It's about the power, and the ability to stay in the limelight and feed ones ego. Every met anyone disgustingly rich? I mean Jeff Bezos level rich? I have. Dirtbags, all of them. Yes, they might put on a friendly face, but everything they do has an ulterior motive behind it. Sooner or later a 100 million/yr salary stops being about the money, and starts being about the power you can wield with that kind of money. *That's* why they continue to work. Power, self-serving, and ego. Anyone who says otherwise is selling you something
If the cost to make them will "more than double" does that mean they will double the price passed on to us? In other words, will they double their profits as well? Or are they screaming and crying how they won't be able to make them "cost effectively" in the mean-old-USA.
In other, other words, how much profit in built into an iPhone anyway?
>>...suggest President Obama begin "declassifying and dismantling as much of the federal government's unaccountable, secretive, mass surveillance state as he can -- before Trump is the one running it..
When Obama got into power, I assumed he'd be the typical liberal. Little did I know he'd get very friendly with the expansion of the police state. He's enjoyed using the presidential powers at whim. Now that he's leaving, someone else gets to pick up the parts he so willingly put into place and use them.
Should have thought of that before you put it into law eh there mr. president?
The book has a lot of classroom learning, told in the way of flashbacks, that show how society functions. There is very little action in the book, compared to the discussion of society. Can you imagine Dwayne Johnson sitting in a classroom behind a desk learning about morality? The actors chosen show you what kind of film this will be. A Michael Bay style CGI fest about as exciting or engaging as the new ID:4 was...
Wasn't my call (I'm not a programmer) but a great many serious software programs in a laboratory setting that will only run under win7, and is only certified to run under win7 *by the federal gov't*
Fine, scream all you want about *nix, but the real world doesn't always listen.
Tell that to certified software. You know, the kind of software where the results are certified to stand up as legal evidence in court, provided the OS is a set version?
The kind of software used in mission-critical laboratory work around the globe?
The kind of software that in order to be re-certified (if the OS should change, for one example) takes years and costs many hundreds of thousands of dollars?
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
Have you considered working for the state? They don't care about age there. Where I am, being over 50 is considered a plus. In addition, you get all kinds of perks, health care, dental, vision, mental sick days, vacation, all manner of goodness.
There is one, serious, flaw in your otherwise insightful opinion. You make the incorrect assumption that if UBI were to function properly, the other agencies would shut down.
This is not the case, never has been, and never will be. Any gov't agency, once created, will find a way to continue to exist, simply to keep people employed. I work in the gov't sector and unless you have been in it, you would not believe how much waste there is, and *no one* will do anything about it. In point of fact, there's even an incentive *not* to do anything about it. So you get the 3 trillion (or so) for UBI, but the gov't welfare dept doesn't shut down just because another agency is doing their job. They'll (or more accurately the people who want it be funded and in business) find excuses to keep it going.
So now you have the 3T for UBI, plus the prior existing overhead and the budget can't support both.
despite ALL the evidence gathered prior to the shooting, no one (gov't agency-wise) did anything. It's almost like they knew, but waited, so they could use it as an excuse to get more power......things that make you go "hmmmmm"
When Windows 10 first was released to the public (via the automatic updates fiasco) I put it on an older laptop to see how it handled older hardware. The laptop had a synaptic-powered touchpad.
It would BSoD on a regular basis if I used the touchpad.
Yes, it was a bad driver from Synaptic and MS did update the driver, but the point still stands.
https://answers.microsoft.com/...
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It's about the power, and the ability to stay in the limelight and feed ones ego.
Every met anyone disgustingly rich? I mean Jeff Bezos level rich? I have. Dirtbags, all of them. Yes, they might put on a friendly face, but everything they do has an ulterior motive behind it.
Sooner or later a 100 million/yr salary stops being about the money, and starts being about the power you can wield with that kind of money.
*That's* why they continue to work. Power, self-serving, and ego. Anyone who says otherwise is selling you something
Thank you. After COBOL I did Assembly.... ...the horror, the horror.
I code in COBOL.
I'm so sorry. Please forgive me.
If the cost to make them will "more than double" does that mean they will double the price passed on to us? In other words, will they double their profits as well? Or are they screaming and crying how they won't be able to make them "cost effectively" in the mean-old-USA.
In other, other words, how much profit in built into an iPhone anyway?
>>...suggest President Obama begin "declassifying and dismantling as much of the federal government's unaccountable, secretive, mass surveillance state as he can -- before Trump is the one running it..
When Obama got into power, I assumed he'd be the typical liberal. Little did I know he'd get very friendly with the expansion of the police state. He's enjoyed using the presidential powers at whim. Now that he's leaving, someone else gets to pick up the parts he so willingly put into place and use them.
Should have thought of that before you put it into law eh there mr. president?
The book has a lot of classroom learning, told in the way of flashbacks, that show how society functions.
There is very little action in the book, compared to the discussion of society.
Can you imagine Dwayne Johnson sitting in a classroom behind a desk learning about morality?
The actors chosen show you what kind of film this will be. A Michael Bay style CGI fest about as exciting or engaging as the new ID:4 was...
Wasn't my call (I'm not a programmer) but a great many serious software programs in a laboratory setting that will only run under win7, and is only certified to run under win7 *by the federal gov't*
Fine, scream all you want about *nix, but the real world doesn't always listen.
Tell that to certified software.
You know, the kind of software where the results are certified to stand up as legal evidence in court, provided the OS is a set version?
The kind of software used in mission-critical laboratory work around the globe?
The kind of software that in order to be re-certified (if the OS should change, for one example) takes years and costs many hundreds of thousands of dollars?
That kind of software that only runs under Win7.
OS/2?
That with all the other problems the US is having (massive debt, illegal aliens, etc) that this seems to be the issue everyone is focused on.
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
Spoken by some nobody, a J. Stalin.
Just because you haven't had an issue, doesn't mean others have had the same experience.
still beta then?
There are ads on the internet?
Who knew?
"moonlighting"
Have you considered working for the state? They don't care about age there. Where I am, being over 50 is considered a plus.
In addition, you get all kinds of perks, health care, dental, vision, mental sick days, vacation, all manner of goodness.
There is one, serious, flaw in your otherwise insightful opinion.
You make the incorrect assumption that if UBI were to function properly, the other agencies would shut down.
This is not the case, never has been, and never will be. Any gov't agency, once created, will find a way to continue to exist, simply to keep people employed. I work in the gov't sector and unless you have been in it, you would not believe how much waste there is, and *no one* will do anything about it. In point of fact, there's even an incentive *not* to do anything about it.
So you get the 3 trillion (or so) for UBI, but the gov't welfare dept doesn't shut down just because another agency is doing their job. They'll (or more accurately the people who want it be funded and in business) find excuses to keep it going.
So now you have the 3T for UBI, plus the prior existing overhead and the budget can't support both.
He has the same name as me.
And yes, he's *very* close to me that his friends confused me for him, and vice versa.
Please, please, tell me where I can buy a computer not made in china...
And nail that bitch to a wall.
Ford execs decided it was cheaper to let people burn, and pay the cost in court, than it was to fix the issue.
The memo cost them a lot of goodwill, but they are still around.
MS is probably looking that memo over right now thinking the same thing.
Cost to pay pissed off citizens is cheaper than fixing Win10, so....
despite ALL the evidence gathered prior to the shooting, no one (gov't agency-wise) did anything. ...things that make you go "hmmmmm"
It's almost like they knew, but waited, so they could use it as an excuse to get more power...
And the circle jerk mentality they so love.
When Windows 10 first was released to the public (via the automatic updates fiasco) I put it on an older laptop to see how it handled older hardware. The laptop had a synaptic-powered touchpad. It would BSoD on a regular basis if I used the touchpad. Yes, it was a bad driver from Synaptic and MS did update the driver, but the point still stands. https://answers.microsoft.com/...
"Give me twelve lines written by the most honest of men, and I shall find something in which to hang them."
In other words, *you* say you don't break any laws, but what do *others* think about that?