Way to totally ignore the fact that there is a corrosive Left in this country which DESPISES anyone who doesn't share their opinions, and simply does not recognize their right to political representation. Did we just suddenly forget this?
Oh, please. There is no Left in this country. The unions have been destroyed and Socialism is a dirty word. Even the supposed "left" party, the Democrats will not raise taxes on corporations or the wealthy in any significant way. They may talk about it, but they don't actually do it.
Plenty of people despise those who don't share their opinions. No ideology has a monopoly on that.
Yea, I'm SURE the Republicans want to help the liberal Comcast, Disney, and TW... yea that's the ticket.
It has nothing to do with "liberal" or "conservative". It's that they're all family. They all share the last name, "Inc.".
Seriously, what idiot thinks corporations give a crap about liberal or conservative? If anyone was paying attention to the Republican debate, Donald Trump (of all people) broke it down for them. He gives money to everyone. He explained, on national TV, that he buys politicians as a matter of course. Left, right and center they take his money and are available when he needs something. And people still think I'm extreme when I say that this country is an oligarchy.
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name...
Just sayin', regardless of reality or fantasy, when your policy suggestion is basically the exact thing the devil does during the "end times," you might have a tough sell there.
I'm not Christian, but I'm glad for that bit of prophesy. This type of thing is all about control. Imagine if you run afoul of the authorities and they are able to cut you off from society just by switching off your chip. It's the same reason I do not look forward to any "cashless" economy, though there are plenty of idiots who think it's a great idea. Once you have to go through an intermediary to conduct any transaction, they've got you by the balls.
They aren't losing. It isn't costing them. The public chooses not to participate. The web companies can make pages not load at all if the ads are gone but they don't cause they know the public will leave them like rats leaving a sinking ship.
They don't seem to realize that they need us more than we need them. The Internet was great for making information available even before it was "monetized".
If something is good enough for consumers it will be known and used!
Many web sites complains about ad blocking today, but they have to be aware that they caused the need for adblockers themselves. Too many ads like "Your PC have a problem" hopping like it has Parkinson on the screen is stressful and false. Static ads are actually less of a problem.
Ads with sound and pop-ups covering the whole darn screen are a sure call for adblocker to be installed.
This is certainly correct. I would also add that sites load so much faster when using an ad blocker.
No, the reason there is increasing unemployment while also a shortage is because to become a tech worker you just have to collect a degree. To become a useful tech worker, you have to actually have some skills.
Lots of people want to become tech workers because of the promise of a quick fortune. A limited number will have actual skills (but without the passion) and might find a comfortable niche where they can charge out banker sort of rates for their services. A small number won't have any tech skills but will recognise this early and move into management before they are found out. A much larger number aren't even smart enough to figure out how little they know and get stuck complaining until they eventually attach themselves to a clueless corporation awash with money.
In the alternate world of people who work in tech because they enjoy it and can actually get things done, there is a huge shortage.
That really is an alternate world, though. The number of people who have a passion for tech is much smaller than the number of positions that need filling, as you say. I would consider myself one of those who have actual skills but without the passion. I'm pretty good at what I do and I think computer systems are pretty neat, but I'm not spending my free time reading about protocols or contributing to OSS.
I think we probably need more people like me (naturally!). What I mean is, passion can't be taught. People like what they like, you either have a natural interest or you don't. But skills can be taught to an intelligent person who is interested. Part of the problem is that no one wants to train anymore. When I got started in IT in the late '90s, my employer trained me on their systems for a month before I did any real work. But now, 17 years into my career, I am back in the position of needing experience to get experience. I'm a systems admin, and if I don't already have experience with vCenter with a SAN back-end I can't get hired. I could learn that stuff in a couple of months on the job. I've read about it and understand the concepts but have not had the opportunity to get any hands-on work with it.
People with a natural passion and ability are ideal. But there are not enough of them. There are more people who are smart and trainable who can do a good job with a bit of investment by the employer.
When the global birth rate and graduation rate is higher than the number of jobs required and/or needed, wages -which represents labor- will continue to go down all while debt of a fiat currency continues to climb. Eventually, total economic collapse....as we know it. Life will continue to go on, but a new system/paradigm will replace it IMHO.
Never needed any tech support, shit kid. Computers are among the easiest things to learn, it takes very little effort to learn anything about them and zero hands-on practice, unlike real jobs. That's why they appeal so much to egotists with little intelligence and who don't really like to work.
Your trolling needs improvement. This is too blatantly asinine to have an effect.
For his first two years, we were lucky we didn't up in a 2nd great depression. Fraud in bond ratings associated with what should have been mortgage junk bonds singlehandedly brought business lending to a halt.
I wouldn't say single-handedly, but it certainly was a major contributor. Unfortunately no one was really punished for all that fraud; not just by the ratings agencies but by loan originators and the banks that sold mortgage backed securities. Eric Holder institutionalized "too big to jail", basically saying that since the crimes were so immense, and their effects so far reaching, we couldn't hold anyone accountable for fear of destroying the system. He is now back at his old firm Covington & Burling, where they literally saved his office for him while he was Attorney General. He is now representing the very same banks that he would not prosecute while in office.
The fix is in. We can argue about whether Obama's actions were good or bad, or helped or didn't, or were too much or not enough. But the real issue is that the system has been captured, and we can't remove the parasite without killing the host (or so we're told, anyway).
>> autonomous cars don't need to park-- they just go give someone else a ride
I'm hoping "autonomous cars != end of personal car ownership." I still like to have my own passenger compartment that no one else has eaten in, thrown up in, etc. that I can maintain to my own standard of hygiene.
They will have to pry the steering wheel from my cold, dead hands. I actually enjoy driving. I look forward to long road trips because I will get to drive for an extended period (and probably not in traffic).
Since I have several machines to play with at home, I decided to go ahead with the *cough* upgrade *cough* on one of them. Here are the problems I've encountered in just a couple hours of usage.
1. Windows Explorer has been replaced with MS Edge.
No, you mean Internet Explorer has been replaced with MS Edge. Windows Explorer is the file manager, which has been renamed to File Explorer, and like everything else in Windows 10 they've made a number of stupid, pointless changes that make it just a little worse
Yet another example of how stupid it is to call your file manager and Internet browser almost the same thing. I have had to get into the habit of telling users to open a "computer window" because everyone thinks an Explorer window is the Internet browser.
I'm perfectly comfortable getting used to a new interface despite being relatively older but Windows 8 just makes NO sense on a PC. All the interface conventions are for a touch based tablet which does not and never will work well with a mouse/keyboard.
And it makes even less sense on a server OS. WTF, Server 2012??
Giving private corporations the ability to identify anyone they don't like a "cyberattacker" and then attack them will be very dangerous. Imagine companies pursuing IP related complaints (whether real or imagined) being deputized to go after people and their systems in this manner. There are damn good historical reasons we have a legal system in place -- one of which is to the prevent abuses that vigilante systems foster.
Time to register as an LLC! Then all my hacking will be nice and legal.
Competitors? You act as it there is actual competition out there. Competition is a myth they use to sell capitalism with. Sure, the car wash place down the street may have competition, but not the multinationals. That's just another illusion they try to maintain.
What they will do is retaliate against whistleblowers and activists. They already look on people who tell the truth about them as terrorists, with the full support of their bought and paid for law enforcement allies.
Don't forget pirates and copyright infringers, whether those people are actually involved in such activity or not. They're already pursuing legislation that would criminalize interfering with their ability to make a profit.
I did NOT ask my employer to ship my job overseas. I did NOT ask that they move the division overseas. I did NOT ask to train some Chinese guy about what a pointers and basic programming...
You most certainly did! When you reelected the politicians who write tax deals (free trade) to do exactly that! You should be more careful what you vote for!
I voted for the people who best represented my interests. They didn't win. Got any more advice?
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Feel free to ignore a century of Commerce Clause rulings at your own peril.
You're right that it's ignored at one's own peril. But the commerce clause has been stretched beyond all recognition.
Whoosh!
Really, woosh? Are we proving Poe's Law again?
Way to totally ignore the fact that there is a corrosive Left in this country which DESPISES anyone who doesn't share their opinions, and simply does not recognize their right to political representation. Did we just suddenly forget this?
Oh, please. There is no Left in this country. The unions have been destroyed and Socialism is a dirty word. Even the supposed "left" party, the Democrats will not raise taxes on corporations or the wealthy in any significant way. They may talk about it, but they don't actually do it.
Plenty of people despise those who don't share their opinions. No ideology has a monopoly on that.
It has nothing to do with "liberal" or "conservative". It's that they're all family. They all share the last name, "Inc.".
Seriously, what idiot thinks corporations give a crap about liberal or conservative? If anyone was paying attention to the Republican debate, Donald Trump (of all people) broke it down for them. He gives money to everyone. He explained, on national TV, that he buys politicians as a matter of course. Left, right and center they take his money and are available when he needs something. And people still think I'm extreme when I say that this country is an oligarchy.
This seems to be a non sequitur argument which is set to frame the political discussion in a way that it becomes a legitimate policy option.
Yeah, that's the idea. This type of thing will be sold as either a security measure (as in this case) or a convenience feature.
Which party enacts policies that place more government control over people's lives? Answer this and you'll have the answer to your own question.
So, both of them?
Revelations 13:16-17:
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name...
Just sayin', regardless of reality or fantasy, when your policy suggestion is basically the exact thing the devil does during the "end times," you might have a tough sell there.
I'm not Christian, but I'm glad for that bit of prophesy. This type of thing is all about control. Imagine if you run afoul of the authorities and they are able to cut you off from society just by switching off your chip. It's the same reason I do not look forward to any "cashless" economy, though there are plenty of idiots who think it's a great idea. Once you have to go through an intermediary to conduct any transaction, they've got you by the balls.
FTFY.
Don't kid yourself.
They aren't losing. It isn't costing them. The public chooses not to participate. The web companies can make pages not load at all if the ads are gone but they don't cause they know the public will leave them like rats leaving a sinking ship.
They don't seem to realize that they need us more than we need them. The Internet was great for making information available even before it was "monetized".
If something is good enough for consumers it will be known and used!
Many web sites complains about ad blocking today, but they have to be aware that they caused the need for adblockers themselves. Too many ads like "Your PC have a problem" hopping like it has Parkinson on the screen is stressful and false. Static ads are actually less of a problem.
Ads with sound and pop-ups covering the whole darn screen are a sure call for adblocker to be installed.
This is certainly correct. I would also add that sites load so much faster when using an ad blocker.
No, the reason there is increasing unemployment while also a shortage is because to become a tech worker you just have to collect a degree. To become a useful tech worker, you have to actually have some skills.
Lots of people want to become tech workers because of the promise of a quick fortune. A limited number will have actual skills (but without the passion) and might find a comfortable niche where they can charge out banker sort of rates for their services. A small number won't have any tech skills but will recognise this early and move into management before they are found out. A much larger number aren't even smart enough to figure out how little they know and get stuck complaining until they eventually attach themselves to a clueless corporation awash with money.
In the alternate world of people who work in tech because they enjoy it and can actually get things done, there is a huge shortage.
That really is an alternate world, though. The number of people who have a passion for tech is much smaller than the number of positions that need filling, as you say. I would consider myself one of those who have actual skills but without the passion. I'm pretty good at what I do and I think computer systems are pretty neat, but I'm not spending my free time reading about protocols or contributing to OSS.
I think we probably need more people like me (naturally!). What I mean is, passion can't be taught. People like what they like, you either have a natural interest or you don't. But skills can be taught to an intelligent person who is interested. Part of the problem is that no one wants to train anymore. When I got started in IT in the late '90s, my employer trained me on their systems for a month before I did any real work. But now, 17 years into my career, I am back in the position of needing experience to get experience. I'm a systems admin, and if I don't already have experience with vCenter with a SAN back-end I can't get hired. I could learn that stuff in a couple of months on the job. I've read about it and understand the concepts but have not had the opportunity to get any hands-on work with it.
People with a natural passion and ability are ideal. But there are not enough of them. There are more people who are smart and trainable who can do a good job with a bit of investment by the employer.
When the global birth rate and graduation rate is higher than the number of jobs required and/or needed, wages -which represents labor- will continue to go down all while debt of a fiat currency continues to climb. Eventually, total economic collapse....as we know it. Life will continue to go on, but a new system/paradigm will replace it IMHO.
This guy gets it.
War is one of the worst things there is for the economy, unless you're an arms dealer.
Or a bank. Someone has to provide the funds for war, and nations have foolishly delegated their monetary systems to private banks.
Never needed any tech support, shit kid. Computers are among the easiest things to learn, it takes very little effort to learn anything about them and zero hands-on practice, unlike real jobs. That's why they appeal so much to egotists with little intelligence and who don't really like to work.
Your trolling needs improvement. This is too blatantly asinine to have an effect.
For his first two years, we were lucky we didn't up in a 2nd great depression. Fraud in bond ratings associated with what should have been mortgage junk bonds singlehandedly brought business lending to a halt.
I wouldn't say single-handedly, but it certainly was a major contributor. Unfortunately no one was really punished for all that fraud; not just by the ratings agencies but by loan originators and the banks that sold mortgage backed securities. Eric Holder institutionalized "too big to jail", basically saying that since the crimes were so immense, and their effects so far reaching, we couldn't hold anyone accountable for fear of destroying the system. He is now back at his old firm Covington & Burling, where they literally saved his office for him while he was Attorney General. He is now representing the very same banks that he would not prosecute while in office.
The fix is in. We can argue about whether Obama's actions were good or bad, or helped or didn't, or were too much or not enough. But the real issue is that the system has been captured, and we can't remove the parasite without killing the host (or so we're told, anyway).
>> autonomous cars don't need to park-- they just go give someone else a ride
I'm hoping "autonomous cars != end of personal car ownership." I still like to have my own passenger compartment that no one else has eaten in, thrown up in, etc. that I can maintain to my own standard of hygiene.
They will have to pry the steering wheel from my cold, dead hands. I actually enjoy driving. I look forward to long road trips because I will get to drive for an extended period (and probably not in traffic).
Since I have several machines to play with at home, I decided to go ahead with the *cough* upgrade *cough* on one of them. Here are the problems I've encountered in just a couple hours of usage.
1. Windows Explorer has been replaced with MS Edge.
No, you mean Internet Explorer has been replaced with MS Edge. Windows Explorer is the file manager, which has been renamed to File Explorer, and like everything else in Windows 10 they've made a number of stupid, pointless changes that make it just a little worse
Yet another example of how stupid it is to call your file manager and Internet browser almost the same thing. I have had to get into the habit of telling users to open a "computer window" because everyone thinks an Explorer window is the Internet browser.
EVERYONE ON THE HATE TRAIN!
Maybe, but Microsoft doesn't have to keep shoveling coal into the engine...
I'm perfectly comfortable getting used to a new interface despite being relatively older but Windows 8 just makes NO sense on a PC. All the interface conventions are for a touch based tablet which does not and never will work well with a mouse/keyboard.
And it makes even less sense on a server OS. WTF, Server 2012??
Some say it’s awesome, others hate it and want the Start screen back
No. No they don't.
Giving private corporations the ability to identify anyone they don't like a "cyberattacker" and then attack them will be very dangerous. Imagine companies pursuing IP related complaints (whether real or imagined) being deputized to go after people and their systems in this manner. There are damn good historical reasons we have a legal system in place -- one of which is to the prevent abuses that vigilante systems foster.
Time to register as an LLC! Then all my hacking will be nice and legal.
Competitors? You act as it there is actual competition out there. Competition is a myth they use to sell capitalism with. Sure, the car wash place down the street may have competition, but not the multinationals. That's just another illusion they try to maintain.
What they will do is retaliate against whistleblowers and activists. They already look on people who tell the truth about them as terrorists, with the full support of their bought and paid for law enforcement allies.
Don't forget pirates and copyright infringers, whether those people are actually involved in such activity or not. They're already pursuing legislation that would criminalize interfering with their ability to make a profit.
I did NOT ask my employer to ship my job overseas. I did NOT ask that they move the division overseas. I did NOT ask to train some Chinese guy about what a pointers and basic programming...
You most certainly did! When you reelected the politicians who write tax deals (free trade) to do exactly that! You should be more careful what you vote for!
I voted for the people who best represented my interests. They didn't win. Got any more advice?
Welcome to capitalism, baby. Greed, for lack of a better term, is good. You may want to look into alternative economic models.
I certainly do want to look into alternative economic models. Because this Capitalism thing sucks for most people.
Don't mind him. He's just another filthy, parasitic jew trying to undermine his host country. It's what they do.
Boy, that escalated quickly!