Why not? As long as we run on capitalism and uphold private property, people are free to buy as many papers or whatever else they please.
In the most capitalistic countries, there's a basic understanding that holding a market monopoly that depresses the ability of newcomers to start up is a bad thing. On top of that, one can look to Canada and other countries where the parent company ownership has turned around and abused their position and directly influenced the news. Kind of like this.
That's why anti-monopoly and anti-trust laws exist, I'm surprised you don't understand this basic fact.
I'd be more interested in local news if the local newspaper didn't just print fluff pieces and hyper-partisan bullshit. There is real corruption in my city, for example, but it's not investigated or reported.
The questions you should be asking then are: "Who owns my newspaper?" And "Why were large companies allowed to buy large swaths of smaller papers."
Franchise agreements in those cases would require automatic last mile access. In Canada, it works out that a TPIA pays 25-35% of the cost per user as a lease.
As with most "kids today" posts, you're assuming "kids today" are a monolithic bunch who all act the same way and have the same beliefs and priorities.
Well there, why don't we explore the current state of higher education right now. Where you've got droves of young adults aka kids in the current vernacular, who demand safe spaces, protest against free speech. And claim that the white gay who loves black dick, and is married to a black man is a white nationalist and neo-nazi. Or the 5'9" manlet(as an insult used by them) and is a practicing jew, is so dangerous that his speeches must be banned. That's Milo Yiannopoulos, and Ben Shaprio for your own research.
Because Comcast sells their internet with TV bundles at a cheaper rate than standalone internet.
All you need to do to fix that is require that companies much lease the last mile(pole to the home) like we do up here in Canada. Internet suddenly gets cheaper, and the market gets very competitive. It also doesn't stop those small companies from dropping their own fiber, DSLAMs or cable plants either.
Sounds like wherever you lived was a good 50 - 70 years behind in development. I grew up in Texas in the 90s and it was definitely not normal for kids to start gainful employment at age 9.
You mean an area that was heavily industrialized, and had a solid medium and heavy industry manufacturing base that at one time supplied 12% of the province of Ontario's GDP? That's very backwards I guess. I never said it was "gainful employment" but it shows just how little you know about farming. Maybe you should go work on one for a while? I'll explain how this all goes down for you. First you do a deep till, then you pick rocks so you don't damage equipment, then you do a shallow till. Then you plant. If you plant things that had to be hand-picked(tobacco, strawberries, blueberries), you hired warm bodies to do this. All of those jobs are temporary. I'm also guessing in your world, that mowing laws to buy stuff when you're 9-11 years old is child slave labor. Such a privileged little shit you were huh?
You grew up in the 90's, those of us who grew up in the 80's on the other hand actually had to go out and work. Especially after the hyperinflation hit in the early 80's, and really didn't level out until almost the 90's.
but good luck finding a company willing to train apprentices at *any* age today...
Shortage of 6.8m skilled trades in the US and Canada right now. Either you don't live in North America, or are simply ignorant.
The first job I had was at 9 picking rocks out of a farmers field before planting, that was in the 1980's. In the 90's it was expected that most kids by the age of 14 already had a PT job of some kind, hell at 12 I was already on the 2nd year of my mechanics apprenticeship. Fake ID for a job at 17...no wonder people think kids are coddled.
Yeah welcome to the shitshow going on in Canadian politics right now. But it wasn't appropriate or effective, that's why even the left-wing press that gets on their knees for him were attacking him over the comment.
Yeah, well to be fair, though, anti-semitism was silly meme-edgery a couple years ago, and now it's appearing everywhere.
Hate to tell you, but it wasn't. It was very prevalent on university campuses and among the left in those same places. The interesting thing is that, there's open anti-semitism and actual jew hatred being promoted on those same campuses, and even in left-wing political circles. But there's not a peep from the press on it unless the politician make so much of a gaffe that they have to drive them out. Look to UK politics if you want a really shining example.
It's forming a mirror image of the Republican party.
You need to get out of your bubble. I'll ask you this, and without looking it up. Which party introduced legislation to ban 'first amendment zones' on university campuses.
You must live in a real shit hole that no one wants to go to. Or, on the flip side, you are the poorest in a rich neighbourhood.
Think you got that backwards. If I can leave something out and people don't steal it because it's not nailed down, doesn't make it a shithole or 'poorest in a rich neighborhood.' Try thinking on this really hard and you should figure out where you went wrong.
Today we have better records and it is much harder to lie to recruiters. But right now there are 18 and 19 year old "kids" among the 11 thousand American soldiers in Afghanistan.
We had good records back then too, on top of that we used dental exams to determine if the person was lying. A friend of mine's uncle enlisted at 13, he lied and wheeled his way through it all. How did it slip by? He looked like he was 16, even passed the dental exam, he managed to successfully forge his birth certificate. By the time they figured out he was under age he was already legal age and let him stay in the service. The only places where records get spotty in that era is where they were destroyed or lost in particular years. Meaning church/county office/dr. office fires and so on.
The kids today especially many of those 18/19yr old 'kids' and even older get triggered and freak the fuck out if you don't use their gender pronouns, or think that they're the most specialist thing on the planet. Pretty sure you can blame the "every1 is a winnar!" bullshit outta that one along with helicopter parents. This isn't limited to just one person complaining about it either, you can find employers in just about every field that have serious problems with the work ethic that many of these kids have, even here in tech related fields. 30 seconds of searching and you can find articles on sites talking about just how poor the work ethic is, and how they'll break down and run for a bathroom at the slightest amount of criticism.
I am a classic liberal myself, and I didn't leave behind the Democratic Party so much as it left me behind.
Seen a lot of people over the last few years saying this, not just in the US but Canada, and in Euro countries as well. It's like the in-general political left decided to toss on the ye olde mantle of "we're you're intellectual superiors, and you're going to *like* what we tell you."
Wind and Solar require that you place them in either exactly right area, or have high-uptime year round. Hell you can look in California and Texas over the last 40 years and find millions of dead solar farms and wind farms. They don't survive here because we already have cheap energy. In most cases they require massive subsidies in order to operate as well. North America is resource rich, very resource rich. It is cheaper to build a dam, and flood thousands of KM of land then it is to build windmills in mountain passes. Use the coal in the ground, build nuclear power plants well anywhere, lots of places to do that even in Western Canada.
Keep this in mind, because I'll now explain what drives people against green energy. In Ontario(again very resource rich), the government believed that handing huge tax breaks and giving massive payouts to get these things off the ground was a great idea. So to be viable, you could see rates where they were paid by the IESO upwards of $1.50kWh, most were in the $0.70-0.90kWh range. It broke the market. The price for electricity before they started paying these companies and microfits money hand over fist was around $0.09kWh at peak, off-peak $0.035-0.068kWh. 10 years later the peak because the entire province(mainly non-businesses) now pay $0.185kWh. The price that is still paid to these green energy boondongles is still in the $0.30-0.76kWh range.
Ontario is interesting, because the government is very anti-industrial anything. Their entire economic policy was based on driving businesses out of the province and pushing 'service' jobs. So now you have people working 2-3 sometimes 4 PT-jobs to make ends meet, in a family that that's both parents working 3PT jobs and barely making ends meet in most of the province. Now, toss in those 30k illegals from the US? This is where it gets fun, because those people who couldn't even work or afford housing were being thrown out of low-income housing to put illegals up in them. FYI the average wait-time in most of Ontario for low-income housing is between 4 and 8 years.
And I'm sure someone is going to go, hur-dur it's all them conservatives fault. Sorry guys, this is 100% right on the Liberal Party of Ontario which has been in power since the early 00's.
Yeah. The fucking "You're a nazi" shit only works up until they've had enough and just AGREE before stomping said label-maker into a mass of blood and bruises.
It also does a great job of shifting that overton window. "Whatja mean if I'm for equal rights, free healthcare, and freedom of speech I'm a nazi." That's kinda the state of politics in Canada right now.
Came for the foam-flecked far right rants, stayed for their thinly veiled threats.
There's no rant there slow-friend. Anyone who looks at the democrat party can see the anti-white, pro-authoritian leaning in the party. You can wander onto any university campus and find open racism against whites and asians by various "social justice" groups. You can find no shortage of black supremacy groups which agitate for violence and far-outstrip anything that the right has.
So yes, maybe the left really does need to get it's shit in order and start dealing with them. You don't think all those "far right" groups came into existence in a vacuum did you? Smile kiddo, that's the "smart" leftwing policy that gave birth to it.
I should not be called an "ecofriend" if i constantly bash baby seals dead with clubs just because i call myself an ecofriend.
Why? Nothing wrong with bashing baby seals, we do use everything off of them anyway. They're mostly done in culls because the little bastards will put huge dents into the fish populations. FYI if you ever come to Canada, seal flipper pie is a real thing, also made from real seal flippers. It's also quite good.
He'd probably have gotten a better response if he'd just told the truth; his "peoplekind" comment was really a way to deflect a non-sensense question from a batshit crazy member of the audience.
Well if you don't live in Canada, or follow Canadian politics closely, this type of response from him isn't abnormal. It's normal, that's what's troublesome and in some cases scary. His belief that "if you kill your enemies they win" - in response to terrorists is a good example. It spawned a whole meme industry around it. It's not only that, but he's fundamentally out of touch.
That's what they label themselves as, even using the progressive label. Maybe there's a serious problem in the left with crazies right now that needs to be taken care of?
Because we're rapidly approaching the point where professional content creators are becoming unpaid labor for YouTube.
Already there, most youtubers don't make more then $20/mo now. That's in the 100k+ sub category with 40-45% viewership, they only make ends meet by using things like patreon or whatever else. Of course, the same people who decided to go after those youtubers are now going after sites like patreon to get those same people kicked off. For what? Well whatever offends their sensibilities of course.
Enjoy the neo-puritanism because the backlash against it is gonna be pretty spectacular. Even our ultra-feminist premier here in Canada(Trudeau) discovered just how little people are putting up with the bullshit. See his "peoplekind" comment which then suddenly became a joke(after public backlash), which nobody found funny and his handler freaked the fuck out and started labeling anyone who questioned it or that narrative as alt-right and neo-nazis.
Could you post where you live? No seriously that way everyone can avoid living there. I can leave a $20k roller cabinet full of tools sitting in my front yard and nobody will even touch it.
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Why not? As long as we run on capitalism and uphold private property, people are free to buy as many papers or whatever else they please.
In the most capitalistic countries, there's a basic understanding that holding a market monopoly that depresses the ability of newcomers to start up is a bad thing. On top of that, one can look to Canada and other countries where the parent company ownership has turned around and abused their position and directly influenced the news. Kind of like this.
That's why anti-monopoly and anti-trust laws exist, I'm surprised you don't understand this basic fact.
I'd be more interested in local news if the local newspaper didn't just print fluff pieces and hyper-partisan bullshit. There is real corruption in my city, for example, but it's not investigated or reported.
The questions you should be asking then are: "Who owns my newspaper?" And "Why were large companies allowed to buy large swaths of smaller papers."
I guess unless we are talking about Android. I was thinking about Windows and Mac PCs only before.
Now you got it, and now you can see why it's become an anti-trust issue the same as IE.
Google's surpassed MS's fuckups quite a while ago.
Franchise agreements in those cases would require automatic last mile access. In Canada, it works out that a TPIA pays 25-35% of the cost per user as a lease.
As with most "kids today" posts, you're assuming "kids today" are a monolithic bunch who all act the same way and have the same beliefs and priorities.
Well there, why don't we explore the current state of higher education right now. Where you've got droves of young adults aka kids in the current vernacular, who demand safe spaces, protest against free speech. And claim that the white gay who loves black dick, and is married to a black man is a white nationalist and neo-nazi. Or the 5'9" manlet(as an insult used by them) and is a practicing jew, is so dangerous that his speeches must be banned. That's Milo Yiannopoulos, and Ben Shaprio for your own research.
Because Comcast sells their internet with TV bundles at a cheaper rate than standalone internet.
All you need to do to fix that is require that companies much lease the last mile(pole to the home) like we do up here in Canada. Internet suddenly gets cheaper, and the market gets very competitive. It also doesn't stop those small companies from dropping their own fiber, DSLAMs or cable plants either.
Sounds like wherever you lived was a good 50 - 70 years behind in development. I grew up in Texas in the 90s and it was definitely not normal for kids to start gainful employment at age 9.
You mean an area that was heavily industrialized, and had a solid medium and heavy industry manufacturing base that at one time supplied 12% of the province of Ontario's GDP? That's very backwards I guess. I never said it was "gainful employment" but it shows just how little you know about farming. Maybe you should go work on one for a while? I'll explain how this all goes down for you. First you do a deep till, then you pick rocks so you don't damage equipment, then you do a shallow till. Then you plant. If you plant things that had to be hand-picked(tobacco, strawberries, blueberries), you hired warm bodies to do this. All of those jobs are temporary. I'm also guessing in your world, that mowing laws to buy stuff when you're 9-11 years old is child slave labor. Such a privileged little shit you were huh?
You grew up in the 90's, those of us who grew up in the 80's on the other hand actually had to go out and work. Especially after the hyperinflation hit in the early 80's, and really didn't level out until almost the 90's.
but good luck finding a company willing to train apprentices at *any* age today...
Shortage of 6.8m skilled trades in the US and Canada right now. Either you don't live in North America, or are simply ignorant.
To honest mate, you just sound like you were an easily exploited little retard.
You really don't know what it's like to be that poor do you? Good job of showing just how easy you've got it now.
The first job I had was at 9 picking rocks out of a farmers field before planting, that was in the 1980's. In the 90's it was expected that most kids by the age of 14 already had a PT job of some kind, hell at 12 I was already on the 2nd year of my mechanics apprenticeship. Fake ID for a job at 17...no wonder people think kids are coddled.
Yeah welcome to the shitshow going on in Canadian politics right now. But it wasn't appropriate or effective, that's why even the left-wing press that gets on their knees for him were attacking him over the comment.
Yeah, well to be fair, though, anti-semitism was silly meme-edgery a couple years ago, and now it's appearing everywhere.
Hate to tell you, but it wasn't. It was very prevalent on university campuses and among the left in those same places. The interesting thing is that, there's open anti-semitism and actual jew hatred being promoted on those same campuses, and even in left-wing political circles. But there's not a peep from the press on it unless the politician make so much of a gaffe that they have to drive them out. Look to UK politics if you want a really shining example.
It's forming a mirror image of the Republican party.
You need to get out of your bubble. I'll ask you this, and without looking it up. Which party introduced legislation to ban 'first amendment zones' on university campuses.
You must live in a real shit hole that no one wants to go to. Or, on the flip side, you are the poorest in a rich neighbourhood.
Think you got that backwards. If I can leave something out and people don't steal it because it's not nailed down, doesn't make it a shithole or 'poorest in a rich neighborhood.' Try thinking on this really hard and you should figure out where you went wrong.
Today we have better records and it is much harder to lie to recruiters. But right now there are 18 and 19 year old "kids" among the 11 thousand American soldiers in Afghanistan.
We had good records back then too, on top of that we used dental exams to determine if the person was lying. A friend of mine's uncle enlisted at 13, he lied and wheeled his way through it all. How did it slip by? He looked like he was 16, even passed the dental exam, he managed to successfully forge his birth certificate. By the time they figured out he was under age he was already legal age and let him stay in the service. The only places where records get spotty in that era is where they were destroyed or lost in particular years. Meaning church/county office/dr. office fires and so on.
The kids today especially many of those 18/19yr old 'kids' and even older get triggered and freak the fuck out if you don't use their gender pronouns, or think that they're the most specialist thing on the planet. Pretty sure you can blame the "every1 is a winnar!" bullshit outta that one along with helicopter parents. This isn't limited to just one person complaining about it either, you can find employers in just about every field that have serious problems with the work ethic that many of these kids have, even here in tech related fields. 30 seconds of searching and you can find articles on sites talking about just how poor the work ethic is, and how they'll break down and run for a bathroom at the slightest amount of criticism.
I am a classic liberal myself, and I didn't leave behind the Democratic Party so much as it left me behind.
Seen a lot of people over the last few years saying this, not just in the US but Canada, and in Euro countries as well. It's like the in-general political left decided to toss on the ye olde mantle of "we're you're intellectual superiors, and you're going to *like* what we tell you."
Wind and Solar require that you place them in either exactly right area, or have high-uptime year round. Hell you can look in California and Texas over the last 40 years and find millions of dead solar farms and wind farms. They don't survive here because we already have cheap energy. In most cases they require massive subsidies in order to operate as well. North America is resource rich, very resource rich. It is cheaper to build a dam, and flood thousands of KM of land then it is to build windmills in mountain passes. Use the coal in the ground, build nuclear power plants well anywhere, lots of places to do that even in Western Canada.
Keep this in mind, because I'll now explain what drives people against green energy. In Ontario(again very resource rich), the government believed that handing huge tax breaks and giving massive payouts to get these things off the ground was a great idea. So to be viable, you could see rates where they were paid by the IESO upwards of $1.50kWh, most were in the $0.70-0.90kWh range. It broke the market. The price for electricity before they started paying these companies and microfits money hand over fist was around $0.09kWh at peak, off-peak $0.035-0.068kWh. 10 years later the peak because the entire province(mainly non-businesses) now pay $0.185kWh. The price that is still paid to these green energy boondongles is still in the $0.30-0.76kWh range.
This is what happened: Electricity rates are so high, that the government had to put into law that winter disconnection wasn't allowed. It does get down to -35C here most winters. Then there's the stories like this: The system is so broken because of green energy that people are making the "roof vs heat" choice. This is what happens when extreme poverty and high electricity prices collide(2016/2017) and the charities which pay for heating ran out of money in December of 2016. Most charities got more money this year, but again most will run out of funding by February. That still leaves, March and April, and possibly May(it can get as cold as -10C even here in Southern Ontario as late as May 24th - which most people consider the actual end of winter, it can also be 27C enjoy Canada yet?).
Ontario is interesting, because the government is very anti-industrial anything. Their entire economic policy was based on driving businesses out of the province and pushing 'service' jobs. So now you have people working 2-3 sometimes 4 PT-jobs to make ends meet, in a family that that's both parents working 3PT jobs and barely making ends meet in most of the province. Now, toss in those 30k illegals from the US? This is where it gets fun, because those people who couldn't even work or afford housing were being thrown out of low-income housing to put illegals up in them. FYI the average wait-time in most of Ontario for low-income housing is between 4 and 8 years.
And I'm sure someone is going to go, hur-dur it's all them conservatives fault. Sorry guys, this is 100% right on the Liberal Party of Ontario which has been in power since the early 00's.
Yeah. The fucking "You're a nazi" shit only works up until they've had enough and just AGREE before stomping said label-maker into a mass of blood and bruises.
It also does a great job of shifting that overton window. "Whatja mean if I'm for equal rights, free healthcare, and freedom of speech I'm a nazi." That's kinda the state of politics in Canada right now.
Came for the foam-flecked far right rants, stayed for their thinly veiled threats.
There's no rant there slow-friend. Anyone who looks at the democrat party can see the anti-white, pro-authoritian leaning in the party. You can wander onto any university campus and find open racism against whites and asians by various "social justice" groups. You can find no shortage of black supremacy groups which agitate for violence and far-outstrip anything that the right has.
So yes, maybe the left really does need to get it's shit in order and start dealing with them. You don't think all those "far right" groups came into existence in a vacuum did you? Smile kiddo, that's the "smart" leftwing policy that gave birth to it.
I should not be called an "ecofriend" if i constantly bash baby seals dead with clubs just because i call myself an ecofriend.
Why? Nothing wrong with bashing baby seals, we do use everything off of them anyway. They're mostly done in culls because the little bastards will put huge dents into the fish populations. FYI if you ever come to Canada, seal flipper pie is a real thing, also made from real seal flippers. It's also quite good.
He'd probably have gotten a better response if he'd just told the truth; his "peoplekind" comment was really a way to deflect a non-sensense question from a batshit crazy member of the audience.
Well if you don't live in Canada, or follow Canadian politics closely, this type of response from him isn't abnormal. It's normal, that's what's troublesome and in some cases scary. His belief that "if you kill your enemies they win" - in response to terrorists is a good example. It spawned a whole meme industry around it. It's not only that, but he's fundamentally out of touch.
That's what they label themselves as, even using the progressive label. Maybe there's a serious problem in the left with crazies right now that needs to be taken care of?
Everyone can decide where they want to live. Even those of us who started in abject poverty and climbed our way into middle class.
Because we're rapidly approaching the point where professional content creators are becoming unpaid labor for YouTube.
Already there, most youtubers don't make more then $20/mo now. That's in the 100k+ sub category with 40-45% viewership, they only make ends meet by using things like patreon or whatever else. Of course, the same people who decided to go after those youtubers are now going after sites like patreon to get those same people kicked off. For what? Well whatever offends their sensibilities of course.
Enjoy the neo-puritanism because the backlash against it is gonna be pretty spectacular. Even our ultra-feminist premier here in Canada(Trudeau) discovered just how little people are putting up with the bullshit. See his "peoplekind" comment which then suddenly became a joke(after public backlash), which nobody found funny and his handler freaked the fuck out and started labeling anyone who questioned it or that narrative as alt-right and neo-nazis.
Could you post where you live? No seriously that way everyone can avoid living there. I can leave a $20k roller cabinet full of tools sitting in my front yard and nobody will even touch it.