no, it was the unions that broke the slave-labor work force of the early 1900's.
note: the repubs hate unions but they gave their favorite authoritarians a unions (cops have a union; an evil one, at that, that defends bad cops and denies citizens justice when one of the 99% thugs with badges shoots one of us, wrongly).
but back to the point, we are in this bad state of things because the R'd spent the last 50 or so years trying to kill unions. unions means organized labor. labor means its not part of the 'elite'. and R's really all are convinced they are now - or will be, later on - in the elites club.
I'd start off with a $10M asking. I'd settle for about half of that.
first, punishment that is EXPENSIVE will tend to teach the authorities their lessons.
second, you may be unemployable for the rest of your life by this mistake; I'd need about 2-5million to be able to retire and live on.
not my mistake; I should not have to pay a dime for THEIR stupidity.
ip address does not equal a person. even more so when they don't even bother to check their work BEFORE A LIFE IS RUINED.
what would fix this: remove the safety net for public 'authority figures' and when they screw up, let their own insurance cover the costs. if they had to pay, directly, they'd surely think twice before going off half-assed on a witch hunt.
its amazing; they charge full price for win10 (now; the free ones were just a gimmick to get their 'adoption numbers' up and to hook people into this one-way trip) and yet, they also send ads to you and you can't really opt-out, either!
either you make the o/s free and then people MAY be ok with ads; or you charge your normal full price and you KEEP THAT SHIT OFF OUR SYSTEMS.
every few years, the 'evil one' becomes apple and then MS and then apple and now back to MS again.
glad I'm a linux user and admin. I have choices that many users refuse to allow themselves.
they are evil (almost biblical def of that word). they are liars, cheats, thieves and violate all of 'jesus' ideas' even though they like to think of themselves as the party of jesus.
jesus would have been 100% the opposite. big corps would be seen as evil by him, individuals are golden and he would ensure that everyone gets healthcare, no one has their life ruined SIMPLY due to money issues, etc etc. pretty much the exact opposite of the R mentality, which is "I got mine, fuck you!"
good little chuchgoers are brainwashed into thinking that they can't cross party lines; and they continue to lie to their 'flock' that voting R is good for the church and things along those lines.
once you get someone very young (ie, religion), you almost cant change them later in life. this is why many (myself included) feel that indoctrinating kids in religion is CHILD ABUSE. you install false ideas in their brains, have them build their world view based on fallacies and they are almost never going to be able to think straight in their later adult years.
this is the secret of the R party. stay bonded with big religion since its a nearly inseparable brainwashing and it suits their overall agenda. you can get people to vote against their best interests by invoking 'the party of god' either directly or using coded language.
there is sll, ssh, other secure transports. you CAN have a secure channel and its not hard. I vpn into work when I need to and that's secure, too.
you have given up. that's sad. but stop speaking for the rest of us. many of us refuse to give up and this is a fight worth fighting.
if you are too wussified to fight, that's on you, brother. but the rest of us still have fight in us and we know this is a solvable problem.
all the issues are political. we have had network privacy in the tech area for years and years. its the spymasters and marketing pukes that want to roll it all back.
you'll remember this word; it will be repeated many times over the next 4 years.
STIGGINIT.
if you don't know what that means, search for the term and you'll find all the defs you need.
the trumpanzees only care about 'getting even' with some supposed evils that they think they 'party of the people' have done to them.
'it does not matter if I fail, as long as YOU fail, I'm happy'
that's it in a nutshell.
god dammit SO MUCH;(;(
(if anything, this will only separate the red states and their people even more from the rest of the thinking society. they are not endearing us to them, not at all, with moves like this. I see no unification of america happening; probably not even in my lifetime. we dig ourselves deeper into R and D camps and the divide continues to grow.)
its now to the point where any tv that is worth owning is 'smart'. beyond a certain size, (vizio, for sure) its all smart-only.
but - just don't connect a network to it and its not ever going to be 'smart'. no network == dumb tv. no forced firmware upgrades, no wiretapping, no nothing.
I would not worry about so-called smart tv's. disable networking and you're safe.
our spy masters are evil, pure evil, and there's no way we can know who they turn they evilness to. US, 'them', or combo of both.
I wish all the spy agencies were disbanded. no one should have this kind of power, no one! prisoner experiment (stanford) demonstrates that no human should have that kind of unchecked power.
who watches the watchers?
NO ONE.
or, no one we can trust.
man, this is sick shit. a US agency that spends its time trying to create malware and thrust it upon - ALL OF US.
now, even this NEWS cannot be trusted. nothing can be trusted, I guess is the take-away from all this.
vendors: how much 'ball' are THEY playing, btw? I can't believe the 3 letter agencies do all this entirely on their own. they have moles in each of the key companies. and that makes things even worse, in fact.
it goes on an employment certificate which you are expected to show your next employer
damn! they have you by the short hairs, don't they?
sounds quite the nanny state.
as bad as the US has been getting, we're not that bad yet. no friggin way I'd give power to any previous employer to control my working life and really, my destiny, like that.
that's fucked up! how did that happen? do you need a dr's note if you call in sick, too? (I know, some countries do require that, which is also very non-trusting and fucked up)
that's not true. but if it was, whose fault would that be?
influx of 10's of thousands of indians, chinese, etc are all lowering the wage levels in the bay area. I don't blame the people coming here but I do blame the managers for selling out their own people just to give their bosses a 3rd yacht.
people want better lives and indians deserve that, too, of course; but when there are not enough jobs to go around, I'm sorry, it has to be 'my countrymen first' and once we have jobs, THEN we can think of what surplus can be given to the world's poorer folks.
no other country gives its own people the short end of the stick. if I went to india, I'd be 2nd to be hired after the locals. why is protectionism good for everyone else but not the USA?
So, why is it not the rich people's job to hire you over someone who could do it cheaper?
it is their job. its always been understood that a rising waves lifts us all up. and a stable middle class ensures a stable country and society. right now, war is on the middle class and people are worried they won't be able to continue to make rent or mort. payments, given how disposable our employment style is, now.
You're saying you refuse to share housing damned fucking right! I'm over 50 and I paid my dues to this country (US) for most of my life. I now have a lower living standard than my blue collar working parents (parent; my mother stayed at home and yet my father made enough to buy a house and raise 3 kids).
WHY should we (my generation) have a LOWER standard of life because some rich fucks want a third yacht?
look, this is none of my doing or my fault. the ceo's have learned they can go full retard on society and shit-bomb it all they want; they continue to have their 'safety islands' when the shit hits the fan. they don't care. but they are sacrificing us and this is the huge injustice.
asking me to 'share a room' when I've more than paid my dues in this society is not going to increase our standard of living and its just a bandaid. what happens if I share a room with someone, more people do that, ceo's now realize they can cut our salaries EVEN MORE? now I'm supposed to live at the ymca or something?
this idea of yours wont scale. and we will take to the streets with fires and pitchforks if we are pushed that much further into poverty.
if they rich want to keep their necks, they need to spread a little love around, in terms of living wages!
they jump ship, come here, becomes virtual slaves and while they still have it better than being back home, this abandonment of their home country is NOT HELPING the home country improve.
all they are doing is bringing their problems here.
I don't want to buy a sports car. I just want to have a stable job that lasts long enough for me at at least CONSIDER buying a home. not owning a home means that every few years, I have to move when the landlord decides to sell his rental home or eject me since he can make more money with a new tenant than one that has been there for a few years. add to this the fact that you cannot rent a place unless you HAVE A JOB AT THE TIME (at least in the bay area, its an unwritten rule and I've been caught in that situation more than once; its not fun, let me tell you.)
its not about luxuries. its about having a stable life, being able to continue to afford healthcare, to be able to continue to afford the RENT payments and all that. forget even saving for the future, I'm just about able to make immediate bill payments and hope I break even each month.
why should I care about some other country's poor folks? we have enough problems in this country; I don't see india (etc) reaching out to help the US! no other country is reaching out to help us, either. so why is it OUR JOB to employ the world's poorer people in their own countries AT OUR OWN EXPENSE?
I know where you're from. I can tell by how you write.
people are leaving india (etc) to come to the US and they get a MUCH BETTER STANDARD OF LIVING. its a win for them.
reverse it: you are suggesting we americans leave one of the best countries in the world (for living standard) because some rich assholes CHOOSE to not hire us and watch us starve if we stay locally?
I think your thinking (and human compassion) needs work, my friend. you have an odd way of seeing things.
expecting locals to uproot because some rich fucker says so? yeah, that's surely the american dream, right there.
ie, the US president and how he hates 'regulations', I expect nothing to happen to the company. we have to 'protect' companies, afterall, they are all too big to fail, in the cheeto benito's eyes.
little guys don't matter. for the next 4 years, we'll see nothing BUT this kind of lack of caring and lack of regulation. no penalties, either.
but hey, the conservates are STIGGINIT to us. yay conservatives!
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no, it was the unions that broke the slave-labor work force of the early 1900's.
note: the repubs hate unions but they gave their favorite authoritarians a unions (cops have a union; an evil one, at that, that defends bad cops and denies citizens justice when one of the 99% thugs with badges shoots one of us, wrongly).
but back to the point, we are in this bad state of things because the R'd spent the last 50 or so years trying to kill unions. unions means organized labor. labor means its not part of the 'elite'. and R's really all are convinced they are now - or will be, later on - in the elites club.
I'd start off with a $10M asking. I'd settle for about half of that.
first, punishment that is EXPENSIVE will tend to teach the authorities their lessons.
second, you may be unemployable for the rest of your life by this mistake; I'd need about 2-5million to be able to retire and live on.
not my mistake; I should not have to pay a dime for THEIR stupidity.
ip address does not equal a person. even more so when they don't even bother to check their work BEFORE A LIFE IS RUINED.
what would fix this: remove the safety net for public 'authority figures' and when they screw up, let their own insurance cover the costs. if they had to pay, directly, they'd surely think twice before going off half-assed on a witch hunt.
its amazing; they charge full price for win10 (now; the free ones were just a gimmick to get their 'adoption numbers' up and to hook people into this one-way trip) and yet, they also send ads to you and you can't really opt-out, either!
either you make the o/s free and then people MAY be ok with ads; or you charge your normal full price and you KEEP THAT SHIT OFF OUR SYSTEMS.
every few years, the 'evil one' becomes apple and then MS and then apple and now back to MS again.
glad I'm a linux user and admin. I have choices that many users refuse to allow themselves.
I mean, what the fuck?
you understand all you need.
they are evil (almost biblical def of that word). they are liars, cheats, thieves and violate all of 'jesus' ideas' even though they like to think of themselves as the party of jesus.
jesus would have been 100% the opposite. big corps would be seen as evil by him, individuals are golden and he would ensure that everyone gets healthcare, no one has their life ruined SIMPLY due to money issues, etc etc. pretty much the exact opposite of the R mentality, which is "I got mine, fuck you!"
good little chuchgoers are brainwashed into thinking that they can't cross party lines; and they continue to lie to their 'flock' that voting R is good for the church and things along those lines.
once you get someone very young (ie, religion), you almost cant change them later in life. this is why many (myself included) feel that indoctrinating kids in religion is CHILD ABUSE. you install false ideas in their brains, have them build their world view based on fallacies and they are almost never going to be able to think straight in their later adult years.
this is the secret of the R party. stay bonded with big religion since its a nearly inseparable brainwashing and it suits their overall agenda. you can get people to vote against their best interests by invoking 'the party of god' either directly or using coded language.
R's see dollar signs.
unless your letter carries a suitcase of bills, of the green kind, no R will ever give you the time of day.
they have their daddies. and guess what; its not you!
no, YOU fail to understand 'the internet'.
there is sll, ssh, other secure transports. you CAN have a secure channel and its not hard. I vpn into work when I need to and that's secure, too.
you have given up. that's sad. but stop speaking for the rest of us. many of us refuse to give up and this is a fight worth fighting.
if you are too wussified to fight, that's on you, brother. but the rest of us still have fight in us and we know this is a solvable problem.
all the issues are political. we have had network privacy in the tech area for years and years. its the spymasters and marketing pukes that want to roll it all back.
oh, and wussies like you.
one word.
you'll remember this word; it will be repeated many times over the next 4 years.
STIGGINIT.
if you don't know what that means, search for the term and you'll find all the defs you need.
the trumpanzees only care about 'getting even' with some supposed evils that they think they 'party of the people' have done to them.
'it does not matter if I fail, as long as YOU fail, I'm happy'
that's it in a nutshell.
god dammit SO MUCH ;( ;(
(if anything, this will only separate the red states and their people even more from the rest of the thinking society. they are not endearing us to them, not at all, with moves like this. I see no unification of america happening; probably not even in my lifetime. we dig ourselves deeper into R and D camps and the divide continues to grow.)
halted (hsc electronics) is still the first place I'll go if I need a part, fast.
seriously, its one reason I'm still in the bay area. as a maker type, who does hw+sw, places like HSC keep me pretty well stocked.
its now to the point where any tv that is worth owning is 'smart'. beyond a certain size, (vizio, for sure) its all smart-only.
but - just don't connect a network to it and its not ever going to be 'smart'. no network == dumb tv. no forced firmware upgrades, no wiretapping, no nothing.
I would not worry about so-called smart tv's. disable networking and you're safe.
my ip addr is 0.0.0.0 on my 'smart' tv. can't get in, like that!
oh man, I just checked - I have a routing entry in my cable modem for all zeros! should I be scared?
(uhm, lol?)
our spy masters are evil, pure evil, and there's no way we can know who they turn they evilness to. US, 'them', or combo of both.
I wish all the spy agencies were disbanded. no one should have this kind of power, no one! prisoner experiment (stanford) demonstrates that no human should have that kind of unchecked power.
who watches the watchers?
NO ONE.
or, no one we can trust.
man, this is sick shit. a US agency that spends its time trying to create malware and thrust it upon - ALL OF US.
now, even this NEWS cannot be trusted. nothing can be trusted, I guess is the take-away from all this.
vendors: how much 'ball' are THEY playing, btw? I can't believe the 3 letter agencies do all this entirely on their own. they have moles in each of the key companies. and that makes things even worse, in fact.
from tfa:
Vice President Mike Pence used a personal AOL email account to conduct sensitive state business -- including issues related to homeland security
not illegal? sounds illegal to me.
"but, his emails!"
let 'em fly. douse the R's in the same shit they gave hillary.
DROWN them in it. let them realize that any weaspon you use, the other side will use, when its THEIR turn.
assholes.
it goes on an employment certificate which you are expected to show your next employer
damn! they have you by the short hairs, don't they?
sounds quite the nanny state.
as bad as the US has been getting, we're not that bad yet. no friggin way I'd give power to any previous employer to control my working life and really, my destiny, like that.
that's fucked up! how did that happen? do you need a dr's note if you call in sick, too? (I know, some countries do require that, which is also very non-trusting and fucked up)
Sorry, I don't really have anything to add - but my ears were burning.
look, samsung asked for all their 'burner' phones back.
you should have listened.
guess you can't, now.
this is uber.
dollars to donuts, THEY are lying.
occam would also agree...
Its much more like India as its hand to mouth
that's not true. but if it was, whose fault would that be?
influx of 10's of thousands of indians, chinese, etc are all lowering the wage levels in the bay area. I don't blame the people coming here but I do blame the managers for selling out their own people just to give their bosses a 3rd yacht.
people want better lives and indians deserve that, too, of course; but when there are not enough jobs to go around, I'm sorry, it has to be 'my countrymen first' and once we have jobs, THEN we can think of what surplus can be given to the world's poorer folks.
no other country gives its own people the short end of the stick. if I went to india, I'd be 2nd to be hired after the locals. why is protectionism good for everyone else but not the USA?
So, why is it not the rich people's job to hire you over someone who could do it cheaper?
it is their job. its always been understood that a rising waves lifts us all up. and a stable middle class ensures a stable country and society. right now, war is on the middle class and people are worried they won't be able to continue to make rent or mort. payments, given how disposable our employment style is, now.
You're saying you refuse to share housing
damned fucking right! I'm over 50 and I paid my dues to this country (US) for most of my life. I now have a lower living standard than my blue collar working parents (parent; my mother stayed at home and yet my father made enough to buy a house and raise 3 kids).
WHY should we (my generation) have a LOWER standard of life because some rich fucks want a third yacht?
look, this is none of my doing or my fault. the ceo's have learned they can go full retard on society and shit-bomb it all they want; they continue to have their 'safety islands' when the shit hits the fan. they don't care. but they are sacrificing us and this is the huge injustice.
asking me to 'share a room' when I've more than paid my dues in this society is not going to increase our standard of living and its just a bandaid. what happens if I share a room with someone, more people do that, ceo's now realize they can cut our salaries EVEN MORE? now I'm supposed to live at the ymca or something?
this idea of yours wont scale. and we will take to the streets with fires and pitchforks if we are pushed that much further into poverty.
if they rich want to keep their necks, they need to spread a little love around, in terms of living wages!
their country is fucked and everyone knows it.
they jump ship, come here, becomes virtual slaves and while they still have it better than being back home, this abandonment of their home country is NOT HELPING the home country improve.
all they are doing is bringing their problems here.
you guys are very clearly abused. its sad that its that way.
perhaps you need to consider a revolution in your country. fix your own society, first, THEN come here once your own problems are sorted out.
good luck.
no, as long as government continues to suck the cock of big business and give them anything they want, the abuse will continue.
it appears that ONLY police and similar 'brothers' are allowed to form unions. for authority figured, unions are ok. for us, unions are bad.
(is your head spinning yet?)
binary thinking, much?
I don't want to buy a sports car. I just want to have a stable job that lasts long enough for me at at least CONSIDER buying a home. not owning a home means that every few years, I have to move when the landlord decides to sell his rental home or eject me since he can make more money with a new tenant than one that has been there for a few years. add to this the fact that you cannot rent a place unless you HAVE A JOB AT THE TIME (at least in the bay area, its an unwritten rule and I've been caught in that situation more than once; its not fun, let me tell you.)
its not about luxuries. its about having a stable life, being able to continue to afford healthcare, to be able to continue to afford the RENT payments and all that. forget even saving for the future, I'm just about able to make immediate bill payments and hope I break even each month.
why should I care about some other country's poor folks? we have enough problems in this country; I don't see india (etc) reaching out to help the US! no other country is reaching out to help us, either. so why is it OUR JOB to employ the world's poorer people in their own countries AT OUR OWN EXPENSE?
I know where you're from. I can tell by how you write.
and you have a very unbalanced view of things.
people are leaving india (etc) to come to the US and they get a MUCH BETTER STANDARD OF LIVING. its a win for them.
reverse it: you are suggesting we americans leave one of the best countries in the world (for living standard) because some rich assholes CHOOSE to not hire us and watch us starve if we stay locally?
I think your thinking (and human compassion) needs work, my friend. you have an odd way of seeing things.
expecting locals to uproot because some rich fucker says so? yeah, that's surely the american dream, right there.
president bonzo and his 'piss on my leg' - er, uhm, I mean trickle-down econ.
that kind of started the whole corp greed thing, in the biggest way.
"business is good. the hell with actual people who do the work"
lather rinse repeat. and this is what we now have.
oblig: STIGGINIT!
ie, the US president and how he hates 'regulations', I expect nothing to happen to the company. we have to 'protect' companies, afterall, they are all too big to fail, in the cheeto benito's eyes.
little guys don't matter. for the next 4 years, we'll see nothing BUT this kind of lack of caring and lack of regulation. no penalties, either.
but hey, the conservates are STIGGINIT to us. yay conservatives!
evil org. if you think they do any good, you have been drinking their koolaid.
how many spymasters do we NEED, btw? pretty much all govt orgs that 'police' things are spying on us, now.
I fail to see how nsa has EVER 'kept us safe'. and due to their being untouchable and above the law, we'll NEVER KNOW, either.
"just trust us. we keep you safe".
yeah right....