The internet isn't the real world and reality in society happens where people meet in RL and interact with one another. No amount of internent communication (manipulated or otherwise) will change that.
Fortunately they invented safe spaces to prevent that. You can't let all those years of carefully manipulated student thought get destroyed too easily.
All systems fail eventually. The better question is; how does a system handle failure and evolve? In the case of capitalism; we don't know yet. Hopefully the next system is kind to Americans of all income levels.
You can have mass immigration or you can have a strong safety net. At best you get one, often you get neither.
The Panama papers have done more than Wikileaks with much less publishing. More hacks along those lines, exposing the 1%, is how reform can be accomplished. Its the best use of the NSAs all seeing power that I can think of, even if it is a pipe dream.
If you are a favored group that is being given a big push to the top and tons of free positive media exposure results matter very little for the longest time. Think of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for a great example.
Actually, the smart and well organized protest groups have their own security and will warn violent people to behave and, if they cannot be persuaded, forcibly eject them from the group. There are a huge number of benefits:
(1) By nipping violence early, the (literal) 'mob mentality' doesn't get a chance to catalyze
(2) By doing it it from within the protesting group itself, there is less reactionary violence against police intervention
(3) It demonstrates to those watching that the protesters are serious about non-violence and not tacitly condoning vandalism
(4) It demonstrates to the police that they can keep a safe distance and focus on separating protesters/counter-protesters
(5) It discourages opportunists that will join any protest as a cover for their pre-existing desire to smash shit (whether for political or just anger issues)
(6) It encourages people that might not feel safe or welcome in a violent protest to join in. A lot of people won't go out in the streets if people are smashing windows or if they fear being tear gassed by overreacting cops
So yeah, I don't advocate giving up and prosecuting everyone. Or shutting down the right to protest. But I also don't advocate allowing a very small percentage of the protesters to steal the spotlight and tar the entire thing as violent. Those folks ruin your public image, they ruin your relationship with the city, the police and the mainstream members of the group and they have no right to do so.
I guess the anti-Trump protests are neither smart nor well run because all I hear about, even from networks with an obvious agenda like CNN, are antifa causing mayhem.
More to the point, why would you break your back and struggle to create a business and work hard enough to create any significant amount of wealth under those conditions in the first place? "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us."
You can enjoy your wealth while you are alive. It's not "taken" from you until you are dead, at which point you won't need it. Why shouldn't your kids have to earn their own way? Or your grand kids, or their grand kids? They are little better than welfare recipients if they can't produce something of value and earn their own way.
Let me guess - you think that 'gold' is real money? Why? It's just an arrangement of atoms with a few limited industrial applications, completely distorted by irrational speculation. But it's shiny, right?
To be fair gold has other uses than speculation. ~52% is used for jewelry and another ~12% is used annually for industrial uses.
Pure capitalism is an extremely ruthless and egoistic system and far from the "best we've tried".
Gods above and below, you are completely daft.
Feel free to demand each according to his needs, and quickly find out your need is a moldy potato.
There is a middle ground between these two extreme positions. A restrained capitalism keeps the peace while still allowing the rich to be quite rich. An effective inheritance tax is even more inline with capitalism. Let each generation earn their own way on their own merits. The rich will still be able to help influence at least two generations. The concept of trusts and other tax shelters need to be done away with. The wealth card should not renew automatically forever.
Brexit has not happened yet. Lets discuss unemployment in the UK at the end of 2019 and see if everything is still so good it's a problem. I have no idea if it will be, I'm not an economist....
Would it matter if you were an economist? They have no real idea either. You're simply being more honest about the limits of your knowledge.
... and the giant (EVIL) corporations are obviously in favor of today's so-called Republicans....
The whole D vs R debate is just to keep us distracted, don't buy in. Not unlike how BLM, bathrooms, "white privilege", etc are great distractions. The only social platform that they are really against is the 1% vs 99%. That one was actually on target and thus had to be crushed. To ensure that it doesn't get resurrected the 99% had to be fragmented, which is why post that the news went into overdrive to fragment the 99%. BLM, white privilege, athiest vs Christian vs Muslim, corner case bathroom debates - all these are highly decisive but don't matter from an economic stand point. I don't have to like other groups but unless the 99% comes together we will never see economic justice. I'm willing to work with others for economic justice that is actually widespread and not just for favored classes. I don't see a party, neither D nor R, that represents that. Show me the party that is willing to take in any race, any orientation, any religion and instead is only focused on economic improvements for the 99%. The closest thing I've seen is http://unitedslate.samaltman.c...
OK, since you are willing to step away from academics, let's look at the nitty gritty
In the real world, tariffs lead to trade-wars which lead to real wars, which waste a terrible amount of blood and treasure
Having the middle class decline into poverty can also cause revolutions. Revolutions could also be described as a wasting a terrible amount of blood and treasure. One good speaker could take the anger which has never really been addressed from the 2008 crash and create a revolution. Trump is very mild to how it might have gone. If the middle class continues to decline expect Trump to look mild compared to future rulers.
Z-Wave is controlled by a single closed source vendor, which makes for good compatibility but also a single point of failure in as much as it's sole source. The Zigbee devices weren't as compatible as would be liked in the early days (say 2006-2012) but at this point it's pretty good. I've done some work in that market and haven't experienced interop as being an issue when people used a good stack.
Z-wave never scaled very well, it works best for very small networks. Zigbee on the other hand performs well and has been growing by leaps and bounds. Thread enjoys some technical advantages over Zigbee, such as adding routers as needed, but lacks the Zigbee application layer that allows different devices to talk a common language. The future is interesting indeed.
Content costs something to produce once and the media companies milk it for ages to come. Thanks to copyright being extended essentially forever it's a great investment.
Some of those blessedly skinny people who eat all the time are crapping out a lot of those calories while some unfortunately perma-obese people have bodies that process every calorie that goes in. To a certain extent overindulgence is to blame but it's clearly not the sole factor.
As one of the blessedly skinny people I clearly need to start selling fecal matter. It will give new meaning to selling my shit on eBay:-)
Left? There's a shit ton of alt-right and libertarian down here.
True about the Libertarians (probably the second largest/. group), not very true about alt-right. However my $0.02 is that the largest group would be left leaning. Certainly culturally if not also economically.
... there are some concerns about its safety over the long term -- and its cost.
I figure the cost will be X in the developed world other than the US and 10X in the US because the FDA protects pharma profits (and it's own jobs) first.
if he was black / gay / other protected class he would never be held accountable for saying anything he pleased. Citation: see Milo Yiannopoulos
Milo is gay, a member of a protected class. Didn't seem to help him, disproving your point.
I think you misunderstand how this works. It's kinda like cards where even a good hand can be beaten by a yet better hand. Pedophiles are reviled more than gays are protected... for now. As many gays are pedophiles at some point (Milo's point which is also echoed by many others) that social norm will be under pressure. But seriously if you look at how he operates it's totally on the basis of say ridiculous stuff then retreat behind "I'm gay and Jewish". It works because he mostly trolls the left, who must revere gays and Jews or be called names by their own, thus leaving them without much to say back.
Education is important, but it's not clear this has anything much to do with education. This is about a probably nutty idea that punishes 17-18 year olds for not having a clear idea what they want to do with their lives. Or maybe it punishes them for having such an idea if it isn't conventional.
My opinion. The kids did the school work. Give them their damn diploma.
I figure that if they live in Chicago they've been punished enough already. If you live in Chicago your plan should be to find a job elsewhere and leave before it craters completely.
The guy had also posted racist and anti-semitic trolls.
So his real crime was being a non-protected class since if he was black / gay / other protected class he would never be held accountable for saying anything he pleased. Citation: see Milo Yiannopoulos
Unfortunately the lefties generally dislike Christians at best and want to ban them from government, like Bernie Sanders literally said, at worst. Oddly those same lefties want to protect the Muslims who oppress women like nobody else and still have slaves. Very odd those lefties since they allegedly dislike both cruelty to women and slavery.
The reason these laws exist is to allow them the simple dignity the rest of you take for granted.
The problem is deciding where to draw the line. Based on your tone it sounds like you're in the camp of no cost is too high. Not unlike advocates for having the mentally retarded have a full time aid in school leaving the normal and gifted kids, who will fund the disabled kid for life, with *far* fewer resources.
Slashdot Mirror
The internet isn't the real world and reality in society happens where people meet in RL and interact with one another. No amount of internent communication (manipulated or otherwise) will change that.
Fortunately they invented safe spaces to prevent that. You can't let all those years of carefully manipulated student thought get destroyed too easily.
Unless there's a trade imbalance, GDP is exactly standard of living.
Assuming no trade imbalance is a mighty big assumption.
All systems fail eventually. The better question is; how does a system handle failure and evolve? In the case of capitalism; we don't know yet. Hopefully the next system is kind to Americans of all income levels.
You can have mass immigration or you can have a strong safety net. At best you get one, often you get neither.
The Panama papers have done more than Wikileaks with much less publishing. More hacks along those lines, exposing the 1%, is how reform can be accomplished. Its the best use of the NSAs all seeing power that I can think of, even if it is a pipe dream.
If you are a favored group that is being given a big push to the top and tons of free positive media exposure results matter very little for the longest time. Think of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for a great example.
Actually, the smart and well organized protest groups have their own security and will warn violent people to behave and, if they cannot be persuaded, forcibly eject them from the group. There are a huge number of benefits:
(1) By nipping violence early, the (literal) 'mob mentality' doesn't get a chance to catalyze (2) By doing it it from within the protesting group itself, there is less reactionary violence against police intervention (3) It demonstrates to those watching that the protesters are serious about non-violence and not tacitly condoning vandalism (4) It demonstrates to the police that they can keep a safe distance and focus on separating protesters/counter-protesters (5) It discourages opportunists that will join any protest as a cover for their pre-existing desire to smash shit (whether for political or just anger issues) (6) It encourages people that might not feel safe or welcome in a violent protest to join in. A lot of people won't go out in the streets if people are smashing windows or if they fear being tear gassed by overreacting cops
So yeah, I don't advocate giving up and prosecuting everyone. Or shutting down the right to protest. But I also don't advocate allowing a very small percentage of the protesters to steal the spotlight and tar the entire thing as violent. Those folks ruin your public image, they ruin your relationship with the city, the police and the mainstream members of the group and they have no right to do so.
I guess the anti-Trump protests are neither smart nor well run because all I hear about, even from networks with an obvious agenda like CNN, are antifa causing mayhem.
More to the point, why would you break your back and struggle to create a business and work hard enough to create any significant amount of wealth under those conditions in the first place? "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us."
You can enjoy your wealth while you are alive. It's not "taken" from you until you are dead, at which point you won't need it. Why shouldn't your kids have to earn their own way? Or your grand kids, or their grand kids? They are little better than welfare recipients if they can't produce something of value and earn their own way.
Let me guess - you think that 'gold' is real money? Why? It's just an arrangement of atoms with a few limited industrial applications, completely distorted by irrational speculation. But it's shiny, right?
To be fair gold has other uses than speculation. ~52% is used for jewelry and another ~12% is used annually for industrial uses.
Citation: http://www.numbersleuth.org/wo...
Pure capitalism is an extremely ruthless and egoistic system and far from the "best we've tried".
Gods above and below, you are completely daft.
Feel free to demand each according to his needs, and quickly find out your need is a moldy potato.
There is a middle ground between these two extreme positions. A restrained capitalism keeps the peace while still allowing the rich to be quite rich. An effective inheritance tax is even more inline with capitalism. Let each generation earn their own way on their own merits. The rich will still be able to help influence at least two generations. The concept of trusts and other tax shelters need to be done away with. The wealth card should not renew automatically forever.
Brexit has not happened yet. Lets discuss unemployment in the UK at the end of 2019 and see if everything is still so good it's a problem. I have no idea if it will be, I'm not an economist. ...
Would it matter if you were an economist? They have no real idea either. You're simply being more honest about the limits of your knowledge.
... and the giant (EVIL) corporations are obviously in favor of today's so-called Republicans. ...
The whole D vs R debate is just to keep us distracted, don't buy in. Not unlike how BLM, bathrooms, "white privilege", etc are great distractions. The only social platform that they are really against is the 1% vs 99%. That one was actually on target and thus had to be crushed. To ensure that it doesn't get resurrected the 99% had to be fragmented, which is why post that the news went into overdrive to fragment the 99%. BLM, white privilege, athiest vs Christian vs Muslim, corner case bathroom debates - all these are highly decisive but don't matter from an economic stand point. I don't have to like other groups but unless the 99% comes together we will never see economic justice. I'm willing to work with others for economic justice that is actually widespread and not just for favored classes. I don't see a party, neither D nor R, that represents that. Show me the party that is willing to take in any race, any orientation, any religion and instead is only focused on economic improvements for the 99%. The closest thing I've seen is http://unitedslate.samaltman.c...
OK, since you are willing to step away from academics, let's look at the nitty gritty
In the real world, tariffs lead to trade-wars which lead to real wars, which waste a terrible amount of blood and treasure
Having the middle class decline into poverty can also cause revolutions. Revolutions could also be described as a wasting a terrible amount of blood and treasure. One good speaker could take the anger which has never really been addressed from the 2008 crash and create a revolution. Trump is very mild to how it might have gone. If the middle class continues to decline expect Trump to look mild compared to future rulers.
Z-Wave is controlled by a single closed source vendor, which makes for good compatibility but also a single point of failure in as much as it's sole source. The Zigbee devices weren't as compatible as would be liked in the early days (say 2006-2012) but at this point it's pretty good. I've done some work in that market and haven't experienced interop as being an issue when people used a good stack.
Z-wave never scaled very well, it works best for very small networks. Zigbee on the other hand performs well and has been growing by leaps and bounds. Thread enjoys some technical advantages over Zigbee, such as adding routers as needed, but lacks the Zigbee application layer that allows different devices to talk a common language. The future is interesting indeed.
Content costs something to produce once and the media companies milk it for ages to come. Thanks to copyright being extended essentially forever it's a great investment.
Some of those blessedly skinny people who eat all the time are crapping out a lot of those calories while some unfortunately perma-obese people have bodies that process every calorie that goes in. To a certain extent overindulgence is to blame but it's clearly not the sole factor.
As one of the blessedly skinny people I clearly need to start selling fecal matter. It will give new meaning to selling my shit on eBay :-)
Left? There's a shit ton of alt-right and libertarian down here.
True about the Libertarians (probably the second largest /. group), not very true about alt-right. However my $0.02 is that the largest group would be left leaning. Certainly culturally if not also economically.
... there are some concerns about its safety over the long term -- and its cost.
I figure the cost will be X in the developed world other than the US and 10X in the US because the FDA protects pharma profits (and it's own jobs) first.
if he was black / gay / other protected class he would never be held accountable for saying anything he pleased. Citation: see Milo Yiannopoulos
Milo is gay, a member of a protected class. Didn't seem to help him, disproving your point.
I think you misunderstand how this works. It's kinda like cards where even a good hand can be beaten by a yet better hand. Pedophiles are reviled more than gays are protected ... for now. As many gays are pedophiles at some point (Milo's point which is also echoed by many others) that social norm will be under pressure. But seriously if you look at how he operates it's totally on the basis of say ridiculous stuff then retreat behind "I'm gay and Jewish". It works because he mostly trolls the left, who must revere gays and Jews or be called names by their own, thus leaving them without much to say back.
Education is important, but it's not clear this has anything much to do with education. This is about a probably nutty idea that punishes 17-18 year olds for not having a clear idea what they want to do with their lives. Or maybe it punishes them for having such an idea if it isn't conventional.
My opinion. The kids did the school work. Give them their damn diploma.
I figure that if they live in Chicago they've been punished enough already. If you live in Chicago your plan should be to find a job elsewhere and leave before it craters completely.
The guy had also posted racist and anti-semitic trolls.
So his real crime was being a non-protected class since if he was black / gay / other protected class he would never be held accountable for saying anything he pleased. Citation: see Milo Yiannopoulos
Unfortunately the lefties generally dislike Christians at best and want to ban them from government, like Bernie Sanders literally said, at worst. Oddly those same lefties want to protect the Muslims who oppress women like nobody else and still have slaves. Very odd those lefties since they allegedly dislike both cruelty to women and slavery.
The reason these laws exist is to allow them the simple dignity the rest of you take for granted.
The problem is deciding where to draw the line. Based on your tone it sounds like you're in the camp of no cost is too high. Not unlike advocates for having the mentally retarded have a full time aid in school leaving the normal and gifted kids, who will fund the disabled kid for life, with *far* fewer resources.
So to summarize, fake news.
Can we help it if the world most likely to be a terrorist countries are all Muslim? To a sentient person that is a clue.