This ladies and gentlemen is why I favor a 90% marginal tax rate on income over $1 million a year (note, that's _marginal_, meaning you don't pay it until you hit that threshold, before that you're paying the same as folks in the lower brackets).
So under that logic you also advocate punishing success for the rest of the CEOs who are ethical and who create the jobs that supply the government revenue rolls. I don't see that as a solution.
The city cries about lack of qualified labor while mandating a minimum wage that drives away jobs. Offshoring doesn't happen due to lack of qualified labor it happens because cheaper labor is readily available elsewhere. Chicago has a wage competition problem not a labor pool problem.
Disney has always been greedy to the point of being arrogant.
Their DVDs on the shelves were always higher priced and seldom discounted. $20 is too high for a children's movie.
Disney lobbied heavily and won passage of the "Mickey Mouse" copyright extension law that prevented Steamboat Willy and Mickey Mouse from going into public domain.
Disney's early films exploited public domain in which they mined stories no longer under copyright to make their own movies.
When traveling I had watched the Disney Channel in hotel rooms and was aghast at the sitcoms that portrayed grown adults as bumbling idiots and children rebelling against authority. Not exactly the role models I want my kids exposed to. The only show I found entertaining was Phineas and Ferb.
Disney used to be the beacon of wholesome entertainment for families. Not anymore. I haven't patronized them for years. If they want to take their ball home away from Apple's service, they won't be missed,
When you buy a house, the transfer is a public record in most places, and you absolutely will get a lot of junk offers from companies who have no relationship to any of the ones you used.
Mailboxes are getting useless. Currently almost all of my important mail goes to a post office box because I have had problems with identity theft from stolen mail. When I got involved in elder care with my parents and my Dad kept misplacing important mail, I filed a forwarding with the post office; the ONLY mail that got forwarded was the junk mail. Statements and bills do not get forwarded, I had to call each office and arrange the mail forwarding.
I have used PO boxes for the last 20 years and they are superior to the mailbox in front of the dwelling. It is much more secure - the staff there will not give your mail to anyone else. A house address can be found on the internet (there is a benefit to ego searching), but I have yet to find the PO box on the internet. It is easy to change - if the box starts getting inundated with junk mail (or mail from a vindictive ex), I can move to a new box, give the change of address to official parties, and all legitimate mail moves to new box and junk mail is left behind. Yes there is an additional cost with annual box rental and fuel to pick up mail, but the peace of mind is worth it.
I am saving $$$ to build my own house and it will be the house I retire in. Since the house being public record will be broadcast to the junk mail marketing bastards, I refuse to install a mailbox. From then on, all important mail goes to a PO Box.
The last time I bought tickets through Ticketbastard was 1992. I noticed a shipping & handling fee of $10 - per ticket - for a 2inch by 7inch piece of cardboard stock with fancy embossing. Competitors have tried to muscle in on the business but Ticketbastard abused their monopoly to push them out. I refused to patronize those thieving bastards ever again, and I welcome Amazon's move.
I've pretty much been conditioned to impulsively dismiss ANYTHING that is prefaced with a pretty face or body. There have been too many times where a pretty woman said hello to me only to give me a sales pitch or a SJW pitch. Too many ads in magazines and on TV use a pretty woman to pitch their products. I was a victim of a dating scam - fake FB account with pretty pictures and all the social engineering tricks. I was married to a materialistic gold digger who only got married for the entitlements. The "pretty face" social engineering tricks are evident in all the clickbait ads on news websites.
Marketers know that pretty faces sell a product - not anymore. Show me a picture of a pretty face, and I'll gloss right past it. Pay a pretty woman to pitch a product to my face, and I'll turn and walk away. I am so tired of being manipulated.
"Games, experiments, intrusive animated ads and websites would be forgotten."
Corrected with emphasis. Marketers had so badly exploited Flash with intrusive animated ads that I HATED the Flash plugin. Other than YouTube in its early days, Flash has served little purpose for me.
I would not shed any tears if Flash were left to be forgotten along with Clippy, Photophucket, and Microsoft Bob.
Besides the bad quality goods they sell, I refuse to patronize a company that intentionally designs their employee health insurance to be so inadequate and unaffordable that the employees see public health care as a more attractive insurance. Part of their new employee orientation includes training on how to apply for Medicaid. Medicaid was never intended as a safety net for full-time gainfully employed citizens. WalMart is covertly gaming the Medicaid system by keeping wages under the threshold and shifting the burden onto taxpayers. If that is how WalMart stays competitive by exploiting taxpayer revenue, then I refuse to patronize them.
we desegregated the military to have black and white people in the same units. This argument was again made only a few years ago when we let gays and lesbians openly serve. Why is it different this time?
Study after study from medical organizations has highlighted the mental disorders and medical burdens of the LGBT community, yet the LGBT mobs go to great lengths to silence/discredit the authors/organizations and/or have the studies buried from public view. What is different is that the blacks didn't do this. Demonizing authorities who oppose their agenda is a poor strategy to get culture to accept them and to justify their lifestyle. It is deception, plain and simple.
The blacks have been vocal about their resentment of LGBT groups attempting to borrow from their civil rights struggles. They don't see any parallels.
What's the experiment? There have been transgender people living in the world as long as there have been people.
Under that argument, there have been lepers living in the world as long as there have been people too. Just because they have existed alongside humanity is hardly any justification that they are fit for military service.
In 2015, the EEOC ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits sexual orientation discrimination in employment, since it is a form of sex discrimination.
The EEOC has neither any legislative or judicial authority. Rules are not laws or judicial decisions, and other agencies like the EEOC have been bitchslapped by the courts for exceeding their authority in interpreting things in law that are not there.
Legislation is probably necessary to roll it back at this point.
What legislation? The ban on transgenders in the military was lifted by an executive order from the Obama administration; there was never any legislation of the kind. Trump is reversing an EO not a law. EOs are not laws, the separation clause reserves that power to the legislative branch, the judicial branch will not interpret EOs as laws, penalties cannot be levied against violators, and most federal agencies not under executive control won't enforce them.
They can going crying to the courts, but the courts have struck down many executive actions from the Obama era.
My first initiation with the Internet started at work in 1996. I installed one of those "push" apps not knowing at the time. It didn't stay on the computer very long - too disruptive. Pretty soon the company was remotely disabling them because the advertising traffic was racking up mileage (and $$$) on the network pipes. The experience was so unpleasant that I vowed never to install any "push" app on any device.
Not a fan of this idea. FB Messenger spams could exceed the data caps on mobile plans ($$$) and create a backlash from angry customers.
When Apple launched the iCloud, customers found their data caps exceeded because iOS was shoving high density data (photos, movies, etc) between other iOS and OSX devices WITHOUT TELLING THE USER.
Not that I'm worried - I refuse to install any social media app on my mobile device. They gobble up battery juice and data bandwidth. WOMBAT (Waste Of Money, Brains, And Talent).
If a drone can fly over the fence and drop tools to a prisoner, how intrinsically different is that than basically THROWING the tools over the fence?
There's another news article that stated that the fence was 50ft tall, which would have made it very difficult to throw tools over it. Also most prisons have multiple layers of fencing, you not only have to clear a tall fence but all the layers. That's how intrinsically different it is.
50 years ago in Endicott NY, they built a shopping plaza on top of a small landfill. The site was so unstable that the buildings and parking lot were constantly settling. It became an extremely rough ride driving through the parking even at a crawl.
The plaza was finally closed about ten years ago, and was demolished. No new development is permitted on that site.
I've been developing software since 1981 and those keyboards had the best tactile feel whose layout somehow results in less typos. I've used some keyboards that were so bad that they caused RSI.
Both of my Windows tower computers at home have a IBM model F Keyboard with the function keys across the top. The oldest one has been holding up since 1993.
Keep in mind that some of the wing nuts on the left have already played into Trump's hand by publicly asserting that zero fraudulent voters occurred in the 2016 elections. All Trump has to do is find one anywhere and they're proven wrong.
He also called their bluff. The left keep trying to pin a Russian/Trump collusion on their candidate's loss of the election. But when they are asked to open the books, they refuse to.
When Wisconsin opened the books after the election so Jill Stein could get a recount, she found more votes for Trump which infuriated the left. They don't need any more embarrassments with the Commission knocking on their door.
This whole Russian thing fails under a crucial point: would the Russians hack the election to favor Trump the capitalist? Hello, Russia is a communist country. Clinton? Putin has been public that he hates Hillary Clinton. Who better to favor the election than one of their own... that's right, BERNIE the socialist who finished 3rd place in the election. Under this logic, any allegation of Russian intervention cannot hold water. There's a REASON why no one has unearthed any evidence.
Freedom of speech does not imply freedom from consequences.
The same can be said for freedom of the press.
Nowhere in the Bill of Rights or federal law or judicial case law does it state that a free press that reports false news is exempt from the consequences. The most recent example is the infamous "rape on campus" Rolling Stone article which was found to be false, and RS and the author of the article lost in court against a defamation lawsuit.
CNN had been very biased for a long time to the point of influencing the 2008/2012 elections through selective news reporting that sought to damage candidates opposed to their agenda and sneaking debate questions to favored candidates in advance, as well as other very questionable practices such as threats of retaliation against the individual who dared to criticize CNN by creating the Trump/CNN animation. By the 2016 election, the voters caught onto their deceptions and were having no more of it, witness the backlash against Kathy Griffin. CNN may not be the subject of a lawsuit, but the scorn from voters has been well earned and a long time coming.
I grew up during the record era. As the era of CDs approached, vinyl was replaced with plastic and the quality of record presses went to HELL. I remember too many times when I had to return a record 3-4 times before I got one that didn't skip.
I embraced CDs emphatically and I will never go back to records, plastic or vinyl.
I do not miss the needle noise, premature wear, groove distortion, wow & flutter, or compromised frequency response.
National Semiconductor used to print the Audio Design Book which provided a detailed description of how record playback works, and it is an engineering kludge with its compromises. It is far from a perfect playback system.
The bottom line is that the unemployment rate in Seattle is 3.1% (compared to 5.2% in Washington as a whole),
Please provide the definition of "unemployed" used to generate that number. If the definition does not include those who are no longer collecting unemployment due to their benefits period having expired, then those are far from accurate numbers. Progressives have conveniently omitted this crucial detail for decades to paint a rosy picture. As of this past May, there are over 90 million people in this country who are not in the work force.
My assessment of python is "you get what you pay for". And I don't mean that in a good way.
I've been a systems engineer for 25+ years with experience in many software languages including modern ones like C#. I do not have a high opinion of python for many reasons already stated.
I'll add that online references are a PITA, in that many are downright wrong. I actually ran into a simple code segment that our interpreter couldn't execute.
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So under that logic you also advocate punishing success for the rest of the CEOs who are ethical and who create the jobs that supply the government revenue rolls. I don't see that as a solution.
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(I used to work as a contractor at IBM back in the late 80s and this actually went around internally. The sad truth is I jumped ship to Mac)
We don't need any lectures from Chicago public school system on educating coders when the city passed an ordinance to raise minimum wage to $13 by 2019.
The city cries about lack of qualified labor while mandating a minimum wage that drives away jobs. Offshoring doesn't happen due to lack of qualified labor it happens because cheaper labor is readily available elsewhere. Chicago has a wage competition problem not a labor pool problem.
Disney has always been greedy to the point of being arrogant.
Their DVDs on the shelves were always higher priced and seldom discounted. $20 is too high for a children's movie.
Disney lobbied heavily and won passage of the "Mickey Mouse" copyright extension law that prevented Steamboat Willy and Mickey Mouse from going into public domain.
Disney's early films exploited public domain in which they mined stories no longer under copyright to make their own movies.
When traveling I had watched the Disney Channel in hotel rooms and was aghast at the sitcoms that portrayed grown adults as bumbling idiots and children rebelling against authority. Not exactly the role models I want my kids exposed to. The only show I found entertaining was Phineas and Ferb.
Disney used to be the beacon of wholesome entertainment for families. Not anymore. I haven't patronized them for years. If they want to take their ball home away from Apple's service, they won't be missed,
He didn't invent email - Al Gore did.
Mailboxes are getting useless. Currently almost all of my important mail goes to a post office box because I have had problems with identity theft from stolen mail. When I got involved in elder care with my parents and my Dad kept misplacing important mail, I filed a forwarding with the post office; the ONLY mail that got forwarded was the junk mail. Statements and bills do not get forwarded, I had to call each office and arrange the mail forwarding.
I have used PO boxes for the last 20 years and they are superior to the mailbox in front of the dwelling. It is much more secure - the staff there will not give your mail to anyone else. A house address can be found on the internet (there is a benefit to ego searching), but I have yet to find the PO box on the internet. It is easy to change - if the box starts getting inundated with junk mail (or mail from a vindictive ex), I can move to a new box, give the change of address to official parties, and all legitimate mail moves to new box and junk mail is left behind. Yes there is an additional cost with annual box rental and fuel to pick up mail, but the peace of mind is worth it.
I am saving $$$ to build my own house and it will be the house I retire in. Since the house being public record will be broadcast to the junk mail marketing bastards, I refuse to install a mailbox. From then on, all important mail goes to a PO Box.
The last time I bought tickets through Ticketbastard was 1992. I noticed a shipping & handling fee of $10 - per ticket - for a 2inch by 7inch piece of cardboard stock with fancy embossing. Competitors have tried to muscle in on the business but Ticketbastard abused their monopoly to push them out. I refused to patronize those thieving bastards ever again, and I welcome Amazon's move.
I've pretty much been conditioned to impulsively dismiss ANYTHING that is prefaced with a pretty face or body. There have been too many times where a pretty woman said hello to me only to give me a sales pitch or a SJW pitch. Too many ads in magazines and on TV use a pretty woman to pitch their products. I was a victim of a dating scam - fake FB account with pretty pictures and all the social engineering tricks. I was married to a materialistic gold digger who only got married for the entitlements. The "pretty face" social engineering tricks are evident in all the clickbait ads on news websites.
Marketers know that pretty faces sell a product - not anymore. Show me a picture of a pretty face, and I'll gloss right past it. Pay a pretty woman to pitch a product to my face, and I'll turn and walk away. I am so tired of being manipulated.
Corrected with emphasis. Marketers had so badly exploited Flash with intrusive animated ads that I HATED the Flash plugin. Other than YouTube in its early days, Flash has served little purpose for me.
I would not shed any tears if Flash were left to be forgotten along with Clippy, Photophucket, and Microsoft Bob.
Besides the bad quality goods they sell, I refuse to patronize a company that intentionally designs their employee health insurance to be so inadequate and unaffordable that the employees see public health care as a more attractive insurance. Part of their new employee orientation includes training on how to apply for Medicaid. Medicaid was never intended as a safety net for full-time gainfully employed citizens. WalMart is covertly gaming the Medicaid system by keeping wages under the threshold and shifting the burden onto taxpayers. If that is how WalMart stays competitive by exploiting taxpayer revenue, then I refuse to patronize them.
Study after study from medical organizations has highlighted the mental disorders and medical burdens of the LGBT community, yet the LGBT mobs go to great lengths to silence/discredit the authors/organizations and/or have the studies buried from public view. What is different is that the blacks didn't do this. Demonizing authorities who oppose their agenda is a poor strategy to get culture to accept them and to justify their lifestyle. It is deception, plain and simple.
The blacks have been vocal about their resentment of LGBT groups attempting to borrow from their civil rights struggles. They don't see any parallels.
Under that argument, there have been lepers living in the world as long as there have been people too. Just because they have existed alongside humanity is hardly any justification that they are fit for military service.
The EEOC has neither any legislative or judicial authority. Rules are not laws or judicial decisions, and other agencies like the EEOC have been bitchslapped by the courts for exceeding their authority in interpreting things in law that are not there.
What legislation? The ban on transgenders in the military was lifted by an executive order from the Obama administration; there was never any legislation of the kind. Trump is reversing an EO not a law. EOs are not laws, the separation clause reserves that power to the legislative branch, the judicial branch will not interpret EOs as laws, penalties cannot be levied against violators, and most federal agencies not under executive control won't enforce them.
They can going crying to the courts, but the courts have struck down many executive actions from the Obama era.
My first initiation with the Internet started at work in 1996. I installed one of those "push" apps not knowing at the time. It didn't stay on the computer very long - too disruptive. Pretty soon the company was remotely disabling them because the advertising traffic was racking up mileage (and $$$) on the network pipes. The experience was so unpleasant that I vowed never to install any "push" app on any device.
Not a fan of this idea. FB Messenger spams could exceed the data caps on mobile plans ($$$) and create a backlash from angry customers.
When Apple launched the iCloud, customers found their data caps exceeded because iOS was shoving high density data (photos, movies, etc) between other iOS and OSX devices WITHOUT TELLING THE USER.
Not that I'm worried - I refuse to install any social media app on my mobile device. They gobble up battery juice and data bandwidth. WOMBAT (Waste Of Money, Brains, And Talent).
There's another news article that stated that the fence was 50ft tall, which would have made it very difficult to throw tools over it. Also most prisons have multiple layers of fencing, you not only have to clear a tall fence but all the layers. That's how intrinsically different it is.
50 years ago in Endicott NY, they built a shopping plaza on top of a small landfill. The site was so unstable that the buildings and parking lot were constantly settling. It became an extremely rough ride driving through the parking even at a crawl.
The plaza was finally closed about ten years ago, and was demolished. No new development is permitted on that site.
I've been developing software since 1981 and those keyboards had the best tactile feel whose layout somehow results in less typos. I've used some keyboards that were so bad that they caused RSI.
Both of my Windows tower computers at home have a IBM model F Keyboard with the function keys across the top. The oldest one has been holding up since 1993.
He also called their bluff. The left keep trying to pin a Russian/Trump collusion on their candidate's loss of the election. But when they are asked to open the books, they refuse to.
When Wisconsin opened the books after the election so Jill Stein could get a recount, she found more votes for Trump which infuriated the left. They don't need any more embarrassments with the Commission knocking on their door.
This whole Russian thing fails under a crucial point: would the Russians hack the election to favor Trump the capitalist? Hello, Russia is a communist country . Clinton? Putin has been public that he hates Hillary Clinton. Who better to favor the election than one of their own... that's right, BERNIE the socialist who finished 3rd place in the election. Under this logic, any allegation of Russian intervention cannot hold water. There's a REASON why no one has unearthed any evidence.
The same can be said for freedom of the press.
Nowhere in the Bill of Rights or federal law or judicial case law does it state that a free press that reports false news is exempt from the consequences. The most recent example is the infamous "rape on campus" Rolling Stone article which was found to be false, and RS and the author of the article lost in court against a defamation lawsuit.
CNN had been very biased for a long time to the point of influencing the 2008/2012 elections through selective news reporting that sought to damage candidates opposed to their agenda and sneaking debate questions to favored candidates in advance, as well as other very questionable practices such as threats of retaliation against the individual who dared to criticize CNN by creating the Trump/CNN animation. By the 2016 election, the voters caught onto their deceptions and were having no more of it, witness the backlash against Kathy Griffin. CNN may not be the subject of a lawsuit, but the scorn from voters has been well earned and a long time coming.
I grew up during the record era. As the era of CDs approached, vinyl was replaced with plastic and the quality of record presses went to HELL. I remember too many times when I had to return a record 3-4 times before I got one that didn't skip.
I embraced CDs emphatically and I will never go back to records, plastic or vinyl.
I do not miss the needle noise, premature wear, groove distortion, wow & flutter, or compromised frequency response.
National Semiconductor used to print the Audio Design Book which provided a detailed description of how record playback works, and it is an engineering kludge with its compromises. It is far from a perfect playback system.
Please provide the definition of "unemployed" used to generate that number. If the definition does not include those who are no longer collecting unemployment due to their benefits period having expired, then those are far from accurate numbers. Progressives have conveniently omitted this crucial detail for decades to paint a rosy picture. As of this past May, there are over 90 million people in this country who are not in the work force.
I haven't eaten at MickeyD's since *1984*. Their food is just plain AWFUL.
My assessment of python is "you get what you pay for". And I don't mean that in a good way.
I've been a systems engineer for 25+ years with experience in many software languages including modern ones like C#. I do not have a high opinion of python for many reasons already stated.
I'll add that online references are a PITA, in that many are downright wrong. I actually ran into a simple code segment that our interpreter couldn't execute.