Some 18 year old who finished high school at 16 and college at 18. Complained that he/she barely manages to pay his or her bills.
Or to paraphrase: Whaaaa, I'm 18 and not rich!
Most of them are useless idiots, some I do feel bad for. I'm swinging towards supporting a pseudo single-payer system, health care seems to be the biggest problem. In terms of education - end easy student loans for Basket Weaving degrees. If you are demonstrably intelligent you should get free college through grants/subsidies. Otherwise you should pay for it. By limiting the _demand_ for college education we will force prices down.
If every Tom, Dick, and Harry can get $100k in loans, why _wouldn't_ the higher education system make $100k (or more) the price of an education?
We need to stop the lie that college degree=automatic success. Instead have more trade schools, and send most capable to college.
Easy - how dominant is the iPhone now compared to 2 years ago? It's a trick question because the iPhone isn't dominant now, Android phones (granted, from multiple manufacturers) outsell them.
I'm not talking about now, or even 1 or 2 years. I'm talking 5 years from now. It's the Mac all over again.
One company can not compete with 10+ in terms of hardware innovation. Apple can release a phone maybe once a year, there's a new Android super-phone out every 3 months, and lesser new Android phones even more often.
Android lacks some of the polish of iOS, but it's gaining yearly.
Jesus, no shit. I was waiting for my wife to order something at Starbucks like a week ago, sitting there looking out the window. Up rolls this total douchebag in a cool little hat, cool clothes, riding a cool bike and toting a worn looking bag.
He proceeded to come in and sit in the corner, and start pulling his little Macbook out of the bag, along with some kind of food wrapped in aluminum foil. The then proceeded to sit there and eat and type away on his trendy little Mac book.
It was so utterly stereotypical that I thought I was on some kind of hidden camera show and he'd get up and act like he was choking any minute and try to make out with me or something (for the lulz). But nothing happened, I think he _really was_ just a total fucking hipster douche.
No shit. Literally every 3rd or 4th time I've gone to Starbucks (which takes like a year) there's some fucking douchebag with hipster wear and a MacBook or iPad sitting in the cornet eating something wrapped in aluminum foil. I think they skateboard or bike there with their own food (for some odd reason) and sit there and Apple out. It's a strange phenomenon.
These days, shouldn't they be out at some "we are the 99%" rally or something anyway? Isn't Starbucks a bit too "corporate"?
Sales of ironically overlarge non-functional fashion glasses, skinny pants, and funny hats will concomitantly go up in direct proportion to iPhone 5 sales.
Your point is infantile. Please explain how India and China have lifted themselves up from primitive hellholes to powerhouse, world class economies. I'm sure it was on the back of shitloads of fair labor laws.
I get what you're trying to do - conflate a myriad of issues with third world hellholes into a simple "Durr, labor laws!" point, but nobody with any sense believes it.
"Fair" - isn't that something children and incompetents believe exists? The government exists to protect our basic rights, not enforce "fairness". It's hardly fair that good looking guys get all the best looking women - I will make this a major campaign point when I run for President.
I wonder if all those polling companies (Gallup, Rasmussen, etc...) have their ducks in a row, because I'm about to go medieval on their asses.
"Process for the use of inquiry to determine prevailing public opinion on a manner of issues relevant to the interests of various media interests including but not limited to advertisers, news agencies, and political organizations."
He was going to have 6 well armed people outside the doors shooting people as they escaped. And even a small explosion would probably drive people out of the building.
Fanboi says what? Intel's GPUs are perfectly fine for media (Bluray, h.264 mkvs, whatever). You must be thinking of gaming, where they're barely adequate for low res gaming.
You have choice - you elected people to spend your money.
And you get more than you paid in in return from taxes. Maybe you're a big spender, but I can't afford to implement the Air Force, or to pave my own roads, my own private police force, etc.. Furthermore, you don't have to pay taxes if you don't work.
More importantly - taxes go towards a public concern, they are spent by all of us collectively.
This mandate is closer in relation to a citizenship requirement which is not legal. "You must purchase this product to be a US citizen."
Yeah, this is the obvious left wing loon's wet dream. Out here in the real world the entire bill would be struck down. They're not going to keep everything else but get rid of the mandate. But good luck in fantasy land.
Insurance company profit margins are typically in the 3-4% range. I'd love to see a reputable study and an apples to apples comparison. Considering all the Medicare fraud, I'd say 3% is a hopeful and blatant lie.
Did you strain any of your muscles making that ridiculous contorted argument? I pay tax money, and elected officials spend that money. This is somehow the same as forcing me to purchase a product? Right...
Wait, I don't get your hippie logic. Is the SC a "corporate arm" for enforcing ObamaCare (which makes people buy products from...corporations) or for shooting it down (...?...).
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Yeah, it's not like all that income and profit is used to create jobs or buy goods and services. They exist outside economic reality, right?
Some 18 year old who finished high school at 16 and college at 18. Complained that he/she barely manages to pay his or her bills.
Or to paraphrase: Whaaaa, I'm 18 and not rich!
Most of them are useless idiots, some I do feel bad for. I'm swinging towards supporting a pseudo single-payer system, health care seems to be the biggest problem. In terms of education - end easy student loans for Basket Weaving degrees. If you are demonstrably intelligent you should get free college through grants/subsidies. Otherwise you should pay for it. By limiting the _demand_ for college education we will force prices down.
If every Tom, Dick, and Harry can get $100k in loans, why _wouldn't_ the higher education system make $100k (or more) the price of an education?
We need to stop the lie that college degree=automatic success. Instead have more trade schools, and send most capable to college.
Yeah, this story is silly. First, USB 3.0 is hardly used at all yet. It's not exactly obscure, but nor is it used daily by people.
Second, Thunderbolt hasn't made its way into the chipsets yet, so of course it's not available from anyone but a custom impl (Apple).
Easy - how dominant is the iPhone now compared to 2 years ago? It's a trick question because the iPhone isn't dominant now, Android phones (granted, from multiple manufacturers) outsell them.
I'm not talking about now, or even 1 or 2 years. I'm talking 5 years from now. It's the Mac all over again.
One company can not compete with 10+ in terms of hardware innovation. Apple can release a phone maybe once a year, there's a new Android super-phone out every 3 months, and lesser new Android phones even more often.
Android lacks some of the polish of iOS, but it's gaining yearly.
Here are some facts. PS: If you use them for anything, we'll sue you.
If you asked every English speaker on the continent the definition of an "American", the majority would say "someone from the USA".
So your petty pedantry is noted and dismissed as being incorrect.
The Shuffle is inferior in almost every way to the Sansa Clip Zip or Clip+.
Jesus, no shit. I was waiting for my wife to order something at Starbucks like a week ago, sitting there looking out the window. Up rolls this total douchebag in a cool little hat, cool clothes, riding a cool bike and toting a worn looking bag.
He proceeded to come in and sit in the corner, and start pulling his little Macbook out of the bag, along with some kind of food wrapped in aluminum foil. The then proceeded to sit there and eat and type away on his trendy little Mac book.
It was so utterly stereotypical that I thought I was on some kind of hidden camera show and he'd get up and act like he was choking any minute and try to make out with me or something (for the lulz). But nothing happened, I think he _really was_ just a total fucking hipster douche.
No shit. Literally every 3rd or 4th time I've gone to Starbucks (which takes like a year) there's some fucking douchebag with hipster wear and a MacBook or iPad sitting in the cornet eating something wrapped in aluminum foil. I think they skateboard or bike there with their own food (for some odd reason) and sit there and Apple out. It's a strange phenomenon.
These days, shouldn't they be out at some "we are the 99%" rally or something anyway? Isn't Starbucks a bit too "corporate"?
Sales of ironically overlarge non-functional fashion glasses, skinny pants, and funny hats will concomitantly go up in direct proportion to iPhone 5 sales.
Your point is infantile. Please explain how India and China have lifted themselves up from primitive hellholes to powerhouse, world class economies. I'm sure it was on the back of shitloads of fair labor laws.
I get what you're trying to do - conflate a myriad of issues with third world hellholes into a simple "Durr, labor laws!" point, but nobody with any sense believes it.
"Fair" - isn't that something children and incompetents believe exists? The government exists to protect our basic rights, not enforce "fairness". It's hardly fair that good looking guys get all the best looking women - I will make this a major campaign point when I run for President.
Ahh, misplaced sarcasm, the second lamest sarcasm (next to plausible sarcasm).
I wonder if all those polling companies (Gallup, Rasmussen, etc...) have their ducks in a row, because I'm about to go medieval on their asses.
"Process for the use of inquiry to determine prevailing public opinion on a manner of issues relevant to the interests of various media interests including but not limited to advertisers, news agencies, and political organizations."
Pay up, bitches.
He was going to have 6 well armed people outside the doors shooting people as they escaped. And even a small explosion would probably drive people out of the building.
Yeah, more than likely he's a Unitarian.
Nonsense, Intel's GPUs include this as well.
Fanboi says what? Intel's GPUs are perfectly fine for media (Bluray, h.264 mkvs, whatever). You must be thinking of gaming, where they're barely adequate for low res gaming.
You have choice - you elected people to spend your money.
And you get more than you paid in in return from taxes. Maybe you're a big spender, but I can't afford to implement the Air Force, or to pave my own roads, my own private police force, etc.. Furthermore, you don't have to pay taxes if you don't work.
More importantly - taxes go towards a public concern, they are spent by all of us collectively.
This mandate is closer in relation to a citizenship requirement which is not legal. "You must purchase this product to be a US citizen."
Yeah, this is the obvious left wing loon's wet dream. Out here in the real world the entire bill would be struck down. They're not going to keep everything else but get rid of the mandate. But good luck in fantasy land.
Amazing, you mean if I pay a shitload more in taxes I can save less of that shitload on cheaper insurance?! Why, sign me up - I don't like money!
Insurance company profit margins are typically in the 3-4% range. I'd love to see a reputable study and an apples to apples comparison. Considering all the Medicare fraud, I'd say 3% is a hopeful and blatant lie.
Did you strain any of your muscles making that ridiculous contorted argument? I pay tax money, and elected officials spend that money. This is somehow the same as forcing me to purchase a product? Right...
Wait, I don't get your hippie logic. Is the SC a "corporate arm" for enforcing ObamaCare (which makes people buy products from...corporations) or for shooting it down (...?...).