The point that this poster, and others are alluding to is that a very large of Americans no longer believe a word the Administration says, because time and time again they have demonstrated their absolute belief that "The end justifies the means" which translates to "Lying about everything is perfectly acceptable because the cause is just". Please no flame I am not making a political statement just telling it like it is. All politicians lie, but some lie more than others, and some believe that lying is acceptable.
So like it or not, we now have a situation where telling people the TRUTH, the FACTS, the REALITY is really, really important.
But this is not happening. With the midterms looming everything has been turned political. First it was "This will never come here". It did. Then it was "Nobody in the U.S. is at risk". What we need now is the kind of straight talk that never happens before an election...
Yes, because all these people learned to program on PDP-11 RSTS/E... BASIC, and it's son BASIC PLUS was the first programming language learned by millions of college students, because smaller universities couldn't afford IBM 370's.... You had COBOL (Batch, JCL, definitely not exciting) and you had PDP-11 BASIC - that was done on a Terminal, you interacted with it, it talked back to you in real time. So you could sign up for the COBOL or FORTRAN course and learn to make punch cards... or you could sign up for BASIC and use the terminal, maybe even play a game.
The other hot language was FIG-Forth, because people wanted to write their own TIL (Threaded Interpretive Language) -- All the scripting languages ever written have been TIL's, which goes to show you just how little has really changed since the 70's when it comes to scripting...
As to any of these languages "dying" dream on. There's still jobs maintaining COBOL-74... We just got a request to convert a VB6 application into VB.net. Seriously... There's probably millions and millions of lines of VB3 still out there. VBA is the most horrible language ever, and it still ships with office, it is positively ghastly as languages go but if you need to do something fancy in Excel, it's what you use.
Yes, but better to encourage the rich to spend their money in their country of origin by not chasing them out by making them the enemy. Sure, it's great populist fodder for the rich politician to whip up people's emotions against the "evil rich" - So the rich politician can get in office, and convince the evil rich person to enter into some backroom deal that benefits them both (Which is exactly what is happening)... Guess who gives the most to charity? HInt: It's not progressive Democrat politicians, or alleged God fearing Republicans, it's rich people.
Wouldn't it make more sense if we held up successful people as examples of exceptionalism? Examples of what's possible? Inspiration that says "Hey, you can do this, you really can?"
I came out of college dead broke, in debt, with a car that barely ran. Now I own a successful business. Does that make me the enemy? Someone you despise? Or would you, too, like to do what I did? C'mon, be honest with yourself. I know lots of folks who run businesses - they are our clients - and yes, there are a few dirty rotten scoundrels but the majority of them are honest, hardworking people who were willing to take risks and work extra hours to be business owners. These people are not your enemy.
We agree on far more than we disagree, no question about it. You score huge points for not instantly declaring me a "this" or a "that". I am a conservative on some issues, and a liberal on others.
Hiring, and managing people is not exploiting them!! If you talked to my employees you'd be surprised to learn that they all love the company I have created, the environment I insist on, the way we all get along... I have people lined up who want to work here, we just don't have enough work to hire them all - yet. You see, the employees, and the customers.... they are why I am successful, and I treat them like the gold that they are. So when I hear the typical American Leftist spouting off that all corporations are evil and exploitative blah blah blah it really strikes a nerve...
You're right, the difference between "the left" and "the right" isn't as great as most people think. But there are differences. I used to be a Democrat... and then the Clintons came along and turned the Democratic party into a greedy corporatist empire. Next, the Obama's and their stupid Saul Alinsky "The End Justifies the Means" and now it's considered perfectly acceptable to just lie, lie, and lie some more because "The cause is just". The vicious attacks on the opposition is also a big turn off for me. The moment you scream racist, homophobe, fundamentalist whatever all intelligent discussion stops. I left the party... The alternative, the Rethugnicans, yeah the fringe folks have the right idea (smaller government, more accountability, more transparency) but the core of the party just wants to keep the money flowing. It's all very disappointing to me personally.
Sooner or later, interest rates will rise, and welfare payments will be cut way back, and then the shit will hit the fan. It's only a matter of who's going to be blamed for it all at this point. We can't sustain this level of money printing forever, and we can't raise taxes high enough to keep 40% of the population voting Democrat. That's what I call "common sense" LOL
And yeah, we're way off topic, but I have enjoyed it. na zdrove' mayee druzya:-)
You have way too much time on your hands LOL. I'm pressed for time this morning so my reply will be short, don't mean to be rude...
The only place we disagree is how things get invented, and your crazy belief that you only become wealthy by exploiting others. Sure, the rare guy who rips off a bunch of investors makes front page news, but that is the exception, not the rule.
I know plenty of actual rich people. They are the hardest working people I know. They are honest to a fault, and most of all, they understand how to create long term relationships with people based on trust. I have been in management positions for years, I currently run a small software development company, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that fucking over customers, exploiting workers, lying, cheating, and defrauding people is a guarantee for bankruptcy, not a formula for success.
It is one of the greatest ironies of human existence that the most greedy, lying, UN-ethical people on earth are the ones who tell the biggest lie - That we need to put our faith in THEM in order to be protected from greedy, lying, UN-ethical people. The truth is, these people just want all the money for THEMSELVES and when they get it, they could care less about you, and will live like kings while making jokes about all the little people they crushed to get to the top. This story has been repeated in human history over and over and over and over and the new generation falls for it every time.
Most folks, like it or not, act in their own self interest, and make sacrifices and take risks because they crave money, or power, or fame. I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is. Sure, lots of people SAY they will work "for the greater good" - and a few actually will - but the majority of humans are going to say "What's in it for me" and you cannot legislate that our of existence. There is no system on earth yet devised that changes this.
Just about all the really important, society changing inventions did not come out of funded academic research. Why? See previous paragraph. Small examples - the EPA funded research for 20 years and spent billions on how to best clean up after an oil spill. A $100,000 X Prize solved this problem in three months. NASA became a jobs program that couldn't build a reliable transport vehicle... So many examples like this.
Large organizations - be they corporate or government operate in a reverse. The bigger they get, the more ineffective they are, and the less they produce. This is why 90% of the new jobs come from small business, along with 90% of the innovation and 90% of the growth. Big government is the most inefficient system of ALL -- and both Socialism and Communism completely deny this reality.
I suspect you work in a large organization. Get out. Goto work in a smaller one. I also suspect that you are one of those awesome people who truly dreams of a better world, and wants it to come true. The problem is you don't want to accept human nature as a good thing - you want to change it, because you believe that all the bad things about humans (greed, selfishness, competition) can somehow be removed. I put it to you that these traits are our most powerful motivators, our greatest strength, the reason we have triumphed over the animals - and that the only system that raises everyone (A rising tide raises all boats) is regulated capitalism. We're in the mess we are in now because the regulators themselves have gotten too greedy, and it's up to us to push the needle back to the right just a wee bit and everything will turn out just fine. Why then, does the left fight this as hard as they do? Because they want ALL THE WEALTH FOR THEMSELVES, they don't want to spread it around...
The richest people in the U.S. are not the evil corporatist - it's the three counties surrounding Washington, DC. This is the real 1%, and if you want to identify an enemy, it's the politicians #1 and corporations #2.... Not the other way around.
The point of the piece on common sense you get - Take responsibility for your OWN actions. That, sadly, seems to be in shorter supply than it used to be...
I believe that removing the incentive to gain wealth - or punishing it - would tend to eliminate innovation. A lot of people are willing to sacrifice a lot of things, work very hard for low pay, etc. in order to become wealthy. If you eliminate that motivation, you end up with a bunch of formal research departments who eventually focus on preserving their own existence rather than innovating. The exception is when war breaks out, then one innovates new ways to kill people, which isn't exactly what humanity needs...
It's very nice to discuss these things with a smart person. I am very familiar with Eastern Europe (Ukraine specifically) we could probably bumble along in my Russian/Ukrainian to your Polish.
On paper socialism is grand. With the right group of people, that agreed on common goals... I'm ready to move. The trouble is that it denies certain aspects of human nature - and the snake oil salesmen of socialism never want to admit them either. What so many folks in America have been led to believe is:
There's an endless supply of other people's money (evil corporations, the rich, the 1%, whatever) - that can, and will be redistributed by a benevolent government to everyone else.
Trouble is, the supply isn't endless... Raise taxes on the super rich? They move to another country. Raise taxes on evil corporations? They pass those taxes on to consumers in the form of higher prices. Those benevolent re distributors? The use the money - that they did not earn themselves - to pay for lavish lifestyles and to buy votes so they can continue those lavish lifestyles.
Sadly capitalism turns out to be the worst system of all - except for all of the other ones - when it comes to raising the standard of living for EVERYBODY, even though some folks get richer than they should, and the poor folk have to rely on the kindness of others. But funny thing - my parents all lived before the "Great Society" experiment - and they tell me that never once did they see poor people in America starving, or sick people who couldn't afford healthcare dying -- that these things didn't happen UNTIL the government stepped in and decided to take over the charity business.
It's hard for me to accept this... but at my ripe old age of alleged wisdom I can accept it.
Communism is just another name for Kings and Serfs with a propaganda arm telling the serfs how great they have it...
So now what we've done, with our good intentions, is raise taxes/regulations on corporations so high, and made welfare benefits so generous, that we've created a whole underclass for whom it's actually better to be one the dole than to work. And this will prove to be the end of the age of abundance in my opinion. We need to tilt the scale just a little bit back in the other direction...
Good intentions run wild turns out to be even worse than unbridled capitalism. And thanks to the Internet. we're more divided than ever. I think it will work itself out, eventually, but did it really have to be this ugly?
I'd take advice from a parent fro 10,000 years ago.vs. a "respected researcher in Child Development". That respected researcher probably has book smarts beyond reproach and no common sense. Me? I'm a firm believer in common sense, despite everyone trying so hard to kill it these days.
Clearly you get it. Bravo. But lots of people don't have your perception, and "It takes a village" means to abrogate personal responsibility and make the State responsible for everything. Which is a HUGE mistake, because the State is always going to go with "One Size Fits All"... A society of conformist uneducated drones works best for the State and I, for one, do not want to live in that society. "The Village" turns out to be "The King" and we all end up being serfs and peasants.
However it's not being a dickhead to assume that you need direct experience with parenting to have a qualified opinion. Would you take flying lessons from a passenger? Take driving lessons from a New Yorker who never owned a car? Let someone build a nuclear reactor who's sole experience was using electricity? I don't think so...
I get it. As an alleged evil rich person (middle class, me and the wife work, together we make over $100K a year) I am an oppressed minority who is ignored.
Rich people can do this. And Rich people can do that - I read this baloney all the time from people who have never actually managed something, or accumulated wealth. I'm talking wealth, not a mountain of debt so you can appear to be rich to your friends.
No one ever considers HOW did these people get rich in the first place? Except for the very small number of people who inherited wealth, they got rich by making sacrifices and by working their asses off. Instead there is this populist perception that anyone with a decent income is the "idle rich"... All the rich people I know work their asses off. It's usually the children of the rich who turn out to be lazy losers...
We should be celebrating people who started with nothing and became wealthy. Instead, the perception is "Well, they only got rich because they cheated and lied to people". It drives me crazy as I work 12 hours a day, most days, after 20 years of being a coder I now I manage people, and being dishonest = failure in business over the long term. You can cheat people in the short term and make a fast buck, but you cannot become wealthy screwing people over a long time period. One successfully manages people because they trust you. One sells people shit - because they trust you won't screw them. I really wish I had figured this out in my 20's, instead I listened to the populist crap. If I hadn't listened to that... I'd be a real rich person now!
Yeah but telling people not to breed for the good of the planet will work out about as well as trying to force Americans into electric cars, or out of cars and into light rail.
Or getting off Windows and on to Linux.
Looks great on paper. But then human nature becomes involved. And it turns out that "Well EVERYONE ELSE should do as I say but I am going to do whatever the fuck I want because I am more enlightened than everyone else" and once again you have that two class society of kings and serfs, it just gets another name. Again.
It takes a village is another way of saying "I take no responsibility for anything society should be more responsible not me" which is the same as above. When "The Village" is generally the idiot. Unless we kill all the stupid people. Who won't go willingly. And then... they re-appear, as if by magic.
Really children tend to do much better with a village actively involved in raising them to adulthood, everything else equal. While a mere couple COULD raise a child, typically most couples do not have the luxury of culture to provide for a child by themselves.
You don't have children, right? Please look at this when you do, and they are nearing 18 years of age, you'll get a huge laugh.
Or to put it in rational terms rich people got rich because they looked beyond the ends of their noses and made wise investments, where as poor people are poor because they don't want to look past tomorrow.
A rich person went "I'm not going to get stoned with my friends today, I am going to study hard because a good education means I'll get ahead in life" whereas the future poor person gave his last dollar to get a good buzz today without thinking about tomorrow.
Don't you think society should reward the rich person, and punish the poor person for making the choices they made? Sure, a small number of rich people inherited their wealth. But not the majority. They are home studying right now instead of complaining about how unfair the world is, or suggesting we should eliminate the top 10% "just to make it fair"
It's ridiculously easy on Windows, too, given the C++ "registered channel sink" (a.k.a. the message loop) method that all Windows events flow through. Linux probably works the same, exact way, you register as a listener with a filter of event classes you care about.
/. runs as many clickbait stories as real ones, but they have very little advertising so it's hard for me to understand why they do this. Fox News/Huffpo, sure, they run salacious headlines so you'll watch the advertising....
Absolutely correct, and this is a complete non story anyway because it starts with "IF Rooftop solar grabs 10%... Then"
But this story is guaranteed to bring out the maximum cut and pasters who comment on every single alternative energy story with the same old drivel...
You need to read about Germany outside of the places you have been. The last article in Der Speigal said, and I quote "Electricity is becoming a luxury good in Germany" - Precisely because of the foolish notions you're spouting here.
You're absolutely right, but the brainwashed folks will never accept this. The truth is that the greed of the politicians has proven time and time again to do far more damage than the greed of the "evil corporations" they pretend to be saving us from. But the politicians keep winning, because they can lie, play to people's emotions, make up big, bad horrible bogeymen -- Whereas corporations who lie are immediately crucified in the media.
Politicians tell incredible lies to pad their pockets at the expense of others - and continue to get a pass.
I know, it's pure clickbait, which seems to occur more and more here.
I'd love to know if stories designed to bring out the conservatives end up with higher PPC income, because the conservatives actually have money... They certainly aren't getting rich with CPI, nobody is in this market.
It feels like/. has tired of the cut and paste global warming/climate change/global cooling/whatever threads - that were guarantee to bring in 600+ posts in a day to this new feels like the same thing topic, which also seems to bring in the same 600+ postings a day - as the writeup is questioning statistical models...
I refuse to play the cut and paste game as so many of these folks simply have no desire to discuss, they only want to ram their religion, er science, down my throat and the second I disagree with even the smallest point, or point out something that I believe is not being done well, I get attacked as an evil non-believer, er. denier.
If we all stop responding to these clickbait stories maybe we can get back to tech topics?
A "Producer" desk (made for sound/video editing) each side is a rack, haven't measured the U factor it's probably 10 on each side. On the right side a DELL R210 11th generation and a Kenwood TL-922 Amplifier. On the left side a Hammarlund SP-600 JX-17 formerly used by the CIA to monitor Russian RTTY during the cold war and a 70A 12v DC supply with battery backup. Below that a PDP 11/70 "Coffin Cabinet" nameplate for old times sake. On the desk the usual two 27" monitors, a Collins KWM-2A, a Yeasu FT-990, an Alinco DX-70, and a Kenwood 2meter rig. The ham gear is serviced by two towers one 45' and the other 60'
DELL Studio XPS 7100 AMD Phenom II X6, 16GB RAM, 2 TB RAID 1 internal, 12 TB external. In the basement a DELL something or other tower, Linux, 2 TB internal, 2 TB external, this system backs up the servers in the QTS data center where I lease rack space. The usual assortment of phones and tablets for Q/A: iPhone3, iPhone4, iPhone5, iPad Air, Galaxy 4s, Galaxy 10.1" Note, Nokia 720, Garmin fone. Four laptops. Dell studio with i-5-2450M CPU, 4 GB, 256 GB SSD, Dell something or other that should have been a desktop (giant laptop that my wife uses), 2 older DELL laptops converted to Linux. It's all DELL because my company has a commercial account with them so I get a tiny discount.
To support my company (but available for my personal use as the CEO) 3 DELL R210's, 2 R410's, 2 R610's all RAID1 except one at RAID5, virtualized into 7 linux servers and 4 Windoze boxes, 1 TB outbound bandwidth, I've never actually seen any of them as they were drop shipped from DELL to the datacenter where I lease the space. The oldest one is 3 years old, the rest are modern fire breathers supporting the development staff and website hosting. Soon the Windoze client will leave and we'll be down to one of those for development, can't wait.
Cisco 5200 and 3200 routers with a Motorola cable modem at the house/office a 100 year old Victorian house in the country. Of course I wired shit everywhere, coax, phones, ethernet. At the boat I am the volunteer I.T. department for the marina, wireless PTP internet that's fed to two AP's, one that's for my personal use (on the boat I have a pair of Ubiquity Nanos) plus two Nano's that serve as a PTP link to the access gate. I don't count the four computers there as all I do is support them.
Thinking about a MAC Mini or a Macbook AIR as I have no MAC gear that can do Objective-C and it might be fun to learn. At once time I had a Micro-VAX, but the only use I had for it was to warm up the office in the winter, so I loaned it to a flaky friend of mine who desperately needed it for a project - and promptly got into some high drama life situation and CLAIMS he "lost it" but I suspect he sold it for cash. His initials are E.Z. and if he's reading this hey I still want my VAX back !! And no I don't loan computers to anyone, ever, anymore.
So no I can't touch the guys with 48u racks and dedicated HVAC, but the data center where I lease rack space has biometric entry and Maxwell Smart rooms...LOL I thought seriously about building a data center in the basement but just can't get the fiber out here in the country, and at $50/u/month it's hard to justify.
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Yeah, and by "Leaking" the report it makes it seem even more powerful!
Kudo's to their PR firm. Shame, Shame, Shame on slash dot for picking clickbait stories guaranteed to rile people up.
The point that this poster, and others are alluding to is that a very large of Americans no longer believe a word the Administration says, because time and time again they have demonstrated their absolute belief that "The end justifies the means" which translates to "Lying about everything is perfectly acceptable because the cause is just". Please no flame I am not making a political statement just telling it like it is. All politicians lie, but some lie more than others, and some believe that lying is acceptable.
So like it or not, we now have a situation where telling people the TRUTH, the FACTS, the REALITY is really, really important.
But this is not happening. With the midterms looming everything has been turned political. First it was "This will never come here". It did. Then it was "Nobody in the U.S. is at risk". What we need now is the kind of straight talk that never happens before an election...
Thanks please spread the word that successful people deserve to make good money and they are not evil!!
You'd be surprised how much VB.net is out there in corporate America.
Yes, because all these people learned to program on PDP-11 RSTS/E... BASIC, and it's son BASIC PLUS was the first programming language learned by millions of college students, because smaller universities couldn't afford IBM 370's.... You had COBOL (Batch, JCL, definitely not exciting) and you had PDP-11 BASIC - that was done on a Terminal, you interacted with it, it talked back to you in real time. So you could sign up for the COBOL or FORTRAN course and learn to make punch cards... or you could sign up for BASIC and use the terminal, maybe even play a game.
The other hot language was FIG-Forth, because people wanted to write their own TIL (Threaded Interpretive Language) -- All the scripting languages ever written have been TIL's, which goes to show you just how little has really changed since the 70's when it comes to scripting...
As to any of these languages "dying" dream on. There's still jobs maintaining COBOL-74... We just got a request to convert a VB6 application into VB.net. Seriously... There's probably millions and millions of lines of VB3 still out there. VBA is the most horrible language ever, and it still ships with office, it is positively ghastly as languages go but if you need to do something fancy in Excel, it's what you use.
Yes, but better to encourage the rich to spend their money in their country of origin by not chasing them out by making them the enemy. Sure, it's great populist fodder for the rich politician to whip up people's emotions against the "evil rich" - So the rich politician can get in office, and convince the evil rich person to enter into some backroom deal that benefits them both (Which is exactly what is happening)... Guess who gives the most to charity? HInt: It's not progressive Democrat politicians, or alleged God fearing Republicans, it's rich people.
Wouldn't it make more sense if we held up successful people as examples of exceptionalism? Examples of what's possible? Inspiration that says "Hey, you can do this, you really can?"
I came out of college dead broke, in debt, with a car that barely ran. Now I own a successful business. Does that make me the enemy? Someone you despise? Or would you, too, like to do what I did? C'mon, be honest with yourself. I know lots of folks who run businesses - they are our clients - and yes, there are a few dirty rotten scoundrels but the majority of them are honest, hardworking people who were willing to take risks and work extra hours to be business owners. These people are not your enemy.
We agree on far more than we disagree, no question about it. You score huge points for not instantly declaring me a "this" or a "that". I am a conservative on some issues, and a liberal on others.
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Hiring, and managing people is not exploiting them!! If you talked to my employees you'd be surprised to learn that they all love the company I have created, the environment I insist on, the way we all get along... I have people lined up who want to work here, we just don't have enough work to hire them all - yet. You see, the employees, and the customers.... they are why I am successful, and I treat them like the gold that they are. So when I hear the typical American Leftist spouting off that all corporations are evil and exploitative blah blah blah it really strikes a nerve...
You're right, the difference between "the left" and "the right" isn't as great as most people think. But there are differences. I used to be a Democrat... and then the Clintons came along and turned the Democratic party into a greedy corporatist empire. Next, the Obama's and their stupid Saul Alinsky "The End Justifies the Means" and now it's considered perfectly acceptable to just lie, lie, and lie some more because "The cause is just". The vicious attacks on the opposition is also a big turn off for me. The moment you scream racist, homophobe, fundamentalist whatever all intelligent discussion stops. I left the party... The alternative, the Rethugnicans, yeah the fringe folks have the right idea (smaller government, more accountability, more transparency) but the core of the party just wants to keep the money flowing. It's all very disappointing to me personally.
Sooner or later, interest rates will rise, and welfare payments will be cut way back, and then the shit will hit the fan. It's only a matter of who's going to be blamed for it all at this point. We can't sustain this level of money printing forever, and we can't raise taxes high enough to keep 40% of the population voting Democrat. That's what I call "common sense" LOL
And yeah, we're way off topic, but I have enjoyed it. na zdrove' mayee druzya
You have way too much time on your hands LOL. I'm pressed for time this morning so my reply will be short, don't mean to be rude...
The only place we disagree is how things get invented, and your crazy belief that you only become wealthy by exploiting others. Sure, the rare guy who rips off a bunch of investors makes front page news, but that is the exception, not the rule.
I know plenty of actual rich people. They are the hardest working people I know. They are honest to a fault, and most of all, they understand how to create long term relationships with people based on trust. I have been in management positions for years, I currently run a small software development company, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that fucking over customers, exploiting workers, lying, cheating, and defrauding people is a guarantee for bankruptcy, not a formula for success.
It is one of the greatest ironies of human existence that the most greedy, lying, UN-ethical people on earth are the ones who tell the biggest lie - That we need to put our faith in THEM in order to be protected from greedy, lying, UN-ethical people. The truth is, these people just want all the money for THEMSELVES and when they get it, they could care less about you, and will live like kings while making jokes about all the little people they crushed to get to the top. This story has been repeated in human history over and over and over and over and the new generation falls for it every time.
Most folks, like it or not, act in their own self interest, and make sacrifices and take risks because they crave money, or power, or fame. I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is. Sure, lots of people SAY they will work "for the greater good" - and a few actually will - but the majority of humans are going to say "What's in it for me" and you cannot legislate that our of existence. There is no system on earth yet devised that changes this.
Just about all the really important, society changing inventions did not come out of funded academic research. Why? See previous paragraph. Small examples - the EPA funded research for 20 years and spent billions on how to best clean up after an oil spill. A $100,000 X Prize solved this problem in three months. NASA became a jobs program that couldn't build a reliable transport vehicle... So many examples like this.
Large organizations - be they corporate or government operate in a reverse. The bigger they get, the more ineffective they are, and the less they produce. This is why 90% of the new jobs come from small business, along with 90% of the innovation and 90% of the growth. Big government is the most inefficient system of ALL -- and both Socialism and Communism completely deny this reality.
I suspect you work in a large organization. Get out. Goto work in a smaller one. I also suspect that you are one of those awesome people who truly dreams of a better world, and wants it to come true. The problem is you don't want to accept human nature as a good thing - you want to change it, because you believe that all the bad things about humans (greed, selfishness, competition) can somehow be removed. I put it to you that these traits are our most powerful motivators, our greatest strength, the reason we have triumphed over the animals - and that the only system that raises everyone (A rising tide raises all boats) is regulated capitalism. We're in the mess we are in now because the regulators themselves have gotten too greedy, and it's up to us to push the needle back to the right just a wee bit and everything will turn out just fine. Why then, does the left fight this as hard as they do? Because they want ALL THE WEALTH FOR THEMSELVES, they don't want to spread it around...
The richest people in the U.S. are not the evil corporatist - it's the three counties surrounding Washington, DC. This is the real 1%, and if you want to identify an enemy, it's the politicians #1 and corporations #2.... Not the other way around.
The point of the piece on common sense you get - Take responsibility for your OWN actions. That, sadly, seems to be in shorter supply than it used to be...
I believe that removing the incentive to gain wealth - or punishing it - would tend to eliminate innovation. A lot of people are willing to sacrifice a lot of things, work very hard for low pay, etc. in order to become wealthy. If you eliminate that motivation, you end up with a bunch of formal research departments who eventually focus on preserving their own existence rather than innovating. The exception is when war breaks out, then one innovates new ways to kill people, which isn't exactly what humanity needs...
Please read this http://rense.com/general92/dea... it sums up my common sense better than I ever could.
Comcast maintained that Conal used the name of his employer in an attempt to get leverage.
No reason to read further. Comcast probably records all calls.
It's very nice to discuss these things with a smart person. I am very familiar with Eastern Europe (Ukraine specifically) we could probably bumble along in my Russian/Ukrainian to your Polish.
.vs. a "respected researcher in Child Development". That respected researcher probably has book smarts beyond reproach and no common sense. Me? I'm a firm believer in common sense, despite everyone trying so hard to kill it these days.
On paper socialism is grand. With the right group of people, that agreed on common goals... I'm ready to move. The trouble is that it denies certain aspects of human nature - and the snake oil salesmen of socialism never want to admit them either. What so many folks in America have been led to believe is:
There's an endless supply of other people's money (evil corporations, the rich, the 1%, whatever) - that can, and will be redistributed by a benevolent government to everyone else.
Trouble is, the supply isn't endless... Raise taxes on the super rich? They move to another country. Raise taxes on evil corporations? They pass those taxes on to consumers in the form of higher prices. Those benevolent re distributors? The use the money - that they did not earn themselves - to pay for lavish lifestyles and to buy votes so they can continue those lavish lifestyles.
Sadly capitalism turns out to be the worst system of all - except for all of the other ones - when it comes to raising the standard of living for EVERYBODY, even though some folks get richer than they should, and the poor folk have to rely on the kindness of others. But funny thing - my parents all lived before the "Great Society" experiment - and they tell me that never once did they see poor people in America starving, or sick people who couldn't afford healthcare dying -- that these things didn't happen UNTIL the government stepped in and decided to take over the charity business.
It's hard for me to accept this... but at my ripe old age of alleged wisdom I can accept it.
Communism is just another name for Kings and Serfs with a propaganda arm telling the serfs how great they have it...
So now what we've done, with our good intentions, is raise taxes/regulations on corporations so high, and made welfare benefits so generous, that we've created a whole underclass for whom it's actually better to be one the dole than to work. And this will prove to be the end of the age of abundance in my opinion. We need to tilt the scale just a little bit back in the other direction...
Good intentions run wild turns out to be even worse than unbridled capitalism. And thanks to the Internet. we're more divided than ever. I think it will work itself out, eventually, but did it really have to be this ugly?
I'd take advice from a parent fro 10,000 years ago
Clearly you get it. Bravo. But lots of people don't have your perception, and "It takes a village" means to abrogate personal responsibility and make the State responsible for everything. Which is a HUGE mistake, because the State is always going to go with "One Size Fits All"... A society of conformist uneducated drones works best for the State and I, for one, do not want to live in that society. "The Village" turns out to be "The King" and we all end up being serfs and peasants.
However it's not being a dickhead to assume that you need direct experience with parenting to have a qualified opinion. Would you take flying lessons from a passenger? Take driving lessons from a New Yorker who never owned a car? Let someone build a nuclear reactor who's sole experience was using electricity? I don't think so...
I get it. As an alleged evil rich person (middle class, me and the wife work, together we make over $100K a year) I am an oppressed minority who is ignored.
Rich people can do this. And Rich people can do that - I read this baloney all the time from people who have never actually managed something, or accumulated wealth. I'm talking wealth, not a mountain of debt so you can appear to be rich to your friends.
No one ever considers HOW did these people get rich in the first place? Except for the very small number of people who inherited wealth, they got rich by making sacrifices and by working their asses off. Instead there is this populist perception that anyone with a decent income is the "idle rich"... All the rich people I know work their asses off. It's usually the children of the rich who turn out to be lazy losers...
We should be celebrating people who started with nothing and became wealthy. Instead, the perception is "Well, they only got rich because they cheated and lied to people". It drives me crazy as I work 12 hours a day, most days, after 20 years of being a coder I now I manage people, and being dishonest = failure in business over the long term. You can cheat people in the short term and make a fast buck, but you cannot become wealthy screwing people over a long time period. One successfully manages people because they trust you. One sells people shit - because they trust you won't screw them. I really wish I had figured this out in my 20's, instead I listened to the populist crap. If I hadn't listened to that... I'd be a real rich person now!
Yeah but telling people not to breed for the good of the planet will work out about as well as trying to force Americans into electric cars, or out of cars and into light rail.
Or getting off Windows and on to Linux.
Looks great on paper. But then human nature becomes involved. And it turns out that "Well EVERYONE ELSE should do as I say but I am going to do whatever the fuck I want because I am more enlightened than everyone else" and once again you have that two class society of kings and serfs, it just gets another name. Again.
It takes a village is another way of saying "I take no responsibility for anything society should be more responsible not me" which is the same as above. When "The Village" is generally the idiot. Unless we kill all the stupid people. Who won't go willingly. And then... they re-appear, as if by magic.
Really children tend to do much better with a village actively involved in raising them to adulthood, everything else equal. While a mere couple COULD raise a child, typically most couples do not have the luxury of culture to provide for a child by themselves.
You don't have children, right? Please look at this when you do, and they are nearing 18 years of age, you'll get a huge laugh.
Or to put it in rational terms rich people got rich because they looked beyond the ends of their noses and made wise investments, where as poor people are poor because they don't want to look past tomorrow.
A rich person went "I'm not going to get stoned with my friends today, I am going to study hard because a good education means I'll get ahead in life" whereas the future poor person gave his last dollar to get a good buzz today without thinking about tomorrow.
Don't you think society should reward the rich person, and punish the poor person for making the choices they made? Sure, a small number of rich people inherited their wealth. But not the majority. They are home studying right now instead of complaining about how unfair the world is, or suggesting we should eliminate the top 10% "just to make it fair"
How do you think Ctrl-Alt-Del works when Your Program has focus? Uh the O/S is monitoring every keystroke, DUH
It's ridiculously easy on Windows, too, given the C++ "registered channel sink" (a.k.a. the message loop) method that all Windows events flow through. Linux probably works the same, exact way, you register as a listener with a filter of event classes you care about.
/. runs as many clickbait stories as real ones, but they have very little advertising so it's hard for me to understand why they do this. Fox News/Huffpo, sure, they run salacious headlines so you'll watch the advertising....
Absolutely correct, and this is a complete non story anyway because it starts with "IF Rooftop solar grabs 10%... Then" But this story is guaranteed to bring out the maximum cut and pasters who comment on every single alternative energy story with the same old drivel...
You need to read about Germany outside of the places you have been. The last article in Der Speigal said, and I quote "Electricity is becoming a luxury good in Germany" - Precisely because of the foolish notions you're spouting here.
You're absolutely right, but the brainwashed folks will never accept this. The truth is that the greed of the politicians has proven time and time again to do far more damage than the greed of the "evil corporations" they pretend to be saving us from. But the politicians keep winning, because they can lie, play to people's emotions, make up big, bad horrible bogeymen -- Whereas corporations who lie are immediately crucified in the media.
Politicians tell incredible lies to pad their pockets at the expense of others - and continue to get a pass.
I know, it's pure clickbait, which seems to occur more and more here.
I'd love to know if stories designed to bring out the conservatives end up with higher PPC income, because the conservatives actually have money... They certainly aren't getting rich with CPI, nobody is in this market.
It feels like /. has tired of the cut and paste global warming/climate change/global cooling/whatever threads - that were guarantee to bring in 600+ posts in a day to this new feels like the same thing topic, which also seems to bring in the same 600+ postings a day - as the writeup is questioning statistical models...
I refuse to play the cut and paste game as so many of these folks simply have no desire to discuss, they only want to ram their religion, er science, down my throat and the second I disagree with even the smallest point, or point out something that I believe is not being done well, I get attacked as an evil non-believer, er. denier.
If we all stop responding to these clickbait stories maybe we can get back to tech topics?
iPhone4 and iPad Air. Works fine, as do the four "free" apps I now have. The word processor/spreadsheet are pretty cute, for a tablet app.
A "Producer" desk (made for sound/video editing) each side is a rack, haven't measured the U factor it's probably 10 on each side. On the right side a DELL R210 11th generation and a Kenwood TL-922 Amplifier. On the left side a Hammarlund SP-600 JX-17 formerly used by the CIA to monitor Russian RTTY during the cold war and a 70A 12v DC supply with battery backup. Below that a PDP 11/70 "Coffin Cabinet" nameplate for old times sake. On the desk the usual two 27" monitors, a Collins KWM-2A, a Yeasu FT-990, an Alinco DX-70, and a Kenwood 2meter rig. The ham gear is serviced by two towers one 45' and the other 60'
DELL Studio XPS 7100 AMD Phenom II X6, 16GB RAM, 2 TB RAID 1 internal, 12 TB external. In the basement a DELL something or other tower, Linux, 2 TB internal, 2 TB external, this system backs up the servers in the QTS data center where I lease rack space. The usual assortment of phones and tablets for Q/A: iPhone3, iPhone4, iPhone5, iPad Air, Galaxy 4s, Galaxy 10.1" Note, Nokia 720, Garmin fone. Four laptops. Dell studio with i-5-2450M CPU, 4 GB, 256 GB SSD, Dell something or other that should have been a desktop (giant laptop that my wife uses), 2 older DELL laptops converted to Linux. It's all DELL because my company has a commercial account with them so I get a tiny discount.
To support my company (but available for my personal use as the CEO) 3 DELL R210's, 2 R410's, 2 R610's all RAID1 except one at RAID5, virtualized into 7 linux servers and 4 Windoze boxes, 1 TB outbound bandwidth, I've never actually seen any of them as they were drop shipped from DELL to the datacenter where I lease the space. The oldest one is 3 years old, the rest are modern fire breathers supporting the development staff and website hosting. Soon the Windoze client will leave and we'll be down to one of those for development, can't wait.
Cisco 5200 and 3200 routers with a Motorola cable modem at the house/office a 100 year old Victorian house in the country. Of course I wired shit everywhere, coax, phones, ethernet. At the boat I am the volunteer I.T. department for the marina, wireless PTP internet that's fed to two AP's, one that's for my personal use (on the boat I have a pair of Ubiquity Nanos) plus two Nano's that serve as a PTP link to the access gate. I don't count the four computers there as all I do is support them.
Thinking about a MAC Mini or a Macbook AIR as I have no MAC gear that can do Objective-C and it might be fun to learn. At once time I had a Micro-VAX, but the only use I had for it was to warm up the office in the winter, so I loaned it to a flaky friend of mine who desperately needed it for a project - and promptly got into some high drama life situation and CLAIMS he "lost it" but I suspect he sold it for cash. His initials are E.Z. and if he's reading this hey I still want my VAX back !! And no I don't loan computers to anyone, ever, anymore.
So no I can't touch the guys with 48u racks and dedicated HVAC, but the data center where I lease rack space has biometric entry and Maxwell Smart rooms...LOL I thought seriously about building a data center in the basement but just can't get the fiber out here in the country, and at $50/u/month it's hard to justify.