Simple math problem for you: if a company has $10 B in earnings, how much is a CEO worth if he improves that by 1%?
Not answering your question here but posing another question for you: How much is a CEO worth if the rest of the corporation does not earn the $10 B for that CEO to "improve" upon?
Another way of doing this: How much is your brain worth if it improves the ability to find food by 1%?
Should we give all non-life-sustaining energy to the brain? Does muscle mass mean nothing? Does exercise for the heart mean nothing? Only the brain has meaning?
(I put "improve" in quotes because some of the things that CEOs do to increase that 1% harm the company in the long term.)
I agree with your point. Here is where we diverge:
'These scams are extensive, they all target Windows users, Making the home use of Windows illegal is the only way to get Microsoft to sit the fuck up and listen and do something about it'
You used that as an example of a bad idea, but I kind of like it.;)
OR it could just be that that's been a steady stream of propaganda from a certain political party and Corporate America for 100 years. A Big Lie repeated over and over again until it "becomes" the unassailable Truth.
I am sure Jimmy Hoffa is on board with your assertions. You should ask him. Let us know what he says...
Today, as an average, children are healthier, more likely to have food they need, will be exposed to less crime, have more protections, they're living in an age of more social acceptance, less likely to die in combat (sure, there are always wars, but this is an era of relative peace- over the last several decades globally wars are declining).
That is great. Wonderful even; however, kids today have no path to making a living for themselves.
In the past, I would teach my son how to hunt and gather food. Today, all I can do is send him off to school and hope that he will find a job afterwards. The thinking is, "Nobody owes you a job", which is ultimately true, but then you straitjacketed my son and do not allow him to hunt and gather. How then is he supposed eat?
No. The ENTIRE reason modern society is such a terrible place to bring children into is because all of the resources are owned. Naturally, owned by someone else. The only way for my son to live is to either accept that his life depends on the whims of someone who owns the resources (slavery with or without chains) or take those resources from the putative owners. The entire situation is a LOT more complex than this simplistic narrative but then we get into "regulations and corruption" when trying to take those resources legally.
So yeah, you are 100% correct that many of the less important, but still extremely important, things are MUCH better nowadays. What you are missing is that the single most important thing, the ability to survive on their own, has been taken.
Tell me again how it is a good idea to bring children into this world.
Does this mean I will no longer get noticed when someone messages me?
If the notifications take more than 1% of a modern processor, then yes, you will not receive timely notifications. It should be noted at this time that fully memory-protected, graphical interface, mostly modernish operating systems used to run with less CPU than even.1% of a modern CPU (Amiga, m68k). I would commit suicide in despair if a notification takes more CPU power than a full operating system. (Why yes, I am preparing the nitrogen bag and morphine now.)
And what we're seeing in Turkey isn't looking too hot either, and the Europeans have long been trying to make Turkey out to be a European nation.
Ataturk must be rolling his grave right now. WTF is up with religion and power? Anyone can see that Turkey is pretty much going to become a Caliphate... exactly the opposite of what Mr. Ataturk fought for. I could cry.
Hi Jon. Repeat after me please: There should be no middlemen (multiple in this case) reaping obscene profits from people seeking medical care. There should be you. There should be a doctor. There should be procedures. The admin costs are higher than the fucking treatment costs for most procedures. Insanity! Those admin costs are driven by insurance companies. Those insurance companies have all been angling for this obscene indulgence in greed since it was recognized that there was a "baby boom" immediately after World War 2.
This entire situation was engineered to capture all the money that retiring/dying baby boomers generated. The vacuum generated by this wealth transfer is so extreme that is threatens to destabilize the entire planet.
The ACA was a tax based on the belief that everybody has a right to life. Thanks to your higher premiums, I was able to get free coverage after so many years without insurance.
I am glad someone got a use out of it. The rest of us got fucked HARD. Enjoy your extended life. It was VERY expensive for the rest of us.
Oh well, as long as the people who control the money that goes to the insurance companies got an extra yacht this year, it is all worth while. For every dollar spent by the insurance companies to save your life, 5 dollars went to the people who own the insurance companies.
Please do not misunderstand me though: I would gladly help you live. I am just REALLY fucking pissed how much extra they charge me for it. If your treatment cost 1 million dollars, I have to pay some wealthy people 5 million dollars first to get that 1 million dollars worth of treatment to you.
Meanwhile Trump distracts the press with nonsense and everyone falls for that distraction.
What does Trump have do with ANY of this? Why mention Trump at all? You are muddying the waters with irrelevant bullshit. Please stop.
To continue a bit more, I am forced to wonder why your attention is completely captured by the current president. Are you a partisan voter? Democrat by chance?
I am curious, does someone pay you to say "Trump"? Are you paid to distract from the topic at hand by bringing in irrelevancies? I am confused on this.
Perhaps, as a counter to your negative noise, I should start yelling out, "Jamie Dimon". You can't talk about anything without me bringing Jamie Dimon in to the conversation. Talking about something not related to finances and stealing billions, perhaps trillions, from the entire planet? Doesn't matter. Jamie Dimon.
If I weren't so lazy, I would e-stalk you and bring up Jamie Dimon in every conversation you have. Bonus points for me when it is actually relevant, but as I long as I stir up the water and confuse the issue with irrelevancies, I win. Hurray!
If this requires javascript, then every site that uses it will lock me out.
I use noscript. I am willing to go without any information from anyone else, forever, as long as requiring a script to run is part of the deal.
Executing logic on MY computing device, is purely at my discretion. I am unsure why anyone else feels they have a right to require me to execute logic. Perhaps if they asked, I might agree, depending on the other details in the deal. If it is required up front, then they have my denial up front. There is no business to be had here.
On the plaque which the Apollo 11 mission left on the moon in 1969, it says, "We came in peace for all mankind."
Every time I think about that plaque and the words on it, I get a tear in my eye. This is a perfect example of why Americans believe in America the country (not the government of America).
Life consciously chose to exit the gravity well in which it had evolved in and touched the Universe itself outside of life's birth place. This is easily the most amazing thing that has ever happened up to this point in history... and it was not "my country did it", it was, "we (as in all humans) did it".
What I'd really like to know is why aren't US citizens showing their outrage at having their basic constitutional right to privacy as well as due process to search of private data (which often resides in their home) violated on a daily (more likely many. many times per day) basis. Americans' need to stand up for what they say they believe in.
And how would you suggest this be done? The standard is: Soap Box, Ballot Box, Ammo Box.
We have done the soap box and the ballot box and got fucked off. HARD.
Are there other steps that can be taken between ballot box and ammo box because I am not seeing any. Your perception that Americans do not give a fuck is evidence that the media control is very effective.
There is still a lot of interesting music being produced if you know where to look.
That is a MIGHTY big "if" there buddy.
There are millions (billions?) of people like me. People who lost their connections to "the scene" or who never had any connections so they did not even know a scene existed.
Meh.
I am glad that there is new, interesting, and artistic music out there. To me and many others, it may as well not even exist.
You could do myself and the OP a real solid though... tell us how to find this music. If it includes changing my lifestyle to hang out in seedy bars so that I can find one good artist in 20 years, your suggestion will be a no-go.
Since Netflix is obviously going to happen in browsers, whatever obsessed nerds think about that, better to have some sort of standard for that, some hope of getting Netflix on Linux, than not.
What makes you think that the binary blob that the DRM will be, will be made for your platform of choice? The only thing being standardized here is that there can be DRM. None of the details of the DRM are being standardized.
In short, standardizing the fact that there can be DRM does not in any way encourage that the specific DRM chosen will run on your platform of choice.
I am of the firm opinion that AI will accelerate a single person or group's power fast enough to where that human or group enslaves those humans that might still be useful, and then annihilates (vernichtung iirc) the rest.
Narrowing the targeted demographic to young females is a bad marketing strategy.
Says you. Who has all the resources (that the.01% allows us to have) in our society today? Young white women. They, the people targeting young white women, are going after the largest pile of money. They apparently do not care if all the other piles dwarf this one pile, this pile is the biggest.
Everyone wants to fuck a young white woman. That is why young white women have all the cash. She does not have to pay any bills so the money she brings in for herself is hers to spend on whatever she wants. If you are a young white female and not taking advantage of the fact that everyone wants to fuck you, then you are losing out. Not many women appear to be losing out though.
...are a hideous example of function following form. The curve makes it difficult to protect the phone, and do not improve functionality in any way. It's something that needs to go away.
You start your message in the subject line. Clearly your tastes are not my tastes.
That being said, I have had a few phones with a slight curve in them and it felt really natural, when held against the head, as opposed to the flat board that most phones are.
I think you got +5 merely for whining about something. Not sure why people mod up whiners so much, but meh, I will stop whining about it.
I'm often amazed at the size of servings in the US. When I go out, I usually have 2 courses, either a starter and a main course, or a main course and dessert. But in the US I sometimes struggled to finish a damn starter. When I travel there I usually order a main course and that'll be more than enough for me.
That is because in America, there is only one course. The main course. The implication in your wording is that Americans eat 7 course meals and that the main course in America is equal to the 7 courses folks in other countries eat. Americans only eat one course. That is why it seems so large to you.
why do you guys bother keeping this comment section running, when it has clearly devolved into one of the worst, most openly racist and least interesting communities on the internet?
You are at the wrong site. I mean it. If you are so offended, get out. You are not welcome here.
It is not possible to dictate what other people will say. The value in this site is that people can say whatever they want. If you want everything that is said to be valuable to you, then start a site where you pay people to write what you want to hear/see.
The one thing I know is you can not have a rational discussion with them about gun control.
I know you believe your coworker would be alive if there was gun control; but you are wrong. The guy would have killed him no matter what; perhaps by dragging him behind a truck until all of his skin was torn off as happened to a American of Mexican descent. Or perhaps your friend would have been lynched. That used to be real popular.
I should mod you down for making this about gun control instead of hate, but meh. Your lack of rational thought is typical.
Funny, I've always thought that "they hate us for our freedoms" was a joke, and understood as such by everyone.
No. Many do hate Americans for their freedoms.
Many people believe that an individual should not have the freedom to speak out; especially against the government.
Many people think that an individual should not be free to practice whatever religion they want (Islam!).
Many people think that the state is the center of existence, not the individual.
Many people want strong and dominating government that tell people what they should be doing, unlike America where you can do whatever you want, including sitting on your ass doing nothing.
Point is that once you go into Steam and pick a game, chances are that the Windows version of it is more fully featured than the Linux version.
I have not noticed any differences. You will need to provide proof/examples.
In the case of Civ VI, the Windows version is out (albeit new) but the Linux one is almost out.
It is out now. They tried to sell it to me last week for $49.99 which I declined.
Other games, like Civ V - the Windows version is more fully featured than the Linux one.
I have played Civ V on Windows and Linux. I failed to notice any differences. Perhaps you can provide significant details?
Long story short, if you are an intense gamer who wants to try everything, like my son, then you will use primarily Windows for games. For myself, I do not need much. DOTA, Skyrim, and Civ V eat up massive amounts of time by themselves. God forbid I should do any of the survival games like Ark or Rust. Rocket League is fun for quick gameplay. I still occasionally play Command and Conquer Red Alert.
FYI, Skyrim is drop dead gorgeous at 4k resolutions. I play in a window at 3584(?)x2016 so I can get the largest window possible without being full screen. Still haven't found a reasonable way to do that on Windows.
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Simple math problem for you: if a company has $10 B in earnings, how much is a CEO worth if he improves that by 1%?
Not answering your question here but posing another question for you: How much is a CEO worth if the rest of the corporation does not earn the $10 B for that CEO to "improve" upon?
Another way of doing this: How much is your brain worth if it improves the ability to find food by 1%?
Should we give all non-life-sustaining energy to the brain? Does muscle mass mean nothing? Does exercise for the heart mean nothing? Only the brain has meaning?
(I put "improve" in quotes because some of the things that CEOs do to increase that 1% harm the company in the long term.)
I agree with your point. Here is where we diverge:
'These scams are extensive, they all target Windows users, Making the home use of Windows illegal is the only way to get Microsoft to sit the fuck up and listen and do something about it'
You used that as an example of a bad idea, but I kind of like it. ;)
OR it could just be that that's been a steady stream of propaganda from a certain political party and Corporate America for 100 years. A Big Lie repeated over and over again until it "becomes" the unassailable Truth.
I am sure Jimmy Hoffa is on board with your assertions. You should ask him. Let us know what he says...
Today, as an average, children are healthier, more likely to have food they need, will be exposed to less crime, have more protections, they're living in an age of more social acceptance, less likely to die in combat (sure, there are always wars, but this is an era of relative peace- over the last several decades globally wars are declining).
That is great. Wonderful even; however, kids today have no path to making a living for themselves.
In the past, I would teach my son how to hunt and gather food. Today, all I can do is send him off to school and hope that he will find a job afterwards. The thinking is, "Nobody owes you a job", which is ultimately true, but then you straitjacketed my son and do not allow him to hunt and gather. How then is he supposed eat?
No. The ENTIRE reason modern society is such a terrible place to bring children into is because all of the resources are owned. Naturally, owned by someone else. The only way for my son to live is to either accept that his life depends on the whims of someone who owns the resources (slavery with or without chains) or take those resources from the putative owners. The entire situation is a LOT more complex than this simplistic narrative but then we get into "regulations and corruption" when trying to take those resources legally.
So yeah, you are 100% correct that many of the less important, but still extremely important, things are MUCH better nowadays. What you are missing is that the single most important thing, the ability to survive on their own, has been taken.
Tell me again how it is a good idea to bring children into this world.
Does this mean I will no longer get noticed when someone messages me?
If the notifications take more than 1% of a modern processor, then yes, you will not receive timely notifications. It should be noted at this time that fully memory-protected, graphical interface, mostly modernish operating systems used to run with less CPU than even .1% of a modern CPU (Amiga, m68k). I would commit suicide in despair if a notification takes more CPU power than a full operating system. (Why yes, I am preparing the nitrogen bag and morphine now.)
And what we're seeing in Turkey isn't looking too hot either, and the Europeans have long been trying to make Turkey out to be a European nation.
Ataturk must be rolling his grave right now. WTF is up with religion and power? Anyone can see that Turkey is pretty much going to become a Caliphate... exactly the opposite of what Mr. Ataturk fought for. I could cry.
Hi Jon. Repeat after me please: There should be no middlemen (multiple in this case) reaping obscene profits from people seeking medical care. There should be you. There should be a doctor. There should be procedures. The admin costs are higher than the fucking treatment costs for most procedures. Insanity! Those admin costs are driven by insurance companies. Those insurance companies have all been angling for this obscene indulgence in greed since it was recognized that there was a "baby boom" immediately after World War 2.
This entire situation was engineered to capture all the money that retiring/dying baby boomers generated. The vacuum generated by this wealth transfer is so extreme that is threatens to destabilize the entire planet.
Meh.
The ACA was a tax based on the belief that everybody has a right to life. Thanks to your higher premiums, I was able to get free coverage after so many years without insurance.
I am glad someone got a use out of it. The rest of us got fucked HARD. Enjoy your extended life. It was VERY expensive for the rest of us.
Oh well, as long as the people who control the money that goes to the insurance companies got an extra yacht this year, it is all worth while. For every dollar spent by the insurance companies to save your life, 5 dollars went to the people who own the insurance companies.
Please do not misunderstand me though: I would gladly help you live. I am just REALLY fucking pissed how much extra they charge me for it. If your treatment cost 1 million dollars, I have to pay some wealthy people 5 million dollars first to get that 1 million dollars worth of treatment to you.
And people wonder why there are terrorists...
Meanwhile Trump distracts the press with nonsense and everyone falls for that distraction.
What does Trump have do with ANY of this? Why mention Trump at all? You are muddying the waters with irrelevant bullshit. Please stop.
To continue a bit more, I am forced to wonder why your attention is completely captured by the current president. Are you a partisan voter? Democrat by chance?
I am curious, does someone pay you to say "Trump"? Are you paid to distract from the topic at hand by bringing in irrelevancies? I am confused on this.
Perhaps, as a counter to your negative noise, I should start yelling out, "Jamie Dimon". You can't talk about anything without me bringing Jamie Dimon in to the conversation. Talking about something not related to finances and stealing billions, perhaps trillions, from the entire planet? Doesn't matter. Jamie Dimon.
If I weren't so lazy, I would e-stalk you and bring up Jamie Dimon in every conversation you have. Bonus points for me when it is actually relevant, but as I long as I stir up the water and confuse the issue with irrelevancies, I win. Hurray!
If this requires javascript, then every site that uses it will lock me out.
I use noscript. I am willing to go without any information from anyone else, forever, as long as requiring a script to run is part of the deal.
Executing logic on MY computing device, is purely at my discretion. I am unsure why anyone else feels they have a right to require me to execute logic. Perhaps if they asked, I might agree, depending on the other details in the deal. If it is required up front, then they have my denial up front. There is no business to be had here.
On the plaque which the Apollo 11 mission left on the moon in 1969, it says, "We came in peace for all mankind."
Every time I think about that plaque and the words on it, I get a tear in my eye. This is a perfect example of why Americans believe in America the country (not the government of America).
Life consciously chose to exit the gravity well in which it had evolved in and touched the Universe itself outside of life's birth place. This is easily the most amazing thing that has ever happened up to this point in history... and it was not "my country did it", it was, "we (as in all humans) did it".
What I'd really like to know is why aren't US citizens showing their outrage at having their basic constitutional right to privacy as well as due process to search of private data (which often resides in their home) violated on a daily (more likely many. many times per day) basis. Americans' need to stand up for what they say they believe in.
And how would you suggest this be done? The standard is: Soap Box, Ballot Box, Ammo Box.
We have done the soap box and the ballot box and got fucked off. HARD.
Are there other steps that can be taken between ballot box and ammo box because I am not seeing any. Your perception that Americans do not give a fuck is evidence that the media control is very effective.
Wow! I great answer. Thank you for the solid. You are awesome. I am a metal kind of guy myself.
There is still a lot of interesting music being produced if you know where to look.
That is a MIGHTY big "if" there buddy.
There are millions (billions?) of people like me. People who lost their connections to "the scene" or who never had any connections so they did not even know a scene existed.
Meh.
I am glad that there is new, interesting, and artistic music out there. To me and many others, it may as well not even exist.
You could do myself and the OP a real solid though... tell us how to find this music. If it includes changing my lifestyle to hang out in seedy bars so that I can find one good artist in 20 years, your suggestion will be a no-go.
Since Netflix is obviously going to happen in browsers, whatever obsessed nerds think about that, better to have some sort of standard for that, some hope of getting Netflix on Linux, than not.
What makes you think that the binary blob that the DRM will be, will be made for your platform of choice? The only thing being standardized here is that there can be DRM. None of the details of the DRM are being standardized.
In short, standardizing the fact that there can be DRM does not in any way encourage that the specific DRM chosen will run on your platform of choice.
Very insightful possibility.
I am of the firm opinion that AI will accelerate a single person or group's power fast enough to where that human or group enslaves those humans that might still be useful, and then annihilates (vernichtung iirc) the rest.
Narrowing the targeted demographic to young females is a bad marketing strategy.
Says you. Who has all the resources (that the .01% allows us to have) in our society today? Young white women. They, the people targeting young white women, are going after the largest pile of money. They apparently do not care if all the other piles dwarf this one pile, this pile is the biggest.
Everyone wants to fuck a young white woman. That is why young white women have all the cash. She does not have to pay any bills so the money she brings in for herself is hers to spend on whatever she wants. If you are a young white female and not taking advantage of the fact that everyone wants to fuck you, then you are losing out. Not many women appear to be losing out though.
...are a hideous example of function following form. The curve makes it difficult to protect the phone, and do not improve functionality in any way. It's something that needs to go away.
You start your message in the subject line. Clearly your tastes are not my tastes.
That being said, I have had a few phones with a slight curve in them and it felt really natural, when held against the head, as opposed to the flat board that most phones are.
I think you got +5 merely for whining about something. Not sure why people mod up whiners so much, but meh, I will stop whining about it.
I'm often amazed at the size of servings in the US. When I go out, I usually have 2 courses, either a starter and a main course, or a main course and dessert. But in the US I sometimes struggled to finish a damn starter. When I travel there I usually order a main course and that'll be more than enough for me.
That is because in America, there is only one course. The main course. The implication in your wording is that Americans eat 7 course meals and that the main course in America is equal to the 7 courses folks in other countries eat. Americans only eat one course. That is why it seems so large to you.
why do you guys bother keeping this comment section running, when it has clearly devolved into one of the worst, most openly racist and least interesting communities on the internet?
You are at the wrong site. I mean it. If you are so offended, get out. You are not welcome here.
It is not possible to dictate what other people will say. The value in this site is that people can say whatever they want. If you want everything that is said to be valuable to you, then start a site where you pay people to write what you want to hear/see.
And then those Native Americans should be shot by the previous Native Americans whom the last group of Native Americans raped and slaughtered.
Your point?
The one thing I know is you can not have a rational discussion with them about gun control.
I know you believe your coworker would be alive if there was gun control; but you are wrong. The guy would have killed him no matter what; perhaps by dragging him behind a truck until all of his skin was torn off as happened to a American of Mexican descent. Or perhaps your friend would have been lynched. That used to be real popular.
I should mod you down for making this about gun control instead of hate, but meh. Your lack of rational thought is typical.
Thank you. This is why I come here. Real people with real knowledge (first hand experience).
Funny, I've always thought that "they hate us for our freedoms" was a joke, and understood as such by everyone.
No. Many do hate Americans for their freedoms.
Many people believe that an individual should not have the freedom to speak out; especially against the government.
Many people think that an individual should not be free to practice whatever religion they want (Islam!).
Many people think that the state is the center of existence, not the individual.
Many people want strong and dominating government that tell people what they should be doing, unlike America where you can do whatever you want, including sitting on your ass doing nothing.
Point is that once you go into Steam and pick a game, chances are that the Windows version of it is more fully featured than the Linux version.
I have not noticed any differences. You will need to provide proof/examples.
In the case of Civ VI, the Windows version is out (albeit new) but the Linux one is almost out.
It is out now. They tried to sell it to me last week for $49.99 which I declined.
Other games, like Civ V - the Windows version is more fully featured than the Linux one.
I have played Civ V on Windows and Linux. I failed to notice any differences. Perhaps you can provide significant details?
Long story short, if you are an intense gamer who wants to try everything, like my son, then you will use primarily Windows for games. For myself, I do not need much. DOTA, Skyrim, and Civ V eat up massive amounts of time by themselves. God forbid I should do any of the survival games like Ark or Rust. Rocket League is fun for quick gameplay. I still occasionally play Command and Conquer Red Alert.
FYI, Skyrim is drop dead gorgeous at 4k resolutions. I play in a window at 3584(?)x2016 so I can get the largest window possible without being full screen. Still haven't found a reasonable way to do that on Windows.