You're not talking about taxes so much as the draft... one major improvement (IMO) in the last 50 years has been the abolishment of compulsory military service in the US. Maybe that won't last, but I do think it's worth a few extra tax dollars to not have to give up an arbitrary number of children to "the front lines," and we should try to keep it that way.
Maybe we can just "recruit" them with Call of Duty EULA clauses now?
I'm absolutely shocked that anyone would make the claim that "10% of all software is written in Silicon Valley" - what utter tripe! Silicon Valley may be tech heavy, but it contains less than 0.001% of the world's population that is technically capable of writing software.
Two million new Android developers in India next year, are there 200,000 Android developers in the valley?
Back in the 1990s, we didn't have these things. AT&T raised my long distance rates by a factor of 300% from one bill to the next, I called them and told them that I never signed a term or condition that allowed such unilateral negotiations, I dispute and refuse to pay the bill until you correct it.
Some years later, they sent me an updated terms and conditions that included a "may revise, at our sole discretion, from time to time with notice to be given to you on our website, your payment of your bill constitutes acceptance of the revised terms." So, of course, I never paid another AT&T bill again.
Putting it off as "those things were started by Bush" is naive, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 1995 sounds like the Clinton years to me, and for the aircraft to have been put into service in 1995, it had to have serious development underway back under Reagan.
I'm no Repblican, I hate 'em all and think the system is fundamentally broken - or at least could be significantly improved with a lottery style selection of decision makers, and that in itself is a sad statement of our state of affairs.
Like registering for selective service, all young men and women aged 25 should register for public leadership. There would be a screening for above average ability to do the job, leaving a pool of perhaps 35 million people eligible for leadership service, out of which our representatives are selected at random. Couldn't be worse that the current system of selective corruption.
He didn't even come close to closing Guantanamo...
I'm talking about drone strikes, individual tracking via data mining, all the new stuff that was started post-911 - he did bring the ground troops home, but seems to have replaced them with all the new gadgets of force projection - I'd call that expanding powers, rather than abusing the traditional ones.
I worked for a company that did this - stock took a 50% bounce up.
The market doesn't appreciate employees - employees are an expense, the market cares about results and seems to think that an empty building is more likely to get profitable results than one filled with people working toward a purpose.
If empty buildings is what the market cares about, then the "market" gets what it deserves in the end.
One would think we learned a financial lesson from the dot-bomb era of vaporware-infused business ideas.
I'd like to think that the market gets what it deserves, but since banks quit paying interest, the only way to keep your cash savings "current" with inflation is to invest them in the market, and the market is driven by a bunch of dumb statistics like P/E ratio, etc. Having every single person in the world investigate their investment options is neither efficient, nor a good use of resources (time), and yet, the persons who stand up and say they'll do that for you (fund managers) just look at dumb statistics like P/E ratio and mostly roll the dice, because predicting the future is hard and rolling the dice is nearly as likely to produce pleasing results for the investors - and it leaves so much more time to enjoy the commissions.
Long term, it continued as before, but more slowly... long exponential decays down to about 10% of that bounce value, twice in the last 15 years a dramatic uptick (to ~20M market cap), but then the long exponential decay again.
Election year, time to: a) Get tough on crime, b) Get sponsorship from parties that benefit from "tough on crime legislation", or c) Court the fringe vote that cares about civil liberties.
Some politicians will go for c, but a+b will probably carry the final vote.
I worked for a company that did this - stock took a 50% bounce up.
The market doesn't appreciate employees - employees are an expense, the market cares about results and seems to think that an empty building is more likely to get profitable results than one filled with people working toward a purpose.
I don't think anybody's too worried about the 1% getting better bandwidth... would be interesting if there were a commercial avenue to tap into unused _military_ spectrum for better coverage.
Plug for Google fi: $0.01/MB flat data rate, no minimums, no caps - use no data, pay nothing for data, otherwise pay for what you use. If you're really sucking more than 10GB per month, every month, through your phone, I suppose unlimited data at $100/month makes sense, otherwise... why?
I really don't want to hear about 5G in marketing, I will actively ridicule any company that "markets" an up-coming 5G network when they can't even deliver reliable 3G data service to so many (populated) areas of the continental U.S.
I suppose a better statement would be: the middle 1/3 of society is not experiencing an increase of disposable income nearly on-par with that of the upper 1/3 of society.
Those graphs that show costs of food, clothing and shelter decreasing over time neglect the realities: to buy the same food you would buy from an ordinary grocery store in 1960, today you have to buy organic, housing costs per 1000sf have indeed declined, while sf of housing occupied per person has skyrocketed... sure, if you want to live like it's 1927 with 4 people in a 1 bathroom 800sf bungalow, you can do that pretty cheap today - though nobody does, and if all you want is clothing - absolutely you can shop at Wal-Mart and buy Hanes brand socks that last 25% as long as the same Hanes brand socks used to 20 years ago, for the same sticker price, but not adjusted for inflation. Buying equal quality clothing over decades is a very slippery thing to try to trend.
Things are changing, quality of home construction is simultaneously increasing and decreasing depending on how you measure it: better insulation, better initial resistance to natural catastrophe, insect damage, etc. but: also exceedingly fragile. Some homes in northern climates will completely self-destruct after just a few days without heat in the basement. Once the outer envelope is breached, water damage is much more devastating to modern construction than older styles. Kids can stick toys through the walls today much easier than they used to...
I will point out that analyses of workers in specific fields absolutely neglect the unemployed. That pattern of needing to be a local business owner (or otherwise financially not-dependent on your neighbors to grant you a decent income for your labors) repeats through all small towns I have known from Florida, through Alabama to Texas. The free market directly implements the golden rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules.
What's your definition of the "former middle class"?
If you mean to say, of those persons previously in the 2nd quartile of income (top 20-40%), 2/3 are moving up and 1/3 are moving down, in terms of relative wealth, then I'd say the historical numbers are on your side. If you are implying that 2/3 of the middle 1/3 of society is experiencing an increase in disposable income, sadly that is not the case.
The upper 33% are pulling away from the pack, and it's an exponential gain from there, the higher you go, the faster they are pulling away.
So, in the greater New York City area, rough population 10M plus roughly 50M tourists per year, a Broadway theater might sell something like 0.5 to 1 million seats per year, making those seats available to roughly 1% of residents+tourists per year. And yes, indeed, the 1% have gotten quite a bit richer over the past decades - even the top 10% have.
I think you are confusing 2/3 of your friends and acquaintances with 2/3 of the actual middle class.
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If it notifies a powered device, the powered device can sound the alarm.
A lot of time, the benefit of wirefree power isn't power savings, it's the saving of installation cost of wires, or replacement labor on batteries.
What?! Are you telling me I can't scavenge enough power from background RF noise to broadcast a signal stronger than the background RF noise?!
Actually, in theory, yes, you could - collect stray RF energy 99.99999% of the time, and transmit in very brief bursts.
You're not talking about taxes so much as the draft... one major improvement (IMO) in the last 50 years has been the abolishment of compulsory military service in the US. Maybe that won't last, but I do think it's worth a few extra tax dollars to not have to give up an arbitrary number of children to "the front lines," and we should try to keep it that way.
Maybe we can just "recruit" them with Call of Duty EULA clauses now?
The dispute was $30, so, of course, court was out of the question.
It is remarkable how hard collection agencies will work for $30... especially when they never collect it.
But at least with Trump you can at least realistically HOPE for some real CHANGE.
Where have we heard that before.... Oh yes, 2008.
Too bad the US voters are so predictable, I'd really like to see both of our party nominees lose this time.
I'm absolutely shocked that anyone would make the claim that "10% of all software is written in Silicon Valley" - what utter tripe! Silicon Valley may be tech heavy, but it contains less than 0.001% of the world's population that is technically capable of writing software.
Two million new Android developers in India next year, are there 200,000 Android developers in the valley?
Two million is pretty generous, you'd have to go through this surrender and return process several times to offset the TCO.
Back in the 1990s, we didn't have these things. AT&T raised my long distance rates by a factor of 300% from one bill to the next, I called them and told them that I never signed a term or condition that allowed such unilateral negotiations, I dispute and refuse to pay the bill until you correct it.
Some years later, they sent me an updated terms and conditions that included a "may revise, at our sole discretion, from time to time with notice to be given to you on our website, your payment of your bill constitutes acceptance of the revised terms." So, of course, I never paid another AT&T bill again.
Sorry guys, I guess I started it.
So, ignorance of the law is no excuse, but ignorance of the EULA clause is?
Putting it off as "those things were started by Bush" is naive, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 1995 sounds like the Clinton years to me, and for the aircraft to have been put into service in 1995, it had to have serious development underway back under Reagan.
I'm no Repblican, I hate 'em all and think the system is fundamentally broken - or at least could be significantly improved with a lottery style selection of decision makers, and that in itself is a sad statement of our state of affairs.
Like registering for selective service, all young men and women aged 25 should register for public leadership. There would be a screening for above average ability to do the job, leaving a pool of perhaps 35 million people eligible for leadership service, out of which our representatives are selected at random. Couldn't be worse that the current system of selective corruption.
He didn't even come close to closing Guantanamo...
I'm talking about drone strikes, individual tracking via data mining, all the new stuff that was started post-911 - he did bring the ground troops home, but seems to have replaced them with all the new gadgets of force projection - I'd call that expanding powers, rather than abusing the traditional ones.
I worked for a company that did this - stock took a 50% bounce up.
The market doesn't appreciate employees - employees are an expense, the market cares about results and seems to think that an empty building is more likely to get profitable results than one filled with people working toward a purpose.
If empty buildings is what the market cares about, then the "market" gets what it deserves in the end.
One would think we learned a financial lesson from the dot-bomb era of vaporware-infused business ideas.
I'd like to think that the market gets what it deserves, but since banks quit paying interest, the only way to keep your cash savings "current" with inflation is to invest them in the market, and the market is driven by a bunch of dumb statistics like P/E ratio, etc. Having every single person in the world investigate their investment options is neither efficient, nor a good use of resources (time), and yet, the persons who stand up and say they'll do that for you (fund managers) just look at dumb statistics like P/E ratio and mostly roll the dice, because predicting the future is hard and rolling the dice is nearly as likely to produce pleasing results for the investors - and it leaves so much more time to enjoy the commissions.
Long term, it continued as before, but more slowly... long exponential decays down to about 10% of that bounce value, twice in the last 15 years a dramatic uptick (to ~20M market cap), but then the long exponential decay again.
Didn't Obama count as a liberal? Didn't he stretch the presidential powers to the best of his ability?
Election year, time to: a) Get tough on crime, b) Get sponsorship from parties that benefit from "tough on crime legislation", or c) Court the fringe vote that cares about civil liberties.
Some politicians will go for c, but a+b will probably carry the final vote.
Shockingly accurate, I like it.
I worked for a company that did this - stock took a 50% bounce up.
The market doesn't appreciate employees - employees are an expense, the market cares about results and seems to think that an empty building is more likely to get profitable results than one filled with people working toward a purpose.
I don't think anybody's too worried about the 1% getting better bandwidth... would be interesting if there were a commercial avenue to tap into unused _military_ spectrum for better coverage.
Plug for Google fi: $0.01/MB flat data rate, no minimums, no caps - use no data, pay nothing for data, otherwise pay for what you use. If you're really sucking more than 10GB per month, every month, through your phone, I suppose unlimited data at $100/month makes sense, otherwise... why?
I really don't want to hear about 5G in marketing, I will actively ridicule any company that "markets" an up-coming 5G network when they can't even deliver reliable 3G data service to so many (populated) areas of the continental U.S.
I suppose a better statement would be: the middle 1/3 of society is not experiencing an increase of disposable income nearly on-par with that of the upper 1/3 of society.
Those graphs that show costs of food, clothing and shelter decreasing over time neglect the realities: to buy the same food you would buy from an ordinary grocery store in 1960, today you have to buy organic, housing costs per 1000sf have indeed declined, while sf of housing occupied per person has skyrocketed... sure, if you want to live like it's 1927 with 4 people in a 1 bathroom 800sf bungalow, you can do that pretty cheap today - though nobody does, and if all you want is clothing - absolutely you can shop at Wal-Mart and buy Hanes brand socks that last 25% as long as the same Hanes brand socks used to 20 years ago, for the same sticker price, but not adjusted for inflation. Buying equal quality clothing over decades is a very slippery thing to try to trend.
Things are changing, quality of home construction is simultaneously increasing and decreasing depending on how you measure it: better insulation, better initial resistance to natural catastrophe, insect damage, etc. but: also exceedingly fragile. Some homes in northern climates will completely self-destruct after just a few days without heat in the basement. Once the outer envelope is breached, water damage is much more devastating to modern construction than older styles. Kids can stick toys through the walls today much easier than they used to...
Everybody has graphs backing up their views:
http://www.advisorperspectives...
I will point out that analyses of workers in specific fields absolutely neglect the unemployed. That pattern of needing to be a local business owner (or otherwise financially not-dependent on your neighbors to grant you a decent income for your labors) repeats through all small towns I have known from Florida, through Alabama to Texas. The free market directly implements the golden rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules.
What's your definition of the "former middle class"?
If you mean to say, of those persons previously in the 2nd quartile of income (top 20-40%), 2/3 are moving up and 1/3 are moving down, in terms of relative wealth, then I'd say the historical numbers are on your side. If you are implying that 2/3 of the middle 1/3 of society is experiencing an increase in disposable income, sadly that is not the case.
The upper 33% are pulling away from the pack, and it's an exponential gain from there, the higher you go, the faster they are pulling away.
So, in the greater New York City area, rough population 10M plus roughly 50M tourists per year, a Broadway theater might sell something like 0.5 to 1 million seats per year, making those seats available to roughly 1% of residents+tourists per year. And yes, indeed, the 1% have gotten quite a bit richer over the past decades - even the top 10% have.
I think you are confusing 2/3 of your friends and acquaintances with 2/3 of the actual middle class.
And in the 1960s the water supplies were going to be laced with LSD...
Been done, stories in 2004 about an event in 1982:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.zdnet.com/article/u...
and then, years later, we have the results of counter-information campaigns:
http://jeffreycarr.blogspot.co...
hard to know what's truth and what's fiction, and how much has been done but not leaked.
Mossad aren't the only murderous spooks on the planet. Arguably, they're some of the more clumsy ones - getting publicly tied to their actions.