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It sucks to reach adulthood during a deep recession. Not sure it makes sense to use that as a predictor of the future though.

It does, though. College students who graduate into a recession earn 10% less starting out and their salaries don't recover to "normal" salary levels for a decade or more, at which point they're at a huge standard of living disadvantage because of the time value of money.

Think about it: that 10% is at the margin. It's the difference between being able to save for a down payment on a house (which in turn would lead to building wealth by accumulating equity) versus being condemned to being a long-term renter. Or the difference between starting to save for retirement in your 20s versus starting in your 30s. Or the difference between having an emergency fund versus having an unexpected emergency cause a spiral of debt leading to bankruptcy.

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* Nope... not as well OR at all, lol - + I'm on topic, you're not & trolling!

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What is your source? Everything reliable puts 150k/year well into upper class income. This article from 2015, puts the upper limit on middle class at just under 150k/year, with the lower bounds in the upper 30's. http://www.businessinsider.com...

Everyone can be a billionaire!

Like this guy?

But why stop at only a billion?

Thiel believes that competition is incompatible with capitalism.

Here's another article where Thiel says that "Monopoly is the condition of every successful business".

http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-google-monopoly-2014-9

The Nice attacker "... did not seem overtly religious. Locals said he was often seen drinking beer and never attended the small mosque near his block of flats. ... had been in trouble with police between 2010 and 2016 for threatening behaviour, violence and petty theft. In March, a court in Nice convicted him of assaulting a motorist with an improvised weapon - a wooden pallet ... "

Source: BBC.

The Paris attackers (the two Abdeslam brothers, one who blew up himself, and the other one who was arrested) owned a bar serving alcohol and were not religious either. They did not attend a mosque. There were drugs in that bar too, and neighbours complained.

Source: Business Insider.

Other attackers also got in trouble with the law: petty crime, drug dealing, ...etc.

This seems like a recurring theme with Islamic State now. They don't recruit from religiously observant people, like Al-Qaeda used to do. They recruit ex-criminals, apparently seeking salvation by committing a 'martyrdom act'.

But don't let facts stand in the way of prejudice and preconceived ideas ...

From another immigrant Canadian ...

That moron Newt ...

The Nice attacker "... did not seem overtly religious. Locals said he was often seen drinking beer and never attended the small mosque near his block of flats. ... had been in trouble with police between 2010 and 2016 for threatening behaviour, violence and petty theft.
In March, a court in Nice convicted him of assaulting a motorist with an improvised weapon - a wooden pallet ... "

Source: BBC.

The Paris attackers (the two Abdeslam brothers, one who blew up himself, and the other one who was arrested) owned a bar serving alcohol and were not religious either. They did not attend a mosque. There were drugs in that bar too, and neighbours complained.

Source: Business Insider.

Other attackers also got in trouble with the law, petty crime, drug dealing, ...etc.

This seems like a recurring theme with Islamic State now. They don't recruit from religiously observant people, like Al-Qaeda used to do. They recruit ex-criminals, apparently seeking salvation by committing a 'martyrdom act'.

Ha ha, that's rich.

Consider the USA very carefully:

You have killings.
Mobs.
Torture.
Unsafe water.
Corruption.
And at least one of your presidential nominees is a Total Nutjob!

So what's wrong with India exactly?

Let's see how I do...

Murder: In the US, there is the 2nd amendment right, enshrined in the Constitution, which gives everyone the right to own a gun (or, indeed, as many guns as they can buy). It's fair, everyone can have guns, even people who mow down defenseless children by the dozen. It's what the NRA wants.

Mobs: Admittedly, that is a problem, mobs generally don't behave rationally. Though most protests start out aimed at government groups or companies that are damaging their rights, rather than singling out and murdering individuals for perceived slights against a book they've read.

Torture: This, too, is a toughie. It was (is?) a program by the Bush administration and CIA to extract information from suspected terrorists. While morally and legally wrong, they at least tried to limit it to people who may have performed real world actions, rather than supernatural powers. If the witch floats, she's a witch, and if the witch drowns, she wasn't a witch?

Unsafe water: According to the Republican leaders, the EPA is in the way of business, so they've spent long years bleeding the EPA of ability to enforce the law, issue warnings and hold people accountable. That is a problem.

Corruption: Yep, the financial system is broken. Yep, the police are rarely held responsible for murdering people, destroying evidence, lying, et cetera.

Candidates: Our choices are horrible. We have a crazy, erratic liar who says whatever thought pops into his head and a consistent liar who is desperate to say whatever she thinks people want to hear as our only choices. But, at least neither of them have been implicated in the mass murder of thousands of their own constituents.

All in all, shitty as both places can be, the reality is still that a much better, safer life is still possible in the USA. Maybe not for long, but at least for your lifetime, maybe.

Looks like Google made about 6 billion dollars on Youtube last year, so something like 17% of what they make goes to the people whose actual content is being played. (Reference: http://www.businessinsider.com... ).

Of course, the people who write and perform got only a tiny fraction of that. They'd probably prefer a model where they actually get paid, instead of google giving away their performances for free and then raking off a few cents for advertising, of which the performers get a fraction.

Ha ha, that's rich.

Consider the USA very carefully:

You have killings.
Mobs.
Torture.
Unsafe water.
Corruption.
And at least one of your presidential nominees is a Total Nutjob!

So what's wrong with India exactly?

Yes, dumb story.

Should have gone with a 'Is the Olympics a huge waste of money?' angle: http://www.theatlantic.com/bus... http://www.businessinsider.com... http://money.cnn.com/gallery/n... http://www.thenational.ae/spor...
Answer: No, if you're a pork-barrelling supplier, a politician or Olympic hanger on partying at the tax payers expense. Yes, if you're one of Brazil's poor threatened with poverty http://riotimesonline.com/braz... crime http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/o... and disappearances http://www.ibtimes.com/road-ri...

"... the mind-set of the upper management at Yahoo."

The mind-set of the previous upper management at Microsoft: Monkey Boy.

I use TP-LINK network bridges. There are other people in the world besides yourself.

Well maybe you should reconsider since, apparently, the company must not be solvent enough to afford a $10 per year domain registration.

Much like Google couldn't afford $12 last year...

If I recall correctly, that was actually due to a software bug in Google's own domain registration service that allowed him to register the google domain. If I recall correctly, the software reverted the registration almost immediately, too.

I use TP-LINK network bridges. There are other people in the world besides yourself.

Well maybe you should reconsider since, apparently, the company must not be solvent enough to afford a $10 per year domain registration.

Much like Google couldn't afford $12 last year...

Seattle misery: HUGE problems with traffic. New construction makes the traffic worse. Amazon and Microsoft abusing employees. Shockingly slow internet connections.

I've been in Seattle for a lil while. Traffic does suck. The roads here are very poorly planned. Some friends in the DOT contracting business have shared that the companies are milking contracts for all their worth and dumping them (hearsay) ... The internet is getting better. Centurylink adopted a debunked fibre installation in the city and had it up and running at near 1gig speeds just a few months after adoption (about 800mbits is the max I've ever seen while streaming a linux distro in a torrent app) ... It's better than getting your internet from Comcast with their obvious price-fixing and anti-competitive behaviour - there was a slashdot about this not too long ago.

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Yet, they produce a continuous stream of what we locals call "am-holes" ... their employee-fucking is widely known yet they somehow keep attracting young talent. As the owner of a startup, I find it extremely hard to poach amazon employees. What I offer in freedom doesn't trump their offer of stability. I'm pretty sure they conscript people secretly by paying off their student loans in exchange for longish contracts with gag clauses. Just a hunch. What's really worse than their treatment of their employees is their treatment of the local ecosystems. Their disruption is so profound it turned a major borough of the city into their shitty little playground, and they're moving to other boroughs.

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Not to mention one of the biggest DRM manufacturers west of the Atlantic. I loved Doctorow's lecture to MS about it (http://www.craphound.com/msftdrm.txt)

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

There are ways around the traffic. And it's not waze. You really just have to take specific roundabout routes with less/little traffic and you get there quicker. The main roads are for suburbanites too fucking lazy to take the beautiful trains which head in from pretty much every direction, with huge park & ride lots for commuters. I personally believe the traffic problem is a problem with the personalities of the body politick. They are quite anti-social, fear human contact (in my observation), and take every precaution to not talk to strangers. It's really odd. We 'transplants' call it the "seattle-freeze" - which is something I warn anyone moving to the area about.

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

Seattle misery: HUGE problems with traffic. New construction makes the traffic worse. Amazon and Microsoft abusing employees. Shockingly slow internet connections.

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

Seattle misery: HUGE problems with traffic. New construction makes the traffic worse. Amazon and Microsoft abusing employees. Shockingly slow internet connections.

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

So a few weeks ago we hear stories all over ./ about Hillary (you shouldn't be able to buy a gun if you're being investigated by the FBI but running for the most powerful position on the planet is fine) getting really friendly with the big tech companies, in fact, if you look at who runs these companies and where they donate to you find they're already in bed with each other. http://www.businessinsider.com... Now rides in the Native American (very white) knight to the rescue blasting the unfair competition, which can of course only by fixed with more government interference and of course control (because it's working so well with our health care system). So should we expect Warren (who by the way made her millions throwing poor people out of their homes) to rail against the huge Wall Street banks next? I mean how many millions did Clinton receive from them? http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/... Can we expect Warren to rail against Clinton? Nope, not at all, because that doesn't provide the means to consolidate more power under her control.

Citation in case anyone tries to ask for it:

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Oh, and they even had rounded corners too.

Joy.

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And here come the American Exceptionalists

Subject-change detected — the usual tactics of Kremlin bots. I accept your surrender of the previous topic — of Russia being a dangerous aggressor — and move on to the new one: whether the US "is just as bad".

ignoring the fact that their assistant Secretary of State is on video bragging about spending billions to subvert a democracy

Notably, your bombastic accusation includes neither a link to the video, nor transcript of the actual words.

It is perfectly normal for countries to spend money on legal organizations abroad. USSR has been doing just that for decades fomenting racial strife in the US, for example, as well as the so-called "Peace Movement". In the Middle East KGB kept Arafat afloat and fighting Israel.

In today's world, Russia buys influence among not only its traditional Communist-allies, but the far-right as well.

You joked about Obama being a KGB-agent — had that been true, it would've been "subverting Democracy" in the extreme. And yet, the entire Russia would've found it awesome.

So, blaming the hapless State Department for "subverting Democracy" is rather hypocritical of you, KGB wrote that book — using Western freedoms to subvert them. But that's not all Russia does... Armed invasion is Ok with you to — and not even to dethrone a particularly nasty dictator or right some other wrong (real or perceived), but to simply grab land.

caught on the phone picking leaders after the coup.

And that, even if it were true, equates to an armed invasion in your opinion? Wow...

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I don't think either of us have been hiding under a rock for the past several years.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

I read that article but no-where does it blame men.

Are you serious? Male dominated "culture" must change or else women will not enter the culture. As Thinkprogress.org states:

"There is also persistent discrimination against women who enter the science and math fields. CTI’s study found that almost a third of “senior leaders” in STEM fields think a woman would never be able to reach top jobs at their organizations. A part of this surely comes from a general societal bias against women in those fields. Previous research has shown that even STEM professors doubt the ability of their female students. Biases against women in STEM start when they’re young girls and can become so ingrained as to actually make the girls worse at the subject. http://thinkprogress.org/econo...

So anyhow - who is doing this discrimination -the Flying Burrito Pug?

As well, they are far more likely to get into STEM if the classrooms do not have male type art on the wall:

Over and over, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues have found that female students are more interested in enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom (whether virtual or real) decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-fiction books, computer parts and tech magazines, but with a more neutral décor — art and nature posters, coffee makers, plants and general-interest magazines.

So men need to stop putting things that offend women on the walls. A Star Wars poster can keep them out of tech.?!?!

As well, the Barbie in a T-shirt and jeans might j8ust backfireon Mattel because yup, you guessed it, a person in jeans can apparently keep a young woman out of a STEM career. to wit:

In another experiment, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues arranged for female undergraduates to talk to an actor pretending to be a computer science major. If the actor wore a T-shirt that said “I CODE THEREFORE I AM” and claimed to enjoy video games, the students expressed less interest in studying computer science than if the actor wore a solid shirt and claimed to enjoy hanging out with friends — even if the T-shirt-clad actor was another woman.

So it appears that the t-shirt barbie is wearing will actually be counterproductive. Girls don't like other girls in t-shirts

Here is the article cited. It unabashedly blames males, and for things like -- almost everything about them. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10...

To make up the list for the tl;dr crowd, what really keeps women out of STEM:

Star wars posters in the classroom

Science fiction books

computer parts

tech magazines

T-Shirrt on men or women with anything technical on them.

pop culture portrayals of scientists as white or asian men.

Guys drinking beer when you don't

This sounds so ridiculous that people should doubt my veracity, but its right there in the article. One of the most damning things on this list is "computer parts. If seeing computer parts keeps a woman out of STEM, just what on gawds green earth is she going to do when she sees on where she works? It is exceptionally difficult to work with computers when seeing one makes you quit working with them.

By the way, there is an easter egg in the second article, a one sentence paragraph that kinda sums it all up. Let's see if you find it.

I think you are reading too much into this. These people are not blaming men, not blaming 50% of the population. They are identifying institution

I don't think either of us have been hiding under a rock for the past several years.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

I read that article but no-where does it blame men.

One of my (not) favorites because of the nasty implications is from this article

I think you are reading too much into this. These people are not blaming men, not blaming 50% of the population. They are identifying institutional problems. Yes, sometimes men are involved, but often it's women who are the problem, and mostly it's both.

I hear this a lot. Feminism is seen by some as an attack on men when feminists point out issues that might require men to change to solve. That's absolutely not the case.

The concept that any negativity will cause a person to fail, is disturbing indeed.

That's clearly not what they are saying. They are saying that when they identified an issue and counteracted it, on average it made a difference. Sure, there will always be people for whom being told they are inadequate causes them to defy their detractors, but if you read any book on teaching or child psychology it will tell you that for most children encouragement is important.

How does one function in the workplace when the key to getting ahead is telling others that they suck, in the process making them incompetent.

In the workplace it is important to encourage people, but also to help them improve if they are having trouble. I get the impression that it is different in the US, that people are basically disposable and if they show weakness their co-workers use it to shred them and clamber over their corpse on the way to a promotion. In the UK we try to support each other and help each other grow, and are rewarded for helping others with promotions and raises. Well, some places are like that, there are some bad places and I've left them behind, along with many others - they have problems retaining staff.

Personally I wouldn't recommend people try to make their way in an environment like that, unless they are some kind of sociopath, because the stress just isn't worth it. Don't allow yourself to be exploited, find a better place to work.

Barbie is aimed at really young children, so I think by the time girls start to study STEM seriously they are probably well beyond such toys.

I'm not sure where you got the blaming men bit from. How does Game Developer Barbie blame men?

Barbie is aimed at really young children, so I think by the time girls start to study STEM seriously they are probably well beyond such toys.

I'm not sure where you got the blaming men bit from. How does Game Developer Barbie blame men?

I don't think either of us have been hiding under a rock for the past several years.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

One of my (not) favorites because of the nasty implications is from this article: http://www.aauw.org/files/2013...

One of these nasty tidbits that in essence tells women that they need special help because they can easily be turned away from a STEM career:

Does the stereotype that boys are better than girls in math and science still effect girls today? Research pro led in this report shows that negative stereotypes about girls’ abilities in math can indeed measurably lower girls’ test performance. Researchers also believe that stereotypes can lower girls’ aspirations for science and engineering careers over time. When test adminis- trators tell students that girls and boys are equally capable in math, however, the difference in performance essentially disappears, illustrating that changes in the learning environment can improve girls’ achievement in math.

What an odd thing, that telling a person they are not good at something makes them not good at something. Bloody hell, I was told I was going to be a failure by my parents, my teachers, my guidance counselors, from third grade on. Every damn day. I wasn't, I actually became quite successful. Would I have been a failure if I was female? What is the difference?

In addition, at least where I spent my career, most of the accountants were female. There was some math involved. What are the factors that cause this?

The concept that any negativity will cause a person to fail, is disturbing indeed. How does one function in the workplace when the key to getting ahead is telling others that they suck, in the process making them incompetent.

Amazingly enough they managed to make a pop culture reference complaining about the stereotyped female STEM characters in "The Big Bang Theory". Having worked with a lot of engineers of both male and female - that is us! What the hell, are we all supposed to become Danica McKellar, or Hedy Lamar so that women decide that it is cool to become an engineer or mathematician?

Regardless, in the second article, all of the changes needed and the implications derived from it are that men must change. Ergo males are at fault for the problem. Who else would be at fault?

They aren't gifts; they are money you never owed. If you keep any tax money that you owe the government, it's called tax fraud.

In 2011, 7000 households with income over $1M paid no federal income tax whatsoever.

Tell me, how is it anything less than a gift to completely absolve these people from their tax burden? Seriously? Whether I give you $10 directly or allow you to avoid paying $10 that you would otherwise owe, the outcome is the same. And the rich are disproportionately benefiting from our current tax structure.

The fact of the matter is that we've increasingly got government regulation in favor of the rich. Inequality is skyrocketing in the country, class mobility is tanking. Every metric we've got shows that we're trending towards a two-class society of haves and have-nots. Stop being an apologist for the greed of the rich.

I subscribed to the Wall Street Journal once. It didn't work.

A subscription won't turn you into an instant millionaire. It's what you do with the information and how you invest your money that will make you a millionaire in time. Take Ronald Read who died with a $8M fortune that no knew about because he lived a modest lifestyle.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ronald-read-secret-millionaire-2015-2

Scientists schooled in the scientific method with math/stats backgrounds making a conscious effort to not fall into correlation/causation or selective bias errors often fail at producing good data.

In discussion like this I am always reminded of a little tidbit I picked up in one of my AI courses in college:

People who buy diapers in a grocery store on Thursday nights also tend to buy beer at the same time

Then there is this little gem about Target from a while back.

We know exactly what Trump would do.
It's gonna be classy and it's gonna be HUUUUUUGGGEEEE, dripping in gold and marble.
And no loser poor people, anywhere.

I would like to point out that a "good guy with a gun" can't stop a shooting from happening. Hell, it's not even a deterrent.

Once again, the gun-o-phobes prove themselves to be idiots or liars. Which one is it, then?

"Whatever M$ has ever touched, turned to manure in short order." Microsoft has a long history of managers lacking social ability. For example, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was often called Monkey Boy because of his obvious lack of ability to understand other people and interact in a healthy manner.

"... business ethics of Linkedin." It is interesting to me to see that someone else has the same opinion of LinkedIn.

It amazes me how seldom people deal with the conflicts and try to defend themselves.

Really? http://www.businessinsider.com...

Trump doesn't even know what his own position is. Remember he "reserves the right to change his mind", even on something he made major talking points at rallies.

Trump know absolutely nothing about foreign policy, national defense, or trade. Even Mitch McConnell, who's had quite a few one-on-one's with Trump recently, says so.

This is only the beginning...of the anti-social network

You think this is the beginning of the antisocial network? Zuckerberg, the highly socially skilled coder, thinks you're a dumbfuck: http://www.businessinsider.com...

With story after story about the above, and Facebook's treatment of its users, all the privacy problems, etc ... anyone who continues to use it falls under at least one of two categories: they enjoy the abuse, or they're morons.

You would have to be pretty stupid to be on the world's most massive and well-connected global communications network, and still think you need a particular web site to communicate.

This is only the beginning...of the anti-social network

You think this is the beginning of the antisocial network? Zuckerberg, the highly socially skilled coder, thinks you're a dumbfuck: http://www.businessinsider.com...

HA lol!

This has about as much to do with scientific research as [insert something funny here].

This is China. This is the South China Sea. This is about sovereignty. It is about establishing "use" and "continued presence" to extend national boarders or to strengthen their position in that regard. Which is ultimately about resources.

This happens all the time internationally, though I'll admit this is the first time I've seen it occur as a underwater sealab! It does have the bonus that once in place there is very little anyone can really do about it.

For a nicer way to do it see this:
http://www.businessinsider.com...

Canada and Denmark contest a barren speck of rock as territory, but it seems both military's at least have a sense of humour!

... "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" - Voltaire ...

In Europe and Canada criticizing the Jews is of no consequence. In fact the Jews have become their standard boogieman to be attacked

The killing of Jews is no problem either - in actual fact, part of the European continent becomes hyper-euphoric every time Jews got murdered

But if you ever dare to criticize the moslems, or Islam, you will get into trouble

BIG TROUBLE !

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

https://news.vice.com/article/...

http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/...

http://www.breitbart.com/natio...

http://www.thenewamerican.com/...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute....

"Oh please!", and hyperbole, does not make you correct. Nor does the fact that the few who are, get the majority of media attention because otherwise it's not "newsworthy". There certainly are some, and studies that point it out, but "requirement for the job"?...Oh please!

https://www.theguardian.com/sc...
https://leb.fbi.gov/2012/novem...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

admittedly 2. and 3. is valid for current car 'partners' of car makers. Not sure what google will do but the current level of cars SW quality is dismal and is accepted probably only because nobody looks. But hey there are some airplanes that fell from the sky after sw upgrade so this is not new.

"Microsoft is just digging itself deeper and deeper into a hole..."

Microsoft has been so stupid lately that there has been talk that Satan won't renew Microsoft's contract. The problem? Stupidity is not evil enough.

Other news: The Monkey's Lives Matter organization has been protesting the disrespect of calling former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer "Monkey Boy".

Sometimes, when things are very, very sad, it's helpful to make jokes to take a break from the sadness.

So true.

Is that the fertility rate argument again? "We're below fertility rate, so population is no longer expanding, even though the number of people actually does continue to grow"?

United states population, 2010: 310,000,000. Labor force: 153,484,000.

United states population, 2011: 312,000,000. Labor force: 153,263,000.

United states population, 2012: 315,000,000. Labor force: 154,351,000.

United states population, 2013: 317,000,000. Labor force: 155,666,000.

United states population, 2014: 319,000,000. Labor force: 155,285,000.

United states population, 2015: 322,000,000. Labor force: 157,025,000.

United states population, 2016: 324,000,000. Labor force: 158,335,000.

So yes, population is growing in the United States. You linked to the Fertility Rate statistic to show that the United States Fertility Rate is below population replacement and, thus, the population is not growing; yet, in the real world, the population *is* growing. A 3.1% labor force growth and 4.5% population growth in 6 years.

That may be a little unfair: 2010 was coming off 10% unemployment, a peak in an unemployment spike thanks to the 2008 recession; if you go back as far as 2000, the labor force is 142,267,000 of a 283,000,000 population; it continues to grow until around 2008-2010, where it briefly dips *just slightly*. The 16 year read is 14.5% population growth and 11.3% labor force growth, and that's coming off the absolute peak of an enormous labor participation rate bubble.

So, let's see, United States population ... is growing, yep.

It's consistently the poorest countries that have the most explosive population growth, because we've given them just enough food and medicines to make their kids grow up but not so much that two kids is enough

So as scarcity of food and medicine drop (due to outside influence instead of technology in this case), population grows? Without that sudden abundance, the population is held back by scarcity, as I have said?

You just argued that the poorer countries's population starts growing when they gain greater access to a historically-scarce resource. In this case, their scarcity is increased by a donation from someone who can produce in excess due to the advanced state of their technology.

Sounds like you invested in them, financially if not emotionally. 10 secs of searching shows they're under federal investigation for fraud, and have themselves invalidated 2 years of tests basically admitting it was all bogus.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/1...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/08b1...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

Rent control doesn't work.

At least for tenants.

Can't wait for that day when FB finally reveals it's true goals - to become the worlds gatekeeper to all knowledge.
Remember when newly inaugurated Pres. Obama thought it'd be a good idea for FB login to be your official ID?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ob...

And you thought Google's mission to simply index the world's knowledge to be scary?
Let me quote Mark Zuckerberg for you: dumbfucks

Oddly enough, Trump is the only front-runner clearly and vehemently opposed to the current H1B abuse that's going on right now.

Trump flip flops on every issue out there except for his believe that he is THE BEST.

Here is is flip flopping on H1B
http://uk.businessinsider.com/...

If you think you can believe anything this man says - or count on him to do ANYTHING he says that he's going to do, then you deserve the snake oil you're buying.

As far as Bernie, he's not quite out of the game yet but the more people say things like "doesn't have a real shot' the worse it gets for him. He's an underdog but he's not out of the race.

"Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade"

Possible translation:

Apple CEO Tim Cook does not have the necessary social skills to manage a large company. Tim Cook is better than former Microsoft CEO Monkey Boy, however.