The easiest way to avoid being vaporized is to wear a shirt that reads "/dev/null".
No intelligent system will send anything your way. You are assuming that the "intelligent system" is programmed using alpha-numeric characters (a-z and 0-9).
What if someone customizes the whole programming environment by only using the Arabic language (which does include the numerical character of 0-9) ?
And another chilling thing about this...
Imagine a robot which is programmed to kill only people with a certain color of skin (black or yellow, or white, or skin) - not unlike what those Muslim terrorists did when they attack that shopping center in Kenya (they only spare Muslims in their rampage) - that robot would be one hell of a "hate machine" !!
The worrying thing is that if Muslims get the technology to build these things then the trigger could be any non-Muslim symbol, any picture of a person or animal, or even a woman with hair uncovered. Also it would not matter who was caught in the cross-fire because (as the 9/11 bombers said) "any muslims will go straight to heaven".
Because Japan's economic growth after WWII did depend heavily on inexpensive knock-off copies. That only changed several decades after WWII, when their economy had reached a higher level.
There are also important difference between Japan and China though. Japan heavily emphasized quality. The Deming prize for improved quality is awarded in Japan, and it's quite prestigious. Ironically it's named for W. Edwards Deming - an American. He had some excellent ideas for quality improvement that the Japanese took very seriously. Unfortunately many American manufacturers didn't (especially car companies).
Another difference is that Japan always discouraged foreign direct investment.
This is so true - I remember the panic by the British motorcycle industry when they realised that whet had started as cheap knock-off copies of Nortons and Triumphs had changed to models that were more reliable, refined and better quality than the originals.
Its worse than that. They actually make things rather than patenting concepts. its a good thing that we can get them to pay up for "implementing" the vague concepts we come up with,
You've said this twice now - yet neither time have you given any example.
Some of my colleagues (university/college educated - graduated 5-10 years ago) are on £17K per annum for a full time job - and receive no benefits of any kind. They are not exempted from their taxes. Please explain what benefits you think the lower paid get?
Well there's housing benefit, working families credit, child's tax credit, council tax benefit, free school meals, subsidized use of leisure facilities, and free medical prescriptions, for a start.
I'm sick of explaining to the kids that I cannot afford a PS4 for their Christmas because travel costs to work are going up and tax allowances being reduced, at the same time that kids of a single mother who works in Tesco's part time can easily afford it - and then tell us how a charity is giving them a holiday in Benidorm in the summer. I'll be lucky if we can afford a week in Southend-on-sea.
This sounds to me like you have chosen to live in the suburbs, too far from work. It sounds like you could afford a PS4 and more if you did one or more of the following things:
Find a job closer to home. (perhaps, Tesco.)
Moved house closer to work.
Got on the dole , like the Tesco part-timer you facetiously cited.
Partly true - tough my job moved further from me. Moving has a very high fixed cost (stamp duty on buying a new house, estate agents fees, solicitor's fees, and the actual move). With the workplace in a more expensive area moving would probably never save me money, and certainly the payback time would be many years. not to mention kids are settled in school.
You're right though, from a percentage aspect and a total volume aspect, the middle class is providing the greatest tax revenue. The extremely wealthy individual is paying a lower percentage than yourself, but they are also paying many orders of magitude more actual pounds than you ever will. And, lest you forget, the middle class are also the largest consumers of said tax revenue. Roads for you to get from the burbs to work, public transport, police, fire brigade... the middle class majority consume the majority of these services. If you look at it objectively, the current system is "largely" fair.
It doesn't make you feel any better, but it does sound like you are avoiding some very logical decisions that could change your circumstance, but you choose not to.
Though as a group they are the largest beneficiaries individually they are not. The lower paid get many benefits, and you only have to hear about how much some of the ultra-rich get for "set aside land", grants for maintaining their "buildings of historical interest", and schemes like the Duke of Northumbaland's "Alnwick garden charity" that gets grants and lottery money to improve the land - that will revert to his personal ownership after 20 years.
In the UK...visit the province of Québec in Canada. 14,975% tax with what you virtually buy anything that has solid matter in the province and for the income tax which I don't have the numbers directly because its progressive income tax., its around 30% and more if you have a higher salary...you pay more. When I started I payed around 25% but the higher the salary I got, the more I payed. Last time I checked it was around 45% so its too freak'n high if you ask me.
Looks good compared to a VAT rate of 20%, income tax 40% tax for most of the middle class (£32-000 to £150,000), and 12% National insurance (total 52% deducted). And that's before council tax, fuel duties (on petrol/diesel) and excise duties (on alcohol), etc.
In the UK at least the middle class is the hardest hit by taxes, increasing prices, increased transport costs - everything. Those on low wages get generous benefits while the middle class get taxed. The conservatives give the truly wealthy tax breaks that others cannot take advantage of. If this will help people move out of the middle class to either of the opposite ends its doing them a favour. I'm sick of explaining to the kids that I cannot afford a PS4 for their Christmas because travel costs to work are going up and tax allowances being reduced, at the same time that kids of a single mother who works in Tesco's part time can easily afford it - and then tell us how a charity is giving them a holiday in Benidorm in the summer. I'll be lucky if we can afford a week in Southend-on-sea.
and use technology for accomplishing things like ending hunger.
Hunger is not a problem, it's a consequence of inequality. Ending inequality shouldn't start with the difference between those who have 0% of the total and those who have 0.1% (the separation made by "hunger").
You might consider advocating for the end of massive accumulation of riches. That way you'll tackle a difference of several tens%
Pragmatically speaking we should deal with the difference between those with 0% and 0.1% first. This is what feeding centres do in famine zones. You can look at inequalities later, but unless this acute need is dealt with people will die now!
At present only new customers will be given an “enforced” option to keep or disable the service, which will come pre-selected (enabled) unless you specifically choose otherwise during the sign-up process.
Ignore me. Turns out the blocking only occurs if you have the under-18 filter turned on - which I managed to get from the article:)
True, but it is the default for all new internet connections. Many people just leave things at the default, and may not even know that you can have it disabled.
The question is whether this was always the plan. First put in place the infrastructure for censorship -- eek, porn! -- and then slide on down the slippery slope.
They always said it was. The thing is most people just got stuck on the "think of the children and didn't look at the rest. The list includes:
"violent material", "extremist related content", "anorexia and eating disorder websites", "suicide related websites", "alcohol" and "smoking", "web forums", "esoteric material", "Web blocking circumvention tools", and "sites where the main purpose is to provide information on subjects such as respect for a partner, abortion, gay and lesbian lifestyle, contraceptive, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy."
From the collective northern continental US: FU! That's the warmth of the American gonads* you are stealing.
* = Gulf of Mexico
If its any consolation the warm air is coming as high winds and bringing across loads of rain. There has been a lot of flooding in some parts of the UK
I'm surprised that anyone who's used a decent touch screen would want a micro-qwerty. Admitted I have only used Blackberry keyboards occasionally, but they didn't strike me as very easy to use.
Slashdot Mirror
Citation needed.
And not a Daily Hate Mail opinion piece, please.
well its hard to have a citation before the event but parliament thinks it will be an issue.
Oh, if I had a penny for every time an algorithm aimed to do something...
on (anyAlgorithmProposed) {
give yourself a penny
}
The easiest way to avoid being vaporized is to wear a shirt that reads "/dev/null".
No intelligent system will send anything your way. You are assuming that the "intelligent system" is programmed using alpha-numeric characters (a-z and 0-9).
What if someone customizes the whole programming environment by only using the Arabic language (which does include the numerical character of 0-9) ?
And another chilling thing about this ...
Imagine a robot which is programmed to kill only people with a certain color of skin (black or yellow, or white, or skin) - not unlike what those Muslim terrorists did when they attack that shopping center in Kenya (they only spare Muslims in their rampage) - that robot would be one hell of a "hate machine" !!
The worrying thing is that if Muslims get the technology to build these things then the trigger could be any non-Muslim symbol, any picture of a person or animal, or even a woman with hair uncovered. Also it would not matter who was caught in the cross-fire because (as the 9/11 bombers said) "any muslims will go straight to heaven".
Really? Why?
Because Japan's economic growth after WWII did depend heavily on inexpensive knock-off copies. That only changed several decades after WWII, when their economy had reached a higher level.
There are also important difference between Japan and China though. Japan heavily emphasized quality. The Deming prize for improved quality is awarded in Japan, and it's quite prestigious. Ironically it's named for W. Edwards Deming - an American. He had some excellent ideas for quality improvement that the Japanese took very seriously. Unfortunately many American manufacturers didn't (especially car companies).
Another difference is that Japan always discouraged foreign direct investment.
This is so true - I remember the panic by the British motorcycle industry when they realised that whet had started as cheap knock-off copies of Nortons and Triumphs had changed to models that were more reliable, refined and better quality than the originals.
I'm tired of US/EU dominance, I want China to lead humanity from now on!
Yeah baby!
Captcha: cliche
that's still not enough for you to lay that Chinese chick.
Its worse than that. They actually make things rather than patenting concepts. its a good thing that we can get them to pay up for "implementing" the vague concepts we come up with,
3g Yellow Car - To you that means nothing
I thought it was Google moving into self-driving taxis.
I did something really clever with my password list .... I'm darned if I can remember what though.
You emailed the list to me for safekeeping. Just send $10,000 (plus shipping and handling) to my paypal account, and I'll send it right back to you!
Sure ... just tell me my paypal password first, I can't remember it!
I did something really clever with my password list .... I'm darned if I can remember what though.
... The lower paid get many benefits, ...
You've said this twice now - yet neither time have you given any example.
Some of my colleagues (university/college educated - graduated 5-10 years ago) are on £17K per annum for a full time job - and receive no benefits of any kind. They are not exempted from their taxes. Please explain what benefits you think the lower paid get?
Well there's housing benefit, working families credit, child's tax credit, council tax benefit, free school meals, subsidized use of leisure facilities, and free medical prescriptions, for a start.
I'm sick of explaining to the kids that I cannot afford a PS4 for their Christmas because travel costs to work are going up and tax allowances being reduced, at the same time that kids of a single mother who works in Tesco's part time can easily afford it - and then tell us how a charity is giving them a holiday in Benidorm in the summer. I'll be lucky if we can afford a week in Southend-on-sea.
This sounds to me like you have chosen to live in the suburbs, too far from work. It sounds like you could afford a PS4 and more if you did one or more of the following things: Find a job closer to home. (perhaps, Tesco.) Moved house closer to work. Got on the dole , like the Tesco part-timer you facetiously cited.
Partly true - tough my job moved further from me. Moving has a very high fixed cost (stamp duty on buying a new house, estate agents fees, solicitor's fees, and the actual move). With the workplace in a more expensive area moving would probably never save me money, and certainly the payback time would be many years. not to mention kids are settled in school.
You're right though, from a percentage aspect and a total volume aspect, the middle class is providing the greatest tax revenue. The extremely wealthy individual is paying a lower percentage than yourself, but they are also paying many orders of magitude more actual pounds than you ever will. And, lest you forget, the middle class are also the largest consumers of said tax revenue. Roads for you to get from the burbs to work, public transport, police, fire brigade... the middle class majority consume the majority of these services. If you look at it objectively, the current system is "largely" fair.
It doesn't make you feel any better, but it does sound like you are avoiding some very logical decisions that could change your circumstance, but you choose not to.
Though as a group they are the largest beneficiaries individually they are not. The lower paid get many benefits, and you only have to hear about how much some of the ultra-rich get for "set aside land", grants for maintaining their "buildings of historical interest", and schemes like the Duke of Northumbaland's "Alnwick garden charity" that gets grants and lottery money to improve the land - that will revert to his personal ownership after 20 years.
In the UK...visit the province of Québec in Canada. 14,975% tax with what you virtually buy anything that has solid matter in the province and for the income tax which I don't have the numbers directly because its progressive income tax., its around 30% and more if you have a higher salary...you pay more. When I started I payed around 25% but the higher the salary I got, the more I payed. Last time I checked it was around 45% so its too freak'n high if you ask me.
Looks good compared to a VAT rate of 20%, income tax 40% tax for most of the middle class (£32-000 to £150,000), and 12% National insurance (total 52% deducted). And that's before council tax, fuel duties (on petrol/diesel) and excise duties (on alcohol), etc.
In the UK at least the middle class is the hardest hit by taxes, increasing prices, increased transport costs - everything. Those on low wages get generous benefits while the middle class get taxed. The conservatives give the truly wealthy tax breaks that others cannot take advantage of. If this will help people move out of the middle class to either of the opposite ends its doing them a favour. I'm sick of explaining to the kids that I cannot afford a PS4 for their Christmas because travel costs to work are going up and tax allowances being reduced, at the same time that kids of a single mother who works in Tesco's part time can easily afford it - and then tell us how a charity is giving them a holiday in Benidorm in the summer. I'll be lucky if we can afford a week in Southend-on-sea.
and use technology for accomplishing things like ending hunger.
Hunger is not a problem, it's a consequence of inequality. Ending inequality shouldn't start with the difference between those who have 0% of the total and those who have 0.1% (the separation made by "hunger").
You might consider advocating for the end of massive accumulation of riches. That way you'll tackle a difference of several tens%
Pragmatically speaking we should deal with the difference between those with 0% and 0.1% first. This is what feeding centres do in famine zones. You can look at inequalities later, but unless this acute need is dealt with people will die now!
It does not silently default to on for new contracts. People taking out new contracts are required to explicitly choose whether to have it on or off.
Its a bit ambiguous. According to this article:
At present only new customers will be given an “enforced” option to keep or disable the service, which will come pre-selected (enabled) unless you specifically choose otherwise during the sign-up process.
Ignore me. Turns out the blocking only occurs if you have the under-18 filter turned on - which I managed to get from the article :)
True, but it is the default for all new internet connections. Many people just leave things at the default, and may not even know that you can have it disabled.
Wow, "web forums". That's just absurd.
A politician saw one once and didn't like it!
Oh, that's OK then. Surely we don't want to teach children to respect a partner!
i imagine that this was added at the request of the Islamic lobby.
Free thinking anarchists don't deserve to read news because they're not obedient enough.
If they were you wouldn't need a block, you could just tell them not to read it.
The question is whether this was always the plan. First put in place the infrastructure for censorship -- eek, porn! -- and then slide on down the slippery slope.
They always said it was. The thing is most people just got stuck on the "think of the children and didn't look at the rest. The list includes:
"violent material", "extremist related content", "anorexia and eating disorder websites", "suicide related websites", "alcohol" and "smoking", "web forums", "esoteric material", "Web blocking circumvention tools", and "sites where the main purpose is to provide information on subjects such as respect for a partner, abortion, gay and lesbian lifestyle, contraceptive, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy."
From the collective northern continental US: FU! That's the warmth of the American gonads* you are stealing.
* = Gulf of Mexico
If its any consolation the warm air is coming as high winds and bringing across loads of rain. There has been a lot of flooding in some parts of the UK
The name of a smartphone keyboard manufacturer is Typo?
Or is it really Tpyo and their publishers keep "correcting" it?
it's way better for longer inputs.. 'cause you can see what you type and go by feel.
That would explain why I didn't think much of it - I didn't use it for nearly long enough to be able to type by feel.
I'm surprised that anyone who's used a decent touch screen would want a micro-qwerty. Admitted I have only used Blackberry keyboards occasionally, but they didn't strike me as very easy to use.
How many more GPU cores are needed until computers can auto-correct apostrophes for illiterates?
the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind ...