March 15, 2016 at 10:51 am
umailedit (3/15/2016)
GeorgeCopeland (3/15/2016)
You pay for free services like cloud storage with your usage data. In aggregate this is easy to monetize and I am glad to give it. I trust MS and Google as much as anybody. Amazon has all of my credit card numbers on disk. I am pretty sure that they don't reveal anything to anybody without a court order. If they did, nobody would trust them, so they have a big incentive to protect privacy.You mean amazon hasn't been hacked yet? What will happen to your cc numbers then?
Trusting MS and google just isn't enough you have to trust the hackers who hack into them also.
I personally trust only paypal with my cc. Every one else I pay with paypal. If paypal gets hacked I am screwed but not if anyone else is hacked.
I have chosen to trust paypal otherwise I wouldn't be able to buy anything online.
I gave up on PayPal when I discovered that they used tax loopholes to pay less tax than I do a year in my country on the back of making millions here (PayPal not me - otherwise I'd be buying the drinks).
Same for Amazon. I just have to get off AWS but that is a slower change.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
March 15, 2016 at 10:52 am
umailedit (3/15/2016)
GeorgeCopeland (3/15/2016)
You pay for free services like cloud storage with your usage data. In aggregate this is easy to monetize and I am glad to give it. I trust MS and Google as much as anybody. Amazon has all of my credit card numbers on disk. I am pretty sure that they don't reveal anything to anybody without a court order. If they did, nobody would trust them, so they have a big incentive to protect privacy.You mean amazon hasn't been hacked yet? What will happen to your cc numbers then?
Trusting MS and google just isn't enough you have to trust the hackers who hack into them also.
I personally trust only paypal with my cc. Every one else I pay with paypal. If paypal gets hacked I am screwed but not if anyone else is hacked.
I have chosen to trust paypal otherwise I wouldn't be able to buy anything online.
Good points.
Amazon has been hacked. Numerous accounts of victims are there to read if you take the time. My favorite, though, was the guy that had his account compromised by a social engineering attack. Three times! He kept trying to get Amazon to mark his account so this couldn't happen, all they would tell him was "we don't give personal information over the phone". Except they did three times!
We can all disagree on who we trust, but I don't get the animosity over my choosing to not trust MS as much as some others do. This is America, right? Has nobody read the story of the hospital in California that paid the ransomeware virus?
Dave
March 15, 2016 at 10:58 am
If there is any animosity on my part, it is because Microsoft helped me to raise a family and pay my mortgage. They have done more to help me be successful than anybody. I consider them my most important business partner. Try joining the Oracle developer network as a comparison.
March 15, 2016 at 11:09 am
Gary Varga (3/15/2016)
I gave up on PayPal when I discovered that they used tax loopholes to pay less tax than I do a year in my country on the back of making millions here (PayPal not me - otherwise I'd be buying the drinks).Same for Amazon. I just have to get off AWS but that is a slower change.
It is a myth that a monetarily sovereign government needs money from taxes. A monetarily sovereign government can just print all its expenses.
I absolutely hate paying taxes to a government that does not need to rob me to meet its expenses. I hate even more all the harassment that comes with paying taxes.
So I am with paypal on that one.
March 15, 2016 at 11:43 am
umailedit (3/15/2016)
Gary Varga (3/15/2016)
I gave up on PayPal when I discovered that they used tax loopholes to pay less tax than I do a year in my country on the back of making millions here (PayPal not me - otherwise I'd be buying the drinks).Same for Amazon. I just have to get off AWS but that is a slower change.
It is a myth that a monetarily sovereign government needs money from taxes. A monetarily sovereign government can just print all its expenses.
I absolutely hate paying taxes to a government that does not need to rob me to meet its expenses. I hate even more all the harassment that comes with paying taxes.
So I am with paypal on that one.
So I pay and they don't. We will have to disagree with that one.
An economy can survive on a government printing more money? We will have to disagree with that one too.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
March 15, 2016 at 11:45 am
GeorgeCopeland (3/15/2016)
If there is any animosity on my part, it is because Microsoft helped me to raise a family and pay my mortgage. They have done more to help me be successful than anybody. I consider them my most important business partner. Try joining the Oracle developer network as a comparison.
Yep. OTN sucks big time.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
March 15, 2016 at 12:17 pm
Gary Varga (3/15/2016)
GeorgeCopeland (3/15/2016)
If there is any animosity on my part, it is because Microsoft helped me to raise a family and pay my mortgage. They have done more to help me be successful than anybody. I consider them my most important business partner. Try joining the Oracle developer network as a comparison.Yep. OTN sucks big time.
I'm not much of an Oracle fan either. Nor DB2. I LOVE SQL Server, and pretty much everything MS has done with it except for pricing.
However, if one hypothetically views Microsoft as the lesser of all the evils, that doesn't mean one cannot be critical of things Microsoft does that one does not agree with.
Dave
March 15, 2016 at 12:37 pm
I have an extensive and detailed list of things that MS does wrong. My list and yours have zero coincidence.
March 15, 2016 at 2:15 pm
So I pay and they don't. We will have to disagree with that one.
What I am saying is none of us have to pay taxes. The entire taxation system is archaic and unnecessary.
An economy can survive on a government printing more money? We will have to disagree with that one too.
With interest rates becoming negative all over the world. Government printing all its expenses (and getting rid of all taxes) will not lead to inflation.
Within a century we will have 99.99% unemployment rates because automation is picking up that fast.
The government will have no choice but to credit every one every month with an unconditional basic income to keep the economy going. Where will taxes be then? Will the govt take back part of what it credits and call it tax? What is the sense in that?
March 15, 2016 at 3:36 pm
Win7 to Win10 - faultless, even on a 2010 Lenovo T61p that accepted a Samsung SSD after a BIOS upgrade. Go the whole hog, said I.
Set it to defer installs, and all was well for four months. Then along came something that looked like it was labeled SP1. Apply that? Sure...
Regret is profound. My laptop would be a boat anchor but for a full Win10 reinstall! Every boot option, including attempts to get into Safe Mode were rejected by the new BSOD - the one that politely tells you there was a boot problem, collects the info, runs its self-repair, fails miserably, reboots, and so the cycle goes on... Oh, and chkdsk /f is error-free.
And, to add insult to injury, Win10 didn't bother to check that RESTORE POINTS was turned on originally, so I had nothing I could safely roll back to. What a dumb default!
Every measure is now in place to prevent this intensely annoying "trust me, I can upgrade you safely" nonsense.
For all that, I far, far, prefer Win10 to either Win7 or Win8.1. Kudos, originally, to MS for an upgrade path, free at that, but GRRRR for screwing me up with THAT update.
Golden Rule: let it download, but for goodness sake don't install it for at least a fortnight until some other poor souls have found the bugs MS left in there for the unsuspecting... Just sayin'
March 15, 2016 at 3:53 pm
umailedit (3/15/2016)
So I pay and they don't. We will have to disagree with that one.
What I am saying is none of us have to pay taxes. The entire taxation system is archaic and unnecessary.
I do have to pay my taxes otherwise my house gets repossessed by HMRC (who have more powers than the police) and I might have to face time in jail. Large corporations appear to be able to negotiate how much they pay. The rest of us have to follow the rules or face punishment.
umailedit (3/15/2016)
An economy can survive on a government printing more money? We will have to disagree with that one too.
With interest rates becoming negative all over the world. Government printing all its expenses (and getting rid of all taxes) will not lead to inflation.
Within a century we will have 99.99% unemployment rates because automation is picking up that fast.
The government will have no choice but to credit every one every month with an unconditional basic income to keep the economy going. Where will taxes be then? Will the govt take back part of what it credits and call it tax? What is the sense in that?
Are you aware that your argument is sounding scarily similar to that of the luddites. (And for once I am not joking.)
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
March 15, 2016 at 4:23 pm
I am with umailedit on this. We keep improving efficiency and we have more people than work. I think this is a good thing. I would love it if my neighbor could make his living making beer bottle sculptures. But nobody can do that now. Some things are going to have to change.
March 15, 2016 at 5:15 pm
Gary Varga (3/15/2016)
umailedit (3/15/2016)
So I pay and they don't. We will have to disagree with that one.
What I am saying is none of us have to pay taxes. The entire taxation system is archaic and unnecessary.
I do have to pay my taxes otherwise my house gets repossessed by HMRC (who have more powers than the police) and I might have to face time in jail. Large corporations appear to be able to negotiate how much they pay. The rest of us have to follow the rules or face punishment.
I am not an English native, so my English wasn't very clear.
I actually meant none of us SHOULD have to pay taxes. I meant that we should change the laws, not that we should break the existing laws.
I don't know what a luddite is. I am merely saying that soon EVERYTHING from brain surgery down to cleaning toilets will be done by robots and there will be NO jobs for most people. We will have to abolish taxes and implement unconditional basic income to keep the economy functioning.
March 15, 2016 at 5:54 pm
Your English is very good umailedit. Luddites were a group of people during the industrial revolution in England. They were concerned that all their jobs would go because of the new technology. This was about 200 years ago (if I remember correctly). We keep being promised reduced work either to individuals or en masse i.e. everyone. If anything people are busier even if they are not more productive.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
March 15, 2016 at 7:04 pm
Gary Varga (3/15/2016)
Your English is very good umailedit.
Thank you.
Gary Varga (3/15/2016)
Luddites were a group of people during the industrial revolution in England. They were concerned that all their jobs would go because of the new technology. This was about 200 years ago (if I remember correctly). We keep being promised reduced work either to individuals or en masse i.e. everyone. If anything people are busier even if they are not more productive.
I am not against technology. I know that lack of work has been feared for several centuries.
But we are in the frontier of software and robotics.
And the progress of technology is stunning if you read up on it.
If anything I think most people are under estimating the progress of technology and automation.
I think it will happen within a century or at least within a 1000 years maximum. That is a blink of an eye in historical terms.
It is no good blaming people for not having a job if there are no jobs to be had. So we will need to implement unconditional basic income (UBI).
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