When thinking of good models to emulate, are you thinking more of Egypt Revolution 1.0, which got taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood, or of Egypt Revolution 2.0, which got taken over by the military?
The root of the problem are the far reaching spying activities of the NSA, not the fact that somebody blew the whistle.
I wonder how many of the politicians (domestic & foreign) who are demanding investigations based on his revelations are stepping up to the plate and trying to keep him out of prison.
Yeah, like your right to pay for hookers and blow for mobsters and politicians, and your right to have one more massive blood-sucking operation slicing a chunk off your paycheck?
Give me a break.
-jcr
Yeah, all that should be reserved for the CEO class.
I wonder how many of the people blaming all the country's problems on unions have ever been in one.
I have. Two of the biggest unions in the world: CalPERS and SEIU. Working as a union member was hell. The "protecting lazy coworkers" reputation was absolutely my experience in both cases. Working with incompetents drains morale; doing all their work for them takes all the satisfaction out of work.
Funny enough, I've only ever worked in non-union shops, and everyone feels the same way there too. In fact I used to think "corporate welfare" referred to the fact that companies large and small always keep lazy/incompetent workers/blowhards on the payroll, and with few exceptions pay them as much as anyone else.
And of course, for the bigger companies there's the Peter Principle.
Short-term economic dislocations gave way to a sustained economic boom.
And don't try to connect the current U.S. downturn. That is a result of Obama's deliberate effort to wreck the U.S. economy.
For people rich enough to play the stock market. Meanwhile, the workforce was hit with constant waves of downsizings and fold-ups, and people didn't feel the kind of job security that they had during the 1950s-1970s.
The current pathetic state of our economy (for people who have to work) is the result of a multi-decade trend. In fact it started around 1980, when plutocrats posing as conservatives convinced everyone that greed is a virtue, and started squeezing out of the workforce what we had invested into it since WWII.
For one, they've failed the address the perception that unions protect lazy workers at the expense of the productive ones.
I wonder how many of the people blaming all the country's problems on unions have ever been in one.
And that is relevant how?
Because they constantly pontificate about how unions work, and I suspect they're just repeating the propaganda they've heard in the right-/rich-wing echo chamber.
Yup. The amount of anti-union disinformation being spread here (I live in the East Bay) is insane. Blaming the unions while ignoring the boot of the upper class on your throat isn't going to help anything, folks.
The key word here is anthropogenic I would guess. Nobody can deny that there is global warming, we're in an interglacial period, where I'm sitting now used to be under a kilometer depth of ice, the main discussion is how much of it we are responsible for.
Last I read (which was several years ago), there is forcing from both directions: toward cold due to the winding down of the interglacial, and toward the hot due to anthropogenic causes.
The "toward the hot" is stronger than the "toward the cold" by something on the order of one watt per square meter, IIRC.
Y'know, evolution being the path by which this happened, and americans being unable to blame it because that would aknowledge its existence
I suspect the dominant social factor is the fact that the USA lacks the will (or spine) to impose badly needed regulations if they would cut into someone's profits. Especially if that 'someone' is a whole industry.
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That's a third of a million years worth of the energy output from the entire sun in milliseconds and no corresponding light flash or other radiation?
It will take the thunder a lot longer to get here.
why would they bother with Earth ? Deep gravity well, close to the sun and plagued with solar flares, full of microbes ...
'Cause free-range brains taste better.
No luck trying to read the original french version:
"L’accès à la totalité de l’article est protégé".
Because it's French, or because it's protégé?
Think of how many bitcoins they could have bought!
When thinking of good models to emulate, are you thinking more of Egypt Revolution 1.0, which got taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood, or of Egypt Revolution 2.0, which got taken over by the military?
That should be n+1 and n+2.
Don't blame the messenger.
The root of the problem are the far reaching spying activities of the NSA, not the fact that somebody blew the whistle.
I wonder how many of the politicians (domestic & foreign) who are demanding investigations based on his revelations are stepping up to the plate and trying to keep him out of prison.
Yeah, like your right to pay for hookers and blow for mobsters and politicians, and your right to have one more massive blood-sucking operation slicing a chunk off your paycheck?
Give me a break.
-jcr
Yeah, all that should be reserved for the CEO class.
I wonder how many of the people blaming all the country's problems on unions have ever been in one.
I have. Two of the biggest unions in the world: CalPERS and SEIU.
Working as a union member was hell. The "protecting lazy coworkers" reputation was absolutely my experience in both cases. Working with incompetents drains morale; doing all their work for them takes all the satisfaction out of work.
Funny enough, I've only ever worked in non-union shops, and everyone feels the same way there too. In fact I used to think "corporate welfare" referred to the fact that companies large and small always keep lazy/incompetent workers/blowhards on the payroll, and with few exceptions pay them as much as anyone else.
And of course, for the bigger companies there's the Peter Principle.
Short-term economic dislocations gave way to a sustained economic boom.
And don't try to connect the current U.S. downturn. That is a result of Obama's deliberate effort to wreck the U.S. economy.
For people rich enough to play the stock market. Meanwhile, the workforce was hit with constant waves of downsizings and fold-ups, and people didn't feel the kind of job security that they had during the 1950s-1970s.
The current pathetic state of our economy (for people who have to work) is the result of a multi-decade trend. In fact it started around 1980, when plutocrats posing as conservatives convinced everyone that greed is a virtue, and started squeezing out of the workforce what we had invested into it since WWII.
For one, they've failed the address the perception that unions protect lazy workers at the expense of the productive ones.
I wonder how many of the people blaming all the country's problems on unions have ever been in one.
And that is relevant how?
Because they constantly pontificate about how unions work, and I suspect they're just repeating the propaganda they've heard in the right-/rich-wing echo chamber.
Also, the rest of us need to carry a gun to make us think our dick is as big as Batman's.
Wow letting a witness "phone it in."
They wanted to make sure the NSA got a transcript of it.
Batshit crazy isn't limited to politicians. In fact I suspect that a lot of them are faking it, to win the votes of people like the one you quoted.
I didn't realize it was ok to seek out, confront, and then shoot someone, as long as that person is a THUG?
Hey, everyone needs to let the inner Batman out once in a while.
Thank goodness we've got this method for promoting progress in the useful arts.
From what I've read, it corresponds to the 911 transcript. The operator tried to get him to back off.
The American worker will always be 'priced out of the global labor market', unless you want to work for a dollar a day.
Luckily there are tools to correct for this, like tariffs. We just don't use them properly because business owns the govn't.
Best Post.
Now, they've priced the American worker out of the global labor market.
From what I read about Germany, I don't think unions are the problem.
Yup. The amount of anti-union disinformation being spread here (I live in the East Bay) is insane. Blaming the unions while ignoring the boot of the upper class on your throat isn't going to help anything, folks.
Actually, it's going to help the upper class.
(I.e., the people who least need it.)
For one, they've failed the address the perception that unions protect lazy workers at the expense of the productive ones.
I wonder how many of the people blaming all the country's problems on unions have ever been in one.
Lobbyists fight for the rights of companies.
Why shouldn't unions fight for the rights of employees?
'Cause God intended the haves to squeeze the have-nots. It's wicked for the have-nots to resist the natural order of things.
India 1, Russia 0.
The key word here is anthropogenic I would guess. Nobody can deny that there is global warming, we're in an interglacial period, where I'm sitting now used to be under a kilometer depth of ice, the main discussion is how much of it we are responsible for.
Last I read (which was several years ago), there is forcing from both directions: toward cold due to the winding down of the interglacial, and toward the hot due to anthropogenic causes.
The "toward the hot" is stronger than the "toward the cold" by something on the order of one watt per square meter, IIRC.
[Edit to add:]
Letting people die causes less outrage.
Y'know, evolution being the path by which this happened, and americans being unable to blame it because that would aknowledge its existence
I suspect the dominant social factor is the fact that the USA lacks the will (or spine) to impose badly needed regulations if they would cut into someone's profits. Especially if that 'someone' is a whole industry.