Nice assumptions. I didn't even say anything that your response would even make sense for. I said that working hard doesn't pay off anymore. Obviously you have to do it otherwise your family starves. Its just that the effort in keeps getting you less as time progresses. It appears that you have a bone to pick against an imaginary enemy. The only bail outs I see are going to the Banks and Financial institutions courtesy of your hard work. I don't see people who have been laid off getting hardly anything. Do you not think that a plumber works hard? Or a construction worker? How about white collar workers that get laid off in large swaths to temporarily boost company profits so the CEO gets a huge bonus? Is everyone just a burn-out in your book? People do work hard, when they have a job that pays them what they are worth. Furthermore, most people on SS and Medicare are DUH retired. Most people don't want more taxes on income from their jobs, except on capital gains where it makes sense. I don't think its fair that I get taxed at 30 percent when I pull in 40k when someone is getting taxes at 15 percent on the 200K + they make on investments. Income is income, no matter where it comes from. Make it a flat tax on all income regardless of its source above 22,500 and Ill be happy.
Pretty much everything I said applies to our situation in the US. For example, my parents at one time had their house paid off. They used the equity in this house to upgrade to a larger property further out of town (sort of as a nice retirement spot since there is a nice pond they share with neighbors and a place for horses). They did this almost 10 years ago. Once the housing bubble hit, it wiped out most of the excess equity they had from using their previous house to upgrade, and now they owe basically what their house is worth on the mortgage minus some from their payments over the years. I don't disagree that investments are important for some things, nor that the person investing deserves something for it, I am just saying that the argument "the wealthy being able to invest for start ups is beneficial for the economy" is over-exaggerated. First off, the wealthy aren't even investing due to fear and even if it that weren't true the things they tend to invest in are not small businesses. Having an economy where only the wealthy can invest in anything, and everyone else can't even save to invest to get wealthy ends up with something like feudalism. I.e. you owe them their investment plus interest and/or part of your company, they do no work in the company but you must send a portion of profits their way. Meanwhile, they exert control over you through their investment. This isn't bad in itself until this becomes the only way to start a business. Since you can't even start a business without the investments of the wealthy, the wealthy end up owning a piece of everything. You could possibly buy out their stake over time, but this of course is at the discretion of both parties (of course depending on how their contract is set up). Essentially, the distribution of wealth is causing a middle class capable of small business entrepreneurship to shrink and have to go to the wealthy class whenever they try to start anything. I say entrepreneurship is shrinking because it is. Most people are becoming employees rather than small business owners because they can't find investors, and they can't save (at least enough in a short enough period of time). http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/commentary/2011/2011-04.cfm
I suspect that was due to many factors, not just increased income per family. However between the 1940's and 1970's people could basically afford to purchase homes at reasonable prices, make a good living and support their families, and have a reasonable expectation that if one works hard, they will get rewarded. This doesn't happen anymore. No one with half a brain or even a rudimentary knowledge of economics is saying there shouldn't be wealthy people, or we should just take it all. Its just that currently, the benefits of this modern society are being biased towards the rich, and they have been for quite some time. Whatever the reason, it has been occurring.
Dumb argument used to justify the wealthy staying wealthy at the expense of everyone else. By your logic, why couldn't the wealthy be happier, say, with the lifestyle of a wealthy person in the Sudan?
If your parents owned the house you grew up in, chances are good that you couldn't afford to buy it today.
I am confused as to what you are trying to say in your post, as the quoted line basically contradicts the first part. We can't afford houses because we are getting paid less and less while the wealthy are getting paid more and more. The only people benefiting from the US economy is the top 5 percent, the rest are basically trying to get by.
Not exactly. The wealth disparity has been getting worse since 1945. This means overall, most of the money is going to the rich. I have no problem with rich, middle class, and poor existing, I have a problem with 95% being poor and 5% being rich. You would expect a system that benefits all people equally would maintain a relatively close distribution of wealth over time.
Regardless, income should be taxed as income. The capital gains tax being so minuscule is one reason there is such a large disparity in wealth and also such an unfair bias of government to the wealthy since the middle class can't even vote with their dollars effectively when a wealthy person or corporation funnels millions at promoting political candidates that favor them, and suppressing candidates that favor the average Joe. Why the hell do you think there hasn't been more Ron Paul in the news? He is being censored by media. The working classes gets 20-30 percent of their paychecks taken away, and they typically make 30-60k, then there are people making 200K + a year from investments only getting taxed at 15 percent? Sorry, but screw that. Income is income. Investments in companies is a grossly over exaggerated benefit of our current system. When someone "invests" you end up owing them more money than you got out of them and thus they benefit from your idea and your work like a leech, that is not as nice as something called "savings" where you get to the the sole person benefiting from your money and efforts. Unfortunately the middle class can't afford to save in this economy, nor in this system that absurdly favors the wealthy. Wages have been frozen for a decade, entrepreneurship has been steadily decreasing since the 80's and all the money people put into their houses evaporated because some rich assholes who are totally sheltered from bad economies were designing fraudulent financial instruments to basically get richer.
I just use a standard keyboard and a gaming mouse if that helps. I work for coding support, i.e. supporting coders on trading platforms so I don't spend hours coding, mainly going through others code, debugging, fixing errors and sending lots of emails. Occasionally I will code a full strategy or indicator but it usually takes a couple hours tops. However, I do game a lot. I also use a standard keyboard for that from Saitek. To make my setup more ergonomic I basically use an oblong bean bag designed to rest your wrists on for the keyboard, then I use a mousepad with a gel pad base. I fucking love my oblong bean bag, as it basically reduced the strain on my wrists and staved off carpal tunnel. Its quite comfortable. I have found ergonomic keyboards and mouses almost unusable so I default to basic setups. I have 2 23" monitors from Hanns G. The Newegg sort-by-reviews is a good way to shop for monitors. Hope that helps.
If you are a software developer, you should have some knowledge of what sort of keyboard, mouse and monitor you prefer. As far as chairs, the only way to check is to go test them out. I have this chair and its pretty comfortable, also you don't sweat through your shirt and upper pants when it gets too hot in the office. http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/510830/Realspace-PRO-Quantum-Mesh-Mid-Back/
To be fair it was before the iPad was even released or mentioned to the public. However, still seems drastic given that the Woz was a major part of Apple's beginnings.
I would liken your analogy to this : Carry a loaded weapon, tell the thug he will be shot if he attempts to harm you. This loaded weapon is knowledge. You can be passionate about your arguments, but making shit up is never ok in science. No-one is saying to dispassionately argue with people, just to not falsify reports, or to come up with bogus theories just to publish a paper. It harms you more in the end. I am as pissed off as the next guy about the current state of affairs, however I will not sell out my principals, those of science, just to mislead someone who is already an idiot.
I disagree completely. As far as science is concerned, making shit up only hurts it and gives both the right and left zealots more ammunition to act like idiots. How many times have you hear a Fundamentalist Christian point out one minor flaw in a scientific argument, or one minor oversight then balloon it into "SEE! They got this wrong, how do we know they don't get other things wrong? Obviously they don't even know what they are talking about!". Though this is totally flawed logic, if you make your arguments concrete they can't even begin to go down the road of fallacy without being obvious. The left is just as bad in this regard when it comes to things they are passionate about, like adopting exaggerated claims of climate change research papers and ballooning it using some similar, and some unique fallacious logic.
There is evidence there was also a European migration into North America, though their contribution to the gene pool may have been not incredibly significant. Anthropologists have found tools from the west coast and east coast of North America, and have found that the west coast tools were based on Asian designs, and oddly enough, the east coast designs bared remarkable similarity to some European group's tools. There was an ice bridge between Europe and North America that people living like Eskimos could have crossed during the last major Ice Age. I don't have a reference for this off hand, but I took a Phsyical Anthropology class in undergrad where the professor posed the question. The tools pretty much were the only evidence he sighted for a "possible" Proto-european colonization, however he said it wasn't cut and dry. Just thought I would share.
Except Jobs didn't even have the technical capacity to make it "his baby". That's what engineers are for. Jobs was an asshole that got things done by making other people do things his way.
Please don't call them "Apple Aficionados". They are fan-boys, early-adopters, status-seekers, or simply require an Apple device for work (like a iOS programmer).
T-Rex : It tasted like a reptile, duck, rabbit, shit sausage that wouldn't stop talking about "Mee'sa (some other shit that I didn't pay attention to)".
This clearly shows God's divine hand in the creation of the dinosaurs, as us simple humans can't even get it right. It proves unequivocally that scientists don't even know what the hell they are doing. If we can't even trust their mangling of God's creations of Crocodile, Bird and Dinosaur, how can we even trust their so-called "Carbon Dating" witchcraft? Obviously scientists' inherent atheist devil-worship is to blame for letting them act as tools of Satan. Serpents were said to exist, in fact they are partially the cause of the downfall of man when he ate from the tree of knowledge. The inherent weakness of women enables temptation to take root, and the inherent protectionist and paternal nature of Man made him weak to his wife's request to partake out of the love such superiority brings.
The Bible is the only 100% true thing in existence. Its been verified time and time again, through the creation of Adam, and Eve from his spareribs as proven by the "Eve" mitochondrial theory, to Noah's flood, as proven by the ice-shield that surrounded the Earth (after all, what else would block the UV rays to let Noah and Abraham live to be hundreds of years old?), to Jesus our-lord-and-savior who has been proven to exist via numerous secondary documents in the Roman Empire. There is so much science in the Bible that us minions of God have recently discovered, Did you know that the Bible even predicted the discovery of bacteria?
"And... neither shall you eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; you shall cast it to the dogs" (Exodus 22:31)
How could a multiple Millenia old collection of documents predict such things without microscopes if it weren't for the divine insight of God? Clearly, the Bible is the only 100% true thing in existence. It is absurd to think otherwise. Science can't touch God. Jesus died for your sins, so you would no longer have to sacrifice your livestock. Such a loving God we have, letting us spare our livestock so we may not go hungry by sacrificing his only Son. Repent sinners, you will one day face judgement!
I am not sure about this. What about Psychiatrists? Are they not medical doctors? What about Industrial Engineers? Are they not engineers? Perhaps the curriculum for Social Science is lacking in actual science currently, but its not impossible for someone to apply science to social interactions and the study of society. I would suspect a combination of mathematics, statistics, sociology, psychology and neurology could in fact be made scientific.
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Nice assumptions. I didn't even say anything that your response would even make sense for. I said that working hard doesn't pay off anymore. Obviously you have to do it otherwise your family starves. Its just that the effort in keeps getting you less as time progresses. It appears that you have a bone to pick against an imaginary enemy. The only bail outs I see are going to the Banks and Financial institutions courtesy of your hard work. I don't see people who have been laid off getting hardly anything. Do you not think that a plumber works hard? Or a construction worker? How about white collar workers that get laid off in large swaths to temporarily boost company profits so the CEO gets a huge bonus? Is everyone just a burn-out in your book? People do work hard, when they have a job that pays them what they are worth. Furthermore, most people on SS and Medicare are DUH retired. Most people don't want more taxes on income from their jobs, except on capital gains where it makes sense. I don't think its fair that I get taxed at 30 percent when I pull in 40k when someone is getting taxes at 15 percent on the 200K + they make on investments. Income is income, no matter where it comes from. Make it a flat tax on all income regardless of its source above 22,500 and Ill be happy.
Pretty much everything I said applies to our situation in the US. For example, my parents at one time had their house paid off. They used the equity in this house to upgrade to a larger property further out of town (sort of as a nice retirement spot since there is a nice pond they share with neighbors and a place for horses). They did this almost 10 years ago. Once the housing bubble hit, it wiped out most of the excess equity they had from using their previous house to upgrade, and now they owe basically what their house is worth on the mortgage minus some from their payments over the years. I don't disagree that investments are important for some things, nor that the person investing deserves something for it, I am just saying that the argument "the wealthy being able to invest for start ups is beneficial for the economy" is over-exaggerated. First off, the wealthy aren't even investing due to fear and even if it that weren't true the things they tend to invest in are not small businesses. Having an economy where only the wealthy can invest in anything, and everyone else can't even save to invest to get wealthy ends up with something like feudalism. I.e. you owe them their investment plus interest and/or part of your company, they do no work in the company but you must send a portion of profits their way. Meanwhile, they exert control over you through their investment. This isn't bad in itself until this becomes the only way to start a business. Since you can't even start a business without the investments of the wealthy, the wealthy end up owning a piece of everything. You could possibly buy out their stake over time, but this of course is at the discretion of both parties (of course depending on how their contract is set up). Essentially, the distribution of wealth is causing a middle class capable of small business entrepreneurship to shrink and have to go to the wealthy class whenever they try to start anything. I say entrepreneurship is shrinking because it is. Most people are becoming employees rather than small business owners because they can't find investors, and they can't save (at least enough in a short enough period of time). http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/commentary/2011/2011-04.cfm
I suspect that was due to many factors, not just increased income per family. However between the 1940's and 1970's people could basically afford to purchase homes at reasonable prices, make a good living and support their families, and have a reasonable expectation that if one works hard, they will get rewarded. This doesn't happen anymore. No one with half a brain or even a rudimentary knowledge of economics is saying there shouldn't be wealthy people, or we should just take it all. Its just that currently, the benefits of this modern society are being biased towards the rich, and they have been for quite some time. Whatever the reason, it has been occurring.
Dumb argument used to justify the wealthy staying wealthy at the expense of everyone else. By your logic, why couldn't the wealthy be happier, say, with the lifestyle of a wealthy person in the Sudan?
If your parents owned the house you grew up in, chances are good that you couldn't afford to buy it today.
I am confused as to what you are trying to say in your post, as the quoted line basically contradicts the first part. We can't afford houses because we are getting paid less and less while the wealthy are getting paid more and more. The only people benefiting from the US economy is the top 5 percent, the rest are basically trying to get by.
Not exactly. The wealth disparity has been getting worse since 1945. This means overall, most of the money is going to the rich. I have no problem with rich, middle class, and poor existing, I have a problem with 95% being poor and 5% being rich. You would expect a system that benefits all people equally would maintain a relatively close distribution of wealth over time.
Regardless, income should be taxed as income. The capital gains tax being so minuscule is one reason there is such a large disparity in wealth and also such an unfair bias of government to the wealthy since the middle class can't even vote with their dollars effectively when a wealthy person or corporation funnels millions at promoting political candidates that favor them, and suppressing candidates that favor the average Joe. Why the hell do you think there hasn't been more Ron Paul in the news? He is being censored by media. The working classes gets 20-30 percent of their paychecks taken away, and they typically make 30-60k, then there are people making 200K + a year from investments only getting taxed at 15 percent? Sorry, but screw that. Income is income. Investments in companies is a grossly over exaggerated benefit of our current system. When someone "invests" you end up owing them more money than you got out of them and thus they benefit from your idea and your work like a leech, that is not as nice as something called "savings" where you get to the the sole person benefiting from your money and efforts. Unfortunately the middle class can't afford to save in this economy, nor in this system that absurdly favors the wealthy. Wages have been frozen for a decade, entrepreneurship has been steadily decreasing since the 80's and all the money people put into their houses evaporated because some rich assholes who are totally sheltered from bad economies were designing fraudulent financial instruments to basically get richer.
I just use a standard keyboard and a gaming mouse if that helps. I work for coding support, i.e. supporting coders on trading platforms so I don't spend hours coding, mainly going through others code, debugging, fixing errors and sending lots of emails. Occasionally I will code a full strategy or indicator but it usually takes a couple hours tops. However, I do game a lot. I also use a standard keyboard for that from Saitek. To make my setup more ergonomic I basically use an oblong bean bag designed to rest your wrists on for the keyboard, then I use a mousepad with a gel pad base. I fucking love my oblong bean bag, as it basically reduced the strain on my wrists and staved off carpal tunnel. Its quite comfortable. I have found ergonomic keyboards and mouses almost unusable so I default to basic setups. I have 2 23" monitors from Hanns G. The Newegg sort-by-reviews is a good way to shop for monitors. Hope that helps.
If you are a software developer, you should have some knowledge of what sort of keyboard, mouse and monitor you prefer. As far as chairs, the only way to check is to go test them out. I have this chair and its pretty comfortable, also you don't sweat through your shirt and upper pants when it gets too hot in the office. http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/510830/Realspace-PRO-Quantum-Mesh-Mid-Back/
To be fair it was before the iPad was even released or mentioned to the public. However, still seems drastic given that the Woz was a major part of Apple's beginnings.
I would liken your analogy to this : Carry a loaded weapon, tell the thug he will be shot if he attempts to harm you. This loaded weapon is knowledge. You can be passionate about your arguments, but making shit up is never ok in science. No-one is saying to dispassionately argue with people, just to not falsify reports, or to come up with bogus theories just to publish a paper. It harms you more in the end. I am as pissed off as the next guy about the current state of affairs, however I will not sell out my principals, those of science, just to mislead someone who is already an idiot.
I disagree completely. As far as science is concerned, making shit up only hurts it and gives both the right and left zealots more ammunition to act like idiots. How many times have you hear a Fundamentalist Christian point out one minor flaw in a scientific argument, or one minor oversight then balloon it into "SEE! They got this wrong, how do we know they don't get other things wrong? Obviously they don't even know what they are talking about!". Though this is totally flawed logic, if you make your arguments concrete they can't even begin to go down the road of fallacy without being obvious. The left is just as bad in this regard when it comes to things they are passionate about, like adopting exaggerated claims of climate change research papers and ballooning it using some similar, and some unique fallacious logic.
There is evidence there was also a European migration into North America, though their contribution to the gene pool may have been not incredibly significant. Anthropologists have found tools from the west coast and east coast of North America, and have found that the west coast tools were based on Asian designs, and oddly enough, the east coast designs bared remarkable similarity to some European group's tools. There was an ice bridge between Europe and North America that people living like Eskimos could have crossed during the last major Ice Age. I don't have a reference for this off hand, but I took a Phsyical Anthropology class in undergrad where the professor posed the question. The tools pretty much were the only evidence he sighted for a "possible" Proto-european colonization, however he said it wasn't cut and dry. Just thought I would share.
Ahh, but Conquistador = Gold Plunderer, Plundering = Pirate, so Conquistador = Pirate
Yes, the heat of hell warms this planet. Currently we are undergoing a "warming period" due to the increased industrial output of hell.
They way to phrase that makes it sound like they killed off millions single handed. Its more of a "foreign pathogen" problem.
I seem to remember an engineer getting fired for even showing Woz the iPad. What makes you think they would give him anything?
Except Jobs didn't even have the technical capacity to make it "his baby". That's what engineers are for. Jobs was an asshole that got things done by making other people do things his way.
Please don't call them "Apple Aficionados". They are fan-boys, early-adopters, status-seekers, or simply require an Apple device for work (like a iOS programmer).
Mammal feathers? Hollow bones on large load-bearing skeletons? This is new to me.
T-Rex : It tasted like a reptile, duck, rabbit, shit sausage that wouldn't stop talking about "Mee'sa (some other shit that I didn't pay attention to)".
This clearly shows God's divine hand in the creation of the dinosaurs, as us simple humans can't even get it right. It proves unequivocally that scientists don't even know what the hell they are doing. If we can't even trust their mangling of God's creations of Crocodile, Bird and Dinosaur, how can we even trust their so-called "Carbon Dating" witchcraft? Obviously scientists' inherent atheist devil-worship is to blame for letting them act as tools of Satan. Serpents were said to exist, in fact they are partially the cause of the downfall of man when he ate from the tree of knowledge. The inherent weakness of women enables temptation to take root, and the inherent protectionist and paternal nature of Man made him weak to his wife's request to partake out of the love such superiority brings.
The Bible is the only 100% true thing in existence. Its been verified time and time again, through the creation of Adam, and Eve from his spareribs as proven by the "Eve" mitochondrial theory, to Noah's flood, as proven by the ice-shield that surrounded the Earth (after all, what else would block the UV rays to let Noah and Abraham live to be hundreds of years old?), to Jesus our-lord-and-savior who has been proven to exist via numerous secondary documents in the Roman Empire. There is so much science in the Bible that us minions of God have recently discovered, Did you know that the Bible even predicted the discovery of bacteria?
"And ... neither shall you eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; you shall cast it to the dogs" (Exodus 22:31)
How could a multiple Millenia old collection of documents predict such things without microscopes if it weren't for the divine insight of God? Clearly, the Bible is the only 100% true thing in existence. It is absurd to think otherwise. Science can't touch God. Jesus died for your sins, so you would no longer have to sacrifice your livestock. Such a loving God we have, letting us spare our livestock so we may not go hungry by sacrificing his only Son. Repent sinners, you will one day face judgement!
I want to be a father some day, and I think this is a reasonable way to get kids involved in Mechanics and Computer Science.
I am not sure about this. What about Psychiatrists? Are they not medical doctors? What about Industrial Engineers? Are they not engineers? Perhaps the curriculum for Social Science is lacking in actual science currently, but its not impossible for someone to apply science to social interactions and the study of society. I would suspect a combination of mathematics, statistics, sociology, psychology and neurology could in fact be made scientific.
Send me a check and help remedy this atrocious problem. ;)