You youngns are getting so fucked, my generation helped to cause it, but I share no blame nor guilt.
I was twenty something when Reagan left power, and a broke-ass post-doc looking for a job. The erosion of the middle class and the efforts to destroy the political and economic power of working people was already well underway by the time I entered the work force. And no, I didn't vote for Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. So fuck yourself.
This concludes a exhibition of the apathy of the ruling classes.
If you think a retired English professor = "the ruling class", you've got a lot to learn about the world.
If you are too stupid to take advantage of helpful programs regardless of a meaningful name, you are going to have a hard life and only yourself to blame.
They didn't say they accuracy of their predictions had increased 10-fold. Only that their computing power has. Unless the accuracy of the input data has increased, all we know for sure is that their electricity bill is going to be higher.
I was wondering about that. I don't do mathematical modeling, and my wife, who actually does mathematical modeling is currently on an airplane over the Atlantic coming home so I can't ask her.
Does higher resolution in the model necessarily translate to more accurate predictions? Let's even say that the input data increases. In highly unstable systems, where boundary conditions, stability and error correction are going to have outsized impact on the model, does higher resolution mean more accurate predictions. Or, as you say, does it just mean they've got more powerful computers.
If anyone can answer this, please, no Math. It will be like casting pearls before swine, with me as the swine.
I've never waited mote than 30 minutes for work, as long as I made an appt online w the Genius Bar
If I ever have to reference something called a "Genius Bar", I'm not sure I could ever look myself in the mirror again.
This is one of the top five reasons the only Apple product I will ever own is a Mac Pro and every 3-4 years when I get a new one the first thing I do is black out all the logos.
Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, they all pay extremely well
Apple pays well as long as you don't count the people who, you know, make their products.
And for all of those companies, you have to look beyond the people who are working at headquarters. Contractors, temps, etc have to be figured into the equation too.
It's not just the tech industry. All across the board, corporate consolidation is the reason there has been such tiny wage growth (actually, contraction when you count inflation). The bottom 2/3 of all workers are making less if you look at real inflation.
But there's one dystopian job that would employ most people: lab rat.
Geez, you're a friggin' ray of sunshine. You're right, but man, what a bleak outlook.
Seriously though, your dystopian prediction is pretty solid. I wonder how long before homo sapiens splits into two species based on wealth? Are we already there?
I'm fortunate to have spent most of my career in times and places where developers had the upper hand over companies in negotiations. You got mistreated at one place, there was always a better job around the corner, and everyone knew it.
I'm not a developer, but I spent my 25 years in the workplace under similar circumstances of employees holding the balance of power (it's called "tenure").
I'm afraid the days when a large percentage of US workers had some leverage are over since the industrial unions imploded/were destroyed. I blame union leaders who were too cozy with the elite and Ronald Reagan, mostly, but it was a lot of things.
Either way, the pain is coming for a large percentage of US workers and their families. I'm just glad I retired before it got really bad. Now I just wait for my daughter to finish her Math PhD and then I can go lay in my hammock and play Monster Hunter 4 and let the world go to hell.
Y'all just need to grow a pair and remember that employment is a business contract between equals.
No, it's not. In late-stage capitalism, employment is more like a monopsony. In fact, most of Amazon's business model is based on monopsony.
Corporate consolidation has created these megacorps, grown to unimaginable size. When an employer reaches a certain size, it can drive down wages and working conditions.
It doesn't have to be only one buyer to be a monopsonistic market.
It just shows how quickly management can become out of touch. If there's an "impassioned defense" of Amazon's working conditions, wouldn't it be better to hear it from someone who actually has to work for a living? Someone who's not a "head" of anything, but just some poor schmuck in one of the warehouses or a developer a couple of levels below the "head of infrastructure development"?
This sounds like nothing more than Amazon's push-back against all the negative press it's had recently. My guess is that someone in Amazon's public relations department, probably a "head" of public relations, decided to find a slave who's jes' happy to be workin' in the big house to let everyone know how great conditions are on the plantation.
militia: the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service.
So, by your definition, women, elderly men and teenagers can be banned from bearing arms?
Considering we don't want to discriminate against women, that means the entire able-bodied population.
First you give us a dictionary definition, then you change it because you "don't want to discriminate". Is that how the law works? You can change definitions as you see fit?
Good luck getting American soldiers to use those weapons on their own friends and families. There is a long history of soldiers joining rebellions instead of suppressing them.
That's what Blackwater/Xe/Academi is for. If you don't think former members of Bulgarian hit squads getting paid with government money won't fire on Americans, you'll be surprised.
They put a small block of copyrighted data in the cartridge, and the printer checks for it. It won't print if not found. Any after market cartridge would need to copy it to work.
Do you believe the only way to hack code is to copy it?
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I was twenty something when Reagan left power, and a broke-ass post-doc looking for a job. The erosion of the middle class and the efforts to destroy the political and economic power of working people was already well underway by the time I entered the work force. And no, I didn't vote for Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. So fuck yourself.
If you think a retired English professor = "the ruling class", you've got a lot to learn about the world.
It's for the kids! They're tracking my mobile phone data so my kids don't get Ebola. Thank you, NSA. What would we do without you?
I'm not sure how to say this, but...moo.
I was wondering about that. I don't do mathematical modeling, and my wife, who actually does mathematical modeling is currently on an airplane over the Atlantic coming home so I can't ask her.
Does higher resolution in the model necessarily translate to more accurate predictions? Let's even say that the input data increases. In highly unstable systems, where boundary conditions, stability and error correction are going to have outsized impact on the model, does higher resolution mean more accurate predictions. Or, as you say, does it just mean they've got more powerful computers.
If anyone can answer this, please, no Math. It will be like casting pearls before swine, with me as the swine.
If I ever have to reference something called a "Genius Bar", I'm not sure I could ever look myself in the mirror again.
This is one of the top five reasons the only Apple product I will ever own is a Mac Pro and every 3-4 years when I get a new one the first thing I do is black out all the logos.
I agree with your suggestion to limit gun ownership to well-trained persons.
I hope the 2015 Chicago Bears defense does not encounter any bad guys with guns.
I accept your suggestion that only people who can meet certain marksmanship criteria be allowed to own weapons.
Apple pays well as long as you don't count the people who, you know, make their products.
And for all of those companies, you have to look beyond the people who are working at headquarters. Contractors, temps, etc have to be figured into the equation too.
It's not just the tech industry. All across the board, corporate consolidation is the reason there has been such tiny wage growth (actually, contraction when you count inflation). The bottom 2/3 of all workers are making less if you look at real inflation.
That sounds great.
Say, I'm really sorry about teeing off on you yesterday. I was out of line.
Of course. For those of us who are, shall we say, gifted, we don't even have to get out of our chair to hit the "6" key.
However, the fact that we have to type sans trousers makes us sort of unemployable but that's a decent trade-off.
I can also play five octaves of the C note simultaneously on my piano in this manner.
Geez, you're a friggin' ray of sunshine. You're right, but man, what a bleak outlook.
Seriously though, your dystopian prediction is pretty solid. I wonder how long before homo sapiens splits into two species based on wealth? Are we already there?
I'm not a developer, but I spent my 25 years in the workplace under similar circumstances of employees holding the balance of power (it's called "tenure").
I'm afraid the days when a large percentage of US workers had some leverage are over since the industrial unions imploded/were destroyed. I blame union leaders who were too cozy with the elite and Ronald Reagan, mostly, but it was a lot of things.
Either way, the pain is coming for a large percentage of US workers and their families. I'm just glad I retired before it got really bad. Now I just wait for my daughter to finish her Math PhD and then I can go lay in my hammock and play Monster Hunter 4 and let the world go to hell.
That's a very interesting article. I'm sorry I called you an idiot yesterday. Clearly, you're not. I apologize.
No, it's not. In late-stage capitalism, employment is more like a monopsony. In fact, most of Amazon's business model is based on monopsony.
Corporate consolidation has created these megacorps, grown to unimaginable size. When an employer reaches a certain size, it can drive down wages and working conditions.
It doesn't have to be only one buyer to be a monopsonistic market.
Yessiree. Nothing to see here, move along. See how happy all the workers are?
https://youtu.be/CPNaaogT8fs
It just shows how quickly management can become out of touch. If there's an "impassioned defense" of Amazon's working conditions, wouldn't it be better to hear it from someone who actually has to work for a living? Someone who's not a "head" of anything, but just some poor schmuck in one of the warehouses or a developer a couple of levels below the "head of infrastructure development"?
This sounds like nothing more than Amazon's push-back against all the negative press it's had recently. My guess is that someone in Amazon's public relations department, probably a "head" of public relations, decided to find a slave who's jes' happy to be workin' in the big house to let everyone know how great conditions are on the plantation.
So, by "well-trained" you mean, "bought himself a camo boonie hat at the Wal-Mart"?
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So, by your definition, women, elderly men and teenagers can be banned from bearing arms?
First you give us a dictionary definition, then you change it because you "don't want to discriminate". Is that how the law works? You can change definitions as you see fit?
So what is the legal definition of militia?
That's what Blackwater/Xe/Academi is for. If you don't think former members of Bulgarian hit squads getting paid with government money won't fire on Americans, you'll be surprised.
In 2000, they ruled that a presidential election wasn't really an election.
By "context", are you referring to your overheated imagination?
Here's a video of me with my personal defense weapon:
https://youtu.be/rLYa0uA7OG0?t...
I've had to have my overcoat specially tailored so I can conceal/carry.
I'm not a liberal.
Do you believe the only way to hack code is to copy it?