Please don't bring your US statistics into Australian law enforcement. There's differences:
a) Police chases aren't televised live, and the last time a news helicopter was used in a police chase they were too busy relaying information between two different states who used different and incompatible radio systems, we got some occasional updates on the radios of which areas to avoid but for the most part all we saw was 5 seconds of footage in the nightly news.
b) Guidelines for police departments all over Australia are to abort police chases at speeds that pretty much every car on the road can already reach, no need for a supercar.
c) Most police chases in Australia has resulted in attempted disciplinary action against the police for public endangerment. As a result car chases here are actually quite rare.
Beyond this, Australian police now favour using interception over pursuit.
Interception means not chasing the suspect at high speed, rather hanging back, monitoring them and setting up a trap at a later point.
Malcolm Turnbull just became Prime Minister in the last few hours. I have mixed feelings about him, but he's very strong on internet technology, having bought shares in what become Australia's largest ISP for 500,000 AUD, becoming chairman of the company, and selling them later for 57,000,000. He has to downsize to the Prime Minister's residence, poor guy.
Hopefully he can break Australia's history of very poor internet policy.
Prior to Turnbull being Communications Minister we've had some shockers, with Alston and Conroy being the at the bottom of that very deep bucket. I have hope.
The thing is, we've only replaced the head of the cockroach.
We've still got Abetz, Cormann, Bishop, Brandis, Joyce (who is livid at his pet Abbott being dethroned and has already started making demands), Dutton, Morrison and the rest of delinquents. Beyond them we have the party powerbrokers, AKA the faceless men like Murdoch and Gina Reinheart. Abbott was a symptom of the disease in the LNP, not its cause. Likely Hockey is going to have to pack up his Eleventy calculator and go home, I guess there is some silver lining.
I dont hold out hope that Turnbull will be able to change anything, he will be forced to tow the party line or risk being replaced. His job is entirely PR, to try to recover from the disastrous polling from the Abbott government whilst not changing any LNP policies.
We're going to be stuck with the Fraudband "String To The Can" Not Broadband Network.
The price difference between RON 91 (cheap fuel) and RON 98 (Expensive fuel) is about $0.15 to $0.20 per litre.
Its not even going to make a swirl mark in the NSW police budget.
Cars like this aren't used for patrols and duties, they're used for demonstration, PR and recruitment. Almost patrol cars are still Falcon's, Commo's and Hilux paddy wagons although Camrys are becoming more popular as a general duties car.
That being said, didn't one cop (I think it was in NSW) destroy a modified supercharged XR8 by filling it with RON 91 not that long ago?
Gyms are a scam. The point is that they count on the people that buys the service on the impulse and rarely if ever set their feet there, hence the automatic monthly payments and the obligatory period.
I couldn't agree more.
I've got a 2nd hand weights set, rack, bench and exercise bike for just over 1 years worth of gym fees (A$1200). I bought most of it 2nd hand and set it up under the back porch.
Then again, if everyone does this the price of 2nd hand gym equipment would skyrocket.
Monthly payments for everything you use and pretend to own! From your music you listen to, to the movies you watch, to the software you use, to the storage space on the cloud where you keep all your data, and the physical hardware you pretend like you own. Pay for everything in your life, for the rest of your life! What a deal! Fall on hard times for a few months and miss a few payments, and watch your whole life disappear! Weeee!
The thing is, like most people, 90% of the crap I watch I'll never watch again. I'm not going to be watching the same WWII doco regularly if again at all.
My entertainment budget isn't big enough to buy everything I watch once permanently, so I pay for a streaming service which gives me the content I want for a fraction of the price and if there is something I'd like to keep permanently, I'll wait for the DVD to come on special.
Like contractors:
- Uber drivers set their own hours
- Uber drivers own their own equipment
- Uber drivers are not required to work full time, or a minimum or maximum number of hours
- Uber drivers do not work on Uber's premises
- Uber drivers are not directly supervised
These are not exclusive to contractors. This makes them casual employees. As a full time employees I was able to set my own hours at a job that didn't require me to be public facing, no one even questioned my hours as long as al my work was done.
Its not unusual for full time employees to own some or all of their own equipment. Mechanics tend to own all of their own tools even if they're employees.
Nor are they required to work on an employees premises. They can work on client sites or from home (telecommuting).
Finally, I've seen many jobs stating "must be able to work without supervision".
The only thing that separates them from full time and part time employees are no minimum hours, in most parts of the world this just changes them to casual employees (like almost every fast food employee).
The 10.00 per month is meaningless to a family who is in poverty. "It's only 10.00" sounds really good when you are not in poverty. I came from poverty so know what it's like not to be able to eat because I had a bill to pay.
Perhaps you are volunteering to pay some of those 10.00/month fees for families and I just misunderstand, but you can call me a skeptic.
This.
If you're actually poor, $10 a month is a fortune.
Today however, it's pretty easy to find free wifi. Maybe not at your house but a lot of places from coffee shops to libraries offer it.
I always assumed that these keys had been figured out long, long ago. If there's people in Afghanistan who can make you an AK-47 by hand, there must be people in China who can just not assemble the locks and take the parts to a smith (where do you think TSA locks are made?) and get a key made. I'd be surprised if you can't just buy the keys on aliexpress.
Far more likely that they just made a copy of the keys, they wouldn't be that hard to get a hold of. Like you said, chances are they're made in China.
I actually don't think you are a hypocrite. When a web page takes a minute ot load on a fast service, only because it's ramming a little story, and many megs of ads, it starts to become a real mess. And when a fair amount of that is malware pretending to be an ad, it becomes an arms race.
And when your telco has a small data quota, it literally costs money to see ads.
Get a replacement at GOG.com for a cheaper price than Steam and without any DRM.
As a side note, I prefer to buy from GOG and will always check GOG first if there's even a chance it'll be released on there, indie/non mainstream devs release quite a bit on GOG these days. I bought Satellite Reign off of GOG last Friday. At least with GOG I only have to download the game once.
Steam is something I put up with because its useful and I know how to bypass the DRM. Other stores I wont touch with a 40 ft pole, I've been burned before losing access to several games when Stardock sold its store to Gamestop. I ended up buying Gal Civ II again on steam and pirating the rest.
For thousands or millions of years humans have spent their lives outside farming, hunting, gathering, etc. and haven't had as much cancer as we have in todays society. Now its coming out that the roundup sprayed onto all of our food likely causes cancer. I wonder if the chemicals in sunscreen might also have a link.
People also died a lot earlier, making it to 50 was an accomplishment, not an expectation. They also didn't bother explaining how sicknesses worked, they just assumed people died because their sky faerie willed it and on occasion actively denied a link between a disease and a cause because sky faerie (which often made things worse, see: bubonic plague in London).
Oh, and they burned people for witchcraft when they didn't like them. Are you sure that was a better world?
Joseph M. Mercola (born 1954) is an alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician, and web entrepreneur, who markets a variety of controversial dietary supplements
From the featuerd article: "To avoid being victim of such ransomware, it is always best to download apps only from trusted app stores, such as Google Play. This can be enforced by unchecking the option of "Unknown Sources" under the "Security" settings of your device."
How does the plural work in "trusted app stores"? Since when has Android allowed the user to specify which other repositories are worthy of trust? I thought "Unknown sources" was just a binary choice between Google only and everything, as opposed to the ability to create a middle ground of trusting Google, Amazon, F-Droid, and no other sources.
Google and Android operate on the theory that if you enable unknown sources you are smart enough to figure out what is and isn't safe for yourself.
The problem Google has is that they have no control over sources outside of their own, so they cant take any responsibility for it.
The problem with DuckDuckGo is that it doesn't take into account location
That's a configuration option (and you can look at the cookie contents to validate that it will be the same for anyone with that option). I generally leave it turned off, because most searches that I do are not geographical in nature (e.g. I want information about the C++ standard, not about the UK edition of the C++ standard).
Thanks.
You can only set it to one country, I regularly travel and LinuxMint defaults to DDG, so if I'm in Thailand, Spain or the US and want to do a local search I'd need to change the settings or use Google. When travelling I regularly need to search locally to find businesses, places to eat and so forth.
By the time Altavista got popular, the interface was a cluttered mess where you could hardly find the search line. Google came with an almost empty screen with a logo and a search line. You'd have switched just to save your eyes. More like the good old Webcrawler interface.
That would have been about the time I got internets, 1998 (in rural Australia, this was cutting edge at the time). Altavista was a bloated pile of crap on a 28.8k line, I tended to use Dogpile as it was clean and simple... like Google.
The 'fast' thing really can't be overstated. By the time Google launched, AltaVista's search page had become huge, to the extent that it took about 30 seconds to load on a 28.8Kb/s MODEM (the fastest that mine could connect at given the line quality, though on paper it could do 56Kb/s). Google took well under 5 seconds (not because Google devs were clever and actively aimed for this, quite the reverse: they didn't initially have anyone good at HTML/CSS stuff, so produced the simplest page that worked).
I remember the search results on Google being worse than AltaVista, but getting them so much faster that I could start loading the first 3-4 before AltaVista showed me anything. Occasionally I'd go back to AltaVista if Google failed. A few years later, Google fucked up their UI enough to make me switch to DuckDuckGo.
The problem with DuckDuckGo is that it doesn't take into account location. When I search ABC from Perth, Western Australia I want to get the Australian Broadcasting Corporations website, not the American commercial channel. DDG always directs me to the latter, same with anything that has an international presence, if I want citibank.com.au with DDG, I have to search Citibank Australia.
I know DDG is meant to prevent tracking, but I dont really care if Darth Brin and Page know I get my news from the ABC and SBS, maybe they'll eventually learn to stop filling the news feeds with News Limited crap. Maybe if enough people Google SBS then they'll start inserting European soft porn after 9 PM.
WTF? You're a fool. The first two seasons of TNG were the worst, especially the first season; crappy writing, annoying characters (Wesley, Pulaski), etc.. Seasons 3-5 were where all the classic episodes happened.
Having watched the first two seasons of TNG when they came out in the late 80's, they were good for their time. However they didn't age well unlike the later seasons, although there are a few good episodes early on like Conspiracy.
Trek always gets better in it's later seasons. The first season of DS9 is boring, it gets better in the last few eps of season 2 and hits its high note in season 6 (In The Pale Moonlight rates as one of my favourite trek episodes). Same with Voy, it didn't get really interesting until the end of Season 3. Season 1 of ENT I could only describe as barely watchable but season 3 improved significantly (I felt that they borrowed the ideas for most of ENT S3 from Farscape) and season 4 was actually good.
This is what makes the Star Trek economy not communism.
Capitalism and communism wont exist in a post scarcity world.
Also, just because there is no need to work does not mean no-one will work. If I received a billion dollars tomorrow, sure as hell I'd quit my job but I would spend my time doing the things I wanted to. Learning to fly and building my own race car would be two of those things, not sure about the race car but being a pilot would be beneficial to society without scarcity. There would be those few who would never do anything but without scarcity, these people cost nothing.
Most European countries do have some markets that are socialist, namely they run a health care system where the means of production (the medical staff) is owned and run by the government. THAT is socialism,
This single sentence demonstrates perfectly that you dont understand the meaning of "socialism" nor universal health care systems.
A lot (meaning most) universal health care systems, even single payer systems allow a lot of private entities to operate within them. From consulting doctors to entire private hospitals, what universal health care does ensure is that private entities cannot overcharge or profiteer and that a patient gets the care they need regardless of their financial status (I.E. you cant be too poor to get treatment).
In some universal health care systems, a public and private system sit side by side. Public provides a minimum standard of care (which is still pretty damn good) and the private system must provide better.
Also, almost all government these days run mixed economies, so they are hybridised as the GP said. Attempts to run pure capitalist or socialist governments have been abject failures although it should be noted that unlike pure socialist governments, pure capitalist governments completely failed to get off the ground.
Socialism means that the factories (means of production) belong to the state. This is not the case in Denmark, so your use of the word socialism is ignorant and incorrect.
Socialism is where people own the means of production. Although this is also not the case in Denmark, your use of the word socialism is ignorant and incorrect.
Let me preface this by stating that I think most programs to use computers in school are trash, and less effective than traditional teaching methods.
My personal opinion is that schools shouldn't be doing this to begin with if they don't understand technology. They will only set false expectations and poor knowledge forward in students with it.
Forget false expectations for students.
There are people leaving school these days without basic knowledge of how to use a computer and are having to be trained by employers. Whilst I know that school shouldn't be strictly preparation for the work force, it should still teach basic skills. Hand Holding mac's combined with rote memorisation teaching methods ensure that people leave school with no idea on how to find a file using a file manager. I'm serious, I've seen support cases for "I cant find my word" because once it disappears from their recent documents, they've go no clue where to look.
It has become a risk to hire someone under 25 these days for any job that requires them to use a computer.
I saw my first i3 recently, though, and I was stunned at just how ugly it is in person. Serious wow factor, as in, wow that is about the ugliest pile of shit I've ever seen. I think the technology is pretty nifty, but I wouldn't like to be caught dead in the same photograph as an i3.
If they made EVs look just like regular cars, then other people wouldn't be able to tell that you are making such a supreme sacrifice for the good of humanity and they wouldn't even realize how they should bow down and worship you as the savior of the environment.
A person in my car park owns an I3, on the back he's got a "Australian Electric Vehicle Network" sticker. I've been tempted to place another sticker below that saying "Proudly supporting the Australian tow truck and flatbed association".
Then again, he's still bitter from when I posted a letter on his windscreen saying I didn't need his car parking next to me to make my Silvia look good.
I have to wonder how many carbons a cummins 9L diesel puts out with an EV on the back.
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Please don't bring your US statistics into Australian law enforcement. There's differences:
a) Police chases aren't televised live, and the last time a news helicopter was used in a police chase they were too busy relaying information between two different states who used different and incompatible radio systems, we got some occasional updates on the radios of which areas to avoid but for the most part all we saw was 5 seconds of footage in the nightly news.
b) Guidelines for police departments all over Australia are to abort police chases at speeds that pretty much every car on the road can already reach, no need for a supercar.
c) Most police chases in Australia has resulted in attempted disciplinary action against the police for public endangerment. As a result car chases here are actually quite rare.
Beyond this, Australian police now favour using interception over pursuit.
Interception means not chasing the suspect at high speed, rather hanging back, monitoring them and setting up a trap at a later point.
Malcolm Turnbull just became Prime Minister in the last few hours. I have mixed feelings about him, but he's very strong on internet technology, having bought shares in what become Australia's largest ISP for 500,000 AUD, becoming chairman of the company, and selling them later for 57,000,000. He has to downsize to the Prime Minister's residence, poor guy.
Hopefully he can break Australia's history of very poor internet policy.
Prior to Turnbull being Communications Minister we've had some shockers, with Alston and Conroy being the at the bottom of that very deep bucket. I have hope.
The thing is, we've only replaced the head of the cockroach.
We've still got Abetz, Cormann, Bishop, Brandis, Joyce (who is livid at his pet Abbott being dethroned and has already started making demands), Dutton, Morrison and the rest of delinquents. Beyond them we have the party powerbrokers, AKA the faceless men like Murdoch and Gina Reinheart. Abbott was a symptom of the disease in the LNP, not its cause. Likely Hockey is going to have to pack up his Eleventy calculator and go home, I guess there is some silver lining.
I dont hold out hope that Turnbull will be able to change anything, he will be forced to tow the party line or risk being replaced. His job is entirely PR, to try to recover from the disastrous polling from the Abbott government whilst not changing any LNP policies.
We're going to be stuck with the Fraudband "String To The Can" Not Broadband Network.
Those things won't run on cheap fuel tho.
The price difference between RON 91 (cheap fuel) and RON 98 (Expensive fuel) is about $0.15 to $0.20 per litre.
Its not even going to make a swirl mark in the NSW police budget.
Cars like this aren't used for patrols and duties, they're used for demonstration, PR and recruitment. Almost patrol cars are still Falcon's, Commo's and Hilux paddy wagons although Camrys are becoming more popular as a general duties car.
That being said, didn't one cop (I think it was in NSW) destroy a modified supercharged XR8 by filling it with RON 91 not that long ago?
Gyms are a scam. The point is that they count on the people that buys the service on the impulse and rarely if ever set their feet there, hence the automatic monthly payments and the obligatory period.
I couldn't agree more.
I've got a 2nd hand weights set, rack, bench and exercise bike for just over 1 years worth of gym fees (A$1200). I bought most of it 2nd hand and set it up under the back porch.
Then again, if everyone does this the price of 2nd hand gym equipment would skyrocket.
Monthly payments for everything you use and pretend to own! From your music you listen to, to the movies you watch, to the software you use, to the storage space on the cloud where you keep all your data, and the physical hardware you pretend like you own. Pay for everything in your life, for the rest of your life! What a deal! Fall on hard times for a few months and miss a few payments, and watch your whole life disappear! Weeee!
The thing is, like most people, 90% of the crap I watch I'll never watch again. I'm not going to be watching the same WWII doco regularly if again at all.
My entertainment budget isn't big enough to buy everything I watch once permanently, so I pay for a streaming service which gives me the content I want for a fraction of the price and if there is something I'd like to keep permanently, I'll wait for the DVD to come on special.
Like contractors:
- Uber drivers set their own hours
- Uber drivers own their own equipment
- Uber drivers are not required to work full time, or a minimum or maximum number of hours
- Uber drivers do not work on Uber's premises
- Uber drivers are not directly supervised
These are not exclusive to contractors. This makes them casual employees. As a full time employees I was able to set my own hours at a job that didn't require me to be public facing, no one even questioned my hours as long as al my work was done.
Its not unusual for full time employees to own some or all of their own equipment. Mechanics tend to own all of their own tools even if they're employees.
Nor are they required to work on an employees premises. They can work on client sites or from home (telecommuting).
Finally, I've seen many jobs stating "must be able to work without supervision".
The only thing that separates them from full time and part time employees are no minimum hours, in most parts of the world this just changes them to casual employees (like almost every fast food employee).
You can get 1.5 Mbps broadband from comcast or centurytel for $10/month.
https://apply.internetessentia... http://www.centurylink.com/hom...
The 10.00 per month is meaningless to a family who is in poverty. "It's only 10.00" sounds really good when you are not in poverty. I came from poverty so know what it's like not to be able to eat because I had a bill to pay.
Perhaps you are volunteering to pay some of those 10.00/month fees for families and I just misunderstand, but you can call me a skeptic.
This.
If you're actually poor, $10 a month is a fortune.
Today however, it's pretty easy to find free wifi. Maybe not at your house but a lot of places from coffee shops to libraries offer it.
I always assumed that these keys had been figured out long, long ago. If there's people in Afghanistan who can make you an AK-47 by hand, there must be people in China who can just not assemble the locks and take the parts to a smith (where do you think TSA locks are made?) and get a key made. I'd be surprised if you can't just buy the keys on aliexpress.
Far more likely that they just made a copy of the keys, they wouldn't be that hard to get a hold of. Like you said, chances are they're made in China.
I actually don't think you are a hypocrite. When a web page takes a minute ot load on a fast service, only because it's ramming a little story, and many megs of ads, it starts to become a real mess. And when a fair amount of that is malware pretending to be an ad, it becomes an arms race.
And when your telco has a small data quota, it literally costs money to see ads.
Get a replacement at GOG.com for a cheaper price than Steam and without any DRM.
As a side note, I prefer to buy from GOG and will always check GOG first if there's even a chance it'll be released on there, indie/non mainstream devs release quite a bit on GOG these days. I bought Satellite Reign off of GOG last Friday. At least with GOG I only have to download the game once.
Steam is something I put up with because its useful and I know how to bypass the DRM. Other stores I wont touch with a 40 ft pole, I've been burned before losing access to several games when Stardock sold its store to Gamestop. I ended up buying Gal Civ II again on steam and pirating the rest.
For thousands or millions of years humans have spent their lives outside farming, hunting, gathering, etc. and haven't had as much cancer as we have in todays society. Now its coming out that the roundup sprayed onto all of our food likely causes cancer. I wonder if the chemicals in sunscreen might also have a link.
People also died a lot earlier, making it to 50 was an accomplishment, not an expectation. They also didn't bother explaining how sicknesses worked, they just assumed people died because their sky faerie willed it and on occasion actively denied a link between a disease and a cause because sky faerie (which often made things worse, see: bubonic plague in London).
Oh, and they burned people for witchcraft when they didn't like them. Are you sure that was a better world?
From :
Joseph M. Mercola (born 1954) is an alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician, and web entrepreneur, who markets a variety of controversial dietary supplements
Raising alert status to yellow...
Mercola?
I'm going straight to Brown alert.
Waiting for the protests from the folks who believe Sunscreen actually causes cancer (chemicals in the lotion vs the sun's rays).
[John]
If you water it down, it blocks 130% of all UV rays.
In other news, Homeopaths in Germany have "accidentally" taken hallucinogenic drugs at a conference
FTA
Broadcaster NDR described the 29 men and women "staggering around, rolling in a meadow, talking gibberish and suffering severe cramps".
These are homoeopaths.... How did they tell they were on drugs from that.
From the featuerd article: "To avoid being victim of such ransomware, it is always best to download apps only from trusted app stores, such as Google Play. This can be enforced by unchecking the option of "Unknown Sources" under the "Security" settings of your device."
How does the plural work in "trusted app stores"? Since when has Android allowed the user to specify which other repositories are worthy of trust? I thought "Unknown sources" was just a binary choice between Google only and everything, as opposed to the ability to create a middle ground of trusting Google, Amazon, F-Droid, and no other sources.
Google and Android operate on the theory that if you enable unknown sources you are smart enough to figure out what is and isn't safe for yourself.
The problem Google has is that they have no control over sources outside of their own, so they cant take any responsibility for it.
The problem with DuckDuckGo is that it doesn't take into account location
That's a configuration option (and you can look at the cookie contents to validate that it will be the same for anyone with that option). I generally leave it turned off, because most searches that I do are not geographical in nature (e.g. I want information about the C++ standard, not about the UK edition of the C++ standard).
Thanks.
You can only set it to one country, I regularly travel and LinuxMint defaults to DDG, so if I'm in Thailand, Spain or the US and want to do a local search I'd need to change the settings or use Google. When travelling I regularly need to search locally to find businesses, places to eat and so forth.
or do we call it the church of apple now?
We've always referred to it as a cult.
By your logic, the US Patent Office should get the credit for Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
Are you saying that Einstein paid the US patent office to develop the Theory of Relativity for him and then took credit for someone elses work?
Either way you answer, it demonstrates you've got no idea what you're on about.
Steve Jobs regularly stole credit for the work of others by passing it off as his own.
By the time Altavista got popular, the interface was a cluttered mess where you could hardly find the search line. Google came with an almost empty screen with a logo and a search line. You'd have switched just to save your eyes. More like the good old Webcrawler interface.
That would have been about the time I got internets, 1998 (in rural Australia, this was cutting edge at the time). Altavista was a bloated pile of crap on a 28.8k line, I tended to use Dogpile as it was clean and simple... like Google.
The 'fast' thing really can't be overstated. By the time Google launched, AltaVista's search page had become huge, to the extent that it took about 30 seconds to load on a 28.8Kb/s MODEM (the fastest that mine could connect at given the line quality, though on paper it could do 56Kb/s). Google took well under 5 seconds (not because Google devs were clever and actively aimed for this, quite the reverse: they didn't initially have anyone good at HTML/CSS stuff, so produced the simplest page that worked).
I remember the search results on Google being worse than AltaVista, but getting them so much faster that I could start loading the first 3-4 before AltaVista showed me anything. Occasionally I'd go back to AltaVista if Google failed. A few years later, Google fucked up their UI enough to make me switch to DuckDuckGo.
The problem with DuckDuckGo is that it doesn't take into account location. When I search ABC from Perth, Western Australia I want to get the Australian Broadcasting Corporations website, not the American commercial channel. DDG always directs me to the latter, same with anything that has an international presence, if I want citibank.com.au with DDG, I have to search Citibank Australia. I know DDG is meant to prevent tracking, but I dont really care if Darth Brin and Page know I get my news from the ABC and SBS, maybe they'll eventually learn to stop filling the news feeds with News Limited crap. Maybe if enough people Google SBS then they'll start inserting European soft porn after 9 PM.
WTF? You're a fool. The first two seasons of TNG were the worst, especially the first season; crappy writing, annoying characters (Wesley, Pulaski), etc.. Seasons 3-5 were where all the classic episodes happened.
Having watched the first two seasons of TNG when they came out in the late 80's, they were good for their time. However they didn't age well unlike the later seasons, although there are a few good episodes early on like Conspiracy.
Trek always gets better in it's later seasons. The first season of DS9 is boring, it gets better in the last few eps of season 2 and hits its high note in season 6 (In The Pale Moonlight rates as one of my favourite trek episodes). Same with Voy, it didn't get really interesting until the end of Season 3. Season 1 of ENT I could only describe as barely watchable but season 3 improved significantly (I felt that they borrowed the ideas for most of ENT S3 from Farscape) and season 4 was actually good.
This is what makes the Star Trek economy not communism.
Capitalism and communism wont exist in a post scarcity world.
Also, just because there is no need to work does not mean no-one will work. If I received a billion dollars tomorrow, sure as hell I'd quit my job but I would spend my time doing the things I wanted to. Learning to fly and building my own race car would be two of those things, not sure about the race car but being a pilot would be beneficial to society without scarcity. There would be those few who would never do anything but without scarcity, these people cost nothing.
Most European countries do have some markets that are socialist, namely they run a health care system where the means of production (the medical staff) is owned and run by the government. THAT is socialism,
This single sentence demonstrates perfectly that you dont understand the meaning of "socialism" nor universal health care systems.
A lot (meaning most) universal health care systems, even single payer systems allow a lot of private entities to operate within them. From consulting doctors to entire private hospitals, what universal health care does ensure is that private entities cannot overcharge or profiteer and that a patient gets the care they need regardless of their financial status (I.E. you cant be too poor to get treatment).
In some universal health care systems, a public and private system sit side by side. Public provides a minimum standard of care (which is still pretty damn good) and the private system must provide better.
Also, almost all government these days run mixed economies, so they are hybridised as the GP said. Attempts to run pure capitalist or socialist governments have been abject failures although it should be noted that unlike pure socialist governments, pure capitalist governments completely failed to get off the ground.
Socialism means that the factories (means of production) belong to the state. This is not the case in Denmark, so your use of the word socialism is ignorant and incorrect.
Socialism is where people own the means of production. Although this is also not the case in Denmark, your use of the word socialism is ignorant and incorrect.
The government owning factories is fascism.
My personal opinion is that schools shouldn't be doing this to begin with if they don't understand technology. They will only set false expectations and poor knowledge forward in students with it.
Forget false expectations for students.
There are people leaving school these days without basic knowledge of how to use a computer and are having to be trained by employers. Whilst I know that school shouldn't be strictly preparation for the work force, it should still teach basic skills. Hand Holding mac's combined with rote memorisation teaching methods ensure that people leave school with no idea on how to find a file using a file manager. I'm serious, I've seen support cases for "I cant find my word" because once it disappears from their recent documents, they've go no clue where to look.
It has become a risk to hire someone under 25 these days for any job that requires them to use a computer.
I saw my first i3 recently, though, and I was stunned at just how ugly it is in person. Serious wow factor, as in, wow that is about the ugliest pile of shit I've ever seen. I think the technology is pretty nifty, but I wouldn't like to be caught dead in the same photograph as an i3.
If they made EVs look just like regular cars, then other people wouldn't be able to tell that you are making such a supreme sacrifice for the good of humanity and they wouldn't even realize how they should bow down and worship you as the savior of the environment.
A person in my car park owns an I3, on the back he's got a "Australian Electric Vehicle Network" sticker. I've been tempted to place another sticker below that saying "Proudly supporting the Australian tow truck and flatbed association".
Then again, he's still bitter from when I posted a letter on his windscreen saying I didn't need his car parking next to me to make my Silvia look good.
I have to wonder how many carbons a cummins 9L diesel puts out with an EV on the back.