You're right about stringing along, but they're just waiting for hardware prices to drop. Nintendo normally makes money on their hardware. Hardware sales for both the 3DS & 2DS are profitable for them. Even the WiiU has passed the break even point.
Nintendo can count on selling DSes and NX Consoles, so why collapse the two into one platform? They'll wait for Microsoft/Sony to drive down ram/cpu prices and crank out a decent box they can sell for $250 at launch with $200 worth of hardware in it.
but he can Veto the shit out of a lot of bad stuff. I'll take gridlock over whatever the hell Rubio is going to do any day. Some of us _don't_ want to watch the world burn...
Reagan was lying by omission. He did that lots. It was a technique invented by Karl Rove then implemented and perfected by Reagan. He neglected to mention that 91% tax rate didn't kick in until the 2016 equivalent of $20 million dollars and only applied to income _over_ that amount. Hell for your first $200k you paid the same rate as I do, and I don't make squat. Someone who cleared $30 mil would still make $990,000 a year more that year. This is what marginal tax rates are. They're to prevent run away income inequality and all the horrible things it entails (like the 1% buying up everything under the sun and forming monopolies like we're seeing with today's Mega Mergers and the billionaire's stranglehold on politics through money).
And besides, let 'em take a 9 month vacation. I'm sure somebody else will pick up that $10 million in slack. If there are no volunteers I'll take it.
I do this every year. If you can't pay in full by April 15th you get a very small fine and (thanks to out right wing congress) interest penalties. It's still a fraction of even the best credit card rates and they try hard to work with you. I've had some rough patches due to family illnesses and I'd take the IRS as a creditor over any one else.
but everywhere I look I see the i5 4690k beating the 8350. 6 months ago I'd agree the value was there but Intel just dropped their pants. Right now I can get an 4690k combo off newegg for about $20 bucks more... I'm running an A10-5800 right now and for a low end rig I'm pretty happy with it, but I also got it for the cost of the ram when a friend of my brother's upgrade. Right now I can't see running AMD. On the plus side they at least keep Intel on their toes, and Zen might fix everything:)
these crazy market caps are a symptom of income inequality. There's only so much for the 1% to spend their money on, so we're seeing some pretty big boondogles. Not sure yet if this is one or not but it looks like it. Not because the tech isn't real but because I don't think Joe & Jane average care about AR any more than they did about 3D TVs.
That's the icing on the shit cake they feed their drivers. They bypass traditional worker protections that require people to be paid for work done. They wouldn't exist otherwise, just like all the other companies that tried this and didn't managed to fend off the courts (that maid for hire service comes to mind).
Oh, and better hope you don't get hit by an Uber driver during that 'downtime'. The $1 mil insurance they like to tout doesn't cover you if there's no passenger in the car. Even if they're on the way to a fare. Come to think of it you better hope you don't get hit by one period. $1 mil wouldn't cover med bills from a debilitating accident either and I know drivers doing the "gig" economy and they're all running on non-commercial insurance. I wonder if there's an uptick in hit n run where Uber shows up?...
and yes, that is silly, but it's also one of the major things holding up renewables right now. If you're not into technology then it bugs you to see it. They do the same thing with shopping plazas where they hide them from view so the bored housewives who shop there don't have to look at them.
Microsoft had Uncle Bill to keep the shareholders at bay. Apple had Steve. Every company needs a borderline celebrity CEO to keep that pack of jackals off long enough to succeed. Otherwise the second profits dip an "activist" shareholder swoops in and they get Bained.
Think of it this way: You know how every layer of Management exists to protect employees from the next layer? The Shareholders are at the top of that, and your CEO is protecting you from them. If a few lucky shareholders can drain the value out of Apple like vampires think about how many billions their pocket for themselves. Sure, everyone else gets screwed, but that's what the "Winner Take all, I got mine, FU" stockmarket is all about. And if you think it can't happen because Apple's stock is set up to prevent it all it takes is one Carly Fiorina to undo all that.
the problem I see is that Clinton moved the Dems farther to the right so he could land the presidency. The Republicans were forced to move further right to retain their identity (why vote for a Republican if the Dems are the same?). This is why we see folks like tea partiers getting elected to house seats and it's why we might see Trump as a candidate.
You're right about the problems with not enough middle class jobs, but you'll need a solution to that problem. It's good 'ole tarrifs and protection for local workers. Gateway moved away because Mexicans let their workers be abused and we didn't. We have to punish that behavior mercilessly. We'll never win that race to the bottom.
was that most companies running exchange were just using Microsoft's spam filtering. This is like when people tell me the market for Mac users is huge. Yes, there are a lot of Mac users and they _do_ have lots of money, but the trouble when writing business software for them is you have to take out all the users who aren't willing to go out and buy a $300 PC to run your software:(...
to do just that. Every time he says something nutso his poll numbers go up. Thing is, white working class America knows something is wrong, but they don't know what to do about it. They don't believe in the income inequality fairy, but they do know that they're losing ground. Their kids aren't going to college, or if they are they leave a public university with $60k in debt. They haven't seen a raise in years that wasn't immediately eaten up by price increases.
What they want and need is the Nordic Model. But they haven't got a chance. Most of these guys spend 2 hours a day commuting to their shitty jobs listening to Rush. They spent their childhood being told that if you work hard and play by the rules and don't get ahead it's your fault. Heck, when the millennials started complaining about the 60 hour work weeks with no benefits or job security or even food security they scoffed at them. They don't want help. They were told they could make it on their own. The keep getting told this by billionaires and their media outlets. I've tried reasoning with them but it's no go. They've got an answer for every point I make spoon fed to them by those same billionaires.
But they still know something's wrong. Trumps the only man they got.
if you buy beans and rice and eat only that (and a vit-b1 supplement) then yes. But other than that eating off dollar menus is, dollar per calorie, still cheaper. It'll kill you in your 40s, but then again if you're eating off dollar menus for a living you probably don't have much chances anyway. You could also try living off cheap bread you make yourself, but that _will_ kill you from malnutrition. Cheap flour is genuinely bad for you.
I've been eating clean and cooking my own means for about 3 months now here in Phoenix, Az. It's about $400/mo per person to do so. That sounds like a lot until you realize it's $4.44 cents a meal. I could switch to the beans/rice diet, but that's not exactly good for you either, you'll just (mostly) survive. Oh, and I'm running a caloric deficit because I'm losing weight and using Costco to buy things in bulk to hit that $4.44/meal (I'm not factoring in the Costco membership in that because the credit card rewards balance that out at the end of the year).
He's basically this generation's Walter Mondale. A nice guy who is completely unelectable. He's on record saying he's a socialist. That won't scare off any Dems, but it doesn't have to. It will scare the $h!t out of the the right wing baby boomers and get them out in droves voting for whatever the Republicans run (Probably Jeb or Rubio). American politics aren't about convincing people to vote _for_ you, they're about convincing people to vote against the other guy.
Until then I have my doubts. Also most of the projectors at my company still work and still have VGA only. Until those $2000 behemoths start dying off VGA aint going anywhere.
they're making rank and file coders who can crank out VB apps. Anyone with a decent education can do that, and if you think otherwise you're just lying to yourself. Yes, the code won't be as pretty as yours, but it'll work (mostly). Plus thanks to all the extra competition for jobs those new programmers will work an extra 20 hours a week for free fixing the bugs their weaker skills create. What else can they do? There are no blue collar jobs in this country because white collar voters keep putting right-wing anti-tariff politicians in office....
and highly profitable for businesses. Teaching cooking is expensive (ovens, cooking supplies, etc) and only moderately profitable (I don't count Fast Food as "cooking").
The cynic in me wants to say this is just another way to depress tech wages so long as we're not shutting down the H1-B prog. The even more cynic in me says this is the only way Obama could get anyone to agree to fund education in this god-forsaken country after 30 years of tax cuts and tax havens for the 1%.
this is an attempt to get her emails so they can leak 'em during a court hearing and create another scandal. The Republicans knew some of the docs would be reclassified to prevent that and then they could cry out "See!See!". It's a win-win either way, or to quote a fark-wit: truly this is Hilary's Benghazi.
they got away with it because we've been electing candidates that are further and further on the right wing ever since Clinton (Bill) moved the Dems that way so he could take the presidency. If you're gonna keep electing "pro-business" folks you shouldn't be surprised when they do things that are good for business. Consumer protections and competition aren't good for business. We like to think they are because we like to ignore just how few companies supply the goods and services we depend on. But even 'small' cable companies are multi-million dollar affairs. These days anything bigger than a cupcake factory is probably owned my a multi-national...
I'm a T-Mobile customer too. I could care less about HD video on my el-cheapo LG phone. And yes I can opt out... But I still don't trust T-Mobile. Companies have a nasty way of chipping away at the sorts of protections that Net Neutrality affords.
What I'd really like to see is a 32 hour work week and mandatory voting in the States. Force people to take part in democracy and give them the time and resources to do so. If I felt the public at large had the wherewithal to keep constant vigil over all the shit corporations do I'd be all for it. But until that day I've got to rely on regulatory commodities that have been circumvented since I was a wee lad.
will probably sink this. I can't imagine any of the Republican Candidates letting this slide. Hilary might (e.g. she might get lobbied harder by the folks that want to sell set top boxes). Bernie would tell the cable industry to go *bleep* themselves but he's got a snowball's chance in hell of getting the nomination.
Basically, don't bother getting too excited. This'll all be swept away when Obama leaves:(... Thanks Obama.
This is just a response to low oil prices. Finland sells a lot of oil. The correct response would be to borrow until the price of oil went back up (which baring a miracle it will when the Saudis give up trying to kill US Shale) then pay down the debt with the oil profits. But can't dip into those sweet, sweet profits just to keep the general public's standard of living up now can we?
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You're right about stringing along, but they're just waiting for hardware prices to drop. Nintendo normally makes money on their hardware. Hardware sales for both the 3DS & 2DS are profitable for them. Even the WiiU has passed the break even point.
Nintendo can count on selling DSes and NX Consoles, so why collapse the two into one platform? They'll wait for Microsoft/Sony to drive down ram/cpu prices and crank out a decent box they can sell for $250 at launch with $200 worth of hardware in it.
we had a VP who openly commuted them, and I don't mean Uncle Joe Biden.
but he can Veto the shit out of a lot of bad stuff. I'll take gridlock over whatever the hell Rubio is going to do any day. Some of us _don't_ want to watch the world burn...
Reagan was lying by omission. He did that lots. It was a technique invented by Karl Rove then implemented and perfected by Reagan. He neglected to mention that 91% tax rate didn't kick in until the 2016 equivalent of $20 million dollars and only applied to income _over_ that amount. Hell for your first $200k you paid the same rate as I do, and I don't make squat. Someone who cleared $30 mil would still make $990,000 a year more that year. This is what marginal tax rates are. They're to prevent run away income inequality and all the horrible things it entails (like the 1% buying up everything under the sun and forming monopolies like we're seeing with today's Mega Mergers and the billionaire's stranglehold on politics through money).
And besides, let 'em take a 9 month vacation. I'm sure somebody else will pick up that $10 million in slack. If there are no volunteers I'll take it.
I do this every year. If you can't pay in full by April 15th you get a very small fine and (thanks to out right wing congress) interest penalties. It's still a fraction of even the best credit card rates and they try hard to work with you. I've had some rough patches due to family illnesses and I'd take the IRS as a creditor over any one else.
but everywhere I look I see the i5 4690k beating the 8350. 6 months ago I'd agree the value was there but Intel just dropped their pants. Right now I can get an 4690k combo off newegg for about $20 bucks more... I'm running an A10-5800 right now and for a low end rig I'm pretty happy with it, but I also got it for the cost of the ram when a friend of my brother's upgrade. Right now I can't see running AMD. On the plus side they at least keep Intel on their toes, and Zen might fix everything :)
these crazy market caps are a symptom of income inequality. There's only so much for the 1% to spend their money on, so we're seeing some pretty big boondogles. Not sure yet if this is one or not but it looks like it. Not because the tech isn't real but because I don't think Joe & Jane average care about AR any more than they did about 3D TVs.
That's the icing on the shit cake they feed their drivers. They bypass traditional worker protections that require people to be paid for work done. They wouldn't exist otherwise, just like all the other companies that tried this and didn't managed to fend off the courts (that maid for hire service comes to mind).
Oh, and better hope you don't get hit by an Uber driver during that 'downtime'. The $1 mil insurance they like to tout doesn't cover you if there's no passenger in the car. Even if they're on the way to a fare. Come to think of it you better hope you don't get hit by one period. $1 mil wouldn't cover med bills from a debilitating accident either and I know drivers doing the "gig" economy and they're all running on non-commercial insurance. I wonder if there's an uptick in hit n run where Uber shows up?...
and yes, that is silly, but it's also one of the major things holding up renewables right now. If you're not into technology then it bugs you to see it. They do the same thing with shopping plazas where they hide them from view so the bored housewives who shop there don't have to look at them.
Microsoft had Uncle Bill to keep the shareholders at bay. Apple had Steve. Every company needs a borderline celebrity CEO to keep that pack of jackals off long enough to succeed. Otherwise the second profits dip an "activist" shareholder swoops in and they get Bained.
Think of it this way: You know how every layer of Management exists to protect employees from the next layer? The Shareholders are at the top of that, and your CEO is protecting you from them. If a few lucky shareholders can drain the value out of Apple like vampires think about how many billions their pocket for themselves. Sure, everyone else gets screwed, but that's what the "Winner Take all, I got mine, FU" stockmarket is all about. And if you think it can't happen because Apple's stock is set up to prevent it all it takes is one Carly Fiorina to undo all that.
the problem I see is that Clinton moved the Dems farther to the right so he could land the presidency. The Republicans were forced to move further right to retain their identity (why vote for a Republican if the Dems are the same?). This is why we see folks like tea partiers getting elected to house seats and it's why we might see Trump as a candidate.
You're right about the problems with not enough middle class jobs, but you'll need a solution to that problem. It's good 'ole tarrifs and protection for local workers. Gateway moved away because Mexicans let their workers be abused and we didn't. We have to punish that behavior mercilessly. We'll never win that race to the bottom.
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was that most companies running exchange were just using Microsoft's spam filtering. This is like when people tell me the market for Mac users is huge. Yes, there are a lot of Mac users and they _do_ have lots of money, but the trouble when writing business software for them is you have to take out all the users who aren't willing to go out and buy a $300 PC to run your software :(...
to do just that. Every time he says something nutso his poll numbers go up. Thing is, white working class America knows something is wrong, but they don't know what to do about it. They don't believe in the income inequality fairy, but they do know that they're losing ground. Their kids aren't going to college, or if they are they leave a public university with $60k in debt. They haven't seen a raise in years that wasn't immediately eaten up by price increases.
What they want and need is the Nordic Model. But they haven't got a chance. Most of these guys spend 2 hours a day commuting to their shitty jobs listening to Rush. They spent their childhood being told that if you work hard and play by the rules and don't get ahead it's your fault. Heck, when the millennials started complaining about the 60 hour work weeks with no benefits or job security or even food security they scoffed at them. They don't want help. They were told they could make it on their own. The keep getting told this by billionaires and their media outlets. I've tried reasoning with them but it's no go. They've got an answer for every point I make spoon fed to them by those same billionaires.
But they still know something's wrong. Trumps the only man they got.
if you buy beans and rice and eat only that (and a vit-b1 supplement) then yes. But other than that eating off dollar menus is, dollar per calorie, still cheaper. It'll kill you in your 40s, but then again if you're eating off dollar menus for a living you probably don't have much chances anyway. You could also try living off cheap bread you make yourself, but that _will_ kill you from malnutrition. Cheap flour is genuinely bad for you.
I've been eating clean and cooking my own means for about 3 months now here in Phoenix, Az. It's about $400/mo per person to do so. That sounds like a lot until you realize it's $4.44 cents a meal. I could switch to the beans/rice diet, but that's not exactly good for you either, you'll just (mostly) survive. Oh, and I'm running a caloric deficit because I'm losing weight and using Costco to buy things in bulk to hit that $4.44/meal (I'm not factoring in the Costco membership in that because the credit card rewards balance that out at the end of the year).
He's basically this generation's Walter Mondale. A nice guy who is completely unelectable. He's on record saying he's a socialist. That won't scare off any Dems, but it doesn't have to. It will scare the $h!t out of the the right wing baby boomers and get them out in droves voting for whatever the Republicans run (Probably Jeb or Rubio). American politics aren't about convincing people to vote _for_ you, they're about convincing people to vote against the other guy.
Until then I have my doubts. Also most of the projectors at my company still work and still have VGA only. Until those $2000 behemoths start dying off VGA aint going anywhere.
they're making rank and file coders who can crank out VB apps. Anyone with a decent education can do that, and if you think otherwise you're just lying to yourself. Yes, the code won't be as pretty as yours, but it'll work (mostly). Plus thanks to all the extra competition for jobs those new programmers will work an extra 20 hours a week for free fixing the bugs their weaker skills create. What else can they do? There are no blue collar jobs in this country because white collar voters keep putting right-wing anti-tariff politicians in office....
and highly profitable for businesses. Teaching cooking is expensive (ovens, cooking supplies, etc) and only moderately profitable (I don't count Fast Food as "cooking").
The cynic in me wants to say this is just another way to depress tech wages so long as we're not shutting down the H1-B prog. The even more cynic in me says this is the only way Obama could get anyone to agree to fund education in this god-forsaken country after 30 years of tax cuts and tax havens for the 1%.
this is an attempt to get her emails so they can leak 'em during a court hearing and create another scandal. The Republicans knew some of the docs would be reclassified to prevent that and then they could cry out "See!See!". It's a win-win either way, or to quote a fark-wit: truly this is Hilary's Benghazi.
they got away with it because we've been electing candidates that are further and further on the right wing ever since Clinton (Bill) moved the Dems that way so he could take the presidency. If you're gonna keep electing "pro-business" folks you shouldn't be surprised when they do things that are good for business. Consumer protections and competition aren't good for business. We like to think they are because we like to ignore just how few companies supply the goods and services we depend on. But even 'small' cable companies are multi-million dollar affairs. These days anything bigger than a cupcake factory is probably owned my a multi-national...
it's like that everywhere else, too. You don't spill the blood of kings.
I'm a T-Mobile customer too. I could care less about HD video on my el-cheapo LG phone. And yes I can opt out... But I still don't trust T-Mobile. Companies have a nasty way of chipping away at the sorts of protections that Net Neutrality affords.
What I'd really like to see is a 32 hour work week and mandatory voting in the States. Force people to take part in democracy and give them the time and resources to do so. If I felt the public at large had the wherewithal to keep constant vigil over all the shit corporations do I'd be all for it. But until that day I've got to rely on regulatory commodities that have been circumvented since I was a wee lad.
will probably sink this. I can't imagine any of the Republican Candidates letting this slide. Hilary might (e.g. she might get lobbied harder by the folks that want to sell set top boxes). Bernie would tell the cable industry to go *bleep* themselves but he's got a snowball's chance in hell of getting the nomination.
:(... Thanks Obama.
Basically, don't bother getting too excited. This'll all be swept away when Obama leaves
This is just a response to low oil prices. Finland sells a lot of oil. The correct response would be to borrow until the price of oil went back up (which baring a miracle it will when the Saudis give up trying to kill US Shale) then pay down the debt with the oil profits. But can't dip into those sweet, sweet profits just to keep the general public's standard of living up now can we?