Comment Re:How many years could he be charged with? (Score 1) 299
Good point. It could be possible to tamper with the embassy's water supply in such a way that the effects would only be felt by someone who *lives* there...
Good point. It could be possible to tamper with the embassy's water supply in such a way that the effects would only be felt by someone who *lives* there...
With fast networks it's even possible that the insurance companies could bid on outcomes as the accident was happening. Theoretically my insurer could throw my car into a ditch to avoid damage to a bmw coming the other way.
I might get to see the first car get diverted into a schoolbus to avoid a 50-million-dollar superduperhypercar. I'll have to dress for the occasion with my best fingerless gloves and head-worn goggles.
First you'd need to root the car and run "echo 1 >
Some of the best humor in the world is a result of idiots on Facebook not recognizing satire!
I wish I could find one particular Facebook screenshot of a bunch of right-wingers who took the "abortionplex" article seriously. Just pure gold.
I think these kids will avoid FPS games like the plague after this, but not because of any moral lesson, because there is almost none to be learned about FPSes here - since as you point out, FPSes are just games.
The real lesson will be "last time I asked dad for an FPS, he took us on an awful and depressing vacation of epic proportions, so I'm not going to touch them with a 30 foot pole now."
To start paying mincome in amounts well over minimum wage, a government will have to start competing with private companies, producing cheap goods with robotic labor essentially for free and selling them at market-competitive prices until all private competition is put out of business. Then they could be sold at-cost - in other words, those items can be part of your mincome. Tax revenue becomes less important as the government transitions to paying mincome in goods rather than dollars - eventually the goal is for most mincome to be paid in goods such that tax revenue from businesses can cover any dollars needed.
Bones everywhere? That's ridiculous!
They'll be collected by the robots and made into elaborate thrones.
Or do you seriously think that a basic income would actually give people enough to do things that interest them beyond just the ability to merely exist.
Why not?
You should also consider that much of the money made working goes into continuing to work. The costs of commuting and paying others to do things you don't have time for are nothing to scoff at if you're making anywhere near minimum wage.
Good question, of course there will be nobody to do it, and when this question hits the economy that will be the point when capitalism suddenly implodes.
In the meantime we're trying to fill the gap by producing more products for the 1% who can still afford to buy things, but even their consumption has limits - when this realization hits the economy, the question you posed will soon after.
Interesting, but completely off-topic.
A solution looking for a problem being sold to people who don't have extra money to spend.
I didn't say the oceans aren't absorbing heat, they are. But they are also absorbing CO2. Here's some good introductory material:
Global warming is faaaaake!
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Then there's nothing to worry about from CO2 if the oceans are absorbing the heat
The oceans are absorbing the CO2, causing ocean acidification. Nothing to worry about, right?
The wealthy love nothing more than to pat each other on the back (or hold a circle jerk, if you prefer) over how awesome and hard-working they are and therefore how much they totally deserve to be so much wealthier than everyone else (who is just as hard-working, and in some cases, also just as educated).
And that's what's being done again here. Get a room guys.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.