and a really, really nasty one. Take a look at the 'in demand' jobs. Aircraft Mechanic? CAD? What is this, 1980?
It's a diploma mill. Amazon sends their employees to a diploma mill, gets a kick back from the mill, some of their workers pay for training they should've got on the job, and gets a nice tax break to boot, so the whole thing's paid for by the taxpayer.
The worst thing is the employee comes out of the mill with a tonne of debt and no marketable skills. And they worked really hard to do it too. This is awful. It's taking advantage of people's hopes and dreams while grinding them to dust. It is literally the most awful thing I've ever seen a company do outside of Bhopal.
There so much awful here I just don't know what to say. I didn't know people could be this bad...
about birth rates. Even in the US the birth rate is barely keeping up with death rates. Funny how educated people that are completely broke and working 12 hours/day 6 days a week don't want more kids. Just wait and see what happens in the developed world when the male birth control pill hits...
Here you go. That's where the profits are going. Not to your pension. What the #$!@ has a pension anymore? My Dad, Mother-in-Law, and all my friends parents lost theirs.
Milk is a lot more tightly regulated than gas, and for good reason. You don't drink gasoline. Well, I don't anyway.
Finally, you're implying that we're all desperately suckling at the teat of gov't for the sack of our own incompetence (using the loaded term 'welfare state' is a dead give away). I resent this sentiment, because for some reason it's ok to go begging on bended knee to our social betters for enough food and medicine to die a painless debt but taking hold of a a good life is a no-no. Whoops, just loaded my own sentence.
Anyay reread that first paragraph I wrote. We could pay our national debt off tomorrow with what the 1% have in their overseas bank accounts. Funny how that works. How they keep us desperate, on edge, and begging. Almost like they meant to do that...
Raj never should have been born. Poor people have the right to live. They do not have the right to breed. You lose that right by poverty. That doesn't just go for Raj, it goes for Cletus the slack jawed yokel too. We don't let cats and dogs breed out of control, so I see no reason to let humans do so. Libertarians agree that your rights end when they infringe on my. There is no greater infringement then having an unwanted child you can't provide for. The impact to society is far greater than any single act you can commit.
I'm well aware that the sort of dog-eat-dog Capitalism I'm talking about only exists for the lower classes, and that the rich do not participate in it.
The State != corporation. It is quite possible for the vast majority of people to use the Gov't for the benefit of all. In point of fact, it's the only hope. You need a large entity to stand up to the awesome power we allow the 1% to have. Conservatives threaten us with the grim specter of a repressive Government, but where as my Government might oppress the 1% WILL oppress me. With Gov't I at least have a fighting chance. With the 1% I've already lost the war. If you doubt me google '16 Tons'.
Really. It doesn't. Globalism Breaks Capitalism. Period. It's that simple. You are completing on the global stage. Your employer is not. You can't win. You can't keep up. They will import desperate workers from impoverished countries. You will compete with them for food and shelter. Automation makes you disposable and obsolete. You can't work elsewhere, because there are very few jobs (automation) and there are lots of people to do those jobs (globalism).
Free market Capitalism is fundamentally broken. Adam Smith wasn't a futurist. He had no vision. Ayn Rand was just a little woman afraid of a nasty dictator. Get over your fear, and learn to face facts. Adam couldn't, Ayn couldn't. Can you?
Those E350s are kinda neat, but they're closer to $100 if you're buying them from a reliable manufacturer and they have no onboard ram or storage. They're also not as small as a Raspberry Pi.
As for specs, for $120 I can buy a dual core Intel refurb off newegg and slap a $50 GT 240 video card in it. That's blow away the AMD system. What I really want is a tiny file & print server that's out of the way. I mentioned Quake III because it's a good benchmark. Contrary to popular belief Samba has pretty hefty sys requirements, which is why those cheap routers with it built in aren't much use:(.
to where I can buy a cheap linux ($50 usd or less) board that's got ethernet & USB 2.0 and enough horse power to run Quake III at 30fps? Seriously, I've been looking and I can't find them.
when they stopped caring about me. When was the last time a story like Watergate broke? When was the last time the papers challenged the powers that be? Sorta hard to do that when the powers that be own you lock stock & barrel. Why would I pay 50 cents/day to read the same corporate drek and propaganda I can get for free in their advertisements?
it's not just corporate. You can't retire without your investments paying off. I know we have this funny idea of 'Retirement' but for most it's the time when their bodies are too beating and old to work anymore. Without constant growth it's the gutter for 99%...
the invisible hand will correct. You'll shop some where else when the prices go up, right? And you'll work somewhere else when there's only one employer left, right? Or you'll just go work for yourself. I'm sure the banks will loan you the capital, or that Amazon will pay you enough in Salary to save the capital, right?
Or the Government could step in and break up the Monopoly. Wait, strike that. that's socialism.
would prefer Romney get elected. This isn't wacko conspiracy theory either. You need only look at the fact that Romney is the first challenger in history to out-raise and out-spend an incumbent president. That money isn't coming from the rank and file after all (they don't have it).
It's not hard to see why the ruling class prefers Romney. He's one of them (Desert Bagels anyone?) and he's made it very clear he will cut taxes on high income earners and slash government spending to make up the difference (going so far as to cut funding for police & fire departments).
Basically, we're got a ruling class that is actively crashing our economy....
we get a source of beings that we can use in place of trying improvements in education? I tried lab rats, but all they did is gnaw on some cheese
Also, contrary to popular belief there HAVE been advances in our understanding of human psychology. The big one is that we've found that self-image is a fundamental restraint on ability. Specifically people act in a way that tends to reinforce their self image. There is science backing this, and best of all it passes the 'truthiness' test (worthless, I know, but at least the tea baggers mostly stay in the woodwork when I start talking about this).
This is where the 'precious little snowflake' movement in education came from. This might just shock you, but children are impressionable little blighters. If you want them to succeed (you do want them to, don't you?) then you need to impress on them a self image that includes success. People will throw up their arms at this and say 'What about Peter Principle!?'. The Peter Principle is a gross simplification of human psychology trotted out to excuse budgets cuts.
Look at the most arrogant fool you know. The one who's completely incompetent yet supremely confident. Ask yourself, when you strip away the bluster, don't you find he's just overcompensating for deeper insecurities? The point of OBE and similar education efforts is to raise people without those insecurities. In short, there's a difference between arrogance and positivity. Teachers spend years learning it. Could you honestly say that you've even spent as much time to consider it as you did to write your post? My dear/.tter... I think you just fell victim to Peter's.
Also, do we really want lower transaction costs? They might shave pennies or even dollars off a stock market trade, but if the point of the stock market is investment in a company (rather that shifting wealth around) wouldn't we want incentive to stay vested in a company?
The trouble with HFTs is they siphon money w/o adding value. As near as I can tell they're the definition of an economic parasite. Again, I'm open to being proven otherwise, it's just I don't see what value they add. They don't hold onto the stock long enough for the real investors to use the capital they put into the market. They just seem to drive up the cost for real investors....
As for Obama, he's got his hands full with oil and commodity speculators....
Obama put in place several regulations to control oil speculation. During the Bush administration the laws governing commodities trading where changed (laws, not regulations) so that you no longer have to take delivery of a commodity to buy it. Before that, if you wanted 40,000 barrels you had to have someplace to store them. They did it for food too, which is why the cost of food went up 40% and there were food riots in Mexico...
Obama pushed through several regulation to control what they could do (sadly, he did not restore the laws about commodity trading). The is why you're paying less at the pump. He also has used the threat of flooding the market from the national reserves to keep the speculators in check. He did these things well over a year ago, but it takes that long for the savings to make it through the pipeline.
it's wearing glasses. Nothin's cooler. Ok, maybe if it's those cool glasses you were while AC/DC music plays, but the trouble with that is the music only plays when you take the glasses off.
subsidies the hell out of LED light bulbs, instant water heaters and energy efficient TVs and PCs. The mandate LED light bulbs & instant water heaters in apartments so that people who rent don't bear the costs of apartments being cheapskates. Add dual pane windows as a requirement too. Their are three electricity costs that matter: Heating & cooling, Lighting & Hot Water. We have the technology to lower all three, and it's in everyone's interest. The issue is that the cost is born by people that can't get together the scratch for the energy efficient stuff even though it saves money overall.
if I'm a tablet manufacturer, do I really want to compete head on with the company that makes the OS? How am I suppose to compete against someone that has instant access to the dev team and pays no license fee?
had to uninstall/reinstall SQL 2008 on a client's PC last week. Took 5 minutes instead of 45. The only trouble with SSDs is they die quickly from repeated read/writes. A swap heavy OS like Win7 will kill one in no time. I guess you could use ram drives, but in the XP days that was bad juju. Maybe it's different for Win7 though.
with a fast enough computer could you programatically write sheet music for every possible song ever, copy write it, and the sue away? Sure, you'd get dinged for the already copywrited stuff, but you could just cross reference off future product, since you know own all of music.
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and a really, really nasty one. Take a look at the 'in demand' jobs. Aircraft Mechanic? CAD? What is this, 1980?
It's a diploma mill. Amazon sends their employees to a diploma mill, gets a kick back from the mill, some of their workers pay for training they should've got on the job, and gets a nice tax break to boot, so the whole thing's paid for by the taxpayer.
The worst thing is the employee comes out of the mill with a tonne of debt and no marketable skills. And they worked really hard to do it too. This is awful. It's taking advantage of people's hopes and dreams while grinding them to dust. It is literally the most awful thing I've ever seen a company do outside of Bhopal.
There so much awful here I just don't know what to say. I didn't know people could be this bad...
about birth rates. Even in the US the birth rate is barely keeping up with death rates. Funny how educated people that are completely broke and working 12 hours/day 6 days a week don't want more kids. Just wait and see what happens in the developed world when the male birth control pill hits...
Here you go. That's where the profits are going. Not to your pension. What the #$!@ has a pension anymore? My Dad, Mother-in-Law, and all my friends parents lost theirs.
Milk is a lot more tightly regulated than gas, and for good reason. You don't drink gasoline. Well, I don't anyway.
Finally, you're implying that we're all desperately suckling at the teat of gov't for the sack of our own incompetence (using the loaded term 'welfare state' is a dead give away). I resent this sentiment, because for some reason it's ok to go begging on bended knee to our social betters for enough food and medicine to die a painless debt but taking hold of a a good life is a no-no. Whoops, just loaded my own sentence.
Anyay reread that first paragraph I wrote. We could pay our national debt off tomorrow with what the 1% have in their overseas bank accounts. Funny how that works. How they keep us desperate, on edge, and begging. Almost like they meant to do that...
Raj never should have been born. Poor people have the right to live. They do not have the right to breed. You lose that right by poverty. That doesn't just go for Raj, it goes for Cletus the slack jawed yokel too. We don't let cats and dogs breed out of control, so I see no reason to let humans do so. Libertarians agree that your rights end when they infringe on my. There is no greater infringement then having an unwanted child you can't provide for. The impact to society is far greater than any single act you can commit.
I'm well aware that the sort of dog-eat-dog Capitalism I'm talking about only exists for the lower classes, and that the rich do not participate in it.
The State != corporation. It is quite possible for the vast majority of people to use the Gov't for the benefit of all. In point of fact, it's the only hope. You need a large entity to stand up to the awesome power we allow the 1% to have. Conservatives threaten us with the grim specter of a repressive Government, but where as my Government might oppress the 1% WILL oppress me. With Gov't I at least have a fighting chance. With the 1% I've already lost the war. If you doubt me google '16 Tons'.
Really. It doesn't. Globalism Breaks Capitalism. Period. It's that simple. You are completing on the global stage. Your employer is not. You can't win. You can't keep up. They will import desperate workers from impoverished countries. You will compete with them for food and shelter. Automation makes you disposable and obsolete. You can't work elsewhere, because there are very few jobs (automation) and there are lots of people to do those jobs (globalism).
Free market Capitalism is fundamentally broken. Adam Smith wasn't a futurist. He had no vision. Ayn Rand was just a little woman afraid of a nasty dictator. Get over your fear, and learn to face facts. Adam couldn't, Ayn couldn't. Can you?
Those E350s are kinda neat, but they're closer to $100 if you're buying them from a reliable manufacturer and they have no onboard ram or storage. They're also not as small as a Raspberry Pi.
:(.
As for specs, for $120 I can buy a dual core Intel refurb off newegg and slap a $50 GT 240 video card in it. That's blow away the AMD system. What I really want is a tiny file & print server that's out of the way. I mentioned Quake III because it's a good benchmark. Contrary to popular belief Samba has pretty hefty sys requirements, which is why those cheap routers with it built in aren't much use
to where I can buy a cheap linux ($50 usd or less) board that's got ethernet & USB 2.0 and enough horse power to run Quake III at 30fps? Seriously, I've been looking and I can't find them.
That's the sound of crickets.
when they stopped caring about me. When was the last time a story like Watergate broke? When was the last time the papers challenged the powers that be? Sorta hard to do that when the powers that be own you lock stock & barrel. Why would I pay 50 cents/day to read the same corporate drek and propaganda I can get for free in their advertisements?
it's not just corporate. You can't retire without your investments paying off. I know we have this funny idea of 'Retirement' but for most it's the time when their bodies are too beating and old to work anymore. Without constant growth it's the gutter for 99%...
the invisible hand will correct. You'll shop some where else when the prices go up, right? And you'll work somewhere else when there's only one employer left, right? Or you'll just go work for yourself. I'm sure the banks will loan you the capital, or that Amazon will pay you enough in Salary to save the capital, right?
Or the Government could step in and break up the Monopoly. Wait, strike that. that's socialism.
would prefer Romney get elected. This isn't wacko conspiracy theory either. You need only look at the fact that Romney is the first challenger in history to out-raise and out-spend an incumbent president. That money isn't coming from the rank and file after all (they don't have it).
It's not hard to see why the ruling class prefers Romney. He's one of them (Desert Bagels anyone?) and he's made it very clear he will cut taxes on high income earners and slash government spending to make up the difference (going so far as to cut funding for police & fire departments).
Basically, we're got a ruling class that is actively crashing our economy....
isn't that he's wrong, it's that he's right. Most of that money goes to about 400 people (google it).
we get a source of beings that we can use in place of trying improvements in education? I tried lab rats, but all they did is gnaw on some cheese
/.tter... I think you just fell victim to Peter's.
Also, contrary to popular belief there HAVE been advances in our understanding of human psychology. The big one is that we've found that self-image is a fundamental restraint on ability. Specifically people act in a way that tends to reinforce their self image. There is science backing this, and best of all it passes the 'truthiness' test (worthless, I know, but at least the tea baggers mostly stay in the woodwork when I start talking about this).
This is where the 'precious little snowflake' movement in education came from. This might just shock you, but children are impressionable little blighters. If you want them to succeed (you do want them to, don't you?) then you need to impress on them a self image that includes success. People will throw up their arms at this and say 'What about Peter Principle!?'. The Peter Principle is a gross simplification of human psychology trotted out to excuse budgets cuts.
Look at the most arrogant fool you know. The one who's completely incompetent yet supremely confident. Ask yourself, when you strip away the bluster, don't you find he's just overcompensating for deeper insecurities? The point of OBE and similar education efforts is to raise people without those insecurities. In short, there's a difference between arrogance and positivity. Teachers spend years learning it. Could you honestly say that you've even spent as much time to consider it as you did to write your post? My dear
Also, do we really want lower transaction costs? They might shave pennies or even dollars off a stock market trade, but if the point of the stock market is investment in a company (rather that shifting wealth around) wouldn't we want incentive to stay vested in a company?
The trouble with HFTs is they siphon money w/o adding value. As near as I can tell they're the definition of an economic parasite. Again, I'm open to being proven otherwise, it's just I don't see what value they add. They don't hold onto the stock long enough for the real investors to use the capital they put into the market. They just seem to drive up the cost for real investors....
As for Obama, he's got his hands full with oil and commodity speculators....
Obama put in place several regulations to control oil speculation. During the Bush administration the laws governing commodities trading where changed (laws, not regulations) so that you no longer have to take delivery of a commodity to buy it. Before that, if you wanted 40,000 barrels you had to have someplace to store them. They did it for food too, which is why the cost of food went up 40% and there were food riots in Mexico...
Obama pushed through several regulation to control what they could do (sadly, he did not restore the laws about commodity trading). The is why you're paying less at the pump. He also has used the threat of flooding the market from the national reserves to keep the speculators in check. He did these things well over a year ago, but it takes that long for the savings to make it through the pipeline.
and form a new company after gutting the old one via "consultation fees". Corporations are only people when privileges are discussed, not penalties.
I'm holding out for 11/10ths.
it's wearing glasses. Nothin's cooler. Ok, maybe if it's those cool glasses you were while AC/DC music plays, but the trouble with that is the music only plays when you take the glasses off.
subsidies the hell out of LED light bulbs, instant water heaters and energy efficient TVs and PCs. The mandate LED light bulbs & instant water heaters in apartments so that people who rent don't bear the costs of apartments being cheapskates. Add dual pane windows as a requirement too. Their are three electricity costs that matter: Heating & cooling, Lighting & Hot Water. We have the technology to lower all three, and it's in everyone's interest. The issue is that the cost is born by people that can't get together the scratch for the energy efficient stuff even though it saves money overall.
Plus Windows RG was already taken.
if I'm a tablet manufacturer, do I really want to compete head on with the company that makes the OS? How am I suppose to compete against someone that has instant access to the dev team and pays no license fee?
had to uninstall/reinstall SQL 2008 on a client's PC last week. Took 5 minutes instead of 45. The only trouble with SSDs is they die quickly from repeated read/writes. A swap heavy OS like Win7 will kill one in no time. I guess you could use ram drives, but in the XP days that was bad juju. Maybe it's different for Win7 though.
with a fast enough computer could you programatically write sheet music for every possible song ever, copy write it, and the sue away? Sure, you'd get dinged for the already copywrited stuff, but you could just cross reference off future product, since you know own all of music.