I for one would be happy to employ a few myself, provided their labor costs were attractive. Of course, the minimum wage will have to be revisited. Better to have a job at $4/hr ($1/hr if provided food and lodging) than permanently unemployed.
And when they realize its easier to just stab you to death and take your shit?
And what are the non-creative idiots going to do for a living? Working in the environments that most of us/.ers work in, it's easy to forget that they're still the majority, you know.
Funny how the stimulus act exists when Republicans want to bash Obama on the debt, and then ceases to exist when they want to ask what he's done about job creation.
The graphs tell the tale, when the stimulus kicked in jobs recovered, when it began to phase out, job growth stalled -- all the while Obama has proposed additional stimulus and gotten thwacked in the knockers for it every time.
Well, last time someone tore up his computer and glasses it got covered. Mann has these issues from time to time, its part of the risk he runs for being an early adopter in integrating technology directly into his body.
This device doesn't. Its occurred to me many times that one of the features Google Glass will inevitably implement (by app if not by default) is some level of "real life dvr" where you keep a 5-30 minute buffer of video that you can rewind to review or store for later use at the flick of a button -- or subtle movement of the head.
How many times have you had an argument over a bet or a promise that comes down to two divergent memories of the event -- prepare for a sea change.
That is exactly my point. Apple pays Foxconn to assemble products designed by, sold by and marketed through apple's distribution chain as apple products. Google partnered with ASUS -- ASUS designed and produced the hardware branded with Google's logo. Google may be getting a cut through a licensing deal (licensing the logo to ASUS) but that's an ASUS device -- its even ASUS branded.
Yes, Asus makes it.. But it's clearly a google product.
That would imply that the profits from the sale are Google's - which isn't actually the case. Google isn't hiring ASUS to build these and distribute them at cost, Google partnered with ASUS to produce an officially branded tablet. The Nexus 7 is the new flagship Android tablet -- but it's not their product.
That's ideology not policy. Taxes are necessary. In fact, taxes on high income earners incetivises investment - realizing an investment, e.g. by selling shares in a company you started, is taxable as income - so when income taxes are low you can easily move into and out of the market without penalty. As a result, wealth people tend to invest more when taxes are higher -- like they were during the post WWII periord -- in that time taxes on income over $1 million was 99%. And yet, companies got larger and people kept trying to make more wealth, the rich invested in and grew companies, because that was the only way to grow their wealth AND avoid taxation. Or we can try your way -- oh wait -- we have since the end of the second Clinton administration. How's that working out for you?
As to government investment not producing anything: a short list of the products of government investment: Plastics, rocketry, satellites, the cure for polio, computers, the internet, the modern interstate highway system, railroads, the oil and gas industry, the 30year fixed rate mortgage, a free Europe, I could go on literally for pages. The United States government has a tremendously successful track record.
As to your government motors argument -- it's bullshit. It's based on the concept that a government *loan* is a government *handout* which isn't the case. Like with the bank bailouts, the auto industry is well on its way to repaying those loans. TARP is close to turning a profit - just like the FDIC does most of the time its called on to step in and dissolve a bank, just like the U.S. Government did when it interceded and bought up all the S&L assets back in the 80s. You are railing against a grand tradition of what it means to live in this country. We pull together, and we make it work.
On Social Security you are, again, in defiance of reality. Social Security was modified in the 80s to prepare for the baby boomers. It has a massive trust fund built up which is NOT NECESSARY for its normal operation, it exists specifically to be emptied by the baby boomers. That's why its there. It is not "going bankrupt" it is functioning as designed. This is the law Regan signed. You also apparently do not know that the law provides that when the money runs out then the payments are reduced to match current income from SSI taxes -- which is currently projected to be around 75% of present payments - once the baby boomers die off (and they will) the pool of recipients goes down and the payments return to normal -- in fact the trust fund will begin to refill. The "crisis" of social security is invented by the political elite and the wealthy to justify a crackdown on a self-funding program for the middle class that is complicated enough to be susceptible to misrepresentation. They're just flat out lies.
Too bad the Bomb Box concept is just a fantasy -- that would be the best method, a twisting path that has one or more areas which are reinforced and designed to direct a blast upward and out of an airport building while restricting access to minimize the number of passengers that could enter the chamber at one time -- in there you run some fantasy machine that automagically explodes explosive material. Warning: do not carry nitroglycerin pills onto airplanes anymore:D. Stupid physics and the lack of automagical solutions to our problems.
Would you like to put forth a scrap of proof of this assertion or are we to merely accept it as fact?
Normally when a sentance begins "I think" it is not a statement of fact, but of opinion. So, no, I don't actually need any citation to state my own opinion.
Now, if you want reasons for why I hold that opinion: (1) saving the American auto industry (still one of the largest employers of the middle class); (2) challenging china on dumping, currency inflation and import tarrifs placed on American goods; (3) Restructuring student loans to both allow more loans to be issued at lower cost to the government and to the borrowers; (4) increased spending on transportation and infrastructure projects (jobs now, useful commerce later); (5) multiple tax cuts he passed for the middle class; (6) opposition to further cuts for the wealthiest Americas who a, do not need them, and b, will not spend their savings if taxes are cut - the proceeds of which strengthen the Federal budget, including Medicare and Medicaid (Social security is separately supported and funded and is not on the Federal budget).
Well, the way I see it...Biden cancels out Palin. Both are blathering idiots....
Nightmare scenario time - there's an unusual volcanic erruption that causes a cloud of particles to go up from the middle of Russia, or satellites and missile detection systems identify this as a possible ICBM launch on a massive scale. You are handed the football. Before you are two paths, in one, McCain is incapacitated and Palin is sitting in the oval office talking to generals and trying to figure out whether to counter-launch - the other scenerio is identical, but its Obama who is incappaciated and Biden is in the hot seat. Pick.
We vote for him because Romney means we'd lose everything; the middle class would cease to exist and businesses would take over every aspect of our lives. So Obama is the lesser of two evils.
Or.. put another way... I think Obama will help to strengthen the middle class (i.e. restore the wealth of the middle 30% or so of the populace) and thus give us the means to power to reclaim the rest.
Bush DID grab the power to spy on all communications in the U.S., without a warrant - remember that whole "Warrantless wiretapping" thing and "carnivore" that sorted through your e-mails and text messages. The difference is that Obama publishes his orders where they can be critiqued, and thus gives us a chance to object and bring suit to prevent it.
all these tablets and phones are just plastic squares.
That's not true. Motorola builds with rubberized metal and gorilla glass, Samsung uses high impact plastic and (wait for it) gorilla glass . . . when you pick up a cheap phone you can feel the difference. That said, the best way to tell apart a good phone and a bad phone is the same way you can tell apart a high-end dell and a low end dell computer - they're both delivered in a branded case made of cheap plastic and aluminum, but the specs are radically different. (Or, if you prefer, the same way you tell apart my home built PC from 2011 from my home built PC from 2009, again, looking at the case tells you jack and shit, you have to open it up and look at the components or pull up the system information). These are familiar metrics too -- CPU speed, core count, memory, storage capacity, expansion slots -- other than that, look at the screen. Does the image on the screen look like shit? Don't buy that phone.
Now, if you want to get deep into the questions of performance trade-offs, e.g. taking a pen-tile screen for longer battery life, then you need to do some research. But if you're the kind of user that really considers those points, you probably would have done the research anyway, right?
But here's the key thing to remember -- it really doesn't matter. There isn't so much difference between gingerbread and ICS that gingerbread is clearly "wrong" and ICS clearly "Right" - there are functions built into ICS that are very sweet, like icon grouping and the move to software-only buttons, but these aren't deep API changes.
Also, it should be noted that the phones skipped Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) which was the initial tablet release. ICS is bringing the phone and tablet worlds together. So, Gingerbread is the immediate predecessor to ICS, even though the numbering schema (Gingerbread was 2.3 and ICS is at 4.0.4 currently) makes it look like many phones are two steps behind. They're getting there. And they're innovating rapidly, which over the long term is going to mean much more to the success of the phone than fears over fragmentation.
I used to use it a lot more, before they started hiding crap that I didn't use enough, and adding useless links to "my computer" (on the desktop), etc. The start menu, as originally implemented, was a great little tool. Of course, MSoft keeps fucking up their great working tools to create non-functional interfaces that hide the application you want to ask behind three layers of sorting screens. I know how to use my computer, stop trying to guide me to the right control panel option and just let me access the fsking tool.
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I for one would be happy to employ a few myself, provided their labor costs were attractive. Of course, the minimum wage will have to be revisited. Better to have a job at $4/hr ($1/hr if provided food and lodging) than permanently unemployed.
And when they realize its easier to just stab you to death and take your shit?
Knife wielding is a very low-skill market.
And what are the non-creative idiots going to do for a living? Working in the environments that most of us /.ers work in, it's easy to forget that they're still the majority, you know.
Save the future. Legalize prostitution now!!
Funny how the stimulus act exists when Republicans want to bash Obama on the debt, and then ceases to exist when they want to ask what he's done about job creation.
The graphs tell the tale, when the stimulus kicked in jobs recovered, when it began to phase out, job growth stalled -- all the while Obama has proposed additional stimulus and gotten thwacked in the knockers for it every time.
Oddly enough ... I still saw a bunch of flash photography at the Sistine chapel.
/sigh.
Permanently degrading and destroying a world heritage site because *you're special*
For what it's worth though, in response to the grandfather -- Mann is Canadian.
Cough you ain't kidding.
Well, last time someone tore up his computer and glasses it got covered. Mann has these issues from time to time, its part of the risk he runs for being an early adopter in integrating technology directly into his body.
This device doesn't. Its occurred to me many times that one of the features Google Glass will inevitably implement (by app if not by default) is some level of "real life dvr" where you keep a 5-30 minute buffer of video that you can rewind to review or store for later use at the flick of a button -- or subtle movement of the head.
How many times have you had an argument over a bet or a promise that comes down to two divergent memories of the event -- prepare for a sea change.
That is exactly my point. Apple pays Foxconn to assemble products designed by, sold by and marketed through apple's distribution chain as apple products. Google partnered with ASUS -- ASUS designed and produced the hardware branded with Google's logo. Google may be getting a cut through a licensing deal (licensing the logo to ASUS) but that's an ASUS device -- its even ASUS branded.
Yes, Asus makes it.. But it's clearly a google product.
That would imply that the profits from the sale are Google's - which isn't actually the case. Google isn't hiring ASUS to build these and distribute them at cost, Google partnered with ASUS to produce an officially branded tablet. The Nexus 7 is the new flagship Android tablet -- but it's not their product.
Except that the best deal will probably still be whatever tablet goes on clearance.
Andriod is really a platform for Google to sell their services (or promote ad based ones). It's not surprising they'll sell an at-cost device.
/cough/ This isn't actually a Google product -- ASUS producing and selling the device, it's just google branded. (See also, *Samsung* Galaxy Nexus).
Why the obsession with physical media?
Both the Kindle and Nexus 7 assumes that you are consuming media from the net.
5) They are (no counting ones that were already in place)? While you're at it, don't forget to mention all the new taxes brought in recently too.
one of many links you could google. Now your turn -- where is your evidence that Obama /raised/ your taxes?
Tax cuts are good.
That's ideology not policy. Taxes are necessary. In fact, taxes on high income earners incetivises investment - realizing an investment, e.g. by selling shares in a company you started, is taxable as income - so when income taxes are low you can easily move into and out of the market without penalty. As a result, wealth people tend to invest more when taxes are higher -- like they were during the post WWII periord -- in that time taxes on income over $1 million was 99%. And yet, companies got larger and people kept trying to make more wealth, the rich invested in and grew companies, because that was the only way to grow their wealth AND avoid taxation. Or we can try your way -- oh wait -- we have since the end of the second Clinton administration. How's that working out for you?
As to government investment not producing anything: a short list of the products of government investment: Plastics, rocketry, satellites, the cure for polio, computers, the internet, the modern interstate highway system, railroads, the oil and gas industry, the 30year fixed rate mortgage, a free Europe, I could go on literally for pages. The United States government has a tremendously successful track record.
As to your government motors argument -- it's bullshit. It's based on the concept that a government *loan* is a government *handout* which isn't the case. Like with the bank bailouts, the auto industry is well on its way to repaying those loans. TARP is close to turning a profit - just like the FDIC does most of the time its called on to step in and dissolve a bank, just like the U.S. Government did when it interceded and bought up all the S&L assets back in the 80s. You are railing against a grand tradition of what it means to live in this country. We pull together, and we make it work.
On Social Security you are, again, in defiance of reality. Social Security was modified in the 80s to prepare for the baby boomers. It has a massive trust fund built up which is NOT NECESSARY for its normal operation, it exists specifically to be emptied by the baby boomers. That's why its there. It is not "going bankrupt" it is functioning as designed. This is the law Regan signed. You also apparently do not know that the law provides that when the money runs out then the payments are reduced to match current income from SSI taxes -- which is currently projected to be around 75% of present payments - once the baby boomers die off (and they will) the pool of recipients goes down and the payments return to normal -- in fact the trust fund will begin to refill. The "crisis" of social security is invented by the political elite and the wealthy to justify a crackdown on a self-funding program for the middle class that is complicated enough to be susceptible to misrepresentation. They're just flat out lies.
"Give one of these Mexican beet field workers a couple of puffs on a marijuana cigarette and he thinks he is in the bullring at Barcelona."
Heh .. the average stoner who found himself in the bullring in Barcelona would go fetal and cry. It is not a "proactive" experience.
Better down there than on the plane.
:D. Stupid physics and the lack of automagical solutions to our problems.
Too bad the Bomb Box concept is just a fantasy -- that would be the best method, a twisting path that has one or more areas which are reinforced and designed to direct a blast upward and out of an airport building while restricting access to minimize the number of passengers that could enter the chamber at one time -- in there you run some fantasy machine that automagically explodes explosive material. Warning: do not carry nitroglycerin pills onto airplanes anymore
Would you like to put forth a scrap of proof of this assertion or are we to merely accept it as fact?
Normally when a sentance begins "I think" it is not a statement of fact, but of opinion. So, no, I don't actually need any citation to state my own opinion.
Now, if you want reasons for why I hold that opinion: (1) saving the American auto industry (still one of the largest employers of the middle class); (2) challenging china on dumping, currency inflation and import tarrifs placed on American goods; (3) Restructuring student loans to both allow more loans to be issued at lower cost to the government and to the borrowers; (4) increased spending on transportation and infrastructure projects (jobs now, useful commerce later); (5) multiple tax cuts he passed for the middle class; (6) opposition to further cuts for the wealthiest Americas who a, do not need them, and b, will not spend their savings if taxes are cut - the proceeds of which strengthen the Federal budget, including Medicare and Medicaid (Social security is separately supported and funded and is not on the Federal budget).
Well, the way I see it...Biden cancels out Palin. Both are blathering idiots....
Nightmare scenario time - there's an unusual volcanic erruption that causes a cloud of particles to go up from the middle of Russia, or satellites and missile detection systems identify this as a possible ICBM launch on a massive scale. You are handed the football. Before you are two paths, in one, McCain is incapacitated and Palin is sitting in the oval office talking to generals and trying to figure out whether to counter-launch - the other scenerio is identical, but its Obama who is incappaciated and Biden is in the hot seat. Pick.
Crazy scenario that never happens? Actually, it almost did..
We vote for him because Romney means we'd lose everything; the middle class would cease to exist and businesses would take over every aspect of our lives. So Obama is the lesser of two evils.
Or.. put another way ... I think Obama will help to strengthen the middle class (i.e. restore the wealth of the middle 30% or so of the populace) and thus give us the means to power to reclaim the rest.
Step by step.
Bush DID grab the power to spy on all communications in the U.S., without a warrant - remember that whole "Warrantless wiretapping" thing and "carnivore" that sorted through your e-mails and text messages. The difference is that Obama publishes his orders where they can be critiqued, and thus gives us a chance to object and bring suit to prevent it.
You'd think people would have longer memories.
all these tablets and phones are just plastic squares.
That's not true. Motorola builds with rubberized metal and gorilla glass, Samsung uses high impact plastic and (wait for it) gorilla glass . . . when you pick up a cheap phone you can feel the difference. That said, the best way to tell apart a good phone and a bad phone is the same way you can tell apart a high-end dell and a low end dell computer - they're both delivered in a branded case made of cheap plastic and aluminum, but the specs are radically different. (Or, if you prefer, the same way you tell apart my home built PC from 2011 from my home built PC from 2009, again, looking at the case tells you jack and shit, you have to open it up and look at the components or pull up the system information). These are familiar metrics too -- CPU speed, core count, memory, storage capacity, expansion slots -- other than that, look at the screen. Does the image on the screen look like shit? Don't buy that phone.
Now, if you want to get deep into the questions of performance trade-offs, e.g. taking a pen-tile screen for longer battery life, then you need to do some research. But if you're the kind of user that really considers those points, you probably would have done the research anyway, right?
But here's the key thing to remember -- it really doesn't matter. There isn't so much difference between gingerbread and ICS that gingerbread is clearly "wrong" and ICS clearly "Right" - there are functions built into ICS that are very sweet, like icon grouping and the move to software-only buttons, but these aren't deep API changes.
Also, it should be noted that the phones skipped Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) which was the initial tablet release. ICS is bringing the phone and tablet worlds together. So, Gingerbread is the immediate predecessor to ICS, even though the numbering schema (Gingerbread was 2.3 and ICS is at 4.0.4 currently) makes it look like many phones are two steps behind. They're getting there. And they're innovating rapidly, which over the long term is going to mean much more to the success of the phone than fears over fragmentation.
And yes, I know I'm a fan boy. Thanks.
Not for nothing, but they already do this by leaking the rom. My Bionic is on ICS a few months ahead of time, for example, just don't tell VZW.
I used to use it a lot more, before they started hiding crap that I didn't use enough, and adding useless links to "my computer" (on the desktop), etc. The start menu, as originally implemented, was a great little tool. Of course, MSoft keeps fucking up their great working tools to create non-functional interfaces that hide the application you want to ask behind three layers of sorting screens. I know how to use my computer, stop trying to guide me to the right control panel option and just let me access the fsking tool.
Good points. Warn the astronauts. MARS HO!
RPS has a tie option.