If you game only casually and haven't had reason to buy a discrete keyboard or web cam recently, I could see the ignorance. I'm still using a PS/2 keyboard from close to 20 years ago as my daily driver. Even when that goes I have a box of similarly old keyboards to replace it with... Though by that time, it'll be time for a new PC build, which would probably necessitate grabbing one of the slightly newer USB keyboard out of that box. None of this requires going to see the Logitech doodads at Best Buy or going to that section of newegg.
Modern? People in the US care more about Confederacy-era statues than they do about things like consumer protection, healthcare, or human rights. The people in power, anyway.
I think its equally likely that Africa's land will simply get bought up and used by outsiders in neocolonial fashion. China recently bought up some huge percentage of the arable land in Madagascar, for example. With populations still increasing, and food availability to get more shaky due to climate change, nations will start putting pressure on Africa to get land deals in place to feed their own populations.
Meanwhile, the company wants keep the focus on "modern regulatory reform"... Given that this is in Africa, I doubt there were any enforced regulations to begin with.
The guys who program the self driving features are probably different from the guys who are working in materials science trying to improve the batteries. You might be able to move funds from one department to the other, but my guess is that Tesla already has the best minds in the right places, and they would hit diminishing returns trying to bring in fresh blood.
Not that there isn't more talent out there, but that Tesla already has as much talent as it can support efficiently. Hiring more now would lead to diminishing returns. Beyond hiring and moving funds around, I don't know what else you expect an organization like Tesla to do to encourage development in specific areas.
The ACA is too expensive because it preserves the insurance/employer-based health care system, where an entire class of middlemen take their cut, resulting in costs several times what other developed nations have. Pumping more subsidies into that system won't make it more efficient. The only solution is publicly funded healthcare. Then maybe in a couple decades, costs will be under control. Insurance salesman will have to get productive jobs like the rest of us. Boo-hoo.
I find it difficult to believe all the guys in Charlottesville with the Swastikas were celebrating US heritage. Pretty sure they were Nazis, but if you want to argue they were just Hindus that picked an unfortunate color scheme, and happened to get whipped into racially-tinged xenophobia by opportunist politicians, that seems the next most likely option.
Milkdrop does synchronize to the music. How apparent that is will depend on what music you are listening to, and also which visualizations you are using. When I tried it back around 10 years ago, the default visualizations were not very good, downloading packs of new ones was essential.
Nobody pays zero taxes. There's plenty of people who pay no income tax (many of those having large incomes, like our current president) but there is still property tax, sales tax, road tax, phone tax, Netflix tax...
If the left fails to provide a better solution, that only perpetuates the leadership vacuum that brought Trump in the first place. The problem is that this country has spent the last 50+ years on the wrong path, so the adjustments needed to get it back on track will now seem, rightly so, radical. Most people working in the health insurance beaurocracy will need to find new jobs, to take just one example. Our lack of a safety net and debt-based economy will make that transition very difficult. Insurance agents will kick and scream when the corporate welfare gets cut off and they are placed in the same boat where the disadvantaged third of our population has been sitting. And if there's one thing the decades-long healthcare fiasco has shown, its that our government will cater to moneyed interests over the general welfare of its population.
To use a business analogy... You can hire the best employees in the world, but if the management is shit, the company will still struggle to get work done.
Oftentimes what happens is that the company goes under, all the workers are without jobs, and the executives move on to pump'n'dump another business.
These are the people our society holds as role models. This is the free-market efficiency our politicians talk about. Its very efficient at turning capital into more capital. Its not so efficient at providing things and positions of value to society.
People find plenty of ways to worry themselves with it, from adoption, to buying a surrogate parent. When they hit about 45 and have never had a girlfriend, they have this mid life crisis. they start going way out of their way to acquire a kid, like some move to acquire a Land Rover.
Yeah... The way they kept using the phrase "average sized" already tipped me off that they actually meant "fatass". Look at the video, and sure enough, she's like 300 lbs.
The problem is that the well-written manifesto isn't the one that got all the attention. The one that you can skim through and find inconsiderately worded phrases, is the one that got the attention. That makes it easier for people to look at the issue through a political lens. The tone of the paper makes it seem like it's more designed to cause controversy, even as reasoned arguments are presented.
I've scoped this idea too, the comparison to health insurance in the US is incredibly apt. When you use capital as an intermediary, instead of directly providing the needs (healthcare, housing, whatever) that opens up an avenue for useless middlemen to start taking their cut (insurance companies, landlords). To me, thats fraud, waste, and abuse of benefits that were supposed to help the needy.
That's the biggest problem I see with UBI, is that it still operates within that capitalist framework, with all its attendant inefficiencies. It would need to be coupled with extreme price controls for bare necessities like housing... But it would be simpler, and more politically feasible, for the government to just provide the housing directly.
Your implicit assumption is that people feel more fulfillment doing busy-work greeting people at wal-mart than they would, say, raising a family, or making music, or painting, or playing baseball. I don't buy it.
It may not even have been the Cuban government that did it, if it was intentional. It could have been a third party, or a faction within the government that doesn't want relations to go well. A false flag attack.
Or it may not have even been intended to do damage. It might have been some tricksy way they came up with to exfiltrate data, that had unintended effects.
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If you game only casually and haven't had reason to buy a discrete keyboard or web cam recently, I could see the ignorance. I'm still using a PS/2 keyboard from close to 20 years ago as my daily driver. Even when that goes I have a box of similarly old keyboards to replace it with... Though by that time, it'll be time for a new PC build, which would probably necessitate grabbing one of the slightly newer USB keyboard out of that box. None of this requires going to see the Logitech doodads at Best Buy or going to that section of newegg.
Modern? People in the US care more about Confederacy-era statues than they do about things like consumer protection, healthcare, or human rights. The people in power, anyway.
Oh, I know. I saw 101 Dalmatians
I think its equally likely that Africa's land will simply get bought up and used by outsiders in neocolonial fashion. China recently bought up some huge percentage of the arable land in Madagascar, for example. With populations still increasing, and food availability to get more shaky due to climate change, nations will start putting pressure on Africa to get land deals in place to feed their own populations.
Meanwhile, the company wants keep the focus on "modern regulatory reform"... Given that this is in Africa, I doubt there were any enforced regulations to begin with.
But then you don't get the T-shirt, the in-game T-shirt, or the strategy guide gilded with faux gold leaf!
It could have been worse. They could have given us a bunch of shitty novelizations like what MS did with Halo.
The guys who program the self driving features are probably different from the guys who are working in materials science trying to improve the batteries. You might be able to move funds from one department to the other, but my guess is that Tesla already has the best minds in the right places, and they would hit diminishing returns trying to bring in fresh blood. Not that there isn't more talent out there, but that Tesla already has as much talent as it can support efficiently. Hiring more now would lead to diminishing returns. Beyond hiring and moving funds around, I don't know what else you expect an organization like Tesla to do to encourage development in specific areas.
The ACA is too expensive because it preserves the insurance/employer-based health care system, where an entire class of middlemen take their cut, resulting in costs several times what other developed nations have. Pumping more subsidies into that system won't make it more efficient. The only solution is publicly funded healthcare. Then maybe in a couple decades, costs will be under control. Insurance salesman will have to get productive jobs like the rest of us. Boo-hoo.
If you can't live without the name-brand TV shows, you're not ready to cut the cord.
I find it difficult to believe all the guys in Charlottesville with the Swastikas were celebrating US heritage. Pretty sure they were Nazis, but if you want to argue they were just Hindus that picked an unfortunate color scheme, and happened to get whipped into racially-tinged xenophobia by opportunist politicians, that seems the next most likely option.
Milkdrop does synchronize to the music. How apparent that is will depend on what music you are listening to, and also which visualizations you are using. When I tried it back around 10 years ago, the default visualizations were not very good, downloading packs of new ones was essential.
Nobody pays zero taxes. There's plenty of people who pay no income tax (many of those having large incomes, like our current president) but there is still property tax, sales tax, road tax, phone tax, Netflix tax...
If he doesn't live where he works, he probably can't vote on local issues that effect housing there.
I'd describe it as more of a suckup personality. He is fine with going after people that pose no threat to him.
If the left fails to provide a better solution, that only perpetuates the leadership vacuum that brought Trump in the first place. The problem is that this country has spent the last 50+ years on the wrong path, so the adjustments needed to get it back on track will now seem, rightly so, radical. Most people working in the health insurance beaurocracy will need to find new jobs, to take just one example. Our lack of a safety net and debt-based economy will make that transition very difficult. Insurance agents will kick and scream when the corporate welfare gets cut off and they are placed in the same boat where the disadvantaged third of our population has been sitting. And if there's one thing the decades-long healthcare fiasco has shown, its that our government will cater to moneyed interests over the general welfare of its population.
To use a business analogy... You can hire the best employees in the world, but if the management is shit, the company will still struggle to get work done. Oftentimes what happens is that the company goes under, all the workers are without jobs, and the executives move on to pump'n'dump another business. These are the people our society holds as role models. This is the free-market efficiency our politicians talk about. Its very efficient at turning capital into more capital. Its not so efficient at providing things and positions of value to society.
People find plenty of ways to worry themselves with it, from adoption, to buying a surrogate parent. When they hit about 45 and have never had a girlfriend, they have this mid life crisis. they start going way out of their way to acquire a kid, like some move to acquire a Land Rover.
Yeah... The way they kept using the phrase "average sized" already tipped me off that they actually meant "fatass". Look at the video, and sure enough, she's like 300 lbs.
The problem is that the well-written manifesto isn't the one that got all the attention. The one that you can skim through and find inconsiderately worded phrases, is the one that got the attention. That makes it easier for people to look at the issue through a political lens. The tone of the paper makes it seem like it's more designed to cause controversy, even as reasoned arguments are presented.
I've scoped this idea too, the comparison to health insurance in the US is incredibly apt. When you use capital as an intermediary, instead of directly providing the needs (healthcare, housing, whatever) that opens up an avenue for useless middlemen to start taking their cut (insurance companies, landlords). To me, thats fraud, waste, and abuse of benefits that were supposed to help the needy. That's the biggest problem I see with UBI, is that it still operates within that capitalist framework, with all its attendant inefficiencies. It would need to be coupled with extreme price controls for bare necessities like housing... But it would be simpler, and more politically feasible, for the government to just provide the housing directly.
Your implicit assumption is that people feel more fulfillment doing busy-work greeting people at wal-mart than they would, say, raising a family, or making music, or painting, or playing baseball. I don't buy it.
Or, go to Somalia and see the utopia that arises in the absence of meddlesome government.
It may not even have been the Cuban government that did it, if it was intentional. It could have been a third party, or a faction within the government that doesn't want relations to go well. A false flag attack. Or it may not have even been intended to do damage. It might have been some tricksy way they came up with to exfiltrate data, that had unintended effects.
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