the country far right. Way right of anything Nixon or Reagan ever did. Clinton wanted to be president but needed Wallstreet's money. He formed an alliance of social progressives and right wing economists. This didn't hurt too much since the.com boom was going on so the massive tax cuts and funding cuts to social programs and education largely went unnoticed.
Thing is, when he was done shifting the Democratic party to the right he put the Republican party in a bad spot. They were little more than Democrats with a mild streak of bigotry. So to maintain their own identity they moved right themselves. Meanwhile all the corporate money pouring in was just gas on the fire.
Bernie & his crew are trying to shift the Dems back to the left, but the corportists have their claws pretty deep in the DNC. Even the election of Trump wasn't enough to shock them loose. Not sure what's gonna happen, but if the country keeps moving to the right we're gonna get authoritarianism.
and we especially hate Clinton (both of them) since they ran the country right of what even Regan did (seriously, go look at how much deregulation and funding cuts Bill did). This is not to say we oppose tariffs, BTW. The left is generally in favor of them, especially for countries like Mexico and China who abuse their people and their land. Go look up a youtube channel called 'Secular Talk' if you want a good idea of what the actual left supports.
now. In the 1920s there was a much, much more even playing field between countries (albeit because just about everywhere was a shithole). Our trade in balance with China & Mexico is almost completely due to the fact that their respective governments and ruling class allow their people to be abused to an extent we no longer allow.
Also, most historians agree the tariffs made things worse, but I've yet to meet one that thought the tariffs _caused_ the Depression. Generally it was wealth inequality that caused it. Speaking of which, we're at levels not seen since the 1920s...
if anything it's probably more so since it probably uses more machines and less labor. Chinese panels are cheaper because the poor working and living conditions of their people. Now, what I wouldn't mind seeing is tariffs that kick in when there's a disparity. Canada suggested the US do these when we renegotiate NAFTA, although mostly as a dig on our low quality of life; suggesting that they'd need such tariffs themselves since we don't have things like single payer health care, mandatory sick and vacation time, etc, etc.
Cheap Chinese panels were probably going to kill local production. OTOH those cheap panels were getting us off dirty fossil fuels. But OTOOH the reason those Chinese panels are cheap is they don't have much in the way of labor law or environmental regulations. But OTOOOH I don't expect to see much in the way of other tariffs (This one was easy to get through because the coal lobby got Trump elected).
there was a story about coal miner's kids doing apprenticeships to be coal miners. Everyone called them idiots because they all know the job's going away. One of the left wing rags (I forget which one) actually _interviewed_ the kids. When asked the kids had a damn good reason to take the apprenticeships. There were no jobs available for the other career options available. They'd have to move somewhere else, and they didn't have the money to do that. These were poor kids in dead coal towns. Uprooting wasn't an option.
So they did the only rational thing: study for the only jobs left that weren't Walmart and hope they were one of the ones to get in. A perfectly rational thing to do under the circumstances. Trouble is the entire situation isn't rational, so if you're on the outside looking in they seem crazy.
Montana isn't exactly swimming in money. They're 35th in the nation on per capital GDP. And as a Red state they probably don't have the tax dollars to do that or the political will to raise those tax dollars. There's actually probably enough money coming in from subsidies but if you tried to shift those from grants that go to cable companies & AT&T to building public infrastructure you'd probably get shut down by corruption. Getting public lines run would require a seismic shift in their politics.
They're a rural state and the governor knows damn well he won't survive reelection if his constituents are getting screwed over by big city folk. It's the same reason the FCC backed down on reclassifying Mobile internet as broadband and didn't lower the speed caps for it. The Republican party is heavily dependent on rural voters. The American political system is built in such a way as to grant them disproportionate amounts of voting power; most notably the Senate and Electral college but there are other examples. What's more rural voter's interests often don't align with city voters, making them prime candidates for politicking. OTOH, there's lots of good reason for rural voters to oppose the Republican party. The Republicans have to be careful right now or they'll lose those voters and with them the country.
there are very clear laws about who can and cannot interact with foreign governments in an official capacity and even under what circumstances you can act in an unofficial capacity. When folks talk about treason, both legally and colloquially, this is what they mean. That's understood from context, and to suggest otherwise is at best misdirection and debating slight of hand and at worst a plain 'ole straw man argument.
but I did IT for a closet & cabinet maker where not a single employee (including the owner) could do carpentry. They had a CNC machine. A sales guy would go out, do measurements, show you some packages and then a computer cut everything to fit. Then a couple guys with nails and hammers went out and banged it all together. If anything didn't fit it was because the measurements were wrong. You didn't 'em again, recut, and yelled at the sales guy not to screw up again.
That's a really, really high skill job that's been turned into Ikea furniture by computers.
Another example is my kid's invisalign braces. After the first set of prints were done she saw the orthodontist a total of 6 times for about 3 hours total; and she only saw him that much because her teeth needed some grinding and that takes a while. Everything else was done by computer in Israel. The invisalign were the same price as regular braces; but the regular braces would have needed bi weekly adjustments. With the invisalign she just swapped out clear plastic retainers.
Oh, and don't get me started on how quick buildings go up now. I've seen high rises open in less than a year. The kind that used to take 5 times that when I was a wee lad. And most of that year was waiting for the city to complete inspections (underfunded inspection offices don't have enough manpower, so you wait a while).
Point is, it's not just automation, it's massive amounts of skill reduction.
and plan to look into the class action suits. Had I known I would have held off or bought a Ryzen. I'm not expecting Intel to buy me new CPUs but as a gamer the 5-10% hit I'm seeing will eventually caught up to me and force an upgrade sooner than intended.
than spec? Wouldn't they be trying to maximize performance? Especially since the faster they mine the more they get; given the nature of crypto currencies it gets harder to mine as time goes on.
Also, these cards aren't _meant_ to run 24/7. They're meant to run 4-8 hours at a time tops, and those are the really nice ones. nVidia recently prohibited their consumer grade cards from being used in mining and data centers. This is obviously unenforceable, but the theory is that they're trying to get out of warranty repairs for a use case the cards aren't meant for. Meaning they're not expecting them to hold up in those use cases.
or at least it does to most people. It's certainly what I think of when I hear the phrase.
Also, what the devil are they going to retrain for? We're about to put every cashier and driver out of work. They're not all going to go off and be doctors, most folks just don't have the capacity. I guess we could think up new service jobs, but who's gonna pay them? It's not looking like folks are gonna have much money.
Also, you're assuming folks need to work or they become listless and frustrated and violent. I think that's only going to be a problem if they don't have enough money for food/shelter and (maybe, big maybe) a modicum of living (e.g. have a kid or two, go get drunk occasionally, that sort of thing).
All I see is more folks trying to put the onus on people to 're-skill' without talking about how they're gonna do that, if they even _can_ do that and where are the jobs going to come from. It sounds like blame shifting so we can all look the other way while 20% of the country's lives go to shit. That's certainly the vibe I got from Hillary Clinton.
Was Intel expecting? Me, I was expecting one to install the patch. I guess anything more is, technically, higher than expected. Also, this kind of mealy mouthed garbage is why Linus is so made at you right now Intel...
it didn't work when the blue collar jobs went overseas and it's not going to work now. That's because:
a) older folks learn slower than young folks (fact)
b) it's kinda hard to work full time supporting the family you made when you had a job and go to school full time.
c) A lot of the folks being asked to re-skill didn't make it through college the first time when they were young and still had the support of their parents and access to scholarships only available to high school seniors
d) Nobody wants to support these folks while they go back to school, since that means tax hikes and we just did a $1.5 trillion dollar tax _cut_.
This is precisely why Hilary lost the election. Just telling them to reskill isn't an answer. It's not going to work. Think of something else or get ready for some pain while they elect God only knows what kind of people in a desperate attempt to find someone who will listen to them.
the system builders can still get cards at a reasonable price. You can get a whole new system for a few hundred over just the card right now. It's crazy.
You might also look for a used 970 GTX or even a 660/760 if it's for e-sports, just make sure it's from one of the better manufactures (Gigabyte/Asus/MSI). They tend to put some effort into making the cards more durable which reduces the odds of getting a junk board that's had the solder re-flowed in an oven.
for a very long time. There was a lot of dead cards from solder and/or traces breaking. You could toss 'em in an oven for 30 minutes and get another 6 weeks out of them; long enough to get past ebay's return policy.
It wasn't until the GTX 660/760 line that we started to see cards from Asus/Gigabyte/MSI specifically designed to fix this (Gigabyte's 'Ultra Durable' brand, MSI's 'Military Grade' and I forget what Asus' was). I ran pretty low end stuff (think GTX 240 ) and only recently got some hand me downs from my bro. That's because when he got his 1060 it was the first time in a decade he bought a new card to upgrade instead of to replace a dead board.
if AMD suddenly ramps up production they could devour the gaming market leading to games written specifically for AMD. Right now nVidia has a big performance & stability edge because they can throw more engineers at game companies and because they just plain have more hardware.
At the moment neither nVidia or AMD wants to take the risk of ramping up production since it'll be a disaster if crypto currencies collapse. But AMD has a long history of slightly off kilter business decisions.
you could pay them in just enough rice porridge to make it through one more miserable day and the machines would still win out; if only because shopping at places where the staff can barely survive is just plain unpleasant. After all, out of sight, out of mind.
will dwarf anything you could possibly steal before getting caught. As for privacy concerns, it's like the number of the beast. You won't have a choice. You'll at least have to buy food.
you might have been right. The aristocracy couldn't coordinate and communicate. Misunderstandings would happen and could escalate. Like a certain arch duke being assassinated. But that's not true anymore. The wealthy don't fear each other. They work together. Sure wish the working class would do the same.
globalism is. The Aristocracy is global now. They don't own countries, they own the world. More specifically they have property all throughout the world and don't want to see it blown up. They'll allow a few bush fire style conflicts to keep war profiteering going (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) and they'll put down rebellions (Yemen) but they won't allow another full scale war to dip into their profits and break their stuff and, well, they're the aristocracy so they're in charge.
Hell, maybe about a decade ago Pakistan basically looked the other way while a major terrorist incident happened in India and nothing came of it. That's because an India/Pakistan war would be bad for business.
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if you're a new customer. I suppose there's ebay, but I can't imagine there isn't product activation on anything newer than 2002.
the country far right. Way right of anything Nixon or Reagan ever did. Clinton wanted to be president but needed Wallstreet's money. He formed an alliance of social progressives and right wing economists. This didn't hurt too much since the .com boom was going on so the massive tax cuts and funding cuts to social programs and education largely went unnoticed.
Thing is, when he was done shifting the Democratic party to the right he put the Republican party in a bad spot. They were little more than Democrats with a mild streak of bigotry. So to maintain their own identity they moved right themselves. Meanwhile all the corporate money pouring in was just gas on the fire.
Bernie & his crew are trying to shift the Dems back to the left, but the corportists have their claws pretty deep in the DNC. Even the election of Trump wasn't enough to shock them loose. Not sure what's gonna happen, but if the country keeps moving to the right we're gonna get authoritarianism.
and we especially hate Clinton (both of them) since they ran the country right of what even Regan did (seriously, go look at how much deregulation and funding cuts Bill did). This is not to say we oppose tariffs, BTW. The left is generally in favor of them, especially for countries like Mexico and China who abuse their people and their land. Go look up a youtube channel called 'Secular Talk' if you want a good idea of what the actual left supports.
now. In the 1920s there was a much, much more even playing field between countries (albeit because just about everywhere was a shithole). Our trade in balance with China & Mexico is almost completely due to the fact that their respective governments and ruling class allow their people to be abused to an extent we no longer allow.
Also, most historians agree the tariffs made things worse, but I've yet to meet one that thought the tariffs _caused_ the Depression. Generally it was wealth inequality that caused it. Speaking of which, we're at levels not seen since the 1920s...
if anything it's probably more so since it probably uses more machines and less labor. Chinese panels are cheaper because the poor working and living conditions of their people. Now, what I wouldn't mind seeing is tariffs that kick in when there's a disparity. Canada suggested the US do these when we renegotiate NAFTA, although mostly as a dig on our low quality of life; suggesting that they'd need such tariffs themselves since we don't have things like single payer health care, mandatory sick and vacation time, etc, etc.
Cheap Chinese panels were probably going to kill local production. OTOH those cheap panels were getting us off dirty fossil fuels. But OTOOH the reason those Chinese panels are cheap is they don't have much in the way of labor law or environmental regulations. But OTOOOH I don't expect to see much in the way of other tariffs (This one was easy to get through because the coal lobby got Trump elected).
there was a story about coal miner's kids doing apprenticeships to be coal miners. Everyone called them idiots because they all know the job's going away. One of the left wing rags (I forget which one) actually _interviewed_ the kids. When asked the kids had a damn good reason to take the apprenticeships. There were no jobs available for the other career options available. They'd have to move somewhere else, and they didn't have the money to do that. These were poor kids in dead coal towns. Uprooting wasn't an option.
So they did the only rational thing: study for the only jobs left that weren't Walmart and hope they were one of the ones to get in. A perfectly rational thing to do under the circumstances. Trouble is the entire situation isn't rational, so if you're on the outside looking in they seem crazy.
Montana isn't exactly swimming in money. They're 35th in the nation on per capital GDP. And as a Red state they probably don't have the tax dollars to do that or the political will to raise those tax dollars. There's actually probably enough money coming in from subsidies but if you tried to shift those from grants that go to cable companies & AT&T to building public infrastructure you'd probably get shut down by corruption. Getting public lines run would require a seismic shift in their politics.
They're a rural state and the governor knows damn well he won't survive reelection if his constituents are getting screwed over by big city folk. It's the same reason the FCC backed down on reclassifying Mobile internet as broadband and didn't lower the speed caps for it. The Republican party is heavily dependent on rural voters. The American political system is built in such a way as to grant them disproportionate amounts of voting power; most notably the Senate and Electral college but there are other examples. What's more rural voter's interests often don't align with city voters, making them prime candidates for politicking. OTOH, there's lots of good reason for rural voters to oppose the Republican party. The Republicans have to be careful right now or they'll lose those voters and with them the country.
there are very clear laws about who can and cannot interact with foreign governments in an official capacity and even under what circumstances you can act in an unofficial capacity. When folks talk about treason, both legally and colloquially, this is what they mean. That's understood from context, and to suggest otherwise is at best misdirection and debating slight of hand and at worst a plain 'ole straw man argument.
but I did IT for a closet & cabinet maker where not a single employee (including the owner) could do carpentry. They had a CNC machine. A sales guy would go out, do measurements, show you some packages and then a computer cut everything to fit. Then a couple guys with nails and hammers went out and banged it all together. If anything didn't fit it was because the measurements were wrong. You didn't 'em again, recut, and yelled at the sales guy not to screw up again.
That's a really, really high skill job that's been turned into Ikea furniture by computers.
Another example is my kid's invisalign braces. After the first set of prints were done she saw the orthodontist a total of 6 times for about 3 hours total; and she only saw him that much because her teeth needed some grinding and that takes a while. Everything else was done by computer in Israel. The invisalign were the same price as regular braces; but the regular braces would have needed bi weekly adjustments. With the invisalign she just swapped out clear plastic retainers.
Oh, and don't get me started on how quick buildings go up now. I've seen high rises open in less than a year. The kind that used to take 5 times that when I was a wee lad. And most of that year was waiting for the city to complete inspections (underfunded inspection offices don't have enough manpower, so you wait a while).
Point is, it's not just automation, it's massive amounts of skill reduction.
and plan to look into the class action suits. Had I known I would have held off or bought a Ryzen. I'm not expecting Intel to buy me new CPUs but as a gamer the 5-10% hit I'm seeing will eventually caught up to me and force an upgrade sooner than intended.
than spec? Wouldn't they be trying to maximize performance? Especially since the faster they mine the more they get; given the nature of crypto currencies it gets harder to mine as time goes on.
Also, these cards aren't _meant_ to run 24/7. They're meant to run 4-8 hours at a time tops, and those are the really nice ones. nVidia recently prohibited their consumer grade cards from being used in mining and data centers. This is obviously unenforceable, but the theory is that they're trying to get out of warranty repairs for a use case the cards aren't meant for. Meaning they're not expecting them to hold up in those use cases.
or at least it does to most people. It's certainly what I think of when I hear the phrase.
Also, what the devil are they going to retrain for? We're about to put every cashier and driver out of work. They're not all going to go off and be doctors, most folks just don't have the capacity. I guess we could think up new service jobs, but who's gonna pay them? It's not looking like folks are gonna have much money.
Also, you're assuming folks need to work or they become listless and frustrated and violent. I think that's only going to be a problem if they don't have enough money for food/shelter and (maybe, big maybe) a modicum of living (e.g. have a kid or two, go get drunk occasionally, that sort of thing).
All I see is more folks trying to put the onus on people to 're-skill' without talking about how they're gonna do that, if they even _can_ do that and where are the jobs going to come from. It sounds like blame shifting so we can all look the other way while 20% of the country's lives go to shit. That's certainly the vibe I got from Hillary Clinton.
Was Intel expecting? Me, I was expecting one to install the patch. I guess anything more is, technically, higher than expected. Also, this kind of mealy mouthed garbage is why Linus is so made at you right now Intel...
it didn't work when the blue collar jobs went overseas and it's not going to work now. That's because:
a) older folks learn slower than young folks (fact)
b) it's kinda hard to work full time supporting the family you made when you had a job and go to school full time.
c) A lot of the folks being asked to re-skill didn't make it through college the first time when they were young and still had the support of their parents and access to scholarships only available to high school seniors
d) Nobody wants to support these folks while they go back to school, since that means tax hikes and we just did a $1.5 trillion dollar tax _cut_.
This is precisely why Hilary lost the election. Just telling them to reskill isn't an answer. It's not going to work. Think of something else or get ready for some pain while they elect God only knows what kind of people in a desperate attempt to find someone who will listen to them.
the system builders can still get cards at a reasonable price. You can get a whole new system for a few hundred over just the card right now. It's crazy.
You might also look for a used 970 GTX or even a 660/760 if it's for e-sports, just make sure it's from one of the better manufactures (Gigabyte/Asus/MSI). They tend to put some effort into making the cards more durable which reduces the odds of getting a junk board that's had the solder re-flowed in an oven.
for a very long time. There was a lot of dead cards from solder and/or traces breaking. You could toss 'em in an oven for 30 minutes and get another 6 weeks out of them; long enough to get past ebay's return policy.
It wasn't until the GTX 660/760 line that we started to see cards from Asus/Gigabyte/MSI specifically designed to fix this (Gigabyte's 'Ultra Durable' brand, MSI's 'Military Grade' and I forget what Asus' was). I ran pretty low end stuff (think GTX 240 ) and only recently got some hand me downs from my bro. That's because when he got his 1060 it was the first time in a decade he bought a new card to upgrade instead of to replace a dead board.
if AMD suddenly ramps up production they could devour the gaming market leading to games written specifically for AMD. Right now nVidia has a big performance & stability edge because they can throw more engineers at game companies and because they just plain have more hardware.
At the moment neither nVidia or AMD wants to take the risk of ramping up production since it'll be a disaster if crypto currencies collapse. But AMD has a long history of slightly off kilter business decisions.
you could pay them in just enough rice porridge to make it through one more miserable day and the machines would still win out; if only because shopping at places where the staff can barely survive is just plain unpleasant. After all, out of sight, out of mind.
will dwarf anything you could possibly steal before getting caught. As for privacy concerns, it's like the number of the beast. You won't have a choice. You'll at least have to buy food.
you get a false positive out of it and that lets you get the warrant & probable cause to go on the fishing expedition you wanted to.
you might have been right. The aristocracy couldn't coordinate and communicate. Misunderstandings would happen and could escalate. Like a certain arch duke being assassinated. But that's not true anymore. The wealthy don't fear each other. They work together. Sure wish the working class would do the same.
globalism is. The Aristocracy is global now. They don't own countries, they own the world. More specifically they have property all throughout the world and don't want to see it blown up. They'll allow a few bush fire style conflicts to keep war profiteering going (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) and they'll put down rebellions (Yemen) but they won't allow another full scale war to dip into their profits and break their stuff and, well, they're the aristocracy so they're in charge.
Hell, maybe about a decade ago Pakistan basically looked the other way while a major terrorist incident happened in India and nothing came of it. That's because an India/Pakistan war would be bad for business.
the legal definition is considerably broader, especially with regards to hostile foreign powers and political candidates.