Uhh, no. Verizon wants to do this to double dip into your wallet. They are greedy, and have no government oversight. Government oversight occurred on landlines to prevent things like this, and now for some reason Congress sees a major difference between the way land lines should be regulated, and the way wireless lines should be regulated even though they both are pretty much the same thing and serve similar purposes. Its all a big crock to make as few of people as much money as possible.
Entitlements are only necessary when you don't have jobs for the majority of Americans which also have pensions or retirement plants. There are a lot of freeloaders, but there are also a lot of poor retirees and people that just can't get a job. CEOs used to pull in 5-10 times what their lower level employees made, now its closer to 200x. The trend is the similar across lower level officers and board members. Theres a whole slew of other issues like outright fraud and the mortgage backed securities problem, but essentially greed is why there aren't more jobs, and aren't good retirement/pensions along with them. All I see nowadays is companies trying to remove the rights of employees to collectively bargain and freezing wages, while the corporations are making more now than before the recesson and CEO's are getting 20 million dollar bonuses like the CEO of Schlumberger. Im not one of the "blame the corporations crowd", but moreso "blame greed in general".
Well, the difference is that we the people are responsible for the government debt, and we are not in direct control of it like you are in control of paying your mortgage and your own finances. Also, Republicans tend to enjoy making it harder on you to get away with not paying your mortgage or going bankrupt so you have the worst possible consequence and thus have an incentive to pay off your debts, whereas it doesn't go both ways and the politicians have no consequences at all. Its not like they will have to pay much of it back compared to the hundreds of millions of other Americans.
Just goes to show you economists don't know shit. The economy is a chaotic system, and most economists are not well versed in such abstract math to truly begin to understand it.
Whats worse than that is even with a small exchange of around 10-20 nuclear warheads the ozone layer gets totally fucked, leading to whats called a nuclear winter. Read, man-made ice age. As a side note, UV absorbtion decreases to levels that would make it unsafe to be outside very often and also not suitable for most plants. So aside from the cold ruining harvests, the UV levels would as well. This would last approximately 7-12 years and lead to massive starvation. Needless to say, its not a good idea to detonate nukes. My numbers are a bit fuzzy, but the point is that its much worse than most people think. There was an article in Discover or Scientific American, something like that, and you can look up "nuclear winter" on wikipedia.
You pretty much said that we should get the fuck out of everywhere. Where else is there, Mars? Furthermore, the system has failed because of government spending growing faster than GDP, not because welfare is not possibly sustainble. Just because it hasn't worked yet doesn't mean it can't. That is not logical. I agree that our wellfare is out of control, however the real problem is that there are too many poor people and not enough money people are willing to give to them either through taxes or through jobs. You need to get them jobs, or you need to make them stop breeding. If you take away all chance of them getting a job or getting welfare checks you will basically create riots or even war just as bad as you will trying to take all the money from the wealthy. There has to be balance. As of right now, I am part of the "fucked" generation, with unemployment at 24 percent, large debt levels due to school and lack of income or assets. I basically need government assistance otherwise I won't survive. However, I do not qualify for it. Do you seriously think it is my fault I can't get a decent job? I have a MS in applied math with a computer science focus and I graduated with a 3.7 GPA from a tier one research university, and I also was part of a biomedical lab there doing research in biometrics. I can't find shit. Ive even applied at things that have nothing to do with my major. Right now the most promising job I may get pays 16 an hour and wont even give me benefits. Awesome. My point is there are people out there that are willing to work, are skilled, and still can't get by. What about them when the welfare state collapses? Should I just go starve to death or poach animals and steal from farms? If the job situation and economy is not addressed, or they don't find some way to fix welfare, it will be the poor and my generation rioting in the streets.
Hear, hear! Having followed forex markets, I tended to watch economic numbers pretty close. Its really funny how numbers would come out neutral or favorable in the Eurozone, then immediately after Moody's or S&P would downgrade the credits of Greece or other nation causing investors pull out. I have absolutely no doubt that some filthy rich person was shorting markets over there and wanted a little extra insurance it would tank. Thats pretty much all ratings agencies are good for, manipulating markets.
Oddly enough, all of those downgrades occured when economic numbers were coming out favorable or neutral in the Eurozone. Low and behold, after the downgrades investors started pulling out of markets and things got worse. Moody's and S&P are about as corrupt as they come, and it boggles my mind why anyone listens to them. There is too large of a conflict of interest involved, and no doubt someone made billions shorting various markets.
The issue is that ratings agencies downgrade countries and companies for extremely corrupt reasons, not so much that they even care about fairly evaluating something with rational thought and sound numbers. Having played the forex market, I have noticed too many credit downgrades when large investors are shorting the markets. Even when numbers come out favorable for an economy, they would still issue downgrades particularly in the Eurozone. They made the pound and euro drop off the map for a little bit, and no doubt some big-boys somewhere made billions. I doubt its a far flung conspiracy, but you would have to be blind to not see that there are some people manipulating markets to get even richer. Credit ratings agencies are paid to rate companies, and have a conflict of interest because if they rate them too low, maybe they wont get paid next time. With governments its different but all the same, if the US could feasibly pay them there would have been no credit downgrade.
Uhhh. Ok, so you apparently didn't understand what I meant. I went to some Neil Degrasse Tyson lectures, and I read up on him a lot. He is basically an atheist, and he is also well off. He won't push a intelligent design agenda just because Fox wants him to. He can go do innumerable other things that are more lucrative than host a religion themed cosmos show on Fox. This being the case, I doubt Fox will put god or intelligent design themes in the show.
Eat shit. You didn't even read my post or your English is so bad you can't comprehend it. Otherwise, you would have had something to say that made sense. I dont give a flying fuck what you think anyway so don't even bother to respond.
Good job being an apologist. Defending your trademark only extends to defending it when its possible that someone is in your industry using a trademark sufficiently close to your own such that it may confuse consumers. Scrolls != Elder Scrolls. Trademark violation is not happening with "Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim" vs. "Scrolls", so it is literally a moot point. In regard to Bethseda games, most people see "The Elder Scrolls XXX : YYYYYY", where XXX is the Roman numeral for where a particular game is placed in the series, and YYYYY where a particular game has its specific name. Clearly, there is no confusion between "Elder Scrolls XXX : YYYYY" and "Scrolls". Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
Technically, that is tech news, since a car that drives itself must be driven by some artificial intelligence and it crashed whether or not a human drove it. I am just mentioning that/. tends to post news that is not tech news quite frequently and it undermines their agenda from time to time. Why not discuss the stock market if you discuss things like lawsuits.
Fox is not Fox News channel. Knee-jerk anyone? BTW, Fox News channel exists because people want to fucking hear what they say. Love it or hate it, you have to share the planet with people that watch it and enjoy it too.
Even so, a news organization has an ethical obligation to speak the truth, and they really exaggerate it. Fox by far is the worst of any news organization out there short of tabloids when it comes to stretching the truth and outright lying.
Neil Degrasse Tyson has the same spirit as Carl Sagan. Fox will not be able to push him around, as he already is one of the most successful astrophysicists of our modern era (not necessarily the brightest, but one of the most known and followed by the average person). If Fox even tried to force god into the mix, Dr. Tyson would retreat back to the Hayden Planetarium or the hundreds of other opportunities he has.
This is exactly why they need to have Marketing, Legal and other branches meet before making decisions like this. A simple hour meeting with upper management and heads of the departments would have solved this before it became an embarrassment.
Not to mention most gamers also think of a name like Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion or Skyrim when they refer to an Elder Scrolls title. Its called "The Elder Scrolls X : _____" where X is its Roman numeral marking its place in the sequence, and _____ is its name. Its not just called "Elder Scrolls". I don't see any case here. In fact, if I was a lawyer at Zenimax, I would just laugh at my colleagues for being such morons for even trying to bully Mojang into doing something pointless. Something that has no chance in court and also doesn't affect your trademark in the first place.
I understand this is a tech site, but there are plenty of events that occurred this week worthy of an article and discussion. Slashdot doesn't even post exclusively tech news anymore, so I see no reason not to post events like the 500 point drop in the DOW.
At price parity the iPad 2 is probably a better bet for the average user since it's a more stable, near-perfect device with a rich assortment of apps for nearly every possible function you'd like to perform on a tablet, reasons the post.
Come on. I like how the OP tacked on "reasons the post" at the end to somehow claim objectivity. You did a great job of being objective OP.
You may call yourself skilled but I call you lucky. Too many in finance mistake luck for skill. You cannot possibly understand all of the problems and assess all the risks that is the market (equities, futures, forex, whatever) without a lifetime devoted to study of advanced probability and game theory. But then again, Im just a mathematician and we tend to be anal about what it means to understand and be sure of things.
Since there is no Federal sales tax, most of the production of goods is done overseas, and corporate taxes on profits are frequently dodged, I see a major gaping hole in your argument. Furthermore, there have been tax breaks since Bush, and it still has failed to create jobs. You could possibly argue that it increases taxes on goods that are produced and sold in the states, however these taxes are minimal since we have minimal tariffs on imported goods and not much is produced in the states anymore. Furthermore, you offer no objective proof that reducing taxes increases government revenue other than simply saying it does. The other hole in your argument is that you say people create businesses. This does not happen as much as people think. Too many markets either require significant (Im talking millions or billions) of startup capital or they are oligopolies and offer no room for competition. Just try to start your own cell provider or music label. Im all for reduced taxes, and I disagree with the current level of corporate taxes, but too often when a person talks about reducing taxes they mean on the rich. The rich should shoulder more burden to finance government since we the people offer them a system where they can become rich. Furthermore, the rich have greater access to government since rarely do congressmen listen to the average Joe until they stick their dollars together. The average Joe's are so fragmented they rarely agree on anything anyway and so Money Rules. Concentrated wealth will always rule, and so there must be some downward pressure on it or some feedback loop of wealth spread to the lower class workers. When a CEO can get a 20 million dollar bonus and still claim that they must downsize the number of jobs they offer, I call bullshit.
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Uhh, no. Verizon wants to do this to double dip into your wallet. They are greedy, and have no government oversight. Government oversight occurred on landlines to prevent things like this, and now for some reason Congress sees a major difference between the way land lines should be regulated, and the way wireless lines should be regulated even though they both are pretty much the same thing and serve similar purposes. Its all a big crock to make as few of people as much money as possible.
Entitlements are only necessary when you don't have jobs for the majority of Americans which also have pensions or retirement plants. There are a lot of freeloaders, but there are also a lot of poor retirees and people that just can't get a job. CEOs used to pull in 5-10 times what their lower level employees made, now its closer to 200x. The trend is the similar across lower level officers and board members. Theres a whole slew of other issues like outright fraud and the mortgage backed securities problem, but essentially greed is why there aren't more jobs, and aren't good retirement/pensions along with them. All I see nowadays is companies trying to remove the rights of employees to collectively bargain and freezing wages, while the corporations are making more now than before the recesson and CEO's are getting 20 million dollar bonuses like the CEO of Schlumberger. Im not one of the "blame the corporations crowd", but moreso "blame greed in general".
Well, the difference is that we the people are responsible for the government debt, and we are not in direct control of it like you are in control of paying your mortgage and your own finances. Also, Republicans tend to enjoy making it harder on you to get away with not paying your mortgage or going bankrupt so you have the worst possible consequence and thus have an incentive to pay off your debts, whereas it doesn't go both ways and the politicians have no consequences at all. Its not like they will have to pay much of it back compared to the hundreds of millions of other Americans.
Just goes to show you economists don't know shit. The economy is a chaotic system, and most economists are not well versed in such abstract math to truly begin to understand it.
Whats worse than that is even with a small exchange of around 10-20 nuclear warheads the ozone layer gets totally fucked, leading to whats called a nuclear winter. Read, man-made ice age. As a side note, UV absorbtion decreases to levels that would make it unsafe to be outside very often and also not suitable for most plants. So aside from the cold ruining harvests, the UV levels would as well. This would last approximately 7-12 years and lead to massive starvation. Needless to say, its not a good idea to detonate nukes. My numbers are a bit fuzzy, but the point is that its much worse than most people think. There was an article in Discover or Scientific American, something like that, and you can look up "nuclear winter" on wikipedia.
You pretty much said that we should get the fuck out of everywhere. Where else is there, Mars? Furthermore, the system has failed because of government spending growing faster than GDP, not because welfare is not possibly sustainble. Just because it hasn't worked yet doesn't mean it can't. That is not logical. I agree that our wellfare is out of control, however the real problem is that there are too many poor people and not enough money people are willing to give to them either through taxes or through jobs. You need to get them jobs, or you need to make them stop breeding. If you take away all chance of them getting a job or getting welfare checks you will basically create riots or even war just as bad as you will trying to take all the money from the wealthy. There has to be balance. As of right now, I am part of the "fucked" generation, with unemployment at 24 percent, large debt levels due to school and lack of income or assets. I basically need government assistance otherwise I won't survive. However, I do not qualify for it. Do you seriously think it is my fault I can't get a decent job? I have a MS in applied math with a computer science focus and I graduated with a 3.7 GPA from a tier one research university, and I also was part of a biomedical lab there doing research in biometrics. I can't find shit. Ive even applied at things that have nothing to do with my major. Right now the most promising job I may get pays 16 an hour and wont even give me benefits. Awesome. My point is there are people out there that are willing to work, are skilled, and still can't get by. What about them when the welfare state collapses? Should I just go starve to death or poach animals and steal from farms? If the job situation and economy is not addressed, or they don't find some way to fix welfare, it will be the poor and my generation rioting in the streets.
Hear, hear! Having followed forex markets, I tended to watch economic numbers pretty close. Its really funny how numbers would come out neutral or favorable in the Eurozone, then immediately after Moody's or S&P would downgrade the credits of Greece or other nation causing investors pull out. I have absolutely no doubt that some filthy rich person was shorting markets over there and wanted a little extra insurance it would tank. Thats pretty much all ratings agencies are good for, manipulating markets.
Oddly enough, all of those downgrades occured when economic numbers were coming out favorable or neutral in the Eurozone. Low and behold, after the downgrades investors started pulling out of markets and things got worse. Moody's and S&P are about as corrupt as they come, and it boggles my mind why anyone listens to them. There is too large of a conflict of interest involved, and no doubt someone made billions shorting various markets.
The issue is that ratings agencies downgrade countries and companies for extremely corrupt reasons, not so much that they even care about fairly evaluating something with rational thought and sound numbers. Having played the forex market, I have noticed too many credit downgrades when large investors are shorting the markets. Even when numbers come out favorable for an economy, they would still issue downgrades particularly in the Eurozone. They made the pound and euro drop off the map for a little bit, and no doubt some big-boys somewhere made billions. I doubt its a far flung conspiracy, but you would have to be blind to not see that there are some people manipulating markets to get even richer. Credit ratings agencies are paid to rate companies, and have a conflict of interest because if they rate them too low, maybe they wont get paid next time. With governments its different but all the same, if the US could feasibly pay them there would have been no credit downgrade.
Uhhh. Ok, so you apparently didn't understand what I meant. I went to some Neil Degrasse Tyson lectures, and I read up on him a lot. He is basically an atheist, and he is also well off. He won't push a intelligent design agenda just because Fox wants him to. He can go do innumerable other things that are more lucrative than host a religion themed cosmos show on Fox. This being the case, I doubt Fox will put god or intelligent design themes in the show.
Eat shit. You didn't even read my post or your English is so bad you can't comprehend it. Otherwise, you would have had something to say that made sense. I dont give a flying fuck what you think anyway so don't even bother to respond.
Good job being an apologist. Defending your trademark only extends to defending it when its possible that someone is in your industry using a trademark sufficiently close to your own such that it may confuse consumers. Scrolls != Elder Scrolls. Trademark violation is not happening with "Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim" vs. "Scrolls", so it is literally a moot point. In regard to Bethseda games, most people see "The Elder Scrolls XXX : YYYYYY", where XXX is the Roman numeral for where a particular game is placed in the series, and YYYYY where a particular game has its specific name. Clearly, there is no confusion between "Elder Scrolls XXX : YYYYY" and "Scrolls". Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
Technically, that is tech news, since a car that drives itself must be driven by some artificial intelligence and it crashed whether or not a human drove it. I am just mentioning that /. tends to post news that is not tech news quite frequently and it undermines their agenda from time to time. Why not discuss the stock market if you discuss things like lawsuits.
Fox is not Fox News channel. Knee-jerk anyone? BTW, Fox News channel exists because people want to fucking hear what they say. Love it or hate it, you have to share the planet with people that watch it and enjoy it too.
Even so, a news organization has an ethical obligation to speak the truth, and they really exaggerate it. Fox by far is the worst of any news organization out there short of tabloids when it comes to stretching the truth and outright lying.
Neil Degrasse Tyson has the same spirit as Carl Sagan. Fox will not be able to push him around, as he already is one of the most successful astrophysicists of our modern era (not necessarily the brightest, but one of the most known and followed by the average person). If Fox even tried to force god into the mix, Dr. Tyson would retreat back to the Hayden Planetarium or the hundreds of other opportunities he has.
Ive seen Neil Degrasse Tyson before and follow him quite a bit. He will NOT go for this. If they try to make him, he will just stop hosting the show.
This is exactly why they need to have Marketing, Legal and other branches meet before making decisions like this. A simple hour meeting with upper management and heads of the departments would have solved this before it became an embarrassment.
Not to mention most gamers also think of a name like Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion or Skyrim when they refer to an Elder Scrolls title. Its called "The Elder Scrolls X : _____" where X is its Roman numeral marking its place in the sequence, and _____ is its name. Its not just called "Elder Scrolls". I don't see any case here. In fact, if I was a lawyer at Zenimax, I would just laugh at my colleagues for being such morons for even trying to bully Mojang into doing something pointless. Something that has no chance in court and also doesn't affect your trademark in the first place.
I understand this is a tech site, but there are plenty of events that occurred this week worthy of an article and discussion. Slashdot doesn't even post exclusively tech news anymore, so I see no reason not to post events like the 500 point drop in the DOW.
He also says "He's CEO, Bitch". Fuck Zuckerberg. He's a pseudo-intellectual silver-spoon-in-his-mouth piece of shit.
If you can't take the blatherings of a piece of trash then you need help. Its your rights don't include not being offended all the time. Deal with it.
At price parity the iPad 2 is probably a better bet for the average user since it's a more stable, near-perfect device with a rich assortment of apps for nearly every possible function you'd like to perform on a tablet, reasons the post.
Come on. I like how the OP tacked on "reasons the post" at the end to somehow claim objectivity. You did a great job of being objective OP.
Said like a true Apple fanboy.
You may call yourself skilled but I call you lucky. Too many in finance mistake luck for skill. You cannot possibly understand all of the problems and assess all the risks that is the market (equities, futures, forex, whatever) without a lifetime devoted to study of advanced probability and game theory. But then again, Im just a mathematician and we tend to be anal about what it means to understand and be sure of things.
Since there is no Federal sales tax, most of the production of goods is done overseas, and corporate taxes on profits are frequently dodged, I see a major gaping hole in your argument. Furthermore, there have been tax breaks since Bush, and it still has failed to create jobs. You could possibly argue that it increases taxes on goods that are produced and sold in the states, however these taxes are minimal since we have minimal tariffs on imported goods and not much is produced in the states anymore. Furthermore, you offer no objective proof that reducing taxes increases government revenue other than simply saying it does. The other hole in your argument is that you say people create businesses. This does not happen as much as people think. Too many markets either require significant (Im talking millions or billions) of startup capital or they are oligopolies and offer no room for competition. Just try to start your own cell provider or music label. Im all for reduced taxes, and I disagree with the current level of corporate taxes, but too often when a person talks about reducing taxes they mean on the rich. The rich should shoulder more burden to finance government since we the people offer them a system where they can become rich. Furthermore, the rich have greater access to government since rarely do congressmen listen to the average Joe until they stick their dollars together. The average Joe's are so fragmented they rarely agree on anything anyway and so Money Rules. Concentrated wealth will always rule, and so there must be some downward pressure on it or some feedback loop of wealth spread to the lower class workers. When a CEO can get a 20 million dollar bonus and still claim that they must downsize the number of jobs they offer, I call bullshit.