So it's slave labor if the person can legally work enough to afford to eat, and stay with a relative, church, or other charitable person/organization while they save up and make a plan to improve their lot? In your opinion it's better for that person to just be unemployed with no hope of employment and to remain a burden on the welfare state?
Is it slavery if a person can't afford a cell phone, Xbox, broadband connection, and has to hit up Goodwill, yard sales, flea markets, and rely on smart thinking to work on a tight budget and stick to it? I recently lived for a year on $1000/month in the midwest. Let me tell you, it's entirely possible. If I can do it then somebody making over twice as much has no fucking excuse, other than their own laziness, ignorance, and stupidity. Today's America is full of can't-do pussies who will spend all day long arguing all the reasons why they can't, without a second's thought as to how they should and could.
I think it's got to be something in the water. Where have all the men gone?
actually it's a fairly good description of the process you would use to determine the lowest possible wage someone can be self sustaining on.
Another Keynesian bullshit goal, done for the wrong reasons, which of course (like other Keynesian fallacies) had catastrophic side effects due to its arrogant assumptions that human beings can know enough information about the market to improve it by setting price controls. False. Increasing minimum wage fixes nothing.
You need to move somewhere else that is not fucking ridiculous. I don't know what planet Arizona is from, but here in the midwest (where we have things like flowing water, etc) both houses and rent are cheap.
. Iran already has sufficient enriched material for five nukes which the Iranian religious leaders desperately hope to use on Israel and possibly the USA.
Wrong. This is a scenario dreamt up by your Bilderberger masters to justify an attack. There is no evidence to justify this statement at all.
It's the nauseating entitlement mentality. OMG, the outrage of only getting paid $12 an hour! Says more about the fucking worthlessness of our currency than anything. Yeah, blame the company for cutting costs. Don't blame the employee who chose to take that job. It's not like when selecting between employment at Apple for $12/hr, vs these supposed alternatives at $15/hr, the "cool factor" of working at Apple played into the decision one bit. No, the person was forced into signing on by all that mind control Apple advertising obviously!
Yes, it's all that god damned slave driving employer's fault for daring to employ people to provide a helpful service to the community. The audacity of those fucking assholes, taking otherwise unemployed people off the streets and paying them a wage that would have 99% of third world people shitting bricks at their good fortune, with the other 1% being the overprivileged brats who, like their American cousins, grew up with too fucking much food on the table on a regular basis to appreciate that life is fucking hard and the winners are those who take advantage of the opportunities which present themselves, not those who sit around bitching and moaning with their hands out wanting something free.
To the summary author: Give me a fucking break. Either go out and start a business providing a useful product and service, or shut the fuck up and get back to work. Your union-enforced smoke break is almost up.
The question is who reads Wikipedia for "current events"? Nobody, if you want to read about Michael Jackson dying go to fucking CNN.
....And go to Wikipedia, for what exactly? Horribly misleading articles fully of misinformation, policed by basement dwelling geeks with nothing better to do than enforce their version of the truth? Ha! Some people get the naive idea they are going to improve Wikipedia by at least adding some new article on a subject many people might be interested in, thus making it a more complete source of information, only to see their articles shot down in flames because --- OMFG --- this article wouldn't belong in a 500-lb ink and paper Encyclopedia set, so of course we absolutely can't have it stored in digital format along with all sorts of other relevant information, no sir!
Funny, cause I thought Michael Jackson was well known as the best selling artist of a number of studio albums, as well as a performing artist whose concerts have touched millions across the globe. (As evidenced by the loud outpouring of grief from all over the planet when he died.)
What planet do YOU live in where the death of Michael Jackson is not a major event?
Except for search engines, which work just as well as a "starting point." Or Google Scholar, which also works well as a starting point, for those who want the scientific angle.
It is an inevitable consequence of capitalism that the government becomes an agent of big business.
It is an inevitable consequence of socialism that the government becomes the agent of big business.
Voraciousness of any sort is regulated by failure - see Hitler. But when greed is elevated to the highest status, the mechanisms which regulate it are minimised.
Except that that hasn't really happened, beyond a lag in the increase of pension age while life expectancy increases. But that's being fixed by increasing state pension age.
LOL
1) The time taken to make up for the pension problem above;
Uh huh
2) A mature, stable tax avoidance industry, which means that the richest have gone from paying 50% tax to below 10%,
And your solution of taxing all the rich 90% will magically fix all our problems overnight with absolutely no negative repercussions for anyone?
3) The inefficiency of involving the private sector. For example, in the UK we used to have a lot of state housing, but now most of it has been sold off cheaply. One of the state's biggest working age welfare payouts now is to private landlords.
And the problem is private ownership of housing, or the unsustainable welfare system?
You socialists would crack me up, if your stupidity wasn't such a danger to others.
Maybe you should get rid of some of your bullshit, or stop living beyond your means. Storage space isn't a problem for people who can afford larger houses, or who don't have ten times as much shit as they really need.
Perhaps there have been leaps since, but most people on here are vastly overstating the capabilities of voice recognition software used as an analysis tool.
No we're not. It's you who is underestimating the inevitability of technological advance. This technology will be developed, and sooner rather than later. Period.
I'm no expert either, but it sounds like the toolchain to build code which can run on the GPU. i.e. shaders. Hopefully the experts will chime in and correct me....
I'd just like to say, as a die-hard NVidia fan, this will definitely cause me to take a second look at ATI's offerings. The main thing holding me back from considering them is their heretofore poor Linux compatibility. I run Windows 7 now, but I want to retain the option of Linux usage now or in the future. Good open source ATI drivers plus continued good quality products coming out of ATI would most likely tip me heavily towards ATI in the future.
95% of those are never reviewed because there aren't enough analysts, and computers aren't sophisticated enough to understand human language to any level of usable intelligence. Plus, voice recognition software sucks in English, let alone the dialects used by peasants in Afghanistan and Arabic speaking countries. Native speakers can't even get that stuff right, so your imaginary super computer has no chance.
Imaginary? In 10-15 years, 20 tops, we will have voice recognition software this powerful. What then? Your "solution" is just to bury your head in the sand, betting against technological advancements that will surely come?
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So it's slave labor if the person can legally work enough to afford to eat, and stay with a relative, church, or other charitable person/organization while they save up and make a plan to improve their lot? In your opinion it's better for that person to just be unemployed with no hope of employment and to remain a burden on the welfare state?
Is it slavery if a person can't afford a cell phone, Xbox, broadband connection, and has to hit up Goodwill, yard sales, flea markets, and rely on smart thinking to work on a tight budget and stick to it? I recently lived for a year on $1000/month in the midwest. Let me tell you, it's entirely possible. If I can do it then somebody making over twice as much has no fucking excuse, other than their own laziness, ignorance, and stupidity. Today's America is full of can't-do pussies who will spend all day long arguing all the reasons why they can't, without a second's thought as to how they should and could.
I think it's got to be something in the water. Where have all the men gone?
You're welcome to do so, but as of now you've only made an offhand statement. Where's the argument?
actually it's a fairly good description of the process you would use to determine the lowest possible wage someone can be self sustaining on.
Another Keynesian bullshit goal, done for the wrong reasons, which of course (like other Keynesian fallacies) had catastrophic side effects due to its arrogant assumptions that human beings can know enough information about the market to improve it by setting price controls. False. Increasing minimum wage fixes nothing.
You need to move somewhere else that is not fucking ridiculous. I don't know what planet Arizona is from, but here in the midwest (where we have things like flowing water, etc) both houses and rent are cheap.
. Iran already has sufficient enriched material for five nukes which the Iranian religious leaders desperately hope to use on Israel and possibly the USA.
Wrong. This is a scenario dreamt up by your Bilderberger masters to justify an attack. There is no evidence to justify this statement at all.
It's the nauseating entitlement mentality. OMG, the outrage of only getting paid $12 an hour! Says more about the fucking worthlessness of our currency than anything. Yeah, blame the company for cutting costs. Don't blame the employee who chose to take that job. It's not like when selecting between employment at Apple for $12/hr, vs these supposed alternatives at $15/hr, the "cool factor" of working at Apple played into the decision one bit. No, the person was forced into signing on by all that mind control Apple advertising obviously!
Yes, it's all that god damned slave driving employer's fault for daring to employ people to provide a helpful service to the community. The audacity of those fucking assholes, taking otherwise unemployed people off the streets and paying them a wage that would have 99% of third world people shitting bricks at their good fortune, with the other 1% being the overprivileged brats who, like their American cousins, grew up with too fucking much food on the table on a regular basis to appreciate that life is fucking hard and the winners are those who take advantage of the opportunities which present themselves, not those who sit around bitching and moaning with their hands out wanting something free.
To the summary author: Give me a fucking break. Either go out and start a business providing a useful product and service, or shut the fuck up and get back to work. Your union-enforced smoke break is almost up.
The question is who reads Wikipedia for "current events"? Nobody, if you want to read about Michael Jackson dying go to fucking CNN.
....And go to Wikipedia, for what exactly? Horribly misleading articles fully of misinformation, policed by basement dwelling geeks with nothing better to do than enforce their version of the truth? Ha! Some people get the naive idea they are going to improve Wikipedia by at least adding some new article on a subject many people might be interested in, thus making it a more complete source of information, only to see their articles shot down in flames because --- OMFG --- this article wouldn't belong in a 500-lb ink and paper Encyclopedia set, so of course we absolutely can't have it stored in digital format along with all sorts of other relevant information, no sir!
Funny, cause I thought Michael Jackson was well known as the best selling artist of a number of studio albums, as well as a performing artist whose concerts have touched millions across the globe. (As evidenced by the loud outpouring of grief from all over the planet when he died.)
What planet do YOU live in where the death of Michael Jackson is not a major event?
Except for search engines, which work just as well as a "starting point." Or Google Scholar, which also works well as a starting point, for those who want the scientific angle.
It is an inevitable consequence of capitalism that the government becomes an agent of big business.
It is an inevitable consequence of socialism that the government becomes the agent of big business.
Voraciousness of any sort is regulated by failure - see Hitler. But when greed is elevated to the highest status, the mechanisms which regulate it are minimised.
All empty words which mean nothing.
Except that that hasn't really happened, beyond a lag in the increase of pension age while life expectancy increases. But that's being fixed by increasing state pension age.
LOL
1) The time taken to make up for the pension problem above;
Uh huh
2) A mature, stable tax avoidance industry, which means that the richest have gone from paying 50% tax to below 10%,
And your solution of taxing all the rich 90% will magically fix all our problems overnight with absolutely no negative repercussions for anyone?
3) The inefficiency of involving the private sector. For example, in the UK we used to have a lot of state housing, but now most of it has been sold off cheaply. One of the state's biggest working age welfare payouts now is to private landlords.
And the problem is private ownership of housing, or the unsustainable welfare system?
You socialists would crack me up, if your stupidity wasn't such a danger to others.
And your logical fallacy is you spent 30 paragraphs explaining why the GP was wrong, instead of offering your own solution.
It's a hell of a lot harder to actually solve capitalism's problems than to bitch and endlessly complain about it, isn't it?
You mean like the social democracy of post-war West Germany? Or the welfare state of Beveridge and Bevan?
Both of which are still alive and thriving today, right?
SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK.
Capitalism has gotten the US government in to 16Tn debt.
Wrong
The only way to get a country into 16Tn debt is by capitalism.
Post is too stupid; didn't read any further
Maybe you should get rid of some of your bullshit, or stop living beyond your means. Storage space isn't a problem for people who can afford larger houses, or who don't have ten times as much shit as they really need.
No.
You do understand, don't you, that Freedom, Wealth, Education, Commerce, Equality, Human Possibility, all reached new heights after WWII?
For the survivors.
I am sure those who had limbs blown off or lost their entire families to firebombs would be hard pressed to call it a good tradeoff.
Also, because onion and garlic are really tasty.
Yum
Perhaps there have been leaps since, but most people on here are vastly overstating the capabilities of voice recognition software used as an analysis tool.
No we're not. It's you who is underestimating the inevitability of technological advance. This technology will be developed, and sooner rather than later. Period.
I'm no expert either, but it sounds like the toolchain to build code which can run on the GPU. i.e. shaders. Hopefully the experts will chime in and correct me....
I'd just like to say, as a die-hard NVidia fan, this will definitely cause me to take a second look at ATI's offerings. The main thing holding me back from considering them is their heretofore poor Linux compatibility. I run Windows 7 now, but I want to retain the option of Linux usage now or in the future. Good open source ATI drivers plus continued good quality products coming out of ATI would most likely tip me heavily towards ATI in the future.
What do you mean, "tolerates"? They are pulling every dirty trick in the book to keep him out. It won't work though.
Don't worry....when Ron Paul wins we'll fix the problem from the inside.
95% of those are never reviewed because there aren't enough analysts, and computers aren't sophisticated enough to understand human language to any level of usable intelligence. Plus, voice recognition software sucks in English, let alone the dialects used by peasants in Afghanistan and Arabic speaking countries. Native speakers can't even get that stuff right, so your imaginary super computer has no chance.
Imaginary? In 10-15 years, 20 tops, we will have voice recognition software this powerful. What then? Your "solution" is just to bury your head in the sand, betting against technological advancements that will surely come?