Of course they'll accomplish nothing: even the relatively powerless in the first world are still part of the global ruling class. Only the really disenfranchised (in America mostly blacks, Indians) stand to gain very much at all from changes to the system. College educated whites (me and much of Slashdot) benefit from the current system, so it'd be foolish to expect us to do anything, no matter how wrong we know it to be.
"The middle east" meaning American puppets like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, sure.
It's quite absurd for you to call Iran dangerous; they haven't been at war for years. Of course they are concerned that the US may invade since Iran has wealth to extract and won't play along with the US, so they're developing nuclear weapons. They know the US won't invade a country that actually has them because it would be too dangerous. It's really the only safeguard they've got. The most dangerous places in the middle east are Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which were created in their present form by the United States. Further meddling over there (like blowing up scientists) is only going to make a bigger mess than already exists.
Are you hoping for a US-led invasion of Iran? The most a nuclear-equipped Iran means to the world is that the US won't invade, which is quite a good thing for minimizing violence over there.
You're awfully vague about bureaucracies. The biggest problems in the behavior of the US government are very specific, though.
The military is huge and the fed is printing $600 billion to hand directly to Goldman Sachs. Meanwhile, unemployment is at record levels and nobody with any power is even proposing public works projects to bring it back down.
Not to mention that Ruby gets a nod for being object-oriented from the ground up without feeling like a pile of mush (Java) or having a halfassed OO implementation (every other scripting language)
I think it's typically assumed that if you know how to program, you ought to be able to interact with a standard relational database. There's almost no prospects out there for someone who does SQL and nothing else...
When I graduated from college a little over 2 years ago, I couldn't find anyone hiring C programmers with less than 5 years of experience. Shops that work in PHP don't give a damn about anything (obviously), so that's where my career started and now web development is what I know how to do.
Of everyone I knew in college and everyone I've met since then, only one of them actually has a job that uses C or C++ these days.
That's not at all true. The government at least has the potential to use that money for the public good instead of buying a solid gold helicopter for an aristocrat.
They're using infrastructure and employees that were constructed and educated using American tax money, and they're doing it without putting anything back.
The laws are only structured the way they are because the rich can buy nearly any laws they want while the workers are left to feel the effects of it.
A turbocharger is tiny compared to a turbine engine so the energy that would need to dissipate is much much larger and some of it could end up dissipating into your skull.
Maintaining the streetcar systems instead of dismantling them and not incentivizing suburbanization would've been a better idea than some stupid jet car
Those industries you mentioned have always been quick to complain about the unions, but they can't be bothered to take a second look at $25 million executive compensation.
They think a union hurts them? They should be thankful the workers aren't killing them and taking their money.
...and really, $100M for schools is not an incredibly nice thing for a billionaire to do. It's enough to make him look good, but it's pocket change to him.
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Exactly; if you don't bother to defuse the bomb then the other team wins no matter what!
Have you tried image search recently? There's no pagination there anymore.
Cardinal numbers? How crass!
Of course they'll accomplish nothing: even the relatively powerless in the first world are still part of the global ruling class. Only the really disenfranchised (in America mostly blacks, Indians) stand to gain very much at all from changes to the system. College educated whites (me and much of Slashdot) benefit from the current system, so it'd be foolish to expect us to do anything, no matter how wrong we know it to be.
Just the consequences of our material conditions.
countries who are unafraid to murder someone who becomes politically inconvenient (Russia, China, Iran, N. Korea, etc).
You're missing a couple from the list, namely the USA and Israel.
"The middle east" meaning American puppets like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, sure.
It's quite absurd for you to call Iran dangerous; they haven't been at war for years. Of course they are concerned that the US may invade since Iran has wealth to extract and won't play along with the US, so they're developing nuclear weapons. They know the US won't invade a country that actually has them because it would be too dangerous. It's really the only safeguard they've got.
The most dangerous places in the middle east are Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which were created in their present form by the United States. Further meddling over there (like blowing up scientists) is only going to make a bigger mess than already exists.
Are you hoping for a US-led invasion of Iran? The most a nuclear-equipped Iran means to the world is that the US won't invade, which is quite a good thing for minimizing violence over there.
"We" aren't the ones who sent the factories to third world countries.
The ones who control the capital did that, and they do not resemble human beings at all.
You're awfully vague about bureaucracies. The biggest problems in the behavior of the US government are very specific, though.
The military is huge and the fed is printing $600 billion to hand directly to Goldman Sachs. Meanwhile, unemployment is at record levels and nobody with any power is even proposing public works projects to bring it back down.
Not to mention that Ruby gets a nod for being object-oriented from the ground up without feeling like a pile of mush (Java) or having a halfassed OO implementation (every other scripting language)
I think it's typically assumed that if you know how to program, you ought to be able to interact with a standard relational database. There's almost no prospects out there for someone who does SQL and nothing else...
When I graduated from college a little over 2 years ago, I couldn't find anyone hiring C programmers with less than 5 years of experience. Shops that work in PHP don't give a damn about anything (obviously), so that's where my career started and now web development is what I know how to do.
Of everyone I knew in college and everyone I've met since then, only one of them actually has a job that uses C or C++ these days.
Yes, it is the wealthy parasite class who pays for it.
Don't confuse running a scam for personal enrichment with the bravery and virtue of a true revolutionary expropriation.
Action with no philosophical backing is pretty empty, isn't it?
Have fun browsing the web like it's 1994, weirdo
If it means jettisoning the rich out into space, please hurry up about it!
That's not at all true. The government at least has the potential to use that money for the public good instead of buying a solid gold helicopter for an aristocrat.
They're using infrastructure and employees that were constructed and educated using American tax money, and they're doing it without putting anything back.
The laws are only structured the way they are because the rich can buy nearly any laws they want while the workers are left to feel the effects of it.
Why would they need to buy our surplus? They're capable of making plenty of good scientists on their own. They're even willing to give them jobs!
A turbocharger is tiny compared to a turbine engine so the energy that would need to dissipate is much much larger and some of it could end up dissipating into your skull.
Maintaining the streetcar systems instead of dismantling them and not incentivizing suburbanization would've been a better idea than some stupid jet car
Those industries you mentioned have always been quick to complain about the unions, but they can't be bothered to take a second look at $25 million executive compensation.
They think a union hurts them? They should be thankful the workers aren't killing them and taking their money.
...and really, $100M for schools is not an incredibly nice thing for a billionaire to do. It's enough to make him look good, but it's pocket change to him.
Yes, let's tell him he can have his special internet on our terms or else we'll...uhhh...
When those children are adults, it will no longer be considered profane. Problem solved.