underclass which has nothing to lose but its chains - very nearly brought down the whole society. The Emperors of Rome didn't provide bread and circuses out of the goodness of their bleeding liberal hearts, and neither did capitalists after World War parts I&II. As the lessons about the limits of power and exploitation have been forgotten, we're headed for another hands-on learning episode.
Of course the best way to deal with the problem would be to dismantle the entire underclass with a (generous, undonditional and untouchable - you have this much spending money per month no matter what) basic income or "citizen wage" system, since that would both alleviate poverty, stimulate economy through increased demand, and most importantly free people to focus on doing what they want, rather than what pays well or might continue paying until retirement.
The obvious resolution for trespassing is to get the trespasser off the property.
Not when the property in question is a factory. For all the security personnel knew the reporters could actually have been disguised thieves, industrial spies or even saboteurs. Trespassers on industrial plants need to be taken in for questioning, not just shooed away.
Unless they are causing or have caused physical damage,
Which you can't possibly know until you've gone through every goddamn screw in the area. Which, of course, is impossible. That's why you need to take them into custody and hope they aren't willing to become martyrs for some retarded cause.
Apple did a lame job in protecting their IP: patenting smart corners, instead of something more vital about their type of product, such as the concept of an integrated app store,
According to Wikipedia, Steam came out in 2003 (and began carrying 3rd party apps in 2005), Apple's App Store in 2008. PC's have come with preinstalled crapware since time immemorial. So this particular IP seems even more Imaginary than usual.
If you purchase the car new for $30,000 (smart people don't, but we're talking the typical car buyer here), use it for 5 years, and sell it for $15,000,
Since you need a buyer to sell your used car, the typical buyer cannot buy new and sell used. They either buy new and dispose, or buy used.
If your whole raison d'etre is being offended, you will find something to be offended about.
And even if it isn't, your complaint can still be dismissed by assuming it is. Since that's the path of least effort, even otherwise decent people might be tempted to take it on insuffcient evidence. And once taken, it becomes ever more difficult to give up without looking like a fool, hence a 700-comment thread about how changing a file extension is the way to 1984.
Do you really want to live in a country where people get jailed for scratching a paint job on a car?
If it is my property they are vandalizing then yes I would like them to see a brief time behind bars.
Of course you would. Anyone would. But that's not what I asked.
Clearly that is someone who lacks the maturity to live in a civilized society.
Perhaps, but - and I don't mean this as an insult - so do you. After all, if you vote according to the preferences you've stated here, you'll end up voting in a police state, which tend to be rather uncivilized.
Living in a civilized society requires enough maturity to put anger, fear and the desire to get even aside, and consider the consequences.
I hope you get caught on camera causing someone financial harm, so that you and your pretentious bullshit can spend some time in jail and learn what real hardship is like.
Do you really want to live in a country where people get jailed for scratching a paint job on a car?
Why are they giving away the electricity? Is it difficult to meter or something?
If you're charging for electricity, that means you're selling electricity and need a meter certified to be accurate and tamper-proof by either you or your customer. Also, since we're talking about parking spots rather than houses, you need identity verification infrastructure and some way to keep some third party from simply unplugging the cord and plugging in their own extension one.
Once money enters, trust leaves, and expenses start piling up.
Certain accidents of evolution are being forced out of the human noosphere. Like all its products, they too try to fight back, mainly by manipulating their hosts, to no avail it seems. Good riddance to such memetic parasites.
Seriously, when they start complaining about files extensions, my response is simply, "FUCK OFF!"
But nobody except the HR cares about your response. After all, this is a corporate-backed project, so what matters is the response of your corporate patron, in this case Google. Which, apparently, cares more about getting things done than defending some arbitrary line in sand.
So far they have not managed to kill all of humanity, but they will keep trying until they succeed.
Do you actually believe this, in which case you're insane, or are you simply lying about other people to make yourself seem better?
I hope that some day we can screen for this type of evil early on and can drown them a birth.
So killing children is awesome when it advances your political goals. But then what ground do you have to call other people evil for killing people accidentally?
Seriously, can't you just watch wrestling or something for this sort of thing, and come discuss serious matters when your tribal instincts have been satisfied?
The lies of the nuclear-apologists are really staggering and so is their stupidity...
Perhaps. And perhaps the Anonymous Coward you're answering is pro-nuclear. We don't know, since he only made a comment on methodology. What we do know is that you're following a tribal politics approach to engineering decisions, which will most certainly result in lots people getting hurt needlessly, either directly or through economic consequences.
A good design would reset the dial string on an invalid entry.
What if your hands are shaking because you're dying because the terrorist who's trying to nuke New York just shot you, and you need to warn Bruce Willis before you do? Getting right 3 in a row might be quite hard in those circumstances. So it's not really a good design, unless you want the nuclear terrorists to win.
our 'geekiness' is 'toxic' to those with thinner skin - we geeks like to compete,
I don't, and by the time the thickness of anyone's skin becomes a relevant factor you're already way out of line. It's not the geekiness that's toxic, it's the person. And oftentimes, a little bit of petty power is all it takes to coax someone's inner shithead to come out for all to see. Some will defend that shithead, saying petty power justifies abuse, and some will make excuses citing the shithead's special snowflakiness and torments of a genius mere mortals can't even imagine. And some will simply walk away from the smell of shit.
There isn't going to be a civil war in the US any time soon, people are happy with their food and TV...
There wouldn't be a civil war in the US any time soon if people got food and TV (or the Internet, get with the times). What they instead get is crushing debt and foreclosure notices, along with a government everyone, regardless of their political position, can agree sucks donkey balls. And it's getting ever worse, with no hope in sight.
Now, I don't know if there's going to be a civil war in the US, but something is going to give.
Of all the different groups of people to direct your misguided anger at, why target defenseless school or college kids? I would have been expecting a higher value target, such as corrupt politicians.
Yeah, it's almost like crazy people were irrational.
A firearm is quite clearly a tool. It can also be used as a weapon - as can most anything, up to and including using your attached limbs. I use my firearms as a tool that enables me to throw small bits of metal at accuracies, distances, and speeds unable to be easily matched by other means in a similar format.
A firearm is a tool in the same sense as heroin is a tool: no reasonable person would ever describe them in such terms unless they were trying to set up some particularly transparent bullshit fence.
All in all, it's a pretty damned well designed too for a very specific task - throwing bits of metal to quite a distance, accurately, quickly, and with decent reliability.
And the reason this is useful is that those fast-moving bits of metal project deadly force over distance. In other words, it's a well-designed weapon.
No one wants to actually really solve the problem. They just want to mindlessly apply the bag of tricks associated with their agenda whether they will work or not.
I very much doubt that that's true. It would require most people to be actively dishonest, after all. No, what's happening is that the gridlock makes it impossible to push any agenda in a moderate, considered and conditional way, so when the opportunity comes - when there's a crisis of some sort - people use it to force things through. It's like locked continental plates violently shifting in an earthquake instead of constantly and gradually.
50+ years ago was a different world, and while it was unfair to a lot of people (mostly anyone who wasn't white), it was a world in which these mass shootings were not so common.
It was also a world where you could spank other people's kids if they got out of line, kids could go out and play all day outside unsupervised, and so on...
Of course, it had other issues... but in this specific case, we were better off...
Ladies and gentlemen, a Conservative's "better world" in his own words: Master Race beating up kids.
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No, because this way I don't have to spend time shopping for a private army to protect me, and know I won't starve to death even if I were to lose my job.
...I don't think that's a workable idea with current humanity, sorry.
The reason it was explored is that the alternative - a huge underclass which has nothing to lose but its chains - very nearly brought down the whole society. The Emperors of Rome didn't provide bread and circuses out of the goodness of their bleeding liberal hearts, and neither did capitalists after World War parts I&II. As the lessons about the limits of power and exploitation have been forgotten, we're headed for another hands-on learning episode.
Of course the best way to deal with the problem would be to dismantle the entire underclass with a (generous, undonditional and untouchable - you have this much spending money per month no matter what) basic income or "citizen wage" system, since that would both alleviate poverty, stimulate economy through increased demand, and most importantly free people to focus on doing what they want, rather than what pays well or might continue paying until retirement.
Willing or able? Or does "your privacy or your home" count as a free choice?
Not when the property in question is a factory. For all the security personnel knew the reporters could actually have been disguised thieves, industrial spies or even saboteurs. Trespassers on industrial plants need to be taken in for questioning, not just shooed away.
Which you can't possibly know until you've gone through every goddamn screw in the area. Which, of course, is impossible. That's why you need to take them into custody and hope they aren't willing to become martyrs for some retarded cause.
According to Wikipedia, Steam came out in 2003 (and began carrying 3rd party apps in 2005), Apple's App Store in 2008. PC's have come with preinstalled crapware since time immemorial. So this particular IP seems even more Imaginary than usual.
Since you need a buyer to sell your used car, the typical buyer cannot buy new and sell used. They either buy new and dispose, or buy used.
And even if it isn't, your complaint can still be dismissed by assuming it is. Since that's the path of least effort, even otherwise decent people might be tempted to take it on insuffcient evidence. And once taken, it becomes ever more difficult to give up without looking like a fool, hence a 700-comment thread about how changing a file extension is the way to 1984.
Of course you would. Anyone would. But that's not what I asked.
Perhaps, but - and I don't mean this as an insult - so do you. After all, if you vote according to the preferences you've stated here, you'll end up voting in a police state, which tend to be rather uncivilized.
Living in a civilized society requires enough maturity to put anger, fear and the desire to get even aside, and consider the consequences.
Do you really want to live in a country where people get jailed for scratching a paint job on a car?
If you're charging for electricity, that means you're selling electricity and need a meter certified to be accurate and tamper-proof by either you or your customer. Also, since we're talking about parking spots rather than houses, you need identity verification infrastructure and some way to keep some third party from simply unplugging the cord and plugging in their own extension one.
Once money enters, trust leaves, and expenses start piling up.
Certain accidents of evolution are being forced out of the human noosphere. Like all its products, they too try to fight back, mainly by manipulating their hosts, to no avail it seems. Good riddance to such memetic parasites.
But nobody except the HR cares about your response. After all, this is a corporate-backed project, so what matters is the response of your corporate patron, in this case Google. Which, apparently, cares more about getting things done than defending some arbitrary line in sand.
Do you actually believe this, in which case you're insane, or are you simply lying about other people to make yourself seem better?
So killing children is awesome when it advances your political goals. But then what ground do you have to call other people evil for killing people accidentally?
Seriously, can't you just watch wrestling or something for this sort of thing, and come discuss serious matters when your tribal instincts have been satisfied?
Perhaps. And perhaps the Anonymous Coward you're answering is pro-nuclear. We don't know, since he only made a comment on methodology. What we do know is that you're following a tribal politics approach to engineering decisions, which will most certainly result in lots people getting hurt needlessly, either directly or through economic consequences.
If an abnormal growth doesn't cause symptoms for several decades, it's by definition a benign tumour, not a cancer.
What if your hands are shaking because you're dying because the terrorist who's trying to nuke New York just shot you, and you need to warn Bruce Willis before you do? Getting right 3 in a row might be quite hard in those circumstances. So it's not really a good design, unless you want the nuclear terrorists to win.
And hostile environment prioritizes thick skin over talent and skill.
Everyone except any particular counter-example your opponents can dig up?
No, it's not. It's how assholes try to assert power over others since physical attacks will get them to jail.
I don't, and by the time the thickness of anyone's skin becomes a relevant factor you're already way out of line. It's not the geekiness that's toxic, it's the person. And oftentimes, a little bit of petty power is all it takes to coax someone's inner shithead to come out for all to see. Some will defend that shithead, saying petty power justifies abuse, and some will make excuses citing the shithead's special snowflakiness and torments of a genius mere mortals can't even imagine. And some will simply walk away from the smell of shit.
There wouldn't be a civil war in the US any time soon if people got food and TV (or the Internet, get with the times). What they instead get is crushing debt and foreclosure notices, along with a government everyone, regardless of their political position, can agree sucks donkey balls. And it's getting ever worse, with no hope in sight.
Now, I don't know if there's going to be a civil war in the US, but something is going to give.
Yeah, it's almost like crazy people were irrational.
A firearm is a tool in the same sense as heroin is a tool: no reasonable person would ever describe them in such terms unless they were trying to set up some particularly transparent bullshit fence.
And the reason this is useful is that those fast-moving bits of metal project deadly force over distance. In other words, it's a well-designed weapon.
I very much doubt that that's true. It would require most people to be actively dishonest, after all. No, what's happening is that the gridlock makes it impossible to push any agenda in a moderate, considered and conditional way, so when the opportunity comes - when there's a crisis of some sort - people use it to force things through. It's like locked continental plates violently shifting in an earthquake instead of constantly and gradually.
Ladies and gentlemen, a Conservative's "better world" in his own words: Master Race beating up kids.
What the Hell is wrong with you people?