But the alt-universe posts are really pretty easy to spot.
You just need enough people to be enough of an idiot to influence the rest. You don't NEED to fool all the people all the time. Just enough of them.
And there are plenty of examples around. Anti-vaxers started because you could get autism from it. Enough people believed it to influence others to start looking as to why they could say no.
Perhaps you have heard about Global Warming to not be a thing. Flat Earth Society.
It is not important that it is true. It is important that people talk about it. That way it becomes important. That is how you get 2 people on a TV show. One for it and one against it and that makes it look as if they are both equaly possible.
And then you can start to influence others and that is how you get a movement.
So you went from WallMart to Amazon as the sole provider of your needs. The old King is dead, long live the new King.
Remember what you said is also vaid for Amazon: One thing we know is that when faced with a virtual monopoly in any field or domain, large corporations will screw over the consumer again and again.
As long as it's the victim that's at fault it makes sense.
That is not how Darwin works. Even if the victims are all innocent, Darwin would still be at work. What will happen is that people will be able to jump out of the way extremely fast. Those that can't will die. So in a way traffic rules hold us back. I say, remove all these traffic rules and in just a few hundred or a few thousand generations we will have a population that can avoid traffic and enough sex to replace those that don't.
It is funny that you compare privacy with intercourse, because privacy is a bit like your virginity. You can only lose it once, won't be able to get it back and you are fucked when you give it away.
The thing is that if everybody voted for the third party, THEY would become the people with ALL the power and it won't end well.
The problem is 'winner takes all'. If you would have say 5 parties in government, you would need to add some water in the wine to get it passed and people would have an option to vote what is closes to what they want. e.g. Gay marriage with guns and stronger laws for companies, but no abortion; while taxing the rich more.
No. I have nothing to hide, as I am not ashamed of watching Japanese Tentacle Porn (bookmarked, no need to search for it). That does not mean everybody should be able to see what I do.
It is none of anybodies business what sites I go to, be it porn or Slashdot.
If you are not able to do what you want without being watched, you are not free. Land of the brave, home of the free? Ha! For the people, by the people? Haha!
All these values look nice on a wall, but if you are unable to defend them and if there are no consequences if you violate them, they mean nothing.
It would be a great political solution for airports that already have issues with the flight path of people living around airports. Instead of pissing of a few, you can piss of many more. Why is this a great solution?
You know it won't ever be actually done and you just leak this great plan to the opposition who then can commit political suicide by stealing your leaked plan.
Can it be done with 2 men, because technically that is possible. Can I do it just for fun? Can I do it during a one-night stand. As far as I know sex is only allowed in missionary, with the wife to produce offspring. Anything else is forbidden. And yes, I specifically said 'with the wife' and not 'spouse of a different gender' because the woman has no say in these matters.
Yeah, that is what way too many people think about it. People decide how others should have sex. And even NOT having sex is not an option. One MUST marry and reproduce according to many people.
Perhaps people should watch a few videos on PornHub or the like where it is very clear that there are strict rules and that the sub ALWAYS has the option to back out at ANY moment.
And this is not just in Porn. This is in real life as well.
Also both parties will be doing it because they WANT to. They are WILLING to do it. Limits will be set and must be respected. It has a lot to do with both respect and trust. Something that many people who just do missionary don't have.
Pre-paid is done when you use the pump directly. They will take an amount in authorization (125EUR), you tank, the amount in authorization is placed back and payment is done. Manned service or pumping normally will mean that you pump, go inside and pay there. At some places you need to signal the person inside so he activates the pump.
I have never went inside to put an authorization on my card or pay upfront. Not saying it doesn't exist anywhere, just that I have never seen it in 25+ years of having a drivers license, so it is not a standard.
While extremely entertaining, Mythbusters are pretty bad in using Google and I would never use them as an example of why things are not possible, only to say if they are possible. (Bit like a ping doesn't say much when you don't get anything back)
The difference and this is essential, is that Windows10 was forced, while installing Linux or anything else won't be forced. There was no "no thanks, please never ask me again" option with the update. Bit like if you push down the gas pedal and have an accident or your car pushes down you gas pedal and has an accident.
No, they don't. It is assited driving, not self driving. Yes, it is called an auto-pilot in reference to an auto-pilot in an airplane where a busdriver with a lot of extra schooling is aware of what it can and can't do.
When you start with 10 workers with 1 boss and 5 are replaced by a machine the extra money will go to the 1 boss. Assuming the 5 other workers are their SO, their income per family has just halved, while the income of the boss has doubled. So you now have a bigger wage gap. The money they make together is still the same, but suddenly you have 10 poor people.
Ideally what would happen is that the profit is devided by 11 people and they ALL work half the time. In reality what happens is that they ask 3 of the 5 workers to work even harder, so they can fire two more. So now the 3 need to feed the 10.
It is a bit like famine in Africa. It is not that there is a shortage, the distribution is fucked up.
So how can this be done? My boss has asked me to do overtime. This means in the end that while I work extra hours, somebody else won't be able to do so. So he can do two things (besides the illegal ones) 1) Offer to pay 150% overtime. Not going to do that, because that would mean paying so much extra in taxes on those hours, it becomes stupid to do so (87%) 2) Offer to take those hours at a different moment and that at 1.5. So I do 8 hours overtime. That means I can take 12 hours at any other time.
When will he do that? In an emergency. Otherwise he will see that more people are hired. That means I not only have the money to spend it, but also the time to do so during e.g. my 35 paid holidays.
What is so complicated in simply looking how other countries doe it, e.g. France, Denmark or god forbid China? And copy the good parts?
Because then you would just see the financial parts of it. Let us assume that you do not need to increase taxes to pay for it, there is a lot more to it than just implementing it.
You need to start to understand WHY the bills are so high in the US, compared to e.g. Europe. The answers I see are: 1) Because of insurance due to lawsuits 2) Because the insurance companies are taking so much
Looking at the first, you would need to change a LOT to get this down, if it is really the case and not just doctors playing golf. The second is even harder to change, because of the amount of money that is invested in it. The first step would be to forbid advertising medicine to the public AND to the doctors. The second step would be allowing generic medicine and even demanding it if available. The third would be toget prices lower by single bidding and that can only be fair if you reshape party funding and reduce lobbying by a LOT.Extremely hard to do in a winner takes all political system. It will be yes or no and no place for negotiations or watering down.
This is why it is so hard. Because everything influences everything.
Concerning number 6. I know it is hindsight, but having com, net and org was a bad idea. It would have been better to just stick to countries and then let each country decide how to deal with it.
So.us as default would have been better. If they would have gone with.com.us or not would have been up to them.
"But what about things like Debian that uses.org now and is international?" I say: what about them? They have an address somewhere and that is, I think, the us. That would have mean debian.us. If they would have wanted to be active in every domain, they would have had to register that everywhere. If not, they could have gone for debian.us as default.
The few really international organisations are already covered with.int and no, debian would not be able to get that, nor anybody else..com is not all commercial..net is not all network related and.org are not all (non-profit, see.com) organisations anyway.
Now we have part of it that is location based and part of it that is sort of what they are based, but not really, but some are, but not all and there are exceptions....
Oh well, we are in this mess and it will not get better.
I exchange cashless between friends all the time. We go and have a dinner and one of us pays by card. The others then transfer the money to that person. Where I live this is free. They are working on making it faster, but for now I can wait a day. When with the same bank, it is immediately. No taxes.
Here it works where I am. I pump, I end pumping, I go inside and I pay. Payment can be done by credit, debit, tank card. I hand over the money that is convenient for both and I get my change. Or I hand them my card and I enter my pin and get my card back. No real difference in time.
When I know I won't be buying something else and I pay by card (debit, credit or tank) I will put the card in the machine, enter my pin, take the card out and tank.
I have NEVER needed to go inside before I pump gas. And also none of the people need to do any calculations. They see the amount I need to pay. They enter the amount I hand over. They see the amount I need back. So if the amount is 38.80EUR and I hand over 2x20EUR+2x1.00EUR+1x2.00EUR+2x0.10EUR he sees that I need back 5.00EUR and he hand me a bill back. And that is not just at gas stations. That is everywhere I have been in Europe.
I also like how you look down on people with their "feeble minds". Perhaps you with your feeble mind do not understand that the world is bigger than just your country.
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You just need enough people to be enough of an idiot to influence the rest. You don't NEED to fool all the people all the time. Just enough of them.
And there are plenty of examples around. Anti-vaxers started because you could get autism from it. Enough people believed it to influence others to start looking as to why they could say no.
Perhaps you have heard about Global Warming to not be a thing. Flat Earth Society.
It is not important that it is true. It is important that people talk about it. That way it becomes important. That is how you get 2 people on a TV show. One for it and one against it and that makes it look as if they are both equaly possible.
And then you can start to influence others and that is how you get a movement.
So you went from WallMart to Amazon as the sole provider of your needs. The old King is dead, long live the new King.
Remember what you said is also vaid for Amazon:
One thing we know is that when faced with a virtual monopoly in any field or domain, large corporations will screw over the consumer again and again.
That is not how Darwin works.
Even if the victims are all innocent, Darwin would still be at work.
What will happen is that people will be able to jump out of the way extremely fast. Those that can't will die. So in a way traffic rules hold us back.
I say, remove all these traffic rules and in just a few hundred or a few thousand generations we will have a population that can avoid traffic and enough sex to replace those that don't.
It is funny that you compare privacy with intercourse, because privacy is a bit like your virginity. You can only lose it once, won't be able to get it back and you are fucked when you give it away.
and thanks for all the fish and chips.
But perhaps they could change place with Canada. Europe gets Canada and Northern America gets the UK.
The thing is that if everybody voted for the third party, THEY would become the people with ALL the power and it won't end well.
The problem is 'winner takes all'. If you would have say 5 parties in government, you would need to add some water in the wine to get it passed and people would have an option to vote what is closes to what they want. e.g. Gay marriage with guns and stronger laws for companies, but no abortion; while taxing the rich more.
No. I have nothing to hide, as I am not ashamed of watching Japanese Tentacle Porn (bookmarked, no need to search for it). That does not mean everybody should be able to see what I do.
It is none of anybodies business what sites I go to, be it porn or Slashdot.
If you are not able to do what you want without being watched, you are not free.
Land of the brave, home of the free? Ha!
For the people, by the people? Haha!
All these values look nice on a wall, but if you are unable to defend them and if there are no consequences if you violate them, they mean nothing.
What do you mean they THINK they have that blanck check? To me it looks as if they have it.
This is what you get in a system where the winner takes all.
High demand will lower the price you can ask.
It would be a great political solution for airports that already have issues with the flight path of people living around airports. Instead of pissing of a few, you can piss of many more. Why is this a great solution?
You know it won't ever be actually done and you just leak this great plan to the opposition who then can commit political suicide by stealing your leaked plan.
Can it be done with 2 men, because technically that is possible. Can I do it just for fun? Can I do it during a one-night stand.
As far as I know sex is only allowed in missionary, with the wife to produce offspring. Anything else is forbidden.
And yes, I specifically said 'with the wife' and not 'spouse of a different gender' because the woman has no say in these matters.
Yeah, that is what way too many people think about it. People decide how others should have sex. And even NOT having sex is not an option. One MUST marry and reproduce according to many people.
Perhaps people should watch a few videos on PornHub or the like where it is very clear that there are strict rules and that the sub ALWAYS has the option to back out at ANY moment.
And this is not just in Porn. This is in real life as well.
Also both parties will be doing it because they WANT to. They are WILLING to do it. Limits will be set and must be respected. It has a lot to do with both respect and trust. Something that many people who just do missionary don't have.
Tell that to the people who died.
I don't. I also was not talking about a savings account.
Spend the money. No more interest. No more taxes. So "Compulsory tax. For now."
Pre-paid is done when you use the pump directly. They will take an amount in authorization (125EUR), you tank, the amount in authorization is placed back and payment is done.
Manned service or pumping normally will mean that you pump, go inside and pay there. At some places you need to signal the person inside so he activates the pump.
I have never went inside to put an authorization on my card or pay upfront. Not saying it doesn't exist anywhere, just that I have never seen it in 25+ years of having a drivers license, so it is not a standard.
So please explain how a pilot fell out of the window of the cockpit after it broke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The window is not underneath him http://www.bac1-11jet.co.uk/N9...
While extremely entertaining, Mythbusters are pretty bad in using Google and I would never use them as an example of why things are not possible, only to say if they are possible. (Bit like a ping doesn't say much when you don't get anything back)
The difference and this is essential, is that Windows10 was forced, while installing Linux or anything else won't be forced.
There was no "no thanks, please never ask me again" option with the update.
Bit like if you push down the gas pedal and have an accident or your car pushes down you gas pedal and has an accident.
No, they don't. It is assited driving, not self driving. Yes, it is called an auto-pilot in reference to an auto-pilot in an airplane where a busdriver with a lot of extra schooling is aware of what it can and can't do.
We need to re-evaluate what time is worth.
When you start with 10 workers with 1 boss and 5 are replaced by a machine the extra money will go to the 1 boss. Assuming the 5 other workers are their SO, their income per family has just halved, while the income of the boss has doubled.
So you now have a bigger wage gap. The money they make together is still the same, but suddenly you have 10 poor people.
Ideally what would happen is that the profit is devided by 11 people and they ALL work half the time. In reality what happens is that they ask 3 of the 5 workers to work even harder, so they can fire two more. So now the 3 need to feed the 10.
It is a bit like famine in Africa. It is not that there is a shortage, the distribution is fucked up.
So how can this be done? My boss has asked me to do overtime. This means in the end that while I work extra hours, somebody else won't be able to do so. So he can do two things (besides the illegal ones)
1) Offer to pay 150% overtime.
Not going to do that, because that would mean paying so much extra in taxes on those hours, it becomes stupid to do so (87%)
2) Offer to take those hours at a different moment and that at 1.5. So I do 8 hours overtime. That means I can take 12 hours at any other time.
When will he do that? In an emergency. Otherwise he will see that more people are hired. That means I not only have the money to spend it, but also the time to do so during e.g. my 35 paid holidays.
Because then you would just see the financial parts of it.
Let us assume that you do not need to increase taxes to pay for it, there is a lot more to it than just implementing it.
You need to start to understand WHY the bills are so high in the US, compared to e.g. Europe. The answers I see are:
1) Because of insurance due to lawsuits
2) Because the insurance companies are taking so much
Looking at the first, you would need to change a LOT to get this down, if it is really the case and not just doctors playing golf.
The second is even harder to change, because of the amount of money that is invested in it. The first step would be to forbid advertising medicine to the public AND to the doctors.
The second step would be allowing generic medicine and even demanding it if available.
The third would be toget prices lower by single bidding and that can only be fair if you reshape party funding and reduce lobbying by a LOT.Extremely hard to do in a winner takes all political system. It will be yes or no and no place for negotiations or watering down.
This is why it is so hard. Because everything influences everything.
They will then say 'but we are not an outsourcing company' just like Uber isn't a taxi company.
Concerning number 6. I know it is hindsight, but having com, net and org was a bad idea. It would have been better to just stick to countries and then let each country decide how to deal with it.
So .us as default would have been better. If they would have gone with .com.us or not would have been up to them.
"But what about things like Debian that uses .org now and is international?" I say: what about them? They have an address somewhere and that is, I think, the us. That would have mean debian.us. If they would have wanted to be active in every domain, they would have had to register that everywhere. If not, they could have gone for debian.us as default.
The few really international organisations are already covered with .int and no, debian would not be able to get that, nor anybody else. .com is not all commercial. .net is not all network related and .org are not all (non-profit, see .com) organisations anyway.
Now we have part of it that is location based and part of it that is sort of what they are based, but not really, but some are, but not all and there are exceptions ....
Oh well, we are in this mess and it will not get better.
But she doesn't suck like your current one. She can suck a golf ball through a garden hose,
I exchange cashless between friends all the time. We go and have a dinner and one of us pays by card. The others then transfer the money to that person.
Where I live this is free. They are working on making it faster, but for now I can wait a day. When with the same bank, it is immediately.
No taxes.
Here it works where I am. I pump, I end pumping, I go inside and I pay. Payment can be done by credit, debit, tank card. I hand over the money that is convenient for both and I get my change. Or I hand them my card and I enter my pin and get my card back. No real difference in time.
When I know I won't be buying something else and I pay by card (debit, credit or tank) I will put the card in the machine, enter my pin, take the card out and tank.
I have NEVER needed to go inside before I pump gas. And also none of the people need to do any calculations. They see the amount I need to pay. They enter the amount I hand over. They see the amount I need back. So if the amount is 38.80EUR and I hand over 2x20EUR+2x1.00EUR+1x2.00EUR+2x0.10EUR he sees that I need back 5.00EUR and he hand me a bill back. And that is not just at gas stations. That is everywhere I have been in Europe.
I also like how you look down on people with their "feeble minds". Perhaps you with your feeble mind do not understand that the world is bigger than just your country.