because all potential candidates are vetted by the rich before you and I get a chance to vote on them. We're basically picking which corporate shill we like the best...
ET wasn't nearly as bad as everyone said. Judged by the standards of the time it was just mediocre. Its failure had more to do with a major recession in America than anything else. Minecraft was an untapped market (builder games). It didn't occur to anyone that there was a large number of people that wanted a Lego Simulator. It's an entirely different type of 'gameplay' and when it was pitched to people in the industry they just figured it would be a failure.
You can build it without the non-free stuff if you want. It's fine that the FSF is condemning this. It's sorta against everything they stand for, which I get. But I can't get too cheesed off about this since I can always run iceweasel (or was it something else these days...)?
you can only donate to candidates that you can vote for, and only so much money. Everyone gets the same amount of "Free Speech" then. All that's left after that is to enforce equal air time laws.
can ppl not post in this thread? I mean, the only thing here are a few trolls the mod's haven't bothered to ban... I know Halo isn't 2014's hottest franchise but you'd think someone on/. would comment on it...
Seriously. They're not. They don't have the same rights as adults, nor should they. They're not fully developed human beings. We don't let them drive, for instance. It's not just because they're too short to reach the petals, you know? It's also because they're ability to make complex judgements isn't as fully formed.
Sure, we have to draw the line somewhere, but it's a complex topic of where to draw the line. And a knee jerk reaction of "Because Freedom!" isn't the way to make that decision. See here for reasons why data mining kids is a _good_ thing.
one of the nasty parts of our history they don't teach is that large sections of our Constitution and the basis of our Representative government were designed to keep poor people from voting themselves the land that the wealthy had already claimed. It's all right there is books and documents from the time. There really wasn't any reason to hide it since if you were literate you were probably rich.
my kid works like a dog. Christ, she works harder than I do. And her classmates are working even harder. 4 to 6 hours of homework a night isn't unheard of. It's fsckin'
nuts.
But you're right about them not being dumb. Just about everyone in IT except a few rock stars at google is here on an H1-B. Why in God's good name would anyone go into computer science?
Post office is model of efficiency, and studies show private and charter schools spend more on administrative costs (read:profit for the owners) that public schools. But hey, keep repeating a lie often enough and it's bound to become true sooner or later, right?
Or could it be that good education is really, really expensive, and that $100 million dollars isn't really a lot of money on the scale of a State of American. Could it also be that a lot of that $100 million was spent on trying to make the school district turn out cheap employees for facebook?
wanted an ATI card. Better performance and Image Quality for less money, but I just don't have time to be screwing around with making games work:(. I miss the hey-day of my 1650. $90 bucks, rock solid stable and fast. Just couldn't keep up.
there are some people that need significantly less downtime, even a few that need none whatsoever. The heuristics for identifying these people aren't that complex either, which is why companies make you take a personality test when they hire now.
As automation eliminates work you can get by with just these people. Keep in mind they're very, very productive. And thanks to the over supply of labor they don't even cost that much.
I noticed it in 2008 when the economy crashed. Companies fired like crazy, and when the economy recovered they only did modest hiring but maintained the same level of productivity.
We're running out of work to do, but we don't have any socially acceptable way to distribute wealth w/o work. This should be fun.
How will they regulate insurance? Professional drivers carry different (and more) insurance.
Also, has anyone given a thought to supply and demand? There was just a story that said people weren't doing this out of love or entrepreneurial, but out of desperation (thanks! 30 years of declining wages). One of the other reasons to limit the supply of cabbies is so somebody can make a living off it. I suppose it's OK that we're all working 4 jobs 16 hours a day too though...
It's like that everywhere except small business. Scott Adams was only half joking when he made that Dilbert strip about nobody remembering the outcome of the projects you've been on...
it's the closest we can get to socialism in this country. Bascially, America has a huge amount of idle economic capacity. The wealthy can't even begin to tap it, but they have so much of the wealth that left to their own the entire economy would grind to a halt. So we tax and spend because it's the only way to get things moving. It's that or the Dark Ages and 1000 years of nothing...
Juicy contracts go to people that donate. I remember seeing a study that showed that donating to Senators had something like a 50% return on investment. It's not surprising that all that's left after the cronies get a pick are bum contracts. The good contracts go to the Kochs of the world.
It's too much money for that. Coal is on the way out. Real "Clean" Coal is expensive as hell. Solar has gotten cheaper if you're not offsetting the costs by dumping pollution into the air and water and letting the gov't clean it up. I think they're just going to sell off what they've got while they stock price is still pretty high.
why is it supply and demand go out the window whenever there's a discussion on labor? There's such a thing as an over saturated market, you know? We have a labor _surplus_. Besides, isn't the whole point that this work has to be done? Why can't the companies train? Are Americans just too dumb to learn?
Moreover, H1-Bs are taking top tier jobs (and depressing the wages). The jobs they create are low pay service sector.
if the postman throws your mail out instead of delivering it he'll go to jail for 30 years. If the 1% steal 50% of the countries wealth we look the other way.
It's mostly because of our political system. Our constitution was set up to keep wealthy white land owners from having their wealth voted out by the great unwashed masses. That's the real reason why we're a republic, but they sorta gloss over that in school here.
and our weak neighbors gives this country a stability few have. There are advantages to having a company in America.
Also, if they want to go overseas let 'em. They get to go home, but don't let them take the ball. Use eminent domain to seize their land and factories if you have to. But I don't see any good reason to let the rich and powerful usher in a new dark age while we fight amongst ourselves. There's plenty of wealth in America, and if you want to leave you don't get to take that wealth with you.
We've already established companies are gaming the system by bringing in low skill workers to fill jobs so they won't have to pay market wages. Wouldn't they just flood the market with more H1-Bs until the Average got to where they want to be?
Let me put it this way, if the Average salary w/o H1-Bs is $120k/year and with it's $45k/year, then even if you make it a 120% increase the companies come out ahead...
See, you're thinking short term, as a member of the working class does. Think long term, like a member of the ruling class, and then it all makes a sick kind of sense....
and blue rays, but with hulu+netflix I won't normally let her buy them. I think people still like media, but at $25+ bucks a pop for a Blue Ray (and with a pretty weak economy) I think ppl are settling for what they can afford.
And no, they're not mismanged. Gov't is a lot more efficient than you give it credit for. _Everything_ is mismanaged to a degree. Especially in a large organization. But large organizations are often the only way to get things done. Large scale cooperation is necessary to do anything major, like keep the piece in a city with over a million people...
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because all potential candidates are vetted by the rich before you and I get a chance to vote on them. We're basically picking which corporate shill we like the best...
ET wasn't nearly as bad as everyone said. Judged by the standards of the time it was just mediocre. Its failure had more to do with a major recession in America than anything else. Minecraft was an untapped market (builder games). It didn't occur to anyone that there was a large number of people that wanted a Lego Simulator. It's an entirely different type of 'gameplay' and when it was pitched to people in the industry they just figured it would be a failure.
You can build it without the non-free stuff if you want. It's fine that the FSF is condemning this. It's sorta against everything they stand for, which I get. But I can't get too cheesed off about this since I can always run iceweasel (or was it something else these days...)?
you can only donate to candidates that you can vote for, and only so much money. Everyone gets the same amount of "Free Speech" then. All that's left after that is to enforce equal air time laws.
can ppl not post in this thread? I mean, the only thing here are a few trolls the mod's haven't bothered to ban... I know Halo isn't 2014's hottest franchise but you'd think someone on /. would comment on it...
Seriously. They're not. They don't have the same rights as adults, nor should they. They're not fully developed human beings. We don't let them drive, for instance. It's not just because they're too short to reach the petals, you know? It's also because they're ability to make complex judgements isn't as fully formed.
Sure, we have to draw the line somewhere, but it's a complex topic of where to draw the line. And a knee jerk reaction of "Because Freedom!" isn't the way to make that decision. See here for reasons why data mining kids is a _good_ thing.
one of the nasty parts of our history they don't teach is that large sections of our Constitution and the basis of our Representative government were designed to keep poor people from voting themselves the land that the wealthy had already claimed. It's all right there is books and documents from the time. There really wasn't any reason to hide it since if you were literate you were probably rich.
Could be worse. And at least it's a little harder to offshore since there are cultural differences.
my kid works like a dog. Christ, she works harder than I do. And her classmates are working even harder. 4 to 6 hours of homework a night isn't unheard of. It's fsckin' nuts.
But you're right about them not being dumb. Just about everyone in IT except a few rock stars at google is here on an H1-B. Why in God's good name would anyone go into computer science?
Post office is model of efficiency, and studies show private and charter schools spend more on administrative costs (read:profit for the owners) that public schools. But hey, keep repeating a lie often enough and it's bound to become true sooner or later, right?
Or could it be that good education is really, really expensive, and that $100 million dollars isn't really a lot of money on the scale of a State of American. Could it also be that a lot of that $100 million was spent on trying to make the school district turn out cheap employees for facebook?
wanted an ATI card. Better performance and Image Quality for less money, but I just don't have time to be screwing around with making games work :(. I miss the hey-day of my 1650. $90 bucks, rock solid stable and fast. Just couldn't keep up.
and if productivity keeps increasing they'll be more than enough of the ones that can to go around for the few jobs that're left...
there are some people that need significantly less downtime, even a few that need none whatsoever. The heuristics for identifying these people aren't that complex either, which is why companies make you take a personality test when they hire now.
As automation eliminates work you can get by with just these people. Keep in mind they're very, very productive. And thanks to the over supply of labor they don't even cost that much.
I noticed it in 2008 when the economy crashed. Companies fired like crazy, and when the economy recovered they only did modest hiring but maintained the same level of productivity.
We're running out of work to do, but we don't have any socially acceptable way to distribute wealth w/o work. This should be fun.
How will they regulate insurance? Professional drivers carry different (and more) insurance.
Also, has anyone given a thought to supply and demand? There was just a story that said people weren't doing this out of love or entrepreneurial, but out of desperation (thanks! 30 years of declining wages). One of the other reasons to limit the supply of cabbies is so somebody can make a living off it. I suppose it's OK that we're all working 4 jobs 16 hours a day too though...
It's like that everywhere except small business. Scott Adams was only half joking when he made that Dilbert strip about nobody remembering the outcome of the projects you've been on...
it's the closest we can get to socialism in this country. Bascially, America has a huge amount of idle economic capacity. The wealthy can't even begin to tap it, but they have so much of the wealth that left to their own the entire economy would grind to a halt. So we tax and spend because it's the only way to get things moving. It's that or the Dark Ages and 1000 years of nothing...
Juicy contracts go to people that donate. I remember seeing a study that showed that donating to Senators had something like a 50% return on investment. It's not surprising that all that's left after the cronies get a pick are bum contracts. The good contracts go to the Kochs of the world.
It's too much money for that. Coal is on the way out. Real "Clean" Coal is expensive as hell. Solar has gotten cheaper if you're not offsetting the costs by dumping pollution into the air and water and letting the gov't clean it up. I think they're just going to sell off what they've got while they stock price is still pretty high.
why is it supply and demand go out the window whenever there's a discussion on labor? There's such a thing as an over saturated market, you know? We have a labor _surplus_. Besides, isn't the whole point that this work has to be done? Why can't the companies train? Are Americans just too dumb to learn?
Moreover, H1-Bs are taking top tier jobs (and depressing the wages). The jobs they create are low pay service sector.
if the postman throws your mail out instead of delivering it he'll go to jail for 30 years. If the 1% steal 50% of the countries wealth we look the other way.
It's mostly because of our political system. Our constitution was set up to keep wealthy white land owners from having their wealth voted out by the great unwashed masses. That's the real reason why we're a republic, but they sorta gloss over that in school here.
and our weak neighbors gives this country a stability few have. There are advantages to having a company in America.
Also, if they want to go overseas let 'em. They get to go home, but don't let them take the ball. Use eminent domain to seize their land and factories if you have to. But I don't see any good reason to let the rich and powerful usher in a new dark age while we fight amongst ourselves. There's plenty of wealth in America, and if you want to leave you don't get to take that wealth with you.
We've already established companies are gaming the system by bringing in low skill workers to fill jobs so they won't have to pay market wages. Wouldn't they just flood the market with more H1-Bs until the Average got to where they want to be?
Let me put it this way, if the Average salary w/o H1-Bs is $120k/year and with it's $45k/year, then even if you make it a 120% increase the companies come out ahead...
See, you're thinking short term, as a member of the working class does. Think long term, like a member of the ruling class, and then it all makes a sick kind of sense....
and blue rays, but with hulu+netflix I won't normally let her buy them. I think people still like media, but at $25+ bucks a pop for a Blue Ray (and with a pretty weak economy) I think ppl are settling for what they can afford.
you _are_ paying all you can. The Rich aren't.
And no, they're not mismanged. Gov't is a lot more efficient than you give it credit for. _Everything_ is mismanaged to a degree. Especially in a large organization. But large organizations are often the only way to get things done. Large scale cooperation is necessary to do anything major, like keep the piece in a city with over a million people...