When there is an imbalance in the economy, there is always a regular call to raise taxes on one entity or another. But why? Why not pass laws that ensure that money flows properly so it can be harvested in a healthy and sustainable manner?
Instead, it is ALWAYS "hey, lets tax this money so it can be sent into a black hole of corruption and mismanagement", when the "wisdom of the masses" can be used to manage the money more efficiently.
Water flows freely through non-constricted entrances...
Thankfully you recognize this as a propaganda piece. Not sure how it came up on Slashdot. Probably just to get outrage clicks.
I suspect many Americans who can't pay for a $500 emergency expense are in this category.
There are. Just like there are fat people who are fat because they overeat. But just concentrate on those since it is simple to grasp. Do not EVER think of anything else that could be a factor since self discipline is always an easy target. People are not robots.
It's a thing. Don't buy the food, don't eat the food.
So you think that the obesity epidemic is caused by a lack of discipline?
When I was a kid, fat people were the outliers, not the mainstream. Since then, our food has been engineered. And suddenly everyone just lost their self-discipline? Or was the food engineered to have certain effects that may be undesirable on a personal level but highly desirable at the group level (if you own medical corporations)?
Self-discipline has ALWAYS been an issue throughout history... but not like this. But, whatever. You appear to be happy living in this manipulated and corrupted society, so why would you look?
Oops - read that wrong - prices start at US 7K/year!
Huh... so the kid who's the CEO of his own botnet monitoring company (with prices starting at US 7k/month) looking for threats "stops" one of the most virulent botnet attacks in recent history?
"Benjamin Brundage is founder of Synthient, a startup that tracks proxy services and was the first to document Kimwolf’s unique spreading techniques. Brundage said the Kimwolf operator(s) have been trying to build a command and control network that can’t easily be taken down by security companies and network operators that are working together to combat the spread of the botnet."
"Meanwhile, Brundage said the good news is Kimwolf’s overlords appear to have quite recently alienated some of their more competent developers and operators, leading to a rookie mistake this past week that caused the botnet’s overall numbers to drop by more than 600,000 infected systems.
“It seems like they’re just testing stuff, like running experiments in production,” he said. “But the botnet’s numbers are dropping significantly now, and they don’t seem to know what they’re doing.”
How... convenient...
I don't think any trajectory that ends under 6% can really be called skyrocketing.
Your personal wealth is less than 0.0009% of the entire worlds wealth. Your wealth suddenly skyrockets to 6% of the entire worlds wealth. Oh wait, it didn't skyrocket... it lazily flopped to 6% of the world's wealth?
I am curious how they identify kids that are using VPNs to non-hostile countries to then do what they want on the Internet. Are they blocking all VPNs? Are they decrypting all traffic leaving Australia? I can't imagine that the law is anything other than the most minor annoyance to minors.
Or are you folks keeping your kids uneducated and ignorant over there like they are in the USA?
Can it clone proprietary software and turn it into an open source project?
If so, then I think the tradeoff is fair.
There is no tradeoff at all. This process takes Open Source code and turns it into unmaintainable gibberish. This same product also takes Proprietary software and turns it into unmaintainable gibberish.
Nothing was taken from Open Source, but something was taken from Proprietary.
You are further from a usable product if you use this on Open Source.
You are closer to a usable product if you use it on Proprietary software.
Dr. Gillian Taylor: "Do you like Italian?"
Spock: "No."
One of the writers for The Island: "Alex Kurtzman".
Oh, of course.
Also, The Sixth Day https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...
In the US we do have real choices, sometimes both bad but real.
I can tell that you really believe what you are saying. *sigh*
Have you ever, even once, voted for someone without an R or D next to their name? I have. Needless to say, it was a "wasted" vote.
So you have two political parties pushing candidates at you. Those candidates are vetted for pushing the parties interests above all else before they can even get their name on the ballot.
Tell me again, in more detail, about the real choices that we have in America.
So DJT manages to pull off what environmentalists and advocacy groups haven't been able to do for decades...by sheer incompetence?
I can see why you think that.
Knowing him, he'll probably turn around at some point and claim that it was his intention all along...
He won't, but it was intentional. Look at the words out of his own mouth: "Go get your own oil, or buy it from us"
Who exactly did you think made that multi-billion trade on oil futures just before the war started? Bill Cosby?
Happiness is twin floppies.
