Yea, how dare those bastards make clean air and water for everyone priorities over profits for the select few!
Because our pure-hearted regulators only ever do what's best for everyone, and never use their authority to line their own pockets, or stifle their friends' competitors.
And they most certainly would never, ever use regulations to erect barriers-to-entry to small startups entering a market like automobile manufacturing (the 1948 Tucker Torpedo comes to mind) for the last 6 decades and more, nor remove choices from the public (TV/internet/telecom)./sarc
Barter is legal too, but you are required by law to pay taxes on it.
I've always wondered how a dollar-value could be calculated for tax purposes in the case of something like "if you pinch the pimples on my back, I'll pinch the pimples on yours" type of service-barter scenario. It's not like the IRS has spreadsheets of average rates for pinching pimples or a market of pimple-pincher commercial businesses to ascertain common rates/fees/charges from.
What do you mean "once it's OK"? It's been "ok" to go around the Constitution ever since it was decided that it was legal just to ban drugs without worrying about that pesky Bill of Rights (after all, prohibition of alcohol required an amendment because it happened in a time when the Constitution was much more respected). Also, don't forget the curtailing of free speech in certain situations by separating those who wish to legally and non-violently protest into "free speech zones". The Constitution has been ignored for decades, what makes you think the 2nd will be any different?
Exactly the point, I agree.
When Federal government officials & politicians start being killed in numbers by militia, snipers, & IEDs, they won't have to waste time on guessing what the motive is, will they?
Pretty sure most of the states are going to beat him to it.
Hmm, it's almost like a majority of the population is ok with it.
Damn politicians, bending to their whims.
Does not matter. Passing laws, enacting regulations, issuing EO's does not trump the Constitution. It's no different than if the government passed a law or regulation that authorized DHS to conduct random no-warrant, no-probable-cause house searches, or passed laws restricting the right to vote based on skin color.
If the majority are in favor of restricting/altering the 2A , then it shouldn't be any problem to follow the established procedure to amend the Constitution. The simple fact that none of the anti-gun people will even attempt to start the amendment process is proof that they don't think the majority agrees with them.
Once it's OK to "go around" the Constitution on the 2A, then that opens the door to the rest of the Bill of Rights being neutered. Either the Constitution is valid or it is not. There is no middle ground.
Except that cutting spending now is like applying leeches to a sick patient. You cut spending when the economy is healthy to promote action by the private sector.
Better hurry and get in your time machine and go back to warn Presidents Coolidge and Harding that their ~46% cut in Federal spending won't really kick off the "roaring '20s" and end the post-WW1 recession of 1920-21.
Do you have any kind of reference for 100 kW boosted mobile CB radios? That is a lot of power. It's hard for me to picture how you could get that much power from even a very large 12v battery and/or the alternator. Even 20 kW seems pretty amazing for a mobile transmitter.
I used to do CB radio electronics work back in the day. The biggest mobile amplifier I ever saw was 2KW. That required the addition of another alternator & battery to supply enough current. Most commonly-used solid-state mobile CB amplifiers are/were anywhere from 50W to 500W.
For 10-20KW or more, you'd almost have to have an auxiliary engine, battery, & alternator (and some extremely-heavy wiring) to supply the extremely high current levels needed for those kinds of power levels.
History is filled with societies with strong central governments, where freedom is limited to elite few. Pharaohs, emperors, kings and nobles are the norm.
We also used to bleed people to cure them and thought that the sun & planets revolved around the Earth too. We learn. grow, and try not to repeat past mistakes...well, except for a stubborn few like yourself, apparently.
Enjoy your full membership in the Flat Earth Society. You've got plenty of company among Progressives.
As a small-"L" libertarian, I don't stick my hand into a fire because I "fear" it, but because there's a damned good reason not to. Likewise, being that government is like fire*, wanting to keep it small as possible while still accomplishing the minimum it must, and under strict limits, is equally not "fear".
That's just you justifying your fear. That you compared it to fire - one of the most primeval of all fears - is very telling. Of course people that are fearful tend to think their own fears are justified, even when they're not.
That it's a fear can be seen by examining what happens when libertarian feelings go to the extreme. They tend to hide out in the wilderness, surrounded by enough guns and ammunition to start a war. That's the extremity of fear, not rationality.
So, what you're saying is that limiting government power is doubleplus ungood badthink, and that everyone should love Big Brother, Winston?
Ah well, those that fail to learn from history and all that.
Nice job with the ad hominem broad-brush.
Why not try debating the ideas rather than attacking the messenger?
Oh, right, history shows that you are full of crap, so you can't do that.
Why is it that as an adult you fear being without a babysitter & nanny? Are you incapable of taking care of yourself or making your own decisions on how to run your life? Sounds like you suffer from childhood-abandonment fears and chronic insecurity issues.
Please seek professional psychiatric help ASAP. You don't have to suffer like this.
You seem to have forgot the fear of government common to most Libertarians.
As a small-"L" libertarian, I don't stick my hand into a fire because I "fear" it, but because there's a damned good reason not to. Likewise, being that government is like fire*, wanting to keep it small as possible while still accomplishing the minimum it must, and under strict limits, is equally not "fear". It's simply common sense and self-preservation of the very same sort on a larger scale.
Strat
*"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. " - George Washington
In Detroit. The population's gone from 1M to 800k in twenty years, and energy consumption has plummeted. New York can emulate this success just by continuing it's current direction.
Yup. I live a little over an hour away from Detroit (thank goodness!).
Want to see what over 40 years of total Liberal/Progressive Democrat and labor union control (Detroit was actually the centerpiece of the Democrat Progressive "Model Cities" program...Google it) looks like?
That was a couple years ago. It's worse now, and no indications anything will change for the better. It's also the place to go to kill someone, as around 60%-70% of homicides in Detroit go unsolved.
I had to go there a couple months ago. Do you know there are now parts of Detroit that have big freaking *signs* up, like near a war-zone, warning people entering that they are on their own, that police and emergency services will NOT respond in large and ever-growing areas in the city?
WTF!?
To those who always throw out the "go live in Somalia" in response to those desiring a smaller, less intrusive and abusive government, I say "I don't have to "go" anywhere! Your ideas are *already* bringing Somalia to US! Just look at Detroit!"
I'm just waiting for Somali-style pirates to start operating on the Great Lakes from the harbors in Detroit. That is, if they aren't already, and we just haven't learned of it yet.
Actually, those chemicals are only harmful to delicate Californians. Here in Texas we have oil running through our veins, along with lead, mercury, arsenic, and many other colorful elements, so we've adapted to be tough enough to take on most of the cancer causing pollutants industry can throw at us. Sure, natural selection is still working through its slow process so we expect many bizarre birth defects and mutations, but we're convinced we will be much fitter after all is said and done.
I think you're confusing Texas and Texans with Helghan and the Helghast.
The decision to fight back points to mounting ISP frustration in Canada with file sharing lawsuits that come after the Canadian government sent clear signals that such actions were unwelcome."
Umm...*whose* actions, exactly? The ISPs? The lawsuit-bringers? The file-sharers? All of the above?
I'm not usually one to harp on poorly-written submissions, but this confuses a major component of the story, at least for those unfamiliar with the current details of domestic Canadian politics.
There are at least 72 fusion centers in the US collecting and collating data on citizens and non-citizens alike.
Don't worry. Thanks to the famous quality of government-contracted IT systems (not intimating anything negative towards your work personally), each sub-facility was/is compromised inside the first 15 minutes of uptime, and have been under non-government control as a whole from almost the very beginning.
Expect near-future \/!49®4 and Nigerian Prince spam to incorporate very detailed, intimate, and personal details, up to and including where you were just before coming home, how fast you were driving, your current bank balance, what you had for lunch, who you spoke to, and what about, along with voice-stress analysis.
As opposed to the capitalist business/political elite. Difference is in name only. End result is the same.
So, please tell us about this miraculous time we seem to all have slept through, where the USSR's average standard of living exceeded that of the US? When it had more overall personal liberty?
The difference is, in a capitalist society (which, admittedly, the US is moving farther and farther away from in favor of crony-Fascism thanks to the Liberal/Progressive movement and their collectivist/Statist policies) a poor person may work to better his life without limits, except his own ability, talent, and willingness to work. In Socialism, your social class, standard of living, and what & how much wealth or property a person may own is controlled by the State.
You can't argue with success. Well, you can, but you look really foolish doing it.:)
Capitalism has lifted more people from poverty than any other system yet devised. It has also lifted those poor out of poverty faster than any other system yet devised.
Capitalism has raised the standard of living for even it's poorest higher than any other system yet devised, and given the poor in a capitalist society a higher standard of living than what many people of other nations consider "rich" in comparison.
Capitalism, through empowering individuals financially so as to not be dependent on the State for support, allows people in a Capitalist society to retain far more individual liberty and freedom, as well as far more control of their government, than any other system yet devised.
Due to basic human nature, there will always be rich & poor, weak & powerful, good & evil men. No government can win a battle against basic human nature by it's very definition. Government, by it's very nature, will attract those least suited to be allowed power. This is one of the many ways Socialism regularly fails, because it puts tremendous central authority into the hands of a few relatively unaccountable elite leaders. That never works out well for the average person under their regimes.
The best one can do to prevent basic human nature from abusing the power of government is to make government weak, with only just enough powers and budget to accomplish a very limited set of mandatory duties, where no powers outside of those very few expressly allowed may be exercised. For government, "Anything Not Mandatory is Verboten!" should be strictly enforced, as it is the only logical policy of a people intending to remain free.
An overwhelming majority of the U S's problems of all sorts over the last 60-80 years to today can be traced back to the US government exceeding the scope & powers granted it in the Constitution coupled with heavy-handed interference and ill-advised "social engineering" attempts with the free & fair market exercise of Capitalism. That doesn't mean "wild west". There must be a basic structure to set standards of fair-dealing and provide means to redress torts and try/punish criminals.
The mess we have now is simply a corrupt system to keep out small competition and milk the people both directly and again through government corruption of both their wealth and their liberty, while maintaining the status-quo against change from within and without with the powers of both the government and the corrupted financial/monetary system.
Socialism provides all with equal misery, paid for by anyone foolish enough to still be producing rather than "pretending to work so they pretend to pay", something that Socialists say that Socialism does not do, but obviously does.
FTFY
Socialism is great, until you run out of other people's money. Once Socialism has drained the "bourgeois/rich" and any others still productive, the shared misery begins in earnest. Socialism ensures that, rather than lifting all boats, it sinks any boats rising faster/higher (being more successful) than others. Equal misery for all...except the Socialist political elite, that is.
turn in your geek card, running an emailserver is not exactly quantum mechanics.
once configured running a linux-emailserver is as much work as ssh-ing in every once in a while to run apt-get
You need to turn in yours instead, as you fail at reading comprehension.
"Running" the server itself isn't the issue. Whether you'll actually be able to have it receive and send mail because of ISP port blockages and/or anti-spam service blacklists is.
If you aren't aware of these common hazards/problems with running your own personal mail server, you likely never had a geek card to begin with.
Because GMail is more convenient to use and feature rich than running your own server, which you are still perfectly free to do.
Well, "free to do" if you pay for a commercial/business-class account with an ISP, and then one usually must make several calls to get them to open up the ports for your mail server(s).
Your mail server is also likely to get on anti-spam blacklists and be filtered by mail services like Yahoo as well. Running small, private mail servers is generally discouraged among private individuals.
"To understand the impact of tech on skilled labor (where automation is extremely questionable) , we studied the impact of tech on unskilled, easily automated labor"
"Technology has consistently reduced the number of manufacturing jobs for 30 years; people with repetitive jobs have been easy to replace in the past, and task jugglers like managers and supervisors will be likely targets in the future"
When we come up with a real Computer AI, wake me up to care about "middle class" jobs... until then why not focus on the question of what we are going to do with all unskilled labor that is currently being replaced?
I think that maybe you and TFA are making assumptions going in that may not necessarily hold true.
The majority of the repetitive, simple, very low-tech assembly and general menial industrial labor jobs had left the US many decades ago for Japan, Taiwan, etc. US industry post-WW2 was increasingly about making things requiring some skills. Spinoffs from the space program wee spawning whole new high-tech industries requiring skilled and educated labor.
Government over-regulation and political attacks and cronyism, increasing taxation, onerous & burdensome labor union demands, steadily-increasing capital costs, high energy costs, and a capricious & politically-driven legal system all factored together, such that US industries increasingly outsourced, moved out of the US, or simply died from not being able to compete with foreign industries (or those domestic corporations that were in political favor from their donations/lobbying/etc), and/or being unable to comply with increasing domestic regulation and still make a worthwhile profit.
Manufacturing, energy production, and many other industries have been systematically driven out of the US, taking the mid-level jobs they provided with them. I'm old enough that I've been alive to watch it while it has been happening over the past >4 decades.
I really don't understand. JSTOR is public repository, taxpayer funded. Schwartz is a tax payer. Where does the damage come from which justifies 35 years in jail?
It's not that the kid did that much harm, it's that this prosecutorial team saw a chance to put a "computer-crime" multi-decade "easy" conviction (read: student that can't afford a good legal defense) on their resumes for advancement of their careers.
Many, many US prosecutors and DAs don't consider for even a second the lives they destroy as they seek to advance their careers. For some it's fixation/obsession on their career goals that blinds them, for others, they are simply sociopaths who lack any capacity for empathy or sympathy for those they unjustly victimize, even enjoying the suffering of their victims.
They are much like the brutal, violent, abusive cops seen in so many YT videos, and like the cops, have a culture that views such abuses as normal and acts to shield/protect their own.
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And they most certainly would never, ever use regulations to erect barriers-to-entry to small startups entering a market like automobile manufacturing (the 1948 Tucker Torpedo comes to mind) for the last 6 decades and more, nor remove choices from the public (TV/internet/telecom). /sarc
Strat
Barter is legal too, but you are required by law to pay taxes on it.
I've always wondered how a dollar-value could be calculated for tax purposes in the case of something like "if you pinch the pimples on my back, I'll pinch the pimples on yours" type of service-barter scenario. It's not like the IRS has spreadsheets of average rates for pinching pimples or a market of pimple-pincher commercial businesses to ascertain common rates/fees/charges from.
Strat
What do you mean "once it's OK"? It's been "ok" to go around the Constitution ever since it was decided that it was legal just to ban drugs without worrying about that pesky Bill of Rights (after all, prohibition of alcohol required an amendment because it happened in a time when the Constitution was much more respected). Also, don't forget the curtailing of free speech in certain situations by separating those who wish to legally and non-violently protest into "free speech zones". The Constitution has been ignored for decades, what makes you think the 2nd will be any different?
Exactly the point, I agree.
When Federal government officials & politicians start being killed in numbers by militia, snipers, & IEDs, they won't have to waste time on guessing what the motive is, will they?
Strat
I wonder how Alexander Hamilton would have dealt with annoying pedants and their diversionary tactics...
I think it would have involved something about a meeting on neutral ground, pistols, and ten paces.
These days it's lawyers & bank balances at ten paces.
Looking around at the results, I'm not certain it's an improvement, overall, for society at large.
Strat
Can you show me where the Constitution says there can't be limitations on the arms that you have a right to bear?
The right to bear is not being infringed. Only the definition of arms.
Can you show me where it says that they can't modify the definition of "the People" to only include those in or approved by the government?
Sophistry is sophistry.
"It depends on what the meaning of "is", is."
"Freedom is slavery."
"Ignorance is strength."
"War is peace."
Why not amend the Constitution if most people are in favor of restricting/altering/abolishing 2A Rights?
Strat
Pretty sure most of the states are going to beat him to it.
Hmm, it's almost like a majority of the population is ok with it.
Damn politicians, bending to their whims.
Does not matter. Passing laws, enacting regulations, issuing EO's does not trump the Constitution. It's no different than if the government passed a law or regulation that authorized DHS to conduct random no-warrant, no-probable-cause house searches, or passed laws restricting the right to vote based on skin color.
If the majority are in favor of restricting/altering the 2A , then it shouldn't be any problem to follow the established procedure to amend the Constitution. The simple fact that none of the anti-gun people will even attempt to start the amendment process is proof that they don't think the majority agrees with them.
Once it's OK to "go around" the Constitution on the 2A, then that opens the door to the rest of the Bill of Rights being neutered. Either the Constitution is valid or it is not. There is no middle ground.
Strat
Except that cutting spending now is like applying leeches to a sick patient. You cut spending when the economy is healthy to promote action by the private sector.
Better hurry and get in your time machine and go back to warn Presidents Coolidge and Harding that their ~46% cut in Federal spending won't really kick off the "roaring '20s" and end the post-WW1 recession of 1920-21.
Strat
Do you have any kind of reference for 100 kW boosted mobile CB radios? That is a lot of power. It's hard for me to picture how you could get that much power from even a very large 12v battery and/or the alternator. Even 20 kW seems pretty amazing for a mobile transmitter.
I used to do CB radio electronics work back in the day. The biggest mobile amplifier I ever saw was 2KW. That required the addition of another alternator & battery to supply enough current. Most commonly-used solid-state mobile CB amplifiers are/were anywhere from 50W to 500W.
For 10-20KW or more, you'd almost have to have an auxiliary engine, battery, & alternator (and some extremely-heavy wiring) to supply the extremely high current levels needed for those kinds of power levels.
Strat
History is filled with societies with strong central governments, where freedom is limited to elite few. Pharaohs, emperors, kings and nobles are the norm.
We also used to bleed people to cure them and thought that the sun & planets revolved around the Earth too. We learn. grow, and try not to repeat past mistakes...well, except for a stubborn few like yourself, apparently.
Enjoy your full membership in the Flat Earth Society. You've got plenty of company among Progressives.
Strat
So, what you're saying is that limiting government power is doubleplus ungood badthink, and that everyone should love Big Brother, Winston?
Ah well, those that fail to learn from history and all that.
Nice job with the ad hominem broad-brush.
Why not try debating the ideas rather than attacking the messenger?
Oh, right, history shows that you are full of crap, so you can't do that.
Why is it that as an adult you fear being without a babysitter & nanny? Are you incapable of taking care of yourself or making your own decisions on how to run your life? Sounds like you suffer from childhood-abandonment fears and chronic insecurity issues.
Please seek professional psychiatric help ASAP. You don't have to suffer like this.
Strat
You seem to have forgot the fear of government common to most Libertarians.
As a small-"L" libertarian, I don't stick my hand into a fire because I "fear" it, but because there's a damned good reason not to. Likewise, being that government is like fire*, wanting to keep it small as possible while still accomplishing the minimum it must, and under strict limits, is equally not "fear". It's simply common sense and self-preservation of the very same sort on a larger scale.
Strat
*"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. " - George Washington
I don't think you apprehend the scale of the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
I don't think you comprehend what that word means.
You also fail to take into account that many people are perfectly fine with plastics in the environment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
Who's to say that Carlin is wrong in his basic premises explained in the video?
Strat
In Detroit. The population's gone from 1M to 800k in twenty years, and energy consumption has plummeted. New York can emulate this success just by continuing it's current direction.
Yup. I live a little over an hour away from Detroit (thank goodness!).
Want to see what over 40 years of total Liberal/Progressive Democrat and labor union control (Detroit was actually the centerpiece of the Democrat Progressive "Model Cities" program...Google it) looks like?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw
That was a couple years ago. It's worse now, and no indications anything will change for the better. It's also the place to go to kill someone, as around 60%-70% of homicides in Detroit go unsolved.
I had to go there a couple months ago. Do you know there are now parts of Detroit that have big freaking *signs* up, like near a war-zone, warning people entering that they are on their own, that police and emergency services will NOT respond in large and ever-growing areas in the city?
WTF!?
To those who always throw out the "go live in Somalia" in response to those desiring a smaller, less intrusive and abusive government, I say "I don't have to "go" anywhere! Your ideas are *already* bringing Somalia to US! Just look at Detroit!"
I'm just waiting for Somali-style pirates to start operating on the Great Lakes from the harbors in Detroit. That is, if they aren't already, and we just haven't learned of it yet.
Strat
Actually, those chemicals are only harmful to delicate Californians. Here in Texas we have oil running through our veins, along with lead, mercury, arsenic, and many other colorful elements, so we've adapted to be tough enough to take on most of the cancer causing pollutants industry can throw at us. Sure, natural selection is still working through its slow process so we expect many bizarre birth defects and mutations, but we're convinced we will be much fitter after all is said and done.
I think you're confusing Texas and Texans with Helghan and the Helghast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killzone
Strat
The decision to fight back points to mounting ISP frustration in Canada with file sharing lawsuits that come after the Canadian government sent clear signals that such actions were unwelcome."
Umm...*whose* actions, exactly? The ISPs? The lawsuit-bringers? The file-sharers? All of the above?
I'm not usually one to harp on poorly-written submissions, but this confuses a major component of the story, at least for those unfamiliar with the current details of domestic Canadian politics.
I don't blame the submitter, however.
I blame Canada! :-P
Strat
If it had a rigid frame it could even be a zeppelin and an aerostat at the same time.
I'm sorry but, no.
Because nobody would ever buy a record album by a band named:
"Led Zeppelostat"
Strat
There are at least 72 fusion centers in the US collecting and collating data on citizens and non-citizens alike.
Don't worry. Thanks to the famous quality of government-contracted IT systems (not intimating anything negative towards your work personally), each sub-facility was/is compromised inside the first 15 minutes of uptime, and have been under non-government control as a whole from almost the very beginning.
Expect near-future \/!49®4 and Nigerian Prince spam to incorporate very detailed, intimate, and personal details, up to and including where you were just before coming home, how fast you were driving, your current bank balance, what you had for lunch, who you spoke to, and what about, along with voice-stress analysis.
Strat
That's a fairly accurate historical characterisation of socialism.
FTFY
The only difference between the President and old world royalty is that presidents get changed every few years.
http://rt.com/usa/news/president-amendment-bill-repeal-541/
There is some effort being made to eliminate that distinction.
Strat
As opposed to the capitalist business/political elite. Difference is in name only. End result is the same.
So, please tell us about this miraculous time we seem to all have slept through, where the USSR's average standard of living exceeded that of the US? When it had more overall personal liberty?
The difference is, in a capitalist society (which, admittedly, the US is moving farther and farther away from in favor of crony-Fascism thanks to the Liberal/Progressive movement and their collectivist/Statist policies) a poor person may work to better his life without limits, except his own ability, talent, and willingness to work. In Socialism, your social class, standard of living, and what & how much wealth or property a person may own is controlled by the State.
You can't argue with success. Well, you can, but you look really foolish doing it. :)
Capitalism has lifted more people from poverty than any other system yet devised. It has also lifted those poor out of poverty faster than any other system yet devised.
Capitalism has raised the standard of living for even it's poorest higher than any other system yet devised, and given the poor in a capitalist society a higher standard of living than what many people of other nations consider "rich" in comparison.
Capitalism, through empowering individuals financially so as to not be dependent on the State for support, allows people in a Capitalist society to retain far more individual liberty and freedom, as well as far more control of their government, than any other system yet devised.
Due to basic human nature, there will always be rich & poor, weak & powerful, good & evil men. No government can win a battle against basic human nature by it's very definition. Government, by it's very nature, will attract those least suited to be allowed power. This is one of the many ways Socialism regularly fails, because it puts tremendous central authority into the hands of a few relatively unaccountable elite leaders. That never works out well for the average person under their regimes.
The best one can do to prevent basic human nature from abusing the power of government is to make government weak, with only just enough powers and budget to accomplish a very limited set of mandatory duties, where no powers outside of those very few expressly allowed may be exercised. For government, "Anything Not Mandatory is Verboten!" should be strictly enforced, as it is the only logical policy of a people intending to remain free.
An overwhelming majority of the U S's problems of all sorts over the last 60-80 years to today can be traced back to the US government exceeding the scope & powers granted it in the Constitution coupled with heavy-handed interference and ill-advised "social engineering" attempts with the free & fair market exercise of Capitalism. That doesn't mean "wild west". There must be a basic structure to set standards of fair-dealing and provide means to redress torts and try/punish criminals.
The mess we have now is simply a corrupt system to keep out small competition and milk the people both directly and again through government corruption of both their wealth and their liberty, while maintaining the status-quo against change from within and without with the powers of both the government and the corrupted financial/monetary system.
Strat
Socialism provides all with equal misery, paid for by anyone foolish enough to still be producing rather than "pretending to work so they pretend to pay", something that Socialists say that Socialism does not do, but obviously does.
FTFY
Socialism is great, until you run out of other people's money. Once Socialism has drained the "bourgeois/rich" and any others still productive, the shared misery begins in earnest. Socialism ensures that, rather than lifting all boats, it sinks any boats rising faster/higher (being more successful) than others. Equal misery for all...except the Socialist political elite, that is.
Strat
turn in your geek card, running an emailserver is not exactly quantum mechanics.
once configured running a linux-emailserver is as much work as ssh-ing in every once in a while to run apt-get
You need to turn in yours instead, as you fail at reading comprehension.
"Running" the server itself isn't the issue. Whether you'll actually be able to have it receive and send mail because of ISP port blockages and/or anti-spam service blacklists is.
If you aren't aware of these common hazards/problems with running your own personal mail server, you likely never had a geek card to begin with.
Strat
Because GMail is more convenient to use and feature rich than running your own server, which you are still perfectly free to do.
Well, "free to do" if you pay for a commercial/business-class account with an ISP, and then one usually must make several calls to get them to open up the ports for your mail server(s).
Your mail server is also likely to get on anti-spam blacklists and be filtered by mail services like Yahoo as well. Running small, private mail servers is generally discouraged among private individuals.
Strat
To sum up:
"To understand the impact of tech on skilled labor (where automation is extremely questionable) , we studied the impact of tech on unskilled, easily automated labor"
"Technology has consistently reduced the number of manufacturing jobs for 30 years; people with repetitive jobs have been easy to replace in the past, and task jugglers like managers and supervisors will be likely targets in the future"
When we come up with a real Computer AI, wake me up to care about "middle class" jobs... until then why not focus on the question of what we are going to do with all unskilled labor that is currently being replaced?
I think that maybe you and TFA are making assumptions going in that may not necessarily hold true.
The majority of the repetitive, simple, very low-tech assembly and general menial industrial labor jobs had left the US many decades ago for Japan, Taiwan, etc. US industry post-WW2 was increasingly about making things requiring some skills. Spinoffs from the space program wee spawning whole new high-tech industries requiring skilled and educated labor.
Government over-regulation and political attacks and cronyism, increasing taxation, onerous & burdensome labor union demands, steadily-increasing capital costs, high energy costs, and a capricious & politically-driven legal system all factored together, such that US industries increasingly outsourced, moved out of the US, or simply died from not being able to compete with foreign industries (or those domestic corporations that were in political favor from their donations/lobbying/etc), and/or being unable to comply with increasing domestic regulation and still make a worthwhile profit.
Manufacturing, energy production, and many other industries have been systematically driven out of the US, taking the mid-level jobs they provided with them. I'm old enough that I've been alive to watch it while it has been happening over the past >4 decades.
Strat
I really don't understand. JSTOR is public repository, taxpayer funded. Schwartz is a tax payer. Where does the damage come from which justifies 35 years in jail?
It's not that the kid did that much harm, it's that this prosecutorial team saw a chance to put a "computer-crime" multi-decade "easy" conviction (read: student that can't afford a good legal defense) on their resumes for advancement of their careers.
Many, many US prosecutors and DAs don't consider for even a second the lives they destroy as they seek to advance their careers. For some it's fixation/obsession on their career goals that blinds them, for others, they are simply sociopaths who lack any capacity for empathy or sympathy for those they unjustly victimize, even enjoying the suffering of their victims.
They are much like the brutal, violent, abusive cops seen in so many YT videos, and like the cops, have a culture that views such abuses as normal and acts to shield/protect their own.
Strat