Like that has ever happened in government. Best to just rip off the bandaid. Otherwise, there is no impetus to put in place any serious, limited protections with any kind of haste.
Government should have as little impact on the lives of the individual as possible. This includes attempting to regulate the internet with horrible title II. There are other, better, ways to achieve similar goals than title ii classification.
While voter fraud dependent democrats would never go for it, an ID with blockchain and photo would be easy enough to create. Database of IDs with pictures. Physical IDs available for free, but hey, we've been wanting that in states for decades and the dems keep saying it's unconstitutional bc it places a burden or poll tax on PoC, a lie perpetuated for years, since you need an ID to cash a check.
Don't forget, ResetEra is the new echo chamber that was NeoGAF, famous for banning any dissenting opinions or wrong-think. Created by it's users when NeoGAF's owner was outed for sexual harassment, the ban-happy mods quit or ate their own, and the forum shut down.
" the private sector, left to its own devices, has no particular incentive to ensure a widespread upgrade to fiber optic connections".
Sure it does, MONEY and PROFIT! That's incentive enough all by itself.
Of course, this is countered by prohibitive regulations, unionized labor costs, zoning, permits, etc. It takes a great deal of capital to invest fiber into an area, and if the area does not appear to be capable of recouping those costs, it makes no sense to build in that area if no other form of recompense exists.
Personally, i'd rather my tax dollars go towards something else than a neighbor's pornhub streaming, something useful and beneficial like *ominous thundercrash of feigned evil* cleaning up/out the homeless and deporting illegal immigrants.
The biggest obstacle to improving education is the teacher's unions. With them in the way, you can't deal with the real problem, bad teachers that can't be fired. They refuse to accept any kind of performance metrics, refuse to be accountable for bad teachers kept on payrolls, and put up walls to any sort of change that doesn't involve more money going into union pockets.
So, how long are they to last before recharge? Are they also supplying solar setups to recharge? How heavy, can they be easily and safely disconnected and reconnected to home electrical after taking somewhere to charge? What is the plan for disposing of these batteries? That's an awful lot of hazardous environmental waste to be disposed of in what... 1 to 5 years? Leeching all into the ground water...
Who wants to hire someone addicted to drugs? Who is very likely to go smoke more weed during a break, and become a liability. Perhaps the reason they are poor in the first place comes from bad money management from buying things like... drugs?
No, I think i'll keep not hiring society's degernerates
I knew from day one when they tried to push thier "Do No Evil" mantra really meant Don't Get Caught. Now they are (or perhaps always have been) an echo chamber of contemptible ideologies, distilled cancer.
I think they are about due for an antitrust breakup.
Between the ages of 8-12, if they are ever going to be programmers, they should be approaching it themselves, asking questions, reading books. For 99.999% of the populace at that age, programming isn't going to be very interesting, let alone able to adequately grasp. Instead, teach them the maths and logical analysis they'd need to become knowledgeable programmers down the line. Hell, improved math and logic would be more beneficial to all kids rather than learning bad programming techniques in a half-assed "kid-ified" language.
Give it as an option for those in high school, til then, the ones that want to learn will do so regardless of age, the others, like the majority of adults, would just be dangerously inept enough to muck up a system they are using.
Since we are all told daily there is a patriarchy keeping women down by only paying them 77 on the dollar, the obvious solution is to hire only women for minimum wage at $11.55/hr, bc a man would naturally earn the full 15/hr. That 23% savings will go an awfully long way!!
Oh wait, that oft repeated statistic has been debunked time and time again as an utter bullshit fallacy of the left. There are already laws in place that would prevent that. Darn, guess the patriarchy will have to find another marginalized group to exploit.
It's still legal to pay illegal aliens under the table for meager work right? I mean, who opposes short shrifting them and not paying payroll taxes for them... Oh, wait, that's illegal too? Darn!
Guess we'll just have to use machines bc there is no way i'm paying someone $15/hr flip burgers or get my order wrong./sarcasm
When a life is on the line, I'd choose mother, when a life is not on the line, I choose new life. The new life should get the chance to be, and opportunity to make something for themselves.
I will agree with you on weed laws. While I find weed vile and a detriment to society, using the commerce clause to clamp down on it is ENTIRELY wrong, and not the purpose of the clause. It should be decided state by state, just as if you want to murder babys, decide it on a state by state busines, federal has no business getting involved in baby murder, from funding to legalization.
Nor do I like the idea of privatized prisons, that should be a function of states for state crimes and federal for fed crimes.
Healthcare and job training is the responsibility of the individual.
Abortion is literally denying life, freedom, and liberty to another human. Defending the right to live is probably one of the most important things one can do.
Unless you want an abortion. Or you want to smoke weed. Or you want to marry someone of the same sex. There are any number of examples of "conservatives" not living up to the small government mantra.
All this race crap and identity politics is all the bag of the left's divisiveness.
Ahh. Well that clearly explains why these idiots vote for Republicans (let me guess: No True Republican is coming next).
David Duke, to Trump:
I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists.
Also David Duke:
This represents a turning point for the people of this country. We are determined to take our country back. We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That's what we believed in. That's why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he's going to take our country back.
OK, now it's your turn to talk about how people on the right aren't actually on the right, because of a narrow definition that you use which people don't actually live up to. You can wax philosophical or historical all you want, but keep in mind that the people who you claim are not right-wing are the people who vote for conservative, not liberal, politicians. That's the reality of the situation, regardless of how much you want to claim that conservatives are all about small government. That argument is about as intelligent as claiming that the Democratic party is actually the racist one here in 2017 because back in the mid-1800s the party was in favor of slavery. Let's try to stick to reality here.
All this race crap and identity politics is all the bag of the left's divisiveness.
"Those people are so divisive!" he says, while pointing to the "other" group.
Abortion is anti life, murder.
While I personally detest weed as vile, it's regulation is a corruption of commerce clause.
The tragedy in charlottesville is two sides of the same leftist coin fighting each other since the 20th century (or earlier).
Are you really trying to suggest that the racist groups are fighting for socialism? When they praise Hitler they aren't praising his economic policies. These groups are far right, the historical basis of other racists groups has fuck-all to do with that.
That's exactly what I'm suggesting. Conservatism doesn't have a place in it's ideology for these people. Conservatism is not Authoritarianism. That is solely the domain of statists. Conservatism is you do you, we're all individuals looking to prosper together under capitalism. No racism, no bigotry. Pull you're own weight, respect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and we're all good.
All this race crap and identity politics is all the bag of the left's divisiveness.
That is a great question. The Republican Establishment have long adopted big budgets, erosion of rights, and other leftist nonsense to bribe their constituency into keeping them in office. When a conservative that clings to proper ideals comes into office, they turn on him because he exposes their hypocrisy and jeopardizes 'business as usual' and continued holding of office. The media, mostly leftists, are happy to egg on the establishment and assist in tearing down someone who is anathema to the left in the first place.
Nazis, aka National -Socialists-, are NOT far right. They are of the Left. Perhaps right of communism
That's one of the greatest cons ever. They adopted socialist policies to gain popularity - typical demagogue stuff, promise to bring all the jobs back, blame all the problems on some identifiable group (the Jews) etc. Once they got into power they forgot all that stuff and enacted far right policies, which was their intention all along, and forgot about the socialist stuff.
Pretty sure nationalizing various parts of the economy, threatening to nationalize others unless they towed the line, destroying individual freedoms, disregard for life, lack of property ownership, eugenics, etc, are NOT policies of the right. Those are all statist corner stones of the left.
Nazis, aka National -Socialists-, are NOT far right. They are of the Left. Perhaps right of communism, but still far left. Maybe on the Right as far as europe is concerned, since that whole continent is on the left. Fascism is also of the Left. Right of communism, but still of the left.
All 3, National Socialism, Fascism, and Communism are all about state/federal control of the economies and peoples. None of that is the purview of the right.
The tragedy in charlottesville is two sides of the same leftist coin fighting each other since the 20th century (or earlier).
Then you have the Alt-Right, which also isn't the right. It's still a bunch of liberals (albeit it more moderate) who perhaps somewhat enjoy government intrusion in their lives and the market place, but have gotten fed up with the identity politics of the ideological whack jobs of the left putting them in convenient buckets to exploit or make targets.
The media keeps lumping all these groups (except the anarchocommies of antifa and the bernie bros) as "right wing", when they are far from the limited government, embracing of individuality, believers in personally responsibility, and believers in equal opportunity that is the tenants of the -actual- Right.
McD near me installed the kiosks a few weeks ago. They were simple to use, gave incredible level of customization, a server brought the meal to my table, and I didn't have to deal with cashiers that barely speak english (a HUGE problem in south florida) that are guaranteed to get my order wrong, even when I just call out numbers.
I'm all in favor of these kiosks. To hell with $15/hr desiring employees that can't even communicate with me.
You can have net neutrality without title II, which leads to government tyranny. Just look at england. They want to censor the entire series of tubes bc they can't handle an incompatible culture attacking from within. Like gun restrictions, all those rules would do is impact every day law abiding citizens instead of addressing the actual problem.
Keeping title ii will lead to increased intrusion from the government in something they have little understanding how and why it works, only that they want to tax and control it.
Echo and home arr garbage, destined for the "why the hell did I buy that" bin in the back closet.
As for being stuck in time? The consoles and their PC master race cousins have been pushing tech forward faster than anything else. With the ps3 you had a multiprocessor architecture that was complex as hell, but worked very well. With the ps4, you have in home consumer VR. It streams movies, both from services and one's own network. Integrated live streaming.
I don't know about others, but my ps4s are the entertainment hubs of the house when not on my PC.
I'll take experiences of individuals I know over statistics that can be manipulated to shape a desired conclusion any day. Unions served their purpose decades before I was born, now they are a deer tick poisoning the host it feeds from, while giving nothing positive.
You raise valid points, he's riding high on his pile of money conning investors and duping buyers into his shit cars. He knows what he is doing in that regard.
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Like that has ever happened in government. Best to just rip off the bandaid. Otherwise, there is no impetus to put in place any serious, limited protections with any kind of haste.
Government should have as little impact on the lives of the individual as possible. This includes attempting to regulate the internet with horrible title II. There are other, better, ways to achieve similar goals than title ii classification.
While voter fraud dependent democrats would never go for it, an ID with blockchain and photo would be easy enough to create. Database of IDs with pictures. Physical IDs available for free, but hey, we've been wanting that in states for decades and the dems keep saying it's unconstitutional bc it places a burden or poll tax on PoC, a lie perpetuated for years, since you need an ID to cash a check.
Don't forget, ResetEra is the new echo chamber that was NeoGAF, famous for banning any dissenting opinions or wrong-think. Created by it's users when NeoGAF's owner was outed for sexual harassment, the ban-happy mods quit or ate their own, and the forum shut down.
" the private sector, left to its own devices, has no particular incentive to ensure a widespread upgrade to fiber optic connections".
Sure it does, MONEY and PROFIT! That's incentive enough all by itself.
Of course, this is countered by prohibitive regulations, unionized labor costs, zoning, permits, etc. It takes a great deal of capital to invest fiber into an area, and if the area does not appear to be capable of recouping those costs, it makes no sense to build in that area if no other form of recompense exists.
Personally, i'd rather my tax dollars go towards something else than a neighbor's pornhub streaming, something useful and beneficial like *ominous thundercrash of feigned evil* cleaning up/out the homeless and deporting illegal immigrants.
The biggest obstacle to improving education is the teacher's unions. With them in the way, you can't deal with the real problem, bad teachers that can't be fired. They refuse to accept any kind of performance metrics, refuse to be accountable for bad teachers kept on payrolls, and put up walls to any sort of change that doesn't involve more money going into union pockets.
Kudos for sending batteries.
So, how long are they to last before recharge?
Are they also supplying solar setups to recharge?
How heavy, can they be easily and safely disconnected and reconnected to home electrical after taking somewhere to charge?
What is the plan for disposing of these batteries? That's an awful lot of hazardous environmental waste to be disposed of in what... 1 to 5 years? Leeching all into the ground water...
Who wants to hire someone addicted to drugs? Who is very likely to go smoke more weed during a break, and become a liability. Perhaps the reason they are poor in the first place comes from bad money management from buying things like... drugs?
No, I think i'll keep not hiring society's degernerates
I knew from day one when they tried to push thier "Do No Evil" mantra really meant Don't Get Caught.
Now they are (or perhaps always have been) an echo chamber of contemptible ideologies, distilled cancer.
I think they are about due for an antitrust breakup.
Between the ages of 8-12, if they are ever going to be programmers, they should be approaching it themselves, asking questions, reading books. For 99.999% of the populace at that age, programming isn't going to be very interesting, let alone able to adequately grasp. Instead, teach them the maths and logical analysis they'd need to become knowledgeable programmers down the line. Hell, improved math and logic would be more beneficial to all kids rather than learning bad programming techniques in a half-assed "kid-ified" language.
Give it as an option for those in high school, til then, the ones that want to learn will do so regardless of age, the others, like the majority of adults, would just be dangerously inept enough to muck up a system they are using.
Since we are all told daily there is a patriarchy keeping women down by only paying them 77 on the dollar, the obvious solution is to hire only women for minimum wage at $11.55/hr, bc a man would naturally earn the full 15/hr. That 23% savings will go an awfully long way!!
Oh wait, that oft repeated statistic has been debunked time and time again as an utter bullshit fallacy of the left. There are already laws in place that would prevent that. Darn, guess the patriarchy will have to find another marginalized group to exploit.
It's still legal to pay illegal aliens under the table for meager work right? I mean, who opposes short shrifting them and not paying payroll taxes for them...
Oh, wait, that's illegal too? Darn!
Guess we'll just have to use machines bc there is no way i'm paying someone $15/hr flip burgers or get my order wrong. /sarcasm
When a life is on the line, I'd choose mother, when a life is not on the line, I choose new life. The new life should get the chance to be, and opportunity to make something for themselves.
I will agree with you on weed laws. While I find weed vile and a detriment to society, using the commerce clause to clamp down on it is ENTIRELY wrong, and not the purpose of the clause. It should be decided state by state, just as if you want to murder babys, decide it on a state by state busines, federal has no business getting involved in baby murder, from funding to legalization.
Nor do I like the idea of privatized prisons, that should be a function of states for state crimes and federal for fed crimes.
Healthcare and job training is the responsibility of the individual.
It's not the baby's fault how it was conceived, why should it not have the right to exist, even if given up for adoption?
Abortion is literally denying life, freedom, and liberty to another human. Defending the right to live is probably one of the most important things one can do.
Conservatism is you do you
Unless you want an abortion. Or you want to smoke weed. Or you want to marry someone of the same sex. There are any number of examples of "conservatives" not living up to the small government mantra.
All this race crap and identity politics is all the bag of the left's divisiveness.
Ahh. Well that clearly explains why these idiots vote for Republicans (let me guess: No True Republican is coming next).
David Duke, to Trump:
I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists.
Also David Duke:
This represents a turning point for the people of this country. We are determined to take our country back. We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That's what we believed in. That's why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he's going to take our country back.
OK, now it's your turn to talk about how people on the right aren't actually on the right, because of a narrow definition that you use which people don't actually live up to. You can wax philosophical or historical all you want, but keep in mind that the people who you claim are not right-wing are the people who vote for conservative, not liberal, politicians. That's the reality of the situation, regardless of how much you want to claim that conservatives are all about small government. That argument is about as intelligent as claiming that the Democratic party is actually the racist one here in 2017 because back in the mid-1800s the party was in favor of slavery. Let's try to stick to reality here.
All this race crap and identity politics is all the bag of the left's divisiveness.
"Those people are so divisive!" he says, while pointing to the "other" group.
Abortion is anti life, murder.
While I personally detest weed as vile, it's regulation is a corruption of commerce clause.
The tragedy in charlottesville is two sides of the same leftist coin fighting each other since the 20th century (or earlier).
Are you really trying to suggest that the racist groups are fighting for socialism? When they praise Hitler they aren't praising his economic policies. These groups are far right, the historical basis of other racists groups has fuck-all to do with that.
That's exactly what I'm suggesting. Conservatism doesn't have a place in it's ideology for these people. Conservatism is not Authoritarianism. That is solely the domain of statists. Conservatism is you do you, we're all individuals looking to prosper together under capitalism. No racism, no bigotry. Pull you're own weight, respect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and we're all good.
All this race crap and identity politics is all the bag of the left's divisiveness.
That is a great question. The Republican Establishment have long adopted big budgets, erosion of rights, and other leftist nonsense to bribe their constituency into keeping them in office. When a conservative that clings to proper ideals comes into office, they turn on him because he exposes their hypocrisy and jeopardizes 'business as usual' and continued holding of office. The media, mostly leftists, are happy to egg on the establishment and assist in tearing down someone who is anathema to the left in the first place.
Trump, is not a conservative. In the slightest.
Nazis, aka National -Socialists-, are NOT far right.
They are of the Left. Perhaps right of communism
That's one of the greatest cons ever. They adopted socialist policies to gain popularity - typical demagogue stuff, promise to bring all the jobs back, blame all the problems on some identifiable group (the Jews) etc. Once they got into power they forgot all that stuff and enacted far right policies, which was their intention all along, and forgot about the socialist stuff.
Pretty sure nationalizing various parts of the economy, threatening to nationalize others unless they towed the line, destroying individual freedoms, disregard for life, lack of property ownership, eugenics, etc, are NOT policies of the right. Those are all statist corner stones of the left.
This has got to be the greatest PR con job ever.
Nazis, aka National -Socialists-, are NOT far right.
They are of the Left. Perhaps right of communism, but still far left. Maybe on the Right as far as europe is concerned, since that whole continent is on the left.
Fascism is also of the Left. Right of communism, but still of the left.
All 3, National Socialism, Fascism, and Communism are all about state/federal control of the economies and peoples.
None of that is the purview of the right.
The tragedy in charlottesville is two sides of the same leftist coin fighting each other since the 20th century (or earlier).
Then you have the Alt-Right, which also isn't the right. It's still a bunch of liberals (albeit it more moderate) who perhaps somewhat enjoy government intrusion in their lives and the market place, but have gotten fed up with the identity politics of the ideological whack jobs of the left putting them in convenient buckets to exploit or make targets.
The media keeps lumping all these groups (except the anarchocommies of antifa and the bernie bros) as "right wing", when they are far from the limited government, embracing of individuality, believers in personally responsibility, and believers in equal opportunity that is the tenants of the -actual- Right.
Can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic...
Personally, I'll never join a union. Nothing beneficial about them anymore.
McD near me installed the kiosks a few weeks ago. They were simple to use, gave incredible level of customization, a server brought the meal to my table, and I didn't have to deal with cashiers that barely speak english (a HUGE problem in south florida) that are guaranteed to get my order wrong, even when I just call out numbers.
I'm all in favor of these kiosks. To hell with $15/hr desiring employees that can't even communicate with me.
You can have net neutrality without title II, which leads to government tyranny. Just look at england. They want to censor the entire series of tubes bc they can't handle an incompatible culture attacking from within. Like gun restrictions, all those rules would do is impact every day law abiding citizens instead of addressing the actual problem.
Keeping title ii will lead to increased intrusion from the government in something they have little understanding how and why it works, only that they want to tax and control it.
Echo and home arr garbage, destined for the "why the hell did I buy that" bin in the back closet.
As for being stuck in time? The consoles and their PC master race cousins have been pushing tech forward faster than anything else. With the ps3 you had a multiprocessor architecture that was complex as hell, but worked very well. With the ps4, you have in home consumer VR. It streams movies, both from services and one's own network. Integrated live streaming.
I don't know about others, but my ps4s are the entertainment hubs of the house when not on my PC.
I'll take experiences of individuals I know over statistics that can be manipulated to shape a desired conclusion any day.
Unions served their purpose decades before I was born, now they are a deer tick poisoning the host it feeds from, while giving nothing positive.
You raise valid points, he's riding high on his pile of money conning investors and duping buyers into his shit cars. He knows what he is doing in that regard.