In many real ways we are already in a economy where capital is the only success factor. Their are some great picture representations of this which show wealth by population percentile. They show the bottom 40% (in the us) share less than a percent of wealth and our `middle class` that middle 20% share about 4% of the wealth. The top 40% get the rest (and the lower half of that shares around 10%). All together that leaves the top 20% of the population with their oft quoted 80% of the countries wealth.
I`ve seen studies that follow movement between percentiles and it really says that outside a miarcle upward mobility is nonexistent. So capital really does decide your place in the economy, even now.
This is actually what the mexican farmers have been saying about NAFTA and it's effect on them. Even what had been luxury food products could be farmed cheaper in the US than they could in mexico and so farms started dying out. Some have struggled to hang on, but they are a minority.
Now that is the mexican farmer take on the subject, I have no idea how true it is.
Maybe it's just me, but as someone without a 3D printer I somehow doubt that a almost completely plastic 3D printed gun is cheaper than say a $50 handgun from the pawnshop...
Even if the story is true... It takes 3 failures of both gun safety and intelligence to get there: 1. Manage to be stupid enough to not only keep your shotgun loaded, but with a round chambered. 2. Manage not to have a safety on. 3. Ask someone barely big enough to carry the item to you.
Ok, maybe you do keep your gun loaded, I personally wouldn't unless I was in a 'warzone' or had immediate cause to have a loaded gun handy. Heck with things like clips of ammo and speed loaders the need to keep a weapon loaded is very very low. Even classic break-open (ie breech loading) shotguns aren't usually kept loaded as it takes only a second or two to slap in a cartridge and be ready to fire.
However if you fail all three steps then you have truly proved yourself an idiot and certainly should never have owned a firearm.
Actually I have, and the Nvidia drivers did just as bad in my experience. Neither set of binary blob drivers wanted to install and function in 3D. Having said that I haven't used anything newer than a Radeon HD 6970. Maybe it's not true for some newer cards, but my linux 3D experience was a non starter.
I cannot believe people still complain about this. In the last five years I've built many a system, some with Nvidia cards and some with AMD cards and frankly I've never seen any serious graphics issues with either brand. The biggest issue I've seen has actually been overheating and that has far more to do with standard case design and default fan settings on the cards...
Stardock loves to remind me regularly that for a couple of dollars I can have the start menu again in Windows 8... Though I'm not running windows 8 anywhere, so I have little need for their software. If a 3rd party can do it, I'm sure MS could as well... The question becomes do they want to do that. Personally I don't think they do, screenshots of Blue show that so far they haven't bothered.
They could do, you know, what police used to do before they all became lazy. Back in the day we called it 'Walking a beat'. You know we'd go and assign them a neighbor and they could direct lost kids home, help old ladies cross the street, etc. All sorts of little things they did made neighborhoods want to have a cop around, rather then never wanting to see them. Not that there weren't bad cops back then, there were, but even the bad ones tended to do some good... Now 'innocent' people don't trust them and they only seem to do crap like this story....
Admittedly this was nearly five years ago now, so details I recall are a little blurry... But I know it had 3 RAID cards in it... I'm assuming each ran 2 sets of IDE ports (2 channels per card). I have no idea why it had those, it just did. I spent $0 and put a bunch of junk in one place. Win/win for me... Oh yeah... and it did serve webpages... so win/win/win...?
I've done this before in an old 'server' I was re-using. As is typical this had been laying around in the server room for 7 or 8 years even after it had been replaced (once upon a time it ran WinNT). My company at the time gave me no budget and said they wanted our website (which not even 500 people a year ever looked at) moved inhouse. So I repurposed this guy and seeing as how the enclosure was designed to hold a dozen or so drive I stuffed it full of old 40 GB drives I'd pulled from desktops and set up a RAID 5 arrangement with 10 of them. Was never really any reason not to do it. It made an ok little linux webserver running a CLI environment for remote access.
You'll note I said "outside Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, or Philly". I could move an hour south to Pittsburgh and make similar, but up here by lake erie where I own a house (which is unlikely to ever sell as the market is dead) wages are stagnant and low to begin with. On the other hand 40k here means you can own a house, car, and with some work support a family (my own parents never made more than 50k combined here).
Sure if you consider budgeting, planning, and executing large IT projects 'helpdesk'. Those range from building mesh wireless networks (when wireless was still 'new'), linux remote desktop kiosk setups, and state compliant customer information databases on one side... To 'normal' things like setting up file servers, network storage backups, email servers, etc.
Personally I was supporting Windows, Linux, and Apple... So no, not just windows. I also was not the only one, I worked with admins from a dozen companies from time to time and pay varied from $40k-55k. Those making $55k were in their 50's and had started (often at these companies) during the 70's or at most 80's...
It's typical for the state of Pennsylvania outside Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, or Philly... Actually I made slightly less.... Went back to school for business because I can certainly do anything my bosses ever did and they made 2-10x what I did...
There is a light at an intersection in the middle of nowhere along my morning drive that has a 5 second green light, if you don't start going as soon as it turns green you won't make it through. That is without ice and snow, both of which make it harder to get going. It is quite possible at such a light to sit at it while it's red, have trouble getting started, and 'run the red' because you haven't cleared the intersection. God forbid you have people behind you who actually think they can make it.
Americans have fought other Americans several times in our history. The side currently in power will declare any resistance as terrorists, murders, and nut job radicals so our armed forces have little problem pulling the trigger on them.
I''m in an area that is vaguely serviced by Verizon and otherwise actually serviced by Time Warner. So regardless I'm expecting false positives from them and no recourse.
As for Municipal broadband... It's illegal where I live thanks to their efforts (this includes the whole state).
Um you do realize that Japanese schools teach english right? Most Japanese people have at least spent 3 years (sometimes 6) learning english before they even get to the college level. Now most learn from other Japanese people so their accent sucks (hence the term 'engrish'), but most of the people who have gone through Japanese schools since the 50's have some concept of english...
Now obviously in atypical workday where everyone is natively similar I'd expect them to speak Japanese rather than bad english at each other, but you seem to be suggesting that the Japanese don't want to learn english... Yet they all do (how much they remember is a different story).
Actually a 'perfectly' free market would imply companies could bring anyone in they wanted to work for them. The Government actually keeps them from being able to completely flood the market with workers willing to work whatever amount they are willing to take and nuking our internal market. The current system at least limits the raw numbers coming in (though obviously not enough with about half of the entire tech industry being visa holders). If they were limited entirely to the US market however I have a feeling that many of them would simply create offshore sites and still hire about as much foreign labor as they do now.
I tried to argue this with my mom (who is nearing 60 now) and she said to me 'If they were bombing our town here you wouldn't have a problem with this!" I replied "Yes! Yes I would!" and she refused to believe me... Something that is ineffective is always something ineffective and the fact that I have to give up my freedoms (and time) so someone else can 'feel safe' is appalling.
Actually I have heard some people complain that 'home cooked' food is making kids fat... And they were serious about insisting on legeslation.... So maybe someday... I rather hope I'm dead before such stupidity...
Because your intention does not create a crime, the act does. 'Assault' as a legal term is any 'unwanted physical contact' and the one receiving the contact decides if it was wanted or not. Mistaken identity is not a valid defense for assault.
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How about we just make things more fair by giving men a paternity leave when they have children? That way both parents can be home with the newborn and form those ever important bonds with their offspring... You know like certain more evolved countries already do...
Oh wait... what am I saying... we obviously could never do that...
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In many real ways we are already in a economy where capital is the only success factor. Their are some great picture representations of this which show wealth by population percentile. They show the bottom 40% (in the us) share less than a percent of wealth and our `middle class` that middle 20% share about 4% of the wealth. The top 40% get the rest (and the lower half of that shares around 10%). All together that leaves the top 20% of the population with their oft quoted 80% of the countries wealth.
I`ve seen studies that follow movement between percentiles and it really says that outside a miarcle upward mobility is nonexistent. So capital really does decide your place in the economy, even now.
This is actually what the mexican farmers have been saying about NAFTA and it's effect on them. Even what had been luxury food products could be farmed cheaper in the US than they could in mexico and so farms started dying out. Some have struggled to hang on, but they are a minority.
Now that is the mexican farmer take on the subject, I have no idea how true it is.
Maybe it's just me, but as someone without a 3D printer I somehow doubt that a almost completely plastic 3D printed gun is cheaper than say a $50 handgun from the pawnshop...
So that explains all those old school CEOs who go to exotic places to shoot things being so damn stupid...
Even if the story is true... It takes 3 failures of both gun safety and intelligence to get there:
1. Manage to be stupid enough to not only keep your shotgun loaded, but with a round chambered.
2. Manage not to have a safety on.
3. Ask someone barely big enough to carry the item to you.
Ok, maybe you do keep your gun loaded, I personally wouldn't unless I was in a 'warzone' or had immediate cause to have a loaded gun handy. Heck with things like clips of ammo and speed loaders the need to keep a weapon loaded is very very low. Even classic break-open (ie breech loading) shotguns aren't usually kept loaded as it takes only a second or two to slap in a cartridge and be ready to fire.
However if you fail all three steps then you have truly proved yourself an idiot and certainly should never have owned a firearm.
Actually I have, and the Nvidia drivers did just as bad in my experience. Neither set of binary blob drivers wanted to install and function in 3D. Having said that I haven't used anything newer than a Radeon HD 6970. Maybe it's not true for some newer cards, but my linux 3D experience was a non starter.
I cannot believe people still complain about this. In the last five years I've built many a system, some with Nvidia cards and some with AMD cards and frankly I've never seen any serious graphics issues with either brand. The biggest issue I've seen has actually been overheating and that has far more to do with standard case design and default fan settings on the cards...
Stardock loves to remind me regularly that for a couple of dollars I can have the start menu again in Windows 8... Though I'm not running windows 8 anywhere, so I have little need for their software. If a 3rd party can do it, I'm sure MS could as well... The question becomes do they want to do that. Personally I don't think they do, screenshots of Blue show that so far they haven't bothered.
They could do, you know, what police used to do before they all became lazy. Back in the day we called it 'Walking a beat'. You know we'd go and assign them a neighbor and they could direct lost kids home, help old ladies cross the street, etc. All sorts of little things they did made neighborhoods want to have a cop around, rather then never wanting to see them. Not that there weren't bad cops back then, there were, but even the bad ones tended to do some good... Now 'innocent' people don't trust them and they only seem to do crap like this story....
Admittedly this was nearly five years ago now, so details I recall are a little blurry... But I know it had 3 RAID cards in it... I'm assuming each ran 2 sets of IDE ports (2 channels per card). I have no idea why it had those, it just did. I spent $0 and put a bunch of junk in one place. Win/win for me... Oh yeah... and it did serve webpages... so win/win/win...?
I've done this before in an old 'server' I was re-using. As is typical this had been laying around in the server room for 7 or 8 years even after it had been replaced (once upon a time it ran WinNT). My company at the time gave me no budget and said they wanted our website (which not even 500 people a year ever looked at) moved inhouse. So I repurposed this guy and seeing as how the enclosure was designed to hold a dozen or so drive I stuffed it full of old 40 GB drives I'd pulled from desktops and set up a RAID 5 arrangement with 10 of them. Was never really any reason not to do it. It made an ok little linux webserver running a CLI environment for remote access.
You'll note I said "outside Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, or Philly". I could move an hour south to Pittsburgh and make similar, but up here by lake erie where I own a house (which is unlikely to ever sell as the market is dead) wages are stagnant and low to begin with. On the other hand 40k here means you can own a house, car, and with some work support a family (my own parents never made more than 50k combined here).
Sure if you consider budgeting, planning, and executing large IT projects 'helpdesk'. Those range from building mesh wireless networks (when wireless was still 'new'), linux remote desktop kiosk setups, and state compliant customer information databases on one side... To 'normal' things like setting up file servers, network storage backups, email servers, etc.
Personally I was supporting Windows, Linux, and Apple... So no, not just windows. I also was not the only one, I worked with admins from a dozen companies from time to time and pay varied from $40k-55k. Those making $55k were in their 50's and had started (often at these companies) during the 70's or at most 80's...
It's typical for the state of Pennsylvania outside Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, or Philly... Actually I made slightly less.... Went back to school for business because I can certainly do anything my bosses ever did and they made 2-10x what I did...
There is a light at an intersection in the middle of nowhere along my morning drive that has a 5 second green light, if you don't start going as soon as it turns green you won't make it through. That is without ice and snow, both of which make it harder to get going. It is quite possible at such a light to sit at it while it's red, have trouble getting started, and 'run the red' because you haven't cleared the intersection. God forbid you have people behind you who actually think they can make it.
Americans have fought other Americans several times in our history. The side currently in power will declare any resistance as terrorists, murders, and nut job radicals so our armed forces have little problem pulling the trigger on them.
I''m in an area that is vaguely serviced by Verizon and otherwise actually serviced by Time Warner. So regardless I'm expecting false positives from them and no recourse.
As for Municipal broadband... It's illegal where I live thanks to their efforts (this includes the whole state).
Um you do realize that Japanese schools teach english right? Most Japanese people have at least spent 3 years (sometimes 6) learning english before they even get to the college level. Now most learn from other Japanese people so their accent sucks (hence the term 'engrish'), but most of the people who have gone through Japanese schools since the 50's have some concept of english...
Now obviously in atypical workday where everyone is natively similar I'd expect them to speak Japanese rather than bad english at each other, but you seem to be suggesting that the Japanese don't want to learn english... Yet they all do (how much they remember is a different story).
Actually a 'perfectly' free market would imply companies could bring anyone in they wanted to work for them. The Government actually keeps them from being able to completely flood the market with workers willing to work whatever amount they are willing to take and nuking our internal market. The current system at least limits the raw numbers coming in (though obviously not enough with about half of the entire tech industry being visa holders). If they were limited entirely to the US market however I have a feeling that many of them would simply create offshore sites and still hire about as much foreign labor as they do now.
I tried to argue this with my mom (who is nearing 60 now) and she said to me 'If they were bombing our town here you wouldn't have a problem with this!" I replied "Yes! Yes I would!" and she refused to believe me... Something that is ineffective is always something ineffective and the fact that I have to give up my freedoms (and time) so someone else can 'feel safe' is appalling.
I'm a registered independent and frankly I think that soap dish would be better then 4 years form either of them...
Actually I have heard some people complain that 'home cooked' food is making kids fat... And they were serious about insisting on legeslation.... So maybe someday... I rather hope I'm dead before such stupidity...
Because your intention does not create a crime, the act does. 'Assault' as a legal term is any 'unwanted physical contact' and the one receiving the contact decides if it was wanted or not. Mistaken identity is not a valid defense for assault.
How about we just make things more fair by giving men a paternity leave when they have children? That way both parents can be home with the newborn and form those ever important bonds with their offspring... You know like certain more evolved countries already do...
Oh wait... what am I saying... we obviously could never do that...