Honduras (#1 city) requires each firearm to be licensed (& renewed every 4 years). Can only have 5 firearms, each must be registered (including ballistics info). Only allowed on private property, not carried in public. Automatic & "Assault" weapons are prohibited. Must be purchased from "La Armeria" (govt run).
Sounds like what gun control folks dream about. Obviously it works...
So the problem is that they have too few guns each?
Gotcha. I imagine being able to own 10 instead of "only" 5 would halve the homicide rate, yeah?
For now. If you think plumbing is some magical career that won't affected by globalization and advancements in tech, think again.
Unless someone invents a Star Trek transporter, people in the US aren't going to be calling up cheaper plumbers in China to come and fix their burst water pipe.
Now simple coding is the same way: it's becoming important to decision making across new professions every year.
Unless by "simple coding" you mean "the ability to type a formula in Excel" I just don't see this happening.
The mistake a lot of people on slashdot make is thinking that all professions and businesses are like tech start ups. If you're a management consultant, divorce lawyer or something, you will not be spending any of your valuable (billable) time messing around with software design. Someone else will do that for you.
Software in most businesses is another overhead, like IT infrastructure, or office cleaning.
On the opposite scale I had a friend who had CD's created to make him a better him, he was using it for salesmanship. You hooked up similar wiring as shown by the article to your head then went to sleep, he ended up giving it to me, which I've never used but come across it every now and again (or I might of tossed em out with the other old and useless CD's).
Snake oil, that's going to be very profitable to Microsoft.
If you really believe that hooking up wires to your head and listening to a CD while you're asleep will make you a better salsman, then it probably will.
The thing about snake oil, is that it's basically just the placebo effect, so as long as no one tells you what it really is, it will have some effect. There is no other explanation for homeopathy, for instance.
Like Tesla circumventing laws to sell cars directly to people?
I don't really shed a tear over breaking laws that seem to exist for the sole purpose of having someone make money from your business.
I'm not from the US, but I find it hard to believe that in the land of enterprise you can't sell something to someone.
However, assuming you're right, it just means that particular law is stupid and should be repealed. It doesn't mean that all laws affecting your business can be ignored.
About the only legitimate legal issue I've heard (other than above mentioned medallions) is one of insurance, and that is more of a quirk of an insurance industry that someone who drives too and from work every day can be insured, but someone with identical coverage who happens to take someone else for money (commercial) is magically not. It's also a quirk that doesn't exist in many other countries where vehicles are insured for registration purposes regardless who drives them
There are pretty obvious reasons why an insurance company would charge more for insuring a taxi driver (or 18 year old in a Ferrari, or someone convicted of causing death by dangerous driving, or a racing car driver) than someone commuting to work.
But even putting this aside and assuming that there should or could be some sort of universal flat rate insurance if you nationalised the insurance industry, it is still not up to Uber to ignore or try to circumvent the current legal situation.
Their core business is moving out of the taxi service and into financial markets. 3 Billion dollars, how long have these people been around to get that kind of money?
But...but...they're not a taxi service!
They're innovative bleeding-edge disruptive paradigm shifters in the 21st century liberalised transportation market.
Well we spent 2 trillion dollars (and 4000 lives) to subsidize oil from 2000-2008 alone.
You cannot justify something stupid merely by pointing out that we do other things that are even stupider. Oil subsidies, and solar subsides are each stupid in their own way, and both should be ended, but they are two different issues. One does not justify the other.
I think the point is that if you have Policy A which costs $100 and Policy B which costs $1,000,000 then you should be more concerned with sorting out the latter.
Indeed, it's not a sport any more than darts, tiddlywinks, chess or poker are sports.
I'm not sure what your point is. Those aren't sports either, and anyone who pretends they are is, what's the word, wrong.
The fact that you can get paid a lot of money for being goood at something does not make that something a sport, otherwise you'd have lawyering and banking in the fucking Olympics.
Cuba seems to claim it is. They blame the inability to trade with the USA for all their ills. I'm not sure why (nearly) the rest of the world can't satisfy their needs, or why they would want to trade with a nation they disagree with ideologically, but this kind of illogical sentiment is not unique (see: Venezuela).
Yes, it's not as though the USA is the world's main economic and military superpower and has worldwide influence or anything.
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Guess you didn't catch the tragicomedy in the UK
The only comedy stopped at about 10.01pm when they released the exit poll results. After that, there was nothing to do except drink.
Apart from for a relatively few people at the top of the heap, this is simply not how the employee-employer relationship works in real life.
I started my own company. Now I'm the boss, I'm the one who decides if I get fired. So far, that hasn't happened.
But imagine the shock if it did.
If you are in a job that can be offshored, your best bet is networking. Not as in TCP/IP type networking, but in talking to people.
That's a cruel thing to post on slashdot.
when worst comes to worst (nuclear winter, zombie apocalypse, asteroid impact, etc).
You do know that one of those is incredibly unlikely, one is impossible, and the other might just as easily wipe out all life on the planet?
(For the sarcasm-impaired: Yes, that was sarcasm.)
Oh, was it?
Honduras (#1 city) requires each firearm to be licensed (& renewed every 4 years). Can only have 5 firearms, each must be registered (including ballistics info). Only allowed on private property, not carried in public. Automatic & "Assault" weapons are prohibited. Must be purchased from "La Armeria" (govt run). Sounds like what gun control folks dream about. Obviously it works...
So the problem is that they have too few guns each?
Gotcha. I imagine being able to own 10 instead of "only" 5 would halve the homicide rate, yeah?
For now. If you think plumbing is some magical career that won't affected by globalization and advancements in tech, think again.
Unless someone invents a Star Trek transporter, people in the US aren't going to be calling up cheaper plumbers in China to come and fix their burst water pipe.
If you love a kid, encourage them to become a plumber.
You and Barbara Hudson should speak for yourselves. I've been an SE for over 30 years and I love it.
It's a question of averages, but of course everyone on slashdot is a special genius.
Now simple coding is the same way: it's becoming important to decision making across new professions every year.
Unless by "simple coding" you mean "the ability to type a formula in Excel" I just don't see this happening.
The mistake a lot of people on slashdot make is thinking that all professions and businesses are like tech start ups. If you're a management consultant, divorce lawyer or something, you will not be spending any of your valuable (billable) time messing around with software design. Someone else will do that for you.
Software in most businesses is another overhead, like IT infrastructure, or office cleaning.
Time travel or teleportation will be our worse inventions
Fortunately, like actual mind reading, they will never happen.
On the opposite scale I had a friend who had CD's created to make him a better him, he was using it for salesmanship. You hooked up similar wiring as shown by the article to your head then went to sleep, he ended up giving it to me, which I've never used but come across it every now and again (or I might of tossed em out with the other old and useless CD's).
Snake oil, that's going to be very profitable to Microsoft.
If you really believe that hooking up wires to your head and listening to a CD while you're asleep will make you a better salsman, then it probably will.
The thing about snake oil, is that it's basically just the placebo effect, so as long as no one tells you what it really is, it will have some effect. There is no other explanation for homeopathy, for instance.
I really don't see how, in an age of universally available internet pron, anyone's going to get excited enough by a picture of some tits to care.
Like Tesla circumventing laws to sell cars directly to people?
I don't really shed a tear over breaking laws that seem to exist for the sole purpose of having someone make money from your business.
I'm not from the US, but I find it hard to believe that in the land of enterprise you can't sell something to someone.
However, assuming you're right, it just means that particular law is stupid and should be repealed. It doesn't mean that all laws affecting your business can be ignored.
About the only legitimate legal issue I've heard (other than above mentioned medallions) is one of insurance, and that is more of a quirk of an insurance industry that someone who drives too and from work every day can be insured, but someone with identical coverage who happens to take someone else for money (commercial) is magically not. It's also a quirk that doesn't exist in many other countries where vehicles are insured for registration purposes regardless who drives them
There are pretty obvious reasons why an insurance company would charge more for insuring a taxi driver (or 18 year old in a Ferrari, or someone convicted of causing death by dangerous driving, or a racing car driver) than someone commuting to work.
But even putting this aside and assuming that there should or could be some sort of universal flat rate insurance if you nationalised the insurance industry, it is still not up to Uber to ignore or try to circumvent the current legal situation.
Their core business is moving out of the taxi service and into financial markets. 3 Billion dollars, how long have these people been around to get that kind of money?
But...but...they're not a taxi service!
They're innovative bleeding-edge disruptive paradigm shifters in the 21st century liberalised transportation market.
Well we spent 2 trillion dollars (and 4000 lives) to subsidize oil from 2000-2008 alone.
You cannot justify something stupid merely by pointing out that we do other things that are even stupider. Oil subsidies, and solar subsides are each stupid in their own way, and both should be ended, but they are two different issues. One does not justify the other.
I think the point is that if you have Policy A which costs $100 and Policy B which costs $1,000,000 then you should be more concerned with sorting out the latter.
Funny post from a man whose sig celebrates a band thirty years gone.
I assumed his sig was a joke.
The alternative paints a terrifying scenario of a secure mental hospital with a missing patient, carrying an axe.
Indeed, it's not a sport any more than darts, tiddlywinks, chess or poker are sports.
I'm not sure what your point is. Those aren't sports either, and anyone who pretends they are is, what's the word, wrong.
The fact that you can get paid a lot of money for being goood at something does not make that something a sport, otherwise you'd have lawyering and banking in the fucking Olympics.
And just seeing the word "eSport" makes me feel like punching something.
You seem to have omitted the bit about Batista and the Mafia running Cuba as a dictatorship on the US's behalf.
Cuba seems to claim it is. They blame the inability to trade with the USA for all their ills. I'm not sure why (nearly) the rest of the world can't satisfy their needs, or why they would want to trade with a nation they disagree with ideologically, but this kind of illogical sentiment is not unique (see: Venezuela).
Yes, it's not as though the USA is the world's main economic and military superpower and has worldwide influence or anything.
NOBODY in England owned ANY LAND HERE.It belonged to the Native Americans.
That is quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen a Yank write.
The reason you have shit as a consumer (automotive, energy, communications, etc) is precisely because of regulations.
Better products and services come in spite of regulations, not because of them.
Ah yes, the good old "of course the 2008 banking crisis was caused by too much regulation, not too little" argument.
But you're taking a huge risk of financial ruin if there is an accident.
How does this speculative risk compare to the well-established risk of death
YOLO right?