But in America your entire quality of life is dependent on your employer. Uber runs around all that by declaring their employees "contractors". There have already been a couple of those "like Uber for..." Companies that shut down as soon as they were told they had to treat their employees as such. Basically Uber only works and is profitable when they externalize their costs ( insurance, maintenance, risk, healthcare, taxes, etc). In the long run Uber is part of a global race to the bottom for the working class...
on/. about sports and financial writers being replaced by computer programs? Seems anything with a lot of statistics was ripe for this since sports/finance writers were really just putting fluff around numbers. Good thing automation never costs jobs, right?
is the enemy of electronics. One of the things I'm wondering is if these low power (and low heat) boxes are going to last a lot longer, and eventually create a glut.
Skylake was still getting bested by the gpu in the 7850k (and a 7850k combo is about $100-$150 cheaper). That said if you slap a $60 video card into an i3 rig it'll outperform the 7850k, you were only out $20 or $30 extra bucks and you had a board/cpu combo that you could put an i5/i7 in at some point, where the 7850k board was never going to take anything above an 8350. What seems to kill the 7850k's value proposition is that it needs the 2400 ram to hang with the i5 in GPU performance, and the extra cost kills it for a low end build. Putting top end ram in a low end build just seem silly...
Not trolling. I just have a really hard time justifying the purchase. I'm running an old Athlon 6000 X2 and it rocks, but my friends with 8350s either had stability problems ( no overclocking, Asus or Gigabyte board) or just plain couldn't run their games. What I really want to know is why aren't AMD processor prices in free fall? Who's buying them that keeps the price near an i5?
But we're also acknowledging reality and the truth about wealth inequality. And yes, Americans have classes. If you dont' believe me then take a trip to your local high income neighborhood in an economy car from the mid 2000s sometime and see how long it takes for a cop to stop you.
and his basic strategy: Whatever you are your opponent is +1. That's how they convinced the right to vote for a draft dodger (Bush) over someone who actually served in 'Nam (Kerry). The second part of that strategy is that no matter how crazy what you say is you _always_ double down. If you make a lie big enough and stick to it folks just can't believe you'd keep lying. To this day Cheny will tell you we found WMDs in Iraq and that Waterboarding got us valuable intel, even though both are demonstrably false. It's just too hard to believe someone would lie about that so convincingly....
it's an age old observation about democracies. Plenty of folks have had it. Canada did, and it's one of the reasons they have a parliament instead of a two party system. That way when some numbskull votes for the lizards they're drowned out by rational folks. See, Democracy works, but like any system it can also be broken...
it's about controlling. You're viewing the money issue in a vacuum, assuming it's the only factor at work here. The key to politics is to get out the vote. It's to make people who have a hundred other things to worry about and are exhausted at the end of the day drag their tired asses to the polls and vote. You do that with advertising. You make sure they don't forget to vote after their second shift at the Arby's or after the meds that keep their heart pumping kick in.
There's more to it. You Gerrymander so the people who vote against you don't count. You shut down pulling offices so they can't vote. You make it so signing up to vote gets them Jury duty they can't afford to serve. When you're a billionaire with an entire society's wealth at your disposal you can hedge your bets.
There's two really easy solutions to this. a. You're not allowed to donate to a politician you can't vote for and you're not allowed to buy advertisement in a race you can't vote in. There's your free speech issue solved. b. Mandatory voting. It's like Jury duty on steroids. Everyone over 18 votes unless their declared legally incompetent.
Isn't much of a prediction since it's already happening. You're just writing a bunch of fluff around data (sports statistics or biz reports) so it's not hard to write a program to generate that. Writing Teachers are going the way of the dodo too since we can write algorithms that know good writing from bad. Maybe not great writing, but the schools aren't interested in artists, their interested in generating little balls of profit for the 1%.
I hate to be the one yelling "wake up sheeple!" but seriously, with all this automation what are we gonna do? When the 1% don't need us anymore what happens to us?
Punish which politically incorrect beliefs? Specifically, because I'm asking. I've never once heard of a man getting in trouble for holding a door open. But I've seen plenty of cases of sexual harassment. People abuse power all the frickin time. This isn't hard. There are culturally acceptable places for sexual advanced (Bars, concerts, etc). There are culturally inappropriate places for them too (the workplace). Wanna ask a cute girl out. Go for it. That's non sexual. After you get her to the bar then you can hit on her all you like. It's that bloody simple.
You're having a knee jerk reaction to something that isn't there. Your doing that because you're being manipulated by a right wing conspiracy that's trying to turn your attention away from economic issues and towards nonsensical social ones (there's a few on the left that benefit too, Jesse Jackson comes to mind, but they're few and far between). The trouble with conspiracies is they're associated with loon balls thanks to the JFK and Moon Landing folks, so when there's an actual one you can't get anyone to believe. Just googling some of the Shit Karl Rove and his think tanks say would prove me right, but I used the 'c' word so you've probably already stopped reading...
In the states local markets are few, far between and expensive. It's not about wanting to or not wanting to. It's about how much money you have. 62% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck (look it up). Those extra dollars are the difference between making rent this week and not...
Also I don't think Heinlein forsaw or could address modern politics, specifically the type created by Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. He mostly focused on economics. That works when you've got a united undercalss. Rove and Cheny did two things. They divided the underclass with wedge issues and and they started using bold lies repeated endlessly to convince folks of those like. Hell, Rove ran a draft dodger against a war hero more than once and one. How the hell do we deal with that?
The US Gov't still does a lot of things to help the poor. Studies show that anti-poverty programs work. The Sentiments your expressing are just playing into the hands of the 1%ers who want to cut those programs without touching their own. Gov't is a dangerous tool like fire and guns. You regulated it and control it, but you don't just cast it aside.
I don't know about you, but 90% of the things I buy to live (Food, Toiletries, shelter) are owned and made by 13 companies. Unless you can afford really expensive boutique goods how the hell do you boycott? And if you can afford that TPP is good for you...
Better yet, tell me how to get the churches and their blue collar workers back on track with socialism? How do I remove abortion as a wedge issue? I'm singling that one out since the left dropped guns and the right seems to be losing homosexuality and racism (and the welfare queens) as their wedge issues. It's the last major one I know of that divides our working class. Tell me how the hell to fix our politics...
depending on the local laws. The phrase "Engineer" has a legal meaning in most countries. It's why you can't call yourself a "Microsoft Certified Engineer" in Canada. As an Engineer you're signing off that the work you did was correct, and you're legally liable if it's not. Of course, in the old days Engineers were so well paid that it didn't matter. Not sure about the rest of the world but in America we treat our Engineers like dirt and are constantly trying to lower their pay.
What then? That's really why this is blowing up so much. Seriously. VW is going to get fined a couple of billion. That's not even chump change. Nobody at that level gives two shits about pride, and the average consumer will forget this same as they forgot Toyota's acceleration problems. What _has_ come out is that _everyone_ was cheating, they were just better at it so that when they got caught there was some doubt and nobody got in real trouble. So what the hell do you do if you're an engineer and this is industry practice?
It's like a buddy of mine who used to drive truck and followed the rules. He went from company to company and they all promised him he'd never drive over limit. And when he didn't they eventually stopped giving him runs. For all you're talk that's not the way the real world works.
that you don't like. Not sure I see the problem. You decide what's fair. If it's not fair don't go to those sites. You don't have to participate. It's not like anyone (outside of malware authors) is forcing you. If a site does things you don't like, stop typing their addy into your URL bar...
You've pretty much got to do something about that first. It's a central tenant of Puritanism. Not sure how you deal with that. From a purely mechanical standpoint our economic right wing (e.g. the rich) noticed our religious right wing (e.g. blue collars) would throw their economic concerns to the wind for social issues. Stuff like Gun Rights, Abortion, Gay Marriage, etc, etc. We've pretty much defused Gun Rights (the left dropped it) and Gay Marriage (somehow or another they won that battle) but I'll be damned if I can figure out Abortion. There's a sizable portion of the population that strongly feels that you should be punished for any action that has negative consequences. That mistakes should hurt. That's pretty much Puritanism in a nutshell. And I don't know how to cure them of that feeling.
a buddy of mine did long hauling. They had this stuff, but they couldn't have been using it. Every driver cheated their logs (buddy didn't, they eventually got fired for it cause he couldn't do his runs fast enough). I always wonder how they avoid getting called out when the data's there. I do know that they tell the companies in advance when (and who) is gonna get reviewed for compliance this month. But why not just check the entire companies' logs? They can't be doing it since every truck company in America would shut down.
is fine with 4. I put another 2 gigs in after the upgrade and didn't notice any difference. When Vista hit it was barely functional with 6. Win 7 fixed that so it worked with 4 again. Hell, I've got an old AthlonX2 5600 I play Streetfighter IV on that's only got 3. Basically, there's not a lot of demand.
Instead of trying to stop them why not focus on getting something for the rest of us? Or are you actually naive enough to think anything short of a strong central government has a chance against a modern mega corp...
Because what good is being rich if there aren't plenty of poor for you to enjoy. Hell, look at the Scandinavian countries, they're doing public service announcements begging their population to breed. They've tried everything except paying people enough to raise a family on comfort...
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But in America your entire quality of life is dependent on your employer. Uber runs around all that by declaring their employees "contractors". There have already been a couple of those "like Uber for..." Companies that shut down as soon as they were told they had to treat their employees as such. Basically Uber only works and is profitable when they externalize their costs ( insurance, maintenance, risk, healthcare, taxes, etc). In the long run Uber is part of a global race to the bottom for the working class...
on /. about sports and financial writers being replaced by computer programs? Seems anything with a lot of statistics was ripe for this since sports/finance writers were really just putting fluff around numbers. Good thing automation never costs jobs, right?
is the enemy of electronics. One of the things I'm wondering is if these low power (and low heat) boxes are going to last a lot longer, and eventually create a glut.
Skylake was still getting bested by the gpu in the 7850k (and a 7850k combo is about $100-$150 cheaper). That said if you slap a $60 video card into an i3 rig it'll outperform the 7850k, you were only out $20 or $30 extra bucks and you had a board/cpu combo that you could put an i5/i7 in at some point, where the 7850k board was never going to take anything above an 8350. What seems to kill the 7850k's value proposition is that it needs the 2400 ram to hang with the i5 in GPU performance, and the extra cost kills it for a low end build. Putting top end ram in a low end build just seem silly...
Not trolling. I just have a really hard time justifying the purchase. I'm running an old Athlon 6000 X2 and it rocks, but my friends with 8350s either had stability problems ( no overclocking, Asus or Gigabyte board) or just plain couldn't run their games. What I really want to know is why aren't AMD processor prices in free fall? Who's buying them that keeps the price near an i5?
Also your sig doesn't match with the sentiment your expressing.
But we're also acknowledging reality and the truth about wealth inequality. And yes, Americans have classes. If you dont' believe me then take a trip to your local high income neighborhood in an economy car from the mid 2000s sometime and see how long it takes for a cop to stop you.
and his basic strategy: Whatever you are your opponent is +1. That's how they convinced the right to vote for a draft dodger (Bush) over someone who actually served in 'Nam (Kerry). The second part of that strategy is that no matter how crazy what you say is you _always_ double down. If you make a lie big enough and stick to it folks just can't believe you'd keep lying. To this day Cheny will tell you we found WMDs in Iraq and that Waterboarding got us valuable intel, even though both are demonstrably false. It's just too hard to believe someone would lie about that so convincingly....
it's an age old observation about democracies. Plenty of folks have had it. Canada did, and it's one of the reasons they have a parliament instead of a two party system. That way when some numbskull votes for the lizards they're drowned out by rational folks. See, Democracy works, but like any system it can also be broken...
it's about controlling. You're viewing the money issue in a vacuum, assuming it's the only factor at work here. The key to politics is to get out the vote. It's to make people who have a hundred other things to worry about and are exhausted at the end of the day drag their tired asses to the polls and vote. You do that with advertising. You make sure they don't forget to vote after their second shift at the Arby's or after the meds that keep their heart pumping kick in.
There's more to it. You Gerrymander so the people who vote against you don't count. You shut down pulling offices so they can't vote. You make it so signing up to vote gets them Jury duty they can't afford to serve. When you're a billionaire with an entire society's wealth at your disposal you can hedge your bets.
There's two really easy solutions to this. a. You're not allowed to donate to a politician you can't vote for and you're not allowed to buy advertisement in a race you can't vote in. There's your free speech issue solved. b. Mandatory voting. It's like Jury duty on steroids. Everyone over 18 votes unless their declared legally incompetent.
Isn't much of a prediction since it's already happening. You're just writing a bunch of fluff around data (sports statistics or biz reports) so it's not hard to write a program to generate that. Writing Teachers are going the way of the dodo too since we can write algorithms that know good writing from bad. Maybe not great writing, but the schools aren't interested in artists, their interested in generating little balls of profit for the 1%.
I hate to be the one yelling "wake up sheeple!" but seriously, with all this automation what are we gonna do? When the 1% don't need us anymore what happens to us?
Punish which politically incorrect beliefs? Specifically, because I'm asking. I've never once heard of a man getting in trouble for holding a door open. But I've seen plenty of cases of sexual harassment. People abuse power all the frickin time. This isn't hard. There are culturally acceptable places for sexual advanced (Bars, concerts, etc). There are culturally inappropriate places for them too (the workplace). Wanna ask a cute girl out. Go for it. That's non sexual. After you get her to the bar then you can hit on her all you like. It's that bloody simple.
You're having a knee jerk reaction to something that isn't there. Your doing that because you're being manipulated by a right wing conspiracy that's trying to turn your attention away from economic issues and towards nonsensical social ones (there's a few on the left that benefit too, Jesse Jackson comes to mind, but they're few and far between). The trouble with conspiracies is they're associated with loon balls thanks to the JFK and Moon Landing folks, so when there's an actual one you can't get anyone to believe. Just googling some of the Shit Karl Rove and his think tanks say would prove me right, but I used the 'c' word so you've probably already stopped reading...
In the states local markets are few, far between and expensive. It's not about wanting to or not wanting to. It's about how much money you have. 62% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck (look it up). Those extra dollars are the difference between making rent this week and not...
Also I don't think Heinlein forsaw or could address modern politics, specifically the type created by Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. He mostly focused on economics. That works when you've got a united undercalss. Rove and Cheny did two things. They divided the underclass with wedge issues and and they started using bold lies repeated endlessly to convince folks of those like. Hell, Rove ran a draft dodger against a war hero more than once and one. How the hell do we deal with that?
The US Gov't still does a lot of things to help the poor. Studies show that anti-poverty programs work. The Sentiments your expressing are just playing into the hands of the 1%ers who want to cut those programs without touching their own. Gov't is a dangerous tool like fire and guns. You regulated it and control it, but you don't just cast it aside.
I don't know about you, but 90% of the things I buy to live (Food, Toiletries, shelter) are owned and made by 13 companies. Unless you can afford really expensive boutique goods how the hell do you boycott? And if you can afford that TPP is good for you...
Better yet, tell me how to get the churches and their blue collar workers back on track with socialism? How do I remove abortion as a wedge issue? I'm singling that one out since the left dropped guns and the right seems to be losing homosexuality and racism (and the welfare queens) as their wedge issues. It's the last major one I know of that divides our working class. Tell me how the hell to fix our politics...
depending on the local laws. The phrase "Engineer" has a legal meaning in most countries. It's why you can't call yourself a "Microsoft Certified Engineer" in Canada. As an Engineer you're signing off that the work you did was correct, and you're legally liable if it's not. Of course, in the old days Engineers were so well paid that it didn't matter. Not sure about the rest of the world but in America we treat our Engineers like dirt and are constantly trying to lower their pay.
click the Red 'X' instead?
What then? That's really why this is blowing up so much. Seriously. VW is going to get fined a couple of billion. That's not even chump change. Nobody at that level gives two shits about pride, and the average consumer will forget this same as they forgot Toyota's acceleration problems. What _has_ come out is that _everyone_ was cheating, they were just better at it so that when they got caught there was some doubt and nobody got in real trouble. So what the hell do you do if you're an engineer and this is industry practice?
It's like a buddy of mine who used to drive truck and followed the rules. He went from company to company and they all promised him he'd never drive over limit. And when he didn't they eventually stopped giving him runs. For all you're talk that's not the way the real world works.
and nothing else. Steam is showing you ads for stuff to buy. Very different than ads surrounding content you want to access.
that you don't like. Not sure I see the problem. You decide what's fair. If it's not fair don't go to those sites. You don't have to participate. It's not like anyone (outside of malware authors) is forcing you. If a site does things you don't like, stop typing their addy into your URL bar...
You've pretty much got to do something about that first. It's a central tenant of Puritanism. Not sure how you deal with that. From a purely mechanical standpoint our economic right wing (e.g. the rich) noticed our religious right wing (e.g. blue collars) would throw their economic concerns to the wind for social issues. Stuff like Gun Rights, Abortion, Gay Marriage, etc, etc. We've pretty much defused Gun Rights (the left dropped it) and Gay Marriage (somehow or another they won that battle) but I'll be damned if I can figure out Abortion. There's a sizable portion of the population that strongly feels that you should be punished for any action that has negative consequences. That mistakes should hurt. That's pretty much Puritanism in a nutshell. And I don't know how to cure them of that feeling.
a buddy of mine did long hauling. They had this stuff, but they couldn't have been using it. Every driver cheated their logs (buddy didn't, they eventually got fired for it cause he couldn't do his runs fast enough). I always wonder how they avoid getting called out when the data's there. I do know that they tell the companies in advance when (and who) is gonna get reviewed for compliance this month. But why not just check the entire companies' logs? They can't be doing it since every truck company in America would shut down.
is fine with 4. I put another 2 gigs in after the upgrade and didn't notice any difference. When Vista hit it was barely functional with 6. Win 7 fixed that so it worked with 4 again. Hell, I've got an old AthlonX2 5600 I play Streetfighter IV on that's only got 3. Basically, there's not a lot of demand.
Instead of trying to stop them why not focus on getting something for the rest of us? Or are you actually naive enough to think anything short of a strong central government has a chance against a modern mega corp...
Because what good is being rich if there aren't plenty of poor for you to enjoy. Hell, look at the Scandinavian countries, they're doing public service announcements begging their population to breed. They've tried everything except paying people enough to raise a family on comfort...