Take it from a developer who has built larger systems for over 30 years: If you want to write a piece of software to automate some process, first you need to understand what that process does, and why. If you don’t know either, you should not be building software to automate that. If you don’t understand that concept, please don’t write software at all

Any software…

Good point, just that the security council never gets anything done that has any practical effect whatsoever. \

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Did you miss the “Slowly string up gays with a crane” memo from Iran?

Did you miss the “Public executions” memo from Iran?

Did you miss the “Torture prisons” memo from Iran? Seriously, look up “Evin Confess” on spotify, the singer actually spent some “fun vacation” in that place because they didn’t like his music much

Seriously, the Iranian government is a fucked up government that needs to go. Same for Saudi Arabia, by the way, same shit, different name. These are repressive and violent regimes. Whatever fucked up thing the US and Israel are doing has nothing to do with that, doesn’t change anything about that. And yes, the Israeli government too is evil and fucked up and too has to go because they just seem unable to stop genociding because they like it too much.

What is up with you idiots trying to protect these horrible creatures? Why?

The “original message” was also only about control, like every other religion out there

Nah, just 10M wealth caps…

Management is free to give you a 100M bonus! If your current worth is 1M, 91M of that bonus will go to taxes and you receive 9M and after that, all goes to taxes.

If you have shares, and the value of those shares goes up? You’ll have to pay the taxes over that, sell some shares, and pay money to taxes. And yeah, companies would simply need boat loads of small shareholders.

And no, 100M is already way too much. If you need investment for bigger things, maybe think independent, government funded investment companies that could be a thing?

Person wealth cap at 10M

Company wealth cap at 1B

Company employee cap at 1000

it shouldn’t even be legal for corporations to own other corporations.

100% agree

And again, you can enforce this by relying on the little people that the executives don’t even recognize as human. Does a CEO formally have $10 million to their name, but they have exclusive use of a $100 million mansion provided by their company? Fine, let the janitor rat him out, and in turn the janitor will end up owning that mansion.

These are some forms of possible cheats, yes, but again ask the question: does it make sense? Why would anyone permit the CEO of the company where they are a shareholder to live in a 100 million dollar mansion if it won’t get you anything? That CEO won’t get you anything more than 10M. The only way it would work is that those at the top of that company would get luxury things from the company while the company itself doesn’t have the resources to survive because the limited resources went to the CEO.

In any case, this was just a single rule, feel free to add a few more :)

Person wealth cap at 10M

Company wealth cap at 1B

Company employee cap at 1000

Uh huh, but it doesn’t work like that. Somebody has to own that lambo at some point, be it a person or company. You could have 100 people pool together half their resources and have half a billion dollar company that rents out lambos but at that point, what is the point of it all?

If in that universe, with wealth caps, somebody wants to show off with a Lamborghini, go ahead, its dumb. You’re sinking boat loads of money into showing off to other people that you’re just as rich as they are.

Either way, that doesn’t matter. Nobody can cross the 10M line, nobody is stupid rich, governments get huge incomes, to me it sounds like a great change

Wait, what are you talking about here? I feel like we’re both on the same side of the argument?

Look, they’re both fucking evil and both have to go. Trump because he is a murdering self serving pedophile, and the Iranian government because they are a theocratic dictatorship that tortures and murders their population for control.

Oh yeah, I’m sure if we wait until the inevitable heat death of the universe that the Iranian regime will have fallen as well!

I’m sorry, but that is rather an… empty statement.

A lot of people in the USA are one absence from losing their job. Most of us cannot handle an unexpected $500 expense.

Shouldn’t either of these things be enough for people to PROTEST EVERY FUCKING DAY!??! Add to that that your current “big strong leader” is a pants shitting murdering pedophile who is speed running your country off a cliff and I would feel that if I were American, I would be protesting every fucking day, after work if need be. Americans have been fucked over left and right for countless decades and so far they’ve been a champ and took the fucking like the sheep they are.

How to I propose you do that? By going out every day to protest? If you can’t do without your job, then do it before and or after your job. Do your job while wearing a protest sign if you can. There are hundreds of ways, and yes, they will inconvenience you, and I’m sorry about that, I’m sure jews back in Poland 1939 surely also were very inconvenienced by all that was happening.

The nokings protests, until today, have done nothing of visible value. If it built support networks, then wow, awesome, could have used those years and years ago, but better something than nothing. Now that you have those networks, what are you going to do with them, besides more “nothing”?

You call me smug, I call you an American who needs to get off his ass and do something and stop looking at the rest of the world for a saviour

Well sorta… This means that we only need like 200 more partnerships and we’re there!

Even with motorola support, you’d still have only a tiny part of the market. I don’t own a google or motorola phone, so now what?

Well they are paving the way, but on PC’s… I’m talking about mobile phones and android :)

Yes, that actually is possible. You could have the government fund news and journalism directly, but that indeed would invite the government to curate the news. If you have an independent non profit in the middle that has as core mission to fund ALL news and journalism, as long as it is independent and unbiased, then it becomes much harder for the government to control details of the news.

The org, in its turn, can then dictate that all news outlets that receive funding must be factual and unbiased.

I believe it has as I have used it and I have never used anything that was not KDE

What I meant is that I have a list of about 7000 songs on spotify that I have built over the years, I would like to have THAT list of music. If I go to a self hosted option, that is great, but without the media, worthless… I can download all the music that I want, but that will be a ginormous amount for a tiny amount of songs that I actually like. I’m already hosting a huge movie library, but I fear I might need hundreds of TB more storage to save all the music that I want :)

I guess I’m looking for a “download only these songs/albums/bands from this spotify list” type thing

Linux has emergency modes for booting as well. The old ways would work with run levels, and the newer ways (through systemd) I honestly don’t know. However, a bootable USB is usually the best solution because it won’t boot a drive with a possibly damaged filesystem that needs repairs before accessing it, that sort of stuff. There is a reason why it is a separate storage device to boot from.

I’m just saying that if you take an experimental or very hard to master OS for your day to day work, or storing your family photo albums, then yeah, you’re playing with fire, because the OS can trip you up in many ways. Linux is great, but potentially unforgiving when you make mistakes. Ubuntu Linux is at the point where normal users need to work hard to mess stuff up, but if you go for gentoo or something else experimental or DIY, then yeah, you better be prepared to take the consequences when things go down south

Good

I won’t tell people what not to do, I just fucking wish they would do something useful and so far no single american has done anything remotely useful to stop trump. There are small nudges, zingers, a little cute protest here and there and that’s it. You have a fucking pedophile for president that makes people disappear from the streets and you do nothing.

I don’t tell people what they can’t do, I’m telling them to DO SOMETHING USEFUL