True, and that's also a highly desirable state for us to get back to. But it's not going to happen anytime soon, and for some very good reasons.

High-paying blue collar jobs have been disappearing in the US for decades, largely due to globalization. For every person who might once have had a blue-collar manufacturing job here, there is probably someone elsewhere in the world willing to do it for less. And that's bad for American blue collar workers but actually good for the world overall - there are a lot of people in countries like Bangladesh, China etc. who a generation ago who might have been subsistence farmers not really participating in the global economy and now they are moving to cities, taking jobs and buying things. That fuels tax revenues in their countries, allowing the building of infrastructure and the improvement of quality of life in many of these third world countries. Again, that's bad for us but good for the world's economic development overall.

This is certainly an arguable point among economists, but there is a lot of data pointing to the idea that pensions were always a bit of a ponzi scheme. When people are living longer, it's just not economically sustainable to carry costs like that when you could be spending that money on hiring new workers or paying your active workers more. Paying for retiree pensions and health care benefits used to add around $1500 in "dead weight" to the cost of each car for General Motors, as I recall. You saw in most of the recent airline bankruptcies that their pension obligations were the first thing that they shed to return themselves to sustainable profitability. Defined benefit plans are on the way out everywhere in the US - except the government - and arguably should be because, while it's great for the worker - was never really going to make sense in the long run to begin with.

And job security has always been a bit of a lie. In the postwar US economy that the baby boomers grew up in, the economy as a whole expanded significantly and a rising tide lifted all boats. Nobody needed to be laid off because everything was growing. But when you reach a point where some industries are going away, others change rapidly and companies reach an equilibrium point where they grow or shrink organically, people are going to lose their jobs sometimes. It's unfortunate but it's a reality.

So all your points are desirable and the US really does need to find a way to bring back a real blue collar middle class. But many of the things these folks got used to were temporary things rather than permanent. The US economy is rapidly splitting in two, into a blue-collar/lower education economy where unemployment is high and job prospects are low; and a white-collar/higher education economy where unemployment is low and that's where all the growth is happening (tech, finance, etc.) That's unlikely to change in the foreseeable future and the US needs to find a way to bring more of its workforce into the second economy where there are jobs because the first one is just not coming back.

It's not about having "N hours to keeping them entertained", it's about choosing the mode of entertainment. Kids got along just fine before tablets, and in many cases were more social and had more exercise.

I'm not against kids playing games etc - I certainly played enough in my youth - but there are better things than surrounding them with screens 24/7

I'm curious what functionality is affected, if any is, by rejecting any of these IPC_RFS_ I/O.

Remotely wiping a stolen mobile phone perhaps? It's just a guess - but by definition that would require the ability to do stuff to the phone's file system without the current user's knowledge or permission.

Right, because who needs to pass a law requiring a gun registry when we can just ask the NSA for a list on demand?

Oh, wait, maybe this is a BAD thing.

You gun nutjobs would probably be a lot more successful at making your case if you could string together at least 140 characters that make sense. Right now, people like you are actively keeping the phrase "gun nutjob" alive, and you're turning off people like me who actually support your position. I know it's asking a lot of someone with a room temperature IQ, but could you at least try to think before you click "post"?

Even the adherents of the basic principles themselves seem to stop short of explaining why they work. "Here, this is duplicate code. You should follow the DRY principle and get rid of it." "Why?" "Because it's a principle."

They should let the new kid do some sink-or-swim maintenance on code that doesn't follow the principles. You want to learn about DRY, try changing one branch of duplicated code without realizing there was a cut-and-paste copy elsewhere in the code base. Now you've gone from a solid bug to an intermittent bug, and your clients are still yelling at you. Thus beginneth the lesson.

They're certainly not "worth nothing." They're worth whatever a vulture capitalist is willing to fund, or whatever an IPO will bring in. Those people still have the ability to turn punching purple monkeys into a pile of quick cash. The few technologists who time their insider stock-option trades correctly will get rich, but almost everyone else will get pink slips and a hard slap of reality.

Everybody out there imagines they'll be the one who lucks into a lucrative stock market trade, just as every gold miner imagines he'll be the one to strike the motherlode. I wish them all luck, but that's all I'll give them. I'm still not dropping $0.99 on a fart app.

Basically, we graffiti. No more justification than the pricks who feel the need to spray-paint their names on various structures/objects, or draw genitalia, profanity, etc.
Just as dumb as the "for a good time call X" written on a washroom stall.

Actually, Aura has been part of the Chromium project for quite some time, so it isn't any darker today, than it was yesterday, or even last year or two. Most likely, this has more to do with ChromiumOS than Chromium/Chrome.

Here's the link: http://www.chromium.org/develo...

That is pure speculation. Google hasn't stated why they are switching, just that they are switching. A just as valid reason could be that since Aura's purpose is to produce a new desktop window manager and shell environment with modern capabilities. The UI must offer rich visuals, large-scale animated transitions and effects that can be produced only with the assistance of hardware acceleration., that it simply fits in better with their vision for Chromebooks or something they want to do with android. If your vision is that your browser is the desktop, then it makes sense to use Aura which is its own windowmanager that includes acceleration and compositing.

Aura has been part of the Chromium project for quite some time. Initially, it was Windows specific. It looks like it is now working on Linux (and I assume OS X), too.

Nobody said abolish; they said limit their powers. And yes, states government's powers should be more limited than their constituent cities, for precisely the reasons you list.

Could be useful for listening to internet radio or updating music libraries.
At a 128kb/s stream (I think thing streams are kilobit rather than kilobyte), that's
5,000,000,000 bytes.
40000000000 bits
/ 128kb/s

86 hours (312500 seconds). If that's 5GB/month, it's not too bad for radio... if that's 5GB/6mo it's a bit crappy.
For syncing/downloading music, of course, it depends on the size of your library.

It's not that state politicians are more moral; it's that their power is more limited. Less power = less corruption - and they have 49 competitors, which are relatively trivial to move between (compared to moving to a different country, anyway).

I've already posted, so I can't mod you up, but you and Krugman are 100% correct. In addition, as the economy sluggishly recovers, the need for unemployment and hopfully SNAP will decrease (depends on whether those job creators create jobs that have a living wage or not). Also, there has been a significant increase in retirees in the past 10 years from retiring baby boomers. By 2025, the tail end of the baby boomers will have reached retirement age and the numbers will start dropping. By 2045, they will be dropping as quickly as they shot up. So, that, too, will automatically resolve itself.

The subsidies for Obamacare didn't even start to 2014 and the data is only upto 2013, so it's hard to see how Obamacare had any impact on transfer payments. Transfers for military personnel, however, are way up, predominately because we have been at war since just after the millenium occured.

In short, articles like the one linked to are full of facts, but depending on how one links those facts together determines whether or not they are true. For instance, in midwest, between 1990 and 2000 there was a decrease in violent crime. Also between 1990 and 2000, there was an increase in the consumption of McDonald's french fries. Both of those are facts. However, linking them together to imply one caused the other would be anything but true.

The same can be said for taking the raw data and making unsubstantiated links.

From the article: An IBD analysis found that the richest 1% of Americans, in fact, receive roughly $10 billion each year in federal checks. The article is silent on say the next 10%, but it is likely that they are getting federal subsidies, too.

The article also states that from 1991 to 2013, the payments as a percentage of GDP went from 10% to 15%. Digging further into the 5% increase, 2% or just less than 1/2, is from the explosion in baby boomers retiring and collecting social security and medicare and another 1% from the extension of federal unemployment. Put differently, 3% of the 5% increase is from situations that are not permanent (the plethora of baby boomers will resolve itself in the next two decades and the extended unemployment benefits are scheduled to expire).

Other items that are included in the numbers are military benefits, which might be one reason the government is looking at scaling back the size of the military. Also, 1/3 of the amounts paid out are in the form of grants. Those grants aren't going to welfare recipients.

The US government does need to live within its means, but articles (and summaries) like this only serve the purpose of enraging people and then blaming the wrong people. Cutting taxes while fighting two wars has more to do with these numbers than increasing transfer payments. Even if these payments were all welfare payments, the government is running huge deficits. It would make sense to concentrate on the other 85% of government spending than the 15%.

"What does extrasec offered"

Yes, because I really want to trust my phone to some random app written by somebody who can't even use proper grammar on the main heading of their website...