Are we really having this discussion, many christian groups have been caught trying to destroy freedom and secular ideas manually. Their DDoS attacks are people literally banding together in groups to massively just continuously refreshing sites and trying to bring them down, just like they did on that site, what was it, digger? where they burried all stories that weren't extremely pro-religious zeleot in nature. They are all, and have always been, fighting freedom and knowledge in every way possible.
Now this, this load of bull is just trying to take that fact, and relabel all other DDoS attacks, including those to preserve or gain the freedom of speech by waging attacks on those who seek to destroy it. Amazing how hard those bastards will try to make everything against them turn into something against everybody. Hell, amazing what an infinite budget and a bunch of sick bastards can get done, am I right or what?
of course I think "freedom hating" would be something on fox news, everything on their show is about hate and removing freedoms from people different than themselves. Sure they try to make other people look like freedom haters, but frankly, nobody wants to take away their freedom to be bigoted hate filled assholes fighting against education, freedom, information, science, personal liberties, etc, but the fact is that everyone besides them wants their freedoms, and it is not their right to take away everyone else's.
Let me put it this way, I don't hate anyone, but I do love freedom and the people who are fighting against it have gone beyond just fighting against my and the freedom of others, and they have changed into people who use psuedoscience with absolutely no evidence to back them up besides ridiculous here say, and they have claimed every single organization not based on the bible biased and heresy. Not to mention they have began labeling non-hate filled bigots as having "the liberal disease that needs to be cured of killed" according to the past 4 of them I have debated, and Glenn Beck himself, the thought leader of the dick heads.
So no, I am not blinded by hate, I am just a man who wants my freedom and will be damned if a bunch of hater dumbasses will take away my freedom to express myself, speak my mind, and have free and easy access to a proper education and knowledge.
I guess it fits, News Corp. Already runs nothing but shitty fake news. Why not add shitty fake iPad news to go with its shitty closed freedom hating operating system. Apple and GOP should be tight friends if hate was the only indicator.
Mutual non disclosure agreements protect them if they are already working on it, I have also offered any other possible agreement, I have literally said "just guarantee you won't flat out steal if from me in writing somehow" and they refuse.
I'm working on getting an internship next summer, the honors gives me a decent scholarship, plus I love how enriching the classes are. It is a very prestigious independent honors program. Frankly, I have about 5 other inventions that I am also working on, and so on and so forth.
But none of this changes the access and ability of the vast majority of Americans.
I haven't given up, I have tried 8 different approaches to each of the 50ish companies in the appropriate fields. Not a single one of them will even look at any invention from an outside source under any circumstances. I am still trying new methods every day, but I keep failing. I never give up, but unfortunately I get my ass handed to me by the world anyways.
Baseline cost of living in the very cheap area where I live is currently 16k a year, and I live on crap food and in a tiny, crappy slum. I have large tuition on top of that, if you think it is possible to earn 24000 a year while taking 18 credit hours including at least 6 honors credits which involve writing about 10 pages of papers a week and read a hundred page book every week. It is an intense program, and engineering is much more difficult than programming. Also, if I slack off at all from my courseload I get stuck with an extra semester or year of college to deal with, and I can't afford an extra semester/year of college.
Also, my stats were from the DOE, but I am out of town so I don't have the original page up with me.
Not in cities. In urban areas, such as the one I live in, only 41% of the kids at the high school of the school district I currently live in graduate. Sure, my high school had a 90% graduation rate, but it was a suburban neighborhood that my parents moved into before gas prices rose and the industries they worked in cut jobs, hours, and wages to the point that we could barely get by. But where I live now, how do you expect the vast majority of people to do anything when they don't even have the extremely basic high school education.
Also, your statistics are definitely outdated and flat out lies. In 1969 the high school graduation rate for the nation peaked at 77%, the latest tallies coming from 2007 were 68% graduations, and on time graduations are below 50%. Nice try though, I know how easy lying is when you have money.
Actually, I am attending a public university, the University of Missouri St. Louis branch, in the pierre laclede honors college. I am taking 18 credit hours a semester, as much as they let me take without special permission, and I got in a year ahead of most in my program. But I would have to work 50 hours a week to afford the cost of living and tuition payments, and I moved from a location where the lowest rent was 800 a month for a one bedroom, into an area where it was 435 a month and food, gas, electricity was cheaper. So you, wrong again. I would literally have to do 150-200 hours of work a week between a job and a classes and homework (especially the honors), and there aren't that many hours a week. Even without a job the stress almost killed me. So victim complex, hell no. I work my ass off every single day and have always put down as much effort as is humanely possible to get ahead in life. But unlike you I don't have any money outside of my student loans, and didn't have a job that could pay the 900 a month for living and the approx. 800 a month for tuition.
I have literally spent every second of my spare time trying to sell this invention to car companies, car part companies, etc. I can't even get a single one of them to consider considering it, because I am not an LLC, I don't have the money to fly in and meet them in person, and they won't deal with a poor person. So victim complex? Fuck you I sure as hell don't think so. The assholes that won't even talk to me, consider looking at my invention even with the protection of mutual non-disclosure agreements triple witnessed and notarized.
I am incredibly polite and good to even the filthiest scum of businesses, the only place I bitch about it is to family and friends, and online. I kiss these bastards asses, even though they are the sickest kinds of businesspeople. A couple of the companies I approached strait up tried to steal the invention from me, they asked me to sign over all rights to them and then they would look at it and consider purchasing it, but come on, this is business, I never would have seen a cent.
So keep telling yourself that everything is fine and dandy, but you don't have the slightest clue.
well, different two businesses, but another whacko with two businesses claiming that raw capitalism is god somehow. How silly. anyways, back to the point.
I wouldn't have a problem, but I am busy taking maximum credits in college so that I can get out quickly and get a job to pay off these hellish loans that I had to take out because my parents didn't have a cent saved for me to go to college. But thats me.
The average US citizen doesn't even finish high school, no bank in the world will lend to someone who doesn't even have a high school education trying to make a business venture. Clearly you don't have a clue what conditions the average (if you exclude the top 5% from calculations) american lives in, and just how lacking their abilities and access is. Also, most of them lack the direct access to computers that allows software development.
Software development requires no equipment, very little capital. Unfortunately all real industries require substantial physical capital, and people who are used to living in poverty are not about to finance business attempts with debt, it is incredibly risky and stupid, especially for those in a lower income bracket in areas where poverty is more the norm than the exception.
Publicly traded LLCs have no need to finance with the money at hand, but regular people, especially the poor, absolutely need to operate in such a way, otherwise they can end up broke, homeless and in debt in a mighty hurry. Publicly traded LLCs have the advantage of being able to raise massive amounts of capital extremely quickly, and are very easy to set up for those with large amounts of money laying around, but even setting up an LLC and preparing to ask for loans is prohibitively expensive for anyone in the lower income brackets. Once you have money and a steady business flow, getting loans is simple and strait forward, when you have neither, it is neither.
The simple fact of that matter is that what you say only applies to those who make money, have wealthy outward appearances (nobody will finance a poor man). The entire world of entrepreneurship is totally inaccessible to at least 65% of the population, and the next 20% are likely too overworked to put any effort into starting a serious business in any serious industry.
You make it sound like anyone can do it, but less than 50% of people have even a high school education, and less than 25% any college experience, which is flimsy at best in terms of confirming ability. On top of that you have to take into account regions, time, means, etc. In reality it is extremely difficult for the vast majority of people, if not flat out impossible.
Hell, even obtaining a patent on an invention is very difficult, expensive, and time consuming. Frankly, I invented a filter that separates nitrogen out of the air and leaves the rest of it as is, this means that you can make gasoline engines far more efficient, produce no nitrate pollution. It would extend the life of modern internal combustion engines before they give way to more efficient technologies and would literally change the world. But because I don't have the money to capitalize on it, because I can't afford a patent, to set up an LLC and begin manufacturing, and have virtually no free time, no security in any way, and no capabilities at all. In fact, I won't be able to get this product to market until I am out of college and have a steady source of income, which is at least 2 years away. In the mean time I have to live in a shitty slum so that I can afford the loans for college and kill myself taking maximum credits and working my ass off constantly in hopes that I can maintain my large scholarships to get out of this shit hole in two years with a degree instead of being stuck with tens of thousands of dollars in debt and nothing to show for it. The stress almost resulted in a total breakdown over the spring and I almost didn't make it through, but I am a very motivated individual. The simple fact is that because I am poor. And there is nothing I can do about it b
Actually, they all claimed to have started two successful "businesses" so far too.
irregardless, if you don't rely on your savings you are relying on capital, which banks monopolize, and they discriminate against those who have nothing to begin with, especially those who can't even afford college to get a business degree in addition to a useful field. Either way, if you aren't born with a silver spoon, you are shit out of luck 99% of the time.
Also, how do you grow? You sell products, and make money which you then reinvest into yourself. That is how business has worked since the beginning of time last time I checked.
You can only make new jobs if you have capital. If you lack capital you can not start businesses and you cannot produce products and you cannot pay to get those products to consumers. And if you can barely afford your bills (or can't) then you sure as hell can't find jobs. I swear there are like either hundreds of you dumb-asses or just one of you stalking me and spouting that utter bullshit every chance you get.
lol, yea, like the vast majority of people have the choice to find better work when there aren't enough jobs to go around, especially in the industries most people work at, and just make enough to get by, making education out of the question. And your boss is the jackass? I bet he feels the same way about you.
It isn't silly at all, it is true. Just because nobody cares about the constitution doesn't mean it is silly. Thats the kind of bullshit that lets congress trample on the freedoms of the people.
Couldn't you classify software backdoors that exist on your property as quartering government property on your own, a violation of the third amendment. Anyone feel like lawyering?
I totally agree. If all multiplayer games had open user generated content tools and non-proprietary distributed server options, then multiplayer games would actually have some value. Not 60 bucks worth, but some.
First of all, single player games rock. Some of the better ones, with substantive story lines and a lot of content are like watching a good movie or reading a good book, except you are a part of the story. It gets you far more attached to the plot as you are working within it. I have many single player games that I play over and over again, but none of which I ever paid more than 20 bucks for.
And generally, multiplayer games suck, they are shallow, empty, and as soon as people stop playing or the company shuts down the server, they die. Now a game like Counter Strike, it can live on the internet for ages, because of user generated content and servers can be run by anyone, but it is still not the same kind of experience as a deep single player storyline. Plus, so many douche-bags spend hundreds of hours practicing on some of these games and go around just owning everybody, that they take virtually all of the fun out of the game for those of us who only play recreationally here and there, and don't live in our mothers basement.
Generally, I guess this is why I can't remember the last decent game I bought from EA. In fact, I can't think of anything good they have made in years. Well, their greed and stupidity will be their own demise.
When those companies started up, the controlling shares were owned by a single person. Over time they sold off shares to raise capital. And in case you haven't noticed, 99.999% of all trades of stock are automated today, placed by computers of major banks in close proximity to each market. If you publish a single figure that is even slightly negative, the banks computers automatically drop all stock from the company, lowering its price, and robbing it of working capital.
It is obvious you don't have the slightest clue how these systems work.
The simple fact is, once the shareholders reign supreme for business decisions, short term growth is the only relevant figure. They fire people when they lose capital, and raise prices. People pay the prices and the workers work harder for less, and they make more money. And these companies, once they have settled into this position, very RARELY keep all of their employees, and definitely do not hire new workers and create jobs. Clearly you have been drinking the Fox news coolaid.
You might be interested to know that DARPA is one of the leading forces in funding "green" technology, because increases in efficiency and power generation/transportation mean that supply lines are much less important, and losing one to enemy attacks is not going to destroy your combat ability. This has been one of the major problems in the current war, and has implications for enormous reduction in waste of energy in society. Just filling you in.
The problem is "cool" went from being intelligent and capable to being retarded hatemongering asshats. The real problem is that the constitution is not strong enough to maintain a smallish gap between the rich and poor, to maintain economic stability, and protects very few freedoms, besides the very most basic. It should be expanded significantly to include many more freedoms in many more ways, to permanently cement the US of A as a country where freedom does not lose out to Nanny state bullshit or religious fascist state bullshit, and that economic policy is always geared towards ensuring stability, instead of the hyper-low top marginal income tax rate that allows wealth to be slowly redistributed from the poor to the rich by devious business practices in such a way as to slowly destabilize the economy by lowering the buying power of the average consumer and therefore constantly lowering sales and wages until a depression occurs.
Whether anyone likes them or not, the simple fact is that the paper is sound, and the study of the microbe that lives in the arsenic rich area that lacks phosphorus was discovered years ago, and has been under intense examination for quite some time now, to actually verify that the backbone has an arsenic base instead of a phosphorus one. Which is entirely within reason, as arsenic has incredibly similar properties to phosphorus, which is why it is so dangerous to phosphorus based life, our cells happily put arsenic in the DNA copies, slightly changing the structure and destroying its functionality. In fact, arsenic based life is likely much more stable, strong and steady, the only problem is the low amount of arsenic available compared to the amount of phosphorus in the universe.
And if you look at ALL of the companies that your description fits, the controlling share of the company is owned by a single person. Like I said.
All companies in which the controlling share is spread among more than 1 person, the company is nearly incapable of making any long term decisions that don't result in profit during this fiscal quarter.
The simple fact, is that you have to please the stock holders to maintain a healthy flow of capital, if you don't control enough capital to dynamical trade it in and out when needed, you have to play to the stockholder population, which in most cases is computer systems at large banks, if you don't please the computers expectations of constant, slow increase in profits, then you are traded down and lose all free capital.
That is absolutely based in reality, as I just described exactly the mechanism by which it functions. It is only lefty in the way that lefty is an embodiment the reality in which we live and the complex scientific laws by which things behave.
I suppose you believe increasing the gap between the rich and the poor by cutting the top marginal income tax rate will create jobs too? if so, allow me to preemptively laugh my ass off.
Corporations (LLCs) are by definition owned by whoever buys the most shares. The stockholders rein supreme. Normal business rules don't apply to LLCs because they only care about higher figures at the next publishing of their figures, so that stocks will improve and the shareholders will be happy. Long term investments are incredibly hard, usually only possible when a single person owns a controlling share of a company. Firing good workers instead of giving them a payraise means hiring somebody else at a lower pay, this saves money and improves the bottom line. The fact is that all publically traded LLCs whose controlling share is not held by a single person are by definition obligated to be stupid in business sense and treat their customers and employees like shit.
I am not for a nanny state, but there is a difference between preventing the redistribution of wealth to the rich from everyone else, and wanting control over everything. I don't want that control, but I also don't want the market instability that comes with massive rich-poor gaps, like the one that has been slowly growing over the past 50 years. So sure, call me a troll, but it sounds to me like your entire pathetic knowledge of economics comes from watching bullshit fake stories on so called Fox "news".
A lot of people. and that 22 days is still shit. Figure the people in countries required to give 30 days get maybe 35-45 days. Happy workers are more productive, but that is something that only private companies care about, corporations wouldn't dare give you one day off this week if it made you twice as productive next week, they would rather hire scientists to study why you can only move so fast and work so hard, and how they can drug you to make you work harder, faster, and complain about it less.
That it is possible to "misuse" a tool that was built to do anything and everything. Sure it is on work time, but if your at your desk during lunch or doing a break at some point, there shouldn't be anything against rubbing one out. Assuming your in an office, not a cubicle anyways.
lol, thats funny. A lot of times morons I debate try to pull that card, but it doesn't matter if I flame you, as long as I actually cover the necessary points. That argument only works when the other person doesn't also attack your logic and arguments on a definite manner.
And lets face it, when you lie to consumers, they generally believe you. You tell them, nay promise them that rates won't increase, sell them an APR they can afford, watch it rise by 2 percent and become unaffordable, etc. Sure, some customers made mistakes, but only a small percent of them.
And nothing I said proved anything you said in any way. Sure, you paid for your education out of pocket, but how do you think people who attended shit schools in the city who live in families with no credit to borrow on, how do you suppose they get magically more educated? Rob a bank? Rob a title-max? I mean, I listed plenty of valid reasons why banks can control markets and essentially control entire markets, not to mention controlling the livelihood of the economy by controlling how much money they lend, and how expensive the cost of living is for a typical person.
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Are we really having this discussion, many christian groups have been caught trying to destroy freedom and secular ideas manually. Their DDoS attacks are people literally banding together in groups to massively just continuously refreshing sites and trying to bring them down, just like they did on that site, what was it, digger? where they burried all stories that weren't extremely pro-religious zeleot in nature. They are all, and have always been, fighting freedom and knowledge in every way possible.
Now this, this load of bull is just trying to take that fact, and relabel all other DDoS attacks, including those to preserve or gain the freedom of speech by waging attacks on those who seek to destroy it. Amazing how hard those bastards will try to make everything against them turn into something against everybody. Hell, amazing what an infinite budget and a bunch of sick bastards can get done, am I right or what?
of course I think "freedom hating" would be something on fox news, everything on their show is about hate and removing freedoms from people different than themselves. Sure they try to make other people look like freedom haters, but frankly, nobody wants to take away their freedom to be bigoted hate filled assholes fighting against education, freedom, information, science, personal liberties, etc, but the fact is that everyone besides them wants their freedoms, and it is not their right to take away everyone else's.
Let me put it this way, I don't hate anyone, but I do love freedom and the people who are fighting against it have gone beyond just fighting against my and the freedom of others, and they have changed into people who use psuedoscience with absolutely no evidence to back them up besides ridiculous here say, and they have claimed every single organization not based on the bible biased and heresy. Not to mention they have began labeling non-hate filled bigots as having "the liberal disease that needs to be cured of killed" according to the past 4 of them I have debated, and Glenn Beck himself, the thought leader of the dick heads.
So no, I am not blinded by hate, I am just a man who wants my freedom and will be damned if a bunch of hater dumbasses will take away my freedom to express myself, speak my mind, and have free and easy access to a proper education and knowledge.
I guess it fits, News Corp. Already runs nothing but shitty fake news. Why not add shitty fake iPad news to go with its shitty closed freedom hating operating system. Apple and GOP should be tight friends if hate was the only indicator.
Mutual non disclosure agreements protect them if they are already working on it, I have also offered any other possible agreement, I have literally said "just guarantee you won't flat out steal if from me in writing somehow" and they refuse.
I'm working on getting an internship next summer, the honors gives me a decent scholarship, plus I love how enriching the classes are. It is a very prestigious independent honors program. Frankly, I have about 5 other inventions that I am also working on, and so on and so forth.
But none of this changes the access and ability of the vast majority of Americans.
I haven't given up, I have tried 8 different approaches to each of the 50ish companies in the appropriate fields. Not a single one of them will even look at any invention from an outside source under any circumstances. I am still trying new methods every day, but I keep failing. I never give up, but unfortunately I get my ass handed to me by the world anyways.
Baseline cost of living in the very cheap area where I live is currently 16k a year, and I live on crap food and in a tiny, crappy slum. I have large tuition on top of that, if you think it is possible to earn 24000 a year while taking 18 credit hours including at least 6 honors credits which involve writing about 10 pages of papers a week and read a hundred page book every week. It is an intense program, and engineering is much more difficult than programming. Also, if I slack off at all from my courseload I get stuck with an extra semester or year of college to deal with, and I can't afford an extra semester/year of college.
Also, my stats were from the DOE, but I am out of town so I don't have the original page up with me.
Not in cities. In urban areas, such as the one I live in, only 41% of the kids at the high school of the school district I currently live in graduate. Sure, my high school had a 90% graduation rate, but it was a suburban neighborhood that my parents moved into before gas prices rose and the industries they worked in cut jobs, hours, and wages to the point that we could barely get by. But where I live now, how do you expect the vast majority of people to do anything when they don't even have the extremely basic high school education.
Also, your statistics are definitely outdated and flat out lies. In 1969 the high school graduation rate for the nation peaked at 77%, the latest tallies coming from 2007 were 68% graduations, and on time graduations are below 50%. Nice try though, I know how easy lying is when you have money.
Actually, I am attending a public university, the University of Missouri St. Louis branch, in the pierre laclede honors college. I am taking 18 credit hours a semester, as much as they let me take without special permission, and I got in a year ahead of most in my program. But I would have to work 50 hours a week to afford the cost of living and tuition payments, and I moved from a location where the lowest rent was 800 a month for a one bedroom, into an area where it was 435 a month and food, gas, electricity was cheaper. So you, wrong again. I would literally have to do 150-200 hours of work a week between a job and a classes and homework (especially the honors), and there aren't that many hours a week. Even without a job the stress almost killed me. So victim complex, hell no. I work my ass off every single day and have always put down as much effort as is humanely possible to get ahead in life. But unlike you I don't have any money outside of my student loans, and didn't have a job that could pay the 900 a month for living and the approx. 800 a month for tuition.
I have literally spent every second of my spare time trying to sell this invention to car companies, car part companies, etc. I can't even get a single one of them to consider considering it, because I am not an LLC, I don't have the money to fly in and meet them in person, and they won't deal with a poor person. So victim complex? Fuck you I sure as hell don't think so. The assholes that won't even talk to me, consider looking at my invention even with the protection of mutual non-disclosure agreements triple witnessed and notarized.
I am incredibly polite and good to even the filthiest scum of businesses, the only place I bitch about it is to family and friends, and online. I kiss these bastards asses, even though they are the sickest kinds of businesspeople. A couple of the companies I approached strait up tried to steal the invention from me, they asked me to sign over all rights to them and then they would look at it and consider purchasing it, but come on, this is business, I never would have seen a cent.
So keep telling yourself that everything is fine and dandy, but you don't have the slightest clue.
well, different two businesses, but another whacko with two businesses claiming that raw capitalism is god somehow. How silly. anyways, back to the point.
I wouldn't have a problem, but I am busy taking maximum credits in college so that I can get out quickly and get a job to pay off these hellish loans that I had to take out because my parents didn't have a cent saved for me to go to college. But thats me.
The average US citizen doesn't even finish high school, no bank in the world will lend to someone who doesn't even have a high school education trying to make a business venture. Clearly you don't have a clue what conditions the average (if you exclude the top 5% from calculations) american lives in, and just how lacking their abilities and access is. Also, most of them lack the direct access to computers that allows software development.
Software development requires no equipment, very little capital. Unfortunately all real industries require substantial physical capital, and people who are used to living in poverty are not about to finance business attempts with debt, it is incredibly risky and stupid, especially for those in a lower income bracket in areas where poverty is more the norm than the exception.
Publicly traded LLCs have no need to finance with the money at hand, but regular people, especially the poor, absolutely need to operate in such a way, otherwise they can end up broke, homeless and in debt in a mighty hurry. Publicly traded LLCs have the advantage of being able to raise massive amounts of capital extremely quickly, and are very easy to set up for those with large amounts of money laying around, but even setting up an LLC and preparing to ask for loans is prohibitively expensive for anyone in the lower income brackets. Once you have money and a steady business flow, getting loans is simple and strait forward, when you have neither, it is neither.
The simple fact of that matter is that what you say only applies to those who make money, have wealthy outward appearances (nobody will finance a poor man). The entire world of entrepreneurship is totally inaccessible to at least 65% of the population, and the next 20% are likely too overworked to put any effort into starting a serious business in any serious industry.
You make it sound like anyone can do it, but less than 50% of people have even a high school education, and less than 25% any college experience, which is flimsy at best in terms of confirming ability. On top of that you have to take into account regions, time, means, etc. In reality it is extremely difficult for the vast majority of people, if not flat out impossible.
Hell, even obtaining a patent on an invention is very difficult, expensive, and time consuming. Frankly, I invented a filter that separates nitrogen out of the air and leaves the rest of it as is, this means that you can make gasoline engines far more efficient, produce no nitrate pollution. It would extend the life of modern internal combustion engines before they give way to more efficient technologies and would literally change the world. But because I don't have the money to capitalize on it, because I can't afford a patent, to set up an LLC and begin manufacturing, and have virtually no free time, no security in any way, and no capabilities at all. In fact, I won't be able to get this product to market until I am out of college and have a steady source of income, which is at least 2 years away. In the mean time I have to live in a shitty slum so that I can afford the loans for college and kill myself taking maximum credits and working my ass off constantly in hopes that I can maintain my large scholarships to get out of this shit hole in two years with a degree instead of being stuck with tens of thousands of dollars in debt and nothing to show for it. The stress almost resulted in a total breakdown over the spring and I almost didn't make it through, but I am a very motivated individual. The simple fact is that because I am poor. And there is nothing I can do about it b
Actually, they all claimed to have started two successful "businesses" so far too.
irregardless, if you don't rely on your savings you are relying on capital, which banks monopolize, and they discriminate against those who have nothing to begin with, especially those who can't even afford college to get a business degree in addition to a useful field. Either way, if you aren't born with a silver spoon, you are shit out of luck 99% of the time.
Also, how do you grow? You sell products, and make money which you then reinvest into yourself. That is how business has worked since the beginning of time last time I checked.
You can only make new jobs if you have capital. If you lack capital you can not start businesses and you cannot produce products and you cannot pay to get those products to consumers. And if you can barely afford your bills (or can't) then you sure as hell can't find jobs. I swear there are like either hundreds of you dumb-asses or just one of you stalking me and spouting that utter bullshit every chance you get.
lol, yea, like the vast majority of people have the choice to find better work when there aren't enough jobs to go around, especially in the industries most people work at, and just make enough to get by, making education out of the question. And your boss is the jackass? I bet he feels the same way about you.
Maybe you can, but for many that can get you fired.
It isn't silly at all, it is true. Just because nobody cares about the constitution doesn't mean it is silly. Thats the kind of bullshit that lets congress trample on the freedoms of the people.
Couldn't you classify software backdoors that exist on your property as quartering government property on your own, a violation of the third amendment. Anyone feel like lawyering?
Sure, if by fallacy you mean mental retardation
I totally agree. If all multiplayer games had open user generated content tools and non-proprietary distributed server options, then multiplayer games would actually have some value. Not 60 bucks worth, but some.
First of all, single player games rock. Some of the better ones, with substantive story lines and a lot of content are like watching a good movie or reading a good book, except you are a part of the story. It gets you far more attached to the plot as you are working within it. I have many single player games that I play over and over again, but none of which I ever paid more than 20 bucks for.
And generally, multiplayer games suck, they are shallow, empty, and as soon as people stop playing or the company shuts down the server, they die. Now a game like Counter Strike, it can live on the internet for ages, because of user generated content and servers can be run by anyone, but it is still not the same kind of experience as a deep single player storyline. Plus, so many douche-bags spend hundreds of hours practicing on some of these games and go around just owning everybody, that they take virtually all of the fun out of the game for those of us who only play recreationally here and there, and don't live in our mothers basement.
Generally, I guess this is why I can't remember the last decent game I bought from EA. In fact, I can't think of anything good they have made in years. Well, their greed and stupidity will be their own demise.
When those companies started up, the controlling shares were owned by a single person. Over time they sold off shares to raise capital. And in case you haven't noticed, 99.999% of all trades of stock are automated today, placed by computers of major banks in close proximity to each market. If you publish a single figure that is even slightly negative, the banks computers automatically drop all stock from the company, lowering its price, and robbing it of working capital.
It is obvious you don't have the slightest clue how these systems work.
The simple fact is, once the shareholders reign supreme for business decisions, short term growth is the only relevant figure. They fire people when they lose capital, and raise prices. People pay the prices and the workers work harder for less, and they make more money. And these companies, once they have settled into this position, very RARELY keep all of their employees, and definitely do not hire new workers and create jobs. Clearly you have been drinking the Fox news coolaid.
You might be interested to know that DARPA is one of the leading forces in funding "green" technology, because increases in efficiency and power generation/transportation mean that supply lines are much less important, and losing one to enemy attacks is not going to destroy your combat ability. This has been one of the major problems in the current war, and has implications for enormous reduction in waste of energy in society. Just filling you in.
The problem is "cool" went from being intelligent and capable to being retarded hatemongering asshats. The real problem is that the constitution is not strong enough to maintain a smallish gap between the rich and poor, to maintain economic stability, and protects very few freedoms, besides the very most basic. It should be expanded significantly to include many more freedoms in many more ways, to permanently cement the US of A as a country where freedom does not lose out to Nanny state bullshit or religious fascist state bullshit, and that economic policy is always geared towards ensuring stability, instead of the hyper-low top marginal income tax rate that allows wealth to be slowly redistributed from the poor to the rich by devious business practices in such a way as to slowly destabilize the economy by lowering the buying power of the average consumer and therefore constantly lowering sales and wages until a depression occurs.
Whether anyone likes them or not, the simple fact is that the paper is sound, and the study of the microbe that lives in the arsenic rich area that lacks phosphorus was discovered years ago, and has been under intense examination for quite some time now, to actually verify that the backbone has an arsenic base instead of a phosphorus one. Which is entirely within reason, as arsenic has incredibly similar properties to phosphorus, which is why it is so dangerous to phosphorus based life, our cells happily put arsenic in the DNA copies, slightly changing the structure and destroying its functionality. In fact, arsenic based life is likely much more stable, strong and steady, the only problem is the low amount of arsenic available compared to the amount of phosphorus in the universe.
And if you look at ALL of the companies that your description fits, the controlling share of the company is owned by a single person. Like I said.
All companies in which the controlling share is spread among more than 1 person, the company is nearly incapable of making any long term decisions that don't result in profit during this fiscal quarter.
The simple fact, is that you have to please the stock holders to maintain a healthy flow of capital, if you don't control enough capital to dynamical trade it in and out when needed, you have to play to the stockholder population, which in most cases is computer systems at large banks, if you don't please the computers expectations of constant, slow increase in profits, then you are traded down and lose all free capital.
That is absolutely based in reality, as I just described exactly the mechanism by which it functions. It is only lefty in the way that lefty is an embodiment the reality in which we live and the complex scientific laws by which things behave.
I suppose you believe increasing the gap between the rich and the poor by cutting the top marginal income tax rate will create jobs too? if so, allow me to preemptively laugh my ass off.
A "terrorist" attack on the event. All free press destroyed at once. Sadly.
Corporations (LLCs) are by definition owned by whoever buys the most shares. The stockholders rein supreme. Normal business rules don't apply to LLCs because they only care about higher figures at the next publishing of their figures, so that stocks will improve and the shareholders will be happy. Long term investments are incredibly hard, usually only possible when a single person owns a controlling share of a company. Firing good workers instead of giving them a payraise means hiring somebody else at a lower pay, this saves money and improves the bottom line. The fact is that all publically traded LLCs whose controlling share is not held by a single person are by definition obligated to be stupid in business sense and treat their customers and employees like shit.
I am not for a nanny state, but there is a difference between preventing the redistribution of wealth to the rich from everyone else, and wanting control over everything. I don't want that control, but I also don't want the market instability that comes with massive rich-poor gaps, like the one that has been slowly growing over the past 50 years. So sure, call me a troll, but it sounds to me like your entire pathetic knowledge of economics comes from watching bullshit fake stories on so called Fox "news".
A lot of people. and that 22 days is still shit. Figure the people in countries required to give 30 days get maybe 35-45 days. Happy workers are more productive, but that is something that only private companies care about, corporations wouldn't dare give you one day off this week if it made you twice as productive next week, they would rather hire scientists to study why you can only move so fast and work so hard, and how they can drug you to make you work harder, faster, and complain about it less.
That it is possible to "misuse" a tool that was built to do anything and everything. Sure it is on work time, but if your at your desk during lunch or doing a break at some point, there shouldn't be anything against rubbing one out. Assuming your in an office, not a cubicle anyways.
lol, thats funny. A lot of times morons I debate try to pull that card, but it doesn't matter if I flame you, as long as I actually cover the necessary points. That argument only works when the other person doesn't also attack your logic and arguments on a definite manner.
And lets face it, when you lie to consumers, they generally believe you. You tell them, nay promise them that rates won't increase, sell them an APR they can afford, watch it rise by 2 percent and become unaffordable, etc. Sure, some customers made mistakes, but only a small percent of them.
And nothing I said proved anything you said in any way. Sure, you paid for your education out of pocket, but how do you think people who attended shit schools in the city who live in families with no credit to borrow on, how do you suppose they get magically more educated? Rob a bank? Rob a title-max? I mean, I listed plenty of valid reasons why banks can control markets and essentially control entire markets, not to mention controlling the livelihood of the economy by controlling how much money they lend, and how expensive the cost of living is for a typical person.