That's why people come here, for shitty journalism. If they wanted real journalism they'd invent a time machine since it's been decades since that existed.
I've got to admit I liked the look of the S2. I've always bought Samsung until they did away with the removable battery and SD card. Now they're exactly like Apple. Had to go to LG for my Wife's new phone.
Damn! I was wondering why the Feds were being Samsung's bitch. Now I see the light. I'm getting slow in my old age, I should have seen that right off the bat.
I agree, however it's one patent scam out of a multitude. Why would they decide to step in for Samsung? They didn't help Blackberry out or any of the other companies that got hijacked by patent scams. What's special about Samsung? Who did they pay off? Or perhaps the President of South Korea had a talk with high level US officials and arranged a favor? You can bet there's a reason besides "it's a patent scam."
It would be foolish of them to antagonize such a huge percentage of their users. It's best to stay out of politics as much as possible when you're in business. Except for maybe putting one or two of them in your pocket.
Don't you idiots ever get it? It's not really a two party system. Every time it comes to something truly fucked like this it gets bi-partisan support. Abortion and gun control are the smoke and mirrors that confuse you peasants and keeps you focused on fighting each other while the elite motherfuckers that pull the strings behind the scenes laugh at your stupidity and fuck you over.
So you double income taxes, that means about 43,000 dollars from everyone with a job. That will give you another 1.5 trillion to piss away. Considering we're running about.5 trillion in the hole every year that actually gives you an extra trillion dollars of play money. That's a 100 percent increase which will cause a lot of ill will. What will 1 trillion dollars get you? How are you going to parcel that money out? Does everyone get a cut? Do you exempt people making over the poverty level? I keep hearing that everyone will get money to keep it simple but there's not going to be enough for that and why would you give someone making 60 grand a year money? UBI sounds great until you start crunching numbers and figuring out who gets what then it descends into a huge mess.
The problem with the money situation is when you spend much more than you collect. We're already in debt to the tune of somewhere over 19 trillion dollars and climbing. That's at the current rate of spending. A UBI will cost far more than the current welfare state, easily 3 times as much. We're drowning in debt now.
You know, when you print money it becomes more and more worthless. Before long you'll need 100K buy a hamburger. Money is supposed to represent value. Either in the form of labor or goods. Printing it up and giving it away devalues it so that those who once had money now have worthless paper. Socialism requires great wealth to employ and it can work in some situations but all too often it simply means everyone is equally broke. I guess that is a kind of equality when no one has much of anything. This idea of free stuff is poisonous.
The checks have been coming for decades but that doesn't mean they'll continue indefinitely. Simply do the math, at some point less than 10 years in the future the interest on the debt will outpace our ability to pay it. It's not rocket science it's simply arithmetic. The only politician I've known to actually speak to doing something concrete about the problem got derided and lambasted for it so there will be no action taken to stop the disaster until it's gone so far as to be unstoppable. Then it's default time and just imagine the Greek scenario on the scale of a former superpower defaulting on it's debt. This fantasy of a UBI sounds wonderful but the money isn't there.
Ultimately I feel that people that don't want to work shouldn't be having children. The big problem now is that only the most uneducated and poorest are doing most of the breeding. If something doesn't happen soon there can be only bad problems from that. I'm a big believer that we'll do nothing and the train wreck is unstoppable. I wonder how all these huge cities will look when the checks stop coming?
Most corporations care about their customers as to their potential as a future sale. Microsoft is not burdened by this need to worry about future sales as they have a virtual monopoly. No matter how badly they shit on their consumer base they will all eventually purchase another microsoft licensed product. Only a few geeks who are able to use linux or a bsd alternative or those who spend the extra money to buy Apple which has it's own problems are able to avoid being subject to the whims of Redmond.
I have an alternative idea. Instead of paying people more for having children let's pay people to quit breeding. Population pressure is a problem today and only going to get worse with time so let's make a deal with people who want to be on the dole. Agree to be sterilized and society will pay for them to have a house, car and a basic income for the rest of their lives. I'd be willing to pay for that. Over several generations this would be a self limiting program. Paying people more money as a reward for procreating would only grow the problem.
I find that about 1 in 20 of the apps I've downloaded stayed on my phone for any length of time. So few of them perform at any acceptable level and are so bad that free is too much. I have 2 that were excellent and I bought the premium versions. One of those is fbreader which I had been using for years on linux and decided to buy the premium version on android just to support development since the free version was perfectly functional.
No, when she originally told them she was going to put them all out of work. Later she went back and did damage control when the backlash got really bad and she told a bunch of lies to cover her ass. Too bad, I almost respected her a little for a second.
Electric cars are cheaper to produce? Why do they cost more then? I'm wondering why I don't see any electric F250s either? I see Chrysler Fiat has a new minivan coming that will go 30 miles on an electric charge. NOT 300 but 30. It's a hybrid for obvious reasons so it'll have a high carbon footprint. I too think electric vehicles will one day rule but not in a decade. No way, probably not even two decades. Battery improvements are small and incremental and costs are still way high. When I can buy a car for 30 grand that will travel 300 miles on a charge and recharge in 20 minutes I'll damn sure get it. One caveat, it has to be big enough for my 6 foot frame.
I don't know dude. I'm not a global warming evangelist but I've got to say that the world is getting warmer. Thermometers are pretty hard to argue with. You can argue about what's causing it maybe but the fact is that it's getting hotter over all.
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Dead on. Facebook is like AOL in the modern age. The lamest of the lame.
That's why people come here, for shitty journalism. If they wanted real journalism they'd invent a time machine since it's been decades since that existed.
I've got to admit I liked the look of the S2. I've always bought Samsung until they did away with the removable battery and SD card. Now they're exactly like Apple. Had to go to LG for my Wife's new phone.
No, it's their desire to kill American companies in favor of foreign ones.
I guess it's a matter of degree.
Damn! I was wondering why the Feds were being Samsung's bitch. Now I see the light. I'm getting slow in my old age, I should have seen that right off the bat.
Someone got shot? Imagine that. People get shot every day.
I agree, however it's one patent scam out of a multitude. Why would they decide to step in for Samsung? They didn't help Blackberry out or any of the other companies that got hijacked by patent scams. What's special about Samsung? Who did they pay off? Or perhaps the President of South Korea had a talk with high level US officials and arranged a favor? You can bet there's a reason besides "it's a patent scam."
It would be foolish of them to antagonize such a huge percentage of their users. It's best to stay out of politics as much as possible when you're in business. Except for maybe putting one or two of them in your pocket.
Don't you idiots ever get it? It's not really a two party system. Every time it comes to something truly fucked like this it gets bi-partisan support. Abortion and gun control are the smoke and mirrors that confuse you peasants and keeps you focused on fighting each other while the elite motherfuckers that pull the strings behind the scenes laugh at your stupidity and fuck you over.
So you double income taxes, that means about 43,000 dollars from everyone with a job. That will give you another 1.5 trillion to piss away. Considering we're running about .5 trillion in the hole every year that actually gives you an extra trillion dollars of play money. That's a 100 percent increase which will cause a lot of ill will. What will 1 trillion dollars get you? How are you going to parcel that money out? Does everyone get a cut? Do you exempt people making over the poverty level? I keep hearing that everyone will get money to keep it simple but there's not going to be enough for that and why would you give someone making 60 grand a year money? UBI sounds great until you start crunching numbers and figuring out who gets what then it descends into a huge mess.
The problem with the money situation is when you spend much more than you collect. We're already in debt to the tune of somewhere over 19 trillion dollars and climbing. That's at the current rate of spending. A UBI will cost far more than the current welfare state, easily 3 times as much. We're drowning in debt now.
You know, when you print money it becomes more and more worthless. Before long you'll need 100K buy a hamburger. Money is supposed to represent value. Either in the form of labor or goods. Printing it up and giving it away devalues it so that those who once had money now have worthless paper. Socialism requires great wealth to employ and it can work in some situations but all too often it simply means everyone is equally broke. I guess that is a kind of equality when no one has much of anything. This idea of free stuff is poisonous.
The checks have been coming for decades but that doesn't mean they'll continue indefinitely. Simply do the math, at some point less than 10 years in the future the interest on the debt will outpace our ability to pay it. It's not rocket science it's simply arithmetic. The only politician I've known to actually speak to doing something concrete about the problem got derided and lambasted for it so there will be no action taken to stop the disaster until it's gone so far as to be unstoppable. Then it's default time and just imagine the Greek scenario on the scale of a former superpower defaulting on it's debt. This fantasy of a UBI sounds wonderful but the money isn't there.
And yet many people manage to succeed. Some indeed even manage to do very well. Freedom to succeed also means freedom to fail.
Really?
http://www.census.gov/popclock...
http://www.worldometers.info/w...
Ultimately I feel that people that don't want to work shouldn't be having children. The big problem now is that only the most uneducated and poorest are doing most of the breeding. If something doesn't happen soon there can be only bad problems from that. I'm a big believer that we'll do nothing and the train wreck is unstoppable. I wonder how all these huge cities will look when the checks stop coming?
Most corporations care about their customers as to their potential as a future sale. Microsoft is not burdened by this need to worry about future sales as they have a virtual monopoly. No matter how badly they shit on their consumer base they will all eventually purchase another microsoft licensed product. Only a few geeks who are able to use linux or a bsd alternative or those who spend the extra money to buy Apple which has it's own problems are able to avoid being subject to the whims of Redmond.
I have an alternative idea. Instead of paying people more for having children let's pay people to quit breeding. Population pressure is a problem today and only going to get worse with time so let's make a deal with people who want to be on the dole. Agree to be sterilized and society will pay for them to have a house, car and a basic income for the rest of their lives. I'd be willing to pay for that. Over several generations this would be a self limiting program. Paying people more money as a reward for procreating would only grow the problem.
I'm not seeing much intelligence in the industry, artificial or otherwise.
I find that about 1 in 20 of the apps I've downloaded stayed on my phone for any length of time. So few of them perform at any acceptable level and are so bad that free is too much. I have 2 that were excellent and I bought the premium versions. One of those is fbreader which I had been using for years on linux and decided to buy the premium version on android just to support development since the free version was perfectly functional.
Lol, amazing isn't it.
No, when she originally told them she was going to put them all out of work. Later she went back and did damage control when the backlash got really bad and she told a bunch of lies to cover her ass. Too bad, I almost respected her a little for a second.
Electric cars are cheaper to produce? Why do they cost more then? I'm wondering why I don't see any electric F250s either? I see Chrysler Fiat has a new minivan coming that will go 30 miles on an electric charge. NOT 300 but 30. It's a hybrid for obvious reasons so it'll have a high carbon footprint. I too think electric vehicles will one day rule but not in a decade. No way, probably not even two decades. Battery improvements are small and incremental and costs are still way high. When I can buy a car for 30 grand that will travel 300 miles on a charge and recharge in 20 minutes I'll damn sure get it. One caveat, it has to be big enough for my 6 foot frame.
I don't know dude. I'm not a global warming evangelist but I've got to say that the world is getting warmer. Thermometers are pretty hard to argue with. You can argue about what's causing it maybe but the fact is that it's getting hotter over all.