My old PC locks up every 4 to 48 hours. It would make a terrible NAS.

Your own fault for living west of your workplace.

That sure musta been something. I can only imagine.

Nah, “dividends” are easy to understand, as are “investment”, “shareholder”, etc. That’s all capitalist language. You are getting paid because you are allowing another entity to use something that belongs to you. You’re “renting” something out. You are entitled to compensation for another’s use of your property.

Under capitalism, a robot performing labor means that the owner of that robot is entitled to the compensation for that labor. That robot is owned by a businessman, but the compensation you’re talking about isn’t being paid to that businessman. It’s being paid to a citizen who has no ownership interest in the robot.

That’s consistent with their understanding of “socialism” or “communism”.

They will hate it, as it makes it sound like they aren’t “rugged individualists” who can survive on their own. It makes it sound like they can’t adapt to the free market, and need to rely on charity.

Frame it as a “Citizenship Dividend”.

We “invest” our political authority in the government: Political authority is conveyed from the people to the government. We are entitled to a return on that investment.

I prefer to consider it a “citizenship dividend”.

In the US, political power is (ostensibly) derived from We The People. We convey our political authority to government. The government uses that authority to provide the service of “law and order” to taxpayers. But the government does not (currently) compensate We The People for the use of our political authority.

That can change. We can, and should, receive dividends on our investment.

lemmy tells me to go fuck myself.

Well, get on with it.

lol, I typo’d the date I read… It’s got the BIOS date listed as 2012-09-11.

ThoughtPads can’t melt steel beams.

2011? That thing became a ThoughtPad years ago.

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

The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal)[1] was a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902.[2] The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each.

Kodak actually used it from 1928 to 1989.

Securities tax, payable in shares of the security. 1% of all stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments transferred to the IRS annually, to be auctioned slowly over time. The first $10 million held by a natural person may be exempted from this requirement. No exemptions for artificial “persons”.

Sadly, he is. This is what the enemy looks like. It is simply not possible to ethically acquire even a tenth of the wealth that he hoards for himself. The damage he has caused in acquiring and retaining that wealth is far greater than his net worth.

The sooner he starts his redemption arc, the better.

Gabe and Swift are not obligate billionaires. They both have the capacity to adjust their wealth to avoid the cutoff.

Everybody. Fucking everybody.

#GuillotineParty

Based on that neck, I’d say his masturbatory habits are predominantly oral.

That violates the very first Rule of Acquisition. You clearly don’t have the lobes for business.

I would prioritize a VPN ahead of an ISP. Free Open/Public APs are not uncommon in my area.

We’ll have matrix-style human farms producing people for the tracks.

One of the first deals I did in real estate (~2006) was a sale at 115% loan-to-value, no money down, seller-paid closing costs. The buyers received $2500 at closing. Nobody batted an eye.

My Canadian girlfriend.