The opposite has been happening in my area. Caps are increasing and pricing is flexible in that you can call, threaten to cancel, and keep your subcription rate stable for 1-2 years (At least with Cox Internet).
That future would not be bleak. Yes, there would be a period of retrenchment as the economy reconfigures itself, but it would eventually end up being a better environment to live in once the reconfiguration is complete.
Once the reconfiguration is complete, a lot more people would be financially independent as well as happier. Debt is slavery, and advertising is an enabler which sells people into debt slavery.
Once a person's basic needs are met, then a lot of problems in society go away. Advertising is all about convincing you to buy things you really don't need.
There's currently plenty of free programming to watch on the Internet, plus, there's PBS which is (mostly) ad free and offers much higher quality programming than the American Networks. BBC (UK) has been using a TV license model since the beginning and it has worked out quite well. They have some of the highest quality english language programming in the world. I haven't subscribed to Cable since 2008. I don't miss it as it was mostly substandard programming with 20+ minutes of ads sprinkled in making it mostly unwatchable.
Programming funded by advertisers is some of the worst programming out there. (Examples: Alien abduction, ghosts, etc.). It's sad that people fall for this.
Cable companies won't be selling TV if what I have stated comes to pass. They will only be selling internet access.
You are correct the UHF TV bands are not large enough for very high speed Internet. I suspect that most of UHF TV bands will be allocated to cell phones mobile radio services such as public safety. The microwave bands are the best candidate for high speed wireless Internet.
The future of television is on-demand and not scheduled programming with the option to pay subscription fees to kill all advertising. This means no cable TV as we currently see it. All TV programming will be sent over IP networks. Over the air local TV stations will start offering TV streaming to smart TV's, and will retire their transmitters. The spectrum will be freed up for other uses.
My take on Advertising: Advertising is a scourge which causes weak minded people to go into debt wasting money purchasing things they don't need. Think of it as the 20th/21st century Jedi Mind Trick.
I'm calling B.S. on that. Some people out of work have completely marketable skills but are fed up with employers having too much power, and don't have to work W2 because they can live off passive income and investments. It's these people which start their own businesses, or decide to contribute in other ways such as writing open source software and creating open source hardware.
1. Employment-at-will is cruel. Most of the world does not have employment-at-will, it uses the "just-cause" model. 2. Exempt employees put in long hours because of #1. There are no laws limiting working time in the US. 3. Employers are almost impossible to take to court due to binding arbitration. 4. Employees in most states can be forced to sign non-compete agreements or be fired. 5. American employers offer some of the most paltry fringe benefits when compared to other industrialized nations. 6. Once you get into your 50's, you'll have a hard time getting hired regardless of how good you are
From what I have seen with the Teensy, is the designer is playing games to prevent clones from appearing by doing "genuine" detection in the tools. It is for this reason I have avoided the Teensy.
ARM processors are the future for the maker/hobbyist group.
The observations:
1. The AVR processors are getting a bit long in the tooth and don't compare with the power of an ARM processor. 2. The Arduino IDE is seriously lacking debug support, and its a pain to debug real time code with println statements.
There are some of us who have attained financial independence and refuse to play this game. What we are seeing with the labor participation rate is two components. Those which are truly unemployable, and those which refuse to play the game with the current rule set because they are financially independent and chose to work on things which are personally rewarding such as open source software.
These are reasons the labor participation rate is so low. The only way to change it is to go back to the way employment was structured in the early to mid 20th century, implement a universal basic income, or cull the citizenry which cannot sustain themselves. Historically, the latter option was chosen (War Famine, Disease). Let's hope that the middle option occurs, as due to global competition, the first option may not be viable.
A fork in the road is approaching. Either this will be viewed in a similar light to the Treaty of Versailles and the disaster which followed that and lead to Nazi Germany:
or Gunboat Diplomacy where the stick is used to beat Greece into Submission:
http://moox.ga/odore-roosevelt-big-stick-cartoon
Bankers are powerful, yet they don't realize what happens when they go too far... They may end up getting more than they bargained for, or nothing at all.
Well, if they can't get the H-1B cap increased, then I guess growing their own talent locally, and flooding the market is the next best thing. The H-1B's would have been the optimum solution as that would have forced wages down more quickly.
Washington still has pretty onerous non-compete laws which Amazon and Microsoft pay their lobbyists to keep in place. Sorta sounds similar to H-1B indentured servitude...
We are talking about a form slavery here folks (people only being able to get health coverage through employment, and employers calling the shots), only now it's called wage slavery. The last time there was a conflict like this it did result in a civil war.
It's highly likely there'd be second civil war before an article V convention is called. Congress ain't going to allow it. Not only that, regardless of the right thinking they could control an Article V convention, they better be careful what they wish for.
The infection vector is talk show radio. All the service employees driving from job to job in their work trucks tune in. The lines are carefully scripted in a way which on the surface makes sense, but once you research them further, only have one goal in mind: To enrich the.1 percent.
This ruling is actually very good for individual freedom. I'm happy to see that the supreme court made an intelligent ruling. I'm 54 and semi-retired. I have pre-existing conditions and if we went back to the way things used to work, I'd have to become employed full time again, or emigrate to the UK where I also have citizenship.
I hate everything American employment stands for. Age discrimination, employment-at-will, invention agreements, covenants not to compete, and binding arbitration to name a few.
A lot of employers take advantage of exempt employees in the US. Working a 60 hour a week sporadically is OK, but chronic overtime indicates there's something rotten in the company which needs to be excised. The FLSA really needs to be updated to curb abuses and make sure that employers use human resources in a manner which does not cause them to burn out. The EU working time directive is a good example of how to do this.
Allstate hasn't been the same since they hired McKinsey and Co to optimize profits ahead of customer value. When Allstate was a part of Sears, they actually offered good value for the money. Now they are big into information asymettry and cherry picking as that can get them the customers who will pay list+ where there is little to no risk. I haven't done business with them for years.
First off, I'd like to say that I use Linux at home instead of windows, and am actively developing open source IOT devices using the ESP8266 platform and the MQTT protocol on Github.
If there is going to be more demand for linux adminstrators, than what's available in the medium to far term, then someone will solve that problem with more code which automates the administaration of the linux systems. Additionally, if IOT devices require system administrators to configure, they'll never take off! Home users require systems which don't need administration.
For IOT to take off, the devices need to self-configure, and and also self-administer.
Overdischarging alkaline batteries may cause them to leak, ruining the gadget containing the batteries. The cheaper no name budget cells are notorious for doing this.
H1B worker's are free to quit and go to work for a new employer, but it rarely happens.
I wouldn't be suprised if some immigration attorneys require that employers using thier services look up a new hire in the Federal H1B database and not hiring that person if he "belongs" to another company. After all, the immigration attorney needs to look after his customers.
A good way to fix the H1B system would be changes to the regulations which make it harder for these attorneys to stay in businees.
I reckon any resurrected robotics program at Carnegie Mellon will require new hires to sign non-competes. Instead of countering any offers with higher salary other sweeteners and, this is the typical mindset of companies outside of California. At least California bans noncompete contracts.
Works the same in nature... You attract more flies with honey instead of vinegar.
"When it fails to do so, you should be out the door like a bullet."
This is the typical American mindset. Most employees will not walk out the for a number of reasons:
1. It doesn't look good on the resume. Makes you look like a quitter. 2. Denial 3. Most people have hope for thier employer to recover. 4. Most people are living paycheck-to paycheck, and quitting will only make the time without pay seem even longer.
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The opposite has been happening in my area. Caps are increasing and pricing is flexible in that you can call, threaten to cancel, and keep your subcription rate stable for 1-2 years (At least with Cox Internet).
That future would not be bleak. Yes, there would be a period of retrenchment as the economy reconfigures itself, but it would eventually end up being a better
environment to live in once the reconfiguration is complete.
Once the reconfiguration is complete, a lot more people would be financially independent as well as happier. Debt is slavery, and advertising is an enabler which sells people into debt slavery.
Once a person's basic needs are met, then a lot of problems in society go away. Advertising is all about convincing you to buy things you really don't need.
There's currently plenty of free programming to watch on the Internet, plus, there's PBS which is (mostly) ad free and offers much higher quality programming than the American Networks. BBC (UK) has been using a TV license model since the beginning and it has worked out quite well. They have some of the highest quality english language programming in the world. I haven't subscribed to Cable since 2008. I don't miss it as it was mostly substandard programming with 20+ minutes of ads sprinkled in making it mostly unwatchable.
Programming funded by advertisers is some of the worst programming out there. (Examples: Alien abduction, ghosts, etc.). It's sad that people fall for this.
Cable companies won't be selling TV if what I have stated comes to pass. They will only be selling internet access.
You are correct the UHF TV bands are not large enough for very high speed Internet. I suspect that most of UHF TV bands will be allocated to cell phones mobile radio services such as public safety. The microwave bands are the best candidate for high speed wireless Internet.
The future of television is on-demand and not scheduled programming with the option to pay subscription fees to kill all advertising. This means no cable TV as we currently see it. All TV programming will be sent over IP networks. Over the air local TV stations will start offering TV streaming to smart TV's, and will retire their transmitters. The spectrum will be freed up for other uses.
My take on Advertising: Advertising is a scourge which causes weak minded people to go into debt wasting money purchasing things they don't need. Think of it as the 20th/21st century Jedi Mind Trick.
I'm calling B.S. on that. Some people out of work have completely marketable skills but are fed up with employers having too much power, and don't have to work W2 because they can live off passive income and investments. It's these people which start their own businesses, or decide to contribute in other ways such as writing open source software and creating open source hardware.
d) Smart enough to play the game to win. Saved till there was enough F.U. money for me to not worry about having steady employment ever again.
Correction: your->our
Employer: You signed a blanket non-compete. If you leave we have the arbitration judge on your payroll sue the shirt off your back
Tech W2 employment in America is an awful game:
1. Employment-at-will is cruel. Most of the world does not have employment-at-will, it uses the "just-cause" model.
2. Exempt employees put in long hours because of #1. There are no laws limiting working time in the US.
3. Employers are almost impossible to take to court due to binding arbitration.
4. Employees in most states can be forced to sign non-compete agreements or be fired.
5. American employers offer some of the most paltry fringe benefits when compared to other industrialized nations.
6. Once you get into your 50's, you'll have a hard time getting hired regardless of how good you are
From what I have seen with the Teensy, is the designer is playing games to prevent clones from appearing by doing "genuine" detection in the tools. It is for this reason I have avoided the Teensy.
ARM processors are the future for the maker/hobbyist group.
The observations:
1. The AVR processors are getting a bit long in the tooth and don't compare with the power of an ARM processor.
2. The Arduino IDE is seriously lacking debug support, and its a pain to debug real time code with println statements.
Press a button, pay top dollar.
Sounds similar to Priceline, a company which also obfuscates pricing information to extract the most from its customers.
I could build my own dash tabs with an ESP8266 wifi board, and some Python code running on my home server, but relying on my memory is way easier.
There are some of us who have attained financial independence and refuse to play this game. What we are seeing with the labor participation rate is two components. Those which are truly unemployable, and those which refuse to play the game with the current rule set because they are financially independent and
chose to work on things which are personally rewarding such as open source software.
These are reasons the labor participation rate is so low. The only way to change it is to go back to the way employment was structured in the early to mid 20th century, implement a universal basic income, or cull the citizenry which cannot sustain themselves. Historically, the latter option was chosen (War Famine, Disease). Let's hope that the middle option occurs, as due to global competition, the first option may not be viable.
A fork in the road is approaching. Either this will be viewed in a similar light to the Treaty of Versailles and the disaster which followed that and lead to Nazi Germany:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic
or Gunboat Diplomacy where the stick is used to beat Greece into Submission:
http://moox.ga/odore-roosevelt-big-stick-cartoon
Bankers are powerful, yet they don't realize what happens when they go too far... They may end up getting more than they bargained for, or nothing at all.
Well, if they can't get the H-1B cap increased, then I guess growing their own talent locally, and flooding the market is the next best thing. The H-1B's would have been the optimum solution as that would have forced wages down more quickly.
Washington still has pretty onerous non-compete laws which Amazon and Microsoft pay their lobbyists to keep in place. Sorta sounds similar to H-1B indentured servitude...
No thanks. I'll stay in California.
We are talking about a form slavery here folks (people only being able to get health coverage through employment, and employers calling the shots), only now it's called wage slavery. The last time there was a conflict like this it did result in a civil war.
It's highly likely there'd be second civil war before an article V convention is called. Congress ain't going to allow it. Not only that, regardless of the right thinking they could control an Article V convention, they better be careful what they wish for.
The infection vector is talk show radio. All the service employees driving from job to job in their work trucks tune in. The lines are carefully scripted in a way which on the surface makes sense, but once you research them further, only have one goal in mind: To enrich the .1 percent.
Can you say 'Veto'
This ruling is actually very good for individual freedom. I'm happy to see that the supreme court made an intelligent ruling. I'm 54 and semi-retired. I have pre-existing conditions and if we went back to the way things used to work, I'd have to become employed full time again, or emigrate to the UK where I also
have citizenship.
I hate everything American employment stands for. Age discrimination, employment-at-will, invention agreements, covenants not to compete, and binding arbitration to name a few.
A lot of employers take advantage of exempt employees in the US. Working a 60 hour a week sporadically is OK, but chronic overtime indicates there's something rotten in the company which needs to be excised. The FLSA really needs to be updated to curb abuses and make sure that employers use human resources in a manner which does not cause them to burn out. The EU working time directive is a good example of how to do this.
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=706&langId=en&intPageId=205
Working time is set to 48 hours per week MAXIMUM at an average over the course of a few weeks time.
Not suprising....
Allstate hasn't been the same since they hired McKinsey and Co to optimize profits ahead of customer value. When Allstate was a part of Sears, they actually offered good value for the money. Now they are big into information asymettry and cherry picking as that can get them the customers who will pay list+ where there is little to no risk. I haven't done business with them for years.
Monthly fee waived if you opt in to our robocall program and buy what's pitched there on a regular basis....
First off, I'd like to say that I use Linux at home instead of windows, and am actively developing open source IOT devices using the ESP8266 platform and the MQTT protocol on Github.
If there is going to be more demand for linux adminstrators, than what's available in the medium to far term, then someone will solve that problem with more code
which automates the administaration of the linux systems. Additionally, if IOT devices require system administrators to configure, they'll never take off! Home users require systems which don't need administration.
For IOT to take off, the devices need to self-configure, and and also self-administer.
Overdischarging alkaline batteries may cause them to leak, ruining the gadget containing the batteries. The cheaper no name budget cells are notorious for doing this.
H1B worker's are free to quit and go to work for a new employer, but it rarely happens.
I wouldn't be suprised if some immigration attorneys require that employers using thier services look up a new hire in the Federal H1B database and not hiring that person if he "belongs" to another company. After all, the immigration attorney needs to look after his customers.
A good way to fix the H1B system would be changes to the regulations which make it harder for these attorneys to stay in businees.
I reckon any resurrected robotics program at Carnegie Mellon will require new hires to sign non-competes. Instead of countering any offers with higher salary other sweeteners and, this is the typical mindset of companies outside of California. At least California bans noncompete contracts.
Works the same in nature... You attract more flies with honey instead of vinegar.
"When it fails to do so, you should be out the door like a bullet."
This is the typical American mindset. Most employees will not walk out the for a number of reasons:
1. It doesn't look good on the resume. Makes you look like a quitter.
2. Denial
3. Most people have hope for thier employer to recover.
4. Most people are living paycheck-to paycheck, and quitting will only make the time without pay seem even longer.