I think you're right.... AND the tv networks do a litle picture in a picture showing the closing credits of one episode and the opening of the next. By overlapping those two incoming / outgoing programs, they get to sell an extra 45 seconds of commercials. I swear this is just like the saying "the beatings will continue until morale improves". We don't like commercials and skip them in DVR.... and they scheme how to play more commercials.
YES..... my sister owns a pizza chain in Savannah GA. She employed a young adult who lived in the nearby subsidised housing. The woman took a job for $7.25/hr @ 40 a week.... $1160/month before taxes (which at that income level are fully refundable anyway). The woman quit her job because her land lord found out she had a job and her rent was going from $300 to $500 a month. This person actually quit a job that would have increased her monthly income by $960 because she perceived her rent was going up $200. These people actually exist.
Right on! I was looking for work in the early 1990's in Charleston SC. Employers weren't paying market wages in electronics because... there were a lot of Navy retirees who had their retirement money offsetting their need for a full wage. They could afford to work for less than me because of this offset and the market responded by lowering the prevailing wage. What makes UBI supporters think this same thing wouldn't happen?
based on the unit of STATES? Hmm.... when the USA was started, the people elected representatives and the state legislatures elected the senators. That was unraveled in 1913 when the constitution was amended to provide for direct election of senators. You see, in the old days, the people had a voice, the states had a voice and the federal government had a voice. Now it's a free for all to see which senator and which representative can appease the most voters. There is no one minding the store.
Let's see.... MTV used to play music videos, then got into reality tv. The weather channel used to have a person standing in front of a radar map, not you have to watch 10 minutes of "storm stories" to get your local weather. And ESPN forgot it was a sports network. In another industry, McDonalds seems to have forgotten it's core customer as well.... people wanting FAST food. If we wanted GOOD food, we wouldn't be here. Long gone are the days of walking into McD's and seeing what was on the line and getting that and getting out. They prefer just in time production model which makes we wait for a cheese burger behind the person who wanted a cheese burger w/o cheese and extra mustard. Like so many maturing companies, they have lost their direction.
What has eroded away the middle class are blue collar jobs going away. Between jobs going to Mexico, Indonesia and China and the taxes paid, the middle class has taken a hit. When the factories close, blue collar workers become waitresses and the like.
I remember an inexpensive car hitting the US streets in 1986... the Yugo. They sold very well for 2 years and collapsed when people found out just how "reliable" a car you could get for $2000 new. A buddy of mine broke his windshield when flipping the passenger seat forward.
Over the years I've gone from putting my own PC together (and the driver conflicts and the like) to just buying an off the shelf PC like your average schmoe. I've got both iOS and android tablets at home,and win10. The biggest time sink for me is hands down, Win10. Both my office laptop and home PC run it. I dread the super tuesday updates. At first Win10 would reset all my program preferences, but that has settled down. Most of all, it's the boot process that takes 5 minutes and then the user login that takes an additional 8 minutes. My tablets on the other hand can reboot in 60 seconds or less. Windows is simply bloated.
Our politicians in South Carolina (I'm sure this isn't unique) use deceptive offsetting when raising taxes. For example, they raise the state sales tax by 1% and call it a penny for progress. They say the 1% will go ONLY to the schools, and it does. The offsetting happens when they take that same 1% that they had been using the fund the schools from another budget area and offset money to their pet projects. The end result is the schools are no better off than before and the public is now paying 1% more in sales tax.
School money got tight in a nearby district a few years ago and they cut a bunch of after school programs. When they came back into some money the next year, they sent out a survey for parents asking which programs should be reinstated. The option "none" was not available.
Local governments *always* look to raise taxes first. They seldom look at what they can cut.
I opened file explorer the other day and it actually had an advert for MS cloud storage! Not a web browser pop-in, but wthin file explore. Amazing... they are really pissing off their retail customer base and I'm quite sure there's a reason our IT department hasn't upgraded everyone to 10 yet.
Right about now.... just last week an update broke my wifi driver. I actually rolled back to last week's acronis backup to get my PC working. So yeah, don't know if it is any better, but this morning I'm actually shopping mini-macs for the home PC. Getted damned tired of restarts that take 8 minutes. My tablet will (android and ipad) will both restart like nothing happened. Microsoft has really hosed themselves on this one!
Why don't they just get the hotel operators to take a picuture of every room instead of crowd sourcing it to the public? Sheesh. Hotels.com could sponsor it under the guise that they'd have a picture of the room you are booking when you make a reservation.
This is a very good point! I'm watching documentaries on youtube. I had just thought I was missing the good programs on TV, but we got a new DVR that records everything from 8-11pm and there really is little on worth watching. Hollywood is making a lot of hay about losing money and blaming the pirates. I'm thinking hollywood is losing money because they aren't making anything people want to watch.
I also hate the idea of software being illegal. What is illegal is the/use/ of software to get things you otherwise would pay for. I'll draw a parallel to guns. Guns (software) shouldn't be illegal. The use of guns / software to commit crime by a/person/ should be illegal. Alas it is easier to restrict access to the tangible thing than to circumvent human behavor.
As I recall it was about 1998. The boxes were indeed addressable. They would ping every known box with an instruction that told it to ignore the next firmware update. None of the "illegal" boxes were told. Then they published a broken firmware update. http://law.justia.com/cases/fe...
Pop Singer? What is the sorcery you speak of? I thought they were/entertainers/. First and foremost, you have to been good looking, we can fix your voice. And if you aren't selling any songs, don't despair, "accidentally" release a sex tape.
You know the number one reason Vinyl sounds better that digital? Because the music was better when they were making vinyl.
The parent is excellent... The last election was like choosing between death by lethal injection vs death by firing squad. Now there's a bunch on slashdot who are saying 65% of the people wanted to live, yet voted against their best interests.:-/
We are at a remarkable time in the history of television. The quality of the images far, far exceeds the/content/ of the programs. I'd LOVE a wonderful new 4k tv, but there's narry a good thing to watch.
Win10 has reset my preferences for HTML, PDF and JPG files across several updates. Additionally, it takes a LONG time to boot during these updates. I literally walked in to work one morning needing to send an email. After two reboots and logging in, waiting for Outlook to pop up, I finally gave up and composed my email on my phone. No sooner than I got outlook running, the O/S wanted ANOTHER reboot for another queued update.
Now look at this from the perspective of grandma and grandpa who just want to see the grandkids in email..... The IOS devices and even the android devices boot faster and when they do an update you don't even know it because all the apps stay where they were across the update.
And we wonder why Win10 is losing market share?????
To be fair, more education isn't always the solution. There are lots of college educated waitresses and bar tenders. Better education != better job, especially if there are no jobs. Manufacturing pays pretty well for the masses and it went to Mexico and then China.
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I think you're right.... AND the tv networks do a litle picture in a picture showing the closing credits of one episode and the opening of the next. By overlapping those two incoming / outgoing programs, they get to sell an extra 45 seconds of commercials. I swear this is just like the saying "the beatings will continue until morale improves". We don't like commercials and skip them in DVR.... and they scheme how to play more commercials.
I see... so what you are saying is that UBI is a scheme to stop rich people from hoarding money and keep the Keynesian economic model working?
YES..... my sister owns a pizza chain in Savannah GA. She employed a young adult who lived in the nearby subsidised housing. The woman took a job for $7.25/hr @ 40 a week.... $1160/month before taxes (which at that income level are fully refundable anyway). The woman quit her job because her land lord found out she had a job and her rent was going from $300 to $500 a month. This person actually quit a job that would have increased her monthly income by $960 because she perceived her rent was going up $200. These people actually exist.
Right on! I was looking for work in the early 1990's in Charleston SC. Employers weren't paying market wages in electronics because... there were a lot of Navy retirees who had their retirement money offsetting their need for a full wage. They could afford to work for less than me because of this offset and the market responded by lowering the prevailing wage. What makes UBI supporters think this same thing wouldn't happen?
based on the unit of STATES? Hmm.... when the USA was started, the people elected representatives and the state legislatures elected the senators. That was unraveled in 1913 when the constitution was amended to provide for direct election of senators. You see, in the old days, the people had a voice, the states had a voice and the federal government had a voice. Now it's a free for all to see which senator and which representative can appease the most voters. There is no one minding the store.
I also remember TV series doing 26 episodes a season... and an hour TV show lasting 50 minutes, now down to 44 minutes. A lot commercial skipping eh?
Let's see.... MTV used to play music videos, then got into reality tv. The weather channel used to have a person standing in front of a radar map, not you have to watch 10 minutes of "storm stories" to get your local weather. And ESPN forgot it was a sports network. In another industry, McDonalds seems to have forgotten it's core customer as well.... people wanting FAST food. If we wanted GOOD food, we wouldn't be here. Long gone are the days of walking into McD's and seeing what was on the line and getting that and getting out. They prefer just in time production model which makes we wait for a cheese burger behind the person who wanted a cheese burger w/o cheese and extra mustard. Like so many maturing companies, they have lost their direction.
What has eroded away the middle class are blue collar jobs going away. Between jobs going to Mexico, Indonesia and China and the taxes paid, the middle class has taken a hit. When the factories close, blue collar workers become waitresses and the like.
I remember an inexpensive car hitting the US streets in 1986... the Yugo. They sold very well for 2 years and collapsed when people found out just how "reliable" a car you could get for $2000 new. A buddy of mine broke his windshield when flipping the passenger seat forward.
I wish I had mod points today for you. Well spoken. Opportunist vs hero.
Over the years I've gone from putting my own PC together (and the driver conflicts and the like) to just buying an off the shelf PC like your average schmoe. I've got both iOS and android tablets at home,and win10. The biggest time sink for me is hands down, Win10. Both my office laptop and home PC run it. I dread the super tuesday updates. At first Win10 would reset all my program preferences, but that has settled down. Most of all, it's the boot process that takes 5 minutes and then the user login that takes an additional 8 minutes. My tablets on the other hand can reboot in 60 seconds or less. Windows is simply bloated.
Our politicians in South Carolina (I'm sure this isn't unique) use deceptive offsetting when raising taxes. For example, they raise the state sales tax by 1% and call it a penny for progress. They say the 1% will go ONLY to the schools, and it does. The offsetting happens when they take that same 1% that they had been using the fund the schools from another budget area and offset money to their pet projects. The end result is the schools are no better off than before and the public is now paying 1% more in sales tax.
School money got tight in a nearby district a few years ago and they cut a bunch of after school programs. When they came back into some money the next year, they sent out a survey for parents asking which programs should be reinstated. The option "none" was not available.
Local governments *always* look to raise taxes first. They seldom look at what they can cut.
I opened file explorer the other day and it actually had an advert for MS cloud storage! Not a web browser pop-in, but wthin file explore. Amazing... they are really pissing off their retail customer base and I'm quite sure there's a reason our IT department hasn't upgraded everyone to 10 yet.
Right about now.... just last week an update broke my wifi driver. I actually rolled back to last week's acronis backup to get my PC working. So yeah, don't know if it is any better, but this morning I'm actually shopping mini-macs for the home PC. Getted damned tired of restarts that take 8 minutes. My tablet will (android and ipad) will both restart like nothing happened. Microsoft has really hosed themselves on this one!
Why don't they just get the hotel operators to take a picuture of every room instead of crowd sourcing it to the public? Sheesh. Hotels.com could sponsor it under the guise that they'd have a picture of the room you are booking when you make a reservation.
This is a very good point! I'm watching documentaries on youtube. I had just thought I was missing the good programs on TV, but we got a new DVR that records everything from 8-11pm and there really is little on worth watching. Hollywood is making a lot of hay about losing money and blaming the pirates. I'm thinking hollywood is losing money because they aren't making anything people want to watch.
I also hate the idea of software being illegal. What is illegal is the /use/ of software to get things you otherwise would pay for. I'll draw a parallel to guns. Guns (software) shouldn't be illegal. The use of guns / software to commit crime by a /person/ should be illegal. Alas it is easier to restrict access to the tangible thing than to circumvent human behavor.
As I recall it was about 1998. The boxes were indeed addressable. They would ping every known box with an instruction that told it to ignore the next firmware update. None of the "illegal" boxes were told. Then they published a broken firmware update. http://law.justia.com/cases/fe...
Pop Singer? What is the sorcery you speak of? I thought they were /entertainers/. First and foremost, you have to been good looking, we can fix your voice. And if you aren't selling any songs, don't despair, "accidentally" release a sex tape.
You know the number one reason Vinyl sounds better that digital? Because the music was better when they were making vinyl.
Use only one airpod at a time? What, am I using it wrong? Or holding it in my ear wrong???
The parent is excellent... The last election was like choosing between death by lethal injection vs death by firing squad. Now there's a bunch on slashdot who are saying 65% of the people wanted to live, yet voted against their best interests. :-/
We are at a remarkable time in the history of television. The quality of the images far, far exceeds the /content/ of the programs. I'd LOVE a wonderful new 4k tv, but there's narry a good thing to watch.
Win10 has reset my preferences for HTML, PDF and JPG files across several updates. Additionally, it takes a LONG time to boot during these updates. I literally walked in to work one morning needing to send an email. After two reboots and logging in, waiting for Outlook to pop up, I finally gave up and composed my email on my phone. No sooner than I got outlook running, the O/S wanted ANOTHER reboot for another queued update.
Now look at this from the perspective of grandma and grandpa who just want to see the grandkids in email..... The IOS devices and even the android devices boot faster and when they do an update you don't even know it because all the apps stay where they were across the update.
And we wonder why Win10 is losing market share?????
Oddly enough, I had the same thought... advertising stunt. We'll see....
To be fair, more education isn't always the solution. There are lots of college educated waitresses and bar tenders. Better education != better job, especially if there are no jobs. Manufacturing pays pretty well for the masses and it went to Mexico and then China.