my guess is there's some protected class they want to raise fees on that happens to have a higher percentage of hotmail accounts. I can't imagine what, since as far as I know they're allowed to discriminate on age and sex. Maybe race? Weird things happen with demographics and data sometimes.
but more specifically it's _unequal_ funding. In America we fund schools with local property taxes. We do this so that rich people don't have to pay for the poor to be educated. To the point where if you try to send your kid to one of the nicer schools you'll get prosecuted for theft.
The result is that if you look at per-capita spending on schools it's very, very high but if you look at the results across entire districts they're very, very poor. It doesn't help that America has a massive underclass of working poor. Even if the kid wants to study it's hard without the support of parents.
if it's one thing a teenager knows, it's their social standing. Hell, if it's one thing _anyone_ knows in this world, it's their social standing. You don't need a computer program to tell you that.
here I thought she was going to come out in favor of dangerously evil AI.
I will agree with her that the UK is first to "bring artificial intelligence into government". Their current administrations intelligence, like the plants in my office, is definitely artificial. Meanwhile the CEO of google just made the most convincing argumment against AI in history:
You're going to have more doctors not fewer. More lawyers not fewer. More teachers not fewer.
I kid, I kid. But seriously folks, when your ruling class is consistently making the same vacuous 'everything's fine, really' comments you should be very, very worried.
Bros can code, and them getting into coding means more competition for scarce jobs and wages. Nerd stuff is the one thing us nerds had. And it's been taken away from us.
I just finished raising a teenager (and I'm paying for her college now). Smartphones aren't why she was unhappy. She was unhappy because the economy sucks. Specifically:
a. When all the blue collar manufacturing jobs went overseas it meant the only path forward was college.
b. This in turn massively increased competition for spots in college and more importantly for financial aid, the government portion of which has been getting cut since Clinton (though you wouldn't know it because it was all done by cutting state funding from the Fed, so if you're just counting subsidized loans it looks like more).
c. This in turn upped the ante on her high school. Her workload was about 2.5 times what I had when I was a kid.
d. Meanwhile the 2008 crash and the 6 years it took the economy to recover mean no car for her until college.
e. It also meant moving around for me to find work and having a hard time fitting in at a new school without a lot of money.
As always when shit goes bad, it's the economy stupid.
When CEOs were polled on what they're going to do with those tax cuts they had to answer honestly, since their words could impact investor's. All but a few said the same thing: Mergers & Acquisitions. And what always follows Mergers & Acquisitions? Layoffs. Lots of layoffs as redundant staff is fired and/or outsourced (gotta make back the cost of the acquisition somehow, and got to do it _immediately_ or else the shareholders get mad).
These tax cuts are going to hurt. Aside from the fact that Paul Ryan is already talking about taking Medicare & Social Security away from everyone under 55 to pay for them there'll be mass layoffs in the wake of all the M&Es. Wages will go down when those people hit the job market and then go down again since there will be fewer companies to work for and therefore less competition to pay wages.
Expect another crash, but way, way worse this time. Hopefully what's remains of the Left in America steps in to clean up the mess (like Obama did). Otherwise it'll spiral out of control and we'll start seeing pogroms against one of the minorities (Muslims, Hispanics, Blacks, Jews, take your pick) as the working class majority try to make sense of why they can't afford food and shelter anymore. This is just what happens when you let wealth inequality spiral out of control. Humanity's danced that Charleston for hundreds (thousands?) of years.
For two reasons. First, they're regressive. e.g. they punish the poor and reward the wealthy. I've heard various schemes to 'fix' this that always end with a system just as complex and full of holes as progressive taxation.
But second, progressive taxes, when properly applied, serve as a check on out of control wealth inequality. Remember, past a certain point money is power, not wealth. That point is around where you can no longer spend it on any conceivable luxury. Where the only thing left to spend your money on is bending people to your will & whims. Progressive taxes can and should be used to prevent this, because otherwise you end up with oligarchy, aristocracy, and the kind of rampant conservatism that lead to the Dark Ages (e.g. no progress as the wealthy block it to maintain their favorable status quo).
working for me to make changes to tax codes _globally_ to allow me to hide my money from the government. Even if I wanted to since all of my money comes from wages earned (as opposed to 'passive' income, e.g. money obtained just by owning shit) it's damn hard to hide that.
You couldn't have come up with a better false dichotomy if you tried.
to what we spent going to the moon? Or what was spent in the run up to WWII? Of what we spent on infrastructure post WWII?
The tax cuts weren't necessarily 'cuts' as you and me understand them but rather tweaks to current laws that let them hide money over seas. This is why Warren Buffet pays less as a percentage than his secretary. This is before we talk about the bail outs, the near zero interest loans to the ultra wealthy (which are used to further move their wealth off books ) and other economic shenanigans that funnel money up to the aristocracy.
What's busting the budget is two things. On the State level it's the manufacturing base going overseas decimating blue collar jobs that folks who can't get a college degree used to occupy. That killed Unions and with it wages and with it the tax base. The only place left to get money was the aristocracy and, well, that's not gonna happen. Not as long as wedge issues & caste systems exist. As for the national level, it's a wars and taking care of the baby boomers that's busting our budget. Everything else is chicken feed.
And when the hell did I say we should balance the budget with taxes? By 'Budget' you mean the national I guess, and We should balance that with single payer healthcare. We could pay off the national _debt_ (forget the deficit) in 10 bloody years with the savings from single payer health care _and_ give everyone health care _and_ compete with Canada for jobs that would shore up the state budgets. Then end the 8 wars (look it up, go watch youtube's Secular Talk) and spend that money on Supply Side economics and throw a few tariffs in to bring back manufacturing jobs & Unions. Problem solved. Your Welcome.
we keep cutting funding to education and research. Companies don't innovate. There's not enough money on the table to make it worth while. Aside from the occasional bored aristocrat it's mostly been the government that financed innovation; usually through the public university system. But nobody wants to pay the taxes for that. Heck, we just borrowed $1.5 trillion over 10 years to finance massive tax cuts (although the cuts for the middle class expire in 10 years, we're not crazy or anything).
you shouldn't feel so safe. It wouldn't take much to wipe out that investment portfolio. 7 figures isn't a lot by today's standards and rest assured someone out there is already thinking about how to swindle you out of it.
maybe a 1070. Both of those are way outside my price range. But so was the equivalent to the 760 I'm rocking now. Heck, the i5 I just bought only just now came down to what I was willing to pay (got it for $150 on sale at Fry's Electronics). But it's still overkill for all the games I play and will be for the next 5 years... if the performance doesn't tank due to patches. I mostly play console ports that are GPU bound.
Seriously? I can buy 4 ecos for that with the current promo. Not that I want to, but still. I get the sense they're only doing this because their investors insist they do, cause it feels like they're setting themselves up for failure.
and you feel invincible. Things like health care, retirement and child birth & rearing feel too far off to be real. The way most companies implemented this is by doing it to the young employees or by outsourcing/offshoring. Divide and conquer between the old and young. Break up worker solidarity. That sort of thing.
it sucked. Very inconsistent pay. He'd be on 9 months and off 3. Which is fine if you're in your 20s but not so much when you've got kids to raise. You're always playing catch up. I forget why but you can't get for unemployment.
The other problem was he could never get a raise because his contract agency had established how much he was willing to work for, so even if the job paid more the contract agency just pocketed the difference. He didn't have a degree so he needed a contract agency to get past the HR filters.
Right now it's dog eat dog here in the States. Whenever anyone suggests having the gov't step in and fix it they're shouted down as tax and spend liberals redistributing somebody else's wealth. We can't even get health care over here.
There's a hit there on the top end. Also in synthetics. I'm not currently seeing the frame rate dips because my GTX 760 bottlenecks that. In 5 years that won't be true (just like it wasn't true when I put that 760 on my old A10-5800). I don't upgrade my CPU & GPU in tandem. I tend to buy more CPU than I need and wait for the price of graphics to come down.
it's got to prove the obvious. I mean, no sh!t Sherlock, nicotine products are addictive. And if the addict can't get vape liquid they'll cheerfully smoke the real stuff.
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my guess is there's some protected class they want to raise fees on that happens to have a higher percentage of hotmail accounts. I can't imagine what, since as far as I know they're allowed to discriminate on age and sex. Maybe race? Weird things happen with demographics and data sometimes.
but more specifically it's _unequal_ funding. In America we fund schools with local property taxes. We do this so that rich people don't have to pay for the poor to be educated. To the point where if you try to send your kid to one of the nicer schools you'll get prosecuted for theft.
The result is that if you look at per-capita spending on schools it's very, very high but if you look at the results across entire districts they're very, very poor. It doesn't help that America has a massive underclass of working poor. Even if the kid wants to study it's hard without the support of parents.
this.
if it's one thing a teenager knows, it's their social standing. Hell, if it's one thing _anyone_ knows in this world, it's their social standing. You don't need a computer program to tell you that.
I will agree with her that the UK is first to "bring artificial intelligence into government". Their current administrations intelligence, like the plants in my office, is definitely artificial. Meanwhile the CEO of google just made the most convincing argumment against AI in history:
I kid, I kid. But seriously folks, when your ruling class is consistently making the same vacuous 'everything's fine, really' comments you should be very, very worried.
Bros can code, and them getting into coding means more competition for scarce jobs and wages. Nerd stuff is the one thing us nerds had. And it's been taken away from us.
I just finished raising a teenager (and I'm paying for her college now). Smartphones aren't why she was unhappy. She was unhappy because the economy sucks. Specifically:
a. When all the blue collar manufacturing jobs went overseas it meant the only path forward was college.
b. This in turn massively increased competition for spots in college and more importantly for financial aid, the government portion of which has been getting cut since Clinton (though you wouldn't know it because it was all done by cutting state funding from the Fed, so if you're just counting subsidized loans it looks like more).
c. This in turn upped the ante on her high school. Her workload was about 2.5 times what I had when I was a kid.
d. Meanwhile the 2008 crash and the 6 years it took the economy to recover mean no car for her until college.
e. It also meant moving around for me to find work and having a hard time fitting in at a new school without a lot of money.
As always when shit goes bad, it's the economy stupid.
When CEOs were polled on what they're going to do with those tax cuts they had to answer honestly, since their words could impact investor's. All but a few said the same thing: Mergers & Acquisitions. And what always follows Mergers & Acquisitions? Layoffs. Lots of layoffs as redundant staff is fired and/or outsourced (gotta make back the cost of the acquisition somehow, and got to do it _immediately_ or else the shareholders get mad).
These tax cuts are going to hurt. Aside from the fact that Paul Ryan is already talking about taking Medicare & Social Security away from everyone under 55 to pay for them there'll be mass layoffs in the wake of all the M&Es. Wages will go down when those people hit the job market and then go down again since there will be fewer companies to work for and therefore less competition to pay wages.
Expect another crash, but way, way worse this time. Hopefully what's remains of the Left in America steps in to clean up the mess (like Obama did). Otherwise it'll spiral out of control and we'll start seeing pogroms against one of the minorities (Muslims, Hispanics, Blacks, Jews, take your pick) as the working class majority try to make sense of why they can't afford food and shelter anymore. This is just what happens when you let wealth inequality spiral out of control. Humanity's danced that Charleston for hundreds (thousands?) of years.
I meant to write, "Is there anything it _can_ do". Trickle Down, Voodoo, Supply side. Whatever you want to call it, it's worthless.
For two reasons. First, they're regressive. e.g. they punish the poor and reward the wealthy. I've heard various schemes to 'fix' this that always end with a system just as complex and full of holes as progressive taxation.
But second, progressive taxes, when properly applied, serve as a check on out of control wealth inequality. Remember, past a certain point money is power, not wealth. That point is around where you can no longer spend it on any conceivable luxury. Where the only thing left to spend your money on is bending people to your will & whims. Progressive taxes can and should be used to prevent this, because otherwise you end up with oligarchy, aristocracy, and the kind of rampant conservatism that lead to the Dark Ages (e.g. no progress as the wealthy block it to maintain their favorable status quo).
working for me to make changes to tax codes _globally_ to allow me to hide my money from the government. Even if I wanted to since all of my money comes from wages earned (as opposed to 'passive' income, e.g. money obtained just by owning shit) it's damn hard to hide that.
You couldn't have come up with a better false dichotomy if you tried.
Nothing more, nothing less.
I was a full to think people would want naked pictures of Whoopee Goldberg...
Is there anything is can do? No, that's not a typo.
to what we spent going to the moon? Or what was spent in the run up to WWII? Of what we spent on infrastructure post WWII?
The tax cuts weren't necessarily 'cuts' as you and me understand them but rather tweaks to current laws that let them hide money over seas. This is why Warren Buffet pays less as a percentage than his secretary. This is before we talk about the bail outs, the near zero interest loans to the ultra wealthy (which are used to further move their wealth off books ) and other economic shenanigans that funnel money up to the aristocracy.
What's busting the budget is two things. On the State level it's the manufacturing base going overseas decimating blue collar jobs that folks who can't get a college degree used to occupy. That killed Unions and with it wages and with it the tax base. The only place left to get money was the aristocracy and, well, that's not gonna happen. Not as long as wedge issues & caste systems exist. As for the national level, it's a wars and taking care of the baby boomers that's busting our budget. Everything else is chicken feed.
And when the hell did I say we should balance the budget with taxes? By 'Budget' you mean the national I guess, and We should balance that with single payer healthcare. We could pay off the national _debt_ (forget the deficit) in 10 bloody years with the savings from single payer health care _and_ give everyone health care _and_ compete with Canada for jobs that would shore up the state budgets. Then end the 8 wars (look it up, go watch youtube's Secular Talk) and spend that money on Supply Side economics and throw a few tariffs in to bring back manufacturing jobs & Unions. Problem solved. Your Welcome.
we keep cutting funding to education and research. Companies don't innovate. There's not enough money on the table to make it worth while. Aside from the occasional bored aristocrat it's mostly been the government that financed innovation; usually through the public university system. But nobody wants to pay the taxes for that. Heck, we just borrowed $1.5 trillion over 10 years to finance massive tax cuts (although the cuts for the middle class expire in 10 years, we're not crazy or anything).
you shouldn't feel so safe. It wouldn't take much to wipe out that investment portfolio. 7 figures isn't a lot by today's standards and rest assured someone out there is already thinking about how to swindle you out of it.
maybe a 1070. Both of those are way outside my price range. But so was the equivalent to the 760 I'm rocking now. Heck, the i5 I just bought only just now came down to what I was willing to pay (got it for $150 on sale at Fry's Electronics). But it's still overkill for all the games I play and will be for the next 5 years... if the performance doesn't tank due to patches. I mostly play console ports that are GPU bound.
Seriously? I can buy 4 ecos for that with the current promo. Not that I want to, but still. I get the sense they're only doing this because their investors insist they do, cause it feels like they're setting themselves up for failure.
and you feel invincible. Things like health care, retirement and child birth & rearing feel too far off to be real. The way most companies implemented this is by doing it to the young employees or by outsourcing/offshoring. Divide and conquer between the old and young. Break up worker solidarity. That sort of thing.
it's about 6 feet. You're guaranteed to get at least that far.
it sucked. Very inconsistent pay. He'd be on 9 months and off 3. Which is fine if you're in your 20s but not so much when you've got kids to raise. You're always playing catch up. I forget why but you can't get for unemployment.
The other problem was he could never get a raise because his contract agency had established how much he was willing to work for, so even if the job paid more the contract agency just pocketed the difference. He didn't have a degree so he needed a contract agency to get past the HR filters.
Right now it's dog eat dog here in the States. Whenever anyone suggests having the gov't step in and fix it they're shouted down as tax and spend liberals redistributing somebody else's wealth. We can't even get health care over here.
I don't know anyone who could knock back a pack a day of blunts. My mom would sometimes go through two packs. She died of lung cancer at 55.
There's a hit there on the top end. Also in synthetics. I'm not currently seeing the frame rate dips because my GTX 760 bottlenecks that. In 5 years that won't be true (just like it wasn't true when I put that 760 on my old A10-5800). I don't upgrade my CPU & GPU in tandem. I tend to buy more CPU than I need and wait for the price of graphics to come down.
it's got to prove the obvious. I mean, no sh!t Sherlock, nicotine products are addictive. And if the addict can't get vape liquid they'll cheerfully smoke the real stuff.