Surely you're joking. GM makes STUFF. All it really needs is restructuring to stop the loss of money. In contrast, Google makes NOTHING. And what it does can be duplicated by a large company that puts its mind to it.
GM is still a huge economic engine, which is currently hobbled enough to stop its power output. Compared to this 350HP beast, you are attempting to compare it to a company (Google) that is the equivalent of a weed-whipper engine that is putting out 1/3hp... and all because the small engine is producing steady power while the large engine is leaking oil and needs a tune-up.
People like you caused the dotcom boom to happen. Please stop. You just don't make any fucking sense. GM is INTRINSICALLY worth far more than Google, and you know it. Hell, if GM actually went bankrupt and fire-sold its assets, those alone would be worth far more than Google.
Please, please don't go apeshit over paper assets AGAIN. I was unemployed for YEARS after the last time people went insane for paper assets. Learn to value STUFF, not promises, smoke and mirrors.
Restaurants are notorious for being cheap on their own labor. It's difficult to imagine that this environment can be successfully combined with a general-delivery service that only wants to squeeze the most fees out of the clients that it can. This is therefore a dynamic, and even from the beginning with the Webvan crap, this dynamic can only dictate modest market penetration.
So, modest businessmen will make this work. Unfortunately, the modern species of scumbag businessman will cast whole restaurant markets into chaos with his deceit over contracts, fees, service areas, and in fact anything possible that can be min-maxed. The customer will be the ultimate loser, of course. I can only await the next round of stories that will illustrate this.
Not to be a smartass, but if I had a dollar for all the times I saw HTML leaking from a page rendered in IE (pronounced "AAAIIIIIEEEE!"), I'd have enough money to start my own software company. Do we really even know these instances are broken code, corrupted packets, or browser bugs? In this ignorance, we might have to admit that it really doesn't matter if you use Firefox or IE on the basis of frequency of rendering errors.
When I speak of the US Constitution, I include its current form. After all, in over 200 years, it has been amended less that 30 times, and then excluding the Bill of Rights and the Prohibition pair, that leaves very few left. Hence, it still fits my admiration of small size.
As for "additional rights", that's a bit of a joke, Sir. If the US Constitution does not prohibit a behavior to government or citizens, then by the very definition we have that "right" (much clarified by the Bill of Rights). Of course, people much lulled by the power of government don't agree with this viewpoint, and that crosses many party lines across many decades. Hence, we get people thinking that the US Constitution "grants" us rights...
... but nothing could be further from the truth than that. We have rights automatically from new actions and new circumstances as time passes. If we can do a new thing, and the USC doesn't prohibit it, then we are at liberty to do it. Unfortunately, the new Fascist class of Corporate Politicians cannot allow that kind of thing to continue. The world they are struggling to build will have slavery that the world has never known before, enforced by 100% surveillance and many other technological wonders of pervasive and quick repression.
I must respectfully disagree. The term "activist judge" merely slanders a judge who doesn't slant Constitutional law in the favor of the slanderer. After all, there is no function of check or balance when a judge allows laws that cross the 2nd Amendment (hence, an "activist judge" that Conservatives don't like, and a "dutiful judge" that Liberals like).
Both "sides" are pretty extreme. Both sides want to use the power of government to push their fundamentalist religious or secular agendas, regardless of what's laid down in the US Constitution (... which we must remember is the LAW OF THE LAND). And so, with their domination of the US Congress, both sides emplace "activist judges".
If judges really understood the US Constitution and actually interpreted law according to it, at least 50% of the laws we have now would be stuck down. (The USC is pretty minimal -- hence, upholds the idea of individual liberty -- which any rational man would see makes the recent EU "Constitution" a laughingstock of a clusterfuck. A "Constitution" that's 200 pages long is not a Constitution at all... it's just another hegemony move by the Fascists of the modern era, known as Corporate Politicians.)
That's because people refuse to acknowledge that without control of your economic future (financial liberty), you have little to no chance of a political future (political liberty). This degradation is happening in America AND the CIS/Russia. With worship of wealth (and the corporate ownership of the mechanisms of state) on the rise, this is the only result we can expect.
In other words, "ultra-reliable" was just a marketing term to support whatever bonuses were paid out that year. Anything "ultra-reliable" is probably too simple to use in the case where people care about ultra-reliability. A spoon is ultra-reliable and I've never suffered a spoon failure... but I can't fix a car transmission with a spoon. My spoons could become 100 times more unreliable, and I'd barely even notice. They're too simple to even care about.
Sure, you can... but when the question of unemployment payments arise, reasons matter. If you don't give a reason, then you are hit for contributing to unemployment. This is why scumbag companies (perhaps like you) abuse workers and hire the lower class, so they'll either compel people to quit, or will have "just cause" from some mistake the employee made.
Which is why email monitoring is so important. It's another tool for effectively firing people.
You see, any fool can fire an employee. The sharper guy gets the paperwork lined up so the local Employment Bureau can only take his side in the matter... and as well for any court in case of a wrongful-discharge suit.
It's not so much that 59 million out of 114 million voters chose the Bush regime once again, it's that almost 114 million out of 114 million voters voted for one or the other of a pro-war, pro-corporation, anti-labor globalist.
Also, since turnout was around 50-60%, there's another 100 million or so who have some explaining to do about their reluctance to participate. If just 40 million of those chose alternatives like Nader or the Libertarian candidate, at least the stranglehold of the Two-Party Duopoly would have been seriously threatened, perhaps resulting in compromise... like an "Apollo Program" for alternative energy, a pullback from Iraq, etc.
Double buzzer for the both of you. Ever hear of "welfare for the rich"? Those are grants, tax credits, outright subsidies, etc.... and they are collectively about 3 times the size of individual welfare payments in America.
All welfare is a problem... whether it goes to the rich or the poor, it cultivates an entitlement mentality. Welfare is a morally perilous to the wealthy as it is to some welfare mother.
So, if you're going to take a stand against "welfare", please don't pretend that the biggest welfare queens in America aren't thousands of corporations. We should be dismantling the corporate-welfare system as strenuously as we dismantle the individual one.
Funding? Sure, why not? It's all funny-money anyway. As along as the Republican Party wants to do it, they can just do it, since the Democrats can be ignored in the now tyrannical winner-take-all system -- America's one-party state.
This is the best part of being a dying civilization (as a Republic turned Empire that is now falling apart): you can pay for ANYTHING. All you have to do is whip out the "full faith and credit of the United States", and you can get billions for any stupid fucking thing you want. Why not? You'll never be able to actually honor your debt committments anyway, so flash the plastic and enjoy the good life.
Why China's buyers of US bonds don't understand this, is just exasperating. It's not like they can invade the United States when the USA defaults on the mega-billions in bonds. Of course, what they CAN do is what Saudi Arabia did (which no one wants to talk about -- shh!): buy up the US enough to be considered an absentee landlord. The question is, for all this unsustainable high-living in America, will the elite tolerate being owned by the Chinese to the same extent that the Saudis own them?
It's not about the dozen, it's about the dime. I follow dozens of webcomics over time, and I don't pay a dime to do it. I expect the webcartoonists to try to make it pay better than it is now. Good luck to them. The biggest struggle is -- as usual -- small payment systems.
I knew a guy* in Massachusetts who followed the same formula:
Son dies in car crash from drunk driver.
Angry father invents some way of de-authorizing drunks from starting cars.
???
Invention is widely adopted and becomes a standard piece of the automobile.
As you may guess, step 3 always fails. Any fucking moron can invent a thingamajig that tries to discriminate between a drunk and a sober person starting the car. That's not hard. The hard, Hard, HARD thing is getting this "great idea" {scoff} into automobiles such that the drunk can't avoid it through:
Not installing it in his car.
Not driving an equipped car to the place he gets drunk at.
Not removing or bypassing it when he's sober.
Etc.
There's just nothing to see here. I'm sure a news article features one of these sorry fuckers every couple of years or so, as some sort of twisted or macabre "Human interest" story. But nothing will come of it since there are much larger issues involved than invention. For example, we still haven't invented a way to positively strap down car occupants in case of a crash. All seating belt systems can be countermanded in some way (the simplest way being: just don't "buckle up").
Until we figure out how to secure the bodies of car occupants, we will have no success WHATSOEVER in getting a car to distinguish between a drunk and a sober operator.
PERIOD!
*The guy in MA came up with a dashboard-mounted dial that was basically a switch. If you had the patience to turn the dial such that a visible, internal large metal ball was balanced between two metal contacts, the car would start. His theory was that a drunk had no such patience or coordination. I didn't have the heart (then) to tell him that no one would stand for having such a fucking device in their cars -- and that they'd rip it out pronto if so.
P.S. Look! LOOK! Watch me invent!: Put a breathalyzer in each new car, and pass a law requiring them installed in all old cars. Viola! WOW -- that was EASY! All it'll take is probably $2000 per car! Luckily for me (Mr. Smartguy Inventor Man), I never have to factor in real-life things like costs, legislation, and of course the problem of liability when someone tries to use an equipped car in an emergency and my SobeRoad{tm} device stops them from operating the vehicle. Wow! I'm sooooooo fucking SMART! {scoff}
What the hell is going on with our so called democracies? Do they really deserve that name?
Democracies? Where do you see those? In the increasingly globalist world, many of these so-called democracies are being completely undermined by highly mobile financial wealth (as opposed to material wealth), hence converting such societies into plutocracies. All manner of cultural icons are giving way to the steady but apparently irresistable force of mega-fiat MONEY. Paper and electrons are determining much of Humanity's fate, and THAT is just as silly as watching a city full of people bow in the direction of a truncated pyramid upon which people's hearts are ripped out in order to honor an imaginary giant snake with wings.
Prosperity leads to complacency, and complacency leads to tyranny. This is the summary formula for what has happened -- and will happen -- to the USA.
As for original ideals, when citizens actually do know something about the US Constitution, they nevertheless ignore those sections they find inconvenient for their philosophy. Such piecemeal-ing of the Law of the Land simply means that there is no basis to the law in full practice... leaving wealth and weapons to determine much of America's cultural direction.
Speaking of ignorance, you seem blissfully unaware that lots of 'educated people' believe in God.
It's good to see that you put the word educated in quotes. It's a funny "education" that tells you stuff without a shred of proof. That's not an education at all. That's just DOCTRINE.
To be precise:
People who believe in a deity do so not out of education but instead do so out of doctrine and willful ignorance.
At any rate, this discussion is all moot. Provide proof for the existence of this "god" or shut the fuck up as the retard you apparently are. You can't possibly defend your non-provable position in any sort of intellectual argument. (Of course, you can't provide proof. If there would have been any, morons like you had had centuries to produce it. All you twits can provide is babblings about faith... which as I've implied is completely retarded.)
But THEY DO behave like that. Not content with theory when better research methods arise, scientists go off and try to get better evidence for what was "known" before. Atoms have now been seen through sufficient resolution pictures of electron microscopes. Those prior experiments to detect them were NOT ENOUGH.
And the electron microscope photos are still NOT ENOUGH. If a "quark microscope" is made, I'm sure the trend will continue with yet another level examination.
Your postings illustrate that you really are uneducated about the history of Human scientific investigation. Do yourself a favor: put down that silly work of imaginative fiction known as the Bible, and pick up some secular historical works about this.
This is why you don't understand why educated people like us find a belief in God to be anywhere from pathetic to amusing, and that carries over to the child-like protests like yours. Your ignorance is staggering. Please correct it.
Not to be alarmist, but these marketing drones and legal eagles are leading us into a new dark age, where knowledge itself is restricted to a select few, a tyranny of DRM.
Well, DUH. Didn't you notice that "authorization" of some kind is rapidly becoming necessary to even find an I.T. job in America? Talk about tyranny... but all it took to implement THAT kind of repression was a lot of shitheads with degrees and certifications being paid lots of money, all supported by MILLIONS of jackasses hoping to have the same thing. Just about the same thing is going to happen with consumer data. People are in love with Fascist ways, where the power of a corporation is going to be merged with the power of the state, and so it will funnel the primary benefits to the lucky few... where it will be lauded by the vaster majority only in the sheer hope that they, too, can join the privileged few. This is how a civilization dies, by envy, greed and pervasive mediocrity. Funny, eh?
Thanks, considering I find good stuff on/. weekly. My sig has sparked love-it-or-hate-it comments every so often, and is in Google (my 15 microseconds of fame, I guess). I'm never changing it.:^)
Granted, the primary function of a business is to generate profits. But lately it's the *only* function.
You are too correct. I was dumped as an IT tech from my employing company (a bank), into a scumbag outsourcer IT company called "Pomeroy IT Solutions". (Sage advice: Never work for these assholes.) These twits don't do IT work because they love it -- they only do it because they can nickel-an-dime client companies for their foolish decision to outsource. It's a terrible thing to work for a company that only wants to make money. It's doubly terrible since so much of that money goes to a minority in the company.
Ah, well. It's not like I didn't suspect that this would happen, hence my enormous savings. When the time comes for the several, highly stressful minutes of very harsh words, concluded by "you're fired!" and the call to security to have me escorted off the property, I'll have to take the next step of moving to a better IT area (hopefully the Southwest).
Your latter question is somewhat easy to figure. If about 20% of the world makes about 100 times per capita what the other 80% makes, then we arrive at an average per capita of about 10. This means that the 20% slice will find their income reduced to 1/10th. Hence, in America, where the avg wage is about $36000/year, what kind of lifestyle can be afforded on about 4000 bucks a year? (I'm betting some sort of advanced homelessness.)
Now, even if the energy existed to bring up the other 80% to above-average standards of living, we still have to face a First World result of about 20 instead of 10. So, what kind of lifestyle can you achieve in America for 8000 bucks a year? And note well that for the half who are making less than the prior average wage, they will have to get by on about 4000 bucks... even with the rest of the world having billions who want to buy their production.
It seems a shame. All that demand, and America's workers will still be living in company dormitories. {shrug} Well, look at the bright side... living in a company dorm and eating in the company mess hall, your 4 to 8 thousand bucks per year will go further than you think.
You mean the CONSUMER economy. But the consumer economy can be SIMULATED with a large enough credit bubble... like the one we're in now. (If I were you, I'd set about ditching any bank stocks or bonds I had, since they have run out of competitive margin and must now go back to due diligence and managed risks... tossing millions out of the credit system, and causing bank income to crash.)
With a consumer economy simulated through massive grants of credit, you can then drop wages. Who needs to pull in more money when your bank can always figure out a way to squeeze another tiny but perpetual payment out of you?
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Surely you're joking. GM makes STUFF. All it really needs is restructuring to stop the loss of money. In contrast, Google makes NOTHING. And what it does can be duplicated by a large company that puts its mind to it.
... and all because the small engine is producing steady power while the large engine is leaking oil and needs a tune-up.
GM is still a huge economic engine, which is currently hobbled enough to stop its power output. Compared to this 350HP beast, you are attempting to compare it to a company (Google) that is the equivalent of a weed-whipper engine that is putting out 1/3hp
People like you caused the dotcom boom to happen. Please stop. You just don't make any fucking sense. GM is INTRINSICALLY worth far more than Google, and you know it. Hell, if GM actually went bankrupt and fire-sold its assets, those alone would be worth far more than Google.
Please, please don't go apeshit over paper assets AGAIN. I was unemployed for YEARS after the last time people went insane for paper assets. Learn to value STUFF, not promises, smoke and mirrors.
Restaurants are notorious for being cheap on their own labor. It's difficult to imagine that this environment can be successfully combined with a general-delivery service that only wants to squeeze the most fees out of the clients that it can. This is therefore a dynamic, and even from the beginning with the Webvan crap, this dynamic can only dictate modest market penetration.
So, modest businessmen will make this work. Unfortunately, the modern species of scumbag businessman will cast whole restaurant markets into chaos with his deceit over contracts, fees, service areas, and in fact anything possible that can be min-maxed. The customer will be the ultimate loser, of course. I can only await the next round of stories that will illustrate this.
That's not a smile. It's a grimace of pain. You can be honest with your fellow /.ers.
Not to be a smartass, but if I had a dollar for all the times I saw HTML leaking from a page rendered in IE (pronounced "AAAIIIIIEEEE!"), I'd have enough money to start my own software company. Do we really even know these instances are broken code, corrupted packets, or browser bugs? In this ignorance, we might have to admit that it really doesn't matter if you use Firefox or IE on the basis of frequency of rendering errors.
When I speak of the US Constitution, I include its current form. After all, in over 200 years, it has been amended less that 30 times, and then excluding the Bill of Rights and the Prohibition pair, that leaves very few left. Hence, it still fits my admiration of small size.
...
... but nothing could be further from the truth than that. We have rights automatically from new actions and new circumstances as time passes. If we can do a new thing, and the USC doesn't prohibit it, then we are at liberty to do it. Unfortunately, the new Fascist class of Corporate Politicians cannot allow that kind of thing to continue. The world they are struggling to build will have slavery that the world has never known before, enforced by 100% surveillance and many other technological wonders of pervasive and quick repression.
As for "additional rights", that's a bit of a joke, Sir. If the US Constitution does not prohibit a behavior to government or citizens, then by the very definition we have that "right" (much clarified by the Bill of Rights). Of course, people much lulled by the power of government don't agree with this viewpoint, and that crosses many party lines across many decades. Hence, we get people thinking that the US Constitution "grants" us rights
I must respectfully disagree. The term "activist judge" merely slanders a judge who doesn't slant Constitutional law in the favor of the slanderer. After all, there is no function of check or balance when a judge allows laws that cross the 2nd Amendment (hence, an "activist judge" that Conservatives don't like, and a "dutiful judge" that Liberals like).
... it's just another hegemony move by the Fascists of the modern era, known as Corporate Politicians.)
Both "sides" are pretty extreme. Both sides want to use the power of government to push their fundamentalist religious or secular agendas, regardless of what's laid down in the US Constitution (... which we must remember is the LAW OF THE LAND). And so, with their domination of the US Congress, both sides emplace "activist judges".
If judges really understood the US Constitution and actually interpreted law according to it, at least 50% of the laws we have now would be stuck down. (The USC is pretty minimal -- hence, upholds the idea of individual liberty -- which any rational man would see makes the recent EU "Constitution" a laughingstock of a clusterfuck. A "Constitution" that's 200 pages long is not a Constitution at all
That's because people refuse to acknowledge that without control of your economic future (financial liberty), you have little to no chance of a political future (political liberty). This degradation is happening in America AND the CIS/Russia. With worship of wealth (and the corporate ownership of the mechanisms of state) on the rise, this is the only result we can expect.
In other words, "ultra-reliable" was just a marketing term to support whatever bonuses were paid out that year. Anything "ultra-reliable" is probably too simple to use in the case where people care about ultra-reliability. A spoon is ultra-reliable and I've never suffered a spoon failure ... but I can't fix a car transmission with a spoon. My spoons could become 100 times more unreliable, and I'd barely even notice. They're too simple to even care about.
Sure, you can ... but when the question of unemployment payments arise, reasons matter. If you don't give a reason, then you are hit for contributing to unemployment. This is why scumbag companies (perhaps like you) abuse workers and hire the lower class, so they'll either compel people to quit, or will have "just cause" from some mistake the employee made.
... and as well for any court in case of a wrongful-discharge suit.
Which is why email monitoring is so important. It's another tool for effectively firing people.
You see, any fool can fire an employee. The sharper guy gets the paperwork lined up so the local Employment Bureau can only take his side in the matter
It's not so much that 59 million out of 114 million voters chose the Bush regime once again, it's that almost 114 million out of 114 million voters voted for one or the other of a pro-war, pro-corporation, anti-labor globalist.
... like an "Apollo Program" for alternative energy, a pullback from Iraq, etc.
Also, since turnout was around 50-60%, there's another 100 million or so who have some explaining to do about their reluctance to participate. If just 40 million of those chose alternatives like Nader or the Libertarian candidate, at least the stranglehold of the Two-Party Duopoly would have been seriously threatened, perhaps resulting in compromise
Double buzzer for the both of you. Ever hear of "welfare for the rich"? Those are grants, tax credits, outright subsidies, etc. ... and they are collectively about 3 times the size of individual welfare payments in America.
... whether it goes to the rich or the poor, it cultivates an entitlement mentality. Welfare is a morally perilous to the wealthy as it is to some welfare mother.
All welfare is a problem
So, if you're going to take a stand against "welfare", please don't pretend that the biggest welfare queens in America aren't thousands of corporations. We should be dismantling the corporate-welfare system as strenuously as we dismantle the individual one.
Funding? Sure, why not? It's all funny-money anyway. As along as the Republican Party wants to do it, they can just do it, since the Democrats can be ignored in the now tyrannical winner-take-all system -- America's one-party state.
This is the best part of being a dying civilization (as a Republic turned Empire that is now falling apart): you can pay for ANYTHING. All you have to do is whip out the "full faith and credit of the United States", and you can get billions for any stupid fucking thing you want. Why not? You'll never be able to actually honor your debt committments anyway, so flash the plastic and enjoy the good life.
Why China's buyers of US bonds don't understand this, is just exasperating. It's not like they can invade the United States when the USA defaults on the mega-billions in bonds. Of course, what they CAN do is what Saudi Arabia did (which no one wants to talk about -- shh!): buy up the US enough to be considered an absentee landlord. The question is, for all this unsustainable high-living in America, will the elite tolerate being owned by the Chinese to the same extent that the Saudis own them?
It's not about the dozen, it's about the dime. I follow dozens of webcomics over time, and I don't pay a dime to do it. I expect the webcartoonists to try to make it pay better than it is now. Good luck to them. The biggest struggle is -- as usual -- small payment systems.
Title: Band of Redshirts
- Son dies in car crash from drunk driver.
- Angry father invents some way of de-authorizing drunks from starting cars.
- ???
- Invention is widely adopted and becomes a standard piece of the automobile.
As you may guess, step 3 always fails. Any fucking moron can invent a thingamajig that tries to discriminate between a drunk and a sober person starting the car. That's not hard. The hard, Hard, HARD thing is getting this "great idea" {scoff} into automobiles such that the drunk can't avoid it through:- Not installing it in his car.
- Not driving an equipped car to the place he gets drunk at.
- Not removing or bypassing it when he's sober.
Etc.There's just nothing to see here. I'm sure a news article features one of these sorry fuckers every couple of years or so, as some sort of twisted or macabre "Human interest" story. But nothing will come of it since there are much larger issues involved than invention. For example, we still haven't invented a way to positively strap down car occupants in case of a crash. All seating belt systems can be countermanded in some way (the simplest way being: just don't "buckle up").
Until we figure out how to secure the bodies of car occupants, we will have no success WHATSOEVER in getting a car to distinguish between a drunk and a sober operator.
PERIOD!
* The guy in MA came up with a dashboard-mounted dial that was basically a switch. If you had the patience to turn the dial such that a visible, internal large metal ball was balanced between two metal contacts, the car would start. His theory was that a drunk had no such patience or coordination. I didn't have the heart (then) to tell him that no one would stand for having such a fucking device in their cars -- and that they'd rip it out pronto if so.
P.S. Look! LOOK! Watch me invent!: Put a breathalyzer in each new car, and pass a law requiring them installed in all old cars. Viola! WOW -- that was EASY! All it'll take is probably $2000 per car! Luckily for me (Mr. Smartguy Inventor Man), I never have to factor in real-life things like costs, legislation, and of course the problem of liability when someone tries to use an equipped car in an emergency and my SobeRoad{tm} device stops them from operating the vehicle. Wow! I'm sooooooo fucking SMART! {scoff}
What the hell is going on with our so called democracies? Do they really deserve that name?
Democracies? Where do you see those? In the increasingly globalist world, many of these so-called democracies are being completely undermined by highly mobile financial wealth (as opposed to material wealth), hence converting such societies into plutocracies. All manner of cultural icons are giving way to the steady but apparently irresistable force of mega-fiat MONEY. Paper and electrons are determining much of Humanity's fate, and THAT is just as silly as watching a city full of people bow in the direction of a truncated pyramid upon which people's hearts are ripped out in order to honor an imaginary giant snake with wings.
Prosperity leads to complacency, and complacency leads to tyranny. This is the summary formula for what has happened -- and will happen -- to the USA.
... leaving wealth and weapons to determine much of America's cultural direction.
As for original ideals, when citizens actually do know something about the US Constitution, they nevertheless ignore those sections they find inconvenient for their philosophy. Such piecemeal-ing of the Law of the Land simply means that there is no basis to the law in full practice
When you investigate something, you inherently admit that you are ignorant. Does this not stand to reason? Was this point not obvious?
The term "ignorant" has a radius of effect. Don't make it too large when throwing it about.
Speaking of ignorance, you seem blissfully unaware that lots of 'educated people' believe in God.
... which as I've implied is completely retarded.)
It's good to see that you put the word educated in quotes. It's a funny "education" that tells you stuff without a shred of proof. That's not an education at all. That's just DOCTRINE.
To be precise:
People who believe in a deity do so not out of education but instead do so out of doctrine and willful ignorance.
At any rate, this discussion is all moot. Provide proof for the existence of this "god" or shut the fuck up as the retard you apparently are. You can't possibly defend your non-provable position in any sort of intellectual argument. (Of course, you can't provide proof. If there would have been any, morons like you had had centuries to produce it. All you twits can provide is babblings about faith
But THEY DO behave like that. Not content with theory when better research methods arise, scientists go off and try to get better evidence for what was "known" before. Atoms have now been seen through sufficient resolution pictures of electron microscopes. Those prior experiments to detect them were NOT ENOUGH.
And the electron microscope photos are still NOT ENOUGH. If a "quark microscope" is made, I'm sure the trend will continue with yet another level examination.
Your postings illustrate that you really are uneducated about the history of Human scientific investigation. Do yourself a favor: put down that silly work of imaginative fiction known as the Bible, and pick up some secular historical works about this.
This is why you don't understand why educated people like us find a belief in God to be anywhere from pathetic to amusing, and that carries over to the child-like protests like yours. Your ignorance is staggering. Please correct it.
Not to be alarmist, but these marketing drones and legal eagles are leading us into a new dark age, where knowledge itself is restricted to a select few, a tyranny of DRM.
... but all it took to implement THAT kind of repression was a lot of shitheads with degrees and certifications being paid lots of money, all supported by MILLIONS of jackasses hoping to have the same thing. Just about the same thing is going to happen with consumer data. People are in love with Fascist ways, where the power of a corporation is going to be merged with the power of the state, and so it will funnel the primary benefits to the lucky few ... where it will be lauded by the vaster majority only in the sheer hope that they, too, can join the privileged few. This is how a civilization dies, by envy, greed and pervasive mediocrity. Funny, eh?
Well, DUH. Didn't you notice that "authorization" of some kind is rapidly becoming necessary to even find an I.T. job in America? Talk about tyranny
Thanks, considering I find good stuff on /. weekly. My sig has sparked love-it-or-hate-it comments every so often, and is in Google (my 15 microseconds of fame, I guess). I'm never changing it. :^)
Granted, the primary function of a business is to generate profits. But lately it's the *only* function.
You are too correct. I was dumped as an IT tech from my employing company (a bank), into a scumbag outsourcer IT company called "Pomeroy IT Solutions". (Sage advice: Never work for these assholes.) These twits don't do IT work because they love it -- they only do it because they can nickel-an-dime client companies for their foolish decision to outsource. It's a terrible thing to work for a company that only wants to make money. It's doubly terrible since so much of that money goes to a minority in the company.
Ah, well. It's not like I didn't suspect that this would happen, hence my enormous savings. When the time comes for the several, highly stressful minutes of very harsh words, concluded by "you're fired!" and the call to security to have me escorted off the property, I'll have to take the next step of moving to a better IT area (hopefully the Southwest).
Your latter question is somewhat easy to figure. If about 20% of the world makes about 100 times per capita what the other 80% makes, then we arrive at an average per capita of about 10. This means that the 20% slice will find their income reduced to 1/10th. Hence, in America, where the avg wage is about $36000/year, what kind of lifestyle can be afforded on about 4000 bucks a year? (I'm betting some sort of advanced homelessness.)
... even with the rest of the world having billions who want to buy their production.
... living in a company dorm and eating in the company mess hall, your 4 to 8 thousand bucks per year will go further than you think.
Now, even if the energy existed to bring up the other 80% to above-average standards of living, we still have to face a First World result of about 20 instead of 10. So, what kind of lifestyle can you achieve in America for 8000 bucks a year? And note well that for the half who are making less than the prior average wage, they will have to get by on about 4000 bucks
It seems a shame. All that demand, and America's workers will still be living in company dormitories. {shrug} Well, look at the bright side
High wages are good for the economy.
... like the one we're in now. (If I were you, I'd set about ditching any bank stocks or bonds I had, since they have run out of competitive margin and must now go back to due diligence and managed risks ... tossing millions out of the credit system, and causing bank income to crash.)
You mean the CONSUMER economy. But the consumer economy can be SIMULATED with a large enough credit bubble
With a consumer economy simulated through massive grants of credit, you can then drop wages. Who needs to pull in more money when your bank can always figure out a way to squeeze another tiny but perpetual payment out of you?