The ads and tracking is better now?
All that "free" "current location or directions" is paid for by the users. The user is the product.
The idea was to remove the smartphone, not the internet.
So the person would have the best maps that could be printed on the day:)
The only thing that is "better" now is ads have sound and location tracking:)
How much would the USA have to spend of that "17% of GDP" on working tax payers getting UBI money for nothing?
At some point working people are going to have to work and pay taxes.
Taxes that support the "free" stuff for everyone not working.
Re "expensive-to-administer welfare services" are limited to people not working.
What happens when everyone gets a UBI and no more government services are offered?
Suddenly the poor and people with medical problems have to spend all their UBI on services they once got from the gov?
What to do then? Make the UBI bigger to support the poor again?
Then the money runs out.
Nations can only pay for some many people doing nothing.
And health care.
And a mil.
And pensions.
And roads.
And...
Giving everyone free money including the tax payers will take too much money from all other services and gov sectors.
What money for citizens not working, not in education? Use means testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Is the person a citizen? Not an illegal migrant?
Got a bank account? Photo ID?
Not working? Then they can a nice support payment.
Start education? Thats a better payment.
Found work and become a productive tax payer again? The payment stops.
No UBI needed as people move from work to not working, to education.
Re "someone creates usable software and provides it freely"
When does "usable software and provides it freely" become just another EU tax payers funded project?
The same EU support every year? Then every month?
How many other "free" projects will get that kind of EU support?
That would need more EU tax payers paying more and more.
With all the EU projects spending more EU tax payers money on "free" stuff that extra money for the gov is getting difficult to extract.
The Communist party has always tracked its education system.
Uniforms are part of that Communist culture.
Then who got into the mil, who was politically trusted to travel to the West.
The Social Credit System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now the Communists want to know where all their trusted people are.
People had paper maps of nations, cities.
Needed to call a person? They had a answering machine, a secretary.
Games? That was a desktop computer, board games.
Wanted to see the new tech? Printed catalog.
To meet someone/sell something? A classified magazine/contact magazine.
Read something? That was a library, a book shop. Microfiche.
The world worked before walking around with tracking, games, maps and ads on a "smartphone"
The smart part is the tacking of why a person wants/needs to book a flight.
Was it something they had a long search history for?
A 24 hour start with no past interest.
Something they do every year?
Thats the ad magic.
The past rules are not changing.
Nobody is getting a free pass to pollute *more*..
Future laws and rules will get more consideration as any government can do as they are in government.
The problem AC is that the city tax rates can no longer look after city streets.
The skilled and expensive tech workers face health risks and crime wondering around in a city for hours.
Skilled workers that then are too sick to work.
Then move to better much managed part of the USA?
The brand then has to attract people into that city.
What are the reviews of that part of the city? Parked RV, waste, trash and crime, tent cities? Taxes and housing costs?
Who wants to study for years and have no quality of life? While paying housing costs and new city taxes?
City governments demanding more in city tax, placing demands on the tech sector.
The solutions are
Gentrification around the tech sector.
To clean up the streets and allow city police to enforce laws.
The USA and UK attempted generations of "screen time" to every community for decades.
The results are the same over generations. Tests show few improvements for average students for all the tax payers money used every decade.
A new computer lab cant teach everyone to a new IQ level.
More computers for all did not work.
Better teachers? New buildings? Same failed results every generation over average groups.
The "internet" for all in education did not give great results.
Robot kits with an advance GUI? A new computer code with a new code of conduct?
Lets try more money again? More computers again?
Screen time would have resulted the 1980's UK emerging as a 1990's tech super power. All the UK did was buy in US tech and play US computer games.
Remember South Vietnam, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Tibet and ST CIRCUS, 1991 Kurdish uprising.
Now the truth sets in again with big US tech brands.
The USA used the Kurds for its own strategy of tension https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in the region.
Not to allow a US approved and supported "Kurdistan" to emerge.
Always read the fine print when the US gov and mil offers "support" for "democracy" and "freedom fighters".
In the old days the US gov and mil had to care about a working POTS service.
It was the only way to get another shift of skilled workers to the gov, chemical plant, nuclear plant, power plant, hospital, police.
So the design was good and the service worked to important and skilled people who had another service installed for "work".
At the larger telco centres, staff "worked" in shifts to ensure someone responsible with skills was at work 24/7.
Villages, towns and cities all over the USA had advanced and well kept telco services that could connect a call.
The telco network had "redundancy" as the US gov, contractors, private sector and mil had to ensure their best "workers" could be contacted.
That level of service and skill changed with the pager, cell phones and now the "internet" networks.
Automation removes that 24/7 shift of union workers needed in US communities.
Network design changed to use a different type of network that would need a contractor to be called in.
Why have two network ready as redundancy when one network and a contractor can offer the same "type" of service for years?
Whats a few hours, days of contractor work over many years as a % ? Still meets what the gov approves and the costs are lower.
The alternative is redundancy all over the USA and paying for workers on site again.
The only network in the village allowed costs to stay low.
is for wealth brands that want to virtue signal that they are doing something political.
Giving people who won't and cant learn more free stuff is not going to "teach" a generation to a better IQ level.
Calculators, computers, laptops, tablets, robot kits, new type of computer "code", new codes of conduct for computer code are not making average people more educated.
Where transcripts are still base on tests and merit, generations of extra support results in mot much improvement over generations.
IQ over a generation cant be educated with a new robot kit.
What US prestigious universities have to do is send a message to all students.
Want to enter a prestigious university? Study hard, pass your exams and show you can study.
That might just ensure a lot of skilled people with the ability to learn try their best.
Open up the university admissions process to merit again.
A tale of hardship does not show the ability to study and pass an exam.
Once all students see they have the ability to be considered on merit and only merit, some might study more.
Some kind of network existed that did not place everything on the very end of the network.
Some kind of ring, loop, circle like shape that kept people connected when one part of the network was not networking.
Brands will think more about what health risks their workers face wondering around a city that's failing.
Health costs for the brand and days away from work are not "free".
Re "actually want to be part of our cities"
Thats great if the city is well policed and has enforced laws.
Who wants to pay off their loans in a city surrounded by crime and trash?
A good education and a great job should be the pathway to a better quality of life in a really great city. Not getting to walk around a city thats failed.
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The ads and tracking is better now? :) :)
All that "free" "current location or directions" is paid for by the users. The user is the product.
The idea was to remove the smartphone, not the internet.
So the person would have the best maps that could be printed on the day
The only thing that is "better" now is ads have sound and location tracking
How much would the USA have to spend of that "17% of GDP" on working tax payers getting UBI money for nothing?
At some point working people are going to have to work and pay taxes.
Taxes that support the "free" stuff for everyone not working.
Re "expensive-to-administer welfare services" are limited to people not working.
What happens when everyone gets a UBI and no more government services are offered?
Suddenly the poor and people with medical problems have to spend all their UBI on services they once got from the gov?
What to do then? Make the UBI bigger to support the poor again?
Then the money runs out.
Nations can only pay for some many people doing nothing. And health care. And a mil. And pensions. And roads. And...
Giving everyone free money including the tax payers will take too much money from all other services and gov sectors.
What money for citizens not working, not in education? Use means testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Is the person a citizen? Not an illegal migrant?
Got a bank account? Photo ID?
Not working? Then they can a nice support payment.
Start education? Thats a better payment.
Found work and become a productive tax payer again? The payment stops.
No UBI needed as people move from work to not working, to education.
Ads need the data on users.
The brand that takes out the ads pays for it all.
With more advanced browsers getting the ad to display, work, track is getting more complex.
What can the ad brands do?
Make the browsers and OS more ad friendly.
Make users have to view ads in some nations?
Make the browser show an ad?
Wonder if that "free" from the EU comes with some new "free" regulations too?
Re "someone creates usable software and provides it freely"
When does "usable software and provides it freely" become just another EU tax payers funded project?
The same EU support every year? Then every month?
How many other "free" projects will get that kind of EU support?
Every year the EU will tax its working people some more to give away their money to "free" computer projects.
That would need more EU tax payers paying more and more.
With all the EU projects spending more EU tax payers money on "free" stuff that extra money for the gov is getting difficult to extract.
When European taxpayers cant pay more taxes, its time to tax all US brands in the EU some more?
Tax payers supporting new EU tech jobs.
The Communist party has always tracked its education system.
Uniforms are part of that Communist culture.
Then who got into the mil, who was politically trusted to travel to the West.
The Social Credit System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now the Communists want to know where all their trusted people are.
People had paper maps of nations, cities.
Needed to call a person? They had a answering machine, a secretary.
Games? That was a desktop computer, board games.
Wanted to see the new tech? Printed catalog.
To meet someone/sell something? A classified magazine/contact magazine.
Read something? That was a library, a book shop. Microfiche.
The world worked before walking around with tracking, games, maps and ads on a "smartphone"
As long as the ads are tracking and users can see the ads its all ok.
GUI design: the user space around the ads.
The smart part is the tacking of why a person wants/needs to book a flight.
Was it something they had a long search history for?
A 24 hour start with no past interest.
Something they do every year?
Thats the ad magic.
New governments can set new rules. The past rules stay.
So the ad brands can have even more confidence in the way users are tracked.
The past rules are not changing.
Nobody is getting a free pass to pollute *more*..
Future laws and rules will get more consideration as any government can do as they are in government.
The past rules stay as is.
New rules that alter low cost US energy production will get more review and consideration.
The problem AC is that the city tax rates can no longer look after city streets.
The skilled and expensive tech workers face health risks and crime wondering around in a city for hours.
Skilled workers that then are too sick to work.
Then move to better much managed part of the USA?
The brand then has to attract people into that city.
What are the reviews of that part of the city? Parked RV, waste, trash and crime, tent cities? Taxes and housing costs?
Who wants to study for years and have no quality of life? While paying housing costs and new city taxes?
City governments demanding more in city tax, placing demands on the tech sector.
The solutions are
Gentrification around the tech sector.
To clean up the streets and allow city police to enforce laws.
The USA and UK attempted generations of "screen time" to every community for decades.
The results are the same over generations. Tests show few improvements for average students for all the tax payers money used every decade.
A new computer lab cant teach everyone to a new IQ level.
More computers for all did not work.
Better teachers? New buildings? Same failed results every generation over average groups.
The "internet" for all in education did not give great results.
Robot kits with an advance GUI? A new computer code with a new code of conduct?
Lets try more money again? More computers again?
Screen time would have resulted the 1980's UK emerging as a 1990's tech super power. All the UK did was buy in US tech and play US computer games.
Remember South Vietnam, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Tibet and ST CIRCUS, 1991 Kurdish uprising.
Now the truth sets in again with big US tech brands.
The USA used the Kurds for its own strategy of tension https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in the region.
Not to allow a US approved and supported "Kurdistan" to emerge.
Always read the fine print when the US gov and mil offers "support" for "democracy" and "freedom fighters".
In the old days the US gov and mil had to care about a working POTS service. It was the only way to get another shift of skilled workers to the gov, chemical plant, nuclear plant, power plant, hospital, police.
So the design was good and the service worked to important and skilled people who had another service installed for "work".
At the larger telco centres, staff "worked" in shifts to ensure someone responsible with skills was at work 24/7.
Villages, towns and cities all over the USA had advanced and well kept telco services that could connect a call.
The telco network had "redundancy" as the US gov, contractors, private sector and mil had to ensure their best "workers" could be contacted.
That level of service and skill changed with the pager, cell phones and now the "internet" networks.
Automation removes that 24/7 shift of union workers needed in US communities.
Network design changed to use a different type of network that would need a contractor to be called in.
Why have two network ready as redundancy when one network and a contractor can offer the same "type" of service for years?
Whats a few hours, days of contractor work over many years as a % ? Still meets what the gov approves and the costs are lower.
The alternative is redundancy all over the USA and paying for workers on site again.
The only network in the village allowed costs to stay low.
is for wealth brands that want to virtue signal that they are doing something political.
Giving people who won't and cant learn more free stuff is not going to "teach" a generation to a better IQ level.
Calculators, computers, laptops, tablets, robot kits, new type of computer "code", new codes of conduct for computer code are not making average people more educated.
Where transcripts are still base on tests and merit, generations of extra support results in mot much improvement over generations.
IQ over a generation cant be educated with a new robot kit.
What US prestigious universities have to do is send a message to all students.
Want to enter a prestigious university? Study hard, pass your exams and show you can study.
That might just ensure a lot of skilled people with the ability to learn try their best.
Open up the university admissions process to merit again.
A tale of hardship does not show the ability to study and pass an exam.
Once all students see they have the ability to be considered on merit and only merit, some might study more.
Some kind of network existed that did not place everything on the very end of the network.
Some kind of ring, loop, circle like shape that kept people connected when one part of the network was not networking.
Brands will think more about what health risks their workers face wondering around a city that's failing.
Health costs for the brand and days away from work are not "free".
Re "actually want to be part of our cities"
Thats great if the city is well policed and has enforced laws.
Who wants to pay off their loans in a city surrounded by crime and trash?
A good education and a great job should be the pathway to a better quality of life in a really great city. Not getting to walk around a city thats failed.