That comment about Canada, is actually what concerns me most about liberal politics. They are poor people all over the world who are suffering. Some may not have the resources to manage the bureaucracy of a government healthcare system. This indicates if they have services available they will be fine, which is far from the truth. And sounds like we are trying to dump all the worlds problems on policy changes vs caring about other people. Rules and policies are more or less are designed to take the poor people out of our view vs doing anything to help them. Now we need good safety nets and protection policy to help keep people out of poverty but we need people to be engaged to the problems that will still exist.
Then it is your fault for being stupid for not realizing you are in the wrong environment for such actions. However I expect that is why we often have two side of the story where both are telling the truth. But for physical violence cases the argument I didn’t mean for that punch to kill, doesn’t make the person who punched the other guy innocent of wrongdoing.
If you are too stupid to know when you are getting in the gray zone where harassment could be considered then you really should stay out of society. Just because that woman is friendly doesn’t mean there is anything more from it. It isn’t like in the work environment we are hugging and touching the other guys or rating their sexual assets. We can focus on work. We can have friendly relations with employees without crossing that line.
It is more complex then that. Sexual harassment is about using your gender as a way to to pull power from someone else of a different gender. It isn’t about just trying to connect to a person. It’s a statement of I am so powerful that I can do things to you and there isn’t anything you can do to stop it.
There isn’t a well defined line but a gray area where things can be considered differently. Normally the rule of thumb is if you have the authority to make someone’s life difficult from retribution of your advances then you are in the gray area. Hence why a lot of people with good guy reputations have been called out recently. Because who are they going to believe?
As a straight male, it is sometimes tough if there is an attractive woman that you are working with, but it is important to keep your professional and personal life separate and not use your authority as a driver.
What do the customers desire? Apple is the world biggest company with no sign of slowing.
Apples early 2000s roots. Colorful boxes on slow processors, with all in one systems making repairs difficult, and removal of the beloved Floppy drive, and an option to add one with a USB dongle. Or on the pro-line you have system that look much like they do today, with more or less the same manageability and upgradability.
Apple had dumped OS 9 and remade it scratch for OS X which didn't mature until the mid 2000's. While its Unix core made geeks like us, find it useful for real work, but being a desktop OS with some market behind it, made it a good compromise between a Linux and a Windows box. It success was driven by Microsoft failing, and having a number of major security and reliability problems. combined with the fact that PC Maker were playing the race to the bottom, where they kept on making cheaper and cheaper devices. Which made Apple who wasn't playing that game look good. Because while the others were shoving out crap, Apple had a good quality product.
I actually don't see much of a difference. The biggest thing is now Apple is in the #1 spot, and has massive influence.
Do we have a popular product line, that is good on terms of repairability?
We complain about Apple, but it seems the other major players soon follow suit afterwards. And we once in a while get some company trying to put back the things that Apple takes out, and the product turns out to be a big flop.
I miss the reparability of the normal beige box PC too... However it wasn't reparability, but the ability to add new hardware, which technologies like USB actually make it very easy today, without having to open up the box.
But in terms of repairs to faulty components to electronics I have own in the past 30 years? 1 Modem 1 5 1/4 Floppy drive 1 Video Card 2 CPU Fans 3 Hard Disk Drives 3 Batteries (1 was considered non-replaceable on an iPod Mini) 1 Laptop screen.
Being that You-Tube has a tenancy to de-monetize videos on a whim. I don't feel Google would be trusted to actually fairly pay royalties of users of the service.
At best I stepping stone technology. Where people get these cheap smart speakers, then load their homes up with expensive smart-automation tools for these things to actually be useful. Once these tools are in place, we find that it is easier to use our expensive smart phones which we already have to do the same thing. But these Speakers would be the first step.
Kinda like the iPod and MP3 Players. Where they were popular for under a decade, and for the most part now had been replace with a smart phone. But it did bring the idea of these tiny devices with large storage, with is the form factor of our phones still. They got really small and cheap to stay relivlant for a while, but people just became OK using their phone.
They are not pegged to inflation, but their price has normally been on par with it. Because Gold and Silver are a tangible item so their value will be nearly steady with inflation. We get spikes and dips because of a demand surge, or if a new supply is found. But in general you will be getting the same return as inflation.
This isn't bad, because it can help sustain wealth. But it isn't a good way to create wealth.
But if you were the vendor and you got an infinite dollar bill to pay for something, and you had to give it back then you would had given it away for free, and you wouldn't be compensated for the effort. So the money is no good.
Gold and Silver are inflation resistant currencies. Say you had a silver coin which you could buy a nice suite 80 years ago. A silver coin of the same quality and size, would be able to buy nice suite now.
Having Gold and Silver say worth $1000 today in 100 years it may be worth $20,000 However except for paying $150 a week for groceries you will be paying $3,000 a week, and the average middle class person would be making $100,000 a week.
Having gold and silver doesn't create wealth, it just maintains the wealth you have.
"I'm no whale but I've been buying small amounts since 2012 and my bitcoin net worth is greater than all my other assets + cash + stock, but I'm not selling."
Bit Coins are so valuable that they are worthless. It is like having an infinity dollar bill. No one will be able to give you change so you cannot use it. Bitcoins are growing so fast, that a complete idiot would purchase anything with them. Because you cannot purchase anything with them, then it is just imaginary wealth.
You could sell them, but if the price next year goes up by a factor of 100 again, then you will be kicking yourself for buying that car or house where its value will not match to what you had spent.
To make a note, manufacturing jobs have been on the rise for a few years now. Just because it is a manufacturing job, it doesn't automatically make it a good one.
Having done IT for manufacturing companies, there is an hierarchy for job. Machinists and Welders are at the top. Floor workers are in the middle Dock and shipping are at the bottom.
This has been the rate of growth for about 8 years now, with most of it being under Obama. Don't hide from numbers just because the party that you don't like is in power, and they are showing good numbers that will make elections tight for next year.
We know that voters will vote with their wallet as the prime consideration. Now we have real problems, that are not being reflected by the economy. However ignoring the numbers, will not help push the agenda, you need to recognize the truth and work with it.
Companies are currently optimistic about how the republicans are deregulating everything. Thus driving a renewed expression of growth.
There is a dark side to full employment. This means we cannot have growth because companies will not be able to hire new people even if they wanted to. Kicking out people and focusing on these people who are different will hurt the economy. Because without these companies growing, there will be a point where all the people who wanted their stuff will have it, and stop buying it.
I doubt GE is thinking like that. GE tends to live in these bubbles, where stresses and problems in the market don't show up to them until the last minute, then they need to do dramatic changes. Being GE wants to be #1 or #2 in the market if not they will sell and close off the unit, the people working in stressed units will manipulate as much data to show how they are #1 or #2 until it is obvious there is a problem, and fixes earlier on do not happen.
I live near GE Territory, GE usually brings ruin to communities. Because their business isn't very predictable. So they will come in lauded as the savior of the town, bringing thousand high paying engineering jobs to the community. So the community builds new infrastructure and nice home that only these jobs can afford. Then a decade later they will close that unit, and the town is in ruin, because it still hadn't paid off it loans for the infrastructure build up, these homes are left and sold for under their value, bringing in investor to purchase the homes while they rot, abandoned.
In the old times, before chemistry, making metals pure enough to be more useful then just a colored rock was a skill.
How would we know that we could probably get a strong metal out of an orange rock. The ore rarely shows properties of the refined product. So when people found more pure iron from meteorite and find their properties useful, and the fact they will rust over time, and show properties of the ore, for someone to try to make better. No they are not doing atomic fusion to make iron atoms, but they are making iron as a material, to be used.
I would expect this would be also cause the root myths behind many religions are lore. Tell me if this story sounds familiar. Nobody peasant or at best low level nobility, wandering the wilderness, then out of the sky came the indestructible weapon, or from a magical rock a wonderful weapon is found.
Compared to bronze a weapon made from Iron would seem nearly magical, combine that they had found it from a rock that had flew from the sky.
From the headlines. It seems that Apples QC department is under some pressure or bad leadership in the middle management. It may be that Apple was trying to shove so much stuff out by Christmas and they can fix the software later. It seems like iOS and OS X new version was rushed to be on the new products with a lot of details missing or not perfected, and the probably needed until March to get them out.
The real question that I see, is why is this guys opinion about a silly app making headlines. If you don’t like the App switch. When the vendor realizes they don’t have as many users they Will either: Fix it Break it more Let it die Kill it Sue the successful app Sue the users Buy some company
The energy could go to supporting the local grid, using the computing power to process more useful calculations.
The problem isn't that Bitcoins are evil, it is just they are in a bubble, and people are wasting time and money on them. 16k a bitcoin, and still growing... Why would I actually buy anything with a bit coin, its growth is too fast to be useful to spend on anything else.
It could depend on their expenses. I didn't know what Chapo Trap House was so I checked Wikipedia. So this money needs to be split up across a bunch of different people. And it looks like they are doing decent level of production coming out with 60-80 minute videos twice a week. A normal TV show could bring in millions a month and be a struggling show.
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That comment about Canada, is actually what concerns me most about liberal politics.
They are poor people all over the world who are suffering. Some may not have the resources to manage the bureaucracy of a government healthcare system. This indicates if they have services available they will be fine, which is far from the truth. And sounds like we are trying to dump all the worlds problems on policy changes vs caring about other people.
Rules and policies are more or less are designed to take the poor people out of our view vs doing anything to help them.
Now we need good safety nets and protection policy to help keep people out of poverty but we need people to be engaged to the problems that will still exist.
Because my bitcoin collection is now worth $5.00. Still wasn’t worth the return with the couple of hours on clicking links. Back a few years ago.
Then it is your fault for being stupid for not realizing you are in the wrong environment for such actions. However I expect that is why we often have two side of the story where both are telling the truth.
But for physical violence cases the argument I didn’t mean for that punch to kill, doesn’t make the person who punched the other guy innocent of wrongdoing.
If you are too stupid to know when you are getting in the gray zone where harassment could be considered then you really should stay out of society. Just because that woman is friendly doesn’t mean there is anything more from it. It isn’t like in the work environment we are hugging and touching the other guys or rating their sexual assets. We can focus on work. We can have friendly relations with employees without crossing that line.
It is more complex then that.
Sexual harassment is about using your gender as a way to to pull power from someone else of a different gender.
It isn’t about just trying to connect to a person.
It’s a statement of I am so powerful that I can do things to you and there isn’t anything you can do to stop it.
There isn’t a well defined line but a gray area where things can be considered differently.
Normally the rule of thumb is if you have the authority to make someone’s life difficult from retribution of your advances then you are in the gray area. Hence why a lot of people with good guy reputations have been called out recently. Because who are they going to believe?
As a straight male, it is sometimes tough if there is an attractive woman that you are working with, but it is important to keep your professional and personal life separate and not use your authority as a driver.
What do the customers desire? Apple is the world biggest company with no sign of slowing.
Apples early 2000s roots.
Colorful boxes on slow processors, with all in one systems making repairs difficult, and removal of the beloved Floppy drive, and an option to add one with a USB dongle.
Or on the pro-line you have system that look much like they do today, with more or less the same manageability and upgradability.
Apple had dumped OS 9 and remade it scratch for OS X which didn't mature until the mid 2000's. While its Unix core made geeks like us, find it useful for real work, but being a desktop OS with some market behind it, made it a good compromise between a Linux and a Windows box. It success was driven by Microsoft failing, and having a number of major security and reliability problems. combined with the fact that PC Maker were playing the race to the bottom, where they kept on making cheaper and cheaper devices. Which made Apple who wasn't playing that game look good. Because while the others were shoving out crap, Apple had a good quality product.
I actually don't see much of a difference. The biggest thing is now Apple is in the #1 spot, and has massive influence.
Do we have a popular product line, that is good on terms of repairability?
We complain about Apple, but it seems the other major players soon follow suit afterwards. And we once in a while get some company trying to put back the things that Apple takes out, and the product turns out to be a big flop.
I miss the reparability of the normal beige box PC too... However it wasn't reparability, but the ability to add new hardware, which technologies like USB actually make it very easy today, without having to open up the box.
But in terms of repairs to faulty components to electronics I have own in the past 30 years?
1 Modem
1 5 1/4 Floppy drive
1 Video Card
2 CPU Fans
3 Hard Disk Drives
3 Batteries (1 was considered non-replaceable on an iPod Mini)
1 Laptop screen.
The rest were upgrade
How Well did You-Tube Red do?
Being that You-Tube has a tenancy to de-monetize videos on a whim. I don't feel Google would be trusted to actually fairly pay royalties of users of the service.
At best I stepping stone technology. Where people get these cheap smart speakers, then load their homes up with expensive smart-automation tools for these things to actually be useful. Once these tools are in place, we find that it is easier to use our expensive smart phones which we already have to do the same thing. But these Speakers would be the first step.
Kinda like the iPod and MP3 Players. Where they were popular for under a decade, and for the most part now had been replace with a smart phone.
But it did bring the idea of these tiny devices with large storage, with is the form factor of our phones still.
They got really small and cheap to stay relivlant for a while, but people just became OK using their phone.
They are not pegged to inflation, but their price has normally been on par with it. Because Gold and Silver are a tangible item so their value will be nearly steady with inflation. We get spikes and dips because of a demand surge, or if a new supply is found. But in general you will be getting the same return as inflation.
This isn't bad, because it can help sustain wealth. But it isn't a good way to create wealth.
But if you were the vendor and you got an infinite dollar bill to pay for something, and you had to give it back then you would had given it away for free, and you wouldn't be compensated for the effort. So the money is no good.
If they boycott every company that doesn't cater to their ideals. Perhaps they can starve themselves into a solution.
Gold and Silver are inflation resistant currencies. Say you had a silver coin which you could buy a nice suite 80 years ago. A silver coin of the same quality and size, would be able to buy nice suite now.
Having Gold and Silver say worth $1000 today in 100 years it may be worth $20,000 However except for paying $150 a week for groceries you will be paying $3,000 a week, and the average middle class person would be making $100,000 a week.
Having gold and silver doesn't create wealth, it just maintains the wealth you have.
"I'm no whale but I've been buying small amounts since 2012 and my bitcoin net worth is greater than all my other assets + cash + stock, but I'm not selling."
Bit Coins are so valuable that they are worthless.
It is like having an infinity dollar bill. No one will be able to give you change so you cannot use it. Bitcoins are growing so fast, that a complete idiot would purchase anything with them. Because you cannot purchase anything with them, then it is just imaginary wealth.
You could sell them, but if the price next year goes up by a factor of 100 again, then you will be kicking yourself for buying that car or house where its value will not match to what you had spent.
To make a note, manufacturing jobs have been on the rise for a few years now. Just because it is a manufacturing job, it doesn't automatically make it a good one.
Having done IT for manufacturing companies, there is an hierarchy for job.
Machinists and Welders are at the top.
Floor workers are in the middle
Dock and shipping are at the bottom.
This has been the rate of growth for about 8 years now, with most of it being under Obama.
Don't hide from numbers just because the party that you don't like is in power, and they are showing good numbers that will make elections tight for next year.
We know that voters will vote with their wallet as the prime consideration. Now we have real problems, that are not being reflected by the economy. However ignoring the numbers, will not help push the agenda, you need to recognize the truth and work with it.
Companies are currently optimistic about how the republicans are deregulating everything. Thus driving a renewed expression of growth.
There is a dark side to full employment. This means we cannot have growth because companies will not be able to hire new people even if they wanted to. Kicking out people and focusing on these people who are different will hurt the economy. Because without these companies growing, there will be a point where all the people who wanted their stuff will have it, and stop buying it.
I doubt GE is thinking like that. GE tends to live in these bubbles, where stresses and problems in the market don't show up to them until the last minute, then they need to do dramatic changes. Being GE wants to be #1 or #2 in the market if not they will sell and close off the unit, the people working in stressed units will manipulate as much data to show how they are #1 or #2 until it is obvious there is a problem, and fixes earlier on do not happen.
I live near GE Territory, GE usually brings ruin to communities. Because their business isn't very predictable. So they will come in lauded as the savior of the town, bringing thousand high paying engineering jobs to the community. So the community builds new infrastructure and nice home that only these jobs can afford. Then a decade later they will close that unit, and the town is in ruin, because it still hadn't paid off it loans for the infrastructure build up, these homes are left and sold for under their value, bringing in investor to purchase the homes while they rot, abandoned.
This is GE Thing, not the Energy Market.
In the old times, before chemistry, making metals pure enough to be more useful then just a colored rock was a skill.
How would we know that we could probably get a strong metal out of an orange rock. The ore rarely shows properties of the refined product. So when people found more pure iron from meteorite and find their properties useful, and the fact they will rust over time, and show properties of the ore, for someone to try to make better.
No they are not doing atomic fusion to make iron atoms, but they are making iron as a material, to be used.
I would expect this would be also cause the root myths behind many religions are lore.
Tell me if this story sounds familiar.
Nobody peasant or at best low level nobility, wandering the wilderness, then out of the sky came the indestructible weapon, or from a magical rock a wonderful weapon is found.
Compared to bronze a weapon made from Iron would seem nearly magical, combine that they had found it from a rock that had flew from the sky.
From the headlines. It seems that Apples QC department is under some pressure or bad leadership in the middle management.
It may be that Apple was trying to shove so much stuff out by Christmas and they can fix the software later. It seems like iOS and OS X new version was rushed to be on the new products with a lot of details missing or not perfected, and the probably needed until March to get them out.
The real question that I see, is why is this guys opinion about a silly app making headlines.
If you don’t like the App switch. When the vendor realizes they don’t have as many users they Will either:
Fix it
Break it more
Let it die
Kill it
Sue the successful app
Sue the users
Buy some company
The energy could go to supporting the local grid, using the computing power to process more useful calculations.
The problem isn't that Bitcoins are evil, it is just they are in a bubble, and people are wasting time and money on them. 16k a bitcoin, and still growing... Why would I actually buy anything with a bit coin, its growth is too fast to be useful to spend on anything else.
It could depend on their expenses. I didn't know what Chapo Trap House was so I checked Wikipedia. So this money needs to be split up across a bunch of different people. And it looks like they are doing decent level of production coming out with 60-80 minute videos twice a week. A normal TV show could bring in millions a month and be a struggling show.