That's not the choice that was offered. The choice was take multiple pay cuts until you have to add a part time job or make you wife and kids work. If a company is on a downward spiral the workers don't need to go along for the ride. When a company is doing well the owners deserve to get paid more because they are taking on the risk, but when that risk manifests they want the workers or the local government to shoulder that risk. It doesn't change the outcome, but it changes the culture (in a bad way).
Why would the jobs still be here? The companies probably would have ended up like hostess, always coming back to the table with their hand out. A cut might have delayed things by afew years, but a couple of unions caving in would not have changed the last 50 years. The owners might have made afew more bucks.
Notice how little the upstream changes. I believe Google's fiber is bidirectional so you actually perform an offsite backup or upload some music to your cloud player. This is a major factor for me. I'm not hurting on the downstream and the difference between 30 and 40 is negligible. They are claiming you don't want to pay the extra $75 for 20mb more down, but you are only getting a measly extra 1mb up for that cost, and up is what I will pay more for. On uverse I can't get upstream at any cost.
Running servers on DCHP is old hat.
Put me in the I would love to have it at a reasonable price camp. My big problem is that I am with Uverse and their higher speeds are worthless to me because there is no increase in upstream. Even with many of the cable offerings you can get your "speed" bumped with no upload speed increase. Most people don't know to look for this and they are frustrated when they try to upload some pictures.
Having someone provide constant demonstrations, whether it is talking, walking, or something else is a form of teaching. Google up some information of Feral children and you will see what happens when kids are not taught.
There isn't a hot place on earth that hasn't been negatively impacted by colonialism, so it's hard to do a real analysis. Why were all the largest Native American civilizations located in Central America? Or where they? Most large Native American Civilizations were wiped out by plague.
We are not very good at figuring out what motivates people. Assuming it is money only attracts the people who are motivated by money. While money is a decent motivation for most people, most people also take other things into account. Having people whose primary motivation is money ruin/run our economy is a bad thing.
I like your first point. People forget or were never taught the ways that the colonies were militarized due to the frequent Indian Wars. Most American's don't know that the war of 1812 was really fought against Indians to push them westward. They think that it was due to the British grabbing up some of our sailors.
The revolutionary war was fought against an empire taxing it's citizens to move vast amounts of supplies far distances for no appreciable gain to said citizens. It would be more analogous to our Vietnam war then to any sort of modern "revolution".
Take a long hard look at Syria. You want us to go through that? You want your family to suffer and your loved ones to die? Has it truly come to that in your opinion? Look what happened after both of Russia's revolutions. Read up on the original and look who is in power now after the fall of communism. Sweeping change just gives the chiselers and crooks an opportunity to come out on top. Sure they are the ones that were pretending to be your friends, and they are different then the current ones. Too bad you also knocked a generation on their ass and probably lost a couple hundred thousand lives. Not to mention the environmental stresses a war causes (for all you greenies).
Who says I give anything away. I bill more then you, probably because I am in a more urban area. I generally only give away advice, although some people (present company) don't appreciate the value. I don't wast time cleaning up pc's for the most part. I am more CIO planning, network, server, and forensics. I will happily back up a pc and perform a wipe and basic reinstall for $50. Most of my processes are automated using my egg-head linux server to manage the windows rebuild.
As an aside, it's not wonder you have morons following your posts, downmodding you, and accusing you of being a shill. At the least you appear to be bipolar.
You have posted some useful things in the past and I attempted to reciprocate. Anyone with even a moderate level of technical understanding is wasting their money on consumer level crap. Sure 90 year old Auntie Matilda might have some problems setting up something more advanced, but if I am helping her I am still going with the better quality stuff. It won't crap out unexpectedly and once it's set up it is rock solid. You can even manage it remotely. I would rather check on Aunt Matilda's router remotely every month, then have her call me every other week so I can tell her to powercycle her router.
I have been out of retail for about a decade. I do occasional home network consulting but I explain things in terms that everyday users can understand. Many of them don't care to understand and may not retain it, but I don't talk down to people and assume they are not capable. No complaints and all my business if by word of mouth.
I am also in favor of the 2nd, I just think it's overplayed currently and not really at risk. Despite your opinion to the contrary, Obama doesn't want your guns.
Who cares about the 1st or 4th amendment when we have the 2nd amendment.
I keep telling people that if you have to use the 2nd amendment to correct your government you have already lost. That is all the excuse they need to bring down the boot. Look how well it worked out for Ireland and Pakistan.
Yes, the sad fact is that people need to learn to deal with chronic pain. Medication is for short term pain management. Chronic pain requires other solutions.
They do get paid poorly, but there are afew that get paid well. Usually they work for larger hospitals. These are the ones you see in articles and their wages are touted by the schools that churn out people hoping to make a living sucking the cream out of the middle of our financial transactions. In general, if you work for a hospital you can make money, waste money, and/or be incompetent. They don't care or their layers of bureaucracy are too thick to allow change. If you work for a doc it's hit or miss. Some take care of their staff and retain top notch individuals. Some pay crap and have desk staff that are incompetent jerks.
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That's not the choice that was offered. The choice was take multiple pay cuts until you have to add a part time job or make you wife and kids work. If a company is on a downward spiral the workers don't need to go along for the ride. When a company is doing well the owners deserve to get paid more because they are taking on the risk, but when that risk manifests they want the workers or the local government to shoulder that risk. It doesn't change the outcome, but it changes the culture (in a bad way).
Why would the jobs still be here? The companies probably would have ended up like hostess, always coming back to the table with their hand out. A cut might have delayed things by afew years, but a couple of unions caving in would not have changed the last 50 years. The owners might have made afew more bucks.
Raised your Download speed, upload is sad. Upload is what keeps you from using cloud backup or sharing a bunch of pictures.
Notice how little the upstream changes. I believe Google's fiber is bidirectional so you actually perform an offsite backup or upload some music to your cloud player. This is a major factor for me. I'm not hurting on the downstream and the difference between 30 and 40 is negligible. They are claiming you don't want to pay the extra $75 for 20mb more down, but you are only getting a measly extra 1mb up for that cost, and up is what I will pay more for. On uverse I can't get upstream at any cost.
Offsite backup is upstream bandwidth, it should not affect your downstream Netflix watching.
Running servers on DCHP is old hat.
Put me in the I would love to have it at a reasonable price camp. My big problem is that I am with Uverse and their higher speeds are worthless to me because there is no increase in upstream. Even with many of the cable offerings you can get your "speed" bumped with no upload speed increase. Most people don't know to look for this and they are frustrated when they try to upload some pictures.
Every time I bend over for my corporate overlords (or to pick up something) the phone falls out of my shirt pocket, so I use my trouser pocket.
Having someone provide constant demonstrations, whether it is talking, walking, or something else is a form of teaching. Google up some information of Feral children and you will see what happens when kids are not taught.
There isn't a hot place on earth that hasn't been negatively impacted by colonialism, so it's hard to do a real analysis. Why were all the largest Native American civilizations located in Central America? Or where they? Most large Native American Civilizations were wiped out by plague.
We are not very good at figuring out what motivates people. Assuming it is money only attracts the people who are motivated by money. While money is a decent motivation for most people, most people also take other things into account. Having people whose primary motivation is money ruin/run our economy is a bad thing.
Cisco way or the highway?
There are plenty of alternatives.
Easy access to firearms didn't help the Native American's overcome their lack of access to courts and the general rule of law.
And many were veterans of multiple Indian Wars. Not to mention our Indian Nation allies.
I like your first point. People forget or were never taught the ways that the colonies were militarized due to the frequent Indian Wars. Most American's don't know that the war of 1812 was really fought against Indians to push them westward. They think that it was due to the British grabbing up some of our sailors.
The revolutionary war was fought against an empire taxing it's citizens to move vast amounts of supplies far distances for no appreciable gain to said citizens. It would be more analogous to our Vietnam war then to any sort of modern "revolution".
Take a long hard look at Syria. You want us to go through that? You want your family to suffer and your loved ones to die? Has it truly come to that in your opinion?
Look what happened after both of Russia's revolutions. Read up on the original and look who is in power now after the fall of communism. Sweeping change just gives the chiselers and crooks an opportunity to come out on top. Sure they are the ones that were pretending to be your friends, and they are different then the current ones. Too bad you also knocked a generation on their ass and probably lost a couple hundred thousand lives. Not to mention the environmental stresses a war causes (for all you greenies).
Who says I give anything away. I bill more then you, probably because I am in a more urban area. I generally only give away advice, although some people (present company) don't appreciate the value. I don't wast time cleaning up pc's for the most part. I am more CIO planning, network, server, and forensics. I will happily back up a pc and perform a wipe and basic reinstall for $50. Most of my processes are automated using my egg-head linux server to manage the windows rebuild.
As an aside, it's not wonder you have morons following your posts, downmodding you, and accusing you of being a shill. At the least you appear to be bipolar.
You have posted some useful things in the past and I attempted to reciprocate. Anyone with even a moderate level of technical understanding is wasting their money on consumer level crap. Sure 90 year old Auntie Matilda might have some problems setting up something more advanced, but if I am helping her I am still going with the better quality stuff. It won't crap out unexpectedly and once it's set up it is rock solid. You can even manage it remotely. I would rather check on Aunt Matilda's router remotely every month, then have her call me every other week so I can tell her to powercycle her router.
I have been out of retail for about a decade. I do occasional home network consulting but I explain things in terms that everyday users can understand. Many of them don't care to understand and may not retain it, but I don't talk down to people and assume they are not capable. No complaints and all my business if by word of mouth.
I am also in favor of the 2nd, I just think it's overplayed currently and not really at risk. Despite your opinion to the contrary, Obama doesn't want your guns.
I always throw the cd away.
Plug the router in, wan to wan, lan to any computers, done! No further changes are necessary for DHCP internet.
Who cares about the 1st or 4th amendment when we have the 2nd amendment.
I keep telling people that if you have to use the 2nd amendment to correct your government you have already lost. That is all the excuse they need to bring down the boot. Look how well it worked out for Ireland and Pakistan.
Yes, the sad fact is that people need to learn to deal with chronic pain. Medication is for short term pain management. Chronic pain requires other solutions.
Well, people have to get their pain pills.
because their drug addicts...
They do get paid poorly, but there are afew that get paid well. Usually they work for larger hospitals. These are the ones you see in articles and their wages are touted by the schools that churn out people hoping to make a living sucking the cream out of the middle of our financial transactions.
In general, if you work for a hospital you can make money, waste money, and/or be incompetent. They don't care or their layers of bureaucracy are too thick to allow change. If you work for a doc it's hit or miss. Some take care of their staff and retain top notch individuals. Some pay crap and have desk staff that are incompetent jerks.