I know a guy who's 84 now and still working. I don't think he ever plans to retire. And in case you think "working" means "greeter at Walmart", he actually does financial analysis and forecasting for large golf courses.
I got one of those last week. The guy asked why I was trying to get health insurance (after they called me, smh) and I said "Because I'm really sick". He hung up.
A 3-17% yield decrease leads to a 80-350% increase in price? Call me skeptical, but this seems a bit out of band.
Not only that, as the climate warms other areas are able to grow barley and will do so. Nothing will change except a certain farm will no longer be able to grow barley and another one will be able to do so that couldn't before.
My wife, her mother, and I drove an hour and a half to be right on the center line and get the full two and a half minutes. When the eclipse came, we quit moving and just stood there staring at the moon. Same with the 4 other people near us.
Maybe I can get some grant money to study this next time?
I didn't say it was personal - it's just business. I don't think Soros really wanted to destroy a lot of people's retirement back in the 90s, but that was the result of his actions. Yeah, not personal, but that doesn't really mean much.
Seriously. They bring *nothing* to the table, and they're incentivized to shit on Tesla at every opportunity to keep the stock price down. I wish Musk would have taken it private just to spite them.
Except that professional workers get 20-30 days of paid vacation time while teachers get none.
Wow. Is this meant as a joke? Most teachers get 1-2 months off every summer. When I was a kid, some of my teachers took on another job during that time. My math teacher had a truck-washing business during the summer.
The summers are a bit shorter now, but down here teachers get a full two months.
low pay for teaching is mostly a US phenomenon. There are many countries where teachers, including elementary school teachers, are earning quite well.
Low pay for teaching is mostly a fantasy in the US. There are some places where teachers make less, but in general they do quite well. It came out during the crap in Wisconsin a few years ago that teachers there were topping out around $125K in annual compensation (inclusive of insurance and benefits). A two teacher household there would qualify as "rich" to most Democrats.
If California didn't happen to have Silicon Valley it would already look like Venezuela. But it's a mistake to think that California has such a large economy because of the government - it has a good economy in spite of its government.
Nope. California actually has a representative government and fair elections, not a kleptocracy which lies as it exploits the state's resources for their own gain,
You don't actually understand what "high speed rail" really is, do you?
I'll give you a hint - billions of dollars given to friends of the government. Look up the "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska to see how it works. "High speed rail" is "bridge to nowhere x 1000".
You know, conservatives have been saying stuff like this since the 1970's. California still seems to keep ticking along,though.
At some point it's no longer sustainable. That point would have been long ago were it not for Silicon Valley and some other industries that help prop up California by bringing in a lot of money. But those companies aren't there because of California's great government - they just happened to be there and are able to help support the overspending.
The problem is underfunded public pension funds, and California is in pretty deep. That check will bounce at some point.
It's easy to say that conservative states aren't doing as well as California, etc. But here in Tennessee we have a balanced budget provision in the state Constitution. Yes, it makes it difficult sometimes as highway projects are only done when they're funded. We have some roads around here that would be nice to have, and the land is bought, but it's a process as money comes in. That's just being wise.
If California didn't happen to have Silicon Valley it would already look like Venezuela. But it's a mistake to think that California has such a large economy because of the government - it has a good economy in spite of its government.
I'm all for carbon neutrality. At the same time, this is the state that keeps worrying about high-speed rail when there's not enough water for the state.
You can also set the MAC address to whatever you want. The card will have one burned on it that the computer can read and use, but the packets are built completely on the computer, so it's possible to set the MAC address to anything in software. C0FFEE15600d is valid.
It could eventually become universal, as more people lose their jobs to automation. The entire point of it is to enable people to survive large scale unemployment due to automation anyways, so why not restrict recipients to that group?
Because it's just "welfare" if you do that. UBI has to be fundamentally different than welfare programs to work, if it even can work. But simply handing money out to people who "need" it is what we're doing right now, and it's a terrible way to go about trying to help folks.
Did you read the article? It only started happening after the FCC repealed the NN rules.
It doesn't matter when it happened - it has nothing to do with net neutrality. Some kids were born that day, also. The sun rose and set that day. I worked. None of this has jack shit to do with net neutrality.
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I know a guy who's 84 now and still working. I don't think he ever plans to retire. And in case you think "working" means "greeter at Walmart", he actually does financial analysis and forecasting for large golf courses.
If I live that long, I want to be like him.
I got one of those last week. The guy asked why I was trying to get health insurance (after they called me, smh) and I said "Because I'm really sick". He hung up.
A 3-17% yield decrease leads to a 80-350% increase in price? Call me skeptical, but this seems a bit out of band.
Not only that, as the climate warms other areas are able to grow barley and will do so. Nothing will change except a certain farm will no longer be able to grow barley and another one will be able to do so that couldn't before.
My wife, her mother, and I drove an hour and a half to be right on the center line and get the full two and a half minutes. When the eclipse came, we quit moving and just stood there staring at the moon. Same with the 4 other people near us.
Maybe I can get some grant money to study this next time?
How is this different than just installing Flash?
Cryptomining is useful.
For the win!
"begin to use almost 100% of the computer's CPU"
How is this different than just installing Flash?
I didn't say it was personal - it's just business. I don't think Soros really wanted to destroy a lot of people's retirement back in the 90s, but that was the result of his actions. Yeah, not personal, but that doesn't really mean much.
Seriously. They bring *nothing* to the table, and they're incentivized to shit on Tesla at every opportunity to keep the stock price down. I wish Musk would have taken it private just to spite them.
Why? Because teachers should make as much as engineers? That doesn't make sense.
Except that professional workers get 20-30 days of paid vacation time while teachers get none.
Wow. Is this meant as a joke? Most teachers get 1-2 months off every summer. When I was a kid, some of my teachers took on another job during that time. My math teacher had a truck-washing business during the summer.
The summers are a bit shorter now, but down here teachers get a full two months.
low pay for teaching is mostly a US phenomenon. There are many countries where teachers, including elementary school teachers, are earning quite well.
Low pay for teaching is mostly a fantasy in the US. There are some places where teachers make less, but in general they do quite well. It came out during the crap in Wisconsin a few years ago that teachers there were topping out around $125K in annual compensation (inclusive of insurance and benefits). A two teacher household there would qualify as "rich" to most Democrats.
Of course it's going to be the fastest!
Our newest senator fucked her way into her career. Willie Brown's main squeeze.
The SF homeless industrial complex spends over 40k$/(bum * year). It doesn't go to the bums.
Yep. And if you point that out it means you hate homeless people.
If California didn't happen to have Silicon Valley it would already look like Venezuela. But it's a mistake to think that California has such a large economy because of the government - it has a good economy in spite of its government.
Nope. California actually has a representative government and fair elections, not a kleptocracy which lies as it exploits the state's resources for their own gain,
You don't actually understand what "high speed rail" really is, do you?
I'll give you a hint - billions of dollars given to friends of the government. Look up the "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska to see how it works. "High speed rail" is "bridge to nowhere x 1000".
You know, conservatives have been saying stuff like this since the 1970's. California still seems to keep ticking along,though.
At some point it's no longer sustainable. That point would have been long ago were it not for Silicon Valley and some other industries that help prop up California by bringing in a lot of money. But those companies aren't there because of California's great government - they just happened to be there and are able to help support the overspending.
The problem is underfunded public pension funds, and California is in pretty deep. That check will bounce at some point.
It's easy to say that conservative states aren't doing as well as California, etc. But here in Tennessee we have a balanced budget provision in the state Constitution. Yes, it makes it difficult sometimes as highway projects are only done when they're funded. We have some roads around here that would be nice to have, and the land is bought, but it's a process as money comes in. That's just being wise.
If California didn't happen to have Silicon Valley it would already look like Venezuela. But it's a mistake to think that California has such a large economy because of the government - it has a good economy in spite of its government.
I'm all for carbon neutrality. At the same time, this is the state that keeps worrying about high-speed rail when there's not enough water for the state.
They'll threaten to piss on it unless they're paid handsomely.
Good catch.
You can also set the MAC address to whatever you want. The card will have one burned on it that the computer can read and use, but the packets are built completely on the computer, so it's possible to set the MAC address to anything in software. C0FFEE15600d is valid.
Yeah, Cuba's problems have nothing to do with being raped by the Castro bros. for the last 50+ years (eyeroll).
Tested welfare for citizens who are not working. People who are starting approved education. Citizens who need support.
Citizens who are working do not get a UBI as they are working and paying new taxes to pay for the UBI.
You really don't get the whole UNIVERSAL Basic Income concept. What you keep describing is simply "welfare", and we already have it.
It could eventually become universal, as more people lose their jobs to automation. The entire point of it is to enable people to survive large scale unemployment due to automation anyways, so why not restrict recipients to that group?
Because it's just "welfare" if you do that. UBI has to be fundamentally different than welfare programs to work, if it even can work. But simply handing money out to people who "need" it is what we're doing right now, and it's a terrible way to go about trying to help folks.
Restrict recipients *only* to people that have lost their job to automation.
You might want to look up the word "universal" in the dictionary. Then again, so might the guy at Y Combinator.
Interesting. Cuba, for instance, has a right to healthcare for all, so according to you they're ahead of us.
How many people do you know building homemade boats to get from Florida to Cuba? How many go the other way?
Were you saying something?
I check email a couple of times each day. It's another distraction that I can do without.
Did you read the article? It only started happening after the FCC repealed the NN rules.
It doesn't matter when it happened - it has nothing to do with net neutrality. Some kids were born that day, also. The sun rose and set that day. I worked. None of this has jack shit to do with net neutrality.