What kind of "better job" neither offers a health care benefit
The one where insurance doesn't kick in until three months later (i.e. all of them), and it takes you more than three months to find (in this economy...).
The government currently only forces insurance companies to cover you if you had coverage within the last 6 months. Otherwise, everything is a pre-existing condition.
Oh, yeah, right, I forgot, you are the moral authority on the kind of businesses that people can still run in USA, you are the 'decider', figuring out who has the right and who does not have the right to run a business
You've got the right to run whatever business you want. You also have the right to run it out of business through malfeasance (throwing a temper tantrum and destroying the company so you can "show them"). We have the right to point and laugh.
I doubt very much that this 5-per-opening situation is across all the jobs.
The government publishes the number of people unemployed and the number of job openings. I'm sure if you drilled down hard enough you could say "OMG there were 5000 jobs with absolutely nobody qualified!". In 10/2009 there were over 15 million people (official stats) wanting them. That same month, there were somewhere between 2.3 and 2.5 million job openings. Sure. Maybe a few million people could have gotten jobs if only they were trained right. The rest, though, were SOL.
They rolled back the commerce clause when they nullified the Gun Ban in "school zones" by telling Congress they stretched the definition of commerce too far. They also rolled it back some when they said Congress can not force states to create storage facilities to dispose of nuclear fuel.
And then they went and blew whatever gains they had made by declaring that pot grown in your own backyard for your own personal use is interstate commerce.
Maybe its not nerds at all. Its probably just all "men" under 30, as they are all whiny little bitches with hairdos, fashion accessories and other feminine traits.
Just remember, 40 years ago we started putting BPA estrogen in baby bottles. Now guys want gay marriage.
Don't forget to vote republican or libertarian! They'll vote down any regulation keeping estrogen out of your baby boys!
The unemployment is simply a reflection of the available workforce not matching the needs of the employers
The "unstaffing" (I don't think we have a word for the inability of a company to get workers, hmm) may be a reflection of that.
The unemployment is a reflection of the fact that at the recessions worst, there were more than 5 job seekers for every job opening. Even if every last one of them suddenly attained enlightenment and became perfectly educated, only 20% would have gotten a job.
forcing quasi-businesses Fannie+Freddie to give loans to people who couldn't pay them back.
Fannie and Freddie didn't give loans, they guaranteed loans.
Furthermore, they had standards, despite everyone's insistence this was all their fault. You ever heard of a "sub-prime loan"? "Sub-prime" specifically meant "fannie and freddie won't touch this". The only changes that were made to their standards was the elimination of the cash down payment requirement, which let people get a second mortgage to pay the down payment on the first.
Where they went wrong was in buying toxic CDO shit (rated AAA!) full of the very same subprime loans they'd refuse to back in the first place, then using those CDOs as "leverage" to guarantee more loans. Once the economy cratered and everyone lost their job, they were bleeding from both ends: worthless CDOs on the asset side and unemployed formerly-prime borrowers going bankrupt on the obligation side.
In theory, companies that produce shitty service and charge too much for it go out of business.
In reality, the government metes out frequencies in a bidding process that generally shuts out competition.
The alternative would be to close down the FCC and let people broadcast whatever they want wherever they want at whatever power pleases them. There are probably people who think this is a good idea, and won't believe otherwise until Anonymous gets a hold of a transmitter.
I have had tapes become corrupted during the writing process, during a recovery process, and who knows about those tapes that have been stored offsite for 5-10 years.
And you didn't even mention what happens when one of those single reel LTO tapes snaps or tangles inside your $2000 drive.
we do not rely on nature to just hand us new stuff, we are actively looking for new stuff, that's how we are different from other animals.
Food isn't fungible. You can argue that without government invention we'll all be able to eat Soylent Green (but we don't have to like it), but there's still the matter of acquiring the amount of biomass required to keep everyone alive.
That's the real problem. I had hopes for automatic cars being able to fix the issue of having idiots who can't read the 5 road signs telling them their exit was coming up and stopping in the fast lane as they try to cross 6 lanes of freeway traffic to get to their exit in 50 feet.
But then I realized that the robot drivers probably can't read the signs either.
Wonder how these things deal with detours, road construction, etc. Can it recognize the road cones and flashing lights as permanent obstructions its going to have to drive around, or will it wait for the things in the road to get out of its way?
there will be more supply, it's the law, it's not up to negotiations
Where is that supply going to come from? Claims of infinite productivity (given enough technological advance) ring hollow. There isn't an infinite supply of oil, there isn't an infinite supply of farmland, there isn't an infinite supply of anything.
What will actually happen is that as demand outstrips supply (exponentially, as population curves are wont to grow) the price will rise sharply and the population will collapse whether you want it to or not.
Far too often when I "help" friends and family, it's because they can't follow the bloody prompts. Or be bothered to read the forms as they come across their screen.
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What kind of "better job" neither offers a health care benefit
The one where insurance doesn't kick in until three months later (i.e. all of them), and it takes you more than three months to find (in this economy...).
The government currently only forces insurance companies to cover you if you had coverage within the last 6 months. Otherwise, everything is a pre-existing condition.
Why pay all the premiums when you can just sign up when you're diagnosed and get everything paid for.
Why try for a better job when you can't afford to give up the health insurance?
never had to stand its grounds on defining what income means for an individual, not for a corporation
They didn't have to. Corporations are people too.
Oh, yeah, right, I forgot, you are the moral authority on the kind of businesses that people can still run in USA, you are the 'decider', figuring out who has the right and who does not have the right to run a business
You've got the right to run whatever business you want. You also have the right to run it out of business through malfeasance (throwing a temper tantrum and destroying the company so you can "show them"). We have the right to point and laugh.
I doubt very much that this 5-per-opening situation is across all the jobs.
The government publishes the number of people unemployed and the number of job openings. I'm sure if you drilled down hard enough you could say "OMG there were 5000 jobs with absolutely nobody qualified!". In 10/2009 there were over 15 million people (official stats) wanting them. That same month, there were somewhere between 2.3 and 2.5 million job openings. Sure. Maybe a few million people could have gotten jobs if only they were trained right. The rest, though, were SOL.
They rolled back the commerce clause when they nullified the Gun Ban in "school zones" by telling Congress they stretched the definition of commerce too far. They also rolled it back some when they said Congress can not force states to create storage facilities to dispose of nuclear fuel.
And then they went and blew whatever gains they had made by declaring that pot grown in your own backyard for your own personal use is interstate commerce.
Maybe its not nerds at all. Its probably just all "men" under 30, as they are all whiny little bitches with hairdos, fashion accessories and other feminine traits.
Just remember, 40 years ago we started putting BPA estrogen in baby bottles. Now guys want gay marriage.
Don't forget to vote republican or libertarian! They'll vote down any regulation keeping estrogen out of your baby boys!
Trousers are used by law enforcement.
And law enforcement charges kids with kiddy porn when they take pictures of themselves. Usually charged as adults.
Do you actually think it's impressive to have thought that the cops would consider them "another classification group"?
and tabletop role playing game issues
I put on my robe and wizard hat...
Why shouldn't games have this uproar
Games had the uproar. Last century.
The problem is that unlike comics, rock and roll and talkies, nothing else has come along to distract the ragers from video games.
Sorry, but you're clearly wrong on all three points.
He's only wrong right this second. Don't forget that the government changed the rules before. They'll change them again when it suits them.
The unemployment is simply a reflection of the available workforce not matching the needs of the employers
The "unstaffing" (I don't think we have a word for the inability of a company to get workers, hmm) may be a reflection of that.
The unemployment is a reflection of the fact that at the recessions worst, there were more than 5 job seekers for every job opening. Even if every last one of them suddenly attained enlightenment and became perfectly educated, only 20% would have gotten a job.
forcing quasi-businesses Fannie+Freddie to give loans to people who couldn't pay them back.
Fannie and Freddie didn't give loans, they guaranteed loans.
Furthermore, they had standards, despite everyone's insistence this was all their fault. You ever heard of a "sub-prime loan"? "Sub-prime" specifically meant "fannie and freddie won't touch this". The only changes that were made to their standards was the elimination of the cash down payment requirement, which let people get a second mortgage to pay the down payment on the first.
Where they went wrong was in buying toxic CDO shit (rated AAA!) full of the very same subprime loans they'd refuse to back in the first place, then using those CDOs as "leverage" to guarantee more loans. Once the economy cratered and everyone lost their job, they were bleeding from both ends: worthless CDOs on the asset side and unemployed formerly-prime borrowers going bankrupt on the obligation side.
In theory, companies that produce shitty service and charge too much for it go out of business.
In reality, the government metes out frequencies in a bidding process that generally shuts out competition.
The alternative would be to close down the FCC and let people broadcast whatever they want wherever they want at whatever power pleases them. There are probably people who think this is a good idea, and won't believe otherwise until Anonymous gets a hold of a transmitter.
If it's a roadable aircraft, does that mean that the cop will have to accept my excuse of "I'm flying low" when he clocks me at 110mph on the freeway?
You could, oh I don't know, cancel your cards and replace them? But I guess complaining about it on /. is more fun.
That's not "recourse" that's "damage control".
It says "find hidden monsters" so I assume that's one.
If publishers can count on more direct sales
That $10 I don't get anymore for turning in the old games no longer goes towards buying new ones.
I have had tapes become corrupted during the writing process, during a recovery process, and who knows about those tapes that have been stored offsite for 5-10 years.
And you didn't even mention what happens when one of those single reel LTO tapes snaps or tangles inside your $2000 drive.
we do not rely on nature to just hand us new stuff, we are actively looking for new stuff, that's how we are different from other animals.
Food isn't fungible. You can argue that without government invention we'll all be able to eat Soylent Green (but we don't have to like it), but there's still the matter of acquiring the amount of biomass required to keep everyone alive.
That's the real problem. I had hopes for automatic cars being able to fix the issue of having idiots who can't read the 5 road signs telling them their exit was coming up and stopping in the fast lane as they try to cross 6 lanes of freeway traffic to get to their exit in 50 feet.
But then I realized that the robot drivers probably can't read the signs either.
Wonder how these things deal with detours, road construction, etc. Can it recognize the road cones and flashing lights as permanent obstructions its going to have to drive around, or will it wait for the things in the road to get out of its way?
so in a sense they have a superstobreakpedal that the robot-driven car doesn't
They probably could replace ABS with a sensor that allows the robot to threshold brake as well as any human.
If a $2.1 million bond is required in case they need to remove the structure.
Yeah, clearly they should just work like every other industry in America and when they close up shop, dump it on the taxpayers as a Superfund site.
there will be more supply, it's the law, it's not up to negotiations
Where is that supply going to come from? Claims of infinite productivity (given enough technological advance) ring hollow. There isn't an infinite supply of oil, there isn't an infinite supply of farmland, there isn't an infinite supply of anything.
What will actually happen is that as demand outstrips supply (exponentially, as population curves are wont to grow) the price will rise sharply and the population will collapse whether you want it to or not.
Far too often when I "help" friends and family, it's because they can't follow the bloody prompts. Or be bothered to read the forms as they come across their screen.
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/627/