What people like you don't get is that a large part of "automation" is used to make humans even more efficient. That means there are new jobs - jobs that we can no more imagine now than someone in 1905 could imagine a "computer programmer". Farming equipment such as tractors reduced a lot of manual labor, but there's still a guy driving it. Now he does the work of 10 men. As tractors become fully automated (already happening) the guy managing a herd of tractors is now doing to work of 10 of those men. But there are still jobs there.
What happened as jobs were automated in the past is that productivity increased tremendously. As a normal middle class American in 2018, I'm well within the top 1% of all humans who have ever lived with regard to wealth - probably the top 1% of the top 1%. It's unimaginable how rich we are.
Your side has been claiming for centuries now that everybody'll be out of work due to automation. It's never been true in the past and there's no reason to believe it will be in the future.
100 years ago 95% of the US labor force was in the agricultural sector. Now, it's just a few percent. We don't have 90%+ unemployment, though, because now we have jobs that we didn't even know existed 100 years ago.
Hopefully most of all current jobs can be automated so we can find new things for people to do.
Outside of the sexual innuendo, she is tall and slender. So if people think fat shaming is bad, you ought to see the shit women sling at other women if they think a woman is not fat enough.
That is so true. My wife is short and slender (Asian) and women at her work and in her friend circle use mock "concern" for her weight and exercise habits. She's 5'2" and 110lbs, about 30lbs. north of anorexia and definitely not "skinny". But the fat women will make sure she's "okay", make sure that her husband isn't forcing her to exercise hard and eat less, etc. It's crazy how jealous they get and then pretend that they're really concerned for her.
Here's the thing, and I say this as a libertarian.... It's actually in the Constitution! This is a fully legal part of the federal government.
What does the US Constitution have to do with libertarianism? I was under the impression that the concept was "I think public services should be privatized" and not "I think public services should be privatized... unless they were in the constitution."
This is what happens when you believe the looney left smears against libertarianism instead of researching for yourself.
You are probably unaware, but the point of the legislation was to force them to fund their pension fund like everybody else. They werenâ(TM)t doing it, now they are. Thatâ(TM)s why the bill had nearly unanimous support from both parties. Left wing groups like think progress later claimed it was a Republican attempt to destroy the USPS, and their wholly false talking points are now parroted endlessly online by people too stupid to actually educate themselves, as shown by the post to which I responded and itâ(TM)s clueless upvoters.
Even if the USPS was in the red, it's still an incredibly valuable and critical piece of public infrastructure and should be well funded. Yes, even at a net loss. If we can light $600+ billion on fire every year to fund the most powerful military in the world, we can throw a few pennies at the postal service.
Here's the thing, and I say this as a libertarian. Well, let me show you something:
Scroll down to Article I, Section 8, paragraph 7. It's short, I'll put it here:
(The Congress shall have Power) To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
It's actually in the Constitution! This is a fully legal part of the federal government. This isn't the Department of Education.
The founders recognized that this was a really important function of the government, so important that they put it in a list of only 18 areas over which the federal government has legal authority.
I'm glad the USPS funds itself, but I don't care, actually. It's a very important thing to have around and we need to protect it, even if that means throwing a little money at it now and then.
That said, it also needs to fulfill its pension obligations.
Yes, it has been established the USPS's biggest problem is their need to pre-fund all their pensions for the next 75 years. There's also an established Republican desire to privatize USPS, probably so some private equity firm can suck that pension fund dry and discard the useless husk. If you want to preserve the USPS, get ready to fight to defend it.
Can we get rid of this bullshit Media Matters description? Reality doesn't look like left-wing propaganda.
This originated with the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006", H.R. 6407. It was a bipartisan bill with wide support from both Democrats and Republicans. It had nothing to do with partisan bullshit. It passed by voice vote in the House and unanimous support in the Senate. It forces the USPS to fund its pension fund like all other federal agencies so that they don't have to be bailed out.
It was a few years after passing that the left starting claiming it was a Republican bill meant to destroy the USPS. Neither is true.
My understanding of that story was that the guy was going after companies that were not the size of Symantec and possibly weren't aware of their obligations.
I don't know enough about LCDs anymore to answer tech questions, but I can give my subjective analysis. 5 years ago TVs sucked ass as computer monitors. I bought a 1080p TV and used it, but it was nearly impossible to get the color to a point that it was usable. I mean that literally.
I now have 3 TVs from 3 manufacturers that I use for desktop. The cheapest is a TCL, which is $300 on sale. I think it's a 48". It's 4:4:4, but the color isn't great. It's still very usable as a monitor for development, I probably wouldn't do a lot of photoshop with it. It has built-in Roku and displays netflix and such at full UHD, and does great at it. I generally use it as a TV in the exercise room, but I bought it in CA when I was working on-site.
The other two are a Vizio and an LG. Both have the full array of netflix and such, and I can easily sit back and watch a TV show or whatever while working. I think the Vizio might even have PiP so I can let something run in a little window while watching a TV show. Anyway, both of these TVs do 4:4:4 chroma, and the color capabilities are on par or better than what I could get out of a "monitor" just a few years ago. Both are also UHD and can handle that over a standard HDMI cable, as can the TCL. The sizes are about the same, also, in 48-49". That's a good size because it's roughly equivalent to having four 24" 1080p monitors together. These are a little more expensive, I think around $400 or $450 now at Costco or Best Buy, and probably cheaper on sale.
It's funny because when I went to buy the TCL at Best Buy I took my macbook and an HDMI cable to test it before buying. The guy working tried to explain that I should buy a computer monitor instead. Whatever.
This is why I'm against the soft-shoe approach to GPL violations in every case. Symantec is a large enough company and the people working there absolutely know what their responsibilities are. We need people who'll go after them for statutory damages to make an example.
I have the most expensive Macbook available when I bought it. I have two offices, and each has a 48-49" UHD TV - one Vizio and the other LG. Both do 4:4:4, and I can plug the HDMI cable straight from my laptop to the display and get full UHD at 30Hz, which is find for programming and youtube videos. The laptop is fully capable of driving full-screen 2180p videos from youtube or vimeo.
Anybody who buys an overpriced computer monitor at this point is clueless. The "televisions" that I use (one of which doesn't even have a tuner) are high-quality LCD displays with LED backlighting. They are computer monitors with some extra features to play netflix and such natively.
No matter what anyone says, when power goes out and communications infrastructure goes to shit or gets attacked, regular hard currency will still work until the human race forgets how to add and subtract.
You apparently haven't used cash lately. The human race has pretty much forgotten how to add and subtract.
It's funny because, being old school, I have a pocket full of change and bills, and if I don't have exact change I typically give some change to minimize the change given back. About half of everyone under 30 just gives you a blank look or tries to explain that you screwed up the change when you do that.
Cash if FAR cheaper. Having to accept credit cards entails a hefty surcharge by the credit card company, as well as a delay in getting paid, and the additional risk of credit card fraud. While a debit card is faster and cheaper it still involves network fees and equipment rental and service.
Let me explain the free market to you. If you want to know how much cash costs, look at what credit card processors charge.
Cash isn't cheaper, it costs the same. The issues are employee theft (which is minimized by current cash registers), but more importantly theft in general. Then there's the issue of getting the cash to the bank. For a smaller store, that typically entails an employee putting it in a brown bag and trying to discretely walk to their car and then go dump it in the depository. They are prone to robbery. For larger stores, they have to pay an armored car service to deliver the cash to the bank. The chance of robbery is smaller but the armored car service costs money. And either way you go there's insurance to cover theft and robbery, which costs money.
Corporatism IS fascism -- literally corporations in bed with an authoritarian state. The proper response is SOCIALISM, where the government actually acts in the interest of ordinary citizens, not wealthy CEOs.
LOL - yeah, that's how socialism always works out.
He should probably have used East Germany rather than the Soviet Union for his comparison. The Stasi not only conducted surveillance but relied on a climate of fear and suspicion in which people informed on one another, either to escape suspicion themselves or to gain some advantage.
It's a good point. At the height of it 1/3 of East Germans were Stasi informers.
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It IS a good idea, I've been advocating it for ages.
I wouldn't use it to ban you from flying though. I'd only use it to affect your right to vote, to claim social benefits (government money), etc.
You want anything back from society? Stop being antisocial!
It's always nice to see the mask fall off the leftist lunatic.
What people like you don't get is that a large part of "automation" is used to make humans even more efficient. That means there are new jobs - jobs that we can no more imagine now than someone in 1905 could imagine a "computer programmer". Farming equipment such as tractors reduced a lot of manual labor, but there's still a guy driving it. Now he does the work of 10 men. As tractors become fully automated (already happening) the guy managing a herd of tractors is now doing to work of 10 of those men. But there are still jobs there.
What happened as jobs were automated in the past is that productivity increased tremendously. As a normal middle class American in 2018, I'm well within the top 1% of all humans who have ever lived with regard to wealth - probably the top 1% of the top 1%. It's unimaginable how rich we are.
Your side has been claiming for centuries now that everybody'll be out of work due to automation. It's never been true in the past and there's no reason to believe it will be in the future.
100 years ago 95% of the US labor force was in the agricultural sector. Now, it's just a few percent. We don't have 90%+ unemployment, though, because now we have jobs that we didn't even know existed 100 years ago.
Hopefully most of all current jobs can be automated so we can find new things for people to do.
Outside of the sexual innuendo, she is tall and slender. So if people think fat shaming is bad, you ought to see the shit women sling at other women if they think a woman is not fat enough.
That is so true. My wife is short and slender (Asian) and women at her work and in her friend circle use mock "concern" for her weight and exercise habits. She's 5'2" and 110lbs, about 30lbs. north of anorexia and definitely not "skinny". But the fat women will make sure she's "okay", make sure that her husband isn't forcing her to exercise hard and eat less, etc. It's crazy how jealous they get and then pretend that they're really concerned for her.
What about southern trailer park women? Oh, yeah, they said "cows" would be the largest land mammal, didn't say what kind of cow.
"It's 2018, and there are still two remaining phones."
Literally.
The type of vertical integration being pushed on us by Amazon needs to be stopped.
Time to break up Amazon.
I know! I wish we had the option to just not buy one of these.
Those rules required equal treatment of all internet traffic
Please tell me my phone call packets can still get precedence over pornhub traffic.
Here's the thing, and I say this as a libertarian. ... It's actually in the Constitution! This is a fully legal part of the federal government.
What does the US Constitution have to do with libertarianism? I was under the impression that the concept was "I think public services should be privatized" and not "I think public services should be privatized... unless they were in the constitution."
This is what happens when you believe the looney left smears against libertarianism instead of researching for yourself.
You are probably unaware, but the point of the legislation was to force them to fund their pension fund like everybody else. They werenâ(TM)t doing it, now they are. Thatâ(TM)s why the bill had nearly unanimous support from both parties. Left wing groups like think progress later claimed it was a Republican attempt to destroy the USPS, and their wholly false talking points are now parroted endlessly online by people too stupid to actually educate themselves, as shown by the post to which I responded and itâ(TM)s clueless upvoters.
Even if the USPS was in the red, it's still an incredibly valuable and critical piece of public infrastructure and should be well funded. Yes, even at a net loss. If we can light $600+ billion on fire every year to fund the most powerful military in the world, we can throw a few pennies at the postal service.
Here's the thing, and I say this as a libertarian. Well, let me show you something:
http://constitutionus.com/
Scroll down to Article I, Section 8, paragraph 7. It's short, I'll put it here:
(The Congress shall have Power) To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
It's actually in the Constitution! This is a fully legal part of the federal government. This isn't the Department of Education.
The founders recognized that this was a really important function of the government, so important that they put it in a list of only 18 areas over which the federal government has legal authority.
I'm glad the USPS funds itself, but I don't care, actually. It's a very important thing to have around and we need to protect it, even if that means throwing a little money at it now and then.
That said, it also needs to fulfill its pension obligations.
Yes, it has been established the USPS's biggest problem is their need to pre-fund all their pensions for the next 75 years. There's also an established Republican desire to privatize USPS, probably so some private equity firm can suck that pension fund dry and discard the useless husk. If you want to preserve the USPS, get ready to fight to defend it.
Can we get rid of this bullshit Media Matters description? Reality doesn't look like left-wing propaganda.
This originated with the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006", H.R. 6407. It was a bipartisan bill with wide support from both Democrats and Republicans. It had nothing to do with partisan bullshit. It passed by voice vote in the House and unanimous support in the Senate. It forces the USPS to fund its pension fund like all other federal agencies so that they don't have to be bailed out.
It was a few years after passing that the left starting claiming it was a Republican bill meant to destroy the USPS. Neither is true.
If they hooked a generator up to Steve Jobs' corpse they could power half of California.
My understanding of that story was that the guy was going after companies that were not the size of Symantec and possibly weren't aware of their obligations.
I don't know enough about LCDs anymore to answer tech questions, but I can give my subjective analysis. 5 years ago TVs sucked ass as computer monitors. I bought a 1080p TV and used it, but it was nearly impossible to get the color to a point that it was usable. I mean that literally.
I now have 3 TVs from 3 manufacturers that I use for desktop. The cheapest is a TCL, which is $300 on sale. I think it's a 48". It's 4:4:4, but the color isn't great. It's still very usable as a monitor for development, I probably wouldn't do a lot of photoshop with it. It has built-in Roku and displays netflix and such at full UHD, and does great at it. I generally use it as a TV in the exercise room, but I bought it in CA when I was working on-site.
The other two are a Vizio and an LG. Both have the full array of netflix and such, and I can easily sit back and watch a TV show or whatever while working. I think the Vizio might even have PiP so I can let something run in a little window while watching a TV show. Anyway, both of these TVs do 4:4:4 chroma, and the color capabilities are on par or better than what I could get out of a "monitor" just a few years ago. Both are also UHD and can handle that over a standard HDMI cable, as can the TCL. The sizes are about the same, also, in 48-49". That's a good size because it's roughly equivalent to having four 24" 1080p monitors together. These are a little more expensive, I think around $400 or $450 now at Costco or Best Buy, and probably cheaper on sale.
It's funny because when I went to buy the TCL at Best Buy I took my macbook and an HDMI cable to test it before buying. The guy working tried to explain that I should buy a computer monitor instead. Whatever.
This is why I'm against the soft-shoe approach to GPL violations in every case. Symantec is a large enough company and the people working there absolutely know what their responsibilities are. We need people who'll go after them for statutory damages to make an example.
You insensitive clods.
They closed our Sears. So now I have to park farther out and use another door to the mall :(
I didn't know Sears still had 100,000 customers.
I have the most expensive Macbook available when I bought it. I have two offices, and each has a 48-49" UHD TV - one Vizio and the other LG. Both do 4:4:4, and I can plug the HDMI cable straight from my laptop to the display and get full UHD at 30Hz, which is find for programming and youtube videos. The laptop is fully capable of driving full-screen 2180p videos from youtube or vimeo.
Anybody who buys an overpriced computer monitor at this point is clueless. The "televisions" that I use (one of which doesn't even have a tuner) are high-quality LCD displays with LED backlighting. They are computer monitors with some extra features to play netflix and such natively.
No matter what anyone says, when power goes out and communications infrastructure goes to shit or gets attacked, regular hard currency will still work until the human race forgets how to add and subtract.
You apparently haven't used cash lately. The human race has pretty much forgotten how to add and subtract.
It's funny because, being old school, I have a pocket full of change and bills, and if I don't have exact change I typically give some change to minimize the change given back. About half of everyone under 30 just gives you a blank look or tries to explain that you screwed up the change when you do that.
Cash if FAR cheaper. Having to accept credit cards entails a hefty surcharge by the credit card company, as well as a delay in getting paid, and the additional risk of credit card fraud. While a debit card is faster and cheaper it still involves network fees and equipment rental and service.
Let me explain the free market to you. If you want to know how much cash costs, look at what credit card processors charge.
Cash isn't cheaper, it costs the same. The issues are employee theft (which is minimized by current cash registers), but more importantly theft in general. Then there's the issue of getting the cash to the bank. For a smaller store, that typically entails an employee putting it in a brown bag and trying to discretely walk to their car and then go dump it in the depository. They are prone to robbery. For larger stores, they have to pay an armored car service to deliver the cash to the bank. The chance of robbery is smaller but the armored car service costs money. And either way you go there's insurance to cover theft and robbery, which costs money.
So, no. Ironically, taking cash also costs money.
To be fair, this is some guy who dropped $1K on a "display", apparently unaware that you can pick up a 49" UHD TV at Costco or Best Buy for $300.
Corporatism IS fascism -- literally corporations in bed with an authoritarian state. The proper response is SOCIALISM, where the government actually acts in the interest of ordinary citizens, not wealthy CEOs.
LOL - yeah, that's how socialism always works out.
SMH
He should probably have used East Germany rather than the Soviet Union for his comparison. The Stasi not only conducted surveillance but relied on a climate of fear and suspicion in which people informed on one another, either to escape suspicion themselves or to gain some advantage.
It's a good point. At the height of it 1/3 of East Germans were Stasi informers.
The problem is nationalism. Everyone is trying to show that they are superior to the other because of X.
That's not nationalism.