You keep saying that the system will collapse because the bottom feeders don't get benes, it's not true.
There are kids just learning work skills, who aren't worth a living wage. If you demand they be paid that, they will never be hired at all.
Any society can afford a % of losers. They are needed to motivate the others to strive. People too dim to get decent work skills aren't going to pull off a revolution.
People aren't equipment. They have employers not owners.
There is someone in charge of maintaining every person, it isn't there employer.
If I'm in charge of maintaining something, then I'm in charge of it. Employees don't want that. Freedom is preferred. Even if that's the freedom to be dumb as a rock.
Many of the complains about 'gentrification' are from trust fund kids who grew up there but who's trust fund no longer covers the cost of living in SF.
To live in SF you need to be fairly rich or dirt poor 'living on the streets'. Their shit jobs have been filled by BART riders for decades. Working people could live in South SF, Oakland or as far as Benecia.
For the east coast people: SF proper is Manhattan, Oakland is the Bronx, South SF is Queens, Marin county is the Hamptons.
I've got an example of one. Tech writer waltzes into a project meeting, first week on the team. Announces that 'things will be better now that you have a creative person on the team'.
What? He wrote bad instruction manuals for a product created by the rest of the people in the room (he was always too confused to understand). But he was the creative one because of how much acid he'd eaten. Truth be known, he had eaten less than some already there, just more recently (like that morning).
Really nice places (or at least places where a lot of people want to live) pay less than equal cost of living shit holes (not saying Maine is).
Because the place is a benefit and the employer knows it. It's why vacation destinations pay like shit.
So for SF, coders get paid really well, because as a group they could give a shit about the location. But hipsters? They are luck to be paid at all in SF.
Socialist libertarian doesn't really work. Socialist implies the government takes such a cut of the GDP that libertarian is practically impossible. Money corrupts and the rest is already written.
That study basically compares suicide rate vs. automobile accident rate. It's nonsense.
A better comparison. Accidental deaths: Cars. 35,000 Guns: 500
The are nations with no guns but much higher suicide rate. e.g. Japan, anywhere north of the Arctic circle.
Of course if you are so generally incompetent you think not having a gun around will prevent you from killing yourself let me suggest a few more things not to keep around. BBQ grills, welding gas, samurai swords, large quantities of salt, cars, butter knives, PMSing women etc etc. All can be used for suicide.
Cite your statistics. Because your wrong. In the USA the dangerous places have strict gun laws and lots of gun crime. The safe places have loose gun laws.
Genuine Porsche 928 intake values. $133/each. Of course normal people won't use OEM parts ($20 each as you say). Collectors on the other hand? Idiots that have a stealership do the work?
Wasn't my 928. I will never own a water cooled VW product. The engine is a stressed member in a 928 (think about how much fun that makes maintenance) and the car is still a heavy pig despite the weight savings.
I once considered a 911, but was talked out of it via a quick look at parts prices. My kid brother was not so wise, but learned the hard way.
Italian and English sports cars make Porsches look good, but by any other standard they are unreliable, overpriced, rich boys toys.
Lots of fun to outrun though. If only because it pisses off the owners so much.
And for fucks sake, don't swim (or boat) in any open bodies of water. One droplet on your lips and it's time for dysentery.
In the third world, it's often a good idea to wear a surgical mask and eye protection anywhere near open water. It's not perfect protection, but it's better than nothing.
The Shanghai stock market is in the middle of a huge bubble. Powerful people in China are invested in that market. If normal people are allowed to know the average PE ratio on that market is still 50 (after a 50% drop) they will pull their money out, which will hurt the members of the central committee and their children.
I don't know how they think these powerful people will get their money out, but the powers that be are determined to not lose their money. So no 'bad mouthing' the Shanghai exchange.
This says nothing of the state of China's real estate market or banking sector.
To me it seams like the Chinese were babes in the Capitalist woods and have truly screwed the pooch. They will lose 20 years progress when the bubble finally goes pop and will likely try to blame 'the west'.
There is a basic difference between rich people trying to get power and powerful people making themselves and their children rich.
Who do you suggest we elect? The worlds losers? If they can't manage their lives, their is no reason to let them try to manage anything else.
Money just naturally leads to power, but those who get power by other means, in order to later make themselves rich are the most useless scum on earth.
You are trying to change the subject in the middle.
Nobody can be expected to find all the bugs in a library they didn't have anything to do with writing. I won't defend a position you try to put on me and called you on the goalpost move.
Start a new thread if you want to start a new discussion.
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You should really visit the Bay area once. Otherwise you will keep writing stupid shit like this.
You keep saying that the system will collapse because the bottom feeders don't get benes, it's not true.
There are kids just learning work skills, who aren't worth a living wage. If you demand they be paid that, they will never be hired at all.
Any society can afford a % of losers. They are needed to motivate the others to strive. People too dim to get decent work skills aren't going to pull off a revolution.
People aren't equipment. They have employers not owners.
There is someone in charge of maintaining every person, it isn't there employer.
If I'm in charge of maintaining something, then I'm in charge of it. Employees don't want that. Freedom is preferred. Even if that's the freedom to be dumb as a rock.
You weren't alive in the 70s were you?
Do you want to know how I can tell?
SF is already there. 20+ years gone.
Many of the complains about 'gentrification' are from trust fund kids who grew up there but who's trust fund no longer covers the cost of living in SF.
To live in SF you need to be fairly rich or dirt poor 'living on the streets'. Their shit jobs have been filled by BART riders for decades. Working people could live in South SF, Oakland or as far as Benecia.
For the east coast people: SF proper is Manhattan, Oakland is the Bronx, South SF is Queens, Marin county is the Hamptons.
It's the 'creative' types.
I've got an example of one. Tech writer waltzes into a project meeting, first week on the team. Announces that 'things will be better now that you have a creative person on the team'.
What? He wrote bad instruction manuals for a product created by the rest of the people in the room (he was always too confused to understand). But he was the creative one because of how much acid he'd eaten. Truth be known, he had eaten less than some already there, just more recently (like that morning).
You should not start a family until you have skills. We don't want people to spend their lives flipping burgers. If they do, they fucked up.
Really nice places (or at least places where a lot of people want to live) pay less than equal cost of living shit holes (not saying Maine is).
Because the place is a benefit and the employer knows it. It's why vacation destinations pay like shit.
So for SF, coders get paid really well, because as a group they could give a shit about the location. But hipsters? They are luck to be paid at all in SF.
Socialist libertarian doesn't really work. Socialist implies the government takes such a cut of the GDP that libertarian is practically impossible. Money corrupts and the rest is already written.
English majors don't take algebra. Seriously, they take remedial math and are lucky to be able to do arithmetic when they graduate.
But they (the non algebra taking people) are the 'well rounded' ones. Just ask them.
There are many programming languages, perhaps C and assembler just aren't for you. Stick with LOGO.
I can download hookers and booze now?
You don't think Locke2005 meant 'in game'?
We'd treat you as less of lying sack of shit if you argued overall homicides.
Because the kill each other with something else and liars only look at the gun crime statistics. Because they are less dead if pushed out of windows.
When considering the risk of owning a gun, accidental rates 35,000 vs 500 is primary.
That study basically compares suicide rate vs. automobile accident rate. It's nonsense.
A better comparison. Accidental deaths: Cars. 35,000 Guns: 500
The are nations with no guns but much higher suicide rate. e.g. Japan, anywhere north of the Arctic circle.
Of course if you are so generally incompetent you think not having a gun around will prevent you from killing yourself let me suggest a few more things not to keep around. BBQ grills, welding gas, samurai swords, large quantities of salt, cars, butter knives, PMSing women etc etc. All can be used for suicide.
'Arms' is a word and has a meaning. It had an even more explicit meaning in 1776.
'Arms' are the range of weapons that would be carried by an infantryman.
So nothing more deadly than a chemical weapons grenade. e.g. CS gas. Which is actually a bitch to find on the market.
It's been redefined by the gun grabbers to mean 'no full auto'. Fuckers.
Cite your statistics. Because your wrong. In the USA the dangerous places have strict gun laws and lots of gun crime. The safe places have loose gun laws.
Genuine Porsche 928 intake values. $133/each. Of course normal people won't use OEM parts ($20 each as you say). Collectors on the other hand? Idiots that have a stealership do the work?
Wasn't my 928. I will never own a water cooled VW product. The engine is a stressed member in a 928 (think about how much fun that makes maintenance) and the car is still a heavy pig despite the weight savings.
I once considered a 911, but was talked out of it via a quick look at parts prices. My kid brother was not so wise, but learned the hard way.
Italian and English sports cars make Porsches look good, but by any other standard they are unreliable, overpriced, rich boys toys.
Lots of fun to outrun though. If only because it pisses off the owners so much.
And for fucks sake, don't swim (or boat) in any open bodies of water. One droplet on your lips and it's time for dysentery.
In the third world, it's often a good idea to wear a surgical mask and eye protection anywhere near open water. It's not perfect protection, but it's better than nothing.
They built the ghost cities to make their growth numbers. That's the only reason.
They might now be telling stories to justify it. But they are just stories. Many of the ghost cities are in locations that make no sense at all.
The Shanghai stock market is in the middle of a huge bubble. Powerful people in China are invested in that market. If normal people are allowed to know the average PE ratio on that market is still 50 (after a 50% drop) they will pull their money out, which will hurt the members of the central committee and their children.
I don't know how they think these powerful people will get their money out, but the powers that be are determined to not lose their money. So no 'bad mouthing' the Shanghai exchange.
This says nothing of the state of China's real estate market or banking sector.
To me it seams like the Chinese were babes in the Capitalist woods and have truly screwed the pooch. They will lose 20 years progress when the bubble finally goes pop and will likely try to blame 'the west'.
There is a basic difference between rich people trying to get power and powerful people making themselves and their children rich.
Who do you suggest we elect? The worlds losers? If they can't manage their lives, their is no reason to let them try to manage anything else.
Money just naturally leads to power, but those who get power by other means, in order to later make themselves rich are the most useless scum on earth.
When they took away all the revs, the need went away.
You are trying to change the subject in the middle.
Nobody can be expected to find all the bugs in a library they didn't have anything to do with writing. I won't defend a position you try to put on me and called you on the goalpost move.
Start a new thread if you want to start a new discussion.
I think they dropped that 2 years ago when they ruined the engines.