Detroit went to hell when the Auto Industry moved to Japan/China/Mexico. Sure, there's mismanagement, but you get that everywhere (Silicon Valley, I'm lookin' at you). What _specifically_ could the Dems in Detroit do when their entire tax base lost their livelihoods and the 1%ers started cutting wages like mad? I guess they coulda done like West Virginia and cut environmental safety regs left/right. Only I hear you can't drink the water...
The Dems didn't help. You see, NAFTA pretty much wrecked what little was left of the blue collar industry there was. The Dems still supported it though, so there's that. The difference was the Reps basically said "Adapt or Die in a Fire" where the Dems wanted social programs to ease the pain.
There's other stuff the Reps did on a National level that hurt Detroit. See, that's sorta the problem Detroit has. They're a victim of outsourcing, off shoring, and a geneneral attact on the the middle class in America. There was a name for it back in the 90s: "Cheap Labor Conservatives". Sort of a response to "Tax and Spend Liberal". It's not as catchy though....
That's the trouble with Liberalism. It's complex answers to complex problems. It can't compete with Conservative ideology because it's not an ideology per se, just the desire to _do_ something instead of leaving everything to the "invisible hand"...:(
and govmint. 'cause having several hundred thousand jobs go overseas (and to Mexico, thanks NAFTA!) and then have to support a city with millions jobless while real wages plummeted for 40 years certainly had no impact whatsoever...
I know you're trolling, but even at that you're not too far off, it's just that the judge isn't necessarily greedy or evil. His perspective's just off.
I read an article about how contract law is taught in schools. The point the article made was that law schools teach sorta like medical school: first, do no harm. Basically, when lawyers & judges are faced with a contract suit, their looking for the optimal solution for _both_ parties. Their not exactly concerned with what's right or wrong, legal or illegal. They're asking themselves: how should I rule to make the maximum amount of money for everyone (including society at large)?
It's a weird sort of legal ethics. Basically, they mean well. They want everyone to come out ahead. But they're not exactly considering how the little guy is getting screwed per se...
What was in question was the code he wrote that managed playbooks. My understanding was this base line code had been in use since the 90s. If it was just a bunch of C functions that's not hard to imagine. I'm sure I could find some code in my Linux box from the gnu stuff that dates back to the 70s because there's nothing wrong with it:P
They want cheaper programmers, and they'll get'em anyway they can. If that means sacrificing the quality of education for short term gains in computer science grads, go for it.
Also, $60k/yr isn't much money in a lot of places, and not just NY & San Fransisco. Yeah, it's more than McDonald's, but you won't be starting a family on that. People stopped going into CS because they saw they jobs and the pay going away.
it's the only way they bother. Either the gov't pays for it and gives it away free for a private company to monetize, or the gov't requires the private company to pay for it in exchange for the revenue. Either way it pretty much boils down to the gov't paying for it.
I'm not complaining. I'm in favor of infrastructure investment. Just don't expect them to bother if it's their money on the line and they're not promised a tonne of long term profits (and a bail out if those profits never materialize). The kinda ppl that run cable companies are rich, and they didn't get rich taking risks.
if a country is nuts enough to consent to organ sales for cash then I don't think it'll be hard to make the regulations as loose as they need to be....
Unless you're very, very wealthy. Our last president (Bush jr) signed a law into effect that makes it impossible to discharge debt under $100,000. If you stop paying you're credit cards they just sell all the debt to one company and sue you. When the banks got all that bail out money and no regulation they took that chance to buy up hundreds of smaller cards and debt. Used to be you'd have $10k in debt with 5 companies, and the $2k wasn't enough to sue over. Now there's only a few big players in the industry and they swap debt until they have enough to sue over.
In the South they've got debter's prisons back. The way it works is they company sues, the judge orders $X amount of money to be paid per month, and if you don't pay... well you just violated a judges order. He holds you in contempt of court until you pay, and you stay in jail until your family comes up with the money. Good times...
With all the outsourcing and all our manufacturing jobs (that aren't done by robots) pretty much gone I see more and more adults in Fast Food. That means less of these jobs for teenagers. Plus American Kids get a _lot_ more homework now. They have to keep up with the standardized testing, and companies don't like training workers so they demanded the schools do _something_ so they don't have to, and the schools responded with a tonne of homework.
It boils down to an eroding middle class due to massive wealth inequality, but we're not allowed to talk about that (the same folks who benefit the most also own the media outlets). It's fun to watch these pundits that aren't allowed to talk about what's really happening (or who've got the blinders on too tightly to see) try to come with reasons for it.
to my Firefox extension and they were all kinda shady. Extension development is kinda niche to begin with, so I figured they were planning something like this. I'm just surprised it took so long for people to notice.
I don't see it as a huge problem though. Most extension developers are like me, hobbiests and enthusiasts. There's really only a few big ones (like Adblock Plus and Firebug) and those are big enough they're not a target for these sorts of things.
"Pretty soon you run out of spending other people's money" {sic}. Because the money is yours, not theirs, and they used guile and subterfuge to convince you otherwise...
And we're all Taxed to the Max. At the risk of being modded troll I'll point out that this is what happens when "Fiscal Con conservatives" get in power. You didn't think they were going to cut their own pet projects, did you? As the saying goes, this is why we can't have nice things...
I'm amazed you can look down on these people so much to write all that drivel but not enough to realize that they don't know better. Below a certain point of economic well being it's hard to function as a human being. You're not so much making choices as barely surviving.
I think it was the Wikipedia article that pointed it out. You can't make a hardware standard like you can for DVD players and CD players because the tech in game consoles is too pricey. You need to loss lead or you can't compete.
Now, if they games were $30 instead of $60 they might have a value proposition. But most big budget titles (Call of Duty, Skyrim, Assassin's Creed, etc) launch at $60.
a couple of well fed guys with well fed machine guns can take care of your poor. Look at North Korea if you need evidence. If it gets to that then we'll just have a 1000 years of "Dark Ages" like we did the last time it got to that. Then a plague will come along and kill off enough people that labor's in short supply again, or a big war will do the same, or both.
I'm hoping for a male birth control pill to fix matters peacefully.
when I was younger a data center needed 10x as many people and they were on site. Networks weren't fast enough for remote support. You had to pay people to travel, and that meant you had more people because some were in transit. I work in IT. I do the work of 3 or 4 techs from 10 years ago. I can fix 5 things in parallel. I used to have downtime, but now while one thing's running I move on to the next. My productivity is through the roof.
Then there's all the stuff I used to do by hand that I can automate now thanks to cheap computing power. Plus there's an entire class of programmer out of work because it's cheaper to throw more hardware at a problem then to hire more programers. I buy hardware once a year, a programmer costs money year round.
So yeah, we're losing jobs to automation. Sure, it's taking longer than everyone though to replace ppl. But just because it's slower than the boffins predicted doesn't mean it's not happening.
funny how all the wealthiest and most powerful men and women in the world identify as 'conservative' when they bother to at all. I guess there's Warren Buffet, but he's more a freak of nature than anything else. And for all this talk he's not really active politically.
Yes, every system has entropy, but there's plenty you can do to resist change. Anyone remember the "Dark Ages"?
The Internet is one part of a large scale shift in automating jobs that's destroying the middle class. We just don't need all these people working. The author knows this. He knows logically that if 90% of all work is done by machines that there won't be enough work left over to support a middle class composed of laborers, but he's spent his whole life having the idea that if you don't work for it it's not yours hammered into his skull.
So he comes up with silly ideas charging companies get charged large fees to use our personal information. He's done an end run around his dogmatic belief in capitalism and created socialism in everything but name. If it seems nuts that's because it is. It's double think.
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Detroit went to hell when the Auto Industry moved to Japan/China/Mexico. Sure, there's mismanagement, but you get that everywhere (Silicon Valley, I'm lookin' at you). What _specifically_ could the Dems in Detroit do when their entire tax base lost their livelihoods and the 1%ers started cutting wages like mad? I guess they coulda done like West Virginia and cut environmental safety regs left/right. Only I hear you can't drink the water...
The Dems didn't help. You see, NAFTA pretty much wrecked what little was left of the blue collar industry there was. The Dems still supported it though, so there's that. The difference was the Reps basically said "Adapt or Die in a Fire" where the Dems wanted social programs to ease the pain.
:(
There's other stuff the Reps did on a National level that hurt Detroit. See, that's sorta the problem Detroit has. They're a victim of outsourcing, off shoring, and a geneneral attact on the the middle class in America. There was a name for it back in the 90s: "Cheap Labor Conservatives". Sort of a response to "Tax and Spend Liberal". It's not as catchy though....
That's the trouble with Liberalism. It's complex answers to complex problems. It can't compete with Conservative ideology because it's not an ideology per se, just the desire to _do_ something instead of leaving everything to the "invisible hand"...
and govmint. 'cause having several hundred thousand jobs go overseas (and to Mexico, thanks NAFTA!) and then have to support a city with millions jobless while real wages plummeted for 40 years certainly had no impact whatsoever...
I know you're trolling, but even at that you're not too far off, it's just that the judge isn't necessarily greedy or evil. His perspective's just off.
I read an article about how contract law is taught in schools. The point the article made was that law schools teach sorta like medical school: first, do no harm. Basically, when lawyers & judges are faced with a contract suit, their looking for the optimal solution for _both_ parties. Their not exactly concerned with what's right or wrong, legal or illegal. They're asking themselves: how should I rule to make the maximum amount of money for everyone (including society at large)?
It's a weird sort of legal ethics. Basically, they mean well. They want everyone to come out ahead. But they're not exactly considering how the little guy is getting screwed per se...
What was in question was the code he wrote that managed playbooks. My understanding was this base line code had been in use since the 90s. If it was just a bunch of C functions that's not hard to imagine. I'm sure I could find some code in my Linux box from the gnu stuff that dates back to the 70s because there's nothing wrong with it :P
They want cheaper programmers, and they'll get'em anyway they can. If that means sacrificing the quality of education for short term gains in computer science grads, go for it.
Also, $60k/yr isn't much money in a lot of places, and not just NY & San Fransisco. Yeah, it's more than McDonald's, but you won't be starting a family on that. People stopped going into CS because they saw they jobs and the pay going away.
are you saying "Super Bubble Pop 2" _isn't_ a systems application?
we had this thing called "Regulation" that we used to stop companies from doing bad things. Those were good times, good times...
it's the only way they bother. Either the gov't pays for it and gives it away free for a private company to monetize, or the gov't requires the private company to pay for it in exchange for the revenue. Either way it pretty much boils down to the gov't paying for it.
I'm not complaining. I'm in favor of infrastructure investment. Just don't expect them to bother if it's their money on the line and they're not promised a tonne of long term profits (and a bail out if those profits never materialize). The kinda ppl that run cable companies are rich, and they didn't get rich taking risks.
if a country is nuts enough to consent to organ sales for cash then I don't think it'll be hard to make the regulations as loose as they need to be....
Unless you're very, very wealthy. Our last president (Bush jr) signed a law into effect that makes it impossible to discharge debt under $100,000. If you stop paying you're credit cards they just sell all the debt to one company and sue you. When the banks got all that bail out money and no regulation they took that chance to buy up hundreds of smaller cards and debt. Used to be you'd have $10k in debt with 5 companies, and the $2k wasn't enough to sue over. Now there's only a few big players in the industry and they swap debt until they have enough to sue over.
In the South they've got debter's prisons back. The way it works is they company sues, the judge orders $X amount of money to be paid per month, and if you don't pay... well you just violated a judges order. He holds you in contempt of court until you pay, and you stay in jail until your family comes up with the money. Good times...
when my mother passed I was pretty broke. The mortuary offered to buy her remains from me (I said no).
and you'll find plenty of ex-patriot doctors from China talking about prisoners killed for their organs...
With all the outsourcing and all our manufacturing jobs (that aren't done by robots) pretty much gone I see more and more adults in Fast Food. That means less of these jobs for teenagers. Plus American Kids get a _lot_ more homework now. They have to keep up with the standardized testing, and companies don't like training workers so they demanded the schools do _something_ so they don't have to, and the schools responded with a tonne of homework.
It boils down to an eroding middle class due to massive wealth inequality, but we're not allowed to talk about that (the same folks who benefit the most also own the media outlets). It's fun to watch these pundits that aren't allowed to talk about what's really happening (or who've got the blinders on too tightly to see) try to come with reasons for it.
to my Firefox extension and they were all kinda shady. Extension development is kinda niche to begin with, so I figured they were planning something like this. I'm just surprised it took so long for people to notice.
I don't see it as a huge problem though. Most extension developers are like me, hobbiests and enthusiasts. There's really only a few big ones (like Adblock Plus and Firebug) and those are big enough they're not a target for these sorts of things.
"Pretty soon you run out of spending other people's money" {sic}. Because the money is yours, not theirs, and they used guile and subterfuge to convince you otherwise...
And we're all Taxed to the Max. At the risk of being modded troll I'll point out that this is what happens when "Fiscal Con conservatives" get in power. You didn't think they were going to cut their own pet projects, did you? As the saying goes, this is why we can't have nice things...
I'm amazed you can look down on these people so much to write all that drivel but not enough to realize that they don't know better. Below a certain point of economic well being it's hard to function as a human being. You're not so much making choices as barely surviving.
If you're going to go that far just tie their tubes?
I think it was the Wikipedia article that pointed it out. You can't make a hardware standard like you can for DVD players and CD players because the tech in game consoles is too pricey. You need to loss lead or you can't compete.
Now, if they games were $30 instead of $60 they might have a value proposition. But most big budget titles (Call of Duty, Skyrim, Assassin's Creed, etc) launch at $60.
a couple of well fed guys with well fed machine guns can take care of your poor. Look at North Korea if you need evidence. If it gets to that then we'll just have a 1000 years of "Dark Ages" like we did the last time it got to that. Then a plague will come along and kill off enough people that labor's in short supply again, or a big war will do the same, or both.
I'm hoping for a male birth control pill to fix matters peacefully.
when I was younger a data center needed 10x as many people and they were on site. Networks weren't fast enough for remote support. You had to pay people to travel, and that meant you had more people because some were in transit. I work in IT. I do the work of 3 or 4 techs from 10 years ago. I can fix 5 things in parallel. I used to have downtime, but now while one thing's running I move on to the next. My productivity is through the roof.
Then there's all the stuff I used to do by hand that I can automate now thanks to cheap computing power. Plus there's an entire class of programmer out of work because it's cheaper to throw more hardware at a problem then to hire more programers. I buy hardware once a year, a programmer costs money year round.
So yeah, we're losing jobs to automation. Sure, it's taking longer than everyone though to replace ppl. But just because it's slower than the boffins predicted doesn't mean it's not happening.
funny how all the wealthiest and most powerful men and women in the world identify as 'conservative' when they bother to at all. I guess there's Warren Buffet, but he's more a freak of nature than anything else. And for all this talk he's not really active politically.
Yes, every system has entropy, but there's plenty you can do to resist change. Anyone remember the "Dark Ages"?
The Internet is one part of a large scale shift in automating jobs that's destroying the middle class. We just don't need all these people working. The author knows this. He knows logically that if 90% of all work is done by machines that there won't be enough work left over to support a middle class composed of laborers, but he's spent his whole life having the idea that if you don't work for it it's not yours hammered into his skull.
So he comes up with silly ideas charging companies get charged large fees to use our personal information. He's done an end run around his dogmatic belief in capitalism and created socialism in everything but name. If it seems nuts that's because it is. It's double think.
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