Predictions for 2017...

[Zaap]

AMD will have more competitive (even better in several classes!) performance/price products compared to both Intel and nVidia...still get crushed in sales by both.

Just built my first AMD rig in.... 5 or 6 years I think. (Something in that 'buy the CPU for way less than similar Intel CPU's and the very capable Motherboard with 8 SATA ports I needed for free combo deal just compelled me).

I have to say, so far I'm impressed. Rock stable and I don't regret it's not Intel at all. Granted, it is just for a 'lowly' file and Plex server with a ton of local storage, but still.

Dammit... I'm talking tech on Anandtech. The F is up with that?

Back to politics...


I predict a LOT of fail on both sides... Trump all but guarantees to have many 'holy fucking shit did he really just do/say that?' moments... but his more rabid detractors are not ones to miss a Fail Boat opportunity in spite of themselves either.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

Just built my first AMD rig in.... 5 or 6 years I think. (Something in that 'buy the CPU for way less than similar Intel CPU's and the very capable Motherboard with 8 SATA ports I needed for free combo deal just compelled me).

I have to say, so far I'm impressed. Rock stable and I don't regret it's not Intel at all. Granted, it is just for a 'lowly' file and Plex server with a ton of local storage, but still.

Dammit... I'm talking tech on Anandtech. The F is up with that?

Back to politics...


I predict a LOT of fail on both sides... Trump all but guarantees to have many 'holy fucking shit did he really just do/say that?' moments... but his more rabid detractors are not ones to miss a Fail Boat opportunity in spite of themselves either.

Yep, AMD for cheap, simple systems.
Now for politics. One of the best articles i've seen yet on Trumps potential. From Gingrich who does a great job as a historian. Well worth the read.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/12/30/newt-gingrich-trumpism-explained.html

 

[Jhhnn]

You have to have a bubble first before the crash. Trump will lay the groundwork by making a massive tax cut, gutting regulations (especially Dodd-Frank) thus setting us up for a massive recession/depression a few years down the road. Especially if the GOP is successful in gutting the safety net as well as Social Security and Medicare. Obama laid the groundwork for 2017 being a decent year economically, but a lot is dependent on how fast interest rates rise.

Use GWB as a pattern-but with someone at the helm a whole lot more reckless and not even a superficial understanding of his office and you have a pretty good idea what is facing us. On the positive side, odds are he won't start his own war-unless someone irritates him.

It's like battered spouse syndrome- first the hearts & flowers...

 

[zinfamous]

Yep, AMD for cheap, simple systems.
Now for politics. One of the best articles i've seen yet on Trumps potential. From Gingrich who does a great job as a historian. Well worth the read.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/12/30/newt-gingrich-trumpism-explained.html

lol Gingrich.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Yep, AMD for cheap, simple systems.
Now for politics. One of the best articles i've seen yet on Trumps potential. From Gingrich who does a great job as a historian. Well worth the read.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/12/30/newt-gingrich-trumpism-explained.html

lol... one piece of shit writing about another piece of shit and how they both smell like roses.

 

[Pens1566]

1. ACA won't be "repealed". It will be tweaked/adjusted and GOP will take credit for it all along.
2. Scandals. Lots and lots of scandals. Starting with Emoluments. Almost never ending it would seem. Even Trump voters don't like his foreign $$$ ties.
3. Trump will be tested early be a foreign policy crisis. And he wail fail bigly. Demonstrating how out of his depth he actually is.
4. Based on 2&3, GOP will go cannibalism and listen to popular cries for impeachment.
5. President Pence and we go back to the good old 1960s. In multiple ways.

or

1. 150+ million dead world wide.

 

[Sonikku]

lol Gingrich.

Wasn't his whole war with Clinton about him lying about having an affair when Gingrich himself was having an affair on his wife dying from cancer in the hospital?

lol politics.

 

[zinfamous]

Wasn't his whole war with Clinton about him lying about having an affair when Gingrich himself was having an affair on his wife dying from cancer in the hospital?

lol politics.

Gingrich has long been the type of honest, moral, intelligent republican that the GOP has deserved. This is the same guy that complains about partisanship in politics today but was the single-most-important architect of today's obstructionist, partisan politicking when he was Speaker of the House. This was his mission. That piece of toad shit created the very situation that he is now trying to get his hangers-on to believe that he is above.

And look at tajmahal--he slurps it up like a good tadpole should.

 

[Thebobo]

Everyone old enough to remember this, talk about a smackdown,

 

[senseamp]

GOP crashes the private health insurance market with partial ACA repeal, which it will spend the rest of their pitiful "mandate" aimlessly and unsuccessfully trying to fix before being swept out.

 

[hal2kilo]

lol Gingrich.

Beat me to it.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

lol Gingrich.

Did you read it? I really doubt if you did, but i'm curious.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

Beat me to it.

Same, did you read it? The reason I doubt if you did is that you leftists really never read, watch or see anything outside of your little boxes, so i'm curious, did you read it?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Same, did you read it? The reason I doubt if you did is that you leftists really never read, watch or see anything outside of your little boxes, so i'm curious, did you read it?

lol. what a maroon you are.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

lol. what a maroon you are.

That answers my question and proves my point, thanks.

 

[zinfamous]

Did you read it? I really doubt if you did, but i'm curious.

Gingrich: lmao!

I tell you what, give me something from Rand Paul or maybe even McCain, I'll read it. Those are 2 (McCain maybe less so these days) republicans that maintain some form of decency and still deserve respect, imo.

Gingrich has been a useless clown since ~1993. That hasn't changed.

 

[zinfamous]

lol. what a maroon you are.

That answers my question and proves my point, thanks.

correct: you are a maroon.

 

[Mai72]

I predict Soviets falling out of favor with Trump.

Nukes? #OMGBBQ

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Obviously. Repub ideology holds that there's nothing wrong with the economy that tax cuts for the wealthy won't cure completely because it all trickles down in some magical fashion that has yet to manifest itself over the last 35 years.

Depends what the tax cuts are for. If they are for major new investments/risk that results in a new job market - you would easily make up for the tax credits by all the people that are now employed. You know... the people that haven't seen employment participation rates this low since the 70's? Yeah, those.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

That answers my question and proves my point, thanks.

Well I did read through it, and it is exactly what I said it was, one piece of shit talking about another piece of shit saying that they both smell like fresh cut roses.
get over yourself bucky.

 

[K1052]

Depends what the tax cuts are for. If they are for major new investments/risk that results in a new job market - you would easily make up for the tax credits by all the people that are now employed. You know... the people that haven't seen employment participation rates this low since the 70's? Yeah, those.

Unless you can tax cut your way out of people getting old the participation rate will continue dropping as the boomers retire.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Unless you can tax cut your way out of people getting old the participation rate will continue dropping as the boomers retire.

Oh yeah totally bro. Except that is completely and entirely factually incorrect. Try doing research before making yourself look stupid.

It's actually the reverse, boomers labor force participations rate is and has been on the rise. Young adults are the ones dropping.

https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_303.htm

 

[Jhhnn]

Depends what the tax cuts are for. If they are for major new investments/risk that results in a new job market - you would easily make up for the tax credits by all the people that are now employed. You know... the people that haven't seen employment participation rates this low since the 70's? Yeah, those.

That's magical thinking, a Repub specialty. Boomers are retiring. Automation & offshoring will continue. Demand, what drives investment, will remain sluggish because of low wages. Cutting govt jobs also cuts total demand, as do greater immigration restrictions.

Cutting taxes at the top merely encourages another asset bubble. Cutting financial regulation encourages the kind of creative investment vehicles (otherwise known as scams) to relieve investors of excess cash chasing returns that aren't there as in the housing bubble.

Voting Republican is like a battered spouse going back to their abuser when they get out of the hospital. It'll feel good, for awhile, and then, well, we all know what happens then.

 

[desura]

That's magical thinking, a Repub specialty. Boomers are retiring. Automation & offshoring will continue. Demand, what drives investment, will remain sluggish because of low wages. Cutting govt jobs also cuts total demand, as do greater immigration restrictions.

Cutting taxes at the top merely encourages another asset bubble. Cutting financial regulation encourages the kind of creative investment vehicles (otherwise known as scams) to relieve investors of excess cash chasing returns that aren't there as in the housing bubble.

Voting Republican is like a battered spouse going back to their abuser when they get out of the hospital. It'll feel good, for awhile, and then, well, we all know what happens then.

Gee, it's too bad we never heard HRC making this sort of appeal during the campaign. Well said, but she really blew this one.

 

[fskimospy]

Oh yeah totally bro. Except that is completely and entirely factually incorrect. Try doing research before making yourself look stupid.

It's actually the reverse, boomers labor force participations rate is and has been on the rise. Young adults are the ones dropping.

https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_303.htm

This post is so entirely full of fail as you logically can't use those numbers to argue against his point. Participation rate among the retired (I assume you looked at 65 and older) is indeed rising, but it is still much, much lower than the participation rate for other age groups. As the proportion of people in the 65+ bracket continue to increase as boomers retire, the labor force participation rate will continue to decline. This is just basic math, and it's hilarious that you got it wrong while calling someone else stupid.

Take this example:
1. We have 100 people, 90 of which are below 65 with a participation rate of 90% and 10 of which are above 65 with a participation rate of 20%. This leads to a total participation rate of 83%.

2. 10 years in the future we have 50 below 65 with a participation rate of 85% and 50 above 65 with a participation rate of 40%. (it doubled!) This leads to a total participation rate of 62.5% despite the elderly population doubling its participation rate and the below 65 population decreasing its participation rate.

So yes, so long as the boomers are retiring we will see strong downward pressure on the labor force participation rate regardless of what else is going on in the economy.