Uh, I mentioned that, they do of course own some of those accounts but the total wealth in them owned by the 1% is limited by annual contribution caps. As an example my father has an S corp and is in the bottom of the 1%, he is limited to X dollars per year in contribution and can't contribute anything if the non-principal workers in the corporation don't also have funded retirement accounts with at least x dollars in total contributions.

Err, have you looked at the macro numbers? There are more unfilled positions then there are workers looking for work, the problem is matching skills with needs, so most well run companies are looking to retain talented and productive workers at this point in the cycle. This is especially true in IT where unemployment topped out at ~5% and is at ~2.5% today.

Yes, capitalism allows, in theory, for workers to own the means of production. In practice it doesn't work out that way. In the US "the 99%" owns, collectively, only about 1% of stock

This isn't remotely close to true, the total of IRA and defined contribution plan (401k and similar) plan holdings in Q4 2014 totaled $14.2T, over half the total value of the combined NYSE at $16.6T, and NASDAQ at $8.5T. While the 1% hold some of the value in those two categories they are both limited in their total annual contribution amounts so it's actually much less skewed than the overall wealth holdings.

If the loss of any one employee can cost the business millions then it is in their interest to make sure that there is another person who can perform that job. In IT disaster preparedness planning we often refer to this as the hit by the bus disaster where a key individual is taken out of action without warning. Any well run company will have identified these key people and will have planned to cross train others in their department to at least pick up the daily tasks they perform until a replacement can be hired and trained.

I've never generated a penny in fees to any lending institution and yet I too have an 800+ rating so there is more than one way to score highly in FICO and other scoring systems.

Sounds like people need to find a bank or credit union that doesn't suck. Huntington for example not only does credits before debits but they also give you 24 hours to make up any overdraft and will automatically pull from your savings to make it up if you have agreed to let them.

I don't want ANYONE buying promotions into my IP stream! I want my ISP to do their freaking job and shift packets from the source to me, without molestation and without interest or undue visibility into the contents.

I disagree, I've had up to 120 apps installed on my S5 without being close to running out of room, but I have all my MP3's and podcasts on a 32GB SD card which makes it very useful.

Plenty of higher end networking gear is BSD based, there's really no reason you couldn't use BSD for lower end gear other than your parts supplier might not have ready made drivers or images for you to modify (although even Atheros has support for current chips in FreeBSD so that appears to no longer be much of an issue).

This will probably be Skylake with GT4e with 72EU's and 128MB eDRAM. Not sure what kind of gaming performance that would give, but probably plenty to drive an 8K display at 60fps in 2D for media production.

The Games division is net -300-400M over the last 12 years, up significantly since Q4 2012 where they were net -3B and the XBox One's losses are significantly smaller than the previous two generations at the same point in the cycle despite the recent price cuts. I'm not sure how much knowledge sharing there's been between the gaming division and the Azure division, but if the MS marketing is anywhere near the truth then it's likely that at least some of that groups significant profitability was gained through experience in the gaming division (kind of like how GE can lose money on the generating part of a power plant but make money on the financing or vice versa depending on how they want to structure the deal).

I don't know about AC but I bought a made in the USA Moto X (1st gen) and a made in South Korea Galaxy S5, both are first world countries with non-deplorable working conditions.

Why the hell would someone have to pay for insurance for something they don't have control of what it does?

Says every parent of a teenager since cars became widespread.

ahem

I think it's more likely we'll ban human drivers. Just this morning I counted over 16 silver/grey/blue-grey vehicles driving in pouring rain and light fog without headlights on. On average a computer driver today is probably better than a human, and they'll just get better as time moves on whereas human improvements are a bit slower to happen.