that's the unasked question about customer service. People will _always_ say yes. But when it's time to vote with their wallet more often than not it's really 'no'. There's a balance to be struck there. I think it was Sprint (mighta been Verizon) that once got a list of their top problem customers, the ones that called in almost daily, fought every little thing and in fact cost the company money, and asked them all to find a new carrier since it obviously wasn't working out between them. There are just times when you have to do that. Tough love, so to speak.
Good. Every large group has it's version of Soccer Hooligans. The left is no different. The difference is (as Noam Chomsky noted) the Right is _much_ better at violence than the Left. Their love of strong authority figures means they can organize better and they've got more ex-military guys. The Left can win on issues because our policies work. But we can't win on violence because, well, we're not nearly as violent (and yes, that's probably a slightly controversial idea, but that doesn't make it less true).
because companies don't have to hire the graduates. They can have as many college grads as they want. If they run out of US college grads they can get them from overseas. Why would I hire somebody who's been through an 8 week bootcamp when I can have somebody with 4 years of school? If nothing else that 4 years of school tells me they're stable enough to stick with something.
there's lots of folks who learn by watching and video makes that possible for them to learn on the cheap. My brother's a lousy guitarist and while he probably never would have been great he coulda been a lot better if he had youtube back in the day. And that's just something kinda frivolous. I learned angularjs from videos because the written stuff I'd found was kind of a mess.
It's kinda tough to get tough to do all that at 1.5mbps, especially if you're sharing a connection. How many geniuses have we lost out on because they didn't have knowledge in their formative years. Despite what you want to believe adversity doesn't really make people better, it gives them PTSD. Support and nurture makes people better.
Though Asus/Acer didn't get going in earnest until the 90s. To be fair nobody survives these days because if you're even a little weak you get bought out to stifle competition. We stopped enforcing Anti-Trust laws around 1995 or so.
10-15 year old equipment to run the chips. Nobody wants to pay for new equipment so it's a mess. I've been to places with new terminals (Trader Joes in my neck of the woods) and it's a fraction of a second longer than swiping.
and it's one of the few things that keep our economy going. The oligarchy was always going to get richer. The Military Industry Complex was the only was anyone could think of to pry some money out of their hands. Before that you just had robber barons and the like paying pennies a day. Eisenhower talked about this as he was leaving office.
The Complex was built to keep our economy going because it's easier to get people to pay for 'defense' when you're redistributing wealth. And like it or not we either redistribute wealth or it naturally accumulates at the top. I don't even need to argue that point, I've got 5000 years of recorded history to back me up on it.
The system is BAU/As Designed. This is how we Americans do socialism. No dirty single payer health care, UBI or (saint's preserve us) "the dole" for us. We use our Military to keep our economy going. Otherwise wealth inequality gets to the point where it all shuts down like it did in the 30s with the robber barons and whatnot. Go google "Eisenhower" and "Military Industrial Complex" if you want to know more.
and good enough is often if not always good enough. Bitcoin just needs to be one stop on the road to money laundering. The goal isn't to be perfect, it's to make a trail hard enough to follow that it's not worth the effort. Kinda like a password. In theory you could guess any password given enough time but in practice you can't.
Bitcoin's value is tagged to the value of illicit drugs and ransomeware payments. Expect a crash in a few years when either the government cracks down on both or if drugs ever get legalized.
these people have legitimate complaints (lack of jobs, Healthcare, infrastructure, education opportunities) that aren't being address. I'm hoping we actually address them before it's too late and we go the same route Germany did in WWII. Though so far all I've seen is a lot of denouncing. We need that, don't get me wrong. What these people are doing is bad. But almost nobody is asking the tough questions about _why_ they're doing it.
Maybe I'm just old (I am) but it just seems kind of pointless. If I want these features my phone has them and I don't have to buy an extra device. Are there features here I'm missing? Does it do anything that Siri & Google's Assistant app don't do?
the drop in population combined with wartime economies and a massive spike in new technology to feed the war machine is what got us out of what was looking like a perpetual recession/depression. Having to rebuild Europe helped to. Most of history has been about prying enough money away from our ruling class for civilization to proceed despite their best efforts (since if you're rich the last thing you want is anything upsetting the apple cart, seeing as how you own the cart and all the apples).
I have it on good authority by top experts on/. from previous threads about automation that there will be no job losses from automation. Also, skyrocketing productivity has had no negative impact on wages or employment. See, when it comes to labor the law of supply/demand is reversed. When demand for labor goes down it actually _increases_ its value. I know, crazy, right?
that Congress passed recently making arbitration legally binding. I'm sure Congress will get right on that right after they're done ending the 7 wars we're fighting in, reforming our healthcare system for the better, solving our student loan crisis and working out that pesky cold fusion problem.
but nobody's giving them any answers. For all I've heard from the last few weeks about Hate this and Racism that I've heard almost nothing that addresses why these people felt they had to turn to Nazism and the KKK. I'm guessing the media at large isn't allowed to talk about economic issues, especially given that they're owned by billionaires that benefit from the working class's worsening situation.
There's alternative media on Youtube. Look for the videos pushing Bernie Sanders and the like.
not to associate with Nazi's. I suppose you could make the argument they should be a protected class (similar to Blacks, Latinos, Women and possibly Homosexuals and religions). I think you'd have a hard time making that argument. For one, Nazis have a history of advocating violence, racism, and solving racial issues with violence. For another, there's no reason to identify with Nazis besides that. There are plenty of other groups that you can identify with that lack the stigma of violence and racism.
it's not fast living. The cost of living (Healthcare, housing, transportation, food, and above all education) has rapidly outpaced earnings. Massive productivity increases mean less demand for wages (I've read that if minimum wage kept pace with productivity it'd be $23/hr). Rampant outsourcing and 'insourcing' (e.g. work visas) compound the problem.
Folks aren't living outside their means, they're losing ground. Rapidly. That's why you're seeing crap like what happened in Charlottesville. Folks don't know what to do.
by then you're desperately trying to save money for the kid's college while trying to make car/mortgage payments; meaning just about anything you actually want to do yourself goes out the window and you spend the next 10 years living like a pauper constantly worried about money. Yeah, there's a few people (maybe 10% of the population) that avoid that but for the majority, especially today, you're staring down a miserable end of your existence.
people bought SUVs for their 'active' life styles. A coworker of mine bought one of those huge multi-ton pickups. He's had it for months and it's immaculate. He just drives to work in it and the grocery store.
People don't buy cars for what they do, they buy cars for what they imagine they do.
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that's the unasked question about customer service. People will _always_ say yes. But when it's time to vote with their wallet more often than not it's really 'no'. There's a balance to be struck there. I think it was Sprint (mighta been Verizon) that once got a list of their top problem customers, the ones that called in almost daily, fought every little thing and in fact cost the company money, and asked them all to find a new carrier since it obviously wasn't working out between them. There are just times when you have to do that. Tough love, so to speak.
Good. Every large group has it's version of Soccer Hooligans. The left is no different. The difference is (as Noam Chomsky noted) the Right is _much_ better at violence than the Left. Their love of strong authority figures means they can organize better and they've got more ex-military guys. The Left can win on issues because our policies work. But we can't win on violence because, well, we're not nearly as violent (and yes, that's probably a slightly controversial idea, but that doesn't make it less true).
because companies don't have to hire the graduates. They can have as many college grads as they want. If they run out of US college grads they can get them from overseas. Why would I hire somebody who's been through an 8 week bootcamp when I can have somebody with 4 years of school? If nothing else that 4 years of school tells me they're stable enough to stick with something.
there's lots of folks who learn by watching and video makes that possible for them to learn on the cheap. My brother's a lousy guitarist and while he probably never would have been great he coulda been a lot better if he had youtube back in the day. And that's just something kinda frivolous. I learned angularjs from videos because the written stuff I'd found was kind of a mess.
It's kinda tough to get tough to do all that at 1.5mbps, especially if you're sharing a connection. How many geniuses have we lost out on because they didn't have knowledge in their formative years. Despite what you want to believe adversity doesn't really make people better, it gives them PTSD. Support and nurture makes people better.
or as a /. user would call it, a good Tuesday night.
Though Asus/Acer didn't get going in earnest until the 90s. To be fair nobody survives these days because if you're even a little weak you get bought out to stifle competition. We stopped enforcing Anti-Trust laws around 1995 or so.
10-15 year old equipment to run the chips. Nobody wants to pay for new equipment so it's a mess. I've been to places with new terminals (Trader Joes in my neck of the woods) and it's a fraction of a second longer than swiping.
and it's one of the few things that keep our economy going. The oligarchy was always going to get richer. The Military Industry Complex was the only was anyone could think of to pry some money out of their hands. Before that you just had robber barons and the like paying pennies a day. Eisenhower talked about this as he was leaving office.
The Complex was built to keep our economy going because it's easier to get people to pay for 'defense' when you're redistributing wealth. And like it or not we either redistribute wealth or it naturally accumulates at the top. I don't even need to argue that point, I've got 5000 years of recorded history to back me up on it.
The system is BAU/As Designed. This is how we Americans do socialism. No dirty single payer health care, UBI or (saint's preserve us) "the dole" for us. We use our Military to keep our economy going. Otherwise wealth inequality gets to the point where it all shuts down like it did in the 30s with the robber barons and whatnot. Go google "Eisenhower" and "Military Industrial Complex" if you want to know more.
and good enough is often if not always good enough. Bitcoin just needs to be one stop on the road to money laundering. The goal isn't to be perfect, it's to make a trail hard enough to follow that it's not worth the effort. Kinda like a password. In theory you could guess any password given enough time but in practice you can't.
Credit card fees float around 2-3%. Debit's even lower. Why bother with bitcoin when everybody has cash? There's no upside and lots of downsides.
Bitcoin's value is tagged to the value of illicit drugs and ransomeware payments. Expect a crash in a few years when either the government cracks down on both or if drugs ever get legalized.
these people have legitimate complaints (lack of jobs, Healthcare, infrastructure, education opportunities) that aren't being address. I'm hoping we actually address them before it's too late and we go the same route Germany did in WWII. Though so far all I've seen is a lot of denouncing. We need that, don't get me wrong. What these people are doing is bad. But almost nobody is asking the tough questions about _why_ they're doing it.
Maybe I'm just old (I am) but it just seems kind of pointless. If I want these features my phone has them and I don't have to buy an extra device. Are there features here I'm missing? Does it do anything that Siri & Google's Assistant app don't do?
So I can totally run the PiP mode at 480p. Now I just need one of these on my phone....
the drop in population combined with wartime economies and a massive spike in new technology to feed the war machine is what got us out of what was looking like a perpetual recession/depression. Having to rebuild Europe helped to. Most of history has been about prying enough money away from our ruling class for civilization to proceed despite their best efforts (since if you're rich the last thing you want is anything upsetting the apple cart, seeing as how you own the cart and all the apples).
the percentage of Americans identifying as and with Jackbooted thugs has been on the upswing.
I have it on good authority by top experts on /. from previous threads about automation that there will be no job losses from automation. Also, skyrocketing productivity has had no negative impact on wages or employment. See, when it comes to labor the law of supply/demand is reversed. When demand for labor goes down it actually _increases_ its value. I know, crazy, right?
that Congress passed recently making arbitration legally binding. I'm sure Congress will get right on that right after they're done ending the 7 wars we're fighting in, reforming our healthcare system for the better, solving our student loan crisis and working out that pesky cold fusion problem.
but nobody's giving them any answers. For all I've heard from the last few weeks about Hate this and Racism that I've heard almost nothing that addresses why these people felt they had to turn to Nazism and the KKK. I'm guessing the media at large isn't allowed to talk about economic issues, especially given that they're owned by billionaires that benefit from the working class's worsening situation.
There's alternative media on Youtube. Look for the videos pushing Bernie Sanders and the like.
not to associate with Nazi's. I suppose you could make the argument they should be a protected class (similar to Blacks, Latinos, Women and possibly Homosexuals and religions). I think you'd have a hard time making that argument. For one, Nazis have a history of advocating violence, racism, and solving racial issues with violence. For another, there's no reason to identify with Nazis besides that. There are plenty of other groups that you can identify with that lack the stigma of violence and racism.
it's not fast living. The cost of living (Healthcare, housing, transportation, food, and above all education) has rapidly outpaced earnings. Massive productivity increases mean less demand for wages (I've read that if minimum wage kept pace with productivity it'd be $23/hr). Rampant outsourcing and 'insourcing' (e.g. work visas) compound the problem.
Folks aren't living outside their means, they're losing ground. Rapidly. That's why you're seeing crap like what happened in Charlottesville. Folks don't know what to do.
by then you're desperately trying to save money for the kid's college while trying to make car/mortgage payments; meaning just about anything you actually want to do yourself goes out the window and you spend the next 10 years living like a pauper constantly worried about money. Yeah, there's a few people (maybe 10% of the population) that avoid that but for the majority, especially today, you're staring down a miserable end of your existence.
people bought SUVs for their 'active' life styles. A coworker of mine bought one of those huge multi-ton pickups. He's had it for months and it's immaculate. He just drives to work in it and the grocery store.
People don't buy cars for what they do, they buy cars for what they imagine they do.
I think that was the code name of Windows Me or Vista. Can't remember which one though.