There's a major sea change going on to a much, much more pro-corporate environment. One of America's biggest products is IP so it's not surprising to see stronger copyright law. As our courts get stacked with more and more pro-corp appointees expect to see changes.
the government heavily interfered in the form of massive tax breaks for hybrids and for developing hybrids. Like most things that truly matter and are really difficult (like space travel, communication, and Basic Research) nothing happens until the government steps in because it's not profitable enough otherwise.
And you can't fix the environment with a president who is openly hostile to the EPA. Poor people still can't drink the water in Flint, MI you know? And your Honda's good millage & clean emissions is dwarfed by the number of Trucks calling themselves SUVs on the road.
I think it's called "The Tragedy of the Commons" but either way it's the same reason traffic jams happen. If everybody did the right thing then we'd all be better off, but for individuals doing the wrong things is beneficial. At least, until everyone follows suit. When you tailgate and drive aggressively it gets you to work sooner right up until everyone does it. Then it causes a jam and you're an hour late.
The US needs to lead here because we're why China is polluting. They're doing it to meet our demand for cheap consumer goods that can be sold at a high profit margin. Not that Europe isn't to blame too, but any time we want we could put our foot down, pay a few hundred dollars more for our electronics & consumer goods and stop the pollution. We don't because we don't want to.
even when I was a kid they knew they were doomed. We met with people to talk about their work in high school and the Journalists all told me to steer clear of their profession. It would help if we didn't let one guy (R Murdoch) buy up 90% of the news papers so he could push his agenda through them. I mean, what's even the point of buying a news paper when it's nothing but the usual pro-corporate blather. Muck racking is what made journalism worth paying for. Not that the powers that be would let that fly...
The #1 cost of most things are the raw materials needed to product followed by the labor (and their benefits). Tech needs almost nothing to produce since it includes software and even then needs a fraction of the employees of most sectors. Tech has amazing ROI because you just plain don't need to invest very much.
The trouble is that a lot of tech is either useless (Twitter) or evil (Uber).
and the ability to comprehend it. Put another way, Libertarianism doesn't work with Health Care because unless you're a heart surgeon you can't judge the quality of your next bit of Open Heart Surgery until after it's done and you're dead or not dead.
it was created by wealthy land owners to prevent the working class from electing a popularist who would redistribute land. Whoever's been feeding that line about the EC being a part of checks and balances is full of it. Well, it's a check alright, a check on democracy...
The correct solution is a representative parliament. Like the UK but without the house of Lords. Anyone who can get a reasonable percentage of votes gets in.
there was a very modest uptick from a decade of horrifically bad sales. But every article I've read has said new car buying is way, way down. I just bought a used car and had to pay damn near new because there's not a lot of inventory. Nobody buying new, so nobody selling used (unless you count stuff that's 10+ years old).
but $120k isn't nearly enough. Training is expensive, and these people come pre-trained on the cheap thanks to the crazy low cost of living in their countries (supported by a massive underclass, no safety net and no environmental or employee protections).
These are suppose to be the best and brightest the world has to offer. Either that or employees that are so desperately needed that training isn't an option. Start at $300k/yr and adjust for double inflation (so they can't cheat there too). That's about what a PH D in a profitable field makes, right?
Do they expect you to find a second full time job or be supported by family? I could see that happening. Especially if it was being used as a road to immigration.
I worked with a lady at a Fast Food restaurant when I was a kid who only stayed because her husband's Meds were paid by her health insurance. The owner caught wind and started working her 60+ hours a week on Salary. So yeah, our health care system gets abused for exactly that purpose.
there's training. An H1-B comes from a country where the cost of living is a fraction of mine. You could triple those wages and they'd still be a good value for the money.
The program needs to be shut down. It was created to solve a labor shortage that never existed. Companies just don't want to train. If you want to work in America you invest in America. If you don't like it you can leave. We've got plenty of everything anyone would want.
to do all the cool things it does. That meant more expensive hardware. The $50/512MB mp3 players I was buying in the early 2000s didn't run ogg, but they were $200 cheaper than players that did.
there's better calcs than the 84. Kids pick it because if you get stuck your teacher knows how to work it. Assuming this takes off it'll become the standard for the same reason.
Math teachers aren't necessarily good with gadgets and computers. Teaching is an entirely different skill set.
all the articles I've read have been short on details. How exactly do you do a graphing calc app without making it open to cheating? There's tons of these apps on the various app stores.
I've got a Blu HD R1 from Amazon. I put up with the ads so I got it for $60. The Bluetooth/WiFi suck though. But it's 4G is fine and the phone is fast enough for anything short of fancy 3D games.
put a clause in the contract that if metrics X-Y-Z aren't met the money has to be paid back. Next make it a law that all gov't contracts contain such clauses. Third, enforce the bloody law.
If there are no consequences for taking the money and running they'll take the money and run. Every. Single. Time.
there's lots and lots of engineers in China, India & Eastern Europe without much to lose. Their economies have little to no safety net, meaning if you trip up you crash hard. This is one of those consequences of abandoning a good chunk of your population to the forces of nature and the whims of capitalism. There's talk about the US slashing aid to poor middle eastern countries and of Isis et al looking forward to it so they can move on and radicalize the desperate. On a more local scale stuff like this is why we have WIC, so we don't have millions of babies with mental and physical disorders from their developing years.
I know, I know, I'm politicizing. But the thing is like it or not politics affects everything we do. It's scary how far it's embedded in our lives and nobody likes to acknowledge it...
I'd like to see them do more to keep the damn glass from breaking. I get tired of replacing it on my kids iPhone every couple years when some jerk runs into her and sends her (and her phone) flying.
him and Sanders. TPP probably would have allowed the money to flow in, and it was Trump & Sanders demonizing the TPP that stopped it (If you honestly think a little thing like overwhelming public opposition was gonna stop the TPP you need to read up on how NAFTA as passed).
Not that I'm a Trump fan, but TPP is no friend of me. As an IT worker it would accelerate outsourcing and H1-Bs taking what little jobs are left. Said it before, will say it again, you can't compete with India. Hell, I can't compete with China. I can't compete with anyone that lacks clean air and water unless I give up clean air and water...
why write native apps for this when I can just use SalesForce or if I don't like their platform fees knock together my own web based CRM from angular/bootstrap and let it scale down to mobile?
because it's overvalued. As an investor if I misjudge the value of a property that's on me. There's all sorts of laws & rules about stating the value of a property and on paper Trump & Co follow those rules. That's what they're good at, running legal ponzi schemes. Similar to the crap Bane & Mitt Romney used to do. That's really what high end biz schools are for. They teach the very rich how to rob us all blind and get away with it.
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There's a major sea change going on to a much, much more pro-corporate environment. One of America's biggest products is IP so it's not surprising to see stronger copyright law. As our courts get stacked with more and more pro-corp appointees expect to see changes.
the government heavily interfered in the form of massive tax breaks for hybrids and for developing hybrids. Like most things that truly matter and are really difficult (like space travel, communication, and Basic Research) nothing happens until the government steps in because it's not profitable enough otherwise.
And you can't fix the environment with a president who is openly hostile to the EPA. Poor people still can't drink the water in Flint, MI you know? And your Honda's good millage & clean emissions is dwarfed by the number of Trucks calling themselves SUVs on the road.
I think it's called "The Tragedy of the Commons" but either way it's the same reason traffic jams happen. If everybody did the right thing then we'd all be better off, but for individuals doing the wrong things is beneficial. At least, until everyone follows suit. When you tailgate and drive aggressively it gets you to work sooner right up until everyone does it. Then it causes a jam and you're an hour late.
The US needs to lead here because we're why China is polluting. They're doing it to meet our demand for cheap consumer goods that can be sold at a high profit margin. Not that Europe isn't to blame too, but any time we want we could put our foot down, pay a few hundred dollars more for our electronics & consumer goods and stop the pollution. We don't because we don't want to.
even when I was a kid they knew they were doomed. We met with people to talk about their work in high school and the Journalists all told me to steer clear of their profession. It would help if we didn't let one guy (R Murdoch) buy up 90% of the news papers so he could push his agenda through them. I mean, what's even the point of buying a news paper when it's nothing but the usual pro-corporate blather. Muck racking is what made journalism worth paying for. Not that the powers that be would let that fly...
The #1 cost of most things are the raw materials needed to product followed by the labor (and their benefits). Tech needs almost nothing to produce since it includes software and even then needs a fraction of the employees of most sectors. Tech has amazing ROI because you just plain don't need to invest very much.
The trouble is that a lot of tech is either useless (Twitter) or evil (Uber).
and the ability to comprehend it. Put another way, Libertarianism doesn't work with Health Care because unless you're a heart surgeon you can't judge the quality of your next bit of Open Heart Surgery until after it's done and you're dead or not dead.
it was created by wealthy land owners to prevent the working class from electing a popularist who would redistribute land. Whoever's been feeding that line about the EC being a part of checks and balances is full of it. Well, it's a check alright, a check on democracy...
The correct solution is a representative parliament. Like the UK but without the house of Lords. Anyone who can get a reasonable percentage of votes gets in.
or just plain Austerity driving those numbers? I don't think the working class ever recovered from the 2008 economic crash.
there was a very modest uptick from a decade of horrifically bad sales. But every article I've read has said new car buying is way, way down. I just bought a used car and had to pay damn near new because there's not a lot of inventory. Nobody buying new, so nobody selling used (unless you count stuff that's 10+ years old).
but $120k isn't nearly enough. Training is expensive, and these people come pre-trained on the cheap thanks to the crazy low cost of living in their countries (supported by a massive underclass, no safety net and no environmental or employee protections).
These are suppose to be the best and brightest the world has to offer. Either that or employees that are so desperately needed that training isn't an option. Start at $300k/yr and adjust for double inflation (so they can't cheat there too). That's about what a PH D in a profitable field makes, right?
Do they expect you to find a second full time job or be supported by family? I could see that happening. Especially if it was being used as a road to immigration.
I worked with a lady at a Fast Food restaurant when I was a kid who only stayed because her husband's Meds were paid by her health insurance. The owner caught wind and started working her 60+ hours a week on Salary. So yeah, our health care system gets abused for exactly that purpose.
there's training. An H1-B comes from a country where the cost of living is a fraction of mine. You could triple those wages and they'd still be a good value for the money.
The program needs to be shut down. It was created to solve a labor shortage that never existed. Companies just don't want to train. If you want to work in America you invest in America. If you don't like it you can leave. We've got plenty of everything anyone would want.
to do all the cool things it does. That meant more expensive hardware. The $50/512MB mp3 players I was buying in the early 2000s didn't run ogg, but they were $200 cheaper than players that did.
the CEO of ZeniMax was a day trader who more or less got kicked out of the profession for being too skeezy. Let that one sink in for a moment.
But his company makes great games so, like Blizzard, gets a pass for just about anything.
there's better calcs than the 84. Kids pick it because if you get stuck your teacher knows how to work it. Assuming this takes off it'll become the standard for the same reason.
Math teachers aren't necessarily good with gadgets and computers. Teaching is an entirely different skill set.
all the articles I've read have been short on details. How exactly do you do a graphing calc app without making it open to cheating? There's tons of these apps on the various app stores.
I've got a Blu HD R1 from Amazon. I put up with the ads so I got it for $60. The Bluetooth/WiFi suck though. But it's 4G is fine and the phone is fast enough for anything short of fancy 3D games.
put a clause in the contract that if metrics X-Y-Z aren't met the money has to be paid back. Next make it a law that all gov't contracts contain such clauses. Third, enforce the bloody law.
If there are no consequences for taking the money and running they'll take the money and run. Every. Single. Time.
can we at least _pretend_ we're still a democracy?
there's lots and lots of engineers in China, India & Eastern Europe without much to lose. Their economies have little to no safety net, meaning if you trip up you crash hard. This is one of those consequences of abandoning a good chunk of your population to the forces of nature and the whims of capitalism. There's talk about the US slashing aid to poor middle eastern countries and of Isis et al looking forward to it so they can move on and radicalize the desperate. On a more local scale stuff like this is why we have WIC, so we don't have millions of babies with mental and physical disorders from their developing years.
I know, I know, I'm politicizing. But the thing is like it or not politics affects everything we do. It's scary how far it's embedded in our lives and nobody likes to acknowledge it...
I'd like to see them do more to keep the damn glass from breaking. I get tired of replacing it on my kids iPhone every couple years when some jerk runs into her and sends her (and her phone) flying.
him and Sanders. TPP probably would have allowed the money to flow in, and it was Trump & Sanders demonizing the TPP that stopped it (If you honestly think a little thing like overwhelming public opposition was gonna stop the TPP you need to read up on how NAFTA as passed).
Not that I'm a Trump fan, but TPP is no friend of me. As an IT worker it would accelerate outsourcing and H1-Bs taking what little jobs are left. Said it before, will say it again, you can't compete with India. Hell, I can't compete with China. I can't compete with anyone that lacks clean air and water unless I give up clean air and water...
why write native apps for this when I can just use SalesForce or if I don't like their platform fees knock together my own web based CRM from angular/bootstrap and let it scale down to mobile?
because it's overvalued. As an investor if I misjudge the value of a property that's on me. There's all sorts of laws & rules about stating the value of a property and on paper Trump & Co follow those rules. That's what they're good at, running legal ponzi schemes. Similar to the crap Bane & Mitt Romney used to do. That's really what high end biz schools are for. They teach the very rich how to rob us all blind and get away with it.