imagine those trust fund babies whose life lacking struggle results in them being intolerable douchebags
Alternatively, imagine all those aristocrats in the past who have contributed to science, technology, maths, painting, poetry, philosophy, philanthropy and the rest.
An intolerable douchebag with a job is still an intolerable douchebag. A genius without a job is still a genius.
Logically, just because some X are Y does not mean that all X are Y.
You say it's disruptive technology, but all that is happening is that you are moving profit from one set of companies to another.
I'm not going to buy any more books because they're delivered quicker. If I buy from Amazon instead of B&N does it make any difference to the economy as a whole?
There is the problem of monopolies being created, of course, but that is a problem as old as capitalism, and requires state intervention to fix it.
Is this socialism? No, not the Marxist version anyway because that means the ownership of the means of production by the state. But this definitely is redistribution of wealth
But if you end up with just a few big automation companies being the whole economy, you are in effect putting them into public ownership by having the state take almost all of their profit in tax and sharing it out amongst the population (rather than private shareholders).
I don't see this as a bad thing, I'm just not sure that you need to panic about the label of socialism/Marxism. It's certainly not going to work if you make the resdistribution voluntary, so in effect you will end up with the state controlling everything, even if the "ownership" is still in private hands.
Have you tried reporting the pirate links to the application's developer so that the developer can forward a Notice of Claimed Infringement to the pirate site or to the pirate site's ISP?
I thought piracy was OK because it gave free publicity to the creator, and didn't cost them any money because the person pirating wouldn't have bought it anyway, and you'll pay full price for it if it's any good after you've played it a few times, and copyright is evil on principle in the first place?
Or does that only apply to music and movies and other things that most people here only consume rather than create?
The problem with this idea is that people will be fine with it for a year or two post-graduation, but it's going to start to suck fairly quickly after that.
So what? A fresh group of graduates is released every year. The best part about being the weirdo who stays is, every year I get older but the girls stay the same age!
You do know that it's not long before you turn from being the weirdo, to being the creepy old weirdo? When you're 21, someone who's 27 is old.
Not everyone wants to live in San Francisco or Oakland. For the price of a home there, you could retire at age thirty to some quiet little out of the way town, as millions of others do, and live your life for yourself, not serving someone else.
You won't get to go out to clubs every night and wander home drunk, as I've done in SF a few times, but there are tradeoffs in life. If that's the lifestyle you chose, then deal with the downside.
When I was young, no one expected to be able to buy a fucking house when they had just left college. You could live in a big city and go out to clubs every night and wander home drunk because you could still afford to rent somewhere for less than half your salary.
Yeah, I'm a house-dweller, but I'd love a community kitchen that served healthy meals to be nearby. While in the UK, in a town you're never really very far from a pub that serves food, it's all too a la carte to be regarded as inexpensive.
Eh? If you go to a Wetherspoon's or something you can stuff yourself for a fiver. In a lot of pubs you can get a meal for two (two burgers and two pints) for a tenner, which is more than enough for a relatively light evening snack.
It's hard to meet people and make friends after college
Only if you found it hard to meet people and make friends in college.
Personally, I found my social life improved tremendously after I left college, mainly because I had a job and could afford to go out drinking all the time.
Err, no one told them to take on those loans. Local community colleges can do the same task for a whole lot less, and trade schools or apprenticeships are even better at keeping costs low (with a much faster ROI).
I can't really bring myself to feel pity for something that most people walked into willingly and with open eyes. After all, adulthood (and the responsibilities thereof) has to start at some point...
There are plenty of things I did at eighteen that I wouldn't now recommend at fifty. Contrary to popular opinion on slashdot, you do not know everything when you're a teenager.
You can't demand jack shit if you don't produce anything. There is no such thing as a 'consumption based economy', the economy is only supply. Demand and consumption are trivial and infinite, supply is hard and limited.
I outgrew dorm living back after I got out of college. Perhaps the millennial just need to start to grow up a little bit?
When I left university and started working in the city, I could only afford house shares. It was like an extension of student life. It's fine for a few years, but the idea of still sharing a toilet or sink full of washing up at thirty is a bit depressing.
I think it is about time they 'automatized' your job since it doesn't sound like you know what the fuck you are doing....
Why is this down-modded? It's exactly what I was going to say. If I ran a "big company" I wouldn't be expecting my IT people to be asking for advice on a public internet forum.
If they really cared about the kiddies, activists like Peter Tatchell who call for the age of consent to be lowered to 14 would already be in prison.
14 is already the de facto age of consent in the UK. Police, social services and the rest don't really care if a 15 year old has sex, provided it's not rape. And some European countries (like Germany) have a legal age of consent of 14 already.
There is no connection between discussing a different age of consent and being a paedophile. After all, the age of consent is irrelevant to someone who wants to rape a baby.
I could have sworn the "secret recipe for Uber" was that all those wonderfully regulated cab services actually suck and many have poor customer service: http://www.wbur.org/2011/02/15...
Then Uber should be able to compete with them and win on quality without having to do anything illegal.
On the other hand, there is also the English common law concept of "volenti non fit injuria" which states that if you willingly place yourself in danger you can't then sue someone if you get hurt. So if you get a broken arm or leg in a football (soccer) game it's generally your tough luck, as you chose to participate in a contact sport. Of course, this doesn't mean you can just go out and kill someone with your bare hands, as that is not a normal part of the game.
This fight club app is just a variation on organised boxing, so as long as the rules didn't say you could cripple or kill someone, you'd probably be all right in the UK.
The only real surprise is how the global green-communist-jewish-scientist-lizard man conspiracy allows people to post so many climate change denial posts without kidnapping them in black helicopters or zapping them with mind control rays.
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imagine those trust fund babies whose life lacking struggle results in them being intolerable douchebags
Alternatively, imagine all those aristocrats in the past who have contributed to science, technology, maths, painting, poetry, philosophy, philanthropy and the rest.
An intolerable douchebag with a job is still an intolerable douchebag. A genius without a job is still a genius.
Logically, just because some X are Y does not mean that all X are Y.
The only thing we lose are dead end unproductive retail jobs.
But they're not all going to suddenly become engineers are they?
I'm not going to buy any more books because they're delivered quicker. If I buy from Amazon instead of B&N does it make any difference to the economy as a whole?
There is the problem of monopolies being created, of course, but that is a problem as old as capitalism, and requires state intervention to fix it.
Is this socialism? No, not the Marxist version anyway because that means the ownership of the means of production by the state. But this definitely is redistribution of wealth
But if you end up with just a few big automation companies being the whole economy, you are in effect putting them into public ownership by having the state take almost all of their profit in tax and sharing it out amongst the population (rather than private shareholders).
I don't see this as a bad thing, I'm just not sure that you need to panic about the label of socialism/Marxism. It's certainly not going to work if you make the resdistribution voluntary, so in effect you will end up with the state controlling everything, even if the "ownership" is still in private hands.
Have you tried reporting the pirate links to the application's developer so that the developer can forward a Notice of Claimed Infringement to the pirate site or to the pirate site's ISP?
I thought piracy was OK because it gave free publicity to the creator, and didn't cost them any money because the person pirating wouldn't have bought it anyway, and you'll pay full price for it if it's any good after you've played it a few times, and copyright is evil on principle in the first place?
Or does that only apply to music and movies and other things that most people here only consume rather than create?
Yeah, my girlfriend hasn't moved from the couch since we got it
Because you killed her?
- and she hasn't complained of bugs.
Well, she wouldn't would she?
Horrifying.
The problem with this idea is that people will be fine with it for a year or two post-graduation, but it's going to start to suck fairly quickly after that.
So what? A fresh group of graduates is released every year. The best part about being the weirdo who stays is, every year I get older but the girls stay the same age!
You do know that it's not long before you turn from being the weirdo, to being the creepy old weirdo? When you're 21, someone who's 27 is old.
Not everyone wants to live in San Francisco or Oakland. For the price of a home there, you could retire at age thirty to some quiet little out of the way town, as millions of others do, and live your life for yourself, not serving someone else.
You won't get to go out to clubs every night and wander home drunk, as I've done in SF a few times, but there are tradeoffs in life. If that's the lifestyle you chose, then deal with the downside.
When I was young, no one expected to be able to buy a fucking house when they had just left college. You could live in a big city and go out to clubs every night and wander home drunk because you could still afford to rent somewhere for less than half your salary.
Yeah, I'm a house-dweller, but I'd love a community kitchen that served healthy meals to be nearby. While in the UK, in a town you're never really very far from a pub that serves food, it's all too a la carte to be regarded as inexpensive.
Eh? If you go to a Wetherspoon's or something you can stuff yourself for a fiver. In a lot of pubs you can get a meal for two (two burgers and two pints) for a tenner, which is more than enough for a relatively light evening snack.
It's hard to meet people and make friends after college
Only if you found it hard to meet people and make friends in college.
Personally, I found my social life improved tremendously after I left college, mainly because I had a job and could afford to go out drinking all the time.
For the life of me, I don't understand why people live in places where you pay $2200/month to sleep in a glorified dorm room.
Two things: work and social life.
The general idea is that you don't spend much time in your glorified dorm room except to sleep.
It's something you do when you're under thirty, I can't imagine doing it with a family when I was fifty.
I live in a 6000 sqft house with a 4 car garage on 4 acres with a private stocked 4 acre lake in the backyard.
So, basically, you live in a 4 acre lake.
I'm GenX and I love Millenials, especially the tasty little drunk ones with their titties out in bars who happily give it up with little effort. .
I still can't see the description "Millenial" without thinking it means someone born in or after 2000, so I feel slightly queasy reading this.
all I know is that my generation was the best, all those before were out of touch, and all those after don't deserve it.
Also, the ten best years ever for music coincide exactly with the period between when I was 14 and 24.
Err, no one told them to take on those loans. Local community colleges can do the same task for a whole lot less, and trade schools or apprenticeships are even better at keeping costs low (with a much faster ROI).
I can't really bring myself to feel pity for something that most people walked into willingly and with open eyes. After all, adulthood (and the responsibilities thereof) has to start at some point...
There are plenty of things I did at eighteen that I wouldn't now recommend at fifty. Contrary to popular opinion on slashdot, you do not know everything when you're a teenager.
You can't demand jack shit if you don't produce anything. There is no such thing as a 'consumption based economy', the economy is only supply. Demand and consumption are trivial and infinite, supply is hard and limited.
There is an endless supply of social media.
I outgrew dorm living back after I got out of college. Perhaps the millennial just need to start to grow up a little bit?
When I left university and started working in the city, I could only afford house shares. It was like an extension of student life. It's fine for a few years, but the idea of still sharing a toilet or sink full of washing up at thirty is a bit depressing.
I think it is about time they 'automatized' your job since it doesn't sound like you know what the fuck you are doing....
Why is this down-modded? It's exactly what I was going to say. If I ran a "big company" I wouldn't be expecting my IT people to be asking for advice on a public internet forum.
And "automatized" really isn't a word.
If they really cared about the kiddies, activists like Peter Tatchell who call for the age of consent to be lowered to 14 would already be in prison.
14 is already the de facto age of consent in the UK. Police, social services and the rest don't really care if a 15 year old has sex, provided it's not rape. And some European countries (like Germany) have a legal age of consent of 14 already.
There is no connection between discussing a different age of consent and being a paedophile. After all, the age of consent is irrelevant to someone who wants to rape a baby.
I could have sworn the "secret recipe for Uber" was that all those wonderfully regulated cab services actually suck and many have poor customer service: http://www.wbur.org/2011/02/15...
Then Uber should be able to compete with them and win on quality without having to do anything illegal.
This fight club app is just a variation on organised boxing, so as long as the rules didn't say you could cripple or kill someone, you'd probably be all right in the UK.
The cross channel catamarans have long gone too, replaced by a train.
What they make floating trains now? Where does the track go? Huh?
My question is, how can we bring more high-wage jobs that use advanced math skills into the business world?
That's like saying "how can we bring more high-wage jobs that use advanced Hittite cuneiform linguistic skills into the business world?"
The business world doesn't care about something unless it helps to make money. You clearly don't need advanced maths to make money as a rule.
The only real surprise is how the global green-communist-jewish-scientist-lizard man conspiracy allows people to post so many climate change denial posts without kidnapping them in black helicopters or zapping them with mind control rays.
The WASD wasn't Quake, it was some later game like Half-Life that had default WASD keys.
Interesting, I'd have said it was Quake 2, but a quick google suggests this wasn't actually the default.
I must have come to it late after everybody had decided that WASD was the best option.