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  1. Re:You were mislead on In Some Bay Area Counties, College Grads Have Higher Unemployment (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Going to need some skill and merit to make the top %.

  2. Then learn how to do that over a number of trucks and vans.
    Sending them all out and looking after the wages, tax, permits and brand.

  3. Re:How convenient on No More Paperwork: Estonia Edges Toward Digital Government (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Re 'Those are token forces."
    Thats all NATO needs as part of its eastward expansion to drag the rest of NATO into action.

  4. Re:What's the advantage to using this? on Banana Pi 24-Core ARM Server Running Ubuntu Breaks Cover (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Its the fun of moving existing quality code from "Intel".
    Showboating on a new type of system rather than just been another person working on a large exiting projects.
    Who wants to be part of a very large project when new projects await on ARM?

  5. How to fix this on Tech is Killing Street Food (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. Wall off your factory, industrial park.
    2. Build a canteen/cafeteria area as needed.
    3. Have the best cooks with a food inspection program.
    4. Healthy workers are productive workers.

    Workers do not have to face the trash, crime and waste of the city outside.

  6. How to fix this on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Make a version of invite only social media just for woman?
    Make all men move to the dark web?

  7. Re:What does problematic mean? on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    When an actor accepts a bad script and makes a bad movie that's a movie review.
    When an actress accepts a bad script and makes a bad movie, that's trolling.

  8. Machine learning on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    that criticism is trolling.

  9. Re:They bought something from someone on UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Its electronic and expensive.

  10. Re:able to be deployed? on UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Its a bit like special forces.
    Most nations have them but only so many exist per decade and only in a few places at any one time.

  11. That would stop ads and tracking of users for a set time.
    Better just to allow the gov to get what it wants and keep the ads in place.
    Like PRISM in the USA.
    The US internet did not stop on the first request for PRISM. The US brands did nothing and the internet kept working for the gov and the ads.

  12. Re:Strange definition of "unconditional" on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 1

    The only nation that can still print money for free is the USA.

    Germany does not have that ability and has to actually back its money with something.

    Exports? Once Germany is giving 100% of its working population free gov money that's not going to be a very export friendly nation.
    Raw materials? Germany does not sit on much of export value the world does not have at a much lower cost. Raw material cant pay for every German to get free cash.

    Banking? Does Germany have some special place in private and secret banking that would attract investment that could pay tax for every Germany to get free money? No. Germany tell other nations about people trying to hide their money in German banks.

    Can Germany export consumer products at a low cost and quantity that the world needs? Cars? Washing machines? Industrial equipment? Super computers? Military systems? That will create enough wealth to give everyone in Germany free money for the decades they should be working? Not really.
    Germany cant make the world pay for the amount of exports needed to cover its costs of looking after its entire population with free money.

    Germany did try to print money it its past. They don't want to try that again as it was a time of great poverty and lots of starvation.
    Germans like the tradition of the economic miracle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... not living in poverty moving stacks of printed money around to buy bread.
    East Germany attempted to look after everyone too. That did not end well with riots, protests and its population wanting the freedom and buying power of a West Germany.

  13. AC everyone wins by not having it automated.

    A local scientist in some 3rd, 4th world nations wants a better job and some US supported budget. A nice SUV grant and decades of work?
    Roads, a new lab, computers, sites to collect from, networking. Trips to and from remote sties. Payments for the travel.
    Thats jobs and a real income for generations that will be thankful to the USA.
    Thats not going to happen with an automated system from the USA.
    The CIA likes to have US "experts" move around nations like Indonesia under the plausible cover of new support work for US "science".
    The spare parts and upgrades. Thats parts and services to fly into Indonesia and then have work done. Often and with US "tax payers" paying for work for international science.
    The movement of US equipment around Indonesia is more money. Pilots, trucks. Support to get the science done.
    The US embassy likes the interaction with US backed science and to show the USA helping in different parts of Indonesia - Hearts and minds.
    A nice trip out to a different part of Indonesia by US embassy workers. CIA and real diplomats selling US science and tech.

    US scientists get to add "international" work to their list of things they have done. That they can go to another nation and do science with another nations scientists.
    Jobs back in the USA to export all that science and tech equipment. That can lobby for human scientists who need to be doing work with science in a a lot of other nations.
    US tax payers will pay for their exports so its always a lot of 3rd and 4th world nations that need more US equipment.
    Everyone is "winning" by not doing an automated system direct from the USA.

  14. Re:Success by Merit in 1968 on 50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 8 Changed Humanity's Vision of Earth Forever (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The USA got the best Germans. The merit was in attracting and getting the best Germans to the USA. Quickly and without any "war" questions.
    Before the Soviet Union, France and the UK could make an offer of employment after WW2.

  15. The Germans got to escape to the nice USA and work on rockets for many years.
    That changed humanity's vision of German engineering and production forever.
    Germans got the best jobs and nobody asked difficult questions about their past employment.
    The US got to paint USA on the side of German rockets and that was good after all that investment in German tech.

  16. Re:Why isn't it six times as large? on 50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 8 Changed Humanity's Vision of Earth Forever (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Germans understood how to market their new NASA to the wider US public.
    Make the image ready for publication and easy to print so its propaganda value would be easy to spread.

  17. Re:Experiment in trollificationism on 50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 8 Changed Humanity's Vision of Earth Forever (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    The German advice to NASA was to not have the random stars detract from the mission of getting "earth" in the image.

    One strong uniform color behind earth.

    The Germans where really good at propaganda so the image was cleaned up for publication.
    People loved the image in the way the Germans suggested and NASA could grow its influence and budget.
    Germans helped NASA win again and again like that.
    Smart suggestions like that made NASA great in the past.
    The image is not fake, its just cleaned a bit to present NASA in the best possible way for publication.

  18. Its Ada and Lisp time.
    The full computing power of the US government.

  19. Re:Unresponsive to Takedown Requests on Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Germany gets to set what "truth" can be published and who can speak, read and comment.

    Think like a German government that has to legally protect "democracy".
    What "democracy" is can be set by any German government after an election.
    Thats the full force of the police and courts to protect "democracy".
    That will allow "history" "art" "politics" "culture" "cartoons" to be removed from the internet.

    Say the person who posted the content is on holiday, at work. That content not approved by a German government stays up for hours and days.
    The next legal attempt for more total control by a German government is to go further "up" the internet.
    The "publication" is by the account owner and further push back legally is not the original publisher.
    Germany goes after the creator but finds the content has still been seen too many times.
    How to stop the internet from working in Germany quickly and directly?
    Germany courts go up a level and demands full internet control.
    Make the internet stop working in Germany until the content is removed.
    Publishing any type of truth in Germany is not free of constant German government supervision.
    Germany has the legal options for people who want to publish truth. Police interviews, fines, jail.
    East and West Germany and later Germany had strong power over on publication, speech, politics, art, who can fund publications from the 1950's to the 1990s.
    From any printing press, to a book shop, the bank account of a book shop, to any political group/person attempting to print/publish.
    The free US internet set German government control on publication and speech back for a while.
    The full power of the German government is now back in courts.
    The German author and publisher has no protections. The bank used by the publisher and author has no protections.
    The tools used to publish in Germany have no protections.
    The building used to publish in German has no ...
    When a German government wants to stop any truth, it can go in a few hops from any attempts at freedom of speech.
    Wealth, buildings, tools, equipment, people, banks are all part of the courts ability to fully stop all further publication in Germany.
    The German government will find new laws to stop the all digital internet. Just like Germany it did for book, publications, magazines, pamphlets, cartoons, music, art.

    The German legal system is back and it has a years of US style freedom to catch up on AC.
    German law is not odd, its about total government control over truth.
    The US has freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
    Germany has interviews, police action, fines and jail when speech is attempted.

  20. Re:Strange definition of "unconditional" on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 1

    Re "there is not going to be enough work for that."
    Then who is going to pay the tax needed for all the nations Basic Income to hand out for free?
    No work, no tax on working class people, no basic income to give to "everyone".

    Tax production? We have that not "enough work for that" problem ...
    Tax income? Not many people are working in the private sector to pay a new "tax"....
    Tax bank account and saved wealth? The wealthy are moving to better nations with less tax. A 70-90% tax on all savings will help for how many years?
    Tax a person who has their own home?
    A new estate tax to tax hidden wealth every generation?
    Tax shopping and spending? Thats difficult as people don't have jobs...
    What is going to pay for a basic income for every working person? Every person doing education? Every person that is old and not working?
    The payments to people who worked in the mil, gov for years?
    Governments have too much to pay for just looking after what they have to now. Thats with most of their normal working populations paying tax rather than getting free gov money for decades.

    Bask to how to create enough new money to pay for "there is not going to be enough work for that."
    Governments could make it a card with credit.
    With conditions?
    Only spending on "healthy" food? No smoking, No alcohol. No buying publications that are no gov approved. No holidays. No cash "free" from the "card" to buy drugs. Any internet paid for using gov credit gets a gov filter.
    No paying for transport outside the state, nation.
    Limits of hth spending. A basic income is reduced to approved food and beverages, paying approved rent and utility bills.
    Need to buy a larger item like a washing machine, refrigerator? That will need government approval to release that extra funds a person my have saved up.
    What a government gives for "free" to everyone could become very controlling.

    A basic income may not be free to spend gov cash for all :)

    Once people are not working, a nation will not have the money to "pay" for all that free support.
    The wealthy move to really great nations that don't have a huge tax rate to give people "free" stuff.
    Investment stops. Crime sets in.
    People line up with their gov card to get government approved food.

  21. Re:Strange definition of "unconditional" on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 1

    Few nations can set a tax rate to give their entire working age populations a new working "wage" for the decades they should be "working".
    A means test would reduce that number to support in a normal advanced working nation to say 20-30% of its normal citizens as most normal people "work" and pay "tax".
    The rest of the population would be in education getting gov support, some other gov support, getting an old age minimum gov pension.

    Nations cant cover that "the universal part means everyone gets it." part with a tax system that expects most of the normal population to work, have jobs and pay "tax".
    Should unemployment keep growing then a gov can just use "means testing" to keep supporting people "not" working.
    That ensures the tax system can still pay out support to every citizen who is not working.

  22. Re:Frosty 4.20 psot on Linux 4.20 Released in Time for Christmas (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    How about a Code of conduct review release?
    All comments and the ethics of the code use will get a full review.

  23. Re:Predicting the Future on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 1

    Re 1. Whose definition of basic? The governments to give, reduce, stop.

    2. There are people with light mental illness who will still need social workers intervening in their management of adult responsibilities.

    The basic income would remove all other city, state and federal support. That person better be "adult" in terms of a bank account, rent, food, health care.
    3. Massive labour shortage? Look to history. Riots, wars.
    4. Will there be inflation? In a funny way. The gov has to tax everyone still working to give money to everyone who is a citizen. A massive jump in the tax rate.
    5. Without employment? Should they have a home paid for by a past generation of their family. No drugs, drink, addictions, deviant lifestyles, rent, no education to pay for.
    No internet costs, no TV costs per month. Few medical costs.
    The basic income would cover food, utilities bills.
    The gov cant give everyone free money and keep gov services so no more gov services.
    The "Without employment?" question will work until a person gets sick, old, has to pay rent.

  24. Re:Strange definition of "unconditional" on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 1

    A means test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?

    Why not just have the question of "are you working and paying tax?"
    Yes and get no basic income.
    No and get a basic income until the person is working again.

    That would reduce the tax money needed to 30% of the population?
    The rest of Germany will have to pay a new tax rate to give 30% of Germany free cash payments.

  25. Re:how is this different from communist days on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 1

    The Communist days of East Germany tried a different way to make the population feel they had money and the gov was well planned.
    East Germany kept prices as constant as they could over many years to show they had none of the Wests "price" problems.
    Now Germany will tax its working population more and more and give more money away to random people in Germany.

    The "unemployment" problem in German is just going to rise with illegal migrants and random people wondering around Germany.
    Now Germany has to price in a new income for everyone.
    The German working poor will not get enough free money to support them as they will have to pay tax and face reduced gov services.
    Services they once got will have to be paid for. The "free" income will not make up for what they have to pay for :)
    The middle and upper class will face more and more tax to pay for more payments for all "Germans".
    Longer waits for any gov and health services with reduced services.