I'm not overly worried about the fascist meme. It was a brief 20th century phenomenon that was thoroughly crushed 70 years ago, and has had minuscule support since then
You clearly have no idea of what is going on in Europe then.
Here's a clue: Anders Breivik was a fascist terrorist who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011 on his own.
I know it's traditional here to call any right wing terrorist a lone wolf madman, but there are fascists in government in places like Hungary.
It's still a pretty weird religion to outsiders. The central idea is that God had to sacrifice himself to himself in order to appease his sense of justice, otherwise he would have to burn everyone in hell for eternity because they violated rules that he wrote.
The magic wafer is mostly confined to catholics.
The difference is that Catholics believe in transubstantiation, i.e. the bread and wine become literally the body and blood of Christ. Protestants just take them as symbols.
If you don't have corrective lenses then I recommend going to the eye doctor and "looking" into it. You may find that all your problems can be solved with glasses.
Slashdot, meet Field Marshal Obvious. He's worked his way up from Captain thanks to sheer bloody hard work. It's not easy being that stupid.
I like the idea of everyone earning a set amount and then working for more, but then the system breaks down, because nobody wants to contribute back.
They contribute back by paying tax on the money they earn above the basic income. Seems fairly obvious to me. If you want to be the next Bill Gates, go ahead. Even if you're taxed at 99% you're still going to be much richer than someone who chooses to stay at home watching TV all day.
But at least the TV guy can feed and clothe and shelter himself.
If there is a serious amount of unemployment, that just means that you end up with PhDs serving burgers, and the average person has no chance of a job at all.
And, no, they can't all be entrepreneurs and drag themselves up by their bootstraps to become billionaires.
Finally, what happens to the unemployed half? They find new work that exists merely because there were people available to do it.
If you're suddenly made redundant, a new job does not magically pop up elsewhere to accomodate you. The vast majority of people can not create jobs for themselves.
We don't know yet what these 15M people will do when their current jobs get automated, but one way or another, it's going to translate into 15M new and better jobs.
Yes, there will be almost exactly the same number of jobs created as are lost, almost all of them in as yet unknown areas. Let me guess, it's the Invisible Hand sorting everything out?
Indeed, words have literally no effect on anything, ever. Why human beings developed the ability to speak and read and write is a complete mystery. It's entirely unnecessary when all you want to do is masturbate into your own feces.
In my experience, sometimes you need to research the 'obvious' because sometimes what seems clear-cut turns out to not be. It's part of the reason that people say things like 'data is not the plural of anecdote'.
And once you've done the research you have to write the paper to justify the expenditure of resources and time to verify the results.
BTW, having a wireless password of password is just asking for it.
Hello? When it says 'enter password' it won't work if you've changed it from "password" will it? You'd have to re-program it to say 'enter pX?#@V32L9=)4!*7!$%!Ka&%M3zPk82' or whatever clever and unbreakable new word you decide on.
If you have more than three days of food or water in your house (read as shop less than twice per week) then the FBI considers you a "prepper" and a terrorist threat. If you live in the U.S.... you are on a watch list.
FFS anyone with a fridge or store cupboard has more than three days of food in their house.
Except when I was a student I don't think I've ever lived so hand to mouth that I literally had no spare food, even if it was just a couple of cans of baked beans.
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They had a fit when I told them I was home schooled through High School and there was no diploma to show them
Don't you have to take exams in the US before you leave school then?
Maybe it's socialism or something, but here in the UK, everyone has to be able to prove what GCSEs (taken at 16) or A levels (at 18) they have.
Assuming there was something wrong with you and you were home-schooled, you'd still take the same exams.
I'm thinking stroke or partial seizure.
No, most likely the "happy herbs" he mentions at the end.
I do agree that Gimp is overkill for a good many uses. I often use MS-Paint instead
There's something to add to my collection of "things I never thought I'd read on slashdot".
The same phenomenon is observed when looking at the stars - we find shapes and call them constellations.
It's easier to navigate by the stars if you can visualize them as a series of distinct pictures rather a random mass of bright dots.
I'm not overly worried about the fascist meme. It was a brief 20th century phenomenon that was thoroughly crushed 70 years ago, and has had minuscule support since then
You clearly have no idea of what is going on in Europe then.
Here's a clue: Anders Breivik was a fascist terrorist who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011 on his own.
I know it's traditional here to call any right wing terrorist a lone wolf madman, but there are fascists in government in places like Hungary.
The magic wafer is mostly confined to catholics.
It's still a pretty weird religion to outsiders. The central idea is that God had to sacrifice himself to himself in order to appease his sense of justice, otherwise he would have to burn everyone in hell for eternity because they violated rules that he wrote.
The magic wafer is mostly confined to catholics.
The difference is that Catholics believe in transubstantiation, i.e. the bread and wine become literally the body and blood of Christ. Protestants just take them as symbols.
If you don't have corrective lenses then I recommend going to the eye doctor and "looking" into it. You may find that all your problems can be solved with glasses.
Slashdot, meet Field Marshal Obvious. He's worked his way up from Captain thanks to sheer bloody hard work. It's not easy being that stupid.
School teachers are already being laid off as computers can teach certain subject quite nicely.
I'd have thought that it was these more people-oriented jobs that would be the last to be automated, assuming we don't suddenly invent strong AI.
I like the idea of everyone earning a set amount and then working for more, but then the system breaks down, because nobody wants to contribute back.
They contribute back by paying tax on the money they earn above the basic income. Seems fairly obvious to me. If you want to be the next Bill Gates, go ahead. Even if you're taxed at 99% you're still going to be much richer than someone who chooses to stay at home watching TV all day.
But at least the TV guy can feed and clothe and shelter himself.
Go and get themselves a useful skill
If there is a serious amount of unemployment, that just means that you end up with PhDs serving burgers, and the average person has no chance of a job at all.
And, no, they can't all be entrepreneurs and drag themselves up by their bootstraps to become billionaires.
The average human just isn't wired to be altruistic
Speak for yourself.
Finally, what happens to the unemployed half? They find new work that exists merely because there were people available to do it.
If you're suddenly made redundant, a new job does not magically pop up elsewhere to accomodate you. The vast majority of people can not create jobs for themselves.
We don't know yet what these 15M people will do when their current jobs get automated, but one way or another, it's going to translate into 15M new and better jobs.
Yes, there will be almost exactly the same number of jobs created as are lost, almost all of them in as yet unknown areas. Let me guess, it's the Invisible Hand sorting everything out?
They aren't crippled or permanently unemployed, you stupid motherfucker.
Most people are not capable of generating their own jobs.
When someone (Francis Bacon, I think) said something like "it's the exception that proves the rule", by "proves" he meant "tests".
Alternatively, it just means that for something to be recognised as an exception, there logically must be something it is the exception to.
Well, I can probably make a reasonable guess at your age and gender.
Maybe, but I self-identify as a 16-year old girl with big boobs who is a poly-demi-platonic trans-otherkin.
I think we cybered last night, but I was a bit drunk. I hope you still respect me.
What is so toxic about words on the internet?
Indeed, words have literally no effect on anything, ever. Why human beings developed the ability to speak and read and write is a complete mystery. It's entirely unnecessary when all you want to do is masturbate into your own feces.
In my experience, sometimes you need to research the 'obvious' because sometimes what seems clear-cut turns out to not be. It's part of the reason that people say things like 'data is not the plural of anecdote'.
And once you've done the research you have to write the paper to justify the expenditure of resources and time to verify the results.
That still doesn't make it news.
I just had to sit in a room for 5 minutes and then answer some inane questions, and I was on my way, rectum unscathed.
Better luck next time!
Why were you downloading torrents through the TOR network? Its pointless and clogs exit nodes.
He wasn't, but he's hardly going to post that he was downloading huge amounts of child porn is he?
I spend a lot of time reading and commenting on current events on another site, and I like to back up my comments with citations
We don't like your sort around here.
BTW, having a wireless password of password is just asking for it.
Hello? When it says 'enter password' it won't work if you've changed it from "password" will it? You'd have to re-program it to say 'enter pX?#@V32L9=)4!*7!$%!Ka&%M3zPk82' or whatever clever and unbreakable new word you decide on.
I would assume that attempting to find out if you are on a watch list is just the kind of thing that would land you on a watch list.
"Hmm, this guy is worried we are watching him, I wonder why, let's keep an eye on him, shall we?"
There's an old joke/urban myth about someone ringing up the FBI and asking if they have an FBI file, to which the FBI guy says "you do now".
If you have more than three days of food or water in your house (read as shop less than twice per week) then the FBI considers you a "prepper" and a terrorist threat. If you live in the U.S.... you are on a watch list.
FFS anyone with a fridge or store cupboard has more than three days of food in their house.
Except when I was a student I don't think I've ever lived so hand to mouth that I literally had no spare food, even if it was just a couple of cans of baked beans.
You're engaging in the same generalizations that you decry in others. Lovely, eh?
Citations?
the few I have were uniformly egotistical, paranoid, irrational, and rather low on the intellect scales
Exactly the types, in other words, attracted by the tedious stability of working for the government (except the military).
Maybe it's different in the US, but where I live there are people who work for the government because they believe in public service.
In the US, working for The Government means you are a dangerous left winger who probably won't ever become a billionaire.