Here's the funny part - these gents all came in legally under the immigration laws of their respective times, which is actually perfectly cool.
The problem lies in the fact that the pro-illegal crowd intentionally conflates legal and illegal immigration when trying to paint their opponents as xenophobic, which in turn creates this stupid atmosphere of 'OAMG the administration hatez the dreamers!!!111!!one!!'
If both side of the issue were intellectually honest, this wouldn't even be an issue.
...so how many of these cities are willing to spend their own treasuries to make that happen, or do they not know that a huge quorum of the nations they scold have an average GDP smaller than any one city listed in that 'league'? Solar panels and wind turbines ain't cheap, you know.
Nota Bene: Real Estate never really loses value, since it represents a *tangible* and *useful* item that has a finite supply.
N.B. #2: Yeah, the Dow Jones Industrial Average. See also 1929, 1991, the dot-bust, etc. Very easy to get burned if you speculate on stocks, even when sticking to just the DJIA for your trading portfolio. Also, there was no war in 1930 for the US - that would have to wait at least 11 years.;)
You better hope that's not true. A lot of legitimate sites make next to nothing from advertising and they either can't sell subscriptions or can't get enough through subscriptions.
Here's the problem - they'll make even less in mining bitcoin off their viewers. Back in the day, mining bitcoin was relatively (okay, literally) profitable, since you mined low back then and sold high now.
Nowadays, unless you run a semi-plausible-but-really-warez distribution site (let's face it, that's what most 3rd-party "file storage" sites like Mediafire or Openload nowadays are) with billions of hits a week, it makes no sense at all to even try at mining bitcoin this way.
This is likely why a lot of these new minejacking sites are trying to mine alternate cryptocurrencies nowadays (basically, they're hoping to mine low and sell high like the Bitcoin pioneers did.)
Personally, I think the next big thing would be for the torrent client devs to start putting miners into their products... with that, you can mine natively and send the results back to the mothership to fund more development. *That* could make a ton of dosh (at least enough to keep your devs in more than a little dough.)
I find it easier to just turn off everything on the weekends, go get stuff done (be it fun, necessary, whatever), and just enjoy being alive. The phone stays in my pocket unless I need to make a call (or get one - and notifications are turned off for anything that doesn't involve me putting the thing against my ear and responding with "hello?")
You should try it sometime. It's pretty fun. So far this year, I've managed to get a garden going, build a greenhouse, partially build a new home office (waiting on the shell to arrive soon), watch the salmon run up the river near my home, read a ton of cool books, meet cool people at various events, go do stuff, go see stuff...
The point here is not to brag - the point is that there is a balance that's needed. There's idle time to fart around with your phone, and there's idle time where you need to rebuild your sense of soul and presence in this world.
Not exactly. Those of us who live in rural environs tend to shop online for things we otherwise cannot get without spending 2-3 hours behind the wheel.
Depends on their deductible, really. Typical is something like $2.5-$5k or so.
A $25k deductible tells me this is either one very stupid (or rather, a stupidly skinflint) homeowner, or some massively shit insurance. Bumping to a $5k or $10 deductible and banking that cash in savings I can understand, but $25k? damn...
I never stated that hurricanes were good for the economy, nor did I recommend destruction in order to stimulate said economy. I merely stated that a frigton of temporary jobs would come of it, and why.
Given that the hurricane-stricken areas are in semi-tropical places where construction can (and probably does) happen year-round, I'm betting that there will be a massive boom in construction jobs coming in the next month or two, and lasting maybe 6 months or more. Someone's gotta rebuild all that stuff, after all...
I think I'd heard of it offhand, I but never saw it (I was up in CO and then JF, in Oregon).
(...besides, I was too busy laughing at the HWW ("How We Work") initiative, where they got rid of the cubes in a chunk of Jones Farm (JF-2, I believe) and went with an open floor plan that world+dog could see - inside or outside the building. Everyone assigned there apparently discovered that they would be more productive if they did their work in conference rooms and from home.)
On the plus side, at least neither of us worked in Viiv. From what I heard, that was a Class-A clusterfuck from the word 'go' (and --rumor, mind-- the leadership in that group left lipstick all over the entire C-level's underwear, so it lived a whole hell of a lot longer than it should have.)
It's not as common to have groups (or divisions, or whatever) openly (and with executive blessing) competing directly against each other, poaching workers from each other, etc. I mean yeah, many companies have something similar, but Intel took it to amazingly high levels of political/social back-stabbery. If your group's leadership wasn't a pack of wolves and/or your product wasn't a stock-busting smash hit, your group didn't last too awful long.
Dude was CEO when I worked there. He was a pretty decent guy (at least to the employees. To AMD, not so much.) I will say that I didn't like the idea of having R&D projects competing not only for resources, but manpower. If your project died (like Digital Home Group, which I was in), you had to go into the 'pool' until you could find another project to work for (and if you didn't by the third month, you were unemployed.) There were some groups that were guaranteed to live forever (Server Group, anyone?), but most had to fight like hell to remain relevant, remain visible to management, and survive. While I understand how it creates better products (in a way) and culls dead-end ones, it led to more than a bit of instability among the R&D half of the company...
When it comes to news, yeah, there are entities out there who (for whatever reason) will publish crap, misdirection, and propaganda. However, that's been a constant since Herr Gutenberg first thought "Hey, what can we print on this thing besides The Bible"? I mean, c'mon, the term "Yellow Journalism" predates computers, let alone the Internet.
Secondly, nobody is claiming that Joe Sixpack can assess *all* claims... not even professional news/media organizations can do that competently most of the time.
Example? No sweat: The stupid discussions going on about "silencers." Forget pro or con, most people in the professional media talking about them discuss some James-Bond fantasy version that magically makes loud gunfire whisper-quiet. They also have zero clue as to how damned hot (to the point of melting) one would get when/if you run a frig-ton of bullets through it. But hey - that's not crap 'news', is it? Oh, wait - it is. Again, pro or con, I don't care about the argument you bear about them... just get the damned facts right from people who make and use the things.
But then, any reasonable human being (that is, not a mouth-breathing ideologue) can reach out and look these things up if needed - doubly so if it has a strong probability of affecting policy. 2 minutes and a YouTube video showing a few in action should be sufficient, yet nearly all of the 'trusted' media has, to date, not even bothered with doing that tiny fleck of research (let alone challenge as politician who spouts off such inaccuracy).
However, where even the professionals fail, people come through - discussion and (non-trolling) debate more often than not will disprove the fake and confirm the real. Take Facebook - most garbage stories are usually disproven in very short order within one's given social group, so long as there is a diversity of expertise and opinion. Works in real life too, if you let it.
Another item to consider: Who gets to be the Ministry of Truth? How can you certify them to be unbiased and fair in their assessments, especially when everybody's got a slant?
But he couldn't have... he was too busy hiding in my closet, waiting for me to fall asleep so he could whisper the word "Trump" repeatedly in my ear as I slept...
I believe you're comparing a 4G home Internet connection to a 4G phone plan... these folks are only using their phones.
Also, incidentally, I had (and still have) Exede. Their 30GB Liberty Pass plan used to cost me $169/mo after fees, taxes, etc. (nowadays I only pay $50/mo for their 10GB plan since it's just a backup - working from home lets me write it off on taxes). Once you blow through your cap, you can pay $10-20/GB for more data, or suffer through ISDN speeds (they say it's 1-5bps, but I have never experienced that speed after blowing the cap.)
By contrast, for $169/mo I can get 4 Verizon phones with "unlimited" data and have change left over.;)
iow, Verizon probably won't run broadband lines to these areas.
I wouldn't be so sure... not even a month after Frontier ran fiber (and more importantly, dropped DSL access points) along the highway in front of my (damned rural) property, other telcos announced plans to do the same, and my former Sat Internet provider suddenly decided they wanted to offer me near-drastically lower prices to keep me as a customer.
This is the case where I live. Only Verizon will cough up any signal at all (depending on phone brand, model, etc) - though if you have T-Mobile or Sprint out here, you might get lucky and have enough signal to make a phone call.
There's a big difference in pricing scarce resources for local economic conditions, and straight-up lying to customers as to the definition of "unlimited" when you're trying to sucker them into signing a contract.
Anecdotal I know, but it will make sense: Out here in the sticks, a lot of folks use their phones as a de-facto Internet connection (video, FB, whatever), since an actual hardline ISP connection is either out of their budget (Satellite) and otherwise technically unavailable in their neighborhood (DSL, Cable, fiber, etc... even Sat is impossible to get on some properties due to trees, hills, etc). Other folks figure there's no need to bother with a full-on laptop/desktop if their phones do pretty much the same thing.
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Nota Bene: Many != All.
Here's the funny part - these gents all came in legally under the immigration laws of their respective times, which is actually perfectly cool.
The problem lies in the fact that the pro-illegal crowd intentionally conflates legal and illegal immigration when trying to paint their opponents as xenophobic, which in turn creates this stupid atmosphere of 'OAMG the administration hatez the dreamers!!!111!!one!!'
If both side of the issue were intellectually honest, this wouldn't even be an issue.
...so how many of these cities are willing to spend their own treasuries to make that happen, or do they not know that a huge quorum of the nations they scold have an average GDP smaller than any one city listed in that 'league'? Solar panels and wind turbines ain't cheap, you know.
Nota Bene: Real Estate never really loses value, since it represents a *tangible* and *useful* item that has a finite supply.
N.B. #2: Yeah, the Dow Jones Industrial Average. See also 1929, 1991, the dot-bust, etc. Very easy to get burned if you speculate on stocks, even when sticking to just the DJIA for your trading portfolio. Also, there was no war in 1930 for the US - that would have to wait at least 11 years. ;)
I miss the 'Borg' icon, dammit. Y'all need to bring that back.
You better hope that's not true. A lot of legitimate sites make next to nothing from advertising and they either can't sell subscriptions or can't get enough through subscriptions.
Here's the problem - they'll make even less in mining bitcoin off their viewers. Back in the day, mining bitcoin was relatively (okay, literally) profitable, since you mined low back then and sold high now.
Nowadays, unless you run a semi-plausible-but-really-warez distribution site (let's face it, that's what most 3rd-party "file storage" sites like Mediafire or Openload nowadays are) with billions of hits a week, it makes no sense at all to even try at mining bitcoin this way.
This is likely why a lot of these new minejacking sites are trying to mine alternate cryptocurrencies nowadays (basically, they're hoping to mine low and sell high like the Bitcoin pioneers did.)
Personally, I think the next big thing would be for the torrent client devs to start putting miners into their products... with that, you can mine natively and send the results back to the mothership to fund more development. *That* could make a ton of dosh (at least enough to keep your devs in more than a little dough.)
I find it easier to just turn off everything on the weekends, go get stuff done (be it fun, necessary, whatever), and just enjoy being alive. The phone stays in my pocket unless I need to make a call (or get one - and notifications are turned off for anything that doesn't involve me putting the thing against my ear and responding with "hello?")
You should try it sometime. It's pretty fun. So far this year, I've managed to get a garden going, build a greenhouse, partially build a new home office (waiting on the shell to arrive soon), watch the salmon run up the river near my home, read a ton of cool books, meet cool people at various events, go do stuff, go see stuff...
The point here is not to brag - the point is that there is a balance that's needed. There's idle time to fart around with your phone, and there's idle time where you need to rebuild your sense of soul and presence in this world.
Not exactly. Those of us who live in rural environs tend to shop online for things we otherwise cannot get without spending 2-3 hours behind the wheel.
Depends on their deductible, really. Typical is something like $2.5-$5k or so.
A $25k deductible tells me this is either one very stupid (or rather, a stupidly skinflint) homeowner, or some massively shit insurance. Bumping to a $5k or $10 deductible and banking that cash in savings I can understand, but $25k? damn...
This deserves more than merely saying it, but... WHOOSH!
I never stated that hurricanes were good for the economy, nor did I recommend destruction in order to stimulate said economy. I merely stated that a frigton of temporary jobs would come of it, and why.
QED: I posted no fallacy here.
Given that the hurricane-stricken areas are in semi-tropical places where construction can (and probably does) happen year-round, I'm betting that there will be a massive boom in construction jobs coming in the next month or two, and lasting maybe 6 months or more. Someone's gotta rebuild all that stuff, after all...
I think I'd heard of it offhand, I but never saw it (I was up in CO and then JF, in Oregon).
(...besides, I was too busy laughing at the HWW ("How We Work") initiative, where they got rid of the cubes in a chunk of Jones Farm (JF-2, I believe) and went with an open floor plan that world+dog could see - inside or outside the building. Everyone assigned there apparently discovered that they would be more productive if they did their work in conference rooms and from home.)
On the plus side, at least neither of us worked in Viiv. From what I heard, that was a Class-A clusterfuck from the word 'go' (and --rumor, mind-- the leadership in that group left lipstick all over the entire C-level's underwear, so it lived a whole hell of a lot longer than it should have.)
It's not as common to have groups (or divisions, or whatever) openly (and with executive blessing) competing directly against each other, poaching workers from each other, etc. I mean yeah, many companies have something similar, but Intel took it to amazingly high levels of political/social back-stabbery. If your group's leadership wasn't a pack of wolves and/or your product wasn't a stock-busting smash hit, your group didn't last too awful long.
No shit... that blows.
Dude was CEO when I worked there. He was a pretty decent guy (at least to the employees. To AMD, not so much.) I will say that I didn't like the idea of having R&D projects competing not only for resources, but manpower. If your project died (like Digital Home Group, which I was in), you had to go into the 'pool' until you could find another project to work for (and if you didn't by the third month, you were unemployed.) There were some groups that were guaranteed to live forever (Server Group, anyone?), but most had to fight like hell to remain relevant, remain visible to management, and survive. While I understand how it creates better products (in a way) and culls dead-end ones, it led to more than a bit of instability among the R&D half of the company...
Those are some bad, bad analogies.
When it comes to news, yeah, there are entities out there who (for whatever reason) will publish crap, misdirection, and propaganda. However, that's been a constant since Herr Gutenberg first thought "Hey, what can we print on this thing besides The Bible"? I mean, c'mon, the term "Yellow Journalism" predates computers, let alone the Internet.
Secondly, nobody is claiming that Joe Sixpack can assess *all* claims... not even professional news/media organizations can do that competently most of the time.
Example? No sweat: The stupid discussions going on about "silencers." Forget pro or con, most people in the professional media talking about them discuss some James-Bond fantasy version that magically makes loud gunfire whisper-quiet. They also have zero clue as to how damned hot (to the point of melting) one would get when/if you run a frig-ton of bullets through it. But hey - that's not crap 'news', is it? Oh, wait - it is. Again, pro or con, I don't care about the argument you bear about them... just get the damned facts right from people who make and use the things.
But then, any reasonable human being (that is, not a mouth-breathing ideologue) can reach out and look these things up if needed - doubly so if it has a strong probability of affecting policy. 2 minutes and a YouTube video showing a few in action should be sufficient, yet nearly all of the 'trusted' media has, to date, not even bothered with doing that tiny fleck of research (let alone challenge as politician who spouts off such inaccuracy).
However, where even the professionals fail, people come through - discussion and (non-trolling) debate more often than not will disprove the fake and confirm the real. Take Facebook - most garbage stories are usually disproven in very short order within one's given social group, so long as there is a diversity of expertise and opinion. Works in real life too, if you let it.
Another item to consider: Who gets to be the Ministry of Truth? How can you certify them to be unbiased and fair in their assessments, especially when everybody's got a slant?
Yes, I'm sure cartoons will fix all of their problems.
Don't be so dismissive...
But he couldn't have... he was too busy hiding in my closet, waiting for me to fall asleep so he could whisper the word "Trump" repeatedly in my ear as I slept...
Wait... why?
Since when do we need a digital Mommy and Daddy to decide for us what is real and/or fake?
It's not your job (nor Google's, nor Facebook's) to become the Ministry of Truth for the masses. Be an adult and do it for yourself.
I believe you're comparing a 4G home Internet connection to a 4G phone plan... these folks are only using their phones.
Also, incidentally, I had (and still have) Exede. Their 30GB Liberty Pass plan used to cost me $169/mo after fees, taxes, etc. (nowadays I only pay $50/mo for their 10GB plan since it's just a backup - working from home lets me write it off on taxes). Once you blow through your cap, you can pay $10-20/GB for more data, or suffer through ISDN speeds (they say it's 1-5bps, but I have never experienced that speed after blowing the cap.)
By contrast, for $169/mo I can get 4 Verizon phones with "unlimited" data and have change left over. ;)
iow, Verizon probably won't run broadband lines to these areas.
I wouldn't be so sure... not even a month after Frontier ran fiber (and more importantly, dropped DSL access points) along the highway in front of my (damned rural) property, other telcos announced plans to do the same, and my former Sat Internet provider suddenly decided they wanted to offer me near-drastically lower prices to keep me as a customer.
This is the case where I live. Only Verizon will cough up any signal at all (depending on phone brand, model, etc) - though if you have T-Mobile or Sprint out here, you might get lucky and have enough signal to make a phone call.
There's a big difference in pricing scarce resources for local economic conditions, and straight-up lying to customers as to the definition of "unlimited" when you're trying to sucker them into signing a contract.
They wouldn't have to.
Anecdotal I know, but it will make sense: Out here in the sticks, a lot of folks use their phones as a de-facto Internet connection (video, FB, whatever), since an actual hardline ISP connection is either out of their budget (Satellite) and otherwise technically unavailable in their neighborhood (DSL, Cable, fiber, etc... even Sat is impossible to get on some properties due to trees, hills, etc). Other folks figure there's no need to bother with a full-on laptop/desktop if their phones do pretty much the same thing.