Yeah, Jobs was a hero. Brilliant man who believed in logic and science and sound facts.

That's why he tried to use mumbo jumbo, mysticism, magic rocks, and fairy woo woo plants to cure his very curable cancer until he got to stage 4 when it was too late for real medicine to help.

Did you know him? Personally? How do you know wtf he'd do? As if Jobs was some kind of hero of democracy, free speech, and the people. He was one of the world's first tech bros and nothing more. Well known to be an asshole and narcissistic jerk.

Good riddance.

I do not understand why so many nerds worship tech bros like they're special. You guys did the same with Musk when he was going to mars and selling EVs and flamethrowers, sucking his cock 24/7 until he turned out to be libertarian.

Steve Jobs never have a shit about you or anyone else like you.

This is the perfect example of why the poor stay poor.

You do not understand that it isn't the one $5 Starbucks. It's that you have a $5 Starbucks every day which is about $100/month (M-F) or $1200 a year, just for a shitty coffee drink. Then add up all the other dumb expenses and suddenly it's several thousand dollars a year on trash that is either not necessary or easily replaced by something cheaper like making your own coffee at home or better yet, not getting a nasty caffeine addiction in the first place. And I have no idea where you live but there's no McMansions anywhere in this country going for $300k. Do you even live in the US? Probably not. That was a super weird thing to say. No further need to go into that one.

That $5k a year saved on Starbucks and other stupid shit is 2.5 months of rent.

Another thing many poor do is take out a car loan for way too much car. Why does a poor person drive a car that costs $500+/month? To show off to your hood rat friends? Poor people need to drive beaters until they get it together and stop being poor. I drove shitty beaters for 10+ years after I graduated college until I built up enough cash to finally buy a new car without a loan. And people who lease so they can always have the new cool thing? SMH, so dumb. Even today, I still drive my cars into the ground. I've never dumped a car that was still running at all and less than 7 years old. My oldest car was almost 20 years old when the blue book value was exceeded by necessary repairs.

Your snark about $5 avocados is either intellectually dishonest or shows your complete lack of understanding how good daily finance works. Probably both.

Uh ok so that's great n all how taxi drivers can leverage the artificial scarcity that ONE MILLION DOLLAR taxi badges cost.

But you don't explain how someone buys that first badge for ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

You can get a very nice house in most of the country for that. Or a taxi badge. And that sounds good to you?

Even $200k for a badge is still nuts. Why don't they just license taxi drivers and have a test and some standards like everything else? Do carpenters need a ONE MILLION DOLLAR badge? Do plumbers need a ONE MILLION DOLLAR badge? Do dog walkers need a ONE MILLION DOLLAR BADGE?

The taxi badge system is what allowed Uber/Lyft to exist in the first place. If any normal person could just drive a cab after filing some paperwork, taking a test, and paying a $50 one time fee then Uber would never have existed.

What exactly is so great about having to pay ONE MILLION DOLLARS for a taxi badge?

They could kill Uber tomorrow if a reasonable system was in place to put cabs on the street.

China is not going to invade their nuclear armed neighbor.

They don't need to invade North Korea. They already effectively own it, anyway.

They are absolutely not going to invade South Korea or Japan. A fight with SK would be bloody even without the US and allies helping out. With US and allied help, China will lose badly. They have no way at all to invade Japan. Physically impossible. Attacking Taiwan is -very- likely a huge loss for them. How are they going to invade Japan?

Do you think all these countries are just going to roll over?

And what are they going to attack with anyway? Their huge untrained and poorly equipped army? Their airforce flying fake stealth fighters? Their navy which has a trivial number of ships able to traverse blue water?

China is a very vulnerable country with a lot of internal problems. A war is the last thing they need. The first thing that will happen if they attack anyone is they'll get their trade routes across the ocean blockaded, including their huge fishing fleets. They won't last long after that.

China isn't attacking anyone. Xi and pals are brutal and horrible but they're not stupid and suicidal. Give their leadership some credit. I don't like them but I never thought they were delusional about what would happen if they started the wrong war.

Yes, this article is transphobic trash.

But first, you're wrong about sex being assigned at birth. We decide our sex later when we choose our gender. And since sex/gender are fluid and only social constructs you can change both at any time and as often as you like to whatever you like.

If you have XY chromosomes, five o'clock shadow, and the cock you were born with hanging down and see a woman looking back at you when you stand naked in front of a mirror then you're a woman. You're not at all insane and certainly not a man. That's not your internally lived experience.

A woman is anyone who wants to be a woman. Unless they suddenly feel like they're something else, such as a giraffe, then they're a giraffe.

Stop being so cis heteronormative with this sex assigned at birth stuff. Who is to even say someone was born? Maybe they self manifested? They could come from anywhere and anywhen they feel like. It's their personal lived truth.

By golly, you're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you!

Whoosh!

What chance are you talking about? Chance of what?

You totally missed the point or didn't read it. Same result either way.

1) yes, all successful people have a degree of luck, so what?
2) my success was primarily a result of everything I said: planning, job hopping, keeping my technical and social skills sharp, not sitting on my ass for 25 years at the same desk.
3) I wasn't born wealthy. I went from negative net worth in university to retired early and rich. I did not win the lottery. I earned it.

Can everyone do this? No. Most people aren't as smart or naturally talented as I am but they can apply themselves and do better than they did or are doing up to now.

  For example, sitting at the same dead end job for 25 years is the opposite of applying oneself and it is -expected- no one would want someone who is so low energy. The guy is a loser. Only some shitty low paying place no one good wants to work at would even consider him.

What exactly is the risk of being over 35 and finding a new job then leaving the old one? It makes no sense to say quitting for a better job is risky. At any age. I made 95% of my money after age 35. The time up to that was building up for the big wins. Long term planning and effort paying off.

> For example, in the Presidential Debates, he said that Immigrants are eating birds from parks. Pure bullshit. No, if you have a brain cell,

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.syracuse.com%2Fnews%2F...

They're from Myanmar here on asylum visas. That makes them immigrants. And they ate the mother swan from a park.

In short, you're either misinformed or lying through your teeth. Doesn't matter which because you're spreading complete bullshit either way no matter your reason. It's just TDS.

What next? You'll say they weren't immigrants? Or they were set up by white cops in an illegal sting operation? Or the racist justice system unfairly persecuted them because racism? Or it's fake news and never happened despite being reported by countless news sources and there being an arrest for it?

Your lefty fake news sources couldn't possibly have lied to you, could they? Only those maga Trump loving losers are liars or dumb enough to believe immigrants are birds out of a park. You otoh are reaaaaaalllly smart! Your mom said so.

And as far as your other crap about illegals don't get heal care because of "there is a law against that!!!" Lmao!! Yeah, hey, there's a law against illegals driving 18 wheel trucks, too. Yet, one killed 3 people in Florida recently and 125 got stopped in the Midwest last last by highway patrol. But there is a law against that so it didn't happen! Lmao, do you actually believe your own stuff? Are you so far removed from real news you are unaware of the real things happening every day?

I feel bad for you, bro.

It's not risky to change jobs after 35. It is risky to stay where you are because they control when you leave if you're not always looking for a new job.

I started working at university at age 18-19 and retired at about 50. During that entire time I never stopped improving my skills, networking ("meeting new people" for the Asperger folks who think that means tcp/ip), and always keeping on the lookout for changes in industry trends and applying for new jobs even when I was happy where I was. I was at several startups that collapsed. I was fired once. I quit 7-8 times. I rage quit with no replacement job only once. But I was unemployed for only a few months and that was right after the dot com collapse when there were no jobs. Because I managed my career every day for 30+ years.

A career is not about how old you are. Managing your career is a life skill and a job in itself. If you're at the same desk for 25 years you did it entirely wrong. There are no pensions anymore so why accumulate time at the same place? Only edge cases have benefit to stay anywhere more than 3-4 years, tops.

Yes, the numbers speak for themselves. Thanks for posting a link showing no meaningful difference over time.

Good job shooting yourself in the foot, although I know you expected no one to actually click your link and just assume it said what you implied, which it does not.

There are several very good graphs/charts people have made of that data all over the net, including Wikipedia, which makes it very clear there has been no real change either way in hurricane numbers or intensity over the last 100+ years.

There are periods in the past with both better and worse hurricane counts and intensities.

Would you like to reload your gun and shoot at your other foot now? I await your ad hominem anti-science response.

It doesn't matter what your feelings are about copyright. This is slashdot. It's packed full of people who don't produce original works who think they have a right to take from those who do create. That's just nuts.

It is what it is. US IP law is not about to change to forced labor. No one sane wants that.

Is life+70 years too long? I believe so. Is taking someone's work while they're still alive also wrong? Yes. It's theft. And no, "well but we paid him a few bucks! Hyuck! He didn't even get a chance to negotiate or tell us he didn't want to sell to us, we just took it because we felt like it and we had the power to do so!"

That's a really ugly world you want to live in. I'm glad it'll never be that way in my life time or many lifetimes after I'm gone.

You say OP is right then go on to immediately explain why they're wrong.

As you said, "The creator has a monopoly". That means they fully own their creation. They can not be forced to sell/rent/license it to anyone for any reason for the duration of the copyright which is currently the creator's life plus 70 years. Essentially forever in this context.

So, no, no one else will be able to make a buck off my work. Until 70 years after I'm dead.

If you're going to call someone out for being wrong while supporting the guy who actually was wrong you should do 30 seconds of research first.

In short, you're wrong, OP is wrong, I'm right and a simple google search for "copyright duration" will confirm I'm right and you're both wrong.

Have a nice day. Thanks for joining the conversation. I'm happy to have had the opportunity to educate both of you plus anyone else reading.

Oh they built their model on stolen IP? So what? A court can easily tell them to wipe out the stolen data -and- anything derived from it and tough shit if it costs them the AI race or a few billions dollars or whatever.

It certainly wouldn't be the first time a court has made the very sensible ruling that a company can not profit from a blatant theft.

No that's not how any of this works.

Copyright is not a lever for forcing payment. That's doesn't even make sense in your own scope. How is a creator supposed to get this payment you say copyright says they should get? Sue? Some small person has to sue some huge company? Uh huh....

Copyright says they own it and no one else can use it without their permission. Period. Anything less is a form of slavery or forced servitude.

What you're saying is no different than I can fuck your wife as long as I pay the going rate for prostitution in the area. Why does she have exclusive control and ownership rights to her pussy? Other women sell their pussy. There's a known expected cost for pussy. I'm willing to pay that rate for your wife's pussy. Let's get it on, woot!

Same shit, no different.

My arguments are stupid? You don't even have an argument. Your entire post was ad hominem and you conveniently deleted both my points and then sliced out a partial from a longer section. Your are an intellectual coward.

Here try again, you mental midget:

"Which country was that those evil Jews are committing genocide in?"
None. There is no genocide occurring.

"Hey, you know the Middle East used to have Jews everywhere, right? Until they were genocided and ethnically cleansed from every single country. That's something you've written a lot about and upsets you greatly, right?"
You don't care about genocide and ethnic cleansing. That was a real genocide. You didn't know and now that I;be told you you deleted that with no comment. You just hate Jews. You don't give a shit about human rights or crimes against humanity.

"Hey, maybe if it was the other way around and them darned Jews crossed into Gaza and fucked up a peace and love music festival, committed untold atrocities (which they filmed and released online themselves just like Hamas did), brutally gang raped and murder countless women and children, dragged naked corpses of young women around while cheering, and then kidnapped a few hundred of them for further rape and torture, then maybe you'd be on the Jew side of those because that's the kind of action you support."
Because this is who you are. You hate Jews. You want all Jews dead. Your double standards are your only standards. You're literally no different than the Nazis or the Muslim terrorists who want every Jew dead. Facts to the contrary of your feelings only get deleted.