- Hey, the ship is on fire!
- It's been smooth sailing for me.
Maybe you should move to a part that's *not* on fire,
instead of complaining about the part that is!
Those juicy dozen-million-dollar gigs are given to whomever bribed the gatekeepers the best. If the govt were genuinely interested in providing quality services, then garbage software wouldn't be tolerated.
But when you're doling out shitloads of other people's money, you don't give a fuck about the results - only that you benefit personally.
> This could affect the business model of Uber dramatically by increasing their costs and liabilities.
All those costs are precisely why Uber wanted contractors instead of employees. The real problem is that hiring actual employees is way more costly and risky than hiring contractors.
Of course it's way too harsh. They're making an example out of him. The message here is: "don't even dream of circumventing the monetary system we control".
This is just a part of the American police state's burgeoning.
People will take drugs regardless of whether there's a Silk Road or not. Well, at least as long as we're still mercifully allowed to use cash, which is not for long if the masses can be successfully conditioned to accept banning it.
What's the difference between banning cannabis and banning cash? Both are just orders not to use something, backed by the threat of punishment for disobeying.
Oh great, even more of Internet of Surveillance Things!
I can't wait to help governments monitor me in every way possible! I'll wear surveillance clothes, use only Smart surveillance TVs, play video games with Kinect, wear surveillance Glasses, wear surveillance watches, and decorate my home with surveillance thermometer systems and Elves on Shelves: http://truthstreammedia.com/2014/12/24/elf-on-shelf-toy-teac...
Yes, that will be great. Yay technology. I can't wait to mindlessly consume everything they put in front of me!
If you want to be taken seriously, you need to be able to differentiate between subjective and objective things ("there is no right or wrong") for starters.
Then it would be great if you could just accept valid points when they're staring you in the face.
My purchasing power or personal history has nothing to do with whether handing out things that cost something to produce is sustainable or not. Hint: it's not.
But nevermind. So much sophistry is spewing out of your mouth that you're most likely a psychopath. Yes, I realize I haven't proven anything, so there's no need to point that out. I'm either right or I'm wrong.. and yes, here in the real world, there's this thing called "truth".
I looked at some of your comments and saw you mention how your friends despise philosophy.
I believe that's because "academic philosophers" spend most of their time debating and pontificating on things that have no connection to real life. Search for the book "Empty Ideas", to see an academic philosopher make that very case.
They're usually "working" for universities etc, and are disconnected from the real world in that way too, because they don't have to provide other people with a service they would voluntarily pay for.
So they're free to engage in full-time mental masturbation, while the people who involuntarily finance it have to actually work for a living.
That's probably why your friends despise philosophy.
> The most ironic thing in all this is that your comment is still full of Herd mentality, except that it goes the other way.
No it's not. There. Did I win?
> Angular is a framework, period. Using it is neither a good or a bad idea, it all depends on the people who actually use it
Right, and a hammer is just a tool like any other, so using one to cut steel is neither a good or a bad idea, it all depends on the people who actually use it!
> Eventually we get to employ robots to do hard labor better than any human can for longer periods of time until we're paying fractions of a penny per hour in 'wages', initial cost and maintenance included. The ability to do this just wrecks any intuition we have about what it costs to produce things.
Sure, that may well happen. But "Bucky" wasn't talking about the distant future. He was saying that people shouldn't have to work anymore - in today's world - and that's just complete nonsense.