When Hitler got his real power in government, the brownshirts demanded that he actually follow through and implement the social portion of his national socialist program. Of course he had no plans on doing this, resulting in the "Night of the Long Knives". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
Not to mention that nationalism is antithetical to socialism because it creates divisions among the proletariat by national lines, thus weakening it by division and mixing it with the class enemy of capitalists. This absurdity, when the whole point is to unite the proletariat and make those divisions purely on class lines. So, no, the viewpoint was not socialist. They may have had some social programs in there, but there's not a shred of Marx to be found.
You missed the whole "freight light rail" thing I mentioned. The forklift is for the last half mile to the destination. It's not necessarily even a forklift, just something that can carry a cargo that's way too heavy for a human to push on a cart.
Naturally a city with such a good infrastructure would also have plentiful fire hydrants. Slashdot posters can't seem to imagine anything but the suburban wastelands they live in.
Tear up half the road and use it for rail and the remaining half for bikes and pedestrians. Also, allow freight via light rail to eliminate the need for delivery trucks in the city.
Slashdot only cares about this type of thing when it might have an impact on what sort of video games the editors are able to play. This is because they are glorified children.
All these new cell phones have Bluetooth; once they get serious about selling games on them they will all support any type of controller (keyboard, mouse, gamepad) you want. With the HDMI outputs they have, they can easily take the place of a game console once they get the computing power. With competent browsers and other software, they'll take the place of the PC too.
Perhaps "normal" computers will exist as locked-down platforms while only programmers and hobbyists will have what we know as computers today. This is exactly how the advertising companies (Google and friends) want it to work. Hopefully computer parts will still be available in the future for the DIY crowd after the demand for the typical desktop PC finally dries up.
The school system in the United States fosters ignorance to sociology, philosophy, and history (aside from war) so you might say that they've already tried it here. Anything that might help someone understand his place in the world and history is considered a waste of time. Instead, students are expected to use their future to either create new business (management or advertising) or become a perfectly trained worker bee (math). Other fields of study are treated as specialized components of those primary objects. It's completely rational to argue about what education might make the best engineer, but to question to what end these engineers have been equipped to work is heresy. To the poor student who works his way through college, it is said that he may choose a course of mathematics to make his way out of poverty, but should he choose a course of study that shows him why he is poor, he will be kicked back to the curb. There is no job for the holder of any such degree. He has every opportunity to find an axis to place himself as cog in the already running machine, but education in the United States is a complete failure in creating illumination.
Rationality stands as theocrat: question only the how; the what is sacred. Heretics are excommunicated from the coveted middle class and cast into social obscurity.
Relative metrics really are zero-sum games, but they don't measure how comfortable you are; instead, they're really about measuring social status.
Not exactly. We're looking at an entire generation of Americans who might get bankrupted if they need minor surgery and will never be able to afford to retire. The fancy TV's, even without being turned on, serve their role well in distracting the working class from how much worse their situation is.
"The left" is an overly broad concept and ends up being pretty much worthless when it's to the point of lumping crystal worshiping hippies into the same group with Marxists. Also,
The middle class is better off now than it was 40 years ago. The poor are better off as well.
Over the last 4 decades, consumer prices have steadily increased, while wages for many workers haven't even kept pace with inflation.
Although overall income had grown by 27% since 1979, 33% of the gains went to the top 1%. Meanwhile, the bottom 60% were making less: about 95 cents for each dollar they made in 1979.
I have mixed feelings about this one. I think it is fair to expect Verizon's union workers to contribute money towards their healthcare costs. Just about every other employer makes their employees do so.
"My job sucks, so it's only fair that other people's jobs should suck too instead of taking the effort to organize with my coworkers and demand that our job suck less."
But how do you fix this? Who do you replace them with? The only people who would spend so much time editing instead of reading Wikipedia have got to be really weird. Maybe all edits could be fed into a queue like the Slashdot metamod where they are evaluated by random visitors side-by-side to see if they are reasonable.
But those are the bad guys. You're supposed to root for the government that is in your location. It's very important that the people be distracted by the idea that some foreign actor may do them some harm so that they do not realize that it is in fact their own state that is not only failing to act in the interest of the majority of citizens, but openly acting against them (cutting SS and Medicare in order to solve the fabricated debt crisis, for a recent example).
We need a truly open mobile platform with truly open applications written to act in the best interests of their users, not for the bottom line of their corporate controllers.
Unfortunately, that's impossible in the current climate. No business will do this because there's no money in it. No group of programmers can just decide to do it either because they have day jobs to worry about and won't want to spend all their leisure time working just to churn out something that won't be up to the level Android is. What we would need to accomplish this (among other more important goals) is an economy that doesn't rely on the profit motive the function.
Free how? In the USA it's free to be homeless if you can't find a job. But apparently Belorussians will all be slaves until they have unrestricted access to Facebook. You disrespect all who have suffered in slavery.
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I consider the "blue laws" still on the books to be right wing fascism
Well fascism is just, like, your opinion man.
When Hitler got his real power in government, the brownshirts demanded that he actually follow through and implement the social portion of his national socialist program. Of course he had no plans on doing this, resulting in the "Night of the Long Knives".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
Not to mention that nationalism is antithetical to socialism because it creates divisions among the proletariat by national lines, thus weakening it by division and mixing it with the class enemy of capitalists. This absurdity, when the whole point is to unite the proletariat and make those divisions purely on class lines.
So, no, the viewpoint was not socialist. They may have had some social programs in there, but there's not a shred of Marx to be found.
PURGE * FROM Reactionaries;
You missed the whole "freight light rail" thing I mentioned. The forklift is for the last half mile to the destination. It's not necessarily even a forklift, just something that can carry a cargo that's way too heavy for a human to push on a cart.
Naturally a city with such a good infrastructure would also have plentiful fire hydrants. Slashdot posters can't seem to imagine anything but the suburban wastelands they live in.
A forklift can tow water pumps, tanks, and other equipment without any trouble.
Forklifts or other small vehicles, of course.
Tear up half the road and use it for rail and the remaining half for bikes and pedestrians. Also, allow freight via light rail to eliminate the need for delivery trucks in the city.
Slashdot only cares about this type of thing when it might have an impact on what sort of video games the editors are able to play. This is because they are glorified children.
All these new cell phones have Bluetooth; once they get serious about selling games on them they will all support any type of controller (keyboard, mouse, gamepad) you want. With the HDMI outputs they have, they can easily take the place of a game console once they get the computing power. With competent browsers and other software, they'll take the place of the PC too.
Perhaps "normal" computers will exist as locked-down platforms while only programmers and hobbyists will have what we know as computers today. This is exactly how the advertising companies (Google and friends) want it to work. Hopefully computer parts will still be available in the future for the DIY crowd after the demand for the typical desktop PC finally dries up.
The school system in the United States fosters ignorance to sociology, philosophy, and history (aside from war) so you might say that they've already tried it here. Anything that might help someone understand his place in the world and history is considered a waste of time. Instead, students are expected to use their future to either create new business (management or advertising) or become a perfectly trained worker bee (math). Other fields of study are treated as specialized components of those primary objects. It's completely rational to argue about what education might make the best engineer, but to question to what end these engineers have been equipped to work is heresy. To the poor student who works his way through college, it is said that he may choose a course of mathematics to make his way out of poverty, but should he choose a course of study that shows him why he is poor, he will be kicked back to the curb. There is no job for the holder of any such degree. He has every opportunity to find an axis to place himself as cog in the already running machine, but education in the United States is a complete failure in creating illumination.
Rationality stands as theocrat: question only the how; the what is sacred. Heretics are excommunicated from the coveted middle class and cast into social obscurity.
The flowers are the best part! They keep the local bee population healthy and these important creatures closer to your garden.
I think what I'll do is develop a grass that only grows an inch and a quarter tall,
Clover. Doesn't need mowing (or any care at all), stays green later in the season, and displaces weeds. Feels great on bare feet, too.
Bring Mexicans in just to tax them? I've got a better idea.
Tax the rich.
the North American Union plan.
All I have to say is lol.
Relative metrics really are zero-sum games, but they don't measure how comfortable you are; instead, they're really about measuring social status.
Not exactly. We're looking at an entire generation of Americans who might get bankrupted if they need minor surgery and will never be able to afford to retire. The fancy TV's, even without being turned on, serve their role well in distracting the working class from how much worse their situation is.
the supposed non-materialistic left wing
"The left" is an overly broad concept and ends up being pretty much worthless when it's to the point of lumping crystal worshiping hippies into the same group with Marxists. Also,
better health care
lmao
The middle class is better off now than it was 40 years ago. The poor are better off as well.
Over the last 4 decades, consumer prices have steadily increased, while wages for many workers haven't even kept pace with inflation.
Although overall income had grown by 27% since 1979, 33% of the gains went to the top 1%. Meanwhile, the bottom 60% were making less: about 95 cents for each dollar they made in 1979.
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Let's all organize and demand unlimited freebies until executives cut their pay to $50,000 per year.
Yes, except they wouldn't allow it to cut that far into their take. They'll send in the National Guard before that.
I have mixed feelings about this one. I think it is fair to expect Verizon's union workers to contribute money towards their healthcare costs. Just about every other employer makes their employees do so.
"My job sucks, so it's only fair that other people's jobs should suck too instead of taking the effort to organize with my coworkers and demand that our job suck less."
But how do you fix this? Who do you replace them with? The only people who would spend so much time editing instead of reading Wikipedia have got to be really weird.
Maybe all edits could be fed into a queue like the Slashdot metamod where they are evaluated by random visitors side-by-side to see if they are reasonable.
But those are the bad guys. You're supposed to root for the government that is in your location. It's very important that the people be distracted by the idea that some foreign actor may do them some harm so that they do not realize that it is in fact their own state that is not only failing to act in the interest of the majority of citizens, but openly acting against them (cutting SS and Medicare in order to solve the fabricated debt crisis, for a recent example).
We need a truly open mobile platform with truly open applications written to act in the best interests of their users, not for the bottom line of their corporate controllers.
Unfortunately, that's impossible in the current climate. No business will do this because there's no money in it. No group of programmers can just decide to do it either because they have day jobs to worry about and won't want to spend all their leisure time working just to churn out something that won't be up to the level Android is. What we would need to accomplish this (among other more important goals) is an economy that doesn't rely on the profit motive the function.
There has been a steady decline in the quality of television since the 80s. As if 80s TV was great to begin with.
TV was called a "vast wasteland" in 1961. It's always been terrible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_Speech
Click that link; it's a good, quick couple paragraphs to read.
Free how? In the USA it's free to be homeless if you can't find a job. But apparently Belorussians will all be slaves until they have unrestricted access to Facebook.
You disrespect all who have suffered in slavery.