It is becoming more and more difficult to produce a new techology in your garage without serious funding.
Yeah...that's probably what overly content engineers said about the time the first Apple computer was being invented.
The people who are too comfortable to risk trying are the first to say it is too hard. The majority of new businesses fail. The few that survive do so because the owner (a) probably failed multiple times before and finally figured the whole 'running a business for profit not personal amusement' thing out, and (b) they stuffed their whole life and identity into it.
I'm personally content to sit here making a nice salary and achieve way below my potential to create astounding things.
My two -- soon to be three...and then four...and then five -- kids are _very_ appreciative of it. You need to decide for yourself what is most important. Do you want to be passingly remembered by mobs of unwashed masses who buy your product and think its cool for a year or two before chucking it (ala Rubik's Cube or even the Apple computer)? Or do you want to invest your genius into raising great human beings. I've chosen the latter and will never regret it.
The company wouldn't have failed if management -- you know...the folks who get all of the money while we get rah-rah speeches -- had done its job.
I go to work for a day, do a day's work, and get paid for a day. Everything else is optional. Company loyalty is a fairy tale told to children who don't know any better.
Have you ever even been in a union? Unions protect you from getting fired for punching in a minute late.
Yeah, sure...I've seen firsthand what unions do.
Unions keep the slacker from being fired who was found asleep on the day shift when the company prez toured the plant. Unions kept the slackers from being fired...until the whole place went under from being overloaded with slackers, costing Westbrook, Maine, hundreds of jobs.
I was stationed there for 3 years and disgusted the entire time. As if America's perpetually-adolescent adult comic readers weren't sickening enough, Japan's industry is nothing but porn.
Sadly, porn sells to the multitude of sickos out there.
Online sales should be treated just like other sales. If the company has a presence in the state in which you live, the state should be able to tax it. If not, no tax. Just like ordering over the phone.
Using computers rather than talking on the phone should make no difference on whether or not a transaction is taxed.
People act like commerce via the Internet is some special thing. It's not. The Internet is a tool. The same rules should apply no matter what tool is used.
I just bought a new BK500 on ebay, and it arrived yesterday. I spent a good part of today reorganizing my cables and installing and 'figging nut [exploits.org]. Now I find out the damned thing has been recalled. I swear, if it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all.
At least you didn't spend three months harassing the fulfillment house for the rebates....
He can't move out of the area, because he has an ex-wife and joint custody of the children. So he's screwed.
"If someone isn't getting a job, it's probably because their skills are a bunch of fantasy or they are anti-social whiners" is just complete and utter BULLSHIT -- at least in Seattle.
Well...that's a nice, extreme case. Is it anywhere near the typical case about which I was talking? No.
On the otherhand, could your friend have picked anymore ways to screw himself over?
* Divorce with kids * Choosing one of the most expensive cities in the US to reside. * Apparently working in a bubble sector every reasonable person knew wouldn't and couldn't last.
I feel a bit badly for your friend; but he chose his (wrong) wife and the overpriced city in which he lived.
More importantly to this conversation, his case is far from typical of what we're discussing here.
Meanwhile the Boomers are threatening to break into the Social Security "lockbox". Our money, not theirs.
Get a clue.
There is no 'lockbox'. You've just bought into a total lie.
What Social Security has is a bunch of IOUs in the form of bonds from the US Treasury. And guess who gets to pay off those bonds with interest? You and me.
The Boomers created the Social Security crisis. Let's force our legislators to get rid of the program and let the Boomers deal with the mess they made.
Only until we collectively get a backbone and force our legislators to cutoff the freeloading Boomers.
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Moral: Get a good woman that will ride you ass about saving money and investing in the future and you just might have a future in which you can enjoy life and help out others.
I think you have the positions a little mixed up.;-)
The top 3 most wonderful things my wife has said to me: (1) Yes, I'll marry you! (2) I'm pregnant! (3) I don't need a new car.
Fine; but I don't even toothpaste without shopping around and making sure it is worth what I'm paying.
People can make excuses all that they want. However, every Social Work major I knew at Boston University knew EXACTLY how little they would make at social work; and how it would never pay enough to make up for what they spent at college. Yet they still chose to pay $100K+ for a worthless degree.
The sad thing is I think George W Bush thinks going to war will help the economy.
Um...no.
He probably thinks, like I do, that getting rid of Hussein before he starts handing out and/or using WMD is a good idea. The alternative, apparently in the mind of most Liberals, is to use thousands of our fellow citizens as canaries whose deaths will be the only warning Liberals accept as valid.
I'm a Reservist in a unit that will probably be activated when this happens. I'll take an immediate 50% pay cut (as an officer, no less!) because military pay sucks so much; and I'll be away from my family for a year. I'll also probably end up somewhere I'll likely be shot at.
Do I want to go to war? Yes, because I want my kids to live with a less immediate threat of being nuked/gassed/etc. even if it puts me in danger. Hussein has already used nerve gas against his own people. I'm not willing to wait for him (or his terrorist buddies) to use them against my country (or my family or friends) before I act.
Who pays for all these goverment jobs and their lavish perks?
Too true. The Canucks (and the Brits and the....) are in for a lot of rude surprises as their 'benevolent socialism' collapses under its own weight. You can't spend it if it's not there. When the Boomers retire, it won't be there anymore. They didn't even pay for themselves. Who will a far smaller group of taxpayers pay for more? It won't; and the Boomers will end up poor in the streets when the next generation gets a backbone.
You make a good point, but you actually underestimate the power that a *depression* would have on people's attitudes.
Ask someone who remembers. You'll be too concerned with your next meal to worry about whether you have a place to plug in a tv.
Sounds like you're making his point for him. People will focus on the important facts (aka life is fragile and uncertain and we need to save and plan for the future) instead of assuming someone else will clean up stupid mistakes made by the foolish.
You PAID tuition to make $18,600 your first year out? {!!LMAO!!} Heck...I could do that bagging groceries.
There's the other mistake a lot of fools make: Going to college to learn a hobby, like social work.
If your intended college major doesn't basically guarantee a starting salary over $40K, drop out or don't go in the first place. It's a waste of your time and money.
Better yet: Get the credit card and only buy things for which you can pay. This will establish a GOOD credit history.
And the first time you can't pay off the balance cancel the card and live by cash until you can be responsible.
I had Discover card in college that never had a balance at the end of the cycle over $70; and I paid it off each month. That way I had a good credit history; and if a TRUE emergency -- not the daily piddly things people seem to love to mislabel emergencies, like a bad hair day -- came along, I had the ability to deal with it.
...and because the gov't raided the "surplus" to make it look like they were paying off the national debt.
I agree; but say the truth. It wasn't some nebulous "gov't" that did it. It was a group of legislators voted in by the Boomers and urged by the Boomers to spend money that wasn't there for handouts they knew we'd be forced to shoulder.
And they didn't care what that did to us. They just wanted to feel good about themselves without a concern about what it did to future taxpayers.
Kill off Social Security. Let the Boomers pay for their own stupidity.
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What a freeloader you are!!!
Your 'contributions' to Social Security weren't even enough to pay for current levels of handouts. You're just stealing from the next generation way more than what you put in, even if it went up in value at least as much as the Dow Index.
Social Security is a scam that needs to go away. For all of those years you let -- probably urged -- your legislators to create more handouts to people who never did anything to earn it; and you expect me to pay for your wastefulness!! The past is coming home to roost. Stand by for the death of Social Security. Amen!!
But the most vocal complainers are people like *you* that want to shove all this off as not your problem. A *perfect* example of what the older folks have been saying about our generation.
What a bunch of crap. She was right on.
I have friends in several significant cities; and they (and I) know lots of places that are hiring at good salaries with good benefits. If someone isn't getting a job, it's probably because their skills are a bunch of fantasy or they are anti-social whiners.
The people succeeding now are the ones with solid technical/analytical skills, a personality, and who didn't spend the last 5 years competing in the "I can accumulate the most debt" contest.
Which "older folks" are you supposedly hearing from? The Boomers...aka the biggest whiners and freeloaders in history?
Perhaps you should listen to the Boomers' parents, who made their living (in general) by making friends, working together, doing real work, and not wasting their resources on frivolous thrills. They made an amazing legacy that the Boomers squandered and the so-called Xers (my age bracket but definitely not my mindset) imitated their expectation that everything would be handed to them.
Oddly, I bought a second to replace the first because I had invested in a large quantity of ink cartridges during a sale. It turned out to be cheaper to buy a second Canon and use up the ink rather than shift to a new printer. Once this ink is gone, though, I'll never buy another Canon.
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It is becoming more and more difficult to produce a new techology in your garage without serious funding.
Yeah...that's probably what overly content engineers said about the time the first Apple computer was being invented.
The people who are too comfortable to risk trying are the first to say it is too hard. The majority of new businesses fail. The few that survive do so because the owner (a) probably failed multiple times before and finally figured the whole 'running a business for profit not personal amusement' thing out, and (b) they stuffed their whole life and identity into it.
I'm personally content to sit here making a nice salary and achieve way below my potential to create astounding things.
My two -- soon to be three...and then four...and then five -- kids are _very_ appreciative of it. You need to decide for yourself what is most important. Do you want to be passingly remembered by mobs of unwashed masses who buy your product and think its cool for a year or two before chucking it (ala Rubik's Cube or even the Apple computer)? Or do you want to invest your genius into raising great human beings. I've chosen the latter and will never regret it.
Grow up.
The company wouldn't have failed if management -- you know...the folks who get all of the money while we get rah-rah speeches -- had done its job.
I go to work for a day, do a day's work, and get paid for a day. Everything else is optional. Company loyalty is a fairy tale told to children who don't know any better.
Have you ever even been in a union? Unions protect you from getting fired for punching in a minute late.
Yeah, sure...I've seen firsthand what unions do.
Unions keep the slacker from being fired who was found asleep on the day shift when the company prez toured the plant. Unions kept the slackers from being fired...until the whole place went under from being overloaded with slackers, costing Westbrook, Maine, hundreds of jobs.
go unions....
I was going to suggest unionizing, but like I said, I Am Not A Lawyer Or A Union Organizer.
Unions are for sissies who don't have the brains or the skills to stand on their own two feet.
I totally agree.
I was stationed there for 3 years and disgusted the entire time. As if America's perpetually-adolescent adult comic readers weren't sickening enough, Japan's industry is nothing but porn.
Sadly, porn sells to the multitude of sickos out there.
Online sales should be treated just like other sales. If the company has a presence in the state in which you live, the state should be able to tax it. If not, no tax. Just like ordering over the phone.
Using computers rather than talking on the phone should make no difference on whether or not a transaction is taxed.
People act like commerce via the Internet is some special thing. It's not. The Internet is a tool. The same rules should apply no matter what tool is used.
I just bought a new BK500 on ebay, and it arrived yesterday. I spent a good part of today reorganizing my cables and installing and 'figging nut [exploits.org]. Now I find out the damned thing has been recalled. I swear, if it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all.
At least you didn't spend three months harassing the fulfillment house for the rebates....
Oh...so we should feel free to nerve gas people from a different region or cultural/religious background in our country and that's OK?
He's used the weapons. He'll use them again.
He can't move out of the area, because he has an ex-wife and joint custody of the children. So he's screwed.
"If someone isn't getting a job, it's probably because their skills are a bunch of fantasy or they are anti-social whiners" is just complete and utter BULLSHIT -- at least in Seattle.
Well...that's a nice, extreme case. Is it anywhere near the typical case about which I was talking? No.
On the otherhand, could your friend have picked anymore ways to screw himself over?
* Divorce with kids
* Choosing one of the most expensive cities in the US to reside.
* Apparently working in a bubble sector every reasonable person knew wouldn't and couldn't last.
I feel a bit badly for your friend; but he chose his (wrong) wife and the overpriced city in which he lived.
More importantly to this conversation, his case is far from typical of what we're discussing here.
Meanwhile the Boomers are threatening to break into the Social Security "lockbox". Our money, not theirs.
Get a clue.
There is no 'lockbox'. You've just bought into a total lie.
What Social Security has is a bunch of IOUs in the form of bonds from the US Treasury. And guess who gets to pay off those bonds with interest? You and me.
The Boomers created the Social Security crisis. Let's force our legislators to get rid of the program and let the Boomers deal with the mess they made.
We are so screwed.
Only until we collectively get a backbone and force our legislators to cutoff the freeloading Boomers.
Moral: Get a good woman that will ride you ass about saving money and investing in the future and you just might have a future in which you can enjoy life and help out others.
;-)
I think you have the positions a little mixed up.
The top 3 most wonderful things my wife has said to me:
(1) Yes, I'll marry you!
(2) I'm pregnant!
(3) I don't need a new car.
College was sold to us...like any other product.
Fine; but I don't even toothpaste without shopping around and making sure it is worth what I'm paying.
People can make excuses all that they want. However, every Social Work major I knew at Boston University knew EXACTLY how little they would make at social work; and how it would never pay enough to make up for what they spent at college. Yet they still chose to pay $100K+ for a worthless degree.
Their choice = their fault.
The sad thing is I think George W Bush thinks going to war will help the economy.
Um...no.
He probably thinks, like I do, that getting rid of Hussein before he starts handing out and/or using WMD is a good idea. The alternative, apparently in the mind of most Liberals, is to use thousands of our fellow citizens as canaries whose deaths will be the only warning Liberals accept as valid.
I'm a Reservist in a unit that will probably be activated when this happens. I'll take an immediate 50% pay cut (as an officer, no less!) because military pay sucks so much; and I'll be away from my family for a year. I'll also probably end up somewhere I'll likely be shot at.
Do I want to go to war? Yes, because I want my kids to live with a less immediate threat of being nuked/gassed/etc. even if it puts me in danger. Hussein has already used nerve gas against his own people. I'm not willing to wait for him (or his terrorist buddies) to use them against my country (or my family or friends) before I act.
Who pays for all these goverment jobs and their lavish perks?
Too true. The Canucks (and the Brits and the....) are in for a lot of rude surprises as their 'benevolent socialism' collapses under its own weight. You can't spend it if it's not there. When the Boomers retire, it won't be there anymore. They didn't even pay for themselves. Who will a far smaller group of taxpayers pay for more? It won't; and the Boomers will end up poor in the streets when the next generation gets a backbone.
You make a good point, but you actually underestimate the power that a *depression* would have on people's attitudes.
Ask someone who remembers. You'll be too concerned with your next meal to worry about whether you have a place to plug in a tv.
Sounds like you're making his point for him. People will focus on the important facts (aka life is fragile and uncertain and we need to save and plan for the future) instead of assuming someone else will clean up stupid mistakes made by the foolish.
You PAID tuition to make $18,600 your first year out? {!!LMAO!!} Heck...I could do that bagging groceries.
There's the other mistake a lot of fools make: Going to college to learn a hobby, like social work.
If your intended college major doesn't basically guarantee a starting salary over $40K, drop out or don't go in the first place. It's a waste of your time and money.
Better yet: Get the credit card and only buy things for which you can pay. This will establish a GOOD credit history.
And the first time you can't pay off the balance cancel the card and live by cash until you can be responsible.
I had Discover card in college that never had a balance at the end of the cycle over $70; and I paid it off each month. That way I had a good credit history; and if a TRUE emergency -- not the daily piddly things people seem to love to mislabel emergencies, like a bad hair day -- came along, I had the ability to deal with it.
Get a grip.
I AM a GenX; and _I_ don't understand your whininess.
I lived frugally and am in great financial shape right now. I've seen a lot of Asia and Europe along the way, too.
Grow up and stop expecting and blaming everyone else for everything.
...and because the gov't raided the "surplus" to make it look like they were paying off the national debt.
I agree; but say the truth. It wasn't some nebulous "gov't" that did it. It was a group of legislators voted in by the Boomers and urged by the Boomers to spend money that wasn't there for handouts they knew we'd be forced to shoulder.
And they didn't care what that did to us. They just wanted to feel good about themselves without a concern about what it did to future taxpayers.
Kill off Social Security. Let the Boomers pay for their own stupidity.
What a freeloader you are!!!
Your 'contributions' to Social Security weren't even enough to pay for current levels of handouts. You're just stealing from the next generation way more than what you put in, even if it went up in value at least as much as the Dow Index.
Social Security is a scam that needs to go away. For all of those years you let -- probably urged -- your legislators to create more handouts to people who never did anything to earn it; and you expect me to pay for your wastefulness!! The past is coming home to roost. Stand by for the death of Social Security. Amen!!
Do for yourself instead of stealing from other.
What a bunch of crap. She was right on.
I have friends in several significant cities; and they (and I) know lots of places that are hiring at good salaries with good benefits. If someone isn't getting a job, it's probably because their skills are a bunch of fantasy or they are anti-social whiners.
The people succeeding now are the ones with solid technical/analytical skills, a personality, and who didn't spend the last 5 years competing in the "I can accumulate the most debt" contest.
Which "older folks" are you supposedly hearing from? The Boomers...aka the biggest whiners and freeloaders in history?
Perhaps you should listen to the Boomers' parents, who made their living (in general) by making friends, working together, doing real work, and not wasting their resources on frivolous thrills. They made an amazing legacy that the Boomers squandered and the so-called Xers (my age bracket but definitely not my mindset) imitated their expectation that everything would be handed to them.
Grow up.
And where was the outrage from the crybabies here when Clinton did the same thing at the start of his term?
It happens every time. Get over it.
Don't like it? Get off your butt and vote next time. At least you'll improve the chance of it being slanted _your_ way.
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Where the heck do you live?!! Liberia?
...sucks. It is a total scam.
Oddly, I bought a second to replace the first because I had invested in a large quantity of ink cartridges during a sale. It turned out to be cheaper to buy a second Canon and use up the ink rather than shift to a new printer. Once this ink is gone, though, I'll never buy another Canon.