... Space Patrol controls nuclear warheads in orbit around Earth, and its mission is to nuke any country that has been tempted to go to war with its neighbors.
Because nuking them from orbit is the only way to be sure. (or so I've heard)
Hollywood writers have been getting dumber and dumber over time. They want cheap writers who don't know to ask for more money, too young to remember the writer's strike, and they grab a bunch and shove them in a room.
Sociopaths manipulate in various ways: intimidation, anger, suppression, force, charming, acting emphatically. Many are admired or shunned and often failed to be recognized as such.
What would you do to, say, your children? Would you give them, say, $1K/month and then say, "there: buy your food, rent a room, etc. and come next month for more" or would you provide them food, shelter, education and healthcare for free and then, maybe some pocket money on top of that for they to expend as they see fit?
Why shouldn't be exactly the same case for the population in general?
Say you opt to provide your child "an education". To where? Will you pay to send your child anywhere he/she wants to go. More expensive schools are not always the better or more appropriate choices. Will you decide for your child which schools you're willing to pay for? Instead, you could provide them a stipend (UBI) -- that you can afford -- and let them make their own choices. Perhaps they will choose a less expensive school, that satisfies their educational needs, and spend more on shelter, or the other way around. The same can said for all the things on your list: food, shelter, education, healthcare, etc...
People should make choices based on their own resources. A UBI may cover some, most or all of what they want and/or need. If not, they can set their priorities and get (extra) work to cover them. Simply saying "we'll pay for whatever you want" removes any personal responsibility from the equation.
Nothing, but that's not how it works. Rent won't go up that high or that fast.
Well, since YOU say it won't, I guess it is all roses and peaches... You might consider thinking and learning for a change, you might discover that what you think you know is wrong. Of course, you won't do that, because most people prefer to have their opinions define them rather than be separate from them. You'll likely cling to your beliefs regardless of any evidence proving otherwise, just to avoid being "wrong".
It seems that everything you just ranted about could also be applied to you - unless you actually *do* know everything. Not trying to pick a fight, just sayin'.
... people are being tricked or forced into upgrading to Windows 10...
Judges recently ruled raped women can sue an enabling web site. Can we get this extended to cover what Microsoft is doing to our PCs? In this case they're both the aggressor *and* enabling web site.
Let me rephrase that: if someone can't keep indentation straight, especially with the fact that an editor is doing most of the work anyway, I wouldn't want them checking in code for any language regardless of whether the white space was syntactically significant or not.
If someone can't manage their whitespace, I wouldn't want them anywhere near real code.
People shouldn't have to worry about and/or manage their white space. That Python cares is a stupid feature of the language. Yes, at some level, it's elegant, but not additionally useful and is more a result of Guido's ego than anything else. The language would be just as powerful, useful and productive using block delimiters but w/o the fucking around with problems caused by a extra or missing space on a line. I'll stick with Perl.
His argument is flawed because it just passes the buck.
Does the superior civilization who is running the simulation deduce that it too must be in one by the same reasoning?
Let's see you keep a wallet with cash in your Olympic sized Speedo while you're between races.
Depending on how large the available rings, male swimmers could carry them *in* their Speedo -- though waving it at or plunking it down on the pos-terminal may be problematic. No word yet on whether Visa will be offering a version of the ring suitable for piercings.
Why do these social media companies insist on telling me what I want and like to see when I visit the site?
How else are they going to get you to see, hear, think about and want the things their *actual* customers (advertisers) want to you to see, hear, think about and want? How else are they going to drive social, political and economic issues to their liking?
10000 years later there will still be linux users and they will still be playing pong and tetris and having one windows box hidden somewhere offline just , just for "gaming".
The descendant corporation of Microsoft will pushing out a recommended update to "upgrade" to Windows 10,000.
... all of our heavy industry will be moved off-planet,"...
Yes, because smelting steel in zero-gravity will be lots of fun and can be powered 100% with solar. Not to mention the easy access to all the raw materials in Earth orbit.
Doing a few spot checks of the Cable Card data on my new Tivo and actually in my TV seems to show a CCI bit value of 0 (Copy Freely) on everything I've checked, but this can be set on a show-by-show basis and I've read comments by people using Cox that they've been inconsistent across the country and even within the same locale. I just decided it wasn't work the hassle at this point and the Tivo Bolt is really pretty nice.
I've read in several places that Verizon FiOS always set the CCI to Copy Freely btw - not that I'm a fan of Verizon.
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Remember all the gas masks that were issued during the London Blitz?
Not to pick nits, but I imagine that 99.999% of /.ers (may) "know of" rather than "remember" them - The Blitz ended 75 years ago.
... Space Patrol controls nuclear warheads in orbit around Earth, and its mission is to nuke any country that has been tempted to go to war with its neighbors.
Because nuking them from orbit is the only way to be sure. (or so I've heard)
Hollywood writers have been getting dumber and dumber over time. They want cheap writers who don't know to ask for more money, too young to remember the writer's strike, and they grab a bunch and shove them in a room.
Ya, but if you were to give a bunch of these writers enough time, you might just get Shakespeare.
As though I needed another reason to *not* visit Oklahoma. It's now officially the Alabama of the South.
...so anyone who downloads a FreeBSD 10.3 image from the FreeBSD Foundation will get those investments from Microsoft built in to the OS.
Clippy: I see you're running FreeBSD. Would you like to upgrade to Windows 10 now or reschedule for later?
Is 'microwave' the new international unit of measure?
Does it refer to ovens or waves of electromagnetic radiation in the 3GHz range? I think the distinction might be important.
This was my first thought too. Further research revealed the reference is to the little wave the Queen of England does.
Sociopaths manipulate in various ways:
intimidation, anger, suppression, force, charming, acting emphatically.
Many are admired or shunned and often failed to be recognized as such.
Some run for President...
There *IS* a system already that supplies shelter, food, education, and health care.
It's called "prison".
Hate to break it to you, but, since suicide is illegal, "life" is a prison, except it *doesn't* supply shelter, food, education, and health care.
What would you do to, say, your children? Would you give them, say, $1K/month and then say, "there: buy your food, rent a room, etc. and come next month for more" or would you provide them food, shelter, education and healthcare for free and then, maybe some pocket money on top of that for they to expend as they see fit?
Why shouldn't be exactly the same case for the population in general?
Say you opt to provide your child "an education". To where? Will you pay to send your child anywhere he/she wants to go. More expensive schools are not always the better or more appropriate choices. Will you decide for your child which schools you're willing to pay for? Instead, you could provide them a stipend (UBI) -- that you can afford -- and let them make their own choices. Perhaps they will choose a less expensive school, that satisfies their educational needs, and spend more on shelter, or the other way around. The same can said for all the things on your list: food, shelter, education, healthcare, etc...
People should make choices based on their own resources. A UBI may cover some, most or all of what they want and/or need. If not, they can set their priorities and get (extra) work to cover them. Simply saying "we'll pay for whatever you want" removes any personal responsibility from the equation.
Nothing, but that's not how it works. Rent won't go up that high or that fast.
Well, since YOU say it won't, I guess it is all roses and peaches... You might consider thinking and learning for a change, you might discover that what you think you know is wrong. Of course, you won't do that, because most people prefer to have their opinions define them rather than be separate from them. You'll likely cling to your beliefs regardless of any evidence proving otherwise, just to avoid being "wrong".
It seems that everything you just ranted about could also be applied to you - unless you actually *do* know everything. Not trying to pick a fight, just sayin'.
... people are being tricked or forced into upgrading to Windows 10 ...
Judges recently ruled raped women can sue an enabling web site. Can we get this extended to cover what Microsoft is doing to our PCs? In this case they're both the aggressor *and* enabling web site.
No means No Microsoft.
Let me rephrase that: if someone can't keep indentation straight, especially with the fact that an editor is doing most of the work anyway, I wouldn't want them checking in code for any language regardless of whether the white space was syntactically significant or not.
That I can definitely agree with.
If someone can't manage their whitespace, I wouldn't want them anywhere near real code.
People shouldn't have to worry about and/or manage their white space. That Python cares is a stupid feature of the language. Yes, at some level, it's elegant, but not additionally useful and is more a result of Guido's ego than anything else. The language would be just as powerful, useful and productive using block delimiters but w/o the fucking around with problems caused by a extra or missing space on a line. I'll stick with Perl.
... I have a tattoo covering my entire body - of me, only taller. (Thanks Steven Wright)
.. want the cure to cancer.
I'd like a pony.
To upgrade to the new version of the software, which you already said you didn't want.
Microsoft seems to have trouble understanding that "no" means "no" - if you know what I mean...
His argument is flawed because it just passes the buck. Does the superior civilization who is running the simulation deduce that it too must be in one by the same reasoning?
Another case of Turtles all the way down
Let's see you keep a wallet with cash in your Olympic sized Speedo while you're between races.
Depending on how large the available rings, male swimmers could carry them *in* their Speedo -- though waving it at or plunking it down on the pos-terminal may be problematic. No word yet on whether Visa will be offering a version of the ring suitable for piercings.
Why do these social media companies insist on telling me what I want and like to see when I visit the site?
How else are they going to get you to see, hear, think about and want the things their *actual* customers (advertisers) want to you to see, hear, think about and want? How else are they going to drive social, political and economic issues to their liking?
10000 years later there will still be linux users and they will still be playing pong and tetris and having one windows box hidden somewhere offline just , just for "gaming".
The descendant corporation of Microsoft will pushing out a recommended update to "upgrade" to Windows 10,000.
Is it just me or does it start to seem like ol' Elon is going senile?
He's rich, so he's just eccentric. And by that, I mean his axis is off center.
Trump will make something even longer and deeper in the US once elected.
And get Mexico to build and pay for it - along with the fence. Obviously, the tunnel will to go under said fence.
Sheesh, that's a bit harsh. Don't you think? I mean, it's not like they're driving '93 Escort wagons.
There are many levels of class and states of cleanliness and, as recent US politics has shown, many more combinations.
... all of our heavy industry will be moved off-planet," ...
Yes, because smelting steel in zero-gravity will be lots of fun and can be powered 100% with solar. Not to mention the easy access to all the raw materials in Earth orbit.
Doing a few spot checks of the Cable Card data on my new Tivo and actually in my TV seems to show a CCI bit value of 0 (Copy Freely) on everything I've checked, but this can be set on a show-by-show basis and I've read comments by people using Cox that they've been inconsistent across the country and even within the same locale. I just decided it wasn't work the hassle at this point and the Tivo Bolt is really pretty nice.
I've read in several places that Verizon FiOS always set the CCI to Copy Freely btw - not that I'm a fan of Verizon.