I get it. You pine for the days when you could pick on homosexuals and when you could grope women and never suffer any stigma. Ah my, it will be a good life for sexual predators like you once your behavior can be masked with "I'm just a guy being a guy..."
There are women on sex offender registries as well. It isn't a registry of men, it's a registry of sex offenders. Now I certainly agree some people end up on them that shouldn't, but in general, if you rape someone or molest a child, short of branding that fact on your forehead, a registry seems a good idea.
Taxation is the only way any civilization can function. Taxation has been a feature of civilization since the beginning of civilization. Some of the earliest examples of proto-writing were basically ledgers used by early civilizations to track taxes.
Get over it. You live in the society, you get to pay a share for that society's function. Your liberty stems from the right to elect representatives to the legislative assemblies that enact taxation legislation. Your liberty does not extend to you not having a moral and lawful duty to pay taxes. Fuck off with your sociopathic selfish "I'm being robbed" crap.
It always strikes me that the US implements socialism, it's just that the need to dress it up in free market Libertarian clothes means it is implemented badly. But UBI is inevitable. NOt today, not tomorrow, probably not even in 20 years, but I expect by the last half of this century it will be implemented in most, if not all, industrialized countries. I have no idea what countries like India, China and Mexico will do, seeing as they've largely structured their economies on being cheaper than Western workers, and by extension Western robots. Maybe they'll have reconstructed their economic engines by that point/
Rome used to give bread to the mob, because when they didn't, food riots would break out and then you'd see some real violence.
As it is, automation is going to mean a lot of jobs, even low skilled service jobs will disappear over the next half century. So you can buy into your Libertarian-fueled dystopia all you want, but back in the real world, where governments have to deal with real problems, UBI is going to happen, and you can't take your whole "the violence inherent in the system" crap and annoy your relatives with it.
A singular advantage in a BI scheme is that it can shrink down a government's welfare fraud investigation system, as many of the forms of fraud seen in most unemployment/welfare benefits systems all but disappear. Depending on how BI is implemented, there might still be some gaming of the system for child and/or marital benefits, but this is more an argument for a flat BI system. But, as you say, there are multiple BI schemes out there, and each one has to be analyzed to determine overall costs both in the form of expenditures and in governance costs.
UBI is not about replacing work, it's about a universal backstop so that if you cannot find work, or sufficient work for the basic necessities, you will be assured enough to pay for the roof, heat and food. Presumably, in a UBI world, high income earners would essentially give all the UBI back in the form of taxes.
Sooner or later UBI will have to happen. Automation is going to remake the working world as profoundly as the Industrial Revolution did.
Java's penetration is still massive. Even if Java is in decline now (a claim I see little evidence for) it has already achieved the same status as COBOL, which means it is so embedded, particular in the enterprise world and in major financial systems and the like, that it will be around for decades.
I would say yes, that within economic integration, there would have inevitably been a slow march towards renewed conflict. The Germans and French, through the various iterations from the collapse of the Carolingian Empire as a unified political entity, have spent centuries at each others' throats. Economic integration between Germany, France and the Low Countries has been absolutely critical to this extended period of peace.
NATO's role has been unifying as well, but by and large its purpose has always been to prevent Russian invasion of Western (and now large portions of Central and Eastern Europe).
Economic integration was seen as critical by both the pre-eminent European powers and by the US as a means of making another general conflict impossible. Even Winston Churchill fully believed that economic and partial political integration were necessary to prevent another general European war:
We cannot aim at anything less than the Union of Europe as a whole, and we look forward with confidence to the day when that Union will be achieved.
Developers didn't make IE-based sites because they were lazy, they did it because for a long stretch of after Netscape's collapse IE was the predominant browser, and because it was so horrible and broken, a great deal of effort had to be put in to making the workarounds work. It was only as alternative browsers, Firefox, and then later Safari and Chrome, crushed IE's dominance did Microsoft finally go "Oh my, we'd best make some changes."
As it is, IE is still around, a sort of COBOL of our age, and Edge is still a beta browser that has thus far resisted adoption to the point that Microsoft tries to bribe people to use it, or force them via Cortana (demonstrating once again that the same old mentality still rules the roost).
Have you got amnesia? They stacked the committee with their "partners" to gain passage for a deliberately terrible document format. I don't give a flying fuck what Sun did or didn't do. The fact is that Microsoft played its same old game of undermining a standard, so I have no interest in using any of its technologies to underpin any of my work. Microsoft is fucking evil, always has been evil, and always will be. Last time I checked, I don't need.NET for anything, so I feel no reason whatsoever to use any development platform that Microsoft has any influence over. Microsoft can go get fucked.
Except that's not really what happened. Both Ireland and Apple knew this tax deal would almost certainly eventually end up in the courts, seeing as the deal violated EU rules that Ireland had agreed to as part of its membership in the Common Market. This is more like you and your accountant cooking up a tax avoidance scheme, knowing that the IRS might eventually catch up with you, but you taking the gamble on the possibility that they won't (and tax authorities often take years to finally take down shady tax avoidance schemes).
Ireland has been colluding with a number of non-EU companies to offer cheap tax rates. To my mind, what Apple, Microsoft and the rest have been doing is the taxation equivalent of money laundering.
Can't Ireland AND those corrupt assholes both be breaking the rules? How does misconduct by the President of the European Commission make Ireland's illegal tax deal with Apple alright?
Strictly speaking, it was Ireland that broke the rules. The effect is that Apple's tax deal violated EU rules, and therefore Ireland must collect the taxes from Apple.
Who said the EU raises taxes? The EU, as the inheritor of the European common market, sets the general rules about how taxes will be applied. It has to, because otherwise you would get exactly what happened with Apple; find a friendly EU country that will give you an absurdly low tax rate, but then enjoy unimpeded access to the rest of the Common Market.
Do you even understand what the European Union or the European common market is?
Yes, the outcome was pre-determined, because Ireland was violating the terms of its membership in the Common Market. This is like a thief caught red handed bemoaning the fact that the "fix was in".
To point 1: Have you even read a single history book on Europe? The current post-war period is probably the longest stretch of general peace Western and Central Europe has ever had.
To point 2: How is a common market and currency contributing to cultural homogeneity? Is the US homogeneous? Is China? Is Canada?
To point 3: The population of the EU is over 500 million people. Why does 200,000 employees seem so outrageous?
To point 4: There are a common set of rules governing the Common Market.This adds a layer, but the benefits of companies being able to trade on that open market largely unimpeded by tariffs and other trade restrictions more than make up for extra regulation.
To point 5: The European Union is a creature of treaty, a multilateral treaty between all its member states. It isn't a national government, so trying to compare it to one is absurd.
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I get it. You pine for the days when you could pick on homosexuals and when you could grope women and never suffer any stigma. Ah my, it will be a good life for sexual predators like you once your behavior can be masked with "I'm just a guy being a guy..."
Let me ask you straight. What percentage of the world's Muslims are terrorists?
There are women on sex offender registries as well. It isn't a registry of men, it's a registry of sex offenders. Now I certainly agree some people end up on them that shouldn't, but in general, if you rape someone or molest a child, short of branding that fact on your forehead, a registry seems a good idea.
The overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists.
Taxation is the only way any civilization can function. Taxation has been a feature of civilization since the beginning of civilization. Some of the earliest examples of proto-writing were basically ledgers used by early civilizations to track taxes.
Get over it. You live in the society, you get to pay a share for that society's function. Your liberty stems from the right to elect representatives to the legislative assemblies that enact taxation legislation. Your liberty does not extend to you not having a moral and lawful duty to pay taxes. Fuck off with your sociopathic selfish "I'm being robbed" crap.
It always strikes me that the US implements socialism, it's just that the need to dress it up in free market Libertarian clothes means it is implemented badly. But UBI is inevitable. NOt today, not tomorrow, probably not even in 20 years, but I expect by the last half of this century it will be implemented in most, if not all, industrialized countries. I have no idea what countries like India, China and Mexico will do, seeing as they've largely structured their economies on being cheaper than Western workers, and by extension Western robots. Maybe they'll have reconstructed their economic engines by that point/
Did Donald Trump advocate for a Muslim registry? Yes or no?
Rome used to give bread to the mob, because when they didn't, food riots would break out and then you'd see some real violence.
As it is, automation is going to mean a lot of jobs, even low skilled service jobs will disappear over the next half century. So you can buy into your Libertarian-fueled dystopia all you want, but back in the real world, where governments have to deal with real problems, UBI is going to happen, and you can't take your whole "the violence inherent in the system" crap and annoy your relatives with it.
A singular advantage in a BI scheme is that it can shrink down a government's welfare fraud investigation system, as many of the forms of fraud seen in most unemployment/welfare benefits systems all but disappear. Depending on how BI is implemented, there might still be some gaming of the system for child and/or marital benefits, but this is more an argument for a flat BI system. But, as you say, there are multiple BI schemes out there, and each one has to be analyzed to determine overall costs both in the form of expenditures and in governance costs.
UBI is not about replacing work, it's about a universal backstop so that if you cannot find work, or sufficient work for the basic necessities, you will be assured enough to pay for the roof, heat and food. Presumably, in a UBI world, high income earners would essentially give all the UBI back in the form of taxes.
Sooner or later UBI will have to happen. Automation is going to remake the working world as profoundly as the Industrial Revolution did.
As are yours delicate little Trumpite snowflake.
Java's penetration is still massive. Even if Java is in decline now (a claim I see little evidence for) it has already achieved the same status as COBOL, which means it is so embedded, particular in the enterprise world and in major financial systems and the like, that it will be around for decades.
He's a traitor! He wants to end reliance on fossil fuels. In Tumpmerica, he will be arrested, charged with crimes against coal, and thrown in prison!
I would say yes, that within economic integration, there would have inevitably been a slow march towards renewed conflict. The Germans and French, through the various iterations from the collapse of the Carolingian Empire as a unified political entity, have spent centuries at each others' throats. Economic integration between Germany, France and the Low Countries has been absolutely critical to this extended period of peace.
NATO's role has been unifying as well, but by and large its purpose has always been to prevent Russian invasion of Western (and now large portions of Central and Eastern Europe).
Economic integration was seen as critical by both the pre-eminent European powers and by the US as a means of making another general conflict impossible. Even Winston Churchill fully believed that economic and partial political integration were necessary to prevent another general European war:
Churchill - 1947
They weren't complying with the law.
Developers didn't make IE-based sites because they were lazy, they did it because for a long stretch of after Netscape's collapse IE was the predominant browser, and because it was so horrible and broken, a great deal of effort had to be put in to making the workarounds work. It was only as alternative browsers, Firefox, and then later Safari and Chrome, crushed IE's dominance did Microsoft finally go "Oh my, we'd best make some changes."
As it is, IE is still around, a sort of COBOL of our age, and Edge is still a beta browser that has thus far resisted adoption to the point that Microsoft tries to bribe people to use it, or force them via Cortana (demonstrating once again that the same old mentality still rules the roost).
Have you got amnesia? They stacked the committee with their "partners" to gain passage for a deliberately terrible document format. I don't give a flying fuck what Sun did or didn't do. The fact is that Microsoft played its same old game of undermining a standard, so I have no interest in using any of its technologies to underpin any of my work. Microsoft is fucking evil, always has been evil, and always will be. Last time I checked, I don't need .NET for anything, so I feel no reason whatsoever to use any development platform that Microsoft has any influence over. Microsoft can go get fucked.
Except that's not really what happened. Both Ireland and Apple knew this tax deal would almost certainly eventually end up in the courts, seeing as the deal violated EU rules that Ireland had agreed to as part of its membership in the Common Market. This is more like you and your accountant cooking up a tax avoidance scheme, knowing that the IRS might eventually catch up with you, but you taking the gamble on the possibility that they won't (and tax authorities often take years to finally take down shady tax avoidance schemes).
Ireland has been colluding with a number of non-EU companies to offer cheap tax rates. To my mind, what Apple, Microsoft and the rest have been doing is the taxation equivalent of money laundering.
Can't Ireland AND those corrupt assholes both be breaking the rules? How does misconduct by the President of the European Commission make Ireland's illegal tax deal with Apple alright?
Strictly speaking, it was Ireland that broke the rules. The effect is that Apple's tax deal violated EU rules, and therefore Ireland must collect the taxes from Apple.
Who said the EU raises taxes? The EU, as the inheritor of the European common market, sets the general rules about how taxes will be applied. It has to, because otherwise you would get exactly what happened with Apple; find a friendly EU country that will give you an absurdly low tax rate, but then enjoy unimpeded access to the rest of the Common Market.
Do you even understand what the European Union or the European common market is?
Yes, the outcome was pre-determined, because Ireland was violating the terms of its membership in the Common Market. This is like a thief caught red handed bemoaning the fact that the "fix was in".
To point 1: Have you even read a single history book on Europe? The current post-war period is probably the longest stretch of general peace Western and Central Europe has ever had.
To point 2: How is a common market and currency contributing to cultural homogeneity? Is the US homogeneous? Is China? Is Canada?
To point 3: The population of the EU is over 500 million people. Why does 200,000 employees seem so outrageous?
To point 4: There are a common set of rules governing the Common Market.This adds a layer, but the benefits of companies being able to trade on that open market largely unimpeded by tariffs and other trade restrictions more than make up for extra regulation.
To point 5: The European Union is a creature of treaty, a multilateral treaty between all its member states. It isn't a national government, so trying to compare it to one is absurd.
So, in the absence of any evidence, people just concoct conspiracy theories.. News at 11.
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