Because in some countries it is/was rather common to receive payments (most often pension payments) in cash that where delivered by the postman. That's why it makes sense in a way.
that exact example is given in the document and presented as 1 of 2 possible solutions. I believe, the critique in the parent comment was unwarranted, but I thought I maybe missed something.
An aspect greatly overlooked in this discussion here is, that an UBI would rid us from a ton of bullshit jobs people are currently forced to do, just to get by. So in a way, an UBI can lead to degrowth eventually, which decreases pollution, traffic jams, energy consumption, waste a.s.o.
I'm looking forward to see what people are going to do with the spare time.
10 or 11, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, BASIC. most likly i started by typing in the examples from the book, working from there. changing lines of code, see what it does to the program. some two years later i got a c64. the basic was a lot worse, but it was the machine i got around my head to assembler, or at least machine code - because i did'nt understand the concept of the assembler, but i very well understood the machine-code-monitor in the final cartridge.
but rasterbars, and softscrollers with (stolen) musik and sprites on the bottom/top border, was as far as i ever got.
yeah, but then of course you are gone completely. that's not what i want (for now). i want to keep my profile and friendlist. every other content should be purged.
yeah, something like that. facebook makes it quite hard to do that, because the delete is in a popup menue and even that is different from item to item. sometimes it's "delete" you have to click, sometimes it's "unlike" sometimes the best one can do is select "hidden from timeline" ...
for me it's quite clear: facebook does not want you to purge something, ever. if you dare to, you should suffer.
I'm not talking about deletes becoming "visible" on the timeline after a delay, I mean that the browser is completely blocked and unresponsive for 4-5 seconds (not minutes!). That makes deleting by hand lots of posts and likes a total PITA.
I want to add: I love to watch English movies (and TBBT) with English caption also (Austrian-German is my native Tongue). This allows me to fall back to the English written word should I have missed the spoken one. The meaning of single words is usually easily deducible from context. It also helps to correct my pronunciation of words I use to pronounce incorrectly.
So the end user can have all the source code they want and still be helpless.
That issue with the GPLv2 was fixed with V3.