Another random fool on the Internet who doesn't know what Luddism is.
Luddism is objecting to the use of new technology to destroy the livelihoods of workers. Objections about fracking are environmental. If you're going to be a meme-spouting Internet nut-job, at least get the terminology right.
For the record, the Luddites were right. Technology could have been used to make everyone's lives better, instead it was used to make everyone's lives worse. The only people to benefit were the rich. The majority saw their livelihoods diminished, they were kicked off the land and forced to work longer hours in more dangerous conditions for less pay and zero job security.
The Luddites opposed the effects of the industrial revolution which directly caused the social conditions we know today as 'Dickensian'.
All your three points admit that water is more important. What use is your electricity and Internet without water to be distributed and boiled?
You're still talking from the perspective of someone with access to drinking water. If those water trucks hadn't come, would you be crying out for the Internet and electricity?
Your opinion comes from a middle-class perspective whereby you take everything else for granted. What would you rather have, access to the Library of Alexandria, or to fix your car so you don't lose your job?
Would you rather read wikipedia or pay for medication? Download ebooks or fix the boiler? Access your bank online, or make sure your electricity isn't cut off?
You talk about basic survival being met as if it's something easy to get done in the first few days before you get on with the important business of playing around on the Internet, whereas it's something that millions of people struggle with every day, even in developed countries, never mind a post-apocalyptic scenario.
You betray your class with the things you consider to be 'vital'. The millions of people who've done without the Internet all their lives don't appear to consider it vital. Surely by definition, if Internet access was vital, people without it would be dead. It may be inconvenient, it may cut you off from society, but being without the Internet is most definitely not vital.
Just because he dedicated his career to working his way up a greasy pole doesn't mean he's worth millions of dollars. The corporate world is full of sharp-elbowed ladder-climbers who don't really do anything other than angle for promotions and line their own pockets.
The comment was that today's first-class is yesterday's baggage compartment. What baggage compartment had the facilities of today's top first-class cabins?
What's Orwellian about it? Driving without insurance is illegal. A database is kept of everyone who has insurance. If someone looks at your registration and it's not on the database, then they know you're breaking the law.
If a policeman stood at the side of the road, looking at passing cars and seeing if their reg. was in a book he was carrying, would that be Orwellian?
You do realise that 'looks good' is entirely subjective? You can throw as many triangles around as you like, it doesn't make it look any better. In many cases, it looks worse because the textures and animations haven't kept up with the technology.
If the whole point of modern PC games is the graphics, then medium settings don't cut it. $1000 to play on mediocre settings. Anything else you want to do with a PC you can do with a cheap, old laptop.
$325 a year, that's the price of a console or a phone, every single year.
You'll find that the top universities actually ban you from working because it will interfere with your studies. And it's pretty optimistic to think you can get 40 hours a week whenever you want them, when millions with degrees and work experience can't get any work, or only part time work.
I'm pretty sure you can go to restaurants and clubs in Vegas any time, you don't need to spend all week looking at TVs that are slightly thinner than the one you already have.
I thought the economic model of Silicon Valley was to make a killing on a stock market before everyone realises your business is worthless? No different to Wall Street really.
Really? My bedroom TV is about 23" and I consider it too big. 32" is a good size for a small living room. If you get too much above that everyone will think you're a drug dealer.
I don't see what functionality Apple can add that isn't already covered by people's satellite/cable boxes.
Really? I thought his voice was pretty terrible, like he was drunk or something. The whole lot of videos really need cleaning up with less scrawly pictures and a better narrator.
Well the median income in the US is about $28k, which in the 2011 tax bands would mean around 13% federal income tax. Even adding in 10% state, social security, and 10% sales taxes on everything you buy, assuming you spend your full post-tax income, you get 38%.
Because working hard on the production line means pay rises, rather than redundancies...
It's funny to see Americans fight against their own interests like this. We're talking about a country where nearly all of the increased productivity and wealth over the last few decades has accumulated with a sickeningly small percentage of the population.
Unions have been smashed, workers have seen their hours increased and their pay barely keep up with inflation, whilst the rich roll around in big piles of cash. This has left them with a crippled economy, soaring debts, and millions unemployed.
Then in their masses they visit Internet forums to tell us all how the problem is lazy workers not working hard enough for their corporate masters.
According to the accounts, it costs $2 per player per month to run WoW. With the box price covering the cost of development, that's $13 of pure gravy. And most of the content is single-player or instanced anyway.
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Of course, they should allow their environment to be destroyed in order to boost economic growth. Because that's working out so well for China.
Another random fool on the Internet who doesn't know what Luddism is.
Luddism is objecting to the use of new technology to destroy the livelihoods of workers. Objections about fracking are environmental. If you're going to be a meme-spouting Internet nut-job, at least get the terminology right.
For the record, the Luddites were right. Technology could have been used to make everyone's lives better, instead it was used to make everyone's lives worse. The only people to benefit were the rich. The majority saw their livelihoods diminished, they were kicked off the land and forced to work longer hours in more dangerous conditions for less pay and zero job security.
The Luddites opposed the effects of the industrial revolution which directly caused the social conditions we know today as 'Dickensian'.
All your three points admit that water is more important. What use is your electricity and Internet without water to be distributed and boiled?
You're still talking from the perspective of someone with access to drinking water. If those water trucks hadn't come, would you be crying out for the Internet and electricity?
Your opinion comes from a middle-class perspective whereby you take everything else for granted. What would you rather have, access to the Library of Alexandria, or to fix your car so you don't lose your job?
Would you rather read wikipedia or pay for medication? Download ebooks or fix the boiler? Access your bank online, or make sure your electricity isn't cut off?
You talk about basic survival being met as if it's something easy to get done in the first few days before you get on with the important business of playing around on the Internet, whereas it's something that millions of people struggle with every day, even in developed countries, never mind a post-apocalyptic scenario.
You betray your class with the things you consider to be 'vital'. The millions of people who've done without the Internet all their lives don't appear to consider it vital. Surely by definition, if Internet access was vital, people without it would be dead. It may be inconvenient, it may cut you off from society, but being without the Internet is most definitely not vital.
Just because he dedicated his career to working his way up a greasy pole doesn't mean he's worth millions of dollars. The corporate world is full of sharp-elbowed ladder-climbers who don't really do anything other than angle for promotions and line their own pockets.
Interestingly, this is the business model which did for 'Game' in the UK. Eventually they alienated the publishers and couldn't get stock.
The comment was that today's first-class is yesterday's baggage compartment. What baggage compartment had the facilities of today's top first-class cabins?
Today's first class has a bed and a shower. What golden era are you thinking of that compares with that?
Why would a shepherd's pie have beef in it?
That's not much of a business plan, it'd have massive overheads and you could only sell to criminals who don't like paying for things.
What's Orwellian about it? Driving without insurance is illegal. A database is kept of everyone who has insurance. If someone looks at your registration and it's not on the database, then they know you're breaking the law.
If a policeman stood at the side of the road, looking at passing cars and seeing if their reg. was in a book he was carrying, would that be Orwellian?
The objections to this are pure Luddism.
You do realise that 'looks good' is entirely subjective? You can throw as many triangles around as you like, it doesn't make it look any better. In many cases, it looks worse because the textures and animations haven't kept up with the technology.
If the whole point of modern PC games is the graphics, then medium settings don't cut it. $1000 to play on mediocre settings. Anything else you want to do with a PC you can do with a cheap, old laptop.
$325 a year, that's the price of a console or a phone, every single year.
No, it's gone up 20%. Just because other things have become more expensive doesn't mean they've gotten cheaper.
Thank god our economic model doesn't depend on endless, compound growth then.
You'll find that the top universities actually ban you from working because it will interfere with your studies. And it's pretty optimistic to think you can get 40 hours a week whenever you want them, when millions with degrees and work experience can't get any work, or only part time work.
I'm pretty sure you can go to restaurants and clubs in Vegas any time, you don't need to spend all week looking at TVs that are slightly thinner than the one you already have.
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I thought the economic model of Silicon Valley was to make a killing on a stock market before everyone realises your business is worthless? No different to Wall Street really.
Really? My bedroom TV is about 23" and I consider it too big. 32" is a good size for a small living room. If you get too much above that everyone will think you're a drug dealer.
I don't see what functionality Apple can add that isn't already covered by people's satellite/cable boxes.
Really? I thought his voice was pretty terrible, like he was drunk or something. The whole lot of videos really need cleaning up with less scrawly pictures and a better narrator.
Well the median income in the US is about $28k, which in the 2011 tax bands would mean around 13% federal income tax. Even adding in 10% state, social security, and 10% sales taxes on everything you buy, assuming you spend your full post-tax income, you get 38%.
Because working hard on the production line means pay rises, rather than redundancies...
It's funny to see Americans fight against their own interests like this. We're talking about a country where nearly all of the increased productivity and wealth over the last few decades has accumulated with a sickeningly small percentage of the population.
Unions have been smashed, workers have seen their hours increased and their pay barely keep up with inflation, whilst the rich roll around in big piles of cash. This has left them with a crippled economy, soaring debts, and millions unemployed.
Then in their masses they visit Internet forums to tell us all how the problem is lazy workers not working hard enough for their corporate masters.
The kool-aid must be pretty strong over there.
According to the accounts, it costs $2 per player per month to run WoW. With the box price covering the cost of development, that's $13 of pure gravy. And most of the content is single-player or instanced anyway.
The states within the USA are not sovereign by pretty much any definition of a sovereign state.