And the outrage you had when the Obamas took those vacations in the Hamptons in rented houses that were insanely expensive... Or the $102,000 a year Dog Walker... Or the explosion in the "personal" staff (e.g. servants)... Or the golf outings which cost a fortune in security... or the First Lady taking an entire Air Force jetliner for herself because she couldn't be bothered to travel with her hubby to Europe... Or the parade of Rock Stars who played concerts for the kids birthdays...
Where was your outrage then?
There wasn't any. Because it's only exorbitant when the other guy does it.
When Hillary apologies to the families of the Benghazi victims for blaming their sons death on a video - to their faces - then and only then should you be calling for Trump to apologize for picking up on the birther movement and running with it. Or do you believe lying to a mother about her own sons death gets a pass?
When Republicans were in office the Democrats pointed to the debt they ran up and called it a national disgrace. Then they took the reins and now debt isn't a problem - after they ran up the largest debt ever. Go figure that logic LOL
So you have a website where you're asking for donations to pay off your student loan but you can afford to spend $2,000 for your personal comfort on a 16 hour flight?
Agreed. The politicians are no doubt figuring that it's been so long since Airlines were deregulated that they can sneak it back in again.
When the airlines were deregulated the Democrats howled, wailed, caterwauled, and did their usual emotionally charged rhetoric about how the EVIL Airline CORPORATIONS would lock out the poor folks, and the middle class, and only the rich and powerful would be able to afford to fly.
Surprise
With competition -.vs. the heavy hand of government - prices dropped and suddenly the middle class was flying everywhere.... So I'm sure I'll be flamed by people who weren't even alive when this happened telling me I am wrong LOL
I'm betting the machines will turn out to be Trump, Neo will be a black handicapped transgender, and they will once again ruin a perfectly good thing by politicizing it. It will play well in the blue bubble echo chamber of Hollywierd and flop miserably everywhere else.
Outside of liberal think tanks, people despise globalism and the love affair with it is coming to an end. People need to belong to something LOCAL. Intellectuals want the whole planet to be unified in some Utopian fantasy, it's awesome on paper, sure. But it just doesn't work for today's human.
The larger an organization is, the more inefficient it becomes.
It will take a miracle for Merkle to be re-elected. The Dutch would be out of the EU save a few votes this week. The right wing will win Germany, their banks are propping the whole thing up, the EU is gonna crash. If Oil goes back to $80, $90 a barrel Russia will stop saber rattling.
This will only happen if the man who holds the distinction of taking more government money than any human in the existence of mankind can find a way to get a government subsidy to do it.
I am generally not one to politicize everything but Obama moved the clock switch dates by one week - ALLEGEDLY TO SAVE ENERGY - and now that Trump's in office the ultra left msmash posts a story about how we don't need Daylight Savings Time? really?
If you deal with the rest of the planet - who is still using the same dates we always used, this is a huge pain in the ass, because this week Europe is one hour closer than they were last week. But next week they will be back in sync. So guess how many people from our offices in Europe showed up for today's meetings?
The Chinese are already experimenting with giant buildings filled with Lithium-Ion batteries.
When the fire starts I suspect the chemicals released into the air will far exceed the environmental benefits gained. But Elon will continue to the person who has fleeced more money out of governments in the history of mankind, so let's keep worshiping him.
Headlines from Today:
Job growth strong in Feb; Wages Up...
Record Number of Americans Employed...
Manufacturing TRIPLED Growth in Gov't Jobs...
Construction largest gain in 10 years...
WIRE: Better by Almost Any Measure...
Debt Decreases $60B Since Inauguration...
Liberal Response: TRUMP has nothing to do with any of this, confidence is up because people think he's going to be impeached, etc. etc. etc.
Slash dot refuses to post anything I submit, as I dared submit a few conservative leaning stories.... So I can't submit this.
The real story IMHO is how badly One Drive does its job, it truly sucks beyond sucking, is dumber than a bag of hammers, etc.. What's worse is that when you complain on their forums you get Microsoft Engineers telling you all these grand fantasies about how it works, and when you counter with actual engineering use cases they ignore you.
One Drive is not an external drive and it is not cloud storage. It's a shadow volume for selected files and folders that maybe sometimes but not on any schedule maybe makes a copy of files on your desktop that you really can't use on another computer unless you have an insane Internet connection and an SSD. Anyone who is stupid enough to trust this thing for backup will lose data. Your files are "available" on another computer but if you actually USE them the changes don't sync back, and god forbid you try and manually sync. Google One Drive Sync Errors.... So many people have had their critical files ERASED by One Drive.
I really, really need what One Drive does. And really, this is about as simple as it gets to make it work properly. Only Microsoft could take something this simple, and screw it up this bad. It's even worse than their total inability to have a decent FTP client, or talk to a WebDAV volume - when these technologies have been out for 20 years now.
Yeah, yeah, Microsoft (Who still holds a massive majority in the desktop space) SUX it's the oldest clickbait on slashdot, I get that. But I have to disagree because nobody buys Windows 10, it comes on the computer pre-installed...
Bush was an idiot ignorant country bumpkin hayseed, remember? Never mind that he graduated from Yale University and the Harvard Business School. Now the new narrative is that Trump is an ignorant doofus. Believe this propaganda at your own peril. If you live long enough, you'll start to see this sort of thing, and come to the realization that lots of people tell the same lies over and over, year after year because there is a new crop of young minds waiting to be brainwashed...
A sane person would be concerned about even the slightest whiff of a government using it's power to go after political enemies.
My sentiments exactly. I'm guessing that issues like transgender bathrooms, suppressing free speech on campus, identity politics, trump derangement syndrome, and whatever else consumes the blue bubbles is far more important that a government that's able to spy on us through our TV sets and Phones. The real story here is that the CIA setup their own NSA like system, and as they are not constrained by the same rules as the NSA have probably been spying on all of Obama's political enemies for several years. Making the Stasi & KGB look like rank amateurs. If you don't think there is any precedent for this, you've been asleep for years.
You can bet that the folks in flyover country that elected Trump, and get their news from talk radio, will be very, very angry about all of this.
Kudos to you Sir and Thank you for pointing this out.
Two whole days of Slashdot WITHOUT the left wing Trump hating clickbait and I am SO HAPPY to see actual technical topics being discussed. If msmash is on vacation I hope he stays there permanently...
I have been in the I.T. business since 1979. I run a software development company. Our clients are agencies, digital marketing departments, and the like.
I am certainly not the 1%. I drive a base Ford F150 pickup and own a small Bayliner fishing boat. I live in a small house, that I have poured a ton of sweat equity into. I do have a decent, but not massive bank account. I work 12 hours a day Monday-Friday because I am the boss/owner.
When I started the business I had all U.S. developers. Then, ever so slowly we started loosing customers because our prices were too high. It didn't take long to figure out that most of our customers were getting their websites built overseas.
So we had two choices. Close the doors, or go overseas. We tried India, it sucked. Tried South America, it sucked. Ended up in Eastern Europe. So I have project managers in the U.S., and accounting in the U.S., and the rest overseas. And I'm certainly not getting rich exploiting people in foreign lands. The performers get paid a good wage. Not as much as a developer here costs, because I am not on the hook for horribly overpriced insurance, and it costs less to live there than it does here. But the difference isn't as great as the idiots in the media lead you to believe. The markup is not that great. The business is very competitive.
So before you go wailing about the evil rich conniving in some back room about how they are going to screw all the Americans and ship their jobs offshore, paying a senior developer $6/Hour or some such bullshit please, please, please talk to someone who actually lives in this world and deals with it every day.
The going rate for agency dev work IS WHAT IT IS. It is not set by ME. It is set by the MARKET. The going rate for a developer is also set by the MARKET. My clients will not pay a higher rate for an American developer. I know, I asked them over and over and over. So to be blunt WTF do you people expect me to do? Not make a living? Nobody will hire me, I've run my own show too long. And no, "slick sales" won't convince a client to pay 150% of what all the competitors are charging. Every other I.T. service provider and I.T. department is in exactly the same situation I am in.
If you want to survive in the I.T. industry you have three choices. 1) Get a skill that's so rare, and so in demand, that you can charge big bucks. 2) Learn to manage developers through Skype, and focus on design. 3) Work in an industry where you have to be onsite - such as one that's highly regulated, or a factory where they don't have Internet connections, or defense work and the like. I'm sorry but that's the way it is. The good old days, where developers wrote their own tickets are simply gone.
Now if the Trumpster says all offshore labor is taxed at about 50%, and the rates I can charge go up, I will do a happy dance, go rent an office, and hire U.S. developers again... But seriously most of what is written on every one these threads about offshore dev is just so much fanciful thinking bullshit.
I'm not bitter. But please try to look at the REAL WORLD.
Sorry but the actual statistics are that the worst thing for income inequality is progressive economic policy. Under Obama's administration the gap between rich and poor widened at a greater rate than anytime in history.
Tech tip: Politicians lie. Usually they do the exact opposite of what they preach. It remains to be seen how this is going to work out under Trump, too early to tell. But you are believing the nonsense, as is msmash who posts 80% of the articles here and they are all as political as they can be.
You need to experience both environments. In my experience Government offices have little to no incentives to meet goals of any kind, whereas in the corporate world - unless you're working for a company that has been around forever and is completely secure - people are managed by objectives (MBO) and are expected to produce results. In every government office I have ever worked with, for every ten people one does 95% of the work and the other nine are slugs/slackers.
Government employees do not make less. They make far more, and they have incredible benefit and pension plans. And thanks to FDR, they pay money to the SEIU, who in turn gives it to Democrat politicians, in the biggest money laundering / theft scheme ever engineered in human history.
The actual facts are that plenty of legislation was passed - with bipartisan support - during the Obama years. In fact, MORE legislation was passed AFTER the super majority expired in 2010 than the Democrats were able to pass when they had a majority.
The problem is that the media thrives on clickbait salacious sound bites, and most people are too lazy to study anything that takes more than five minutes of effort, so they go around spouting this kind of nonsense.
If Donald Trump walked on water, the headline of HuffPo, ThinkProgress, etc would be TRUMP CAN'T SWIM and I am sure you would post that as fact.
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And the outrage you had when the Obamas took those vacations in the Hamptons in rented houses that were insanely expensive... Or the $102,000 a year Dog Walker... Or the explosion in the "personal" staff (e.g. servants)... Or the golf outings which cost a fortune in security... or the First Lady taking an entire Air Force jetliner for herself because she couldn't be bothered to travel with her hubby to Europe... Or the parade of Rock Stars who played concerts for the kids birthdays...
Where was your outrage then?
There wasn't any. Because it's only exorbitant when the other guy does it.
When Hillary apologies to the families of the Benghazi victims for blaming their sons death on a video - to their faces - then and only then should you be calling for Trump to apologize for picking up on the birther movement and running with it. Or do you believe lying to a mother about her own sons death gets a pass?
When Republicans were in office the Democrats pointed to the debt they ran up and called it a national disgrace. Then they took the reins and now debt isn't a problem - after they ran up the largest debt ever. Go figure that logic LOL
So you have a website where you're asking for donations to pay off your student loan but you can afford to spend $2,000 for your personal comfort on a 16 hour flight?
Agreed. The politicians are no doubt figuring that it's been so long since Airlines were deregulated that they can sneak it back in again.
.vs. the heavy hand of government - prices dropped and suddenly the middle class was flying everywhere.... So I'm sure I'll be flamed by people who weren't even alive when this happened telling me I am wrong LOL
When the airlines were deregulated the Democrats howled, wailed, caterwauled, and did their usual emotionally charged rhetoric about how the EVIL Airline CORPORATIONS would lock out the poor folks, and the middle class, and only the rich and powerful would be able to afford to fly.
Surprise
With competition -
I'm betting the machines will turn out to be Trump, Neo will be a black handicapped transgender, and they will once again ruin a perfectly good thing by politicizing it. It will play well in the blue bubble echo chamber of Hollywierd and flop miserably everywhere else.
Outside of liberal think tanks, people despise globalism and the love affair with it is coming to an end. People need to belong to something LOCAL. Intellectuals want the whole planet to be unified in some Utopian fantasy, it's awesome on paper, sure. But it just doesn't work for today's human. The larger an organization is, the more inefficient it becomes.
It will take a miracle for Merkle to be re-elected. The Dutch would be out of the EU save a few votes this week. The right wing will win Germany, their banks are propping the whole thing up, the EU is gonna crash. If Oil goes back to $80, $90 a barrel Russia will stop saber rattling.
Dogs and horses are far better off now than they ever were. Google how much is spent buying Valentine gifts for dogs... it's mind blowing.
Except that none of this has actually happened. How many of Obama's budgets were passed by Congress? ZERO...
This will only happen if the man who holds the distinction of taking more government money than any human in the existence of mankind can find a way to get a government subsidy to do it.
Correct, but you can't get clicks writing headlines like "America is awesome we lead the world in this, this, this, and this!" USA! USA! USA!
Besides, the owners of this site are part of the "America Sucks it needs to be radically transformed' left coast foolishness.
National Pride is now considered horrific, grounds for impeachment, etc.
I am generally not one to politicize everything but Obama moved the clock switch dates by one week - ALLEGEDLY TO SAVE ENERGY - and now that Trump's in office the ultra left msmash posts a story about how we don't need Daylight Savings Time? really?
If you deal with the rest of the planet - who is still using the same dates we always used, this is a huge pain in the ass, because this week Europe is one hour closer than they were last week. But next week they will be back in sync. So guess how many people from our offices in Europe showed up for today's meetings?
The Chinese are already experimenting with giant buildings filled with Lithium-Ion batteries.
When the fire starts I suspect the chemicals released into the air will far exceed the environmental benefits gained. But Elon will continue to the person who has fleeced more money out of governments in the history of mankind, so let's keep worshiping him.
Headlines from Today: Job growth strong in Feb; Wages Up... Record Number of Americans Employed... Manufacturing TRIPLED Growth in Gov't Jobs... Construction largest gain in 10 years... WIRE: Better by Almost Any Measure... Debt Decreases $60B Since Inauguration... Liberal Response: TRUMP has nothing to do with any of this, confidence is up because people think he's going to be impeached, etc. etc. etc.
Nice try but it doesn't matter. If Trump walked on water the liberal fanatics would howl TRUMP CAN'T SWIM
The NYT goes back and rewrites fucking history to cover their asses and just look at the replies you're getting.
Slash dot refuses to post anything I submit, as I dared submit a few conservative leaning stories.... So I can't submit this.
The real story IMHO is how badly One Drive does its job, it truly sucks beyond sucking, is dumber than a bag of hammers, etc.. What's worse is that when you complain on their forums you get Microsoft Engineers telling you all these grand fantasies about how it works, and when you counter with actual engineering use cases they ignore you.
One Drive is not an external drive and it is not cloud storage. It's a shadow volume for selected files and folders that maybe sometimes but not on any schedule maybe makes a copy of files on your desktop that you really can't use on another computer unless you have an insane Internet connection and an SSD. Anyone who is stupid enough to trust this thing for backup will lose data. Your files are "available" on another computer but if you actually USE them the changes don't sync back, and god forbid you try and manually sync. Google One Drive Sync Errors.... So many people have had their critical files ERASED by One Drive.
I really, really need what One Drive does. And really, this is about as simple as it gets to make it work properly. Only Microsoft could take something this simple, and screw it up this bad. It's even worse than their total inability to have a decent FTP client, or talk to a WebDAV volume - when these technologies have been out for 20 years now.
Yeah, yeah, Microsoft (Who still holds a massive majority in the desktop space) SUX it's the oldest clickbait on slashdot, I get that. But I have to disagree because nobody buys Windows 10, it comes on the computer pre-installed...
Bush was an idiot ignorant country bumpkin hayseed, remember? Never mind that he graduated from Yale University and the Harvard Business School. Now the new narrative is that Trump is an ignorant doofus. Believe this propaganda at your own peril. If you live long enough, you'll start to see this sort of thing, and come to the realization that lots of people tell the same lies over and over, year after year because there is a new crop of young minds waiting to be brainwashed...
A sane person would be concerned about even the slightest whiff of a government using it's power to go after political enemies.
My sentiments exactly. I'm guessing that issues like transgender bathrooms, suppressing free speech on campus, identity politics, trump derangement syndrome, and whatever else consumes the blue bubbles is far more important that a government that's able to spy on us through our TV sets and Phones. The real story here is that the CIA setup their own NSA like system, and as they are not constrained by the same rules as the NSA have probably been spying on all of Obama's political enemies for several years. Making the Stasi & KGB look like rank amateurs. If you don't think there is any precedent for this, you've been asleep for years.
You can bet that the folks in flyover country that elected Trump, and get their news from talk radio, will be very, very angry about all of this.
Kudos to you Sir and Thank you for pointing this out.
Two whole days of Slashdot WITHOUT the left wing Trump hating clickbait and I am SO HAPPY to see actual technical topics being discussed. If msmash is on vacation I hope he stays there permanently...
I have been in the I.T. business since 1979. I run a software development company. Our clients are agencies, digital marketing departments, and the like.
I am certainly not the 1%. I drive a base Ford F150 pickup and own a small Bayliner fishing boat. I live in a small house, that I have poured a ton of sweat equity into. I do have a decent, but not massive bank account. I work 12 hours a day Monday-Friday because I am the boss/owner.
When I started the business I had all U.S. developers. Then, ever so slowly we started loosing customers because our prices were too high. It didn't take long to figure out that most of our customers were getting their websites built overseas.
So we had two choices. Close the doors, or go overseas. We tried India, it sucked. Tried South America, it sucked. Ended up in Eastern Europe. So I have project managers in the U.S., and accounting in the U.S., and the rest overseas. And I'm certainly not getting rich exploiting people in foreign lands. The performers get paid a good wage. Not as much as a developer here costs, because I am not on the hook for horribly overpriced insurance, and it costs less to live there than it does here. But the difference isn't as great as the idiots in the media lead you to believe. The markup is not that great. The business is very competitive.
So before you go wailing about the evil rich conniving in some back room about how they are going to screw all the Americans and ship their jobs offshore, paying a senior developer $6/Hour or some such bullshit please, please, please talk to someone who actually lives in this world and deals with it every day.
The going rate for agency dev work IS WHAT IT IS. It is not set by ME. It is set by the MARKET. The going rate for a developer is also set by the MARKET. My clients will not pay a higher rate for an American developer. I know, I asked them over and over and over. So to be blunt WTF do you people expect me to do? Not make a living? Nobody will hire me, I've run my own show too long. And no, "slick sales" won't convince a client to pay 150% of what all the competitors are charging. Every other I.T. service provider and I.T. department is in exactly the same situation I am in.
If you want to survive in the I.T. industry you have three choices. 1) Get a skill that's so rare, and so in demand, that you can charge big bucks. 2) Learn to manage developers through Skype, and focus on design. 3) Work in an industry where you have to be onsite - such as one that's highly regulated, or a factory where they don't have Internet connections, or defense work and the like. I'm sorry but that's the way it is. The good old days, where developers wrote their own tickets are simply gone.
Now if the Trumpster says all offshore labor is taxed at about 50%, and the rates I can charge go up, I will do a happy dance, go rent an office, and hire U.S. developers again... But seriously most of what is written on every one these threads about offshore dev is just so much fanciful thinking bullshit.
I'm not bitter. But please try to look at the REAL WORLD.
Sorry but the actual statistics are that the worst thing for income inequality is progressive economic policy. Under Obama's administration the gap between rich and poor widened at a greater rate than anytime in history.
Tech tip: Politicians lie. Usually they do the exact opposite of what they preach. It remains to be seen how this is going to work out under Trump, too early to tell. But you are believing the nonsense, as is msmash who posts 80% of the articles here and they are all as political as they can be.
You need to experience both environments. In my experience Government offices have little to no incentives to meet goals of any kind, whereas in the corporate world - unless you're working for a company that has been around forever and is completely secure - people are managed by objectives (MBO) and are expected to produce results. In every government office I have ever worked with, for every ten people one does 95% of the work and the other nine are slugs/slackers.
Government employees do not make less. They make far more, and they have incredible benefit and pension plans. And thanks to FDR, they pay money to the SEIU, who in turn gives it to Democrat politicians, in the biggest money laundering / theft scheme ever engineered in human history.
The actual facts are that plenty of legislation was passed - with bipartisan support - during the Obama years. In fact, MORE legislation was passed AFTER the super majority expired in 2010 than the Democrats were able to pass when they had a majority.
The problem is that the media thrives on clickbait salacious sound bites, and most people are too lazy to study anything that takes more than five minutes of effort, so they go around spouting this kind of nonsense.
If Donald Trump walked on water, the headline of HuffPo, ThinkProgress, etc would be TRUMP CAN'T SWIM and I am sure you would post that as fact.
Yes, except that Apple is declining - lower profits, smaller market share. Google's revenue is 99.9% AdWords and .01% apps, hardly a competitor.