I'm not talking about specific cases, I'm talking in general: if people, in general, stop having kids, then the stuff mentioned before becomes less of an issue. So that's going to be the general trend for society: not having any kids. Then people won't have to worry much about having siblings to support (more and more people will be only children), and their only worry will be their parents (which may more may not be an issue for some people, depending on their relationship with their parents: i.e., if the parents were shitty to them while growing up, as many parents seem to be, the kids won't bother taking care of them).
And so, in the end, this whole problem in society will fix itself.
Yeah, except wasn't it trivially easy to get a job if you didn't have one? That's what's different in the US; it's not always easy to find a job if you don't have one.
I disagree. Personally, I wouldn't mind stocking shelves for pay, for a single day. I'd get bored of it pretty quick, of course, but for a single day it'd be fine. By contrast, my regular programming work doesn't get boring that fast, but after a few years, I really get tired of working in the same place and start itching to move. Simple jobs like shelf-stocking are not really different, it just takes a lot less time to get bored with it. If I had a different such job every day, maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
Oh bullshit. The rest of society (meaning, the older generations) is what set things up so badly in the first place. The Millennials are simply playing the hand they've been dealt, which is a shitty one.
When Western society goes down the tubes, it's the older generations (especially the Boomers) who will be to blame. Personally I'm hoping it happens sooner rather than later so that the Boomers will be alive to see and experience what they've brought about.
Yeah, unfortunately most folks in the past couple generations never had to see what the "gig" economies of the past were actually like. Back when you'd go to your local town square or down to the docks or whatever, and stand in line waiting for some potential employer to choose you for work FOR THE DAY. And then you'd break your back doing labor for the day, make enough money to feed your kids, and you'd be off again begging for work the next morning. If you hurt your back or got sick or whatever, you and your family were screwed. End of story.
This is easily mitigated these days: don't have a family. Now you only have to worry about making enough money for yourself, and saving enough for yourself on days you don't have any work.
How exactly is a gig economy going to provide benefits for things like starting a family. How will that family cope when tragedy strikes as no life insurance benefit is offered.
They don't need to start a family. Families are for people who can afford them. Millennials aren't starting families, so they don't need jobs that provide the luxury of having enough money for one.
We need to just leave having families to the ultra-rich.
which is a population outpacing the availability stable employment that provides necessary benefits. And as the parent pointed it, this bullshit is a slippery slope we don't want.
Just because we want something doesn't mean we can have it. I want a secret lair in a hollowed-out volcano on a remote tropical island, but that doesn't mean I'm going to have it.
Instability should never be viewed as a good thing.
It's the best we can do these days. We just need to accept it and get used to it.
Not only is there an incredible amount of abuse, the IRS publishes rules about what is and isn't allowed, however the IRS does absolutely *nothing* about any abuse. They're quite happy to let it continue.
You *do* need Facebook to log in to various other services. I used it, until recently, for Tinder, for example.
This doesn't mean you actually have to post stuff on there, or do anything substantive with it besides use it as a login service. The only things I use my FB account for are logins (and not even that at the moment; I have a girlfriend now so I don't log into Tinder now), and being "friends" with a few distant friends and not-so-distant family members who insist on using it. I never post anything.
I don't have a dropbox account (truthfully), so I can't give that up.
You can claim you don't have a Google account, if you're not carrying an Android phone. Carry a Windows phone and it'll seem believable. With the current popularity of Windows Phones (hehe), you should be able to get one of those really, really cheap now.
The only reason they can possibly be more productive is that the local management is toxic.
Oh come on. Local management not being toxic is the exception, not the rule. It's a rare workplace where you have really effective and competent management (and I don't mean just one manager, I mean the whole chain; I've had good direct managers, but they were hamstrung by the idiocy directly above them).
Look, I'm sorry but this whole thread is about the gestapo like police force you've allowed
your willingness to put up with it
Organize yourselves America, start calling your "representatives"
What's that going to do? We've voted these people into office. That's the way representative democracy works: you elect someone to do the job the way they think it should be done, after they've campaigned and told you their positions. None of this is a surprise with these politicians. Calling them now isn't going to make a difference; most of their constituents are happy with the way they're doing their jobs: Congress is infamous for most Americans being extremely *un*happy with its performance, *except* for their own Congressman who they love. These representatives already are doing the jobs we've elected them to do. A minority of us bitching and complaining isn't going to change things, because most Americans *like* it this way, or they wouldn't have voted this way.
So if there is no evidence of an email account, no settings for connecting to it, or no evidence of use of social media on the phone or laptop you are carrying with you can you still be compelled to provide that information?
How? How would they know you have an email account someplace unless you tell them?
Now they could give you a hard time if you refuse to give them access to *any* email account. But that's easily solved: create a fake email account (Yahoo is perfect for this!) that you don't do anything with except receive some ads or something at. Give them the password to that one.
Social media is a little trickier. Perhaps you could disable your FB account before crossing the border? Claiming you have no such account could get you in trouble if they do a quick search with your name and find one that's obviously yours.
WTF? You don't tell the CBP which cloud service you're storing your encrypted phone image at.
As for email passwords, that's simple too: don't tell them! When they demand your email password, it's easy: "Ok sir, my email address is grishnakh@yahoo.com, and my password is abcxyz1234". (Make sure to set up the Yahoo email address beforehand and memorize the password correctly, and subscribe to some stupid advertising mailing lists or something.) No need to tell them that your *real* email address is with GMail.
Actually, they can, by not visiting and contributing their tourist dollars to the local economy. (Of course, this also makes them no longer a "visitor", but you get the point.)
"When the occupiers took over the refuge last January, the Burns Paiute people watched in dismay. Ancient artifacts stored there were handled and moved. At one point the militants bulldozed through sacred burial grounds while trying to build a road."
There's plenty of reports of them bulldozing over sacred burial grounds while they were there. But obviously no one got hurt by them, but they really were treated with kid-gloves for some reason; if it had been a group of black militants carrying rifles, do you really think it would have gone so well for them? They should have been dealt with by a military commando team and shot on sight. Armed takeover of federal land is a treasonous offense.
What are you talking about? These are people, and most people clearly display herd-like behavior. It's not just cows that have herd behaviors; every social animal does to some extent.
That's definitely true, but the unfortunate reality is that *someone* needs to be in charge, and the US has gotten extremely bad about picking its leaders. It's not just Trump either: it's Congress too. Replacing Trump wouldn't fix the US's problems by a long-shot, because any president still has to deal with our crappy Congress. I honestly don't see any way to fix this. The American people have proven now that they're utterly incapable of choosing good leaders at the federal level.
I used to have an HTC. It never got any updates after I bought it, and it turned into a horrifically slow mess.
I now have a Galaxy S5, and before it an S4. The S4 received updates until recently, and the S5 is still getting updates. These are not new phones, but apparently Samsung still bothers to keep their software up-to-date.
I really don't care how nice the hardware is in any HTC phone; they've shown that they don't care about taking care of customers after the first sale, and that they expect them to just buy a new phone in a year. I'll pass, and stick with companies with better track records than this.
That's all fine and well, but the reality is that very few people carry around a pair of headphones with them at all times, so FM being more reliable simply isn't useful for making smartphones into emergency radio receivers. In a real emergency, very few people would be able to receive the broadcasts.
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I'm not talking about specific cases, I'm talking in general: if people, in general, stop having kids, then the stuff mentioned before becomes less of an issue. So that's going to be the general trend for society: not having any kids. Then people won't have to worry much about having siblings to support (more and more people will be only children), and their only worry will be their parents (which may more may not be an issue for some people, depending on their relationship with their parents: i.e., if the parents were shitty to them while growing up, as many parents seem to be, the kids won't bother taking care of them).
And so, in the end, this whole problem in society will fix itself.
Yeah, except wasn't it trivially easy to get a job if you didn't have one? That's what's different in the US; it's not always easy to find a job if you don't have one.
I disagree. Personally, I wouldn't mind stocking shelves for pay, for a single day. I'd get bored of it pretty quick, of course, but for a single day it'd be fine. By contrast, my regular programming work doesn't get boring that fast, but after a few years, I really get tired of working in the same place and start itching to move. Simple jobs like shelf-stocking are not really different, it just takes a lot less time to get bored with it. If I had a different such job every day, maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
Oh bullshit. The rest of society (meaning, the older generations) is what set things up so badly in the first place. The Millennials are simply playing the hand they've been dealt, which is a shitty one.
When Western society goes down the tubes, it's the older generations (especially the Boomers) who will be to blame. Personally I'm hoping it happens sooner rather than later so that the Boomers will be alive to see and experience what they've brought about.
Yeah, unfortunately most folks in the past couple generations never had to see what the "gig" economies of the past were actually like. Back when you'd go to your local town square or down to the docks or whatever, and stand in line waiting for some potential employer to choose you for work FOR THE DAY. And then you'd break your back doing labor for the day, make enough money to feed your kids, and you'd be off again begging for work the next morning. If you hurt your back or got sick or whatever, you and your family were screwed. End of story.
This is easily mitigated these days: don't have a family. Now you only have to worry about making enough money for yourself, and saving enough for yourself on days you don't have any work.
How exactly is a gig economy going to provide benefits for things like starting a family. How will that family cope when tragedy strikes as no life insurance benefit is offered.
They don't need to start a family. Families are for people who can afford them. Millennials aren't starting families, so they don't need jobs that provide the luxury of having enough money for one.
We need to just leave having families to the ultra-rich.
which is a population outpacing the availability stable employment that provides necessary benefits. And as the parent pointed it, this bullshit is a slippery slope we don't want.
Just because we want something doesn't mean we can have it. I want a secret lair in a hollowed-out volcano on a remote tropical island, but that doesn't mean I'm going to have it.
Instability should never be viewed as a good thing.
It's the best we can do these days. We just need to accept it and get used to it.
Not only is there an incredible amount of abuse, the IRS publishes rules about what is and isn't allowed, however the IRS does absolutely *nothing* about any abuse. They're quite happy to let it continue.
You can do that. It's called "elections". We just did that, in fact, and we voted for Trump and a bunch of Republicans.
If you want to fight against the will of the people, go right ahead. Good luck with that.
You *do* need Facebook to log in to various other services. I used it, until recently, for Tinder, for example.
This doesn't mean you actually have to post stuff on there, or do anything substantive with it besides use it as a login service. The only things I use my FB account for are logins (and not even that at the moment; I have a girlfriend now so I don't log into Tinder now), and being "friends" with a few distant friends and not-so-distant family members who insist on using it. I never post anything.
Most 1930s were indeed were. They elected Hitler after all, and happily participated in the war effort.
I never said every single modern American was a fascist, just most of them. It's easy proven: they happily vote for fascism.
I don't have a dropbox account (truthfully), so I can't give that up.
You can claim you don't have a Google account, if you're not carrying an Android phone. Carry a Windows phone and it'll seem believable. With the current popularity of Windows Phones (hehe), you should be able to get one of those really, really cheap now.
The only reason they can possibly be more productive is that the local management is toxic.
Oh come on. Local management not being toxic is the exception, not the rule. It's a rare workplace where you have really effective and competent management (and I don't mean just one manager, I mean the whole chain; I've had good direct managers, but they were hamstrung by the idiocy directly above them).
Look, I'm sorry but this whole thread is about the gestapo like police force you've allowed
your willingness to put up with it
Organize yourselves America, start calling your "representatives"
What's that going to do? We've voted these people into office. That's the way representative democracy works: you elect someone to do the job the way they think it should be done, after they've campaigned and told you their positions. None of this is a surprise with these politicians. Calling them now isn't going to make a difference; most of their constituents are happy with the way they're doing their jobs: Congress is infamous for most Americans being extremely *un*happy with its performance, *except* for their own Congressman who they love. These representatives already are doing the jobs we've elected them to do. A minority of us bitching and complaining isn't going to change things, because most Americans *like* it this way, or they wouldn't have voted this way.
So if there is no evidence of an email account, no settings for connecting to it, or no evidence of use of social media on the phone or laptop you are carrying with you can you still be compelled to provide that information?
How? How would they know you have an email account someplace unless you tell them?
Now they could give you a hard time if you refuse to give them access to *any* email account. But that's easily solved: create a fake email account (Yahoo is perfect for this!) that you don't do anything with except receive some ads or something at. Give them the password to that one.
Social media is a little trickier. Perhaps you could disable your FB account before crossing the border? Claiming you have no such account could get you in trouble if they do a quick search with your name and find one that's obviously yours.
.because what you suggest is against the US constitution. If you are OK with fascism
He's a typical modern American; of course he's OK with fascism.
Yeah, good luck with the cloud storage accounts, but with Facebook, that should be pretty easy unless you have a ridiculously common name.
WTF? You don't tell the CBP which cloud service you're storing your encrypted phone image at.
As for email passwords, that's simple too: don't tell them! When they demand your email password, it's easy: "Ok sir, my email address is grishnakh@yahoo.com, and my password is abcxyz1234". (Make sure to set up the Yahoo email address beforehand and memorize the password correctly, and subscribe to some stupid advertising mailing lists or something.) No need to tell them that your *real* email address is with GMail.
There should be a way to do this and just move all the data to a microSD card. Then you can bring the card with you and transfer the data back later.
The microSD card, since it's so incredibly small, would be very easy to hide somewhere, like your wallet.
Actually, they can, by not visiting and contributing their tourist dollars to the local economy. (Of course, this also makes them no longer a "visitor", but you get the point.)
Here's an NPR article that mentions it:
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/27/...
"When the occupiers took over the refuge last January, the Burns Paiute people watched in dismay. Ancient artifacts stored there were handled and moved. At one point the militants bulldozed through sacred burial grounds while trying to build a road."
There's plenty of reports of them bulldozing over sacred burial grounds while they were there. But obviously no one got hurt by them, but they really were treated with kid-gloves for some reason; if it had been a group of black militants carrying rifles, do you really think it would have gone so well for them? They should have been dealt with by a military commando team and shot on sight. Armed takeover of federal land is a treasonous offense.
What are you talking about? These are people, and most people clearly display herd-like behavior. It's not just cows that have herd behaviors; every social animal does to some extent.
That's definitely true, but the unfortunate reality is that *someone* needs to be in charge, and the US has gotten extremely bad about picking its leaders. It's not just Trump either: it's Congress too. Replacing Trump wouldn't fix the US's problems by a long-shot, because any president still has to deal with our crappy Congress. I honestly don't see any way to fix this. The American people have proven now that they're utterly incapable of choosing good leaders at the federal level.
I used to have an HTC. It never got any updates after I bought it, and it turned into a horrifically slow mess.
I now have a Galaxy S5, and before it an S4. The S4 received updates until recently, and the S5 is still getting updates. These are not new phones, but apparently Samsung still bothers to keep their software up-to-date.
I really don't care how nice the hardware is in any HTC phone; they've shown that they don't care about taking care of customers after the first sale, and that they expect them to just buy a new phone in a year. I'll pass, and stick with companies with better track records than this.
That's all fine and well, but the reality is that very few people carry around a pair of headphones with them at all times, so FM being more reliable simply isn't useful for making smartphones into emergency radio receivers. In a real emergency, very few people would be able to receive the broadcasts.