US population growth is entirely due to immigration. It's the same story in the entire developed world. The USA is almost treading water as far as internal population growth with a total fertility rate (births per woman) of about 2 (replacement is about 2.1, as birth rates are skewed slightly male). Canada and the EU sit at about 1.6.
When people have the option to control their fertility, by and large, they opt to not have children.
UBI would have to be coupled with population controls
You don't need population controls. You need cheap (preferably publicly funded and given away for free), readily available, and effective (i.e. IUDs/implants) contraceptives, along with an ad blitz to make people aware of the availability of same.
Do that and people will happily not have children, as seen in the entire developed world.
Did you miss the part about not buying a WiiU because there was nothing in the catalogue to make it worth it? A single Zelda game, no matter how good, is not going to change that
With a new console out, Wii Us are likely to come onto the used market, making it significantly cheaper to acquire, potentially enough so that it is worth it for the one game.
So you're saying that if EA stopped putting out regular-remakes of their sports franchises, and instead only released a game when it was good, worthwhile, and offered something new... that would be a bad thing?
No, but their apparent inability to e.g. complete or even progress the story-line of Half Life certainly irks many, since "every 3 months" has turned into "9 years and counting".
For starters, the person being quote-mined is a woman, Dr. Diane Harper.
She had (this was back in 2009) two concerns regarding the vaccine, namely the data about the persistence of immunity (data at the time showed it would last at least 5 years, but they didn't have data about past that) and the way the vaccine was being marketed (she was concerned that the way the vaccine was being advertised may lead to women forgoing screening tests such as pap smears as they figure that they don't need them as they were vaccinated).
Great. It should only require a few years of dealing with tough-on-crime prosecutors and judges to make use of that, whilst your name is being publically dragged through the mud.
It's a little more than that. Autopilot combines adaptive cruise control (matches speed of traffic ahead), lane-centring assist (automatically turns to keep you in the middle of the lane if you drift around), automatic emergency braking (if you get too close to something at speed and it will automatically hit the breaks if you don't), and automatic lane changing (hit the signal and it changes lanes for you).
Except for the lane changing trick, none of these are new things. Adaptive cruise control has existed since the 90s (Mercedes' Distronic system), automatic lane centring since 2003 (Honda's Lane Keep Assist System), and automatic braking also became available in 2003 (Toyota's Pre-Collision System). The latter is also going to become mandatory for all new cars in the USA and EU in 2022.
Not if you're looking at a server in a datacentre. The bad guys can just rent a space in the next rack over and you're totally unaware that they're busy vacuuming up your keys for later exploitation.
No, LTE is a development from GSM and UMTS. They're all developed by the 3GPP.
What they're talking about is equipment based on the old CDMAone/CDMA2000 standards (1X, EV-DO, etc.), which were competitors to GSM and UMTS developed by 3GPP2 (which had nothing to do with 3GPP beyond both developing 3G network standards).
The latter stuff got used a fair bit in Canada due to being better suited to rural environments, as at the time, GSM had that 35km cell limit.
But now that problem is ancient history and everything has gone GSM/UMTS/LTE and the old CDMA2000 stuff is simply obsolete. Their LTE competitor (Ultra Mobile Broadband, aka EV-DO rev C) fell flat when Qualcomm pulled out of their group.
You're looking at the ROI from the wrong direction. The key is the price of robotics going down, not the wages going up.
No jobs will be saved from automation, even if you keep the minimum wage where it is. Even if you cut the minimum wage in half, it won't be stopped.
Foxconn is automating cheap Chinese workers out of their factories. Read that again. Workers who make less than $2/hour are getting replaced with robots.
Foxconn (Who make devices for Apple and basically every other major electronics brand) is replacing Chinese workers (who make the equivalent of about $2/hour) with robotics.
With that in mind, only an idiot would believe that keeping the minimum wage at $7.25 will save any jobs from being replaced by robots.
Probably mostly 2, though it's probably not millennials, but rather the EU. They've made their opposition to capital punishment well known and have already applied export restrictions to their own pharmaceutical companies regarding execution drugs. The next logical step is to apply them to non-EU companies that do business in the EU, under pain of being shut out of their market. "Oh, you want to sell them drugs for executions? Fine, we're not going to buy anything from you. Oh, and those patents You can forget about them.".
And furthermore, making drugs for execution is not a high-profit proposition. You're talking about maybe 50 sales per year. That's nothing and is not worth annoying a supranational organization containing over 700 million potential customers.
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The US population continues to grow every year.
US population growth is entirely due to immigration. It's the same story in the entire developed world. The USA is almost treading water as far as internal population growth with a total fertility rate (births per woman) of about 2 (replacement is about 2.1, as birth rates are skewed slightly male). Canada and the EU sit at about 1.6.
When people have the option to control their fertility, by and large, they opt to not have children.
Every year new Americans are born.
And every year, more Americans die than are born.
Please provide reference to a SCOTUS ruling which affirm arbitration agreements in this circumstance and I'll shut up
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UBI would have to be coupled with population controls
You don't need population controls. You need cheap (preferably publicly funded and given away for free), readily available, and effective (i.e. IUDs/implants) contraceptives, along with an ad blitz to make people aware of the availability of same.
Do that and people will happily not have children, as seen in the entire developed world.
Not even close to only 20 years. Evergreening tactics can at least double that.
Did you miss the part about not buying a WiiU because there was nothing in the catalogue to make it worth it? A single Zelda game, no matter how good, is not going to change that
With a new console out, Wii Us are likely to come onto the used market, making it significantly cheaper to acquire, potentially enough so that it is worth it for the one game.
What you've thought of is basically the second half of Manna.
So you're saying that if EA stopped putting out regular-remakes of their sports franchises, and instead only released a game when it was good, worthwhile, and offered something new... that would be a bad thing?
No, but their apparent inability to e.g. complete or even progress the story-line of Half Life certainly irks many, since "every 3 months" has turned into "9 years and counting".
Hint: if it doesn't have a scheduler, it's not an operating system.
It certainly can be. A single-tasking OS wouldn't need a scheduler.
Valve's structure has both good and bad points.
On the good side, basically everything they produce is pretty great.
On the down side, they don't produce very much and they have almost no ability to hold to any kind of schedule.
There are pretty much two possible ways for it to go.
Your comment is incorrect in every particular.
For starters, the person being quote-mined is a woman, Dr. Diane Harper.
She had (this was back in 2009) two concerns regarding the vaccine, namely the data about the persistence of immunity (data at the time showed it would last at least 5 years, but they didn't have data about past that) and the way the vaccine was being marketed (she was concerned that the way the vaccine was being advertised may lead to women forgoing screening tests such as pap smears as they figure that they don't need them as they were vaccinated).
Great. It should only require a few years of dealing with tough-on-crime prosecutors and judges to make use of that, whilst your name is being publically dragged through the mud.
Such clauses need to be tried in court as well
Already tried.
It's perfectly legal in the USA for corporations to force you into using their bought-and-paid-for "courts".
Or gets extorted from businesses by their legally-enshrined shakedown mobs.
Most police field tests are utter bullshit and will product a positive result off of air.
There are some things that it's perhaps better to "fall behind" on?
Sure. Curing diseases is not one of those things.
or Firefox is forked.
You might have a look at Pale Moon.
It's a little more than that. Autopilot combines adaptive cruise control (matches speed of traffic ahead), lane-centring assist (automatically turns to keep you in the middle of the lane if you drift around), automatic emergency braking (if you get too close to something at speed and it will automatically hit the breaks if you don't), and automatic lane changing (hit the signal and it changes lanes for you).
Except for the lane changing trick, none of these are new things. Adaptive cruise control has existed since the 90s (Mercedes' Distronic system), automatic lane centring since 2003 (Honda's Lane Keep Assist System), and automatic braking also became available in 2003 (Toyota's Pre-Collision System). The latter is also going to become mandatory for all new cars in the USA and EU in 2022.
Not sure where you're getting Sweden from, as Daemen and Rijmen are from Belgium and work at a Belgian university.
Not if you're looking at a server in a datacentre. The bad guys can just rent a space in the next rack over and you're totally unaware that they're busy vacuuming up your keys for later exploitation.
CDMA is useful, but this is about the CDMAone/CDMA2000 network standards, which are ancient and useless.
No, LTE is a development from GSM and UMTS. They're all developed by the 3GPP.
What they're talking about is equipment based on the old CDMAone/CDMA2000 standards (1X, EV-DO, etc.), which were competitors to GSM and UMTS developed by 3GPP2 (which had nothing to do with 3GPP beyond both developing 3G network standards).
The latter stuff got used a fair bit in Canada due to being better suited to rural environments, as at the time, GSM had that 35km cell limit.
But now that problem is ancient history and everything has gone GSM/UMTS/LTE and the old CDMA2000 stuff is simply obsolete. Their LTE competitor (Ultra Mobile Broadband, aka EV-DO rev C) fell flat when Qualcomm pulled out of their group.
You're looking at the ROI from the wrong direction. The key is the price of robotics going down, not the wages going up.
No jobs will be saved from automation, even if you keep the minimum wage where it is. Even if you cut the minimum wage in half, it won't be stopped.
Foxconn is automating cheap Chinese workers out of their factories. Read that again. Workers who make less than $2/hour are getting replaced with robots.
Foxconn (Who make devices for Apple and basically every other major electronics brand) is replacing Chinese workers (who make the equivalent of about $2/hour) with robotics.
With that in mind, only an idiot would believe that keeping the minimum wage at $7.25 will save any jobs from being replaced by robots.
Probably mostly 2, though it's probably not millennials, but rather the EU. They've made their opposition to capital punishment well known and have already applied export restrictions to their own pharmaceutical companies regarding execution drugs. The next logical step is to apply them to non-EU companies that do business in the EU, under pain of being shut out of their market. "Oh, you want to sell them drugs for executions? Fine, we're not going to buy anything from you. Oh, and those patents You can forget about them.".
And furthermore, making drugs for execution is not a high-profit proposition. You're talking about maybe 50 sales per year. That's nothing and is not worth annoying a supranational organization containing over 700 million potential customers.