you get laughed at for being a tin foil hatted conspiracy theorist. The trouble is this stuff is so horrible people can't believe it's happening. It's too far removed from reality. Plus their taught from day one that America is the greatest country on earth, and it's hard to get away from a belief that's been ingrained in you since childhood.
Ever notice how little time Obama spent attacking Romney's policies? The Obama campaign did focus groups and found they couldn't attack Romney on policy because nobody believed he was going to implement them for real. The massive cuts to medicare, social security, tax cuts for the rich, etc. Maybe Romney wasn't really gonna do those things, we'll never know. But either way Obama couldn't convince anyone that he might...
Parts of Detroit are warzones the police won't enter, and India has a horrific murder rate. It's just not tracked in the lower castes. The world is a far, far worse place than you think it is...
no one ever said they were. Just that you are entitled to live. Real freedom isn't the freedom to die in a gutter. If you must work as a slave to buy the bread to eat, to buy wood to burn in the winter to survive, to buy medicine to live, are you really free? True freedom is economic security. Without economic security you are at the mercy of the haves. Of the lucky few. You're not free, because if you stop doing what they tell you then they let you die. Remember, you're not free when I can compel you to do something against your wishes...
Also, you're making another mistake, which is assuming we're incapable of providing food, housing and health care for one person without depriving it from another. This isn't the 1800s. We're no longer at the mercy of mother nature. The Dutch, for example, unencumbered by notions of false capitalistic "Freedom", have solved the problem of their port cities being destroyed by storms ever 30 years. Meanwhile America continues to let it happen while building ever increasing monuments to the petty desires of a few lucky bastards...
You're misplacing your anger. It was not his generation. It was a few select people that used their wealth and power to trick, cow and frighten the entire USA. They use sentiments like you just expressed to divide us so they can conquer us. Stop thinking in terms of punishment for mistakes. Start asking what people REALLY deserve. Food. Housing. Health Care. You ARE entitled to those things. Don't let the Mitt Romneys of the world tell you otherwise. Don't let them set you at each other's throats....
it's a social welfare program for people too pig headed to accept charity. Ayn Rand famously refused it at first, until a friend convinced her to take it so she wouldn't die homeless in a gutter (not that I'm speaking literally here, not in the idealized die in the gutter 'cause your poor sense that so popular with the conservative kiddies these days).
Basically you can't live independently unless you're really, really lucky (think Mitt Romney and with his dad's connections and millions). The vast majority of us just get picked off by the capitalists who throw the yolk of the 'Free Market' on us and turn us into Wage Slaves (16 tons, whata you get?).
they also had much, much higher wages and a larger share of the profits. Wages have been falling for 40 years. Right now the the only way to get anything out of the rich is to tax it out of them. Also, if you just look at the top 1% taxes are the lowest they've been since 1920. It's the middle and poor that are getting hosed.
they're putting up a bunch of their stuff for darn near free. It's Windows only and DRM'd because that's what they already had ready to go. I think it's a bit much to ask for them to port the games to Mac and strip the DRM off Windows for a charity event....
A couple middle managers implementing policies given to them from on high are gonna get in dutch! Wow, the System works! USA! USA!
On another note, until we start fining these companies out of existence and holding CEOs as accountable as engineers this will go on. When profits from crime > fines folks it doesn't take a genius to figure out what you're gonna do. Once again though I'll remind everyone that we can't do that because at the end of the day, the people really responsible for this are our rulers. We just stopped acknowledging that fact around the turn of last century...
but you're still full of it. Money is a representation of work and physical resources. You can Counterfeiting money all day long and not hurt a soul. It's when you pass the bill, exchanging something of value for something worthless, that you've now committed fraud. The same goes for counterfeiting art. Again, you're not copying, you're committing fraud, because there's the (implicit and unsaid) understanding that you are now going to pass that art off as the real thing.
you'll buy a board from ASUS/Gigabyte with the CPU already wired in it. Really, this isn't hard. Intel CPUs are already pretty specific to the boards they run on. Buying them is a big pain because you can get a board with the right pin out and find out it's not compatible...
As it's just the bad economy. You've got a lot of desperate people with nothing better to do and nothing to lose. So they yell. A lot. When the economy was better they'd just pay for the support and move on. They had better things to do (running their business).
Now, if you're wondering how to calm them down and get them to pay, you can't. They don't have the money. Their barely on the edge. If they're thinking of it they're weighting if they'll have enough sales between now and next week to make payroll....
You can do that in a University town where you've got lots and lots of new faces every year. Tucson, Az has several independent video rent places near their U of A.
A free market just means the gov't doesn't intrude. I find most libertarians are only in favor of the freedoms they personally like. Heck, even RON PAUL (sorry, Fark meme) was billing the government for travel expenses that his private super pac was footing the bill for and which were probably not work related...
I guess it's kinda nice to see the justice department doing something that'll help, but compared to H1-B this isn't even a itty, bitty itsy bitsy drop in the worlds smallest bucket. Still, it's nice to see the effect of a Democrat in the White house. He can't do much, but he's doing what he can.
because they don't bleed. Seriously. I asked my local health food guru if I should take an Iron supplement, and she looked at me like I had lobsters coming out of my ears. As for Women, just about all bread is fortified, and if all else fails take a supplement.
Most vegetarians and vegans that see huge health gains though aren't seeing them because of meat, they're seeing them because going vegetarian forces them to clean up their diet. It's the same reason the Akin's diet works. You cut out a tonne of junk food. In Vegan's case it's usually fast food. That's literally why I went vegetarian -> It' keeps me away from Fast Food hamburgers, which I can eat and eat and eat.
To be fair it can be a real pain to get even a small app running. I wrote a little mirror app and I can't get the darn thing to show up as compatible with my phone. You know, the phone I used to developer the thing...
That's just not true. One of their core businesses is to buy a successful business, borrow tons of money on it's good name, and pay themselves bonuses from the debt. Then move it to a cheap labor country.
As for progressive, my point wasn't that one side or the other is stopping progress, it was that 'progressive' has taken on negative connotations. Progressive == liberal == socialist == communist == bad. Whether you believe in a small government or an active government progress, meaning things getting better in general, should be something we all can agree on. Put another way, even the Amish use modern health care.
Thousand years of no progress. Those of us who were paying attention to human nature a are a little worried. For the most part the rich and powerful kinda like technology at the moment. But then I'm here in the USA and we've managed to make 'progressive' a bad word. At the risk of getting into politics, conservatives worry me. A lot. Most of them are either poor and terrified to lose what little they have or really really rich and can't imagine it getting any better.
Plus, A lot of the really rich ones aren't trying to create new wealth, they're trying to monopolize the old wealth. When Bain Capital shuts down a profitable factory in the States you'd think somebody would come along, say hey, I can make money doing that! and reopen it. They don't. That's because the guys at the top all just sorta agree not to step on each other's toes (aka compete)...
I keep wondering. Software keeps getting better because computers get faster and labor gets cheaper. If you throw enough resources at it it gets done. But most of us entry level techs make our daily bread fixin' up this stuff. It's another symptom of increased productivity. Things get better and better so there's less work to do. But if there's less work there's less jobs, and our whole society is built on Jobs. People can't stand the thought of someone getting paid and not working for it. Jesus, what would we do with replicators?
No, I'm saying how are we suppose to build up any know how and skill in this country if all we do is ship in cheap labor and ship it out. For the record though I've got nothing against stealing the world's best and brightest. We did it in WWII with the Nazi's and it worked out great (rockets, atomic bomb, etc). OTOH, I do wish we'd stop shipping in entry level programming positions. You will never convince me there's a shortage of VB programmers:P.
give the prevalence of H1B immigrants and the fact that most aren't staying in the country (better digs back home) does America have any hope of hanging onto a competitive edge? Not that it matters much for the guys at the top (they're global, they don't think about little stuff like countries anymore), but for little 'ole me stuck here in the good 'ole US of A it's a worry.
And if you think I'm exaggerating, you either aren't working in tech or you're not paying attention.
we have a right not to engage in the race to the bottom that is the 2nd world. And from your sig I can tell you subscribe to that fiscal cliff nonsense that's been going along. Just an FYI, we're not broke, there's 30 Trillion with a 'T' in offshore accounts (google it). As Bruce said, We take Care of Our Own. Anyway, I'll let the president sum it up for me.
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you get laughed at for being a tin foil hatted conspiracy theorist. The trouble is this stuff is so horrible people can't believe it's happening. It's too far removed from reality. Plus their taught from day one that America is the greatest country on earth, and it's hard to get away from a belief that's been ingrained in you since childhood.
Ever notice how little time Obama spent attacking Romney's policies? The Obama campaign did focus groups and found they couldn't attack Romney on policy because nobody believed he was going to implement them for real. The massive cuts to medicare, social security, tax cuts for the rich, etc. Maybe Romney wasn't really gonna do those things, we'll never know. But either way Obama couldn't convince anyone that he might...
Parts of Detroit are warzones the police won't enter, and India has a horrific murder rate. It's just not tracked in the lower castes. The world is a far, far worse place than you think it is...
people in intense poverty, with no hope of escape, and virtually no access to mental health services are a little more prone to violence.
Man, I wish it was my job to gather pointless stats of the obvious.
no one ever said they were. Just that you are entitled to live. Real freedom isn't the freedom to die in a gutter. If you must work as a slave to buy the bread to eat, to buy wood to burn in the winter to survive, to buy medicine to live, are you really free? True freedom is economic security. Without economic security you are at the mercy of the haves. Of the lucky few. You're not free, because if you stop doing what they tell you then they let you die. Remember, you're not free when I can compel you to do something against your wishes...
Also, you're making another mistake, which is assuming we're incapable of providing food, housing and health care for one person without depriving it from another. This isn't the 1800s. We're no longer at the mercy of mother nature. The Dutch, for example, unencumbered by notions of false capitalistic "Freedom", have solved the problem of their port cities being destroyed by storms ever 30 years. Meanwhile America continues to let it happen while building ever increasing monuments to the petty desires of a few lucky bastards...
You're misplacing your anger. It was not his generation. It was a few select people that used their wealth and power to trick, cow and frighten the entire USA. They use sentiments like you just expressed to divide us so they can conquer us. Stop thinking in terms of punishment for mistakes. Start asking what people REALLY deserve. Food. Housing. Health Care. You ARE entitled to those things. Don't let the Mitt Romneys of the world tell you otherwise. Don't let them set you at each other's throats....
it's a social welfare program for people too pig headed to accept charity. Ayn Rand famously refused it at first, until a friend convinced her to take it so she wouldn't die homeless in a gutter (not that I'm speaking literally here, not in the idealized die in the gutter 'cause your poor sense that so popular with the conservative kiddies these days).
Basically you can't live independently unless you're really, really lucky (think Mitt Romney and with his dad's connections and millions). The vast majority of us just get picked off by the capitalists who throw the yolk of the 'Free Market' on us and turn us into Wage Slaves (16 tons, whata you get?).
they also had much, much higher wages and a larger share of the profits. Wages have been falling for 40 years. Right now the the only way to get anything out of the rich is to tax it out of them. Also, if you just look at the top 1% taxes are the lowest they've been since 1920. It's the middle and poor that are getting hosed.
they're putting up a bunch of their stuff for darn near free. It's Windows only and DRM'd because that's what they already had ready to go. I think it's a bit much to ask for them to port the games to Mac and strip the DRM off Windows for a charity event....
A couple middle managers implementing policies given to them from on high are gonna get in dutch! Wow, the System works! USA! USA!
On another note, until we start fining these companies out of existence and holding CEOs as accountable as engineers this will go on. When profits from crime > fines folks it doesn't take a genius to figure out what you're gonna do. Once again though I'll remind everyone that we can't do that because at the end of the day, the people really responsible for this are our rulers. We just stopped acknowledging that fact around the turn of last century...
but you're still full of it. Money is a representation of work and physical resources. You can Counterfeiting money all day long and not hurt a soul. It's when you pass the bill, exchanging something of value for something worthless, that you've now committed fraud. The same goes for counterfeiting art. Again, you're not copying, you're committing fraud, because there's the (implicit and unsaid) understanding that you are now going to pass that art off as the real thing.
you'll buy a board from ASUS/Gigabyte with the CPU already wired in it. Really, this isn't hard. Intel CPUs are already pretty specific to the boards they run on. Buying them is a big pain because you can get a board with the right pin out and find out it's not compatible...
As it's just the bad economy. You've got a lot of desperate people with nothing better to do and nothing to lose. So they yell. A lot. When the economy was better they'd just pay for the support and move on. They had better things to do (running their business).
Now, if you're wondering how to calm them down and get them to pay, you can't. They don't have the money. Their barely on the edge. If they're thinking of it they're weighting if they'll have enough sales between now and next week to make payroll....
You can do that in a University town where you've got lots and lots of new faces every year. Tucson, Az has several independent video rent places near their U of A.
A free market just means the gov't doesn't intrude. I find most libertarians are only in favor of the freedoms they personally like. Heck, even RON PAUL (sorry, Fark meme) was billing the government for travel expenses that his private super pac was footing the bill for and which were probably not work related...
I guess it's kinda nice to see the justice department doing something that'll help, but compared to H1-B this isn't even a itty, bitty itsy bitsy drop in the worlds smallest bucket. Still, it's nice to see the effect of a Democrat in the White house. He can't do much, but he's doing what he can.
because they don't bleed. Seriously. I asked my local health food guru if I should take an Iron supplement, and she looked at me like I had lobsters coming out of my ears. As for Women, just about all bread is fortified, and if all else fails take a supplement.
Most vegetarians and vegans that see huge health gains though aren't seeing them because of meat, they're seeing them because going vegetarian forces them to clean up their diet. It's the same reason the Akin's diet works. You cut out a tonne of junk food. In Vegan's case it's usually fast food. That's literally why I went vegetarian -> It' keeps me away from Fast Food hamburgers, which I can eat and eat and eat.
To be fair it can be a real pain to get even a small app running. I wrote a little mirror app and I can't get the darn thing to show up as compatible with my phone. You know, the phone I used to developer the thing...
wonder if I could get Win XP on it....
That's just not true. One of their core businesses is to buy a successful business, borrow tons of money on it's good name, and pay themselves bonuses from the debt. Then move it to a cheap labor country.
As for progressive, my point wasn't that one side or the other is stopping progress, it was that 'progressive' has taken on negative connotations. Progressive == liberal == socialist == communist == bad. Whether you believe in a small government or an active government progress, meaning things getting better in general, should be something we all can agree on. Put another way, even the Amish use modern health care.
Thousand years of no progress. Those of us who were paying attention to human nature a are a little worried. For the most part the rich and powerful kinda like technology at the moment. But then I'm here in the USA and we've managed to make 'progressive' a bad word. At the risk of getting into politics, conservatives worry me. A lot. Most of them are either poor and terrified to lose what little they have or really really rich and can't imagine it getting any better.
Plus, A lot of the really rich ones aren't trying to create new wealth, they're trying to monopolize the old wealth. When Bain Capital shuts down a profitable factory in the States you'd think somebody would come along, say hey, I can make money doing that! and reopen it. They don't. That's because the guys at the top all just sorta agree not to step on each other's toes (aka compete)...
I keep wondering. Software keeps getting better because computers get faster and labor gets cheaper. If you throw enough resources at it it gets done. But most of us entry level techs make our daily bread fixin' up this stuff. It's another symptom of increased productivity. Things get better and better so there's less work to do. But if there's less work there's less jobs, and our whole society is built on Jobs. People can't stand the thought of someone getting paid and not working for it. Jesus, what would we do with replicators?
No, I'm saying how are we suppose to build up any know how and skill in this country if all we do is ship in cheap labor and ship it out. For the record though I've got nothing against stealing the world's best and brightest. We did it in WWII with the Nazi's and it worked out great (rockets, atomic bomb, etc). OTOH, I do wish we'd stop shipping in entry level programming positions. You will never convince me there's a shortage of VB programmers :P.
give the prevalence of H1B immigrants and the fact that most aren't staying in the country (better digs back home) does America have any hope of hanging onto a competitive edge? Not that it matters much for the guys at the top (they're global, they don't think about little stuff like countries anymore), but for little 'ole me stuck here in the good 'ole US of A it's a worry.
And if you think I'm exaggerating, you either aren't working in tech or you're not paying attention.
this had to be green lighted at dinner time? Seriously.
we have a right not to engage in the race to the bottom that is the 2nd world. And from your sig I can tell you subscribe to that fiscal cliff nonsense that's been going along. Just an FYI, we're not broke, there's 30 Trillion with a 'T' in offshore accounts (google it). As Bruce said, We take Care of Our Own. Anyway, I'll let the president sum it up for me.