I guarantee it will be filled with fact-free posts denouncing AGW as a pseudo scientific conspiracy fronting a socialist takeover of humanity.
Any time the topic is breached, within minutes the paid troll army swings into action, manufacturing a political consensus on the orders of their paymasters.
No, because there is no difference between a human being and a new iPhone. Neither one needs to sustain itself on what it earns. Neither one has dignity or self-awareness. Neither one has a purpose in its life.Neither a human worker nor an iPhone suffers when they are unable to properly care of their children.
Workers are simply another object, another factor of production. You would not worry about the dignity of the metal ingots that are the raw material of production, why care about the workers? If a manufacturer can save by substituting an inferior type of metal, why shouldn't they? Highly skilled domestic workers are just a highly expensive easily substituted factor of production.
No, resistance to the Middle Eastern invasion, the growth of the national security state and ubiquitous surveillance stems directly from that same national security state that gave us the Vietnam War. NSA surveillance is made necessary by the national security state.
Providing historical context for the current problem is not "changing the subject", it explains the current resistance.
What Daniel Ellsberg did for the Vietnam War is echoed in what Assange and the others have done.
These victims have already been paid their respects. The country that tried to send them to the stone age, that poisoned their landscape and murdered their children has not acknowledged its complicity.
The United States never learned from the Vietnam War. The folks who refused to fight for this lie and emigrated, who built themselves a new life as solid citizens of another country, are not granted the respect they deserve. This simple memorial to their participation in their new homeland became a target for the US right wing hate machine, the same media machine that continues to send us into wars.
The draft dodgers were right. if we had listened, we would not be involved now in the destruction of the Middle East.
People do not leave their homeland to become lifetime emigres for frivolous reasons. The former Americans who moved to Canada and contributed to their adopted homeland deserve credit for what they accomplished.
Many opponents of the Vietnam war fled to Canada rather than face conscription, "An estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada in the 1960s and '70s to avoid the Vietnam War military draft, according to the American Veterans of Foreign Wars" according to the article
The town of Nelson planned to build a memorial to these folks, who once they settled into Canada became exemplary citizens and active participants in their communities.
The flood of hate mail from the USA caused them to reconsider.
If you really tried to educate the masses they might start questioning the 'statu quo'.
The masses *were* starting to question the status quo some 4-50 years ago. Initiatives like this have been very successful in putting a stop to all that questioning. On top of it, the generation doing the questioning is now berated as a bunch of pot smoking hippies.
There are plenty of women who are fans of classical literature and baroque music. They just tend to cluster in occupations that do not intersect those of the typical Slashdot reader.
And as a side, those who consider a college degree in humanities or fine arts a waste of time should not be surprised when their co-workers spend time discussing the Kardashians or Honey Boo Boo.
The Big-Gulp sized Hurricane Retailers association has a very strong political presence in Louisiana, and do not like the idea of competition for cheap over-sweetened high alcohol beverages.
I'm told Senor Frogs uses it for margaritas. I am unable to tell you whether it is effective, as I have no memories of my attempted scientific tests of its potency.
The 65 and older generation were Vietnam era draft bait. Knowing the government could pull your 18 year old ass out to die in the jungles of Southeast Asia tends to color your perception a bit.
People here like to mock the boomer generation, but having 50,000 of your cohort die in that war does give you a different prospective on things.
This has been true at the local level as well. Police departments made a practice of maintaining files based on surveillance of local politicians and had no qualms about letting their targets know they were being watched.
For example:
The commendation resolution, which several council members said they acted on without paying attention, gives no hint of Paul's role in the controversial PDID. The unit was accused of keeping files on elected officials considered hostile to the LAPD and of infiltrating liberal organizations.
The PDID was disbanded by the Police Commission in 1983 and replaced by an anti-terrorist division after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit accusing the unit of spying on 131 law-abiding citizens and organizations. The lawsuit was settled in January, 1984, when the city agreed to pay $1.8 million in damages.
Before the suit was settled, an LAPD internal investigation found that Paul had stored confidential PDID files in the garage of his Long Beach home and had provided sensitive information to a private, right-wing organization. Paul was suspended, but a police trial board later found that his activities had been sanctioned by his supervisors, and he was reinstated with back pay.
The controversy over the PDID activities lasted for months, grabbing headlines regularly and prompting widespread criticism of the department.
"This is outrageous," Ramona Ripston, executive director of the ACLU said upon learning of the council's action Tuesday. "Jay Paul betrayed this city; he disgraced the Police Department."
Drinks, food, talks by naturalists, guided tours of exhibits, followed by bands playing in the Hall of Mammals (nothing like seeing a band like Deerhoof in front of a mastedon) :
The best thing about an analog format is no digital rights management. You buy it, you own it. You will always be able to listen to it, no-one will be able to revoke your license.
Digital formats and DRM have made music a transient, throw-away experience.
With vinyl, the recording has history. The vinyl you buy in middle school will be still playable in middle age.
Conservative believe people suffer because they have freely made bad life choices. People who suffer therefore do not deserve our assistance or our sympathy, as they are wholly to blame for their condition. Public policy should discourage bad choices by allowing these people to suffer the consequences of their freely chosen action. Welfare, unemployment insurance, and public healthcare are wrong, as they go against the natural order by isolating people from the consequences of their actions.
Conversely, the wealthy and powerful have made good life choices and deserve our admiration. Public policy should encourage these high ranking individuals through lower taxes and less regulation of their activities.
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I guarantee it will be filled with fact-free posts denouncing AGW as a pseudo scientific conspiracy fronting a socialist takeover of humanity.
Any time the topic is breached, within minutes the paid troll army swings into action, manufacturing a political consensus on the orders of their paymasters.
Under a Republican administrator, Elon Musk will find himself under indictment and his corporate empire will crumble.
This article is laying the groundwork for that.
No, because there is no difference between a human being and a new iPhone. Neither one needs to sustain itself on what it earns. Neither one has dignity or self-awareness. Neither one has a purpose in its life.Neither a human worker nor an iPhone suffers when they are unable to properly care of their children.
Workers are simply another object, another factor of production. You would not worry about the dignity of the metal ingots that are the raw material of production, why care about the workers? If a manufacturer can save by substituting an inferior type of metal, why shouldn't they? Highly skilled domestic workers are just a highly expensive easily substituted factor of production.
No, resistance to the Middle Eastern invasion, the growth of the national security state and ubiquitous surveillance stems directly from that same national security state that gave us the Vietnam War. NSA surveillance is made necessary by the national security state.
Providing historical context for the current problem is not "changing the subject", it explains the current resistance.
What Daniel Ellsberg did for the Vietnam War is echoed in what Assange and the others have done.
These victims have already been paid their respects. The country that tried to send them to the stone age, that poisoned their landscape and murdered their children has not acknowledged its complicity.
The United States never learned from the Vietnam War. The folks who refused to fight for this lie and emigrated, who built themselves a new life as solid citizens of another country, are not granted the respect they deserve. This simple memorial to their participation in their new homeland became a target for the US right wing hate machine, the same media machine that continues to send us into wars.
The draft dodgers were right. if we had listened, we would not be involved now in the destruction of the Middle East.
People do not leave their homeland to become lifetime emigres for frivolous reasons. The former Americans who moved to Canada and contributed to their adopted homeland deserve credit for what they accomplished.
War Resisters Remain in Canada with No Regrets
Many opponents of the Vietnam war fled to Canada rather than face conscription, "An estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada in the 1960s and '70s to avoid the Vietnam War military draft, according to the American Veterans of Foreign Wars" according to the article
The town of Nelson planned to build a memorial to these folks, who once they settled into Canada became exemplary citizens and active participants in their communities.
The flood of hate mail from the USA caused them to reconsider.
If you really tried to educate the masses they might start questioning the 'statu quo'.
The masses *were* starting to question the status quo some 4-50 years ago. Initiatives like this have been very successful in putting a stop to all that questioning. On top of it, the generation doing the questioning is now berated as a bunch of pot smoking hippies.
There are plenty of women who are fans of classical literature and baroque music. They just tend to cluster in occupations that do not intersect those of the typical Slashdot reader.
And as a side, those who consider a college degree in humanities or fine arts a waste of time should not be surprised when their co-workers spend time discussing the Kardashians or Honey Boo Boo.
The Big-Gulp sized Hurricane Retailers association has a very strong political presence in Louisiana, and do not like the idea of competition for cheap over-sweetened high alcohol beverages.
Maybe...
It's called Everclear.
I'm told Senor Frogs uses it for margaritas. I am unable to tell you whether it is effective, as I have no memories of my attempted scientific tests of its potency.
I hope you plan on driving that 1967 Volkswagen Beetle the rest of your life.
Before a bunch of French speaking Vikings invaded in 1066, before Nordic speaking Vikings degraded the language.
THAT is proper English!
no one ever lost money faithfully following that advice
And every time you fill up the tank of your car, you help finance the Saudi Arabian theocratic dictatorship Good job!
Or maybe companies should stop outsourcing their core customer facing functions in order to provide accountability
Yes I know cost-cutting is more important than customer service even though I wish it was otherwise
The 65 and older generation were Vietnam era draft bait. Knowing the government could pull your 18 year old ass out to die in the jungles of Southeast Asia tends to color your perception a bit.
People here like to mock the boomer generation, but having 50,000 of your cohort die in that war does give you a different prospective on things.
And when will my local sushi bar feature this fish?
This has been true at the local level as well. Police departments made a practice of maintaining files based on surveillance of local politicians and had no qualms about letting their targets know they were being watched.
For example:
http://articles.latimes.com/19...
Then one night shows up at your back door with your neighbor's heroin stash.
Did you break the law or did the cat?
Is the cat effectively your bot?
And can Schrodinger's cat pass the Turing test?
Drinks, food, talks by naturalists, guided tours of exhibits, followed by bands playing in the Hall of Mammals (nothing like seeing a band like Deerhoof in front of a mastedon) :
http://www.nhm.org/site/activi...
Been going on for a number of years and is very popular.
I have this mental image of Clippy popping up on the flight control monitor saying, "It looks like you are trying to land. Do you need help?"
Forget it - I'm waiting for the copyright extension set of previously unheard works by The Electric Prunes.
The best thing about an analog format is no digital rights management. You buy it, you own it. You will always be able to listen to it, no-one will be able to revoke your license.
Digital formats and DRM have made music a transient, throw-away experience.
With vinyl, the recording has history. The vinyl you buy in middle school will be still playable in middle age.
Selling the driver's license information and cat registration information is considered a revenue opportunity for states.
Fortunately, dog license registrations are still kept private. Too bad for all those people with registered cats.
Conservative believe people suffer because they have freely made bad life choices. People who suffer therefore do not deserve our assistance or our sympathy, as they are wholly to blame for their condition. Public policy should discourage bad choices by allowing these people to suffer the consequences of their freely chosen action. Welfare, unemployment insurance, and public healthcare are wrong, as they go against the natural order by isolating people from the consequences of their actions.
Conversely, the wealthy and powerful have made good life choices and deserve our admiration. Public policy should encourage these high ranking individuals through lower taxes and less regulation of their activities.