People still go to the library? I haven't been to a library since the World wide Web was invented, so it follows that the people I would like to engage with also don't spend much time there.
But it is not a stable or large enough market and it hugely depends on the people buying having extra income and the people offering having special skills.
Well we know that wealth is increasing, even if some segments are worse off, so there is money there. We are just shifting from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, which will come with some pain, but I don't think it is the end of the world.
We had all the same arguments in the Industrial revolution, but as the saying goes, the car didn't cause the horse to go extinct.
Indeed. And this is not about full automation either. Full automation is hard. Automation to a degree that a single person can run a brewery or bakery is not that hard and being done and the missing jobs are re-created nowhere. They are just gone.
Who fixes mobile phones? Those jobs didn't exist 20 years ago.
Pretty much anything can be automated, including craft breweries.
You seem to assume that the only reason I go to coffee shop is to consume coffee? As automation takes over, people are chasing the experience you can't get with automation, ie talking to the brewer/barrista/butcher, engaging is discussions with other like minded souls, and building relationships with other humans.
If you are going to chain stores for everything than I can only assume you have a preference for quantity over quality.
He's been doing this for 15 years, and if interest rates go up (and they are) or property values go down (they do when interest rates go up), he and his family will be in serious trouble. And they certainly will not be able to continue living the lifestyle they've become accustomed to.
And if they don't, he wins. For the last 20 years (where I live) property has risen faster than interest rates. Nothing I have seen makes me believe this will change any time soon.
And unlike private investors, the government has other means to control such changes, so I wouldn't be hitting the panic button just yet.
Some quick head math says that something like 1050 kg of coke is coming into the US every day that's being seized. Some of it was just destined here and is caught out at sea, for instance. If they're only catching 10% then that's a whole lot of coke.
I watch Banged Up Abroad, a doco about mostly drug traffickers getting busted. It seems a common method is to hire mules to be sacrificial lambs ie the mule doesn't know it, but the operation recruits idiots to be mules, then let's them get caught to tie up police resources to allow the real trafficking to get through.
I'd imagine that in a lot of third world places the cops are in on it too. As long as they are making regular arrests, no-one looks too closely at the real volumes, and everyone gets paid.
Yes, that is a problem. Are you seriously saying if you have say an average home mortgage of $222,261 (according to Google), you only have savings of $2,200? I don't care what your income is, put some money in the bank for a rainy day. Minimum liquid savings (not including long term investments like retirement) for a reasonable person is usually 6 months of living expenses. Considering the average mortgage payment is over $1,000/mo your 1% savings would be gone in a month (or less) if you lost your income.
You have failed to take into account the value of the asset. Using all those numbers, if the property is worth $2million then it doesn't matter.
This is why the national debt is not really that big a deal.
by allowing Han to hyperspace past planetary defenses and come out of hyperspace well into the planets gravity well.
Oh Christ you just reminded me of this scene. And moving at over 300000km/second they manage to pull out with only metres to spare. I know we have to bend the rules for the plot, but hell why not just give them a time machine?
I got the feeling that this was either his first mission, or his first mission that wasn't something he could justify to himself.
He says later he worked in sanitation which made no sense. Unlike the army which has all sorts of roles, Stormtroopers are ALL front-line fighting troops. You don't get "all sorts of weapons training", then get assigned a role to fixing the toilets, then get picked for a landing mission to invade a village.
Secondly, Poe does explain what happened. He basically woke up from the wreck after Fin had already walked off.
That's not a good explanation. Finn searched the wreckage, found Poe's jacket but not him. The ship sinks in the sand then explodes, so either Poe ejected from the TIE fighter before it crashed, somehow without his jacket on, and woke up later, or he was unconscious in the TIE Fighter, and somehow his jacket feel off, and Finn couldn't see him, and he survived being submerged in sand and then blown up? None of those is even remotely acceptable as an explanation.
Women are sensitive to each others feelings. Leia, master diplomat and politician, saw someone who was emotionally upset and alone, walking off of the Millennium Falcon. Either way, not a huge deal breaker in the movie.
Wow sexist much? Sorry that was a deal breaker that both my wife and teenage daughter pointed out immediately afterwards. Two strangers hug like old friends, and Han's death is given all of 5 seconds of pouting from Chewy before everyone has moved on and forgot he even existed.
The movie was crap from start to finish.
That wooshing noise you heard was the entire point of Kylo Ren's character sailing over your head.
Really? Feel free to explain the complexity we missed, because the Ren I saw couldn't compete mentally with the complete non-jedi Poe, and failed miserably with the possible Jedi, but completely untrained Rey. And even if he was shot, do you think Vader would've not executed any Stormtrooper he came across without blinking?
Also where did he get Vader's helmet from? And why did he wear a mask? At least Vader had a decent excuse.
Sorry but you idea that anything in TFA went over our heads is laughable. It was as lame and predictable as a story could get. The last 20 minutes I felt like I was watching a mashup of ROTJ and ANH. Not one new idea whatsoever in the whole film.
My main complaints:
1.) It is almost identical to the first movie. Desert planet? Check. Young, force-sensitive user that's unware of it? Check. Stranded, cute robot with a secret message to deliver? Check. Escape from said planet trying to deliver message? Check. Han Solo and Chewbacca conning the wrong guys? Check.
Death Star, but only bigger? Check. Mysterious Hologram Emperor? Check. Weird Catina filled with oddball aleins? Check. Darth Vader but only more useless and less intimidating? Check. Legions of Nazi-like enemy. Check. Death Star is only moments from destroying the Hero's planet, but it get destroyed instead? Check.
Not one single piece of original plot or character whatsoever...
2. Even worse, when he removes his helmet, he looks like an idiot.
When Rey asks him to remove his helmet I had to stop myself laughing out loud "Put it back on, Put it back on!" The guy looks like a doofus, and it's pretty hard to be intimidated by a teenage emo Marilyn Manson impersonator. Worst casting decision ever.
3.) The Emperor is replaced by Gollum. Enough said.
And has a stupid name that even sounds like Gollum. Snoke? Who the fuck thought that sounds like a good name for a potential evil galactic overlord? It was like they tried to go for a Prometheus style super alien, but ended up with a stupid cartoony Gollum instead.
Can someone explain to me why the zero-calories version of the Empire bother building a planet-sized weapon, and have thousands of armed soldiers, if they are going to leave the most vulnerable part of their humongous weapon completely unattended? Not a single guard?
And why build an exact type of weapon that got defeated twice already? But it's bigger! And now it takes longer to fire, so you've got more time to get out of the way! If the Simpsons can cater to both Children and Adults, why can't the Star Wars?
Within 20 miles of my home there are 4-5 "megaplex" theaters where, for a $5 matinee ticket, you can go see the very latest movies on incredibly good screens with
If that were the case here, then I would agree. But my cheapest ticket is $20 for standard seating, or $30 for a recliner. I paid $120 for the family to see and every single one of us thought it was shit.
For $5, I'd go every week, but at these prices I'm lucky if I go once a year.
The fact even Finn could defeat a dark Lord of the sith shows how much of a joke it is.
Finn and Rey were both novices and both got one over Ren, making him effectively useless. Has there been a more ineffective villain in the history of movie making?
They even ruined their own evil character 30 minutes into the movie by revealing things way too early.
This movie ruined several opportunities for big moments. Han's son, Rey's skills, Han's end, the whole handling of Snoke, the end of the bigger Death Star. It's as if they just threw it all against the wall and hoped something would stick.
I agree with GP. There is no story here, just tidbits of the original trilogy we've all seen dozens of times before. As crap as the prequels were, at least there was new material in there.
The whole "R2 had the map the whole time but he refused to wake up until just the most convenient moment" thing bothered me as well.
This killed me. "He's never been the same since Master Luke left". Really? He's a fucking robot, not a dog. If the fucker won't wake up, then call the helpdesk and reboot him. And then suddenly for no explained reason he wakes up and provides the info everyone needs.
And why did C3PO have a red arm? Are we supposed to believe that the Republic can afford to build space ships, but can't afford a little electroplating for the general's pet Robot?
This movie was severely disappointing...
It was well written and subtle, p>with good character development and pacing. =
WTF? I saw it today , it was an utter turd. I feel the need to vent so here goes:
Nothing new or original, just rehashed scenes from the original Trilogy. Rey was Luke, BB was R2, Ren was Vader with a face made for radio(please put the mask back on!), the Death Star was just a bigger more useless version (make a cup of coffee while the weapon warms up), Luke's vision scenes from Hoth, Lowering the shields, etc etc...
The dialog was crap, mostly lifted from the original. Han was too old and looked arthritic, and Leia's plastic face was distracting. While trying to be nostalgic it just came across as boring. I spent the whole movie waiting for the new interesting thing to come along and wow and left deflated, like I'd just heard a DJ remix of my favourite song with one extra drum beat in it.
Jobs are merely shifting. We've had 3 craft breweries start up in my suburb in the last 10 years. That's more than I've ever known in my life. We've also got more coffee shops than I can count, most of which opened up in the last 5 years. Gourmet bakers and butchers are also popular.
So yeah automation is taking some jobs, but new jobs are being created as new trends develop. This has always been the way.
Everyone benefits when you round up your numbers.
The thing with globalisation is that we in the west are the minority population, but hold the majority of wealth. So for "Everyone" to win, it will involve a shift of wealth form West to everyone else. That might suck if you're on the margins in the West, but if you were an alien looking down on the Earth, it would appear as though "everyone" were getting better off.
Never ask an admin for permission for _anything_. Just walk past them to the people that matter. What are they going to do?
Well in my experience, after you've left the PA tells the boss what an obnoxious prick you are, and that's the last you'll ever have to do with either of them.
A PA is an Exec's right hand, their agony aunt, and trusted adviser. Shitting on them is the same as shitting on the boss.
As always in the real world, socialism eventually and unconditionally produces a violent regime to keep things under control.
Just like Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Canada, New Zealand etc. All of which have better standard of living, higher life expectancy, and lower violent crime than the US. Or maybe your version of the real world is whatever propaganda Fox News feeds you.
The US only has enough foreign reserves to pay of 4% of its debt.
Everyone has known since the accumulated debt passed $10 trillion that it will never be paid back. The question is, who will pull the trigger, and who will be left without a seat when the game of musical chairs stops.
I see these numbers thrown around like it's a problem. My savings would only pay about 1% of my debt (mortgage). Is this also a problem? (hint it isn't because income more important than savings)
And even if I had no income, and no savings, if your asset is increasing at value faster than the interest rate, there is no need to pay a single cent. (Since you are earning a net gain by simply doing nothing).
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People still go to the library? I haven't been to a library since the World wide Web was invented, so it follows that the people I would like to engage with also don't spend much time there.
But it is not a stable or large enough market and it hugely depends on the people buying having extra income and the people offering having special skills.
Well we know that wealth is increasing, even if some segments are worse off, so there is money there. We are just shifting from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, which will come with some pain, but I don't think it is the end of the world.
We had all the same arguments in the Industrial revolution, but as the saying goes, the car didn't cause the horse to go extinct.
Indeed. And this is not about full automation either. Full automation is hard. Automation to a degree that a single person can run a brewery or bakery is not that hard and being done and the missing jobs are re-created nowhere. They are just gone.
Who fixes mobile phones? Those jobs didn't exist 20 years ago.
Pretty much anything can be automated, including craft breweries.
You seem to assume that the only reason I go to coffee shop is to consume coffee? As automation takes over, people are chasing the experience you can't get with automation, ie talking to the brewer/barrista/butcher, engaging is discussions with other like minded souls, and building relationships with other humans.
If you are going to chain stores for everything than I can only assume you have a preference for quantity over quality.
He's been doing this for 15 years, and if interest rates go up (and they are) or property values go down (they do when interest rates go up), he and his family will be in serious trouble. And they certainly will not be able to continue living the lifestyle they've become accustomed to.
And if they don't, he wins. For the last 20 years (where I live) property has risen faster than interest rates. Nothing I have seen makes me believe this will change any time soon.
And unlike private investors, the government has other means to control such changes, so I wouldn't be hitting the panic button just yet.
Some quick head math says that something like 1050 kg of coke is coming into the US every day that's being seized. Some of it was just destined here and is caught out at sea, for instance. If they're only catching 10% then that's a whole lot of coke.
I watch Banged Up Abroad, a doco about mostly drug traffickers getting busted. It seems a common method is to hire mules to be sacrificial lambs ie the mule doesn't know it, but the operation recruits idiots to be mules, then let's them get caught to tie up police resources to allow the real trafficking to get through.
I'd imagine that in a lot of third world places the cops are in on it too. As long as they are making regular arrests, no-one looks too closely at the real volumes, and everyone gets paid.
Yes, that is a problem. Are you seriously saying if you have say an average home mortgage of $222,261 (according to Google), you only have savings of $2,200? I don't care what your income is, put some money in the bank for a rainy day. Minimum liquid savings (not including long term investments like retirement) for a reasonable person is usually 6 months of living expenses. Considering the average mortgage payment is over $1,000/mo your 1% savings would be gone in a month (or less) if you lost your income.
You have failed to take into account the value of the asset. Using all those numbers, if the property is worth $2million then it doesn't matter.
This is why the national debt is not really that big a deal.
by allowing Han to hyperspace past planetary defenses and come out of hyperspace well into the planets gravity well.
Oh Christ you just reminded me of this scene. And moving at over 300000km/second they manage to pull out with only metres to spare. I know we have to bend the rules for the plot, but hell why not just give them a time machine?
I got the feeling that this was either his first mission, or his first mission that wasn't something he could justify to himself.
He says later he worked in sanitation which made no sense. Unlike the army which has all sorts of roles, Stormtroopers are ALL front-line fighting troops. You don't get "all sorts of weapons training", then get assigned a role to fixing the toilets, then get picked for a landing mission to invade a village.
Secondly, Poe does explain what happened. He basically woke up from the wreck after Fin had already walked off.
That's not a good explanation. Finn searched the wreckage, found Poe's jacket but not him. The ship sinks in the sand then explodes, so either Poe ejected from the TIE fighter before it crashed, somehow without his jacket on, and woke up later, or he was unconscious in the TIE Fighter, and somehow his jacket feel off, and Finn couldn't see him, and he survived being submerged in sand and then blown up? None of those is even remotely acceptable as an explanation.
Women are sensitive to each others feelings. Leia, master diplomat and politician, saw someone who was emotionally upset and alone, walking off of the Millennium Falcon. Either way, not a huge deal breaker in the movie.
Wow sexist much? Sorry that was a deal breaker that both my wife and teenage daughter pointed out immediately afterwards. Two strangers hug like old friends, and Han's death is given all of 5 seconds of pouting from Chewy before everyone has moved on and forgot he even existed.
The movie was crap from start to finish.
That wooshing noise you heard was the entire point of Kylo Ren's character sailing over your head.
Really? Feel free to explain the complexity we missed, because the Ren I saw couldn't compete mentally with the complete non-jedi Poe, and failed miserably with the possible Jedi, but completely untrained Rey. And even if he was shot, do you think Vader would've not executed any Stormtrooper he came across without blinking?
Also where did he get Vader's helmet from? And why did he wear a mask? At least Vader had a decent excuse.
Sorry but you idea that anything in TFA went over our heads is laughable. It was as lame and predictable as a story could get. The last 20 minutes I felt like I was watching a mashup of ROTJ and ANH. Not one new idea whatsoever in the whole film.
My main complaints: 1.) It is almost identical to the first movie. Desert planet? Check. Young, force-sensitive user that's unware of it? Check. Stranded, cute robot with a secret message to deliver? Check. Escape from said planet trying to deliver message? Check. Han Solo and Chewbacca conning the wrong guys? Check.
Death Star, but only bigger? Check. Mysterious Hologram Emperor? Check. Weird Catina filled with oddball aleins? Check. Darth Vader but only more useless and less intimidating? Check. Legions of Nazi-like enemy. Check. Death Star is only moments from destroying the Hero's planet, but it get destroyed instead? Check.
Not one single piece of original plot or character whatsoever...
2. Even worse, when he removes his helmet, he looks like an idiot.
When Rey asks him to remove his helmet I had to stop myself laughing out loud "Put it back on, Put it back on!" The guy looks like a doofus, and it's pretty hard to be intimidated by a teenage emo Marilyn Manson impersonator. Worst casting decision ever.
3.) The Emperor is replaced by Gollum. Enough said.
And has a stupid name that even sounds like Gollum. Snoke? Who the fuck thought that sounds like a good name for a potential evil galactic overlord? It was like they tried to go for a Prometheus style super alien, but ended up with a stupid cartoony Gollum instead.
Can someone explain to me why the zero-calories version of the Empire bother building a planet-sized weapon, and have thousands of armed soldiers, if they are going to leave the most vulnerable part of their humongous weapon completely unattended? Not a single guard?
And why build an exact type of weapon that got defeated twice already? But it's bigger! And now it takes longer to fire, so you've got more time to get out of the way! If the Simpsons can cater to both Children and Adults, why can't the Star Wars?
Within 20 miles of my home there are 4-5 "megaplex" theaters where, for a $5 matinee ticket, you can go see the very latest movies on incredibly good screens with
If that were the case here, then I would agree. But my cheapest ticket is $20 for standard seating, or $30 for a recliner. I paid $120 for the family to see and every single one of us thought it was shit.
For $5, I'd go every week, but at these prices I'm lucky if I go once a year.
Um, said stormtrooper lost every lightsaber battle he entered into.
But only just. Ren is supposed to be Sith, he should be able to dispatch novices without blinking. TFA made him look useless.
The fact even Finn could defeat a dark Lord of the sith shows how much of a joke it is.
Finn and Rey were both novices and both got one over Ren, making him effectively useless. Has there been a more ineffective villain in the history of movie making?
They even ruined their own evil character 30 minutes into the movie by revealing things way too early.
This movie ruined several opportunities for big moments. Han's son, Rey's skills, Han's end, the whole handling of Snoke, the end of the bigger Death Star. It's as if they just threw it all against the wall and hoped something would stick.
I agree with GP. There is no story here, just tidbits of the original trilogy we've all seen dozens of times before. As crap as the prequels were, at least there was new material in there.
The whole "R2 had the map the whole time but he refused to wake up until just the most convenient moment" thing bothered me as well.
This killed me. "He's never been the same since Master Luke left". Really? He's a fucking robot, not a dog. If the fucker won't wake up, then call the helpdesk and reboot him. And then suddenly for no explained reason he wakes up and provides the info everyone needs.
And why did C3PO have a red arm? Are we supposed to believe that the Republic can afford to build space ships, but can't afford a little electroplating for the general's pet Robot?
This movie was severely disappointing...
It was well written and subtle, p>with good character development and pacing. =
WTF? I saw it today , it was an utter turd. I feel the need to vent so here goes: Nothing new or original, just rehashed scenes from the original Trilogy. Rey was Luke, BB was R2, Ren was Vader with a face made for radio(please put the mask back on!), the Death Star was just a bigger more useless version (make a cup of coffee while the weapon warms up), Luke's vision scenes from Hoth, Lowering the shields, etc etc...
The dialog was crap, mostly lifted from the original. Han was too old and looked arthritic, and Leia's plastic face was distracting. While trying to be nostalgic it just came across as boring. I spent the whole movie waiting for the new interesting thing to come along and wow and left deflated, like I'd just heard a DJ remix of my favourite song with one extra drum beat in it.
Jobs are merely shifting. We've had 3 craft breweries start up in my suburb in the last 10 years. That's more than I've ever known in my life. We've also got more coffee shops than I can count, most of which opened up in the last 5 years. Gourmet bakers and butchers are also popular.
So yeah automation is taking some jobs, but new jobs are being created as new trends develop. This has always been the way.
.Let me assure you, "Everone benefits" is a lie.
Everyone benefits when you round up your numbers.
The thing with globalisation is that we in the west are the minority population, but hold the majority of wealth. So for "Everyone" to win, it will involve a shift of wealth form West to everyone else. That might suck if you're on the margins in the West, but if you were an alien looking down on the Earth, it would appear as though "everyone" were getting better off.
Never ask an admin for permission for _anything_. Just walk past them to the people that matter. What are they going to do?
Well in my experience, after you've left the PA tells the boss what an obnoxious prick you are, and that's the last you'll ever have to do with either of them.
A PA is an Exec's right hand, their agony aunt, and trusted adviser. Shitting on them is the same as shitting on the boss.
As always in the real world, socialism eventually and unconditionally produces a violent regime to keep things under control.
Just like Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Canada, New Zealand etc. All of which have better standard of living, higher life expectancy, and lower violent crime than the US. Or maybe your version of the real world is whatever propaganda Fox News feeds you.
The US only has enough foreign reserves to pay of 4% of its debt.
Everyone has known since the accumulated debt passed $10 trillion that it will never be paid back. The question is, who will pull the trigger, and who will be left without a seat when the game of musical chairs stops.
I see these numbers thrown around like it's a problem. My savings would only pay about 1% of my debt (mortgage). Is this also a problem? (hint it isn't because income more important than savings)
And even if I had no income, and no savings, if your asset is increasing at value faster than the interest rate, there is no need to pay a single cent. (Since you are earning a net gain by simply doing nothing).
The problem is that many politicians think the interest rate is the ends, rather than the means.
Do they? Which Politicians are those then?