Without a strong minimum wage, reflective of the cost of living differences in areas of the country, all UBI is going to do is subsidize the profits of companies with tax payer money, that either will not, or cannot, provide a living wage.

Wallmart would absolutely love it, if they could pay their workers 1 cent an hour and let tax payer money cover their employees cost of living.

You have to start with a near living wage level minimum wage, and let the market decide which goods and services can continue to be produced at prices that consumers are willing to pay. If the minimum wage was 17 per hour, and your latte goes from 4.95 to 9.95 (it won't... but lets just say for the sake of argument) there are probably some coffee shops that will go out of business. And that is perfectly fine. If a business can't produce a product that people want, while paying their workers a wage that lets them house and fed themselves, that business shouldn't exist.

UBI is something that should be used to address the wealth and income inequality, after the basic floor of a minimum wage is established. It should be 'icing on the cake', not the cake.

I think it is crazy to think that in-person voter fraud is a problem we need to solve. What percent of non-citizens would be willing to risk a felony in order to cast 1 vote in an election? According to election officials pretty much everywhere, the answer is next to zero.

You think an illegal immigrant is going to risk going to jail by voting?

So, make it harder for millions of citizens to vote by requiring IDs that often cost money, in order to stop a TINY amount of in-person voter fraud.

I think it is crazy that people don't believe Republicans when the openly admit on camera that voter ID laws are going to help them win. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/07/republicans-should-really-stop-admitting-that-voter-id-helps-them-win/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c6effabb1459

It has nothing to do with stopping voter fraud, and everything to do with making a few percent of likely dem voters, not be able to vote. In tight races, closing a few voting stations making the lines longer, ID laws, keeping the day a Tuesday instead of a day off for most people, etc. All of this is designed to help Republicans win.

If you don't see that, you are willfully ignorant.

Please focus on the midterms. We need state and federal seats to gain back control BEFORE the 2020 census. Because a census year means district redrawing (gerrymandering) and basically sets who controls Congress for the next 10 years.

Plus, if Congress were blue in 2018, I bet impeachment proceedings would begin immediately over things like nepotism.

If you read the whole article, you'll see that your attitude is exactly what Linus' was railing against.

Translating your wording into Linus' thinking:

His point was that people were breaking things in the kernel in order to 'fix' security bugs. And he stated something like "if it is a broken piece of crap, no one will use it, so who cares how secure it is then?".

It is a false assumption, likely pushed by lobby groups and other propaganda agencies, that reducing our use of fossil fuels will increase the costs of goods and services.

I think we should just all say "prove it or shut up" every time some AC or other user posts made up bs like that.

Wind and solar are already cheaper than coal. This isn't science fiction. No need to speculate. We have proof. We have countries overseas that are already using mostly renewable energy and their costs have not doubled, or whatever the favorite made up number is by deniers.

The first page of google search results for linux as2 edi had vendor supported solutions available on linux...
https://www.dcs-is-edi.com/edi-systems/sterling-commerce/integrator-formerly-g-i-s/linux-and-gis/

Maybe I'm missing something more suitable in your response.

I work with windows and linux servers, and I haven't found anything that is widely used that won't run on Linux, and is supported by a vendor. Particular specialized applications might be windows only of course. But not any big "internet level" size services.

Correlation causation

If my state and your state share a river, and I dump all my waste into the river, right at the state line so it flows down into your state, what is my incentive to stop? You could sue me, but in what court? My state's courts could ignore your state's laws.

Things like the environment/pollution/radio and tv frequencies, etc, don't respect state boundaries and shouldn't be in the hands of the states.

Coal jobs have been steadily declining due to automation, and latter decreased demand, for the last 100 years. Nat Gas is just a little dip in a very long overall trend. http://gregor.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/US-Coal-Mining-Employment-1900-2016-MSHA-series-e1487808914791.png

That is an often repeated assumption that going 'green' is going to cost a lot of money. There is zero evidence for it, but there is evidence for the opposite. Wind and solar energy is now cheaper than energy derived from coal. And that is not even adding on all the external costs of dirty fossil fuels (health impacts, foreign wars, climate change, etc).

Google is very much is a gatekeeper of information. The vast majority of people use Google search to look things up, and Google highly curates the result set.

Every tried searching for copyrighted material? Google clearly states at the bottom of search pages that they have removed results based on x,y,z.

Ditto with a ton of stuff, that is dependent on the laws of the country you live in.

Do you remember what Google search was like when it just came out? You could search for 'how to do x', and it would return a list of real people's websites, hobbyists, small sites, with real people discussing the issue you wanted to look up. Now Google returns a list of 'big corporate sites' only, because that was their solution to people gaming their system to rank up spam/ad sites.

Ditto with news results. The only ones that make the "top 10"-type lists of news articles are big corporate companies. You aren't seeing a lot of good, smaller news sources.

And don't get me started on how horrible Google's Youtube ad decisions have been. Overnight they basically de-monetized a ton of independent media sources. If that isn't a form of Gatekeeping, I don't know what is.

I assume you know that Facebook is tailoring what you see specifically based on you, your friends, and what you like/dislike, right?

My conservative relatives on Facebook ONLY see positive things about Trump and negative things about Hillary. It is a thought bubble. To a lesser extent, even Google searches are tailored to what they think you want to see, which can include political likes/dislikes.

The FBI, CIA, NSA, and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies must all be biased against Trump as well. None of them have singled out any other countries as having as large an influence in our politics as Russian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

They intentionally supported him to promote instability, because they knew he would be divisive. As long as the US is in turmoil, we are far less effective in world politics.

"In the United States:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

I just tried on Redhat and Ubuntu and could add a user with zero in front as well. Hmm.