and their low end is serviceable. My coworker has been using an $600 LG for going on 5 years now. I've had one of their $150 phones for going on 2 years now and it's tolerable. It could get better signal, but then again it's a non-Band 12 T-Mobile phone. Not enough short range spectrum.
I don't like nuclear because it's cheaper to run an unsafe plant than a safe one. Sooner or later the factory gets privatized in the name of saving money, maintenance gets put off or cut entirely and there's a disaster. This is exactly what happened in Fukushima. The best part? The CEO cried a little on TV and all was forgiven. The man should rot in jail for eternity, but we don't spill the blood of kings.
For one thing, it's got nothing to do with climate change. This is kinda like why I oppose nuclear: it needs to be cheaper and more profitable to do the _right_ thing than the wrong thing or unregulated businesses will do the wrong thing. Every. Figgin. Time. If they didn't they'd be run out of business by the guy who did (and used the cost savings to under cut them).
This is what we sometimes call a "Happy Accident". Like all such things I'm highly skeptical. Anyone want to shoot holes in it? e.g. what other industrial run offs might they have that they're not mentioning...
I started noticing a phenomenon about 3 years ago I'll call the "Millennial Effect". There would be dozens of articles trying to figure out why Millennials weren't doing the sorts of things their parents did (buy new cars, eat out, buy houses, have kids). Every possible explanation was given except money. Recently I've seen the left wing press finally start talking about it, but only the very, very left wing (think Mother Jones & Al Jezeera). Even MSNBC seldom if ever touches on just how much ground the Millennials have lost.
It's all about wealth inequality. But the mass media is owned by billionaires, so you shouldn't be surprised when they don't bite the hand that feeds them.
they had 15 THOUSAND and now have 30 THOUSAND. That's a major production. It's also at least 15 thousand new employees they didn't need to hire (give or take an engineer or two). So, what are you gonna do when the world _doesn't_ need ditch diggers? If you're lucky you'll live in the walled cities where robot gun emplacements protect you. If you're not one of them will cut your throat for a half day's worth of food. And if you think the 1% need you: get over yourself. If you're posting on/. you're not one of the movers and shakers in IT. They've got better things to be doing. You're the same as me, and above average techy. They're gunning for all of us.
there's a third dystopia nobody likes to talk about, where the masses are simply left to starve to death while the entire world's resources are claimed by the 1%. I mean, if they have robots to make everything and the control access to food/shelter/health care/etc then why bother with employees? What the hell difference does it make if somebody buys your crap when you already own everything? The few of them you want for cooking food/doctors/engineers/military/sex workers/ will do as you say or they'll starve to death. And your robot guns will cut them down if they try to rebel.
they make about $150-$300k/yr. Now, the folks who _own_ it all, they don't understand squat. But they don't need to. The ruling class just has to rule.
and it's no accident. I wouldn't care if I didn't need to spend an extra $100 on CPU that can handle the decryption to get decent framerates (here's looking at you Batman: Arkham Knight).
It's also how we stop the 1% from hording all of civilizations wealth in assets robber baron style and putting the breaks on all human progress for the sake of their rapacious greed. I know that Cardinal Richelieu quote is all the rage but here's another one: Never ask a man how he made his first million.
he who lives by the Enterprise Management tool dies by the Enterprise Management tool. More and more I have to put users on Chrome because the numbskulls who manage their domain profiles have cranked IE's security settings so high nothing works. And there are so many esoteric settings buried in the registry good luck finding the one causing your JavaScript to go haywire. But they let 'em install Chrome. So I get to have this conversation a lot:
Me: Does it work in Chrome?
Them: Yes.
Me: Wanna spend 8-16 hours of your life figuring out which of the 800+ settings it could be that's breaking IE?
Them: No.
Me: Use Chrome.
America is an Empire. We extract tribute through monetary policy and cheap goods made with borderline slave labor. When you go to the grocery store and Bananas are.49 cents/lb congratulations, you've just benefited from our Empire. When you buy your wife a blood diamond (or your husband gives you one), congratulations, you've just benefited from our Empire.
If they're gonna share the "load" they'll share the spoils too. Get ready to give up your personal automobile. With gas at $5/liter you won't be able to afford it
is what you just did. Seriously, the shit we did in Central America is terrifying. We didn't invade Iraq for peace love and kittens. We wanted oil. Period. As for Iran, they were on their way to a secular government until we meddled and put those crazy religious bastards in power. The rest of the world hates us because we've actively campaigned against the advancement of human civilization. Electing Trump is just the latest in a long line of it.
when the Windows Store went *pop*. If that new games for windows thing they pushed with Killer Instinct & Forza had taken off maybe Valve would get the jeebees scared enough to go back to it, but right now it's looking kinda tepid.
We've been cutting funding to public services for 30 years. It's catching up in more ways than one. If you've been voting for all that "Austerity" this is what that actually means.
they've been getting a lot of criticism about being used for criminal activities (natch, they're a perfect vector for it) so they needed something like this. It'll get a lot of air time in the press as a result.
I'm glad the girl got rescued, but whenever I hear these stories I always think, what now? It's not like the systemic problems that lead her down that path are just going to vanish...
the Fake News spread because Facebook fired their Editorial dept to save money and replaced them with a cheap an weak algorithm. The fines would be a good way to force them back I suppose. That said something like this could be abused. At least in the States we don't make reporters reveal sources, so it'd be hard to prove 'fake' news. OTOH having foreign governments spreading propaganda and misinformation in your country is enough of a national security question that you can't just throw up your hands and do nothing.
it says so right in the wikipedia article. It's a health-recovery and reproduction-management "farm". It's basically a wild life preserve being called a farm. They put the elephants back into the wild when they're done.
and those were really nice, high paying jobs. And I wouldn't be surprised to see remote piloting of trucks before too long. At least in countries with laxer safety regs. It's all coming faster than you think.
if farming elephants was practical they'd be doing it already. Ivory has been valuable for hundreds of years. What makes it profitable is that the elephant you kill was raised and fed in the wild. You didn't have to pay to feed it for 20-30 years while you waited for it's tusks to grow.
and the consensus between us was that Microsoft couldn't make Windows phones cool to teenagers. It's funny, but it seems like the teenage demographic decides what phones are going to succeed, even if they're not the ones making the final buying decision (or even the biggest buying demographic). Me? I'm gonna make a Samsung J7 or LG Stylus Note my next phone since they're cheap, have decent radios and 2 GB of ram. But I'm a nerd, so I'm choosing on specs.
any time soon. There's stretching that I can't do by myself (think a very elaborate massage will a lot more pulling and yanking, insert happy ending joke around here somewhere).
Now, if _my_ job's automated and I lose my health insurance that's another matter entirely. I'm in a lot less pain since seeing a PT. But it's still a luxury compared too food. And I'm an American. No socialized medicine for me. We just torpedoed that boat with the biggest, orangest clown in history.
not anyone that anyone really cared about except a few right wingers who already hated Clinton more than Satan. The point was to create an air of distrust around Clinton so her supporters would stay home. It was part of a 20 year long multi-billion dollar smear campaign that begun when it became Clear that a) Hilary was a progressive and b) she was gonna run for president. And we Americans fell for it. Hook. Line. Sinker.
That's the trouble with right wingers like yourself. You want simple answers to complex problems. Destroying a woman as talented and intelligent as Hilary was a complex, difficult and expensive process. There's no one answer. I know you don't like to hear that. You and 60 million other Americans who just drove us over a cliff...
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and their low end is serviceable. My coworker has been using an $600 LG for going on 5 years now. I've had one of their $150 phones for going on 2 years now and it's tolerable. It could get better signal, but then again it's a non-Band 12 T-Mobile phone. Not enough short range spectrum.
I don't like nuclear because it's cheaper to run an unsafe plant than a safe one. Sooner or later the factory gets privatized in the name of saving money, maintenance gets put off or cut entirely and there's a disaster. This is exactly what happened in Fukushima. The best part? The CEO cried a little on TV and all was forgiven. The man should rot in jail for eternity, but we don't spill the blood of kings.
For one thing, it's got nothing to do with climate change. This is kinda like why I oppose nuclear: it needs to be cheaper and more profitable to do the _right_ thing than the wrong thing or unregulated businesses will do the wrong thing. Every. Figgin. Time. If they didn't they'd be run out of business by the guy who did (and used the cost savings to under cut them).
This is what we sometimes call a "Happy Accident". Like all such things I'm highly skeptical. Anyone want to shoot holes in it? e.g. what other industrial run offs might they have that they're not mentioning...
I started noticing a phenomenon about 3 years ago I'll call the "Millennial Effect". There would be dozens of articles trying to figure out why Millennials weren't doing the sorts of things their parents did (buy new cars, eat out, buy houses, have kids). Every possible explanation was given except money. Recently I've seen the left wing press finally start talking about it, but only the very, very left wing (think Mother Jones & Al Jezeera). Even MSNBC seldom if ever touches on just how much ground the Millennials have lost.
It's all about wealth inequality. But the mass media is owned by billionaires, so you shouldn't be surprised when they don't bite the hand that feeds them.
Along with a large percentage of people. Next question please.
they had 15 THOUSAND and now have 30 THOUSAND. That's a major production. It's also at least 15 thousand new employees they didn't need to hire (give or take an engineer or two). So, what are you gonna do when the world _doesn't_ need ditch diggers? If you're lucky you'll live in the walled cities where robot gun emplacements protect you. If you're not one of them will cut your throat for a half day's worth of food. And if you think the 1% need you: get over yourself. If you're posting on /. you're not one of the movers and shakers in IT. They've got better things to be doing. You're the same as me, and above average techy. They're gunning for all of us.
there's a third dystopia nobody likes to talk about, where the masses are simply left to starve to death while the entire world's resources are claimed by the 1%. I mean, if they have robots to make everything and the control access to food/shelter/health care/etc then why bother with employees? What the hell difference does it make if somebody buys your crap when you already own everything? The few of them you want for cooking food/doctors/engineers/military/sex workers/ will do as you say or they'll starve to death. And your robot guns will cut them down if they try to rebel.
they make about $150-$300k/yr. Now, the folks who _own_ it all, they don't understand squat. But they don't need to. The ruling class just has to rule.
and it's no accident. I wouldn't care if I didn't need to spend an extra $100 on CPU that can handle the decryption to get decent framerates (here's looking at you Batman: Arkham Knight).
It's also how we stop the 1% from hording all of civilizations wealth in assets robber baron style and putting the breaks on all human progress for the sake of their rapacious greed. I know that Cardinal Richelieu quote is all the rage but here's another one: Never ask a man how he made his first million.
he who lives by the Enterprise Management tool dies by the Enterprise Management tool. More and more I have to put users on Chrome because the numbskulls who manage their domain profiles have cranked IE's security settings so high nothing works. And there are so many esoteric settings buried in the registry good luck finding the one causing your JavaScript to go haywire. But they let 'em install Chrome. So I get to have this conversation a lot:
Me: Does it work in Chrome?
Them: Yes.
Me: Wanna spend 8-16 hours of your life figuring out which of the 800+ settings it could be that's breaking IE?
Them: No.
Me: Use Chrome.
America is an Empire. We extract tribute through monetary policy and cheap goods made with borderline slave labor. When you go to the grocery store and Bananas are .49 cents/lb congratulations, you've just benefited from our Empire. When you buy your wife a blood diamond (or your husband gives you one), congratulations, you've just benefited from our Empire.
If they're gonna share the "load" they'll share the spoils too. Get ready to give up your personal automobile. With gas at $5/liter you won't be able to afford it
is what you just did. Seriously, the shit we did in Central America is terrifying. We didn't invade Iraq for peace love and kittens. We wanted oil. Period. As for Iran, they were on their way to a secular government until we meddled and put those crazy religious bastards in power. The rest of the world hates us because we've actively campaigned against the advancement of human civilization. Electing Trump is just the latest in a long line of it.
except Israel's. Not saying that's a reason to throw 'em under a bus, but it's also no reason to support their interests over anybody else's.
when the Windows Store went *pop*. If that new games for windows thing they pushed with Killer Instinct & Forza had taken off maybe Valve would get the jeebees scared enough to go back to it, but right now it's looking kinda tepid.
We've been cutting funding to public services for 30 years. It's catching up in more ways than one. If you've been voting for all that "Austerity" this is what that actually means.
they've been getting a lot of criticism about being used for criminal activities (natch, they're a perfect vector for it) so they needed something like this. It'll get a lot of air time in the press as a result.
I'm glad the girl got rescued, but whenever I hear these stories I always think, what now? It's not like the systemic problems that lead her down that path are just going to vanish...
the Fake News spread because Facebook fired their Editorial dept to save money and replaced them with a cheap an weak algorithm. The fines would be a good way to force them back I suppose. That said something like this could be abused. At least in the States we don't make reporters reveal sources, so it'd be hard to prove 'fake' news. OTOH having foreign governments spreading propaganda and misinformation in your country is enough of a national security question that you can't just throw up your hands and do nothing.
it says so right in the wikipedia article. It's a health-recovery and reproduction-management "farm". It's basically a wild life preserve being called a farm. They put the elephants back into the wild when they're done.
and those were really nice, high paying jobs. And I wouldn't be surprised to see remote piloting of trucks before too long. At least in countries with laxer safety regs. It's all coming faster than you think.
if farming elephants was practical they'd be doing it already. Ivory has been valuable for hundreds of years. What makes it profitable is that the elephant you kill was raised and fed in the wild. You didn't have to pay to feed it for 20-30 years while you waited for it's tusks to grow.
and the consensus between us was that Microsoft couldn't make Windows phones cool to teenagers. It's funny, but it seems like the teenage demographic decides what phones are going to succeed, even if they're not the ones making the final buying decision (or even the biggest buying demographic). Me? I'm gonna make a Samsung J7 or LG Stylus Note my next phone since they're cheap, have decent radios and 2 GB of ram. But I'm a nerd, so I'm choosing on specs.
any time soon. There's stretching that I can't do by myself (think a very elaborate massage will a lot more pulling and yanking, insert happy ending joke around here somewhere).
Now, if _my_ job's automated and I lose my health insurance that's another matter entirely. I'm in a lot less pain since seeing a PT. But it's still a luxury compared too food. And I'm an American. No socialized medicine for me. We just torpedoed that boat with the biggest, orangest clown in history.
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not anyone that anyone really cared about except a few right wingers who already hated Clinton more than Satan. The point was to create an air of distrust around Clinton so her supporters would stay home. It was part of a 20 year long multi-billion dollar smear campaign that begun when it became Clear that a) Hilary was a progressive and b) she was gonna run for president. And we Americans fell for it. Hook. Line. Sinker.
That's the trouble with right wingers like yourself. You want simple answers to complex problems. Destroying a woman as talented and intelligent as Hilary was a complex, difficult and expensive process. There's no one answer. I know you don't like to hear that. You and 60 million other Americans who just drove us over a cliff...