one of these stories comes up. So I'll ask this time too. What are we suppose to do with all these people we don't need anymore? We can't just give them food, housing and healthcare if they don't work for it. That's Socialism, bordering on Communism (yes, I know ones a subset of the other. I'm trolling here, give me a break).
And yeah, I'm Trolling. But I'm trolling out of deep fear and frustration. I'm not one of the 'haves'. My Dad not only didn't give me shit, he's blowing anything that would resemble an inheritance on the medical care needed to keep himself alive (the selfish bastard). Oh, and in case you haven't figured it out I'm in America. Where else could I have the resources to post to/. but a healhcare system that rivals Somalia.
did you do to Virtual Box to make it unstable. I do all the Linux development for my Firefox Plugin in a Virtualbox VM (which means lots and lots of flash and HTML5 video) and I've never once crashed it.
Now, getting OSX into a VirtualBox takes an act of God, but then again you're not suppose to do that in the first place:P So not a fair comparison.
You really really don't know how the world works, do you?
As for no resources, I don't suppose you've stop to think about where the people who make your (non food) goods live, where the hospital you'll drive to for care as you age will be, where the doctor who prescribes your medicine will get his education, etc, etc. You depend heavily on the productive output of cities. Furthermore unless you're paying the big bucks for Satellite or one of those fancy long range tight beams then the reason you have internet is gov't subsidies paid for by city dwellers.
Oh, and there's lots of cities in Europe that are doing just fine, thank you.
But hey, don't let reality get in the way of a good 'ole libertarian rant.
A guy I knew in college had this problem in his dorm. His roommate was a music major, and he had some PA equipment that he used for shows. Just a half stack probably, it was a dorm after all, but it was more than enough to blast this louder than any dorm room stereo could hope to keep up with.
but 30 years of tax cuts and underfunded police departments means the cops have better things to be doing. That's why you don't see these guys in wealthy parts of town.
But maybe subby doesn't have $300k lying around for a nice new house by the coast. Or maybe that's where all his customers are and moving would destroy his business. See, the lucky ones with all the $$$ leave, and leave behind a festering blight of poverty and crime instead of solving the problems.
My favorite part about this phenomenon is the people who leave usually re-incorporate outside the city so they don't have to pay taxes, often relying on government services (education, housing, etc) while they got 'bootstrapped' enough to move to a suburb just outside the reach of the taxes they relied on.
in the economy. It's about making sure basic needs are met, and working towards improving what is 'basic'. If all you need to be a socialist was government intervention then George Bush jr's administration, with it's bank bail outs and two wars, would be the greatest socialist regime in history...
suggests it's one of the worst companies to work for this side of Cannon (famous for installing sensors to track how fast employees go to the bathroom). From what I understand it was the weird cult of personality around Jobs that let them do that. With Steve gone, are they gonna be able to pull that off?
a) Rates drop since Insurance Companies couldn't just check up on their competitors rates and use that information to fix prices without colluding (*cough*auto-insurance*cough*).
c) Insurance Companies pocket the savings and pay them out in the form of big cash bonuses for the board of directors?
I don't think that counts for much any more. Pretty much all mainstream and big media is conservative on Economics any more. Some are liberal on a few social issues (Gay Marriage, Abortion, etc), but on economics they don't stray too far from Supply Side Economics. I attribute this to the fact that the owners (Rupport Murdoch et al) are very conservative, and if you want to stay employed you don't tick off the boss man...
That said, it's tough to say. But I think it's been pointed out that electronic billing gives the pencil pushers enough data to figure out where they could be billing but aren't. But in 2010 alone $4 billion was recovered. But was that due to better tracking, a strong willingness on the part of the current Administration to stop fraud, or blind dumb luck?
it's already been established that moving to electronic records helps track Medicare fraud. Yes, the system has a lot of gaps, but electronic tracking reduces them. If that wasn't true companies wouldn't use electronic purchasing systems to track expenditures, and the spreadsheet would just be an interesting foot note in computer history...
I gotta ask (since I'm far too lazy to read the article): Is this a lame attack on the existing administration?
...only which side you're on in the(ir) war. The fact is you're still caught up in the narrative the rich and powerful have created: Namely that lazy overpaid public workers are the problem with our economy. And not say, 30 years of declining wages while the rich line their pockets and hide their ill gotten gains in overseas accounts.
I guess I don't need this pesky AMA membership and Doctor's license (another unnecessary origination that should be voluntary). I'm off to practice medicine! Maybe if I practice enough I'll get it right!
Oh, and come off it. There are lots of good reasons to be required to join an organization before you can do something. Principles are lovely, but don't let them blind you to cold hard reality. For one thing, in a right to work state it's easy to discriminate against Union employees. When I say 'discriminate', I don't mean 'Not Hire'. I mean real discrimination. Like, 'Not sell food to' and 'Not allow to own a house'. This was done to blacks, so there's no reason why the powers that be won't do it to Unions. After all, Unions (and public sector employees) are the new Black. They're the group the rich pit the middle class against so you won't start asking questions like "How come there's 30 TRILLION dollars in off shore accounts?" and "Where did that national debt come from again?".
don't get to pick their parents. We all deserve the same opportunity to succeed. If you go to a poorly funded 2 year trade school whose sole purpose is to maximize shareholder value and I go to the best private schools in the world, how is that right?
The free market might have it's place, but it's not the ultimate answer to mankind's happiness. Widen your view.
A few high level admins and some research professors at Univeristies make that kind of money.The median is pretty low. It only seems high because everyone else's wages have been dropping for 30 years thanks to Trickle Down Economics (aka 'Supply Side').
either that or you're one of their shills (possible, but apologies if you're not since people hate being accused of that).
The rich learned long ago that the best way to stay in power and keep all the money was to pit groups of people against each other. Traditionally this is done with racial or cultural boundaries. Black/white, Christian/Islam, etc, etc. But since they've been globalizing the economy to take advantage of all that cheap labor they've got a problem. They're having a hard time keeping us segregated, and keeping a single large voting block they can count on. The "Southern Strategy" is breaking down.
So they're sicking you on public employees. They don't really have it that good, it's just that after 30 years of lower wages and longer work hours their lives look like heaven. That's the trap. You're too busy asking, why do those guys have food, shelter and health care? to ask "Hey, why don't I have those things?".
because education is too important to run like a business, with profits maximized. I buy a lot of crap that I know isn't very good because I don't make a tonne of money. I don't want my kid to get a Ramen Education while Mitt Romney's kids are the only ones eating steak.
Microsoft is closing the gates, and Apple did ages ago. But the big news is that Intel 4000 HD graphics are finally enough for most games. I've seen Batman Arkham Asylum, Call of Duty Black ops and Streetfighter X Tekken running A-OK on them. The drivers are true open source; which Valve has commented makes development much easier, and which levels the playing field quite a bit. So yeah, Linux has a fighting chance.
In the United States most food commodities required you take possession. To be fair, a lot of that started under Clinton (who was a fiscal conservative, only liberal on social issues), but as the article points out things didn't really get going on the speculative markets until 2008, round the Obama was handed Bush's mess to clean up (and a Congress full of DINOs, Democrats in Name Only).
There are many, many things in this world that are complex. Physics, chemistry, mathematics. Economics isn't one of them. People are simple, scared and greedy. Google the phrases 'Southern Strategy' and 'Vulture Capitalism' and you pretty much have everything you need to know to understand it. Everything else is just tossing numbers around.
But don't take my word for it. Take this example. How do the Rich avoid taxes? Complex and amazing tax loopholes? Not so much. Turns out they just borrow money below interest (loaned to them by rich buddies in charge of the banking system) and live off that. That's the best irony in the world. The super wealthy are some of the poorest people in the world. No money (to tax) you see. Again, google it. I found that linked article for you, so you can do the rest:P.
because agribusiness wants more money. As for speculation, you can thank the Bush Administration for that. It's simple really. You used to have to take delivery of the commodities you bought. Bush did away with that. That opened speculation to a whole new class. They "buy" grain and "sell" it without ever taking possession. What they're really doing is using their existing wealth and connections to skim off the top.
for real? Could work. Intel's integrated graphics are pushing out something on the order of a Nvidia GT240 if you get the 4000, which is more than acceptable. They've pretty much got to do something, since if Microsoft goes all walled garden on them and it sticks then they're basically done. I wish them luck. I like my Steam games.
it's a dead end and you're racing to the bottom. Either start your own business writing software or get into the Business side. The trouble with IT is there's not much human interaction so you're easy to off shore. I know that sounds harsh, but that's they way it is. Heck, even Best Buy outsourced the Geek Squad. If you haven't noticed they plug the computers into the Internet while someone overseas fixes it. The only thing the Squad's there for is to plug it in and get the Internet working well enough for remote admin....
that's what medical marijuana's all about. People think of the law as a black and white thing that applies equally. It's not. Laws are built so that undesirables can be punished while leaving important people alone. With medical marijuana the rich can safely smoke pot while the poor (who can't afford to doctor shop for a weed card) get popped when they wander into a wealthy neighborhood.
Child Pornography laws will be the same. The haves will use them to keep the riff-raff out of the Internet without screwing with general public. Yeah, occasionally an innocent guy will have his life destroyed, but it won't happen enough to the right kinds of people to matter.
I guess what I'm saying is: Law isn't governed on principle. It's as practical as anything else in the world.
how the hell else am I going to find anything at all negative about a guy with that much money? I sure as hell ain't gonna see it on Fox News. Yeah, the gaff is from Fox, but good luck ever seeing it covered again, let alone story after story about it.
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one of these stories comes up. So I'll ask this time too. What are we suppose to do with all these people we don't need anymore? We can't just give them food, housing and healthcare if they don't work for it. That's Socialism, bordering on Communism (yes, I know ones a subset of the other. I'm trolling here, give me a break).
/. but a healhcare system that rivals Somalia.
And yeah, I'm Trolling. But I'm trolling out of deep fear and frustration. I'm not one of the 'haves'. My Dad not only didn't give me shit, he's blowing anything that would resemble an inheritance on the medical care needed to keep himself alive (the selfish bastard). Oh, and in case you haven't figured it out I'm in America. Where else could I have the resources to post to
did you do to Virtual Box to make it unstable. I do all the Linux development for my Firefox Plugin in a Virtualbox VM (which means lots and lots of flash and HTML5 video) and I've never once crashed it.
:P So not a fair comparison.
Now, getting OSX into a VirtualBox takes an act of God, but then again you're not suppose to do that in the first place
You really really don't know how the world works, do you?
As for no resources, I don't suppose you've stop to think about where the people who make your (non food) goods live, where the hospital you'll drive to for care as you age will be, where the doctor who prescribes your medicine will get his education, etc, etc. You depend heavily on the productive output of cities. Furthermore unless you're paying the big bucks for Satellite or one of those fancy long range tight beams then the reason you have internet is gov't subsidies paid for by city dwellers.
Oh, and there's lots of cities in Europe that are doing just fine, thank you.
But hey, don't let reality get in the way of a good 'ole libertarian rant.
A guy I knew in college had this problem in his dorm. His roommate was a music major, and he had some PA equipment that he used for shows. Just a half stack probably, it was a dorm after all, but it was more than enough to blast this louder than any dorm room stereo could hope to keep up with.
but 30 years of tax cuts and underfunded police departments means the cops have better things to be doing. That's why you don't see these guys in wealthy parts of town.
But maybe subby doesn't have $300k lying around for a nice new house by the coast. Or maybe that's where all his customers are and moving would destroy his business. See, the lucky ones with all the $$$ leave, and leave behind a festering blight of poverty and crime instead of solving the problems.
My favorite part about this phenomenon is the people who leave usually re-incorporate outside the city so they don't have to pay taxes, often relying on government services (education, housing, etc) while they got 'bootstrapped' enough to move to a suburb just outside the reach of the taxes they relied on.
in the economy. It's about making sure basic needs are met, and working towards improving what is 'basic'. If all you need to be a socialist was government intervention then George Bush jr's administration, with it's bank bail outs and two wars, would be the greatest socialist regime in history...
suggests it's one of the worst companies to work for this side of Cannon (famous for installing sensors to track how fast employees go to the bathroom). From what I understand it was the weird cult of personality around Jobs that let them do that. With Steve gone, are they gonna be able to pull that off?
what's more likely:
a) Rates drop since Insurance Companies couldn't just check up on their competitors rates and use that information to fix prices without colluding (*cough*auto-insurance*cough*).
c) Insurance Companies pocket the savings and pay them out in the form of big cash bonuses for the board of directors?
I don't think that counts for much any more. Pretty much all mainstream and big media is conservative on Economics any more. Some are liberal on a few social issues (Gay Marriage, Abortion, etc), but on economics they don't stray too far from Supply Side Economics. I attribute this to the fact that the owners (Rupport Murdoch et al) are very conservative, and if you want to stay employed you don't tick off the boss man...
That said, it's tough to say. But I think it's been pointed out that electronic billing gives the pencil pushers enough data to figure out where they could be billing but aren't. But in 2010 alone $4 billion was recovered. But was that due to better tracking, a strong willingness on the part of the current Administration to stop fraud, or blind dumb luck?
it's already been established that moving to electronic records helps track Medicare fraud. Yes, the system has a lot of gaps, but electronic tracking reduces them. If that wasn't true companies wouldn't use electronic purchasing systems to track expenditures, and the spreadsheet would just be an interesting foot note in computer history...
I gotta ask (since I'm far too lazy to read the article): Is this a lame attack on the existing administration?
...only which side you're on in the(ir) war. The fact is you're still caught up in the narrative the rich and powerful have created: Namely that lazy overpaid public workers are the problem with our economy. And not say, 30 years of declining wages while the rich line their pockets and hide their ill gotten gains in overseas accounts.
I guess I don't need this pesky AMA membership and Doctor's license (another unnecessary origination that should be voluntary). I'm off to practice medicine! Maybe if I practice enough I'll get it right!
Oh, and come off it. There are lots of good reasons to be required to join an organization before you can do something. Principles are lovely, but don't let them blind you to cold hard reality. For one thing, in a right to work state it's easy to discriminate against Union employees. When I say 'discriminate', I don't mean 'Not Hire'. I mean real discrimination. Like, 'Not sell food to' and 'Not allow to own a house'. This was done to blacks, so there's no reason why the powers that be won't do it to Unions. After all, Unions (and public sector employees) are the new Black. They're the group the rich pit the middle class against so you won't start asking questions like "How come there's 30 TRILLION dollars in off shore accounts?" and "Where did that national debt come from again?".
don't get to pick their parents. We all deserve the same opportunity to succeed. If you go to a poorly funded 2 year trade school whose sole purpose is to maximize shareholder value and I go to the best private schools in the world, how is that right?
The free market might have it's place, but it's not the ultimate answer to mankind's happiness. Widen your view.
A few high level admins and some research professors at Univeristies make that kind of money.The median is pretty low. It only seems high because everyone else's wages have been dropping for 30 years thanks to Trickle Down Economics (aka 'Supply Side').
either that or you're one of their shills (possible, but apologies if you're not since people hate being accused of that).
The rich learned long ago that the best way to stay in power and keep all the money was to pit groups of people against each other. Traditionally this is done with racial or cultural boundaries. Black/white, Christian/Islam, etc, etc. But since they've been globalizing the economy to take advantage of all that cheap labor they've got a problem. They're having a hard time keeping us segregated, and keeping a single large voting block they can count on. The "Southern Strategy" is breaking down.
So they're sicking you on public employees. They don't really have it that good, it's just that after 30 years of lower wages and longer work hours their lives look like heaven. That's the trap. You're too busy asking, why do those guys have food, shelter and health care? to ask "Hey, why don't I have those things?".
because education is too important to run like a business, with profits maximized. I buy a lot of crap that I know isn't very good because I don't make a tonne of money. I don't want my kid to get a Ramen Education while Mitt Romney's kids are the only ones eating steak.
Microsoft is closing the gates, and Apple did ages ago. But the big news is that Intel 4000 HD graphics are finally enough for most games. I've seen Batman Arkham Asylum, Call of Duty Black ops and Streetfighter X Tekken running A-OK on them. The drivers are true open source; which Valve has commented makes development much easier, and which levels the playing field quite a bit. So yeah, Linux has a fighting chance.
you can convince Congress to cut back on the H-1B Visa program... :(.
In the United States most food commodities required you take possession. To be fair, a lot of that started under Clinton (who was a fiscal conservative, only liberal on social issues), but as the article points out things didn't really get going on the speculative markets until 2008, round the Obama was handed Bush's mess to clean up (and a Congress full of DINOs, Democrats in Name Only).
:P.
There are many, many things in this world that are complex. Physics, chemistry, mathematics. Economics isn't one of them. People are simple, scared and greedy. Google the phrases 'Southern Strategy' and 'Vulture Capitalism' and you pretty much have everything you need to know to understand it. Everything else is just tossing numbers around.
But don't take my word for it. Take this example. How do the Rich avoid taxes? Complex and amazing tax loopholes? Not so much. Turns out they just borrow money below interest (loaned to them by rich buddies in charge of the banking system) and live off that. That's the best irony in the world. The super wealthy are some of the poorest people in the world. No money (to tax) you see. Again, google it. I found that linked article for you, so you can do the rest
because agribusiness wants more money. As for speculation, you can thank the Bush Administration for that. It's simple really. You used to have to take delivery of the commodities you bought. Bush did away with that. That opened speculation to a whole new class. They "buy" grain and "sell" it without ever taking possession. What they're really doing is using their existing wealth and connections to skim off the top.
for real? Could work. Intel's integrated graphics are pushing out something on the order of a Nvidia GT240 if you get the 4000, which is more than acceptable. They've pretty much got to do something, since if Microsoft goes all walled garden on them and it sticks then they're basically done. I wish them luck. I like my Steam games.
it's a dead end and you're racing to the bottom. Either start your own business writing software or get into the Business side. The trouble with IT is there's not much human interaction so you're easy to off shore. I know that sounds harsh, but that's they way it is. Heck, even Best Buy outsourced the Geek Squad. If you haven't noticed they plug the computers into the Internet while someone overseas fixes it. The only thing the Squad's there for is to plug it in and get the Internet working well enough for remote admin....
that's what medical marijuana's all about. People think of the law as a black and white thing that applies equally. It's not. Laws are built so that undesirables can be punished while leaving important people alone. With medical marijuana the rich can safely smoke pot while the poor (who can't afford to doctor shop for a weed card) get popped when they wander into a wealthy neighborhood.
Child Pornography laws will be the same. The haves will use them to keep the riff-raff out of the Internet without screwing with general public. Yeah, occasionally an innocent guy will have his life destroyed, but it won't happen enough to the right kinds of people to matter.
I guess what I'm saying is: Law isn't governed on principle. It's as practical as anything else in the world.
how the hell else am I going to find anything at all negative about a guy with that much money? I sure as hell ain't gonna see it on Fox News. Yeah, the gaff is from Fox, but good luck ever seeing it covered again, let alone story after story about it.