I agree that television and facebook are the modern "circus", but perhaps it's because of my age: at some point you just realize it will never stop. Even if the "glorious revolution" were to happen, it all turns to shit again within a couple generations and sometimes sooner.
Well yeah, it turns out of you post anything worthwhile your hosts drop you, you get DDOSed, the US gov't wants to throw you in jail and Swedish women say you raped them.
You subscribe to the common (and completely erroneous) delusion that doctors make a lot of money. While sure it might sound great to say your income is 400k a year as a specialist, and completely ignore the 10+ years of school it took to get there, the student loans, and since medicine is not really a career you can work your way through, that's 10 years of no income too. THEN give half of it to the government in taxes. THEN give half of THAT to the insurance companies for liability insurance. THEN pay for all your supplies. And then you can afford a modest lifestyle.
Well let's see citations of those "studies", while I will point out the collapse of communist regimes around the world, Poland, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, China, etc, where everyone (except party members) was equal. Everyone had to wait in line.
You want change? Start quietly assassinating the rich.
Oh, here's that socialist delusion again. If you assassinate the rich, you will merely end up with other people who take their things and then are rich.
Isn't it funny how all revolutions end up with a new super-class (be it the Party, or the "monarchy" like in N. Korea) that subjugates the rest?
Killing the rich is not the answer. If I have a single dollar more than everyone else, I am rich and therefore you are all poor. What a sensible answer is to allow fairness, to discourage wealth being used to destroy men, and rather to promote the use of said wealth to finance new development and economic growth. That way everyone benefits.
The divide between rich and poor has never been so big
Are you sure about this? I'm sure there was a much bigger difference between a king or duke in the Middle Ages who could order anyone's head chopped off at will, who could seize anyone's land, and who could basically do what he wanted, to people today.
Nowadays the "ultra rich" may be able to afford many homes and travel often. But unless they fly out of non commercial terminals, they still have to stand in the TSA line line everyone else. They can't kill anyone or have anyone killed. They can't drive drunk. No, all they have is "bigger" toys, but the POWER that comes with riches is gone - reserved by governments only.
So yeah, there might be more zeroes at the end of the net worth of rich people than there were before, but considering that "poor" people and "middle class" people usually have shelter, television, transport (private or public), food, etc, it's actually the poor who are better off than ever before.
Bread and circuses. It's been this way for thousands of years - you're just realizing it?
For a while we had a chance to build a different world. But human nature (I'm too lazy to do it myself so I will "trust" my politician/god/celebrity to do it for me) won out in the end. So either continue to be a sheep, or be a wolf.
we're consuming resources faster then we're replenishing them.
The law of conservation of matter is against you there. No resources are actually "consumed". The problem is one of distribution. The more people there are, the less steel, aluminum, gold, corn, etc there is per head. THAT is the problem. But everything used can be recycled, given enough energy. We can't create new elements out of thin air, however.
Plus imagine what would happen to the population if people started living forever. Living forever means being able to fuck forever. Of course mandatory sterilization would be impossible to implement, and of course the babies would want to live forever too, so we would truly see a population explosion like never before.
Ahh but you forget trauma and violent death. No one lives forever, even if your body was capable of it. Eventually you will see enough of your friends and loved ones die, and the world will change so much, that you will probably consider suicide.
And I want new coronary arteries. I had my first heart attack at age 28, had quintuple bypass surgery at age 33, and have just now, aged 42, had a third heart attack and a mere 7 stents installed. But I can't predict the weather!:)
Ahh but here's the kicker - I give you a choice - have your body begin to wither at age 40, and die at around age 70, or have your body be perfect until age 150, and you die of cancer at age 160?
They "innovated", you know, by making a new version of an iPod (with a broken antenna this time), by making a little bit better net-book, and by remaking the HP tablet PC from 2001, except without all those bothersome functional ports and things, but with less memory and computing power. Yup, real innovation. They did put the prices up a lot though. But just now they put them "down" about 8%.
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What's your net income after paying loans, taxes, insurance and operational expenses?
So small that I quit medicine and I do something else that pays a little more with far less hassle. And I ain't the only one.
I agree that television and facebook are the modern "circus", but perhaps it's because of my age: at some point you just realize it will never stop. Even if the "glorious revolution" were to happen, it all turns to shit again within a couple generations and sometimes sooner.
This is all so fucked up, we should all go back to basic internet principles. The internet should not be used for anything other than porn.
Well yeah, it turns out of you post anything worthwhile your hosts drop you, you get DDOSed, the US gov't wants to throw you in jail and Swedish women say you raped them.
Yep - it's on the front page of CNN, too.
Next we get to find out what Zuckerberg found between his teeth yesterday. Stay tuned!
Fucking losers. Facebook is so 2009.
You subscribe to the common (and completely erroneous) delusion that doctors make a lot of money. While sure it might sound great to say your income is 400k a year as a specialist, and completely ignore the 10+ years of school it took to get there, the student loans, and since medicine is not really a career you can work your way through, that's 10 years of no income too. THEN give half of it to the government in taxes. THEN give half of THAT to the insurance companies for liability insurance. THEN pay for all your supplies. And then you can afford a modest lifestyle.
Love,
A physician.
Does this malware tool come with its own exploits built in like all the other Microsoft software?
Well let's see citations of those "studies", while I will point out the collapse of communist regimes around the world, Poland, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, China, etc, where everyone (except party members) was equal. Everyone had to wait in line.
Well, even Steve Jobs couldn't get some shurikens past airport security. Surely he could afford a charter...
You want change? Start quietly assassinating the rich.
Oh, here's that socialist delusion again. If you assassinate the rich, you will merely end up with other people who take their things and then are rich.
Isn't it funny how all revolutions end up with a new super-class (be it the Party, or the "monarchy" like in N. Korea) that subjugates the rest?
Killing the rich is not the answer. If I have a single dollar more than everyone else, I am rich and therefore you are all poor. What a sensible answer is to allow fairness, to discourage wealth being used to destroy men, and rather to promote the use of said wealth to finance new development and economic growth. That way everyone benefits.
The divide between rich and poor has never been so big
Are you sure about this? I'm sure there was a much bigger difference between a king or duke in the Middle Ages who could order anyone's head chopped off at will, who could seize anyone's land, and who could basically do what he wanted, to people today.
Nowadays the "ultra rich" may be able to afford many homes and travel often. But unless they fly out of non commercial terminals, they still have to stand in the TSA line line everyone else. They can't kill anyone or have anyone killed. They can't drive drunk. No, all they have is "bigger" toys, but the POWER that comes with riches is gone - reserved by governments only.
So yeah, there might be more zeroes at the end of the net worth of rich people than there were before, but considering that "poor" people and "middle class" people usually have shelter, television, transport (private or public), food, etc, it's actually the poor who are better off than ever before.
Bread and circuses. It's been this way for thousands of years - you're just realizing it?
For a while we had a chance to build a different world. But human nature (I'm too lazy to do it myself so I will "trust" my politician/god/celebrity to do it for me) won out in the end. So either continue to be a sheep, or be a wolf.
No, but I'm sure a counter-suit will be coming shortly.
Or perhaps you're just taking the metaphor too far.
Or perhaps you work for the tax people.
and nothing of value was lost. I hated that guy almost as much as I hate Steve Martin.
Who gets access to treatment?
Oh that's easy. Me, of course.
we're consuming resources faster then we're replenishing them.
The law of conservation of matter is against you there. No resources are actually "consumed". The problem is one of distribution. The more people there are, the less steel, aluminum, gold, corn, etc there is per head. THAT is the problem. But everything used can be recycled, given enough energy. We can't create new elements out of thin air, however.
STOP! Or I will Hnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!
The terrible thing about living forever is it takes so damn long to get there.
You must be young. At my age, the weeks go whooshing past.
Plus imagine what would happen to the population if people started living forever. Living forever means being able to fuck forever. Of course mandatory sterilization would be impossible to implement, and of course the babies would want to live forever too, so we would truly see a population explosion like never before.
I want to live forever.
Ahh but you forget trauma and violent death. No one lives forever, even if your body was capable of it. Eventually you will see enough of your friends and loved ones die, and the world will change so much, that you will probably consider suicide.
And I want new coronary arteries. I had my first heart attack at age 28, had quintuple bypass surgery at age 33, and have just now, aged 42, had a third heart attack and a mere 7 stents installed. But I can't predict the weather! :)
Ahh but here's the kicker - I give you a choice - have your body begin to wither at age 40, and die at around age 70, or have your body be perfect until age 150, and you die of cancer at age 160?
It might not be so bad as it seems.
They "innovated", you know, by making a new version of an iPod (with a broken antenna this time), by making a little bit better net-book, and by remaking the HP tablet PC from 2001, except without all those bothersome functional ports and things, but with less memory and computing power. Yup, real innovation. They did put the prices up a lot though. But just now they put them "down" about 8%.
The internet is global by default, irrespective of where the web-site is hosted or which domain it belongs to.