Right back at ya! I defy you to find where I said that. I wrote: "While it is precious that you seem to believe that everything the Democrats do is right and just and true, good for you.

If I wanted to say you believe that the Democratic Party is perfect, I would have said just that, but The words seem to believe would,dn't have appeared.

However, I will state that this is a side foray anyhow. You would seem - at least to me, working to deflect the discussion. I won't say you are, because then we'll have to go into another parsing of my text

Using your analogy, perhaps it might have been a good idea to clean up the garage and remove the legos.

What a victim. I'm specifically calling you a victim - to avoid confusion.

You illustrate the very aspect of refusing to take telling. The pity is that isn't going to work. And if all your values align with present day Democrats, you will have to understand that if they don'r resonate with voters, then it will be difficult to ever enforce them on the country.

The first step is admitting the party has a problem. And they have. They've allocated 20 million to project SAM. (Speaking to American Men) It's not a super start, but it is a beginning.

Perhaps you might tell the SAM people what you think of them? There are already academics who are really pissed off, they claim that giving in on any of their issues is appeasing the Republicans. So your analogy of the garage is that they don't want the garage cleaned up, they demand it be kept as is, perhaps add more clutter.

The pity is all of the data is in, and a lot of people have weighed in on why they didn't Vote Harris/Walz. It is cold, hard data with Demographic breakdowns. People have noted their issues with present day Democrats. The party can take the telling and adapt. Or like you, they can refuse to take the telling. The pity is that the mindset of all of our values must be held by all of our members tends to lead to impossible to achieve ideological purity. You won't shape the world as you want if you are not in a position to do so.

Have a great day.

... until the presumably-push OTA updates.

I'm okay with OTA updates for non-safety items like a stand-alone enterainment system, but if it touches the drive train or any safety-critical systems, "nope."

I'd be fine with updates coming in the form of a product recall where you had to manually request the OTA update. By manually I mean toggle a physical switch that was actually part of the OTA circuit, not just a "soft switch."

Here's hoping the updates are signed. At least that would be something.

Either that, or people old enough to remember the K-Mart Blue Light Special - or even K-Mart itself - are taking the day off of Slashdot.

if his Daddy made a big donation AND his Daddy made him study well enough to get the minimum grades on the entrance exams.

After all, he did get into Wharton, and he graduated, which is no easy feat.

Whether he could've graduated from Harvard under his own merit (without cheating), or whether he cheated his way into or through Wharton, I can't say.

What you need for authentication without a computer:

* A very good fake ID.

What you need for offline authentication with a local authenticating computer:

* Name, address, picture, signature ID#, and whatever else is supposed to be on the ID
* Something that's hard to fake that matches your actual face or fingerprint (see above)
* A digital signature to authenticate everything above.
* On the authenticating computer, you will need a list of revoked signing certificates or canceled ID cards (excluding those revoked or canceled very recently). Of course, you need a program that will do the authenticating.

This can be done with plain old paper, but a laminated, stiff ID is less likely to smudge or crease. Smudges and creases make digital-signature-verification more difficult.

What you need if you have an internet connection:

Online authentication is simple: All you need is the ID# or some way to look up the ID# (name and address usually does the trick): The person who is checking you out just needs to look you up. If your face and other things match, you are that person (or a very very good fake).

None of these require a phone, much less a smartphone.

The pitch meeting must have been something. There are all manner of ways to get to orbit and return successfully without using Stainless Steel.

And the Starship reincarnation of the N1 Communist Rocket isn't all that great an idea either. I understand why they wanted to have engines that don't run balls to the wall and can be refurbished, so they do need a lot of them to lift all that weight, but getting all of that coordinated and running together adds big levels of complexity.

And returning from Mars - Methane is going to be a lot harder to generate on Mars, which is Why NASA plans on old school Hydrogen and Oxygen - not certain if they'll need solid boosters. to help.

It's like his goal is to do something that has been done before, only more complicated and expensive.

All that said, Cheeto and Elmo are having a lover's quarrel, so we'll see how it turns out.

I agree that is a huge problem. Many of Americans believe that the Democrats have gone off the deep end. That Trump is a problem, but less of one. Truth is, even with the Democrat crazy issues, science denial, and demands to conform or be cast out, they actually are better at running the country.

But they have alienated groups that they considered their base. Young people, especially young males who have been told their entire lives they are useless. Men of African descent, Men of Hispanic descent. Rank and file working class men. Even the Democrats now understand that they lost men. They put up 20 million to try to figure it out. Their plan is called SAM (Speaking to American Men)

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Now that they understand and accept that they have a pretty big problem, they are pretty much afraid to admit the problem's scope. The core running the party now has years of inculcated misandry and aren't likely to believe the Dems

The whole thing is based on what I call the batshit crazy effect. Remember how freaked the Republicans were when O'Blama was elected, then really went nuts when he was elected? Same thing happened when Cheeto was elected for many Dems. Then the same thing happened - Overreach. The Dems went to places that simply didn't make sense, unless you were a far far left academic.

My experience is that People kept poor tend to revolt, not just live on the edge.

While it is precious that you seem to believe that everything the Democrats do is right and just and true, good for you.

You and true other true believers have one thing in common. You cannot take telling. You don't want to hear what might help you win the elections. And anyone who does not buy into your narrative, you cast out.

You have a digital mindset which frankly is built more on emotion than reason. As an example, Democrat Seth Moulton said that he doesn't want biological men running all over his daughters on their sports team. Despite him being a Democrat in many matters, his campaign manager quit, other Democrat operatives demanded he apologize, then resign from his position. And the Republicans made hay out of reporting those facts.

Same with young men. Getting them to vote for you when they've spent their lives being castigated as the monsters, the Republicans made hay and voters out of that fact.

You are the type the present Democrats want. Calling me a simp for pointing out issues that might help them get elected? You allow them to tell you what you think, and any deviation is cancellable. Dude, you are looking in a mirror when you look for the simp.

But you do you, and don't deviate. Dems might not win any more elections, but you'll get praise for total loyalty. Or maybe not.

Managing to lose the Supreme Court earlier, now a minority in the house and senate. You're doing just great.

No, the refusal to take telling isn't a good look. And your "conform or be cast out" party needs desperately to take some honest criticism.

And the accusations of being a MAGA, unless one believes what the Dems tell them to believe is a big part of the problem. Good response. Reminds me of Bush 2 with his "If you aren't with us, you're again us." quote.

I think the Republicans are the party of idiots. Cheeto and his cohorts are not the sharpest pencils in the box, and much of what they do is abysmally stupid. I'd never support that. Your claiming I'm simping for them is just your refusal to take telling. Your mind is made up. Anyone who disagrees with any part is immediately cast as your enemy.

How's that workin out for ya? The results of general elections are just about always close. erode your base at your own peril.

All people have different outcomes. But that isn't my point. Some people get divorce graped, (my condolences - seriously) some become ill. Even more empathy sent out. Some just die young, and all of the planning is for nought. My approach took a gamble - I could have spent a lot of money while young. then died destitute. My suggestions are to live within your means, and never live off those low easy payments for the rest of your life. That is good advice even if bad shit happens to you. And it is only advice. You have the option to ignore it.

I'd wager very damned few apps are ever distributed via sideloading. meta makes Facebook and Messenger available via sideloading, mainly to get around some locked-down non-Alphabet Android devices, but for the vast majority of users, if it's not on the default app store on their device, it might as well not exist.

So Who'll .. do the tough jobs

I think that for most use-UBI-to-deal-with-AI advocates, the premise is that robots will do that, and presumably would already be doing it by the time UBI is enacted.

If this is a problem (i.e. robots can't do it yet, or they can't do it as economically as humans), then you're not in a post-work situation yet, so you can't have a post-work utopia yet.

Keep improving those robots! You're not done until unemployment is over 90%, and ideally not until 100% though that may be asymptotic.

A plain old piece of paper with your government ID number, your picture, and other public info (address? height/weight?), a digital scan of your signature, all signed with a digital signature should be enough.

If there's any questions, the person accepting the ID can "phone home" to the government to pull up what SHOULD be on that piece of paper.

If you wanted to store a copy of the card on your phone, fine, but it would be functionally identical to the paper copy.

The picture and digitized signature would need to be printed out in such a way that minor smudges or crease marks wouldn't break the signature. The most obvious/naive way would be to use square pixels big enough to overcome typical smudges or crease marks.

This might mean the picture would be several times as large as a typical passport photo when printed out. It might also be in black and white or a very limited set of colors.

Yup, that's the one we had. It was a babe of a PC.