if you never use it. If your someone who does then, well, it's not so cheap. I've had my car totaled by another driver twice and both times got about half market value. The folks I know who get in accidents frequently pay $3000/yr. Meanwhile I've been paying $600 year since my 20s and never once got in a wreck. The folks paying the $3k/yr lose out because it's expensive has hell to drive. I lose out because I'm out $600/yr for nothing for 20 years of safe driving and would have come out ahead both times vs what they paid out.
The only ones winning here are insurance companies. They win both times since they get to sell us health insurance to boot (yeah, different companies, same people on the Board of Directors).
because owning your own car will still require it and everybody wants to own their own car. If fewer people can afford cars they'll just raise the rates, because it's a law.
But socialized medicine might. I'm old enough to remember the debates around mandatory insurance and they were all based about trotting out poor little boys and girls that got their shit wrecked in a wreck and how they couldn't afford the doctors. Give us socialized medicine and a proper safety net and it pretty much makes car insurance obsolete.
of greed. Greed is wanting something selfishly. You can't selfishly want for the betterment of someone else. That's a pretty obvious contradiction. I'm surprised something as silly as that made it into the Wikipedia article on the subject. It must be really confusing for anyone who isn't a native English speaker looking up the subject.
and with much the same results. Whatever keeps you away from large quantities of junk food. For me it was fast food cheeseburgers. No meat means no fast food cheeseburgers (plus the attendant fries and soda pop). The weight came right off after that. That's why Atkins works. You stop eating cake for breakfast:P.
and iTunes and my kid would want an Android. She could live without iTunes (there are alternatives) but iMessage is practically a social network. Also at the risk of getting modded down for suggesting it it's a social network of well off people (iPhones being expensive and all) and it encourages her to associate with people of a certain social standing. That's pretty messed up, but I remember some of the trouble hanging out with shall we say, less affluent, kids got me into when I was young. I wouldn't mind keeping her away from all that.
So yeah, there's a lot of lock in that comes with iMessage.
The proposal doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. The purpose is to draw attention to consistent attacks wage on the poor and a pattern of class warfare used in politics to divide the working class.
I find this highly amusing. Now, what the hell is it doing on/.? I understand when major news items like the Orlando shooting show up here. And while what this Congress Woman is doing is nice it's hardly earthshaking... Should I be modded off topic when the article is too?
Like it or not Facebook is how people connect now. There's a lot of introverts on this forum (myself included) who have used for that. But if you genuinely want to be around people Facebook is how you meet up. For example: all the table top gaming stores in my neighborhood use it to coordinate events, and all the dnd groups use it to find and connect players.
wait for your coffee to cool, right? In my experience if I'm drinking it that hot it's because it tastes like garbage. The Japanese don't drink Sake warm because of tradition, they drink it warm because cheap Sake tastes better that way.
And there are _lots_ of other good things in life besides junk food and cheap, burnt coffee.
and I read fark. Sorry man, but come on. Where do I begin? Just because you might live long enough to be exposed to a risk doesn't make the risk go away. My Mom died of lung cancer from cigarettes in her mid-50s. By that logic it's OK to smoke because 100 years ago she would have died in child birth in her 40s. The correct response is to keep identifying and eliminating unnecessary risk factors. Smoking's one. Drinking stupidly hot coffee is probably another. I like it when people tell me these things. With the right drugs I might live happily into my 90s (check out what they're doing with Testosterone & Steroid therapy if you have enough money and if you can get people to stop whining about Athletes doping long enough to loosen the stupid ass regulations).
This keeps up they're gonna start inconveniencing people who matter. There's a reason they use bit coin for this. It's harder to trace and easier to launder.
your entire quality of life is based on your job. You're access to housing, health care, education, food. Everything. We've built up a complicated and messy social contract where if you kill yourself for a business they're suppose to take care of you. Uber completely breaks what little truth there was in that. Worse, the drivers after accounting for their low pay and mileage write offs often end up with effectively zero income for tax and welfare purposes. So like Walmart (but more so) the tax payer ends up covering the bill to keep them working. Food stamps (in the more liberal States), free or heavily subsidized health and child care. Uber becomes the biggest welfare recipient in the world. I suspect it's much, much more worse in Europe where the social safety net is much more robust.
Uber is either a race to the bottom, a huge subsidy for the 1% or both. Either way it should be stamped out. There's nothing good here.
it's got nothing to do with privacy or supporting military states though. It's outsourcing. Expect to see a lot of good IT jobs that are left go off to India and the Philippines. Man I wish tech workers were such a bunch of smarthy asses. We're all convinced we're the one they can't replace. I hear it all the time from my coworkers who've been lucky enough to survive the various rounds of layoffs. I think it comes with the territory in IT. You talk to idiots all day. The dumbest of the dumb who can't open a spreadsheet by double clicking it. It's natural to think you're just smarter. It made us easy to outsource since we're either too proud or dumb to Unionize.
because a modern military would put down a rebellion in a second. And that's before you factor drones in. I've heard it's hard to get troops to fire on citizens. But from what I see all it takes is withholding food, shelter and medicine from their families and "better you than me" sets in. For the record, there has never been a successful violent revolution without the military and all of them ended with a system favorable to the new ruling class (including and especially the American one, where our entire system of gov't was built to keep the poor from voting themselves land).
You want to rebel? Vote Left. Vote for the most pro working class candidates you can get. While you're at it limit your reproduction (haha,/.ers don't have kids... ok.. get it out of your system) to two kids, preferable one. Fewer rats in the race. Make smaller, meaningful changes. This is what Prez Obama's been doing the last 8 years and it's had an effect. It took 40+ years of oligarchy to get us into this mess. Overnight solutions like Guns aren't gonna fix it.
so stop saying that. Vote Left. Vote for the most left leaning (e.g. pro working class) candidate you can get. And keep doing it. Work to shift the country and the world away from oligarchy in steps. It took us 40 years of trickle down economics and oligarchy to get to this point. You're not going to fix it overnight.
any programming that's more complex than code monkeying is math. Getting kids into math is hard because math is hard (yes, Barbie was right). It requires one of two things: a massive investment in children's learning and education (including support for their parents so they can keep pace with their child) or just relying on a massive populace to produce the occasional genius and then cherry picking them. The latter is cheaper and much, much more profitable, so it's the one we've always gone with.
Anything else anyone has to say about kids writing code is just a cover for some other agenda. Either selling you crap (usually their software or education services), an attempt to get the tax payer to pay for training their employees (often their foreign employees as we're starting to see with the American University system) or some combination there of.
Gawker did more than tabloid journalism. If you read the rest of the posts you'll see that's what actually got them in trouble. They've been calling out the shady practices of a member of the 1%. The entire lawsuit was a hit piece called out them. It's chilling. The worst thing is how Gawker didn't take the case seriously. That was because they didn't know there were under attack. They probably though the whole thing was a publicity stunt from Hogan...
Giving Sony better chips that can be over clocked. It makes perfect sense for Sony to sell these at a premium. I'd be mad, but given that most modern games couldn't give a toss about frame rates above 24fps I don't see the problem. Plus if you're one of those folks who don't care you're about to see an abundance of cheap used PS4s.
We dropped that issue when we realized we had lost, completely. Every now and then we treat the waters after a mass shooting to see if the winds have changed, but we drop it as soon as we see they haven't. This crap survives on the whole 'tough on crime' attitude. We can't get away from that because it's still a key issue with moderate voters.
Vote for the most left leaning candidate you can get. Vote Bernie till he drops out, then Hilary after that. It took four decades for our country's right wing to get use to this point. They worked tirelessly and with the backing our nation's wealthiest citizens. It's not something you're gonna fix overnight.
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you're not legally required to purchase liability insurance to own and operate a home...
if you never use it. If your someone who does then, well, it's not so cheap. I've had my car totaled by another driver twice and both times got about half market value. The folks I know who get in accidents frequently pay $3000/yr. Meanwhile I've been paying $600 year since my 20s and never once got in a wreck. The folks paying the $3k/yr lose out because it's expensive has hell to drive. I lose out because I'm out $600/yr for nothing for 20 years of safe driving and would have come out ahead both times vs what they paid out.
The only ones winning here are insurance companies. They win both times since they get to sell us health insurance to boot (yeah, different companies, same people on the Board of Directors).
because owning your own car will still require it and everybody wants to own their own car. If fewer people can afford cars they'll just raise the rates, because it's a law.
But socialized medicine might. I'm old enough to remember the debates around mandatory insurance and they were all based about trotting out poor little boys and girls that got their shit wrecked in a wreck and how they couldn't afford the doctors. Give us socialized medicine and a proper safety net and it pretty much makes car insurance obsolete.
Which is yet another reason we'll never got it.
of greed. Greed is wanting something selfishly. You can't selfishly want for the betterment of someone else. That's a pretty obvious contradiction. I'm surprised something as silly as that made it into the Wikipedia article on the subject. It must be really confusing for anyone who isn't a native English speaker looking up the subject.
and with much the same results. Whatever keeps you away from large quantities of junk food. For me it was fast food cheeseburgers. No meat means no fast food cheeseburgers (plus the attendant fries and soda pop). The weight came right off after that. That's why Atkins works. You stop eating cake for breakfast :P.
and iTunes and my kid would want an Android. She could live without iTunes (there are alternatives) but iMessage is practically a social network. Also at the risk of getting modded down for suggesting it it's a social network of well off people (iPhones being expensive and all) and it encourages her to associate with people of a certain social standing. That's pretty messed up, but I remember some of the trouble hanging out with shall we say, less affluent, kids got me into when I was young. I wouldn't mind keeping her away from all that.
So yeah, there's a lot of lock in that comes with iMessage.
The proposal doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. The purpose is to draw attention to consistent attacks wage on the poor and a pattern of class warfare used in politics to divide the working class.
I find this highly amusing. Now, what the hell is it doing on /.? I understand when major news items like the Orlando shooting show up here. And while what this Congress Woman is doing is nice it's hardly earthshaking... Should I be modded off topic when the article is too?
Like it or not Facebook is how people connect now. There's a lot of introverts on this forum (myself included) who have used for that. But if you genuinely want to be around people Facebook is how you meet up. For example: all the table top gaming stores in my neighborhood use it to coordinate events, and all the dnd groups use it to find and connect players.
Google search the phase "Swiftboating". Then look up the stuff Karl Rove does.
wait for your coffee to cool, right? In my experience if I'm drinking it that hot it's because it tastes like garbage. The Japanese don't drink Sake warm because of tradition, they drink it warm because cheap Sake tastes better that way.
And there are _lots_ of other good things in life besides junk food and cheap, burnt coffee.
and I read fark. Sorry man, but come on. Where do I begin? Just because you might live long enough to be exposed to a risk doesn't make the risk go away. My Mom died of lung cancer from cigarettes in her mid-50s. By that logic it's OK to smoke because 100 years ago she would have died in child birth in her 40s. The correct response is to keep identifying and eliminating unnecessary risk factors. Smoking's one. Drinking stupidly hot coffee is probably another. I like it when people tell me these things. With the right drugs I might live happily into my 90s (check out what they're doing with Testosterone & Steroid therapy if you have enough money and if you can get people to stop whining about Athletes doping long enough to loosen the stupid ass regulations).
This is why Trump is popular.
and a couple of Mac Books?
This keeps up they're gonna start inconveniencing people who matter. There's a reason they use bit coin for this. It's harder to trace and easier to launder.
your entire quality of life is based on your job. You're access to housing, health care, education, food. Everything. We've built up a complicated and messy social contract where if you kill yourself for a business they're suppose to take care of you. Uber completely breaks what little truth there was in that. Worse, the drivers after accounting for their low pay and mileage write offs often end up with effectively zero income for tax and welfare purposes. So like Walmart (but more so) the tax payer ends up covering the bill to keep them working. Food stamps (in the more liberal States), free or heavily subsidized health and child care. Uber becomes the biggest welfare recipient in the world. I suspect it's much, much more worse in Europe where the social safety net is much more robust.
Uber is either a race to the bottom, a huge subsidy for the 1% or both. Either way it should be stamped out. There's nothing good here.
it's got nothing to do with privacy or supporting military states though. It's outsourcing. Expect to see a lot of good IT jobs that are left go off to India and the Philippines. Man I wish tech workers were such a bunch of smarthy asses. We're all convinced we're the one they can't replace. I hear it all the time from my coworkers who've been lucky enough to survive the various rounds of layoffs. I think it comes with the territory in IT. You talk to idiots all day. The dumbest of the dumb who can't open a spreadsheet by double clicking it. It's natural to think you're just smarter. It made us easy to outsource since we're either too proud or dumb to Unionize.
because a modern military would put down a rebellion in a second. And that's before you factor drones in. I've heard it's hard to get troops to fire on citizens. But from what I see all it takes is withholding food, shelter and medicine from their families and "better you than me" sets in. For the record, there has never been a successful violent revolution without the military and all of them ended with a system favorable to the new ruling class (including and especially the American one, where our entire system of gov't was built to keep the poor from voting themselves land).
/.ers don't have kids... ok.. get it out of your system) to two kids, preferable one. Fewer rats in the race. Make smaller, meaningful changes. This is what Prez Obama's been doing the last 8 years and it's had an effect. It took 40+ years of oligarchy to get us into this mess. Overnight solutions like Guns aren't gonna fix it.
You want to rebel? Vote Left. Vote for the most pro working class candidates you can get. While you're at it limit your reproduction (haha,
so stop saying that. Vote Left. Vote for the most left leaning (e.g. pro working class) candidate you can get. And keep doing it. Work to shift the country and the world away from oligarchy in steps. It took us 40 years of trickle down economics and oligarchy to get to this point. You're not going to fix it overnight.
any programming that's more complex than code monkeying is math. Getting kids into math is hard because math is hard (yes, Barbie was right). It requires one of two things: a massive investment in children's learning and education (including support for their parents so they can keep pace with their child) or just relying on a massive populace to produce the occasional genius and then cherry picking them. The latter is cheaper and much, much more profitable, so it's the one we've always gone with.
Anything else anyone has to say about kids writing code is just a cover for some other agenda. Either selling you crap (usually their software or education services), an attempt to get the tax payer to pay for training their employees (often their foreign employees as we're starting to see with the American University system) or some combination there of.
Gawker did more than tabloid journalism. If you read the rest of the posts you'll see that's what actually got them in trouble. They've been calling out the shady practices of a member of the 1%. The entire lawsuit was a hit piece called out them. It's chilling. The worst thing is how Gawker didn't take the case seriously. That was because they didn't know there were under attack. They probably though the whole thing was a publicity stunt from Hogan...
Giving Sony better chips that can be over clocked. It makes perfect sense for Sony to sell these at a premium. I'd be mad, but given that most modern games couldn't give a toss about frame rates above 24fps I don't see the problem. Plus if you're one of those folks who don't care you're about to see an abundance of cheap used PS4s.
We dropped that issue when we realized we had lost, completely. Every now and then we treat the waters after a mass shooting to see if the winds have changed, but we drop it as soon as we see they haven't. This crap survives on the whole 'tough on crime' attitude. We can't get away from that because it's still a key issue with moderate voters.
Can't be tied to poverty. Otherwise your point would get undermined, wouldn't it?
Vote for the most left leaning candidate you can get. Vote Bernie till he drops out, then Hilary after that. It took four decades for our country's right wing to get use to this point. They worked tirelessly and with the backing our nation's wealthiest citizens. It's not something you're gonna fix overnight.