All he's REALLY interested in in getting big tax breaks for himself and his business/rich buddies.
Not buying it. Being able to throw millions around is already a great way to make that happen without the hassle of running for office. Trump's motivation is most likely fairly simple: he's an attention whore, and being in the limelight strokes his ego. Becoming "the most powerful man in the world" (f that's his end game) does so even more.
The presidential thing is just another reality show, like the apprentice.
What's frightening is that you'd choose a crazy bigoted egomaniac over a fairly unremarkable Democrat who has become the devil incarnate to right-wingers somehow. I never understood the incredible amount of hate that US conservatives have for Hillary. Since she's a huge war-hawk by Dem standards, you'd think they might even find her more tolerable.
hillary was beloved by republicans back when.
“I have a sense that she is one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president,” -Dick Cheney http://dailycaller.com/2011/09...
"Look, if we had a Clinton presidency, if we had Erskine Bowles as Chief of Staff of the White House or president of the United States, I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That's not the kind of presidency we're dealing with right now." - Paul Ryan http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bi...
“Having started as a secretary and eventually become a chief-executive officer, I not only have great admiration and respect for Hillary Clinton and her candidacy and her leadership, but I also have great empathy, I must tell you, for what she went through,” -Carly Fiorina http://www.todayszaman.com/wor...
“I happen to like Hillary Clinton; I think she’s done a good job for the... secretary of state’s position, and I have high respect for her and think a great deal of her.” - Orrin Hatch http://www.politico.com/story/...
“I think the international star is Secretary Clinton. She has done a really tremendous job.” John McCain http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2...
"She's dedicated to her job, she loves her country, I think she is a good role model, one of the most effective Secretary of States, greatest ambassadors for the American people that I've known in my lifetime." -Lindsey Graham http://www.thestate.com/news/p...
"I think she's done a fine job. The problem isn't Hilary Clinton, who's great," -Condoleeza Rice http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_...
I can still remember being led around by older relatives in the "war surplus" stores as they were always called in the Fifties in big-city downtowns, agog at the piles of vacuum tubes, ammo boxes and arcane chunks of militaria that required cobbling up a 28V power supply to operate. Later these became discount electronic stores ("Look! Japanese made radios!").
One fork of this evolutionary chain became Radio Shack - real Radio Shack, festooned with ham gear, and electronic supermarkets like Fry's; the other begat the electronic flea market where hobbyists enthusiastically rummaged through stacks of used technojunk and walls of printed manuals. The last time I visited one of these was in the Nineties. It was in the rain in Tempe, Arizona, the last few weary radio hams nosing through it on Rascal scooters, sucking oxygen through masks like Darth Vader and bleary-eyed for the old days.
wonder what percentage of them had the tail of a fighter plane poking out of the roof...
I can still remember being led around by older relatives in the "war surplus" stores as they were always called in the Fifties in big-city downtowns, agog at the piles of vacuum tubes, ammo boxes and arcane chunks of militaria that required cobbling up a 28V power supply to operate. Later these became discount electronic stores ("Look! Japanese made radios!").
One fork of this evolutionary chain became Radio Shack - real Radio Shack, festooned with ham gear, and electronic supermarkets like Fry's; the other begat the electronic flea market where hobbyists enthusiastically rummaged through stacks of used technojunk and walls of printed manuals. The last time I visited one of these was in the Nineties. It was in the rain in Tempe, Arizona, the last few weary radio hams nosing through it on Rascal scooters, sucking oxygen through masks like Darth Vader and bleary-eyed for the old days.
still have my prize war surplus finds, a big pile of old air force electronics that require 400hz ac power. carbon button throat mikes. 24/250 volt dynamotors.
my automobile ownership during grad school was only made possible by the existence of do it yourself garages where you could rent a bay and access to various tools for $2 an hour. the advice from other customers was free.
Electronic flea markets and surplus stores are a nexus point of talented and interesting people. As they go, so does the opportunity to interact in person with the gurus of electronic development.
...seems to be a role now filled by maker spaces. When I went to the local mini maker faire earlier this year, there were plenty of talented and interesting people doing fun projects with electronics.
one kid put the guts of a radioshack digital clock into a pencil box.
I heard, that Senator Sanders has fans, but never encountered one in person. A burning question I have for him — and his — is, what exactly would he do differently from Presidente Chavez, should he gain the same office in this country as the late paratrooper held in Venezuela?
Off-topic? Hardly...
Probably not going to complain about "the descendants of the same ones that crucified Christ" dominating the world as Chavez did.
That's only problem if you really are in a supply constrained market. If you are offered more money at the firm down the street, then they definitely should be paying you more. What I don't like is that it seems like a lot of people think they should get more money simply for being at a company longer, without actually taking on any additional responsibility or providing any additional value to the company.
You see a lot of places with unions ending up in this situation. People get raises (and big ones) based simply off years of seniority. Even though they may not actually be as good as the younger employees, they still get paid substantially more simply for the fact that they have been there for a long time.
Essentially, you plateau. Once you plateau, you probably aren't worth getting paid significantly more than you were before.
If that were true, you wouldn't be able to leave for more pay since you'd already be making your market rate.
it's quite stupid. it costs a lot to hire somebody, starting with the search and ending with the learning curve; and yet they pay new hires more than the old guard most of the time, and stiff the current employees which inspires them to move elsewhere instead of paying them a bit more, to avoid the higher costs required to replace them.
you don't suppose HR departments aren't performing their jobs optimally, do you? naaah. invisible hand of the market and all that.
Just like in 99.999% (100-100*30/3000000) of history.
Yes. And we built our civilization, and our country, to get away from all that.
people always assume that the way things are during their lifetimes is the ultimate goal of history, and will remain like that or more so for the future. the illusion of progress. but really, in the entire history of mankind, the middle class and its attendant phenomena like democracy and social and economic mobility have just bee a blink of an eye, and there isn't the slightest evidence that they will be a lasting feature of human society. feudalism in one form or another has a much longer track record.
The reason your dad (or grandfather) likely held the same job his entire life is because 50 years ago, employers were invested in, and took care of, their employees. My grandfather worked for GE his entire life (outside his time in WWII), and it wasn't because there weren't other jobs he could have gone to. They offered him a pension, which you just cannot find anymore. Today you get crappy health care, and if you're lucky a 3% pay raise every year, and if you are high enough on the ladder, a Christmas bonus that actually means anything. Employers just don't invest in employees like they used to.
it all ties together in the Big Picture. Once upon a time, the big blue chip corporations, largely based in the Northeast i.e. New York, had taken the place of the ancient feudal houses, in modern America. They were generally wealthy and the good ones had a certain degree of generosity and loyalty to their peons who returned the loyalty; so in return for supporting their lords they were granted a reasonable life and security if something should happen to them. then came the Reagan Revolution, and deregulation, and corporate raiding; and the result was a one-time transfer of wealth from these big old establishments run by Rockefeller Republican types to the Reagan backers of the Southwest, financially and socially radical rightists, leaving the big old institutions hollowed out; the ones that avoided collapse no longer have the resources to be as generous as before, and the constant pressure from investors keeps them that way. meanwhile the funds harvested go towards purchasing a government which won't try to change things.
"stick your battery where the sun don't shine" "Yes, that's what we're planning for it, I sense you're upset but do not understand how that relates to your comment"
If I don't plan on transporting the battery it really doesn't matter. What I care about is cost, capacity and how many charges it will hold. Where I am in Ontario the "generation cost" or the cost my supplier pays for electricity typically varies between -2 cents and 70 cents (there are extremes where it will go much higher though). Even at these differences there is no current battery that makes sense for the utilities to deploy. Even pumping water back up a reservoir doesn't make sense because of the wear on the system*.
Until we have better storage we really have 2 options if we want to use more wind or solar - bigger grid interconnects or convince people to change there consumption behaviour based on electricity generation.
*yes there are a few places water is pumped back up hill but these aren't used for generation as much as for selling insurance - I'll give you 100 kw of power for 10 minutes while you scramble to get some other form of generation online or get some steel mill to cut consumption.
if you aren't going to move the thing around, why not a hyperflywheel? the main reason they're not suitable for vehicles, and laptops is the minor explosion problem necessitating large and heavy blast shields, not a problem when it's a stationary power plant.
Slashdot is getting more and more worthless by the day:-(
No, Slashdot is more and more going the way of Usenet (before it became a warez distributor). It was a much more efficient, easily searchable "forum" with a centralized content hierarchy making it easy to find new topics. But no user-access control.
When it was a mostly used by university students and other techies, peer-pressure still worked somewhat keeping signal/noise high enough to be worthwhile. Then computers became more user-friendly and everyone with an agenda discovered it and waged its wars there (or spammed it). No user-access control meant no way to exclude them. Thus in the end most people moved to the much inferior web-forums which had user-access control (and the ability to embed kitten pictures;-).
When slashdot was still a site mostly used by techies - known (or feared) by the rest mainly for slashdotting - editors, submitters, commenters and moderators mostly had the same agenda: Read interesting stuff within tech and science (and fiction). But nowadays "the rest" has learned in three ways:
Other sites emerged catering for the same audience (and slashdot went commercial) so the editors need to find stories which appeal to as much potential readers as possible.
The web altogether has become a race for attention. So submitters now contain many attention seekers promoting their own sites/blogs irrelevant of relevance/newness because they want to be slashdotted (for financial gains).
With a greater audience (and probably also the original techies becoming older and more opinionated) more people came wanting to push an agenda (or being paid to push an agenda) causing comments and moderation to deteriorate.
So, learning from Usenet, if you want to have your nice old slashdot again, you have to make a new service which at least at first is not attractive to or to complicated to use for the non-techies. Otherwise just be happy in knowing that yes, capitalism works in bringing all the good things to the masses..... reducing their quality on the way;-)
bingo.
the history of all human organizations in a nutshell. First, exclusivity and quality; gradual dilution of both; finally, succumbing to parasites, decay, and fulminating infections. see also: religions, governments, businesses, and families
but how are any of these "related links", as billed at the bottom of the page?
Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ
10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College
Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour
How To Execute People In the 21st Century
Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans"
ive tried just about everything that grows on plants, ive done lsd a few times before and for the past few years ive basically been tripping twice a year because i like it. My honest opinion? i highly doubt this works as advertised for the exact same reason you give. Furthermore, most people that i know who do lsd more often keep having "genius" ideas that have absolutely no real world application or practical value, the times i did lsd i kept having grand ideas aswell that just dont look as good once you sober up.
Theres probably some people here and there that this would work for, but i highly doubt its something most people should even wonder about... perhaps "microdose" helps because its not that much. but as someone who actually does drugs.. i have my doubts id sure as hell never want to try it at work
i've found i can solve lots of problems with tiny amounts of lsd. oh wait, i mean cyanoacrylate.
That is what all studies with drugs have found, that I have looked at. Alcohol does not actually make you a better driver, nor you objectively more handsome, it just impairs your judgement of these things.
but alcohol is a depressant, naturally it will impair your mental functioning; many people find that they can accidentally impair their mental functioning to permanently zero. whereas marijuana, for example, famously makes people so conscious of things that they drive at ten miles an hour, as opposed to the drunk blasting along Way Too Fast.
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All he's REALLY interested in in getting big tax breaks for himself and his business/rich buddies.
Not buying it. Being able to throw millions around is already a great way to make that happen without the hassle of running for office. Trump's motivation is most likely fairly simple: he's an attention whore, and being in the limelight strokes his ego. Becoming "the most powerful man in the world" (f that's his end game) does so even more.
The presidential thing is just another reality show, like the apprentice.
What's frightening is that you'd choose a crazy bigoted egomaniac over a fairly unremarkable Democrat who has become the devil incarnate to right-wingers somehow. I never understood the incredible amount of hate that US conservatives have for Hillary. Since she's a huge war-hawk by Dem standards, you'd think they might even find her more tolerable.
hillary was beloved by republicans back when. “I have a sense that she is one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president,” -Dick Cheney http://dailycaller.com/2011/09... "Look, if we had a Clinton presidency, if we had Erskine Bowles as Chief of Staff of the White House or president of the United States, I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That's not the kind of presidency we're dealing with right now." - Paul Ryan http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bi... “Having started as a secretary and eventually become a chief-executive officer, I not only have great admiration and respect for Hillary Clinton and her candidacy and her leadership, but I also have great empathy, I must tell you, for what she went through,” -Carly Fiorina http://www.todayszaman.com/wor... “I happen to like Hillary Clinton; I think she’s done a good job for the ... secretary of state’s position, and I have high respect for her and think a great deal of her.” - Orrin Hatch http://www.politico.com/story/...
“I think the international star is Secretary Clinton. She has done a really tremendous job.” John McCain http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2...
"She's dedicated to her job, she loves her country, I think she is a good role model, one of the most effective Secretary of States, greatest ambassadors for the American people that I've known in my lifetime." -Lindsey Graham http://www.thestate.com/news/p...
"I think she's done a fine job. The problem isn't Hilary Clinton, who's great," -Condoleeza Rice http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_...
wait until all the bad muslims are on the internet, then close it up, so they will be trapped. mission accomplished!
I can still remember being led around by older relatives in the "war surplus" stores as they were always called in the Fifties in big-city downtowns, agog at the piles of vacuum tubes, ammo boxes and arcane chunks of militaria that required cobbling up a 28V power supply to operate. Later these became discount electronic stores ("Look! Japanese made radios!").
One fork of this evolutionary chain became Radio Shack - real Radio Shack, festooned with ham gear, and electronic supermarkets like Fry's; the other begat the electronic flea market where hobbyists enthusiastically rummaged through stacks of used technojunk and walls of printed manuals. The last time I visited one of these was in the Nineties. It was in the rain in Tempe, Arizona, the last few weary radio hams nosing through it on Rascal scooters, sucking oxygen through masks like Darth Vader and bleary-eyed for the old days.
wonder what percentage of them had the tail of a fighter plane poking out of the roof...
I can still remember being led around by older relatives in the "war surplus" stores as they were always called in the Fifties in big-city downtowns, agog at the piles of vacuum tubes, ammo boxes and arcane chunks of militaria that required cobbling up a 28V power supply to operate. Later these became discount electronic stores ("Look! Japanese made radios!").
One fork of this evolutionary chain became Radio Shack - real Radio Shack, festooned with ham gear, and electronic supermarkets like Fry's; the other begat the electronic flea market where hobbyists enthusiastically rummaged through stacks of used technojunk and walls of printed manuals. The last time I visited one of these was in the Nineties. It was in the rain in Tempe, Arizona, the last few weary radio hams nosing through it on Rascal scooters, sucking oxygen through masks like Darth Vader and bleary-eyed for the old days.
still have my prize war surplus finds, a big pile of old air force electronics that require 400hz ac power. carbon button throat mikes. 24/250 volt dynamotors.
my automobile ownership during grad school was only made possible by the existence of do it yourself garages where you could rent a bay and access to various tools for $2 an hour. the advice from other customers was free.
So that's what I was wondering... this part:
Electronic flea markets and surplus stores are a nexus point of talented and interesting people. As they go, so does the opportunity to interact in person with the gurus of electronic development.
...seems to be a role now filled by maker spaces. When I went to the local mini maker faire earlier this year, there were plenty of talented and interesting people doing fun projects with electronics.
one kid put the guts of a radioshack digital clock into a pencil box.
I heard, that Senator Sanders has fans, but never encountered one in person. A burning question I have for him — and his — is, what exactly would he do differently from Presidente Chavez, should he gain the same office in this country as the late paratrooper held in Venezuela?
Off-topic? Hardly...
Probably not going to complain about "the descendants of the same ones that crucified Christ" dominating the world as Chavez did.
That's only problem if you really are in a supply constrained market. If you are offered more money at the firm down the street, then they definitely should be paying you more. What I don't like is that it seems like a lot of people think they should get more money simply for being at a company longer, without actually taking on any additional responsibility or providing any additional value to the company.
You see a lot of places with unions ending up in this situation. People get raises (and big ones) based simply off years of seniority. Even though they may not actually be as good as the younger employees, they still get paid substantially more simply for the fact that they have been there for a long time.
actually a lot of recent labor news has been about the unions trying to get rid of this kind of practice; the two tiered system, where the grandfathered members of the workforce get to keep their higher salaries and rates of pay increase, but everybody hired recently gets a lower starting pay and a lower rate of increase. http://www.ueunion.org/stwd_tw... http://portside.org/2015-08-04... http://www.corporatecampaign.o... http://www.nomoretiers.org/two...
Essentially, you plateau. Once you plateau, you probably aren't worth getting paid significantly more than you were before.
If that were true, you wouldn't be able to leave for more pay since you'd already be making your market rate.
it's quite stupid. it costs a lot to hire somebody, starting with the search and ending with the learning curve; and yet they pay new hires more than the old guard most of the time, and stiff the current employees which inspires them to move elsewhere instead of paying them a bit more, to avoid the higher costs required to replace them.
you don't suppose HR departments aren't performing their jobs optimally, do you? naaah. invisible hand of the market and all that.
Just like in 99.999% (100-100*30/3000000) of history.
Yes. And we built our civilization, and our country, to get away from all that.
people always assume that the way things are during their lifetimes is the ultimate goal of history, and will remain like that or more so for the future. the illusion of progress. but really, in the entire history of mankind, the middle class and its attendant phenomena like democracy and social and economic mobility have just bee a blink of an eye, and there isn't the slightest evidence that they will be a lasting feature of human society. feudalism in one form or another has a much longer track record.
The reason your dad (or grandfather) likely held the same job his entire life is because 50 years ago, employers were invested in, and took care of, their employees. My grandfather worked for GE his entire life (outside his time in WWII), and it wasn't because there weren't other jobs he could have gone to. They offered him a pension, which you just cannot find anymore. Today you get crappy health care, and if you're lucky a 3% pay raise every year, and if you are high enough on the ladder, a Christmas bonus that actually means anything. Employers just don't invest in employees like they used to.
it all ties together in the Big Picture.
Once upon a time, the big blue chip corporations, largely based in the Northeast i.e. New York, had taken the place of the ancient feudal houses, in modern America. They were generally wealthy and the good ones had a certain degree of generosity and loyalty to their peons who returned the loyalty; so in return for supporting their lords they were granted a reasonable life and security if something should happen to them.
then came the Reagan Revolution, and deregulation, and corporate raiding; and the result was a one-time transfer of wealth from these big old establishments run by Rockefeller Republican types to the Reagan backers of the Southwest, financially and socially radical rightists, leaving the big old institutions hollowed out; the ones that avoided collapse no longer have the resources to be as generous as before, and the constant pressure from investors keeps them that way.
meanwhile the funds harvested go towards purchasing a government which won't try to change things.
"stick your battery where the sun don't shine"
"Yes, that's what we're planning for it, I sense you're upset but do not understand how that relates to your comment"
If I don't plan on transporting the battery it really doesn't matter. What I care about is cost, capacity and how many charges it will hold. Where I am in Ontario the "generation cost" or the cost my supplier pays for electricity typically varies between -2 cents and 70 cents (there are extremes where it will go much higher though). Even at these differences there is no current battery that makes sense for the utilities to deploy. Even pumping water back up a reservoir doesn't make sense because of the wear on the system*. Until we have better storage we really have 2 options if we want to use more wind or solar - bigger grid interconnects or convince people to change there consumption behaviour based on electricity generation. *yes there are a few places water is pumped back up hill but these aren't used for generation as much as for selling insurance - I'll give you 100 kw of power for 10 minutes while you scramble to get some other form of generation online or get some steel mill to cut consumption.
if you aren't going to move the thing around, why not a hyperflywheel? the main reason they're not suitable for vehicles, and laptops is the minor explosion problem necessitating large and heavy blast shields, not a problem when it's a stationary power plant.
they're too flow. you need fast batteries
The Ringworld is unstable!!!
Slashdot is getting more and more worthless by the day :-(
No, Slashdot is more and more going the way of Usenet (before it became a warez distributor). It was a much more efficient, easily searchable "forum" with a centralized content hierarchy making it easy to find new topics. But no user-access control.
When it was a mostly used by university students and other techies, peer-pressure still worked somewhat keeping signal/noise high enough to be worthwhile. Then computers became more user-friendly and everyone with an agenda discovered it and waged its wars there (or spammed it). No user-access control meant no way to exclude them. Thus in the end most people moved to the much inferior web-forums which had user-access control (and the ability to embed kitten pictures ;-).
When slashdot was still a site mostly used by techies - known (or feared) by the rest mainly for slashdotting - editors, submitters, commenters and moderators mostly had the same agenda: Read interesting stuff within tech and science (and fiction). But nowadays "the rest" has learned in three ways:
So, learning from Usenet, if you want to have your nice old slashdot again, you have to make a new service which at least at first is not attractive to or to complicated to use for the non-techies. Otherwise just be happy in knowing that yes, capitalism works in bringing all the good things to the masses ..... reducing their quality on the way ;-)
bingo.
the history of all human organizations in a nutshell. First, exclusivity and quality; gradual dilution of both; finally, succumbing to parasites, decay, and fulminating infections. see also: religions, governments, businesses, and families
but how are any of these "related links", as billed at the bottom of the page?
Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ
10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College
Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour
How To Execute People In the 21st Century
Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans"
ive tried just about everything that grows on plants, ive done lsd a few times before and for the past few years ive basically been tripping twice a year because i like it. My honest opinion? i highly doubt this works as advertised for the exact same reason you give. Furthermore, most people that i know who do lsd more often keep having "genius" ideas that have absolutely no real world application or practical value, the times i did lsd i kept having grand ideas aswell that just dont look as good once you sober up.
Theres probably some people here and there that this would work for, but i highly doubt its something most people should even wonder about... perhaps "microdose" helps because its not that much. but as someone who actually does drugs.. i have my doubts id sure as hell never want to try it at work
i've found i can solve lots of problems with tiny amounts of lsd. oh wait, i mean cyanoacrylate.
Xanax and Valium are drugs....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Double Porn cures everything?
no, silly, he means Vin Diesel Vin Diesel.
Meshback trucker caps just to be "ironic".
i just want to point out that meshback sounds like an arabic word, so you're probably some sort of terrorist.
> Not supported by scientific research
Since fucking when has THAT mattered to you diseased weak minded truth hating freaks?
why you guys hating on the mormons?
He's admitting to his own judgment becoming similarly impaired, at which point the (other) intoxicated people seem less annoying.
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmw...
That is what all studies with drugs have found, that I have looked at. Alcohol does not actually make you a better driver, nor you objectively more handsome, it just impairs your judgement of these things.
but alcohol is a depressant, naturally it will impair your mental functioning; many people find that they can accidentally impair their mental functioning to permanently zero. whereas marijuana, for example, famously makes people so conscious of things that they drive at ten miles an hour, as opposed to the drunk blasting along Way Too Fast.