You're talking about the secretarial pool. They generally transcribed someone else's work, it didn't really require any thought at all. Data entry is not the same as creative work.
What planet are you living in? The US with its regressive medical, vacation, and sick leave policies is in what appears to be an economic death spiral.
Indeed, my solution to this problem is to come in no matter how sick I am. Sadly, I don't get sick very much so I don't get to share the joy as much as I'd like to.
If I cared enough:
"I make myself sick just to poison you"
- Marilyn Manson
I'd advise a night op where you remove said door and hide it in a damp basement, by the time they find it, it will be nothing but a layer of slime on the floor.
It's very likely he's got a family to feed, etc. But if Fragnet is rolling solo, I too vote the Bolivia option, he can always find work. If no jobs are available, he can join some paramilitary group and, well, that's also work but at least it's outdoors.
I like this and would like to add a minor but important point. 6. Disallow electric utility companies from limiting solar capacity through contractual means (SCE limits my production to my historical usage when I install solar panels through Solar City).
You are soo old and yet so naive. Do you really really believe there is anything "fair and square" in the election cycle on the "Democratic" side? If do, you probably also believe that Faux news is "Fair and Balanced". The truth is that the the Clinton Machine brought all of its power, dark secrets (blackmail), and shenanigans to bring the DNC around to play how the Clinton's wanted to play it. They colluded and conspired to continuously attempt to rip apart Bernie's campaign, that he lasted as long as he did is a testament to the strength of his message and people's belief in it. tRump only had to last longest in the clown car by being more outrageous from one tirade to the next, his base is the type that enjoys a good spectacle, like the WWF.
LOL. I guess collusion with Shillary, lack of impartiality, spread of disinformation by the DNC are all fair and square in your world. Must be nice living in such a world, is opium what you eat or are the rose colored glasses enough to keep you afloat? I am not liberal, I am a realist. I am all for justice, fairness, and truth and whoever is pushing that, and it sure ain't the Democrappy party. Of course it ain't tRump and the Repugnicans either.
So, you still believe in trickle down economics despite all the evidence that it does not work?
It isn't just about cash money pal, it is about ownership of resources. I'm talking about that promise of 40 acres and a mule which was never delivered upon. The working class was built in England when due to "Enclosure", public land was made un-public by the powerful. This caused people who had previously been able to subsist (farm for their basic needs) to move into the slums that were the city. Then all these hungry people could be put to "productive" use by the capitalists waiting hungrily (the rapacious kind of hunger not the belly kind) for people willing to work for them due to a desperate manufactured need. You want to see ability to put resources to good use? Give someone a couple of acres, access to water, and freedom from encroachment by state or industry, then you'll see productive use. What you are talking about is rent-seeking and is illegal in many contexts but unfortunately defined as normal due to the the heavy lobbying (control) by industry for hundreds of years.
Except that in this case it has been shown that the system was indeed rigged and any attempts to pretend it wasn't are either paid trolls/astroturfers or people who don't know how to market their (dubious) skills to people who will pay for them.
Very well put. I wish both sides had failed in their aim. Sadly though team Evilest (RNC) lost and Team Eviler (DNC) didn't. The end of it all might be that history might mark this as the point when it all went off the rails due to the the very effective meddling of Team Eviler.
They have all of that because it is a Sci-Fi show. None of that is required to have a post-scarcity society. Just a labor force that has been made redundant due to incredible advances in AI and automation, which is definitely happening. Oh, yeah, and we need to pry the wealth from the 1% to.0001% who truly contribute nothing concrete.
He's a leftist who supported _communism_. Like I say stupid and broken. Claims of 'social democrat' are bullshit. His history was being ignored in the primary as the Republicans would have loved to see him in the general.
This ain't the McCarthy era anymore. We no longer live in fear of the Communism boogeyman. In fact, if Douglas Adams was alive and set out to modernize HHGG, Know-Nothing Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog would instead get all riled up about Terrorists not communists. Your views seem to exist in a very old time capsule. No one gives a shit about Cuba as an enemy, or Communism as our boogeyman. I bet Cubans would love to go back to Cuba and visit their homeland and relatives.
How many millions did people with his philosophy kill in the 20th century?
How many did capitalism kill? Enslave? The Conquistadors were capitalists looking to pay back debt, slavery in the US was driven by capitalism. Being that we belong to the most war-like country on the face of the earth (based on current and historic spending levels), I think we should try to put talk of killing millions aside lest someone bring up our slaughter of natives across the planet from Hawaii, Vietnam, Phillipines, to CONUS of course.
Sanders couldn't have won Florida or the nation. No chance. Clinton didn't campaign against his idiocy as she wants his idiots to vote for her in the general.
Maybe, but, we'll never know, sadly. This is one idiot she won't be getting;-).
Stupid and broken? Can you offer proof of such? What exactly do you mean? You have offered nothing in the way of evidence so I'll just disagree with your opinion to which you are clearly entitled. Just know though that you are wrong.
Most people don't give two-shits about Castro. Obama has just-about normalized trade relations with Cuba and I don't see Florida having been set on fire so I think you are overselling the importance of Castro. I think you are letting the strength of your personal beliefs override your analytical assessment, we're all guilty of that so I'm not faulting your ability to think logically.
tRump would have been slaughtered by Bernie. Bernie is one persistent and belligerent son-of-a-gun. He would not have allowed tRump to frame the discussion in the way that Shillary does. He would have come back with a vengeance and reframed any argument to put in a bright light the mendacity of every word out of tRump's mouth. The reason for Bernie's power is that he, unlike Shillary, does not experience the cognitive dissonance that comes from pretending to be against that hand that feeds her. He is solid and is fully integrated within his belief system and has a firm sense of direction. Shillary OTOH, is a wind sock that follows the wind of whatever will get her elected, this probably comes from having been poor and having a desperate need to not go back to that.
Woo! Hoo! Lets roll out boys! I brought the moonshine! Oh, wait, I have some software I need to write at work... I'll meet up with all of y'all on Friday, ok?
Tell that to Germany which has the highest productivity of any nation and has an enforced six weeks vacation per year for all employees. Their success also has to do with their rank-and-file corporate advisory board, thanks to the US and England which helped craft their constitution after WWII.
Disagree with your "Fix". Were it not for the machine, he would have won. In California, the most populous state in the nation, the race was called for Shillary the day before we voted. Because we vote so late, ridiculously small states have a disproportionate effect on the outcome of elections, and lets talk about the absurd-in-today's-day-and-age delegate system shall we? I favor a long campaign season across whatever number of states and one crazy night of voting where we all vote. And another thing, remove the delegate system entirely and finance all campaigns and elections publicly.
Yes, I completely agree. Thus the change has to be phased in, slowly and carefully so that the people we need to work, are motivated to; while those whose productive function is now redundant don't end up destitute and on the streets completely abandoned by their government and society.
Bernie, never rated anywhere near as unlikeable as the two trolls currently in the race. He would have swept the independent vote, the DemocRats because they fear the tRump and a good number of the repugnicants because tRump is fundamentally odious.
This is a fantastic idea as well. It might be a way to start heading toward UBI. Maybe we'll never get there but it is a good start. How about German/EU length vacations rather than the paltry two weeks we currently get?
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You're talking about the secretarial pool. They generally transcribed someone else's work, it didn't really require any thought at all. Data entry is not the same as creative work.
What planet are you living in? The US with its regressive medical, vacation, and sick leave policies is in what appears to be an economic death spiral.
Indeed, my solution to this problem is to come in no matter how sick I am. Sadly, I don't get sick very much so I don't get to share the joy as much as I'd like to.
If I cared enough:
"I make myself sick just to poison you"
- Marilyn Manson
I'd advise a night op where you remove said door and hide it in a damp basement, by the time they find it, it will be nothing but a layer of slime on the floor.
It's very likely he's got a family to feed, etc. But if Fragnet is rolling solo, I too vote the Bolivia option, he can always find work. If no jobs are available, he can join some paramilitary group and, well, that's also work but at least it's outdoors.
I like this and would like to add a minor but important point.
6. Disallow electric utility companies from limiting solar capacity through contractual means (SCE limits my production to my historical usage when I install solar panels through Solar City).
You are soo old and yet so naive. Do you really really believe there is anything "fair and square" in the election cycle on the "Democratic" side? If do, you probably also believe that Faux news is "Fair and Balanced". The truth is that the the Clinton Machine brought all of its power, dark secrets (blackmail), and shenanigans to bring the DNC around to play how the Clinton's wanted to play it. They colluded and conspired to continuously attempt to rip apart Bernie's campaign, that he lasted as long as he did is a testament to the strength of his message and people's belief in it. tRump only had to last longest in the clown car by being more outrageous from one tirade to the next, his base is the type that enjoys a good spectacle, like the WWF.
LOL. I guess collusion with Shillary, lack of impartiality, spread of disinformation by the DNC are all fair and square in your world. Must be nice living in such a world, is opium what you eat or are the rose colored glasses enough to keep you afloat?
I am not liberal, I am a realist. I am all for justice, fairness, and truth and whoever is pushing that, and it sure ain't the Democrappy party. Of course it ain't tRump and the Repugnicans either.
So, you still believe in trickle down economics despite all the evidence that it does not work?
It isn't just about cash money pal, it is about ownership of resources. I'm talking about that promise of 40 acres and a mule which was never delivered upon. The working class was built in England when due to "Enclosure", public land was made un-public by the powerful. This caused people who had previously been able to subsist (farm for their basic needs) to move into the slums that were the city. Then all these hungry people could be put to "productive" use by the capitalists waiting hungrily (the rapacious kind of hunger not the belly kind) for people willing to work for them due to a desperate manufactured need.
You want to see ability to put resources to good use? Give someone a couple of acres, access to water, and freedom from encroachment by state or industry, then you'll see productive use. What you are talking about is rent-seeking and is illegal in many contexts but unfortunately defined as normal due to the the heavy lobbying (control) by industry for hundreds of years.
Ricardo was wrong and so was Adam Smith.
Good one! I was not aware of the Culture series but am now planning to read it. Thanks! *Please don't take my nerd-cred card*
I think it would be ok if people all sat around doing drugs and having sex because, hey, that stuff is fun. No harm, no foul, right?
YW
Except that in this case it has been shown that the system was indeed rigged and any attempts to pretend it wasn't are either paid trolls/astroturfers or people who don't know how to market their (dubious) skills to people who will pay for them.
Very well put. I wish both sides had failed in their aim. Sadly though team Evilest (RNC) lost and Team Eviler (DNC) didn't. The end of it all might be that history might mark this as the point when it all went off the rails due to the the very effective meddling of Team Eviler.
They have all of that because it is a Sci-Fi show. None of that is required to have a post-scarcity society. Just a labor force that has been made redundant due to incredible advances in AI and automation, which is definitely happening. Oh, yeah, and we need to pry the wealth from the 1% to .0001% who truly contribute nothing concrete.
Lol, you sound like Archie Bunker.
Tell that to the French, Germans, Scottish, Brazil, and others...
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He's a leftist who supported _communism_. Like I say stupid and broken. Claims of 'social democrat' are bullshit. His history was being ignored in the primary as the Republicans would have loved to see him in the general.
This ain't the McCarthy era anymore. We no longer live in fear of the Communism boogeyman. In fact, if Douglas Adams was alive and set out to modernize HHGG, Know-Nothing Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog would instead get all riled up about Terrorists not communists. Your views seem to exist in a very old time capsule. No one gives a shit about Cuba as an enemy, or Communism as our boogeyman. I bet Cubans would love to go back to Cuba and visit their homeland and relatives.
How many millions did people with his philosophy kill in the 20th century?
How many did capitalism kill? Enslave? The Conquistadors were capitalists looking to pay back debt, slavery in the US was driven by capitalism. Being that we belong to the most war-like country on the face of the earth (based on current and historic spending levels), I think we should try to put talk of killing millions aside lest someone bring up our slaughter of natives across the planet from Hawaii, Vietnam, Phillipines, to CONUS of course.
Sanders couldn't have won Florida or the nation. No chance. Clinton didn't campaign against his idiocy as she wants his idiots to vote for her in the general.
Maybe, but, we'll never know, sadly. This is one idiot she won't be getting ;-).
Stupid and broken? Can you offer proof of such? What exactly do you mean? You have offered nothing in the way of evidence so I'll just disagree with your opinion to which you are clearly entitled. Just know though that you are wrong.
Most people don't give two-shits about Castro. Obama has just-about normalized trade relations with Cuba and I don't see Florida having been set on fire so I think you are overselling the importance of Castro. I think you are letting the strength of your personal beliefs override your analytical assessment, we're all guilty of that so I'm not faulting your ability to think logically.
tRump would have been slaughtered by Bernie.
Bernie is one persistent and belligerent son-of-a-gun. He would not have allowed tRump to frame the discussion in the way that Shillary does. He would have come back with a vengeance and reframed any argument to put in a bright light the mendacity of every word out of tRump's mouth. The reason for Bernie's power is that he, unlike Shillary, does not experience the cognitive dissonance that comes from pretending to be against that hand that feeds her. He is solid and is fully integrated within his belief system and has a firm sense of direction. Shillary OTOH, is a wind sock that follows the wind of whatever will get her elected, this probably comes from having been poor and having a desperate need to not go back to that.
Woo! Hoo! Lets roll out boys! I brought the moonshine!
Oh, wait, I have some software I need to write at work... I'll meet up with all of y'all on Friday, ok?
Tell that to Germany which has the highest productivity of any nation and has an enforced six weeks vacation per year for all employees. Their success also has to do with their rank-and-file corporate advisory board, thanks to the US and England which helped craft their constitution after WWII.
Disagree with your "Fix". Were it not for the machine, he would have won. In California, the most populous state in the nation, the race was called for Shillary the day before we voted. Because we vote so late, ridiculously small states have a disproportionate effect on the outcome of elections, and lets talk about the absurd-in-today's-day-and-age delegate system shall we? I favor a long campaign season across whatever number of states and one crazy night of voting where we all vote. And another thing, remove the delegate system entirely and finance all campaigns and elections publicly.
Yes, I completely agree. Thus the change has to be phased in, slowly and carefully so that the people we need to work, are motivated to; while those whose productive function is now redundant don't end up destitute and on the streets completely abandoned by their government and society.
Nice softball, ok, I'll swing.
Bernie, never rated anywhere near as unlikeable as the two trolls currently in the race. He would have swept the independent vote, the DemocRats because they fear the tRump and a good number of the repugnicants because tRump is fundamentally odious.
It's a good thing you posted anonymously. ;-)
This is a fantastic idea as well. It might be a way to start heading toward UBI. Maybe we'll never get there but it is a good start. How about German/EU length vacations rather than the paltry two weeks we currently get?