If the megacorp was not there, the 1000 employes would pay ZERO taxes, and probably would be unemployed
We are in a full employment economy. Labor availability is the limiting factor for the growth of many companies. So the megacorp doesn't add jobs, they just shift them from other businesses. So tax paying companies shrink, while the freeloader grows. How is that good for the community?
The 14th Amendment says everyone must be treated equally by the law. Special sweetheart tax deals are unconstitutional, and should be banned.
Immigrants take jobs, and then spend their wages on goods and services that create new jobs. The preponderance of the evidence is that they create more jobs than they take.
and puts a burden on the infrastructure.
They also pay taxes to build new infrastructure.
Letting unrestricted migrants in could cripple the country, possibly bring it down.
We used to have unrestricted immigration. The economy expanded rapidly, and living standards soared.
The only place to extract a UBI from is the middle class and rich.
Correct.
So the rich and middle class are going to have to pay a lot more tax.
The theory is that wealth will be more concentrated by "the rich", so they will have more to tax, and even with the higher taxes, they will still be better off than today. The reason is that "the rich" will somehow prevent the non-rich from owning robots, 3D printers, etc., just like it was predicted that they would prevent the bottom 99% from owning cars or computers. Whatever.
Tax investments and savings and rich people move that to other nations that don't have a UBI.
Sure. That already happens today. One reason that Nordic countries have less inequality is that smart ambitious young Swedes and Danes emigrate (mostly to American or Britain) and make their fortune there. That improves the Nordic Gini coefficients, but doesn't make anyone in Scandinavia better off.
Ok, sucking every penny from the rich should just about cover everyone's UBI for the first three months of the year... then what?
As automation raises productivity, total production goes UP, and the total wealth in the world rises. So obviously people will, ON AVERAGE, have more than they do today.
There are plenty of reasons that UBI is dumb policy, but "not enough wealth to spread around" is not one of them.
People at the top are making far more. People in the middle and below have been stagnant for nearly 40 years.
False. Most of the wealth increases over the last 40 years have gone to the extreme poor, the people at the very bottom, making less than $1 per day. Billions of people have moved out of that condition.
The people that have done the best are poor people in poor countries, who make up over 70% of the world's population. Rich people in both poor and rich countries have also done very well. Middle class people have done reasonably well, and the middle class in poor countries has greatly expanded.
The ONLY people that have not done well are poor people in rich countries, who are still mostly in the top 20% income quintile globally.
I just don't see how we can base our entire economy on companies displaying ads and selling data to each other. At the bottom of the pile, doesn't someone need to actually make something for everyone else to market and sell?
They sue for defamation, claiming untruth. The suit goes undefended, so the court orders the defamation removed.
The original suit was undefended, but Yelp had not been named as a defendant. Should a default judgement apply to a 3rd party? At least one justice thought it should not, and sided with Yelp on that basis.
So this case was really 3/1/3 rather than 4/3, and does not set any clear precedents.
Would using a modern programming language like Rust have prevented this bug from happening?
Possibly, but unlikely. Facebook uses a hodgepodge of mostly PHP and JavaScript, but other languages as well. But this was most likely a design or algorithm flaw rather than an error at the language level.
Their real problem is a lack of testing. A company of Facebook's scale should have a large suite of unit tests, regression tests, functionality tests, and usability tests, that are automatically run both pre- and post-deployment. They should have a rack of VPSes continuously testing and probing. There is no excuse for something like this going 8 days before detection.
yet it's part of your attorney's job to find the things said in your favor and argue for you.
No. This is wrong. Anything you say to the police is inadmissible by the defense, because it is hearsay evidence. It CAN NOT be used by your attorney to help or exonerate you.
You really REALLY need to watch This Video before you talk or write about this further. In fact, the video should be mandatory for any resident of the United States.
If you are over 18 years old, you should always say exactly 4 words to the police: 1. I 2. want 3. a 4. lawyer.
If you are under 18 years old, you should always say exactly 4 words to the police, but the last word is "parents". If you have kids, you need to teach them this, and you need to make sure they watch the video. The police are NOT THEIR FRIENDS and are NOT there to help them.
There are about 20 million Amazon Echo devices in use.
There are about 7 million Google Home devices.
Amazon still dominates.
Disclaimer: I have both an Echo and a Google Home. I use the Echo more because it is in the kitchen, which is convenient for news updates, voice management of shopping lists, etc. The "Home" is in my wife's home office, and she uses it mostly for listening to music.
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If the megacorp was not there, the 1000 employes would pay ZERO taxes, and probably would be unemployed
We are in a full employment economy. Labor availability is the limiting factor for the growth of many companies. So the megacorp doesn't add jobs, they just shift them from other businesses. So tax paying companies shrink, while the freeloader grows. How is that good for the community?
The 14th Amendment says everyone must be treated equally by the law. Special sweetheart tax deals are unconstitutional, and should be banned.
Bullshit. Which law?
This law.
Their own attempt to circumvent Federal law?
Bullshit. Which law?
teach people how to think critically.
Can you provide an example of this ever happening on a national scale?
make jobs hard to get
Immigrants take jobs, and then spend their wages on goods and services that create new jobs. The preponderance of the evidence is that they create more jobs than they take.
and puts a burden on the infrastructure.
They also pay taxes to build new infrastructure.
Letting unrestricted migrants in could cripple the country, possibly bring it down.
We used to have unrestricted immigration. The economy expanded rapidly, and living standards soared.
sanctuary cities that don't obey the laws and cooperate.
Sanctuary cities do obey the law, and have no legal obligation to cooperate.
Again, why would you have a dummy parachute on a plane?
He demanded, and was given, the money and chutes when the plane landed in Seattle.
This seems very stupid to me. Why didn't he bring his own parachute?
Other evidence that he died: The money was never spent.
It shows the bottom 50% with unchanged net worth
No it doesn't. The chart shows that all income levels go up significantly, except the bottom 25% which is unreadable because of the scale.
Where was your Big Mac purchased?
I didn't purchase a Big Mac. I just googled for "cost of a big mac by year", and those were the numbers that popped up.
Total time spent researching and writing my post: About 30 seconds.
The only place to extract a UBI from is the middle class and rich.
Correct.
So the rich and middle class are going to have to pay a lot more tax.
The theory is that wealth will be more concentrated by "the rich", so they will have more to tax, and even with the higher taxes, they will still be better off than today. The reason is that "the rich" will somehow prevent the non-rich from owning robots, 3D printers, etc., just like it was predicted that they would prevent the bottom 99% from owning cars or computers. Whatever.
Tax investments and savings and rich people move that to other nations that don't have a UBI.
Sure. That already happens today. One reason that Nordic countries have less inequality is that smart ambitious young Swedes and Danes emigrate (mostly to American or Britain) and make their fortune there. That improves the Nordic Gini coefficients, but doesn't make anyone in Scandinavia better off.
Really you have to use something like the Big Mac cost to compare income.
For American families:
Cost of a Big Mac in 1978: $0.75.
Median household income in 1978: $10,556.
Cost of a Big Mac in 2017: $4.79
Median household income in 2017: $56,516
Big Macs have gone up by a factor of 6.39.
Median incomes have gone up by a factor of 5.35.
So at least in terms of Big Macs, the median American family has not kept up.
Disclaimer: I am a vegetarian, so I don't really care what Big Macs cost.
The structural trend seems to be that this only benefits the top quarter or so of citizens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MedianNetWorth2007.png
You chart actually shows nearly everyone doing better.
Ok, sucking every penny from the rich should just about cover everyone's UBI for the first three months of the year... then what?
As automation raises productivity, total production goes UP, and the total wealth in the world rises. So obviously people will, ON AVERAGE, have more than they do today.
There are plenty of reasons that UBI is dumb policy, but "not enough wealth to spread around" is not one of them.
Let's say the price of chicken goes way up. Well, the CPI adjusts by assuming people will just eat pork instead.
That seems like a reasonable assumption.
Because "new", "convenient"
How is it "convenient"? What is the benefit to the user?
too lazy to simply have a non-license plate-based tracker built into the car, whatever.
If you carry a cell phone, you already have a tracker.
People at the top are making far more. People in the middle and below have been stagnant for nearly 40 years.
False. Most of the wealth increases over the last 40 years have gone to the extreme poor, the people at the very bottom, making less than $1 per day. Billions of people have moved out of that condition.
The people that have done the best are poor people in poor countries, who make up over 70% of the world's population. Rich people in both poor and rich countries have also done very well. Middle class people have done reasonably well, and the middle class in poor countries has greatly expanded.
The ONLY people that have not done well are poor people in rich countries, who are still mostly in the top 20% income quintile globally.
I just don't see how we can base our entire economy on companies displaying ads and selling data to each other. At the bottom of the pile, doesn't someone need to actually make something for everyone else to market and sell?
at least one of their C*O's going to end up in jail.
Why? It is not illegal to take money from foolish investors. If it was, most the financial industry would collapse.
They sue for defamation, claiming untruth. The suit goes undefended, so the court orders the defamation removed.
The original suit was undefended, but Yelp had not been named as a defendant. Should a default judgement apply to a 3rd party? At least one justice thought it should not, and sided with Yelp on that basis.
So this case was really 3/1/3 rather than 4/3, and does not set any clear precedents.
If SuSE is worth $2.5B, then what is Slackware worth?
Would using a modern programming language like Rust have prevented this bug from happening?
Possibly, but unlikely. Facebook uses a hodgepodge of mostly PHP and JavaScript, but other languages as well. But this was most likely a design or algorithm flaw rather than an error at the language level.
Their real problem is a lack of testing. A company of Facebook's scale should have a large suite of unit tests, regression tests, functionality tests, and usability tests, that are automatically run both pre- and post-deployment. They should have a rack of VPSes continuously testing and probing. There is no excuse for something like this going 8 days before detection.
yet it's part of your attorney's job to find the things said in your favor and argue for you.
No. This is wrong. Anything you say to the police is inadmissible by the defense, because it is hearsay evidence. It CAN NOT be used by your attorney to help or exonerate you.
You really REALLY need to watch This Video before you talk or write about this further. In fact, the video should be mandatory for any resident of the United States.
If you are over 18 years old, you should always say exactly 4 words to the police:
1. I
2. want
3. a
4. lawyer.
If you are under 18 years old, you should always say exactly 4 words to the police, but the last word is "parents". If you have kids, you need to teach them this, and you need to make sure they watch the video. The police are NOT THEIR FRIENDS and are NOT there to help them.
Shouldn't we instead seek to fix the court?
Golly, that is an excellent suggestion. I will call him and ask him why he didn't do that.
Btw, can you fix global warming by the end of the week? Thanks.
Back in ye olden days we found out people respond better to women. Both genders find them less threatening.
This is culturally dependent. In America, Europe, and Japan automated voices are generally female. In Asia and the Mideast, they are usually male.
Have attention spans reached that low now in the age of smart phones?
Alexa gives me the news summary in 20 second audio snippets. So if the article is longer than that, I won't hear it.
they are dwarfing Amazon's numbers.
TFA is about sales, not the installed base.
There are about 20 million Amazon Echo devices in use.
There are about 7 million Google Home devices.
Amazon still dominates.
Disclaimer: I have both an Echo and a Google Home. I use the Echo more because it is in the kitchen, which is convenient for news updates, voice management of shopping lists, etc. The "Home" is in my wife's home office, and she uses it mostly for listening to music.