Except if you take the flood story at face value, it says it should take 2 of ALL creatures (You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.). So either they all died (were hunted to absolute extinction) in the ~20 generations between Adam (2 people) and Noah or they lived and died in the 2 days (some creationists believe those 2 days signified as much 2000 years) between when animals and vegetation was created and Adam was created.
I'm not arguing for or against either the Tea Party (Republicans) or Democrats' solutions. They're both in the same business (that of getting votes) and neither of them will change anything because it will cost them those precious votes. That's the problem with a 2 party system - 40% of the population will vote for one or the other guy regardless and they're fighting over the remaining 20% with razor-thin margins so anything unpopular will not pass.
If your argument makes economical sense (I'm not an economist - cut taxes so people can invest their tax money?), why don't we just cut taxes all together? Have a federal sales tax (tax all transactions equally - if you spend more, you pay more taxes) then. Currently the rich pay LESS taxes because they're rich and the poor pay comparatively more.
The problem is that even though the government has comparatively more income, they have an even greater deficit. There is currently no solution to it because the US Government is already too far in. Even if you cut ALL of Medicare and the DoD they would still be running a deficit just because of the interest rates. The Federal Government needs to shut down and remain shut down and transfer all their powers and budget (defense, healthcare etc.) to the states, the only power the federal government should have is to see that the states follow the constitution (the judiciary branch). There is simply too much government to go around and not enough government close to the people.
That is until a couple of months before the next elections. Republicans rely heavily on the old folks and the rich to vote them into power. Cutting Medicare or equalizing taxes will not put them into power. They're both suckers for votes and that's why nothing ever gets done because they're afraid of pissing off the wrong people. Yes, we need to cut on Medicare/Medicaid and the DoD and equalize the taxes across all brackets but none of that is going to happen. Even if we just redistribute the current budget better we would be far better off - for every airport scanner the DHS puts in they can fund a police officer with a car, for every minute we spend in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya they can fund a bridge restoration or fill the potholes in a long stretch of road. However the media is not going to publish benefits of them filling in a pothole or that 10 more people get employed for a month.
The same problem in WebKit browsers. A couple of days ago, links would actually expand all the parent threads until they were all open (and the page jumped down several times) and only then link through. I really miss the old Slashdot and even though I have set my preferences to classic Slashdot it just shows me a Web 1.5 version of it (Web 2.0 but only half working).
The problem with prophets and their prophecies is that if they aren't terse about it it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy (someone will work towards the goal of fulfilling the prophecy), if they are sparse with details or code it people will interpret it and apply it to whatever or whoever they want.
The "Sign of the Beast" has been applied to everything from government ID cards to social security numbers and zip codes. The Messiah prophesied by Moses has been applied to Jesus, Mohammed and the Jews are still waiting for him.
Some of those things you will never be able to prove or disprove. The stewardess in the back of the airplane one is one of those things where if you crash a 1000 planes in those situations maybe 1 stewardess will actually survive. In academics, people don't have that type of grant money to actually crash planes. They'll crash 3 planes on a pilot grant, publish it, put in a grant request and get more grant money to crash 20 maybe 50 planes and interpolate a result out of that. Statistically it's improbable with a 99.9% chance of dying, anecdotally it has happened before but you can't really put real people through these experiments, you have to have crash dummies and shock recorders that have much lower limits on what it means to die than an exceptional human body.
What MythBusters does to me (I do actually work in the scientific field and I am involved in the process of grant writing) is pilot studies based on anecdotal evidence. If you want to do real studies you should get your PhD, apply for a grant and work in academics but I warn you: it's boring, nobody will ever read your findings, studies, papers or ideas except maybe for the editor of a scientific paper (and even then, many don't read past the first page) unless it's earth shattering and you will definitely NEVER appear on TV doing your experiments, at most you'll give a soundbite to journalists who will misinterpret it anyway in their news report.
Why not? If you set up your own CA you can issue any name you want as well, I can issue hotmail.com or fbi.gov. SSL certificates are NOT meant to identify a website, they are merely there to secure the link between a server and a client. When people (and browser makers) understand that, we will be quite a bit further.
The jury found that the patent was valid and awarded the case to the patent troll based on the validity of patents. The troll said you're infringing, the defense said it's an invalid patent, the jury didn't see it as an invalid patent and Apple didn't make it's case that they weren't infringing and thus the jury of your retarded peers awarded damages. The judge didn't say the patent wasn't valid he just said it didn't apply to what Apple was doing. There's a lot of patents and a lot of them are invalid but that was not the gist of this case, this case was whether or not Apple infringed on the patent. To get the patent invalidated, another lawsuit would have to be brought against the patent troll.
I'm still surprised at US schools that have optional courses. Where I went to school there were no options or choices to make for the basic classes. You had to take Algebra, Calculus, Geometry etc. all together it took up 10 hours/week (36 hours of classes per week) and included some things the US only starts with in classes for bachelors and up.
Actually, for most people it's not THAT easy. Most of the time (especially in countries outside the US) you will ask a relative or friend who has a nice little side business burning discs and you will still pay them $5 for a CD or $10 for a DVD/game which is acceptable for most. However if you go to the store, Music is $10-15, Movies are $25-40 and games $40-80. Look at the success of iTunes - I don't even bother anymore looking for MP3's because for less than a dollar I can download them and for under $10 I can get the whole album and they're CD quality or better including all the metadata. Movies and TV shows are lagging behind though which is why they're still heavily pirated but Netflix is slightly helping but is actually going to be killed by download limits and low bandwidth.
I wouldn't be surprised if payloads were already being delivered by rocket, rockets are cheap to build and can have a few keys of payload. A guided rocket with a parachute can even be reused.
Microsoft, Adobe, e-mail and stupid people. Seriously, the internal security is just as important as external - too bad almost no large organization heeds these warnings and continues to trust all their users and their computers as being safe and secure. My organization thinks because you're on the internal network, you don't need encryption necessarily for passwords and the like, they actually call it the Secure Network whereas the unencrypted wireless and the network that links up to external providers are the only insecure network.
Data loggers log data. Your/var/log/messages doesn't lie either - if you sudo it's logged and unless you (are able to) tamper with it it's going to be there for your sysadmin to see. I would trust a data logger over a sensationalist show yes.
It's not going to go like that unlike what Fox/Republicans/Tea Partiers want you to think. Young Muslims are disillusioned by their religion just like youngsters in every other extremist religion and Sharia law is only held up by the old guard which will naturally die off and be replaced by much more moderate Muslims. There will always be extremists but they will always remain in the minority. There are no Sharia Ghetto's in Europe (I lived there and still have family there, my brother lives in one of those Muslim communities), the Muslim population is pushed in those areas (paupered areas of large cities) because they have no large income, they don't speak the native language and have 8-10 mouths to feed, even European social services can not assist them properly because of that. The young Muslims that do understand the language and can go to school do pretty well and have smaller families, those that do not have those opportunities go into crime a lot which doesn't help their communities at all. They basically have the same status the black people in the US in the late '60's had - free to do whatever, getting treated equally but unable or not willing to change their mindset for another 3-5 generations which they blame on the more affluent and those that aren't 'from among them' thus isolating themselves again. Eventually they'll see the right way after some show they can change.
Are you saying you have fiber in your city? You can see the locations where there IS an affordable home fiber option here: http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps/fios
I would say fiber is available to ~1% of the US population (if that). 80% of the US population live in urban (densely populated) areas but only 50% of the US population can get broadband (defined as anything faster than a single line ISDN).
The Kinect is indeed a fad. I have one to my XBox which is now only used during parties. To accurately control a simplified interface to something it is too slow and unresponsive and gets tiring really quick. To pause hold your arm out for 5 seconds. To click go in the general area of the button and hold your arm for 2 seconds. Yeah, that will catch on real quick as an interface.
Their other invention they hope will catch on is the Surface tech which is basically turning your table into an oversized tablet, *real* comfortable if I want to read, watch or control something while laying in my couch. Give me my trackpad or a touchpad or if you want to go into the future, an accurate mind controller, the rest has been proven as infeasible and too clunky for any period of time. People that say they rather have a laptop, fine, but I'm not comfortable holding a 5 lb electric heater with a 1" thick solid keyboard while laying down or carrying that $1500 device with me to work. Give me my $500 tablet that I can stick in a pouch and carry without hardly noticing it. Smartphones are too small for me too, give me an iPad or similar tablet with phone capabilities (or SIP with affordable data plan) and a Bluetooth headset. What would be even neater is a small bluetooth phone module detachable from the tablet just in case I don't want to carry around my data device.
Too bad the RIAA is not a publicly traded business or somebody could just do a hostile takeover of the organization, gut it and leave it to die. Maybe Apple will buy one of the smaller media conglomerates out one of these days.
People got bitten by Windows Phone/Mobile/CE on plenty of devices that the word Windows together with phone is synonymous to 'crappy battery hoarder that crashes' now in the market and the lackluster performance of v7 is not helping.
Apple has pretty good support for an occasional Windows installation, all the hardware works and the drivers are stable. The hardware is just mobile Intel and a mobile ATi or nVidia card, nothing special about it, power control is done through ACPI and however the Intel cores want to be managed. I have noticed however that Windows does use a lot more power than even Linux on some machines. I guess a lot of it is in the background things that Windows does for you such as checking for a CD by sending an ATA command every second (that's why the old-style CD-ROM's blink their activity led when running Windows) instead of trusting the machine to tell the OS that something changed and a bunch of background programs that nobody needs at any random point in time (such as Remote Assistance, Security Center and other remote exploits waiting to happen.
In the US, the single monopoly was forced to fund innovation by government regulation and gave a lot of jobs to a lot of people. Now they broke up and formed their own little monopolies without government regulation, they are for all intents and purposes a monopoly without government regulation by giving the appearance that they're not colluding at the top to keep prices high and the markets closed.
The breakup was not to grant innovation and create jobs, it was done to avoid regulation, remove jobs and get higher revenues. If it was truly a move to foster competition, they would've broken AT&T (old) up into 3-5 NATIONAL companies with a regulatory agency for oversight over the fair use of the common lines instead of 3-5 REGIONAL companies that were given free infrastructure without the intent to open the infrastructure to competition.
These days warrants don't require just cause anymore. Just slap a 'terrorist' or 'national security' label on it and you'll get any data you want. This is most likely just an after-the-fact warrant to get it in the media, they probably already got the data through one of the US Secret Courts and a gagged court order.
The King family has been cashing in on the dear doctors name for years now. They don't really care about the plight of the ones they once lead, at most they'll give a political sound bite on these issues now.
For those that don't live in a basement with their parents and has a small family
Let's say you make 65,000 gross, an average income in an average US city. That comes down to ~42,000 net after local, state and federal taxes, social security, insurance and whatever else comes out of your paycheck or ~3500/month.
3500 - 800 rent or mortgage = 2700 2700 - 300 car payment = 2400 200 * 2 for groceries = 2000 200 for cable, phone, cell phone etc. = 1800 500 for various bills, car insurance, medical costs = 1300 500 for various costs (going out to eat, shopping etc.) = 800. 500 if you have an infant needing daycare or other child rearing costs if they get older = 300
Yeah, you really should be able to contribute 1000/month regardless of your income. If you earn more, most likely your costs will increase because you live in a more expensive market or you have more expenses such as multiple children. As I said, to comfortably live and be able to put in more than $1,000/month without hurting yourself and without needing to kill it in case of an emergency you need to make a lot more dough than the average and 250k is not all that much.
Get $100 taken out of your paycheck every month for 40 or 50 years (480 months * 100 = $48,000) and then get a meager 600/month back for maybe 10 (120 months = however much $72,000 will be worth within 40 years) and if you're healthy enough 15 years.
My employer pays for my pension plan and they put in $100 and the $600 is what the fund says I will get even though my investments are very aggressive at this point (50% goes in the tech and asian markets with very good dividends that double the investment every quarter, 50% in the safe 'recommended' aggregated funds which doesn't ever seem to make a profit but is promised to be always there even if the markets crash). If I make another $250 contribution every month they say I should be able to have the same income as I do now but measured against the historic devaluation of money that is not what I want to be making within 40 years and I really could use the 250 right now.
The only way the pension funds work is if you're in the middle-to-upper class (>$250,000/year income) and can contribute easily a good $1000/month into your own managed investment funds. Then you should be able to cash in when you're 60 and live comfortably if off course you're investments paid off over time and you're not committing large funds in bubble's and crashes.
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Except if you take the flood story at face value, it says it should take 2 of ALL creatures (You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.). So either they all died (were hunted to absolute extinction) in the ~20 generations between Adam (2 people) and Noah or they lived and died in the 2 days (some creationists believe those 2 days signified as much 2000 years) between when animals and vegetation was created and Adam was created.
I'm not arguing for or against either the Tea Party (Republicans) or Democrats' solutions. They're both in the same business (that of getting votes) and neither of them will change anything because it will cost them those precious votes. That's the problem with a 2 party system - 40% of the population will vote for one or the other guy regardless and they're fighting over the remaining 20% with razor-thin margins so anything unpopular will not pass.
If your argument makes economical sense (I'm not an economist - cut taxes so people can invest their tax money?), why don't we just cut taxes all together? Have a federal sales tax (tax all transactions equally - if you spend more, you pay more taxes) then. Currently the rich pay LESS taxes because they're rich and the poor pay comparatively more.
The problem is that even though the government has comparatively more income, they have an even greater deficit. There is currently no solution to it because the US Government is already too far in. Even if you cut ALL of Medicare and the DoD they would still be running a deficit just because of the interest rates. The Federal Government needs to shut down and remain shut down and transfer all their powers and budget (defense, healthcare etc.) to the states, the only power the federal government should have is to see that the states follow the constitution (the judiciary branch). There is simply too much government to go around and not enough government close to the people.
That is until a couple of months before the next elections. Republicans rely heavily on the old folks and the rich to vote them into power. Cutting Medicare or equalizing taxes will not put them into power. They're both suckers for votes and that's why nothing ever gets done because they're afraid of pissing off the wrong people. Yes, we need to cut on Medicare/Medicaid and the DoD and equalize the taxes across all brackets but none of that is going to happen. Even if we just redistribute the current budget better we would be far better off - for every airport scanner the DHS puts in they can fund a police officer with a car, for every minute we spend in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya they can fund a bridge restoration or fill the potholes in a long stretch of road. However the media is not going to publish benefits of them filling in a pothole or that 10 more people get employed for a month.
The same problem in WebKit browsers. A couple of days ago, links would actually expand all the parent threads until they were all open (and the page jumped down several times) and only then link through. I really miss the old Slashdot and even though I have set my preferences to classic Slashdot it just shows me a Web 1.5 version of it (Web 2.0 but only half working).
The problem with prophets and their prophecies is that if they aren't terse about it it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy (someone will work towards the goal of fulfilling the prophecy), if they are sparse with details or code it people will interpret it and apply it to whatever or whoever they want.
The "Sign of the Beast" has been applied to everything from government ID cards to social security numbers and zip codes. The Messiah prophesied by Moses has been applied to Jesus, Mohammed and the Jews are still waiting for him.
Some of those things you will never be able to prove or disprove. The stewardess in the back of the airplane one is one of those things where if you crash a 1000 planes in those situations maybe 1 stewardess will actually survive. In academics, people don't have that type of grant money to actually crash planes. They'll crash 3 planes on a pilot grant, publish it, put in a grant request and get more grant money to crash 20 maybe 50 planes and interpolate a result out of that. Statistically it's improbable with a 99.9% chance of dying, anecdotally it has happened before but you can't really put real people through these experiments, you have to have crash dummies and shock recorders that have much lower limits on what it means to die than an exceptional human body.
What MythBusters does to me (I do actually work in the scientific field and I am involved in the process of grant writing) is pilot studies based on anecdotal evidence. If you want to do real studies you should get your PhD, apply for a grant and work in academics but I warn you: it's boring, nobody will ever read your findings, studies, papers or ideas except maybe for the editor of a scientific paper (and even then, many don't read past the first page) unless it's earth shattering and you will definitely NEVER appear on TV doing your experiments, at most you'll give a soundbite to journalists who will misinterpret it anyway in their news report.
Why not? If you set up your own CA you can issue any name you want as well, I can issue hotmail.com or fbi.gov. SSL certificates are NOT meant to identify a website, they are merely there to secure the link between a server and a client. When people (and browser makers) understand that, we will be quite a bit further.
The jury found that the patent was valid and awarded the case to the patent troll based on the validity of patents. The troll said you're infringing, the defense said it's an invalid patent, the jury didn't see it as an invalid patent and Apple didn't make it's case that they weren't infringing and thus the jury of your retarded peers awarded damages. The judge didn't say the patent wasn't valid he just said it didn't apply to what Apple was doing. There's a lot of patents and a lot of them are invalid but that was not the gist of this case, this case was whether or not Apple infringed on the patent. To get the patent invalidated, another lawsuit would have to be brought against the patent troll.
I'm still surprised at US schools that have optional courses. Where I went to school there were no options or choices to make for the basic classes. You had to take Algebra, Calculus, Geometry etc. all together it took up 10 hours/week (36 hours of classes per week) and included some things the US only starts with in classes for bachelors and up.
Actually, for most people it's not THAT easy. Most of the time (especially in countries outside the US) you will ask a relative or friend who has a nice little side business burning discs and you will still pay them $5 for a CD or $10 for a DVD/game which is acceptable for most. However if you go to the store, Music is $10-15, Movies are $25-40 and games $40-80. Look at the success of iTunes - I don't even bother anymore looking for MP3's because for less than a dollar I can download them and for under $10 I can get the whole album and they're CD quality or better including all the metadata. Movies and TV shows are lagging behind though which is why they're still heavily pirated but Netflix is slightly helping but is actually going to be killed by download limits and low bandwidth.
I wouldn't be surprised if payloads were already being delivered by rocket, rockets are cheap to build and can have a few keys of payload. A guided rocket with a parachute can even be reused.
Microsoft, Adobe, e-mail and stupid people. Seriously, the internal security is just as important as external - too bad almost no large organization heeds these warnings and continues to trust all their users and their computers as being safe and secure. My organization thinks because you're on the internal network, you don't need encryption necessarily for passwords and the like, they actually call it the Secure Network whereas the unencrypted wireless and the network that links up to external providers are the only insecure network.
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Data loggers log data. Your /var/log/messages doesn't lie either - if you sudo it's logged and unless you (are able to) tamper with it it's going to be there for your sysadmin to see. I would trust a data logger over a sensationalist show yes.
It's not going to go like that unlike what Fox/Republicans/Tea Partiers want you to think. Young Muslims are disillusioned by their religion just like youngsters in every other extremist religion and Sharia law is only held up by the old guard which will naturally die off and be replaced by much more moderate Muslims. There will always be extremists but they will always remain in the minority. There are no Sharia Ghetto's in Europe (I lived there and still have family there, my brother lives in one of those Muslim communities), the Muslim population is pushed in those areas (paupered areas of large cities) because they have no large income, they don't speak the native language and have 8-10 mouths to feed, even European social services can not assist them properly because of that. The young Muslims that do understand the language and can go to school do pretty well and have smaller families, those that do not have those opportunities go into crime a lot which doesn't help their communities at all. They basically have the same status the black people in the US in the late '60's had - free to do whatever, getting treated equally but unable or not willing to change their mindset for another 3-5 generations which they blame on the more affluent and those that aren't 'from among them' thus isolating themselves again. Eventually they'll see the right way after some show they can change.
Are you saying you have fiber in your city? You can see the locations where there IS an affordable home fiber option here: http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps/fios
I would say fiber is available to ~1% of the US population (if that). 80% of the US population live in urban (densely populated) areas but only 50% of the US population can get broadband (defined as anything faster than a single line ISDN).
The Kinect is indeed a fad. I have one to my XBox which is now only used during parties. To accurately control a simplified interface to something it is too slow and unresponsive and gets tiring really quick. To pause hold your arm out for 5 seconds. To click go in the general area of the button and hold your arm for 2 seconds. Yeah, that will catch on real quick as an interface.
Their other invention they hope will catch on is the Surface tech which is basically turning your table into an oversized tablet, *real* comfortable if I want to read, watch or control something while laying in my couch. Give me my trackpad or a touchpad or if you want to go into the future, an accurate mind controller, the rest has been proven as infeasible and too clunky for any period of time. People that say they rather have a laptop, fine, but I'm not comfortable holding a 5 lb electric heater with a 1" thick solid keyboard while laying down or carrying that $1500 device with me to work. Give me my $500 tablet that I can stick in a pouch and carry without hardly noticing it. Smartphones are too small for me too, give me an iPad or similar tablet with phone capabilities (or SIP with affordable data plan) and a Bluetooth headset. What would be even neater is a small bluetooth phone module detachable from the tablet just in case I don't want to carry around my data device.
Too bad the RIAA is not a publicly traded business or somebody could just do a hostile takeover of the organization, gut it and leave it to die. Maybe Apple will buy one of the smaller media conglomerates out one of these days.
People got bitten by Windows Phone/Mobile/CE on plenty of devices that the word Windows together with phone is synonymous to 'crappy battery hoarder that crashes' now in the market and the lackluster performance of v7 is not helping.
Apple has pretty good support for an occasional Windows installation, all the hardware works and the drivers are stable. The hardware is just mobile Intel and a mobile ATi or nVidia card, nothing special about it, power control is done through ACPI and however the Intel cores want to be managed. I have noticed however that Windows does use a lot more power than even Linux on some machines. I guess a lot of it is in the background things that Windows does for you such as checking for a CD by sending an ATA command every second (that's why the old-style CD-ROM's blink their activity led when running Windows) instead of trusting the machine to tell the OS that something changed and a bunch of background programs that nobody needs at any random point in time (such as Remote Assistance, Security Center and other remote exploits waiting to happen.
In the US, the single monopoly was forced to fund innovation by government regulation and gave a lot of jobs to a lot of people. Now they broke up and formed their own little monopolies without government regulation, they are for all intents and purposes a monopoly without government regulation by giving the appearance that they're not colluding at the top to keep prices high and the markets closed.
The breakup was not to grant innovation and create jobs, it was done to avoid regulation, remove jobs and get higher revenues. If it was truly a move to foster competition, they would've broken AT&T (old) up into 3-5 NATIONAL companies with a regulatory agency for oversight over the fair use of the common lines instead of 3-5 REGIONAL companies that were given free infrastructure without the intent to open the infrastructure to competition.
These days warrants don't require just cause anymore. Just slap a 'terrorist' or 'national security' label on it and you'll get any data you want. This is most likely just an after-the-fact warrant to get it in the media, they probably already got the data through one of the US Secret Courts and a gagged court order.
The King family has been cashing in on the dear doctors name for years now. They don't really care about the plight of the ones they once lead, at most they'll give a political sound bite on these issues now.
For those that don't live in a basement with their parents and has a small family
Let's say you make 65,000 gross, an average income in an average US city. That comes down to ~42,000 net after local, state and federal taxes, social security, insurance and whatever else comes out of your paycheck or ~3500/month.
3500 - 800 rent or mortgage = 2700
2700 - 300 car payment = 2400
200 * 2 for groceries = 2000
200 for cable, phone, cell phone etc. = 1800
500 for various bills, car insurance, medical costs = 1300
500 for various costs (going out to eat, shopping etc.) = 800.
500 if you have an infant needing daycare or other child rearing costs if they get older = 300
Yeah, you really should be able to contribute 1000/month regardless of your income. If you earn more, most likely your costs will increase because you live in a more expensive market or you have more expenses such as multiple children. As I said, to comfortably live and be able to put in more than $1,000/month without hurting yourself and without needing to kill it in case of an emergency you need to make a lot more dough than the average and 250k is not all that much.
Get $100 taken out of your paycheck every month for 40 or 50 years (480 months * 100 = $48,000) and then get a meager 600/month back for maybe 10 (120 months = however much $72,000 will be worth within 40 years) and if you're healthy enough 15 years.
My employer pays for my pension plan and they put in $100 and the $600 is what the fund says I will get even though my investments are very aggressive at this point (50% goes in the tech and asian markets with very good dividends that double the investment every quarter, 50% in the safe 'recommended' aggregated funds which doesn't ever seem to make a profit but is promised to be always there even if the markets crash). If I make another $250 contribution every month they say I should be able to have the same income as I do now but measured against the historic devaluation of money that is not what I want to be making within 40 years and I really could use the 250 right now.
The only way the pension funds work is if you're in the middle-to-upper class (>$250,000/year income) and can contribute easily a good $1000/month into your own managed investment funds. Then you should be able to cash in when you're 60 and live comfortably if off course you're investments paid off over time and you're not committing large funds in bubble's and crashes.