Agreed. Not a huge fan of welfare in general, but this system is much preferred to the current system. Here's how you pay for it (remember this includes outlays AND overhead - overhead can be quite huge in some cases)
1. Eliminate all low-income welfare programs - there are a TON of these 2. Eliminate social security 3. You can probably eliminate most forms of medicare and medicaid 4. Eliminate most low-income student support programs (school lunches, etc...) 5. Eliminate most V.A. support programs, which is basically welfare as well 6. Government pensioners can probably have their pension payments removed from the minimum income (IE you don't get a pension AND basic income)
- This won't necessarily save money but can ease pressure in the pension system 7. Eliminate make-work/stimulus programs
That's just the tip of the iceberg. You can probably eliminate unemployment insurance, minimum wage, heck almost all labor regulations as the philosophy behind them is that low-income workers are exploited as they are being "forced" to work to survive.
The corollary to this argument is - if you are looking at creating an algorithm to do something, odds are someone smarter than you has already done it better than your version and has put it on the internet.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't research what they did and have a firm grasp on how it works.
I've yet to have a programming job that only required you to be an expert in one domain. My last job had me doing statistical analysis on audio, environmental testing, figuring out satellite ephemeral products, reporting, some light DBA, and interfacing with various low-level and high-level buses, amongst other things. Almost none of that stuff was covered in my CS classes. There wasn't a book for a lot of it, either. I usually learned from looking up other people's code online.
Cloud login sync between my 8.1 family PC and 8.1 tablet = kinda cool - the kid's pictures and game saves just pop up between the two.
Cloud sync between my 8.1 family PC and 8.1 development box = completely pointless - these are two different machines, I don't want family junk on my dev box or makefiles all over my family machine.
OneLogin is the authority, changes are pushed to AD which is just there to manage Windows credentials. All the web apps (which is pretty much all of our apps) authenticate off of OneLogin. You set your password through a custom portal that syncs up everything.
Link 1 - No mention of where the Niskenian center gets it's funding from beyond a dinner attended by Facebook and Google.
Link 2 - Only mentions that the Niskanen center's president came out in favor of a carbon tax to curtail climate change - I'm assuming not a popular stance with the Koch brothers?
Again, how do you know they are funded by the Cato institute or the Koch brothers? I'd honestly like to know because, though I consider myself pretty good at following the money, I can't find any links in any public documentation or news items beyond weak "guilt by association" hit pieces.
Legal documents / Contracts - Because digital signatures aren't *quite* there yet, and most courts still only accept paper in official proceedings Medical - Because paperless works great until your hospital is flooded and you loose power. This actually happened to a large hospital near me last summer. They had to rig up extra UPSes to printers in the server room to print out patient charts. Schools - For obvious reasons Sheet music Building plans Assembly instructions on shop floors (this is actually huge - even ruggedized tablets don't last very long in job shops)
I see the Niskanen Center was founded by one of the guys who founded Cato. Nothing about funding.
I did a 990 lookup, and a 501(c) search and didn't find anything. For good measure I did a 503(c) search as well and found nothing. Checked all the regular sources (IRS, GuideStar, etc...)
How do you know where their funding came from again?
What happens when almost every workplace is like this? circa late 1800's to early 1900's. Then you have no where to go.
That would be an excellent point if this was 1910 and we were talking about coal mining or meat packing. But it isn't and we aren't.
The software company I work for is great. It's filled with people who quit other companies because their working conditions sucked. Wages aren't top-tier but I gladly trade compensation for a genuinely pleasant work environment.
My brother in law went to work for Amazon, lured by a large paycheck. He immediately hated the culture and quit after a week. He happily works for Starbucks now.
You could make an argument that alfalfa also isn't a good crop to be growing in California. I think the idea is, though, that a lot of people like to eat cow meat - it could be considered a staple. If California stopped farming cows the impact would be pretty major.
If the price of Almonds shot up a bit, the impact on the economy would be negligible. What would go up in price? Almond tea rings, Almond Joys, Almond milk?
We tried that here, in a similar semidesert-like environment when our reservoirs were running dry. The wealthier citizens (most prolific users of water) still kept their landscaping and lifestyle with an extraordinary ability to absorb the budgetary increase and/or drill private wells to rob from a depleted aquifer. Like most measures of austerity, it has a greater impact on the poor and middle classes.
Was there a sliding rate? IE $0.01/gallon for the first 1000 gallons/month. $0.10 for the next 1000 gallons. $0.25 for the next 1000 gallons...
This is how electricity is normally billed, so most homes get one rate, commercial buildings with banks of lights burning all day get another rate, and factories using plasma cutters all day get a different rate.
The inexcusable part is - as lousy as this test was - it was a lot more than any cable company has done as far as proving their cables make an audible difference.
You'd think a company hawking a $6,000 RCA analog interconnect would be eager to show how much better it is than even their own lower end cable.
So, what, the requester gets copyright on the documents? I don't see that flying. The government has to keep it a secret? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a FOIA request? Isn't it a bit absurd to assume that, if you are demanding transparency from the government, to also demand they keep your demand for transparency a secret?
They are public documents. Doesn't matter who is paying to gather them together.
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Agreed. Not a huge fan of welfare in general, but this system is much preferred to the current system. Here's how you pay for it (remember this includes outlays AND overhead - overhead can be quite huge in some cases)
1. Eliminate all low-income welfare programs - there are a TON of these
2. Eliminate social security
3. You can probably eliminate most forms of medicare and medicaid
4. Eliminate most low-income student support programs (school lunches, etc...)
5. Eliminate most V.A. support programs, which is basically welfare as well
6. Government pensioners can probably have their pension payments removed from the minimum income (IE you don't get a pension AND basic income)
- This won't necessarily save money but can ease pressure in the pension system
7. Eliminate make-work/stimulus programs
That's just the tip of the iceberg. You can probably eliminate unemployment insurance, minimum wage, heck almost all labor regulations as the philosophy behind them is that low-income workers are exploited as they are being "forced" to work to survive.
The corollary to this argument is - if you are looking at creating an algorithm to do something, odds are someone smarter than you has already done it better than your version and has put it on the internet.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't research what they did and have a firm grasp on how it works.
I've yet to have a programming job that only required you to be an expert in one domain. My last job had me doing statistical analysis on audio, environmental testing, figuring out satellite ephemeral products, reporting, some light DBA, and interfacing with various low-level and high-level buses, amongst other things. Almost none of that stuff was covered in my CS classes. There wasn't a book for a lot of it, either. I usually learned from looking up other people's code online.
Cloud login sync between my 8.1 family PC and 8.1 tablet = kinda cool - the kid's pictures and game saves just pop up between the two.
Cloud sync between my 8.1 family PC and 8.1 development box = completely pointless - these are two different machines, I don't want family junk on my dev box or makefiles all over my family machine.
Cordless telephones
Bluetooth anything
Satellite radios
Satellite TV
CFLs
Light dimmers
OneLogin is the authority, changes are pushed to AD which is just there to manage Windows credentials. All the web apps (which is pretty much all of our apps) authenticate off of OneLogin. You set your password through a custom portal that syncs up everything.
Our company uses OneLogin with a set of custom scripts to sync everything with AD and our internal systems. Works pretty well.
So you don't have any actual evidence, you just assume it's them? Got it.
Link 1 - No mention of where the Niskenian center gets it's funding from beyond a dinner attended by Facebook and Google.
Link 2 - Only mentions that the Niskanen center's president came out in favor of a carbon tax to curtail climate change - I'm assuming not a popular stance with the Koch brothers?
Again, how do you know they are funded by the Cato institute or the Koch brothers? I'd honestly like to know because, though I consider myself pretty good at following the money, I can't find any links in any public documentation or news items beyond weak "guilt by association" hit pieces.
Places where paper is still used:
Legal documents / Contracts - Because digital signatures aren't *quite* there yet, and most courts still only accept paper in official proceedings
Medical - Because paperless works great until your hospital is flooded and you loose power. This actually happened to a large hospital near me last summer. They had to rig up extra UPSes to printers in the server room to print out patient charts.
Schools - For obvious reasons
Sheet music
Building plans
Assembly instructions on shop floors (this is actually huge - even ruggedized tablets don't last very long in job shops)
That's off the top of my head.
I see the Niskanen Center was founded by one of the guys who founded Cato. Nothing about funding.
I did a 990 lookup, and a 501(c) search and didn't find anything. For good measure I did a 503(c) search as well and found nothing. Checked all the regular sources (IRS, GuideStar, etc...)
How do you know where their funding came from again?
Where does it say the study is funded by CATO?
What happens when almost every workplace is like this? circa late 1800's to early 1900's. Then you have no where to go.
That would be an excellent point if this was 1910 and we were talking about coal mining or meat packing. But it isn't and we aren't.
The software company I work for is great. It's filled with people who quit other companies because their working conditions sucked. Wages aren't top-tier but I gladly trade compensation for a genuinely pleasant work environment.
My brother in law went to work for Amazon, lured by a large paycheck. He immediately hated the culture and quit after a week. He happily works for Starbucks now.
How do you get those 10,000 parts to the people who need them?
The same way you would get a 3D printer to a remote hospital.
You could make an argument that alfalfa also isn't a good crop to be growing in California. I think the idea is, though, that a lot of people like to eat cow meat - it could be considered a staple. If California stopped farming cows the impact would be pretty major.
If the price of Almonds shot up a bit, the impact on the economy would be negligible. What would go up in price? Almond tea rings, Almond Joys, Almond milk?
I wonder if I can use the Oracle for Android app to keep up to date on the lawsuit against Android...
http://www.appszoom.com/androi...
We tried that here, in a similar semidesert-like environment when our reservoirs were running dry. The wealthier citizens (most prolific users of water) still kept their landscaping and lifestyle with an extraordinary ability to absorb the budgetary increase and/or drill private wells to rob from a depleted aquifer. Like most measures of austerity, it has a greater impact on the poor and middle classes.
Was there a sliding rate? IE $0.01/gallon for the first 1000 gallons/month. $0.10 for the next 1000 gallons. $0.25 for the next 1000 gallons...
This is how electricity is normally billed, so most homes get one rate, commercial buildings with banks of lights burning all day get another rate, and factories using plasma cutters all day get a different rate.
Or you could tell the almond farmers, who use about 10% of the entire water supply, to take a hike.
Or you could float the price of water and the problem would solve itself within a few months.
Slavery was never legal in my state. Why should the federal government stick it's nose in the business of a company here?
The inexcusable part is - as lousy as this test was - it was a lot more than any cable company has done as far as proving their cables make an audible difference.
You'd think a company hawking a $6,000 RCA analog interconnect would be eager to show how much better it is than even their own lower end cable.
Mr. Clarkson prefers WARM STEAKS.
And yet they still support POWER. Odd.
https://www.debian.org/ports/p...
The US army and navy already have automated anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems deployed and in-use, as have many other countries.
Do these count in a ban of "robot" weapons systems?
They cost money to prepare and turn over.
So, what, the requester gets copyright on the documents? I don't see that flying. The government has to keep it a secret? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a FOIA request? Isn't it a bit absurd to assume that, if you are demanding transparency from the government, to also demand they keep your demand for transparency a secret?
They are public documents. Doesn't matter who is paying to gather them together.
Along with a dozen jabba the hutts arguing about tariffs.
... is a large inductive coil aligned with the high tension power lines behind my house.