Smart tags? I'm sorry? If you need a reminder to refill your own water bottle (or even a pet feeder), that's proof that you're negligent at your responsibilities. A smart tag will only help a dumb person stay dumb. Dumb tags.

There's no way either of these can work on their own. The money from universal income has to come from somewhere. The community agency that pays out that income should also be in charge of scheduling simple jobs for the community to perform. The only way for everyone to profit is for everyone to do their part. Even children and the elderly can perform some kind of simple work that will support their family or their own future. But when we're having to continually feed the US monetary system to keep the our billionaires satisfied, we naturally focus on greedy profit making over forging stronger local economies.

Wait, doesn't this sound like a "guaranteed job" scenario? Well, kind of. The capitalists would never agree to a true universal income unless they profited from it.

I'd really like to believe this is the answer, but for me, it can only happen when Linux can run as many games & production applications as Windows without sacrificing much performance and compatibility. Are we there yet?

It is baffling how your ignorant comment got modded up at all. All you are showing is your lack of insight. Do not understand how scalpers try to get the lower latency possible to the stock exchange so that their algorithms can undercut other traders? This article is talking about making a time server that's super precise so that the algorithms with the lower access latency can react more quickly to fluctuations in trade. This is how the NASDAQ works, and it's completely ridiculous as no part of these algorithms are creating any real wealth. They exist to extract currency from the market, not to enhance it. How they've allowed this system to continue unabated is baffling, but not surprising when you think about the USA's system of capitalist greed. This is par for the (corrupted) course.

We don't need to be enhancing a time server to allow scalpers to scalp more money. KiloByte appears to be suggesting a workaround to even the playing field. I don't even necessarily agree, but it's a better solution than enhancing the scalpers.

Subtitles. Dubs.

Some folks (by choice or ignorance) don't get Oliver's humor because it's so tightly mixed in with the real content. The worst of these people dismiss his show entirely because it's not funny, or because it attacks something they believe in.

Communism's big flaw is its implementation. Its implementation has been too big to succeed. Socialism at the local / community level is what's needed, not an overarching communist system of control. But socialism requires people working together towards a common goal. That goal should be enough of a reward for the community to continue working towards, or create new goals to strive for. Often, we have to join companies in order to work towards a goal (usually, it's someone else's goal, not necessarily shared by you), but due to the profit motive, net increase of worth is always the main goal of a capitalist business. If we could set up small sustainable systems that work towards goals, we'll be setting up an infrastructure to keep our communities stable regardless of what politicians and the federal government decide. I'm working towards a community model that doesn't need or want input from the feds except when absolutely necessary.

LOL, wait, seriously? "Hoarding isn't a problem, just print more money!" -What does this solve?- What you fail to understand is no matter how many notes fall into the hands of citizens, the systems in place force people to give up those notes to hoarders. The hoarders have the money on hand to create & run businesses that make them money. The common person who actually needs those notes to survive must give away their precious notes to businesses who simply don't care about the plight their own economy has created. If you print more money, you devalue existing currency. So, the common person could have the same notes to use, but they are worth less towards the items they need to survive. The hoarder doesn't worry about this, as the hoarder is generally someone with their hands in money making business(es) and stocks, thus enough currency to supply them with fresh food and water and extravagant dwellings. IF YOU DEVALUE THE CURRENCY OF A HOARDER, WHAT WILL THEY DO? ATTEMPT TO EXTRACT MORE WEALTH FROM OTHERS TO COMPENSATE, JUST LIKE THEY ALWAYS HAVE. Stock market fluctuations also destroy opportunities for the common man to get ahead, and it's really only possible for people with a lot of money to make the kind of moves that influence stock prices. SO, HOW ABOUT YOU EXPLAIN AGAIN HOW JUST PRINTING MORE MONEY WILL HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON ANYTHING?

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I'm not in a good position to respond in great length, but remember: capitalism has directly opposed all forms of communism throughout the world, going so far as to try and eradicate all active communist governments. This eradication has been mostly successful, as it pushed most counties involved into a position to be amicable to trade with the US. Communism had its back against the wall, fighting for its existence. I don't think those governments ever stood a chance merely because of the open opposition of the USA and capitalist allies. We'll never actually know of communism COULD succeed, just that it hasn't done too well so far. Then take a look at Nordic countries. They used their association to capitalism to grow a more sustainable system of democratic socialism. I'm not an expert on their policies, but they are genuinely working for the betterment of their citizens. Capitalism doesn't do that unless forced with impending crisis, or unless someone dons the name of "philanthropist" and gives something for the social kickbacks of looking like a kind and generous rich person. Greed motivates capitalism, which makes it inherently untrustable to me.

You can claim that the economy is doing fine, but you don't understand the incredible burden capitalism places on its land, its resources, and its people. Capitalism has failed most of this country, and it's going to take some 1%-ers or 0.1%-ers naturally losing their wealth before they realize their destructive game is coming to an end.

Because he's not. How about you lead off and tell us what "a pretty decent job" entails for the US President? And tell us what other presidents you BELIEVE did "a pretty decent job"? And note that I'm not glorifying any other president either, but it's painfully obvious on a daily basis that President Trump is a complete disgrace in terms of unifying and leading the majority people in this country. The Trump presidency isn't the dumpster fire; our whole nation is the dumpster fire, and Trump is just more dirty fuel being thrown in to make everything worse.

Economists don't want to admit their their models, ALL of their models, are inherently flawed. Money is our social blood. If it's not flowing to the right places in the right quantities AND staying mostly within a closed system, then our social body begins to atrophy. Money is being hoarded in hands/accounts of too few. Governments have tried to print new currency notes to keep normal people's needs satiated and prevent a riot, but that can only hold up for so long. Money isn't flowing freely in a closed system anymore. I don't know what these hoarders are thinking by extracting so much wealth from the lower populations, but the outcome of doing so will be (a) harsher wage and debt slavery than before, (b) harsher tactics that people have to employ to keep access to food, water, and shelter, and (c) people will leave the system of fiat currency to primarily live in small social communities where most "wealth" is generated by the actions of the people involved (food, water, shelter, and then some sort of production). Seems to me that external countries / people will grab up another country's wealth in order to FORCE it to atrophy, if necessary to gain personal profit. We have to end large scale greed ASAP. It's the only way.

"Very few people downloading songs, movies, and software actually follow through and purchase what they're copying." There is no basis for this generalization. Back it up with facts, or perhaps examples similar to mine? Furthermore, having a low-quality TV-rip of a show and owning a near-perfect quality DVD copy with bonus features, multiple languages, etc. are absolutely NOT identical. Please stop with your overgeneralizing. It's making you no headway.

I wasn't looking for suggestions. I'm looking for solutions. Currently, I have my solution. Try before you buy. If my memory serves me correctly, this sort of practice is done everywhere. Free samples, shareware, free trail offers... but aside from a trailer that usually shows only the good(-looking) parts of a movie, there's no way to try a film without paying large sums of money. Yes, five dollars is a large sum of money for 1 1/4th - 4 hours of linear entertainment. Five dollars can feed people pretty well, in fact. Why should I waste good money on something I'm not sure is worth the purchase? I'm not going to unless it's worth it. End of story. I'm sure many other people feel very similarly on this situation, and you're definitely not giving them enough credit.