This report is unsurprising... the Soviet approach just seems so stupid to any Western engineer unfamiliar with it
It isn't exactly stupid. It's just a continuation of the typical methods of engineering before electronic computers became integral tools in the process. With the ever advancing and sophisticated technology developed in the 20th century they needed to distribute a larger work load across more workers.
A single minor mistake forever damns you?
I hope you are never in a position of power. Everyone makes mistakes yourself included.
The whole idea is predicated on the fact that one minor fuck up will screw him for life.
And yes the fuck up is extremely minor. Apple gets a ton of free press. There's not a single thing innovative in the new model. The changes are boring iterative refinements.
I could imagine Apple never giving him another device but career ending? That's nonsensical. There's no customer impact. There's no company impact.
Anyone who's been in charge of a customer facing system and had unscheduled down time has done worse.
Or perl with the more than one way to do it will make it nearly unreadable if you have a different style in every line
How do you decide who gets bigger this or that? If it's just those with better jobs isn't that just less defined version of money?
The answer is that everyone gets the benefit. The person that comes up with the idea gets the benefit. The person that implements the idea gets the benefit. All the people that support society so that these people can do this creative work get the benefit.
Point being that there is no reason to restrict new inventions to a select few. If it is something that will have a limited supply, then only a limited number of people can use it at a single time, but still everyone can have equal access. Then someone who would like to have more access works on a less resource intensive process so their can be more. Motivation remains, it's just that an individuals motivation happens to benefit all of society.
You've suggested a stick might work instead but tbh i don't think you can get that far punishing people for not being good enough people.
No actually I suggest nothing but a carrot. But like everything in life, one persons carrot is another person stick. The carrot is simple, you can have all your needs met and have access to all the available resources of society, and all you need to do is be reasonably productive (and yes I realize someone would have to define reasonably productive). I would think that would be a much better carrot than the current economic motivator that only provides for the needs of a very select few, and limits all other resources to an even smaller minority.
Then again, this whole thing started from one sentence, certainly not enough to define an entire ideology.
the real question is whether or not it makes good TV, and the proof is in the pudding (especially for TNG). TV shows are, after all, entertainment and not great literary works. (Indeed, the two don't frequently go hand-in-hand...)
But TNG rather often managed to deliver both! (Well, not literaly literary works, of course...) Just remember episodes like "The inner light" (you may want to remove the Star-Trek-Bookends from that one) or "Chain of Command". Pure work of art every now and then.
I don't seem to recall the person that you're responding to actually snubbing their nose at you. If you're upset that you're not getting anywhere within your own job markets, maybe you should take a deep look at yourself! If you want to be an executive, get the necessary skill set, work for it, and then market yourself. The person that TFA is talking about has repaid their debt to society. If you did something wrong and repaid your debt to society, wouldn't you want someone to give you a second chance?
And you honestly do sound jealous. Hell, I'm a little jealous. I wish I could embezzle money from a company, go to jail, repay my debt to society through jail time, and then get a high paying job again. If you say you aren't jealous, I think you're deluding yourself.
I'm not understanding your point in singling that out, as each of those other things in his list are also specific taxes that the government collects to fund those systems. When calculating the government's budget, the add all those sources together for a single statistic, even if the funds are separately collected, accounted and dispensed.
I do not think so.... Unemployment taxes get pooled into a separate pool and are divided up your $ that you paid into Unemployment does not go to pay for the welfare queen's food stamps.
If this were no so then we would have no problems with the Unemployment fund running out of funds we could just tap into another pool of money that might have just a little surplus.
Thinking about calling this a tax on employers? Do Self Employed workers pay Unemployment Insurance? I know they pay SS Insurance.
Actually if you add SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services
Uhhm No Unemployment is paid through unemployment insurance that employers pay to the government.
The higher your rate of claims against you the higher your rates will be.
"What if" is a trademark of Hewlett Packard, so stop using it in your sentences without permission, or risk being sued.
