I just said a bunch of guys at MIT ran the numbers and Bill Gates made more money as a member of the ennui than as a hardworking contributor to society. Wealth builds on wealth. When us libtards warn you about the impact of wealth inequality this is what we mean.
we're gonna do this come hell or high water. It's the only way to feed everybody. With our aging population we're gonna need higher crop yields per unite of labor or we're gonna have mass starvation.
They get the spending right back in the form of tax breaks and subsidies. They're not really spending it. It's like saying my kid spends $150/mo on food and ignoring that the CC account she uses is mine.
You don't get rich by investing. The real money is in ownership. There was just an MIT study that compared Bill Gates the Microsoft entrepreneur to Bill Gates the rich retired guy. Gates #2 made way more money for not working. They also compared him to one of the wealthy heiresses who'd never worked a day in her life. She was neck and neck with Bill Gates the idle rich guy and trounced Bill Gates the entrepreneur. This is the reality they don't teach you in high school economics class.
60 hour work weeks for both parents are "contaminating" family life. Smart phones are just the means we stay in touch with our kids during those long work hours.
I've lived in working class neighborhood's my whole life and high speed internet was always only cable and that was usually twice the price of the DSL my better off friends had. Maybe I wouldn't be so pissed off if I wasn't paying higher taxes and getting fees added to my bill that are suppose to go to building out infrastructure but never do. Not that I'm saying my taxes should be cut or fees go away. I know damn well that won't happen but the smokescreen it'll create will let them cut taxes on the 1%ers again. Instead just step in and regulate their asses with price controls and if they don't build the infrastructure we tell 'em too we take it all away and give it to someone who will. Problem solved.
if we weren't paying them billions and billions of dollars in both tax and direct subsidies to bring high speed internet to the everyone; especially the poor. Fuck them. They built none of the infrastructure they profit from. They're rent seeking parasites. Take it away from them and nationalize it. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Anything more important than a twinkie shouldn't be left in the hands of private industry.
or Stranger Things. Or any of the original shows that Netflix is creating to try and survive. It's tough to argue for compulsory licensing to improve competition when competition is resulting in more content. Not that I'm necessarily opposed to your idea, I just don't think it'll fly in the the face of what we're seeing.
and not the one that let me pirate crap, but the one that introduced me to Power Quest, Dragonforce, Labyrinth and the couple of tracks that came out of Frostweaver before they disappeared. I miss there being a viable alternative to the RIAA's mafioso.
For a while E-Music worked great, but they got big in Europe and jacked up their prices to silly levels. Now if I want to listen to a band I've gotta buy the CD. That's fine for something I already know I like, but it took a long time for In Flames to grow on me. I love 'em now, but just one listen and I'd passed 'em up as another meh death metal band. I liked paying $15/mo for 4 or 5 albums worth of music. I'd usually only find 1 a month that stuck, but to get that same experience at current prices would be $50-$60/mo. I'm 40, I can't spend that kinda money on entertainment.
for a big enough discount. But I take a hit on quality (cheap mobo, cheap ram, cheap power supply) for about the same price. Yeah, that wouldn't be true if I had to buy Windows everytime, but I'm using the same Win7 license for 5 years now. Didn't help they gave me Win10 for free. Or that I can reuse my power supply, Hard Drive & case. It's $400-$500 for a top 'o the line CPU/Board/Ram upgrade or $700 for a good CPU on a meh board.
and she probably coulda kept using her 3 year old i5 but the school gives you grief if the laptops more than a year old. I can't imagine her ever needing a new pc until this one breaks, and with it's overpowered cpu and intel graphics that barely ever get used I'm not expecting it to burn out. Might need a new hard drive in a few years, but that's it.
Haven't really looked at the power jack. Lenovo's hold up really well. This one's a Toshiba so the jack might die. Barring that it's the last one she'll own until she graduates.
for about 8 years now. Has been ever since they started getting hacked non-stop around that time and I got tired of recovering my account. To be fair since they started doing 2 factor I've been fine, but I'd already moved on.
the only thing about this that could cost her supporters is if she tried to cover it up instead of acknowledging it and moving on. Bush/Cheney both did way worse than this but everytime somebody called 'em on it they just said: meh, wadda ya gonna do? Hilary's email "scandals" were caused by her poor response. She's long since learned. We saw that in the debates. Hell, we saw it in spades when they tried to bait her into blaming Colin Powel and (to her credit) she didn't bite (even when it was later revealed he did suggest the private email server).
If nothing else she's learned from her mistakes. If it were anyone else the scandal would have long since been dropped. But there's a _lot_ of folks who don't like Hilary so it's easy to keep it going. Still, if this is the best they got then she'll sail into the Whitehouse and probably a second term...
there's no point to going on the defensive. She's got nothing to gain and lots to lose. Push back. That's how you make the sausage that is real American politics.
my daughter just hit college and I pushed her toward medicine. C.S. is a dead end. Math isn't, but that's not exactly C.S.. Outsourcing + H1-Bs means you'd have to be crazy to go into computer science right now. Most places I see are 80/20 H1-Bs for the onshore and 95/5 if you include offshore. Bring back the jobs and us parents will bring back our students.
And I wish we didn't. Yeah, he mighta taken the primary, but as soon as he hit general there'd be 24/7 ads of him saying he's a (Democratic) Socialist and everybody over 50 who's still afraid of communists would race to the polls to vote. I say this as somebody who waited 3 hours in line to vote for Bernie in the primary.
Our politics are overwhelmingly driven by fear. Fear is what gets people to the polls. It's what's gonna cost Trump the election and it would have cost Bernie the election.
Socialism is, by and large, the redistribution of wealth to ensure a minimum standard of living. Americans by and large want this but they're also very uncomfortable with it because they have puritanism crammed into their skulls when they're young (defenseless) children. This is why you see reports of white men overwhelmingly believing that a) the gov't caused all their problems and b) the gov't isn't doing enough to help them.
So crap like the Military Industrial Complex and gov't waste is how we manage to get these sort of people to accept the help they need. Sorta like Ayn Rand living off Social Security at the end of her life. Well, exactly like that, actually.
several illnesses in my family all at once wiped out all the money I had by 2008 and the economic crash (brought on by deregulation, specifically allowing main street & Wall Street banks to interact) did the rest. It's 2016 and I just recovered. And no, I didn't live an extravagant life style. Modest home, beater car, no traveling. I don't even drink or smoke.
What's important to me is paying for my kid's college and saving enough money to live when I can't work (which is different than retiring).
juicy gov't contracts should be creating jobs in America. Crap like this is the closest thing to socialism in America. Seeing it offshored when I know several competent programmers who are out of work (self taught guys, trying getting a job w/o a college degree and try going back to school in your 40s when tuition's $10k/year and you've got kids about to hit college yourself). Fuck them.
is releasing whatever the hell gets them ratings. They're owned by billionaires. They couldn't care less who wins. Trump or Hilary both will protect their interests.
an alleged rapist. And a few times over at that. Similar to what Bill Cosby is facing a pattern emerges. Yeah, maybe it's all not true. But given his personality it still doesn't encourage me to want him President.
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I just said a bunch of guys at MIT ran the numbers and Bill Gates made more money as a member of the ennui than as a hardworking contributor to society. Wealth builds on wealth. When us libtards warn you about the impact of wealth inequality this is what we mean.
we're gonna do this come hell or high water. It's the only way to feed everybody. With our aging population we're gonna need higher crop yields per unite of labor or we're gonna have mass starvation.
They get the spending right back in the form of tax breaks and subsidies. They're not really spending it. It's like saying my kid spends $150/mo on food and ignoring that the CC account she uses is mine.
You don't get rich by investing. The real money is in ownership. There was just an MIT study that compared Bill Gates the Microsoft entrepreneur to Bill Gates the rich retired guy. Gates #2 made way more money for not working. They also compared him to one of the wealthy heiresses who'd never worked a day in her life. She was neck and neck with Bill Gates the idle rich guy and trounced Bill Gates the entrepreneur. This is the reality they don't teach you in high school economics class.
60 hour work weeks for both parents are "contaminating" family life. Smart phones are just the means we stay in touch with our kids during those long work hours.
I've lived in working class neighborhood's my whole life and high speed internet was always only cable and that was usually twice the price of the DSL my better off friends had. Maybe I wouldn't be so pissed off if I wasn't paying higher taxes and getting fees added to my bill that are suppose to go to building out infrastructure but never do. Not that I'm saying my taxes should be cut or fees go away. I know damn well that won't happen but the smokescreen it'll create will let them cut taxes on the 1%ers again. Instead just step in and regulate their asses with price controls and if they don't build the infrastructure we tell 'em too we take it all away and give it to someone who will. Problem solved.
if we weren't paying them billions and billions of dollars in both tax and direct subsidies to bring high speed internet to the everyone; especially the poor. Fuck them. They built none of the infrastructure they profit from. They're rent seeking parasites. Take it away from them and nationalize it. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Anything more important than a twinkie shouldn't be left in the hands of private industry.
You keep using that word. I don't think that it means what you think it means.
How many employees do you actually need to sell PCs? If this was their servers I might agree.
or Stranger Things. Or any of the original shows that Netflix is creating to try and survive. It's tough to argue for compulsory licensing to improve competition when competition is resulting in more content. Not that I'm necessarily opposed to your idea, I just don't think it'll fly in the the face of what we're seeing.
and not the one that let me pirate crap, but the one that introduced me to Power Quest, Dragonforce, Labyrinth and the couple of tracks that came out of Frostweaver before they disappeared. I miss there being a viable alternative to the RIAA's mafioso.
For a while E-Music worked great, but they got big in Europe and jacked up their prices to silly levels. Now if I want to listen to a band I've gotta buy the CD. That's fine for something I already know I like, but it took a long time for In Flames to grow on me. I love 'em now, but just one listen and I'd passed 'em up as another meh death metal band. I liked paying $15/mo for 4 or 5 albums worth of music. I'd usually only find 1 a month that stuck, but to get that same experience at current prices would be $50-$60/mo. I'm 40, I can't spend that kinda money on entertainment.
for a big enough discount. But I take a hit on quality (cheap mobo, cheap ram, cheap power supply) for about the same price. Yeah, that wouldn't be true if I had to buy Windows everytime, but I'm using the same Win7 license for 5 years now. Didn't help they gave me Win10 for free. Or that I can reuse my power supply, Hard Drive & case. It's $400-$500 for a top 'o the line CPU/Board/Ram upgrade or $700 for a good CPU on a meh board.
it's about sales. Sales going down kinda sucks, because it means prices will go up for those who still want a pc.
and she probably coulda kept using her 3 year old i5 but the school gives you grief if the laptops more than a year old. I can't imagine her ever needing a new pc until this one breaks, and with it's overpowered cpu and intel graphics that barely ever get used I'm not expecting it to burn out. Might need a new hard drive in a few years, but that's it.
Haven't really looked at the power jack. Lenovo's hold up really well. This one's a Toshiba so the jack might die. Barring that it's the last one she'll own until she graduates.
for about 8 years now. Has been ever since they started getting hacked non-stop around that time and I got tired of recovering my account. To be fair since they started doing 2 factor I've been fine, but I'd already moved on.
the only thing about this that could cost her supporters is if she tried to cover it up instead of acknowledging it and moving on. Bush/Cheney both did way worse than this but everytime somebody called 'em on it they just said: meh, wadda ya gonna do? Hilary's email "scandals" were caused by her poor response. She's long since learned. We saw that in the debates. Hell, we saw it in spades when they tried to bait her into blaming Colin Powel and (to her credit) she didn't bite (even when it was later revealed he did suggest the private email server).
If nothing else she's learned from her mistakes. If it were anyone else the scandal would have long since been dropped. But there's a _lot_ of folks who don't like Hilary so it's easy to keep it going. Still, if this is the best they got then she'll sail into the Whitehouse and probably a second term...
there's no point to going on the defensive. She's got nothing to gain and lots to lose. Push back. That's how you make the sausage that is real American politics.
different things entirely.
my daughter just hit college and I pushed her toward medicine. C.S. is a dead end. Math isn't, but that's not exactly C.S.. Outsourcing + H1-Bs means you'd have to be crazy to go into computer science right now. Most places I see are 80/20 H1-Bs for the onshore and 95/5 if you include offshore. Bring back the jobs and us parents will bring back our students.
And I wish we didn't. Yeah, he mighta taken the primary, but as soon as he hit general there'd be 24/7 ads of him saying he's a (Democratic) Socialist and everybody over 50 who's still afraid of communists would race to the polls to vote. I say this as somebody who waited 3 hours in line to vote for Bernie in the primary.
Our politics are overwhelmingly driven by fear. Fear is what gets people to the polls. It's what's gonna cost Trump the election and it would have cost Bernie the election.
Socialism is, by and large, the redistribution of wealth to ensure a minimum standard of living. Americans by and large want this but they're also very uncomfortable with it because they have puritanism crammed into their skulls when they're young (defenseless) children. This is why you see reports of white men overwhelmingly believing that a) the gov't caused all their problems and b) the gov't isn't doing enough to help them.
So crap like the Military Industrial Complex and gov't waste is how we manage to get these sort of people to accept the help they need. Sorta like Ayn Rand living off Social Security at the end of her life. Well, exactly like that, actually.
several illnesses in my family all at once wiped out all the money I had by 2008 and the economic crash (brought on by deregulation, specifically allowing main street & Wall Street banks to interact) did the rest. It's 2016 and I just recovered. And no, I didn't live an extravagant life style. Modest home, beater car, no traveling. I don't even drink or smoke.
What's important to me is paying for my kid's college and saving enough money to live when I can't work (which is different than retiring).
Nice troll though, but you could do better.
this won't be decided as a matter of law, but a matter of feelings.
juicy gov't contracts should be creating jobs in America. Crap like this is the closest thing to socialism in America. Seeing it offshored when I know several competent programmers who are out of work (self taught guys, trying getting a job w/o a college degree and try going back to school in your 40s when tuition's $10k/year and you've got kids about to hit college yourself). Fuck them.
is releasing whatever the hell gets them ratings. They're owned by billionaires. They couldn't care less who wins. Trump or Hilary both will protect their interests.
an alleged rapist. And a few times over at that. Similar to what Bill Cosby is facing a pattern emerges. Yeah, maybe it's all not true. But given his personality it still doesn't encourage me to want him President.