being light on common sense doesn't necessarily mean you're not good for something else. There's no shortage of math experts who are also autistic you know. We shouldn't be so quick to kill something just because it's not immediately useful. We sent mother-f'ing physicists to die in the trenches of WWI before we figured out they could make bombs and rockets.
The stupid ones aren't the occasional dumb kid who does something for who knows what reason, but the folks who's response to any wrong doing is to call for blood. That kind of crap is what got the US in 8 pointless wars and counting post 9/11 (seriously, look it up).
unconstitutional. I hate to say it, but with Trump's victory all branches above Dog Catcher belong to the the corporatists. As bad as Hilary was she wasn't 100% anti-consumer/pro-corporate, she was just a clueless rich person trapped in a bubble. The folks using Trump (and make no mistake, he's being used) are the worst sort. They'll rule against any law that gets in their way.
It's going to take 50 years to undo the damage, longer if we don't wake up.
I honestly think one of the main reasons Trump won was the media's refusal to call him out on obvious lies and his shady business record. And that refusal was fueled by a desire to see a horse race and to suck up all those ad buys. Trump should never have been a serious candidate. He refused to release his tax returns, has a string of failed businesses and a court case where he admitted under oath his net worth isn't near what he claims and a long history of extra-marital affairs of the sort that don't go down well with the base he was trying to appeal to. That baggage should have wrecked him. But the media continually went easy on him even as they piled on Hillary.
Of course if they'd buried Trump in his own bad press early on folks would have stopped paying attention and the guys bank rolling his campaign would stop; meaning no more free eyeballs and no more free ad money. Trump got something like a billion in free coverage most of it positive. But then again if the media was doing it's job we'd be calling Bernie Mr President.
this is why high corporate taxes are good. If you let them then the corps will use regular cyclic downturns and psuedo-guild systems to take ownership of all physical property and intellectual output (I'm not calling it IP, that's a loaded term designed to legitimize bad patents and perpetual copyright). High taxes keep too much economic power from concentrating into the hands of a few. The government then spends this money keeping it from concentrating too much in their hands.
It's either that or we keep sliding into oligarchy. One thing you're _not_ gonna get is small government and small corporations. You just leave a power vacuum, and nature abhors a vacuum and all that.
anyone else remember the suicide batteries in Capcom & Sega arcade boards? That should be illegal. Come up with a better way to do DRM than killing the board I spent $3-5k on.
It's a constant source of stress and problems. I don't own a car for fun. I own it because I need it to get to work, and nobody will hire me if I can't get to work.
I didn't ask for my cities and transportation network to be built around cars. These decisions were made in the 30s, 40 and 50s before I was even born. Now that they've been made changing over to a system of public transportation is virtually impossible. A situation that was not lost on the car manufacturers and oil and gas producers.
the study's the first step to that. They'll run numbers showing the cost to the taxpayer of devices that crap out on the user after a year or two and that can't be repaired by design. Once there's hard numbers it'll be harder for the companies to hide behind ambiguity like they do today.
Alex Jones is a good example. He constantly talks about how evil George Soros is for being a billionaire but funny how he never calls the Koch brother's out. It is not a coincidence that Soros is Jewish. He talked about a left leaning political pundit drinking baby blood. It just so happens that again, the pundit is Jewish (blood libel). I've already given you the welfare queen example. And don't get me stated on "Some of them are good people"
If you want to be really scared look into some of the far right religious whack jobs that hang with our VP. They're Dominionists. That sounds harmless until you find out what it is. They want the Christian version of Sharia law and to take over the earth. When they talk about Holy Wars they are not speaking metaphorically...
I'm sorry, but there just comes a time to call a spade a spade. The Republican party has been openly cozying up with neo Nazis, white supremacists and hard right authoritarians. It's our media's job to call them out on it and so far they've shirked that responsibility in exchange for tax cuts for their corporate masters. Face it, you got sold out.
for $190. It was a good price. I just bought a 500 gig SSD for $150, and I could have had a fast 1 terabyte platter drive for $60.
Maybe this won't be the next storage solution, but maybe it will. You never know. But we've increased storage by 70-140x while adjusting for inflation dropped the price massively. I can't complain really. I say let the boffins work:).
I have Native American friends so I've frequented reservations. They're like southern trailer parks but without the pizaz. We didn't just stick them on reservations, we stuck the reservations on the crummiest land in the country. When you're that dirt poor you're too busy trying to survive to worry about others. It's a classic technique of any ruling class: keep everyone on the verge of disaster so they won't band together to help each other out.
See here if you don't know what it means. It's why we call women on food stamps "Welfare Queens"; e..g the word Queen was associated with Black woman and homosexuals, both bugaboos of the right.
These folks are getting banned because they've tip toed a little too close to outright racism and white supremacy. The Dems aren't being Shadow banned because, well, they don't have to use tricks to talk about their message (when they have one that is, the right wing of the party's only message so far has been that we should all feel bad for electing Trump so pretty please vote for us even though we're going to keep doing the same crap that Trump does economically only with more labor imports).
Seriously, our media needs to stop giving equal time to both sides. At a certain point both sides are not bad. One side is legitimately wrong. 20 years ago we figured out that trickle down economics doesn't work yet somehow we forgot that when the name changed to "Supply Side" and Laffer kept shopping around his curve. The result is a tax cut that's gone 86% to the top 1% and is going to cause rampant inflation when the treasury raises interest rates to offset the over reving to the economy that dumping $1 trillion supply side caused. Where the hell is the media to call the Republicans out on this? Oh yeah, they're owned by the same guys who got the tax cut...
who constantly worries about healthcare, God I'm envious of you. Make sure your right wing doesn't take it away from you though. It's a constant battle to hang on to what little we have over here:(...
She won't win (she's got the charisma of a dead trout and she's pretty much persona non grata in the party after losing to his orangeness) but she'd draw so much fire it'd be smooth sailing for the Dems.
healthcare on your own costs thousands. So they're mostly young, healthy people hoping they don't get sick. Most won't. A few will and they'll be screwed. As an added bonus this is an easy and effective way to do age discrimination.
Of course, that completely screws up the insurance pool. That's why folks like Bernie Sanders have been pushing for the biggest possible pool: everyone. Aka Medicare for all aka Single Payer.
they want to pocket the tax money going to the libraries for themselves. They're not small government when it comes to the government contracts going to their business or the subsidies or the free roads or the developed land or anything else the government does that benefits them personally.
When you're trying to plunder the commons that's the way to go.
Yes, some regions are too poor to afford libraries. This is what federal grants are for. If you like science and technology you want a well educated population. A poorly educated population will, sooner or later, collapse and find themselves a dictator who promises to fix things. That never ends well for people who like science and technology. We tend to be considered dangerous when that happens.
this is Uber & Lyft's entire business model (albeit taken to the extreme). Companies have broken the social contract. There's no longer any stability for workers. That plus the death of Unions and the end of collective bargaining is why wages are declining even though productivity is way, way up.
and while there is still legal protections for pre-existing conditions. "Benefits" in America usually means health benefits. Everything else is nice but secondary.
Az is filled with old people flush with cash because they retired before the economy went to crap. A lot of them can no longer drive. I could see this service being desirable to them even at a high price, if only to get out of the house. You can't go very far in Az if you can't drive. There's just about zero public transportation. The cities were all built in the age of the automobile.
assuming they had passwords to reset. People lock themselves out of password reset automation all the time. Most secure businesses will force a call after 3 failed attempts.
You're thinking about the guys that fix computers for a companies businesses. That's not where most of the call center work is. It's in supporting the dozens of custom apps for your bank, your credit card company(ies), your patreon account, etc, etc, etc.
they're going to lose their livelihoods. Most of them will die in a gutter (seriously, 45,000 people in America die every year from preventable diseases). But the desperation will force some of them to improve enough to compete at higher tiered jobs, like the ones you occupy.
It doesn't matter if they have skills or not. They'll work 80+ hours a week to try and hang on. Their burn out. Die of heart attacks. But in the meantime wages will plummet.
about 70-80% of the work on a help desk is password resets. This will be the first to go. It'll mean huge reductions in the call center workforce. Those employees aren't going to say "Welp, guess I'm not needed anymore" and eat a bullet. Most will leave IT. Some will struggle to stay in. And they'll be gunning for _your_ jobs.
Best case scenario you get stuck pulling the weight of a whole slew of newbs out of their depth who passed a job interview by sheer luck and/or nepotism. Worst case (and this will happen) your boss notices that when he goes to fill a position there's 5000+ applicants and decides he can cut your pay and increase your hours instead of hiring.
Either way now would be good time to do something about these massive productivity increases and job losses due to AI and automation.
and maybe trolling but Trump's poll numbers didn't budge an inch even after that downright terrifying display in Helsinki. What I find especially odd is most of his supporters are old enough to have been cold warrior types. It'd be one thing if Putin wasn't ex-KGB. There wasn't much in Russia to fear (they were pretty blasted out by WWII) but their KGB seemed to know damn well what they were doing.
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being light on common sense doesn't necessarily mean you're not good for something else. There's no shortage of math experts who are also autistic you know. We shouldn't be so quick to kill something just because it's not immediately useful. We sent mother-f'ing physicists to die in the trenches of WWI before we figured out they could make bombs and rockets.
The stupid ones aren't the occasional dumb kid who does something for who knows what reason, but the folks who's response to any wrong doing is to call for blood. That kind of crap is what got the US in 8 pointless wars and counting post 9/11 (seriously, look it up).
unconstitutional. I hate to say it, but with Trump's victory all branches above Dog Catcher belong to the the corporatists. As bad as Hilary was she wasn't 100% anti-consumer/pro-corporate, she was just a clueless rich person trapped in a bubble. The folks using Trump (and make no mistake, he's being used) are the worst sort. They'll rule against any law that gets in their way.
It's going to take 50 years to undo the damage, longer if we don't wake up.
I honestly think one of the main reasons Trump won was the media's refusal to call him out on obvious lies and his shady business record. And that refusal was fueled by a desire to see a horse race and to suck up all those ad buys. Trump should never have been a serious candidate. He refused to release his tax returns, has a string of failed businesses and a court case where he admitted under oath his net worth isn't near what he claims and a long history of extra-marital affairs of the sort that don't go down well with the base he was trying to appeal to. That baggage should have wrecked him. But the media continually went easy on him even as they piled on Hillary.
Of course if they'd buried Trump in his own bad press early on folks would have stopped paying attention and the guys bank rolling his campaign would stop; meaning no more free eyeballs and no more free ad money. Trump got something like a billion in free coverage most of it positive. But then again if the media was doing it's job we'd be calling Bernie Mr President.
this is why high corporate taxes are good. If you let them then the corps will use regular cyclic downturns and psuedo-guild systems to take ownership of all physical property and intellectual output (I'm not calling it IP, that's a loaded term designed to legitimize bad patents and perpetual copyright). High taxes keep too much economic power from concentrating into the hands of a few. The government then spends this money keeping it from concentrating too much in their hands.
It's either that or we keep sliding into oligarchy. One thing you're _not_ gonna get is small government and small corporations. You just leave a power vacuum, and nature abhors a vacuum and all that.
anyone else remember the suicide batteries in Capcom & Sega arcade boards? That should be illegal. Come up with a better way to do DRM than killing the board I spent $3-5k on.
It's a constant source of stress and problems. I don't own a car for fun. I own it because I need it to get to work, and nobody will hire me if I can't get to work.
I didn't ask for my cities and transportation network to be built around cars. These decisions were made in the 30s, 40 and 50s before I was even born. Now that they've been made changing over to a system of public transportation is virtually impossible. A situation that was not lost on the car manufacturers and oil and gas producers.
the study's the first step to that. They'll run numbers showing the cost to the taxpayer of devices that crap out on the user after a year or two and that can't be repaired by design. Once there's hard numbers it'll be harder for the companies to hide behind ambiguity like they do today.
You can buy a $99 dollar processor with decent single thread performance and not have to worry about games that require 4 threads.
and violence then yeah, they do add up.
Alex Jones is a good example. He constantly talks about how evil George Soros is for being a billionaire but funny how he never calls the Koch brother's out. It is not a coincidence that Soros is Jewish. He talked about a left leaning political pundit drinking baby blood. It just so happens that again, the pundit is Jewish (blood libel). I've already given you the welfare queen example. And don't get me stated on "Some of them are good people"
If you want to be really scared look into some of the far right religious whack jobs that hang with our VP. They're Dominionists. That sounds harmless until you find out what it is. They want the Christian version of Sharia law and to take over the earth. When they talk about Holy Wars they are not speaking metaphorically...
I'm sorry, but there just comes a time to call a spade a spade. The Republican party has been openly cozying up with neo Nazis, white supremacists and hard right authoritarians. It's our media's job to call them out on it and so far they've shirked that responsibility in exchange for tax cuts for their corporate masters. Face it, you got sold out.
for $190. It was a good price. I just bought a 500 gig SSD for $150, and I could have had a fast 1 terabyte platter drive for $60.
:).
Maybe this won't be the next storage solution, but maybe it will. You never know. But we've increased storage by 70-140x while adjusting for inflation dropped the price massively. I can't complain really. I say let the boffins work
I have Native American friends so I've frequented reservations. They're like southern trailer parks but without the pizaz. We didn't just stick them on reservations, we stuck the reservations on the crummiest land in the country. When you're that dirt poor you're too busy trying to survive to worry about others. It's a classic technique of any ruling class: keep everyone on the verge of disaster so they won't band together to help each other out.
See here if you don't know what it means. It's why we call women on food stamps "Welfare Queens"; e..g the word Queen was associated with Black woman and homosexuals, both bugaboos of the right.
These folks are getting banned because they've tip toed a little too close to outright racism and white supremacy. The Dems aren't being Shadow banned because, well, they don't have to use tricks to talk about their message (when they have one that is, the right wing of the party's only message so far has been that we should all feel bad for electing Trump so pretty please vote for us even though we're going to keep doing the same crap that Trump does economically only with more labor imports).
Seriously, our media needs to stop giving equal time to both sides. At a certain point both sides are not bad. One side is legitimately wrong. 20 years ago we figured out that trickle down economics doesn't work yet somehow we forgot that when the name changed to "Supply Side" and Laffer kept shopping around his curve. The result is a tax cut that's gone 86% to the top 1% and is going to cause rampant inflation when the treasury raises interest rates to offset the over reving to the economy that dumping $1 trillion supply side caused. Where the hell is the media to call the Republicans out on this? Oh yeah, they're owned by the same guys who got the tax cut...
who constantly worries about healthcare, God I'm envious of you. Make sure your right wing doesn't take it away from you though. It's a constant battle to hang on to what little we have over here :(...
She won't win (she's got the charisma of a dead trout and she's pretty much persona non grata in the party after losing to his orangeness) but she'd draw so much fire it'd be smooth sailing for the Dems.
healthcare on your own costs thousands. So they're mostly young, healthy people hoping they don't get sick. Most won't. A few will and they'll be screwed. As an added bonus this is an easy and effective way to do age discrimination.
Of course, that completely screws up the insurance pool. That's why folks like Bernie Sanders have been pushing for the biggest possible pool: everyone. Aka Medicare for all aka Single Payer.
they want to pocket the tax money going to the libraries for themselves. They're not small government when it comes to the government contracts going to their business or the subsidies or the free roads or the developed land or anything else the government does that benefits them personally.
When you're trying to plunder the commons that's the way to go.
Yes, some regions are too poor to afford libraries. This is what federal grants are for. If you like science and technology you want a well educated population. A poorly educated population will, sooner or later, collapse and find themselves a dictator who promises to fix things. That never ends well for people who like science and technology. We tend to be considered dangerous when that happens.
this is Uber & Lyft's entire business model (albeit taken to the extreme). Companies have broken the social contract. There's no longer any stability for workers. That plus the death of Unions and the end of collective bargaining is why wages are declining even though productivity is way, way up.
Time for a New New Deal.
and while there is still legal protections for pre-existing conditions. "Benefits" in America usually means health benefits. Everything else is nice but secondary.
Az is filled with old people flush with cash because they retired before the economy went to crap. A lot of them can no longer drive. I could see this service being desirable to them even at a high price, if only to get out of the house. You can't go very far in Az if you can't drive. There's just about zero public transportation. The cities were all built in the age of the automobile.
assuming they had passwords to reset. People lock themselves out of password reset automation all the time. Most secure businesses will force a call after 3 failed attempts.
You're thinking about the guys that fix computers for a companies businesses. That's not where most of the call center work is. It's in supporting the dozens of custom apps for your bank, your credit card company(ies), your patreon account, etc, etc, etc.
they're going to lose their livelihoods. Most of them will die in a gutter (seriously, 45,000 people in America die every year from preventable diseases). But the desperation will force some of them to improve enough to compete at higher tiered jobs, like the ones you occupy.
It doesn't matter if they have skills or not. They'll work 80+ hours a week to try and hang on. Their burn out. Die of heart attacks. But in the meantime wages will plummet.
about 70-80% of the work on a help desk is password resets. This will be the first to go. It'll mean huge reductions in the call center workforce. Those employees aren't going to say "Welp, guess I'm not needed anymore" and eat a bullet. Most will leave IT. Some will struggle to stay in. And they'll be gunning for _your_ jobs.
Best case scenario you get stuck pulling the weight of a whole slew of newbs out of their depth who passed a job interview by sheer luck and/or nepotism. Worst case (and this will happen) your boss notices that when he goes to fill a position there's 5000+ applicants and decides he can cut your pay and increase your hours instead of hiring.
Either way now would be good time to do something about these massive productivity increases and job losses due to AI and automation.
And thanks to CPU throttling it's slower than my old one despite being 3 years newer. No docking Port either.
and maybe trolling but Trump's poll numbers didn't budge an inch even after that downright terrifying display in Helsinki. What I find especially odd is most of his supporters are old enough to have been cold warrior types. It'd be one thing if Putin wasn't ex-KGB. There wasn't much in Russia to fear (they were pretty blasted out by WWII) but their KGB seemed to know damn well what they were doing.