it's all the same Goldman Sach's people running the show and we'd still be gearing up for war with North Korea. The difference is Romney would have gotten the Obamacare repeal through and we'd all be losing pre-existing coverage. Trump is like any other Republican but not as good at it. Lots and lots of cronyism, Low taxes, no regulation/EPA and no social programs. Romney's the same but he's better at it. As for McCain, he's got about a year left in him so a vote for him was really a vote for his VP. And that probably woulda still been Pence.
so I'll vent a little here. We all knew this was coming when the Donald got elected. He's made no secret of his disdain for bureaucrats and his love of business people. Thing is, I'll take a bureaucrat over a businessman in government any day. I _want_ the people running my country to be free from industry ties. And how the hell else do you accomplish that except by having career civil servants? Folks need to understand a) elections have consequences and b) Civil Servant == bureaucrat.
because their business model is predicated on shifting the cost of doing business onto their employees which is in turn made possible by those same employees economic desperation. They're inherently evil.
and I'm a reasonable scientific guy so I'm all about evidence. But just because something is doesn't mean it should be; nor does it mean we can't change it.
but shouldn't you be more angry at the man who empowered him, e.g. Donald Trump? Or the party that empowered him (the Republicans)? He was picked to do a job because the folks who picked him knew he'd do it and now he's doing it. It's like getting mad at a red light camera. You shouldn't be mad at the camera, you should be mad at the bastards that put it there.
this isn't really hard. We elected somebody who's pro-business/anti-consumer. This is absolutely nothing we should have expected. Trump and his party have decades of this behavior. There's a joke about face eating leopards making the rounds that explains the phenomenon more humorously.
that they haven't managed to gut by closing down the company (Hostess, I'm lookin' at you). It's a lot of money somebody else is going to pocket.
I'm looking forward to them going after the VA & Military pensions. It'll work too. They'll pit the current enlisted folks against the new folks just like they did with the old and new employees.
like that. And most people agree the government should ensure everybody has healthcare. Notice how I worded that. I can ask those same people the same question with different wording and get a different set of answers. Heck, a recent poll showed only 25% of America trusted our president but 33% approved of him. Those numbers don't add up...
Also I think they're improved diet and lack of smoking/drinking comes more from having less poverty. We've been gutting our anti-poverty programs for 30+ years. Junk food is cheap. Cigarettes are cheap (and subsidized). Booze is cheap. Education? Not so much. Not in America.
because the pay is crap. My dentist is a man and digs around my mouth twice a year (three times if I have a cavity). Men have other, better paying options.
those occupations. The thing about science and tech is that being good at it (and I mean _really_ good. As in somebody who will advance the field) is more or less being a freak of nature. Being good at watching kids is just being really, really patient. We're not afraid of losing out on a few good kindergarten teachers. They might do good work but they're not going to advance the species the way Einstein did. We _are_ afraid of missing out on the next Einstein because a bunch of the other kids teased her for being good at math.
has 32gig of storage built in and supports a 2 terabyte SD card. This doesn't seem like a software problem, this seems more like an "Apple charges too much for storage" problem. When Sony tried this on the Vita it cost them a ton of sales.
IIRC the hardest part about flying it's takeoffs and landing. You need a lot of skill to do it. So you've got to spend a ton of money on a pilot to do it. But those takeoffs and landings are when you're gonna want that backup system the most. It's a catch 22. If I've already paid for somebody that can handle emergencies then I'm just paying twice if I want one of these fancy auto pilots..
just because they correctly advertise something awful doesn't mean it's not awful. Providing the last mile service that cable companies do costs almost nothing (around $9/mo according to Comcast's SEC filing, though that figures a few years out of date so it might be up to a whopping $11-$12). The infrastructure was built with tax breaks and subsidies so there's no investment to recoup. It was paid for by our tax dollars and we basically just handed it over to a private company to profit from and don't question it.
the iPod shuffle made some sense back in the day, at least for me, because it while it was twice the price of the cheap Sandisks I had nothing but trouble with those. Constant sync issues and the like. I'm guessing the chips running cheapo MP3 players, like the ones in cheapo ethernet cards & bluetooth dongles, have standardized and just work now. My bro's an old school PC tech who got out of it when the pay really went to hell and he's always shocked when things work the first time.
I mean, you've got Dick Cheney for raw, open corruption. And the stuff that gets done on the local level would make even him blush. I remember reading a story of a land owner that wanted some land that had some endangered goats. Couldn't have the land because of the goats. So he bought some nearby land, but up some broken, rickety fences and stuck sheep with syphilis on the land. The goats jumped the fence and the sheep, died of syphilis and blammo, he got the land. City turned a complete blind eye to the entire scheme.
There's still a small chance Pai's drinking his own Kool-aid. Those city reps and the goats? No chance whatsoever.
We wouldn't be having this conversation. Big companies buy out their competitors, consolidate and eliminate competition. If you step in to regulate then sooner or later you turn your back on libertarian policies.
Or didn't vote, or kidded yourselves and voted third party are about to see the results. I didn't like Hillary either but the alternative was obviously worse. Also, if you were expecting Trump to be good for jobs because he commented on the Disney layoffs, well, he just announced he's cutting back on low skill immigrants and replacing them with high skill ones (the media kinda glossed over that one in the rush to call the new policy racist). In other words jobs you wanted will get taken and jobs you didn't will open up. For God's sake people vote in your mid terms to counter balance this...
since every previous generation is full of assholes trying to screw the next one and make them work harder for less. Every now and then a generation notices this and pushes back. So the think tanks (used to be Philosophers & preachers) fire up and beat the little brats back into place.
The Millennials grew up during the biggest economic crash since the Great Depression. Hell if our Government had sat on it's thumbs like they did in the 30s it would have been a second Great Depression. Unlike folks who grew up in the 30s the Millennials have enough information to know who was really at fault (the ruling class). So yeah, they're a little different. They're fucking pissed off.
I need to re-write mine but they haven't sorted out how plugins like mine will work. I'm still stuck using shims that are going to go away at some point. I'd rather not have to re-write it twice...
to rank and file. As someone who worked in the late 90s I can tell you that companies can and will swindle you out of them. AOL did it most famously during the Time Warner buyout. Onlive did it recently where they built the company with cheap engineers paid in stock options then folded the company to walk away with the proceeds from selling it. There are plenty of other ways to do it.
Join a Union. If you don't you'll just get picked apart by the companies expert lawyers. You can't compete with them without help, they pay those guys too much. Their monthly salary's more than your house's worth. While you're trying to make next month's payment they're screwing you out of the money you needed to make it.
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it's all the same Goldman Sach's people running the show and we'd still be gearing up for war with North Korea. The difference is Romney would have gotten the Obamacare repeal through and we'd all be losing pre-existing coverage. Trump is like any other Republican but not as good at it. Lots and lots of cronyism, Low taxes, no regulation/EPA and no social programs. Romney's the same but he's better at it. As for McCain, he's got about a year left in him so a vote for him was really a vote for his VP. And that probably woulda still been Pence.
so I'll vent a little here. We all knew this was coming when the Donald got elected. He's made no secret of his disdain for bureaucrats and his love of business people. Thing is, I'll take a bureaucrat over a businessman in government any day. I _want_ the people running my country to be free from industry ties. And how the hell else do you accomplish that except by having career civil servants? Folks need to understand a) elections have consequences and b) Civil Servant == bureaucrat.
because their business model is predicated on shifting the cost of doing business onto their employees which is in turn made possible by those same employees economic desperation. They're inherently evil.
and I'm a reasonable scientific guy so I'm all about evidence. But just because something is doesn't mean it should be; nor does it mean we can't change it.
but shouldn't you be more angry at the man who empowered him, e.g. Donald Trump? Or the party that empowered him (the Republicans)? He was picked to do a job because the folks who picked him knew he'd do it and now he's doing it. It's like getting mad at a red light camera. You shouldn't be mad at the camera, you should be mad at the bastards that put it there.
this isn't really hard. We elected somebody who's pro-business/anti-consumer. This is absolutely nothing we should have expected. Trump and his party have decades of this behavior. There's a joke about face eating leopards making the rounds that explains the phenomenon more humorously.
that they haven't managed to gut by closing down the company (Hostess, I'm lookin' at you). It's a lot of money somebody else is going to pocket.
I'm looking forward to them going after the VA & Military pensions. It'll work too. They'll pit the current enlisted folks against the new folks just like they did with the old and new employees.
like that. And most people agree the government should ensure everybody has healthcare. Notice how I worded that. I can ask those same people the same question with different wording and get a different set of answers. Heck, a recent poll showed only 25% of America trusted our president but 33% approved of him. Those numbers don't add up...
Also I think they're improved diet and lack of smoking/drinking comes more from having less poverty. We've been gutting our anti-poverty programs for 30+ years. Junk food is cheap. Cigarettes are cheap (and subsidized). Booze is cheap. Education? Not so much. Not in America.
because the pay is crap. My dentist is a man and digs around my mouth twice a year (three times if I have a cavity). Men have other, better paying options.
those occupations. The thing about science and tech is that being good at it (and I mean _really_ good. As in somebody who will advance the field) is more or less being a freak of nature. Being good at watching kids is just being really, really patient. We're not afraid of losing out on a few good kindergarten teachers. They might do good work but they're not going to advance the species the way Einstein did. We _are_ afraid of missing out on the next Einstein because a bunch of the other kids teased her for being good at math.
has 32gig of storage built in and supports a 2 terabyte SD card. This doesn't seem like a software problem, this seems more like an "Apple charges too much for storage" problem. When Sony tried this on the Vita it cost them a ton of sales.
IIRC the hardest part about flying it's takeoffs and landing. You need a lot of skill to do it. So you've got to spend a ton of money on a pilot to do it. But those takeoffs and landings are when you're gonna want that backup system the most. It's a catch 22. If I've already paid for somebody that can handle emergencies then I'm just paying twice if I want one of these fancy auto pilots..
just because they correctly advertise something awful doesn't mean it's not awful. Providing the last mile service that cable companies do costs almost nothing (around $9/mo according to Comcast's SEC filing, though that figures a few years out of date so it might be up to a whopping $11-$12). The infrastructure was built with tax breaks and subsidies so there's no investment to recoup. It was paid for by our tax dollars and we basically just handed it over to a private company to profit from and don't question it.
the iPod shuffle made some sense back in the day, at least for me, because it while it was twice the price of the cheap Sandisks I had nothing but trouble with those. Constant sync issues and the like. I'm guessing the chips running cheapo MP3 players, like the ones in cheapo ethernet cards & bluetooth dongles, have standardized and just work now. My bro's an old school PC tech who got out of it when the pay really went to hell and he's always shocked when things work the first time.
I mean, you've got Dick Cheney for raw, open corruption. And the stuff that gets done on the local level would make even him blush. I remember reading a story of a land owner that wanted some land that had some endangered goats. Couldn't have the land because of the goats. So he bought some nearby land, but up some broken, rickety fences and stuck sheep with syphilis on the land. The goats jumped the fence and the sheep, died of syphilis and blammo, he got the land. City turned a complete blind eye to the entire scheme.
There's still a small chance Pai's drinking his own Kool-aid. Those city reps and the goats? No chance whatsoever.
He committed the most grievous of sins, he cost everybody a lot of money when he got caught.
I was more concerned with my bluetooth not connecting unless I reset the radio (airplane mode on/off).
Low skill immigrants with high skill ones. That seems like something they'd want.
He just talked about it unapologetically. The other rich ass holes came after him when he wouldn't shut up about the scheme.
We wouldn't be having this conversation. Big companies buy out their competitors, consolidate and eliminate competition. If you step in to regulate then sooner or later you turn your back on libertarian policies.
Or didn't vote, or kidded yourselves and voted third party are about to see the results. I didn't like Hillary either but the alternative was obviously worse. Also, if you were expecting Trump to be good for jobs because he commented on the Disney layoffs, well, he just announced he's cutting back on low skill immigrants and replacing them with high skill ones (the media kinda glossed over that one in the rush to call the new policy racist). In other words jobs you wanted will get taken and jobs you didn't will open up. For God's sake people vote in your mid terms to counter balance this...
everybody knows mergers increase innovation which lowers pricing while improving service. Charter told me so before they merged.
since every previous generation is full of assholes trying to screw the next one and make them work harder for less. Every now and then a generation notices this and pushes back. So the think tanks (used to be Philosophers & preachers) fire up and beat the little brats back into place.
The Millennials grew up during the biggest economic crash since the Great Depression. Hell if our Government had sat on it's thumbs like they did in the 30s it would have been a second Great Depression. Unlike folks who grew up in the 30s the Millennials have enough information to know who was really at fault (the ruling class). So yeah, they're a little different. They're fucking pissed off.
I need to re-write mine but they haven't sorted out how plugins like mine will work. I'm still stuck using shims that are going to go away at some point. I'd rather not have to re-write it twice...
to rank and file. As someone who worked in the late 90s I can tell you that companies can and will swindle you out of them. AOL did it most famously during the Time Warner buyout. Onlive did it recently where they built the company with cheap engineers paid in stock options then folded the company to walk away with the proceeds from selling it. There are plenty of other ways to do it.
Join a Union. If you don't you'll just get picked apart by the companies expert lawyers. You can't compete with them without help, they pay those guys too much. Their monthly salary's more than your house's worth. While you're trying to make next month's payment they're screwing you out of the money you needed to make it.