Because PDFs open up correctly on just about any computer and PDF printers make it simple for end users to use a skill they already have (printing documents, and don't laugh, for a lot of people it was something they had to learn with real effort).
The driver on the 1650 was rock solid. It was like having an Nvidia card but without the crummy color quality (which even I, with my lousy color vision can see).
That said, the 4350 I tried to replace it with was junk. Nice card, good performance, dirt cheap, drivers crashed on everything but Call of Duty. I've heard that if you spend the big bucks ($400) you do alright, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't trust even $190 ranged cards. Which is sad, because $190 for what the R9 270 does is ridiculous...
history has shown siding with the rich works much, much better. I'm not asking that rhetorically either. What's so different about Valenzuela that buying votes this way would work (meekly hoping for a rational, well informed answer instead of more Ayn Rand inspired wargaharble...:( ).
more the educational one. The UK gov't pushed heavy on computers in education. In the States Apple practically gave them away, and Microsoft famously turned defeat into victory when they 'gave' millions of Windows licenses to schools as part of their Anti-trust settlement with Sun/Java.
at least not sane ones. If anyone knows the background on this though I'd love to hear it. This sounds more like a political attack on the owner of the store. I'm all for getting electronics into the hands of those less fortunate. But do it like Britain used to do with the old Z (that's Zed)x, not like this...
Is this just wrong? It lists $55 million US as the figure for the payout. Still half what I assumed but pretty good pay for being an 'owner' that contributes basically nothing (unless you count tourism, and I know that matters).
I've never really suggested we get rid of them (I don't think we have the power) I just want to use the gov't the same way they do: to improve my lot. The only difference is I want to improve everyone elses lot too while I'm at it. Like I said, socialism.
Um, socialism is working great in lots of European countries, mostly ones where the working class are hard to divide and conqueror because they see each other as neighbors (The Netherlands, France, Germany. France is having a hard time because of a large Muslim population that is being used to divide the working class.... sad to say...:( ).
I remember finding out that the reason the American South fought for slavery wasn't because it was profitable (slaves us up a lot of capital and immigrants are much cheaper since they have to take care of themselves), it was because it kept poor white southerns in their place by giving them a group to look down on. India's cast system does the same thing. Any time the ruling class divides labor socialism breaks down under their assault...
where do those profits come from, and what did the current generation of Royals do to 'earn' 8 million pounds a year? What ever it is I'd like me to do some of that...:)
you're never going to get rid of cronyism. So rather than trying to fight it in vain you should be asking how you can get yourself a piece of what Civilization has to offer.
I don't see the middle class and poor screwed by socialism. I do see them screwed by fascism (Stalin, Mao etc) which is usually what people mean when they say 'socialism'...
since if we don't 'deserve' anything then the world is dog eat dog, winner take all. But then what's the point of Civilization? As a rational person I rather like it.
Also, I'd like to believe that humanity as a species is capable to taking care of each other (e.g. providing food, shelter and health care to all) without resorting to starvation. If we're not, again, we're not much better than Monkeys. Heck, we might be worse. Monkeys don't torture each other for fun.
this is an old right wing attack on Socialism. It's based on the assumption that the ruling class 'earned' their wealth. It's easy enough to disprove just by pointing out the huge amounts of gov't contracts, free money and support nearly every one of the ruling class gets. Heck, last I heard the British still hand their Royalty something on the order of $100 million a year in free money. Basically, we all rely on 'other people's money', because money == labor in a modern society (like it or not there's not enough gold for it to be a standard) and sorta the entire point of having a Civilization is to work together for the common good. Otherwise it's just dog eat dog slavery.
The hard part isn't pointing all that out, it's boiling it down to a nice sound bite like Margaret did. Yeah, I can bang on all day about how we already produce enough food to feed 10 billion people, how automation is making the even 40 hour work week obsolete and about how single payer healthcare works better than the mess in North America. But that doesn't hit you in the gut like Margy's comment. It might be right (it is) but it doesn't _feel_ right. It doesn't appeal to common sense and emotion.
The problem socialists have is the right wing has simple answers to complex problems. Sure, they're self serving answers at best and horrifically wrong at worst, but given the choice it's much easier to get people to go along with them.
The busybodies in gov't also have no problem subsidizing their energy costs, but that gets blocked in favor of 'deficit reduction' despite the fact that it's not even a drop in a the swimming pool much less the bucket. There's a reason why Red States get more tax dollars than Blue ones. The Blue ones are full of busy bodies trying to help.
OTOH, the wealthy living in rural areas because they left the rotting cities don't much like the poors dirtying up the air. Read some of the other posts. Wood burning stoves in reasonably well populated areas put out a lot more particulate than you think.
So the next time you blame a liberal busy body stop and think about what's really going on and who really benefits...
because you're ignoring the core problem he's discussing because he didn't name it: idle capacity. The wealthiest Americans have 40% of their net worth in cash. They're not investing. They're grabbing all the wealth and grinding the US economy to a halt. If anyone calls them on this and suggests we use the gov't to address the idle economy they're shouted down with cries of "Theif!" and "Deficits!".
Basically, we have enormous idle capacity in our economy and it's getting worse because we're racing to give ownership of everything to an increasingly small number of people, and these people can't possible use that idle capacity. No matter how greedy you are there's only so many hours in the day to buy stuff with...
With all due respect why do we need to change anything. If you don't work you don't eat, because you haven't earned the right to eat (what's that old line? Coffee is for closers?).
To do otherwise is to rob Peter to pay Paul. How can you morally and legally justify taking money from group A to give to group B? I don't think you can safely say: because it's in the best interests of both groups, because if it's in the interest of group A then they'll do it on their own (Enlightened Self-Interest) and if it's not you're going to be forcing them to, usually at the barrel of a gun...
The trouble is everything above makes perfect sense and feels 'right' on a gut level. The only "rational" reason I can find for the sort of wealth redistribution that you're getting at as necessary is as insurance. If you're one of the haves you want it so you never have to fear becoming one of the have-nots. But people are, by their nature, egotistical. And if you're one of the haves you've probably already convinced yourself that will never happen. Heck, several studies show that by considering it as possible you increase the likelihood of it happening (e.g. people tend to take actions that reinforce their personal self image)...
Are there that many people running multi-mon flight sim and driving sims? I know there's the guy on here that bought a $1000.00 card 10 years ago, sells it every year for $800 and then buys another $1000.00 card with the proceeds. But I can't believe there are that many people on the bleeding edge. Heck, Crisis 3 ran on a 360...
The engineers and tech didn't kill Sun, bad Management and cheap Intel Linux boxes did. Sun should have dropped their hardware division sooner. Why buy 1 $100,000 Sun box when I can buy 5 $2,000 Intel boxes for the same.
Cheap labor didn't help them either. Sun boxes were a breeze to admin compared to Linux, but when wages for high level IT plummeted in the wake of off-shoring and outsourcing saving 20% on your admin's time wasn't worth as much. Heck, he was probably salaried so you could work him as many hours as you needed too:(. Also low TCO doesn't really help when you can't get enough credit to buy what you need up front. That's why Amazon web services is so popular even though the cost for CPU time is nuts.
Hindsight's 20/20 and I think we can all think of 20 things Sun coulda done to stay relevant though. But what it came down to is the Management didn't react to changing times.
about 30%-40% of the country is actively doing everything in their power to stop it. We've got entire states where the leadership there is outright flaunting federal law. The sad thing is it tends to be the states with the most people in need of help, where the 'leadership' did everything they could to prevent their constituents from getting that help...
I keep wondering what we're going to do with all these people. That's another 2800 people that aren't needed any more. There's nothing to retrain them for, and we're not willing to spend the money anyway. These days the solution seems to let them die in the gutter or fight among themselves for scraps....
my 22" monitor's picture doesn't get better after 1080p. Heck, a 40" tv doesn't... 4k is a novelty for anyone with less than a 70" except maybe die hard flight sim and racing fans.
is completely based on people. Everything starts out fine with the Gov't watching it and making sure it's safe, but safety costs a lot of $$$, and sooner or later somebody notices they could have that $$$ for themselves. The argument that every dollar gov't spends is just bureaucratic waste is pervasive and worse, it sounds plausible because it's easy to find pork projects and waste. Human's are pretty inefficient to begin with but when it's private waste you never know about it, because what company goes out of it's way to tell investors they spent $50 million on a software project that could've been done for $10 if it wasn't for hindsight:P. Gov't is public so that's all out in the open...
So the myth of bureaucratic waste passes the 'truthiness' test, and it gets applied to stuff like Nuclear safety inspections. They get privatized and before you know it a perfectly safe plant is now a disaster waiting to happen. The rich guy that pocketed the savings is 1000 miles away from ground zero so he doesn't care either. Worst case scenario he pays a $1 million dollar fine on $1 billion in profits...
I haven't been able to come up with a solution for this. Heck, most people don't even recognize it as a problem. They focus on the technical problems not the human ones. Until Nuclear can be done so safely that there's no money in ignoring safety it won't work...
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and use it to feed poor people? It's not like there's any shortage of them...
Because PDFs open up correctly on just about any computer and PDF printers make it simple for end users to use a skill they already have (printing documents, and don't laugh, for a lot of people it was something they had to learn with real effort).
The driver on the 1650 was rock solid. It was like having an Nvidia card but without the crummy color quality (which even I, with my lousy color vision can see).
That said, the 4350 I tried to replace it with was junk. Nice card, good performance, dirt cheap, drivers crashed on everything but Call of Duty. I've heard that if you spend the big bucks ($400) you do alright, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't trust even $190 ranged cards. Which is sad, because $190 for what the R9 270 does is ridiculous...
history has shown siding with the rich works much, much better. I'm not asking that rhetorically either. What's so different about Valenzuela that buying votes this way would work (meekly hoping for a rational, well informed answer instead of more Ayn Rand inspired wargaharble... :( ).
more the educational one. The UK gov't pushed heavy on computers in education. In the States Apple practically gave them away, and Microsoft famously turned defeat into victory when they 'gave' millions of Windows licenses to schools as part of their Anti-trust settlement with Sun/Java.
at least not sane ones. If anyone knows the background on this though I'd love to hear it. This sounds more like a political attack on the owner of the store. I'm all for getting electronics into the hands of those less fortunate. But do it like Britain used to do with the old Z (that's Zed)x, not like this...
Is this just wrong? It lists $55 million US as the figure for the payout. Still half what I assumed but pretty good pay for being an 'owner' that contributes basically nothing (unless you count tourism, and I know that matters).
I've never really suggested we get rid of them (I don't think we have the power) I just want to use the gov't the same way they do: to improve my lot. The only difference is I want to improve everyone elses lot too while I'm at it. Like I said, socialism.
Um, socialism is working great in lots of European countries, mostly ones where the working class are hard to divide and conqueror because they see each other as neighbors (The Netherlands, France, Germany. France is having a hard time because of a large Muslim population that is being used to divide the working class.... sad to say... :( ).
I remember finding out that the reason the American South fought for slavery wasn't because it was profitable (slaves us up a lot of capital and immigrants are much cheaper since they have to take care of themselves), it was because it kept poor white southerns in their place by giving them a group to look down on. India's cast system does the same thing. Any time the ruling class divides labor socialism breaks down under their assault...
where do those profits come from, and what did the current generation of Royals do to 'earn' 8 million pounds a year? What ever it is I'd like me to do some of that... :)
you're never going to get rid of cronyism. So rather than trying to fight it in vain you should be asking how you can get yourself a piece of what Civilization has to offer.
I don't see the middle class and poor screwed by socialism. I do see them screwed by fascism (Stalin, Mao etc) which is usually what people mean when they say 'socialism'...
since if we don't 'deserve' anything then the world is dog eat dog, winner take all. But then what's the point of Civilization? As a rational person I rather like it.
Also, I'd like to believe that humanity as a species is capable to taking care of each other (e.g. providing food, shelter and health care to all) without resorting to starvation. If we're not, again, we're not much better than Monkeys. Heck, we might be worse. Monkeys don't torture each other for fun.
Don't forget the ISPs have more or less killed net neutrality and will soon be charging $$$ for bandwidth on the lines run with your tax dollars.
this is an old right wing attack on Socialism. It's based on the assumption that the ruling class 'earned' their wealth. It's easy enough to disprove just by pointing out the huge amounts of gov't contracts, free money and support nearly every one of the ruling class gets. Heck, last I heard the British still hand their Royalty something on the order of $100 million a year in free money. Basically, we all rely on 'other people's money', because money == labor in a modern society (like it or not there's not enough gold for it to be a standard) and sorta the entire point of having a Civilization is to work together for the common good. Otherwise it's just dog eat dog slavery.
The hard part isn't pointing all that out, it's boiling it down to a nice sound bite like Margaret did. Yeah, I can bang on all day about how we already produce enough food to feed 10 billion people, how automation is making the even 40 hour work week obsolete and about how single payer healthcare works better than the mess in North America. But that doesn't hit you in the gut like Margy's comment. It might be right (it is) but it doesn't _feel_ right. It doesn't appeal to common sense and emotion.
The problem socialists have is the right wing has simple answers to complex problems. Sure, they're self serving answers at best and horrifically wrong at worst, but given the choice it's much easier to get people to go along with them.
I can think of a lot of better uses for $23.8 million dollars then some toy car...
The busybodies in gov't also have no problem subsidizing their energy costs, but that gets blocked in favor of 'deficit reduction' despite the fact that it's not even a drop in a the swimming pool much less the bucket. There's a reason why Red States get more tax dollars than Blue ones. The Blue ones are full of busy bodies trying to help.
OTOH, the wealthy living in rural areas because they left the rotting cities don't much like the poors dirtying up the air. Read some of the other posts. Wood burning stoves in reasonably well populated areas put out a lot more particulate than you think.
So the next time you blame a liberal busy body stop and think about what's really going on and who really benefits...
because you're ignoring the core problem he's discussing because he didn't name it: idle capacity. The wealthiest Americans have 40% of their net worth in cash. They're not investing. They're grabbing all the wealth and grinding the US economy to a halt. If anyone calls them on this and suggests we use the gov't to address the idle economy they're shouted down with cries of "Theif!" and "Deficits!".
Basically, we have enormous idle capacity in our economy and it's getting worse because we're racing to give ownership of everything to an increasingly small number of people, and these people can't possible use that idle capacity. No matter how greedy you are there's only so many hours in the day to buy stuff with...
With all due respect why do we need to change anything. If you don't work you don't eat, because you haven't earned the right to eat (what's that old line? Coffee is for closers?).
To do otherwise is to rob Peter to pay Paul. How can you morally and legally justify taking money from group A to give to group B? I don't think you can safely say: because it's in the best interests of both groups, because if it's in the interest of group A then they'll do it on their own (Enlightened Self-Interest) and if it's not you're going to be forcing them to, usually at the barrel of a gun...
The trouble is everything above makes perfect sense and feels 'right' on a gut level. The only "rational" reason I can find for the sort of wealth redistribution that you're getting at as necessary is as insurance. If you're one of the haves you want it so you never have to fear becoming one of the have-nots. But people are, by their nature, egotistical. And if you're one of the haves you've probably already convinced yourself that will never happen. Heck, several studies show that by considering it as possible you increase the likelihood of it happening (e.g. people tend to take actions that reinforce their personal self image)...
I just think the author didn't want to end on a dystopian downer...
Are there that many people running multi-mon flight sim and driving sims? I know there's the guy on here that bought a $1000.00 card 10 years ago, sells it every year for $800 and then buys another $1000.00 card with the proceeds. But I can't believe there are that many people on the bleeding edge. Heck, Crisis 3 ran on a 360...
What would a terrorist do with a thermostat? Raise it so high global warming destroys the earth?
The engineers and tech didn't kill Sun, bad Management and cheap Intel Linux boxes did. Sun should have dropped their hardware division sooner. Why buy 1 $100,000 Sun box when I can buy 5 $2,000 Intel boxes for the same.
:(. Also low TCO doesn't really help when you can't get enough credit to buy what you need up front. That's why Amazon web services is so popular even though the cost for CPU time is nuts.
Cheap labor didn't help them either. Sun boxes were a breeze to admin compared to Linux, but when wages for high level IT plummeted in the wake of off-shoring and outsourcing saving 20% on your admin's time wasn't worth as much. Heck, he was probably salaried so you could work him as many hours as you needed too
Hindsight's 20/20 and I think we can all think of 20 things Sun coulda done to stay relevant though. But what it came down to is the Management didn't react to changing times.
about 30%-40% of the country is actively doing everything in their power to stop it. We've got entire states where the leadership there is outright flaunting federal law. The sad thing is it tends to be the states with the most people in need of help, where the 'leadership' did everything they could to prevent their constituents from getting that help...
I keep wondering what we're going to do with all these people. That's another 2800 people that aren't needed any more. There's nothing to retrain them for, and we're not willing to spend the money anyway. These days the solution seems to let them die in the gutter or fight among themselves for scraps....
my 22" monitor's picture doesn't get better after 1080p. Heck, a 40" tv doesn't... 4k is a novelty for anyone with less than a 70" except maybe die hard flight sim and racing fans.
is completely based on people. Everything starts out fine with the Gov't watching it and making sure it's safe, but safety costs a lot of $$$, and sooner or later somebody notices they could have that $$$ for themselves. The argument that every dollar gov't spends is just bureaucratic waste is pervasive and worse, it sounds plausible because it's easy to find pork projects and waste. Human's are pretty inefficient to begin with but when it's private waste you never know about it, because what company goes out of it's way to tell investors they spent $50 million on a software project that could've been done for $10 if it wasn't for hindsight :P. Gov't is public so that's all out in the open...
So the myth of bureaucratic waste passes the 'truthiness' test, and it gets applied to stuff like Nuclear safety inspections. They get privatized and before you know it a perfectly safe plant is now a disaster waiting to happen. The rich guy that pocketed the savings is 1000 miles away from ground zero so he doesn't care either. Worst case scenario he pays a $1 million dollar fine on $1 billion in profits...
I haven't been able to come up with a solution for this. Heck, most people don't even recognize it as a problem. They focus on the technical problems not the human ones. Until Nuclear can be done so safely that there's no money in ignoring safety it won't work...