Hey man, if you folks want to burden your children and grandchildren with onerous debt just so you can give a free handout to one of the richest oligarchs in the world - well go for it, I guess.
"They would have been using the local restaurants and shops, and going out at night there or taking the train to Manhattan. Killing this project killed a tremendous source of tax revenues for the city."
Have you ever been to New York? Our restaurants and shops are already packed full of people. They're doing just fine. No handout to a billionaire oligarch required.
Also, a smaller company probably can't afford to hire expensive Ivy League lawyers to pass suitcases full of cash to city councilmen in a dark parking lot.
Many parts of America never recovered from 1973 and 1979.
But I'm pretty sure any journalist who dared report that grim truth in mass media would never work as a journalist again. And might end up "confessing" to some imaginatively implausible crime.
So we carry on acting like there are just some small problems with the economy that can be fixed with minor tinkering. Instead of recognizing the slow motion economic collapse that's occurring all around us.
Who is fooled by this bunk? Maybe 30 years ago, maybe. But nowadays EVERYBODY knows big corporations NEVER make good on their promises of jobs & tax revenue. One would have to be dumber than a bag of hammers to believe those obvious corporate lies.
So I don't buy it that local officials were fooled by slick salesmen. Seems way more likely that those local officials were persuaded by suitcases full of cash in a dark parking lot.
It's _totally_ censorship if I run a publishing platform that's _open to the public_, then decide to boot you off because I disagree with your politics.
But Corporate Progressive nazi assholes don't really give a fuck about freedom of speech. They want all dissent silenced! 'Cuz "arseholes".
"why, in a country of such abundance, people feel the need to numb their pain and escape their lives."
Because we haven't been a country of abundance for a long time. There is an ongoing 40+ year economic depression in the "flyover". A depression that was engineered and maintained by public policy choices with bipartisan support. A depression which has transformed the once prosperous cities of the heartland into wastelands of despair.
My brother, open your eyes. And travel west of the Hudson now & then.;) The America shown in movies, and the America we see in our rich bubble cities, is not the America experienced by the masses of our countrymen.
Sometimes our mass media public discourse feels like the chatter of 1950s Gosplan bureaucrats. Sitting in their fancy Moscow apartments, patting each other on the back for their brilliant planning skills. While out in the hinterland millions are starving from Stalin's famine. Sure, sure, we're not that bad yet. But "better than Stalin's famine" is faint praise indeed.
Nah. Traditional religions - all of them! - have demonstrated themselves evolutionarily fit. By the simple (but very difficult to achieve) fact of surviving for several hundred or more years.
Corporate Progressivism, on the other hand, is a death cult. It's unlikely to survive a generation, much less a millennium.
I doubt that many "famous" Youtubers actually have very many followers at all. Rather, Alphabet/Youtube pretends they have millions of followers as an excuse to give them front page billing.
The purpose is to force feed their audience a steaming crock of brain-rotting antisocial pro-evil schlock. Remember, YouTube is now run by a bunch of scoundrels who formerly worked in the TV industry.
When considering the actions of an overtly evil company like Alphabet, it's always safe to assume malice and deceit.
Or, you know, they could stand up for freedom of speech and core American values.
If some repressive shithole wants to ban anything offensive to their small minded sensibilities; or if some Euro-peon Corporate Progressive nazis want to ban political speech - then they'll just have to block the whole service. Let's make them do their own clumsy repression, instead of doing it for them.
All true Scotsmen agree there is no true Scotsman.
"nuclear power, it's still far safer than anything we have. If you deny that then you deny science."
Mad science advocates typically claim nuclear accidents are _proven_ to be very unlikely. I often see quotes like once in a thousand years. Yet the actual historical record has two full meltdowns and numerous lesser accidents in sixty years. But hey - when did "muh SCIENCE (tm)!!1!!!" bros ever care about empirical evidence, skepticism, minimax, or humility?
Too late. Poverty is already widespread in the "flyover", thanks to the 40 year economic depression. But hey, the engineered economic collapse has had bipartisan support for decades...
Anyways, the issue is not whether new technology (and blithely ignoring insurance costs) can finally make atomic power economical. The issue is risk from _worst case_ failure. There is a very good reason that private insurance (without government backstop or special limitation on liability) won't touch nuclear power with a twenty foot pole.
The maximum failure mode from nuclear power is godawful horrible. Millions poisoned by airborne radiation. Vast areas of land rendered forsaken, unsuitable for human life for a hundred generations. The decedents of our descendants will curse our hubris for a thousand years.
"But that can _never_ happen! Accidents are very unlikely - they occur only once in a million years" you shout, hoping no one notices the obvious and brazen falsehood. Atomic power advocates have been claiming their mad science is safe for decades - undeterred by Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima. None of which was a properly _worst case_ scenario. For the worst case think terrorism or warfare, not accidents.
The minimax principle is key here. Minimize the maximum failure mode. The statistical sophistry that says wet can safely ignore "black swan" events is contradicted by experience across many domains. "Once in a thousand years" events are observed to occur rather more often than predicted.
Any sort of Green, and any sort of _real_ conservative, is hard against nuclear power. I suppose it's reasonable for Corporate Progressives to support it, since they are a death cult anyways.
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Hey man, if you folks want to burden your children and grandchildren with onerous debt just so you can give a free handout to one of the richest oligarchs in the world - well go for it, I guess.
"They would have been using the local restaurants and shops, and going out at night there or taking the train to Manhattan. Killing this project killed a tremendous source of tax revenues for the city."
Have you ever been to New York? Our restaurants and shops are already packed full of people. They're doing just fine. No handout to a billionaire oligarch required.
Also, a smaller company probably can't afford to hire expensive Ivy League lawyers to pass suitcases full of cash to city councilmen in a dark parking lot.
Many parts of America never recovered from 1973 and 1979.
But I'm pretty sure any journalist who dared report that grim truth in mass media would never work as a journalist again. And might end up "confessing" to some imaginatively implausible crime.
So we carry on acting like there are just some small problems with the economy that can be fixed with minor tinkering. Instead of recognizing the slow motion economic collapse that's occurring all around us.
Who is fooled by this bunk? Maybe 30 years ago, maybe. But nowadays EVERYBODY knows big corporations NEVER make good on their promises of jobs & tax revenue. One would have to be dumber than a bag of hammers to believe those obvious corporate lies.
So I don't buy it that local officials were fooled by slick salesmen. Seems way more likely that those local officials were persuaded by suitcases full of cash in a dark parking lot.
If you buy that, I've got a great deal for you on a slightly used bridge in Brooklyn.
+1 funny
Nonsense. Most EULAs are straight up lawful fraud. What's the point in having kangaroo courts if we can't use them to fuck over the plebs?
Yup. Damn near every single app available in the Play Store is malicious, mostly spyware.
s/hubris/the inexorably declining inertia of Steve Jobs' genius/
"Oh well, it's what the oligarchs want."
FTFY
"Betrand Meyer has some interesting stuff going on in the area of safe concurrent programs these days, using an extension of Eiffel."
Eiffel is a beautiful language. Man I wish more companies would use it for real work.
It's _totally_ censorship if I run a publishing platform that's _open to the public_, then decide to boot you off because I disagree with your politics.
But Corporate Progressive nazi assholes don't really give a fuck about freedom of speech. They want all dissent silenced! 'Cuz "arseholes".
Don't feed the trolls.
"why, in a country of such abundance, people feel the need to numb their pain and escape their lives."
Because we haven't been a country of abundance for a long time. There is an ongoing 40+ year economic depression in the "flyover". A depression that was engineered and maintained by public policy choices with bipartisan support. A depression which has transformed the once prosperous cities of the heartland into wastelands of despair.
My brother, open your eyes. And travel west of the Hudson now & then. ;) The America shown in movies, and the America we see in our rich bubble cities, is not the America experienced by the masses of our countrymen.
Sometimes our mass media public discourse feels like the chatter of 1950s Gosplan bureaucrats. Sitting in their fancy Moscow apartments, patting each other on the back for their brilliant planning skills. While out in the hinterland millions are starving from Stalin's famine. Sure, sure, we're not that bad yet. But "better than Stalin's famine" is faint praise indeed.
Vote against the Narrative - lose your vote!
Abuses of democracy are what lead to dictatorship. Yay dictatorship!!
The goal here is to render the mass of people supine and obedient. It has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting the weak and the innocent.
Nah. Traditional religions - all of them! - have demonstrated themselves evolutionarily fit. By the simple (but very difficult to achieve) fact of surviving for several hundred or more years.
Corporate Progressivism, on the other hand, is a death cult. It's unlikely to survive a generation, much less a millennium.
I doubt that many "famous" Youtubers actually have very many followers at all. Rather, Alphabet/Youtube pretends they have millions of followers as an excuse to give them front page billing.
The purpose is to force feed their audience a steaming crock of brain-rotting antisocial pro-evil schlock. Remember, YouTube is now run by a bunch of scoundrels who formerly worked in the TV industry.
When considering the actions of an overtly evil company like Alphabet, it's always safe to assume malice and deceit.
Or, you know, they could stand up for freedom of speech and core American values.
If some repressive shithole wants to ban anything offensive to their small minded sensibilities; or if some Euro-peon Corporate Progressive nazis want to ban political speech - then they'll just have to block the whole service. Let's make them do their own clumsy repression, instead of doing it for them.
"hate speech" = anything a Corporate Progressive nazi asshole disagrees with.
All true Scotsmen agree there is no true Scotsman.
"nuclear power, it's still far safer than anything we have. If you deny that then you deny science."
Mad science advocates typically claim nuclear accidents are _proven_ to be very unlikely. I often see quotes like once in a thousand years. Yet the actual historical record has two full meltdowns and numerous lesser accidents in sixty years. But hey - when did "muh SCIENCE (tm)!!1!!!" bros ever care about empirical evidence, skepticism, minimax, or humility?
I dunno if it's quite so easy to get to "problem solved". But your proposal is nevertheless a damned good idea.
Too late. Poverty is already widespread in the "flyover", thanks to the 40 year economic depression. But hey, the engineered economic collapse has had bipartisan support for decades...
Anyways, the issue is not whether new technology (and blithely ignoring insurance costs) can finally make atomic power economical. The issue is risk from _worst case_ failure. There is a very good reason that private insurance (without government backstop or special limitation on liability) won't touch nuclear power with a twenty foot pole.
The maximum failure mode from nuclear power is godawful horrible. Millions poisoned by airborne radiation. Vast areas of land rendered forsaken, unsuitable for human life for a hundred generations. The decedents of our descendants will curse our hubris for a thousand years.
"But that can _never_ happen! Accidents are very unlikely - they occur only once in a million years" you shout, hoping no one notices the obvious and brazen falsehood. Atomic power advocates have been claiming their mad science is safe for decades - undeterred by Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima. None of which was a properly _worst case_ scenario. For the worst case think terrorism or warfare, not accidents.
The minimax principle is key here. Minimize the maximum failure mode. The statistical sophistry that says wet can safely ignore "black swan" events is contradicted by experience across many domains. "Once in a thousand years" events are observed to occur rather more often than predicted.
Any sort of Green, and any sort of _real_ conservative, is hard against nuclear power. I suppose it's reasonable for Corporate Progressives to support it, since they are a death cult anyways.