and be resold. My 9 year old Athlon XP 3000 ran Win10 just fine until I replaced it with an i5-4590k so I could game on my main TV.
If anything the pressure will be in reverse as used computers hit the market. Especially in countries that don't pay too close attention to where a Windows license came from.
Same thing's happening with GPUs. I just got an RX 580 off ebay for $100 bucks shipped and you can get a brand new RX 570 for $130 bucks shipped with two free games.
when they needed us they did. Now that they've got H1-Bs? Not so much.
That's why you don't ask them. Vote. Vote in your primary elections. Vote for left leaning candidates. Stop listening to mainstream media like CNN and MSNBC (both establishment outlets). We really are a democracy, but in order for that to work we've got to all agree that nobody gets left behind. Otherwise we split into classes and races and sub-groups and fight among ourselves while the wealthy take all our stuff.
you get them at public Uni or, more likely, community college. And there's damn few of them. As an added bonus Muffy is a little less stupid as a result. At the very least she had to take some basic writing and history courses and learned a little critical thinking. Yeah, she's probably still pretty dense (she did get a Gender studies degree after all) but trust me, she was worse going in then coming out.
That leaves hundreds of thousands of Nurses, Doctors, Accountants, Engineers, MBAs and Architects putting money in your 401k by growing the economy.
To be blunt, ROI's only a problem if you're willing to give all that up to stiggit to the libs by denying the occasional middle class brat their useless degree.
I'm not sure why we suddenly care. This has been going on for ages. Maybe it's because the funding cuts have gotten so bad that people are angry at the special privileges given to wealthy and well connected. It's a moot point. This'll blow over and they'll find another way to do it that isn't so obvious.
The correct response to this is to end tuition and just let anyone who passes their exams go to college. It would cost $80 billion a year. That's not even a drop in the bucket compared to the value of a well educated populace. Not just for your kids, but for your retirement. Without a strong economy backed by college educated kids you're not gonna get the return on investment you need.
as has been pointed out originally it was for farmers. After that the reason we kept it around was shopping. People shop more when there's more daylight, so the retail chains fought to keep DST to maximize daily shopping time. Retail has waned quite a bit so there's less pressure to keep it.
You'd be amazed how many things in your life you take for granted are that way because a company wanted it that way.
not even a little bit. If you want pretend neutrality go watch some CNN or even Fox News ("Fair and Balanced", though these days it's not even a joke anymore). Salon wears it's politics on it's sleeve and always has.
but I guarantee you the rich and powerful are thinking about the future. Income inequality is the worst it's been since the 1930s. People are dying because they're rationing medicine in the wealthiest country on the planet. If you think the rich and powerful haven't spared a thought on how to keep that gravy train rolling you didn't pay attention in history class.
and maybe aspirin what good would knowing the price do you? Would you really be able to judge the relative merits of two pace makers? Or two antibiotics? Or the surgery done by two doctors at different hospitals? How about the same hospital?
This is why no other civilized country on Earth leaves paying for healthcare up to individuals or "insurance" companies (quotes because you buy insurance in case you need something, but in 2019 we all know damn well we need healthcare).
TL;DR; paying for healthcare is too complex and too essential to leave up to a free market. Doctors and Hospitals can be privately run, but insurance? No. Just no.
I'm not worried about sci-fi scenarios where robots kill all humanity. I _am_ worried about the ruling class using killer robots to usher in an endless age of dystopian oppression. Right now about the only thing keeping them a _little_ in check is having to balance the Military and Working Classes. If they go to far the working class lets the military class form a Junta and we get a change of masters with the old order's heads on a pike. Killer robots eliminate the Military class. All that's left is a tiny group of engineers who'll get bought off with an OK life.
If you're a member of the working class you should be doing everything in your power to put the kibosh on this crap. Fast.
voting rights were very different then and now. Cities had large concentrations of _eligible_ voters. Today even ex-cons can often vote (as it should be, nothing should cause a person to lose their right to vote, if we have so many ax murders and pedophiles they can swing elections maybe we should do something about that first).
completely untraceable unless you're buying dozens of them at a time. Even then they're still untraceable, but they'll stake out the area if you keep doing it in the same place. But long before they did that they'd just stake out your regular haunts and catch you there.
Credit Cards are not the Number of the Beast. They're not a perfectly traceable item. Nor do they need to be. Cops have much, much better ways to get their way.
You're right about one thing, cashless would make cops jobs easier. It would end stick ups. There'd be no point knocking over a convenience store or fast food joint if there was no cash there.
just stop means testing welfare programs. Implement UBI. Problem solved.
Or if you have to means test stop doing it on moral grounds. You know most of the South is doing drug test laws for welfare recipients, right? No cash involved.
One last thing, nobody knows what book you bought except Amazon. All the Credit Card companies know is that you bought something from Amazon.
it has to be counted, moved by secured trucks to banks. You have "shrinkage" in retail & restaurant (e.g. stealing from the till or not ringing up orders, every wonder why you see your order on a screen at a fast food restaurant? it's not so they get it right...).
When I worked at a fast food joint we were allowed to be off by a certain amount on each till. It was just expected. It was a couple bucks on a $100 till IIRC, so around 2% right there. We weren't always, but I'm guessing that alone was a 1% loss.
And that's before we talk about armed robbery. I pointed this out elsewhere on the thread but cashless would be a boom to fast food and convenience store employees who often get robbed. And companies typically have to carry insurance to cover that risk. Plus there's the lost money from the robbery.
the current system is kind of fucked up. If you're wealthy you've got basically zero chance of getting arrested for a little hash & shrooms. Being white helps too.
Every wonder why we haven't legalized drugs? It's because drugs being illegal isn't a problem for a significant portion of the population. Hell, Nixon's people admitted that it was a political move, literally state sponsored terrorism against minorities they didn't like ("minorities" here being literal, e.g. not just race/creed/color but also political minorities).
There's a big push for drug reform thanks to the "opioid crisis". We even passed some real criminal justice reform. What changed? Middle Class, rural white men and women were getting caught up in the drug war for a change. Since they're a valuable voting block to the right wing (and the left wing already wanted to stop treating drug users like criminals) some progress happened.
I wouldn't mind seeing all of it brought out into the light. Legal taxed and regulated for the weak stuff (pot & shrooms) and treat the hard stuff (Meth, Heroine) like a disease. That's not going to happen so long as 70% of the population can use witn impunity...
India did a major shake up to it's paper currency because they couldn't get folks to pay their taxes. It was bad enough that it was retarding the country's growth and modernization efforts.
You can still have spending privacy for small transactions (think under $10k) with various cash cards. What'll go away is hiding large amounts of money from the tax man in cash. As somebody who gets paid his salary electronically and pays every dime of taxes I say "Good".
and would have loved cashless. Every store I worked at had been robbed at least once while I worked there. I avoided it by sheer dumb luck. The owner of one chain used to keep their lobby's open 24/7 until somebody got pistol whipped. They didn't close them until the cops got fed up and said they'd press negligence charges on the owner the next time somebody got hurt.
What I'm saying is cash isn't free to a business. There are costs involved. The businesses dropping cash aren't doing it to be hip or because they drunk kool-aid. They're doing it because the costs are now higher than the alternatives.
And if it bother's you that much just do Postal Banking with government issued cards. Have the gov't issue gift card like devices if being traced bugs you. But I've said this before, being tracked should be low on your list of worries in a world like ours. If you're American you've got Health Care, jobs, climate change and the 8 wars we're fighting. Tracking is a symptom of oppression, not the cause. Focus on the systemic issues that oppress you.
in the form of various rewards programs and cashback. I also get the option to dispute most transactions (thanks to US Law, YMMV in your country though). I'm also not liable for unauthorized charges.
As for the businesses taking my credit cards, they get to sell me more crap (my kid has a copy of my card with her name on it for use in college and yeah, she's spent more on it then I'd probably budget her if I gave her cash, she's got a 4.0 despite getting sick as a dog last year, I can't complain). And it effectively lets a company issue credit without the need to do collections.
I think it mostly works for folks in good financial shape. Where it becomes nasty is if you're not in good financial shape. Then the sharks circle with 30%+ APRs and they sell your debt to each other and use our legal system to garnish wages. But all that's fixable with some more regulation and some pro-working class legislation like what Bernie Sander's is proposing.
Speaking of Bernie, I think Credit Cards are a good example of something that works well in the context of Democratic Socialism and Mixed Market Capitalism. e.g. something that we can leave the bulk of it up to private industry while regulating it enough to prevent abuses.
I understand why there's no competition for Internet Providers. Laying cable is _expensive_. But Glasses? Anyone with a few million in capital should be able to enter this market and make a killing. There were some online glasses places but after they got established their prices shot up to match everyone else's. There's ophthalmologists who've got that kind of money just sitting around.
were thinner than the Garlic slices in Goodfellas. Russia also did a ton of work on Facebook, twitter and other non advertising sites. This coming from an ex-KGB guy that specialized in information warfare.
I think it's naive to underestimate the effect Russia had on our elections. Doing so will leave us vulnerable to additional attacks. That said, I'm happy to see Candidates like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard pushing policy non-stop. Let the CIA spooks, the FBI and Mueller take care of Russian interference.
the purpose was to shift power from the populous cities (which were full of working class citizens) and to rural areas where the wealthy lived and had their plantations and a tight control on the voting electorate.
But they don't teach you that in school because it doesn't fit the desired narrative. Anyway, go read a book called "A People's History of the United States" for starters. We are one hell of a fucked up country.
he needs external enemies to hold on to power. Also, he's managed to gourd us out of a missile treaty that will allow him to openly develop short range missiles that used to be banned. He'll need those if he wants to go after more territory, which with what he's doing in Ukraine he obviously does.
One of the major problems with Trump and his people is they're not very good at what they do but they don't seem to know or care. As near as anyone can tell Trump got talked into exiting Syria in one phone call from the president of Turkey. Somebody at Putin's level can play Trump like a harp.
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even if it's free. Other countries have no problem making college tuition free. NY just did it too. As for cost, see here.
she'll spend 2 years in that echo chamber. The first 2 years of college is Gen-Ed.
and be resold. My 9 year old Athlon XP 3000 ran Win10 just fine until I replaced it with an i5-4590k so I could game on my main TV.
If anything the pressure will be in reverse as used computers hit the market. Especially in countries that don't pay too close attention to where a Windows license came from.
Same thing's happening with GPUs. I just got an RX 580 off ebay for $100 bucks shipped and you can get a brand new RX 570 for $130 bucks shipped with two free games.
when they needed us they did. Now that they've got H1-Bs? Not so much.
That's why you don't ask them. Vote. Vote in your primary elections. Vote for left leaning candidates. Stop listening to mainstream media like CNN and MSNBC (both establishment outlets). We really are a democracy, but in order for that to work we've got to all agree that nobody gets left behind. Otherwise we split into classes and races and sub-groups and fight among ourselves while the wealthy take all our stuff.
you get them at public Uni or, more likely, community college. And there's damn few of them. As an added bonus Muffy is a little less stupid as a result. At the very least she had to take some basic writing and history courses and learned a little critical thinking. Yeah, she's probably still pretty dense (she did get a Gender studies degree after all) but trust me, she was worse going in then coming out.
That leaves hundreds of thousands of Nurses, Doctors, Accountants, Engineers, MBAs and Architects putting money in your 401k by growing the economy.
To be blunt, ROI's only a problem if you're willing to give all that up to stiggit to the libs by denying the occasional middle class brat their useless degree.
I'm not sure why we suddenly care. This has been going on for ages. Maybe it's because the funding cuts have gotten so bad that people are angry at the special privileges given to wealthy and well connected. It's a moot point. This'll blow over and they'll find another way to do it that isn't so obvious.
The correct response to this is to end tuition and just let anyone who passes their exams go to college. It would cost $80 billion a year. That's not even a drop in the bucket compared to the value of a well educated populace. Not just for your kids, but for your retirement. Without a strong economy backed by college educated kids you're not gonna get the return on investment you need.
I'm surprised that wasn't bigger news. That wouldn't affect just the poor, that'd hit the old geezers who watch Fox News too.
is right twice a day.
as has been pointed out originally it was for farmers. After that the reason we kept it around was shopping. People shop more when there's more daylight, so the retail chains fought to keep DST to maximize daily shopping time. Retail has waned quite a bit so there's less pressure to keep it.
You'd be amazed how many things in your life you take for granted are that way because a company wanted it that way.
not even a little bit. If you want pretend neutrality go watch some CNN or even Fox News ("Fair and Balanced", though these days it's not even a joke anymore). Salon wears it's politics on it's sleeve and always has.
but I guarantee you the rich and powerful are thinking about the future. Income inequality is the worst it's been since the 1930s. People are dying because they're rationing medicine in the wealthiest country on the planet. If you think the rich and powerful haven't spared a thought on how to keep that gravy train rolling you didn't pay attention in history class.
and maybe aspirin what good would knowing the price do you? Would you really be able to judge the relative merits of two pace makers? Or two antibiotics? Or the surgery done by two doctors at different hospitals? How about the same hospital?
This is why no other civilized country on Earth leaves paying for healthcare up to individuals or "insurance" companies (quotes because you buy insurance in case you need something, but in 2019 we all know damn well we need healthcare).
TL;DR; paying for healthcare is too complex and too essential to leave up to a free market. Doctors and Hospitals can be privately run, but insurance? No. Just no.
See here
I'm not worried about sci-fi scenarios where robots kill all humanity. I _am_ worried about the ruling class using killer robots to usher in an endless age of dystopian oppression. Right now about the only thing keeping them a _little_ in check is having to balance the Military and Working Classes. If they go to far the working class lets the military class form a Junta and we get a change of masters with the old order's heads on a pike. Killer robots eliminate the Military class. All that's left is a tiny group of engineers who'll get bought off with an OK life.
If you're a member of the working class you should be doing everything in your power to put the kibosh on this crap. Fast.
voting rights were very different then and now. Cities had large concentrations of _eligible_ voters. Today even ex-cons can often vote (as it should be, nothing should cause a person to lose their right to vote, if we have so many ax murders and pedophiles they can swing elections maybe we should do something about that first).
completely untraceable unless you're buying dozens of them at a time. Even then they're still untraceable, but they'll stake out the area if you keep doing it in the same place. But long before they did that they'd just stake out your regular haunts and catch you there.
Credit Cards are not the Number of the Beast. They're not a perfectly traceable item. Nor do they need to be. Cops have much, much better ways to get their way.
You're right about one thing, cashless would make cops jobs easier. It would end stick ups. There'd be no point knocking over a convenience store or fast food joint if there was no cash there.
just stop means testing welfare programs. Implement UBI. Problem solved.
Or if you have to means test stop doing it on moral grounds. You know most of the South is doing drug test laws for welfare recipients, right? No cash involved.
One last thing, nobody knows what book you bought except Amazon. All the Credit Card companies know is that you bought something from Amazon.
it has to be counted, moved by secured trucks to banks. You have "shrinkage" in retail & restaurant (e.g. stealing from the till or not ringing up orders, every wonder why you see your order on a screen at a fast food restaurant? it's not so they get it right...).
When I worked at a fast food joint we were allowed to be off by a certain amount on each till. It was just expected. It was a couple bucks on a $100 till IIRC, so around 2% right there. We weren't always, but I'm guessing that alone was a 1% loss.
And that's before we talk about armed robbery. I pointed this out elsewhere on the thread but cashless would be a boom to fast food and convenience store employees who often get robbed. And companies typically have to carry insurance to cover that risk. Plus there's the lost money from the robbery.
the current system is kind of fucked up. If you're wealthy you've got basically zero chance of getting arrested for a little hash & shrooms. Being white helps too.
Every wonder why we haven't legalized drugs? It's because drugs being illegal isn't a problem for a significant portion of the population. Hell, Nixon's people admitted that it was a political move, literally state sponsored terrorism against minorities they didn't like ("minorities" here being literal, e.g. not just race/creed/color but also political minorities).
There's a big push for drug reform thanks to the "opioid crisis". We even passed some real criminal justice reform. What changed? Middle Class, rural white men and women were getting caught up in the drug war for a change. Since they're a valuable voting block to the right wing (and the left wing already wanted to stop treating drug users like criminals) some progress happened.
I wouldn't mind seeing all of it brought out into the light. Legal taxed and regulated for the weak stuff (pot & shrooms) and treat the hard stuff (Meth, Heroine) like a disease. That's not going to happen so long as 70% of the population can use witn impunity...
India did a major shake up to it's paper currency because they couldn't get folks to pay their taxes. It was bad enough that it was retarding the country's growth and modernization efforts.
You can still have spending privacy for small transactions (think under $10k) with various cash cards. What'll go away is hiding large amounts of money from the tax man in cash. As somebody who gets paid his salary electronically and pays every dime of taxes I say "Good".
and would have loved cashless. Every store I worked at had been robbed at least once while I worked there. I avoided it by sheer dumb luck. The owner of one chain used to keep their lobby's open 24/7 until somebody got pistol whipped. They didn't close them until the cops got fed up and said they'd press negligence charges on the owner the next time somebody got hurt.
What I'm saying is cash isn't free to a business. There are costs involved. The businesses dropping cash aren't doing it to be hip or because they drunk kool-aid. They're doing it because the costs are now higher than the alternatives.
And if it bother's you that much just do Postal Banking with government issued cards. Have the gov't issue gift card like devices if being traced bugs you. But I've said this before, being tracked should be low on your list of worries in a world like ours. If you're American you've got Health Care, jobs, climate change and the 8 wars we're fighting. Tracking is a symptom of oppression, not the cause. Focus on the systemic issues that oppress you.
in the form of various rewards programs and cashback. I also get the option to dispute most transactions (thanks to US Law, YMMV in your country though). I'm also not liable for unauthorized charges.
As for the businesses taking my credit cards, they get to sell me more crap (my kid has a copy of my card with her name on it for use in college and yeah, she's spent more on it then I'd probably budget her if I gave her cash, she's got a 4.0 despite getting sick as a dog last year, I can't complain). And it effectively lets a company issue credit without the need to do collections.
I think it mostly works for folks in good financial shape. Where it becomes nasty is if you're not in good financial shape. Then the sharks circle with 30%+ APRs and they sell your debt to each other and use our legal system to garnish wages. But all that's fixable with some more regulation and some pro-working class legislation like what Bernie Sander's is proposing.
Speaking of Bernie, I think Credit Cards are a good example of something that works well in the context of Democratic Socialism and Mixed Market Capitalism. e.g. something that we can leave the bulk of it up to private industry while regulating it enough to prevent abuses.
I understand why there's no competition for Internet Providers. Laying cable is _expensive_. But Glasses? Anyone with a few million in capital should be able to enter this market and make a killing. There were some online glasses places but after they got established their prices shot up to match everyone else's. There's ophthalmologists who've got that kind of money just sitting around.
were thinner than the Garlic slices in Goodfellas. Russia also did a ton of work on Facebook, twitter and other non advertising sites. This coming from an ex-KGB guy that specialized in information warfare.
I think it's naive to underestimate the effect Russia had on our elections. Doing so will leave us vulnerable to additional attacks. That said, I'm happy to see Candidates like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard pushing policy non-stop. Let the CIA spooks, the FBI and Mueller take care of Russian interference.
the purpose was to shift power from the populous cities (which were full of working class citizens) and to rural areas where the wealthy lived and had their plantations and a tight control on the voting electorate.
But they don't teach you that in school because it doesn't fit the desired narrative. Anyway, go read a book called "A People's History of the United States" for starters. We are one hell of a fucked up country.
he needs external enemies to hold on to power. Also, he's managed to gourd us out of a missile treaty that will allow him to openly develop short range missiles that used to be banned. He'll need those if he wants to go after more territory, which with what he's doing in Ukraine he obviously does.
One of the major problems with Trump and his people is they're not very good at what they do but they don't seem to know or care. As near as anyone can tell Trump got talked into exiting Syria in one phone call from the president of Turkey. Somebody at Putin's level can play Trump like a harp.