The ACTUAL unemployment rate since the 2007/08 recession/depression is around 12-14%
but, the government BOTH SIDES of the political isle, will use numbers associated only with
those that actually WANT to work, not those that have given up, gone on government assistance,
etc, which knocks the rate down to 4-5%.
With all of the shuddered businesses, how could any SANE person think everything has been "great"
since around 2010?
When I bought my first Aliph Jawbone headset, I was amazed at the ability of the "noise assassin" to
knock down noise. So much so, that I was on the phone during an ice storm, where we had part of
our office running on two gasoline generators out in the parking lot. I was on the phone talking to
a coworker and turned the noise canceling off and then on and he was amazed that if he didn't know
any better, he would never have known the generators were running.
Kept with them buying another one that was considerably smaller, but, by the time they came out with
"the new era" one, it was a piece of junk. VERY poor battery life, kept disconnecting etc. Sent it back,
the replacement didn't work, sent that one back, had poor battery and sound quality. I gave up on them
and looked elsewhere.
I think they stretched themselves with all the do-dads, speakers, fitness bands, and let their headset
part falter. Yeah, a lot of people don't use these, but someone in my line of business NEEDS that type
of headset working in a noisy environment and needing both hands free.
Hopefully someone will buy/license their noise assassin technology and put it in their headset.
the music of today (rap, bro country, pop), would the "quality" matter
considering the junk blaring out of some car speakers you have to
hear, driving down the road?
When the welfare system in the USA was signed into law, during the FDR days, it was MAINLY for
poor families with dependent children. In the 60's LBJ and government really expanded it with
the advent of medicare/medicade.
People, when they are "given" anything, will work LESS. People can be lazy if they don't have to
get up off their butts and work for a LIVING. Who really wants to work? Some do. It gives them
purpose in life.
"GIVING" people anything, at times, most don't appreciate it but will end up thinking they are "entitled"
to something.
If they are TOO low, people won't want to work, they'll just be lazy and attempt to live off the government.
But, anything to "achieve their socialist utopia" in the Sea-Tac area.
Expensive to live their, expensive to eat their, expensive to work there.
I wouldn't give up my dSLR for anything, but, I wish I had the "instant" feedback of digital, on film.
I grew up with film. From my dad working as a newspaper photographer in the early 60s, "helping" him
by rocking the developer & stop baths back and forth, to my own film days up to the early 2000's and my
first dSLR in 2010. The warmth you get from good old Kodachrome just can't really be duplicated by
digital.
Same with audio. No amount of oversampling can get you the warmth of an analog album played on a
tube type amplifier.
But, the problem is, will Apple continue to dominate?
Have smartphones really "progressed" since the first one? Not really. They've gotten bigger, faster, brighter.
It's still a rectangular slab of glass, metal plastic. Yeah, the form follows the function, but what about folding
screens, 3D graphics, or some sort of "earth shattering" change?
Apple, might be on it's way to say Xerox, IBM, The "big 3 automakers" if they aren't careful. Rest on your
accomplishments, without continuing to innovate, and someone will pass you by.
Didn't we go through all the book burning about 80 years ago?
Oh, but people will say it's "hate" speech they are going after.
Yeah, this time, but what about tomorrow? As long as it is speech
you don't like, but what happens if they go against something YOU
like?
Has been going on for a little more than 30 years. How many "person on the street" interviews have you seen where young adults, heck, even some older adults Can't find their own state on a map, can't tell you who the president is, can't tell you which side won the civil war and on and on.
Is it any wonder the government (both R&D's) have been able to strip away rights, bloat the government, encroach on your every waking minute?
Grew up about 30 miles from Columbia. MU has been a "big bully" for years. Whatever MU wanted, Columbia & Boone County would bend over backwards to get them whatever they wanted. Now, MU, because they pretty much let the leftist teachers & their minions the students, caused so many parents to either pull or say NO to allowing their kids to go to MU, to the tune of freshman enrollment is down upwards of 25%, MU is JUST NOW trying to stay within budget, because the state legislators about 40 miles away have slapped their spoiled brat kid MU, with CUTBACKS. Now all of those student built apartments, that had huge tax breaks are going to go unused, MU is forcing something they never enforced, freshmen must live on campus, to generate more revenue for MU, many buildings have been closed/consolidated.
Sorry MU, Columbia/Boone County, you did it to yourselves!
I know MANY people have moved out of Boone County to neighboring counties, still working in the Columbia metro area, just to ESCAPE the high property taxes in Boone County.
I think some of these leaks, are leaks "on purpose".
Apple, for better or worse, is great at marketing. To built buzz/hype for an upcoming
product, you have to know that most companies "leak" some things on purpose.
If it isn't on "free TV" I won't bother. Also, you can bet it will interject
political correctness, and be biased against anything of a "democratic" nature.
Fidget spinners are the "pet rocks" of the 2000 era. Never understood these fads, never wasted my
money on this garbage. But at least the ball bearing manufacturers made a few bucks.
Never been to a whole foods, none in my area, but it sounds like Amazon will do the race to the bottom to
compete with other large chain grocery stores.
I've had a yahoo address so long, it still ends in @sbcglobal.net
All I use it for is online garbage...let all the junk go there from sites that require an email address to do anything.
If you ask me.
Fox, propaganda on the right
Msnbc/CNN etc..propaganda on the left.
New "bias" depends on where you stand.
What's to the left for some, is to the right, for others.
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The ACTUAL unemployment rate since the 2007/08 recession/depression is around 12-14% but, the government BOTH SIDES of the political isle, will use numbers associated only with those that actually WANT to work, not those that have given up, gone on government assistance, etc, which knocks the rate down to 4-5%. With all of the shuddered businesses, how could any SANE person think everything has been "great" since around 2010?
When I bought my first Aliph Jawbone headset, I was amazed at the ability of the "noise assassin" to knock down noise. So much so, that I was on the phone during an ice storm, where we had part of our office running on two gasoline generators out in the parking lot. I was on the phone talking to a coworker and turned the noise canceling off and then on and he was amazed that if he didn't know any better, he would never have known the generators were running. Kept with them buying another one that was considerably smaller, but, by the time they came out with "the new era" one, it was a piece of junk. VERY poor battery life, kept disconnecting etc. Sent it back, the replacement didn't work, sent that one back, had poor battery and sound quality. I gave up on them and looked elsewhere. I think they stretched themselves with all the do-dads, speakers, fitness bands, and let their headset part falter. Yeah, a lot of people don't use these, but someone in my line of business NEEDS that type of headset working in a noisy environment and needing both hands free. Hopefully someone will buy/license their noise assassin technology and put it in their headset.
the music of today (rap, bro country, pop), would the "quality" matter considering the junk blaring out of some car speakers you have to hear, driving down the road?
Good luck with that one surviving the ACLU, NAACP et al.
When the welfare system in the USA was signed into law, during the FDR days, it was MAINLY for poor families with dependent children. In the 60's LBJ and government really expanded it with the advent of medicare/medicade. People, when they are "given" anything, will work LESS. People can be lazy if they don't have to get up off their butts and work for a LIVING. Who really wants to work? Some do. It gives them purpose in life. "GIVING" people anything, at times, most don't appreciate it but will end up thinking they are "entitled" to something.
If they are TOO low, people won't want to work, they'll just be lazy and attempt to live off the government. But, anything to "achieve their socialist utopia" in the Sea-Tac area. Expensive to live their, expensive to eat their, expensive to work there.
I wouldn't give up my dSLR for anything, but, I wish I had the "instant" feedback of digital, on film. I grew up with film. From my dad working as a newspaper photographer in the early 60s, "helping" him by rocking the developer & stop baths back and forth, to my own film days up to the early 2000's and my first dSLR in 2010. The warmth you get from good old Kodachrome just can't really be duplicated by digital. Same with audio. No amount of oversampling can get you the warmth of an analog album played on a tube type amplifier.
But, the problem is, will Apple continue to dominate? Have smartphones really "progressed" since the first one? Not really. They've gotten bigger, faster, brighter. It's still a rectangular slab of glass, metal plastic. Yeah, the form follows the function, but what about folding screens, 3D graphics, or some sort of "earth shattering" change? Apple, might be on it's way to say Xerox, IBM, The "big 3 automakers" if they aren't careful. Rest on your accomplishments, without continuing to innovate, and someone will pass you by.
Trust me...congress is "moving quickly" to find out a way to TAX these things more. Safety is the FARTHEST thing from their minds.
Where they point their cell phone cameras at the sun, then can't figure out why they STOPPED WORKING.
Didn't we go through all the book burning about 80 years ago? Oh, but people will say it's "hate" speech they are going after. Yeah, this time, but what about tomorrow? As long as it is speech you don't like, but what happens if they go against something YOU like?
Has been going on for a little more than 30 years. How many "person on the street" interviews have you seen where young adults, heck, even some older adults Can't find their own state on a map, can't tell you who the president is, can't tell you which side won the civil war and on and on. Is it any wonder the government (both R&D's) have been able to strip away rights, bloat the government, encroach on your every waking minute?
Grew up about 30 miles from Columbia. MU has been a "big bully" for years. Whatever MU wanted, Columbia & Boone County would bend over backwards to get them whatever they wanted. Now, MU, because they pretty much let the leftist teachers & their minions the students, caused so many parents to either pull or say NO to allowing their kids to go to MU, to the tune of freshman enrollment is down upwards of 25%, MU is JUST NOW trying to stay within budget, because the state legislators about 40 miles away have slapped their spoiled brat kid MU, with CUTBACKS. Now all of those student built apartments, that had huge tax breaks are going to go unused, MU is forcing something they never enforced, freshmen must live on campus, to generate more revenue for MU, many buildings have been closed/consolidated. Sorry MU, Columbia/Boone County, you did it to yourselves! I know MANY people have moved out of Boone County to neighboring counties, still working in the Columbia metro area, just to ESCAPE the high property taxes in Boone County.
YOU FIRST! And take all of your "man made" global warming clowns like Algore with you!
I think some of these leaks, are leaks "on purpose". Apple, for better or worse, is great at marketing. To built buzz/hype for an upcoming product, you have to know that most companies "leak" some things on purpose.
If it isn't on "free TV" I won't bother. Also, you can bet it will interject political correctness, and be biased against anything of a "democratic" nature.
Fidget spinners are the "pet rocks" of the 2000 era. Never understood these fads, never wasted my money on this garbage. But at least the ball bearing manufacturers made a few bucks.
Isn't that sort of how it works in China? You live in corporate "dorms"?
They bought them, not to keep the brand alive, but to get into the grocery store market. You can bet they will cut & chop, to knock the price down.
Never been to a whole foods, none in my area, but it sounds like Amazon will do the race to the bottom to compete with other large chain grocery stores.
That, and thanks to Obama, eliminating coal fire powered plants making up the difference.
I've had a yahoo address so long, it still ends in @sbcglobal.net All I use it for is online garbage...let all the junk go there from sites that require an email address to do anything.
DROP THE PRICE! It isn't like you couldn't afford it!
If you ask me. Fox, propaganda on the right Msnbc/CNN etc..propaganda on the left. New "bias" depends on where you stand. What's to the left for some, is to the right, for others.
If it is THAT good of an idea, venture capitalist or banks would loan them the money.