GM has sucked since they started letting the accountants run the company instead of people who were passionate about producing good cars.
GM quality went out the door in the early 70's, a decision by the company to try to force car buyers to 'upgrade' to a new car more often than what was common back then, every 5 - 7 years, they wanted buyers to replace their cars instead every 2 - 3 years, so they made an active decision to built crap.
Technology was never the issue, neither was the cost to build the car (Labor) or the cost of government regulations. You can see that in that other car manufacturers didn't lose business like GM did, even though all car manufacturers that sell in the US were profitable.
The problem was always GM Managers, Directors and Executives.
For those who don't know, it is actually illegal for government workers to go to work if they are not funded, unless they are on the exceptions list.
So the "government' isn't the one at fault here, it is the 435 Assholes in DC who are having a dick measuring contest and thereby ruining the country.
The budget, since GW left, has been a political football, and those 435 assholes have been fucking over the US Citizenry with it just to prove who has the biggest dick.
I really enjoyed reading the story a few years back that all 2000 people in a little hamlet of about 100 voted for Putin's Puppet... whatever the hell his name was at the time.
You know, when you read ancient texts on travel in the ancient world, they speak of how, before you could see the boundaries of Persia, you could smell it's fragrent forests of spruce and evergreen.
Now look at Persia, for all of the last 2000 years it has been arid and dry... I wonder, was it mankind that burned the wood to heat their homes and cook their food? Or climate change which occured back then?
No, it's simple, where does the money come from? Explain it to me.
i've read the articles and in no one of them does it explicitely state where the extra money comes from.
FYI:
If we say the bottom 10% of Americans will now be freely given a living, that is roughly 33 million people. (citation: https://www.google.com/search?...)
Now there are roughly 136 million earners in the USA. (you'll have to google that yourself, I googled average earnings and then average collected by the IRS from individuals)
No, what is a living wage? $30K?, not where I live in Virginia, $40K? So, yeah, maybe that is enough.
Then those 136 million Americans need to each kick in an extra $13K in taxes to pay for those 33 million who are the bottom 10%. But of course, that doesn't cover the cost of the management of that program... we will say the program has no management and is free.
I am happy to kick in an extra $13K, are you (if you are from the USA?)
Oh, looky there! if I taxe the bottom 20% an extra $13K/year, holy crap, suddenly they are in the bottom 10%! Now I have made the problem worse.
Bottom line, money doesn't fall from trees.
What is happening is that the use of rhetoric is expanding... it has been around for thousands of years (Ask Socrates about it).
But apparently ignorant Business Majors are now discovering it and using it to bend your thinking...
exactly.
And what part of Europe? EU? All 44 Countries? Gee, I think it is pretty awesome that China and the US can each separately compete against 44 countries working together as a group.
I was 39 years old when I graduated with my BS in Physics. (that was january of 1999, so I am old, get over it)
So, two fallacies I see here, 1) Not all degrees are "cram and regurgitate" some actually require you to think.
and more importantly 2) Many, Many jobs will not hire you without that worthless piece of paper that you paid over $50K for. I know, I used to educate myself in libraries. You know, FREE. I was a software developer in 1985, a field engineer, an R&D person, all without a degree, simply because I could PROVE I could do the job, but MOST big companies, well, they aren't hiring you without some external document that shows you (should be able) can do the job, hence that 'union card' we have that we call a college degree.
I spent the first 20 years of my working life working my way up into positions that normally needed a degree, then when HR could, they would lay me off, always because I didn't have the degree... and I would start all over again somewhere else.
With the degree, I have no such problems.
What can you do to save money on your degree (should you chose to get one):
A) Go to a good community college for the first two years, only taking courses that will directly transfer into the 4 year degree you want
B) CLEP! I used this to earn 30 credits that succeeded in saving me from several thousands in tuition! https://clep.collegeboard.org/
C) Use the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to look into job outlooks. https://www.bls.gov/
D) Education for a job is one thing, learning because you are interested is another, do not conflate the two. You can do the second one for free at any good library in the US. The first one, your degree from the State University, for 1/2 the cost of the recognized name university teaches you exactly the same stuff...
Lastly, what is wrong with tech schools? What is wrong with learning a trade?
NOTHING! I know a guy who has his masters in Physics who makes TONS of money as a plumber, much more than he was making with the Masters degree. He reads research papers off of the Physics Archiv and enjoys having enough cash to do whatever he wishes.
Many people argue about which would be better to colonize, mars or the Moon. The moon is closer, easier to launch from, easier to get to and easier to resupply. Mars on the other hand, it is many times further away, it has all the same drawbacks as the Moon, otherwise. So, when thinking of one versus the other, the Moon comes out on top. Neither have a magnetosphere, neither have enough of an atmosphere to consider it useful, however, one receives significantly more solar energy than the other and by dint of it's proximity to Earth, makes it much more attractive as a 'first step'.
I do not think we would ever terraform Mars, but that is the real question, not whether or not we could, we can do anything if we put the resources behind it, but rather if we would.
Would men decide to live constantly in domes beneath the surface of the planet (shielding from radiation requires burying habitats)? Probably, if they had a good enough reason to, but what is that reason?
I see no compelling reason to so do today or in the near future, other than to use that experience to develop the expertise needed for generation ships to other stars... but that is another discussion. And for that expertise, the Moon works just as well as Mars.
As yet we have no desire to build such generation ships, nor any star to go to that would support the population (with any level of certainty), so no need is extant to push us to develop the desired expertise.
Hence, I never vote anymore. Because it is pointless. A dem or a rep will win, people will complain that they want 'change' then vote for the same asshole they voted for last time.
Pointless.
... as someone who has been around a long time, i also see many editors are just more interested in pushing their agenda than in writing the truth. In any area where opinions vary, so like 99.9% of things, editors seem stuck in ONE opinion and push that as absolute truth without even acknowledging that other opinions exist.
It seems that even if the concensus of the leaders in a field is one thing, the editors will only present their own opinion ad nauseum and delete discussions of anything else.
teslas are not the highest selling car by volume or by any other statistic.
Here is another link for you. showing actual sales BY VOLUME in the USA:
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
thank you for the response. I always wonder where these idiots get their info because any short google search shows their stats to be completely made up.
exactly, these idiots live in silicon valley, make over $100K/year, are single and think a tesla is affordable for the average American. The average household in America makes like $60K/year, do you think it is wise to spend 66% of your before tax income on a car???
order a $40,000 one, and post the date you make the order. then post the date they deliver it.
If the two are closer together than 3 months, I will pay your car payment for those three months.
No, it is not. Where did you get that BS from?
Here are the best selling vehicles so far in America:
https://www.businessinsider.co...
Note, Tesla not even in the top ten.
Also, and this is important, NHTSA does not post 'percentages' of safety! You get stars. 1 - 5. Tesla scores 5, so do lots of other car manufacturers.
Tesla/Musk always says lying bullshit like this to pump up sales. It used to be illegal back when we had 'truth in advertising' laws, which the republicans gutted back in the 80's. These days it is just Musk lying as usual!
yep, people are dumb. it is like people saying something weighs 30 Kilograms. No, it has a weight, but it MASSES 30 Kilograms because a kilogram is a unit of mass, not weight.
Hi,
I think it is probably because so few people ever read the manual, coupled with economics... maybe a little HCI dreaming as well.
Back in the 80's and 90's, even then when applications were mostly user unfriendly, many people didn't read the manual, it seemed that only a rare few ever did, then in the 90's people started worrying about user interfaces, so business types figured they could save some money by not printing the manuals, and claim they were 'green' in some sense too.
Just what I recall from those days when there were manuals.
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GM has sucked since they started letting the accountants run the company instead of people who were passionate about producing good cars. GM quality went out the door in the early 70's, a decision by the company to try to force car buyers to 'upgrade' to a new car more often than what was common back then, every 5 - 7 years, they wanted buyers to replace their cars instead every 2 - 3 years, so they made an active decision to built crap. Technology was never the issue, neither was the cost to build the car (Labor) or the cost of government regulations. You can see that in that other car manufacturers didn't lose business like GM did, even though all car manufacturers that sell in the US were profitable. The problem was always GM Managers, Directors and Executives.
By the way she has been fucking over everyone outside (and many inside) Germany. She can go to hell for all I care.
For those who don't know, it is actually illegal for government workers to go to work if they are not funded, unless they are on the exceptions list. So the "government' isn't the one at fault here, it is the 435 Assholes in DC who are having a dick measuring contest and thereby ruining the country. The budget, since GW left, has been a political football, and those 435 assholes have been fucking over the US Citizenry with it just to prove who has the biggest dick.
I really enjoyed reading the story a few years back that all 2000 people in a little hamlet of about 100 voted for Putin's Puppet... whatever the hell his name was at the time.
yes, it does, look up at the tab you have Slashdot open in, the title in the tab is Slashdot: News for Nerds, stuff that matters.
You know, when you read ancient texts on travel in the ancient world, they speak of how, before you could see the boundaries of Persia, you could smell it's fragrent forests of spruce and evergreen. Now look at Persia, for all of the last 2000 years it has been arid and dry... I wonder, was it mankind that burned the wood to heat their homes and cook their food? Or climate change which occured back then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
instead of insulting the above poster, how about you explain it so that it makes sense?
No, it's simple, where does the money come from? Explain it to me. i've read the articles and in no one of them does it explicitely state where the extra money comes from. FYI: If we say the bottom 10% of Americans will now be freely given a living, that is roughly 33 million people. (citation: https://www.google.com/search?...) Now there are roughly 136 million earners in the USA. (you'll have to google that yourself, I googled average earnings and then average collected by the IRS from individuals) No, what is a living wage? $30K?, not where I live in Virginia, $40K? So, yeah, maybe that is enough. Then those 136 million Americans need to each kick in an extra $13K in taxes to pay for those 33 million who are the bottom 10%. But of course, that doesn't cover the cost of the management of that program... we will say the program has no management and is free. I am happy to kick in an extra $13K, are you (if you are from the USA?) Oh, looky there! if I taxe the bottom 20% an extra $13K/year, holy crap, suddenly they are in the bottom 10%! Now I have made the problem worse. Bottom line, money doesn't fall from trees.
What is happening is that the use of rhetoric is expanding... it has been around for thousands of years (Ask Socrates about it). But apparently ignorant Business Majors are now discovering it and using it to bend your thinking...
exactly. And what part of Europe? EU? All 44 Countries? Gee, I think it is pretty awesome that China and the US can each separately compete against 44 countries working together as a group.
So, two fallacies I see here, 1) Not all degrees are "cram and regurgitate" some actually require you to think. and more importantly 2) Many, Many jobs will not hire you without that worthless piece of paper that you paid over $50K for. I know, I used to educate myself in libraries. You know, FREE. I was a software developer in 1985, a field engineer, an R&D person, all without a degree, simply because I could PROVE I could do the job, but MOST big companies, well, they aren't hiring you without some external document that shows you (should be able) can do the job, hence that 'union card' we have that we call a college degree.
I spent the first 20 years of my working life working my way up into positions that normally needed a degree, then when HR could, they would lay me off, always because I didn't have the degree... and I would start all over again somewhere else.
With the degree, I have no such problems.
What can you do to save money on your degree (should you chose to get one):
A) Go to a good community college for the first two years, only taking courses that will directly transfer into the 4 year degree you want B) CLEP! I used this to earn 30 credits that succeeded in saving me from several thousands in tuition! https://clep.collegeboard.org/ C) Use the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to look into job outlooks. https://www.bls.gov/
D) Education for a job is one thing, learning because you are interested is another, do not conflate the two. You can do the second one for free at any good library in the US. The first one, your degree from the State University, for 1/2 the cost of the recognized name university teaches you exactly the same stuff...
Lastly, what is wrong with tech schools? What is wrong with learning a trade?
NOTHING! I know a guy who has his masters in Physics who makes TONS of money as a plumber, much more than he was making with the Masters degree. He reads research papers off of the Physics Archiv and enjoys having enough cash to do whatever he wishes.
I do not think we would ever terraform Mars, but that is the real question, not whether or not we could, we can do anything if we put the resources behind it, but rather if we would.
Would men decide to live constantly in domes beneath the surface of the planet (shielding from radiation requires burying habitats)? Probably, if they had a good enough reason to, but what is that reason?
I see no compelling reason to so do today or in the near future, other than to use that experience to develop the expertise needed for generation ships to other stars... but that is another discussion. And for that expertise, the Moon works just as well as Mars.
As yet we have no desire to build such generation ships, nor any star to go to that would support the population (with any level of certainty), so no need is extant to push us to develop the desired expertise.
Hence, I never vote anymore. Because it is pointless. A dem or a rep will win, people will complain that they want 'change' then vote for the same asshole they voted for last time. Pointless.
did you read this, he is 25 years old, not a 'kid' at all. Just an asshole.
he isn't a 'kid' he is a damn adult!
... as someone who has been around a long time, i also see many editors are just more interested in pushing their agenda than in writing the truth. In any area where opinions vary, so like 99.9% of things, editors seem stuck in ONE opinion and push that as absolute truth without even acknowledging that other opinions exist. It seems that even if the concensus of the leaders in a field is one thing, the editors will only present their own opinion ad nauseum and delete discussions of anything else.
teslas are not the highest selling car by volume or by any other statistic. Here is another link for you. showing actual sales BY VOLUME in the USA: https://www.reuters.com/articl...
thank you for the response. I always wonder where these idiots get their info because any short google search shows their stats to be completely made up.
exactly, these idiots live in silicon valley, make over $100K/year, are single and think a tesla is affordable for the average American. The average household in America makes like $60K/year, do you think it is wise to spend 66% of your before tax income on a car???
order a $40,000 one, and post the date you make the order. then post the date they deliver it. If the two are closer together than 3 months, I will pay your car payment for those three months.
No, it is not. Where did you get that BS from? Here are the best selling vehicles so far in America: https://www.businessinsider.co... Note, Tesla not even in the top ten.
Also, and this is important, NHTSA does not post 'percentages' of safety! You get stars. 1 - 5. Tesla scores 5, so do lots of other car manufacturers. Tesla/Musk always says lying bullshit like this to pump up sales. It used to be illegal back when we had 'truth in advertising' laws, which the republicans gutted back in the 80's. These days it is just Musk lying as usual!
yep, people are dumb. it is like people saying something weighs 30 Kilograms. No, it has a weight, but it MASSES 30 Kilograms because a kilogram is a unit of mass, not weight.
Hi, I think it is probably because so few people ever read the manual, coupled with economics... maybe a little HCI dreaming as well. Back in the 80's and 90's, even then when applications were mostly user unfriendly, many people didn't read the manual, it seemed that only a rare few ever did, then in the 90's people started worrying about user interfaces, so business types figured they could save some money by not printing the manuals, and claim they were 'green' in some sense too. Just what I recall from those days when there were manuals.