But bankruptcy will let carmakers drop their pension obligations, meaning those workers will have worked for less up front, getting robbed of the labor they sold just to get screwed once they can't take that labor back or threaten to withhold more of it.
Less up front? The last time I saw stats the unionized autoworkers made almost double that of the non-unionized. I'm sorry if they never saved any money like the rest of us need to. It looks like they used to pay almost double, but finally scaled back because they were sinking the company.
The government doesn't need to loan anyone any money. We have processes for companies failing. The gov. really just needs to get out of the way and let the bubble finish popping. Instead they are extending the pain by attempting to prop up something that can't be stopped. Easy liquidity provided by the gov. is what got us here. More easy liquidity is not what we need.
Meanwhile, the unionized American workers are the most productive in the world.
Citation please! I live in a state with a BMW and Honda plant, both non-unionized. I routinely hear about how much they pay, how great the jobs are, and how well they perform. Why would an American worker who presumably had to compete for a job be less productive than one who for the most part can never be fired?
Through all that, the carmaker owners took home hundreds of times their workers' pay - dozens of $millions each year for the people at the top who ran the companies into the ground.
I agree with you, but lets not forget about the people at the top of the unions either. I'm sure they were just making minimum wage or anything.
The solution to the automaker problems is to let the companies go into bankruptcy. It will be rough in the short term, but the new companies that emerge will be better positioned for the future. And this whole issue that bankruptcy will cause people not to buy the car is a load of crap. Airlines are in a perpetual bankruptcy state and people still fly them.
Same here. Was supposed to start with Kilamanjaro last summer, but they had a little civil war in Kenya at the time I was trying to book the trip. Maybe next year tho.
Next on my list is to base jump off the Perrine bridge:D
You've pretty much described all of gaming. Adding better graphics or more guys on the screen at once doesn't change the fact that it's the same game as the ones before it. I'd love to hear about all these 'new' games that we can now have because of better graphics and horsepower. The last great, innovative game I played was Braid from the xbox arcade. Braid could have been on any platform since the gameplay is what made it such a good game.
Even expensive OSX copies would help dell and kill Apple. Apple is known for having the highest margins in the industry...something like 30% for computers. Dell scrapes by on single digits. If Dell can sell its computers with OSX, then they will single handedly destroy Apples hardware sales. People are cheap and will buy the cheapest solution they can find. People want OSX and if given the easy option, will not pay a premium for it.
There is nothing wrong with learning Java, although that's not what you should be doing for 4 years during a CS degree. During my degree some classes used Java, some C, Python, whatever the teacher felt like that semester (or was required because of the class). It was the students responsibility to learn the language on your own time. Class time was for learning about the theory that underpins *all* languages and other big topics that span multiple languages like OO, etc....
The profs have a clue, it's more that the potential incoming students do not have a clue. After the.com bust, CS enrollment plummeted. In order to get students to pay for classes and thus pay teachers they have to 'sell' potential students on CS. This means not destroying them on during their first class and working hard to make those first classes relevant and interesting. Though, I do agree that getting through an entire degree program without doing pointers (and C) is a travesty.
I read what I quoted just fine. He seemed to think that Palins was okay since we supposedly found something and that Obamas was not okay. Since Obamas records have not been made public yet, we have no way of knowing if something illegal was going on.
Both were illegal and immoral with no other ifs, ands, or buts about it. Justifying that going Palins email is okay because we found something doesn't work no matter how much the Obama lovers wish it did.
So, "break into Palin's email" = illegal, immoral, but has vigilante righteousness.
And, "break into Obama's phone" = illegal, immoral, and the act of someone using illegal means in an attempt to "get" him as part of a partisan plot.
Wow...talk about circular logic. How would we know if Obama is breaking law prior to getting his phone records? We don't, so we must first break in and get his phone records and only then can we make a determination.
This is the EXACT same situation as someone breaking into Palins personal email. The only difference was that it wasn't Yahoo employees doing the break in. If you think this was a wrong against Obama, then you should be consistent and think that breaking into Palins email was also wrong. It makes no difference what was found once the breach occurred.
Even when you start to look at bullet-point features, the ipod wins in the area of plug-in accessories. The Nike+ feature is very cool and my running friends love using it. I have a stereo in the car that plugs into the dock and gives full ipod access + song art, etc...
Apple was smart here with the ipod and 3rd party accessories. The only one who might be able to challenge them is MS with the zune + xbox + computer combo.
Hey, great answer! I was wondering since I've skydived before, but wouldn't consider myself a skydiver. I tell everyone it's something you should try at least once:)
Skydiving is actually pretty safe. It's things like base jumping where people get into trouble. Also, if you do find the stats around how many people skydive (minus base jumping of course) in order to get a % comparison to cars you also need to find the military stats. They have A LOT of people skydive as part of training every day.
So do tell me. What did I do that causes a key stroke to be missed every so often? If it was something I (or the tons of other people) did to cause the problem why release any attempt at a fix? No, Apple deletes any threads that point to any problem their beloved systems may have.
If the keyboard drops key strokes, blaming the vendor is the only one to blame.
I would press the young engineer into figuring out the problem. Ask him/her all the things they have tried, what were the results, and what they think the problem can be. Let them make the decision and have me there as a sounding board and help if need be.
The problem you're describing is laziness and/or incompetence and that can happen at any age.
I'm the kind of person who hates it when politicians run smear campaigns and TV ads slandering the opposition
Pointing out flaws or making clear someone's position is not smearing them.
Apple's commercials, for the most part, are pointing out Windows flaws in a funny way. Some stuff is a bit over the top, but the reason the commercials resonate with people is because everyone has experienced one or more of the Windows flaws they point out. That should tell you something.
It does hav bugs like any OS which luckily they are fairly quick to address,
I like my MBP, but this just isn't true in so many ways. OSX still drops the first keystroke too often on my MBP. It doesn't happen when I boot to windows so it's a software issue that they just can't seem to fix. There was a huge thread on the Apples boards about the issue, but they've deleted it and delete any new threads. They have released 'fixes' that have helped some, but it's still there.
Apples willingness as a company to treat developers like crap also has annoyed the hell out of me. They finally dumped the iPhone SDK NDA after how long? Books have been written for months that were waiting on the NDA to go away. Their draconian app store policies are awful. Basically if they don't like your app they pull it. There are no rules other than we pull it if we feel like it. Now this wouldn't be an issue if you could just put it up on your website for people to use if they liked to, but you can't do that either. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Anyways, I was an Apple fanboy for a long time. I figured in the end they would do the right thing, but it's clear they have no intention of doing so.
People always report these sorts of problems, but I have yet to experience any of them. And, yes, I've used Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X recently. As always, I guess, YMMV.
I mostly agree with you, but a lot of people I know use Ubuntu and WIFI is always an issue. I don't think it's an ubuntu issue anymore than it's a linux/proprietary driver issue though.
I agree with you as long as you're also thinking beyond college. Get the education you want, but also have some sort of job plan later. For the record I also went to a liberal arts school, but ended up with a BS in computer science. IMHO, it was a great balance of science, math, and the arts I had to take as part of the degree.
I'm with you for the most part. I went to a good local college and lived at home. This saved me a ton of money off the top. Then I worked the entire time and only took small loans for tuition. I managed to graduate in 4.5 years only 10k or so in debt. When the rates were super low I locked in 3% fixed with government.
I'm amazed when I hear about these people who have 100k in college loan debt and only have a BA in psych or something similar.
If it's socialism to give a tiny bit of extra cash to the very lowest class of people then count me in.
A bit of extra cash doesn't do anything to really help that person. We need to help that person long term, and most of those tools are already in place.
1) Increase the level of education. My state is one of many that uses the lottery (tax on people who are poor at math) in order to fund higher education. Community college is fully funded here, so if you're not going why not?
2) Job help. Already done. Lots of free places funded by donations and tax dollars that will help build a resume, give interview practice, etc...
3) Public transportation. Some places it's good, some bad. I think if we do another 'stimulus' it should be spent modernizing our rail system and adding new lines, etc..., but that's another argument.
For the go getter many of the tools are already there to get out of their situation. More money isn't going to do much long term.
and it seems to me like rich people put their money in the bank
Well banks do use that money to lend it out, but on top of that how do you think people become wealthy? They spend less than they make. Period. It's not rocket science. When the average credit card debt in the US is over 8k/person that should tell you something. First that people are poorly educated about finances and second, that they spend way more than they make.
And I have a hard time calling it socialism to ask people who make more than $250,000 to pay 3% more tax so they can temporarily help out struggling people and get our economy back on track.
Okay, so it starts at 250k and then when that isn't enough it moves down to 200k then 150k and...wait there is no one left to pay because everyone is just living on the government. The problem with many of these social programs is that they aren't temporary. We have created entire cultures and generations of people who live off the government. Do we want to put even more people on the gov. dole?
Those who have, have an obligation to help those who do not.
WHY? There is a spot on the bottom of every tax form where you can send in more taxes if you want. You can also give to charities, etc... If you think that you have an obligation to give to help those who need it, feel free to cut bigger tax checks to the government. They will happily take it. Don't force me to pay anymore than I already am.
The funny thing here is that people talk about the wealth as people who don't spend money. The wealthy spend a ton of money. They buy stuff which in turn transfers money to people selling stuff. The problem is that you have to be working to earn money, and clearly this is something many people are tired of doing.
How many times has Obama mentioned the $250K figure?:)
About as many as he has also mentioned 200k and 150k. Once he realizes how much all the crap he wants to do is going to cost I fully expect 'rich' to be defined less as than 100k.
What, helping people is wasteful?
You're presenting a false dilemma. No where did I mention helping or not helping people, just that SS as it currently stands is a wasteful, failing program that happens to be obsolete and make no financial sense.
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Less up front? The last time I saw stats the unionized autoworkers made almost double that of the non-unionized. I'm sorry if they never saved any money like the rest of us need to. It looks like they used to pay almost double, but finally scaled back because they were sinking the company.
The government doesn't need to loan anyone any money. We have processes for companies failing. The gov. really just needs to get out of the way and let the bubble finish popping. Instead they are extending the pain by attempting to prop up something that can't be stopped. Easy liquidity provided by the gov. is what got us here. More easy liquidity is not what we need.
Citation please! I live in a state with a BMW and Honda plant, both non-unionized. I routinely hear about how much they pay, how great the jobs are, and how well they perform. Why would an American worker who presumably had to compete for a job be less productive than one who for the most part can never be fired?
I agree with you, but lets not forget about the people at the top of the unions either. I'm sure they were just making minimum wage or anything.
The solution to the automaker problems is to let the companies go into bankruptcy. It will be rough in the short term, but the new companies that emerge will be better positioned for the future. And this whole issue that bankruptcy will cause people not to buy the car is a load of crap. Airlines are in a perpetual bankruptcy state and people still fly them.
Same here. Was supposed to start with Kilamanjaro last summer, but they had a little civil war in Kenya at the time I was trying to book the trip. Maybe next year tho.
Next on my list is to base jump off the Perrine bridge :D
You've pretty much described all of gaming. Adding better graphics or more guys on the screen at once doesn't change the fact that it's the same game as the ones before it. I'd love to hear about all these 'new' games that we can now have because of better graphics and horsepower. The last great, innovative game I played was Braid from the xbox arcade. Braid could have been on any platform since the gameplay is what made it such a good game.
Even expensive OSX copies would help dell and kill Apple. Apple is known for having the highest margins in the industry...something like 30% for computers. Dell scrapes by on single digits. If Dell can sell its computers with OSX, then they will single handedly destroy Apples hardware sales. People are cheap and will buy the cheapest solution they can find. People want OSX and if given the easy option, will not pay a premium for it.
There is nothing wrong with learning Java, although that's not what you should be doing for 4 years during a CS degree. During my degree some classes used Java, some C, Python, whatever the teacher felt like that semester (or was required because of the class). It was the students responsibility to learn the language on your own time. Class time was for learning about the theory that underpins *all* languages and other big topics that span multiple languages like OO, etc....
The profs have a clue, it's more that the potential incoming students do not have a clue. After the .com bust, CS enrollment plummeted. In order to get students to pay for classes and thus pay teachers they have to 'sell' potential students on CS. This means not destroying them on during their first class and working hard to make those first classes relevant and interesting. Though, I do agree that getting through an entire degree program without doing pointers (and C) is a travesty.
Since when was the truth flamebait?
I read what I quoted just fine. He seemed to think that Palins was okay since we supposedly found something and that Obamas was not okay. Since Obamas records have not been made public yet, we have no way of knowing if something illegal was going on.
Both were illegal and immoral with no other ifs, ands, or buts about it. Justifying that going Palins email is okay because we found something doesn't work no matter how much the Obama lovers wish it did.
Wow...talk about circular logic. How would we know if Obama is breaking law prior to getting his phone records? We don't, so we must first break in and get his phone records and only then can we make a determination.
This is the EXACT same situation as someone breaking into Palins personal email. The only difference was that it wasn't Yahoo employees doing the break in. If you think this was a wrong against Obama, then you should be consistent and think that breaking into Palins email was also wrong. It makes no difference what was found once the breach occurred.
Even when you start to look at bullet-point features, the ipod wins in the area of plug-in accessories. The Nike+ feature is very cool and my running friends love using it. I have a stereo in the car that plugs into the dock and gives full ipod access + song art, etc...
Apple was smart here with the ipod and 3rd party accessories. The only one who might be able to challenge them is MS with the zune + xbox + computer combo.
Hey, great answer! I was wondering since I've skydived before, but wouldn't consider myself a skydiver. I tell everyone it's something you should try at least once :)
Skydiving is actually pretty safe. It's things like base jumping where people get into trouble. Also, if you do find the stats around how many people skydive (minus base jumping of course) in order to get a % comparison to cars you also need to find the military stats. They have A LOT of people skydive as part of training every day.
So do tell me. What did I do that causes a key stroke to be missed every so often? If it was something I (or the tons of other people) did to cause the problem why release any attempt at a fix? No, Apple deletes any threads that point to any problem their beloved systems may have.
If the keyboard drops key strokes, blaming the vendor is the only one to blame.
How about E) none of the above.
I would press the young engineer into figuring out the problem. Ask him/her all the things they have tried, what were the results, and what they think the problem can be. Let them make the decision and have me there as a sounding board and help if need be.
The problem you're describing is laziness and/or incompetence and that can happen at any age.
What exactly does this hobby say about a person other than 'risk taker?'
That's not a server, it's a laptop :p
Pointing out flaws or making clear someone's position is not smearing them.
Apple's commercials, for the most part, are pointing out Windows flaws in a funny way. Some stuff is a bit over the top, but the reason the commercials resonate with people is because everyone has experienced one or more of the Windows flaws they point out. That should tell you something.
I like my MBP, but this just isn't true in so many ways. OSX still drops the first keystroke too often on my MBP. It doesn't happen when I boot to windows so it's a software issue that they just can't seem to fix. There was a huge thread on the Apples boards about the issue, but they've deleted it and delete any new threads. They have released 'fixes' that have helped some, but it's still there.
Apples willingness as a company to treat developers like crap also has annoyed the hell out of me. They finally dumped the iPhone SDK NDA after how long? Books have been written for months that were waiting on the NDA to go away. Their draconian app store policies are awful. Basically if they don't like your app they pull it. There are no rules other than we pull it if we feel like it. Now this wouldn't be an issue if you could just put it up on your website for people to use if they liked to, but you can't do that either. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Anyways, I was an Apple fanboy for a long time. I figured in the end they would do the right thing, but it's clear they have no intention of doing so.
I mostly agree with you, but a lot of people I know use Ubuntu and WIFI is always an issue. I don't think it's an ubuntu issue anymore than it's a linux/proprietary driver issue though.
I agree with you as long as you're also thinking beyond college. Get the education you want, but also have some sort of job plan later. For the record I also went to a liberal arts school, but ended up with a BS in computer science. IMHO, it was a great balance of science, math, and the arts I had to take as part of the degree.
I'm with you for the most part. I went to a good local college and lived at home. This saved me a ton of money off the top. Then I worked the entire time and only took small loans for tuition. I managed to graduate in 4.5 years only 10k or so in debt. When the rates were super low I locked in 3% fixed with government.
I'm amazed when I hear about these people who have 100k in college loan debt and only have a BA in psych or something similar.
A bit of extra cash doesn't do anything to really help that person. We need to help that person long term, and most of those tools are already in place.
1) Increase the level of education. My state is one of many that uses the lottery (tax on people who are poor at math) in order to fund higher education. Community college is fully funded here, so if you're not going why not?
2) Job help. Already done. Lots of free places funded by donations and tax dollars that will help build a resume, give interview practice, etc...
3) Public transportation. Some places it's good, some bad. I think if we do another 'stimulus' it should be spent modernizing our rail system and adding new lines, etc..., but that's another argument.
For the go getter many of the tools are already there to get out of their situation. More money isn't going to do much long term.
Well banks do use that money to lend it out, but on top of that how do you think people become wealthy? They spend less than they make. Period. It's not rocket science. When the average credit card debt in the US is over 8k/person that should tell you something. First that people are poorly educated about finances and second, that they spend way more than they make.
Okay, so it starts at 250k and then when that isn't enough it moves down to 200k then 150k and...wait there is no one left to pay because everyone is just living on the government. The problem with many of these social programs is that they aren't temporary. We have created entire cultures and generations of people who live off the government. Do we want to put even more people on the gov. dole?
WHY? There is a spot on the bottom of every tax form where you can send in more taxes if you want. You can also give to charities, etc... If you think that you have an obligation to give to help those who need it, feel free to cut bigger tax checks to the government. They will happily take it. Don't force me to pay anymore than I already am.
The funny thing here is that people talk about the wealth as people who don't spend money. The wealthy spend a ton of money. They buy stuff which in turn transfers money to people selling stuff. The problem is that you have to be working to earn money, and clearly this is something many people are tired of doing.
About as many as he has also mentioned 200k and 150k. Once he realizes how much all the crap he wants to do is going to cost I fully expect 'rich' to be defined less as than 100k.
You're presenting a false dilemma. No where did I mention helping or not helping people, just that SS as it currently stands is a wasteful, failing program that happens to be obsolete and make no financial sense.