The IRS employees almost 100,000 people. That works out to about.65 cents per employee. Not very much for a training budget. Nice troll from the subby though.
but mostly because sales taxes are primarily regressive taxes (they impact poor and middle class much more than the rich because poor/mids spend a greater percentage of money surviving). At the same time I'm a lot more concerned about wealth inequity than I am about paying an extra 10% on crap I buy online.
Sales taxes are fundamentally regressive. That's because the rich have investment opportunities, while the poor spend everything to survive. Where I'm at we tax food for God's sake. And Rent.
There's strong evidence that Regan's October Surprise was real. There's also Strong evidence that the moon landings are real. I'm capable of believing in both. Nice try trying to paint me as a loon though through a weak association to a completely unrelated topic. Any debaters/logic guys here know which fallacy that is?
as it's pretty much iron clad evidence. Maybe I misunderstood, but these are tapes of LBJ discussing the topic without the slightest question of whether it happened. It's all pretty well documented from what I can tell.
Also, happy to see this story on slashdot. Yeah, it's not tech news and I know that bugs people, but Christ. The way I heard about this was the Mother-lovin' BBC. This is the biggest news since Watergate and the news media is just pretending it didn't happen. Part of me wants to say 'Oh well, that's America' but screw that. I'm sick of saying things could be worse when they could be so much better.
Restaurant biz? You bet. Long hours shitty pay. You sir, need to become a Capitalist. Buy some property and become an Owner (tm). Start your day at 11 am (ish) and end it by 3 pm.
Seriously. CNN had an article on "Entrepreneurs". There where 4 or 5 folks running restaurants and killing themselves. The rest of them got a cash infusion from family / friends / contacts and most of their "work" was chatting people up on the phone while their kids played soccer. Must be nice.
be a shame if facts came along and did somethin' too it. You're just repeating the old "There's lots of waste to cut" bullsh@t we've been hearing for 30 years. Also, you managed to make (without irony) an argument Fred Pohl made in the Space Merchants:
"Better a thousand innocent men punished than one guilty man go free".
But anyway back to the meat of the matter, which is increased spending. Fundamentally the problem is that the rich can't spend enough to keep our civilization going, and when they do spend it's on big monuments to their greatness that don't really get us anywhere (think more corporate jets than Sphinxes, it is the year 2013 after all). Given the chance (and they got it) the rich will cut your share of the pie so they can have more themselves. Gov't counteracts / fixes that. It's the only thing that can, since it's the only thing with enough power to say *FU* to a Rockefeller. Individuals can't do that. They get blackballed. Which is why the term "blackballed' exists (and why my spell checker doesn't see it as a misspelled word).
And evidently I'm not the only one that thinks $3.8T isn't enough to fund a labor department, since WE ALREADY CUT THE DAMN THING, JUST LIKE I SAID IN MY POST ABOVE. Sorry, getting tired of this conservative Astroturfin' nonsense. At least, I hope you're an Astroturfer or at least a troll. Nobody should believe the stuff you wrote honestly and without pay.
anyone on the other side of the pond know if this is a real attempt to push OSS software or if it's just another attempt to get discounted Microsoft software?
When did the bosses acquire this obsessive delusion that someone coming from abroad must be a superior worker to a home-grown one?
It's not complicated. The workers are here on visas. They can be sent back on a whim. This gives the employer enormous leverage to make the H1B employee work harder. Also it lets them bring in a lot of extra workers, increasing supply and lowering demand. That drives down wages by $10k - $20k (USD, convert to your own currency)
Unions only work when everyone is in one place and you can organize them. What we need is something more like the AARP but for tech workers. Focus on specific goals, send out political communications so you know when to bombard your reps, etc, etc. It's not a union because you're not negotiating, your lobbying.
you think labor laws are enforced. IBM got caught and nothing happened. What? You thought that 30 years of tax cuts would have no consequences? None of the labor regulators are funded. They exist on paper only. There's no money to hire anyone. In your zeal to cut bureaucrats, red tape and waste you've only succeeded in making the world a worse place. Those bureaucrats did good work, the red tape held back a tsunami of evil business practices and there never was that much waste to begin with when the entire budget is looked at. Shit, you waste more on sodas and coffee in a year than the gov't does.
it's not designed to reward underachievers. It pulls funding from failing schools for God's sakes (you lose funding if you're kids don't pass the tests). It's goal is pretty obvious: gut the school system so education can be privatized for profit.
There was just a really nice article on why the US Healthcare system is so bleeding expensive and the conclusion of an extensive multi-year study was: because it can be. My buddy drove a school bus until they privatized that and cut his wages. Did the district save money? Nope, not after 3 years. They're just so short on cash they wanted to sell their bus fleet so they could operate another year, and hope the voters would take a 1% tax raise to pay for schools (they didn't). Now the company that has the contract is jacking up prices because they know the district can't afford to buy back their fleet and make it public again.
But yeah, it's a nice side effect that it makes a weak, dumb populace.
in a place with lots of H1Bs. They're code monkeys and entry level sys admins. We're not importing their physicists and mathematicians. India is smart enough to take care of those guys and see that they don't leave. We're bringing in guys at the entry level. If you can read, write and type I can have you doing it in 3 months. Sure, I can do it with an H1B in half that, but that's because they'll work 80 hours a week until they get the job down.
for a small sliver of the population. That's why these immigration programs are so great for companies. There's a small group of people that are fully productive working 60 hours a week. Thanks to the H1B program you're competing head on with all of them at once.
I tell ya, what we IT people need is a Super Pac. If everyone that touched a computer got together and pitched in $5 bucks a month in we'd at least be able to buy some House reps, maybe even a senator. If that's how the game works, I say we start playing.
they're trying to make sure they don't piss off another one. One their dirty laundry got out everyone's going to scrutinize their every move. Plus they're going to need to focus their resources on survival right now.
at least the 4600 line was. I wanted one really bad. Great performance and great visual quality. I just couldn't get the darn thing stable. I miss my 1600 (a slightly faster and cooler running 9800) but it can't keep up with Street Fighter 4 or Sonic Generations.
I've heard if you step up to the $300-$400 amd range the problems go away, but I don't want that much card. My GT 240 with DDR was $90 bucks....
The Chinese just execute 'em. If too many state secrets get out they'll relocate the malcontents to other provinces until they're too diluted to matter. Hilariously we did that here in America after Hurricane Katrina. They used Fema to move people who'd lost everything all over the country so they couldn't become a dangerous voting block...
wait wait wait. Are you saying some Mac owners use their computers? I always thought they were just for decoration. Like that ribbon candy my grandma always had on the table. You weren't meant to eat that stuff you know.
I'm not a Starcraft fan, but my bro is, and they ruined it for anyone that doesn't play online. The entire single player campaign was one long tutorial mission to get you ready to play online, My bro spent 4 hours on a level because he kept trying to play it with different tactics than what the designers wanted him to learn. Not do, learn. Plus it was buggy out the door, but since this is an expansion I can't imagine it's busted. Still, come on. With so much money couldn't they have made a good freakin' single player game? I bought it to get him mind off all the shit in the world and it really, really didn't help.
Somethingpositive.net and Angry Nintendo Nerd both. They had ads serving up Malware. It happens on the smaller ad networks, but the smaller guys pay better than google and Amazon. If you're trying to make a living you're kinda stuck.
I've used it for my site glimmersoft.com for months and not had a single complaint. It pays for my bandwidth bill. You're right though. The guy that runs somethingpositive nd the angry Nintendo Nerd just got popped. It's best to stay off the smaller ad networks if that's how you fund your site. Yeah, they pay better, but they can't keep up with securing the ads.
As for the ads themselves, I'd say keep 'em out of your content proper. Banner ads are one thing but lately CNN has been putting them in the content as plain links, and it's distracting. I didn't mind when they were clearly delimited by a box, but I keep seeing these ones where they're in the middle of the paragraph. I can't tune those out, I've got to stop reading the article and realize it's an add.
Online ads seem to work best for brand recognition anyway. It's hard to get somebody to buy something specific, but if you're just trying to remind them that McDonald's and Coke exist (important with so many cable TV cord cutters) it's the way to go.
Slashdot Mirror
The IRS employees almost 100,000 people. That works out to about .65 cents per employee. Not very much for a training budget. Nice troll from the subby though.
but mostly because sales taxes are primarily regressive taxes (they impact poor and middle class much more than the rich because poor/mids spend a greater percentage of money surviving). At the same time I'm a lot more concerned about wealth inequity than I am about paying an extra 10% on crap I buy online.
that title goes to the Sega Saturn.
Sales taxes are fundamentally regressive. That's because the rich have investment opportunities, while the poor spend everything to survive. Where I'm at we tax food for God's sake. And Rent.
There's strong evidence that Regan's October Surprise was real. There's also Strong evidence that the moon landings are real. I'm capable of believing in both. Nice try trying to paint me as a loon though through a weak association to a completely unrelated topic. Any debaters/logic guys here know which fallacy that is?
the bloody recordings of a conversation between then president LBJ and NSA operatives. I love the wiki, but I'm gonna side with the tapes on this one.
as it's pretty much iron clad evidence. Maybe I misunderstood, but these are tapes of LBJ discussing the topic without the slightest question of whether it happened. It's all pretty well documented from what I can tell.
Also, happy to see this story on slashdot. Yeah, it's not tech news and I know that bugs people, but Christ. The way I heard about this was the Mother-lovin' BBC. This is the biggest news since Watergate and the news media is just pretending it didn't happen. Part of me wants to say 'Oh well, that's America' but screw that. I'm sick of saying things could be worse when they could be so much better.
Restaurant biz? You bet. Long hours shitty pay. You sir, need to become a Capitalist. Buy some property and become an Owner (tm). Start your day at 11 am (ish) and end it by 3 pm.
Seriously. CNN had an article on "Entrepreneurs". There where 4 or 5 folks running restaurants and killing themselves. The rest of them got a cash infusion from family / friends / contacts and most of their "work" was chatting people up on the phone while their kids played soccer. Must be nice.
be a shame if facts came along and did somethin' too it. You're just repeating the old "There's lots of waste to cut" bullsh@t we've been hearing for 30 years. Also, you managed to make (without irony) an argument Fred Pohl made in the Space Merchants:
"Better a thousand innocent men punished than one guilty man go free".
But anyway back to the meat of the matter, which is increased spending. Fundamentally the problem is that the rich can't spend enough to keep our civilization going, and when they do spend it's on big monuments to their greatness that don't really get us anywhere (think more corporate jets than Sphinxes, it is the year 2013 after all). Given the chance (and they got it) the rich will cut your share of the pie so they can have more themselves. Gov't counteracts / fixes that. It's the only thing that can, since it's the only thing with enough power to say *FU* to a Rockefeller. Individuals can't do that. They get blackballed. Which is why the term "blackballed' exists (and why my spell checker doesn't see it as a misspelled word).
And evidently I'm not the only one that thinks $3.8T isn't enough to fund a labor department, since WE ALREADY CUT THE DAMN THING, JUST LIKE I SAID IN MY POST ABOVE. Sorry, getting tired of this conservative Astroturfin' nonsense. At least, I hope you're an Astroturfer or at least a troll. Nobody should believe the stuff you wrote honestly and without pay.
anyone on the other side of the pond know if this is a real attempt to push OSS software or if it's just another attempt to get discounted Microsoft software?
When did the bosses acquire this obsessive delusion that someone coming from abroad must be a superior worker to a home-grown one?
It's not complicated. The workers are here on visas. They can be sent back on a whim. This gives the employer enormous leverage to make the H1B employee work harder. Also it lets them bring in a lot of extra workers, increasing supply and lowering demand. That drives down wages by $10k - $20k (USD, convert to your own currency)
Unions only work when everyone is in one place and you can organize them. What we need is something more like the AARP but for tech workers. Focus on specific goals, send out political communications so you know when to bombard your reps, etc, etc. It's not a union because you're not negotiating, your lobbying.
you think labor laws are enforced. IBM got caught and nothing happened. What? You thought that 30 years of tax cuts would have no consequences? None of the labor regulators are funded. They exist on paper only. There's no money to hire anyone. In your zeal to cut bureaucrats, red tape and waste you've only succeeded in making the world a worse place. Those bureaucrats did good work, the red tape held back a tsunami of evil business practices and there never was that much waste to begin with when the entire budget is looked at. Shit, you waste more on sodas and coffee in a year than the gov't does.
it's not designed to reward underachievers. It pulls funding from failing schools for God's sakes (you lose funding if you're kids don't pass the tests). It's goal is pretty obvious: gut the school system so education can be privatized for profit.
There was just a really nice article on why the US Healthcare system is so bleeding expensive and the conclusion of an extensive multi-year study was: because it can be. My buddy drove a school bus until they privatized that and cut his wages. Did the district save money? Nope, not after 3 years. They're just so short on cash they wanted to sell their bus fleet so they could operate another year, and hope the voters would take a 1% tax raise to pay for schools (they didn't). Now the company that has the contract is jacking up prices because they know the district can't afford to buy back their fleet and make it public again.
But yeah, it's a nice side effect that it makes a weak, dumb populace.
in a place with lots of H1Bs. They're code monkeys and entry level sys admins. We're not importing their physicists and mathematicians. India is smart enough to take care of those guys and see that they don't leave. We're bringing in guys at the entry level. If you can read, write and type I can have you doing it in 3 months. Sure, I can do it with an H1B in half that, but that's because they'll work 80 hours a week until they get the job down.
really it's not. I don't understand why people get confused and bemused when they see Capitalism as it's always been doing what it always has.
Australia OTOH, a largely socialist country, just voted a guy in on a platform of job protection.
for a small sliver of the population. That's why these immigration programs are so great for companies. There's a small group of people that are fully productive working 60 hours a week. Thanks to the H1B program you're competing head on with all of them at once.
I tell ya, what we IT people need is a Super Pac. If everyone that touched a computer got together and pitched in $5 bucks a month in we'd at least be able to buy some House reps, maybe even a senator. If that's how the game works, I say we start playing.
he lives on a fault line.
they're trying to make sure they don't piss off another one. One their dirty laundry got out everyone's going to scrutinize their every move. Plus they're going to need to focus their resources on survival right now.
at least the 4600 line was. I wanted one really bad. Great performance and great visual quality. I just couldn't get the darn thing stable. I miss my 1600 (a slightly faster and cooler running 9800) but it can't keep up with Street Fighter 4 or Sonic Generations.
I've heard if you step up to the $300-$400 amd range the problems go away, but I don't want that much card. My GT 240 with DDR was $90 bucks....
The Chinese just execute 'em. If too many state secrets get out they'll relocate the malcontents to other provinces until they're too diluted to matter. Hilariously we did that here in America after Hurricane Katrina. They used Fema to move people who'd lost everything all over the country so they couldn't become a dangerous voting block...
wait wait wait. Are you saying some Mac owners use their computers? I always thought they were just for decoration. Like that ribbon candy my grandma always had on the table. You weren't meant to eat that stuff you know.
I'm not a Starcraft fan, but my bro is, and they ruined it for anyone that doesn't play online. The entire single player campaign was one long tutorial mission to get you ready to play online, My bro spent 4 hours on a level because he kept trying to play it with different tactics than what the designers wanted him to learn. Not do, learn. Plus it was buggy out the door, but since this is an expansion I can't imagine it's busted. Still, come on. With so much money couldn't they have made a good freakin' single player game? I bought it to get him mind off all the shit in the world and it really, really didn't help.
Somethingpositive.net and Angry Nintendo Nerd both. They had ads serving up Malware. It happens on the smaller ad networks, but the smaller guys pay better than google and Amazon. If you're trying to make a living you're kinda stuck.
I've used it for my site glimmersoft.com for months and not had a single complaint. It pays for my bandwidth bill. You're right though. The guy that runs somethingpositive nd the angry Nintendo Nerd just got popped. It's best to stay off the smaller ad networks if that's how you fund your site. Yeah, they pay better, but they can't keep up with securing the ads.
As for the ads themselves, I'd say keep 'em out of your content proper. Banner ads are one thing but lately CNN has been putting them in the content as plain links, and it's distracting. I didn't mind when they were clearly delimited by a box, but I keep seeing these ones where they're in the middle of the paragraph. I can't tune those out, I've got to stop reading the article and realize it's an add.
Online ads seem to work best for brand recognition anyway. It's hard to get somebody to buy something specific, but if you're just trying to remind them that McDonald's and Coke exist (important with so many cable TV cord cutters) it's the way to go.