1. As a percentage of my income I paid more. Also, the taxes I pay have a much larger effect on my overall quality of life since my income is much, much smaller and I have much, much less leeway in my budget. Not that I mind paying for the public good, I'm a socialist. But I'm also an America, and unless you're rich (I'm not) you don't get much socialism in this country.
2. I'd like to live in a world where my entire quality of life doesn't depend on my job and how valuable I am to the ruling class.
3. You're analogy is nonsense. The dog will come to me because I am ladened with meat. America, with it's security, safety and wealth is that meat. Why in God's good name would I want a hungry, probably vicious dog to come and eat all my meat and kill me?
4. Why do we toss principles out the window when they're not useful to our ruling class? Are we really this dense? It's tax evasion if you're evading taxes that are meant to support the infrastructure that make these bastards rich. Letter of the law vs the spirit. You don't give up on the spirit of the law because it's _hard_.
On a side note, That has always been the difference between left wing socialists and right wing ideologue. The socialist doesn't just throw his hands up and leave it all up the the hand of fate. When in your life has any complex problem been better solved by leaving it to blind fucking chance?
if you count just about every virus and bit 'o ransomware as cybercrime you'll hit those numbers in no time. I'm still more worried about getting mugged in analog. Of course, the beatings are much richer, with more fullness of sound.
As least in America. The UK might be different. Here in the States racism isolates the working class into easily manageable groups that can be picked of one at a time. It also creates voting blocks that the ruling class can use to push through legislation and single issue voters. It warps out entire political system.
Like an ass. If you're not a computer person fixing busted PCs all day then you get used to shit working. It's got nothing to do with being millennial. I wish people would stop blaming every mistake on people being lazy ass millennials. The worst thing you're probably soaking up that nonsense from right wing media. Christ, a hundred years ago you'd be going on about the Irish
for me I'm still gonna vote for the most left wing candidate I can get, and thanks to Bernie and the strings he pulled at the DNC that's now Hilary. Yes, Hilary is going to be beholden to the 1%. So is Trump. Our entire political system is fueled by money. We've got horrific systemic issues that go back to the 80s when Karl Rove and his ilk formed the unholy alliance between the evangelicals and the 1%ers tired of their 90% tax bracket after the first 10 mil (adjusted for inflation). It took us almost 40 years to get this screwed up, we're not gonna fix it overnight. There will be compromises. Nasty ones. Keep voting for the most left leaning, pro worker candidate you can get, and for God's sake vote in your mid term election. That's how you'll see reform. It'll take years and it's going to be painful. But if you really want something done the solution is to shift the country back to the left and Roosevelt and away from the far right of Rove & Reagan.
Which was almost certainly because she smoked. She tried many, many times to quit but funny thing about a substance bred for addictiveness, it's hard to stop using it, especially with a high stress American life. As for spin, he still wrote the words "smoking doesn't kill" and those words are demonstrably false. I see no spin here. Maybe a little left wing bias since TFS didn't say anything good about him but even that I could chalk up to comment baiting.
On the one hand it's nice to see privacy, on the other hand this is basically a get out of jail free card for any corporation that wants to hide it's illegal doings. I mean, if all I have to do to squash a warrant is host the data in a country that doesn't give a rat's behind... There actually _ are _ crimes I'd like prosecuted, like tax evasion. I pay mine after all.
It was established in TFS that folks love the robot and the assumption is something like that is safe. The parent could be walking 10 feet away letting the boy check out the neato robot and he would have been run down before anyone but Bruce Lee could do anything.
Why is everybody's kneejerk reaction to blame the parent?
can it also upgrade my eyes so I can tell the bloody difference? And get me a bigger TV while I'm at it. And unplug the $100 Amazon FireTV and replace it with a $300 ($400?) Windows 10 PC?
the Saturn is nowhere's near perfectly emulated. It is very, very well emulated by a program called SSF thanks to some chap in Japan, but there are significant limitations. It also doesn't upscale and needs a beefy processor to deinterlace. I don't want to make light of the achievement of SSF's author's. The Saturn is a nightmare featureing 7 or 8 different processors with cache ram all over the place. It's a minor miracle what's been achieved. It's still fantastic to see this. The Saturn had a vibrant and incredible library that's largely inaccessible, especially if you're not Japanese. The difficulty of emulation means almost nothing got ported (and many of the "Saturn" ports on Xbox Live/PSN are really Model 2 ports). I always thought it sad Sega couldn't monetize their Saturn back catalog (outside of a very short lived service in Japan for PCs based on a different emulator). I would kill to get Panzer Dragoon 1,2 & Saga on PSN/Steam.
and more to do with a nuanced approach. The trouble the left has is that we're trying to solve real problems. That means compromises in place of rhetoric. Say what you want but Obama got a lot of shit down. You'll notice we're not at war with Iran. If you're lower income in Arizona you have him to thank for your healthcare (buddy of mine in Az is Type1 diabetic and Obamacare basically pays for his insulin).
Immigration is like that. Read the article/interview and you'll see her trying to separate the H1-B program from letting Latino's live here. But it's really easy to dig your feet in on all sides. And honestly a lot of the blue collar folks have legitimate grips about illegal immigrants. When the housing market bust I saw a lot of blue collars kicked out of their houses and I saw those same houses renovated for sale/rent by what were very, very clearly illegals. The left would have just bailed them out and let them keep their homes, but that point gets lost since we couldn't make it happen after losing the Mid term election to the right...
would like to see the H1-B program go away. We're not nearly as unified as the right, which basically consist of pro-gun/anti-abortion evangelicals and folks who don't like paying taxes. That's because of two things: a). we've got a lot of realists like Obama/Hilary that are just trying to hold shit together and get things done best they can and b). there is a _fuckload_ of money in politics and you have to live with that.
The right can pretend they rest on principles because there isn't as much money to be made calling them on it. That's why the same guys telling you to be austere get their asses bailed out. As the saying goes, Socialism for the wealthy, Dog Eat Dog Capitalism for the Poor.
If my daddy had given me several million dollars when alive, introduced me to other wealthy and influential people and then died leaving me millions more. As it stands Trump had all that and couldn't beat index fund with his daddy's money. Put another way, how do you lose money on a casino?
And I think you misspelled "Sheldon Aldeson". He and the billionaires get to vet the candidates. Yeah, it sucks. But you don't change something like that overnight. Hilary is a compromise between the working class and the 1%. Vote left. Keep voting for the most left leaning candidate who's viable. It took 40 years to get us into this mess, you won't fix it overnight.
It's a step up from the last 20 years. Said it before, I'll say it again, it took Ron Reagan and Karl Rove 40 years to get us in this mess, it'll take longer than one election cycle to fix it.
good enough. Especially at slave labor prices. And with so few jobs thanks to automation and productivity gains we'll be falling over ourselves to see who can make the few at the top the happiest. Ever read old books from the last turn of the century? Ever notice that everybody had servants? Ever wonder why?
in the last 3 years. AMD is the only competitor Intel/nVidia have (respectively) and both companies know it. There's been a small drop (maybe $100) but not a big drop off. nVidia gimps their video cards with a 128-bit bus. The thing that keeps the cost of Intel based systems up is the need to get an i5 for 4 cores, which is fast becoming a requirement (even if most games are really just using 1 core and lazily binding to core 3, I'm looking at you, Farcry 4).
AMD Zen + Directx12 might even things up. If AMD has competitive CPUs that'll help, and DX12 might make some of the shenanigans that nVidia pulls to make AMD cards unstable go away. But It'll be a year at least before we see that. In the meantime an entry level rig that can reliable game at 1080p/30+fps is gonna set you back $600-$800 unless you're really hunting for your components or pirating your copy of Windows.
those $600 Dells are usually $800. Yeah, I know kotaku has a code pretty much every week, but how many folks just getting started on PC Gaming read Kotaku? Plus I can get an xboxone refurb for $179 or spluge and pay $250 new. If I want to go all out I can spend $300 on a PS4. Buy a cheap $200 laptop for web browsing (or go chromebook and get it for $150) and I'm _still_ ahead. That Dell isn't very upgradable. It's usually got a 300 watt power supply, you're not even gonna get an R480 in there, and 50/50 the power supply is proprietary.
that don't need to own a PC. If you're an auto mechanic a shop tablet is enough. Maybe a chromebook if you want a real keyboard. And go troubleshoot a busted AMD video driver and tell me about the using a computer...
Mine don't fizzle out if I forget to ground myself before installing them. I also don't have to worry about putting the right amount, type and pattern of thermal paste on them before lacing them up the first time and lacing them up too tight doesn't snap the traces in my shoes (they don't have traces)...
Mostly because you have no idea what you're getting into until it's maybe too late. Let's say you buy parts. AMD cards have major performance and stability issues that the hard core don't notice because they're only playing the latest and greatest. Somebody new to PC gaming that starts buying stuff off Steam sales is in for some unpleasant surprises. You can buy Intel, but then you've got other problems. If you didn't shell out at lease $600 (probably $800) you got integrated graphics and a 250 watt power supply that can't drive a decent card. You also got a dual core i3, only to find most modern games need a quad core (probably not for any good reason, but there you go). You could replace that power supply, but you better hope Dell didn't swap the hot and ground so you'd be force to buy from them. The glory days of buying a $400 dell & putting a $150 card in it and running Quake 3 at 60fps 1024x768x32 max detail are gone.
No, PC gaming is still a mine field littered with bodies. Yes, once your foot is in the door it's not so bad. A 3 year old build with a decent power supply is fine. But I think TFA's point was that it's still messy as hell to get in the door vs buying a playstation and plugging it in.
it was intentionally run into the ground so that they could get out of paying pensions. It was just a bunch of rich assclowns running a scam to steal private pensions. Truckers are next. They'd do it to the army guys if they were afraid they might revolt.
is owned by those same very, very rich people and they're pushing an anti-Union narrative so they can drive down wages. That's really all there is to it. What Fox News with a critical mind and it's scary as hell.
you don't just "update your skills". Odds are you had a very minimal education. Enough to get you the factory job. That was kinda the point of schools. You do realize what the bells are for, right? Go read "A People's History of the United States" for a start.
Now there's nothing to retrain to. Seriously, you're not going to take someone that barely reads and turn them into a biotech worker. You're either going to let them starve to death or you're going to socialize. It's up to guys like you to decide. The guys who still say "It's their fault they didn't update their skills". Guys like me already know it's unreasonable to ask people in their 40s to do that.
Oh, and does anyone else thing it's funny that we're suppose to replace the drudgery of unending factory work with a never ending cycle of desperately retraining for new work?
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1. As a percentage of my income I paid more. Also, the taxes I pay have a much larger effect on my overall quality of life since my income is much, much smaller and I have much, much less leeway in my budget. Not that I mind paying for the public good, I'm a socialist. But I'm also an America, and unless you're rich (I'm not) you don't get much socialism in this country.
2. I'd like to live in a world where my entire quality of life doesn't depend on my job and how valuable I am to the ruling class.
3. You're analogy is nonsense. The dog will come to me because I am ladened with meat. America, with it's security, safety and wealth is that meat. Why in God's good name would I want a hungry, probably vicious dog to come and eat all my meat and kill me?
4. Why do we toss principles out the window when they're not useful to our ruling class? Are we really this dense? It's tax evasion if you're evading taxes that are meant to support the infrastructure that make these bastards rich. Letter of the law vs the spirit. You don't give up on the spirit of the law because it's _hard_.
On a side note, That has always been the difference between left wing socialists and right wing ideologue. The socialist doesn't just throw his hands up and leave it all up the the hand of fate. When in your life has any complex problem been better solved by leaving it to blind fucking chance?
if you count just about every virus and bit 'o ransomware as cybercrime you'll hit those numbers in no time. I'm still more worried about getting mugged in analog. Of course, the beatings are much richer, with more fullness of sound.
As least in America. The UK might be different. Here in the States racism isolates the working class into easily manageable groups that can be picked of one at a time. It also creates voting blocks that the ruling class can use to push through legislation and single issue voters. It warps out entire political system.
Like an ass. If you're not a computer person fixing busted PCs all day then you get used to shit working. It's got nothing to do with being millennial. I wish people would stop blaming every mistake on people being lazy ass millennials. The worst thing you're probably soaking up that nonsense from right wing media. Christ, a hundred years ago you'd be going on about the Irish
for me I'm still gonna vote for the most left wing candidate I can get, and thanks to Bernie and the strings he pulled at the DNC that's now Hilary. Yes, Hilary is going to be beholden to the 1%. So is Trump. Our entire political system is fueled by money. We've got horrific systemic issues that go back to the 80s when Karl Rove and his ilk formed the unholy alliance between the evangelicals and the 1%ers tired of their 90% tax bracket after the first 10 mil (adjusted for inflation). It took us almost 40 years to get this screwed up, we're not gonna fix it overnight. There will be compromises. Nasty ones. Keep voting for the most left leaning, pro worker candidate you can get, and for God's sake vote in your mid term election. That's how you'll see reform. It'll take years and it's going to be painful. But if you really want something done the solution is to shift the country back to the left and Roosevelt and away from the far right of Rove & Reagan.
Which was almost certainly because she smoked. She tried many, many times to quit but funny thing about a substance bred for addictiveness, it's hard to stop using it, especially with a high stress American life. As for spin, he still wrote the words "smoking doesn't kill" and those words are demonstrably false. I see no spin here. Maybe a little left wing bias since TFS didn't say anything good about him but even that I could chalk up to comment baiting.
On the one hand it's nice to see privacy, on the other hand this is basically a get out of jail free card for any corporation that wants to hide it's illegal doings. I mean, if all I have to do to squash a warrant is host the data in a country that doesn't give a rat's behind... There actually _ are _ crimes I'd like prosecuted, like tax evasion. I pay mine after all.
It was established in TFS that folks love the robot and the assumption is something like that is safe. The parent could be walking 10 feet away letting the boy check out the neato robot and he would have been run down before anyone but Bruce Lee could do anything.
Why is everybody's kneejerk reaction to blame the parent?
can it also upgrade my eyes so I can tell the bloody difference? And get me a bigger TV while I'm at it. And unplug the $100 Amazon FireTV and replace it with a $300 ($400?) Windows 10 PC?
the Saturn is nowhere's near perfectly emulated. It is very, very well emulated by a program called SSF thanks to some chap in Japan, but there are significant limitations. It also doesn't upscale and needs a beefy processor to deinterlace. I don't want to make light of the achievement of SSF's author's. The Saturn is a nightmare featureing 7 or 8 different processors with cache ram all over the place. It's a minor miracle what's been achieved. It's still fantastic to see this. The Saturn had a vibrant and incredible library that's largely inaccessible, especially if you're not Japanese. The difficulty of emulation means almost nothing got ported (and many of the "Saturn" ports on Xbox Live/PSN are really Model 2 ports). I always thought it sad Sega couldn't monetize their Saturn back catalog (outside of a very short lived service in Japan for PCs based on a different emulator). I would kill to get Panzer Dragoon 1,2 & Saga on PSN/Steam.
and more to do with a nuanced approach. The trouble the left has is that we're trying to solve real problems. That means compromises in place of rhetoric. Say what you want but Obama got a lot of shit down. You'll notice we're not at war with Iran. If you're lower income in Arizona you have him to thank for your healthcare (buddy of mine in Az is Type1 diabetic and Obamacare basically pays for his insulin).
Immigration is like that. Read the article/interview and you'll see her trying to separate the H1-B program from letting Latino's live here. But it's really easy to dig your feet in on all sides. And honestly a lot of the blue collar folks have legitimate grips about illegal immigrants. When the housing market bust I saw a lot of blue collars kicked out of their houses and I saw those same houses renovated for sale/rent by what were very, very clearly illegals. The left would have just bailed them out and let them keep their homes, but that point gets lost since we couldn't make it happen after losing the Mid term election to the right...
would like to see the H1-B program go away. We're not nearly as unified as the right, which basically consist of pro-gun/anti-abortion evangelicals and folks who don't like paying taxes. That's because of two things: a). we've got a lot of realists like Obama/Hilary that are just trying to hold shit together and get things done best they can and b). there is a _fuckload_ of money in politics and you have to live with that.
The right can pretend they rest on principles because there isn't as much money to be made calling them on it. That's why the same guys telling you to be austere get their asses bailed out. As the saying goes, Socialism for the wealthy, Dog Eat Dog Capitalism for the Poor.
If my daddy had given me several million dollars when alive, introduced me to other wealthy and influential people and then died leaving me millions more. As it stands Trump had all that and couldn't beat index fund with his daddy's money. Put another way, how do you lose money on a casino?
And I think you misspelled "Sheldon Aldeson". He and the billionaires get to vet the candidates. Yeah, it sucks. But you don't change something like that overnight. Hilary is a compromise between the working class and the 1%. Vote left. Keep voting for the most left leaning candidate who's viable. It took 40 years to get us into this mess, you won't fix it overnight.
It's a step up from the last 20 years. Said it before, I'll say it again, it took Ron Reagan and Karl Rove 40 years to get us in this mess, it'll take longer than one election cycle to fix it.
good enough. Especially at slave labor prices. And with so few jobs thanks to automation and productivity gains we'll be falling over ourselves to see who can make the few at the top the happiest. Ever read old books from the last turn of the century? Ever notice that everybody had servants? Ever wonder why?
And the stocks go up and the jobs disappear.
in the last 3 years. AMD is the only competitor Intel/nVidia have (respectively) and both companies know it. There's been a small drop (maybe $100) but not a big drop off. nVidia gimps their video cards with a 128-bit bus. The thing that keeps the cost of Intel based systems up is the need to get an i5 for 4 cores, which is fast becoming a requirement (even if most games are really just using 1 core and lazily binding to core 3, I'm looking at you, Farcry 4).
AMD Zen + Directx12 might even things up. If AMD has competitive CPUs that'll help, and DX12 might make some of the shenanigans that nVidia pulls to make AMD cards unstable go away. But It'll be a year at least before we see that. In the meantime an entry level rig that can reliable game at 1080p/30+fps is gonna set you back $600-$800 unless you're really hunting for your components or pirating your copy of Windows.
those $600 Dells are usually $800. Yeah, I know kotaku has a code pretty much every week, but how many folks just getting started on PC Gaming read Kotaku? Plus I can get an xboxone refurb for $179 or spluge and pay $250 new. If I want to go all out I can spend $300 on a PS4. Buy a cheap $200 laptop for web browsing (or go chromebook and get it for $150) and I'm _still_ ahead. That Dell isn't very upgradable. It's usually got a 300 watt power supply, you're not even gonna get an R480 in there, and 50/50 the power supply is proprietary.
that don't need to own a PC. If you're an auto mechanic a shop tablet is enough. Maybe a chromebook if you want a real keyboard. And go troubleshoot a busted AMD video driver and tell me about the using a computer...
Mine don't fizzle out if I forget to ground myself before installing them. I also don't have to worry about putting the right amount, type and pattern of thermal paste on them before lacing them up the first time and lacing them up too tight doesn't snap the traces in my shoes (they don't have traces)...
Mostly because you have no idea what you're getting into until it's maybe too late. Let's say you buy parts. AMD cards have major performance and stability issues that the hard core don't notice because they're only playing the latest and greatest. Somebody new to PC gaming that starts buying stuff off Steam sales is in for some unpleasant surprises. You can buy Intel, but then you've got other problems. If you didn't shell out at lease $600 (probably $800) you got integrated graphics and a 250 watt power supply that can't drive a decent card. You also got a dual core i3, only to find most modern games need a quad core (probably not for any good reason, but there you go). You could replace that power supply, but you better hope Dell didn't swap the hot and ground so you'd be force to buy from them. The glory days of buying a $400 dell & putting a $150 card in it and running Quake 3 at 60fps 1024x768x32 max detail are gone.
No, PC gaming is still a mine field littered with bodies. Yes, once your foot is in the door it's not so bad. A 3 year old build with a decent power supply is fine. But I think TFA's point was that it's still messy as hell to get in the door vs buying a playstation and plugging it in.
it was intentionally run into the ground so that they could get out of paying pensions. It was just a bunch of rich assclowns running a scam to steal private pensions. Truckers are next. They'd do it to the army guys if they were afraid they might revolt.
is owned by those same very, very rich people and they're pushing an anti-Union narrative so they can drive down wages. That's really all there is to it. What Fox News with a critical mind and it's scary as hell.
you don't just "update your skills". Odds are you had a very minimal education. Enough to get you the factory job. That was kinda the point of schools. You do realize what the bells are for, right? Go read "A People's History of the United States" for a start.
Now there's nothing to retrain to. Seriously, you're not going to take someone that barely reads and turn them into a biotech worker. You're either going to let them starve to death or you're going to socialize. It's up to guys like you to decide. The guys who still say "It's their fault they didn't update their skills". Guys like me already know it's unreasonable to ask people in their 40s to do that.
Oh, and does anyone else thing it's funny that we're suppose to replace the drudgery of unending factory work with a never ending cycle of desperately retraining for new work?