I mean really you want just any shithole country messing with the human gene code creating heritable traits, that could spread into large populations in just a few generations.
Yes because its totally necessary to provide citations to things that have been given wide enough coverage you could easily google them on the same devices you are currently reading my comment on. Sorry A/C your own laziness does not make my post a troll..
I mean we *could* massively deregulate and remove the export controls on nuclear reactor technology as well but I don't see a push to do that; even though it could be hugely beneficent to parts of the developing world and radically decrease the carbon foot print.
No women think they like it. Its fun until a decade or two on when they
1) Discover they are married to someone they don't even like 2) Either don't have kids or have just one spoiled brat who is also dumb as a cinder block because they were to old when they had him/her 3) End up with breast cancer because the did not have any kids.
I just wonder what will happen when the Baby Boomers decide to use their outsized voting habits to say, raid the 401k and IRA accounts of the Millenial generation in their 30's or 40's.
They will do so successfully because enough of the folks in their 30's and 40's will buy into the idea that grandma should not have to eat cat food despite the 3 summers backing around Europe in her 20s and annual vacation cruise she took while her grandparents minded their parents. All things said Millenials will never have had the opportunity to do.
Here is the thing though. I don't what advice to give them; I am just prior to that generation myself and I have done okay and I concerned about exactly what you mention. My guess is just like the booms got bailed out - GM stood up so their pensions can get paid, the housing market forcibly held aloft with bank bailouts and HARP, oh and cash for clunkers so they could all afford new cars and keep driving to work. Chances are good if you blow you money today on a McMansion, fancy car, boat, to say nothing of intangibles (like trips that can't be repo) you are very like to be permitted to keep all these things one way or another when the next crisis arrives - but if you assets are your stock/bond portfolio and notes etc you will be made to take the haircut.
The argument will be that well other people are taking the same haircut on their property values etc; but it isnt really the same because they will continue to enjoy those things; oh and you won't be able to get one yourself because the builders and manufacturers will pull back until those asset values are repaired thru scarcity. At which time the people who behaved poorly are made whole and you and I are as usual stuck with the bill.
How do student loans have anything to do with balancing the budget? Or are you using lefty looony accounting where unless we do loan forgiveness someone you claim these people were taxed?
Facts are most of these people pay nothing at all. After the EIT is applied. The government is taxing the middle class not young people; well except when Obama is in charge than he makes them pay for their parents healthcare; with insane premiums and coverage most don't actually need.
College costs what it costs because of the darn loans in the first place. Turns out when you make a bunch of unsecured money available to kids who have never seen such large sums before they really do think the extra $5000 a semester for fancier dorm and bigger football stadium is money well spend. Colleges figured that out and chose to compete on it. That really is the whole story its actually NOT more complex than that.
Want bring down the cost of University. Dump Sallie Mae.
I mean is this a surprise. COMDEX has been dead and buried for more than a decade now. If there is any surprise at all here its that CeBIT lasted this long.
The entire point of 'APPS' are to sandbox stuff so the rest of the system is not compromised by a bad app. Android manages to fail in some ways with actual vulns where a evil app can send malformed messages to other apps etc. However by and large the permissions model works for single user devices.
Serious question for MS why in the world can an app modify the system trusted roots? Why is that even possible? Seems like the sort of thing that only a first party signed tool should be permissioned to do!
Funny enough I HAVE dealt with it; quite a bit actually. Caring for my elderly parents. We took at long term care policies when they were in their early 60s and sure enough as they have entered their 80's in assisted living and now healthcare in their 90s a care (gosh I am getting old too) I have watched those polices cover about 85-90% of their costs - as expected. I am intimately familiar with all of it because I manage it all for them now.
Now the nasty reality is that *I* can't get affordable coverage like that for myself. See good long term care polices are no longer on offer because well about 25 years ago people started living to long and clustering about the mean has also occurred. That is we have fewer people dying relatively young.
So I honestly don't know what to do other than keep throwing all the savings I can onto the pile (diversified into mutual funds, bond funds, and cash) and hope some how it will be enough. It may be; thankful because my parents and I worked so diligently to protect their assets I can inherit enough to fill in the hole. I have run the numbers too; the insurers unless they significantly beat the market investing those premiums for 30 years, are taking a bath on those policies; probably to tune of 6-digits.
Obama bailed out GM enabling them to keep making cars that nobody wanted to buy...
The Fed bailed out everyone else with mad money printing so they bought cars they otherwise would not have
Those supports are being taken away now and GMs noncompetitive products surprise surprise are not selling to Americans who can't really afford them anyway.
Ford on the other hand building only light trucks - which people either buy because the *need* them for some sort of business or because they have money to burn and can pay the higher margin on those products. Either way its a better market to be in (until there is another oil shock).
In any case GM was done - no money to retool to build stuff people wanted. Obama gave them a pile of money but insisted basically they pay Union workers to do something. It was either sit on their hand and do nothing or build products that might not sell in the existing plants. Bascially it was failing business before and its failing business now.
Ironically Trump's tariffs are probably the only thing that can save GM. But the half measures won't do it. They will make it worse as the stuff GM imports will cost more and they won't be able to deliver cheaper than anyone else. Now if Trump really turned up the dial to the point where you CAN'T build a car anyone can afford to buy unless its all domestic sourced GM would probably be one of the only manufactures that could produce anything at all.
If you live to 69 (when you should start collecting SSA - yes, you can collect sooner, but shouldn't unless you must),
Not true! There are a lot of situations where taking SS before you can claim your full retirement make sense.
A common example is married couples. One spouse will frequently have taken time out of their career to raise children etc. The result is their SS benefit will be much lower. Quite often lower even than their spousal benefit would be. So what you do in this situation is the lower SS recipient activates SS as early as possible and collects their benefit until the higher earner reaches full retirement age. At which point the higher earner actives their SS, and their spouse switches from their SS claim to claiming the spousal benefit.
TL:DR SS is a complicated mess like our tax code and if you take the time understand it just as with tax avoidance there are a lot legal opportunities to improve how it nets out for you. Just as with taxes people who can affort to pay professionals to maximally game the system for them benefit disproportionately as compared with those taking a more naive approach.
Bullshit - if she was so highly competent she would have had long term care insurance and disability insurance. She chose to carry all the risk herself and her gamble did not pay off. She then stuck you and I with the bill
Why should people who don't use it pay for it? Why can't fares just be raised until they cover the costs. If you say because min wage workers can't than afford to get to work. My response is GOOD! That means employers would not be able to hire people for minimum wage; they will have to pay them more. The mistake is thinking that subsidizing things like housing and transport is a beneficent for the poor; its not its corporate welfare in disguise. All its really doing is taking money from the middle class so the very wealthy capital owner class get access to an artificially cheap labor pool.
Can't wait to hear form all the public transit apologists. While they try and explain why it does not work even in one of the most densely populated cities on the planet.
Face folks "public" anything basically means tragedy of the commons is coming. The reality is the proletariat really is icky.
I am not suggesting they should be made to hand it over. I agree with you. They made the maps they should have the rights to share them or not as they please its their property.
That said I don't they will really stop collecting it. Google did not set about map making to sell maps; they are not Rand McNally. They collected that data because they needed. A decade ago to drive page views and sell banner ads while people printed driving directions off the web and more recently to enable Android to navigate and offer a whole lot of location based services. Possibly to assist in their self driving car efforts, etc..
The other data out there was more expensive than gathering it on their own, not accurate enough for their applications, did not contain facts they needed or something else. Google has enough reasons to make maps and collect data even if they loose a few avenues to directly monetize it; that they largely are not even leveraging today.
Good job AC's accuse me of ignorance when I specifically cite European serfdom. Given examples from Eastern Europe (different region) and China (different region and radically different culture). Fail and Double fail.
To round it out both the Chinese Civil war and the October revolution resulted in systems of governance that were arguable worse than the previous condition of serfdom for large parts of the population. Triple Fail! Even if those political systems don't resemble our own.
I stand by my comments European Feudalism is far from the worst of systems that have been implemented. Secondly provided you are the very bottom rung on the later doing labor but some type of artisan, merchant, skilled worker doing things for the Lord you might very well be better off than those occupying similar positions in our society. On the other hand if you are sweeping the floors today in our society, serfdom will probably be worse for you.
Right and there was basically no tooling for JS either back then. To write in you had to know it. Not fumble your way thru with intelisense. Also you had be very aware of browser eccentricities and often implement mirror functionality in vbscript.
Corporate America is endeavoring to lead us into neo-Feudalism.
So the deep soul searching we really need to do than is to decide if that is such a bad thing. Out little experiment in representative democracy here has left us in a world were each of us retains less of our own production than did a serf in feudal Europe. Well those of us who are actually productive. The unproductive profit enormously form our current system.
Honestly if you are actually middle, paying that 28% federal tax bracket, own or mostly own (not the bank owns) your home, and have enough savings you could afford to move for a better job; than its question. Sure you would give up your 'vote' but in terms of life style and your day to day existence; life might actually be better as serf on Zuckerberg's Manor than being beholden to dear old Uncle Sam; and the increasingly tyrannical majority...
I guess the upshot of having your business tied to the cloud is when you have an outage there is a good chance non of your competitors/customers/etc can do any work either!
That's the problem though, is the Windows only app. I have LOB stuff that I need to be able to run and even today WINE does not always cut it. So I have Windows VMs. Usually with the shell changed to the APP and basically no services running. Its the only way Windows is tolerable.
Look Microsoft you have been shipping a mail client (of a kind) with Windows since at least 3.11. Now maybe that was just a ploy to sell some NT Server and later Exchange licenses. All fine; whatever. Here is the thing though you are charging me for the OS. The license fee should pay for you to improve my experience.
The addition of advertising will certainly NOT improve my experience. Now I would argue that a mail client really is out side the scope of an OS anyway. If you don't want to support it or develop it; than just drop it entirely. Plenty of freeware mail clients out there you crappy one will be missed by exactly nobody.
Keep in mind though you are continuing to destroy the general value proposition of Windows. Apple seems to be able to deliver OSX with a suite of software that would be pretty adequate for most home users needs and give it away for free with (or pay for it by bundling it with) the hardware.
If you expect anyone past the current generation of midlevel IT managers who have just always bought MS; to pay premium prices for your Surface hardware well you better deliver a premium OS. The rest of us are NOT going to pay for your adware.
For all but the most unusual embed projections, and kernel level code finding memory leaks and related problems in C/C++ is as simple as running an STA tool. Admittedly good ones are expensive but static analysis can find most all of those problems.
This issue people are not doing it.
However while the occasional drive by like Eternalblue results from memory unsafe languages (again system level stuff most application layer programs are not dealing with) it is rare. The vast majority of software problems are application logic issues. Take the libssh author by pass. That isn't a C/C++ problem its a problem of the authors implementing the authentication logic badly. Send commands in an unexpected order the software does unexpected things. Its probably more dangerous to reimplement widely used well tested things like libssh because if a bug like that was hiding for years; who thinks someone can monkey up a java/C#/rust/... replacement and not introduce serious new unknown flaws? I for one don't
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I mean really you want just any shithole country messing with the human gene code creating heritable traits, that could spread into large populations in just a few generations.
Yes because its totally necessary to provide citations to things that have been given wide enough coverage you could easily google them on the same devices you are currently reading my comment on. Sorry A/C your own laziness does not make my post a troll..
because we can we must?
I mean we *could* massively deregulate and remove the export controls on nuclear reactor technology as well but I don't see a push to do that; even though it could be hugely beneficent to parts of the developing world and radically decrease the carbon foot print.
No women think they like it. Its fun until a decade or two on when they
1) Discover they are married to someone they don't even like
2) Either don't have kids or have just one spoiled brat who is also dumb as a cinder block because they were to old when they had him/her
3) End up with breast cancer because the did not have any kids.
I just wonder what will happen when the Baby Boomers decide to use their outsized voting habits to say, raid the 401k and IRA accounts of the Millenial generation in their 30's or 40's.
They will do so successfully because enough of the folks in their 30's and 40's will buy into the idea that grandma should not have to eat cat food despite the 3 summers backing around Europe in her 20s and annual vacation cruise she took while her grandparents minded their parents. All things said Millenials will never have had the opportunity to do.
Here is the thing though. I don't what advice to give them; I am just prior to that generation myself and I have done okay and I concerned about exactly what you mention. My guess is just like the booms got bailed out - GM stood up so their pensions can get paid, the housing market forcibly held aloft with bank bailouts and HARP, oh and cash for clunkers so they could all afford new cars and keep driving to work. Chances are good if you blow you money today on a McMansion, fancy car, boat, to say nothing of intangibles (like trips that can't be repo) you are very like to be permitted to keep all these things one way or another when the next crisis arrives - but if you assets are your stock/bond portfolio and notes etc you will be made to take the haircut.
The argument will be that well other people are taking the same haircut on their property values etc; but it isnt really the same because they will continue to enjoy those things; oh and you won't be able to get one yourself because the builders and manufacturers will pull back until those asset values are repaired thru scarcity. At which time the people who behaved poorly are made whole and you and I are as usual stuck with the bill.
Whaaat?
How do student loans have anything to do with balancing the budget? Or are you using lefty looony accounting where unless we do loan forgiveness someone you claim these people were taxed?
Facts are most of these people pay nothing at all. After the EIT is applied. The government is taxing the middle class not young people; well except when Obama is in charge than he makes them pay for their parents healthcare; with insane premiums and coverage most don't actually need.
College costs what it costs because of the darn loans in the first place. Turns out when you make a bunch of unsecured money available to kids who have never seen such large sums before they really do think the extra $5000 a semester for fancier dorm and bigger football stadium is money well spend. Colleges figured that out and chose to compete on it. That really is the whole story its actually NOT more complex than that.
Want bring down the cost of University. Dump Sallie Mae.
"The stock price is crashing the computer did that automatic layoff thing.. we are all out of jobs"
I mean is this a surprise. COMDEX has been dead and buried for more than a decade now. If there is any surprise at all here its that CeBIT lasted this long.
The entire point of 'APPS' are to sandbox stuff so the rest of the system is not compromised by a bad app. Android manages to fail in some ways with actual vulns where a evil app can send malformed messages to other apps etc. However by and large the permissions model works for single user devices.
Serious question for MS why in the world can an app modify the system trusted roots? Why is that even possible? Seems like the sort of thing that only a first party signed tool should be permissioned to do!
Funny enough I HAVE dealt with it; quite a bit actually. Caring for my elderly parents. We took at long term care policies when they were in their early 60s and sure enough as they have entered their 80's in assisted living and now healthcare in their 90s a care (gosh I am getting old too) I have watched those polices cover about 85-90% of their costs - as expected. I am intimately familiar with all of it because I manage it all for them now.
Now the nasty reality is that *I* can't get affordable coverage like that for myself. See good long term care polices are no longer on offer because well about 25 years ago people started living to long and clustering about the mean has also occurred. That is we have fewer people dying relatively young.
So I honestly don't know what to do other than keep throwing all the savings I can onto the pile (diversified into mutual funds, bond funds, and cash) and hope some how it will be enough. It may be; thankful because my parents and I worked so diligently to protect their assets I can inherit enough to fill in the hole. I have run the numbers too; the insurers unless they significantly beat the market investing those premiums for 30 years, are taking a bath on those policies; probably to tune of 6-digits.
Good point it was Bush, and that parasite Hank P. Obama just doubled down, on the stupid and made them build cars people would want even less.
Right that is really what is going on here.
Obama bailed out GM enabling them to keep making cars that nobody wanted to buy...
The Fed bailed out everyone else with mad money printing so they bought cars they otherwise would not have
Those supports are being taken away now and GMs noncompetitive products surprise surprise are not selling to Americans who can't really afford them anyway.
Ford on the other hand building only light trucks - which people either buy because the *need* them for some sort of business or because they have money to burn and can pay the higher margin on those products. Either way its a better market to be in (until there is another oil shock).
In any case GM was done - no money to retool to build stuff people wanted. Obama gave them a pile of money but insisted basically they pay Union workers to do something. It was either sit on their hand and do nothing or build products that might not sell in the existing plants. Bascially it was failing business before and its failing business now.
Ironically Trump's tariffs are probably the only thing that can save GM. But the half measures won't do it. They will make it worse as the stuff GM imports will cost more and they won't be able to deliver cheaper than anyone else. Now if Trump really turned up the dial to the point where you CAN'T build a car anyone can afford to buy unless its all domestic sourced GM would probably be one of the only manufactures that could produce anything at all.
If you live to 69 (when you should start collecting SSA - yes, you can collect sooner, but shouldn't unless you must),
Not true! There are a lot of situations where taking SS before you can claim your full retirement make sense.
A common example is married couples. One spouse will frequently have taken time out of their career to raise children etc. The result is their SS benefit will be much lower. Quite often lower even than their spousal benefit would be. So what you do in this situation is the lower SS recipient activates SS as early as possible and collects their benefit until the higher earner reaches full retirement age. At which point the higher earner actives their SS, and their spouse switches from their SS claim to claiming the spousal benefit.
TL:DR SS is a complicated mess like our tax code and if you take the time understand it just as with tax avoidance there are a lot legal opportunities to improve how it nets out for you. Just as with taxes people who can affort to pay professionals to maximally game the system for them benefit disproportionately as compared with those taking a more naive approach.
Bullshit - if she was so highly competent she would have had long term care insurance and disability insurance. She chose to carry all the risk herself and her gamble did not pay off. She then stuck you and I with the bill
Most people because Windows and Linux platforms pretty much turn it on out of the box now. You have to go out of your way not to use ASR.
Also the performance impact is pretty small unless your are running on ancient hardware with naive chache algorithms.
They 90's call they want your arguments back
Wait why is that? Because you say so?
Why should people who don't use it pay for it? Why can't fares just be raised until they cover the costs. If you say because min wage workers can't than afford to get to work. My response is GOOD! That means employers would not be able to hire people for minimum wage; they will have to pay them more. The mistake is thinking that subsidizing things like housing and transport is a beneficent for the poor; its not its corporate welfare in disguise. All its really doing is taking money from the middle class so the very wealthy capital owner class get access to an artificially cheap labor pool.
Can't wait to hear form all the public transit apologists. While they try and explain why it does not work even in one of the most densely populated cities on the planet.
Face folks "public" anything basically means tragedy of the commons is coming. The reality is the proletariat really is icky.
they are going to stop collecting it.
I am not suggesting they should be made to hand it over. I agree with you. They made the maps they should have the rights to share them or not as they please its their property.
That said I don't they will really stop collecting it. Google did not set about map making to sell maps; they are not Rand McNally. They collected that data because they needed. A decade ago to drive page views and sell banner ads while people printed driving directions off the web and more recently to enable Android to navigate and offer a whole lot of location based services. Possibly to assist in their self driving car efforts, etc..
The other data out there was more expensive than gathering it on their own, not accurate enough for their applications, did not contain facts they needed or something else. Google has enough reasons to make maps and collect data even if they loose a few avenues to directly monetize it; that they largely are not even leveraging today.
Good job AC's accuse me of ignorance when I specifically cite European serfdom. Given examples from Eastern Europe (different region) and China (different region and radically different culture). Fail and Double fail.
To round it out both the Chinese Civil war and the October revolution resulted in systems of governance that were arguable worse than the previous condition of serfdom for large parts of the population. Triple Fail! Even if those political systems don't resemble our own.
I stand by my comments European Feudalism is far from the worst of systems that have been implemented. Secondly provided you are the very bottom rung on the later doing labor but some type of artisan, merchant, skilled worker doing things for the Lord you might very well be better off than those occupying similar positions in our society. On the other hand if you are sweeping the floors today in our society, serfdom will probably be worse for you.
Right and there was basically no tooling for JS either back then. To write in you had to know it. Not fumble your way thru with intelisense. Also you had be very aware of browser eccentricities and often implement mirror functionality in vbscript.
Corporate America is endeavoring to lead us into neo-Feudalism.
So the deep soul searching we really need to do than is to decide if that is such a bad thing. Out little experiment in representative democracy here has left us in a world were each of us retains less of our own production than did a serf in feudal Europe. Well those of us who are actually productive. The unproductive profit enormously form our current system.
Honestly if you are actually middle, paying that 28% federal tax bracket, own or mostly own (not the bank owns) your home, and have enough savings you could afford to move for a better job; than its question. Sure you would give up your 'vote' but in terms of life style and your day to day existence; life might actually be better as serf on Zuckerberg's Manor than being beholden to dear old Uncle Sam; and the increasingly tyrannical majority...
I guess the upshot of having your business tied to the cloud is when you have an outage there is a good chance non of your competitors/customers/etc can do any work either!
That's the problem though, is the Windows only app. I have LOB stuff that I need to be able to run and even today WINE does not always cut it. So I have Windows VMs. Usually with the shell changed to the APP and basically no services running. Its the only way Windows is tolerable.
Look Microsoft you have been shipping a mail client (of a kind) with Windows since at least 3.11. Now maybe that was just a ploy to sell some NT Server and later Exchange licenses. All fine; whatever. Here is the thing though you are charging me for the OS. The license fee should pay for you to improve my experience.
The addition of advertising will certainly NOT improve my experience. Now I would argue that a mail client really is out side the scope of an OS anyway. If you don't want to support it or develop it; than just drop it entirely. Plenty of freeware mail clients out there you crappy one will be missed by exactly nobody.
Keep in mind though you are continuing to destroy the general value proposition of Windows. Apple seems to be able to deliver OSX with a suite of software that would be pretty adequate for most home users needs and give it away for free with (or pay for it by bundling it with) the hardware.
If you expect anyone past the current generation of midlevel IT managers who have just always bought MS; to pay premium prices for your Surface hardware well you better deliver a premium OS. The rest of us are NOT going to pay for your adware.
For all but the most unusual embed projections, and kernel level code finding memory leaks and related problems in C/C++ is as simple as running an STA tool. Admittedly good ones are expensive but static analysis can find most all of those problems.
This issue people are not doing it.
However while the occasional drive by like Eternalblue results from memory unsafe languages (again system level stuff most application layer programs are not dealing with) it is rare. The vast majority of software problems are application logic issues. Take the libssh author by pass. That isn't a C/C++ problem its a problem of the authors implementing the authentication logic badly. Send commands in an unexpected order the software does unexpected things. Its probably more dangerous to reimplement widely used well tested things like libssh because if a bug like that was hiding for years; who thinks someone can monkey up a java/C#/rust/... replacement and not introduce serious new unknown flaws? I for one don't