I've had Apple Airport Express, Airport Extreme and Time Capsule and they're all still in working order with uptime's of hundreds of days, my Airport Express attached to a UPS has 700 days of uptime and only goes out in case I'm moving it or extended power outages.
A quick google will show that Time Capsules are notorious for dieing just after the warranty period is up.
$250k is still rich, even today. A person with that yearly income is one of the richest people on the planet, and one of the richest people to ever live on planet Earth. The fact that people making that amount do not recognize and appreciate exactly how fucking lucky they are makes me sick. "It doesn't go as far as it used to." Seriously? $250k and you are not happy with what you have? You need it to "go further?" I imagine these same people, if they made $1mil a year, would be complaining that they couldn't afford the stuff that the $50mil a year guys can afford. What a bunch of bastards.
BTW, this rant was not directed at the parent poster.
I'd rather tax those who are sitting on trust funds than those who are aggressively making lots of money, as they are quite likely to be the wealth creators rather than the fat cats doing nothing but sucking money out of the system.
The only wealth creators in any economic system are the workers. The guys who own everything are not creating wealth. They gather all of the wealth created by their slaves/workers and pretend it's theirs.
The only class waging war in this country on other classes is the rich.
It's not so much a war...more like a massacre.
Corporations do not pay taxes at all. That's economics from junior high school. All corporations do is pass their tax costs on to the price of their goods.
Don't go around admitting that you fell for that line of bullshit unless you're still in junior high.
Companies charge as much for their product as consumers will pay. That's basic economics. When a company is already charging the absolute maximum that it's customers will pay, money to pay for additional tax increases must come out of their profit on the item.
If the company added the additional tax cost (C) to the cost of the item (X) then the item would cost X + C. When X is already the maximum that customers will pay, X+C is over that maximum. Customers will not buy the product. This doesn't apply for things that customers must purchase like food and shelter but it can move their preferences between products that satisfy those basic needs.
From a purely common sense viewpoint, if corporations (aka the rich / the Republicans) didn't pay taxes but only passed them on to consumers then why would the rich guys be so opposed to tax hikes? What the fuck would they care? They would happily say a-ok and pass that shit onto the middle and lower classes.
You're kidding, right? US citizens pay for more drug R&D than the rest of the world combined. It's a large part of why medical care is growing at ~2x inflation.
You failed to notice that the parent said cutting edge treatments. Treatments != drugs. Develop a drug and everyone who uses it pays you big $$$ for 20 years. When you develop a treatment everyone else can use that same treatment method without paying you a dime.
It also comes from the US hospitals being very conservative when it comes to offering new procedures.
But, but, duriing the health care "debate" we were told that all inovation came from the wonderful free market American system and the socilist eurofags would be screwed if they couldn't steal American ideas.
I'm so confused.
The ruling class is desperate to keep you in your place. Primarily, that means keeping the USA a non-socialist corporate paradise. Make sense now?
wait a minute. My wife is pregnant at 10 weeks. We went for a 7 week checkup and the heartbeat had already formed and was beating 167 bpm. Also the head and brain was forming, feet and arms as stubs. Are you telling me this isn't a living person?
Yes. There are many non-person living things on this planet that have a heartbeat, head, brain, arms, feet, etc. A mouse for example. Your blob of living stuff isn't even up to mouse standards at the moment though. It's totally unable to live on it's own. It's sub-mouse.
You can't see this obvious fact because you and your wife's brains are broken. It happens to all parents. Logic and reason are completely absent when children are involved. Evolution likes it that way. That's good for kids because you people mindlessly sacrifice for them so they can grow big and strong, but it's bad for society as a whole because the lot of you are one big EPIC FAIL when it comes to matters of public policy that involve reproduction.
Nah, he just adds another room, you insensitive clod!
OP is obviously female. 100% wireless, rugs, professional installers...
The point is to ruin him. The point is saddle him with so much debt that he'll never pay it off. The point is to make him suffer so much that for the rest of his life that his expressions of clinical depression serve as a warning to the rest of the world. This isn't about restitution. These corps know they'll never see 10% of all the damages awarded to them. It's about ruining enough lives that "fear will keep the local systems in line".
Ruining some kid's life for sharing a few tracks might dissuade some people from filesharing. For others it merely confirms that the entire music industry is a heartless, corrupt piece of shit. Those people will never give a single dollar to the industry ever again in any form. Some people don't back down and get back in line when challenged. They find their confidence and resolve increased. Those people will likely be inspired by this outcome to share even more RIAA music, fucking them as hard as possible at every chance they get.
Short answer: It doesn't work that way. Programs can only be split over multiple cores if they are designed to use those cores.
That's only true for some languages. Programs written in pure functional languages such as Haskell absolutely can be split across multiple cores by the compiler/runtime without being designed to be "multithreaded."
The solution of this problem is trivial and is left as an exercise for the reader.
