What's with Americas current boner for Russians? Is it because Trumpski has a boner for them and it passes on, or is it more you think it's a magic word to make anything you don't like irrelevant?
Though I don't include Pope Ratzo in this, most Americans have only recently learned that there is a massive industry dedicated to influencing their opinions. Part of that industry belongs to Russian intelligence agencies. That's the part the American public has been told about. Somewhat ironically, they have been told that by other parts of the industry that belong to western media outlets and American intelligence agencies.
Buying a service or good is a voluntary transaction unlike Obamacare.
Please shut up with the Libertarian bullshit. Having an Internet connection is a requirement in today's society. Go ahead and try to get a job without an email address. Let them know in the interview that you haven't seen their company website because you don't have Internet at home. See how that works for you and if you end up "volunteering" to join the modern world. And secondly, try going without health insurance, if you think Obamacare is so tyrannical.
Some transactions are voluntary, and some are required to live in society. See if you can learn to tell the difference.
This is what happens when you a shitty smelly indo-chimp in charge of the FCC. Eliminate H-1B visas and send Ajit Pai back to the (literal) shithole he came from.
No, this is what happens when you elect Republicans. And Pai was born in America, but I'm sure that's neither here nor there for you.
Slashdot mods are mouthbreathing morons.
In markets where there is *actually competition*, companies will lower their rates to gain customers until they can no longer afford to lower their rates.
Does "competitive" really describe the ISP market? I'm not so sure. But even in more competitive markets, lowering prices is only one of a number of courses of action.
Most of these job killing regulations are unnecessary. Do they really think people will look at their bill, and the check they write each month, and not understand whether they're paying more than they need to or whether they may be able to get a better deal somewhere else? In reality, most people's bills will DECREASE because ISPs won't need to waste time a manpower collecting and sending this data.
LOL, right, because every time a company saves money, they pass that saving on to the customer! Just like tax cuts trickle down...
By the way, your first sentence gives you away. Calling them "job killing" immediately reveals your agenda and bias.
North Korea's ire against the U.S. isn't based on paranoia. It's based on propaganda. Any repressive system generates extreme discontent within its population, which eventually leads to uprising and revolution. Unless you can present the people with an external bogeyman that they can fear and hate instead of their oppressive overload. North Korea has chosen the U.S. to be that bogeyman. They teach their grade schoolers to want to attack Americans for crying out loud. Please, educate yourself on what actually goes on in North Korea before you believe their claims of victimhood.
The ironic thing to me is that this describes the United States as well. Just reverse the names, and the paragraph still works. We don't demonize North Korea in our text books, but the rest is pretty accurate.
We've known for decades that North Korea was a cancer in the socio-political fabric of the world. If it had been excised early on, we wouldn't be having this problem today. But instead we did nothing, taking the pacifist approach and hoping the problem would go away by itself. Well, it hasn't, and now it has nukes.
You think McArthur should have been allowed to go all the way to the Chinese border? You think the US would have prevailed in a war with China? I think you need to read up on the history if you think the US has taken a pacifist approach to North Korea. We killed 600,000 civilians there. "Hoping the problem would go away by itself" does not at all describe the US actions since. We have been active on the peninsula since the armistice, and would probably be in a better position if we had honored our own commitments after the 1994 framework was established.
Diplomacy, open trade, and international organizations. It's not as sexy as nukes and special forces, but the current stability of the world (and it is in an unprecedented state of stability) is almost certainly due to those things.
What do diplomacy, open trade, and international organizations have to do with North Korea?
Only everything. There are no good military solutions to the conflict with North Korea. They all involve hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. If you think that's acceptable, we should probably reconsider who the murderous psychopath is in this situation.
There is an old saying in the IT field [..] we are the highest paid people in the building.
Don't you ever get tired of deluding yourself?
Try working IT in a law firm, trading firm, hospital, or school. Then see who is the highest paid in the building. Not you.
IT is shit work and it pays shit. Get the fuck over yourself already.
You used that ellipses to cut out the bulk of his post and connect two phrases that were not connected. Then you used that to challenge a point he didn't make. Well done!
We're productive enough as a society that we could probably get by on a 20 hour work week.
So what happens then? Well, it's obviously fairly sustainable to work 40 hours per week... so someone's going to get two jobs with opposing schedules so they can have a nicer house.
When they do that, someone else won't have a job opportunity and they'll lower their income expectations. The economy will slowly adjust to the practical reality that people will work 40 hours a week for a standard wage, and then 20 hours won't be enough for food and shelter any longer and everyone will have to have two jobs instead of one.
Then you're right back to where we are now.
If I could maintain my current lifestyle, while working a 20 hour week, I certainly would not get a second job.
Six hours per day, five days a week is considered "full time" here.
I could never understand why Americans burn themselves out working eight or more a day. They live to work, whereas we work to live.
Americans are kept in a state of anxiety about their jobs and livelihood. From advertisers to the news media, to big business, to the government, everyone has an interest in scaring the American people toward their own ends.
Considering Crypto has exploded in return on investment, the suckers are those that show up too late to the game. Bitcoin has been up and running for 9 years with explosive price gains... when did you buy again? Oh you missed out? Bitter? That explains it.
I'd be curious to know how many people have actually cached out their bitcoin to realize their gain. It's one thing to have $100,000 worth of bitcoin, and another to have that $100,000 in your bank account.
We've posted and solicited all over, websites LinkedIn, colleges, etc. We just can't get very many American applications. No idea why, but we hire from the pool of applicants, so we have lots of talented H1Bs. If this goes through, our applicant pool is going to get even smaller.
I would think that would be something of value to know. Maybe not by you specifically, but I'd think the hiring managers would want to know why they can't find many local applicants. Or maybe they like it that way and don't want to know.
The difference here is that instead of a ruling family you have "the government". The Soviets used to have an expression: "you own what you guard". When the government owns and controls everything, the bureaucrats own and control everything, including you. In Soviet Union, the government officials had property, income, and quality of life that far exceeded the rest, and was proportional to their position. I fail to see the difference.
You seem to be conflating Communism with Progressivism. Or perhaps you think there are only two economic systems, so if one is not Capitalist it must be Communist. It is true that Progressives are concerned about extreme inequality, but they do not advocate that everyone should have exactly the same amount of wealth or that the state should own the means of production.
Have you been to Manhattan, San Francisco, Silicon Valley - they so-called havens of the progressives? They are far more segregated, stratified, with their high castles inaccessible to the common citizens, compared to the South, for example.
The dynamic you describe is wealth inequality, not Progressivism. You have noticed that the wealthy use their money to separate themselves from the lower classes. That is true no matter where they are; it is just more apparent where there is more wealth and a higher living density.
Do not make the mistake of eating shit that's in a fancy wrapper. It's still shit.
Welcome to the progressive wet dream. Home ownership is for the 1% only (and optional). The rest get to live in shared housing, tied to it by monthly rent that is just high enough to ensure they can't accumulate wealth, and just low enough to ensure that anyone can get a 12x12 ft box for themselves. You don't need a bathroom - you can share. You certainly don't need a kitchen - you won't be doing any cooking of your own. And you surely don't need a garage because you'll use public transportation, or god forbid rent once in a while. Everything is disposable... and you're dependent on your betters for every aspect of your life. You won't even have a job of your own - you'll get free money from the government.
You do realize that you have just described where our capitalist system has led and is leading us, right? Are Republicans "progressives" now?
Wow, you're a total idiot. Once again, I see how Slashdot users are clueless morons who are incapable of exhibiting justice. From the ridiculous advocacy of open source software and hatred of all things Microsoft to the post you just made, you really are incredibly stupid. Unfortunately, the rest of the world has to deal with morons such as yourself, which places quite a burden on society. If there was any justice in this world, some kind of disease would render all of you idiots sterile so that your population would slowly decrease. I thoroughly hate all of you, and I wish nothing but the worst for you incompetent fools for the rest of your miserable lives.
Just out of curiosity, what does it mean to "exhibit justice"?
So.. ONE year out of 12 since has a couple of bad storms since Al Gore predicted higher and more intense hurricanes and you think he was right?
We are running WAY below average for 11 out of 12 years since Al, made his wrong prediction. I think he was wrong, even with 2017's season (which seemed about normal to me.) Do you have any better information than Al had 12 years ago?
How did I know this would be your answer? You asked about more powerful hurricanes, I show you that there have been more powerful hurricanes, and you move the goalposts. There is a trend of more powerful storms since the 1970's. https://earthobservatory.nasa.... Storms have been getting more frequent and more powerful. It's not just one year..
back in my day we just called it propaganda. Folks do know the US Government does this every time we go to war, right? We did it before Iraq and we're starting to do it for North Korea.
I really wish more people understood this. Every time we go to war, it is under false pretenses. Every time.
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What's with Americas current boner for Russians? Is it because Trumpski has a boner for them and it passes on, or is it more you think it's a magic word to make anything you don't like irrelevant?
Though I don't include Pope Ratzo in this, most Americans have only recently learned that there is a massive industry dedicated to influencing their opinions. Part of that industry belongs to Russian intelligence agencies. That's the part the American public has been told about. Somewhat ironically, they have been told that by other parts of the industry that belong to western media outlets and American intelligence agencies.
Buying a service or good is a voluntary transaction unlike Obamacare.
Please shut up with the Libertarian bullshit. Having an Internet connection is a requirement in today's society. Go ahead and try to get a job without an email address. Let them know in the interview that you haven't seen their company website because you don't have Internet at home. See how that works for you and if you end up "volunteering" to join the modern world. And secondly, try going without health insurance, if you think Obamacare is so tyrannical.
Some transactions are voluntary, and some are required to live in society. See if you can learn to tell the difference.
This is what happens when you a shitty smelly indo-chimp in charge of the FCC. Eliminate H-1B visas and send Ajit Pai back to the (literal) shithole he came from.
No, this is what happens when you elect Republicans. And Pai was born in America, but I'm sure that's neither here nor there for you.
Slashdot mods are mouthbreathing morons. In markets where there is *actually competition*, companies will lower their rates to gain customers until they can no longer afford to lower their rates.
Does "competitive" really describe the ISP market? I'm not so sure. But even in more competitive markets, lowering prices is only one of a number of courses of action.
Most of these job killing regulations are unnecessary. Do they really think people will look at their bill, and the check they write each month, and not understand whether they're paying more than they need to or whether they may be able to get a better deal somewhere else? In reality, most people's bills will DECREASE because ISPs won't need to waste time a manpower collecting and sending this data.
LOL, right, because every time a company saves money, they pass that saving on to the customer! Just like tax cuts trickle down...
By the way, your first sentence gives you away. Calling them "job killing" immediately reveals your agenda and bias.
Maybe someday America will learn that you don't convince your adversary to stop being paranoid by threatening to attack them.
Well, every attempt to negotiate or appease North Korea has also lead to paranoia and weapons development.
You sure about that? http://www.independent.co.uk/v...
North Korea's ire against the U.S. isn't based on paranoia. It's based on propaganda. Any repressive system generates extreme discontent within its population, which eventually leads to uprising and revolution. Unless you can present the people with an external bogeyman that they can fear and hate instead of their oppressive overload. North Korea has chosen the U.S. to be that bogeyman. They teach their grade schoolers to want to attack Americans for crying out loud. Please, educate yourself on what actually goes on in North Korea before you believe their claims of victimhood.
The ironic thing to me is that this describes the United States as well. Just reverse the names, and the paragraph still works. We don't demonize North Korea in our text books, but the rest is pretty accurate.
We've known for decades that North Korea was a cancer in the socio-political fabric of the world. If it had been excised early on, we wouldn't be having this problem today. But instead we did nothing, taking the pacifist approach and hoping the problem would go away by itself. Well, it hasn't, and now it has nukes.
You think McArthur should have been allowed to go all the way to the Chinese border? You think the US would have prevailed in a war with China? I think you need to read up on the history if you think the US has taken a pacifist approach to North Korea. We killed 600,000 civilians there. "Hoping the problem would go away by itself" does not at all describe the US actions since. We have been active on the peninsula since the armistice, and would probably be in a better position if we had honored our own commitments after the 1994 framework was established.
Yeah sure. Please point to any time since the Korean war where that's worked with North Korea. Oops, you can't.
How about the whole time? The armistice agreement has held, and no one has attacked anyone. What's your definition of "worked"?
Diplomacy, open trade, and international organizations. It's not as sexy as nukes and special forces, but the current stability of the world (and it is in an unprecedented state of stability) is almost certainly due to those things.
What do diplomacy, open trade, and international organizations have to do with North Korea?
Only everything. There are no good military solutions to the conflict with North Korea. They all involve hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. If you think that's acceptable, we should probably reconsider who the murderous psychopath is in this situation.
I fundamentally consider advertising a psychological weapon deployed against the general public by corporations
Marry me!
Sterilize those that aren't productive.
Wait, I would get to be a lazy bastard and not have to take care of children? Sign me up, that's a win-win!
There is an old saying in the IT field [..] we are the highest paid people in the building.
Don't you ever get tired of deluding yourself?
Try working IT in a law firm, trading firm, hospital, or school. Then see who is the highest paid in the building. Not you.
IT is shit work and it pays shit. Get the fuck over yourself already.
You used that ellipses to cut out the bulk of his post and connect two phrases that were not connected. Then you used that to challenge a point he didn't make. Well done!
We're productive enough as a society that we could probably get by on a 20 hour work week.
So what happens then? Well, it's obviously fairly sustainable to work 40 hours per week... so someone's going to get two jobs with opposing schedules so they can have a nicer house.
When they do that, someone else won't have a job opportunity and they'll lower their income expectations. The economy will slowly adjust to the practical reality that people will work 40 hours a week for a standard wage, and then 20 hours won't be enough for food and shelter any longer and everyone will have to have two jobs instead of one.
Then you're right back to where we are now.
If I could maintain my current lifestyle, while working a 20 hour week, I certainly would not get a second job.
Six hours per day, five days a week is considered "full time" here.
I could never understand why Americans burn themselves out working eight or more a day. They live to work, whereas we work to live.
Americans are kept in a state of anxiety about their jobs and livelihood. From advertisers to the news media, to big business, to the government, everyone has an interest in scaring the American people toward their own ends.
*bad thing happens* "THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE TRUMP!!"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/two-minute-shrink/201006/taming-obsessive-thoughts
Well, to be fair, he does bear a striking resemblance to many bad things.
Considering Crypto has exploded in return on investment, the suckers are those that show up too late to the game. Bitcoin has been up and running for 9 years with explosive price gains... when did you buy again? Oh you missed out? Bitter? That explains it.
I'd be curious to know how many people have actually cached out their bitcoin to realize their gain. It's one thing to have $100,000 worth of bitcoin, and another to have that $100,000 in your bank account.
What will become of the Simpsons?
Don't worry, Apu is a citizen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We've posted and solicited all over, websites LinkedIn, colleges, etc. We just can't get very many American applications. No idea why, but we hire from the pool of applicants, so we have lots of talented H1Bs. If this goes through, our applicant pool is going to get even smaller.
I would think that would be something of value to know. Maybe not by you specifically, but I'd think the hiring managers would want to know why they can't find many local applicants. Or maybe they like it that way and don't want to know.
The difference here is that instead of a ruling family you have "the government". The Soviets used to have an expression: "you own what you guard". When the government owns and controls everything, the bureaucrats own and control everything, including you. In Soviet Union, the government officials had property, income, and quality of life that far exceeded the rest, and was proportional to their position. I fail to see the difference.
You seem to be conflating Communism with Progressivism. Or perhaps you think there are only two economic systems, so if one is not Capitalist it must be Communist. It is true that Progressives are concerned about extreme inequality, but they do not advocate that everyone should have exactly the same amount of wealth or that the state should own the means of production.
Have you been to Manhattan, San Francisco, Silicon Valley - they so-called havens of the progressives? They are far more segregated, stratified, with their high castles inaccessible to the common citizens, compared to the South, for example.
The dynamic you describe is wealth inequality, not Progressivism. You have noticed that the wealthy use their money to separate themselves from the lower classes. That is true no matter where they are; it is just more apparent where there is more wealth and a higher living density.
Do not make the mistake of eating shit that's in a fancy wrapper. It's still shit.
Indeed.
Welcome to the progressive wet dream. Home ownership is for the 1% only (and optional). The rest get to live in shared housing, tied to it by monthly rent that is just high enough to ensure they can't accumulate wealth, and just low enough to ensure that anyone can get a 12x12 ft box for themselves. You don't need a bathroom - you can share. You certainly don't need a kitchen - you won't be doing any cooking of your own. And you surely don't need a garage because you'll use public transportation, or god forbid rent once in a while. Everything is disposable... and you're dependent on your betters for every aspect of your life. You won't even have a job of your own - you'll get free money from the government.
You do realize that you have just described where our capitalist system has led and is leading us, right? Are Republicans "progressives" now?
Wow, you're a total idiot. Once again, I see how Slashdot users are clueless morons who are incapable of exhibiting justice. From the ridiculous advocacy of open source software and hatred of all things Microsoft to the post you just made, you really are incredibly stupid. Unfortunately, the rest of the world has to deal with morons such as yourself, which places quite a burden on society. If there was any justice in this world, some kind of disease would render all of you idiots sterile so that your population would slowly decrease. I thoroughly hate all of you, and I wish nothing but the worst for you incompetent fools for the rest of your miserable lives.
Just out of curiosity, what does it mean to "exhibit justice"?
One hurricane season in 13. Excellent work pointing the the exception as if it is the rule.
You AGW deniers are so predictable.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ClimateStorms/page2.php
It is a trend, not just one year. You could find that out yourself if you cared to look.
So.. ONE year out of 12 since has a couple of bad storms since Al Gore predicted higher and more intense hurricanes and you think he was right?
We are running WAY below average for 11 out of 12 years since Al, made his wrong prediction. I think he was wrong, even with 2017's season (which seemed about normal to me.) Do you have any better information than Al had 12 years ago?
How did I know this would be your answer? You asked about more powerful hurricanes, I show you that there have been more powerful hurricanes, and you move the goalposts. There is a trend of more powerful storms since the 1970's. https://earthobservatory.nasa.... Storms have been getting more frequent and more powerful. It's not just one year..
back in my day we just called it propaganda. Folks do know the US Government does this every time we go to war, right? We did it before Iraq and we're starting to do it for North Korea.
I really wish more people understood this. Every time we go to war, it is under false pretenses. Every time.
Where are those hurricanes he talked about being more frequent and stronger that he said would happen?
Maybe you should ask the residents of Houston, Puerto Rico and Barbuda.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-season-2017-maria-irma-harvey-2017-9