In grad school, I got paid a stipend of about $25k a year. There was also $25k my school required in "tuition" from my mentor's federal grants. The proposals coming out of the "We love the poorly educated" party would have me paying taxes as if I owed $50k.
Grad students are cheap labor that America's cutting edge science depends on for it's preeminence. It's already priced out of reach for way too many bright minds. People working to put themselves through college likely can't take the required time to volunteer in a lab, a prerequisite to get into grad school. By making a STEM degree so costly AND tightening the screws on student loans, republicans are going to ensure those foreign PhD students stay overseas and only wealthy kids get their PhD.
I guess it balances out though. Sure, we won't do any science in the next ten years, nor will we keep ahead of everyone else in terms of science, but at least trust fund kids will be able to inherit more of their parents' wealth.
It's a good thing this happened in the 70's and 80's when conservatives were still reasonable. The montreal protocol would have never passed today. Australians and those in the southern united states would be red and blistered and hollering about "hands off my fridge" and liberal conspiracies about invisible rays.
If it were just the usual "culture wars" over here, that would at least be something. I have no doubt that any attempt to get it changed would run into conspiracy theories from Alex Jones and people insisting it was liberals trying to destroy farms. That would be annoying, but it's far more annoying to me that no one seriously tries anyway.
They're caught between a rock and a hard place and also several other solid mountains of mineral deposits. The ads you and the vast majority of their users hear and hate are too annoying. And they're also evidently not bringing in enough dollars, so they seem to need to make them MORE annoying.
Plus, competitors. No one wants to pay for ad-free when spotify, apple, google, and flying the black flag do it better. Amazon probably doesn't do it better, but at least prime members get that ad free.
If you're a billionaire wanting to run a libertarian experiment with the united states, well first that's idiotic to do it at a national level given how awful the Kansas experiment is going. But if you choose to do it anyway, you fucking stay for the consequences, at least as much as a billionaire would suffer any real consequences. You don't give yourself and a few friends a lifeboat across the ocean for if things go wrong for the millions of the rest of us.
Thiel seems to have realized Trump was a mistake after the shocker that the president wasn't socially progressive. Did Thiel apologize for speaking for Trump or donating money? Has Thiel been pushing anyone in the GOP to start challenging Trump? Recent events have proven the only thing worse than billionaire elites directing politics is the horde of voters directing themselves and a president willing to go wherever they lead him.
Is there any way to find out how frequently execs sell their own stock and how much? Seems like you could prove whether or not its abnormal for execs to sell this amount in the period in which the company knew it had been hacked.
Meanwhile, California has just put out fires fueled by climate change. Other deserts are definitely expanding. China isn't investing in green energy because they're tree-huggers. They're investing because their ruling elites are smart enough to realize climate change is real, is an existential threat, and that green energy is the new oil rush.
Probably not surprising given that their leaders are largely people with science degrees and the Chinese communist party is better educated than the american voting population.
The bigger question that should have been clarified long before now is "The president's tweets have zero legal or military weight, right? This should be a silly question but seriously can we get a fucking answer ASAP?"
Obviously, Trump should not issue anything resembling military commands via twitter nor should the military follow anything that looks like a command via twitter.
The first part of that should go without saying, but given that the electoral college elites have successfully put the most incompetent person in the country on the throne, only an idiot would assume it CAN'T happen. It's in the same category as "the president should not fire the guy investigating him for corruption." The framers of the constitution failed to put that in because they wouldn't have been able to fathom a president doing such things.
It's conceivable with this administration that top military officials would be accused of committing a coup because they didn't act on a tweet.
That is obviously unacceptable already. Yet here we are.
Maybe the possibility that a twitter employee could issue commands to the united states military is enough fucking absurdity to get the GOP cult to act on it? I know they've utterly ruled out the possibility that a foreign adversary like Russia or North Korea could possibly compromise national security by taking advantage of our stupidity via social media. There are a lot of liberals working at twitter, maybe that will get them to think "Hey, this is worth clarifying maybe?"
I for one am SHOCKED that a dictator willing to straight up steal part of another country and meddle with it's biggest rival's elections would DARE to do similar things ELSEWHERE!!!
As to GP's point, I think it's worth pointing out to the slow ones in the audience that all elections and news worldwide should be examined for Russian influence. Furthermore, the magat trump supporters can insist that the 2016 election was totally kosher (despite, you know, the less popular candidate winning and ample evidence) but even THEY shouldn't fool themselves that our elections will go unmolested in the future. At the very least, if Trump (sigh) DOES make america great again, they should be open to the possibility that their Russian friend would then support a liberal to undermine him.
I guess I'm assuming they haven't been completely brainwashed into supporting Putin.
Mostly because even the best widely supported audio codec for bluetooth sound bad?
I'm so astonished at this statement that my $5 ear buds popped right out of my ears!
Phone companies bundled shitty ear buds with phones. Consumers then thought ear buds were acceptable as headphones. Phone companies accidentally conditioned consumers to accept terrible audio quality.
Unrelated, I can't fathom why anyone thinks consumer action is a good replacement for government regulations. Consumers are idiots.
the more complex we make all these systems the more chances there are for people to manipulate things to cause harm
Given the amount of traffic deaths we currently have at all times, I doubt that would be much of a concern. Kind of like winning the lottery and saying "Oh, but I'll have to pay a bunch more in TAXES." Sure, if you don't take reasonable steps to prevent them, they could turn into huge problems.
Heck, with the colorful and imaginative names that blacks are giving their kids these days, I'd have thought that it would NOT target them, since they use so many uncommon spellings and uncommon names? I'd have thought you'd have a whole lot more "Robert Cooper" vs "Shaquillia Jackson" born on any given date?
You mean like Reince (Prebius) or Barron (Trump)?
Honestly, I'm guessing we white people use rare names just as often. Possibly more now since African Americans realize we discriminate against black-sounding names. (I can provide links for studies proving we do in fact at least subconsciously do that if anyone for some reason is skeptical). And the rate of creating actual new names is probably really low. You didn't even in your example. There are about 14 Shaquillas for example. Just because you don't know anyone with those names doesn't mean black parents are just mashing letters together.
Anyway, I doubt the software is unbiased. Given that voter fraud is literally rarer than people named Shaquilla, the people buying this software are using it for only the purpose of blocking likely democratic voters as they admit. If the software were unbiased and blocked a good number of white republican voters, the customers would be pissed. The software undoubtedly has plenty of "black box" area to ignore white names.
Protection from any world forces that have an interest in the west losing influence on the world stage. It's not just protection from an invading army. Catalonia by itself, outside the EU isn't going to be much of a trade force. It looks like most of their trade is to other EU states. Outside the EU their biggest trading partner is Russia. So... good luck with that...
The only time speech has been limited based on inciting violence is if the violence is going to happen imminently, like within 30 seconds.
This is fucking nonsense and you know it. Call for violence in a public place against a politician thousands of miles from you and test your theory if you don't.
You couldn't incite violence in the town square either without getting arrested.
There's nothing different here. Right down to the fact that after the "censorship," people whining about it will ignore the fact that calls to violence was the issue, not "I dislike your message."
>Reddit seems to believe the censoring more people and kicking them off will result in more end users because, I just don't know, they think people like to be censored and attacked randomly by the lamest of SJWs of which ever brand
Reddit's whole thing is being upvoted or downvoted by the crowds. It's not outright censorship, but groupthink is the dominant force there, as it is on slashdot.
In the main subs, groupthink tends to go against SJW.
Furthermore, for fucks sake, you're making an idiotic slippery slope argument. First line, they banned them for allowing calls for violence. THAT'S A BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE FROM LETTING SJW RUN THE SITE.
There does seem to be a pattern though of tesla artificially limiting their hardware. The battery thing, there was evidently a now-ended limit on performance and acceleration . The autopilot systems on the model 3 will reportedly be disabled unless you pay a fee to have them enabled.
I get that there are reasons behind this. As you mention, the battery life thing seems reasonable. The performance limiting thing wasn't something most people would notice. The autopilot hardware is probably the cheap part, and the model 3 will ship before autonomous car driving is probably allowed, and a lot of people won't want it at a premium.
Still thinking Tesla is going to suffer some backlash from consumers for it.
Are there a lot of Muslims living in the pacific northwestern US? I just assumed we were talking about dumb hicks. Was wondering why GP specified that instead of the south, the midwest, or any of the other non-civilized-city areas of the US that are similarly anti-gay.
The "pretty negative implications" in rural areas of the US already apply to people of color, or women in the middle east. The hateful uneducated in those regions (and a lot of others) is the problem, not that one specific group might possibly lose its stealth ability to avoid discrimination or violence.
"What could go wrong" is what you ask when you face a decision of doing something or not doing something. This is a decision between "Doing something" or "Continue to do something else."
We're already pushing buttons wildly with dumping carbon, methane, and everything else into the atmosphere. "What could possibly go wrong" with that is quite scary and balances out anything on the other side. Unless you've convinced yourself it's lies and your friends in the coal industry wouldn't let that happen.
Since Obama Care, insurance changes are a yearly thing now.
If you think that's something that only started with Obamacare, you probably have all your money in that Rush Limbaugh gold coin scam and really don't need to worry about people stealing from your bank account anyway.
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Also seems silly to talk about grad students are disappearing when the GOP is proposing to tax them into oblivion.
In grad school, I got paid a stipend of about $25k a year. There was also $25k my school required in "tuition" from my mentor's federal grants. The proposals coming out of the "We love the poorly educated" party would have me paying taxes as if I owed $50k.
Grad students are cheap labor that America's cutting edge science depends on for it's preeminence. It's already priced out of reach for way too many bright minds. People working to put themselves through college likely can't take the required time to volunteer in a lab, a prerequisite to get into grad school. By making a STEM degree so costly AND tightening the screws on student loans, republicans are going to ensure those foreign PhD students stay overseas and only wealthy kids get their PhD.
I guess it balances out though. Sure, we won't do any science in the next ten years, nor will we keep ahead of everyone else in terms of science, but at least trust fund kids will be able to inherit more of their parents' wealth.
It's a good thing this happened in the 70's and 80's when conservatives were still reasonable. The montreal protocol would have never passed today. Australians and those in the southern united states would be red and blistered and hollering about "hands off my fridge" and liberal conspiracies about invisible rays.
If it were just the usual "culture wars" over here, that would at least be something. I have no doubt that any attempt to get it changed would run into conspiracy theories from Alex Jones and people insisting it was liberals trying to destroy farms. That would be annoying, but it's far more annoying to me that no one seriously tries anyway.
They're caught between a rock and a hard place and also several other solid mountains of mineral deposits. The ads you and the vast majority of their users hear and hate are too annoying. And they're also evidently not bringing in enough dollars, so they seem to need to make them MORE annoying.
Plus, competitors. No one wants to pay for ad-free when spotify, apple, google, and flying the black flag do it better. Amazon probably doesn't do it better, but at least prime members get that ad free.
No, but the whole "I'm going to influence politics but might flee to New Zealand" really rubs me the wrong way.
If you're a billionaire wanting to run a libertarian experiment with the united states, well first that's idiotic to do it at a national level given how awful the Kansas experiment is going. But if you choose to do it anyway, you fucking stay for the consequences, at least as much as a billionaire would suffer any real consequences. You don't give yourself and a few friends a lifeboat across the ocean for if things go wrong for the millions of the rest of us.
Thiel seems to have realized Trump was a mistake after the shocker that the president wasn't socially progressive. Did Thiel apologize for speaking for Trump or donating money? Has Thiel been pushing anyone in the GOP to start challenging Trump? Recent events have proven the only thing worse than billionaire elites directing politics is the horde of voters directing themselves and a president willing to go wherever they lead him.
Gawker exhibited the worst of ethics free reporting and had the audacity to call it journalism.
Call me evil, but I don't think outing billionaires or celebrity affairs is anywhere near the "worst" reporting.
Is there any way to find out how frequently execs sell their own stock and how much? Seems like you could prove whether or not its abnormal for execs to sell this amount in the period in which the company knew it had been hacked.
You cite a group that puts out false propaganda to support a conservative agenda to claim one desert might be shrinking.
Meanwhile, California has just put out fires fueled by climate change. Other deserts are definitely expanding. China isn't investing in green energy because they're tree-huggers. They're investing because their ruling elites are smart enough to realize climate change is real, is an existential threat, and that green energy is the new oil rush.
Probably not surprising given that their leaders are largely people with science degrees and the Chinese communist party is better educated than the american voting population.
The bigger question that should have been clarified long before now is "The president's tweets have zero legal or military weight, right? This should be a silly question but seriously can we get a fucking answer ASAP?"
Obviously, Trump should not issue anything resembling military commands via twitter nor should the military follow anything that looks like a command via twitter.
The first part of that should go without saying, but given that the electoral college elites have successfully put the most incompetent person in the country on the throne, only an idiot would assume it CAN'T happen. It's in the same category as "the president should not fire the guy investigating him for corruption." The framers of the constitution failed to put that in because they wouldn't have been able to fathom a president doing such things.
The second part is something that needs to be clarified. There's currently nothing saying tweets can't be orders. The military shouldn't have to figure out whether something is or is not an order.
It's conceivable with this administration that top military officials would be accused of committing a coup because they didn't act on a tweet.
That is obviously unacceptable already. Yet here we are.
Maybe the possibility that a twitter employee could issue commands to the united states military is enough fucking absurdity to get the GOP cult to act on it? I know they've utterly ruled out the possibility that a foreign adversary like Russia or North Korea could possibly compromise national security by taking advantage of our stupidity via social media. There are a lot of liberals working at twitter, maybe that will get them to think "Hey, this is worth clarifying maybe?"
I for one am SHOCKED that a dictator willing to straight up steal part of another country and meddle with it's biggest rival's elections would DARE to do similar things ELSEWHERE!!!
As to GP's point, I think it's worth pointing out to the slow ones in the audience that all elections and news worldwide should be examined for Russian influence. Furthermore, the magat trump supporters can insist that the 2016 election was totally kosher (despite, you know, the less popular candidate winning and ample evidence) but even THEY shouldn't fool themselves that our elections will go unmolested in the future. At the very least, if Trump (sigh) DOES make america great again, they should be open to the possibility that their Russian friend would then support a liberal to undermine him.
I guess I'm assuming they haven't been completely brainwashed into supporting Putin.
Mostly because even the best widely supported audio codec for bluetooth sound bad?
I'm so astonished at this statement that my $5 ear buds popped right out of my ears!
Phone companies bundled shitty ear buds with phones. Consumers then thought ear buds were acceptable as headphones. Phone companies accidentally conditioned consumers to accept terrible audio quality.
Unrelated, I can't fathom why anyone thinks consumer action is a good replacement for government regulations. Consumers are idiots.
the more complex we make all these systems the more chances there are for people to manipulate things to cause harm
Given the amount of traffic deaths we currently have at all times, I doubt that would be much of a concern. Kind of like winning the lottery and saying "Oh, but I'll have to pay a bunch more in TAXES." Sure, if you don't take reasonable steps to prevent them, they could turn into huge problems.
Heck, with the colorful and imaginative names that blacks are giving their kids these days, I'd have thought that it would NOT target them, since they use so many uncommon spellings and uncommon names? I'd have thought you'd have a whole lot more "Robert Cooper" vs "Shaquillia Jackson" born on any given date?
You mean like Reince (Prebius) or Barron (Trump)?
Honestly, I'm guessing we white people use rare names just as often. Possibly more now since African Americans realize we discriminate against black-sounding names. (I can provide links for studies proving we do in fact at least subconsciously do that if anyone for some reason is skeptical). And the rate of creating actual new names is probably really low. You didn't even in your example. There are about 14 Shaquillas for example. Just because you don't know anyone with those names doesn't mean black parents are just mashing letters together.
Anyway, I doubt the software is unbiased. Given that voter fraud is literally rarer than people named Shaquilla, the people buying this software are using it for only the purpose of blocking likely democratic voters as they admit. If the software were unbiased and blocked a good number of white republican voters, the customers would be pissed. The software undoubtedly has plenty of "black box" area to ignore white names.
"Flamebait" being of course saying what is universally accepted as true, even by the GOP itself...
Protection from any world forces that have an interest in the west losing influence on the world stage. It's not just protection from an invading army. Catalonia by itself, outside the EU isn't going to be much of a trade force. It looks like most of their trade is to other EU states. Outside the EU their biggest trading partner is Russia. So... good luck with that...
Or even read what the traitors themselves said they were rebelling about.
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/a...
The only time speech has been limited based on inciting violence is if the violence is going to happen imminently, like within 30 seconds.
This is fucking nonsense and you know it. Call for violence in a public place against a politician thousands of miles from you and test your theory if you don't.
You couldn't incite violence in the town square either without getting arrested.
There's nothing different here. Right down to the fact that after the "censorship," people whining about it will ignore the fact that calls to violence was the issue, not "I dislike your message."
>Reddit seems to believe the censoring more people and kicking them off will result in more end users because, I just don't know, they think people like to be censored and attacked randomly by the lamest of SJWs of which ever brand Reddit's whole thing is being upvoted or downvoted by the crowds. It's not outright censorship, but groupthink is the dominant force there, as it is on slashdot.
In the main subs, groupthink tends to go against SJW.
Furthermore, for fucks sake, you're making an idiotic slippery slope argument. First line, they banned them for allowing calls for violence. THAT'S A BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE FROM LETTING SJW RUN THE SITE.
There does seem to be a pattern though of tesla artificially limiting their hardware. The battery thing, there was evidently a now-ended limit on performance and acceleration . The autopilot systems on the model 3 will reportedly be disabled unless you pay a fee to have them enabled.
I get that there are reasons behind this. As you mention, the battery life thing seems reasonable. The performance limiting thing wasn't something most people would notice. The autopilot hardware is probably the cheap part, and the model 3 will ship before autonomous car driving is probably allowed, and a lot of people won't want it at a premium.
Still thinking Tesla is going to suffer some backlash from consumers for it.
Are there a lot of Muslims living in the pacific northwestern US? I just assumed we were talking about dumb hicks. Was wondering why GP specified that instead of the south, the midwest, or any of the other non-civilized-city areas of the US that are similarly anti-gay.
The "pretty negative implications" in rural areas of the US already apply to people of color, or women in the middle east. The hateful uneducated in those regions (and a lot of others) is the problem, not that one specific group might possibly lose its stealth ability to avoid discrimination or violence.
"What could go wrong" is what you ask when you face a decision of doing something or not doing something. This is a decision between "Doing something" or "Continue to do something else."
We're already pushing buttons wildly with dumping carbon, methane, and everything else into the atmosphere. "What could possibly go wrong" with that is quite scary and balances out anything on the other side. Unless you've convinced yourself it's lies and your friends in the coal industry wouldn't let that happen.
Since Obama Care, insurance changes are a yearly thing now.
If you think that's something that only started with Obamacare, you probably have all your money in that Rush Limbaugh gold coin scam and really don't need to worry about people stealing from your bank account anyway.