Damn, if we had any real space capability in the US, 42 years after we walked on the Moon, we'd have been waiting to go out and catch the sucker, and bring it into a stable orbit at geosync. Then we'd have a *real* space station, to handle all kinds of communication, to beam solar power down, and as a station for interplanetary ships....
I read about someone who responded to them with a carefully written contract, saying that they have the email address for business purposes, and by emailing him at that address, they were entering into a business relationship with him. In doing so, they were liable for his billing purposes, and that every email would be billed at his normal billing, in hour increments.
And that continuing to email him was considered an agreement of terms. And ask them to kindly provide their billing address.... and legal service address.
So, 15 of those spam - surely you value yourself at $60 or $100US/hr, if it's consulting on your own time - should be worth a pleasant $900 or $1500US/week for you.
Hasn't everyone here had one or more of them; esp. in the public colleges, where they are required to admit easily (or everyone)? The class that's always a lecture class, with one or three hundred students, that is designed to take your money, and flunk you out?
The one I had that comes to mind (I did pass) around '91 or '92 was at UT at Austin, where I was required to take a course in formal logic. Part way through the term, I caught the professor after class, and was told, and I quote, not paraphrase, "Don't try to understand it, just figure out how to crank out the answers".
I nearly - maybe I should have - called him out on that. Certainly, what ran through my mind was that I was paying *my* money for an education, not for "figure out how to pass your tests". It is still my opinion that I was defrauded, that I did *not* get what I was paying for.
There are folks who think the technology of microwave ovens was given to us by aliens. But then, esp. in the US, we have the worst math and science ed among the general populace of any industrialized nation.
The reason I know there's been no contact is that there have been *zero* amazing breakthroughs in the last century. We can look at every bit of original research that led to all technological advances.
Had we actually had contact with aliens, even if they didn't give us technology, there would have been scientists (and every form known of observation) aimed at them, and just knowing that something (say, anti-gravity, or force fields) existed, would lead a very strong line of rapid development, to where we'd have something that did something like it, if it wasn't the same.
It was the late eighties that I suggested two Mac add-ons for Macaholic friends:
1) it dices! It chops! The ultimate kitchen aid, straight from recipe to food: the VegeMactic!
2) It sharpens scissors and knives! Get perfect edges from your computer: Mac the Knife.
In the early eighties, Philly Community College, where I worked, got 80% or 90% of the tuition for its students from Pell Grants. We also had the best educated workforce.
Colleges raise their rates because there's more funding for more students? And here I thought there were economies of scale.
No. The right really does mean what they said a few years ago: they want to roll back the entire New Deal, and all protections for working folks (that's you and me, turkeys - ain't no millionaires reading slashdot, we all work for a paycheck), and child labor laws, and on and on. The result is described by the phrase "wage slavery"; that's where they use you till they use you up, then discard you (at least slaves had to be fed, clothed, and housed).
Take off your hats, or tug your forelocks to your masters, including Paul; otherwise, you need to learn your place...pee-on*.
mark
* Which is the only part of "trickle down" that gets to 95% of us.
Spamhaus, and the other similar site, do more than "just" block IP addresses. A few years ago, when I lived in Chicago, one of them blocked not my IP, but the ENTIRE RANGE of my ISP - that is, they blocked the mailhost for RoadRunner Chicago, which was *the* major ISP for all of the city of Chicago. Frequently, on the CentOS mailing list, my email bounces, because my email, coming out of my hosting provider, is blocked. My provider - hostmonster/bluehost - has *thousands* or tens of thousands of domains' email coming in and out of a given named mailserver, which asserts one IP... and if one or more of those (usually WinDoze) folks get infected and send out crap, *everyone's* mailserver is blocked.
Their approach is *wrong*, It imagines that everyone has a static IP, and their mail coming out of that, not the reality of today.
I haven't worked anywhere without version control in 20 years. And we had stuff on m'frames, too. The folks running your new shop are idiots, and ignorant idiots. Both hands on the gun, and taking time to aim, and squeeze the trigger like a lemon, to shoot themselves in the foot.
In *real* professional shops, we had (actually, I helped build) automated systems that extracted the current release ever single 0-dark-thirty in the morning from our VCS and rebuilt production, every single day.
Keep your options open for other jobs, I'm afraid.
1. Will they have on-chip hardware mediated encryption (for, say, stolen devices)? 2. Will there be a setting to force a complete reset (or do you want to have to buy a replacement to
get rid of that pesky malware... and given the venal nature of companies, will they deliberately
*not* provide that, to increase sales?
14 years ago, I was working with a group that was among the best and brightest I ever worked with.. My managers and I *liked* each other (no PHB bosses, there - the PHB was in another team....)
According to a close friend, who's also a degreed, practicing clinical psychologist, I was *that* close to clinical burnout.
How many hours is your usual day, or week? Is it over 50 hrs/wk? 60? How tired are you?
I hated leaving them, but exhaustion won out (and my...late... wife being only semi-joking about suing them for alienation of affection). Will the new job be as good as the old... or more exhausting, and more and more hours? Remember, whatever management thinks, you're working to live, not living to work for them.
The current laws basically mean a license to print money, AND NOTHING ELSE. Patents exist in US law under Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Note that it says LIMITED TIMES, not forever. We know that it is hostile to innovation in software; the same is true everywhere. And then there's drugs, with insane prices, which, once the patent expires, are produced generically for a fraction the price. And on, and on.
Let's go back to patent law of a century ago... AND NO SOFTWARE PATENTS. Copyrights (or lefts), fine... but we need to roll back the damn DMCA, too.
"Business cycles less volatile over time"? So, we're not in the middle of a Depression (self-proclaimed and degreed economists can visit the lake, head first)? Sorry, that's only true when there's serious social control over economies. The US massively deregulated... and they're back, in spades. Deregulation can directly be related to the S&L debacle of the late eighties, and again with the tech bubble, and again with the current collapse. There is not one single economic hypothesis (theories are repeatably testable) that takes the fact that at least 15% of upper management of corporations are thieves and scam artists.
Oh, and the green revolution? That got replaced with GM crops, which require buying new seed, and you're not *allowed* to save seed, even if it would germinate (many are mules).
Plus, of course, massive overpopulation. The world now has over twice as many people as it did when I was 16.
Question for the student: if you say you'll cut back the water hyacinths in your pond when they cover half the pond, and it takes 30 days for them to cover the pond, what day do you have to cut them back? What day are *we* in, now?
I just looked at the pictures of the blue hollows - and in addition to finding the landscape awfully regular, almost like a pattern of crystallization, it struck me that the layout of the hollows also looked a *lot* like the article from yesterday, about checking the pattern of radiation in your microwave oven.
Which leads to the question as to whether they're mapping microwave weather from the Sun.
Given that they used to use iron oxide coatings, a torch would do; you don't need to melt them, just hit the Curie point.
And a sledge is *so* satisfying.
On the other hand, at work, we had some old SCSI drives that were, quote, too big to fit in the frame of the Center's deGausser, so we disassembled the drives. Torx, I think the itty bitty screws were....
I'm running CentOS on my workstation at work (and at home), and 90% of our close-to-200 servers and workstations are, also. We're slowly rolling out 6.0 (and waiting for 6.1), but I just checked, and I think everyone has mysql 5.x, and CentOS 6 also has php 5.3.2-6 (spare me the "that's soooo ooooollllld", kiddies). It's *solid* (exactly equivalent to RHEL) - you're not going to waste time debugging the o/s, and I've almost *never* had an update that broke anything.
Wouldn't it make more sense, rather than huge, Cathedral-style* records management, to publish and then enforce standard record formats? That way, the base data (at least, if not all of your medical records) could fit on a card or USB key, and would be no problem handing your records to a new doctor when you move, or change medical coverage (I'm in the uncivilized US) and are forced to change doctors.
How soon will we see AIs building websites, and content?
More important, at least 90% of the entire population right now makes a lot less than $100k, and, at least in the US, real wages have fallen to below 1996 levels (according to the news story this week).
As it is, most jobs replacing the well-paid, frequently union manufacturing jobs are "service sector" jobs: nurses' aides, pizza delivery, call centers, and construction. Even in the US, construction can't keep going up; *nothing* can (or did y'all want to live on Trantor, with food brought in from other farm planets (assuming we can terraform Mars, say)?).
I've been trying to start a public conversation about this for a bunch of years: how can most of the population *live*, when the jobs ain't there? And please don't tell me they'll have time to turn to New Things, given how many people merely become couch potatoes.
So what do we do? Maybe take a page from Alaska, and have companies assign stock to the gov't, and pay dividends, and that goes as a reverse income tax to the rest of us?
For our HPC clusters, we run torque on Linux (CentOS), which is descended, I believe, from beowulf. No scaling problems at all. Get servers with the most cores you can afford, put this on, and away you go.
I will note that the code has to be aware of parallelism, and fork.
From : The NIH Biowulf cluster is a GNU/Linux parallel processing system designed and built at the National Institutes of Health and managed by the Helix Systems Staff. Biowulf consists of a main login node and 2300 compute nodes with a combined processor core count of over 12000. The computational nodes are connected to high-speed networks and have access to high-performance fileservers.
And it's been running here for years.
Someone asked "why do this, and not rent cloud space?" We'll skip my rant about cloud space, and cut to the chase: in our division, I know of at least one person who runs jobs on one of our clusters, between 10 and 48 servers, ranging from old 4 core to newer 48 core machines... and his jobs can run, literally, for weeks. And they use a *lot* of the full power of the cluster. There's more folks who run jobs on the same clusters (things like protein folding modelling) that "only" run for 3-5 days; again, eating most of the CPU on the clusters.
That's why. Oh, and let's not forget funding....
mark, who speaks neither for the US Federal Gov't, nor my employer; I speak for me (got a problem with that?)
Pick any project that's not *too* huge, and preferably not GUI, because that adds many more layers to try to understand. What I do, when I've started new jobs, was to look at the main{}, and see what it does, to try to get an overview. Then I'll look at whatever calls I need to understand for what I've been asked to work on. I'll continue working at the highest level, until I get to what needs fixing or enhancement: that way, I try to avoid breaking something else by seeing where the changes will correctly fit.
If you find spaghetti code - one function hundreds of lines long, if it's not moving 5,543,540 fields, go elsewhere. Or rewrite it modularly. Correct modular code does *one* thing well, not 5 things confusingly. That way lies maintenance hell (as I like to say in interviews, job security is *not* "never let them know what you're doing", it's if I get a phone call at 16:45 on a Friday, or 02:15 some day, I do *not* want to spend hours figuring out how clever I, or someone else, had been a year or two before; I want to solve the problem and get back to leaving or sleeping).
Really, a friend noted that Tuli Kupferberg said that Marx's description was dead on, but his solution didn't work, years ago.
On the other hand, in every country outside the US, one of the two or three major parties are *socialists* (try reading the British Labour party's own information; I'll just note that their official anthem is The Red Flag).
Capitalism under *some* control sorta-kinda worked, but since the late seventies, all control, some of which was agreed to by the biggest capitalists in the first half of the 20th century (looking up who created the Fed is left as an exercise for the student: hint: the crash of '07), has been rolled back and rolled back, and the crashes are much worse, and more frequent.
We'll note that the Tea Party and friends are fascists[1] who don't want to admit it. We'll also note that they actively do not believe in society nor community, and that *everything* should be monetized[2].
Socialism, as practised in the world outside the US, is social control over the means of production, among other things.[3]
So let's go on, since "unbridled capitalism" clearly doesn't work.[4].
mark
1. Someone who speaks with authority on fascism, Benito Mussolini, the first fascist dictator, liked to quote that "fascism is more properly called corporatism, since it's the merger of state and corporate power". 2. Which suggests that those that are married aren't, and that they ought to be paying their live-in mistresses or misters. 3. As opposed to the US. For example, around '96, there was a news story about Walmart moving into the outside of a town somewhere out west (US), and, with the exception of the drug store, drove every single business in the town out of business. Then, five years later, Walmart decided they weren't making enough profit, and closed the store, telling the town to drive to another store 30 mi. away. 4. It's like AI: whatever rules are let go, and there are still no more jobs, and more crashes, then that's not Real unbridled capitalism.
I don't know how this guy comes up with this crap - let's talk Big Lie, why don't we? How man straight programmers, oh, sorry, "developers", who make $150k/yr, except maybe living in Silicon Valley? I've lived in Philly, Austin, Chicago, the Space Coast of FL, and now DC, and with the highest salary of my career, I can see $100k coming... about the time I retire.
"Old skills" (COBOL, C) - where's the budget, *ANYWHERE* for training at any company? How many times have any of you been handed the chance to learn the newest, latest fad language of the year (never mind no one will be using it in two more years)? It's been 10 or 15 years for me.
Let's also not forget that HR department angle in all this: the 95% of them (it's "only" 45% or so among recruiters) who have no idea of what they're hiring for, and DO NOT CARE to learn (even though they'd be able to do their jobs better, and provide more value to the company), and so only know the acronyms they've been given, or looked up without the hiring manager telling them what's actually needed, and requiring additional degrees, and not accepting equivalent experience.
Oh, and there's always the point that H1-B's and the newly graduated, these days, will work for a *lot* less, in absolute dollars, than we started at decades ago.
I've been the oldest on my team for quite a number of years. I edit my resume to skip the first so-many years, and started resorting to dying my hair years back, right before I got a job where my manager turned 30 while I was there.
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Damn, if we had any real space capability in the US, 42 years after we walked on the Moon, we'd have been waiting to go out and catch the sucker, and bring it into a stable orbit at geosync. Then we'd have a *real* space station, to handle all kinds of communication, to beam solar power down, and as a station for interplanetary ships....
mark
I read about someone who responded to them with a carefully written contract, saying that they have the email address for business purposes, and by emailing him at that address, they were entering into a business relationship with him. In doing so, they were liable for his billing purposes, and that every email would be billed at his normal billing, in hour increments.
And that continuing to email him was considered an agreement of terms. And ask them to kindly provide their billing address.... and legal service address.
So, 15 of those spam - surely you value yourself at $60 or $100US/hr, if it's consulting on your own time - should be worth a pleasant $900 or $1500US/week for you.
mark
Hasn't everyone here had one or more of them; esp. in the public colleges, where they are required to admit easily (or everyone)? The class that's always a lecture class, with one or three hundred students, that is designed to take your money, and flunk you out?
The one I had that comes to mind (I did pass) around '91 or '92 was at UT at Austin, where I was required to take a course in formal logic. Part way through the term, I caught the professor after class, and was told, and I quote, not paraphrase, "Don't try to understand it, just figure out how to crank out the answers".
I nearly - maybe I should have - called him out on that. Certainly, what ran through my mind was that I was paying *my* money for an education, not for "figure out how to pass your tests". It is still my opinion that I was defrauded, that I did *not* get what I was paying for.
mark
There are folks who think the technology of microwave ovens was given to us by aliens. But then, esp. in the US, we have the worst math and science ed among the general populace of any industrialized nation.
The reason I know there's been no contact is that there have been *zero* amazing breakthroughs in the last century. We can look at every bit of original research that led to all technological advances.
Had we actually had contact with aliens, even if they didn't give us technology, there would have been scientists (and every form known of observation) aimed at them, and just knowing that something (say, anti-gravity, or force fields) existed, would lead a very strong line of rapid development, to where we'd have something that did something like it, if it wasn't the same.
mark
It was the late eighties that I suggested two Mac add-ons for Macaholic friends:
1) it dices! It chops! The ultimate kitchen aid, straight from recipe to food: the VegeMactic!
2) It sharpens scissors and knives! Get perfect edges from your computer: Mac the Knife.
mark
In the early eighties, Philly Community College, where I worked, got 80% or 90% of the tuition for its students from Pell Grants. We also had the best educated workforce.
Colleges raise their rates because there's more funding for more students? And here I thought there were economies of scale.
No. The right really does mean what they said a few years ago: they want to roll back the entire New Deal, and all protections for working folks (that's you and me, turkeys - ain't no millionaires reading slashdot, we all work for a paycheck), and child labor laws, and on and on. The result is described by the phrase "wage slavery"; that's where they use you till they use you up, then discard you (at least slaves had to be fed, clothed, and housed).
Take off your hats, or tug your forelocks to your masters, including Paul; otherwise, you need to learn your place...pee-on*.
mark
* Which is the only part of "trickle down" that gets to 95% of us.
I propose we logbox all politicians, including their Blackberrys, so we can see who they're doing favors for, and who's paying them for what they do.
mark
Spamhaus, and the other similar site, do more than "just" block IP addresses. A few years ago, when I lived in Chicago, one of them blocked not my IP, but the ENTIRE RANGE of my ISP - that is, they blocked the mailhost for RoadRunner Chicago, which was *the* major ISP for all of the city of Chicago. Frequently, on the CentOS mailing list, my email bounces, because my email, coming out of my hosting provider, is blocked. My provider - hostmonster/bluehost - has *thousands* or tens of thousands of domains' email coming in and out of a given named mailserver, which asserts one IP... and if one or more of those (usually WinDoze) folks get infected and send out crap, *everyone's* mailserver is blocked.
Their approach is *wrong*, It imagines that everyone has a static IP, and their mail coming out of that, not the reality of today.
mark
I haven't worked anywhere without version control in 20 years. And we had stuff on m'frames, too. The folks running your new shop are idiots, and ignorant idiots. Both hands on the gun, and taking time to aim, and squeeze the trigger like a lemon, to shoot themselves in the foot.
In *real* professional shops, we had (actually, I helped build) automated systems that extracted the current release ever single 0-dark-thirty in the morning from our VCS and rebuilt production, every single day.
Keep your options open for other jobs, I'm afraid.
mark
1. Will they have on-chip hardware mediated encryption (for, say, stolen devices)?
2. Will there be a setting to force a complete reset (or do you want to have to buy a replacement to
get rid of that pesky malware... and given the venal nature of companies, will they deliberately
*not* provide that, to increase sales?
mark
14 years ago, I was working with a group that was among the best and brightest I ever worked with.. My managers and I *liked* each other (no PHB bosses, there - the PHB was in another team....)
According to a close friend, who's also a degreed, practicing clinical psychologist, I was *that* close to clinical burnout.
How many hours is your usual day, or week? Is it over 50 hrs/wk? 60? How tired are you?
I hated leaving them, but exhaustion won out (and my ...late... wife being only semi-joking about suing them for alienation of affection). Will the new job be as good as the old... or more exhausting, and more and more hours? Remember, whatever management thinks, you're working to live, not living to work for them.
mark
The current laws basically mean a license to print money, AND NOTHING ELSE. Patents exist in US law under Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, known as the Copyright Clause, empowers the United States Congress:
“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Note that it says LIMITED TIMES, not forever. We know that it is hostile to innovation in software; the same is true everywhere. And then there's drugs, with insane prices, which, once the patent expires, are produced generically for a fraction the price. And on, and on.
Let's go back to patent law of a century ago... AND NO SOFTWARE PATENTS. Copyrights (or lefts), fine... but we need to roll back the damn DMCA, too.
mark
"Business cycles less volatile over time"? So, we're not in the middle of a Depression (self-proclaimed and degreed economists can visit the lake, head first)? Sorry, that's only true when there's serious social control over economies. The US massively deregulated... and they're back, in spades. Deregulation can directly be related to the S&L debacle of the late eighties, and again with the tech bubble, and again with the current collapse. There is not one single economic hypothesis (theories are repeatably testable) that takes the fact that at least 15% of upper management of corporations are thieves and scam artists.
Oh, and the green revolution? That got replaced with GM crops, which require buying new seed, and you're not *allowed* to save seed, even if it would germinate (many are mules).
Plus, of course, massive overpopulation. The world now has over twice as many people as it did when I was 16.
Question for the student: if you say you'll cut back the water hyacinths in your pond when they cover half the pond, and it takes 30 days for them to cover the pond, what day do you have to cut them back? What day are *we* in, now?
mark
I just looked at the pictures of the blue hollows - and in addition to finding the landscape awfully regular, almost like a pattern of crystallization, it struck me that the layout of the hollows also looked a *lot* like the article from yesterday, about checking the pattern of radiation in your microwave oven.
Which leads to the question as to whether they're mapping microwave weather from the Sun.
mark
Given that they used to use iron oxide coatings, a torch would do; you don't need to melt them, just hit the Curie point.
And a sledge is *so* satisfying.
On the other hand, at work, we had some old SCSI drives that were, quote, too big to fit in the frame of the Center's deGausser, so we disassembled the drives. Torx, I think the itty bitty screws were....
mark
I'm running CentOS on my workstation at work (and at home), and 90% of our close-to-200 servers and workstations are, also. We're slowly rolling out 6.0 (and waiting for 6.1), but I just checked, and I think everyone has mysql 5.x, and CentOS 6 also has php 5.3.2-6 (spare me the "that's soooo ooooollllld", kiddies). It's *solid* (exactly equivalent to RHEL) - you're not going to waste time debugging the o/s, and I've almost *never* had an update that broke anything.
mark
Wouldn't it make more sense, rather than huge, Cathedral-style* records management, to publish and then enforce standard record formats? That way, the base data (at least, if not all of your medical records) could fit on a card or USB key, and would be no problem handing your records to a new doctor when you move, or change medical coverage (I'm in the uncivilized US) and are forced to change doctors.
mark
Lying at that angle to ride it, I can just see every single accident, and every single time, the rider will go flying forward, headfirst.
At least the long fork bikes have them leaning backwards, with feet first..
mark
Those who touch the screen and leave fingerprints all over it, and those of us who break those people's fingers.
mark "that's why there are keyboards!"
How soon will we see AIs building websites, and content?
More important, at least 90% of the entire population right now makes a lot less than $100k, and, at least in the US, real wages have fallen to below 1996 levels (according to the news story this week).
As it is, most jobs replacing the well-paid, frequently union manufacturing jobs are "service sector" jobs: nurses' aides, pizza delivery, call centers, and construction. Even in the US, construction can't keep going up; *nothing* can (or did y'all want to live on Trantor, with food brought in from other farm planets (assuming we can terraform Mars, say)?).
I've been trying to start a public conversation about this for a bunch of years: how can most of the population *live*, when the jobs ain't there? And please don't tell me they'll have time to turn to New Things, given how many people merely become couch potatoes.
So what do we do? Maybe take a page from Alaska, and have companies assign stock to the gov't, and pay dividends, and that goes as a reverse income tax to the rest of us?
mark
For our HPC clusters, we run torque on Linux (CentOS), which is descended, I believe, from beowulf. No scaling problems at all. Get servers with the most cores you can afford, put this on, and away you go.
I will note that the code has to be aware of parallelism, and fork.
mark
From :
The NIH Biowulf cluster is a GNU/Linux parallel processing system designed and built at the National Institutes of Health and managed by the Helix Systems Staff. Biowulf consists of a main login node and 2300 compute nodes with a combined processor core count of over 12000. The computational nodes are connected to high-speed networks and have access to high-performance fileservers.
And it's been running here for years.
Someone asked "why do this, and not rent cloud space?" We'll skip my rant about cloud space, and cut to the chase: in our division, I know of at least one person who runs jobs on one of our clusters, between 10 and 48 servers, ranging from old 4 core to newer 48 core machines... and his jobs can run, literally, for weeks. And they use a *lot* of the full power of the cluster. There's more folks who run jobs on the same clusters (things like protein folding modelling) that "only" run for 3-5 days; again, eating most of the CPU on the clusters.
That's why. Oh, and let's not forget funding....
mark, who speaks neither for the US Federal Gov't, nor my employer; I speak for me (got a problem with that?)
Pick any project that's not *too* huge, and preferably not GUI, because that adds many more layers to try to understand. What I do, when I've started new jobs, was to look at the main{}, and see what it does, to try to get an overview. Then I'll look at whatever calls I need to understand for what I've been asked to work on. I'll continue working at the highest level, until I get to what needs fixing or enhancement: that way, I try to avoid breaking something else by seeing where the changes will correctly fit.
If you find spaghetti code - one function hundreds of lines long, if it's not moving 5,543,540 fields, go elsewhere. Or rewrite it modularly. Correct modular code does *one* thing well, not 5 things confusingly. That way lies maintenance hell (as I like to say in interviews, job security is *not* "never let them know what you're doing", it's if I get a phone call at 16:45 on a Friday, or 02:15 some day, I do *not* want to spend hours figuring out how clever I, or someone else, had been a year or two before; I want to solve the problem and get back to leaving or sleeping).
mark
...what do we replace capitalism with?
Really, a friend noted that Tuli Kupferberg said that Marx's description was dead on, but his solution didn't work, years ago.
On the other hand, in every country outside the US, one of the two or three major parties are *socialists* (try reading the British Labour party's own information; I'll just note that their official anthem is The Red Flag).
Capitalism under *some* control sorta-kinda worked, but since the late seventies, all control, some of which was agreed to by the biggest capitalists in the first half of the 20th century (looking up who created the Fed is left as an exercise for the student: hint: the crash of '07), has been rolled back and rolled back, and the crashes are much worse, and more frequent.
We'll note that the Tea Party and friends are fascists[1] who don't want to admit it. We'll also note that they actively do not believe in society nor community, and that *everything* should be monetized[2].
Socialism, as practised in the world outside the US, is social control over the means of production, among other things.[3]
So let's go on, since "unbridled capitalism" clearly doesn't work.[4].
mark
1. Someone who speaks with authority on fascism, Benito Mussolini, the first fascist dictator, liked to quote that "fascism is more properly called corporatism, since it's the merger of state and corporate power".
2. Which suggests that those that are married aren't, and that they ought to be paying their live-in mistresses or misters.
3. As opposed to the US. For example, around '96, there was a news story about Walmart moving into the outside of a town somewhere out west (US), and, with the exception of the drug store, drove every single business in the town out of business. Then, five years later, Walmart decided they weren't making enough profit, and closed the store, telling the town to drive to another store 30 mi. away.
4. It's like AI: whatever rules are let go, and there are still no more jobs, and more crashes, then that's not Real unbridled capitalism.
I don't know how this guy comes up with this crap - let's talk Big Lie, why don't we? How man straight programmers, oh, sorry, "developers", who make $150k/yr, except maybe living in Silicon Valley? I've lived in Philly, Austin, Chicago, the Space Coast of FL, and now DC, and with the highest salary of my career, I can see $100k coming... about the time I retire.
"Old skills" (COBOL, C) - where's the budget, *ANYWHERE* for training at any company? How many times have any of you been handed the chance to learn the newest, latest fad language of the year (never mind no one will be using it in two more years)? It's been 10 or 15 years for me.
Let's also not forget that HR department angle in all this: the 95% of them (it's "only" 45% or so among recruiters) who have no idea of what they're hiring for, and DO NOT CARE to learn (even though they'd be able to do their jobs better, and provide more value to the company), and so only know the acronyms they've been given, or looked up without the hiring manager telling them what's actually needed, and requiring additional degrees, and not accepting equivalent experience.
Oh, and there's always the point that H1-B's and the newly graduated, these days, will work for a *lot* less, in absolute dollars, than we started at decades ago.
I've been the oldest on my team for quite a number of years. I edit my resume to skip the first so-many years, and started resorting to dying my hair years back, right before I got a job where my manager turned 30 while I was there.
To sum it up: salaries, HR, and prejudice.
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