not sure about the years of updates but hey, unlocked bootloader, so do you're own updates. The G5 isn't selling badly, but it's not exactly an iPhone 5/6 style hot commodity.
it's been decades since I read the Declaration of Independence in full and never gave a second thought to the phrase "Indian Savages" but yeah, that there's hate speech. It's a phrase specifically targeted to a race intended to imply all members of that race were in some way immoral and/or evil. If that's not hate speech I don't know what is.
Just because the Dec of Independence (and by extension America) has a lot of good parts doesn't mean we should pretend the bad didn't exist.
Funny thing is all these conspiracy theories and bad press for Hillary helped get us Trump. And I"ll say one thing about Trump, he doesn't have any conspiracy theories to speak of. His administration is so openly corrupt what would be the point? He's like Dick Cheney times a million. When you tell people how corrupt he is they don't believe you because if anyone was that openly corrupt somebody, somewhere would do _something_. Right?
I've known several people with Leukemia. You wouldn't know them because they kind of drop out of life. Most of them die. Occasionally they go into remission but it's not like they all wear a big badge that says "Hi, I've got Leukemia!".
but in the US I'd much rather hear about their plans to deal with the next economic downturn. Our right wing just repealed one of the major regulations here (Dodd Frank) that was passed to prevent another 2008 style crash. I've noticed that whenever we do something boneheaded Britain's right wing seems to take notes...
I'm not their market anymore. I stopped by because I was in a new town that was a much bigger city and was expecting to see a more impressive setup than what I got in my Podunk town. I did not. I got Walmart with the toy section expanded.
right? They got Bain'd. A company bought them, loaded them with debt, paid themselves bonuses with that debt and then the company collapsed under the weight of that debt. Toy stores need to be fun places to go. When my kid was little she desperately wanted a wood toy train set because she played with it at Toys R Us. We eventually bought the $150 model (the one set up there was close to $400 IIRC). The last time I went to a Toys R Us (looking at Star Wars figures after the first of the new Star Wars came out) there was nothing like that. Nothing cool for the kids to play with. Hell, they didn't even have video game kiosks set up. I remember being a kid and buying a Sega Master System because I played Maze Hunter 3D on a kiosk and later a Sega Genesis because I played Sonic the Hedgehog.
Toys R Us had none of that because they had no money. They didn't have the resources to build a fun place to play so parents stopped going. At the end it was just a warehouse. That's not how you compete with the internet. You compete by making spaces people _want_ to go to. But that costs money. Money they were spending on interest payments to loans that were paid to CEOs as bonuses.
learn slower than whites or Asians. There's a pretty big body of research to show that as people age they learn slower. This is why kids can learn a language in no time but adults struggle.
Like it or not there's going to be an average age where people peak. Where their performance declines. The only question is where. In a strong labor market companies will push that age out. But in a weak one like we have now? Might as well take the young guys. They work an extra 20 hours/week. Whatever benefit the oldies have is at least negated by that save for a small number of managers you need (and maybe oddball cases like Walmart where they want old people because they show up to work on time).
Rather than focus on trying to hang onto jobs we can't I'd like to see more support for aging workers. Single payer healthcare would be a good start. Tuition free college for their kids would be the next step. And then maybe the same plus some subsidies for them to retrain. Also I'd like to see us start subsidizing housing again. There's a whole world of housing subsidies nobody talks about: land development. The government used to get land ready to build houses on (roads, power, gas, water, etc, etc). We stopped doing that because there's no money (40 years of tax cuts for the rich). That's why housing prices have skyrocketed. Housing developers don't do the difficult and expensive part (getting the land ready) they do the cheap part (throwing up a frame and connecting it to the grids).
I know dozens of people stuck at dead end jobs because they can't go 90-180 days w/o health care. Only the top tier stuff has day 1 health care. This is one of the big reasons I want single payer in America (besides that it saves $17 trillion over the next 10 years. Seriously, we could pay off the National Debt in my lifetime). Wanna see wages go up across the board? Give everyone healthcare so they can demand higher wages. Rising tide/all boats and all that.
you're also probably on old, pre-economic crash pay scales. Wages have plummeted since 2008. I know guys earning 30% less than people doing the same job as them just because of when they were hired.
if they're redundant. That's what killed mainframes. Instead of 1 ultra high performance and ultra high uptime sever you throw a bunch of cheap commodity hardware at your problems.
I"m not trolling. I want other Oldies to stop patting themselves on the back about how amazing their skills are and realize they're just as expendable as everyone else. Once they realize that they can get out of the "Got Mine, Fuck You" mindset and join me in fixing the problems we've got. Until then they're just lambs to the slaughter who're hoping they're far enough in the back of the line to die of old age before they get to the butcher.
I'm about as far left as you can get and I agree with that quote. Regulations exist for a reason. There was a problem that needed to be solved.
And we're at full employment and wages aren't rising. Look it up. There's tons of articles from "confused" economists who just can't seem to figure out the cause. Mostly because they're not allowed to talk about why 40 years of supply side (aka trickle down) economics failed when we already knew it didn't work. Hell, Trump's tax cuts were uses almost entirely to do stock buy backs and mergers. Exactly what everyone on the left (including myself) said would happen. This matters because now the Federal Reserve is talking about raising interest rates to slow inflation caused by all the stock buybacks and those raises are going to eat up what little the working class got from the tax cuts and then some...
These rules had nothing to do with fairness. Wages were below what people needed to live (as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said "Too Poor to Live"). That's what drove the changes when the rules were put in place. The wealthy didn't care if you could afford to buy their stuff because in the robber baron era they already owned pretty much everything. Expansion was fueling economic growth. When we ran out of land that stopped and the country stagnated. WWI & II fixed that by blowing up Europe and after that Eisenhower created the military industrial complex and fear of getting you factory seized kept outsourcing from killing wages.
Welp, we're out of land, we're out of wars (the ruling class has stiffled the last few that could have lead to WWIII) and the profits from the industrial complex are filtering up to the top almost entirely. So what now? I'm guessing dystopia. A very small number of humans will enjoy modern civilization (even by today's standards) and the rest, the 99.999% will live in squalor. There's plenty of solutions but I don't know how to get folks to buy into them.
and into modern stack based computing (what everyone likes to call the "Cloud" while ignoring the most important trend going on: modularity). They're doing this because labor's cheap (thanks to India) so they can just throw engineers at custom solutions and because Open Source means they don't have to build from scratch. Nobody worries about getting fired because they didn't buy IBM because nobody stays at a job that long anymore. So the teething problems from switching tech aren't as much of an issue anymore. In short, IBM's purpose is gone.
but again, I need 1 of you to watch 20 code monkeys. Heck if we're talking Best Practices docs that's more like 200 to 1. You only need 1 of those docs for an entire arm of an Org.
Also I can make those 20 somethings work overtime to replace aging Win NT/2k/Linux systems with the latest tech. I can work them without fear of burnout because, well, when they're your age I'm going to replace them.
Also, you're implying that guys in their 20s don't have your skill set. For raw skills a lot of them do. They don't necessarily know all the "gotchas". But that's not always a good thing. I've been through multiple re-orgs and I know how to avoid doing extra work for less than nothing in return. A kid in their 20s doesn't.
chase the same dragon Sun Microsystems did? Cheap Chinese hardware and cheap Linux boxes made their old model obsolete. Cheap IT labor from India and a lack of worker protections gave them no reason to invest in employees outside of the top level math majors. In that environment what were they supposed to do?
and I'm one myself. I'm not as good as I was 10/20 years ago. My experience might compensate but I also don't work 60 hours a week for 40 hours pay like a kid fresh out of college.
Here's the thing, if older folks are so valuable why do we need laws against age discrimination? Wouldn't the free market shake things out when a company that hires these more experienced laborers out competes the one that fired them?
Reality is that if I'm running a business I need 1 experienced old guy to manage 10-20 young engineers. The reason we ban age discrimination is the same reason we have (had?) a 40 hour work week, unemployment insurance and minimum wage. They're regulations used to artificially raise wages because in their absence wages collapse. We've been pulling back on those regulations for 40 years now and wages have been steadily declining while productivity goes up every year.
we're kinda ignoring the massive drought going on in the southwest right now because water subsidies hide the impact. But right about now is not the time to be firing off massive fireworks.
there's above average folks who can put the hours in. Normally they'd be rare and in high demand, but thanks to the H1-B program you can bring as many over as you want and keep cycling until you find one. Sure, even they eventually burn out, but thanks to overpopulation there's no shortage of them.
just bribes. They'll get big money from Amazon, Apple, Foxconn and the like. And everybody looks the other way because we've got wedge issues to worry about.
Nobody thinks they needed to give Foxconn $4 billion anymore than anybody in Kansas thought that bloody Ark think was really going to pay for itself with tourism and jobs. It's just corruption. Want this to stop? Stop voting for people who take corporate money. Here's one now.Here's a whole bunch of them. Not sure if there are any on the R side though. I don't know of any, and I know of a rather famous example of the exact opposite. If anyone knows anyone who's made the "no PAC & corp money" pledge on that side let me know.
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not sure about the years of updates but hey, unlocked bootloader, so do you're own updates. The G5 isn't selling badly, but it's not exactly an iPhone 5/6 style hot commodity.
sorry for giving your right wing stupid idea.
it's been decades since I read the Declaration of Independence in full and never gave a second thought to the phrase "Indian Savages" but yeah, that there's hate speech. It's a phrase specifically targeted to a race intended to imply all members of that race were in some way immoral and/or evil. If that's not hate speech I don't know what is.
Just because the Dec of Independence (and by extension America) has a lot of good parts doesn't mean we should pretend the bad didn't exist.
But this has been debunked 8 ways from Sunday.
Funny thing is all these conspiracy theories and bad press for Hillary helped get us Trump. And I"ll say one thing about Trump, he doesn't have any conspiracy theories to speak of. His administration is so openly corrupt what would be the point? He's like Dick Cheney times a million. When you tell people how corrupt he is they don't believe you because if anyone was that openly corrupt somebody, somewhere would do _something_. Right?
I've known several people with Leukemia. You wouldn't know them because they kind of drop out of life. Most of them die. Occasionally they go into remission but it's not like they all wear a big badge that says "Hi, I've got Leukemia!".
but in the US I'd much rather hear about their plans to deal with the next economic downturn. Our right wing just repealed one of the major regulations here (Dodd Frank) that was passed to prevent another 2008 style crash. I've noticed that whenever we do something boneheaded Britain's right wing seems to take notes...
because I would hate for someone to tell me they have a Plethora of new colors when they do not know what a Plethora is!
I'm not their market anymore. I stopped by because I was in a new town that was a much bigger city and was expecting to see a more impressive setup than what I got in my Podunk town. I did not. I got Walmart with the toy section expanded.
right? They got Bain'd. A company bought them, loaded them with debt, paid themselves bonuses with that debt and then the company collapsed under the weight of that debt. Toy stores need to be fun places to go. When my kid was little she desperately wanted a wood toy train set because she played with it at Toys R Us. We eventually bought the $150 model (the one set up there was close to $400 IIRC). The last time I went to a Toys R Us (looking at Star Wars figures after the first of the new Star Wars came out) there was nothing like that. Nothing cool for the kids to play with. Hell, they didn't even have video game kiosks set up. I remember being a kid and buying a Sega Master System because I played Maze Hunter 3D on a kiosk and later a Sega Genesis because I played Sonic the Hedgehog.
Toys R Us had none of that because they had no money. They didn't have the resources to build a fun place to play so parents stopped going. At the end it was just a warehouse. That's not how you compete with the internet. You compete by making spaces people _want_ to go to. But that costs money. Money they were spending on interest payments to loans that were paid to CEOs as bonuses.
I think this pretty clearly shows plenty of Demand for a toy store. Point being Toys R Us didn't die, it was murdered.
let the government run it like we do with the Post Office.
learn slower than whites or Asians. There's a pretty big body of research to show that as people age they learn slower. This is why kids can learn a language in no time but adults struggle.
Like it or not there's going to be an average age where people peak. Where their performance declines. The only question is where. In a strong labor market companies will push that age out. But in a weak one like we have now? Might as well take the young guys. They work an extra 20 hours/week. Whatever benefit the oldies have is at least negated by that save for a small number of managers you need (and maybe oddball cases like Walmart where they want old people because they show up to work on time).
Rather than focus on trying to hang onto jobs we can't I'd like to see more support for aging workers. Single payer healthcare would be a good start. Tuition free college for their kids would be the next step. And then maybe the same plus some subsidies for them to retrain. Also I'd like to see us start subsidizing housing again. There's a whole world of housing subsidies nobody talks about: land development. The government used to get land ready to build houses on (roads, power, gas, water, etc, etc). We stopped doing that because there's no money (40 years of tax cuts for the rich). That's why housing prices have skyrocketed. Housing developers don't do the difficult and expensive part (getting the land ready) they do the cheap part (throwing up a frame and connecting it to the grids).
We're plenty sea worthy. It's just all the spoils are going to the top 1%. I'd say it's high time for mutiny.
I know dozens of people stuck at dead end jobs because they can't go 90-180 days w/o health care. Only the top tier stuff has day 1 health care. This is one of the big reasons I want single payer in America (besides that it saves $17 trillion over the next 10 years. Seriously, we could pay off the National Debt in my lifetime). Wanna see wages go up across the board? Give everyone healthcare so they can demand higher wages. Rising tide/all boats and all that.
you're also probably on old, pre-economic crash pay scales. Wages have plummeted since 2008. I know guys earning 30% less than people doing the same job as them just because of when they were hired.
if they're redundant. That's what killed mainframes. Instead of 1 ultra high performance and ultra high uptime sever you throw a bunch of cheap commodity hardware at your problems.
I"m not trolling. I want other Oldies to stop patting themselves on the back about how amazing their skills are and realize they're just as expendable as everyone else. Once they realize that they can get out of the "Got Mine, Fuck You" mindset and join me in fixing the problems we've got. Until then they're just lambs to the slaughter who're hoping they're far enough in the back of the line to die of old age before they get to the butcher.
I'm about as far left as you can get and I agree with that quote. Regulations exist for a reason. There was a problem that needed to be solved.
And we're at full employment and wages aren't rising. Look it up. There's tons of articles from "confused" economists who just can't seem to figure out the cause. Mostly because they're not allowed to talk about why 40 years of supply side (aka trickle down) economics failed when we already knew it didn't work. Hell, Trump's tax cuts were uses almost entirely to do stock buy backs and mergers. Exactly what everyone on the left (including myself) said would happen. This matters because now the Federal Reserve is talking about raising interest rates to slow inflation caused by all the stock buybacks and those raises are going to eat up what little the working class got from the tax cuts and then some...
These rules had nothing to do with fairness. Wages were below what people needed to live (as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said "Too Poor to Live"). That's what drove the changes when the rules were put in place. The wealthy didn't care if you could afford to buy their stuff because in the robber baron era they already owned pretty much everything. Expansion was fueling economic growth. When we ran out of land that stopped and the country stagnated. WWI & II fixed that by blowing up Europe and after that Eisenhower created the military industrial complex and fear of getting you factory seized kept outsourcing from killing wages.
Welp, we're out of land, we're out of wars (the ruling class has stiffled the last few that could have lead to WWIII) and the profits from the industrial complex are filtering up to the top almost entirely. So what now? I'm guessing dystopia. A very small number of humans will enjoy modern civilization (even by today's standards) and the rest, the 99.999% will live in squalor. There's plenty of solutions but I don't know how to get folks to buy into them.
and into modern stack based computing (what everyone likes to call the "Cloud" while ignoring the most important trend going on: modularity). They're doing this because labor's cheap (thanks to India) so they can just throw engineers at custom solutions and because Open Source means they don't have to build from scratch. Nobody worries about getting fired because they didn't buy IBM because nobody stays at a job that long anymore. So the teething problems from switching tech aren't as much of an issue anymore. In short, IBM's purpose is gone.
but again, I need 1 of you to watch 20 code monkeys. Heck if we're talking Best Practices docs that's more like 200 to 1. You only need 1 of those docs for an entire arm of an Org.
Also I can make those 20 somethings work overtime to replace aging Win NT/2k/Linux systems with the latest tech. I can work them without fear of burnout because, well, when they're your age I'm going to replace them.
Also, you're implying that guys in their 20s don't have your skill set. For raw skills a lot of them do. They don't necessarily know all the "gotchas". But that's not always a good thing. I've been through multiple re-orgs and I know how to avoid doing extra work for less than nothing in return. A kid in their 20s doesn't.
chase the same dragon Sun Microsystems did? Cheap Chinese hardware and cheap Linux boxes made their old model obsolete. Cheap IT labor from India and a lack of worker protections gave them no reason to invest in employees outside of the top level math majors. In that environment what were they supposed to do?
and I'm one myself. I'm not as good as I was 10/20 years ago. My experience might compensate but I also don't work 60 hours a week for 40 hours pay like a kid fresh out of college.
Here's the thing, if older folks are so valuable why do we need laws against age discrimination? Wouldn't the free market shake things out when a company that hires these more experienced laborers out competes the one that fired them?
Reality is that if I'm running a business I need 1 experienced old guy to manage 10-20 young engineers. The reason we ban age discrimination is the same reason we have (had?) a 40 hour work week, unemployment insurance and minimum wage. They're regulations used to artificially raise wages because in their absence wages collapse. We've been pulling back on those regulations for 40 years now and wages have been steadily declining while productivity goes up every year.
we're kinda ignoring the massive drought going on in the southwest right now because water subsidies hide the impact. But right about now is not the time to be firing off massive fireworks.
there's above average folks who can put the hours in. Normally they'd be rare and in high demand, but thanks to the H1-B program you can bring as many over as you want and keep cycling until you find one. Sure, even they eventually burn out, but thanks to overpopulation there's no shortage of them.
just bribes. They'll get big money from Amazon, Apple, Foxconn and the like. And everybody looks the other way because we've got wedge issues to worry about.
Nobody thinks they needed to give Foxconn $4 billion anymore than anybody in Kansas thought that bloody Ark think was really going to pay for itself with tourism and jobs. It's just corruption. Want this to stop? Stop voting for people who take corporate money. Here's one now. Here's a whole bunch of them. Not sure if there are any on the R side though. I don't know of any, and I know of a rather famous example of the exact opposite. If anyone knows anyone who's made the "no PAC & corp money" pledge on that side let me know.