And you are the reason why Hillary lost, even though you probably voted for her (or Stein or Bernie). You have NO point other than to cry "racism", which you cry so often that now that there are REAL racists out there, your message of "Racism" is lost, because nobody is listening to you. So, keep calling everyone you disagree with "Racist" because that is all the proof I need that you are devoid of any real thought.
While you are correct, the promise by socialists and communists is that everyone gets a "fair wage" (they never actually define what is fair), and use tools like "Minimum Wage" to drive those wages up.
I maintain that the real Minimum Wage is always Zero. The term Minimum Wage is what I like to call "Wage entry barrier", which is an artificial construct that has the exact opposite effect of its intentions. It doesn't drive wages up, it drives unemployment up (real Minimum Wage).
The problem is, every job is now considered to be a "living wage job", suitable for single moms, students, ungroomed techies living in Mom's basement, and people with Master Degrees in Women's Studies.THIS is the real "entitlement" epidemic, and the real "white Privilege".
Uber is already moving to driverless cars, and that was always the plan. Not only is that the plan, the long term prognosis for Taxi and Uber like drivers is dim. Eventually, driverless cars will be the norm and we'll see drivers go the way of the buggy whip.
You have a "worker's party" it is called the DNC. However I can understand why you don't recognize it as such, because it is chock full of racist bigots who are too busy pandering to ethnic groups that they have all but forgotten about the American Workers, struggling in the Obama Economy. Remember the "great firewall" in the upper midwest? That was DNC country, forgotten by the leaders such as Emanuel, who promised safe zones for illegal immigrants, while he cannot even promise to keep the citizens of Chicago safe.
So, I understand your call for a "worker's party". The problem is, whatever leadership you get, will not actually work for the workers, but for the continuation of power seeking. Your best bet, as a worker, is to better yourself, by whatever means necessary. YOU are the only one that has YOUR best interest at heart. Nobody else really cares.
Where is my "NIH" syndrome. Yes, there are correct tools to do just about everything we do. Doesn't mean they are always handy, or available. Knowing how to build with existing tools is one thing, knowing how to build tools you need to build something bigger is what YOU aren't seeing for what it is.
Yes, we can build brick houses with bricks others make, but can we make effective bricks with the time comes?
Anyone can build a fire by rubbing two sticks together, but can you build a furnace with that fire?
I can build a furnace with the bricks I made, and the fire I created to make molten metal, which I can use to forge steel into knives and hammers. And with that forge, and steel I can build a lathe and build a saw. A poor workman will complain that he has no tools, blame the tools he does have, because he simply doesn't understand what a workman can do with the tools he has.
And something has been lost on a generation that has no ability to make anything from nothing. Please take a moment out of your day and start watching people build stuff with their hands. They don't always have the perfect tool handy, and make do with what they do have.
Good for you. I first ran Linux as my primary "Desktop" in 1998. Early versions of XFCE, Gnome, KDE... I've tried them all. They weren't good until about 2004ish.
Other OSes I've tried, BeOS, OS/2 (before and after Warp) (IMHO the best "Desktop OS") and GEM. You know where I am now? I am in the "I don't give a fuck what OS is in front of me" as long as I can get my work done. Just had a conversation with a colleague about how to configure Switches with a Chromebook, said it wasn't possible. I put the requirements together in 3 minutes. Give me the tools, I can do it. Tell me I can't, and I'll try to prove you wrong.
And yes, you are being Pedantic. The "Year of Linux on the Desktop" wasn't the year a GUI came out for Linux, and never was. IT was about mainstreaming Linux, which has happened while everyone was looking at replacing Windows/MacOS on Intel PCs, Linux went to ARM and beyond and is now running everything that is currently used "as a desktop", including the servers driving the web pages to your "Browser" (big fucking whoopdeedoo from a guy running Netscape Browser and Webserver since 97). And with your lowish UID, you should know this bit of history.
With a Hammer, I can build a lathe, and with a lathe I can build a saw. With a saw, a lathe and a hammer, I can build just about anything.
The first trick in building something out of nothing, is realizing that from nothing, we can build anything else we need, all we need is the raw materials, which you already provided me (Hammer and lumber)
Touch is a different class input, not the OS it is running on. Yes, there is Touch based ChromeOS systems out there. I am sure I can find a full size Android "desktop" out there that runs with a Mouse/Keyboard OR Touch just fine,,, hey look... https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ru...
The point being (which I am sure you're missing on purpose) is that "Windows" (or Mac) is not just the ONLY "desktop" out there.
I can write programs on ChromeOS just as easy as Windows or Mac. ChromeOS is Linux based. I can program fine on Raspberry Pi and Ardruino , with a keyboard... just fine. What you lack is imagination. Your limitation is "proper".
Or, as my dad used to say... "A poor workman always blames his tools"
Desktop isn't on the "desktop" any more. It moved to a Laptop, and now is on your Smart Phone.
Yes, I read before I posted. I'm just seeing beyond the historical to the now. IF by chance you see "desktop" and think "Windows/Mac", that is your problem. By that definition, the "year of Linux on the desktop" will never be. Because Linux isn't going to replace "Windows" as an OS on Intel PCs. It has however, gone and become Android and ChromeOS. It even runs on just about every other micro-controller like Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Linux is running on the Servers that make up just about every online "cloud" based activity you can think of and are the back-end of so many "apps" you use today.
I would suggest to you, that Linux is more involved in your daily "work" than windows is. Windows is basically a terminal for me.
I can use anything I get my hands on. I have windows servers I can RDP in from just about any device I have. I have Google Drive for my documentation that surpasses anything Microsoft has to offer, and again, I can have access from just about any device I have. I have SSH to manage my Linux Servers, which I have access from just about any device I have.
So, I am not sure what you mean by "actual work";)
All the government regulations prohibitting selling of poison that already exists, and you think the solution to "possible" contamination is... more of the same?
This is the problem with this sort of logic. There is no end to the amount of regulation being required, as there is always a possibility that "something might go wrong". In fact, I would suggest to you that because we are humans and not perfect, that something WILL go wrong, eventually. The real issue is to balance cost of regulation against the cost of loss when things do eventually go south.
Here is my suggestion for things like TSA screening. Take every cent of TSA screening and instead of doing invasive probing and put the money into a pool for victims of airline disasters (including Terrorism). Because it it is so infrequent, and all the security theater isn't really doing anything for "Security", lets just bypass the insanity and just pay people (which we do anyways) when something does go wrong. It would be more cost effective, and much simpler to maintain. Let the Airlines manage their own security. Eventually people will buy the right amount of security they are willing to pay for.
The idea of the Class Action isn't as much to compensate people for buying the cheap product, it is also to be a deterrent for people engaged in this sort of deception.
There is no need to over regulate this marketplace. A class action lawsuit serves just fine. Especially if they are marketed under store brand names, sue the store.
A non-profit testing group could be setup by all sorts of industries to verify these kinds of things. There is NO need for additional government regulations that already require products to label their ingredients properly.
The other option is to stop buying the cheap products that are rip offs of the real (more expensive) products, where you know they are already taking shortcuts.
Our School system isn't designed to memorize rote. It is designed to produce Factory Workers, from a style that is 120 years old. Instead of highly customized and accelerated learning for those that want education, we end up with "lowest common denominator" drag to the bottom.
What we don't do any more is require Mastery or even Competency in subjects. Everyone is given participation grades and then we wonder why our kids can't do basic math. We throw good money after bad money trying to solve problems that money doesn't fix. We have entire weeks dedicated to "testing" our kids every year, and no actual results to show for it. Our system is broken because we have people educating from the top down, and not from the students up.
In an effort to have "No Child Left Behind" we spend inordinate amounts of efforts trying to educate kids who do not want, or otherwise cant be educated, while ignoring the best and brightest, leaving them to be "bored" and hate school. We are afraid to allow excellence, because that makes others have low self esteem if they cannot measure up. We end up Punishing success, rewarding failure, and wonder why.
I work in education. I see the results of this top down approach to industrial education, and it can no longer work. But we are too damn scared to actually let people free to find out better ways, and instead are continuing to listen to people who do not know anything to tell the rest of us how enlightened they are.
My fix is quite simple. Vouchers for everyone. We'll get teachers that can teach, teaching kids who want to learn, with parents involved because they can actively participate in the education of their children. The only people who complain about such a system are the once more concerned about other people's kdis than they are about educating their own.
This is what I hate about the political correctness that anything against Clinton (or Obama) is kneejerked down by people who aren't even looking at what the post said.
I was coming here to say the exact same thing, this probably has more to do with Hillary than it does Snowden, through subtext, than it does Snowden outright. I am sure it applies to Snowden, but Obama may be sending a signal to Clinton that no pardon is coming.
AND if Clinton has done nothing wrong, what does she need with a Pardon?
The "alt-right" racists seems to be a very small number according to actual statistics. And according to this article "Mostly online". Please note, I am not making excuses to the racists, I am questioning the left's fascination with everything "racist". The artcle I posted the author (not a Trump supporter) makes the same case I just did, calling attention to a dispossessed minority (aka Streisand Effect). More liberals are talking about "alt-right" than there are members of the "alt-right"
Of course, it is easy to simply say "They are hidden". And Streisanding them is helping your cause how?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Considering Hillary called a large part of America "Deplorable", while she sucked the cock of House of Saud .
Editorial bias is one thing, blatantly burying a major news story(WikiLeaks) because it doesn't fit the agenda is equal to being "fake news site". Oh sure, they ran a one or two minute piece once, but TRUMP IS A RACIST runs for 38 minutes every night.
There is bias (accidental unintentional) and then there is rigged reporting. Calling it bias is... cute.
Problem is that the MSM News Outlets are so in the tank for Liberals that it isn't even funny, and they aren't even trying to hide it. They are constantly being caught doing hatchet jobs for quick soundbites that seem to fit the narrative they are driving.
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And you are the reason why Hillary lost, even though you probably voted for her (or Stein or Bernie). You have NO point other than to cry "racism", which you cry so often that now that there are REAL racists out there, your message of "Racism" is lost, because nobody is listening to you. So, keep calling everyone you disagree with "Racist" because that is all the proof I need that you are devoid of any real thought.
While you are correct, the promise by socialists and communists is that everyone gets a "fair wage" (they never actually define what is fair), and use tools like "Minimum Wage" to drive those wages up.
I maintain that the real Minimum Wage is always Zero. The term Minimum Wage is what I like to call "Wage entry barrier", which is an artificial construct that has the exact opposite effect of its intentions. It doesn't drive wages up, it drives unemployment up (real Minimum Wage).
The problem is, every job is now considered to be a "living wage job", suitable for single moms, students, ungroomed techies living in Mom's basement, and people with Master Degrees in Women's Studies.THIS is the real "entitlement" epidemic, and the real "white Privilege".
Uber is already moving to driverless cars, and that was always the plan. Not only is that the plan, the long term prognosis for Taxi and Uber like drivers is dim. Eventually, driverless cars will be the norm and we'll see drivers go the way of the buggy whip.
You have a "worker's party" it is called the DNC. However I can understand why you don't recognize it as such, because it is chock full of racist bigots who are too busy pandering to ethnic groups that they have all but forgotten about the American Workers, struggling in the Obama Economy. Remember the "great firewall" in the upper midwest? That was DNC country, forgotten by the leaders such as Emanuel, who promised safe zones for illegal immigrants, while he cannot even promise to keep the citizens of Chicago safe.
So, I understand your call for a "worker's party". The problem is, whatever leadership you get, will not actually work for the workers, but for the continuation of power seeking. Your best bet, as a worker, is to better yourself, by whatever means necessary. YOU are the only one that has YOUR best interest at heart. Nobody else really cares.
Where is my "NIH" syndrome. Yes, there are correct tools to do just about everything we do. Doesn't mean they are always handy, or available. Knowing how to build with existing tools is one thing, knowing how to build tools you need to build something bigger is what YOU aren't seeing for what it is.
Yes, we can build brick houses with bricks others make, but can we make effective bricks with the time comes?
Anyone can build a fire by rubbing two sticks together, but can you build a furnace with that fire?
I can build a furnace with the bricks I made, and the fire I created to make molten metal, which I can use to forge steel into knives and hammers. And with that forge, and steel I can build a lathe and build a saw. A poor workman will complain that he has no tools, blame the tools he does have, because he simply doesn't understand what a workman can do with the tools he has.
And something has been lost on a generation that has no ability to make anything from nothing. Please take a moment out of your day and start watching people build stuff with their hands. They don't always have the perfect tool handy, and make do with what they do have.
Good for you. I first ran Linux as my primary "Desktop" in 1998. Early versions of XFCE, Gnome, KDE ... I've tried them all. They weren't good until about 2004ish.
Other OSes I've tried, BeOS, OS/2 (before and after Warp) (IMHO the best "Desktop OS") and GEM. You know where I am now? I am in the "I don't give a fuck what OS is in front of me" as long as I can get my work done. Just had a conversation with a colleague about how to configure Switches with a Chromebook, said it wasn't possible. I put the requirements together in 3 minutes. Give me the tools, I can do it. Tell me I can't, and I'll try to prove you wrong.
And yes, you are being Pedantic. The "Year of Linux on the Desktop" wasn't the year a GUI came out for Linux, and never was. IT was about mainstreaming Linux, which has happened while everyone was looking at replacing Windows/MacOS on Intel PCs, Linux went to ARM and beyond and is now running everything that is currently used "as a desktop", including the servers driving the web pages to your "Browser" (big fucking whoopdeedoo from a guy running Netscape Browser and Webserver since 97). And with your lowish UID, you should know this bit of history.
With a Hammer, I can build a lathe, and with a lathe I can build a saw. With a saw, a lathe and a hammer, I can build just about anything.
The first trick in building something out of nothing, is realizing that from nothing, we can build anything else we need, all we need is the raw materials, which you already provided me (Hammer and lumber)
Touch is a different class input, not the OS it is running on. Yes, there is Touch based ChromeOS systems out there. I am sure I can find a full size Android "desktop" out there that runs with a Mouse/Keyboard OR Touch just fine ,,, hey look ... https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ru...
The point being (which I am sure you're missing on purpose) is that "Windows" (or Mac) is not just the ONLY "desktop" out there.
"Year of Linux on the Desktop" is when Linux overtakes Windows/MacOS on the "Desktop". You probably already know this, and are just being pedantic.
Besides, you're not running "Linux" on the desktop. You're probably running Gnome or KDE, both work fine on some BSD and other Unixes.
I can write programs on ChromeOS just as easy as Windows or Mac. ChromeOS is Linux based. I can program fine on Raspberry Pi and Ardruino , with a keyboard ... just fine. What you lack is imagination. Your limitation is "proper".
Or, as my dad used to say ... "A poor workman always blames his tools"
Desktop isn't on the "desktop" any more. It moved to a Laptop, and now is on your Smart Phone.
Yes, I read before I posted. I'm just seeing beyond the historical to the now. IF by chance you see "desktop" and think "Windows/Mac", that is your problem. By that definition, the "year of Linux on the desktop" will never be. Because Linux isn't going to replace "Windows" as an OS on Intel PCs. It has however, gone and become Android and ChromeOS. It even runs on just about every other micro-controller like Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Linux is running on the Servers that make up just about every online "cloud" based activity you can think of and are the back-end of so many "apps" you use today.
I would suggest to you, that Linux is more involved in your daily "work" than windows is. Windows is basically a terminal for me.
I can use anything I get my hands on. I have windows servers I can RDP in from just about any device I have. I have Google Drive for my documentation that surpasses anything Microsoft has to offer, and again, I can have access from just about any device I have. I have SSH to manage my Linux Servers, which I have access from just about any device I have.
So, I am not sure what you mean by "actual work" ;)
The desktop is running Linux. It is just in your hand, and not on your desk anymore.
Desktops became laptops, became Smart Phones. The modern "desktop" is touch based running on your phone.
IF Microsoft could explain how to develop Android (or iOS) on Windows 10 is better than any other platform, I'd be all ears.
All the government regulations prohibitting selling of poison that already exists, and you think the solution to "possible" contamination is ... more of the same?
This is the problem with this sort of logic. There is no end to the amount of regulation being required, as there is always a possibility that "something might go wrong". In fact, I would suggest to you that because we are humans and not perfect, that something WILL go wrong, eventually. The real issue is to balance cost of regulation against the cost of loss when things do eventually go south.
Here is my suggestion for things like TSA screening. Take every cent of TSA screening and instead of doing invasive probing and put the money into a pool for victims of airline disasters (including Terrorism). Because it it is so infrequent, and all the security theater isn't really doing anything for "Security", lets just bypass the insanity and just pay people (which we do anyways) when something does go wrong. It would be more cost effective, and much simpler to maintain. Let the Airlines manage their own security. Eventually people will buy the right amount of security they are willing to pay for.
UL
The idea of the Class Action isn't as much to compensate people for buying the cheap product, it is also to be a deterrent for people engaged in this sort of deception.
There is no need to over regulate this marketplace. A class action lawsuit serves just fine. Especially if they are marketed under store brand names, sue the store.
A non-profit testing group could be setup by all sorts of industries to verify these kinds of things. There is NO need for additional government regulations that already require products to label their ingredients properly.
The other option is to stop buying the cheap products that are rip offs of the real (more expensive) products, where you know they are already taking shortcuts.
https://www.amazon.com/Aubrey-...
vs
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fru...
Literally six times more expensive for the real stuff.
Our School system isn't designed to memorize rote. It is designed to produce Factory Workers, from a style that is 120 years old. Instead of highly customized and accelerated learning for those that want education, we end up with "lowest common denominator" drag to the bottom.
What we don't do any more is require Mastery or even Competency in subjects. Everyone is given participation grades and then we wonder why our kids can't do basic math. We throw good money after bad money trying to solve problems that money doesn't fix. We have entire weeks dedicated to "testing" our kids every year, and no actual results to show for it. Our system is broken because we have people educating from the top down, and not from the students up.
In an effort to have "No Child Left Behind" we spend inordinate amounts of efforts trying to educate kids who do not want, or otherwise cant be educated, while ignoring the best and brightest, leaving them to be "bored" and hate school. We are afraid to allow excellence, because that makes others have low self esteem if they cannot measure up. We end up Punishing success, rewarding failure, and wonder why.
I work in education. I see the results of this top down approach to industrial education, and it can no longer work. But we are too damn scared to actually let people free to find out better ways, and instead are continuing to listen to people who do not know anything to tell the rest of us how enlightened they are.
My fix is quite simple. Vouchers for everyone. We'll get teachers that can teach, teaching kids who want to learn, with parents involved because they can actively participate in the education of their children. The only people who complain about such a system are the once more concerned about other people's kdis than they are about educating their own.
Why is this modded down?
This is what I hate about the political correctness that anything against Clinton (or Obama) is kneejerked down by people who aren't even looking at what the post said.
I was coming here to say the exact same thing, this probably has more to do with Hillary than it does Snowden, through subtext, than it does Snowden outright. I am sure it applies to Snowden, but Obama may be sending a signal to Clinton that no pardon is coming.
AND if Clinton has done nothing wrong, what does she need with a Pardon?
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016...
The "alt-right" racists seems to be a very small number according to actual statistics. And according to this article "Mostly online". Please note, I am not making excuses to the racists, I am questioning the left's fascination with everything "racist". The artcle I posted the author (not a Trump supporter) makes the same case I just did, calling attention to a dispossessed minority (aka Streisand Effect). More liberals are talking about "alt-right" than there are members of the "alt-right"
Of course, it is easy to simply say "They are hidden". And Streisanding them is helping your cause how?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Considering Hillary called a large part of America "Deplorable", while she sucked the cock of House of Saud .
But it was hacked by the RUSSIANS!!!!!!!
SO, by your form of logic, Hillary was a lap dog of the Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Qatar who were also funding ISIS, so she is a Muslim extremist.
Glad we got that bitch out of the way.
(No, I didn't vote for Trump)
(I Love playing guilt by association)
Editorial bias is one thing, blatantly burying a major news story(WikiLeaks) because it doesn't fit the agenda is equal to being "fake news site". Oh sure, they ran a one or two minute piece once, but TRUMP IS A RACIST runs for 38 minutes every night.
There is bias (accidental unintentional) and then there is rigged reporting. Calling it bias is ... cute.
Problem is that the MSM News Outlets are so in the tank for Liberals that it isn't even funny, and they aren't even trying to hide it. They are constantly being caught doing hatchet jobs for quick soundbites that seem to fit the narrative they are driving.