you need to take care of your working class. Otherwise folks like Trump will continue to take advantage of their desperation to get stuff like this through. Everytime a tech worker looked down on a blue collar guy for not 'updating' their skills you're playing right into the hands of the folks that made this happen. Congrats.
to put money in somebody's pocket, which is what companies pushing nicotine delivery are doing. Said this on other threads, will say it again, go read Fred Pohl's The Space Merchants.
I just want to be able to go places without my eyes watering and my throat hurting. If you're not desensitized to it it's pretty awful. Yes, even vaping.
the ruling elites are fighting it and the working class is losing it. Forget small scales. Bring back 90% marginal rates and the tax structures from the 50s that made pump and dump stocks unprofitable.
but nobody seems to want to ask how many people the capitalistic oligarchy has killed. We've been blowing civilians away left and right since Sept 11th in the name of terrorism. And that's before you start counting folks starved, poisoned and otherwise maimed and killed.
Oh, and you assume if Hitler and Stalin went away that everything would be honky dory. It wouldn't. Do you not know what a power vacuum is? Hint, it's not a new kind of Dyson.
unless I'm a member of the ruling elite I have no say in what mega-corps do. Yes, government can devolve into oligarchy, but if your problem is oligarchy then why would you support the oligarchy in order to prevent the oligarchy?
Put another way, I don't care if the jack boot on my neck is a privately owned jack boot or a public jack boot. I would prefer not to have a jack boot on my neck.
And no, the Shareholders won't clamor for that. They make their money off 'investing', e.g. skimming 50-70% off the top of our economy (does it count as skimming off the top when it's those percentages). If that's all it took to solve our problems we wouldn't have had them in the first place.
see stuff like this and give up on the concept of 'insurance' for health care. When tech lets us do maintenance to the human body insurance no longer makes sense. After all, you won't find anyone who'll tell you that extended car warrantees are anything more than a scam. And besides, google the phrase "Wallet Biopsy" some time and despair.
Also, the problem with AI is job displacement happening faster than our economy can adapt leading to mass unemployment, social upheaval and wars. Being responsible would mean doing something about that. But the tech companies can just wash their hands with a 'not our fault' and maybe a token word or two about job training and call it a day.
hard to argue with results like the last election. Besides, the Dems are a headless dragon right now. There's no leadership whatsoever (no, Pelosi and that wet mop of a wannabe Republican got got elected chairman don't count). If you want to keep hammering the Dems (and they do) you've got to go after a target that can rile your base.
Oh, and somehow Hilary is _still_ polling less popular than Trump even after he got into yet another fight with a Gold Star family member.
because it's attractive without staining your skin when you wear it. The attractiveness of it helps you attract valuable mates and contacts to network with. Being attractive is a valuable resource. If you can't do it with natural good looks you do it with cloths and jewelry.
I'm going to go off on a tangent here, so feel free to stop reading. Gold won't be worthless unless we devolve to the point where we can't support a ruling elite who trades in beauty and influence. And that scenario is more a fantasy than anything else in your post. I suspect a number of people would like to see that world because, well, as nerds we like to think it would be an equalizer.
I remember a zombie anime (japanese cartoon if any older nerds are reading) where a nerdy survival nut was getting lots of attention from girls because he could shoot. That's the kind of fantasy I see bitcoin obsessives indulging in. It's not helping. You want a better real world for yourselves. And that starts with things like single payer healthcare, high minimum wages, college for everybody, an end to our eternal wars and real public works projects. The sorts of things that build a society where nerds like us get the support we need to no longer be the kind of nerds we don't want to be.
of the economy by talking your way through it; even without the backing of a course in economics. Those sorts of discussions are the bedrock of a democracy. To your point, it would be nice if folks were better educated. But it's tough to get people (read: voters) willing to pay for it. We've been cutting education for 30 years straight. There are consequences for that.
they mean value besides the currency. Gold has 'innate' value because gold is in and of itself valuable. Yes, that's probably not the strict definition of 'innate' but it's understood to be what people mean.
Air isn't valuable in that fashion not because it lacks value because it's too common. If gold were as common as dirt it would lose much of it's innate value.
The value of a currency is determined not by what people pay for it per se but what you can buy with it. The 'Big Mac Index' comes to mind here. We moved to fiat currencies because our economy out grew the gold standard. We had more economic activity than we had gold to back it. It was holding us back.
The price of bitcoin is largely based on what you can buy with it. It just so happens what you buy is kinda shady. Drugs, ransomware payments, money laundering, gambling, etc are driving up bitcoin's value. This works because those things have very little cost but a high value because they're illegal. This is true for all the big crypto currencies.
Basically, the price of bitcoin will drop when the thing underpinning it drops. Just like Zimbabwe saw hyper inflation when their country went to hell you'll get the same thing with bitcoin (but in reverse since you can't just print more). The underpinning is basically crime. Eventually the government will crack down and that'll be that. Or worse they'll legalize drugs and gambling. Either way bitcoin's days are numbered.
that solution works but your devouring storage space. For a little while high capacity hard drives were making that moot, but lately Users are getting low capacity SSDs now meaning we're back to square one and space is at a premium again. I have a working folder that's managed to grow to 4 gigs over the years full of text files, database backups, documents and the like. And my dev VMs start at 4 gigs and go up.
There's a handful of law enforcement people who want backdoors. Everyone else says no. You need a few more participants on the other side before it qualifies as a 'debate'.
that's bullshit pushed on you by the very rich so they can take everything in the cupboard for themselves. Occam's Razor, look for the simplest solution: Which is you're being lied to.
Let me ask you this: If America is supposed to be the greatest country in history why the hell can't we take care of our old? A: We don't want to. And by 'we' I mean our ruling elites, who have been pitting us against each other for thousands of years.
I know folks who voted Trump because they saw Hilary as a war hawk. She is (more a Chicken hawk than anything else since I can't see her ever in harms way) but Trump certainly wasn't the answer. At least Hilary wouldn't be riling up Iran just to appeal to her base.
The crazy shit going on is all due to a weak economy for the working class. The pro corporate folks have their knickers in a twist because they didn't expect Trump or Brexit and they're not sure how that's all going to play out. News flash, you can't have the cake and eat it too. Keep shitting on the working class and eventually they'll do something dumb. Probably another World War or they'll pick a minority for genocide.
or are they just afraid of Anti-trust? Because previously they just used to stick of pulling them from google search results to keep the news sites in line.
you just need to lower their quality of life substantially. You can get away with it to by getting each group (teachers, cops, cooks, mechanics) to blame the other group. It's been done this way for thousands of years with minimal side effects (you pay your cops bribes but it's still cheaper than a middle class salary). The system works... for the very wealthy. But the working class has fell for it since there was a working class.
Oh, this is what government is for, btw. You build a powerful government as a tool to balance the power otherwise held by the very wealthy. Sure, if you're not careful it gets abused, but the same thing can be said for any tool (fire, guns, cars).
talk to me when our government calls China out on their worker abuse. Or hell, anyone outside if the left wing press does. Both Mitt Romney and Steve Jobs were once caught talking about how happy they were to be able to work the Chines 16 hours a day for peanuts and I've never once heard them called out on that by anyone who mattered.
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you need to take care of your working class. Otherwise folks like Trump will continue to take advantage of their desperation to get stuff like this through. Everytime a tech worker looked down on a blue collar guy for not 'updating' their skills you're playing right into the hands of the folks that made this happen. Congrats.
to put money in somebody's pocket, which is what companies pushing nicotine delivery are doing. Said this on other threads, will say it again, go read Fred Pohl's The Space Merchants.
I just want to be able to go places without my eyes watering and my throat hurting. If you're not desensitized to it it's pretty awful. Yes, even vaping.
the ruling elites are fighting it and the working class is losing it. Forget small scales. Bring back 90% marginal rates and the tax structures from the 50s that made pump and dump stocks unprofitable.
but nobody seems to want to ask how many people the capitalistic oligarchy has killed. We've been blowing civilians away left and right since Sept 11th in the name of terrorism. And that's before you start counting folks starved, poisoned and otherwise maimed and killed.
Oh, and you assume if Hitler and Stalin went away that everything would be honky dory. It wouldn't. Do you not know what a power vacuum is? Hint, it's not a new kind of Dyson.
unless I'm a member of the ruling elite I have no say in what mega-corps do. Yes, government can devolve into oligarchy, but if your problem is oligarchy then why would you support the oligarchy in order to prevent the oligarchy?
Put another way, I don't care if the jack boot on my neck is a privately owned jack boot or a public jack boot. I would prefer not to have a jack boot on my neck.
And no, the Shareholders won't clamor for that. They make their money off 'investing', e.g. skimming 50-70% off the top of our economy (does it count as skimming off the top when it's those percentages). If that's all it took to solve our problems we wouldn't have had them in the first place.
Money is power, and there's no other way to regulate that kind of power besides taking some of it away.
see stuff like this and give up on the concept of 'insurance' for health care. When tech lets us do maintenance to the human body insurance no longer makes sense. After all, you won't find anyone who'll tell you that extended car warrantees are anything more than a scam. And besides, google the phrase "Wallet Biopsy" some time and despair.
to not believe a damn thing they say.
Also, the problem with AI is job displacement happening faster than our economy can adapt leading to mass unemployment, social upheaval and wars. Being responsible would mean doing something about that. But the tech companies can just wash their hands with a 'not our fault' and maybe a token word or two about job training and call it a day.
hard to argue with results like the last election. Besides, the Dems are a headless dragon right now. There's no leadership whatsoever (no, Pelosi and that wet mop of a wannabe Republican got got elected chairman don't count). If you want to keep hammering the Dems (and they do) you've got to go after a target that can rile your base.
Oh, and somehow Hilary is _still_ polling less popular than Trump even after he got into yet another fight with a Gold Star family member.
better the young'ins be doing neither. Go read Fred Pohl's The Space Merchants.
as well as whether cigarettes were unhealthy. You need studies to prove what should be obvious because people make billions lying about things.
your wages are still lowered by it when you're left competing with people leaving the private sector and gunning for your job.
because it's attractive without staining your skin when you wear it. The attractiveness of it helps you attract valuable mates and contacts to network with. Being attractive is a valuable resource. If you can't do it with natural good looks you do it with cloths and jewelry.
I'm going to go off on a tangent here, so feel free to stop reading. Gold won't be worthless unless we devolve to the point where we can't support a ruling elite who trades in beauty and influence. And that scenario is more a fantasy than anything else in your post. I suspect a number of people would like to see that world because, well, as nerds we like to think it would be an equalizer.
I remember a zombie anime (japanese cartoon if any older nerds are reading) where a nerdy survival nut was getting lots of attention from girls because he could shoot. That's the kind of fantasy I see bitcoin obsessives indulging in. It's not helping. You want a better real world for yourselves. And that starts with things like single payer healthcare, high minimum wages, college for everybody, an end to our eternal wars and real public works projects. The sorts of things that build a society where nerds like us get the support we need to no longer be the kind of nerds we don't want to be.
of the economy by talking your way through it; even without the backing of a course in economics. Those sorts of discussions are the bedrock of a democracy. To your point, it would be nice if folks were better educated. But it's tough to get people (read: voters) willing to pay for it. We've been cutting education for 30 years straight. There are consequences for that.
which is probably the actual point.
they mean value besides the currency. Gold has 'innate' value because gold is in and of itself valuable. Yes, that's probably not the strict definition of 'innate' but it's understood to be what people mean.
Air isn't valuable in that fashion not because it lacks value because it's too common. If gold were as common as dirt it would lose much of it's innate value.
The value of a currency is determined not by what people pay for it per se but what you can buy with it. The 'Big Mac Index' comes to mind here. We moved to fiat currencies because our economy out grew the gold standard. We had more economic activity than we had gold to back it. It was holding us back.
The price of bitcoin is largely based on what you can buy with it. It just so happens what you buy is kinda shady. Drugs, ransomware payments, money laundering, gambling, etc are driving up bitcoin's value. This works because those things have very little cost but a high value because they're illegal. This is true for all the big crypto currencies.
Basically, the price of bitcoin will drop when the thing underpinning it drops. Just like Zimbabwe saw hyper inflation when their country went to hell you'll get the same thing with bitcoin (but in reverse since you can't just print more). The underpinning is basically crime. Eventually the government will crack down and that'll be that. Or worse they'll legalize drugs and gambling. Either way bitcoin's days are numbered.
that solution works but your devouring storage space. For a little while high capacity hard drives were making that moot, but lately Users are getting low capacity SSDs now meaning we're back to square one and space is at a premium again. I have a working folder that's managed to grow to 4 gigs over the years full of text files, database backups, documents and the like. And my dev VMs start at 4 gigs and go up.
There's a handful of law enforcement people who want backdoors. Everyone else says no. You need a few more participants on the other side before it qualifies as a 'debate'.
that's bullshit pushed on you by the very rich so they can take everything in the cupboard for themselves. Occam's Razor, look for the simplest solution: Which is you're being lied to.
Let me ask you this: If America is supposed to be the greatest country in history why the hell can't we take care of our old? A: We don't want to. And by 'we' I mean our ruling elites, who have been pitting us against each other for thousands of years.
I know folks who voted Trump because they saw Hilary as a war hawk. She is (more a Chicken hawk than anything else since I can't see her ever in harms way) but Trump certainly wasn't the answer. At least Hilary wouldn't be riling up Iran just to appeal to her base.
The crazy shit going on is all due to a weak economy for the working class. The pro corporate folks have their knickers in a twist because they didn't expect Trump or Brexit and they're not sure how that's all going to play out. News flash, you can't have the cake and eat it too. Keep shitting on the working class and eventually they'll do something dumb. Probably another World War or they'll pick a minority for genocide.
or are they just afraid of Anti-trust? Because previously they just used to stick of pulling them from google search results to keep the news sites in line.
you just need to lower their quality of life substantially. You can get away with it to by getting each group (teachers, cops, cooks, mechanics) to blame the other group. It's been done this way for thousands of years with minimal side effects (you pay your cops bribes but it's still cheaper than a middle class salary). The system works... for the very wealthy. But the working class has fell for it since there was a working class.
Oh, this is what government is for, btw. You build a powerful government as a tool to balance the power otherwise held by the very wealthy. Sure, if you're not careful it gets abused, but the same thing can be said for any tool (fire, guns, cars).
talk to me when our government calls China out on their worker abuse. Or hell, anyone outside if the left wing press does. Both Mitt Romney and Steve Jobs were once caught talking about how happy they were to be able to work the Chines 16 hours a day for peanuts and I've never once heard them called out on that by anyone who mattered.