During the end of segregation, whenever the first black person would move into a white neighborhood, all the white people would leave and the formerly-white neighborhood would very quickly turn into a black neighborhood. This was a major contributor to the growth of the suburbs in the 60s and 70s as well as the "decline of the inner cities."
"Middle class" means being in the middle of the income range (how wide the band is -- whether it's the middle 20% or the middle 33% etc. is a matter of opinion). It does not mean choosing some arbitrary historical standard of living and measuring everything against it. Otherwise, you might as well say every non-homeless person in the US is upper class because in 1800 non-upper-class people didn't have indoor plumbing!
If I see 40 adverts before breakfast, I can't possibly buy each and every one of the products. There's only so much disposable income.
LOL, you're so naive. Of course "consumers" can continually increase spending on useless shit; that's why average household debt grew from 70% of disposable income in 1980 to 130% of it in 2008!
The GOP has made it very, very clear that anything that Obama favors will automatically receive a negative from the House of Representatives that they control. They have done this multiple times. They have openly stated that their primary objective is to oppose Obama on everything.
You missed the fine print: "oppose every Obama initiative...except ones that fuck over the citizenry."
(The Democrat policy has fine print too: "support every Obama initiative... except ones that fail to fuck over the citizenry.")
No, his is correct. Republicans used to be a lot more sane than they are now. And Democrats are more sane than they used to be. Both parties moved to the right, and the Republicans went so far right as to be unrecognizable as the party of Lincoln, or even Eisenhower.
By agreeing that Obama is like Reagan and claiming that Republicans used to be more sane, you seem to imply that Obama is sane too. You also claim that both parties have moved more "right" (i.e., "conservative").
Neither of these things is the case. What's actually occurred is that the President, the Republicans and the Democrats have all become much more authoritarian (and corrupt) than they used to be. They have not moved "right", they've moved up.
NYC the cheapest cable internet is 15/1 and time warner is upgrading the lowest tier to around 30/3 in a few months
same in other bigger suburbs and larger towns. you can get 20mbps internet for $50 a month
So what can I get for a more reasonable price (say, $20/month)? The answer is sub-1Mbps DSL and usually nothing else.
Although there is wording on DVDs to the effect that they are "licensed", this is not true. If you purchase a copy, you own that copy and retain all first-sale rights.
The actual phrasing in 17 USC concerns "public performance".
If, indeed, I can do anything I want with the purchased DVD, as you claimed at the beginning, then this part becomes irrelevant, no?
The fact that the DVDs are sold, not licensed, means that the copyright holder does not have the legal authority to impose extra conditions upon the buyer.
The "public performance" provision, however, is imposed not by the copyright holder but rather by the law itself. That's where the difference lies.
Sure, lots of carriers will give you unlimited voice and text for something like $30-40/month (or more)... but that's with only a little scrap of data. If you want unlimited voice and a reasonable amount of data (say, 2GB of 4G) then you're talking about $60+/month.
...Unless, of course, you realize that you can use VoIP and therefore don't need the unlimited voice. In that case, you can get a T-mobile plan for $30/month that gives you 5GB of 4G data but only 100 voice minutes (that you won't use anyway because you'll use VoIP instead -- note that 5GB of data is something like 4000 VoIP minutes) and laugh all the way to the bank.
And then you might realize that you're usually on Wi-Fi and you don't need that much data either. Since voice is no longer a factor, you might even be able to get away with 500MB for $18/month with Ting or 200MB for $0/month with T-Mobile.
In Atlanta, I pay $1000/month including utilities for a 3-bedroom house (in a neighborhood comparable to Portland or Austin). I come out ahead of all you Bay Area suckers even before counting the fact that I work 40 hours a week instead of 60 like most of you apparently do.
That's because there aren't that many Stanford grads, and the companies are too fucking stupid to open dev offices in places outside Silicon Valley where the rest of the good CS grads are (e.g. CMU/Pittsburgh, GA Tech/Atlanta, etc.)
Valley companies see a "shortage" because the rest of us aren't idiots and therefore realize it's not in our interest to accept 300% higher cost of living for 20% higher pay.
I agree with you (that either you get it or you don't), but it's on a deeper level than "get a character wrong and it doesn't compile." Some people are just fundamentally incapable of understanding the concepts involved. You can tell because they'll be 11 weeks in to their 12 week "intro to programming" class and still can't tell the difference between declaring a function and using it, or you'll ask them what the type of a variable is and they'll tell you its value instead, or things like that.
For a LAN technician job, a network systems administration degree clearly counts as "related" to a CS degree. Therefore, this is a situation where blatantly lying on your resume is ethical (just explain once you get to the interview).
While people often talk about 'free markets' and 'regulations' like they are opposites
Not to mention, "free markets" are completely irrelevant here because ISPs are already regulated, and would be natural monopolies whether they were regulated or not.
Lines of code per day also depends very strongly on what stage of completion the project is at. If you've just started on a new module and are painting with broad strokes you might write hundreds of lines of code in a day. If you're filling in fine details or fixing bugs, you might write one line of code (or negative lines of code!).
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During the end of segregation, whenever the first black person would move into a white neighborhood, all the white people would leave and the formerly-white neighborhood would very quickly turn into a black neighborhood. This was a major contributor to the growth of the suburbs in the 60s and 70s as well as the "decline of the inner cities."
"Middle class" means being in the middle of the income range (how wide the band is -- whether it's the middle 20% or the middle 33% etc. is a matter of opinion). It does not mean choosing some arbitrary historical standard of living and measuring everything against it. Otherwise, you might as well say every non-homeless person in the US is upper class because in 1800 non-upper-class people didn't have indoor plumbing!
Yes he did! He was a carpenter, and carpenters have to know math or else the thing they're building comes out cockeyed.
LOL, you're so naive. Of course "consumers" can continually increase spending on useless shit; that's why average household debt grew from 70% of disposable income in 1980 to 130% of it in 2008!
"libertarian vs. authoritarian" is the spectrum you're looking for.
You missed the fine print: "oppose every Obama initiative...except ones that fuck over the citizenry."
(The Democrat policy has fine print too: "support every Obama initiative... except ones that fail to fuck over the citizenry.")
By agreeing that Obama is like Reagan and claiming that Republicans used to be more sane, you seem to imply that Obama is sane too. You also claim that both parties have moved more "right" (i.e., "conservative").
Neither of these things is the case. What's actually occurred is that the President, the Republicans and the Democrats have all become much more authoritarian (and corrupt) than they used to be. They have not moved "right", they've moved up.
So what can I get for a more reasonable price (say, $20/month)? The answer is sub-1Mbps DSL and usually nothing else.
We did. Over and over again, in fact. They all got killed off / restarted / killed off again due to politics and bureaucratic in-fighting.
Sorry, I was only trying to address the question you asked directly, not the point you were making further upthread.
The fact that the DVDs are sold, not licensed, means that the copyright holder does not have the legal authority to impose extra conditions upon the buyer.
The "public performance" provision, however, is imposed not by the copyright holder but rather by the law itself. That's where the difference lies.
Sure, lots of carriers will give you unlimited voice and text for something like $30-40/month (or more)... but that's with only a little scrap of data. If you want unlimited voice and a reasonable amount of data (say, 2GB of 4G) then you're talking about $60+/month.
...Unless, of course, you realize that you can use VoIP and therefore don't need the unlimited voice. In that case, you can get a T-mobile plan for $30/month that gives you 5GB of 4G data but only 100 voice minutes (that you won't use anyway because you'll use VoIP instead -- note that 5GB of data is something like 4000 VoIP minutes) and laugh all the way to the bank.
And then you might realize that you're usually on Wi-Fi and you don't need that much data either. Since voice is no longer a factor, you might even be able to get away with 500MB for $18/month with Ting or 200MB for $0/month with T-Mobile.
But just to be sure, don't store your angle grinder near it.
In Atlanta, I pay $1000/month including utilities for a 3-bedroom house (in a neighborhood comparable to Portland or Austin). I come out ahead of all you Bay Area suckers even before counting the fact that I work 40 hours a week instead of 60 like most of you apparently do.
Nobody (except paid shills) gives a fuck what the "financial world" thinks about it.
No. They want to recoup that revenue. We are under absolutely no obligation to let them.
You could tell them your house is a duplex (even if it isn't).
Clearly, you need to set up Windows Server Update Services. (Good luck trying to get Comcast to reimburse you for it, though!)
The result of storing too much water in the cloud is called "rain."
That's because there aren't that many Stanford grads, and the companies are too fucking stupid to open dev offices in places outside Silicon Valley where the rest of the good CS grads are (e.g. CMU/Pittsburgh, GA Tech/Atlanta, etc.)
Valley companies see a "shortage" because the rest of us aren't idiots and therefore realize it's not in our interest to accept 300% higher cost of living for 20% higher pay.
I agree with you (that either you get it or you don't), but it's on a deeper level than "get a character wrong and it doesn't compile." Some people are just fundamentally incapable of understanding the concepts involved. You can tell because they'll be 11 weeks in to their 12 week "intro to programming" class and still can't tell the difference between declaring a function and using it, or you'll ask them what the type of a variable is and they'll tell you its value instead, or things like that.
For a LAN technician job, a network systems administration degree clearly counts as "related" to a CS degree. Therefore, this is a situation where blatantly lying on your resume is ethical (just explain once you get to the interview).
Not to mention, "free markets" are completely irrelevant here because ISPs are already regulated, and would be natural monopolies whether they were regulated or not.
22/7 is only accurate to 3 digits.
Lines of code per day also depends very strongly on what stage of completion the project is at. If you've just started on a new module and are painting with broad strokes you might write hundreds of lines of code in a day. If you're filling in fine details or fixing bugs, you might write one line of code (or negative lines of code!).
Pax Americana? What are you talking about? The US hasn't closed the gates since 1950!