Most of them think it means socialist or something. I myself only found out what it means just a couple of years ago, when I was radicalized by the run-up and aftermath of the Iraq war. When I say "neoliberal," I mean it about the same way you do--a defender of or a participant in unrestrained capitalism or corporatism.
I used to read newspapers like the WP on a daily basis--even multiple newspapers. I even wrote tv news scripts for a CBS affiliate! I know their slant, now. I don't need to fill my head with their propaganda anymore. Already got enuf of it floating around in there....
With a few exceptions both the Post and Slate revealed themselves to me as CorpGovMedia mouthpieces during the run-up and aftermath of the Iraq war. That really opened my eyes. So, I couldn't really care less if they both went under....
The superwealthy in this country have a disproportionate share of the wealth. Why? They STOLE it. I say we tax their WEALTH and use that to pay for our social security.
I have no problem with capitalism, just so long as We The People get our fair cut of the juice. And right now, we aint we gettin' it.....
I love how you think I'm right winged and republican.
I'm a libertarian, thank you very much.
Oh, trust me, I KNEW you were a Lib. I was one, too. And that IS rightwing. Economically, that is. And economics is what feeds the bulldog.
And how much technological innovation has come from 'socialist' France in the past 50 years? What two countries can you thank for 90% of the technology you are using just to post here? America and Japan: the two most capitalistic countries in the world.
Actually, I am a LONGTIME technophile with a lust for science. Degrees, I got 'em. Nuclear power, computers, all that shit. As a cryonicist, I am very interested in the development of science--ove the long term. Would it surprise you if I told you that the social democracies (sweden, denmark, et al) outpublish American TWO TO ONE per capita when it comes to science papers?
Innovation is one thing. Mass produced consumer are another. You are young. Keep reading stuff on the Net and keep an open mind, and remember that everyone has an agenda.
THe social Security administration uses less than 1% of its costs for administrative purposes. HMOs, however, take 14% or more.
As for the FDA, they are VERY capitalist oriented. You wrote: The wonderful thing about capitalism is that if the companies aren't competent they won't stand the test of time, unless they are considerably cheaper than alternatives.
Yeah, right. Like Verizon and SBC are so competent. All they do is pay off the govt and keep running, as incompetent as ever.
Our ideas and the truth ARE winning out over rightwing corporatist propaganda, slowly but surely. Just take a look at what is happening on this very thread. Americans are posting with the unspoken realization that the big telcos have been deliberately holding out on them, and are doing a crappy job of servicing them.
While over in so-called socialist countries like France, you can get a really fat pipe for $30 US. And they have jobs for IT people, too. Cuz they make sure their gov't doesn't sell them out, like our did with free trade and h1b and outsourcing, at least not to the degree we see here....
everything is comin' our wa-aa-yy
And the word is leaking out from internet blogs like this one....
But by the time it does, you rightwing WSJ-Rush-Limbaugh bots will have switched sides, and will be denying that you ever bought into lasseiz faire economics. Well, I was there at one time, too. And I switched. But I won't hide it.
What!? I thought all those social democracy commie countries like Sweden and France were nowhere near as good as good old free-market America with our unfettered capitalism freemarket approach when it came to delivering consumer goods and services!
These telcos are highly efficient capitalist machines free trade, right? And capitalism is EVER so much more efficient than that nasty old government, which just all waste and inefficiency!
Right?
I mean, look at Verizon, and how competent and swift and efficient they are.
Now compare that with the IRS and the Social Security administration and the post office. Why, we all know that half of all mail never arrives, and that most retirees eventually starve to death because they never get their checks.
But, Verizon and its brethren, they are gleaming machines of competence....
New technologies is one thing (buggy whips, etc), but there is NO REASON for labor arbitrage. And that is what it really is when you ship jobs overseas because of lower labor costs. Same thing for H1b.
And if you ship overseas because of lower manufacturing costs caused by lower worker and environmental protections, then that is environment arbitrage.
That has nothing to do with "free trade". It's theft. And our politicians should be tried in courts of law for their crimes in this area.
....I also wrote a very small p2p program while I was getting my CS degree in Houston (UHD). It was written in perl and was written specifically for a one-tome demonstration for a pre-senior project class. It was specically written for a particular computer lab/classroom at the school.
I told one of my professors there what I was doing, and he replied, "But is it legal?"
In reply to him, I say, yes, Ongard, it is legal. At least so far....
Some companies run help wanted ads to make it look like they are hiring. It helps their reputation and standing as a corporation. I guess the reasoning is that if it looks like they are hiring, it looks like they are doing a lot of business, when in reality they may be doing poorly.
I guarantee you these 20 people use the labor of others a lot more than they use their own labor. Why do we always obsess over people who are supposedly the best at something?
Imagine a factory workforce of trained animals (pigs? Dogs?) using this sort of technology; they might be able to handle problems a bit too difficult for a an actual manufacturing robot to handle.
All this noise about voting machines is just a distraction from the real political issues we need to deal with, such as economics issues like progressive taxation, and how and why we should re-enact progressive taxation to pay for universal healthcare and longterm unemployment for all Americans; and how and why we should bring back advanced manufacturing and programming from offshore.
But the rich and semi-rich media figures like Rather, Jennings, Lehrer, Limbaugh, Franken, OReilly, newspaper reporters and editors et al, like their low taxes, and they don't have to worry about whether their children will get sick or die without medical care, or have to live in a car.
THat is why all we get is distrations like this, and political gossip and political personality cults.
Never mind the voting machine crap, fellow liberals, progressives, and leftists. This is an information war, a war of perceptions. Best focus in on the economic issues I outlined above, ones that can speak to all working Americans.
Probably some sort of hardwired social animal/pack animal/tribal instincts to tell the other members of the tribe about some new food source or other resource: "hey, guys, you won't believe this great patch of berries I found upon on the mountain this morning!"
THis is a very old and highly developed survival skill, and corporations are tapping into it with this sort of technique.
I would guess that CorpGovMedia (the people at the top of the mega corporations, the media and the govt) will pull a "Rendell" on us to keep broadband from ever getting so cheap that it would hurt TV. So they will pass laws that effetively prohibit cheap broadband. BTW, Rendell is the governor of PA who outlawed municipal wifi, thus perpetuating expensive BB there.
The whole corporate power structure and a lot of their profits are based on maintaining ideological hegemony here in America. The main way they do that is via the TeeVee (that and talk radio and the newspaper).
So they are trying to keep broadband more expensive than in Europe, or failing that, make it hard to get full telephone service via broadband.
I am constantly amazed at the low levels of reading comprehension/general knowledge evidenced on internet forums. The readers of these forums are without doubt more knowledgeable than the general public.
If we want a Scandanavian-style welfare state, this sort of ID would seem necessary, considering our proximity to the large numbers of poor latin americans.
Not that the current political trend is taking us in that direction....
You're soaking in it right now! A sizable precentage of ALL crops grown in the world use human feces as frtilizer ( but not much in the western world, I think).
No, my comment was not completely, correct. I shouldn't have implied that the most powerful Americans institutions have consciously set out to make sure that this sort of housing would be impossible, but utimately, various forces associated with those instituions would ally themselves against any sort of housing that would be radically cheaper than what we have now.
Other forces would also come to bear: NIMBY, property-values forces....
I recognize that wives and children are the rule. Where did I say or imply otherwise? The urge to reproduce is the dominant force in almost all humans. Again, it's a hardwired thing....
Of course it is not a troll; it was one of the best comments on this thread, if I do say so myself. However, most of my/. comments are modded down by the rightwing bots that infest this site.
The media, the govt and the corporations in American would stop at nothing to keep out cheap housing like this.
Also, there is the fact that this is a MALE's idea of good housing. A SINGLE male.
It is not so much cheap housing that women want, but high social status for their children. Thus, wives would veto this idea.
As for myself, I think it is a great idea. But the American corporate-centered culture caters to social-status competition that is hardwired into almost all pack animals, and so it would never be allowed here. THey would zone it out of existence in most places.
Yep, vegas video is an excellent and easy to learn package. Not that I am an expert or anything, but I tried Premiere and found it balky. Vegas is a lot easier to learn, and seems to work well.
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Most of them think it means socialist or something. I myself only found out what it means just a couple of years ago, when I was radicalized by the run-up and aftermath of the Iraq war. When I say "neoliberal," I mean it about the same way you do--a defender of or a participant in unrestrained capitalism or corporatism.
I used to think that, too. Ya got a lot of reading to do, bud, Best start now.....
I used to read newspapers like the WP on a daily basis--even multiple newspapers. I even wrote tv news scripts for a CBS affiliate! I know their slant, now. I don't need to fill my head with their propaganda anymore. Already got enuf of it floating around in there....
With a few exceptions both the Post and Slate revealed themselves to me as CorpGovMedia mouthpieces during the run-up and aftermath of the Iraq war. That really opened my eyes. So, I couldn't really care less if they both went under....
yawn....
I don't read either of those corporatist propaganda outlets unless I come across a pertinent and interesting article in a blog.
The superwealthy in this country have a disproportionate share of the wealth. Why? They STOLE it. I say we tax their WEALTH and use that to pay for our social security.
I have no problem with capitalism, just so long as We The People get our fair cut of the juice. And right now, we aint we gettin' it.....
you wrote:
I love how you think I'm right winged and republican.
I'm a libertarian, thank you very much.
Oh, trust me, I KNEW you were a Lib. I was one, too. And that IS rightwing. Economically, that is. And economics is what feeds the bulldog.
And how much technological innovation has come from 'socialist' France in the past 50 years? What two countries can you thank for 90% of the technology you are using just to post here? America and Japan: the two most capitalistic countries in the world.
Actually, I am a LONGTIME technophile with a lust for science. Degrees, I got 'em. Nuclear power, computers, all that shit. As a cryonicist, I am very interested in the development of science--ove the long term. Would it surprise you if I told you that the social democracies (sweden, denmark, et al) outpublish American TWO TO ONE per capita when it comes to science papers?
Innovation is one thing. Mass produced consumer are another. You are young. Keep reading stuff on the Net and keep an open mind, and remember that everyone has an agenda.
THe social Security administration uses less than 1% of its costs for administrative purposes. HMOs, however, take 14% or more.
As for the FDA, they are VERY capitalist oriented.
You wrote:
The wonderful thing about capitalism is that if the companies aren't competent they won't stand the test of time, unless they are considerably cheaper than alternatives.
Yeah, right. Like Verizon and SBC are so competent. All they do is pay off the govt and keep running, as incompetent as ever.
Our ideas and the truth ARE winning out over rightwing corporatist propaganda, slowly but surely. Just take a look at what is happening on this very thread. Americans are posting with the unspoken realization that the big telcos have been deliberately holding out on them, and are doing a crappy job of servicing them.
While over in so-called socialist countries like France, you can get a really fat pipe for $30 US. And they have jobs for IT people, too. Cuz they make sure their gov't doesn't sell them out, like our did with free trade and h1b and outsourcing, at least not to the degree we see here....
everything is comin' our wa-aa-yy
And the word is leaking out from internet blogs like this one....
But by the time it does, you rightwing WSJ-Rush-Limbaugh bots will have switched sides, and will be denying that you ever bought into lasseiz faire economics. Well, I was there at one time, too. And I switched. But I won't hide it.
Will you?
What!? I thought all those social democracy commie countries like Sweden and France were nowhere near as good as good old free-market America with our unfettered capitalism freemarket approach when it came to delivering consumer goods and services!
What happened?
Hmmm?
These telcos are highly efficient capitalist machines free trade, right? And capitalism is EVER so much more efficient than that nasty old government, which just all waste and inefficiency!
Right?
I mean, look at Verizon, and how competent and swift and efficient they are.
Now compare that with the IRS and the Social Security administration and the post office. Why, we all know that half of all mail never arrives, and that most retirees eventually starve to death because they never get their checks.
But, Verizon and its brethren, they are gleaming machines of competence....
we should have fought to keep them here.
New technologies is one thing (buggy whips, etc), but there is NO REASON for labor arbitrage. And that is what it really is when you ship jobs overseas because of lower labor costs. Same thing for H1b.
And if you ship overseas because of lower manufacturing costs caused by lower worker and environmental protections, then that is environment arbitrage.
That has nothing to do with "free trade". It's theft. And our politicians should be tried in courts of law for their crimes in this area.
....I also wrote a very small p2p program while I was getting my CS degree in Houston (UHD). It was written in perl and was written specifically for a one-tome demonstration for a pre-senior project class. It was specically written for a particular computer lab/classroom at the school.
I told one of my professors there what I was doing, and he replied, "But is it legal?"
In reply to him, I say, yes, Ongard, it is legal. At least so far....
Some companies run help wanted ads to make it look like they are hiring. It helps their reputation and standing as a corporation. I guess the reasoning is that if it looks like they are hiring, it looks like they are doing a lot of business, when in reality they may be doing poorly.
I guarantee you these 20 people use the labor of others a lot more than they use their own labor. Why do we always obsess over people who are supposedly the best at something?
Imagine a factory workforce of trained animals (pigs? Dogs?) using this sort of technology; they might be able to handle problems a bit too difficult for a an actual manufacturing robot to handle.
All this noise about voting machines is just a distraction from the real political issues we need to deal with, such as economics issues like progressive taxation, and how and why we should re-enact progressive taxation to pay for universal healthcare and longterm unemployment for all Americans; and how and why we should bring back advanced manufacturing and programming from offshore.
But the rich and semi-rich media figures like Rather, Jennings, Lehrer, Limbaugh, Franken, OReilly, newspaper reporters and editors et al, like their low taxes, and they don't have to worry about whether their children will get sick or die without medical care, or have to live in a car.
THat is why all we get is distrations like this, and political gossip and political personality cults.
Never mind the voting machine crap, fellow liberals, progressives, and leftists. This is an information war, a war of perceptions. Best focus in on the economic issues I outlined above, ones that can speak to all working Americans.
Probably some sort of hardwired social animal/pack animal/tribal instincts to tell the other members of the tribe about some new food source or other resource: "hey, guys, you won't believe this great patch of berries I found upon on the mountain this morning!"
THis is a very old and highly developed survival skill, and corporations are tapping into it with this sort of technique.
I would guess that CorpGovMedia (the people at the top of the mega corporations, the media and the govt) will pull a "Rendell" on us to keep broadband from ever getting so cheap that it would hurt TV. So they will pass laws that effetively prohibit cheap broadband. BTW, Rendell is the governor of PA who outlawed municipal wifi, thus perpetuating expensive BB there.
The whole corporate power structure and a lot of their profits are based on maintaining ideological hegemony here in America. The main way they do that is via the TeeVee (that and talk radio and the newspaper).
So they are trying to keep broadband more expensive than in Europe, or failing that, make it hard to get full telephone service via broadband.
I am constantly amazed at the low levels of reading comprehension/general knowledge evidenced on internet forums. The readers of these forums are without doubt more knowledgeable than the general public.
If we want a Scandanavian-style welfare state, this sort of ID would seem necessary, considering our proximity to the large numbers of poor latin americans.
Not that the current political trend is taking us in that direction....
But, I am nothing, if not an optimist!
You're soaking in it right now! A sizable precentage of ALL crops grown in the world use human feces as frtilizer ( but not much in the western world, I think).
"Neo-serfs," huh? Cute....
No, my comment was not completely, correct. I shouldn't have implied that the most powerful Americans institutions have consciously set out to make sure that this sort of housing would be impossible, but utimately, various forces associated with those instituions would ally themselves against any sort of housing that would be radically cheaper than what we have now.
Other forces would also come to bear: NIMBY, property-values forces....
I recognize that wives and children are the rule. Where did I say or imply otherwise? The urge to reproduce is the dominant force in almost all humans. Again, it's a hardwired thing....
Of course it is not a troll; it was one of the best comments on this thread, if I do say so myself. However, most of my /. comments are modded down by the rightwing bots that infest this site.
The media, the govt and the corporations in American would stop at nothing to keep out cheap housing like this.
Also, there is the fact that this is a MALE's idea of good housing. A SINGLE male.
It is not so much cheap housing that women want, but high social status for their children. Thus, wives would veto this idea.
As for myself, I think it is a great idea. But the American corporate-centered culture caters to social-status competition that is hardwired into almost all pack animals, and so it would never be allowed here. THey would zone it out of existence in most places.
Yep, vegas video is an excellent and easy to learn package. Not that I am an expert or anything, but I tried Premiere and found it balky. Vegas is a lot easier to learn, and seems to work well.