call me when it's $100. At $250 I can wait for Black Friday and get a 15.6" i3 with Win 7 Home. Heck, I can buy one of those right no for another $100. Maybe if the packaging was sleeker I could get behind it (e.g. all titanium and whatnot).
there are large sections where the police don't go. Also, my brother's apartment was robbed in 2000 and they took everything. They caught the guy, and let him go. As for how well armed they are, that's not what's at issue. What matters is a) how desperate and b) how many. I don't want to live in the sorta place were suicide bombs are a part of everyday life, and they gun strapped to your leg won't keep your parts together when one goes off next to you and yours...
just pointing out that these people aren't going to roll over and die just because their livelihood is taken away, and that we don't really have an alternative for them. So when you've got a whole bunch of criminals that have nothing to lose and no hope you're likely to see large scale violence, and unless you can afford a walled community and private security you're going to suffer for it. Maybe you can afford those things and you're not concerned, but I'm a little worried....
To address your comment directly, The law doesn't need to account for every possibility, but society at large needs to. We need to step away from principles and ideas and ask how the world really works. Principles and ideas are fun toys when you're in college, but if you hang on to them too tightly you'll find that you lose to the people who have no principles and are effectively exploiting your.
those cheap calories keep hunger pains in check. As a human you still need around 2000+ calories a day. If all you can afford is junk your body knows it. One of the reasons for obesity that people like to ignore is that if you're constantly eating low, low quality food your body keeps sending you hunger signals. That's because you're not getting the nutrients you need, your body knows it, and it's telling you to get out there and find it.
As for 'how do we fix it'?. I can't think of any way that doesn't involve some form of socialism. The productivity gains of the last 20 years mean there really isn't enough work to go around. Less that 1% of our population produces all the food we need. Robots and computers are automating manufacturing, etc, etc. But in America at least socialism has to be sneaked in. Ayn Rand was penniless in her old age and had to be convinced to take social security so she wouldn't die homeless on the street...:(. We have a presidential candidate who argues that you're not entitled to food, shelter and health care and that's not even an issue, let alone something hurting him in the polls. As a nation we've got a major guilt complex going on or something...
I'm not talking about the base line costs, but the % discount. Instead of being 80 - 90% it tops out at 50%. That's a tighter supply chain at work, and it's cheap computing power and communications that have made that possible. That, plus cheap data storage that lets you track everything and data mine it, so when a manager of a Walmart orders 100 extra bags of candy you know he did it and you can ding him on his performance review for it...
they won't bother rounding them up unless their inconveniencing the people that matter ($250k+/yr income last I checked). And strangely the real poor keep their misery to themselves anywhere I've ever lived. Right now I'm living in a ridiculously expensive part of town because I happened to have landed a nice job, but You can drive 10 miles from my apartment and find terrifying slums. The rich like to keep poor people close by to serve them, after all. But the funny thing is the poor don't spill out. That's mostly our drug policy. If you're poor you or someone you know is probably taking illegal drugs to cope with the stress of poverty, and the harsh (selectively enforced) drug laws let us keep the poor in their place. You'll notice the big push is for medical marijuana, not to legalize it. That's because it lets the rich have their weed and keep using the laws to oppress. We did it with the Chinese and opium.
Anyway, you'll still have roving bands of bandits unless you're in the 10%.
That was just to illustrate the point. A better example would be the large increase in prices across the board at Walmart. In America we were sold on the idea that low prices would allow us to live well despite stagnant wages. Bargains, sales and close outs are a big part of that. Take a 3lb bag of apples. On sale I might pay $0.99 cents USD for it. Off Sale it might be $9.00. As the sales and discounts get fewer and farther between the people living on the edge get squeezed more and more. There's only so much you can cut before you get desperate and dangerous, and despite what some people say you can't live off beans and rice without serious health problems...
that we're shutting down scams and such, but it's interesting to think about some of the side effects of all this computing horse power and the general increase in productivity it entails. Basically, these are criminals living on the fringes, and with modern statistical analysis getting so easy (because you can crunch massive amounts of data on the cheap) we're going to start really squeezing those people. There are millions and millions of people in this class. Some are criminals (like these) and some are honest people who used to get by on waste product and over production. If you live in the States and are over 30 you probably remember bags of Halloween candy for 50 cents. You don't find them any more because they've crunched the numbers and figured out exactly how much candy to order so they don't come up short. Best you'll see if 50% off and a weak selection.
It's like that everywhere in society. It's going to be interesting (and scary) to see what happens as we squeeze these people more and more. Most countries are moving towards Austerity and 19th century style 'Invisible Hand' economics so we're not just going to hand them food. Roving bands of bandits, anyone?
a good 'how to use ssl safely' tutorial? I guess that's the real question. It seems to me something as common as this should be well documented/implemented. I mean, google wrapped SQL for me. Heck, google's code let me get a rudimentary spend tracker written in under 6 hours and my silly little mirroring app in under 4. Their APIs are so simple and well organized that it brings computing back to the age when I write the apps I want, like coding Basic for my C64.
Probably the problem is google can't implement their own SSL w/o worrying about liability:(.
because only the major parties have the money to win. You need money for mass media. To get a message out and to hone that message to perfection.
What America really needs is to start moving back to the left. Conservativism has made progress a dirty word. We're panicking about jobs while automation is making the concept obsolete.
But I doubt you'll see that. More likely you'll see a gradual slide into dark ages.
they've got full time jobs doing this sorta thing. I suppose you could hire someone to fight on your behalf, but who's got enough disposable income for even that. Basically, if you're rich enough to fight ACTA you're probably rich enough to a) not care and b) benefit.
most Asian parents work. A lot. 6, 13 hour days is standard fare. I always here Asian parents trotted out as the example, but fact is there's no way to work those kind of hours and raise a kid. How do the majority do it? They let the government, specifically school teachers, who take a MUCH more active role in the students' life.
As for Asians valuing eduction, that's because in most places it's a dog eat dog hell hole due to their surplus population (that's surplus, no over, population. Over pop means there's not enough, surplus means there's enough to abuse). Americans value those things not because of a weak culture but because we're wealthy enough we can.
Put another way, I'm sick and tired of this weird cult of frantic, desperate, dog-eat dog work. The puritan work ethic is a scam that the Romney's of the world use to make excuses for their grotesque wealth.
the top guys aren't hiding. They're you're ruling class. Multi-multi millionaires. The don't suffer consequences anymore than the kings of old. Sure, every now and then one of them pisses off the rest and gets thrown to the wolves (Bernie Madoff). But for the most part you don't spill noble blood.
yes, there are overpaid asshats out there. But most consultants are really just employees without health benefits and unemployement insurance. If you see a company with a lot of consultants that's why. You can fire them at the drop of a hat at no cost. It's a sign of the modern economy, and one of the reasons my political views swing so far left.
It's been said before and will again, AMD will not be allowed to die, if only because the PC manufacturers are clever enough to know they need at least two vendors for the most critical part of their product. If Microsoft hadn't played games with Windows 8's ARM build I'd say AMD might be on the chopping block for real, but well, that's Microsoft for you.
but I'll bite. Are you going to sterilize these people? For the record, I would. e.g. child birth should require a license. There was an old sit com where a character made the point that you need a license to Drive, shoot guns, heck even fish. But they'll let any idiot have a kid.
To put it a bit more bluntly, I've noticed that anti-gov't libertarian types are quick to judge the weaknesses and failings of others but when it comes to stopping people from being crushed by those weaknesses in the first place strangely silent. The only right they seem to support is the right to be miserable. Schadenfreude maybe?
that human beings at that age are learning to interact with the world, and TV if fundamentally non interactive. You're obviously putting a LOT of effort into raising your children, which is good for them. But is it possible that they're succeeding despite Television, and that it's your hard work that's making them a success?
there were debates in America in front of Congress. Spoiler alert: The advertisers won. There's just too much money to be made making kinds into good little consumers. BTW, this is why the Repubs are fighting hard to kill PBS. It has nothing to do with pork. Think of all that ad revenue. All those impressionable little eyeballs...
There's no shortage of tech workers, which is why you can't get college bound kids interested. Off shoring + H1B Visas has seen to that.
I'm pretty skeptical of this entire story. In my experience whenever anyone talks about retraining blue collar workers for tech work it's just a desperate attempt to deal with the fact that robots and outsourcing have made these people obsolete, and we want to pretend there's something for them all to do besides starve...
because if they don't they can't compete with the 100+ guys gunning for their job. If it ends badly you blame it on the worker and replace him. When labor's this cheap you can have a bunch of projects fail and not care. You're thinking like a worker, not an owner. An owner has twenty companies he owns. When they fail he writes the failure off on his taxes and moves on. If they all fail he uses his money to buy a bail out from the government (capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich).
That trouble is, the way the world works doesn't match up with the economics we're taught in school:(. We're taught that if you work hard and play by the rules you'll win. But the big guys. The owners. The 'Capitalists'. They make the rules. You can't win like that. You can't even stay out of the gutter.
about the long or even short term well being of workers. If you subscribe to this line of thought you're looking at workers as an asset. That plays well with workers that want to believe they're irreplaceable. Fact is, there's so many people in the Global Economy that you can easily find a worker that can do those kind of hours productively. Sure, he/she burns out. But again, Global Economy. Supply and Demand. There's a huge over supply of workers in a Global Economy, and always will be. And you don't have to train. Desperate workers will train on their own time and their own dime. A lot (most) will be crushed but the debt and stress. But as an employer in a modern, high productivity workplace the 10% that survive are more than enough.
I guess my point is, don't count on your boss caring about your productivity dropping as your hours increase. If you trip and fall there's 100 guys waiting to overtake you in the race to the bottom that is supply side economics...
Low gas prices mean an Obama Win, High prices a Romney Win. So both camps are fighting to move them in the desired direction. Obama's using the threat of the US Reserves to try to keep prices down, meanwhile Romney's got strong support from the investor class that's pushing to keep them up in the hopes of a big pay day in the form of tax cuts if Romney's elected.
The rest of the price increases are just speculators skimming off the top of our civilization. The UN has several studies showing most of the increase of food/energy is due to deregulation in the market that's been going on for 20 years or so.
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call me when it's $100. At $250 I can wait for Black Friday and get a 15.6" i3 with Win 7 Home. Heck, I can buy one of those right no for another $100. Maybe if the packaging was sleeker I could get behind it (e.g. all titanium and whatnot).
there are large sections where the police don't go. Also, my brother's apartment was robbed in 2000 and they took everything. They caught the guy, and let him go. As for how well armed they are, that's not what's at issue. What matters is a) how desperate and b) how many. I don't want to live in the sorta place were suicide bombs are a part of everyday life, and they gun strapped to your leg won't keep your parts together when one goes off next to you and yours...
just pointing out that these people aren't going to roll over and die just because their livelihood is taken away, and that we don't really have an alternative for them. So when you've got a whole bunch of criminals that have nothing to lose and no hope you're likely to see large scale violence, and unless you can afford a walled community and private security you're going to suffer for it. Maybe you can afford those things and you're not concerned, but I'm a little worried....
To address your comment directly, The law doesn't need to account for every possibility, but society at large needs to. We need to step away from principles and ideas and ask how the world really works. Principles and ideas are fun toys when you're in college, but if you hang on to them too tightly you'll find that you lose to the people who have no principles and are effectively exploiting your.
those cheap calories keep hunger pains in check. As a human you still need around 2000+ calories a day. If all you can afford is junk your body knows it. One of the reasons for obesity that people like to ignore is that if you're constantly eating low, low quality food your body keeps sending you hunger signals. That's because you're not getting the nutrients you need, your body knows it, and it's telling you to get out there and find it.
:(. We have a presidential candidate who argues that you're not entitled to food, shelter and health care and that's not even an issue, let alone something hurting him in the polls. As a nation we've got a major guilt complex going on or something...
As for 'how do we fix it'?. I can't think of any way that doesn't involve some form of socialism. The productivity gains of the last 20 years mean there really isn't enough work to go around. Less that 1% of our population produces all the food we need. Robots and computers are automating manufacturing, etc, etc. But in America at least socialism has to be sneaked in. Ayn Rand was penniless in her old age and had to be convinced to take social security so she wouldn't die homeless on the street...
I'm not talking about the base line costs, but the % discount. Instead of being 80 - 90% it tops out at 50%. That's a tighter supply chain at work, and it's cheap computing power and communications that have made that possible. That, plus cheap data storage that lets you track everything and data mine it, so when a manager of a Walmart orders 100 extra bags of candy you know he did it and you can ding him on his performance review for it...
they won't bother rounding them up unless their inconveniencing the people that matter ($250k+/yr income last I checked). And strangely the real poor keep their misery to themselves anywhere I've ever lived. Right now I'm living in a ridiculously expensive part of town because I happened to have landed a nice job, but You can drive 10 miles from my apartment and find terrifying slums. The rich like to keep poor people close by to serve them, after all. But the funny thing is the poor don't spill out. That's mostly our drug policy. If you're poor you or someone you know is probably taking illegal drugs to cope with the stress of poverty, and the harsh (selectively enforced) drug laws let us keep the poor in their place. You'll notice the big push is for medical marijuana, not to legalize it. That's because it lets the rich have their weed and keep using the laws to oppress. We did it with the Chinese and opium.
Anyway, you'll still have roving bands of bandits unless you're in the 10%.
That was just to illustrate the point. A better example would be the large increase in prices across the board at Walmart. In America we were sold on the idea that low prices would allow us to live well despite stagnant wages. Bargains, sales and close outs are a big part of that. Take a 3lb bag of apples. On sale I might pay $0.99 cents USD for it. Off Sale it might be $9.00. As the sales and discounts get fewer and farther between the people living on the edge get squeezed more and more. There's only so much you can cut before you get desperate and dangerous, and despite what some people say you can't live off beans and rice without serious health problems...
that we're shutting down scams and such, but it's interesting to think about some of the side effects of all this computing horse power and the general increase in productivity it entails. Basically, these are criminals living on the fringes, and with modern statistical analysis getting so easy (because you can crunch massive amounts of data on the cheap) we're going to start really squeezing those people. There are millions and millions of people in this class. Some are criminals (like these) and some are honest people who used to get by on waste product and over production. If you live in the States and are over 30 you probably remember bags of Halloween candy for 50 cents. You don't find them any more because they've crunched the numbers and figured out exactly how much candy to order so they don't come up short. Best you'll see if 50% off and a weak selection.
It's like that everywhere in society. It's going to be interesting (and scary) to see what happens as we squeeze these people more and more. Most countries are moving towards Austerity and 19th century style 'Invisible Hand' economics so we're not just going to hand them food. Roving bands of bandits, anyone?
a good 'how to use ssl safely' tutorial? I guess that's the real question. It seems to me something as common as this should be well documented/implemented. I mean, google wrapped SQL for me. Heck, google's code let me get a rudimentary spend tracker written in under 6 hours and my silly little mirroring app in under 4. Their APIs are so simple and well organized that it brings computing back to the age when I write the apps I want, like coding Basic for my C64.
:(.
Probably the problem is google can't implement their own SSL w/o worrying about liability
because only the major parties have the money to win. You need money for mass media. To get a message out and to hone that message to perfection.
What America really needs is to start moving back to the left. Conservativism has made progress a dirty word. We're panicking about jobs while automation is making the concept obsolete.
But I doubt you'll see that. More likely you'll see a gradual slide into dark ages.
they've got full time jobs doing this sorta thing. I suppose you could hire someone to fight on your behalf, but who's got enough disposable income for even that. Basically, if you're rich enough to fight ACTA you're probably rich enough to a) not care and b) benefit.
most Asian parents work. A lot. 6, 13 hour days is standard fare. I always here Asian parents trotted out as the example, but fact is there's no way to work those kind of hours and raise a kid. How do the majority do it? They let the government, specifically school teachers, who take a MUCH more active role in the students' life.
As for Asians valuing eduction, that's because in most places it's a dog eat dog hell hole due to their surplus population (that's surplus, no over, population. Over pop means there's not enough, surplus means there's enough to abuse). Americans value those things not because of a weak culture but because we're wealthy enough we can.
Put another way, I'm sick and tired of this weird cult of frantic, desperate, dog-eat dog work. The puritan work ethic is a scam that the Romney's of the world use to make excuses for their grotesque wealth.
Whoops, I mean "They're your ruling class". That's what I get for touch typing before bed :P.
the top guys aren't hiding. They're you're ruling class. Multi-multi millionaires. The don't suffer consequences anymore than the kings of old. Sure, every now and then one of them pisses off the rest and gets thrown to the wolves (Bernie Madoff). But for the most part you don't spill noble blood.
yes, there are overpaid asshats out there. But most consultants are really just employees without health benefits and unemployement insurance. If you see a company with a lot of consultants that's why. You can fire them at the drop of a hat at no cost. It's a sign of the modern economy, and one of the reasons my political views swing so far left.
It's been said before and will again, AMD will not be allowed to die, if only because the PC manufacturers are clever enough to know they need at least two vendors for the most critical part of their product. If Microsoft hadn't played games with Windows 8's ARM build I'd say AMD might be on the chopping block for real, but well, that's Microsoft for you.
or is there a metric tonne of crap that California's consumer protection laws save the rest of us from?
but I'll bite. Are you going to sterilize these people? For the record, I would. e.g. child birth should require a license. There was an old sit com where a character made the point that you need a license to Drive, shoot guns, heck even fish. But they'll let any idiot have a kid.
To put it a bit more bluntly, I've noticed that anti-gov't libertarian types are quick to judge the weaknesses and failings of others but when it comes to stopping people from being crushed by those weaknesses in the first place strangely silent. The only right they seem to support is the right to be miserable. Schadenfreude maybe?
that human beings at that age are learning to interact with the world, and TV if fundamentally non interactive. You're obviously putting a LOT of effort into raising your children, which is good for them. But is it possible that they're succeeding despite Television, and that it's your hard work that's making them a success?
there were debates in America in front of Congress. Spoiler alert: The advertisers won. There's just too much money to be made making kinds into good little consumers. BTW, this is why the Repubs are fighting hard to kill PBS. It has nothing to do with pork. Think of all that ad revenue. All those impressionable little eyeballs...
There's no shortage of tech workers, which is why you can't get college bound kids interested. Off shoring + H1B Visas has seen to that.
I'm pretty skeptical of this entire story. In my experience whenever anyone talks about retraining blue collar workers for tech work it's just a desperate attempt to deal with the fact that robots and outsourcing have made these people obsolete, and we want to pretend there's something for them all to do besides starve...
because if they don't they can't compete with the 100+ guys gunning for their job. If it ends badly you blame it on the worker and replace him. When labor's this cheap you can have a bunch of projects fail and not care. You're thinking like a worker, not an owner. An owner has twenty companies he owns. When they fail he writes the failure off on his taxes and moves on. If they all fail he uses his money to buy a bail out from the government (capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich).
:(. We're taught that if you work hard and play by the rules you'll win. But the big guys. The owners. The 'Capitalists'. They make the rules. You can't win like that. You can't even stay out of the gutter.
That trouble is, the way the world works doesn't match up with the economics we're taught in school
about the long or even short term well being of workers. If you subscribe to this line of thought you're looking at workers as an asset. That plays well with workers that want to believe they're irreplaceable. Fact is, there's so many people in the Global Economy that you can easily find a worker that can do those kind of hours productively. Sure, he/she burns out. But again, Global Economy. Supply and Demand. There's a huge over supply of workers in a Global Economy, and always will be. And you don't have to train. Desperate workers will train on their own time and their own dime. A lot (most) will be crushed but the debt and stress. But as an employer in a modern, high productivity workplace the 10% that survive are more than enough.
I guess my point is, don't count on your boss caring about your productivity dropping as your hours increase. If you trip and fall there's 100 guys waiting to overtake you in the race to the bottom that is supply side economics...
Low gas prices mean an Obama Win, High prices a Romney Win. So both camps are fighting to move them in the desired direction. Obama's using the threat of the US Reserves to try to keep prices down, meanwhile Romney's got strong support from the investor class that's pushing to keep them up in the hopes of a big pay day in the form of tax cuts if Romney's elected.
The rest of the price increases are just speculators skimming off the top of our civilization. The UN has several studies showing most of the increase of food/energy is due to deregulation in the market that's been going on for 20 years or so.
That's like me betting a nickle. Strike that. A plug nickle.