racism. Google for the phrase 'Southern Strategy'. The real power is in getting a base out to vote. So few Americans vote that a tiny minority can dictate national policy so long as they a) vote and b) are allowed to. That's why back when Bush was elected for term # 2 there were armed police in riot gear stationed outside polls in poor black neighborhoods in Ohio & Florida. 'cause nothing says safe and inviting to a poor minority like police in riot gear.
Oh, and the reason Obama was elected was during the last election he sent 5000 (Yes, that's the right number of zeros) lawyers to Florida to keep an eye on Brother Jeb. Funny how a few days after that Jeb announced the polls in his state would be open for extra hours, and how no chad was left to hang...
that our Supreme Court is owned. Clarance Thomas' corruption is so obvious that he's essentially just flaunting the law at this stage, and if the other half was stronger he'd be getting disbarred right about now. The rest basically just side with the property owners on principle.
I feel bad for this guy, to to be honest I'm too beat from my day job to do anything about it. Mission Accomplished.
Aw, no you're just trolling. And here I was hoping to get a real answer out of one of you libertarian teabaggers. Oh well, check please.
Anyway, I'll throw up the question once again for fun: Meg didn't do the work that generates that productive output. She also has no productive output whatsoever. We seem in agreement on that. What gives her the right to claim it as her own, and why can't the people who DID do the real work that created the product output claim it as theirs? Anyway, have fun trolling that out.
Oh, and I like Britney Spears because I are stupid like baboon.
As a member our our civilization, I claim the right to decide, along with my fellow members, how we allocate our limited resources. That is the point of civilization. At least if it's not, then what is the point? So we can all spend our lives in sweatshops and slave farms satisfying the whims of a lucky few?
And you STILL have not answered my question. What has Meg done that's so valuable that we, as a collective civilization, dedicate so much of our productive output to satisfying her whims? Any chance you'll stop dodging it?
plumbers didn't claim 93% of income gains in the last 2 years.
And you are really, really missing my point. Seriously, if you missed it by any more you'd have shot yourself in the foot with it. So tell me, what does Meg Whitman do for our civilization that justifies her enormous wealth? What. I want an answer, not a sound bite.
why is it theirs? What made it theirs? Almost all of this wealth they claim is inheritance being used claim more of society's output. They didn't 'earn' it in the way you think of earning; e.g. by producing something of value. These people are making most of their money buy rapidly buying and selling investments and skimming off the top, and by gutting productive companies. These are people that spend all day making money, not useful products, services or inventions.
We as a society have chosen to give Meg Whitman an enormous amount of money. She'll pass that on to her children who will leverage it to maintain that. But That money isn't any thing useful; it's a representation of what we think Meg Whitman's contribution to our civilization is worth. Can you tell me what she does for society at large that justifies this? Can you tell me why we can't have a society that makes intelligent decisions about where to allocate it's resources?
One way to spend out capital as a civilization is giving it all t 1000 families and then the rest to a military and political apparatus who's job is to protect those 1000 families from the other 6 billion left without food, shelter and health care. That's pretty much what we're doing now. Your standing on principle, saying it's theirs. But it's more complicated than that. They didn't make or even discover the lands they claim to own. They didn't build the houses that stand on it or invent the technology that made it possible to build it. They just claimed it as theirs, and we all just sorta agreed with them. That was fine when the economy was growing and we all had good jobs and enough of what we want. When I wasn't worried about money I didn't care that Meg had a private jet or that some Sheik built his own private ski resort in the middle of a desert. Well, my wages have been falling for 30 years and my productivity has doubled or quadrupled. Those productivity gains created unemployement that's being used to further depress my wages. I'm asking tough questions... difficult questions. Sorry sir, but you're going to have to come up with a better answer than 'Because it's not yours'. I did the work, I put up the houses. I fixed the computers that ran the accounting firm. I wrote the software they use. I did all the work. Why the hell isn't it mine?
mostly because the gov't is forcing them too. The increased fuel economy and safety requirements raised the price of cars so much it wasn't worth making junk. Read consumer reports and you'll find they US and Japanese cars are pretty close, if not identical.
We all agree that they're doing a horrible and bone headed thing for the sake of their own short term profits and bonuses. So tell me again why we let these people run the world? Why the hell don't we just take it away from them? I don't know about you but I'm getting tired of racing to the bottom and always looking over my shoulder for the next round of layoffs...
I honestly can't tell from the lukewarm list of 'products'. The best thing on there is the kinect, which Sony more or less abandoned with the Eyetoy. The rest of it was intern projects (The Path of Go) and stuff the wrote while playing catchup to google (all the map stuff).
Code metrics sounds kinda neat, but I bet it ends up boiling down to IBM style 'pay by the line' management if it gets used anywhere...
is it time to start talking about them losing their monopoly? How about we pull those tax subsidies? You didn't actually think _they_ were paying for those network upgrades did you (as opposed to the tax payer)?
For the record, I'm a socialist in favor of heavily subsidized communications. I don't see any value Comcast adds to human discourse, or any reason why we shouldn't just treat communication as a basic need on par with water and electricity and just give it over to the municipalities.
you're not suppose to buy what YOU want, you're suppose to buy what THEY want to sell you. Economies of scale you see. It's much, much more profitable to sell 10 million copies of 1 Children's book than 1 million copies of 10 Children's books. Niche markets and choosey consumers are bad news for profits.
is that EA has even noticed Linux. Commercial Linux games died pretty hard after all, and it's hard enough getting 3D working under Windows let alone Linux. Yeah, I know a 100/.tters will chime saying it just worked for them, but you guys hand pick your hardware, you're in the minority.
I remember being told not to run chkdsk on my ext2 volumes because a) there was no need and b) more harm than good. I never once ran it on a Linux desktop. And forget about defrag. Is there some reason NTFS can't do this?
do something useful. Write software. School is there so when you get stuck someone's there to help you over that hump. You've got the Internet now. Google + forums. There's nothing in this world you can't do. Nothing.
P.S. I'm not against school as a social construct. It gives us something to do with people we don't need in the job market. Just sayin' in you're goal is to succeed you don't NEED school anymore. That said, we've got plenty of room in society for it.
I've got a company in town here that does cabinet work with a CNC. They have no idea what the hell they're doing. Take away the computer that makes the parts and they're done. I know, because a friend does their IT, and they freak the @$*! out the computers go down. My buddy got to askin' why is is so important, and he found out why: They aren't carpenters, they're just running machines.
Expert Systems are gradually making all but the top thinkers obsolete. No longer will being really really smart or really really talented be enough. Computerized CNC machines have already replaced cabinet makers. Measure your space, put numbers & wood in and out comes easy to assemble cabinet parts that fit perfect. Human beings become interchangeable cogs that just push buttons. In the Jetsons that mean you didn't work all that much, but in real life we can't imagine paying someone who doesn't work (unless they inherited the money, but that's another story). Anyway... What are we going to do with all these people?
it's about making sure they public understand that "Intellectual Property" means what they think it means. They're trying (and outside of/. succeeding I think) to control the discourse and vocabulary surrounding works of art.
is a replacement for one of these. Newer houses/apartments put 'em in the bathrooms with 4 of them on the vanity. That's at least 160 watts. I'd like to cut that at least in half.
the trouble with Nuclear is the disasters are so bad, and sooner or later the reactors get privatized and some wealthy jackass cuts funding to safety. Since he doesn't live anywhere near the disaster (or could just move if he did) he's fine. Running a nuclear reactor is very, very expensive. So there's a LOT of money to be made by cutting corners and skipping maintenance. The kind of people who run our world (thanks to the way inheritance works) are not very bright either. Unless safety can be made so cheap that the margins aren't good enough to attract your average capitalist you'll never have 100% safe nuclear power.
Yeah, you can fiddle with them to get a USB dongle working, but it's a pain. Plus you still need to worry about feeding power to the thing if you're using the one and only USB port for ethernet. I want a R. Pi for a cheap & quite file & print server (I haven't read good things about those Lynksys routers that claim to do it).
when getting a new graphics card every few years was like a new console launch to me. I get that they're being used by statisticians but seriously, what do gamers do with these? The only game that comes close to taxing a $150 graphics card is Crysis 2, and even that's not doing much... Maybe nvidia could put more effort into making these easy to program for so we'd get better games cheaper? I think we've hit the limit on graphic quality, if only because it's too much work to do the art assets...
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racism. Google for the phrase 'Southern Strategy'. The real power is in getting a base out to vote. So few Americans vote that a tiny minority can dictate national policy so long as they a) vote and b) are allowed to. That's why back when Bush was elected for term # 2 there were armed police in riot gear stationed outside polls in poor black neighborhoods in Ohio & Florida. 'cause nothing says safe and inviting to a poor minority like police in riot gear.
Oh, and the reason Obama was elected was during the last election he sent 5000 (Yes, that's the right number of zeros) lawyers to Florida to keep an eye on Brother Jeb. Funny how a few days after that Jeb announced the polls in his state would be open for extra hours, and how no chad was left to hang...
that our Supreme Court is owned. Clarance Thomas' corruption is so obvious that he's essentially just flaunting the law at this stage, and if the other half was stronger he'd be getting disbarred right about now. The rest basically just side with the property owners on principle.
I feel bad for this guy, to to be honest I'm too beat from my day job to do anything about it. Mission Accomplished.
Oh, I forgot to answer your other question:
tl;dr : who are you?
I'm Batman.
Aw, no you're just trolling. And here I was hoping to get a real answer out of one of you libertarian teabaggers. Oh well, check please.
Anyway, I'll throw up the question once again for fun: Meg didn't do the work that generates that productive output. She also has no productive output whatsoever. We seem in agreement on that. What gives her the right to claim it as her own, and why can't the people who DID do the real work that created the product output claim it as theirs? Anyway, have fun trolling that out.
Oh, and I like Britney Spears because I are stupid like baboon.
As a member our our civilization, I claim the right to decide, along with my fellow members, how we allocate our limited resources. That is the point of civilization. At least if it's not, then what is the point? So we can all spend our lives in sweatshops and slave farms satisfying the whims of a lucky few?
And you STILL have not answered my question. What has Meg done that's so valuable that we, as a collective civilization, dedicate so much of our productive output to satisfying her whims? Any chance you'll stop dodging it?
plumbers didn't claim 93% of income gains in the last 2 years.
And you are really, really missing my point. Seriously, if you missed it by any more you'd have shot yourself in the foot with it. So tell me, what does Meg Whitman do for our civilization that justifies her enormous wealth? What. I want an answer, not a sound bite.
why is it theirs? What made it theirs? Almost all of this wealth they claim is inheritance being used claim more of society's output. They didn't 'earn' it in the way you think of earning; e.g. by producing something of value. These people are making most of their money buy rapidly buying and selling investments and skimming off the top, and by gutting productive companies. These are people that spend all day making money, not useful products, services or inventions.
We as a society have chosen to give Meg Whitman an enormous amount of money. She'll pass that on to her children who will leverage it to maintain that. But That money isn't any thing useful; it's a representation of what we think Meg Whitman's contribution to our civilization is worth. Can you tell me what she does for society at large that justifies this? Can you tell me why we can't have a society that makes intelligent decisions about where to allocate it's resources?
One way to spend out capital as a civilization is giving it all t 1000 families and then the rest to a military and political apparatus who's job is to protect those 1000 families from the other 6 billion left without food, shelter and health care. That's pretty much what we're doing now. Your standing on principle, saying it's theirs. But it's more complicated than that. They didn't make or even discover the lands they claim to own. They didn't build the houses that stand on it or invent the technology that made it possible to build it. They just claimed it as theirs, and we all just sorta agreed with them. That was fine when the economy was growing and we all had good jobs and enough of what we want. When I wasn't worried about money I didn't care that Meg had a private jet or that some Sheik built his own private ski resort in the middle of a desert. Well, my wages have been falling for 30 years and my productivity has doubled or quadrupled. Those productivity gains created unemployement that's being used to further depress my wages. I'm asking tough questions... difficult questions. Sorry sir, but you're going to have to come up with a better answer than 'Because it's not yours'. I did the work, I put up the houses. I fixed the computers that ran the accounting firm. I wrote the software they use. I did all the work. Why the hell isn't it mine?
mostly because the gov't is forcing them too. The increased fuel economy and safety requirements raised the price of cars so much it wasn't worth making junk. Read consumer reports and you'll find they US and Japanese cars are pretty close, if not identical.
We all agree that they're doing a horrible and bone headed thing for the sake of their own short term profits and bonuses. So tell me again why we let these people run the world? Why the hell don't we just take it away from them? I don't know about you but I'm getting tired of racing to the bottom and always looking over my shoulder for the next round of layoffs...
I honestly can't tell from the lukewarm list of 'products'. The best thing on there is the kinect, which Sony more or less abandoned with the Eyetoy. The rest of it was intern projects (The Path of Go) and stuff the wrote while playing catchup to google (all the map stuff).
Code metrics sounds kinda neat, but I bet it ends up boiling down to IBM style 'pay by the line' management if it gets used anywhere...
is it time to start talking about them losing their monopoly? How about we pull those tax subsidies? You didn't actually think _they_ were paying for those network upgrades did you (as opposed to the tax payer)?
For the record, I'm a socialist in favor of heavily subsidized communications. I don't see any value Comcast adds to human discourse, or any reason why we shouldn't just treat communication as a basic need on par with water and electricity and just give it over to the municipalities.
you're not suppose to buy what YOU want, you're suppose to buy what THEY want to sell you. Economies of scale you see. It's much, much more profitable to sell 10 million copies of 1 Children's book than 1 million copies of 10 Children's books. Niche markets and choosey consumers are bad news for profits.
we called this 'Research', and budgeted for it.
is that EA has even noticed Linux. Commercial Linux games died pretty hard after all, and it's hard enough getting 3D working under Windows let alone Linux. Yeah, I know a 100 /.tters will chime saying it just worked for them, but you guys hand pick your hardware, you're in the minority.
I remember being told not to run chkdsk on my ext2 volumes because a) there was no need and b) more harm than good. I never once ran it on a Linux desktop. And forget about defrag. Is there some reason NTFS can't do this?
do something useful. Write software. School is there so when you get stuck someone's there to help you over that hump. You've got the Internet now. Google + forums. There's nothing in this world you can't do. Nothing. P.S. I'm not against school as a social construct. It gives us something to do with people we don't need in the job market. Just sayin' in you're goal is to succeed you don't NEED school anymore. That said, we've got plenty of room in society for it.
I've got a company in town here that does cabinet work with a CNC. They have no idea what the hell they're doing. Take away the computer that makes the parts and they're done. I know, because a friend does their IT, and they freak the @$*! out the computers go down. My buddy got to askin' why is is so important, and he found out why: They aren't carpenters, they're just running machines.
Expert Systems are gradually making all but the top thinkers obsolete. No longer will being really really smart or really really talented be enough. Computerized CNC machines have already replaced cabinet makers. Measure your space, put numbers & wood in and out comes easy to assemble cabinet parts that fit perfect. Human beings become interchangeable cogs that just push buttons. In the Jetsons that mean you didn't work all that much, but in real life we can't imagine paying someone who doesn't work (unless they inherited the money, but that's another story). Anyway... What are we going to do with all these people?
it's about making sure they public understand that "Intellectual Property" means what they think it means. They're trying (and outside of /. succeeding I think) to control the discourse and vocabulary surrounding works of art.
I like nuclear power, I just don't trust capitalists.
is a replacement for one of these. Newer houses/apartments put 'em in the bathrooms with 4 of them on the vanity. That's at least 160 watts. I'd like to cut that at least in half.
the trouble with Nuclear is the disasters are so bad, and sooner or later the reactors get privatized and some wealthy jackass cuts funding to safety. Since he doesn't live anywhere near the disaster (or could just move if he did) he's fine. Running a nuclear reactor is very, very expensive. So there's a LOT of money to be made by cutting corners and skipping maintenance. The kind of people who run our world (thanks to the way inheritance works) are not very bright either. Unless safety can be made so cheap that the margins aren't good enough to attract your average capitalist you'll never have 100% safe nuclear power.
Yeah, you can fiddle with them to get a USB dongle working, but it's a pain. Plus you still need to worry about feeding power to the thing if you're using the one and only USB port for ethernet. I want a R. Pi for a cheap & quite file & print server (I haven't read good things about those Lynksys routers that claim to do it).
when getting a new graphics card every few years was like a new console launch to me. I get that they're being used by statisticians but seriously, what do gamers do with these? The only game that comes close to taxing a $150 graphics card is Crysis 2, and even that's not doing much... Maybe nvidia could put more effort into making these easy to program for so we'd get better games cheaper? I think we've hit the limit on graphic quality, if only because it's too much work to do the art assets...
Back'in my day we called these things Cafeterias.