Everybody must have the right to discriminate in their lives, just because somebody owns a business does not mean they all of a sudden lose their individual rights, and a business IS individual matter. People have the right to association supposedly and by the way, if government says that people cannot discriminate, can a business owner sue those, who are not shopping in his place because they discriminate against his place (for whatever reason)?
No, that would be ridiculous, SO IS THIS! People must be able to discriminate against others, including denying doing business with anybody at all that they do not like, it's private property, it's individual right, government has no authority (and whatever it claims it has, it usurped from people) to prevent somebody from discrimination on their own private property, which a business is.
When Is a Better Career Opportunity Worth a Pay Cut?
- I think it makes sense to do so when you go your own way to start your own business. As a contractor I was making much more than what I am making right now, as a business owner. It's a risk, but anything is a risk, even staying in one place for a long time is a risk.
Yes, because it is much more lucrative to set up a company whose entire worth is based on the latest raging trendy fad mambo jambo silver bullet craze mania and then exit via an overvalued IPO than to build a company that is based around actual products that other people and / or businesses would find legitimate uses to. Personally I am doing the latter, we'll see how that works out in the long run. This took years of software development to build up a platform that can be marketed, searching for clients, selling to them, etc. It's actually hard work and there are no fanfares, no glamour or glitter and the money will never be the same. At least it is actually satisfying to do all of the above steps (ideas, studying the business domain, finding clients, designing, developing, setting up, maintaining, building up on top of that, finding more clients, growing the company, etc.) It is fun, though very tiring.
That's the way it SHOULD be. By the way, the same thing happened to hundreds of thousands (or millions) of people who held money in Greece and it wasn't BTCs they were losing.
You know what would reduce the divorce rate? A better economy. You know what makes a better economy? A free market capitalist economy, under which divorce was much lower in USA than it is today, under this collectivist nightmarish boondoggle.
You had hands? Pffft! In our times we had to think our way into existence first, and even existence wasn't a given! Once we thought ourselves into an existence, (which we also thought up), then we had to invent hands. Most of us ended up with pinecones where hands would otherwise be though, so magnetising pins (that we had to grow ourselves) was a real bitch.
The reason is quite obviously government intervention. In USA everything is regulated much more than anywhere else in the world, that's the problem - protection of monopolies via the tax code, various licenses and regulations and of-course destruction of productivity via money printing - inflation. USA actually needs free market capitalism, it forgot what that is.
That deal was pure lunacy. There are a ton of competitors to Whatsup, all are free as well (I use Viber). Carriers won't just roll over and die either, next thing you know, they are bundling sms with voice and or data rather than selling seperately. There is more than one way for 'free sms over data' company to be outcompeted. The first year of whatsup is free. By the second year ppl will look at another free app. Again, it is trivial to have billions of users if you give away the house for free. A retailer offering free products would attract everybody. It is just much harder to give away something you have to buy first, FB will learn that now. To Zuckerberg billions are like funny money, but he never sold a product to users, to advertisers - yes. To users? No. He made all of his money on the IPO, not on any sales. For this deal to make money, value of shares must rise by more than the billions spent on the purchase, 4 of which was in cash and the rest in stock. But if somebody tries to unload that much stock, the prices will go down, not up. Anyway, probably most of whatsup users are FB users already. I think it was a stupid deal, just what I said about buying bitcoins for the people who were buying in the last year. There is no value and what value there is will evaporate.
I do not use MS products except for the ergonomic keyboard that they sell ( the one split in the middle and bent, it is an excellent keyboard, my favorite to all others) not because of any antitrust issues at all. In fact AFAIC there are no rules in love and war and business is both. Government has no role whatsoever in the markets, in business, etc. Government involvement over the last 102 years (since the breakup of Standard Oil, creation of IRS and the income taxes, creation of the Fed and destruction of money) has destroyed productivity and capitalism operating in the free market. Gov't is the primary force behind creation of monopolies and destruction of competition, behind the rising prices due to inflation of the money supply, behind all of the "too big to fail" financial sector, thanks to the Fed and FDIC. The coming collapse of USA dollar, bond and 5he economy is blood on the hands of the massive central government. On that background, MS is only a symptom of the problem of lack of competition, due to lack of capital investments caused by the unauthorised power that the gov't usurped ( and the mob cheered for it, insisting on the growth of the welfare state).
I do not like MS products. The last Windows I used as my primary platform was XP. All of their attempts after that left me no choice and GNU Linux gave me a way out. 6 years of Linux 9nly desktop and apps and counting. Switching my clients to Ubuntu and now to Mint. I am talking about retail chains, logistics companies, warehouses, shipping and handling, a manufacturer and soon hopefully a bank. It is simply a better product from my point of view, and it is never a humble one.
This is 'net neutrality' for you - if a service is eating up all of the available bandwidth, who is supposed to pay for the degradation in quality of service exactly? Net neutrality is basically a price control and we know what price controls do: create shortages of supply.
I am sure you can pick up on general mood of a person, I am sure you can pick up various clues, but if somebody is set on hiding themselves by providing false information, I don't think you'll be able to identify them without what NSA calls 'meta data', as in pattern of your behaviour. I don't think it will be possible to do a better job than guessing at about 50/50 chance ratio about a person's age and gender if the person in question is actively trying to portray something he or she is not in a single conversation. From a pattern of behaviour? Yes. From a single conversation?... this assumes too much about people. It assumes that 16 y.o. girls are also not pretending to be something they are not as well...
... and of-course on/. this tripe passes for "5 Insightful", the water is wet, news at 11.
Losing a job is disruptive and in a normal free market capitalist society those disruptions are not only good, they are the necessary part of progress, where jobs are constantly being lost and reallocated, regained in some other capacity, all of which makes the economy more efficient and products less expensive. It doesn't matter if a CEO is making a trillion dollars, if in process more and more goods and services are distributed due to lower and lower prices and higher and higher choices. IDEALLY a company has no employees, only the owner, he makes all of those profits all to himself providing the world with the best prices and most choices and ideally the government is not involved in anything related to any business, gov't is not printing money and is not committing acts of violent robbery via income taxation. In that case competition is maximised, one owner competes directly with every other owner, prices are pushed down, that's the purpose of the economy: to increase supply, increase choices and to push prices down, not to give you a welfare state.
What's a g-d? Gold god glad gland god glanced galvanised gained god googled gazed god gambled god germinated gesneriad god gadoid gaggled gibed gagged god gestured gainsald god Galahad ghosted gallivanted god gibbeted giggled gambolled god gamed gilled god gimped gangboard gangland ginned god ganoid gipped gangrened gaped god gapped gasconaded Garand girthed god garboard gardened Garfield god gizzard glaciated gargled god garmented gastropod garnered glamorized glamoured god garrotted garrisoned gartered god glared glassed gasfield god gashed gasped gassed god Gleed Glenoid glimmered glimpsed god glinted gloated globalised gauffered god gauged gauntleded god gloried glorified gawped glossed god gloved glowed geared glued god geed greed grid geld gelled glutted god geminated gemmed gnarled gnashed generaled goatsbeard gobbled gobsmacked gentled goffered genuflected god goldplated goliard gonoblasted goofed goosed gopherwood god gouged gourmandized Gould Gowd Gozzard grad gradated god god graduated graded grafted grandstanded granted granulated god god god graphed grappled god grasped grassed dog grassland gratified goldenrod Grayhound god grayed greasewood greased grazed grandchild good god god Greenland greeted grieved grilled god grinded griped gripped grizzled god groaked god grokked groaned god groined
groped grooved grossed god groomed god grooved grouched groundspeed grovelled god grouped growled grubbed grumbled grunted guard guggled guestimated god guessed guideword guilliotined gulped gulled gummed gurnard gushed gussied god gusseted gutted guyed glued gypped Gyrland gyrated there is no god.
Hey, pig's asshole for a mouth, the original minimum wage was 25cents per hour in USA, of-course it was 25 silver cents, which would more than double, almost triple the minimum wage of today, but the very point you are missing, pig's asshole for mouth, is that most people didn't work for minimum wage even at the time of its introduction. There was never a reason to introduce it except for the one: unions pushed for it, and of-course nobody in the unions worked at the minimum wage levels, the minimum wage was introduced to REDUCE competition to the unionised, gov't protected force, which is partially responsible for the destruction of USA economy (and economy of many other countries of-course).
There should be no gov't intrusion in individual contracts, there is no criminal case to be made, where somebody agrees to work for 10CENTS an hour if that's THE BEST OFFER THEY CAN GET, you pig's asshole for a mouth. Otherwise all you are doing, pig's asshole for a mouth, is denying the unskilled labour to ever enter the work force, pig's asshole for a mouth. Go wash it, I don't need your replies, just wash your pig's asshole for a mouth.
So if the economy is depressed because the government is "printing money", why is inflation so low? (1.64% per year since 2008) Why isn't it 20% or higher as
1. USA outsources inflation to the producing countries, that print their own currencies to buy USA dollars, that come into their countries in exchange for the products that USA imports from those countries. This pushes the money supply out of the US.
2. There IS HUGE increase in prices as a response to the money printing (money printing is the inflation, not the price increase, but increase in supply of money, supply inflates and deflates, prices rise and fall, they don't inflate or deflate). The huge increase in prices is in the stock market, it is in various commodity markets, it is in the housing obviously. Also where prices are NOT falling, that's the effect of monetary inflation. In USA REAL PRICES MUST FALL, there has to be deflation and it exists in real money terms, but in dollar terms there is no decrease in prices and the prices are in fact growing much faster than the nonsensical gov't data suggests.
Prices in USA are growing much faster than what the CPI and even the core CPI suggests. The USA GDP is irrelevant, it is based on fake inflation numbers, it is also based not on productive manufacturing but on unproductive military spending, gov't spending, financial transactions (including all purchases and sales of assets, stocks, houses, bonds, etc.) and even the service sector. None of that stuff decreases the USA trade deficit, which is 500Billion USD/year.
My point is that you are being hoodwinked with the CBO and all the rest of the gov't propaganda.
Yeah, that and everything else. The guy is a gigantic fraud / propagandist for the power establishment, he has nothing to do with economics, he is a justifier in chief for the money printing elite, that are the actual reason that the economy is dying and as such, it can afford fewer and fewer choices in the market and that is what leads to acquisition and consolidation.
Now, obviously the government created and protects a number of gigantic monopolies / oligopolies, including telecommunications in the USA, this started with the destruction of 3000 competitors to AT&T 100 years back, but this does not mean that people should want more of the same 'solution' that actually created all of these problems in the first place. I could say that Krugman and his ilk are insane, that's their eternal position: government introduces a "solution", which makes things worse, so let's have more government "solutions".
Comcast and Time Warner acquisition is going to happen and if it does not, there will be a bankruptcy and liquidation somewhere there. The same thing happened to Blockbuster as an example, the company had plans to save its business by acquiring rival Hollywood Videos, but FTC prevented that from happening, so the company eventually died. I am not saying with certainty that Blockbuster would not have died if the acquisition went through, but it cannot be known now. What can be known is that the company tried to stay in business and it died, but not before government prevented it from trying to change its business model.
The USA market is shrinking, USA is unproductive, US dollars are fake, Krugman is a huge part of the propaganda that justified destruction of the value of the US dollar and US bonds. To listen to Krugman on any matters at all is insanity.
WM and MD jobs are not there for you to "actually live" on them, most of them are not. WM has over 2,000,000 employees, those are starter jobs, as in: you have no skills, you are at the beginning of your professional career, or maybe you are a new immigrant and need the first job in the country, type of jobs.
Just because gov't destroyed the economy in USA (and other countries) doesn't change the fact that WM and MD jobs were never meant to be anything else but starter jobs where even the current minimum wage is likely 2x-4x higher than it should be based on the number and qualifications of the applicants.
Now, if we are going to talk about 60hour weeks, I can talk about myself, I run my own company and my work day starts at 8:30AM and often doesn't end until 1:30AM or even later. Yes, I do have people working for me, no, I don't require them to stay past 6PM, in fact it's very rare that somebody stays event past 5PM. No, I don't pay minimum wage, I pay more than minimum wage, that's because the people I hire can get similar deals somewhere else and I in fact also hire mostly new guys, out of schools or even those who never finished college, I don't care about the degree. Yes, I train them myself, the company is small, so I don't have levels of management, I am the management. Maybe if I grow to over 40 people then it would be different.
My point is,/. is full of shit when it comes to talking of the economy, employment, business in general, it's a slice of general population here with higher than average arrogance levels but nothing much beyond that.
Marriage rates have to do with employment and higher salaries much more than anything else in this case I bet, more even than with the education levels.
There are still single core systems that aren't legacy and use java?
- java? javascript? What is the difference, right? I know this used to be a technical site and now it is just BETA, so I guess you fit in here juuuuust fine.
Obama and his administration should be sued and should be impeached, and it's not just for surveillance, the fucking guy is a murderer and he brags about it. It shouldn't be just an action class lawsuit, it should be a criminal investigation into this mass murderer.
1974, motherfucker, do you recognize that year? The Arab Oil Embargo
- yes, you motherfucking idiot, do you know why it happened? The price controls set by the government of USA, that's why, you macaque's ass. The rest of your comment no better than the beginning, you moron.
You are not paying shit for anything, you like taxes as long as somebody else ends up paying the lion's share of it, and you think that's justice, you fucking thief.
You dumb fuck, who do you think creates inflation? 1971, motherfucker, do you recognise the year? USD became paper, no more gold standard. You know why? Huge gov't spending on debt, huge gov't growth on debt and taxes. All regulations are taxes, all inflation is a tax on fixed incomes and on assets denominated in the currency that is being inflated, you pro-gov't fuckface. What led to that? The 'great fucking society' led to that, the 'new deal' led to that, the Sherman act, the IRS, the Fed, the income taxes, the IFDS, all the shit that the mob collectively votes for led to that. What do you think, USA production is down from 14000 to 700 planes, that's good for the economy or bad, motherfucker? Or you think that 'demand creates jobs', motherfucker? Yeah, good luck to you.
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Everybody must have the right to discriminate in their lives, just because somebody owns a business does not mean they all of a sudden lose their individual rights, and a business IS individual matter.
People have the right to association supposedly and by the way, if government says that people cannot discriminate, can a business owner sue those, who are not shopping in his place because they discriminate against his place (for whatever reason)?
No, that would be ridiculous, SO IS THIS! People must be able to discriminate against others, including denying doing business with anybody at all that they do not like, it's private property, it's individual right, government has no authority (and whatever it claims it has, it usurped from people) to prevent somebody from discrimination on their own private property, which a business is.
When Is a Better Career Opportunity Worth a Pay Cut?
- I think it makes sense to do so when you go your own way to start your own business. As a contractor I was making much more than what I am making right now, as a business owner. It's a risk, but anything is a risk, even staying in one place for a long time is a risk.
Yes, because it is much more lucrative to set up a company whose entire worth is based on the latest raging trendy fad mambo jambo silver bullet craze mania and then exit via an overvalued IPO than to build a company that is based around actual products that other people and / or businesses would find legitimate uses to. Personally I am doing the latter, we'll see how that works out in the long run. This took years of software development to build up a platform that can be marketed, searching for clients, selling to them, etc. It's actually hard work and there are no fanfares, no glamour or glitter and the money will never be the same. At least it is actually satisfying to do all of the above steps (ideas, studying the business domain, finding clients, designing, developing, setting up, maintaining, building up on top of that, finding more clients, growing the company, etc.) It is fun, though very tiring.
That's the way it SHOULD be. By the way, the same thing happened to hundreds of thousands (or millions) of people who held money in Greece and it wasn't BTCs they were losing.
You know what would reduce the divorce rate? A better economy. You know what makes a better economy? A free market capitalist economy, under which divorce was much lower in USA than it is today, under this collectivist nightmarish boondoggle.
You mean hand job creator...
You had hands? Pffft! In our times we had to think our way into existence first, and even existence wasn't a given! Once we thought ourselves into an existence, (which we also thought up), then we had to invent hands. Most of us ended up with pinecones where hands would otherwise be though, so magnetising pins (that we had to grow ourselves) was a real bitch.
Society wouldn't survive the lack of human death.
- then it should be the society that dies, not the individuals.
The reason is quite obviously government intervention. In USA everything is regulated much more than anywhere else in the world, that's the problem - protection of monopolies via the tax code, various licenses and regulations and of-course destruction of productivity via money printing - inflation. USA actually needs free market capitalism, it forgot what that is.
That deal was pure lunacy. There are a ton of competitors to Whatsup, all are free as well (I use Viber). Carriers won't just roll over and die either, next thing you know, they are bundling sms with voice and or data rather than selling seperately. There is more than one way for 'free sms over data' company to be outcompeted. The first year of whatsup is free. By the second year ppl will look at another free app. Again, it is trivial to have billions of users if you give away the house for free. A retailer offering free products would attract everybody. It is just much harder to give away something you have to buy first, FB will learn that now. To Zuckerberg billions are like funny money, but he never sold a product to users, to advertisers - yes. To users? No. He made all of his money on the IPO, not on any sales. For this deal to make money, value of shares must rise by more than the billions spent on the purchase, 4 of which was in cash and the rest in stock. But if somebody tries to unload that much stock, the prices will go down, not up. Anyway, probably most of whatsup users are FB users already. I think it was a stupid deal, just what I said about buying bitcoins for the people who were buying in the last year. There is no value and what value there is will evaporate.
I do not use MS products except for the ergonomic keyboard that they sell ( the one split in the middle and bent, it is an excellent keyboard, my favorite to all others) not because of any antitrust issues at all. In fact AFAIC there are no rules in love and war and business is both. Government has no role whatsoever in the markets, in business, etc. Government involvement over the last 102 years (since the breakup of Standard Oil, creation of IRS and the income taxes, creation of the Fed and destruction of money) has destroyed productivity and capitalism operating in the free market. Gov't is the primary force behind creation of monopolies and destruction of competition, behind the rising prices due to inflation of the money supply, behind all of the "too big to fail" financial sector, thanks to the Fed and FDIC. The coming collapse of USA dollar, bond and 5he economy is blood on the hands of the massive central government. On that background, MS is only a symptom of the problem of lack of competition, due to lack of capital investments caused by the unauthorised power that the gov't usurped ( and the mob cheered for it, insisting on the growth of the welfare state).
I do not like MS products. The last Windows I used as my primary platform was XP. All of their attempts after that left me no choice and GNU Linux gave me a way out. 6 years of Linux 9nly desktop and apps and counting. Switching my clients to Ubuntu and now to Mint. I am talking about retail chains, logistics companies, warehouses, shipping and handling, a manufacturer and soon hopefully a bank. It is simply a better product from my point of view, and it is never a humble one.
This is 'net neutrality' for you - if a service is eating up all of the available bandwidth, who is supposed to pay for the degradation in quality of service exactly? Net neutrality is basically a price control and we know what price controls do: create shortages of supply.
I am sure you can pick up on general mood of a person, I am sure you can pick up various clues, but if somebody is set on hiding themselves by providing false information, I don't think you'll be able to identify them without what NSA calls 'meta data', as in pattern of your behaviour. I don't think it will be possible to do a better job than guessing at about 50/50 chance ratio about a person's age and gender if the person in question is actively trying to portray something he or she is not in a single conversation. From a pattern of behaviour? Yes. From a single conversation? ... this assumes too much about people. It assumes that 16 y.o. girls are also not pretending to be something they are not as well...
... and of-course on /. this tripe passes for "5 Insightful", the water is wet, news at 11.
Losing a job is disruptive and in a normal free market capitalist society those disruptions are not only good, they are the necessary part of progress, where jobs are constantly being lost and reallocated, regained in some other capacity, all of which makes the economy more efficient and products less expensive. It doesn't matter if a CEO is making a trillion dollars, if in process more and more goods and services are distributed due to lower and lower prices and higher and higher choices. IDEALLY a company has no employees, only the owner, he makes all of those profits all to himself providing the world with the best prices and most choices and ideally the government is not involved in anything related to any business, gov't is not printing money and is not committing acts of violent robbery via income taxation. In that case competition is maximised, one owner competes directly with every other owner, prices are pushed down, that's the purpose of the economy: to increase supply, increase choices and to push prices down, not to give you a welfare state.
What's a g-d? Gold god glad gland god glanced galvanised gained god googled gazed god gambled god germinated gesneriad god gadoid gaggled gibed gagged god gestured gainsald god Galahad ghosted gallivanted god gibbeted giggled gambolled god gamed gilled god gimped gangboard gangland ginned god ganoid gipped gangrened gaped god gapped gasconaded Garand girthed god garboard gardened Garfield god gizzard glaciated gargled god garmented gastropod garnered glamorized glamoured god garrotted garrisoned gartered god glared glassed gasfield god gashed gasped gassed god Gleed Glenoid glimmered glimpsed god glinted gloated globalised gauffered god gauged gauntleded god gloried glorified gawped glossed god gloved glowed geared glued god geed greed grid geld gelled glutted god geminated gemmed gnarled gnashed generaled goatsbeard gobbled gobsmacked gentled goffered genuflected god goldplated goliard gonoblasted goofed goosed gopherwood god gouged gourmandized Gould Gowd Gozzard grad gradated god god graduated graded grafted grandstanded granted granulated god god god graphed grappled god grasped grassed dog grassland gratified goldenrod Grayhound god grayed greasewood greased grazed grandchild good god god Greenland greeted grieved grilled god grinded griped gripped grizzled god groaked god grokked groaned god groined
groped grooved grossed god groomed god grooved grouched groundspeed grovelled god grouped growled grubbed grumbled grunted guard guggled guestimated god guessed guideword guilliotined gulped gulled gummed gurnard gushed gussied god gusseted gutted guyed glued gypped Gyrland gyrated there is no god.
Hey, pig's asshole for a mouth, the original minimum wage was 25cents per hour in USA, of-course it was 25 silver cents, which would more than double, almost triple the minimum wage of today, but the very point you are missing, pig's asshole for mouth, is that most people didn't work for minimum wage even at the time of its introduction. There was never a reason to introduce it except for the one: unions pushed for it, and of-course nobody in the unions worked at the minimum wage levels, the minimum wage was introduced to REDUCE competition to the unionised, gov't protected force, which is partially responsible for the destruction of USA economy (and economy of many other countries of-course).
There should be no gov't intrusion in individual contracts, there is no criminal case to be made, where somebody agrees to work for 10CENTS an hour if that's THE BEST OFFER THEY CAN GET, you pig's asshole for a mouth. Otherwise all you are doing, pig's asshole for a mouth, is denying the unskilled labour to ever enter the work force, pig's asshole for a mouth. Go wash it, I don't need your replies, just wash your pig's asshole for a mouth.
So if the economy is depressed because the government is "printing money", why is inflation so low? (1.64% per year since 2008) Why isn't it 20% or higher as
1. USA outsources inflation to the producing countries, that print their own currencies to buy USA dollars, that come into their countries in exchange for the products that USA imports from those countries. This pushes the money supply out of the US.
2. There IS HUGE increase in prices as a response to the money printing (money printing is the inflation, not the price increase, but increase in supply of money, supply inflates and deflates, prices rise and fall, they don't inflate or deflate). The huge increase in prices is in the stock market, it is in various commodity markets, it is in the housing obviously. Also where prices are NOT falling, that's the effect of monetary inflation. In USA REAL PRICES MUST FALL, there has to be deflation and it exists in real money terms, but in dollar terms there is no decrease in prices and the prices are in fact growing much faster than the nonsensical gov't data suggests.
Prices in USA are growing much faster than what the CPI and even the core CPI suggests. The USA GDP is irrelevant, it is based on fake inflation numbers, it is also based not on productive manufacturing but on unproductive military spending, gov't spending, financial transactions (including all purchases and sales of assets, stocks, houses, bonds, etc.) and even the service sector. None of that stuff decreases the USA trade deficit, which is 500Billion USD/year.
My point is that you are being hoodwinked with the CBO and all the rest of the gov't propaganda.
Yeah, that and everything else. The guy is a gigantic fraud / propagandist for the power establishment, he has nothing to do with economics, he is a justifier in chief for the money printing elite, that are the actual reason that the economy is dying and as such, it can afford fewer and fewer choices in the market and that is what leads to acquisition and consolidation.
Now, obviously the government created and protects a number of gigantic monopolies / oligopolies, including telecommunications in the USA, this started with the destruction of 3000 competitors to AT&T 100 years back, but this does not mean that people should want more of the same 'solution' that actually created all of these problems in the first place. I could say that Krugman and his ilk are insane, that's their eternal position: government introduces a "solution", which makes things worse, so let's have more government "solutions".
Comcast and Time Warner acquisition is going to happen and if it does not, there will be a bankruptcy and liquidation somewhere there. The same thing happened to Blockbuster as an example, the company had plans to save its business by acquiring rival Hollywood Videos, but FTC prevented that from happening, so the company eventually died. I am not saying with certainty that Blockbuster would not have died if the acquisition went through, but it cannot be known now. What can be known is that the company tried to stay in business and it died, but not before government prevented it from trying to change its business model.
The USA market is shrinking, USA is unproductive, US dollars are fake, Krugman is a huge part of the propaganda that justified destruction of the value of the US dollar and US bonds. To listen to Krugman on any matters at all is insanity.
WM and MD jobs are not there for you to "actually live" on them, most of them are not. WM has over 2,000,000 employees, those are starter jobs, as in: you have no skills, you are at the beginning of your professional career, or maybe you are a new immigrant and need the first job in the country, type of jobs.
Just because gov't destroyed the economy in USA (and other countries) doesn't change the fact that WM and MD jobs were never meant to be anything else but starter jobs where even the current minimum wage is likely 2x-4x higher than it should be based on the number and qualifications of the applicants.
Now, if we are going to talk about 60hour weeks, I can talk about myself, I run my own company and my work day starts at 8:30AM and often doesn't end until 1:30AM or even later. Yes, I do have people working for me, no, I don't require them to stay past 6PM, in fact it's very rare that somebody stays event past 5PM. No, I don't pay minimum wage, I pay more than minimum wage, that's because the people I hire can get similar deals somewhere else and I in fact also hire mostly new guys, out of schools or even those who never finished college, I don't care about the degree. Yes, I train them myself, the company is small, so I don't have levels of management, I am the management. Maybe if I grow to over 40 people then it would be different.
My point is, /. is full of shit when it comes to talking of the economy, employment, business in general, it's a slice of general population here with higher than average arrogance levels but nothing much beyond that.
(5) "Troll" is lingo --- you may have people who enjoy trolling, who have absolutely no idea what the word 'Troll' means.
- right, and then you have people who are ready to mark anything as troll that they don't personally agree with.
OTOH the real troll today is BETA.
Marriage rates have to do with employment and higher salaries much more than anything else in this case I bet, more even than with the education levels.
There are still single core systems that aren't legacy and use java?
- java? javascript? What is the difference, right? I know this used to be a technical site and now it is just BETA, so I guess you fit in here juuuuust fine.
Obama and his administration should be sued and should be impeached, and it's not just for surveillance, the fucking guy is a murderer and he brags about it. It shouldn't be just an action class lawsuit, it should be a criminal investigation into this mass murderer.
Yeah, it was the year I joined the USAF
- ah, so you are dumber than I even imagined.
1974, motherfucker, do you recognize that year? The Arab Oil Embargo
- yes, you motherfucking idiot, do you know why it happened? The price controls set by the government of USA, that's why, you macaque's ass. The rest of your comment no better than the beginning, you moron.
You are not paying shit for anything, you like taxes as long as somebody else ends up paying the lion's share of it, and you think that's justice, you fucking thief.
You dumb fuck, who do you think creates inflation? 1971, motherfucker, do you recognise the year? USD became paper, no more gold standard. You know why? Huge gov't spending on debt, huge gov't growth on debt and taxes. All regulations are taxes, all inflation is a tax on fixed incomes and on assets denominated in the currency that is being inflated, you pro-gov't fuckface.
What led to that? The 'great fucking society' led to that, the 'new deal' led to that, the Sherman act, the IRS, the Fed, the income taxes, the IFDS, all the shit that the mob collectively votes for led to that. What do you think, USA production is down from 14000 to 700 planes, that's good for the economy or bad, motherfucker? Or you think that 'demand creates jobs', motherfucker? Yeah, good luck to you.