My point was quite simple: anecdotal evidence is useless. I feel terrible for you that I have to spell that out, but I guess you are too dim or stoned or something.
By way of facts, which line in the Forbes article says billionaires didn't start out rich? Unless we are reading different articles, this says that most of the recent billionaires were made by virtue of "bullish world stock markets, a weak dollar and surging commodity and real estate prices." The last factor, entrepreneurialism, is given one example. That ain't saying a whole lot.
Among the many people I know who are arguably upper-middle-class (I'm not one of them), none of them were "born wealthy."
I wish I had time to pick your goofy argument apart piece by piece, but since I work for a living, I'll just take this one point and make a point of my own using your screwed up, baseless logic: Among the many birds I have seen out my kitchen window, none of them were being eaten by cats. Therefore, predation does not exist.
We bitch about and make light of all the delays going digital, and then we bitch when the government propose to help disadvantaged groups to maintain access to broadcast television, for whatever it's worth.
We? What makes you think it's the same people bitching about both?
If you go back and *read* the thread (there's a novel idea), you'll note I never said Jobs isn't a brilliant, hardworking man. But to suggest that luck is just a minor, insignificant part of his success is just the kind of ludicrous thinking that makes Westerners feel that they are somehow entitled to the lion's share of the world's resources. Bill O'Reilly would be proud.
Dude, you're on the Internet. It's not that hard to get your Simpson quotes correct:
Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
Please. Are you honestly saying that his case was comparable to the one I gave? That's ridiculous. He didn't have every advantage, but the mere fact of being born white in the U.S. is a *huge* plus.
In my world, we assume people not to be programmers until proven otherwise. You made the assertion -- you back it up. For my own part, I've never seen anything in any of the biographical info I've read about Jobs indicating that he had any significant technical capacities, whether programming or hardware design or whatever. He does have significant knowledge of industrial design, but I've never once heard of any meaningful code written by Steven Jobs.
And I'm sure successful people choose to be born into stable, wealthy societies rather than in some God-forsaken African nation wracked by famine and war, yes? No luck involved there, huh?
Just curious: how would this affect companies who contract out to have legitimate bulk mail send for them? Stuff like newsletters that people actually requested?
Not sure I agree. The basic principles of programming are the same regardless of the language, and there are plenty of books that address programming from a generic standpoint.
For my own purposes, I frequently learn things that can be applied to one language reading about another.
Yeah, and where's my instant matter teleport? Where's my flying cars? Man, what have developers of technology been doing the last thirty years except sit on their asses?
Point of fact, I'm not sure there's any such thing as a "well-funded" indie label. That's really the problem. The ones that are well-funded are typically faux-indie -- that is to say, labels that *look* like indies but are actually backed by the biggies, and get all the paranoid trash along with the cash.
Everything Mitt has done since he was elected has been a painfully transparent stab at looking good on the national stage. Unfortunately, if you live in Mass, you will have noticed that he's done precious little governing. He can stand up in front of a crowd and say what he'd like to do, but I for one would be happy if would just *do* something. He's left the leadership of the state up to the Congress while he's jetting off to international trade conferences. It's pathetic.
On the bright side, we didn't even have to wait that long to find out his opinion of Massachusetts -- one of the first things he did after getting in office was to make the state the butt of a series of jokes at some big Washington, D.C. dinner. I can't wait until he's making fun of the U.S. while lobbying for King of the Earth.
He damn well better get elected president -- nobody in Massachusetts is going to want him as governor for another term.
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Apple is a hardware company that happens to make software. Seeding competition for their own hardware would be like Ford dispensing with their car business in favor of car stereos.
I didn't object to this, actually. I merely defended the person who did. Fact is, glaring omissions rarely get past the group, and that's the important thing -- I'm not an editor, I don't read every article, and I'm not responsible for anything that goes on here except my own comments.
Frankly, the fact that you would go back and check my comments to see if I raised objections to left leaning articles is a bit bizarre. Besides the kinds of assumptions you have to make to get that to stand up, you clearly have too much time on your hands.
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My point was quite simple: anecdotal evidence is useless. I feel terrible for you that I have to spell that out, but I guess you are too dim or stoned or something.
By way of facts, which line in the Forbes article says billionaires didn't start out rich? Unless we are reading different articles, this says that most of the recent billionaires were made by virtue of "bullish world stock markets, a weak dollar and surging commodity and real estate prices." The last factor, entrepreneurialism, is given one example. That ain't saying a whole lot.
You need to go back and read my post. Apparently you missed all the, you know... words.
Since when does tax policy have anything to do with whether people are good or bad?
Among the many people I know who are arguably upper-middle-class (I'm not one of them), none of them were "born wealthy."
I wish I had time to pick your goofy argument apart piece by piece, but since I work for a living, I'll just take this one point and make a point of my own using your screwed up, baseless logic: Among the many birds I have seen out my kitchen window, none of them were being eaten by cats. Therefore, predation does not exist.
We bitch about and make light of all the delays going digital, and then we bitch when the government propose to help disadvantaged groups to maintain access to broadcast television, for whatever it's worth.
We? What makes you think it's the same people bitching about both?
If you go back and *read* the thread (there's a novel idea), you'll note I never said Jobs isn't a brilliant, hardworking man. But to suggest that luck is just a minor, insignificant part of his success is just the kind of ludicrous thinking that makes Westerners feel that they are somehow entitled to the lion's share of the world's resources. Bill O'Reilly would be proud.
Dude, you're on the Internet. It's not that hard to get your Simpson quotes correct:
Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
Please. Are you honestly saying that his case was comparable to the one I gave? That's ridiculous. He didn't have every advantage, but the mere fact of being born white in the U.S. is a *huge* plus.
In my world, we assume people not to be programmers until proven otherwise. You made the assertion -- you back it up. For my own part, I've never seen anything in any of the biographical info I've read about Jobs indicating that he had any significant technical capacities, whether programming or hardware design or whatever. He does have significant knowledge of industrial design, but I've never once heard of any meaningful code written by Steven Jobs.
And I'm sure successful people choose to be born into stable, wealthy societies rather than in some God-forsaken African nation wracked by famine and war, yes? No luck involved there, huh?
Only if you steal the pipes without paying for them.
Sorry, but I have to know -- is there any way I could steal the pipes while paying for them?
Extraterritorial non-Republicans will be dealt with using missiles.
Does this mean I can get busted for putting big chrome exhaust pipes on my Honda Civic?
Just curious: how would this affect companies who contract out to have legitimate bulk mail send for them? Stuff like newsletters that people actually requested?
So get on with it. If you know so much about it, let's have some solutions. The market awaits.
Not sure I agree. The basic principles of programming are the same regardless of the language, and there are plenty of books that address programming from a generic standpoint. For my own purposes, I frequently learn things that can be applied to one language reading about another.
Yeah, and where's my instant matter teleport? Where's my flying cars? Man, what have developers of technology been doing the last thirty years except sit on their asses?
Point of fact, I'm not sure there's any such thing as a "well-funded" indie label. That's really the problem. The ones that are well-funded are typically faux-indie -- that is to say, labels that *look* like indies but are actually backed by the biggies, and get all the paranoid trash along with the cash.
You can always rent a girlfriend.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought those particular boogymen got vaporized. Are there other ones you know about that we don't?
Everything Mitt has done since he was elected has been a painfully transparent stab at looking good on the national stage. Unfortunately, if you live in Mass, you will have noticed that he's done precious little governing. He can stand up in front of a crowd and say what he'd like to do, but I for one would be happy if would just *do* something. He's left the leadership of the state up to the Congress while he's jetting off to international trade conferences. It's pathetic.
On the bright side, we didn't even have to wait that long to find out his opinion of Massachusetts -- one of the first things he did after getting in office was to make the state the butt of a series of jokes at some big Washington, D.C. dinner. I can't wait until he's making fun of the U.S. while lobbying for King of the Earth.
He damn well better get elected president -- nobody in Massachusetts is going to want him as governor for another term.
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Apple is a hardware company that happens to make software. Seeding competition for their own hardware would be like Ford dispensing with their car business in favor of car stereos.
Yeah, let's demolish the entire system of law while we're at it -- I'm sure the market will provide something better.
I didn't object to this, actually. I merely defended the person who did. Fact is, glaring omissions rarely get past the group, and that's the important thing -- I'm not an editor, I don't read every article, and I'm not responsible for anything that goes on here except my own comments.
Frankly, the fact that you would go back and check my comments to see if I raised objections to left leaning articles is a bit bizarre. Besides the kinds of assumptions you have to make to get that to stand up, you clearly have too much time on your hands.