I can go down to costco tomorrow and buy enough solar to power my house and as long as my wiring meets code I'm good. And it's the same damn codes that builders follow wiring any other residential crap.
I've said this before and I'm sure I'll say it again: stop blaming the phantom 'bureaucracy' for all your woes. There's a bloody good reason we have regulations about how homes are wired. You know fire can spread, right?
Also, major citation needed on solar panels for pennies. Got the/. article. Seriously, I'd like to see your patent. You'll be rich.
Europe's a big enough market that we started building them a bit better. Mostly because it was too expensive to run one production line for crap American Cars and one for Decent Euro cars. They're not great, but they'll do 140,000 miles.
until we have robots to build and run the tanks and jets that run our military industrial complex and enforce the will and desires of large corporations we still need a few factories. That's why we keep bailing out the auto industry. If we ever go to war for real you can't just build that stuff overnight. Wish I was joking...
The 'bomb' detectors' work great. Sure, they have a high rate of failure, but all those false positives are a great reason to riffle through somebody's stuff looking for any old 'contraband' you're after.
Agreeing with you there:P. Basically, just because the robot economy was delayed 50 years by an influx of slave labor from China and a few tech hurdles doesn't mean it's not coming. 3-D printers + robots will either create a utopia or a world of 100,000 or so haves and 8 billion have nots. Given our track record I'm not betting on the utopia...
since the 80s. It always amazes me when people are surprised that laws aren't enforced when we've been slashing the budgets of these 'evil bureaucratic' for 30 years. Funny how the bureaucratic ain't evil when he's doing something you want done, ain't it? Buddy of mine is getting screwed over in the only job he could find. Starts life as an ardent anti-bureaucratic guy until he goes looking for the labor board to seek redress and finds out there isn't one.
Sure kids. Have all the laws protecting you're rights you want. We control the purse strings, so we just won't fund enforcement.
it's replacing workers at a fast pace. Sure, it slowed down a little because Chinese slave labor was cheaper than machines for a while. But that's not true anymore. Foxconn is replacing it's workforce with robots. When their done you think those people will be fed and taken care of? We barely let them live now when we've got a use for them...
businesses responded by buying laws that let them bring in refugees for cheap, disposable labor. That wasn't enough, so a new immigration bill is working it's way through the House right now that brings in 1 million new H1-Bs (technically 300,000, but since we don't send them home when their Visas expire it's really 1 mil) and 10 million unskilled labors.
My point is: you can't win. You can't 'not play the game'. The rich will use the gov't to their benefit and your detriment. The only question is are you going to do the same. If you don't think this is a war... well, the best kind of war is one the other side doesn't know their fighting.
And plenty have died horrible deaths in thresher machines. A few outliers doesn't make the average. Most of them live life slaves with no hope for advancement. We remember the ones that made it big, we occasionally read about the ones who were cut to pieces, but we ignore the everyday misery the bulk live in.
Christ, just look up on google what working in a meat packing plant is like. Or look up that article that says a 'temp' agency is America's second largest employer (Walmart's first). You can fall back on your nonsensical capitalism all you want. Reality doesn't work that way. That's just not what happens in the real world. The real world is a horrible place where everything is stacked against all but a lucky few, who use their privileges to the detriment of the rest of us.
I know you're trolling, but hey, the nonsense you spew is in the backs of people's minds for real. It's a 'Narrative'. A falsehood told to workers to make us fight amongst ourselves while the 1% laugh all the way to the bank with our time and money.
Start by googling the phrase 'working poor'. Then try to get on food stamps if you earn any amount over the poverty line. If you're single, try to get free health care. Won't happen.
And the meat packing plants are happy to hire you. Oh wait, you're a citizen? You can sue us if our dull knifes cause you to lose a finger? You want a steady food supply and health care for your kids? $4/hr isn't enough? 60 hours a week is a bit much? You want overtime? Sorry, you're just not what we're looking for.
'Weaponized Keynesianism' I've heard it called. About the only way you can get the top to give anything to the bottom is to scare them enough. Eisenhower wrote about it in his memoirs. The whole 'Military Industrial Complex'. Apart from that we run around the world ensuring corporations have safe, cheap labor (there's a general who wrote a book about being a Mob Enforcer for Fruit Companies).
Anyway, point is, automating our Military seems pointless. If we take away the pork all that's left is a particularly nasty way to make sure corporations get their way.
don't want cheap cars that result in injured drivers. They make their money when you wreak your car, not your body. In America insurance is mandatory, and the insurance companies pay out for medical claims (no socialized medicine here). A wreaked car is a one time expense where they give you 1/2 or less the value of the car and jack your rates way up (I've had friends turn down their own insurance claims because the rate increase was higher than the cost of a new car). Medical expenses though can be ongoing. I knew a gal that got rear ended by an SUV doing 40 mph (she was at a dead stop at a train crossing). She's had back surgery on and off for decades.
Want cheap, light vehicles America? Ban SUVs, get socialized medicine, or forget it.
give them jobs, families and a hope for the future instead of absolute poverty and a 'nothing to lose' life style. But turning military tactics against a sizable portion of our populace works too I guess.
my hardcore Call 'o Duty friends prefer it on the XBox because the dedicated servers make a huge difference. That's really why Sony's following suit with their own version of XBL. You really do want/need dedicated servers for multiplayer. Heck, Quake 2 had them in what, 1995...?
safe. Comfortable. The trouble with "Internet Friends" is you get to pick and choose at such a fine grade level that you don't learn to compromise or interact outside of that sandbox. I've got several friends who grew up with 'Internet Friends' and they have a habit of blurting out wildly inappropriate things because they never learned how not to....
But there are several things that give you an edge. A strong chin for men, nice curves for women. An extra 6" of height for either. There's tons of studies on the subject. You don't have to be truly beautiful to be enough above average to stand out and land a nicer job.
I'm 6"1' with a cleft chin, and as silly as it sounds it's helped me interviews and negotiations.
because I'm starting a small software business and not having much trouble with them. I suppose there's stuff like environmental regulations are tough to deal with. But there's a reason those regulations exist. Can you name some regulations you'd be happy to see go, or do you truly believe that we can leave businesses to care of the environment. Just in case you do, China's 'Cancer Villages' and the Love Canal would beg to differ...
As for corps (and the 1%, who are the real owners of them), I realize full well I can't take away the advantages they get from our Government. Realizing that, I propose instead to give those advantages to everyone, aka "Socialism". To paraphrase Gore Vidal: Capitalism for the poor and Socialism for the rich sucks. If I can't give the rich Capitalism I'll give the poor Socialism.
In the end, what I need is a better economic position so the 1% mega-corp owners can't abuse me. Money is freedom. You're not free if someone controls your access to food, shelter & medicine. Dieing of starvation or selling yourself at the company store isn't 'free'.
or very personable and good looking (which, since that's mostly genetics & upbringing is a kind of luck). Starbucks and bookstores are (relatively) cozy jobs. They also pay very marginally above minimum wage. Let's say she wound up at Walmart working 25 to 30 hours a week with the constant threat of firing if she didn't both stock the shelves _and_ run a cash register. Or how about an Amazon warehouse (Google it, awful, awful places to work). I don't think she'd be so cozy....
This is the worst economy in 50 years. Outsourcing and H1-Bs have depressed wages heavily. Whether you recognize it or not your daughter has far fewer opportunities than you did. Google "wealth inequity" for a start on that topic and add 'wage surpression' and 'Union Busting' (with a side of Walmart or McDonald's) too.
The hard part here is that you obviously care for your daughter, and so you want to have strong pride in her. You don't want to imagine that she can't overcome the challenges she faces. So you'll tell yourself it's enough to just boot her out and leave it at that, taking a sink or swim approach that ignore the polluted, radioactive water she's swimming in...
As has been pointed out, if the the driver's drunk and car wreaks and you're hurt, are your medical bills paid? Can you be sure the driver is going to charge uphold his end? Couldn't he get there, realize you're about to be late for an Airplane w/o time to call, and then charge more?
Right now it's self regulating because it's new, and there's a lot of venture capital in the system making that work. But give it 5 or 10 years after the VC funds run out and those same VCs want their ROI and corners start being cut. Then add the fact that a safely and well regulated business (Taxicabs) is now gone because they couldn't compete, and they'll stop kicking drivers out because, hey, they're makin' money off the bad drivers and the good.
I suspect people who know more about it can give a bigger list of why taxi cabs are regulated, but what I'm getting at is that there is a _reason_ we regulated things in the first place, and it's very often a good one. Sure, regulation can be a pain, but you take the good with the bad because before it life was nasty, brutish & short.
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I can go down to costco tomorrow and buy enough solar to power my house and as long as my wiring meets code I'm good. And it's the same damn codes that builders follow wiring any other residential crap.
/. article. Seriously, I'd like to see your patent. You'll be rich.
I've said this before and I'm sure I'll say it again: stop blaming the phantom 'bureaucracy' for all your woes. There's a bloody good reason we have regulations about how homes are wired. You know fire can spread, right?
Also, major citation needed on solar panels for pennies. Got the
Europe's a big enough market that we started building them a bit better. Mostly because it was too expensive to run one production line for crap American Cars and one for Decent Euro cars. They're not great, but they'll do 140,000 miles.
until we have robots to build and run the tanks and jets that run our military industrial complex and enforce the will and desires of large corporations we still need a few factories. That's why we keep bailing out the auto industry. If we ever go to war for real you can't just build that stuff overnight. Wish I was joking...
just pay them better and give them better health benefits. But using military grade training and manipulation techniques works too I guess...
The 'bomb' detectors' work great. Sure, they have a high rate of failure, but all those false positives are a great reason to riffle through somebody's stuff looking for any old 'contraband' you're after.
the world needs ditch diggers too, right?
:P. Basically, just because the robot economy was delayed 50 years by an influx of slave labor from China and a few tech hurdles doesn't mean it's not coming. 3-D printers + robots will either create a utopia or a world of 100,000 or so haves and 8 billion have nots. Given our track record I'm not betting on the utopia...
Agreeing with you there
See here.
since the 80s. It always amazes me when people are surprised that laws aren't enforced when we've been slashing the budgets of these 'evil bureaucratic' for 30 years. Funny how the bureaucratic ain't evil when he's doing something you want done, ain't it? Buddy of mine is getting screwed over in the only job he could find. Starts life as an ardent anti-bureaucratic guy until he goes looking for the labor board to seek redress and finds out there isn't one.
Sure kids. Have all the laws protecting you're rights you want. We control the purse strings, so we just won't fund enforcement.
how the heck are you going to fit a review of a technical manual in a 6 second video? That's ridiculous.
Oh, _Amazon_ Vine.... Well, carry on then...
it's replacing workers at a fast pace. Sure, it slowed down a little because Chinese slave labor was cheaper than machines for a while. But that's not true anymore. Foxconn is replacing it's workforce with robots. When their done you think those people will be fed and taken care of? We barely let them live now when we've got a use for them...
businesses responded by buying laws that let them bring in refugees for cheap, disposable labor. That wasn't enough, so a new immigration bill is working it's way through the House right now that brings in 1 million new H1-Bs (technically 300,000, but since we don't send them home when their Visas expire it's really 1 mil) and 10 million unskilled labors.
My point is: you can't win. You can't 'not play the game'. The rich will use the gov't to their benefit and your detriment. The only question is are you going to do the same. If you don't think this is a war... well, the best kind of war is one the other side doesn't know their fighting.
This is the most insightful thing I've read on /., well ever...
Seriously. Google it. It was outsourced. God Bless America, and the H1-B.
And plenty have died horrible deaths in thresher machines. A few outliers doesn't make the average. Most of them live life slaves with no hope for advancement. We remember the ones that made it big, we occasionally read about the ones who were cut to pieces, but we ignore the everyday misery the bulk live in.
Christ, just look up on google what working in a meat packing plant is like. Or look up that article that says a 'temp' agency is America's second largest employer (Walmart's first). You can fall back on your nonsensical capitalism all you want. Reality doesn't work that way. That's just not what happens in the real world. The real world is a horrible place where everything is stacked against all but a lucky few, who use their privileges to the detriment of the rest of us.
I know you're trolling, but hey, the nonsense you spew is in the backs of people's minds for real. It's a 'Narrative'. A falsehood told to workers to make us fight amongst ourselves while the 1% laugh all the way to the bank with our time and money.
Start by googling the phrase 'working poor'. Then try to get on food stamps if you earn any amount over the poverty line. If you're single, try to get free health care. Won't happen.
And the meat packing plants are happy to hire you. Oh wait, you're a citizen? You can sue us if our dull knifes cause you to lose a finger? You want a steady food supply and health care for your kids? $4/hr isn't enough? 60 hours a week is a bit much? You want overtime? Sorry, you're just not what we're looking for.
'Weaponized Keynesianism' I've heard it called. About the only way you can get the top to give anything to the bottom is to scare them enough. Eisenhower wrote about it in his memoirs. The whole 'Military Industrial Complex'. Apart from that we run around the world ensuring corporations have safe, cheap labor (there's a general who wrote a book about being a Mob Enforcer for Fruit Companies).
Anyway, point is, automating our Military seems pointless. If we take away the pork all that's left is a particularly nasty way to make sure corporations get their way.
and a bunch of other stuff. They were integrating it into Chrome.
don't want cheap cars that result in injured drivers. They make their money when you wreak your car, not your body. In America insurance is mandatory, and the insurance companies pay out for medical claims (no socialized medicine here). A wreaked car is a one time expense where they give you 1/2 or less the value of the car and jack your rates way up (I've had friends turn down their own insurance claims because the rate increase was higher than the cost of a new car). Medical expenses though can be ongoing. I knew a gal that got rear ended by an SUV doing 40 mph (she was at a dead stop at a train crossing). She's had back surgery on and off for decades.
Want cheap, light vehicles America? Ban SUVs, get socialized medicine, or forget it.
give them jobs, families and a hope for the future instead of absolute poverty and a 'nothing to lose' life style. But turning military tactics against a sizable portion of our populace works too I guess.
my hardcore Call 'o Duty friends prefer it on the XBox because the dedicated servers make a huge difference. That's really why Sony's following suit with their own version of XBL. You really do want/need dedicated servers for multiplayer. Heck, Quake 2 had them in what, 1995...?
safe. Comfortable. The trouble with "Internet Friends" is you get to pick and choose at such a fine grade level that you don't learn to compromise or interact outside of that sandbox. I've got several friends who grew up with 'Internet Friends' and they have a habit of blurting out wildly inappropriate things because they never learned how not to....
But there are several things that give you an edge. A strong chin for men, nice curves for women. An extra 6" of height for either. There's tons of studies on the subject. You don't have to be truly beautiful to be enough above average to stand out and land a nicer job.
I'm 6"1' with a cleft chin, and as silly as it sounds it's helped me interviews and negotiations.
because I'm starting a small software business and not having much trouble with them. I suppose there's stuff like environmental regulations are tough to deal with. But there's a reason those regulations exist. Can you name some regulations you'd be happy to see go, or do you truly believe that we can leave businesses to care of the environment. Just in case you do, China's 'Cancer Villages' and the Love Canal would beg to differ...
As for corps (and the 1%, who are the real owners of them), I realize full well I can't take away the advantages they get from our Government. Realizing that, I propose instead to give those advantages to everyone, aka "Socialism". To paraphrase Gore Vidal: Capitalism for the poor and Socialism for the rich sucks. If I can't give the rich Capitalism I'll give the poor Socialism.
In the end, what I need is a better economic position so the 1% mega-corp owners can't abuse me. Money is freedom. You're not free if someone controls your access to food, shelter & medicine. Dieing of starvation or selling yourself at the company store isn't 'free'.
or very personable and good looking (which, since that's mostly genetics & upbringing is a kind of luck). Starbucks and bookstores are (relatively) cozy jobs. They also pay very marginally above minimum wage. Let's say she wound up at Walmart working 25 to 30 hours a week with the constant threat of firing if she didn't both stock the shelves _and_ run a cash register. Or how about an Amazon warehouse (Google it, awful, awful places to work). I don't think she'd be so cozy....
This is the worst economy in 50 years. Outsourcing and H1-Bs have depressed wages heavily. Whether you recognize it or not your daughter has far fewer opportunities than you did. Google "wealth inequity" for a start on that topic and add 'wage surpression' and 'Union Busting' (with a side of Walmart or McDonald's) too.
The hard part here is that you obviously care for your daughter, and so you want to have strong pride in her. You don't want to imagine that she can't overcome the challenges she faces. So you'll tell yourself it's enough to just boot her out and leave it at that, taking a sink or swim approach that ignore the polluted, radioactive water she's swimming in...
As has been pointed out, if the the driver's drunk and car wreaks and you're hurt, are your medical bills paid? Can you be sure the driver is going to charge uphold his end? Couldn't he get there, realize you're about to be late for an Airplane w/o time to call, and then charge more?
Right now it's self regulating because it's new, and there's a lot of venture capital in the system making that work. But give it 5 or 10 years after the VC funds run out and those same VCs want their ROI and corners start being cut. Then add the fact that a safely and well regulated business (Taxicabs) is now gone because they couldn't compete, and they'll stop kicking drivers out because, hey, they're makin' money off the bad drivers and the good.
I suspect people who know more about it can give a bigger list of why taxi cabs are regulated, but what I'm getting at is that there is a _reason_ we regulated things in the first place, and it's very often a good one. Sure, regulation can be a pain, but you take the good with the bad because before it life was nasty, brutish & short.