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I haven't watched this yet, but the trailer really put me off. Is the movie as sexist and as obnoxious as the trailer? Is this another movie for critics rather than for children? (…

It'll also be less and less pretty soon.

It's extremely funny how every argument for Basic Income completely ignores the fact you will have to centrally plan how you're going to get all this endless money to give people. …

Because there is no free money. We would all have to pay for it. We would be subsidising laziness.

If we redistributed wealth around the world, everyone would be poor, unable to start companies, etc etc. Does that really solve anything useful? You do realise that if you redistri…

The level of koolaid here is just too large a mountain to attempt to scale. Automation will just move a few jobs around, like it always has done. And yes - we don't need jobs. But …

The UK government currently spends around £120b on welfare (Including pensions) a year. Please don't pluck false information out of thin air.

Yeah I'm sure you could find that missing £85bn down the back of a sofa in whitehall. Sorry, but the whole idea is laughable. Not to mention the fact that it's another incentive to…

So you want to spend £240 billion pounds, twice the NHS budget in the UK, on helping struggling artists?

How would they take more from the billionaire? Means test them? What if they're asset rich, cash poor... or if they have no income? The whole idea is unworkable. It's like it's bee…

You don't mention the fact it's completely unworkable mathematically. In the UK I believe it'd cost £240 billion a year. Where the hell would anyone be able to find that money from…

So in effect Basic Income is even worse as it doesn't means test recipients. If you're a billionaire, the state is still going to give you money.

Seriously? Do you not think you're in a bubble of 1%ers? Most people aren't itching to start a company you know... Most want to watch American Idol and do nothing.

People starting companies are driven, determined people who want to create things. The vast majority of people are not. You're vastly over-estimating the general population. The ma…

Yes. I had to fax them something (I forget what) to prove it was my email address. It took about a week to get it sorted. I'd echo others though - Google is awful at support. They'…

This worked for me. My account was suspended in error years ago (Suspect logins or something), and the only way I got it back was by calling up an adwords representative and tellin…

It's going to be great when these cars are around a bit more. You could have some pretty good fun trying to get one of the self driving cars to crash into you. Won't be that hard t…

There's a lot of examples. Just watch Back To The Future Part II for some obvious examples. When they landed on the moon, do you think they thought we'd still be faffing about doin…

A lot of taxi drivers grew up when London was part of England, before it became a "global city". It's unsurprising that they miss those days when it was still culturally part of En…

Never had a bad black cab ride. I'd trust any black cab driver over software/GPS etc.

Making them available in California isn't the same as making them available in a). Countries that have weather, and b). Countries that have curved roads. As another poster comments…

Perhaps in 100 years some of the easiest roads will be driven by self driving cars. I doubt any of these drivers are too worried.

Why do you think it won't save them? Uber has been banned and ruled illegal. I doubt that'll be overturned. The strike is just to raise public awareness of multinational companies …

You get what you pay for. If you're happy to entrust your life into a random untrained uninsured stranger, then go ahead and get the cheaper unregulated taxi.