I know I've seen channels like MAC and Sootch , etc complaining they couldn't show this or that without getting strikes...
but there was a major (and predictable) power outage in Lousiana two or three weeks ago that made the national news.
I LIVE in the New Orleans area in Louisiana, and I know nothing about this power outage you speak of....?
I never saw anything about this on local or national news....?
They ban videos showing someone screwing on/off a silencer these days.....it didn't used to be this strict....
Yeah, because "Al Gore" is a scientist.
... right? Maybe you should see what "the Science" is....
You are correct sir!!
I do believe the title of "the Science" has been claimed by one Mr. Faucci....
If I had a rubber for slashdot I could fix this.
In American slang, "rubber" commonly refers to a condom. It's an informal term for a contraceptive device.
Yup...I was confused at him replying he wanted to fuck it safely.....
At this point, I still have no idea what he's trying to say here.....
Look at what recently occured both in Spain and in Louisiana, despite certainly some healthy effort (and planning one would hope) to keep the grid in those areas running fine under difficult conditions.
Not sure what you mean about Louisiana...?
I mean, we've not nothing like Spain hit us....
A few years ago, I believe it was Hurricane Ida that hit and knocked down all transmission lines into the greater New Orleans area....power was out there about a month, but that's Hurricane damage....catastrophic damage to an area which you expect to lose power for a bit.
Are you referring to that or something else which I don't know about.....we've not had anything hit similar to Spain.
What did HyperCard even do?
It's kind of hard to explain, and honestly my memory of what you could do with Hypercard and how you actually did it is very fuzzy as it was so long ago.
But basically it was a visual programming languages, where the visual bits you drug around were then also backed by actual code that would do things. You would create a variety of cards, and in those cards could store data, move on to other cards, and so forth.
Some people used it to create games, but used it to create an inventory tracking system for a store, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten about.
In the end, it was a way to make programming a lot more approachable to people at a time when programming was VERY low level for the most part!
A key part of it was once you made a stack of cards it was very easy to share with other people as a kind of application (but one you could modify in any way you liked).
You might get a better feel reading this Tribute To Hypercard.
Everyone always talks about Woz but it sure seems like Atkinson deserves nearly as much praise.
Sad to see one of the great ones go, but accomplished so much for so many and that is better than a lot of people manage.
How is the sound quality?
If the exemption limit is 15k, you can increase your total income by up to 15k by getting a job, any job. You can further reduce or eliminate the perverse incentive by (I'm updating my suggestion here) not clawing benefits back dollar for dollar past the exemption limit, but perhaps at a rate of
.50 per dollar,
Then you would be working for half pay. That brings us back to where "entering low-paid work causes there to be no significant increase in total income".
We should distinguish our definition of welfare trap then. I took it to mean the strictly economic aspect, whereby getting a job that pays as much a or slightly more than one receives on welfare would actually result in a net loss to the person as a result of added costs associated with working.
Using the Wiki's definition, it's not where getting a job results in a net loss but where "entering low-paid work causes there to be no significant increase in total income...and this can create a perverse incentive to not pursue a better paying job."
How exactly would UBI solve the welfare trap? By the standards you're holding me to, if anyone decides not to work in-spite of getting UBI they're still in the trap.
Except that a UBI doesn't "create a perverse incentive to not pursue a better paying job." No perverse incentive=no trap.
Only after you hit that limit (per year) does the assistance get clawed back...some folks will thread the needle so they can work as little as possible in order to keep their welfare at maximum
Thus keeping them in the welfare trap. So it really doesn't solve anything. Thanks anyway for trying!
Nobody is really in favour of limited government because when push comes to shove those who profess being in favour of limited government remain so only until they get into power.
If what you say is true it means lots, not none, are in favor of limited government because they do not seek power over others and thus wish for possible power over them to be minimized...
Basically the age-old axiom, most people just want to be left the hell alone.
The following statement is not true. The previous statement is true.
