What passes for pop music today sucks because it has stopped being about music; it is all about making money off the "artist" who actually isn't. There are few actual bands and many "groups" are more dancers than singers. The singers don't actually have to be good, relying on autotune instead. The music is usually recorded in advanced by a team of musicians who don't go on tour, the music and lyrics written by a handful of people behind the scene looking for the right combo to get the next number one song.
Music today is the equivalent to internet memes: The same thing with different shit thrown on top to try to make something popular for a few days.
Oh, the trend is there. It can be trace it back to the book Save the cat!. It seems every screenwriter in Hollywood read it and now all movies follow the same path.
Diplomatic vehicles are considered part of the embassy and thus part of that country. An embassy car can take him straight to the tarmac, park right next to the steps to the plane where he can step out on to the steps and then enter the plane and never leave embassy ground.
You seem to forget that the three branches of government are designed to provide checks and balances for each other. The courts have the ability to overrule laws that are deemed unconstitutional or discriminatory or illegal under higher law.
While enumeration of the representative is included in the constitution, districting is not. As it is not specifically granted to the federal government, it devolves down to the state governments, see Art 6 sect 2.
You can't have the courts always stepping in because you don't think something is "fair".
Actually, one can and that is actually how the law and courts work. If one believes a law is unfair, one can go to the courts and the courts will determine if it is fair and legal. This is how the Miranda rights came about. Someone claimed it was unfair for the police to not inform a suspect of his rights. This is also how the "fruit of the poisoned tree" principal concerning illegally obtained evidence came about.
It is even more complicated than that. Florida has a state law that mandates that districts be as geometrically compact as possible. But, Florida also falls under the Voting Rights Act which requires:
a minority population is geographically compact and sufficiently numerous to be a majority in a single district;
the minority population is politically cohesive;
the majority votes sufficiently as a bloc to enable it usually to defeat the minority-preferred candidate;
under all of the circumstances, the minority population has less opportunity than others to participate in the political process and elect representatives of its choice.
When the minority population is overwhelmingly for one party, such as the fact that black Americans in Florida are much more likely to be registered as Democrats, one ends up with de facto political gerrymandering due to racial gerrymandering.
I'm in the U.s. but when I was in school, it was parents and high school guidance councilors pushing it and they were getting it from the news reports that degree==high paying job.
And, I concede that a degree did make one more valuable back in the day but that bump has been shrinking for years due to degree inflation.
Now you are lying because you just said to do it deliberately therefore it is not a mistake it is a deliberate act. Also, individual item UPCs are either covered by packaging or all the items in the pack have the same UPC as the pack, see six packs of beer.
You are basically admitting you are a thief who tries to hide behind claimed ignorance. And, actually, you do have an obligation to try not to make mistakes because you are a customer. And, again, what you are describing is not a mistake but rather a deliberate act.
No, capitalists want to minimize total cost of production without decreasing quality to a point where it will impact sales. If a machine can do the same job as a person but costs twice as much as the cost of employing the person, then the company will continue to employ the person. The only reason automation hasn't replaced fast food workers to date is that the cost of the machine was more than the cost of the person. It is as simple as that. When employing the person costs more than having the machine, the employee will be replaced by a machine. It is why there is IVR instead of a human operator on the phone. It is why there are ATMs at banks instead of more tellers.
I can't tell if you are communist or a poe/troll. You really have no idea of business motivations and you seem to believe that capitalists believe automation is always better, which is demonstrably false.
Did you lose your job as a McDonald's cashier to a kiosk or something? Was your job automated out of existence? Is that what your problem is?
A degree does make one more valuable. But, the wrong degree done wrong can also hurt one. And, it isn't really the universities that are pushing that line. It is parents, high school guidance councilors, and the media.
Your fallacy is cherry picking. Recognizing that the menu expansion of the last decade has created a problem and trimming it is a creative thing. When someone brings an idea for a new product, being able to recognize it is a good idea is a creative thing.
CEOs may be overpaid but that doesn't mean they don't do anything.
There is exploitation happening, at least in the US when it comes to lower skilled labor. There have been court cases involving allegations of low skilled workers being locked in rooms until they comply. This isn't imaginary, it happens.
Your fallacies are spotlighting and cherry picking. You are treating an exceptional event as the norm. Also, the event your reference involved illegal aliens working for minimum wage and it was there status as illegal aliens that made it possible for the event you describe.
Also, I was correcting factual errors in your post.
because universities are degree mills pumping out people with useless degrees.
No. Universities are not degree mills and they do not determine who gets what kind of degree. People are going to university and, following the advise of their guidance councilors and parents, are getting degrees to "do what you love" and then finding out that what they love pays shit. Often, people will go out and get an advanced degree, because what they love will eventually require them to have an advanced degree, and then find out they can only get an entry level job, which only required a bachelor's, which doesn't pay enough to pay off the $120K in loans they took out to get their PhD.
You are blaming the universities for the decisions of the students.
Your experience is anecdotal and it ignores the cashier in the drive through, the fact the manager can assist the customers if there are only kiosks, and the fact that having a single cashier up front is not an option in many places due to volume. Also, how fast is the service at that McDonald's? Do you have to wait in line for the cashier? When do you go in, at off times or during the rush?
Watch them do it in states with rock bottom minimum wage.
No, they will do it in states and cities with high minimum wage. If they ever do it in states with rock bottom minimum wage, it will be last because that is where the savings are least.
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No. Using the defined term for the genre of the music. Pop music and hard rock are two different genres of music.
What passes for pop music today sucks because it has stopped being about music; it is all about making money off the "artist" who actually isn't. There are few actual bands and many "groups" are more dancers than singers. The singers don't actually have to be good, relying on autotune instead. The music is usually recorded in advanced by a team of musicians who don't go on tour, the music and lyrics written by a handful of people behind the scene looking for the right combo to get the next number one song.
Music today is the equivalent to internet memes: The same thing with different shit thrown on top to try to make something popular for a few days.
They were not pop. They were hard rock.
Oh, the trend is there. It can be trace it back to the book Save the cat!. It seems every screenwriter in Hollywood read it and now all movies follow the same path.
Apparently you are unaware that the "pop" in "pop music" is short for "popular"
I'd argue that anecdotal evidence is acceptable in this case
And, you would be wrong.
That does not support his claim and instead shows he is wrong. Thank you.
It is when my dogs greet me at the door. Best. Social interaction. EVER.
They don't have to make up a crime and they don't have to make that shithead an ambassador. See my comment about diplomatic vessels.
Diplomatic vehicles are considered part of the embassy and thus part of that country. An embassy car can take him straight to the tarmac, park right next to the steps to the plane where he can step out on to the steps and then enter the plane and never leave embassy ground.
Please support your claim.
While enumeration of the representative is included in the constitution, districting is not. As it is not specifically granted to the federal government, it devolves down to the state governments, see Art 6 sect 2.
You can't have the courts always stepping in because you don't think something is "fair".
Actually, one can and that is actually how the law and courts work. If one believes a law is unfair, one can go to the courts and the courts will determine if it is fair and legal. This is how the Miranda rights came about. Someone claimed it was unfair for the police to not inform a suspect of his rights. This is also how the "fruit of the poisoned tree" principal concerning illegally obtained evidence came about.
The section of that article about the Voting Rights Act will hamstring any attempts at redistricting via algorithm.
When the minority population is overwhelmingly for one party, such as the fact that black Americans in Florida are much more likely to be registered as Democrats, one ends up with de facto political gerrymandering due to racial gerrymandering.
I'm in the U.s. but when I was in school, it was parents and high school guidance councilors pushing it and they were getting it from the news reports that degree==high paying job.
And, I concede that a degree did make one more valuable back in the day but that bump has been shrinking for years due to degree inflation.
Now you are lying because you just said to do it deliberately therefore it is not a mistake it is a deliberate act. Also, individual item UPCs are either covered by packaging or all the items in the pack have the same UPC as the pack, see six packs of beer.
You are basically admitting you are a thief who tries to hide behind claimed ignorance. And, actually, you do have an obligation to try not to make mistakes because you are a customer. And, again, what you are describing is not a mistake but rather a deliberate act.
No, capitalists want to minimize total cost of production without decreasing quality to a point where it will impact sales. If a machine can do the same job as a person but costs twice as much as the cost of employing the person, then the company will continue to employ the person. The only reason automation hasn't replaced fast food workers to date is that the cost of the machine was more than the cost of the person. It is as simple as that. When employing the person costs more than having the machine, the employee will be replaced by a machine. It is why there is IVR instead of a human operator on the phone. It is why there are ATMs at banks instead of more tellers.
I can't tell if you are communist or a poe/troll. You really have no idea of business motivations and you seem to believe that capitalists believe automation is always better, which is demonstrably false.
Did you lose your job as a McDonald's cashier to a kiosk or something? Was your job automated out of existence? Is that what your problem is?
A degree does make one more valuable. But, the wrong degree done wrong can also hurt one. And, it isn't really the universities that are pushing that line. It is parents, high school guidance councilors, and the media.
Assuming the single item has different UPC than the six-pack item, it is still obviously fraud.
Your fallacy is cherry picking. Recognizing that the menu expansion of the last decade has created a problem and trimming it is a creative thing. When someone brings an idea for a new product, being able to recognize it is a good idea is a creative thing.
CEOs may be overpaid but that doesn't mean they don't do anything.
There is exploitation happening, at least in the US when it comes to lower skilled labor. There have been court cases involving allegations of low skilled workers being locked in rooms until they comply. This isn't imaginary, it happens.
Your fallacies are spotlighting and cherry picking. You are treating an exceptional event as the norm. Also, the event your reference involved illegal aliens working for minimum wage and it was there status as illegal aliens that made it possible for the event you describe.
Also, I was correcting factual errors in your post.
because universities are degree mills pumping out people with useless degrees.
No. Universities are not degree mills and they do not determine who gets what kind of degree. People are going to university and, following the advise of their guidance councilors and parents, are getting degrees to "do what you love" and then finding out that what they love pays shit. Often, people will go out and get an advanced degree, because what they love will eventually require them to have an advanced degree, and then find out they can only get an entry level job, which only required a bachelor's, which doesn't pay enough to pay off the $120K in loans they took out to get their PhD.
You are blaming the universities for the decisions of the students.
I look forward to seeing your co-op fast food restaurant and your co-op chip manufacturer.
Your experience is anecdotal and it ignores the cashier in the drive through, the fact the manager can assist the customers if there are only kiosks, and the fact that having a single cashier up front is not an option in many places due to volume. Also, how fast is the service at that McDonald's? Do you have to wait in line for the cashier? When do you go in, at off times or during the rush?
Watch them do it in states with rock bottom minimum wage.
No, they will do it in states and cities with high minimum wage. If they ever do it in states with rock bottom minimum wage, it will be last because that is where the savings are least.
Do you even understand how business works?