they make enough to afford housing, albeit barely. The trouble is they want services, and that means low paid people. Police, Fire, Emergency responders for a start. Then cooks, laundry, taxis and for some of the better off (who can afford kids) teachers. All of these are at best middle class jobs. Nobody likes paying for them to have nice homes in expensive neighborhoods, but they sure want the services.
campaigning for cuts to education so they can translate them into tax cuts. Then they can provide training, better pay and actual career paths. Why should anyone care about security in a job they're gonna have for 2 years before they have to leave to find better pay before inflation eats their earnings?
Also nice to see somebody else on/. notice them:). Youtube is mostly after the groups advocating violence and racism since those tend to be what really scares the bejeebees out of advertisers.
if there's a population crash from suicide it'd make labor valuable again. The whole point of this is to devalue labor and put all power back in the hands of capital. Now get back to babby-making slave.
Period. There's just too many advantages. Plus when you're a teenager cars get you laid.
That said, it's never been possible for everyone on earth to have a car. There just isn't enough metal to go around. Add to that burgeoning wealth inequality making cars unaffordable (just bought a 1 year old entry level sedan and by the time I'm done with insurance & warranties it'll run me $380/mo. And before you ask the warranty's only $40 and I have a spotless driving record in my 40s. Full coverage's a bitch) people just can't have cars anymore.
It's gonna be fun, because building cars was something high profit enough that the scraps companies leave their workers let them live a middle class life. Meanwhile I'm still seeing people blame rising minimum wage on the death of the American class. Oh well, now I'm just rambling.
I saw on Youtube when my local power company was working to get the law changed so they wouldn't have to pay for the extra power solar installations put back into the grid. It was a bunch of old people sitting around talking about something scary that was gonna happen and it ended with "Vote No on Prop such and such". The law passed, no problem
The gov't's been paying for expanding broadband for decades. The Koch bros own companies continue to suck up subsidies left and right. They couldn't be any more transparently hypocritical if they tried. But old people vote. They're easily frightened because they're brains go in old age and this stuff works.
and small networked systems? I honestly haven't paid much attention to the underlining protocols of Windows file sharing. What, if any, advantages are there to having it on by default?
an organization that relies primarily on soviet era guns, makeshift bombs and the occasional 50 caliber on the back of a Toyota? Ya don't say... Next you'll tell me they're completely ineffective against the Amish.
A. The Air Force will value safety over money by a much wider margin and B. The Air Force and NASA both are socialist programs meant to keep folks employed.
I said Congress & Trump. I don't care who's in charge. Neither party is doing much of anything. But if you're gonna bring up parties I'll remind you that the Rs pretty much own State legislatures. And while I'm on the subject Clinton the Bill was basically an R with a D next to his name. That's how he formed the coalition that got him elected. Moderately left wing on social issues and hard right on anything economic. And make no mistake, clean water is very much an economic issue. He can bet you're ass Trump's kids don't eat baby food with lead in it. Not at his income bracket.
Makes sense. It's in our water supply after all. That said, I'm not expecting the Trump administration to take action on this. And I sure as hell don't expect Congress too. Man, a functioning government sure would be nice right about now...
it's just a holding company for the Brand name. They're not really releasing a games console. It'll either be another X games in One or an Android console. Or both. But hey, maybe they'll make some nice hardware.
get an Atari 8-bit computer. They're the same computer (with a few tweaks to the registers so Atari could try and control who released cartridges). Or an XEGS, which is a consolized Atari 800.
The 7800's a weird beast. You have to be careful you don't break the cartridge prongs off in it like I did when I was a kid (there's two prongs that it uses to connect a 7800 cart to the extra pins that let it be a 7800 cart). Otherwise you've just turned it into a 2600 until you pull it apart. The controllers suck, but IIRC you can use Genesis controllers. The games are kinda strange. Mostly arcade ports. The NES arcade ports are generally better though. But Pole Position II is superb and since it was the pack in cheap. Then there's Ball Blazer & Ninja Golf.
and making city air clean. And making clean manufacturing. And What about the upcoming potable water crisis? Mars doesn't exactly solve that one. Now, if we're going there to get more Helium after venting it all into space to make party balloons I might be for it (electronics require Helium)
Just about every gov't around the world has been cutting taxes on top earners for 30 years now. Meanwhile cutting services under the banner of "Austerity".
Movie industries are small, high profit operations. They employ relatively few people in middle class jobs. So tell me Australia (or US, or Japan, or Germany, or every other movie industry on earth bitching about piracy), if you're not gonna pay into civilization why should I care?
at the very least their IT staff will get the axe as they merge their network with Amazon's. Accounting & HR will go next for the same reasons. That's just what you do when you merge. You remove redundancies.
Automation will come later, but it'll come. Probably not the checkout. If you're spending twice as much on groceries you're probably expecting somebody to check you out. Unless they implement some kind of grab and go system (or just close the storefronts entirely in favor of delivery).
Are there valuable minerals and resources on Mars? Because besides that I can't think of a good reason. Overpopulation isn't really a problem once nations modernize. In fact, underpopulation is. Don't we have better things to be doing then this?
Sales tax is a regressive tax that disproportionately hurts working families. Raise capital gains and top margin rates instead. Folks who spend their entire earnings getting by shouldn't be looked at as walking dollar signs.
if you're in college you get it for $5/mo. See, it's not just about growth, it's about the right kind of growth. The kind of people you can raise their rates on and they won't care because they still have jobs.
A small group of incredibly wealthy people who could afford the electronics could have had cell phones 4 decades earlier. Making electronics that could do cellular and be affordable is a fairly recent thing (think mid 80s).
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they make enough to afford housing, albeit barely. The trouble is they want services, and that means low paid people. Police, Fire, Emergency responders for a start. Then cooks, laundry, taxis and for some of the better off (who can afford kids) teachers. All of these are at best middle class jobs. Nobody likes paying for them to have nice homes in expensive neighborhoods, but they sure want the services.
campaigning for cuts to education so they can translate them into tax cuts. Then they can provide training, better pay and actual career paths. Why should anyone care about security in a job they're gonna have for 2 years before they have to leave to find better pay before inflation eats their earnings?
Also nice to see somebody else on /. notice them :). Youtube is mostly after the groups advocating violence and racism since those tend to be what really scares the bejeebees out of advertisers.
if there's a population crash from suicide it'd make labor valuable again. The whole point of this is to devalue labor and put all power back in the hands of capital. Now get back to babby-making slave.
Period. There's just too many advantages. Plus when you're a teenager cars get you laid.
That said, it's never been possible for everyone on earth to have a car. There just isn't enough metal to go around. Add to that burgeoning wealth inequality making cars unaffordable (just bought a 1 year old entry level sedan and by the time I'm done with insurance & warranties it'll run me $380/mo. And before you ask the warranty's only $40 and I have a spotless driving record in my 40s. Full coverage's a bitch) people just can't have cars anymore.
It's gonna be fun, because building cars was something high profit enough that the scraps companies leave their workers let them live a middle class life. Meanwhile I'm still seeing people blame rising minimum wage on the death of the American class. Oh well, now I'm just rambling.
I saw on Youtube when my local power company was working to get the law changed so they wouldn't have to pay for the extra power solar installations put back into the grid. It was a bunch of old people sitting around talking about something scary that was gonna happen and it ended with "Vote No on Prop such and such". The law passed, no problem
The gov't's been paying for expanding broadband for decades. The Koch bros own companies continue to suck up subsidies left and right. They couldn't be any more transparently hypocritical if they tried. But old people vote. They're easily frightened because they're brains go in old age and this stuff works.
and small networked systems? I honestly haven't paid much attention to the underlining protocols of Windows file sharing. What, if any, advantages are there to having it on by default?
an organization that relies primarily on soviet era guns, makeshift bombs and the occasional 50 caliber on the back of a Toyota? Ya don't say... Next you'll tell me they're completely ineffective against the Amish.
A. The Air Force will value safety over money by a much wider margin and B. The Air Force and NASA both are socialist programs meant to keep folks employed.
I said Congress & Trump. I don't care who's in charge. Neither party is doing much of anything. But if you're gonna bring up parties I'll remind you that the Rs pretty much own State legislatures. And while I'm on the subject Clinton the Bill was basically an R with a D next to his name. That's how he formed the coalition that got him elected. Moderately left wing on social issues and hard right on anything economic. And make no mistake, clean water is very much an economic issue. He can bet you're ass Trump's kids don't eat baby food with lead in it. Not at his income bracket.
Makes sense. It's in our water supply after all. That said, I'm not expecting the Trump administration to take action on this. And I sure as hell don't expect Congress too. Man, a functioning government sure would be nice right about now...
My Blu HD R1 got one to do 4G LTE. A man can dream, can't he?
to get the benefit of this?
it's just a holding company for the Brand name. They're not really releasing a games console. It'll either be another X games in One or an Android console. Or both. But hey, maybe they'll make some nice hardware.
get an Atari 8-bit computer. They're the same computer (with a few tweaks to the registers so Atari could try and control who released cartridges). Or an XEGS, which is a consolized Atari 800.
The 7800's a weird beast. You have to be careful you don't break the cartridge prongs off in it like I did when I was a kid (there's two prongs that it uses to connect a 7800 cart to the extra pins that let it be a 7800 cart). Otherwise you've just turned it into a 2600 until you pull it apart. The controllers suck, but IIRC you can use Genesis controllers. The games are kinda strange. Mostly arcade ports. The NES arcade ports are generally better though. But Pole Position II is superb and since it was the pack in cheap. Then there's Ball Blazer & Ninja Golf.
and making city air clean. And making clean manufacturing. And What about the upcoming potable water crisis? Mars doesn't exactly solve that one. Now, if we're going there to get more Helium after venting it all into space to make party balloons I might be for it (electronics require Helium)
they'll leave you to die long before that.
Just about every gov't around the world has been cutting taxes on top earners for 30 years now. Meanwhile cutting services under the banner of "Austerity".
Movie industries are small, high profit operations. They employ relatively few people in middle class jobs. So tell me Australia (or US, or Japan, or Germany, or every other movie industry on earth bitching about piracy), if you're not gonna pay into civilization why should I care?
at the very least their IT staff will get the axe as they merge their network with Amazon's. Accounting & HR will go next for the same reasons. That's just what you do when you merge. You remove redundancies.
Automation will come later, but it'll come. Probably not the checkout. If you're spending twice as much on groceries you're probably expecting somebody to check you out. Unless they implement some kind of grab and go system (or just close the storefronts entirely in favor of delivery).
Are there valuable minerals and resources on Mars? Because besides that I can't think of a good reason. Overpopulation isn't really a problem once nations modernize. In fact, underpopulation is. Don't we have better things to be doing then this?
to get the main point:
" the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid"
I foresee a _lot_ of 'small business vendors" cropping up over the years now.
Sales tax is a regressive tax that disproportionately hurts working families. Raise capital gains and top margin rates instead. Folks who spend their entire earnings getting by shouldn't be looked at as walking dollar signs.
if you're in college you get it for $5/mo. See, it's not just about growth, it's about the right kind of growth. The kind of people you can raise their rates on and they won't care because they still have jobs.
you've made enemies of both sides.
A small group of incredibly wealthy people who could afford the electronics could have had cell phones 4 decades earlier. Making electronics that could do cellular and be affordable is a fairly recent thing (think mid 80s).