The top of the line guys need to care about tightly coupling classes. There's a _tonne_ of rank and file coding that can be done quick and dirty. Right now those jobs pay upwards to $80k/year; sometimes more. The goal here is to cut that in half in 10 years. An admirable goal if you're part of the investor class...
Because after 60+ years of cold war fear-mongering Americans are terrified of public works. Google "FEMA Camps" and see how many links are dead serious...:(
There's a reason we gave out cable monopolies. It was too expensive to build out the infrastructure w/o a guaranteed profit and we're too frightened of the gov't to just make it a public works project. It's either monopolies or figuring out how to counteract 50+ years of cold war propaganda about the evils of socialism...
but I pay $70/mo for good internet (that's just Internet, no TV/Phone).
The problem with relying on Fiber to save us is the same one we have with Oil & Gas right now. By the time competition is viable we're already paying so much that it impacts our overall Standard of Living ($4/gallon gas anyone?); and by then the monopolists have such massive war chests they can start off a price war the newbies can't hope to win ($2.50/gallon gas anyone?).
they were split up and then spent 20 years buying up the Baby Bells until they were right back where they started. There's an amusing video from the dailyshow of it how it happened that I can't seem to find right now. Corps can take a longer view then we can:(
The trouble with just Vote By Paper is it's equally vulnerable. It's not hard to make sure that it's tough to register for it. The mailings can (and have) "gone to the wrong address", etc, etc.
I'm not opposed to vote by paper. Indeed the bottom rung of society will still need it (they can't afford a computer + internet connection). But a two pronged assault on voter suppression is definitely a good thing. If the lower classes could vote more I don't think we'd have lower classes:P
is what's wrong with paper. Long lines in poor neighborhoods. Broken machines. Polling places closing hours early when you know people can't take time off to vote
You'll never see voting day a national holiday because the powers that be don't want the lower caste voting. Progressives do though, and we're trying to come up with ways to combat voter suppression. From the progressive standpoint who cares if it gets hacked? The paper vote has already been hacked so to hell by voter suppression that things can't get any worse.
if you can afford it. I don't know anyone who takes public transportation if they don't have to. A drive that takes me 30 minutes by Car used to take a legally blind buddy of mine 90. Try spending 3 hours a day on a smelly bus with cheap, uncomfortable seats. Find when you're a teenager, not so much when you're 30.
With the Cost of Cars going up and up and becoming unattainable for many I'd like to see a real talk about public transportation. I'd also like to see Monkeys and Unicorns shoot out of Cowboy Neal's butt. I'm thinking the latter is for likely than the former...
mean there isn't near as much money in education as their used to be. Might not be enough to support Microsoft's desired profit margins. Besides, the kids are probably still using Office 365 anyway, so it's all good.
Don't you lose the free market aspect once you start imposing anti-trust regulations? I think the idea is the market should be able to take care of itself, but I can't see a way for that to work in practice.
is desperately trying to come up with a Free Market solution to Net Neutrality. E.g. some way he can get Net Neutrality (which he wants) w/o the government stepping in and requiring it (which he doesn't want).
His only solution is to let Net Neutrality go away. Then when ISPs raise rates through the roof competition becomes viable again. Sorta like how we started researching fracking and Shale Oil after gas hit $4/gallon.
I don't really see it as viable. For one thing gas is only dropping temporarily while OPEC kills off the competition. Comcast has already been caught using lawsuits to stifle competition and has literally told the FCC that's it's OK if they merge with Time Warner since they never have/never will compete with them; and that it's just too expensive for new players to enter the market. Personally I think there's just too much money to be made killing a free internet....
There are basically no credible scientists arguing if global warming is a thing. There are also no credible scientists arguing over whether it will negatively impact humanity. The argument is over what's causing it and the magnitude of the damage. Please note that the consensus is that the damage will be massive, it's just about _how_ massive....
As for social science, human behavior can be measured and predicted. You seem to dismiss this outright because our methods to date have been less than prefect. Also, if you're not actually in the social sciences and taking time out of your day to read the entirety of their works it does appear like a false dichotomy because you're reading sensationalized summaries from click hungry news sights. They're not going to go over the discussions of grey area in the main papers since those don't make good headlines...
for a cooldown in the trailer? You know, you don't have to show the boring part where you balance gameplay in the *bleepin'* trailer...
While I'm on the subject, did Pixar do the trailer? If not they should sue. It looks so much like the Incredibles I was genuinely disappointed when nobody in red tights showed up.
It does look like it's gonna be another generic class based shooter though. It's gonna be hard for blizzard to pry users away from Valve. Funny, because they usually are on the other end of that equation with WoW.
our entire society is based on cheap gas. If you could put the tax money into public transportation and housing for the middle class and poor that'd be one thing. But you might find it easier to give everyone magic zero-emissions flying carpets than that. The public health benefits will be immediately lost when we all ratchet up our work weeks to 80 to pay for gas.
The entire point of the article is that lower gas prices are going to put the breaks on a massive energy tech boom. To coin another/. meme, rtfs (read the _fine_ summary):P
the dangers of the police state pale in comparison to what 40 years of declining wages and eroding worker's rights have done. When it comes right down to it money is freedom. The rich don't worry about stop and frisk....
in the form of higher merchant fees. A substantial amount of the fees Card Issuers and Merchant Banks charge is to cover the inevitable fraud. Cut that down and the merchants get charged less (there's tonnes of competition in the payment world, contrary to popular belief. Just look at Square). Merchants get charged less are likely to pass less of those fees on to you. So there you go.
to self-discipline go on to lead healthy productive lives. That's sorta the problem. We don't need to build an education system catering to the go-getters. They'll figure it out on their own thank you very much.
Have you stopped to ask yourself _why_ people don't give up? Have you given any serious thought to how human psychology and brain chemistry affect education? The people at the head of the precious snowflake movement _have_. And time and again what they've found is that children are vulnerable. They often get very little positive reinforcement. Their parents don't like them, didn't want to have them, but were too socially constrained to give them up for adoption or use birth control.
Education is _hard_. It's a hard thing. The educators you're berating are doing a hard thing because they haven't given up. You, otoh, are all too ready to give up when a kid doesn't just succeed on his own...
This is where the whole "precious little snowflake" thing came from. People are only as smart as they think they are. This isn't the first study to show that. People will subconsciously cause themselves to fail in order to fit in with their self image. For all we don't like people getting praised for doing ok it's necessary for children (and adults) to build a positive self image before they can hope to succeed.
It take some fraud out of the equation by making it harder. That said, the combination of tokens, mobile payments, NFC and GPS is going to make fraud damn near impossible. Mix in some big data analytics and your Credit Auth systems will block anything that gets missed.
I know it's cool and hip to say the hackers will always find a way, but the reality is they won't. The credit card industry tolerates some fraud because the cost of eliminating it has been more than the cost of allowing it. That's changing. Big Data is cheap, and cell phones shift the cost of the user side tech to the end user. Book it, done.
when it's on sale for $5 bucks on Steam:). Seriously. I haven't bought a game for more than $10 bucks in years (Last one was Street Fighter x Tekken, they got $20 outa me). I've heard some devs say the trend worries them cause guys like me just wait for the sales...
it's the legal H1-Bs taking for jobs I used to have a shot at that I'm worried about. I don't plan on taking Pablo's place at the meatpacking plant, but I sorta had my eye on of of those cakewalk DB admin jobs that now go exclusively to H1-Bs.
Average household income in the US is $69,821. Google it. You pay $70k/yr in income tax? You're doing pretty well for yourself. Also your accountant sucks. That said, why the hell don't you stop asking why you pay so much in taxes and start asking why you're not getting anything for it? I got news for you, it's not Pablo's $20/mo free internet. Maybe it's all those swank tax shelters you aren't rich enough to qualify for?
if there's not difference between rich and poor there's no _reason_ to. Lord, the things that get up modded on/. these days. Go read a few studies on the affects of poverty and remind yourself how lucky you are. There's a reason they say people who grew up poor and made good 'escaped'...
They're doing the best they can. You have no ever-loving idea what happened with the projects. You just read the nonsense spouted by the right wing press and never take another glance.
The projects brought a whole bunch of really, really poor rural people into the cities to try and better their lives. Then the political winds changed and the funding for the social programs that would have supported them got cut. Suddenly they were stuck in a city with no jobs, no education, and no hope for getting either of them. Meanwhile manufacturing was being outsourced to China just as fast as it could be. Basically, we dumped a bunch of people into a ready made slum and called it a day.
Jesus, the stuff that can up-modded on/. these days...
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The top of the line guys need to care about tightly coupling classes. There's a _tonne_ of rank and file coding that can be done quick and dirty. Right now those jobs pay upwards to $80k/year; sometimes more. The goal here is to cut that in half in 10 years. An admirable goal if you're part of the investor class...
Because after 60+ years of cold war fear-mongering Americans are terrified of public works. Google "FEMA Camps" and see how many links are dead serious... :(
There's a reason we gave out cable monopolies. It was too expensive to build out the infrastructure w/o a guaranteed profit and we're too frightened of the gov't to just make it a public works project. It's either monopolies or figuring out how to counteract 50+ years of cold war propaganda about the evils of socialism...
but I pay $70/mo for good internet (that's just Internet, no TV/Phone).
The problem with relying on Fiber to save us is the same one we have with Oil & Gas right now. By the time competition is viable we're already paying so much that it impacts our overall Standard of Living ($4/gallon gas anyone?); and by then the monopolists have such massive war chests they can start off a price war the newbies can't hope to win ($2.50/gallon gas anyone?).
they were split up and then spent 20 years buying up the Baby Bells until they were right back where they started. There's an amusing video from the dailyshow of it how it happened that I can't seem to find right now. Corps can take a longer view then we can :(
The trouble with just Vote By Paper is it's equally vulnerable. It's not hard to make sure that it's tough to register for it. The mailings can (and have) "gone to the wrong address", etc, etc.
:P
I'm not opposed to vote by paper. Indeed the bottom rung of society will still need it (they can't afford a computer + internet connection). But a two pronged assault on voter suppression is definitely a good thing. If the lower classes could vote more I don't think we'd have lower classes
is what's wrong with paper. Long lines in poor neighborhoods. Broken machines. Polling places closing hours early when you know people can't take time off to vote
You'll never see voting day a national holiday because the powers that be don't want the lower caste voting. Progressives do though, and we're trying to come up with ways to combat voter suppression. From the progressive standpoint who cares if it gets hacked? The paper vote has already been hacked so to hell by voter suppression that things can't get any worse.
if you can afford it. I don't know anyone who takes public transportation if they don't have to. A drive that takes me 30 minutes by Car used to take a legally blind buddy of mine 90. Try spending 3 hours a day on a smelly bus with cheap, uncomfortable seats. Find when you're a teenager, not so much when you're 30.
With the Cost of Cars going up and up and becoming unattainable for many I'd like to see a real talk about public transportation. I'd also like to see Monkeys and Unicorns shoot out of Cowboy Neal's butt. I'm thinking the latter is for likely than the former...
Any major title is gonna see two things:
1. Patches.
2. Price drops.
So why not just wait for both?
mean there isn't near as much money in education as their used to be. Might not be enough to support Microsoft's desired profit margins. Besides, the kids are probably still using Office 365 anyway, so it's all good.
Don't you lose the free market aspect once you start imposing anti-trust regulations? I think the idea is the market should be able to take care of itself, but I can't see a way for that to work in practice.
is desperately trying to come up with a Free Market solution to Net Neutrality. E.g. some way he can get Net Neutrality (which he wants) w/o the government stepping in and requiring it (which he doesn't want).
His only solution is to let Net Neutrality go away. Then when ISPs raise rates through the roof competition becomes viable again. Sorta like how we started researching fracking and Shale Oil after gas hit $4/gallon.
I don't really see it as viable. For one thing gas is only dropping temporarily while OPEC kills off the competition. Comcast has already been caught using lawsuits to stifle competition and has literally told the FCC that's it's OK if they merge with Time Warner since they never have/never will compete with them; and that it's just too expensive for new players to enter the market. Personally I think there's just too much money to be made killing a free internet....
See this..
There are basically no credible scientists arguing if global warming is a thing. There are also no credible scientists arguing over whether it will negatively impact humanity. The argument is over what's causing it and the magnitude of the damage. Please note that the consensus is that the damage will be massive, it's just about _how_ massive....
As for social science, human behavior can be measured and predicted. You seem to dismiss this outright because our methods to date have been less than prefect. Also, if you're not actually in the social sciences and taking time out of your day to read the entirety of their works it does appear like a false dichotomy because you're reading sensationalized summaries from click hungry news sights. They're not going to go over the discussions of grey area in the main papers since those don't make good headlines...
for a cooldown in the trailer? You know, you don't have to show the boring part where you balance gameplay in the *bleepin'* trailer...
While I'm on the subject, did Pixar do the trailer? If not they should sue. It looks so much like the Incredibles I was genuinely disappointed when nobody in red tights showed up.
It does look like it's gonna be another generic class based shooter though. It's gonna be hard for blizzard to pry users away from Valve. Funny, because they usually are on the other end of that equation with WoW.
our entire society is based on cheap gas. If you could put the tax money into public transportation and housing for the middle class and poor that'd be one thing. But you might find it easier to give everyone magic zero-emissions flying carpets than that. The public health benefits will be immediately lost when we all ratchet up our work weeks to 80 to pay for gas.
The entire point of the article is that lower gas prices are going to put the breaks on a massive energy tech boom. To coin another /. meme, rtfs (read the _fine_ summary) :P
the dangers of the police state pale in comparison to what 40 years of declining wages and eroding worker's rights have done. When it comes right down to it money is freedom. The rich don't worry about stop and frisk....
in the form of higher merchant fees. A substantial amount of the fees Card Issuers and Merchant Banks charge is to cover the inevitable fraud. Cut that down and the merchants get charged less (there's tonnes of competition in the payment world, contrary to popular belief. Just look at Square). Merchants get charged less are likely to pass less of those fees on to you. So there you go.
to self-discipline go on to lead healthy productive lives. That's sorta the problem. We don't need to build an education system catering to the go-getters. They'll figure it out on their own thank you very much.
Have you stopped to ask yourself _why_ people don't give up? Have you given any serious thought to how human psychology and brain chemistry affect education? The people at the head of the precious snowflake movement _have_. And time and again what they've found is that children are vulnerable. They often get very little positive reinforcement. Their parents don't like them, didn't want to have them, but were too socially constrained to give them up for adoption or use birth control.
Education is _hard_. It's a hard thing. The educators you're berating are doing a hard thing because they haven't given up. You, otoh, are all too ready to give up when a kid doesn't just succeed on his own...
This is where the whole "precious little snowflake" thing came from. People are only as smart as they think they are. This isn't the first study to show that. People will subconsciously cause themselves to fail in order to fit in with their self image. For all we don't like people getting praised for doing ok it's necessary for children (and adults) to build a positive self image before they can hope to succeed.
It take some fraud out of the equation by making it harder. That said, the combination of tokens, mobile payments, NFC and GPS is going to make fraud damn near impossible. Mix in some big data analytics and your Credit Auth systems will block anything that gets missed.
I know it's cool and hip to say the hackers will always find a way, but the reality is they won't. The credit card industry tolerates some fraud because the cost of eliminating it has been more than the cost of allowing it. That's changing. Big Data is cheap, and cell phones shift the cost of the user side tech to the end user. Book it, done.
when it's on sale for $5 bucks on Steam :). Seriously. I haven't bought a game for more than $10 bucks in years (Last one was Street Fighter x Tekken, they got $20 outa me). I've heard some devs say the trend worries them cause guys like me just wait for the sales...
it's the legal H1-Bs taking for jobs I used to have a shot at that I'm worried about. I don't plan on taking Pablo's place at the meatpacking plant, but I sorta had my eye on of of those cakewalk DB admin jobs that now go exclusively to H1-Bs.
Average household income in the US is $69,821. Google it. You pay $70k/yr in income tax? You're doing pretty well for yourself. Also your accountant sucks. That said, why the hell don't you stop asking why you pay so much in taxes and start asking why you're not getting anything for it? I got news for you, it's not Pablo's $20/mo free internet. Maybe it's all those swank tax shelters you aren't rich enough to qualify for?
if there's not difference between rich and poor there's no _reason_ to. Lord, the things that get up modded on /. these days. Go read a few studies on the affects of poverty and remind yourself how lucky you are. There's a reason they say people who grew up poor and made good 'escaped'...
They're doing the best they can. You have no ever-loving idea what happened with the projects. You just read the nonsense spouted by the right wing press and never take another glance.
/. these days...
The projects brought a whole bunch of really, really poor rural people into the cities to try and better their lives. Then the political winds changed and the funding for the social programs that would have supported them got cut. Suddenly they were stuck in a city with no jobs, no education, and no hope for getting either of them. Meanwhile manufacturing was being outsourced to China just as fast as it could be. Basically, we dumped a bunch of people into a ready made slum and called it a day.
Jesus, the stuff that can up-modded on