You're too late disney. Go back to licensing to others.
Foresaw this I did, listen you did not.
Buying up all the licensed media they did, control they gained. Now channel they launch.
Back to the old days we go, packaged subscriptions we get. For Fox or Star Wars, extra you must pay.
With attitudes like yours, is it any wonder the EU is so fantastically unpopular?
Ohhh didums, did someone point out the truth hurt you?
The EU isn't unpopular here in Europe. What is unpopular here are mass shootings, expensive health care, slavery-like employment contracts and large engines that produce little power.
We also don't hate the US, nor are dependent on it. At worst, we feel sorry for you and wish you luck in fixing your country.
You on the other hand, epitomise every negative stereotype of Americans. Painfully ignorant and outstandingly arrogant.
Actually, yes, because such payment systems are one of those things where "market mechanisms" do not cause healthy competition in the long run. And a state-owned monopoly, which is at least indirectly controllable (via elections) is a lot better than some arbitrary mega-corporation skimming money off every transaction.
I actually still prefer the mobile payment system "cash", which is state owned, and does not make me the product of data krakens.
Erm... You're effectively asking for one company to have a monopoly on all mobile payments and can't see why that is a bad thing?
I'm generally in favour of the government controlling things that the free market fails at like health care, policing, education, et al... but when it comes to payment providers I can only see harm by allowing the government to have a monopoly over it. A market solution isn't perfect, but any monopoly over payment methods is a bad thing for consumers, be it a government or private monopoly.
At the very worst the government should compete on a fair and open market for mobile payments, but not control the market.
Basically this would be like the government stating that all credit cards must be provided by their bank.
Look to the states that enforce laws and rules about tent cities, RV parking and trash in the street.
If you have "tent cities" then you need to admit you've got some seriously fucked up policies if you're a developed nation.
They don't have such problems. Their cities stay clean and attract investment.
Its a city police politics problem. Find out why the city police do not to enforce laws. Parking laws. Trash laws. Camping laws. Waste laws.
Because there are two ways to police, with the good will of the people or with the fear of the people.
The latter is commonly called a police state where citizens fear breaking laws and talking to the police because punishments are severe and standards of evidence are low or non existent.
The former is how we police in developed nations where the spirit of the law is considered above the letter of the law. If police aren't enforcing every single infraction its because they don't want to be jackbooted thugs and lose the respect and co-operation of the neighbourhoods they service. When the police start clamping down on parking, they earn the ire of both the customers and business owners.
Besides, parking shouldn't be in the police's remit, that's the councils job to manage and monitor.
And exactly what has the GOP done to improve healthcare in thie US?
How is your medical care the goverment's responsibility?
Because that is the mandate we gave them. And here in the UK it's turned out much cheaper than an all private system and I don't have to be beholden to an employer to ensure I have medical cover.
For the duties we could best use government for, how is health care not one of them? Healthcare is like the police or fire services and the armed forces, it benefits society in it's entirety even if you don't use any of their services yourself.
Shouldnt the update policy mean how long the device is supported at minimum? So there shouldnt be anything wrong or unexpected with a longer support time frame.
At the same time five year old Apple devices (5S) still receive support and the latest versions. T
Yes, but they also don't send updates to hobble our phones until we fork out £1000 for a new one, so I consider myself better off with Android.
I'm sure everyone who wants one already owns one.
They're selling replacements only at this point.
Also, time I deploy a "detachable" type to a user, one more person learns they will never have another one of these awful things. They all want a proper laptop thank you very much.
Add to that the fact that some users are simply not replacing them. I've got a 2013 Nexus 7 and when it finally dies (5 years, still going strong) I wont be replacing it. All it does is play videos when I'm on holiday, so about 8-9 hours of use per year. Tablets were a fad, said it in the beginning, I'll say it again now.
What is really delicious about all this is all the noise a certain company made about it being the "post-PC era" and how wrong they were, just how wrong they were.
I'm not sure if providing end-user support gets harder with the age of the IT worker, but it definitely gets harder with the age of the end user.
Certainly as I've aged, my tolerance for putting up with bollocks has diminished. That would make it harder for me to put up with the stupidity I encountered doing 1st level hell desk duties than it was in my 20's.
Or are you opposed to proving identity when voting, like most of the rest of the world requires?
Greetings from the rest of the world. Here in Finland we do in fact have to provide ID upon voting, and we do not have to to register to vote because your ID is checked against a list of eligible voters upon arrival to the voting site. However, social services also funds the cost of the ID for those who cannot afford it (which is why essentially everyone in Finland has an ID). This being the case, the ID requirement does not prevent anyone from voting regardless of income status. This point is often conveniently left out in the american discussions over voter IDs when the 'pretty much everyone else does it' -argument is presented because from what I've seen so far, voter ID proposals in the States don't have provisions for providing an ID for people who can't pay for it, and that's the crux of the problem.
Voting is such a fundamental right that it should never be gated behind a financial barrier of any kind, wouldn't you agree?
This.
Here in the UK we do not need to provide ID, but do need to provide our name to get it struck off the roll. However registration is required as we have to vote in our electorate and only one electorate, so it needs to be known which electorate we live in. if I had to provide ID, any form would be acceptable, including ones issued for free by the government or a reputable organisation (like a student ID).
San Fran to LAX is a heavily traveled route using aircraft like the A320.
I don't know if 12 and 50 passenger flights can compete on price.
They compete on convenience by NOT flying from SFO to LAX, and instead flying from/to smaller regional airports.
I would pay a premium to fly directly from Reid-Hillview in San Jose, which is a 15 minute walk from my house, directly into Santa Barbara or Orange County Airports. That would save me $60 on Uber cost for every trip, and I would be happy to pay that much more for the airfare just to save the time.
Where I live there is an alternative to air travel called "rail". Rail "stations" are much smaller so they can be put at many more locations. Also they do not have the intensive infrastructure requirements of airports and many stations can be effectively unmanned. I can take a rail trip to a city 400 miles away for about the same time as flying considering that my nearest airport is a 25 mile drive. Granted that a city 400 miles from my current location has to be in another country.
Perhaps you can petition your national government to implement such a solution.
And as a result it gets light at 430am in the summer. You're not even up at 6am and it is full daylight outside.
Here in the UK we've got three choices.
1. Maintain the time at +0 GMT and have it light at 4 AM in the summer.
2. Maintain the time at +1 GMT and have it dark at 7 AM in the winter.
3. Keep using DST and having the best of both worlds.
The only bad part about DST in the UK is the number of people moaning about it, its worse than regular British moaning. I mean we don't even have to set out clocks manually any more. My phone updates itself, so does my computer, even my bleeding car does it itself. If you're still getting your time of the stove it's time to leave the 18th century.
I used to live in Western Australia who rejected daylight savings because, and I'm not joking, "the curtains will fade" and "the cows wont know what time to get milked". In summer it's light by 4 AM, by 7 AM it could easily be over 30 degrees C. You'd be sweating your bollocks off before even getting out of bed and this could happen for up to four months a year.
As far as I'm concerned they can also stop making them larger (those bigger screens require more power as well). Then again it seems to be what the market is asking for,
This,
The newer generation of SoC's are allegedly meant to consume less power, however more screen real estate means that any savings are being eaten up by the most power hungry component of the device. I've noticed a recent trend of making phones longer rather than wider (I.E. a 19:9 ratio screen rather than 16:9).
My Nexus 5x packed it in last week so I went and bough a Nokia 7.1, after nearly 3 years the battery on my 5x only lasted a day max, 18 or so hours with typical usage so the new phone is going to have a better battery life.
Good article,
The problem is to an extremist "freedom" means the ability to spew whatever bile they like and shout "FREEZE PEACH" when ever someone criticises them or dares to point out the flaws in their argument, this is the favoured tactic of the so-called "alt-right", they don't want free and open discourse, they want their point of view to be the only accepted one. This is the kind of thing that is actually killing freedom of expression in western countries across the globe. If we lose the right to criticise, we've lost the right to express ourselves.
Israel gets away with it because they have the most powerful military nation in the world standing behind them.
Erm.. no.
Iran will not declare war on Israel not because of it's military might but because the Iranian government, most of whom are Arabs from southern Iraq will lose control over the Iranian people (most of whom are Persian). The thing about Iranians and Israelis is if you put them together on any other part of the world they get along like a house on fire. When the Baha'i and Zoroastrians were forced to flee by the Islamic revolution, a lot of them went to Israel. Any war between Iran and Israel will see families reunited, many Iranians will welcome this and quickly turn their back on the theocratic regime.
Socialism taken to the extreme is certainly bad. Why work if you get the same anyway? Extreme capitalism may work, but has the downside that the unemployed starve. Thus they turn to crime, or even revolution just to survive.
But there are middle grounds. You can combine capitalism with a social safety net. As in, unemployed survive (has food, shelter, workable health plans, crime is not needed, the "honest poor" become possible). But those who works gets to have "nicer things" - even though they pay high taxes to support that 'safety net'.
Why would you work, if you had universal income? Why, to have your own house instead of some minimum flat. To have a car - or even a better car than your neighbour. To afford vacation trips to nice places. To eat food that isn't boring. All sorts of improvements over the base level, or competition with others.
Whilst extreme socialism has been tried and failed, both Communism and and Agrarianism (what Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge were trying) it should be noted that extremist forms of capitalism have never really gotten off the ground and only exist in theory, both extremist authoritarian capitalism (crony capitalism or a corporate state) and Anarcho-capitalism (capitalism without laws or rules, A.K.A. libertarianism) never managed to even get as far as establishing a state.
However you're dead right that there is a middle ground and most successful economies are in it. There is a great deal of room to debate which mix of socialism and capitalism is best, but you cannot outright argue that any amount of either is inherently bad. Like most non-Americans I don't fit neatly into the left-right scale. I'm left on some issues like health care and education (I don't think that private schools should receive a penny from the UK taxpayer) but right on other issues like trading hours, import restrictions (I'd rather less of them, fewer barriers to trade). As is the same with economies, you need to evaluate what your needs are and how best to meet them.
UBI isn't incompatible with capitalism in the slightest. Eventually with many jobs being automated we'll need a solution like UBI, but I do not think today is such a time.
I want my darn headphone jack. And I'm keeping it until my phone is unrepairable.
Nobody cares.
I care, and so do millions who are either forgoing upgrading or are increasingly buying portable audio/media players or are buying dongles that allow simultaneous 3.5 mm headphone connections and USB-C or Lightning charging, because it was stupid to remove the ubiquitous 3.5 mm standard in the first place. There is nothing wrong with it.
As do I,
Fortunately there are still plenty of options out there with a 3.5mm jack and I intend to keep buying them.
No they were not. Typical American bullshit history revisionism. Grand Theft Auto was conceived by Mike Dailly and the team at DMA Design, it had nothing to do with Rockstar Games back then, and just because they _currently_ own the franchise and the last inception of it, it does not mean two money-counters are "responsible" for it.
Yep, I remember the original top down GTA which was quite good for its day (95 IIRC) and it was released by DMA. Rockstar bought them up later and they still produce GTA from their Scotland offices (as Rockstar North).
This is the biggest problem Republicans face; how to jettison their racist and white nationalist wing. Or it was shortly before 2016 when there was concern about getting black and hispanic votes in order to remain relevant. Trump proved them wrong though, that you can give a wink and a nod to the racist wing and win an election. I am still surprised that not more Republicans jumped ship after this.
That is a problem a lot of western conservative parties are struggling with at the moment. Certainly in Australia and the UK where they've been snuggling up to racists and bigots to get the votes. The current problem they have is that they aren't getting the numbers, the UK and Australian conservative parties (Conservatives or Tories and LNP respectively) both came out of the last elections by the skin of their teeth. The Tories in the UK are dependent on a third Northern Irish party or they'll lose control of parliament. The next Australian election is expected to go to Bill Shorten and Labor, I'm not taking bets on the UK at the moment but the only reason Labour isn't in after 2017's election is because Corbyn is so unpopular.
The thing about these conservative parties is that the majority of their votes actually come from moderates. Moderates who are presently being ignored to claw votes from racist parties like UKIP (UK) or One Nation (Australia). Its said the average Tory voter "holds his nose and votes Tory" because conservatives are pretty backwards socially but OK fiscally (not at the moment, they've just announced a new raft of tax increases). These voters are changing to "hold your nose and vote Labour" because the Tories have become so backwards, not just on social issues but also on finance. They've sacrificed their larger voter-base for a smaller extremist one and cant keep relying on Corbyn's unpopularity.
The Republicans are in the same boat, they've courted the so called "alt-right" at the expense of the but fiscally conservative everyman. Its going to take a shocking loss for them to realise it though.
Fully autonomous cars are right around the corner.
So they get permission to be tested in Sunny, calm, nice wide highway California... and they're right around the corner.
Wake me when they can navigate the A327 in Berkshire (that's in the UK) without stopping for no reason in peak hour... And I'll let you do that in the middle of summer.... The A327 isn't even a bad road either.
You will once these kids grow up used to annoying adds everywhere, all over the place all the bloody time. Better get used to an idea of your phone waking you up 4am to advertise insomnia drugs to you, because if businesses could get away with doing that shit, they would. And if the next generation grows up used to adds all the bloody time everywhere, hey soon enough they will.
If kids get used to the kinds of ads they are subjected to now (which they will) then they advertisers will just get more insidious and create even more intrusive and obnoxious ads.
This kind of arms race was the exact reason many countries now have an advertising standards organisation that has the power to bad certain ads. Sure they get carried away some times (recently in the UK an ad for a Nissan Micra was banned for depicting excessive speed... a fucking Micra? but I digress) however they're better than not having them. Having recently spent a few days in the US has demonstrated why, the level of dishonesty and scare tactics permitted in advertising was astounding. Sure there were ads for sugary drinks in kids programs and might have been an ad for a Chevy that was driving fast... but the number of ads that were pure political fear-mongering was astounding. Sure the UK's ASA might get a bee in their collective bonnets over a car being driven slightly excitedly... but they also kill bullshit like political smear campaigns because they smack them down hard as soon as they start.
I've nothing against the US mind you, lovely place to visit but your advertisers are complete scum because you let them act like complete scum.
I wish I had mod points! 5G is just a connection standard. In theory 5G connection speeds might be enough to support a new video technology with big brother watching video of you, but at this point it's all FUD
5G isn't even that any more.
It hasn't been a connection standard since US telco's decided to call 3.5G technologies like HSPA, 4G technologies.
LTE hasn't even met the IEEE specifications for 4G, it was listed as a 3.9G technology. However the Telco's got their way and now all 4G, 5G, 6G, so on and so forth are, are marketing terms. I'm just waiting for Verizon or AT&T to claim they've got 9G because it's G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-Good.
To be 100% fair, the more tech you pack into a car the more expensive it does get for basic repairs.
A lovely old lady scrapped the front off side corner of my 2 series the other week. The initial quote for repairs wast over £1,500 until I read it and told them there were no forward parking sensors (honestly, if you need forward parking sensors, driving is not for you). The smart bumper then became a stock standard dumb bumper and the quote dropped to £350 because the repair shop didn't need to employ an auto electrician to remove, re-install and re-calibrate the non-existent sensors. It was only this £350 because of the smaller internal fins of the bumper on the M240i which they needed to be heated and fixed.
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You're too late disney. Go back to licensing to others.
Foresaw this I did, listen you did not. Buying up all the licensed media they did, control they gained. Now channel they launch. Back to the old days we go, packaged subscriptions we get. For Fox or Star Wars, extra you must pay.
With attitudes like yours, is it any wonder the EU is so fantastically unpopular?
Ohhh didums, did someone point out the truth hurt you?
The EU isn't unpopular here in Europe. What is unpopular here are mass shootings, expensive health care, slavery-like employment contracts and large engines that produce little power.
We also don't hate the US, nor are dependent on it. At worst, we feel sorry for you and wish you luck in fixing your country.
You on the other hand, epitomise every negative stereotype of Americans. Painfully ignorant and outstandingly arrogant.
Actually, yes, because such payment systems are one of those things where "market mechanisms" do not cause healthy competition in the long run. And a state-owned monopoly, which is at least indirectly controllable (via elections) is a lot better than some arbitrary mega-corporation skimming money off every transaction.
I actually still prefer the mobile payment system "cash", which is state owned, and does not make me the product of data krakens.
Erm... You're effectively asking for one company to have a monopoly on all mobile payments and can't see why that is a bad thing? I'm generally in favour of the government controlling things that the free market fails at like health care, policing, education, et al... but when it comes to payment providers I can only see harm by allowing the government to have a monopoly over it. A market solution isn't perfect, but any monopoly over payment methods is a bad thing for consumers, be it a government or private monopoly.
At the very worst the government should compete on a fair and open market for mobile payments, but not control the market.
Basically this would be like the government stating that all credit cards must be provided by their bank.
Look to the states that enforce laws and rules about tent cities, RV parking and trash in the street.
If you have "tent cities" then you need to admit you've got some seriously fucked up policies if you're a developed nation.
They don't have such problems. Their cities stay clean and attract investment.
Its a city police politics problem. Find out why the city police do not to enforce laws. Parking laws. Trash laws. Camping laws. Waste laws.
Because there are two ways to police, with the good will of the people or with the fear of the people.
The latter is commonly called a police state where citizens fear breaking laws and talking to the police because punishments are severe and standards of evidence are low or non existent.
The former is how we police in developed nations where the spirit of the law is considered above the letter of the law. If police aren't enforcing every single infraction its because they don't want to be jackbooted thugs and lose the respect and co-operation of the neighbourhoods they service. When the police start clamping down on parking, they earn the ire of both the customers and business owners.
Besides, parking shouldn't be in the police's remit, that's the councils job to manage and monitor.
And exactly what has the GOP done to improve healthcare in thie US?
How is your medical care the goverment's responsibility?
Because that is the mandate we gave them. And here in the UK it's turned out much cheaper than an all private system and I don't have to be beholden to an employer to ensure I have medical cover.
For the duties we could best use government for, how is health care not one of them? Healthcare is like the police or fire services and the armed forces, it benefits society in it's entirety even if you don't use any of their services yourself.
Shouldnt the update policy mean how long the device is supported at minimum? So there shouldnt be anything wrong or unexpected with a longer support time frame.
At the same time five year old Apple devices (5S) still receive support and the latest versions. T
Yes, but they also don't send updates to hobble our phones until we fork out £1000 for a new one, so I consider myself better off with Android.
I'm sure everyone who wants one already owns one.
They're selling replacements only at this point.
Also, time I deploy a "detachable" type to a user, one more person learns they will never have another one of these awful things. They all want a proper laptop thank you very much.
Add to that the fact that some users are simply not replacing them. I've got a 2013 Nexus 7 and when it finally dies (5 years, still going strong) I wont be replacing it. All it does is play videos when I'm on holiday, so about 8-9 hours of use per year. Tablets were a fad, said it in the beginning, I'll say it again now.
What is really delicious about all this is all the noise a certain company made about it being the "post-PC era" and how wrong they were, just how wrong they were.
I'm not sure if providing end-user support gets harder with the age of the IT worker, but it definitely gets harder with the age of the end user.
Certainly as I've aged, my tolerance for putting up with bollocks has diminished. That would make it harder for me to put up with the stupidity I encountered doing 1st level hell desk duties than it was in my 20's.
Fortunately I've moved the hell desk entirely.
Greetings from the rest of the world. Here in Finland we do in fact have to provide ID upon voting, and we do not have to to register to vote because your ID is checked against a list of eligible voters upon arrival to the voting site. However, social services also funds the cost of the ID for those who cannot afford it (which is why essentially everyone in Finland has an ID). This being the case, the ID requirement does not prevent anyone from voting regardless of income status. This point is often conveniently left out in the american discussions over voter IDs when the 'pretty much everyone else does it' -argument is presented because from what I've seen so far, voter ID proposals in the States don't have provisions for providing an ID for people who can't pay for it, and that's the crux of the problem.
Voting is such a fundamental right that it should never be gated behind a financial barrier of any kind, wouldn't you agree?
This.
Here in the UK we do not need to provide ID, but do need to provide our name to get it struck off the roll. However registration is required as we have to vote in our electorate and only one electorate, so it needs to be known which electorate we live in. if I had to provide ID, any form would be acceptable, including ones issued for free by the government or a reputable organisation (like a student ID).
San Fran to LAX is a heavily traveled route using aircraft like the A320.
I don't know if 12 and 50 passenger flights can compete on price.
They compete on convenience by NOT flying from SFO to LAX, and instead flying from/to smaller regional airports.
I would pay a premium to fly directly from Reid-Hillview in San Jose, which is a 15 minute walk from my house, directly into Santa Barbara or Orange County Airports. That would save me $60 on Uber cost for every trip, and I would be happy to pay that much more for the airfare just to save the time.
Where I live there is an alternative to air travel called "rail". Rail "stations" are much smaller so they can be put at many more locations. Also they do not have the intensive infrastructure requirements of airports and many stations can be effectively unmanned. I can take a rail trip to a city 400 miles away for about the same time as flying considering that my nearest airport is a 25 mile drive. Granted that a city 400 miles from my current location has to be in another country. Perhaps you can petition your national government to implement such a solution.
And as a result it gets light at 430am in the summer. You're not even up at 6am and it is full daylight outside.
Here in the UK we've got three choices.
1. Maintain the time at +0 GMT and have it light at 4 AM in the summer.
2. Maintain the time at +1 GMT and have it dark at 7 AM in the winter.
3. Keep using DST and having the best of both worlds.
The only bad part about DST in the UK is the number of people moaning about it, its worse than regular British moaning. I mean we don't even have to set out clocks manually any more. My phone updates itself, so does my computer, even my bleeding car does it itself. If you're still getting your time of the stove it's time to leave the 18th century.
I used to live in Western Australia who rejected daylight savings because, and I'm not joking, "the curtains will fade" and "the cows wont know what time to get milked". In summer it's light by 4 AM, by 7 AM it could easily be over 30 degrees C. You'd be sweating your bollocks off before even getting out of bed and this could happen for up to four months a year.
The absolute worst part of DST is the stupid semiannual bitchfest on Slashdot.
No, DST is worse for dyslexics. This weekend your cocks go black.
As far as I'm concerned they can also stop making them larger (those bigger screens require more power as well). Then again it seems to be what the market is asking for,
This,
The newer generation of SoC's are allegedly meant to consume less power, however more screen real estate means that any savings are being eaten up by the most power hungry component of the device. I've noticed a recent trend of making phones longer rather than wider (I.E. a 19:9 ratio screen rather than 16:9).
My Nexus 5x packed it in last week so I went and bough a Nokia 7.1, after nearly 3 years the battery on my 5x only lasted a day max, 18 or so hours with typical usage so the new phone is going to have a better battery life.
Freedom “to” vs. Freedom “from” -
https://www.open.edu/openlearn...
Good article, The problem is to an extremist "freedom" means the ability to spew whatever bile they like and shout "FREEZE PEACH" when ever someone criticises them or dares to point out the flaws in their argument, this is the favoured tactic of the so-called "alt-right", they don't want free and open discourse, they want their point of view to be the only accepted one. This is the kind of thing that is actually killing freedom of expression in western countries across the globe. If we lose the right to criticise, we've lost the right to express ourselves.
Over priced tablet has same performance as shitty laptop.
Was about to say this.
Tells us less about the Ipad Pro and more about how useless a £2,600 pound laptop is.
Israel gets away with it because they have the most powerful military nation in the world standing behind them.
Erm.. no. Iran will not declare war on Israel not because of it's military might but because the Iranian government, most of whom are Arabs from southern Iraq will lose control over the Iranian people (most of whom are Persian). The thing about Iranians and Israelis is if you put them together on any other part of the world they get along like a house on fire. When the Baha'i and Zoroastrians were forced to flee by the Islamic revolution, a lot of them went to Israel. Any war between Iran and Israel will see families reunited, many Iranians will welcome this and quickly turn their back on the theocratic regime.
Socialism taken to the extreme is certainly bad. Why work if you get the same anyway? Extreme capitalism may work, but has the downside that the unemployed starve. Thus they turn to crime, or even revolution just to survive.
But there are middle grounds. You can combine capitalism with a social safety net. As in, unemployed survive (has food, shelter, workable health plans, crime is not needed, the "honest poor" become possible). But those who works gets to have "nicer things" - even though they pay high taxes to support that 'safety net'.
Why would you work, if you had universal income? Why, to have your own house instead of some minimum flat. To have a car - or even a better car than your neighbour. To afford vacation trips to nice places. To eat food that isn't boring. All sorts of improvements over the base level, or competition with others.
Whilst extreme socialism has been tried and failed, both Communism and and Agrarianism (what Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge were trying) it should be noted that extremist forms of capitalism have never really gotten off the ground and only exist in theory, both extremist authoritarian capitalism (crony capitalism or a corporate state) and Anarcho-capitalism (capitalism without laws or rules, A.K.A. libertarianism) never managed to even get as far as establishing a state.
However you're dead right that there is a middle ground and most successful economies are in it. There is a great deal of room to debate which mix of socialism and capitalism is best, but you cannot outright argue that any amount of either is inherently bad. Like most non-Americans I don't fit neatly into the left-right scale. I'm left on some issues like health care and education (I don't think that private schools should receive a penny from the UK taxpayer) but right on other issues like trading hours, import restrictions (I'd rather less of them, fewer barriers to trade). As is the same with economies, you need to evaluate what your needs are and how best to meet them.
UBI isn't incompatible with capitalism in the slightest. Eventually with many jobs being automated we'll need a solution like UBI, but I do not think today is such a time.
I want my darn headphone jack. And I'm keeping it until my phone is unrepairable.
Nobody cares.
I care, and so do millions who are either forgoing upgrading or are increasingly buying portable audio/media players or are buying dongles that allow simultaneous 3.5 mm headphone connections and USB-C or Lightning charging, because it was stupid to remove the ubiquitous 3.5 mm standard in the first place. There is nothing wrong with it.
As do I,
Fortunately there are still plenty of options out there with a 3.5mm jack and I intend to keep buying them.
No they were not. Typical American bullshit history revisionism. Grand Theft Auto was conceived by Mike Dailly and the team at DMA Design, it had nothing to do with Rockstar Games back then, and just because they _currently_ own the franchise and the last inception of it, it does not mean two money-counters are "responsible" for it.
Yep, I remember the original top down GTA which was quite good for its day (95 IIRC) and it was released by DMA. Rockstar bought them up later and they still produce GTA from their Scotland offices (as Rockstar North).
DMA also made Lemmings.
This is the biggest problem Republicans face; how to jettison their racist and white nationalist wing. Or it was shortly before 2016 when there was concern about getting black and hispanic votes in order to remain relevant. Trump proved them wrong though, that you can give a wink and a nod to the racist wing and win an election. I am still surprised that not more Republicans jumped ship after this.
That is a problem a lot of western conservative parties are struggling with at the moment. Certainly in Australia and the UK where they've been snuggling up to racists and bigots to get the votes. The current problem they have is that they aren't getting the numbers, the UK and Australian conservative parties (Conservatives or Tories and LNP respectively) both came out of the last elections by the skin of their teeth. The Tories in the UK are dependent on a third Northern Irish party or they'll lose control of parliament. The next Australian election is expected to go to Bill Shorten and Labor, I'm not taking bets on the UK at the moment but the only reason Labour isn't in after 2017's election is because Corbyn is so unpopular.
The thing about these conservative parties is that the majority of their votes actually come from moderates. Moderates who are presently being ignored to claw votes from racist parties like UKIP (UK) or One Nation (Australia). Its said the average Tory voter "holds his nose and votes Tory" because conservatives are pretty backwards socially but OK fiscally (not at the moment, they've just announced a new raft of tax increases). These voters are changing to "hold your nose and vote Labour" because the Tories have become so backwards, not just on social issues but also on finance. They've sacrificed their larger voter-base for a smaller extremist one and cant keep relying on Corbyn's unpopularity. The Republicans are in the same boat, they've courted the so called "alt-right" at the expense of the but fiscally conservative everyman. Its going to take a shocking loss for them to realise it though.
Fully autonomous cars are right around the corner.
So they get permission to be tested in Sunny, calm, nice wide highway California... and they're right around the corner.
Wake me when they can navigate the A327 in Berkshire (that's in the UK) without stopping for no reason in peak hour... And I'll let you do that in the middle of summer.... The A327 isn't even a bad road either.
You will once these kids grow up used to annoying adds everywhere, all over the place all the bloody time. Better get used to an idea of your phone waking you up 4am to advertise insomnia drugs to you, because if businesses could get away with doing that shit, they would. And if the next generation grows up used to adds all the bloody time everywhere, hey soon enough they will.
If kids get used to the kinds of ads they are subjected to now (which they will) then they advertisers will just get more insidious and create even more intrusive and obnoxious ads.
This kind of arms race was the exact reason many countries now have an advertising standards organisation that has the power to bad certain ads. Sure they get carried away some times (recently in the UK an ad for a Nissan Micra was banned for depicting excessive speed... a fucking Micra? but I digress) however they're better than not having them. Having recently spent a few days in the US has demonstrated why, the level of dishonesty and scare tactics permitted in advertising was astounding. Sure there were ads for sugary drinks in kids programs and might have been an ad for a Chevy that was driving fast... but the number of ads that were pure political fear-mongering was astounding. Sure the UK's ASA might get a bee in their collective bonnets over a car being driven slightly excitedly... but they also kill bullshit like political smear campaigns because they smack them down hard as soon as they start.
I've nothing against the US mind you, lovely place to visit but your advertisers are complete scum because you let them act like complete scum.
how does it's maiden voyage start in Dubai?
The same way that the original Titanic's maiden voyage started from Southampton even though it was built in Northern Ireland.
Ships go on shake down cruises before entering service. You don't simply start loading passengers before it's even cleared the drydock.
My question is, are the Emirati's also importing an iceberg for authenticity?
I wish I had mod points! 5G is just a connection standard. In theory 5G connection speeds might be enough to support a new video technology with big brother watching video of you, but at this point it's all FUD
5G isn't even that any more.
It hasn't been a connection standard since US telco's decided to call 3.5G technologies like HSPA, 4G technologies.
LTE hasn't even met the IEEE specifications for 4G, it was listed as a 3.9G technology. However the Telco's got their way and now all 4G, 5G, 6G, so on and so forth are, are marketing terms. I'm just waiting for Verizon or AT&T to claim they've got 9G because it's G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-Good.
$7000 for a small dent on the fender.
To be 100% fair, the more tech you pack into a car the more expensive it does get for basic repairs.
A lovely old lady scrapped the front off side corner of my 2 series the other week. The initial quote for repairs wast over £1,500 until I read it and told them there were no forward parking sensors (honestly, if you need forward parking sensors, driving is not for you). The smart bumper then became a stock standard dumb bumper and the quote dropped to £350 because the repair shop didn't need to employ an auto electrician to remove, re-install and re-calibrate the non-existent sensors. It was only this £350 because of the smaller internal fins of the bumper on the M240i which they needed to be heated and fixed.