There is always a market for those who want to signal their wealth. Think expensive watches, thousand dollar purses and such. None of these are required, quite suitable alternatives are available at a fraction of the price, so really the whole point *is* the price and what it implies about the owner.
People were yelling 'we are the 99%', but so what?
We can't do shit about scams cooked up by the ultrarich 0.1%
Not only they handed over our IDs, our credit info, our address, our property list, and so on to the hackers (by employing a music major overseeing online security, thanks to Political Correctness), they still get to get tens of millions of rewards doing such a criminal thing !
Go fuck yourself, you motherfucking 0.1% fuckers !
I still grieve over the 99% falling to identity politics. As long as identity politics dominate don't expect any economic justice. Bernie and Bannon are the only two really trying to get the average American to a better spot. As both are largely outside circles of influence that tells you our odds.
This is exactly why these breaches occur and will continue to occur. When there is no penalty for incompetence and the worst that can happen to you is that you get to "retire" with a huge payout, then there is zero incentive to actually run your business properly.
Exactly. Perhaps if allow each victim to hit him exactly once, with no weapons allowed. Given 90 million people he won't last. Better yet, maybe we keep finding upper managers until all 90 million have had their chance.
Why are conservatives always called "extreme" or "radical", and yet if left of center, there is far more tolerance.
The left was only tolerant in hippie songs created by... the left. In practice if you don't walk the line very carefully you will be expelled permanently. That's why movie stars trip over themselves to support the cause of the moment. Just like North Koreans they will be punished if they don't have sufficient enthusiasm in their praise.
My observation in life is that things work best when no one side holds too much power. Human nature to abuse power is simply too strong and the only way to subdue that is to not allow any one side of *any* issue to get too much say. Give management too much power and workers will be abused. Give unions too much power and the company will be driven out of business.
If only illegal immigrants counted as a foreign influence to Democrats. Make no mistake, both parties sell you down the river, they just sell you to slightly different parties and word it differently though the net result is much the same.
When you add together all the people on Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA, yes, the government runs a BIG part of healthcare in the US - approx 120,000,000 people, and it's going up every day.
To be fair the government isn't even trying to run health care efficiently. If it was Canada with a market 1/10th the size of the US, wouldn't be getting lower drug pricing. The states would be able to band together for greater purchasing power (or insurers across state lines for that matter). You could lower the cost of government medicine by >25% in an afternoon by merely dropping barriers that have been artificially put in place to keep well connected drug companies flush with cash. The Feds have clearly chosen the side they favor with health care policy - and it's drug companies not consumers, patients, or taxpayers.
When Western countries were tripping over themselves to help China build high speed trains eagerly agreeing to conditions like doing the fabrication in China, I just shook my head at their naivete. And predictably, after China had gleaned enough knowledge to build the trains themselves - either by direct observation of the construction machines and plans, or by outright theft - they booted the Western companies out and began building the trains themselves. The Western reaction is "that's not fair!". The East Asian reaction is "how stupid can these guys be?"
To be fair most citizens and employees fully expected the Chinese to steal the plans and copy the trains and were generally these deals. The CEOs who got paid well to sell out the company are almost as guilty as the Chinese. Certainly accomplices. The politicians who turn a blind eye to forced technology transfers should be punished as well.
[P.S. --> If that fucker had been a Russian then executing him on the spot and using it as indisputable proof that Trump committed treason in the election would be cool though. Xenophobia is only bad against some foreigners based on political convenience after all]
It's OK for liberals to hate on Russia since Russians are largely white and must therefore be bad, evil, and racist as well as being single handedly responsible for all the ills ever done by any white people ever.
It's not about what he said, but when he chose to say it.
So dirt should only be reported when it's convenient for the corrupt people? I find that info on a candidate before an election is helpful - much more useful than after an election. Yes the timing looks bad but I'm sure that he was fed the information in such a way as to maximize the damage. Remember that he's only a messenger, the actual info comes from other sources - as might the timing.
...but his meddling in the 2016 elections clearly demonstrate that he's a lot more interested these days in the axe he has to grind with the Clintons than in pursuing the original mission of his organization...
His mission was to publish dirt on powerful people. The Clintons are powerful people and have tons of dirt. It's not surprising that he dribbled out lots of info about them because there is a lot to dribble out. More dirty laundry of the rich and powerful getting exposed is always good. I'm not clear why people have flopped on him, as if Clintons' misdeeds remaining hidden were somehow a good thing.
This is a well understood principal in sociology. A small number of people behaving like asshats gives others "permission" to do the same. It normalizes it.
People leave Canada for two reasons: climate and taxes. The Government can't change the weather, but they really should consider fixing the taxation system if they really want entrepreneurs to 'build industries' here. We have 43% incomes tax plus crazy corporate tax rates (Federal and Provincial), small businesses have all the same red tape as large ones which impedes growth. On top of that Trudeau and Wynne have added carbon taxes and are now in process of closing 'tax loop-holes' which are actually reasonable ways for small business owners to actually save for retirement. Now why would anyone want to leave?
Fear not, global warming should largely benefit Canada. That will solve one of the biggest issues.
I- want global coorperation for our global problems, and I want as much freedom as possible without destroying the world in exploding anarchy.
The explosion I see coming is a mix of cultural and economic - and those in power (both parties) use the one against the other. Freedom to me means being able to do what you want without forcing your view on others. For example if the Catholic church doesn't want to marry gays or accept gay marriage that's fine. If gay people want to get married they will need to find someone willing to do the ceremony and bake their cake. When people start forcing their will on others - ie you must bake my cake or else - that's when freedom gets reduced. Live and let live but don't force others. Forcing bakers to declare messages that they don't believe in is at least as bad as not allowing gays to marry and probably worse. Live and let live won't work unless both sides respect it. UT is the leader in this common sense approach as described here:
https://www.deseretnews.com/ar...
only the approach of not forcing others allows for avoiding conflict. I try and live peacefully but if every wish of the SJW crowd was enacted in law eventually I would be forced to take up arms. I'm not alone. Sadly I think the SJW crowd would gladly kill me and another 100M+ off to achieve their "paradise". It's nothing the left hasn't done before after all.
What made Communism bad was primarily the totalitarian governments that didn't actually care about the people. Most countries that consider themselves Socialist are thriving democracies that do care about individuals.
Too bad those individuals they care about aren't their own citizens. When the decline of the US middle class comes up someone always likes to point out that China has progressed greatly. That's great for China but the politicians who sold out their own citizens for other countries benefits should be hung as traitors. Or, if you prefer a more Nordic example, the politicians cared greatly about all the Muslims that they brought in but somehow fail to notice when they are patting themselves on the backs for being so gracious that they sold out their own countries citizens in the process. Thus the Nordic countries got introduced to no go zones and a deluge of rapes. If you care about your citizens you don't do things that reduce their standard of living. Show me a politician who preaches letting in mass immigration who actually has to live with the outcome, for example whose children attend the same public schools as the new immigrants.
First, the researchers automatically extracted words from the banned subreddits to create a dataset that included hate speech and community-specific lingo. The researchers looked at the accounts of users who were active on those subreddits and compared their posting activity from before and after those offensive subreddits were banned. The team was able to monitor upticks or drops in the hate speech across Reddit and if that speech had "migrated" to other subreddits as a result.
How do they know if the person using the "N" word is black, in which case it's considered OK, or non-black, in which case it's an obvious crime against all humanity? Or calling someone a fag is OK for Milo but wrong for normal people? Granted certain sub-forums are likely largely one demographic but word based still seems flawed.
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There is always a market for those who want to signal their wealth. Think expensive watches, thousand dollar purses and such. None of these are required, quite suitable alternatives are available at a fraction of the price, so really the whole point *is* the price and what it implies about the owner.
People were yelling 'we are the 99%', but so what?
We can't do shit about scams cooked up by the ultrarich 0.1%
Not only they handed over our IDs, our credit info, our address, our property list, and so on to the hackers (by employing a music major overseeing online security, thanks to Political Correctness), they still get to get tens of millions of rewards doing such a criminal thing !
Go fuck yourself, you motherfucking 0.1% fuckers !
I still grieve over the 99% falling to identity politics. As long as identity politics dominate don't expect any economic justice. Bernie and Bannon are the only two really trying to get the average American to a better spot. As both are largely outside circles of influence that tells you our odds.
This is exactly why these breaches occur and will continue to occur. When there is no penalty for incompetence and the worst that can happen to you is that you get to "retire" with a huge payout, then there is zero incentive to actually run your business properly.
Exactly. Perhaps if allow each victim to hit him exactly once, with no weapons allowed. Given 90 million people he won't last. Better yet, maybe we keep finding upper managers until all 90 million have had their chance.
Why are conservatives always called "extreme" or "radical", and yet if left of center, there is far more tolerance.
The left was only tolerant in hippie songs created by ... the left. In practice if you don't walk the line very carefully you will be expelled permanently. That's why movie stars trip over themselves to support the cause of the moment. Just like North Koreans they will be punished if they don't have sufficient enthusiasm in their praise.
Slavery.
Any contract involving slavery is null and void.
You must not be familiar with how the divorce courts treat men. Slavery is by gender these days, not by race.
My observation in life is that things work best when no one side holds too much power. Human nature to abuse power is simply too strong and the only way to subdue that is to not allow any one side of *any* issue to get too much say. Give management too much power and workers will be abused. Give unions too much power and the company will be driven out of business.
Reading this comment consumes energy, some of which is contributing to global warming.
That pales in comparison to the hot air /. generates ;-)
Because regulations stopped this from happening already. Right?
Laws don't stop murders either. Yet we have laws to punish them (after the fact).
Unless they are future Democrat voters, then we give them blanket amnesty and if you disagree it's a sign that you're racist.
So dirt should only be reported when it's convenient for the corrupt people?
The dirt was definitely released when it was convenient for a number of very corrupt people.
This would be true no matter how or when it was released since they are all very corrupt.
If only illegal immigrants counted as a foreign influence to Democrats. Make no mistake, both parties sell you down the river, they just sell you to slightly different parties and word it differently though the net result is much the same.
When you add together all the people on Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA, yes, the government runs a BIG part of healthcare in the US - approx 120,000,000 people, and it's going up every day.
To be fair the government isn't even trying to run health care efficiently. If it was Canada with a market 1/10th the size of the US, wouldn't be getting lower drug pricing. The states would be able to band together for greater purchasing power (or insurers across state lines for that matter). You could lower the cost of government medicine by >25% in an afternoon by merely dropping barriers that have been artificially put in place to keep well connected drug companies flush with cash. The Feds have clearly chosen the side they favor with health care policy - and it's drug companies not consumers, patients, or taxpayers.
When Western countries were tripping over themselves to help China build high speed trains eagerly agreeing to conditions like doing the fabrication in China, I just shook my head at their naivete. And predictably, after China had gleaned enough knowledge to build the trains themselves - either by direct observation of the construction machines and plans, or by outright theft - they booted the Western companies out and began building the trains themselves. The Western reaction is "that's not fair!". The East Asian reaction is "how stupid can these guys be?"
To be fair most citizens and employees fully expected the Chinese to steal the plans and copy the trains and were generally these deals. The CEOs who got paid well to sell out the company are almost as guilty as the Chinese. Certainly accomplices. The politicians who turn a blind eye to forced technology transfers should be punished as well.
[P.S. --> If that fucker had been a Russian then executing him on the spot and using it as indisputable proof that Trump committed treason in the election would be cool though. Xenophobia is only bad against some foreigners based on political convenience after all]
It's OK for liberals to hate on Russia since Russians are largely white and must therefore be bad, evil, and racist as well as being single handedly responsible for all the ills ever done by any white people ever.
It's not about what he said, but when he chose to say it.
So dirt should only be reported when it's convenient for the corrupt people? I find that info on a candidate before an election is helpful - much more useful than after an election. Yes the timing looks bad but I'm sure that he was fed the information in such a way as to maximize the damage. Remember that he's only a messenger, the actual info comes from other sources - as might the timing.
...but his meddling in the 2016 elections clearly demonstrate that he's a lot more interested these days in the axe he has to grind with the Clintons than in pursuing the original mission of his organization...
His mission was to publish dirt on powerful people. The Clintons are powerful people and have tons of dirt. It's not surprising that he dribbled out lots of info about them because there is a lot to dribble out. More dirty laundry of the rich and powerful getting exposed is always good. I'm not clear why people have flopped on him, as if Clintons' misdeeds remaining hidden were somehow a good thing.
Please, no fires. Fires lead to riot tanks, rubber bullets, jack-booted free-market police.
While I agree with no fires, it's way too late regarding the jack booted police state.
(I'm not a socialist, I just don't think it's very honorable to base a business off people making poor choices)
I'm not a fan of the lottery or Casinos either
Except that the person inside would be an illegal alien to keep labor costs low.
Now every Home Depot will have at least one Bodega
This is a well understood principal in sociology. A small number of people behaving like asshats gives others "permission" to do the same. It normalizes it.
I think we call them SJWs ;-)
People leave Canada for two reasons: climate and taxes. The Government can't change the weather, but they really should consider fixing the taxation system if they really want entrepreneurs to 'build industries' here. We have 43% incomes tax plus crazy corporate tax rates (Federal and Provincial), small businesses have all the same red tape as large ones which impedes growth. On top of that Trudeau and Wynne have added carbon taxes and are now in process of closing 'tax loop-holes' which are actually reasonable ways for small business owners to actually save for retirement. Now why would anyone want to leave?
Fear not, global warming should largely benefit Canada. That will solve one of the biggest issues.
Proper leftists have no issues with Jews, Antisemitism tends to be linked to extremist nationalism, which is firmly on the extreme right.
The No True Scotsman defense of leftists I see. It's not the proper left, it's all the rest that are the problem.
FREEDOM to import as many H1Bs as they want is what I think the Silicon Valley execs actually said.
I- want global coorperation for our global problems, and I want as much freedom as possible without destroying the world in exploding anarchy.
The explosion I see coming is a mix of cultural and economic - and those in power (both parties) use the one against the other. Freedom to me means being able to do what you want without forcing your view on others. For example if the Catholic church doesn't want to marry gays or accept gay marriage that's fine. If gay people want to get married they will need to find someone willing to do the ceremony and bake their cake. When people start forcing their will on others - ie you must bake my cake or else - that's when freedom gets reduced. Live and let live but don't force others. Forcing bakers to declare messages that they don't believe in is at least as bad as not allowing gays to marry and probably worse. Live and let live won't work unless both sides respect it. UT is the leader in this common sense approach as described here: https://www.deseretnews.com/ar...
but those who insist on controlling others won't allow it as described here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/out...
only the approach of not forcing others allows for avoiding conflict. I try and live peacefully but if every wish of the SJW crowd was enacted in law eventually I would be forced to take up arms. I'm not alone. Sadly I think the SJW crowd would gladly kill me and another 100M+ off to achieve their "paradise". It's nothing the left hasn't done before after all.
What made Communism bad was primarily the totalitarian governments that didn't actually care about the people. Most countries that consider themselves Socialist are thriving democracies that do care about individuals.
Too bad those individuals they care about aren't their own citizens. When the decline of the US middle class comes up someone always likes to point out that China has progressed greatly. That's great for China but the politicians who sold out their own citizens for other countries benefits should be hung as traitors. Or, if you prefer a more Nordic example, the politicians cared greatly about all the Muslims that they brought in but somehow fail to notice when they are patting themselves on the backs for being so gracious that they sold out their own countries citizens in the process. Thus the Nordic countries got introduced to no go zones and a deluge of rapes. If you care about your citizens you don't do things that reduce their standard of living. Show me a politician who preaches letting in mass immigration who actually has to live with the outcome, for example whose children attend the same public schools as the new immigrants.
First, the researchers automatically extracted words from the banned subreddits to create a dataset that included hate speech and community-specific lingo. The researchers looked at the accounts of users who were active on those subreddits and compared their posting activity from before and after those offensive subreddits were banned. The team was able to monitor upticks or drops in the hate speech across Reddit and if that speech had "migrated" to other subreddits as a result.
How do they know if the person using the "N" word is black, in which case it's considered OK, or non-black, in which case it's an obvious crime against all humanity? Or calling someone a fag is OK for Milo but wrong for normal people? Granted certain sub-forums are likely largely one demographic but word based still seems flawed.