The right wing on/. mostly keeps to themselves. Right wing techies are generally smart enough to know they're being hypocritical when they demand protections for their class while denying those same protections to others. The ones I've confronted have been in real life. They generally concede the points while continuing the behavior. What's that phrase? Silent Majority? People embarrassed to admit their actual feelings. I knew a lot of closet Trump supporters. Folks who like the cut of his Jib but wouldn't say they were voting for him out loud. Those folks. I'm kind of sensitive to such things because I've got friends/family dependent on provisions of the ACA to live and if Trump wasn't so damn incompetent he'd have killed them by now so he and his buddies could pocket the money for their meds. So I hear things everybody else hears but I don't dismiss them. Yeah, I'm bitter, I'm angry. But unlike the alt-righters I didn't turn that anger on whatever convenient scape goat was handy.
Anyway I'm ranting at this point. The point is these folks know what they're doing is wrong, so you won't hear them saying it out loud. You'll hear dog whistles. Which is why that term exists.
they're for habituation. They want you in the habit of buying on a schedule so it feels 'off' if you miss a beat. Starbucks uses this to keep folks drinking their coffee flavored sugar water. Let it go too long and consumers forget about you. That's why we got Windows ME & Vista.
There'll be on employee to watch 8-10 registers. Also, that employee's job will just be to make you feel watched. They'll make minimum wage, where right now Walmart has to pay $9-$12/hr to get a cashier that can keep a line moving.
Just to play devil's advocate, if a business decides that young people are more valuable employees than people over 40 who are you to say they can't make that decision? I'm not arguing whether they're right or wrong, BTW, so please don't respond with a bunch of reasons why older people are good workers. Let's say they are. If that's the case wouldn't the business that hires Millennials lose out to a business hiring the much more productive older workers? Therefore why should we have to worry about age discrimination in the first place? Shouldn't the free market take care of that when the (poorly run) businesses that rely on Millennials go tits up?
So I'm gonna want a bit. I'm really getting tired of older, mostly white, right wing anti regulation, small govt loving folk who lecturing me on the glories of unfettered capitalism who suddenly want protection from Uncle Sam when _their_ rights are at risk.
You can't have it both ways. You can't eat that cake. Either the government works for and protects us all or none.
on single threaded performance, which for workstations is still what matters. And they're competitive on multi-thread performance. They overpriced their parts because AMD has only been competitive since Ryzen launched. Before that the 8350 couldn't touch a mid range i5 let alone an i7 and had twice the power draw.
I just upgraded and went with Intel. Yes, the Intel CPU cost a little more (got an i5-7500 for $150 shipped) but I also paired it with a solid mobo for $70. I can't do that on AMD. Buy a cheap AMD board and you'll regret it for a variety of reasons. Right now the cost savings on AMD gets eaten up buying a nicer mobo...
AMD currently owns the video game console market and Arm owns phones & tablets. That leaves Intel with a monopoly over the shrinking PC market. Today at work I had to use an intranet Web App that didn't work in IE, only Chrome. Apple is moving to get away from Intel too. If they don't do something they're going to be about as relevant as Motorola & MOS Technologies are: Still around in some industrial apps but largely the domain of a few hard core hobbyists.
the tit is long gone. I've had family go through tough times due to illness and try to snuggle up to it only to find it's just a rock with a nipple painted on. But hey, you got yours, right? So fuck everyone else. You've got to look down on them somehow or empathy might kick in and you'd have to acknowledge what you're doing is wrong.
The best part? Your defensive stance and right wing talking points tell me you know you're in the wrong, but you can't help your selfishness. Anyway, good luck. When you're 65 only the rich will have health care, maybe you'll be one of them. Or maybe you'll die in pain of a completely preventable disease. Maybe your wife will instead. Who knows. When that time comes, and she's dying in your arms and somewhere in your head you knew you could have stopped it if only you weren't such a selfish jerk, maybe you'll repent then. Or maybe that won't happen because the rest of the country will stop listening to you. We'll know in 20-40 years (judging by the age of your talking points).
with overage charges and now this. It's funny that they had 8 years to do these things and restrained themselves and for some reason in the last year or so they've gotten a lot bolder. I wonder if something happened about a year ago to change their outlook on customer service and how much they can get away with...
They're just as bad if not worse than Kim. At least he's got the excuse of a poor country and dangerous neighbors.
You're argument is all over the place and filled to the brim with right wing talking points, Straw men, non sequiturs and just plain meanness. I know you're trolling, at least I hope you are. Because the alternative is that you're getting paid to spew that stuff by right wing propagandists trying to get us into war.
buy a Brother printer. They're boxy but good. Oh, and you can get the toner carts for $10 bucks if you buy off brand and they work fine. For the once a year I need color I spend $5 bucks getting it printed on the color laser at Kinkos.
It's a combination of money laundering, drug money and speculation. Everybody knows this. Sorry folks, but Bitcoin isn't going to be destroying and power structures you're unhappy with. The govt will step in and regulate shortly. As they should. Unregulated speculation is what causes market crashes.
it's _hard_ to get set up as a last mile ISP. Google couldn't do it. The capital investment is huge but the existing providers are already in profit mode. Comcast admitted in their SEC filing that it costs them $9/mo to sell you broadband. Good luck getting a new provider in that market.Your capital investment is too high relative to your competition's ability to cut prices. You're competition can just drop their prices until you're out of business while you're busy trying to make up for the billions you spent running cable.
It's the same reason why nobody can compete with Windows/Office. The entrenched player has too strong a position.
This year. To a i5-7500. And that's plenty. They're gonna have to do something if they want to get me spending $300 on a CPU like I did back in the day.
mostly because it's so badly written. By 'Do Something' here means to work really hard and not get anything really worth while out of it. e.g. the whole 'keeping up with the Jones'. It's like that line from Clerks (I think, you can keep me honest here if I'm wrong): "I may not live well but at least I don't have to work hard to do it".
e.g. something to rile up people and maybe get some more "tough on crime" legislation. I can't think of any other reason to do this. This is not information the public needs to know on a real time basis.
Bush Sr had the good sense to get us the hell out of that quagmire and leave Saddam in charge because as bad as he was the instability would be worse. Every google the numbers on the amount of civilian casualties we caused in Iraq. It's tens of thousands; and those are just the ones we're willing to admit to. Then there's the $7 Trillion dollar price tag for the war (plus $3 trillion for Afghanistan that we only fought so an oil company could get it's pipeline and America could sate it's blood lust after 9/11).
Anyway nice straw man. What Saddam did after the Gulf War has nothing to do with our unprovoked invasion. DPRK can't play nice because we don't play nice. Kim got the message loud and clear: Get nukes or get taken out. It's not a bluff. It's literally the only option he has left. The only option we, the American people, left him when we elected a president in dire need of a good war to get his poll numbers up.
It reads like an extended/. rant that gets modded up to +3 before finally being modded back down to -1 troll. Who greenlit this?
People are more productive because we live in an incredibly competitive world. There's 6 billion+ people out there are most are dirt poor and a good chunk of them can work 12 hr/day 7 days a week for 20 years before dying of a heart attack. That's your competition. And as productivity increases there's less work to go around and more competition for what's left.
for the DPRK insistence on getting nukes. We pinky swore we wouldn't do anything bad to Saddam and Ghadhafi if they disarmed and look where it got them. We're currently fighting 7 wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Seria Niger, Libya and Somalia) without congressional approval . We're not a nation to be trusted. NK would be fools to disarm now. Thanks to our war mongering they've literally got nothing to lose. We destabilized the entry world so the GOP could win a few elections, and the Dems went along with it because they didn't have the backbone to stand up.
If it was we wouldn't be having this conversation. Facebook can already guess your race, age and even sexuality based on the data they have about you even if you didn't tell them any of that. America is more segregated today then it was in the 50s, and that's not by choice, it's by design. This is what people mean by 'institutionalized racism'. It means racism is carefully built into the institutions rather than enshrined in law.
So Blacks can't get loans or buy decent houses. Gays can't take advantage of marriage tax advantages or health care advantages, and women face a large pay gap. But at no point are there any laws in place to make all this happen, it's all done organically. And if anyone complains you just point to your data set and say 'We don't collect race, gender or sexuality'.
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The right wing on /. mostly keeps to themselves. Right wing techies are generally smart enough to know they're being hypocritical when they demand protections for their class while denying those same protections to others. The ones I've confronted have been in real life. They generally concede the points while continuing the behavior. What's that phrase? Silent Majority? People embarrassed to admit their actual feelings. I knew a lot of closet Trump supporters. Folks who like the cut of his Jib but wouldn't say they were voting for him out loud. Those folks. I'm kind of sensitive to such things because I've got friends/family dependent on provisions of the ACA to live and if Trump wasn't so damn incompetent he'd have killed them by now so he and his buddies could pocket the money for their meds. So I hear things everybody else hears but I don't dismiss them. Yeah, I'm bitter, I'm angry. But unlike the alt-righters I didn't turn that anger on whatever convenient scape goat was handy.
Anyway I'm ranting at this point. The point is these folks know what they're doing is wrong, so you won't hear them saying it out loud. You'll hear dog whistles. Which is why that term exists.
to self regulate fast before the government does it for them.
they're for habituation. They want you in the habit of buying on a schedule so it feels 'off' if you miss a beat. Starbucks uses this to keep folks drinking their coffee flavored sugar water. Let it go too long and consumers forget about you. That's why we got Windows ME & Vista.
that's what's making these silly decisions. Although part of me things this should be a canary in the coal mine for our economic system.
There'll be on employee to watch 8-10 registers. Also, that employee's job will just be to make you feel watched. They'll make minimum wage, where right now Walmart has to pay $9-$12/hr to get a cashier that can keep a line moving.
Just to play devil's advocate, if a business decides that young people are more valuable employees than people over 40 who are you to say they can't make that decision? I'm not arguing whether they're right or wrong, BTW, so please don't respond with a bunch of reasons why older people are good workers. Let's say they are. If that's the case wouldn't the business that hires Millennials lose out to a business hiring the much more productive older workers? Therefore why should we have to worry about age discrimination in the first place? Shouldn't the free market take care of that when the (poorly run) businesses that rely on Millennials go tits up?
but in my defense I was really, really thirsty. But at least I didn't blame it on Albino Nameks (too obscure?).
So I'm gonna want a bit. I'm really getting tired of older, mostly white, right wing anti regulation, small govt loving folk who lecturing me on the glories of unfettered capitalism who suddenly want protection from Uncle Sam when _their_ rights are at risk.
You can't have it both ways. You can't eat that cake. Either the government works for and protects us all or none.
on single threaded performance, which for workstations is still what matters. And they're competitive on multi-thread performance. They overpriced their parts because AMD has only been competitive since Ryzen launched. Before that the 8350 couldn't touch a mid range i5 let alone an i7 and had twice the power draw.
I just upgraded and went with Intel. Yes, the Intel CPU cost a little more (got an i5-7500 for $150 shipped) but I also paired it with a solid mobo for $70. I can't do that on AMD. Buy a cheap AMD board and you'll regret it for a variety of reasons. Right now the cost savings on AMD gets eaten up buying a nicer mobo...
AMD currently owns the video game console market and Arm owns phones & tablets. That leaves Intel with a monopoly over the shrinking PC market. Today at work I had to use an intranet Web App that didn't work in IE, only Chrome. Apple is moving to get away from Intel too. If they don't do something they're going to be about as relevant as Motorola & MOS Technologies are: Still around in some industrial apps but largely the domain of a few hard core hobbyists.
the tit is long gone. I've had family go through tough times due to illness and try to snuggle up to it only to find it's just a rock with a nipple painted on. But hey, you got yours, right? So fuck everyone else. You've got to look down on them somehow or empathy might kick in and you'd have to acknowledge what you're doing is wrong.
The best part? Your defensive stance and right wing talking points tell me you know you're in the wrong, but you can't help your selfishness. Anyway, good luck. When you're 65 only the rich will have health care, maybe you'll be one of them. Or maybe you'll die in pain of a completely preventable disease. Maybe your wife will instead. Who knows. When that time comes, and she's dying in your arms and somewhere in your head you knew you could have stopped it if only you weren't such a selfish jerk, maybe you'll repent then. Or maybe that won't happen because the rest of the country will stop listening to you. We'll know in 20-40 years (judging by the age of your talking points).
with overage charges and now this. It's funny that they had 8 years to do these things and restrained themselves and for some reason in the last year or so they've gotten a lot bolder. I wonder if something happened about a year ago to change their outlook on customer service and how much they can get away with...
They're just as bad if not worse than Kim. At least he's got the excuse of a poor country and dangerous neighbors.
You're argument is all over the place and filled to the brim with right wing talking points, Straw men, non sequiturs and just plain meanness. I know you're trolling, at least I hope you are. Because the alternative is that you're getting paid to spew that stuff by right wing propagandists trying to get us into war.
buy a Brother printer. They're boxy but good. Oh, and you can get the toner carts for $10 bucks if you buy off brand and they work fine. For the once a year I need color I spend $5 bucks getting it printed on the color laser at Kinkos.
It's a combination of money laundering, drug money and speculation. Everybody knows this. Sorry folks, but Bitcoin isn't going to be destroying and power structures you're unhappy with. The govt will step in and regulate shortly. As they should. Unregulated speculation is what causes market crashes.
very large cake that is the cable monopoly.
it's _hard_ to get set up as a last mile ISP. Google couldn't do it. The capital investment is huge but the existing providers are already in profit mode. Comcast admitted in their SEC filing that it costs them $9/mo to sell you broadband. Good luck getting a new provider in that market.Your capital investment is too high relative to your competition's ability to cut prices. You're competition can just drop their prices until you're out of business while you're busy trying to make up for the billions you spent running cable.
It's the same reason why nobody can compete with Windows/Office. The entrenched player has too strong a position.
This year. To a i5-7500. And that's plenty. They're gonna have to do something if they want to get me spending $300 on a CPU like I did back in the day.
mostly because it's so badly written. By 'Do Something' here means to work really hard and not get anything really worth while out of it. e.g. the whole 'keeping up with the Jones'. It's like that line from Clerks (I think, you can keep me honest here if I'm wrong): "I may not live well but at least I don't have to work hard to do it".
e.g. something to rile up people and maybe get some more "tough on crime" legislation. I can't think of any other reason to do this. This is not information the public needs to know on a real time basis.
To the three people who still use the Windows store.
Bush Sr had the good sense to get us the hell out of that quagmire and leave Saddam in charge because as bad as he was the instability would be worse. Every google the numbers on the amount of civilian casualties we caused in Iraq. It's tens of thousands; and those are just the ones we're willing to admit to. Then there's the $7 Trillion dollar price tag for the war (plus $3 trillion for Afghanistan that we only fought so an oil company could get it's pipeline and America could sate it's blood lust after 9/11).
Anyway nice straw man. What Saddam did after the Gulf War has nothing to do with our unprovoked invasion. DPRK can't play nice because we don't play nice. Kim got the message loud and clear: Get nukes or get taken out. It's not a bluff. It's literally the only option he has left. The only option we, the American people, left him when we elected a president in dire need of a good war to get his poll numbers up.
It reads like an extended /. rant that gets modded up to +3 before finally being modded back down to -1 troll. Who greenlit this?
People are more productive because we live in an incredibly competitive world. There's 6 billion+ people out there are most are dirt poor and a good chunk of them can work 12 hr/day 7 days a week for 20 years before dying of a heart attack. That's your competition. And as productivity increases there's less work to go around and more competition for what's left.
for the DPRK insistence on getting nukes. We pinky swore we wouldn't do anything bad to Saddam and Ghadhafi if they disarmed and look where it got them. We're currently fighting 7 wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Seria Niger, Libya and Somalia) without congressional approval . We're not a nation to be trusted. NK would be fools to disarm now. Thanks to our war mongering they've literally got nothing to lose. We destabilized the entry world so the GOP could win a few elections, and the Dems went along with it because they didn't have the backbone to stand up.
If it was we wouldn't be having this conversation. Facebook can already guess your race, age and even sexuality based on the data they have about you even if you didn't tell them any of that. America is more segregated today then it was in the 50s, and that's not by choice, it's by design. This is what people mean by 'institutionalized racism'. It means racism is carefully built into the institutions rather than enshrined in law.
So Blacks can't get loans or buy decent houses. Gays can't take advantage of marriage tax advantages or health care advantages, and women face a large pay gap. But at no point are there any laws in place to make all this happen, it's all done organically. And if anyone complains you just point to your data set and say 'We don't collect race, gender or sexuality'.
that we're seeing more and more stories about how Iran and NK attacked us? We did the same thing to Iraq...