Your pointless thoughts & observations

  On 8/10/2020 at 11:04 PM, Gocab said:

Turbo engaged, blasting a massive 166mhz. Looks good to me.

Always wondered who wouldn't press that button... I mean, it's not like there's a mhz traffic police or something... 

have you ever wondered what was the criteria to choose WATMM's featured artists?are they really the true music makers? wtf is a clark?

i mean, look at this: 

  On 8/10/2020 at 11:45 PM, Tim_J said:

Always wondered who wouldn't press that button... I mean, it's not like there's a mhz traffic police or something... 

They had a practical purpose. Some of the early PC software was lazily written so that it used CPU clock for timing instead of the real-time clock, so if you ran it on a faster computer than it was designed for it might run too fast. It was mostly a problem in games but I've seen for example a file selection screen where the whole list of files just whizzes by in an instant if you press the down or up buttons.

  On 8/11/2020 at 8:36 AM, zkom said:

They had a practical purpose. Some of the early PC software was lazily written so that it used CPU clock for timing instead of the real-time clock, so if you ran it on a faster computer than it was designed for it might run too fast. It was mostly a problem in games but I've seen for example a file selection screen where the whole list of files just whizzes by in an instant if you press the down or up buttons.

ahh you're right i member now...

Michael Jackson should have named the albums after Bad as Worse and the Worst.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_famous_people

f.i.

Heteropoda davidbowie

  On 8/14/2020 at 3:39 PM, iococoi said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_famous_people

f.i.

Heteropoda davidbowie

 

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https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Diamond_Dogs

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The Diamond Dogs are a group of dog creatures who first appear as the antagonists of the episode A Dog and Pony Show, led by the three dogs Rover, Fido, and Spot. After they see Rarity using her gem-finding spell, they kidnap her and force her to find gems for them. They are not particularly smart, allowing Rarity to trick them with ease. Their human counterparts appear in the Rainbow Rocks animated short Player Piano and make cameo appearances in My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks and My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games.

^ nuke it g

12 hours rule...

  On 8/15/2020 at 1:19 AM, prdctvsm said:

^ nuke it g

I think in the future satire is going to look hokey, Like an ancient greek play looks to us. Like all these impersonators on snl is just going to look sooo corny

  On 8/15/2020 at 12:37 AM, Stickfigger said:

Ordered some Korean chicken last night and woke up to realise I left it out on the kitchen bench all night . It's winter here so was about 14 degrees all night . Keep or chuck ?

Where I'm from that's early fall weather. I'd say reheat it on stove top if in doubt. Heat sterilizes.

lordy..

reminds me of ..

I'm trying to work a bit too tired after waking up so early and keep chuckling every time I read "graphic designer" because in my mind the designer is graphic like violence or a sex scene can be graphic.

Need more coffee.

Is 11 early?

Is it 11 yet?

At places it is

  On 8/17/2020 at 10:02 AM, dingformung said:

Is 11 early?

 

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I woke up p 6.10am. Cleaned the cabin I was staying in, packed my luggage, returned the rental car, jumped on a train and started working on the train. Now on a local bus to the office. Pretty busy morning.

  On 8/10/2020 at 2:09 PM, zkom said:

I don't know what the phenomenon is called in which old tools, consumer products, etc become decorative pieces? Like somebody might use an old mechanical typewriter or tube radio as an ornament. And it seems to happen some years after the item has become obsolete. For example now you can buy ornaments that look like rotary dial landline phones but are not actually functional.

Anyway, I started to think is there some piece of obsolete or old fashioned technology that isn't going to have that happening? And maybe the 80s-early 2000s beige box computers? Did anyone ever think they actually look good? F.e. can you imagine this being used for decoration without at least some kind of repaint or similar? It's just so incredibly boring looking. I've seen corrugated cardboard boxes that are more interesting to look at.

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i love this stuff and have been actively searching for well preserved, non-yellowed old 90s setups just like this. i also love brutalist architecture however so maybe there's a correlation there.

  On 8/18/2020 at 2:01 AM, data said:

 

i love this stuff and have been actively searching for well preserved, non-yellowed old 90s setups just like this. i also love brutalist architecture however so maybe there's a correlation there.

 

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I get the brutalist architecture a bit, like old concrete bus shelters. How do you feel about other gray or beige colored office equipment like fax machines, photocopiers, desk phones, etc?

Germany will be testing a universal basic income for 1 year next November (but only with few people). I would gladly volunteer and registered, hope they pick me. It's 1200 EUR a month. I hope it will be fully implemented within the next two legislatures for everybody.

I doubt it though and I also doubt that a trial with only a couple of hundred people for just a year will tell much about the larger scale economic and social effects. I think the results might even be used to block the basic income.

  On 8/18/2020 at 1:09 PM, dingformung said:

Germany will be testing a universal basic income for 1 year next November (but only with few people). I would gladly volunteer and registered, hope they pick me. It's 1200 EUR a month. I hope it will be fully implemented within the next two legislatures for everybody.

I doubt it though and I also doubt that a trial with only a couple of hundred people for just a year will tell much about the larger scale economic and social effects. I think the results might even be used to block the basic income.

In Finland they had a similar trial but pretty much crippled it from the start, possibly for political reasons. But what they found out was that even though the trial didn't bring much economic change to any direction, the people were happier because they had to worry less.

Anyway Finland in general has a very high level of social security and free healthcare etc, so if you're a citizen it's pretty hard to fall completely outside the society and end up homeless even without the universal income scheme. Those people do exist though who fall through the cracks in the system or are just so completely fucked that even if you give them a free home and money for food they just use the money on drugs or alcohol and trash the home.

  On 8/18/2020 at 3:19 PM, zkom said:

In Finland they had a similar trial but pretty much crippled it from the start, possibly for political reasons. But what they found out was that even though the trial didn't bring much economic change to any direction, the people were happier because they had to worry less.

Anyway Finland in general has a very high level of social security and free healthcare etc, so if you're a citizen it's pretty hard to fall completely outside the society and end up homeless even without the universal income scheme. Those people do exist though who fall through the cracks in the system or are just so completely fucked that even if you give them a free home and money for food they just use the money on drugs or alcohol and trash the home.

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I heard about that Finnish trial and here it is used by both supporters and opponents of the universal basic income to support their argument for different reasons. I think a UBI can only reveal its real effect when given to everybody over a long period of time.

Here in Germany the social security is also comparatively high, on paper, but in reality the bureaucratic processes are too difficult and intense so people give up, especially when it comes to unemployment benefits. Bureaucracy is - nonsensically and probably illegally - used as a disincentive. I remember reading that like 3/4ths of unemployment benefit answers are illegitimate and the recipient has to formally oppose it and play a few rounds of paper ping pong to see any money (or the correct amount of money). After that's done unemployed people are bombarded with low wage job offers and can be sanctioned for not taking a job they have never applied for in various ways. It was only this year (or end of last year, don't remember) that the Federal Constitutional Court (not politicians) decided that taking away 100% of unemployment benefits as the hardest form of sanction is unconstitutional and it can only go down to 60% now (which would still put you below the poverty line). It's very neoliberal policy making and definitely not a "social hammock" here and lots of people fall through the cracks for stupid reasons. Finland is probably way better in that regard. As for drug addicts, just decriminalise drugs and do what Portugal does (it works).

I think the chances that it will actually be implemented in Germany aren't that low. The elections in 2021 will be very decisive as Merkel had announced that she will quit, so the 15 year long Merkel era will be gone, she will probably be replaced by BlackRock chairman Friedrich Merz, if her party gets to appoint the new Chancellor. But luckily her party (Christian Democrats) is in decline. The power arithmetics have shifted a lot since the last elections. A coalition between democratic socialists, greens and social democrats isn't unthinkable anymore and it's almost precluded that the green party won't be part of the government, so I think, whatever the outcome of the elections will be, a left shift is inevitable. But who knows what happens until then.

Canada tried it and it seemed like a success: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200624-canadas-forgotten-universal-basic-income-experiment

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At the time it was the most ambitious social science experiment ever to take place in Canada, and saw rates of hospitalisations fall, improvements in mental health, and a rise in the number of children completing high school

And Switzerland already had a referendum on this.

https://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/switzerland-voters-reject-unconditional-basic-income/#:~:text=The group that submitted the,is set at CHF2%2C600.

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Swiss voters rejected by a vote of 76.9% to 23.1% the initiative “For an Unconditional Basic Income.”  The initiative proposed to grant every person in Switzerland a certain amount of money each month, regardless of how much money they earn or how wealthy they are. The exact amount would have been determined by the Swiss Parliament.

But these idiots voted against it  Though 23% were pro implementing a UBI instantly in 2016, that's actually remarkable. Today more people see the benefits and there are good chances some country will start and then others follow.