Tax religion. Go for it. Treat them as exactly what they are: Profit generating businesses.
Better yet, regulate them. Prevent them from preying on vulnerable people and forbid them from self-policing. Maybe we can reduce the numbers of children abused.
In 1973 the UK top rate of tax was raised to 83%. There was an additional 15% on investment income, so effectively a 98% tax on investments.
That 83% didn't drop until 1979 and even then dropped to 60%.
If the next UK election votes in a government headed by Jeremy Corbyn and Joe McDonnell then I wouldn't bet against comparable rates being reintroduced. Too fucking right we currently have low taxes.
(I'd leave the country and work elsewhere rather than pay 83% tax. Sorry but there are limits. I'd move back to help rebuild the country afterwards)
That's quite a short list. The list for 'snowflake' liberals fills that many books.
There's a substantial difference between a product sold to and used by men being advertised by a short film stating 'men are shit' and someone making a derogatory comment about some bloke with bad hair.
Me, I don't like companies that use sexism to tell me they think I'm sexist. That's not being a snowflake, that's merely a sensible reason to cease being a customer of that company.
What next, you're going to defend Gerald Ratner's description of the jewellery he used to sell?
It is vulnerable to organised manipulation but predominantly it works superbly.
I regularly encounter views and perspectives on Slashdot that are not ones with which I agree, but also regularly get modded up myself. That's the system supporting diverse viewpoints and allowing discussion and argument.
I support this interchange of ideas, even if I do frequently end up swearing at the people that are so wrong.
I found out about it from the BBC who were acknowledging that it's a fucking mess.
Since then I've seen it and written to Gilette to let them know they're sexist shits that don't want my custom.
I mean, fucking berating men for telling women to smile? Shit, I get told to smile all the fucking time by women that are inexplicably pissed off that I'm not walking around with a fake shit grin on my face all the time. Smiling fucking hurts, and my default expression lacks one.
Here's a hint Gilette and women: Give me a fucking reason to smile.
I was responding to the challenge that recruiting people with a college degree was necessary. It is, because there's only a tiny overlap between the desired recruitment pool and people with no degree.
None of that comments on small towns but since you've raised it, yes, you can find intelligent people with and without college degrees in small towns.
But take Amarillo. That's a large town of 200,000 people. Only 47% of the population in the US actually work, so that's a labour pool in Amarillo of around 94000 people.
Only around 2.6% of the people working in the US work in IT. So the pool of people in Amarillo with the desire, aptitude and capability of working in IT (and that inexplicably didn't move somewhere that could offer them such a job) is nearer 2500 people.
However, Amazon doesn't want generic IT workers. They outsource those jobs, and want to employ top-end workers. Lets assume they drop standards and accept employees at the 90th percentile.
So basically Amazon could employ every single viable candidate in Amarillo and still only have 250 people. That hasn't taken into account other jobs those people have, whether they'd want to work for Amazon, whether Amazon can even make them aware of the opportunity, whether Amazon can accurately identify which 250 people they are and whether there are other factors that might prevent Amazon from employing them.
Note that I haven't even discussed college degrees here. I'll bet 240 of those 250 have college degrees.
you can find those people in small towns too
No, you can't, if you're trying to build a global company headquarters to run a multi-national that relies on technology and its technology advantages over its competitors. There just aren't enough of them to meet your needs.
A guaranteed minimum income is not minimum wage. As the person to whom you replied correctly stated, income is wages plus other sources of funds, e.g. tips.
National minimum wage only applies to the wage portion of that equation. A guaranteed income would sensibly apply to the income part of that equation.
Thinking that someone is out of place because of the colour of their skin is textbook racism.
Walking through a village in Vietnam I was getting looked at and it wasn't because they were racist. They were friendly, the kids talked to me and the only guy to give me any shit was upset that his dog was barking at me.
Walking through a poor area in Bridgetown in Barbados I got suspicious stares from fucking everybody. The moment I said 'good morning' or smiled the men nodded and said good morning back, and the women gave me the most beautiful smiles in return. They weren't racist, they just knew I wasn't part of their community.
Walking through a town in Guatemala the police acknowledged but didn't challenge me, the locals all tried to convince me to buy whatever the fuck they had on their head and the guy with a shotgun posed for a photograph. They weren't being racist, they just knew I didn't live there.
The assumption that someone does not belong because of their race is what helps maintain these segregated enclaves.
My anecdotes from the last three months all bear out that someone's race can definitely show that they don't belong but has absolutely fucking nothing to do with racism. But you keep calling towns populated by the people that were born there segregated enclaves, if that makes you feel superior.
Half of human DNA encodes the brain. It's not credible to believe a tribe of people can have similar characteristics that makes them visibly stand out and yet not have any mental characteristics that makes them mentally stand out as well.
You're wrong in about 18 different ways here but I'll focus on just two:
Skin colour is a tiny fragment of DNA, with people of all skin colours sharing far more in common than having differences. By your logic you should also be arguing for differences in behaviour by hair colour, eye colour, finger length and the shape of ears.
Further, people with brown skin are not all from the same tribe. There are tens of thousands of tribes in the world, with natural skin colours varying immensely, and interbreeding pretty much negating the fucking lot of them.
Wishing rape and torture on somebody for real (and I do not doubt this is for real) is something else
Yeah, I wouldn't wish rape or torture on someone.
There are a few out there I'd greatly enjoy torturing but I've managed to resist the urge so far. I wouldn't just wish it on them though, outsourcing that shit is just immoral.
The point is that ISPs claim cheaper prices, when that isn't true.
Actually no, the point is whether there's any causation.
The ISPs may actually be entirely correct, and zero rating may indeed reduce to average cost of service in those countries.
The higher cost when compared to other countries may be caused by other factors such as deployment costs, regulatory environment, global interconnects and the need to bribe the government.
So understanding the underlying cause is necessary for any honest assessment of the ISPs claims regarding the impact of zero rating on price.
I've never witnessed anyone get pulled over for any of the following things which pose a far greater threat to my personal safety than speeding:
I've never witnessed anybody getting arrested for murder, theft, arson, robbery, rape, fraud or littering.
I'm fairly sure it does happen though.
I fear for my life each day when commuting to and from the office
Where do you live, the Central African Republic? Fucking hell, you have issues.
By continuing to believe their bullshit
I merely pointed out that the police do make a valuable contribution. Your hatred of them appears to stem from a mix of attribution bias and confirmation bias, rather than from an objective and dispassionate assessment.
The same wikipedia article you linked also states that no currency is 'legal tender' in Scotland, so no, it's not
like saying VISA and AmEx are "printing currency"
and it's very obviously and demonstrably would not
be like the various house currencies (fun bucks, whatever)
In practice Scottish banknotes are rare outside of Scotland but generally accepted in England and Wales. I haven't tried spending one in Northern Island.
Well lets forget those decades of research by thousands of climate scientists.
How much of that research is based on 'adjusted' data sets? Who is using the actual underlying raw data, and using it properly?
One frustration isn't whether there's global climate change or not, it's that all of the noise is coming from people that wouldn't know how to run an honest regression model if the future of the planet depended on it. Which is, lets face it, fucking ironic.
Another frustration is that people always act as though global warming is somehow bad. I like the sun, I like deserts and I like extreme weather events, so things are going just fine for me.
Another frustration is the sheer dishonesty of people on this topic. "We have to save the planet" or "People might die" or the old classic, "Think of my children". No, the planet will be perfectly fucking fine for quite some time irrespective of whatever the fuck humans do, your children will be fine whatever the weather and if you really care about the human race then acknowledge that the planet can't support the population it's going to have (and will eventually be eaten by the sun) so fuck global warming and invest properly in space exploration and colonisation.
You found an unpublished paper by an economist!!
Economists, with all their flaws, idiocies and demonstrable wrongness still somehow manage to retain greater credibility than climate scientists. That's pretty fucking damning.
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why not tax religion? Just suggest it. I dare you
Tax religion. Go for it. Treat them as exactly what they are: Profit generating businesses.
Better yet, regulate them. Prevent them from preying on vulnerable people and forbid them from self-policing. Maybe we can reduce the numbers of children abused.
I'd happily vote for this.
In 1973 the UK top rate of tax was raised to 83%. There was an additional 15% on investment income, so effectively a 98% tax on investments.
That 83% didn't drop until 1979 and even then dropped to 60%.
If the next UK election votes in a government headed by Jeremy Corbyn and Joe McDonnell then I wouldn't bet against comparable rates being reintroduced. Too fucking right we currently have low taxes.
(I'd leave the country and work elsewhere rather than pay 83% tax. Sorry but there are limits. I'd move back to help rebuild the country afterwards)
That's quite a short list. The list for 'snowflake' liberals fills that many books.
There's a substantial difference between a product sold to and used by men being advertised by a short film stating 'men are shit' and someone making a derogatory comment about some bloke with bad hair.
Me, I don't like companies that use sexism to tell me they think I'm sexist. That's not being a snowflake, that's merely a sensible reason to cease being a customer of that company.
What next, you're going to defend Gerald Ratner's description of the jewellery he used to sell?
It is vulnerable to organised manipulation but predominantly it works superbly.
I regularly encounter views and perspectives on Slashdot that are not ones with which I agree, but also regularly get modded up myself. That's the system supporting diverse viewpoints and allowing discussion and argument.
I support this interchange of ideas, even if I do frequently end up swearing at the people that are so wrong.
Why the fuck would a solution that reinforces echo chambers be remotely sensible or good for society?
Your suggestion is utterly fucking idiotic.
Even easier and just as accurate to acknowledge that "Activists exist."
It was doing okay
I found out about it from the BBC who were acknowledging that it's a fucking mess.
Since then I've seen it and written to Gilette to let them know they're sexist shits that don't want my custom.
I mean, fucking berating men for telling women to smile? Shit, I get told to smile all the fucking time by women that are inexplicably pissed off that I'm not walking around with a fake shit grin on my face all the time. Smiling fucking hurts, and my default expression lacks one.
Here's a hint Gilette and women: Give me a fucking reason to smile.
I was responding to the challenge that recruiting people with a college degree was necessary. It is, because there's only a tiny overlap between the desired recruitment pool and people with no degree.
None of that comments on small towns but since you've raised it, yes, you can find intelligent people with and without college degrees in small towns.
But take Amarillo. That's a large town of 200,000 people. Only 47% of the population in the US actually work, so that's a labour pool in Amarillo of around 94000 people.
Only around 2.6% of the people working in the US work in IT. So the pool of people in Amarillo with the desire, aptitude and capability of working in IT (and that inexplicably didn't move somewhere that could offer them such a job) is nearer 2500 people.
However, Amazon doesn't want generic IT workers. They outsource those jobs, and want to employ top-end workers. Lets assume they drop standards and accept employees at the 90th percentile.
So basically Amazon could employ every single viable candidate in Amarillo and still only have 250 people. That hasn't taken into account other jobs those people have, whether they'd want to work for Amazon, whether Amazon can even make them aware of the opportunity, whether Amazon can accurately identify which 250 people they are and whether there are other factors that might prevent Amazon from employing them.
Note that I haven't even discussed college degrees here. I'll bet 240 of those 250 have college degrees.
you can find those people in small towns too
No, you can't, if you're trying to build a global company headquarters to run a multi-national that relies on technology and its technology advantages over its competitors. There just aren't enough of them to meet your needs.
No, they're talking about the Amazon Prime Now drivers and the Amazon Fresh drivers.
So basically delivery drivers. We're expected to tip delivery drivers?
No. Simple flat basic no. They've been fucking paid for delivering my package, they've delivered it, now they can go and deliver someone else's.
it's quite clear the assets should be split 50/50
No. It's very likely that they will be but I see no reasons why they should be.
A guaranteed minimum income is not minimum wage. As the person to whom you replied correctly stated, income is wages plus other sources of funds, e.g. tips.
National minimum wage only applies to the wage portion of that equation. A guaranteed income would sensibly apply to the income part of that equation.
I got back from holiday and decided to try creating a twitter account. Created the account, validated my email, updated my profile.
They locked it as 'suspicious' while I was trying to write my first message, in which I'd used no controversial words.
So no, they're not getting my phone number. I don't trust them.
Thinking that someone is out of place because of the colour of their skin is textbook racism.
Walking through a village in Vietnam I was getting looked at and it wasn't because they were racist. They were friendly, the kids talked to me and the only guy to give me any shit was upset that his dog was barking at me.
Walking through a poor area in Bridgetown in Barbados I got suspicious stares from fucking everybody. The moment I said 'good morning' or smiled the men nodded and said good morning back, and the women gave me the most beautiful smiles in return. They weren't racist, they just knew I wasn't part of their community.
Walking through a town in Guatemala the police acknowledged but didn't challenge me, the locals all tried to convince me to buy whatever the fuck they had on their head and the guy with a shotgun posed for a photograph. They weren't being racist, they just knew I didn't live there.
The assumption that someone does not belong because of their race is what helps maintain these segregated enclaves.
My anecdotes from the last three months all bear out that someone's race can definitely show that they don't belong but has absolutely fucking nothing to do with racism. But you keep calling towns populated by the people that were born there segregated enclaves, if that makes you feel superior.
Half of human DNA encodes the brain. It's not credible to believe a tribe of people can have similar characteristics that makes them visibly stand out and yet not have any mental characteristics that makes them mentally stand out as well.
You're wrong in about 18 different ways here but I'll focus on just two:
Skin colour is a tiny fragment of DNA, with people of all skin colours sharing far more in common than having differences. By your logic you should also be arguing for differences in behaviour by hair colour, eye colour, finger length and the shape of ears.
Further, people with brown skin are not all from the same tribe. There are tens of thousands of tribes in the world, with natural skin colours varying immensely, and interbreeding pretty much negating the fucking lot of them.
Wishing rape and torture on somebody for real (and I do not doubt this is for real) is something else
Yeah, I wouldn't wish rape or torture on someone.
There are a few out there I'd greatly enjoy torturing but I've managed to resist the urge so far. I wouldn't just wish it on them though, outsourcing that shit is just immoral.
shitty "fathers" who don't support their kids
It's hard to support a kid when you're in prison for being black, or in prison for being a man.
Prosecute and sentence black men the same as white women that do the same crimes and you'll suddenly find far fewer fatherless black households.
You are taxed on the full amount immediately
Not in my country.
Which is nice.
Amazon is a technology company that creates new technologies, masters the use of existing ones and does some bloody interesting things with data.
People with the ability to do those things tend to go to college.
Like all the murderers
Someone loves this guy: https://www.thelocal.de/201505...
rapists
I sure as fuck hope someone loves these two guys, because they need something: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...
robbers
If only someone had loved this woman who so clearly deserved to be in jail: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/tre...
violent criminals
It feels very likely that this chap's family loves him: https://www.foxnews.com/us/con...
criminals don't do those sorts of things, do they
Yes. Most criminals are productive members of society. Shit, you're a criminal too - good luck getting through the week without breaking the law.
so they can be looked after like little babies
Yeah, American prisons are all about loving care, afternoon naps and breast feeding.
make our neighbourhoods shitholes
The people living in a neighbourhood make it good or bad. You live in yours; guess who makes it a shithole.
The point is that ISPs claim cheaper prices, when that isn't true.
Actually no, the point is whether there's any causation.
The ISPs may actually be entirely correct, and zero rating may indeed reduce to average cost of service in those countries.
The higher cost when compared to other countries may be caused by other factors such as deployment costs, regulatory environment, global interconnects and the need to bribe the government.
So understanding the underlying cause is necessary for any honest assessment of the ISPs claims regarding the impact of zero rating on price.
I've never witnessed anyone get pulled over for any of the following things which pose a far greater threat to my personal safety than speeding:
I've never witnessed anybody getting arrested for murder, theft, arson, robbery, rape, fraud or littering.
I'm fairly sure it does happen though.
I fear for my life each day when commuting to and from the office
Where do you live, the Central African Republic? Fucking hell, you have issues.
By continuing to believe their bullshit
I merely pointed out that the police do make a valuable contribution. Your hatred of them appears to stem from a mix of attribution bias and confirmation bias, rather than from an objective and dispassionate assessment.
the notes they print aren't legal tender
The same wikipedia article you linked also states that no currency is 'legal tender' in Scotland, so no, it's not
like saying VISA and AmEx are "printing currency"
and it's very obviously and demonstrably would not
be like the various house currencies (fun bucks, whatever)
In practice Scottish banknotes are rare outside of Scotland but generally accepted in England and Wales. I haven't tried spending one in Northern Island.
No, the Royal Bank of Scotland is a business. It was printing bank notes before the Government became a majority shareholder.
Well lets forget those decades of research by thousands of climate scientists.
How much of that research is based on 'adjusted' data sets? Who is using the actual underlying raw data, and using it properly?
One frustration isn't whether there's global climate change or not, it's that all of the noise is coming from people that wouldn't know how to run an honest regression model if the future of the planet depended on it. Which is, lets face it, fucking ironic.
Another frustration is that people always act as though global warming is somehow bad. I like the sun, I like deserts and I like extreme weather events, so things are going just fine for me.
Another frustration is the sheer dishonesty of people on this topic. "We have to save the planet" or "People might die" or the old classic, "Think of my children". No, the planet will be perfectly fucking fine for quite some time irrespective of whatever the fuck humans do, your children will be fine whatever the weather and if you really care about the human race then acknowledge that the planet can't support the population it's going to have (and will eventually be eaten by the sun) so fuck global warming and invest properly in space exploration and colonisation.
You found an unpublished paper by an economist!!
Economists, with all their flaws, idiocies and demonstrable wrongness still somehow manage to retain greater credibility than climate scientists. That's pretty fucking damning.
Well, it is nice that I wont have to move to Southern Europe for a nice sunny retirement.