My thought exactly. Was there some specific event or announcement that just occurred that would indicate that Windows Phone will be killed off soon? Clearly Microsoft didn't announce straight out that they're discontinuing it. Did they just announce sales numbers that show a major decline?
We (rightfully) do plenty of Microsoft-bashing around here already; do we really need a special article dedicated to it?
Automation is replacing human labour, but its not free - the cost is being passed back onto the customer.
If automation cost more than human labor, why would any company use it? The whole discussion about having a Basic Income is because automation is becoming cheaper, the savings are being kept by the owners, and the workers that were replaced have no other way to earn money.
After a while, they'll add something to detect that number
How would they do that? Unless they're storing passwords in plain text. In that case, though, there's basically no point in requiring strong passwords.
I think the big question would be what happens if the company never delivers the product. If this system is pretty much just a combination of market research and pre-ordering, where the people who sign up are charged the stated amount when the product ships, then I think it's fine. On the other hand, if GE gets your $400 and can then never give you anything for it, then I would agree that it's complete bullshit.
If you go to the entity you *think* owns it, they take your money for it, but they didn't actually have the right to sell it to you, you don't get "good faith" credit for that.
You probably would get a little "good faith" credit, to the extent that you would have (what I personally think would be) a reasonable defense against willful infringement and the extra damages that goes with it.
Yeah, well, what do you expect from someone who had to learn from a bunch of union teachers. You see, if it weren't for the unions, his schools could have gotten teachers that were good enough to properly teach him how to read.
It should be possible to configure pretty much everything via GUI (in the end Windows and Mac OS allow this)
I'm not a Mac user, so maybe I'm mistaken on this, but isn't OS X (and Apple in general) rather infamous for not letting users configure things very much?
The property owner has no duty to help these people, or to continue offering them housing at low cost rates.
Maybe it's just because I live in a Glorious Republic of the People (i.e. a northeast state), but isn't an agreement to continue offering housing at a stated rate exactly what a signed lease is?
There should not be any patentable user interface designs. Suppose Ford patented the steering wheel? Then everyone other than Ford who makes cars would be trying to reinvent the control scheme, and then the drivers would be stumped when they sit in that car.
Design patents don't work that way. You might want to go read up on them.
True, but you can also assign those people to all the menial task jobs, street cleaners, park and rec workers, road work crews, politicians, secretaries etc
The types of jobs where intelligence doesn't matter.
I've worked in offices where the administrative assistant (a.k.a. secretary) was pretty much the only person who knew what was going on.
some from of minimum wage is needed to stop worker abuse.
I think the idea is that a basic income would replace minimum wage. There isn't much difference between working for $7/hour and working for $0/hour with a $1000/month basic income (or whatever numbers make the math work out). If an employer is being abusive, a worker can simply quit, since they know that their basic income will let them continue to live in their home and have food to eat. People generally only work for bad employers because they have no other choice (having health insurance tied to employers is another big reason for this). Once people don't have to choose between getting away from an abusive employer and eating, you'll probably find that the employers will start improving if they want to find anyone to work for them.
Workers under X wage should not be forced to pay for uniforms, or other items which are considered to be primarily for the benefit or convenience of the employer.
I think this issue is mostly orthogonal to the discussion of a basic income. For stuff like that, it doesn't really matter where the worker's income comes from.
Uh, in the US? Since when? Unless you mean being poor/uninsured and having hospital ERs pass the cost along to others. Perhaps rich white dudes, like Zuckerberg, and I have different definitions of the word "free".
So yes, we do have 'free basic healthcare' by your own words.
Only if you consider the ER preventing you from dying at that particular moment to be "health care".
There's moral panic over drones? I know that a fair number of people have well-founded privacy and safety concerns, but I don't think I've seen anyone say that drones are an affront to God or a violation of their basic ethics.
Most of the people who are in power and makes laws are too old to even begin to comprehend how things work and how much they are a part of modern society.
40 is too old to comprehend how computers work? I'd bet money that there are plenty of members of Congress in their 30s and early 40s who lack the logical thought processes required to form an opinion on how technology affects society beyond thinking that the NSA needs to spy on everyone in order to stop all the terrorists who want to hurt your children.
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Are the editors even plural?
Well, in English, "zero" usually uses the plural form for nouns and verbs.
I'm glad they finally changed the planet's name in order to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Adding plain text buttons such as "Agree" or "Support" along with "Like" would appeal to the more mature crowd.
For our age group, one of the text options should be "Me too!"
Why not Zoidberg?
My thought exactly. Was there some specific event or announcement that just occurred that would indicate that Windows Phone will be killed off soon? Clearly Microsoft didn't announce straight out that they're discontinuing it. Did they just announce sales numbers that show a major decline?
We (rightfully) do plenty of Microsoft-bashing around here already; do we really need a special article dedicated to it?
They could have turned it into an M. Night Shyamalan movie:
What if the paint never dries???
What if it turns out that the paint is really aliens from the future???
Automation is replacing human labour, but its not free - the cost is being passed back onto the customer.
If automation cost more than human labor, why would any company use it? The whole discussion about having a Basic Income is because automation is becoming cheaper, the savings are being kept by the owners, and the workers that were replaced have no other way to earn money.
After a while, they'll add something to detect that number
How would they do that? Unless they're storing passwords in plain text. In that case, though, there's basically no point in requiring strong passwords.
Imagine, AT&T maintaining its own version of *nix? ;-)
Nah, that's a silly idea. It would never work.
The window is now resizable
When this is listed as a new feature of an application, I think you might be a couple decades behind the state of the art.
I just want to get from A to B. I'm perfectly happy letting someone or something else do the driving.
Are you that worried about people around you?
Um, yes? It must be incredible to live some place where you aren't.
I wonder if anyone 30 years from now will remember Beyonce.
I definitely will. I thought she was good in Goldmember.
I think the big question would be what happens if the company never delivers the product. If this system is pretty much just a combination of market research and pre-ordering, where the people who sign up are charged the stated amount when the product ships, then I think it's fine. On the other hand, if GE gets your $400 and can then never give you anything for it, then I would agree that it's complete bullshit.
If you go to the entity you *think* owns it, they take your money for it, but they didn't actually have the right to sell it to you, you don't get "good faith" credit for that.
You probably would get a little "good faith" credit, to the extent that you would have (what I personally think would be) a reasonable defense against willful infringement and the extra damages that goes with it.
You seem to fail in reading comprehension.
Yeah, well, what do you expect from someone who had to learn from a bunch of union teachers. You see, if it weren't for the unions, his schools could have gotten teachers that were good enough to properly teach him how to read.
It should be possible to configure pretty much everything via GUI (in the end Windows and Mac OS allow this)
I'm not a Mac user, so maybe I'm mistaken on this, but isn't OS X (and Apple in general) rather infamous for not letting users configure things very much?
The property owner has no duty to help these people, or to continue offering them housing at low cost rates.
Maybe it's just because I live in a Glorious Republic of the People (i.e. a northeast state), but isn't an agreement to continue offering housing at a stated rate exactly what a signed lease is?
There should not be any patentable user interface designs. Suppose Ford patented the steering wheel? Then everyone other than Ford who makes cars would be trying to reinvent the control scheme, and then the drivers would be stumped when they sit in that car.
Design patents don't work that way. You might want to go read up on them.
True, but you can also assign those people to all the menial task jobs, street cleaners, park and rec workers, road work crews, politicians, secretaries etc
The types of jobs where intelligence doesn't matter.
I've worked in offices where the administrative assistant (a.k.a. secretary) was pretty much the only person who knew what was going on.
some from of minimum wage is needed to stop worker abuse.
I think the idea is that a basic income would replace minimum wage. There isn't much difference between working for $7/hour and working for $0/hour with a $1000/month basic income (or whatever numbers make the math work out). If an employer is being abusive, a worker can simply quit, since they know that their basic income will let them continue to live in their home and have food to eat. People generally only work for bad employers because they have no other choice (having health insurance tied to employers is another big reason for this). Once people don't have to choose between getting away from an abusive employer and eating, you'll probably find that the employers will start improving if they want to find anyone to work for them.
Workers under X wage should not be forced to pay for uniforms, or other items which are considered to be primarily for the benefit or convenience of the employer.
I think this issue is mostly orthogonal to the discussion of a basic income. For stuff like that, it doesn't really matter where the worker's income comes from.
Uh, in the US? Since when? Unless you mean being poor/uninsured and having hospital ERs pass the cost along to others. Perhaps rich white dudes, like Zuckerberg, and I have different definitions of the word "free".
So yes, we do have 'free basic healthcare' by your own words.
Only if you consider the ER preventing you from dying at that particular moment to be "health care".
Seriously, just stop.
There's moral panic over drones? I know that a fair number of people have well-founded privacy and safety concerns, but I don't think I've seen anyone say that drones are an affront to God or a violation of their basic ethics.
Most of the people who are in power and makes laws are too old to even begin to comprehend how things work and how much they are a part of modern society.
40 is too old to comprehend how computers work? I'd bet money that there are plenty of members of Congress in their 30s and early 40s who lack the logical thought processes required to form an opinion on how technology affects society beyond thinking that the NSA needs to spy on everyone in order to stop all the terrorists who want to hurt your children.