The 1% isn't your doctor, lawyer or architect and it sure as hell isn't your professor. You have no concept of scale. The 1% are a largely hereditary class of property owners. Not that I have any fondness for the.01% either, but just because there's a few more further up the chain doesn't mean the whole 1% isn't rotten.
As for the "publicly traded" bullshit: Very few people can afford to own enough stock to matter. Your 401k is being eaten alive by fees. It is not a pension. It is not guaranteed or even likely to support you as you age.
On the other hand we have the stock market to thank for pump and dump scams that wreck our economy every few years. Reagan allowed companies to buy back their own stock. That in turn beget CEOs paid in stock options which lead to a unending thirst for cash to buy back stock so the CEOs could make more money. That's a big part of why offshoring and vulture capitalism are a hallmark of the modern American economy. Mix in the glass steagall repeal and you got the 2008 crash that took 8 years to recover from, just in time for the fox to be put in chrge of the hen house again.
one of the protestors lost an arm to one. The police dropped the grenade too close to them and the shrapnel shredded her arm. It's still attached, but it doesn't work. The best part? The only reason she's gonna win her lawsuit is that the doctor who treated her was smart enough to save the shrapnel lodged in her arm so it could be presented as evidence. The police chief was already accusing the protestors of throwing the grenade until he found out they had proof.
Anyway, this is why you don't militarize the police. They don't have the training to use these kinds of weapons even when they're 'non-lethal'...
there's tons of raw data out there. I see folks on/. periodically doing their armchair analysis of some of it. And anyway, if they were just holding on to the data because they were nefarious scientists (probably just sucking on that sweet sweet grant money) than why would they care if it got preserved? If they were never going to give it up anyway what difference does it make if it's saved?
See, this is one of those things I always thought was funny. You've got a bunch of folks with PHds, usually with a heavy emphasis on math and statistics, but the implication I get again and again from folks is that they're somehow trying to cheat us all for the mountains of grant money.
These folks are in ridiculously high demand in the private sector. They command salaries 2-3x the public sector at the drop of a hat (and if they go to Wallstreet 5-10x). I'm not saying there won't be the occasional bad apple or just plain wrong person, but really, if they were out for personal gain they have much, much better alternatives and they're smart enough to know what they are.
You couldn't possibly be more wrong if you tried. Same with that drek Forbes wrote. Minimum wage sets a price floor on wages. It does this to stop a race to the bottom while forcing the rich to horde a bit less of their wealth (which has been a major problem in all of human civilization: how to pry money from the 1%'s hands and get the economy moving).
The thing is, work still needs to get done and the merchant class still wants to make money. Warren Buffet said it himself (paraphrasing) that even at 90% taxes he'd still make money. Hell, America's most productive years were when the top marginal rate was 90%. So long as we have a merchant class spreading wealth around benefits all but the ruling class.
Now, we do still have an idle rich and ruling class. We just don't like to acknowledge them (and you can be they don't like being acknowledged). Go ahead. Eliminate minimum wage. Take out worker protections, Unions and all the safe guards workers fought and died for. Welcome back to the time of kings. To the robber baron era. Thanks.
1. You need access to a computer and a reasonably fast internet connection to make that money. If you've got an old computer and a slow connection you won't be able to grind out enough work.
2. If you've cleared hurdle #1 you're probably in a country with higher base wages.
I'm also questioning even the $7.25 number. It's usually something put forward by the companies. It's usually calculated on the basis of superhuman capabilities or unattainable bonus or raise programs.
that's theft, right? I'm just saying that once this hits the courtroom it's not so cut and dry anymore.
Ultimately it'll come down to who the jury likes best. I'm guessing the law firm will lose, but if they picked their targets carefully enough (say a stereotypical basement dwelling neck beard) it could play out differently. Remember that woman who lost to the RIAA because they claimed (with nothing but an IP address) that she downloaded MP3s? She's still paying on the multi million dollar settlement (single mom and all) and will till her dying day. When interviewed the Jurors didn't talk about law, they talked about how she gave them a bad feeling and how they didn't like or sympathize with her.
which turned out to be nothing (hell, I give Hilary bonus points for charging Goldman Sachs millions for those worthless speeches) and ignoring the massive amount of fake news, aka propaganda that their pro trolling organization did. They played us like a fiddle and we let them. Hell, they're still doing it by getting you to focus on worthless "leaks".
These companies have very few employees, which are the main cost of any business. So they get lots of investor capital because if 9 out of 10 fail or even 99 out of 100 then the 1 success pays for all the failures and the failures become tax write offs were with lots and lots of paper money lost but nothing of any real value.
Now, take away the ability to shift tax write offs for company A to cover company B's profits and maybe there's be a problem. But even then that one success in 100 is so crazy profitable I'm not sure that would matter. When companies talk scale what they mean is lots of money coming in and few employees driving up costs.
but is this really fraud? After all, even if they post it that doesn't mean they gave permission for it to be downloaded. I don't think we've ever settled those 'deep linking' cases completely. But regardless US copyright law tends to err on the side of the copyright owner.
That said people like porn but they don't like pornographers, so these guys don't have a prayer if they go in front of a jury.
since I read that our schools have been graduating lawyers in record numbers. Law degrees are highly desirable to schools. They're cheap as hell for the school (a book and a bunch of teachers to read it and grade papers) and expensive as hell for the student. Pure profit really. I haven't looked but I bet if I did I'd find law departments expanding while more useful departments (medicine, education, Comp sci) contracting.
All these lawyers mean we've got a glut of the damn things. Thousands of highly educated people with no scruples (they're taught out of them so they can focus on their clients interests) and with no job prospects? Yeah, that's some bad ju-ju right there...
Just curious. There's lots of Trump supporters on/. And a lot of anti-Hilary folks who even though they don't support Trump preferred him over her. Anyway, given that it was pretty clear from the get go that net neutrality was one of the things that would go out the window (it's regulation after all, and Trumps #1 campaign promise was an end to job-killing regulation, his words, not mine) were you opposed to net neutrality (and if so why) or did you choose to sacrifice it for other gains? If so, what gains.
I'm genuinely curious. Real answers please, no trolls.
we don't have anything to worry about vis-a-vis self driving cars and their negative effect on the jobs. Since it's not like there are 2-3 stories a day about how the technology is progressing. Sure is great that nothing in human civilization ever changes, and that even if it did we'd approach those changes like rational, decent creatures and wouldn't descend into a terrifying dystopian society of haves and have nots just because the ruling class had no need for the working class. Yep. Boy am I glad that Luddite is just a slur with no historical context whatsoever and that it didn't take the economy 80 years to catch up to the industrial revolution ushering in decades of unemployment, poverty, starvation and social unrest. Let the good times roll, forever.
Maybe for good reason, but I'd still take anything he says with a whole block's worth of salt.
As for us Dems, we're not expecting punishment. The rich one's don't fear prison because in America we don't spill the blood of kings and the poor ones know we're too poor to matter. What we _are_ expecting is the new administration to completely cock up the country and economy. And we've got plenty of reasons for it too with Trump's cabinet picks.
Seriously, as a democratic socialist (who's party won the election by popular vote by at least a 2.5% margin) I feel like I'm one of the only sane men in a land of lunatics. Jesus people, put your personal dislike of Hilary Clinton aside for a bit and actually _look_ at what you've done. Look at what Trump is actually _doing_. It's not hard. Google's right there for you. Come one already.
we are getting kinda desperate. Trump's pick for Secretary of Treasury is literally a guy who preyed on elderly widows. His pick for Dept of Energy said the department should be closed. His pick for Education wants to end public education. These aren't exaggerations. These are things these people are on record as saying.
So far Trump's entire administration are either the worst dreks from the swamp or his incompetent buddies. Our Government, contrary to what you might believe, actually does thing for people. Good things. Like education, disaster relief, granting access to life saving health care. Barring a miracle in the electoral college we're about to hand the difficult task of governing over to people who either don't think it's possible or see it as an opportunity to enrich themselves at everyone's expense.
If you're not kinda desperate right now then you're just not paying attention. As the old saying goes, reality has a liberal bias.
It sounds good. Makes him seem like an every man. And once again we're talking about something meaningless instead of demanding to know what went on at the meeting.
compared to this. This is why Trump one. He (or his handlers) are a master to misdirecting folks from real scandals to fake ones. He did it all campaign long. His media and information control skills are terrifying. It's like Karl Rove 2.0.
you couldn't get around for cheap. They'd raise their prices to reduce demand. Uber wants more rides because they're not concerned with vehicle maintenance (those costs are 100% the driver). So they can focus on Maximizing raw dollar throughput and ignore the costs to the driver. This is how/why Uber ends up being less than minimum wage in all but a few ultra high demand markets.
last I heard IBM only hired Americans for Sales. They were essentially a company you went to for access to cheap (usually Indian) tech workers, often on dubious H1-B visas...
I've got an A10-5800k. It's a big upgrade over the Athlon XP 6000+ it replaced (about 3 times faster) but the board is at a dead end. I think there's one marginally faster CPU I could put in it, but it won't even take a 7800k. And an 8350k looks like the end of the road for those boards.
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.01% either, but just because there's a few more further up the chain doesn't mean the whole 1% isn't rotten.
The 1% isn't your doctor, lawyer or architect and it sure as hell isn't your professor. You have no concept of scale. The 1% are a largely hereditary class of property owners. Not that I have any fondness for the
As for the "publicly traded" bullshit: Very few people can afford to own enough stock to matter. Your 401k is being eaten alive by fees. It is not a pension. It is not guaranteed or even likely to support you as you age.
On the other hand we have the stock market to thank for pump and dump scams that wreck our economy every few years. Reagan allowed companies to buy back their own stock. That in turn beget CEOs paid in stock options which lead to a unending thirst for cash to buy back stock so the CEOs could make more money. That's a big part of why offshoring and vulture capitalism are a hallmark of the modern American economy. Mix in the glass steagall repeal and you got the 2008 crash that took 8 years to recover from, just in time for the fox to be put in chrge of the hen house again.
one of the protestors lost an arm to one. The police dropped the grenade too close to them and the shrapnel shredded her arm. It's still attached, but it doesn't work. The best part? The only reason she's gonna win her lawsuit is that the doctor who treated her was smart enough to save the shrapnel lodged in her arm so it could be presented as evidence. The police chief was already accusing the protestors of throwing the grenade until he found out they had proof.
Anyway, this is why you don't militarize the police. They don't have the training to use these kinds of weapons even when they're 'non-lethal'...
there's tons of raw data out there. I see folks on /. periodically doing their armchair analysis of some of it. And anyway, if they were just holding on to the data because they were nefarious scientists (probably just sucking on that sweet sweet grant money) than why would they care if it got preserved? If they were never going to give it up anyway what difference does it make if it's saved?
See, this is one of those things I always thought was funny. You've got a bunch of folks with PHds, usually with a heavy emphasis on math and statistics, but the implication I get again and again from folks is that they're somehow trying to cheat us all for the mountains of grant money.
These folks are in ridiculously high demand in the private sector. They command salaries 2-3x the public sector at the drop of a hat (and if they go to Wallstreet 5-10x). I'm not saying there won't be the occasional bad apple or just plain wrong person, but really, if they were out for personal gain they have much, much better alternatives and they're smart enough to know what they are.
You couldn't possibly be more wrong if you tried. Same with that drek Forbes wrote. Minimum wage sets a price floor on wages. It does this to stop a race to the bottom while forcing the rich to horde a bit less of their wealth (which has been a major problem in all of human civilization: how to pry money from the 1%'s hands and get the economy moving).
The thing is, work still needs to get done and the merchant class still wants to make money. Warren Buffet said it himself (paraphrasing) that even at 90% taxes he'd still make money. Hell, America's most productive years were when the top marginal rate was 90%. So long as we have a merchant class spreading wealth around benefits all but the ruling class.
Now, we do still have an idle rich and ruling class. We just don't like to acknowledge them (and you can be they don't like being acknowledged). Go ahead. Eliminate minimum wage. Take out worker protections, Unions and all the safe guards workers fought and died for. Welcome back to the time of kings. To the robber baron era. Thanks.
But then I hear that if we raise minimum wage our entire economy will collapse from raising prices.
So, which is it? Are these inconsequential jobs meant for kids & retirees in need of fun money or the backbone of the US Economy? They can't be both.
Or do you just kinda want to be able to exploit people for your gain without feeling so bad about it? Oo-oo! It's the second one, right?
1. You need access to a computer and a reasonably fast internet connection to make that money. If you've got an old computer and a slow connection you won't be able to grind out enough work.
2. If you've cleared hurdle #1 you're probably in a country with higher base wages.
I'm also questioning even the $7.25 number. It's usually something put forward by the companies. It's usually calculated on the basis of superhuman capabilities or unattainable bonus or raise programs.
that's theft, right? I'm just saying that once this hits the courtroom it's not so cut and dry anymore.
Ultimately it'll come down to who the jury likes best. I'm guessing the law firm will lose, but if they picked their targets carefully enough (say a stereotypical basement dwelling neck beard) it could play out differently. Remember that woman who lost to the RIAA because they claimed (with nothing but an IP address) that she downloaded MP3s? She's still paying on the multi million dollar settlement (single mom and all) and will till her dying day. When interviewed the Jurors didn't talk about law, they talked about how she gave them a bad feeling and how they didn't like or sympathize with her.
which turned out to be nothing (hell, I give Hilary bonus points for charging Goldman Sachs millions for those worthless speeches) and ignoring the massive amount of fake news, aka propaganda that their pro trolling organization did. They played us like a fiddle and we let them. Hell, they're still doing it by getting you to focus on worthless "leaks".
These companies have very few employees, which are the main cost of any business. So they get lots of investor capital because if 9 out of 10 fail or even 99 out of 100 then the 1 success pays for all the failures and the failures become tax write offs were with lots and lots of paper money lost but nothing of any real value.
Now, take away the ability to shift tax write offs for company A to cover company B's profits and maybe there's be a problem. But even then that one success in 100 is so crazy profitable I'm not sure that would matter. When companies talk scale what they mean is lots of money coming in and few employees driving up costs.
but not money. I never understand why, given what 2 minutes on google will teach you about wealth disparity on this planet, that folks don't get that.
but is this really fraud? After all, even if they post it that doesn't mean they gave permission for it to be downloaded. I don't think we've ever settled those 'deep linking' cases completely. But regardless US copyright law tends to err on the side of the copyright owner.
That said people like porn but they don't like pornographers, so these guys don't have a prayer if they go in front of a jury.
since I read that our schools have been graduating lawyers in record numbers. Law degrees are highly desirable to schools. They're cheap as hell for the school (a book and a bunch of teachers to read it and grade papers) and expensive as hell for the student. Pure profit really. I haven't looked but I bet if I did I'd find law departments expanding while more useful departments (medicine, education, Comp sci) contracting.
All these lawyers mean we've got a glut of the damn things. Thousands of highly educated people with no scruples (they're taught out of them so they can focus on their clients interests) and with no job prospects? Yeah, that's some bad ju-ju right there...
Just curious. There's lots of Trump supporters on /. And a lot of anti-Hilary folks who even though they don't support Trump preferred him over her. Anyway, given that it was pretty clear from the get go that net neutrality was one of the things that would go out the window (it's regulation after all, and Trumps #1 campaign promise was an end to job-killing regulation, his words, not mine) were you opposed to net neutrality (and if so why) or did you choose to sacrifice it for other gains? If so, what gains.
I'm genuinely curious. Real answers please, no trolls.
we don't have anything to worry about vis-a-vis self driving cars and their negative effect on the jobs. Since it's not like there are 2-3 stories a day about how the technology is progressing. Sure is great that nothing in human civilization ever changes, and that even if it did we'd approach those changes like rational, decent creatures and wouldn't descend into a terrifying dystopian society of haves and have nots just because the ruling class had no need for the working class. Yep. Boy am I glad that Luddite is just a slur with no historical context whatsoever and that it didn't take the economy 80 years to catch up to the industrial revolution ushering in decades of unemployment, poverty, starvation and social unrest. Let the good times roll, forever.
Maybe for good reason, but I'd still take anything he says with a whole block's worth of salt.
As for us Dems, we're not expecting punishment. The rich one's don't fear prison because in America we don't spill the blood of kings and the poor ones know we're too poor to matter. What we _are_ expecting is the new administration to completely cock up the country and economy. And we've got plenty of reasons for it too with Trump's cabinet picks.
Seriously, as a democratic socialist (who's party won the election by popular vote by at least a 2.5% margin) I feel like I'm one of the only sane men in a land of lunatics. Jesus people, put your personal dislike of Hilary Clinton aside for a bit and actually _look_ at what you've done. Look at what Trump is actually _doing_. It's not hard. Google's right there for you. Come one already.
we are getting kinda desperate. Trump's pick for Secretary of Treasury is literally a guy who preyed on elderly widows. His pick for Dept of Energy said the department should be closed. His pick for Education wants to end public education. These aren't exaggerations. These are things these people are on record as saying.
So far Trump's entire administration are either the worst dreks from the swamp or his incompetent buddies. Our Government, contrary to what you might believe, actually does thing for people. Good things. Like education, disaster relief, granting access to life saving health care. Barring a miracle in the electoral college we're about to hand the difficult task of governing over to people who either don't think it's possible or see it as an opportunity to enrich themselves at everyone's expense.
If you're not kinda desperate right now then you're just not paying attention. As the old saying goes, reality has a liberal bias.
That's not how this is suppose to work.
It sounds good. Makes him seem like an every man. And once again we're talking about something meaningless instead of demanding to know what went on at the meeting.
compared to this. This is why Trump one. He (or his handlers) are a master to misdirecting folks from real scandals to fake ones. He did it all campaign long. His media and information control skills are terrifying. It's like Karl Rove 2.0.
of having what little they cling to taken away from them?
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you couldn't get around for cheap. They'd raise their prices to reduce demand. Uber wants more rides because they're not concerned with vehicle maintenance (those costs are 100% the driver). So they can focus on Maximizing raw dollar throughput and ignore the costs to the driver. This is how/why Uber ends up being less than minimum wage in all but a few ultra high demand markets.
and you're bound to get one through. Weight of fire. And it's easy when you've got (Russian) pros firing the Ammo non-stop every day.
last I heard IBM only hired Americans for Sales. They were essentially a company you went to for access to cheap (usually Indian) tech workers, often on dubious H1-B visas...
I've got an A10-5800k. It's a big upgrade over the Athlon XP 6000+ it replaced (about 3 times faster) but the board is at a dead end. I think there's one marginally faster CPU I could put in it, but it won't even take a 7800k. And an 8350k looks like the end of the road for those boards.