There's a conservative, a working man and a Union man at a table with 10 cookies. The conservative snatches up 9 cookies and gobbles them up. Then he turns to the working man and says "Hey, watch out, that guys gonna eat your cookie".
and Lawyers buying $3-5k bikes they have no business riding. If you're into road biking you know about this and if you're at the lower end of the economic spectrum they're the bane of your existence. They moved into the sport back in the mid 2005. I was shopping for my first real road bike and the price of a decent carbon fiber frame shot up a grand (Boeing's new planes didn't help either). I ended up with an Aluminum Cevelo (which ironically some old person hit me on and ruined:(... ).
Anyway you've got rich people in OK Shape buying ridiculously fast bikes. I see them all the time at the little charity runs I like to do. If you're smart you steer as clear as you can. They don't have the riding chops to handle the bike they just bought but they're usually in OK enough shape to be dangerous (the fat ones end up on cruisers:P ).
most of the (expensive) basic research is still done on the public dime. Then big pharma comes in, runs a few (cheap) clinical trials, patents the whole shabang and blamo, new drug. You didn't think mega corps actually paid for things like us little people, did you?
If you luck into a niche it's easy to well for a while. Being a competent programmer doesn't mean the money never stops. And making a useful product doesn't matter if you can't get users to pay for it. I'm not defending rent seeking, I'm just saying I don't think utility software companies can survive without it. You can't just keep cranking out new software. It take a lot of time and resources to get a new product off the ground and it's easy for it to flop.
in early 2000s. They had an invoicing package designed for print shops. The software was very popular. Apparently just about every print shop in America used it. The software was easy to use, install and maintain. It never broke and didn't need updates The company that made it is tits up. After they were done selling it to all the print shops out there there just wasn't anything left for them, and there weren't enough new print shops to sell to (what with the chains like FedEx/Kinkos muscling in).
Yeah, it's rent seeking, but I don't really see an alternative for a company that makes utility software. It's damned hard to get people to pay for it...
it's really just car smog folks. This isn't that hard. I had to move to Phoenix for a job and I can see the effect it has. It's always funny to me to see folks trying to come up with a hundred reasons why something is something except the one they don't want it to be. Kinda like that Onion story about Americans wondering when mass shootings will end while it points out the rest of the world doesn't have this problem...
For a start ban fast food drive throughs. Silly as it sounds card idling there are a large part of the smog problem. Then start cracking down on SUVs. People use 'em like cars, stop letting them get by with a Trucks fuel and emission standards. Discuss among yourselves the rest of the crap we can do to reduce city emissions (public transit would be nice).
And changing programming from an 18th century style craft industry to an assembly line. Look at how computers were manufactured in the 70s and 80s vs today for an example more recent. You break off all the really hard stuff to a few top guys and the rest is done by folks earning minimum wage who don't really understand what they're doing but know if they do certain steps they get certain results. If labor wasn't so cheap this wouldn't work ( too many specific tasks) but at less than a buck an hour in many countries it becomes possible. Of course, it mean being a programmer creases to be middle class work, but I think that's the point.
The easiest way to find out if anything is actually true is to check if large companies are mentioning it in their SEC filings (which for global warming they are). Billionaires and other folks who actually matter read those and make decisions on those so you can actually be punished for real if you lie or omit information.
Public utilities. All it accomplishes is letting some cronies skim off the top. Is the myth of capitalist efficiency really so attractive that we'll keep ignoring the 97% profit margin isps have?
This has nothing to do with basement dwellers and everything to do with very wealthy people who can afford to pay someone to go around sites on the internet whitewashing their misdeeds anywhere they might be found. If anything the basement dwellers along with the rest of us are losing out while the rich crooks who can afford this service continue to take advantage of us.
quickly dismissing this article out of fear. Fact is we're not special, anyone can be trained to do 95% of what we do, the other 5% can be broken off into it's own world and there won't be enough jobs for that 5% as we train up more and more rank and file programmers. Gates & Zuckerberg figured this out, why the hell can't we? If you want a future start asking for protectionism right now. There's a reason Doctors and Lawyers have a Union (AMA/Bar). They're not dumb, and they learned that 95/5 rule I mentioned above centuries ago.
Most folks just binge watch TV episodes on netflix. The movies are added value, but there's no way they could be worth the cost. At that point you just get the DVD. If it's worth enough to cancel over it's worth waiting a few days for the dvd to arrive...
isn't really something to form a policy basis on, or even a +5 on/. . And we've got plenty of Christian fruit cakes here, they just mostly keep to beating up the black folk down south. Remember the KKK? Home grown terrorism at it's best.
I'm mad because in ten years they still won't have delivered, will have spent the bulk of the money on executive bonuses and won't get punished. Keep the subsidies, make em pay it back with interest if they're so much as a smidge off
it's a socialist program meant to keep old people who can't work anymore from becoming homeless. The only question you need to answer when you ask yourself "Can we Afford Social Security?" is "Is America too broke to keep old people from being homeless?". I'd like to think my country isn't that broke (or stupid), so long as we put some caps on the number of mansions folks like Dick Cheney and the Koch bros. can have.
Why not social ones? There's two things that create terrorists, mental illness and poor economic conditions. Sane people in wealthy countries don't become terrorist, they've got better things to hope for than Valhalla. Crazy people will exist for about another hundred years or so until we figure out the mechanisms of the brain. Until then we can manage it with treatment.
and they all carried multiple phones from multiple carriers. I'll second the "not t-mobile" crowd though. IIRC there was an arstechnica article that talked about the problem, they don't own much of the kind of bandwidth that lets you cover large distances. So they're 4G is fast but if you get out of a populated area you're not getting signal.
Unions organize labor into voting blocks like the AARP. Workers vote tariffs to level the playing field like they do everywhere else this is a problem. This is a problem that was solved hundreds of years ago you know? And for all your bitching tariffs work. At least for protecting workers. Sure, your economy doesn't grow as far, but WTF do I care how big the poor l pie is when my slice can be measured in microns.
Is to see if you're stable enough to make it through a four year degree. It lets employers sift wheat from chaff. MOCs will never do that since they're inherently more accessible.
I'm worried about my door getting kicked in when somebody browsed kiddy porn through my network. Or fending off an **AA lawsuit because they downloaded the latest Adam Sandler epic
San Francisco? I can go on Craigslist in Phoenix right now and get a plumber for about $30/hr. That $150/hr might be if you're completely renovating your kitchen, but they're over charging because board rich housewives like spending a lot on that sort of thing. That kind of work is also hard to come by. For every 'owner' there's a ton of juniors. But it's hard to be an owner because without a few juicy contracts you'll never make enough money to keep a business going. Didn't you ever work in a computer shop? It's the same damn thing. You need a few nice big commercial contracts to keep you going through the lean times or you have to go out and get hourly work. You get those kinda jobs from friends, family and dumb luck.
As for General Practitioners, we treat 'em like shit in America because our health care system if literally FUBAR'd (yes, I know what literally means). They'd do a lot better if we were single payer, but we can't stop being scared 'o the big bad communist long enough to do that:(...
with modern militaries and information control? Also, if you look at history it's really only happened once when FDR and a few others broke ranks among the 1%, and even then it took the loss of life after WWII trimming excess population plus an irrational fear of communism to get the 1% of open up their coffers. They're over that fear and they're not bothering with large scale wars anymore. Hell, back around 2000 a bunch of Pakistani terrorists attacked India's capital, there was strong evidence the Pakastani gov't knew about it (maybe bullshit, but still) and there was _still_ no war.
I don't see us throwing off the yolk of oppression with violent revolution ever again. If there's any hope it's male birth control and a general lack of interest in having children that'll do it (queue/. jokes). Seriously, about the only thing that makes the bastards in our ruling class treat us well is if there isn't enough of us. That's why the chruches say no to birth control. They've long since noticed the drop in happiness that happens after childbirth for all but the richest and they'll be damned if we're gonna stop giving them fodder for their factories...
The Saudis are pretty popular with our ruling class, and they've got tons of oil. We can't really afford to piss them off without making some huge changes to how we live...
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There's a conservative, a working man and a Union man at a table with 10 cookies. The conservative snatches up 9 cookies and gobbles them up. Then he turns to the working man and says "Hey, watch out, that guys gonna eat your cookie".
We're producing less? I'm guessing no and that this is the effects of all that automation I keep hearing isn't happening...
and Lawyers buying $3-5k bikes they have no business riding. If you're into road biking you know about this and if you're at the lower end of the economic spectrum they're the bane of your existence. They moved into the sport back in the mid 2005. I was shopping for my first real road bike and the price of a decent carbon fiber frame shot up a grand (Boeing's new planes didn't help either). I ended up with an Aluminum Cevelo (which ironically some old person hit me on and ruined :( ... ).
:P ).
Anyway you've got rich people in OK Shape buying ridiculously fast bikes. I see them all the time at the little charity runs I like to do. If you're smart you steer as clear as you can. They don't have the riding chops to handle the bike they just bought but they're usually in OK enough shape to be dangerous (the fat ones end up on cruisers
I didn't say they deserved it, just that I don't see an alternative
most of the (expensive) basic research is still done on the public dime. Then big pharma comes in, runs a few (cheap) clinical trials, patents the whole shabang and blamo, new drug. You didn't think mega corps actually paid for things like us little people, did you?
If you luck into a niche it's easy to well for a while. Being a competent programmer doesn't mean the money never stops. And making a useful product doesn't matter if you can't get users to pay for it. I'm not defending rent seeking, I'm just saying I don't think utility software companies can survive without it. You can't just keep cranking out new software. It take a lot of time and resources to get a new product off the ground and it's easy for it to flop.
in early 2000s. They had an invoicing package designed for print shops. The software was very popular. Apparently just about every print shop in America used it. The software was easy to use, install and maintain. It never broke and didn't need updates The company that made it is tits up. After they were done selling it to all the print shops out there there just wasn't anything left for them, and there weren't enough new print shops to sell to (what with the chains like FedEx/Kinkos muscling in).
Yeah, it's rent seeking, but I don't really see an alternative for a company that makes utility software. It's damned hard to get people to pay for it...
it's really just car smog folks. This isn't that hard. I had to move to Phoenix for a job and I can see the effect it has. It's always funny to me to see folks trying to come up with a hundred reasons why something is something except the one they don't want it to be. Kinda like that Onion story about Americans wondering when mass shootings will end while it points out the rest of the world doesn't have this problem...
For a start ban fast food drive throughs. Silly as it sounds card idling there are a large part of the smog problem. Then start cracking down on SUVs. People use 'em like cars, stop letting them get by with a Trucks fuel and emission standards. Discuss among yourselves the rest of the crap we can do to reduce city emissions (public transit would be nice).
And changing programming from an 18th century style craft industry to an assembly line. Look at how computers were manufactured in the 70s and 80s vs today for an example more recent. You break off all the really hard stuff to a few top guys and the rest is done by folks earning minimum wage who don't really understand what they're doing but know if they do certain steps they get certain results. If labor wasn't so cheap this wouldn't work ( too many specific tasks) but at less than a buck an hour in many countries it becomes possible. Of course, it mean being a programmer creases to be middle class work, but I think that's the point.
The easiest way to find out if anything is actually true is to check if large companies are mentioning it in their SEC filings (which for global warming they are). Billionaires and other folks who actually matter read those and make decisions on those so you can actually be punished for real if you lie or omit information.
Public utilities. All it accomplishes is letting some cronies skim off the top. Is the myth of capitalist efficiency really so attractive that we'll keep ignoring the 97% profit margin isps have?
This has nothing to do with basement dwellers and everything to do with very wealthy people who can afford to pay someone to go around sites on the internet whitewashing their misdeeds anywhere they might be found. If anything the basement dwellers along with the rest of us are losing out while the rich crooks who can afford this service continue to take advantage of us.
quickly dismissing this article out of fear. Fact is we're not special, anyone can be trained to do 95% of what we do, the other 5% can be broken off into it's own world and there won't be enough jobs for that 5% as we train up more and more rank and file programmers. Gates & Zuckerberg figured this out, why the hell can't we? If you want a future start asking for protectionism right now. There's a reason Doctors and Lawyers have a Union (AMA/Bar). They're not dumb, and they learned that 95/5 rule I mentioned above centuries ago.
Most folks just binge watch TV episodes on netflix. The movies are added value, but there's no way they could be worth the cost. At that point you just get the DVD. If it's worth enough to cancel over it's worth waiting a few days for the dvd to arrive...
isn't really something to form a policy basis on, or even a +5 on /. . And we've got plenty of Christian fruit cakes here, they just mostly keep to beating up the black folk down south. Remember the KKK? Home grown terrorism at it's best.
I'm mad because in ten years they still won't have delivered, will have spent the bulk of the money on executive bonuses and won't get punished. Keep the subsidies, make em pay it back with interest if they're so much as a smidge off
it's a socialist program meant to keep old people who can't work anymore from becoming homeless. The only question you need to answer when you ask yourself "Can we Afford Social Security?" is "Is America too broke to keep old people from being homeless?". I'd like to think my country isn't that broke (or stupid), so long as we put some caps on the number of mansions folks like Dick Cheney and the Koch bros. can have.
Why not social ones? There's two things that create terrorists, mental illness and poor economic conditions. Sane people in wealthy countries don't become terrorist, they've got better things to hope for than Valhalla. Crazy people will exist for about another hundred years or so until we figure out the mechanisms of the brain. Until then we can manage it with treatment.
and they all carried multiple phones from multiple carriers. I'll second the "not t-mobile" crowd though. IIRC there was an arstechnica article that talked about the problem, they don't own much of the kind of bandwidth that lets you cover large distances. So they're 4G is fast but if you get out of a populated area you're not getting signal.
Unions organize labor into voting blocks like the AARP. Workers vote tariffs to level the playing field like they do everywhere else this is a problem. This is a problem that was solved hundreds of years ago you know? And for all your bitching tariffs work. At least for protecting workers. Sure, your economy doesn't grow as far, but WTF do I care how big the poor l pie is when my slice can be measured in microns.
Is to see if you're stable enough to make it through a four year degree. It lets employers sift wheat from chaff. MOCs will never do that since they're inherently more accessible.
I'm worried about my door getting kicked in when somebody browsed kiddy porn through my network. Or fending off an **AA lawsuit because they downloaded the latest Adam Sandler epic
San Francisco? I can go on Craigslist in Phoenix right now and get a plumber for about $30/hr. That $150/hr might be if you're completely renovating your kitchen, but they're over charging because board rich housewives like spending a lot on that sort of thing. That kind of work is also hard to come by. For every 'owner' there's a ton of juniors. But it's hard to be an owner because without a few juicy contracts you'll never make enough money to keep a business going. Didn't you ever work in a computer shop? It's the same damn thing. You need a few nice big commercial contracts to keep you going through the lean times or you have to go out and get hourly work. You get those kinda jobs from friends, family and dumb luck.
:(...
As for General Practitioners, we treat 'em like shit in America because our health care system if literally FUBAR'd (yes, I know what literally means). They'd do a lot better if we were single payer, but we can't stop being scared 'o the big bad communist long enough to do that
with modern militaries and information control? Also, if you look at history it's really only happened once when FDR and a few others broke ranks among the 1%, and even then it took the loss of life after WWII trimming excess population plus an irrational fear of communism to get the 1% of open up their coffers. They're over that fear and they're not bothering with large scale wars anymore. Hell, back around 2000 a bunch of Pakistani terrorists attacked India's capital, there was strong evidence the Pakastani gov't knew about it (maybe bullshit, but still) and there was _still_ no war.
/. jokes). Seriously, about the only thing that makes the bastards in our ruling class treat us well is if there isn't enough of us. That's why the chruches say no to birth control. They've long since noticed the drop in happiness that happens after childbirth for all but the richest and they'll be damned if we're gonna stop giving them fodder for their factories...
I don't see us throwing off the yolk of oppression with violent revolution ever again. If there's any hope it's male birth control and a general lack of interest in having children that'll do it (queue
The Saudis are pretty popular with our ruling class, and they've got tons of oil. We can't really afford to piss them off without making some huge changes to how we live...