The government is taking a greater portion of wealth than in 1950, and government-mandated inefficiencies (that are missed in calculations of productivity) are taking another large chunk.
For instance, in 1950 a dentist might have had an assistant who doubled as a secretary, and he'd do his own taxes. Today, he'd have an assistant, a secretary, and an accounting firm taking care of billing and taxes. His insurance would have disproportionately increased because of government policies that encourage lawsuits. Advanced technology will allow him to see a few more patients (and they are getting better treatment) but now there are 4 people doing the work that 2 used to do.
Politics, and the philosophies on which the politics were based, caused the wars. The wars ended because one side lost. Technological advances sped the course of the wars by making 30-year standoffs unlikely.
Do you have a plan for when you're 60 and nobody will hire an old person who looks like he can't keep a job for 2 years? Remember, if you can't prove what you were doing in your off years, a prospective employer will assume you were in jail.
Are you going to rely on society to support you, like all the other thieves?
instead of electing a leader that could help, we got Trump.
If you're looking for a leader, just say "Yes, massa." because you're volunteering to be a slave. Don't lead, don't follow, both actions are moral abdication.
We are doing it to ourselves.
Which is as it should be. The government should not be standing in our way. We should be taking responsibility for our own lives.
I've read that stupid drivers are actually safer. They need their full attention to drive. Intelligent people will find their mind wandering off the job of driving because it isn't fully engaging their mind.
We need drivers with better judgment. Good luck testing for that.
Enforcement of speed limits has declined a lot over the years. In 1970, 5 mph over a 60 mph speed limit would get you a substantial fine; now you have to be 15 mph over the limit to attract attention.
Volvos are somewhat expensive and advertise safety. This makes their target market timid old people with diminishing physical abilities. Old people have already had their license for a long time, and were in all likelihood fully competent when they first got their license (So much for your "blithering idiots who should never have been given a licence [sic]"). Old people are precisely the people who hit the gas when they're trying to brake, and their reaction times have become too slow to recognize and correct their mistake.
It used to be that the gas pedal and the brake pedal were at the same level, but when the mistake described above became recognized, car design was changed to make the brake pedal higher (a poor decision in my opinion.)
Tesla labeling the feature "autopilot" is pedantic, which normally gets a lot of criticism at slashdot. John Q. Public assumes autopilot means "get's me to where I tell it without further input", and until it does Telsa should choose a better name.
If you're in government and your ideology is theft, you're a leftist. There's no shortage of that in the U.S.. Worldwide, government theft is the standard, so common that it's no more visible than air.
Arguing that we don't need renewables because renewables will save us is circular reasoning.
That's not what SuperKendall wrote, and it's dishonest of you to imply that he did.
Market forces and simple exhaustion of supply will greatly reduce the use of coal to make electricity.
For decades now, the deliberate creation of environmental panic has been used by unscrupulous alarmists like Al Gore to gain wealth and political power. The fear and hatred thus generated has been completely unnecessary, and done more harm than good.
Nuvistors were socketed. Removal and reinsertion was easy. Testing and replacement was more difficult, even if the drugstore tube-tester had a nuvistor socket, the nuvistor probably wasn't stocked. However TV repair shops were common back then, and they would have had nuvistors because they were used in some UHF tuners.
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To clarify, use words as they are defined in dictionaries. What you're doing is pretending not to obfuscate.
The government is taking a greater portion of wealth than in 1950, and government-mandated inefficiencies (that are missed in calculations of productivity) are taking another large chunk.
For instance, in 1950 a dentist might have had an assistant who doubled as a secretary, and he'd do his own taxes. Today, he'd have an assistant, a secretary, and an accounting firm taking care of billing and taxes. His insurance would have disproportionately increased because of government policies that encourage lawsuits. Advanced technology will allow him to see a few more patients (and they are getting better treatment) but now there are 4 people doing the work that 2 used to do.
Do you not understand than the dollar is worth somewhere in the range of 2 to 5 percent of what it was worth in 1950?
Politics, and the philosophies on which the politics were based, caused the wars. The wars ended because one side lost. Technological advances sped the course of the wars by making 30-year standoffs unlikely.
Do you have a plan for when you're 60 and nobody will hire an old person who looks like he can't keep a job for 2 years? Remember, if you can't prove what you were doing in your off years, a prospective employer will assume you were in jail.
Are you going to rely on society to support you, like all the other thieves?
If you're looking for a leader, just say "Yes, massa." because you're volunteering to be a slave. Don't lead, don't follow, both actions are moral abdication.
Which is as it should be. The government should not be standing in our way. We should be taking responsibility for our own lives.
The election was P.T. Barnum vs Lucrezia Borgia. Sanders was a stand-in for Jerome Howard.
Did nobody learn from the disaster that was "Young Indiana Jones"? The magic is gone, don't try to recreate it.
I'll bet you think that if you press a pistol against your head and pull the trigger, it's the gun that kills you.
I've read that stupid drivers are actually safer. They need their full attention to drive. Intelligent people will find their mind wandering off the job of driving because it isn't fully engaging their mind.
We need drivers with better judgment. Good luck testing for that.
Enforcement of speed limits has declined a lot over the years. In 1970, 5 mph over a 60 mph speed limit would get you a substantial fine; now you have to be 15 mph over the limit to attract attention.
Volvos are somewhat expensive and advertise safety. This makes their target market timid old people with diminishing physical abilities. Old people have already had their license for a long time, and were in all likelihood fully competent when they first got their license (So much for your "blithering idiots who should never have been given a licence [sic]"). Old people are precisely the people who hit the gas when they're trying to brake, and their reaction times have become too slow to recognize and correct their mistake.
It used to be that the gas pedal and the brake pedal were at the same level, but when the mistake described above became recognized, car design was changed to make the brake pedal higher (a poor decision in my opinion.)
Tesla labeling the feature "autopilot" is pedantic, which normally gets a lot of criticism at slashdot. John Q. Public assumes autopilot means "get's me to where I tell it without further input", and until it does Telsa should choose a better name.
Failing to hold on to the wheel after repeated warnings should engage a warning that's impossible to ignore, like a 130 dB pulsing siren.
Using static libraries doesn't solve the build problem. Are you proposing including all libraries in each source package?
s/black and GREEN/holes punched in cards/
The EU did choose to violate human rights by creating antitrust laws.
Yes, clearly corporations being forced to abide by the unjust law is unacceptable. Something should be done!
FTFY.
Windows was dominant from the start because MSDOS was dominant.
If you're in government and your ideology is theft, you're a leftist. There's no shortage of that in the U.S.. Worldwide, government theft is the standard, so common that it's no more visible than air.
That's not what SuperKendall wrote, and it's dishonest of you to imply that he did.
Market forces and simple exhaustion of supply will greatly reduce the use of coal to make electricity.
For decades now, the deliberate creation of environmental panic has been used by unscrupulous alarmists like Al Gore to gain wealth and political power. The fear and hatred thus generated has been completely unnecessary, and done more harm than good.
The Bell system's monopoly was limited. Consider GTE and ITT, among others.
Wire recorders date from 1898, and although they weren't ever very good, they were better and safer than you describe.
It is possible to have microphone and earphone separate from the rest.
Nuvistors were socketed. Removal and reinsertion was easy. Testing and replacement was more difficult, even if the drugstore tube-tester had a nuvistor socket, the nuvistor probably wasn't stocked. However TV repair shops were common back then, and they would have had nuvistors because they were used in some UHF tuners.