I'm sure there must be some people who don't own Apple products because they are too main stream but i'm pretty sure they are a tiny minority of people who don't own apple products. My own reasons are more price related than anything else. I own an android phone mainly for its features at an inexpensive price point I am not contracted to anyone for phone service and no part of my income is dedicated to paying for a phone for the next two years. it is just not necessary.
The iPhone does help drive the sales of other products in related industries. An example that i have become familiar with is printers.
Essentially printers are fairly static in development now, on the whole the only reason to buy a new printer is because the old one is broken. There is little to distinguish between printer models other than features. Most of us probably have a laser printer in a corner somewhere which meets 99% of our needs. quite possibly another with a built in scanner for the relatively rare times we need to scan a document.
Printer manufacturers now seem to have a number of print engines and new models are rolled out with new features. the evolution seems to be wifi enabled, built in duplexers , the ability to print on cd's and dvd's and now this years models are supporting printing directly from android and iphone's wirelessly.
It's these features which are driving printer sales, without which the printer companies would be in trouble. After all even though there are fairly regular changes in ink cartridge design to minimise 3rd party ink options it only gives a brief window where the printer manufacturer gets to rake in its profits on ink sales. The quantity of ink in a cartridge seems to fall with each new generation too.
So theres a pretty big support industry which needs the iphone to keep rolling in order to drive sales. It might be more surprising if the import ban was to remain in place.
If you want everyone in the world to be the same and destroy all cultures, then, sure, go ahead and make information free.
you say that like that's a bad thing.
It won't make everybody the same but it might help bring home the realisation we are pretty similar in many respects. I don't think it'll be worldwide main stream tv which will achieve that, more the efforts of ordinary or maybe extraordinary people. talking across cultures.
I don't know what happened to slashdot polls but it would be interesting to see how many countries our friends are from. I suspect there will not be many people on this website who doesn't have friendships outside of their own nationality.
If we want to do away with some of the lousy things we do to our own species then we first must break through the barriers of our nations borders.
I was a private hire driver in the UK and there was no problem picking up at the airport, parking at the airport was a slightly different matter depending on the airport but most gave you around 10-15 minutes free parking. So for flight arrivals you would tend to wait near the airport in order to reach your passenger once they had cleared baggage handling. Dropping off was never a problem.
Bare in mind there are pretty much always airport buses shuttling passengers between the airport and the local cities often 24 hours a day. Often rail links right to the terminal. Of course Airports have local taxi services too, which you book on the spot too but its a different trade and they pay for the privilege having a rank to pick up from and a parking area to use.
Often a company will have an account with a private hire company in the town or city they are based in for business travel (better rates than you would get going for your holiday).
Going to and from the airport is quite expensive but with say four passengers its competitive with the price of bus and rail, avoids the need for long walks with luggage between the bus and rail stations, avoids the cost of driving down and paying silly money for parking at the airport. Also it beats driving for hours after a journey that may well have started for you eight hours or more previously.
Not forgetting the flight times are often scheduled for times that public transport is not available. A 9 am flight can be impossible to make with an 8.30 check in. when the trains don't start running till 6.30 and there is a change of train part way through. Without a taxi or private hire it can mean setting off from home around 9pm maybe with a taxi to the train station getting to the nearest city for around 11:30 to drag your bags to the airport express bus stop and then spending 8 hours or so waiting in the terminal for your flight. (done that).
Of course if you have a buddy with a suitable car and the time to get up at stupid oclock in the morning who is willing and available to run you to the airport and pick you up on the way back that is going to be the best option given the alternatives.
This ride share scheme seems to be getting pretty close to being a job not quite a taxi / private hire business but a bit more than doing a buddy a favour.
Getting it wrong happens, CJD or mad cow disease is a consequence of feeding cattle with sheeps brains.
I don't know of anyone personally who has died of this yet but I know I am disqualified from being a blood donor in Ireland because of it - having spent too long living in the UK. I know Mit Romney is making money from it as his group has just bought a company that was set up to source blood plasma from outside of the UK (around 30% of the plasma needed). Because of the news of this sale I know none of the blood plasma used in the UK is from UK donors any more.
CJD takes a long time to show up in people and it seems that the risk of passing on the infection is quite real. I think that the current policies in place are aimed at taking the disease out of the population eventually. However given that contaminated blood is an accepted method of transmission what are the chances of a mother passing CJD to her unborn child? How long is it going to take to eliminate CJD from the general population?
Taking a guess, that the window for being infected closed in the mid 80's anyone alive in the UK at that point of time could be carrying CJD, and with a typical life span of around 80 years that would mean the quarantine will need to be in place for maybe the next 50 years as a minimum.
Now given that wasn't genetic engineering that went wrong just a poor assumption that a sheep disease couldn't pass to cattle and from there into the general population. How sure do you need to be in order to ensure the safety of a GM product? There is plenty of evidence to suggest that we are not as smart as we would like to think we are. I doubt you can find anyone who has worked in research or development that hasn't a tale of screwing up at some point.
We can't even manage finance right. we've managed to pollute our food supply with mercury. We do insane things like over fish our sea's and then we throw dead fish back into the sea because they are the wrong fish. We have cane toads killing australia's wild life because that wasn't thought through either.
Now when it comes to the choice to eat GM food or not, the situation in America is that you do not get a choice as it's an unknown quantity every time you go shopping since labelling isn't allowed that I think is wrong.
I have one little quirk I don't like banana's, can't abide them, the smell makes me queasy. I don't buy them, i don't eat them. I don't think they are harmful in anyway I just don't want to eat them. Should I be forced to eat banana's? If the answer is no then why force people to eat GM foods by refusing to identify them?
I have no doubt that GM food will produce useful results, I am pretty sure there are going to be bad results too, even the best researchers at Monsanto will have tried and failed and then tried something different the failures are noted and discarded. That's just the way things are, develop and refine till we get a working solution.
If you want to be part of some big companies field testing then tuck in, but personally I'm not happy with my exposure to CJD thanks to other field tests and I'd rather not.
Yes the robot is precise every single time to high definitions of precise, there is always some tolerance.
However what you are missing is that robots do things which are repeatable thousands of times. Conditions have to be met in order for the robot to proceed, Sequences must be followed in order for the operation to be carried out successfully.
There is a variable here which is difficult to measure and that is the variation in the human body your veins and nerves are not located precisely the same as a childs or a body builders, your skin tone might be a factor in how successful the robot is in identifying the right spot for example. A robot might have steadier hands than a surgeon but the surgeon has his own senses to guide his hands or the robots.
We are not the same, which makes it difficult to achieve repeatable precise results. It might be possible to achieve this precision but I would have thought far from easy.
Theres quite a big difference between landing a plane which has a relatively large margin of error and trying to hit a precise spot on your arm. You can set up controls to ensure that the plane is going to land on the runway and not on the grass, but there wlll be differences in the location of that spot between people even between visits.
A robot on the other hand could deliver a precise dose quite easily allowing for vital signs body mass ect and get it spot on through a drip feed or other tube. Would you prefer the computer calculated dose or by the Dr who's been working 80 hours and was on call through the previous night?
if its for blood a cannula i think its called can be installed if you need it doing 10's of times. Worst I have had was with a study it gets very sore after a lot of tests if its a needle being repeatedly inserted without time to heal.
The third option which isn't mentioned is doing the injection yourself, quite often drugs do not need inserting in veins. I inject every week after having had a time when it was twice a day. its much less of a hassle.
The key thing is that we are not equally covered in nerve endings some parts of the body are actually painless to inject in to. So nurse or robot is stabbing in the dark when they inject you. you on the other hand can feel for your nerve endings you soon find a painless spot after a gentle probe in the area.
Apart from that there are pain numbing sprays and gels which can be used, medical staff seem reluctant to use them as it takes a little time for them to become effective. Personally I find a pretty nurse helps a lot, even thou it can hurt like hell you just don't want her to see you act like a wuss.
Opting out of filtering isn't easy, I use 3 mobile and after several years of unfiltered content began hitting the blocks fairly regularly and not because of porn.
With the rather extended winter in Ireland the traditional start of spring and the gardening calender is 17th of March but this year the cold miserable weather continued through to May. One area I looked into was grow lights and thats where I started to run into blocks, as the greatest source of information on grow lights are cannabis growers. The filter provider, who ever that is, obviously thinks its impossible for an adult to want to investigate grow lights for anything else.
In my youth i might have been interested but as an older adult with little interest in fecking up my life any further not really. I just wanted to have a nice garden.
So then I went to the phone shop for 3 and asked about getting these blocks removed, having to deal with 20 something women and being the typical neck beard geek wanting the porn filter removed it was pretty obvious what they thought of me and what I wanted the filter removing for. Being the type not to give a crap what anyone thinks of me I jumped through the hoops, I had to provide Id they had to get in touch with the area managers office for his/her personal approval and it was something nobody had asked them for before apparently. Eventually the middle aged pervert got the filters lifted on his internet access.
The real problem with internet filtering is the blocking of any and all sites deemed to be unsuitable. I'm an adult I can make my own choices. Is my aged mother going to jump through hoops so she can get an unfiltered connection? I don't think so and who else who cares about their reputation will stand up to these tactics.
The wholesale blocking and censoring of objectionable material is fundamentally wrong because what is objectionable for the censors will never match up with what people being censored want and need to know. Even if 95% of what is blocked we have no interest in its the other 5% which matters.
I would be surprised to think that many people on this site wouldn't have long been aware that we are monitored and censored already, just mostly unobtrusively. It doesn't make a big difference if your not interested in becoming a terrorist or criminal.
Unfortunately the public outing of Prism seems to be not causing a retreat on the states attempt to control our access to information but instead a more overt approach. To be honest there is little we can do about it, we change our political leaders of one shade to another and you'd have to be an idiot to think that the surveillance and censorship ever recedes with a change of office.
Maybe a fringe party might change something if they ever got any power but that will never happen while the majority of people are apathetic to whats going on. Doesn't help that most fringe parties are usually complete loons over some core value which right minded people will never accept.
There is a chance that the "Porn" filters will not hold, there is a more liberal society, we don't twitch behind the net curtains like our parents generation who are long retired. May be enough people will opt out of filtering if they realise that its necessary to resist the decay of our freedoms to think and make our own informed choices. The wisdom of age, tends to be to keep your head down, work hard and don't get noticed but with popular public support from the younger generations the older generations may quietly revolt too.
Plenty of car radios with bluetooth these days, just not factory fitted and they are not really what you'd call expensive, cheaper than the fine for using your phone without a hands free kit. (real reason i use bluetooth)
to be fair the parent to my original post was being unbearably smug about a feature which isn't really all that:)
As far as smartphones go bluetooth gps and a decent modem that you can connect too and a phone that people hear you and you hear them is pretty much all the spec you need.
The hardware list is just a list, the situation with printers has improved greatly over recent years. I'm currently downloading an update to hplip a week after installing the previous version. That covers HP printers, I'm in the market for a new inkjet and Canon seems to be the best option. Canons been contributing to open source drivers since 2009 obviously I do google for linux support for each model i am considering and I haven't found an issue yet with canon.
Most current generation printers are better than ever many with built in duplex supporting air print, eprint card readers pictbridge some even collect webpages for you or create collages from that days facebook pages. Epson is another leading brand which is quite well supported too, although I no longer favour Epson since every Epson i have had has failed with blocked jets. Brother supply Linux drivers for their printers. I used to use a Brother label printer for own branded products Libre office was grand for that job too. Samsung laser printers are supported by Samsung on Linux.
So the situation used to be that printers could be a bit hit or miss on Linux with third parties reverse engineering drivers. Now the major manufacturers work to produce drivers in house or in combination with outside developers. The advent of Smart Phones with cameras has produced a demand for printers which work with android and ios and the printer manufacturers are responding with printer models that work directly with the smart phones and tablets.
It is no longer a windows dominated market when it comes to printers some of the most demanding users are using macs , macs use cups as does Linux its pretty much a certainty that if Apple has support so has Linux. One fairly big name with no linux support for Inkjets is Lexmark which is getting out of the printer market. Worth noting with the laser printers even Lexmark had to support Linux.
I have to admit I have never seen this printer list you mention, I've always just googled Linux or ubuntu and the printer model but the reason it hasn't been updated is probably because there is little need for it any more.
If you print a lot you buy a laser printer, if you want high quality prints its really a choice of the big 3 Epson, Canon or HP. Canon do pretty decent printers for around â40 upwards depending on features and the thing is thou they make a lot of variations there are a limited number of print engines. Which makes supporting them with multiple operating systems a lot simpler. I think canon are the strongest in the market currently, HP seem to suffer with build quality issues from the customer reviews i've read sometimes doa or not long after.
If you have an unsupported printer on linux these days you can find a better replacement for less than the cost of replacement cartridges. Seriously a canon 2250 retails for â50 which has around â27 worth of ink in it, doesnt support apple or android directly but it is using the same engine as the 3250 which does and has a duplexer built in. Meanwhile you could have a dell which has to have dell ink at around â60 which have to be ordered from Dell you might as well throw out the Dell...
Unfortunately with printers having the razor blade model there is nothing to be gained buying a second hand printer even a reasonably good one as Canon practically give them away for nothing. You want â30 - â50 for your old inkjet with no ink its not going to happen and because of the weight ebay is a waste of time for buying a printer since you can usually buy new cheaper.
Libre Office is available for Windows and the smart cookies would print to pdf from libre office and print the pdf for you to mark.
Meanwhile my University Professors were getting my open office documents in doc format opening them in open office and marking them. It's been a while since I was submitting papers, before oracle.
Is your faculty aware of your discrimination towards your students? Not every student has a silver spoon or working parents. Maybe it really is a question of finance especially since you suggest some of your students can not afford a printer. It seems hardly likely they have the money for Microsoft Office either. Of course they could pirate it but that hardly prepares them for life as an honest upstanding member of the community.
Are you in the business of educating or leaching a pay check from the public purse?
You make it sound as if there is just one version of windows and the fact is driver support for peripherals can be problematic.
As an example I have a mint condition card reader from pny which does compact flash and smart media and a printer with card slots that can't handle anything over 128 meg so I plugs it into my linux box and find only the cf side is recognised no problem thinks me i'll just use it with windows instead no biggie was I wrong the only drivers are for 98se not xp, not 2000, vista, windows 7, or 8.
That may be an extreme example and the problem solved by linux being able to mount the card via mass storage device using the printer as a mass storage device.
However whilst on the subject of printers you may also run in to issues of limited functionality in later versions of windows, manufacturers tend to target a particular windows version and while my old ink jet will work in windows 7 with an inbuilt windows 7 driver, border-less printing is only available in XP. meanwhile in linux hplip got an update last week.
Theres also downgrading issues too or are you too young to be familiar with the problems of buying a laptop with Vista and trying to install XP.
Clearly not everything is supported in Linux but also equally clear Windows is a range of operating systems with varying levels of support for particular hardware. Incidentally you may have missed the fact libre office is available on Windows too.
I suspect because it was his job may be the strongest reason. An ex-soldier told me that being in combat was just part of doing his job while the enemy was just dong his, there was no personal investment just professionalism so you could go from being under fire and quite possibly having friends injured and dead to bandaging the wounds of the same guy who shortly before you shot him was doing his level best to kill you.
You spend years training , drilling so you can calmly carry out your job. I could be mistaken but that is how it was explained to me an actual soldier would have to say if I've understood properly or not. Maybe its a common thing in professional jobs after all a doctor needs a clear head to carry out the actions needed to save your life.
The only personal experience I care to relate was with a factory accident where a man got caught in a machine there was a lot of people stood but doing nothing but I got over there and took charge and freed the guy all the time while that was happening the guy was screaming his head off. Did what was needed as quickly as possible and as calmly as possible.
Afterwards felt very emotional and shocked but by then there was nothing else I needed to do, cigarette and a coffee and back to work. The fella was ok after just broke his finger I think what really surprised me at the time was the lack of people taking action but that's normal my actions were abnormal but i'm glad they are you can't just stand by and do nothing. Not very professional on my part hard to control that adrenalin rush.
One more thing I've worked in a chicken factory which goes from live bird to your dinner with various stages of dismemberment. The first day its body parts after that its just stuff.You move beyond thinking about what your dealing with and just do your job.
you leave a cable dangling from your cars usb how quaint. Android uses bluetooth same thing just without the wire. Phones paired with the stereo and switches between using the stereo for hands free and usual mobile mode as i get in and out my car. Amazing isn't it? well not really bog standard feature of android.
Ok try this two greek fellas set up shop in the same street selling kebabs you walk down the street if you buy from the first guy your depriving the second and vis versa. Since both of these vendors are equally deserving of your money, you decide to go home and cook your own kebab, leaving both vendors outraged that you had a kebab without paying them.
I'm driving my car a song comes on the radio enter sand man by metallica maybe i enjoyed it , perhaps later i hum the song as i wash the dishes. Have I stolen metallicas song? I didn't pay them for it.
I go on holiday in the greek Islands, I take my camera with me and go sight seeing and take photographs, I don't buy any postcards from any of the local vendors have I stolen those images and memories?
There is a local election with 2 or more candidates standing the candidate I voted for wins have I stolen the job from the other candidates?
I turn on my laptop and boot Linux see your crazy comment using the firefox webbrowser and leave a reply have I stolen from microsoft?
You can try all you want to persuade me to buy your service or product but I have every right to refuse to do so and that does not make me a thief.
A couple of idea's for you simplest and cheapest black electrical tape on the sensor to narrow down its field of vision and reduce false triggers.
A remote of some sort probably rf so you can turn the lights on when they are needed.
A small PLC such as a Siemens Logo, they can be picked up on ebay for as little as $25 with 8 in and 4 out there is more than enough i/o to set up what ever triggers you like. A simple electric eye with reflector could be set across the entrance to trigger the light when broken turning on the light. Turning off could be done by a second beam which triggers when the car is in the right location. Or / and set a time out of say 5 minutes long enough to allow anybody to reverse up any driveway. if you want you could even set up a couple of beams either side of the driveway which could light when your wife starts to stray off course.
Or how about running a copy of zoneminder and setting an area of interest to act as a trigger. Probably possible to run that on a raspberry Pi
A PIR is just a light with a switch and you can add other switches.
One thing thou, most cars have reversing lights isn't that enough light to show where you are going.
I actually do use one PIR myself a small self contained one runs off a couple of batteries and it hangs by the door, simply because I live in the country and at night when coming home late it can be tricky to get the key in the lock in the dark. You can buy cheap solar lights for a couple of dollars with a single led which can illuminate enough to do that job.
Personally I am not a fan of bright 500 watt halogen lamps, you get idiots who mount them so that they point out along the road blinding drivers and creating a hazard. As an earlier poster said mount them high pointing downwards, Not outwards.
um, living in Ireland I would have to say nobody says top of the morning to you or to be sure to be sure apart from tourists looking to get a belt. To be fair you probably will not get one but everyone in the world will be evaluating you a tosser or some kind of a tool.
In most parts of the world trying to copy accents is generally seen as being cringe worthy and annoying. Nobody in England talks like dick van dyke.
As for the other piss poor Australian accent copying, often endured by New Zealanders as nobody can tell the difference... Or the South Africans...
The only way you should speak a second language is the way you learned it and by absorbing it through long term exposure. You know what an American trying to do a British accent sounds like? An American trying to do a British accent.
There isn't really a need for special printers any printer will do, my printers are not directly supported but anything that can run the chrome browser , eg linux mint for example is capable of being a gateway for existing printers.
For my android devices they can use googles cloud printing service which routes to my netbook which hands the job over to my nas which has the physical printers.
It's a pretty good system to be fair as your unlikely to run into the unsupported printer problem. What you are actually asking for would be for a 100 / x number of chromebooks to be configured to use each individual printer. Sounds like a lot of work to me even assuming you don't miss any.
Well lets see what is wrong with that. first there is insurance. Ordinary car insurance is for social domestic and pleasure and driving to and from work. Carrying passengers for hire or reward is specifically excluded. Taxi insurance is around 10x more expensive.
For a car to be a taxi it has to meet a more exacting standard in addition to the usual road tax and Mot there is also a Taxi inspection which is like the Mot test but to a higher standard. Taxi's also have to carry a certified fire extinguisher to meet the regulations as well for example.
Medical this is more recent but just having a driving license isn't enough, you also now need a medical report and again that is to a higher standard. One reason why I don't drive a taxi any more.
Then there is also the criminal record and background checks which covers everything even 'spent' convictions and anything the police have recorded about you ever.
And yes you do need a license to look after children, as a taxi/ private hire driver to work on council contracts I had to be badged for that to gain approval to carry children & vulnerable adults. That includes personal interviews and a European Criminal Record check. Thats the same vetting procedure as a nurse or childcare worker or school teacher has to go through.
That second badge can get suspended very easily if there is any complaint made. On some jobs there has to be an escort with the child. Once one child accused the escort of hitting him as he got into my taxi. Completely false charge as I would have seen it happen and kind of creepy too as you don't know why someone was suspended until the police interview you. you tend to think the worst, that the escort may have molested the child, and how would you know when your driving exactly what is going on behind you. Even though the escort was innocent they were suspended for 6 weeks with no pay since they are paid by the job.
Of course once that kind of incident happens you get to realise how vulnerable you are if you are carrying kids without an escort. Then there are passengers normally drunk who can attack you and thats no fun believe me.
So yes there is a bunch of regulation and licensing that has to be gone through. It's not there just to keep taxi drivers in jobs and there are times when you will spend a lot of time waiting for a job and you don't get paid if your empty.
However perhaps the most important aspect of the regulation is insurance because if you are in a car wreck in an unlicensed taxi, there may not be any insurance at all and while you may lose your career a limb without the insurance you might find there is no compensation no help with medical bills and your life is ruined.
Paypal is more expensive than visa especially where 2 different countries are involved. While you still get to pay a percentage of the price its a smaller percentage than paypal takes with its slice of the deal.
With visa debit you can see the dayrate is higher than paypal offers even with the banks cut. Credit cards do have a risk in that the rate may go against you on the day the transaction is processed but most of the time you win.
Obviously there are other issues such as the vpn issue but there are always ways to pay.
If factory farms are more dangerous perhaps its due to the less than ideal living conditions the animals are living in. Overcrowding less than desired sanitary living conditions tend to favour disease in all animals including us.
I'm sure that can be backed up by someone with more of an inclination to provide citations. What would happen to the american economy if food prices were to substantially rise by 50 , 100% or more?
It seems from this side of the atlantic that there is a concerted effort by the FDA and related bodies to ensure this doesn't happen. There is commercial pressure towards products with long shelf lives, for ready foods which contain lower quality ingredients. Coming from farming country I know there is produce good enough to be sold fresh good enough to be frozen pickled and then the worst packet soup and baby food.
Of course it makes economic sense to use the lowest quality ingredients that produce an acceptable product. However being the consumer of these made to a price foods it doesn't taste so good does it.
Do you really know what you are eating? Do you really want to know?
The use of antibiotics on farms is because it is the most cost productive option.
Say we do run out of effective antibiotics there may be massive numbers of deaths mainly the poor and sick and elderly being of generally poorer state of health. If you don't see these as people and individuals that would probably be an economic win too. Less poverty a more productive society and lower crime rates whats not to like and so much more acceptable than genocide.
you don't need a scanner even a digital compact can do a reasonable job. you need a light source your laptop will do a diffuser for the light or you will see pixels from the monitor , bit of negative envelope will do and something to hold it together i used a clip photo frame with a 35mm hole. i placed a 50mm lens over the negative and used a compact digital to take pictures. Then its largely a case of stitching together inverting and white balance which is simple enough in gimp. The resolution isn't bad either easily higher than a fuji frontier mini lab. Which is what got me in to it being rather annoyed at the scan size on the photo CDs that I got.
Its not that they cant do it but it is much much slower going from 800 prints an hour to around 30 ish now as the machines stand idle most of the time these days you might be able to get a friendly knowledgeable lab tech to up the scan resolution, and why not if there is no back log.
The digital photography method even with a crude setup shows potential to perform to a high standard.
Are they ? Two cases spring to mind housing and wages first housing a tenant gets government money to pay a proportion up to 100% in some cases to pay their landlord. The landlord has a buy to let mortgage which is paid for by the rent received and gives him a comfortable profit. Seems to me the government is subsidizing the landlord clearly the cost of providing that housing is more than if the council was to buy the house pay the mortgage and rent it to the tenant. if the tenant in that house continues to receive government help surely the state are essentially gifting the landlord with free real estate.
second case joe works in freds factory but the wages fred pays joe are not high enough for joe to support him and his family so the government steps in and gives joe a tax credit in order for joes family to get by. lets say that the tax credit is worth 100 dollars then in effect fred is being subsidised to the tune of $100 because without that subsidy fred would have to pay a living wage.
In child care in ireland at least the hse gives private creches money so they can charge lower fees to the parents. This can often lead to millions being paid out to private creches which employ minimum wage workers to look after peoples children and in recent news, it appears to be look after badly.
Certainly seems that there are rich people getting paid means tested benefits with no questions asked and unlike the tenants who lose assistance proportionality to any rise in income landlords are free to buy more property and take even more from the public purse.
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your assuming that there are governments that are not actively taking part or have their own versions of the same thing.
Iceland maybe has a clean government any other suggestions?
I'm sure there must be some people who don't own Apple products because they are too main stream but i'm pretty sure they are a tiny minority of people who don't own apple products. My own reasons are more price related than anything else. I own an android phone mainly for its features at an inexpensive price point I am not contracted to anyone for phone service and no part of my income is dedicated to paying for a phone for the next two years. it is just not necessary.
The iPhone does help drive the sales of other products in related industries. An example that i have become familiar with is printers.
Essentially printers are fairly static in development now, on the whole the only reason to buy a new printer is because the old one is broken. There is little to distinguish between printer models other than features. Most of us probably have a laser printer in a corner somewhere which meets 99% of our needs.
quite possibly another with a built in scanner for the relatively rare times we need to scan a document.
Printer manufacturers now seem to have a number of print engines and new models are rolled out with new features. the evolution seems to be wifi enabled, built in duplexers , the ability to print on cd's and dvd's and now this years models are supporting printing directly from android and iphone's wirelessly.
It's these features which are driving printer sales, without which the printer companies would be in trouble. After all even though there are fairly regular changes in ink cartridge design to minimise 3rd party ink options it only gives a brief window where the printer manufacturer gets to rake in its profits on ink sales. The quantity of ink in a cartridge seems to fall with each new generation too.
So theres a pretty big support industry which needs the iphone to keep rolling in order to drive sales. It might be more surprising if the import ban was to remain in place.
If you want everyone in the world to be the same and destroy all cultures, then, sure, go ahead and make information free.
you say that like that's a bad thing.
It won't make everybody the same but it might help bring home the realisation we are pretty similar in many respects. I don't think it'll be worldwide main stream tv which will achieve that, more the efforts of ordinary or maybe extraordinary people. talking across cultures.
I don't know what happened to slashdot polls but it would be interesting to see how many countries our friends are from. I suspect there will not be many people on this website who doesn't have friendships outside of their own nationality.
If we want to do away with some of the lousy things we do to our own species then we first must break through the barriers of our nations borders.
I was a private hire driver in the UK and there was no problem picking up at the airport, parking at the airport was a slightly different matter depending on the airport but most gave you around 10-15 minutes free parking. So for flight arrivals you would tend to wait near the airport in order to reach your passenger once they had cleared baggage handling. Dropping off was never a problem.
Bare in mind there are pretty much always airport buses shuttling passengers between the airport and the local cities often 24 hours a day. Often rail links right to the terminal. Of course Airports have local taxi services too, which you book on the spot too but its a different trade and they pay for the privilege having a rank to pick up from and a parking area to use.
Often a company will have an account with a private hire company in the town or city they are based in for business travel (better rates than you would get going for your holiday).
Going to and from the airport is quite expensive but with say four passengers its competitive with the price of bus and rail, avoids the need for long walks with luggage between the bus and rail stations, avoids the cost of driving down and paying silly money for parking at the airport. Also it beats driving for hours after a journey that may well have started for you eight hours or more previously.
Not forgetting the flight times are often scheduled for times that public transport is not available.
A 9 am flight can be impossible to make with an 8.30 check in. when the trains don't start running till 6.30 and there is a change of train part way through. Without a taxi or private hire it can mean setting off from home around 9pm maybe with a taxi to the train station getting to the nearest city for around 11:30 to drag your bags to the airport express bus stop and then spending 8 hours or so waiting in the terminal for your flight. (done that).
Of course if you have a buddy with a suitable car and the time to get up at stupid oclock in the morning who is willing and available to run you to the airport and pick you up on the way back that is going to be the best option given the alternatives.
This ride share scheme seems to be getting pretty close to being a job not quite a taxi / private hire business but a bit more than doing a buddy a favour.
Getting it wrong happens, CJD or mad cow disease is a consequence of feeding cattle with sheeps brains.
I don't know of anyone personally who has died of this yet but I know I am disqualified from being a blood donor in Ireland because of it - having spent too long living in the UK. I know Mit Romney is making money from it as his group has just bought a company that was set up to source blood plasma from outside of the UK (around 30% of the plasma needed). Because of the news of this sale I know none of the blood plasma used in the UK is from UK donors any more.
CJD takes a long time to show up in people and it seems that the risk of passing on the infection is quite real. I think that the current policies in place are aimed at taking the disease out of the population eventually. However given that contaminated blood is an accepted method of transmission what are the chances of a mother passing CJD to her unborn child? How long is it going to take to eliminate CJD from the general population?
Taking a guess, that the window for being infected closed in the mid 80's anyone alive in the UK at that point of time could be carrying CJD, and with a typical life span of around 80 years that would mean the quarantine will need to be in place for maybe the next 50 years as a minimum.
Now given that wasn't genetic engineering that went wrong just a poor assumption that a sheep disease couldn't pass to cattle and from there into the general population. How sure do you need to be in order to ensure the safety of a GM product? There is plenty of evidence to suggest that we are not as smart as we would like to think we are. I doubt you can find anyone who has worked in research or development that hasn't a tale of screwing up at some point.
We can't even manage finance right. we've managed to pollute our food supply with mercury. We do insane things like over fish our sea's and then we throw dead fish back into the sea because they are the wrong fish. We have cane toads killing australia's wild life because that wasn't thought through either.
Now when it comes to the choice to eat GM food or not, the situation in America is that you do not get a choice as it's an unknown quantity every time you go shopping since labelling isn't allowed that I think is wrong.
I have one little quirk I don't like banana's, can't abide them, the smell makes me queasy. I don't buy them, i don't eat them. I don't think they are harmful in anyway I just don't want to eat them. Should I be forced to eat banana's? If the answer is no then why force people to eat GM foods by refusing to identify them?
I have no doubt that GM food will produce useful results, I am pretty sure there are going to be bad results too, even the best researchers at Monsanto will have tried and failed and then tried something different the failures are noted and discarded. That's just the way things are, develop and refine till we get a working solution.
If you want to be part of some big companies field testing then tuck in, but personally I'm not happy with my exposure to CJD thanks to other field tests and I'd rather not.
Yes the robot is precise every single time to high definitions of precise, there is always some tolerance.
However what you are missing is that robots do things which are repeatable thousands of times. Conditions have to be met in order for the robot to proceed, Sequences must be followed in order for the operation to be carried out successfully.
There is a variable here which is difficult to measure and that is the variation in the human body your veins and nerves are not located precisely the same as a childs or a body builders, your skin tone might be a factor in how successful the robot is in identifying the right spot for example. A robot might have steadier hands than a surgeon but the surgeon has his own senses to guide his hands or the robots.
We are not the same, which makes it difficult to achieve repeatable precise results. It might be possible to achieve this precision but I would have thought far from easy.
Theres quite a big difference between landing a plane which has a relatively large margin of error and trying to hit a precise spot on your arm. You can set up controls to ensure that the plane is going to land on the runway and not on the grass, but there wlll be differences in the location of that spot between people even between visits.
A robot on the other hand could deliver a precise dose quite easily allowing for vital signs body mass ect and get it spot on through a drip feed or other tube. Would you prefer the computer calculated dose or by the Dr who's been working 80 hours and was on call through the previous night?
if its for blood a cannula i think its called can be installed if you need it doing 10's of times. Worst I have had was with a study it gets very sore after a lot of tests if its a needle being repeatedly inserted without time to heal.
The third option which isn't mentioned is doing the injection yourself, quite often drugs do not need inserting in veins. I inject every week after having had a time when it was twice a day. its much less of a hassle.
The key thing is that we are not equally covered in nerve endings some parts of the body are actually painless to inject in to. So nurse or robot is stabbing in the dark when they inject you. you on the other hand can feel for your nerve endings you soon find a painless spot after a gentle probe in the area.
Apart from that there are pain numbing sprays and gels which can be used, medical staff seem reluctant to use them as it takes a little time for them to become effective. Personally I find a pretty nurse helps a lot, even thou it can hurt like hell you just don't want her to see you act like a wuss.
Opting out of filtering isn't easy,
I use 3 mobile and after several years of unfiltered content began hitting the blocks fairly regularly and not because of porn.
With the rather extended winter in Ireland the traditional start of spring and the gardening calender is 17th of March but this year the cold miserable weather continued through to May. One area I looked into was grow lights and thats where I started to run into blocks, as the greatest source of information on grow lights are cannabis growers. The filter provider, who ever that is, obviously thinks its impossible for an adult to want to investigate grow lights for anything else.
In my youth i might have been interested but as an older adult with little interest in fecking up my life any further not really. I just wanted to have a nice garden.
So then I went to the phone shop for 3 and asked about getting these blocks removed, having to deal with 20 something women and being the typical neck beard geek wanting the porn filter removed it was pretty obvious what they thought of me and what I wanted the filter removing for. Being the type not to give a crap what anyone thinks of me I jumped through the hoops, I had to provide Id they had to get in touch with the area managers office for his/her personal approval and it was something nobody had asked them for before apparently. Eventually the middle aged pervert got the filters lifted on his internet access.
The real problem with internet filtering is the blocking of any and all sites deemed to be unsuitable. I'm an adult I can make my own choices. Is my aged mother going to jump through hoops so she can get an unfiltered connection? I don't think so and who else who cares about their reputation will stand up to these tactics.
The wholesale blocking and censoring of objectionable material is fundamentally wrong because what is objectionable for the censors will never match up with what people being censored want and need to know. Even if 95% of what is blocked we have no interest in its the other 5% which matters.
I would be surprised to think that many people on this site wouldn't have long been aware that we are monitored and censored already, just mostly unobtrusively. It doesn't make a big difference if your not interested in becoming a terrorist or criminal.
Unfortunately the public outing of Prism seems to be not causing a retreat on the states attempt to control our access to information but instead a more overt approach. To be honest there is little we can do about it, we change our political leaders of one shade to another and you'd have to be an idiot to think that the surveillance and censorship ever recedes with a change of office.
Maybe a fringe party might change something if they ever got any power but that will never happen while the majority of people are apathetic to whats going on. Doesn't help that most fringe parties are usually complete loons over some core value which right minded people will never accept.
There is a chance that the "Porn" filters will not hold, there is a more liberal society, we don't twitch behind the net curtains like our parents generation who are long retired. May be enough people will opt out of filtering if they realise that its necessary to resist the decay of our freedoms to think and make our own informed choices. The wisdom of age, tends to be to keep your head down, work hard and don't get noticed but with popular public support from the younger generations the older generations may quietly revolt too.
Plenty of car radios with bluetooth these days, just not factory fitted and they are not really what you'd call expensive, cheaper than the fine for using your phone without a hands free kit. (real reason i use bluetooth)
to be fair the parent to my original post was being unbearably smug about a feature which isn't really all that :)
As far as smartphones go bluetooth gps and a decent modem that you can connect too and a phone that people hear you and you hear them is pretty much all the spec you need.
The rest is just marketing madness
The hardware list is just a list, the situation with printers has improved greatly over recent years. I'm currently downloading an update to hplip a week after installing the previous version. That covers HP printers, I'm in the market for a new inkjet and Canon seems to be the best option. Canons been contributing to open source drivers since 2009 obviously I do google for linux support for each model i am considering and I haven't found an issue yet with canon.
Most current generation printers are better than ever many with built in duplex supporting air print, eprint card readers pictbridge some even collect webpages for you or create collages from that days facebook pages.
Epson is another leading brand which is quite well supported too, although I no longer favour Epson since every Epson i have had has failed with blocked jets. Brother supply Linux drivers for their printers. I used to use a Brother label printer for own branded products Libre office was grand for that job too. Samsung laser printers are supported by Samsung on Linux.
So the situation used to be that printers could be a bit hit or miss on Linux with third parties reverse engineering drivers. Now the major manufacturers work to produce drivers in house or in combination with outside developers. The advent of Smart Phones with cameras has produced a demand for printers which work with android and ios and the printer manufacturers are responding with printer models that work directly with the smart phones and tablets.
It is no longer a windows dominated market when it comes to printers some of the most demanding users are using macs , macs use cups as does Linux its pretty much a certainty that if Apple has support so has Linux. One fairly big name with no linux support for Inkjets is Lexmark which is getting out of the printer market. Worth noting with the laser printers even Lexmark had to support Linux.
I have to admit I have never seen this printer list you mention, I've always just googled Linux or ubuntu and the printer model but the reason it hasn't been updated is probably because there is little need for it any more.
If you print a lot you buy a laser printer, if you want high quality prints its really a choice of the big 3 Epson, Canon or HP. Canon do pretty decent printers for around â40 upwards depending on features and the thing is thou they make a lot of variations there are a limited number of print engines. Which makes supporting them with multiple operating systems a lot simpler. I think canon are the strongest in the market currently, HP seem to suffer with build quality issues from the customer reviews i've read sometimes doa or not long after.
If you have an unsupported printer on linux these days you can find a better replacement for less than the cost of replacement cartridges. Seriously a canon 2250 retails for â50 which has around â27 worth of ink in it, doesnt support apple or android directly but it is using the same engine as the 3250 which does and has a duplexer built in. Meanwhile you could have a dell which has to have dell ink at around â60 which have to be ordered from Dell you might as well throw out the Dell...
Unfortunately with printers having the razor blade model there is nothing to be gained buying a second hand printer even a reasonably good one as Canon practically give them away for nothing. You want â30 - â50 for your old inkjet with no ink its not going to happen and because of the weight ebay is a waste of time for buying a printer since you can usually buy new cheaper.
Libre Office is available for Windows and the smart cookies would print to pdf from libre office and print the pdf for you to mark.
Meanwhile my University Professors were getting my open office documents in doc format opening them in open office and marking them. It's been a while since I was submitting papers, before oracle.
Is your faculty aware of your discrimination towards your students? Not every student has a silver spoon or working parents. Maybe it really is a question of finance especially since you suggest some of your students can not afford a printer. It seems hardly likely they have the money for Microsoft Office either. Of course they could pirate it but that hardly prepares them for life as an honest upstanding member of the community.
Are you in the business of educating or leaching a pay check from the public purse?
You make it sound as if there is just one version of windows and the fact is driver support for peripherals can be problematic.
As an example I have a mint condition card reader from pny which does compact flash and smart media and a printer with card slots that can't handle anything over 128 meg so I plugs it into my linux box and find only the cf side is recognised no problem thinks me i'll just use it with windows instead no biggie was I wrong the only drivers are for 98se not xp, not 2000, vista, windows 7, or 8.
That may be an extreme example and the problem solved by linux being able to mount the card via mass storage device using the printer as a mass storage device.
However whilst on the subject of printers you may also run in to issues of limited functionality in later versions of windows, manufacturers tend to target a particular windows version and while my old ink jet will work in windows 7 with an inbuilt windows 7 driver, border-less printing is only available in XP. meanwhile in linux hplip got an update last week.
Theres also downgrading issues too or are you too young to be familiar with the problems of buying a laptop with Vista and trying to install XP.
Clearly not everything is supported in Linux but also equally clear Windows is a range of operating systems with varying levels of support for particular hardware. Incidentally you may have missed the fact libre office is available on Windows too.
I suspect because it was his job may be the strongest reason. An ex-soldier told me that being in combat was just part of doing his job while the enemy was just dong his, there was no personal investment just professionalism so you could go from being under fire and quite possibly having friends injured and dead to bandaging the wounds of the same guy who shortly before you shot him was doing his level best to kill you.
You spend years training , drilling so you can calmly carry out your job.
I could be mistaken but that is how it was explained to me an actual soldier would have to say if I've understood properly or not. Maybe its a common thing in professional jobs after all a doctor needs a clear head to carry out the actions needed to save your life.
The only personal experience I care to relate was with a factory accident where a man got caught in a machine there was a lot of people stood but doing nothing but I got over there and took charge and freed the guy all the time while that was happening the guy was screaming his head off. Did what was needed as quickly as possible and as calmly as possible.
Afterwards felt very emotional and shocked but by then there was nothing else I needed to do, cigarette and a coffee and back to work. The fella was ok after just broke his finger I think what really surprised me at the time was the lack of people taking action but that's normal my actions were abnormal but i'm glad they are you can't just stand by and do nothing. Not very professional on my part hard to control that adrenalin rush.
One more thing I've worked in a chicken factory which goes from live bird to your dinner with various stages of dismemberment. The first day its body parts after that its just stuff .You move beyond thinking about what your dealing with and just do your job.
you leave a cable dangling from your cars usb how quaint. Android uses bluetooth same thing just without the wire. Phones paired with the stereo and switches between using the stereo for hands free and usual mobile mode as i get in and out my car. Amazing isn't it? well not really bog standard feature of android.
Ok try this two greek fellas set up shop in the same street selling kebabs you walk down the street if you buy from the first guy your depriving the second and vis versa. Since both of these vendors are equally deserving of your money, you decide to go home and cook your own kebab, leaving both vendors outraged that you had a kebab without paying them.
I'm driving my car a song comes on the radio enter sand man by metallica maybe i enjoyed it , perhaps later i hum the song as i wash the dishes. Have I stolen metallicas song? I didn't pay them for it.
I go on holiday in the greek Islands, I take my camera with me and go sight seeing and take photographs, I don't buy any postcards from any of the local vendors have I stolen those images and memories?
There is a local election with 2 or more candidates standing the candidate I voted for wins have I stolen the job from the other candidates?
I turn on my laptop and boot Linux see your crazy comment using the firefox webbrowser and leave a reply have I stolen from microsoft?
You can try all you want to persuade me to buy your service or product but I have every right to refuse to do so and that does not make me a thief.
A couple of idea's for you
simplest and cheapest black electrical tape on the sensor to narrow down its field of vision and reduce false triggers.
A remote of some sort probably rf so you can turn the lights on when they are needed.
A small PLC such as a Siemens Logo, they can be picked up on ebay for as little as $25 with 8 in and 4 out there is more than enough i/o to set up what ever triggers you like. A simple electric eye with reflector could be set across the entrance to trigger the light when broken turning on the light. Turning off could be done by a second beam which triggers when the car is in the right location. Or / and set a time out of say 5 minutes long enough to allow anybody to reverse up any driveway. if you want you could even set up a couple of beams either side of the driveway which could light when your wife starts to stray off course.
Or how about running a copy of zoneminder and setting an area of interest to act as a trigger. Probably possible to run that on a raspberry Pi
A PIR is just a light with a switch and you can add other switches.
One thing thou, most cars have reversing lights isn't that enough light to show where you are going.
I actually do use one PIR myself a small self contained one runs off a couple of batteries and it hangs by the door, simply because I live in the country and at night when coming home late it can be tricky to get the key in the lock in the dark. You can buy cheap solar lights for a couple of dollars with a single led which can illuminate enough to do that job.
Personally I am not a fan of bright 500 watt halogen lamps, you get idiots who mount them so that they point out along the road blinding drivers and creating a hazard. As an earlier poster said mount them high pointing downwards, Not outwards.
um, living in Ireland I would have to say nobody says top of the morning to you or to be sure to be sure apart from tourists looking to get a belt. To be fair you probably will not get one but everyone in the world will be evaluating you a tosser or some kind of a tool.
In most parts of the world trying to copy accents is generally seen as being cringe worthy and annoying. Nobody in England talks like dick van dyke.
As for the other piss poor Australian accent copying, often endured by New Zealanders as nobody can tell the difference... Or the South Africans ...
The only way you should speak a second language is the way you learned it and by absorbing it through long term exposure. You know what an American trying to do a British accent sounds like? An American trying to do a British accent.
HP is mostly ok, but I cannot get borderless prints with my Hp under Linux, Virtualbox and XP no problem at all.
I guess i'm asking too much for lab quality prints from an old inkjet.
There isn't really a need for special printers any printer will do, my printers are not directly supported but anything that can run the chrome browser , eg linux mint for example is capable of being a gateway for existing printers.
For my android devices they can use googles cloud printing service which routes to my netbook which hands the job over to my nas which has the physical printers.
It's a pretty good system to be fair as your unlikely to run into the unsupported printer problem. What you are actually asking for would be for a 100 / x number of chromebooks to be configured to use each individual printer.
Sounds like a lot of work to me even assuming you don't miss any.
Well lets see what is wrong with that.
first there is insurance. Ordinary car insurance is for social domestic and pleasure and driving to and from work.
Carrying passengers for hire or reward is specifically excluded. Taxi insurance is around 10x more expensive.
For a car to be a taxi it has to meet a more exacting standard in addition to the usual road tax and Mot there is also a Taxi inspection which is like the Mot test but to a higher standard. Taxi's also have to carry a certified fire extinguisher to meet the regulations as well for example.
Medical this is more recent but just having a driving license isn't enough, you also now need a medical report and again that is to a higher standard. One reason why I don't drive a taxi any more.
Then there is also the criminal record and background checks which covers everything even 'spent' convictions
and anything the police have recorded about you ever.
And yes you do need a license to look after children, as a taxi/ private hire driver to work on council contracts I had to be badged for that to gain approval to carry children & vulnerable adults. That includes personal interviews and a European Criminal Record check. Thats the same vetting procedure as a nurse or childcare worker or school teacher has to go through.
That second badge can get suspended very easily if there is any complaint made. On some jobs there has to be an escort with the child. Once one child accused the escort of hitting him as he got into my taxi. Completely false charge as I would have seen it happen and kind of creepy too as you don't know why someone was suspended until the police interview you. you tend to think the worst, that the escort may have molested the child, and how would you know when your driving exactly what is going on behind you. Even though the escort was innocent they were suspended for 6 weeks with no pay since they are paid by the job.
Of course once that kind of incident happens you get to realise how vulnerable you are if you are carrying kids without an escort. Then there are passengers normally drunk who can attack you and thats no fun believe me.
So yes there is a bunch of regulation and licensing that has to be gone through. It's not there just to keep taxi drivers in jobs and there are times when you will spend a lot of time waiting for a job and you don't get paid if your empty.
However perhaps the most important aspect of the regulation is insurance because if you are in a car wreck in an unlicensed taxi, there may not be any insurance at all and while you may lose your career a limb without the insurance you might find there is no compensation no help with medical bills and your life is ruined.
Does this help answer your question?
Paypal is more expensive than visa especially where 2 different countries are involved. While you still get to pay a percentage of the price its a smaller percentage than paypal takes with its slice of the deal.
With visa debit you can see the dayrate is higher than paypal offers even with the banks cut. Credit cards do have a risk in that the rate may go against you on the day the transaction is processed but most of the time you win.
Obviously there are other issues such as the vpn issue but there are always ways to pay.
If factory farms are more dangerous perhaps its due to the less than ideal living conditions the animals are living in. Overcrowding less than desired sanitary living conditions tend to favour disease in all animals including us.
I'm sure that can be backed up by someone with more of an inclination to provide citations. What would happen to the american economy if food prices were to substantially rise by 50 , 100% or more?
It seems from this side of the atlantic that there is a concerted effort by the FDA and related bodies to ensure this doesn't happen. There is commercial pressure towards products with long shelf lives, for ready foods which contain lower quality ingredients. Coming from farming country I know there is produce good enough to be sold fresh good enough to be frozen pickled and then the worst packet soup and baby food.
Of course it makes economic sense to use the lowest quality ingredients that produce an acceptable product. However being the consumer of these made to a price foods it doesn't taste so good does it.
Do you really know what you are eating? Do you really want to know?
The use of antibiotics on farms is because it is the most cost productive option.
Say we do run out of effective antibiotics there may be massive numbers of deaths mainly the poor and sick and elderly being of generally poorer state of health. If you don't see these as people and individuals that would probably be an economic win too. Less poverty a more productive society and lower crime rates whats not to like and so much more acceptable than genocide.
you don't need a scanner even a digital compact can do a reasonable job. you need a light source your laptop will do a diffuser for the light or you will see pixels from the monitor , bit of negative envelope will do and something to hold it together i used a clip photo frame with a 35mm hole. i placed a 50mm lens over the negative and used a compact digital to take pictures. Then its largely a case of stitching together inverting and white balance which is simple enough in gimp. The resolution isn't bad either easily higher than a fuji frontier mini lab. Which is what got me in to it being rather annoyed at the scan size on the photo CDs that I got.
Its not that they cant do it but it is much much slower going from 800 prints an hour to around 30 ish
now as the machines stand idle most of the time these days you might be able to get a friendly knowledgeable lab tech to up the scan resolution, and why not if there is no back log.
The digital photography method even with a crude setup shows potential to perform to a high standard.
Are they ?
Two cases spring to mind housing and wages
first housing a tenant gets government money to pay a proportion up to 100% in some cases to pay their landlord. The landlord has a buy to let mortgage which is paid for by the rent received and gives him a comfortable profit. Seems to me the government is subsidizing the landlord clearly the cost of providing that housing is more than if the council was to buy the house pay the mortgage and rent it to the tenant. if the tenant in that house continues to receive government help surely the state are essentially gifting the landlord with free real estate.
second case joe works in freds factory but the wages fred pays joe are not high enough for joe to support him and his family so the government steps in and gives joe a tax credit in order for joes family to get by. lets say that the tax credit is worth 100 dollars then in effect fred is being subsidised to the tune of $100 because without that subsidy fred would have to pay a living wage.
In child care in ireland at least the hse gives private creches money so they can charge lower fees to the parents. This can often lead to millions being paid out to private creches which employ minimum wage workers to look after peoples children and in recent news, it appears to be look after badly.
Certainly seems that there are rich people getting paid means tested benefits with no questions asked and unlike the tenants who lose assistance proportionality to any rise in income landlords are free to buy more property and take even more from the public purse.