Sounds simple enough. But the state and local governments will scream. Because it removes one of their primary means of social engineering by maintaining multiple tax categories. It's not just that they were losing money on Internet sales. They can't impose different tax rates for food, medical products, soft drinks, ammunition, etc. And some of them would rather starve than give up the ability to micromanage your life.
Do you mean me, the voter? Because now you are sticking every voter with the burden of tracking tax jurisdictions and properly reporting their purchases. I probably shop in a dozen or more different tax jurisdictions regularly. And I wouldn't be happy if this became my responsibility. And my next votes would reflect this situation.
... a marketing and profit problem with their Home Depot channel. TFA states that this is less profitable than direct sales. But then goes on to say that they are staying out of the direct sales business. Without stating why.
Many good business ideas fail in the sales and marketing process. And partnering with Home Depot appears to be a weak spot. Can't make any money there and can't sell on your own (possibly as a condition of the HD sales channel). HD caters to crazy little old ladies who insist on buying a flower at a hardware store. Or DIYers who don't notice when they exchange their Blum cabinet hardware line for cheap Chinese knockoffs.
Their objection was, "we do not like military contracts, we do not want Google to seek more military contracts, and therefore we refuse to do this work because it will make us more competitive for military contracts." Many businesses would fire employees who actively work to harm the company in such a way.
Not so much.
If it became known that careers depend on doing something that one considers to be morally wrong, some group of employees would take the job. Because they have kids to feed, or just don't want a termination on their resume. So now you have a morale problem. People doing things that they don't really like. And they might actually sabotage the program. Or leak details to the enemy.
Companies that do this kind of sensitive work as part of their business will vet their staff ahead of time and encourage those who might have qualms about the application of their work to move into a non classified program. Google is a big place and I'm sure something can be found for conscientious objectors to do.
Visit some tech boards. One of the popular posting topics is 'How can I take the guts of a prohibited calculator model and stuff them inside a featureless calculator housing?'
I swear, some people put enough effort into this sort of thing that they could have earned an engineering degree.
Good point. The difference with the American system is that we (the USA) have a very robust economy. And can afford to carry the cheats and morons in businesses for the rest of their lives.
Note that in some professions, where individual performance is critical, like the medical profession, there are systems of internships in place to weed out the low performers.
If I'm publishing articles for a living I want people to link to those articles and drive traffic to my site so I can sell banner ads.
It's a smart move in one sense. This law gets a jump on the search engines charging you for listing your stuff.
It's analogous to what broadcasters did to cable TV decades ago. Community antenna systems (which eventually consolidated into cable providers) made it possible for broadcasts to reach people previously incapable of receiving that content. When it appeared that the cable systems might charge the broadcasters a small fee for these extra viewers, the broadcasters ran crying to Congress and had a law created to reverse the direction of the fee. Now, cable companies have to pay broadcasters. Never mind that they are providing value to the broadcasters in the form of a larger audience.
Same thing is happening here. Even though the value flows the other way, this law will ensure that you won't have to pay Google/Facebook a fee for being visible on the Internet.
Does CANbus have an infrastructure cabling standard? I've got Cat5 pulled to RJ45s all over my house. Am I going to have to crawl around in the attic and pull more wire?
Ethernet works. I just plug stuff in and my router provisions it with an address. It would be great if CANbus used the same cabling. And someone were to develop a smart hub that would sense the type of connected device and switch it to the appropriate bus. Although I suspect that CANbus might not work on a star topology with long runs.
Wannacry is based on an exploit called EternalBlue developed by the NSA. That North Koreas may have picked up a copy and re-targeted it demonstrates the threat of unchecked proliferation of such weapons by irresponsible organizations.
Dominance. Control. Accumulation of wealth. Fighting over resources. etc....
Heuristics optimization. It has worked well for us so far.
Humanity would be best served by AI overlords.
And yet in practically every book or movie involving the 'benign' transfer of social control over to benevolent overlords, the humans end up unhappy. Even if not explicitly stated, such control is generally perceived as 'evil'.
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Your measly little $0.30 cent tax contribution
44.5 cents per gallon. Unless you buy gas on the indian reservation.
Sounds simple enough. But the state and local governments will scream. Because it removes one of their primary means of social engineering by maintaining multiple tax categories. It's not just that they were losing money on Internet sales. They can't impose different tax rates for food, medical products, soft drinks, ammunition, etc. And some of them would rather starve than give up the ability to micromanage your life.
you figure out
Do you mean me, the voter? Because now you are sticking every voter with the burden of tracking tax jurisdictions and properly reporting their purchases. I probably shop in a dozen or more different tax jurisdictions regularly. And I wouldn't be happy if this became my responsibility. And my next votes would reflect this situation.
and motor fuels (to pay for roads and bridges etc)
Then electric cars, bicycles and pedestrians can stay off the roads that I pay for.
Many good business ideas fail in the sales and marketing process. And partnering with Home Depot appears to be a weak spot. Can't make any money there and can't sell on your own (possibly as a condition of the HD sales channel). HD caters to crazy little old ladies who insist on buying a flower at a hardware store. Or DIYers who don't notice when they exchange their Blum cabinet hardware line for cheap Chinese knockoffs.
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Their objection was, "we do not like military contracts, we do not want Google to seek more military contracts, and therefore we refuse to do this work because it will make us more competitive for military contracts." Many businesses would fire employees who actively work to harm the company in such a way.
Not so much.
If it became known that careers depend on doing something that one considers to be morally wrong, some group of employees would take the job. Because they have kids to feed, or just don't want a termination on their resume. So now you have a morale problem. People doing things that they don't really like. And they might actually sabotage the program. Or leak details to the enemy.
Companies that do this kind of sensitive work as part of their business will vet their staff ahead of time and encourage those who might have qualms about the application of their work to move into a non classified program. Google is a big place and I'm sure something can be found for conscientious objectors to do.
For math, we could have a graphing calculator,
Visit some tech boards. One of the popular posting topics is 'How can I take the guts of a prohibited calculator model and stuff them inside a featureless calculator housing?'
I swear, some people put enough effort into this sort of thing that they could have earned an engineering degree.
You're implying US students don't cheat
Good point. The difference with the American system is that we (the USA) have a very robust economy. And can afford to carry the cheats and morons in businesses for the rest of their lives.
Note that in some professions, where individual performance is critical, like the medical profession, there are systems of internships in place to weed out the low performers.
Also, manual transmissions are somewhat of a new fangled anti-theft device.
Soon the day will come where car thieves won't know what to do with a key.
Heaven help them when they get into my truck and have to deal with the stick shift, transfer case, differential locks and manual choke.
I have a tee-shirt for the gym: "I have the body of a God". With a laughing Buddha picture.
I'm beyond all this. I'm not Agile enough to gaze at my own belly button.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Here's directions to the nearest bus stop.
If I'm publishing articles for a living I want people to link to those articles and drive traffic to my site so I can sell banner ads.
It's a smart move in one sense. This law gets a jump on the search engines charging you for listing your stuff.
It's analogous to what broadcasters did to cable TV decades ago. Community antenna systems (which eventually consolidated into cable providers) made it possible for broadcasts to reach people previously incapable of receiving that content. When it appeared that the cable systems might charge the broadcasters a small fee for these extra viewers, the broadcasters ran crying to Congress and had a law created to reverse the direction of the fee. Now, cable companies have to pay broadcasters. Never mind that they are providing value to the broadcasters in the form of a larger audience.
Same thing is happening here. Even though the value flows the other way, this law will ensure that you won't have to pay Google/Facebook a fee for being visible on the Internet.
No, it didn't.
Yes, it did.
No ....
Does CANbus have an infrastructure cabling standard? I've got Cat5 pulled to RJ45s all over my house. Am I going to have to crawl around in the attic and pull more wire?
Ethernet works. I just plug stuff in and my router provisions it with an address. It would be great if CANbus used the same cabling. And someone were to develop a smart hub that would sense the type of connected device and switch it to the appropriate bus. Although I suspect that CANbus might not work on a star topology with long runs.
Please operator
Could you trace this call
Find out where I'm drinkin'
Which dirty beer hall
And send a cab driver to call for me here
Jesus Christ and the "I need a fourth business jet" Christian movement
FTFY.
How many people swallow pill cameras every year?
You couldn't find one older?
Wannacry is based on an exploit called EternalBlue developed by the NSA. That North Koreas may have picked up a copy and re-targeted it demonstrates the threat of unchecked proliferation of such weapons by irresponsible organizations.
Dominance. Control. Accumulation of wealth. Fighting over resources. etc ....
Heuristics optimization. It has worked well for us so far.
Humanity would be best served by AI overlords.
And yet in practically every book or movie involving the 'benign' transfer of social control over to benevolent overlords, the humans end up unhappy. Even if not explicitly stated, such control is generally perceived as 'evil'.