As many sibling posters have pointed out, it is: The American-African colonists who were supported by US abolitionists did a great amount of damage.
There is no modern African nation that wasn't colonized by somebody. The ones that held out the longest were Morocco and Ethiopia, but even those ended up colonized by France and Italy respectively. Liberia was nominally independent, but in practice under control of the US.
... while sectors like restaurants, tourism and construction have a hard time finding workforce
Not even close to right Leisure and hospitality: 10% unemployment Construction: 9.1% unemployment
If they were having a hard time finding people, they'd be looking at the closer to 5% found in finance, resource extraction (oil, natural gas, quarrying, mining), IT, government, or education. Instead, what you have are millions of unemployed fully qualified construction workers and servers and concierges.
There's no shortage of male nurses, and a lot of them are gay.
About 10% of nurses are male. About 20% of computer programmers are female. So in fact there is a greater shortage of male nurses than female programmers.
Yes they are: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, HSBC, and a few others were prosecuted for multiple massive felonies, and settled out of court for a fraction of the profits from their crimes with no admission of guilt, after which the "Justice" Department dropped the cases against them. The people who were responsible for those crimes were never even prosecuted, much less sent to jail.
And we're not talking small-time crimes here. For example, HSBC was nailed for laundering $2 billion worth of drug money. All of the ones I just mentioned were nailed for approximately 2 million counts of fraudulent mortgage foreclosure documents. Many were guilty of multiple frauds valued in the hundreds of millions. We're talking about organizations that have between them stolen the equivalent of at least 2 million new cars in numerous premeditated and carefully executed schemes. These guys make Al Capone and Pablo Escobar look like a penny-ante operators.
That's something Occupy Wall Street types and the Tea Party types generally agree on: The bankers responsible for these kinds of criminal schemes need to be in jail for the rest of their natural lives.
Basically, it's 3 companies that can arbitrarily decide your worth as a human being. They can use just about any method they feel like using, don't have to explain how they got to the conclusion they got to, and the information can be used by almost any company to decide everything from where you can live to what jobs you can have and what prices you have to pay.
So yeah, that number is steadily turning into much more than what interest rate you'll pay when taking out a loan.
That must be why Yahoo got more visitors than Google last month, and (according to the same article) shares are up 3.5%. It still clearly has a long way to go, but that's hardly riding a company into the ground.
Why do we have to treat women like a man with an inverted penis, instead of what they are, a completely different creature that SOMETIMES have interests that overlap ours, sometimes not?
The most significant reason is that in almost everything we've measured, the variations among women and among men are more significant than the difference between the average man and the average woman. For example, on average, men are taller than women, but there are women who are taller than most men and men who are shorter than most women. Or, on a very related issue, boys are on average 34 points better than girls on the math SATs, but that still means there are several thousand girls who get a perfect score and several thousand boys who flub it completely.
I don't believe for a moment that it's any kind of negative force, such as sexism or bigotry, that's keeping women out of the field.
I do, because the women I know who are in the field experienced it. Some examples: - Drooling classmates and coworkers who don't know how to take "no" for an answer. - Professors who didn't take their work seriously because they were female. - Very inappropriate jokes in the dev area. - Management trying to move women from development or system administration to related but different fields like business analysis and project management.
We could go on and on about why there aren't more male nurses, and the conversation would be silly if we tried to ignore the fact that guys just tend not to be interested in nursing because they're guys.
Actually, that has been examined, and there are a couple of interesting points about it: - Male nurses tend to get promoted quickly off of the nursing floor into administrative positions. - There are some older female nurses that are actively hostile to male nurses.
After locating the nuclear wessels (a Russian inwention), Psi-cop Alfred Bester finds a way to travel back to the 1980's and muck with Khan Noonien Singh's head (explaining why Khan recognized Chekov on Ceti Alpha V).
A lot of college professors, for starters. Most of those who were blacklisted had some interest in communism as a political philosophy at some point (particularly the 1930's, when the commies were more-or-less on our side against the fascists), and many had rejected it after Stalin took over in Russia.
This one is personal for me: my grandfather, who had worked his way up from nothing through sheer talent and hard work, went from being near the top of his field (music theory and classical composition) to being a part-time piano teacher out of his living room solely because of his political leanings. Once you were considered a communist in the eyes of HUAC or McCarthy, the only way to extract yourself was to confess your former guilt, repent, and turn in some friends (all of which my grandfather refused to do).
There's a reason why the anti-communism of McCarthy et al gave Arthur Miller the idea to write a play ostensibly about the Salem Witch Trials.
What do you mean by "necessary" and "normal life"?
Because what I think you mean is one of these: - "My job requires me to fly all over the place, and I don't want to change jobs." - "My family scattered all over the place, but I feel I need to visit them frequently." - "I really like traveling abroad."
Because there are jobs that don't require traveling, families that aren't scattered, and lots of interesting places to travel to domestically. And if you declare "normal life" to be something an average person does, it's highly relevant that 2/3 of Americans don't fly at all. And if you travel to see your family, say, 3 times a year, it's often quite viable to do that by train, bus, or driving.
I agree that boycotts are probably insufficient, but they definitely can create consequences for airlines, which are the one thing that will probably budge the TSA.
Either that or he thinks that the invasiveness of government is directly proportional to the tax rate. This is obviously false: If you have country A who taxes at 50%, and spends all that money on great roads and rail and health care and national parks and aid for the poor, that's less invasive than country B who taxes at 20% and spends all that money on police, surveillance of citizens, jails, propaganda, and the military.
What exactly were you proud of? Because about the only thing I can think of that had a significant positive impact on the world was building the Internet.
And before you say "But we defeated the Commies", I'd lay that one squarely at the feet of Mikhail Gorbachev, who took serious risks to undo what the USSR had been.
Also, you may be able to see the aurora much closer to the equator than normal, which is kinda nifty.
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Based on his overall personality, I strongly suspect that if Steve Ballmer hadn't just happened to be college buddies with BillG and Paul Allen, chances are pretty good he'd be selling used cars somewhere and enjoying the nearest football team. Instead, we're going to take him seriously for the rest of his natural life and possible beyond.
Another agent came over and handed me a paper slip
Notice that he's already receiving different treatment, despite absolutely zero evidence that he's any kind of threat to anyone.
“You can leave, but I’m keeping your bag.”
Something that would have been interesting to try at this point: "Ok, then. I presume there's a procedure for handling bags you've collected in this fashion, let's fill out the necessary paperwork and do everything by the book, and I'll need to be kept informed about which office to contact for retrieving such evidence once you've discovered that there's nothing criminal about it."
“What is your religion?”
This whole line of questioning is so obviously in violation of the Free Exercise clause it's not even funny.
He missed a flight, got in trouble at work, and made up an elaborate story about Americans hating Brown People so he missed his flight. What happened to any kind of evidence?
Since when is the testimony of a witness not evidence?
Things like 'getting information 2 seconds earlier' do not affect investors, they affect speculators.
Oh yes they do. Say you hold 100 shares of a company that is generally well-regarded in both their industry and Wall Street, the blue-chip of blue-chips. However, in their last earnings report, it turns out that something truly horrible has happened to their costs or sales that you had no way of being aware of. All of a sudden, the value of those assets has dropped 40% in a matter of seconds.
"Jackson! If you even think of forming a union, we're going to lock everyone out and your kids starve next week!"
Sure, firing someone for considering unionizing is illegal, but Congress has been doing everything it can to prevent the government body responsible for enforcing that law (the NLRB) from being able to function, thus rendering the law toothless.
"Class warfare" gets my vote for the most hackneyed and ultimately meaningless term of the century. What exactly is "class warfare"? From it's reflexive overuse, I can only infer that it means that any discussion of economic conflicts of interest between people of different wealth and income levels should be forbidden as crass, petty, uninformed, counter-productive, and most importantly, something that people who use the term "class warfare" don't want to discuss.
"Class warfare" does mean something: It means that poor and middle-class people are complaining and reacting to being shafted by rich people, but the person who's writing wants to make it seem like those complaints or reactions are somehow illegitimate or will lead to Stalinism in America.
It's not exactly a huge shockwave out of the 313 Million people in America.. wondering why this story even made it here.
Because a person shouldn't have to take completely unnecessary risks in order to make a living, all so that a major publicly traded company can save a few bucks.
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As many sibling posters have pointed out, it is: The American-African colonists who were supported by US abolitionists did a great amount of damage.
There is no modern African nation that wasn't colonized by somebody. The ones that held out the longest were Morocco and Ethiopia, but even those ended up colonized by France and Italy respectively. Liberia was nominally independent, but in practice under control of the US.
... while sectors like restaurants, tourism and construction have a hard time finding workforce
Not even close to right
Leisure and hospitality: 10% unemployment
Construction: 9.1% unemployment
If they were having a hard time finding people, they'd be looking at the closer to 5% found in finance, resource extraction (oil, natural gas, quarrying, mining), IT, government, or education. Instead, what you have are millions of unemployed fully qualified construction workers and servers and concierges.
There's no shortage of male nurses, and a lot of them are gay.
About 10% of nurses are male. About 20% of computer programmers are female. So in fact there is a greater shortage of male nurses than female programmers.
Yes they are: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, HSBC, and a few others were prosecuted for multiple massive felonies, and settled out of court for a fraction of the profits from their crimes with no admission of guilt, after which the "Justice" Department dropped the cases against them. The people who were responsible for those crimes were never even prosecuted, much less sent to jail.
And we're not talking small-time crimes here. For example, HSBC was nailed for laundering $2 billion worth of drug money. All of the ones I just mentioned were nailed for approximately 2 million counts of fraudulent mortgage foreclosure documents. Many were guilty of multiple frauds valued in the hundreds of millions. We're talking about organizations that have between them stolen the equivalent of at least 2 million new cars in numerous premeditated and carefully executed schemes. These guys make Al Capone and Pablo Escobar look like a penny-ante operators.
That's something Occupy Wall Street types and the Tea Party types generally agree on: The bankers responsible for these kinds of criminal schemes need to be in jail for the rest of their natural lives.
Basically, it's 3 companies that can arbitrarily decide your worth as a human being. They can use just about any method they feel like using, don't have to explain how they got to the conclusion they got to, and the information can be used by almost any company to decide everything from where you can live to what jobs you can have and what prices you have to pay.
So yeah, that number is steadily turning into much more than what interest rate you'll pay when taking out a loan.
That must be why Yahoo got more visitors than Google last month, and (according to the same article) shares are up 3.5%. It still clearly has a long way to go, but that's hardly riding a company into the ground.
Why do we have to treat women like a man with an inverted penis, instead of what they are, a completely different creature that SOMETIMES have interests that overlap ours, sometimes not?
The most significant reason is that in almost everything we've measured, the variations among women and among men are more significant than the difference between the average man and the average woman. For example, on average, men are taller than women, but there are women who are taller than most men and men who are shorter than most women. Or, on a very related issue, boys are on average 34 points better than girls on the math SATs, but that still means there are several thousand girls who get a perfect score and several thousand boys who flub it completely.
I don't believe for a moment that it's any kind of negative force, such as sexism or bigotry, that's keeping women out of the field.
I do, because the women I know who are in the field experienced it. Some examples:
- Drooling classmates and coworkers who don't know how to take "no" for an answer.
- Professors who didn't take their work seriously because they were female.
- Very inappropriate jokes in the dev area.
- Management trying to move women from development or system administration to related but different fields like business analysis and project management.
We could go on and on about why there aren't more male nurses, and the conversation would be silly if we tried to ignore the fact that guys just tend not to be interested in nursing because they're guys.
Actually, that has been examined, and there are a couple of interesting points about it:
- Male nurses tend to get promoted quickly off of the nursing floor into administrative positions.
- There are some older female nurses that are actively hostile to male nurses.
Why would you move north of Canaveral?
Wild guess: Congressman Scott Rigell (R VA-02) needed to shore up votes in his district, and won the political battle with Bill Posey (R FL-08).
After locating the nuclear wessels (a Russian inwention), Psi-cop Alfred Bester finds a way to travel back to the 1980's and muck with Khan Noonien Singh's head (explaining why Khan recognized Chekov on Ceti Alpha V).
Whose lives were destroyed by McCarthyism?
A lot of college professors, for starters. Most of those who were blacklisted had some interest in communism as a political philosophy at some point (particularly the 1930's, when the commies were more-or-less on our side against the fascists), and many had rejected it after Stalin took over in Russia.
This one is personal for me: my grandfather, who had worked his way up from nothing through sheer talent and hard work, went from being near the top of his field (music theory and classical composition) to being a part-time piano teacher out of his living room solely because of his political leanings. Once you were considered a communist in the eyes of HUAC or McCarthy, the only way to extract yourself was to confess your former guilt, repent, and turn in some friends (all of which my grandfather refused to do).
There's a reason why the anti-communism of McCarthy et al gave Arthur Miller the idea to write a play ostensibly about the Salem Witch Trials.
Flying is a necessary part of a normal life.
What do you mean by "necessary" and "normal life"?
Because what I think you mean is one of these:
- "My job requires me to fly all over the place, and I don't want to change jobs."
- "My family scattered all over the place, but I feel I need to visit them frequently."
- "I really like traveling abroad."
Because there are jobs that don't require traveling, families that aren't scattered, and lots of interesting places to travel to domestically. And if you declare "normal life" to be something an average person does, it's highly relevant that 2/3 of Americans don't fly at all. And if you travel to see your family, say, 3 times a year, it's often quite viable to do that by train, bus, or driving.
I agree that boycotts are probably insufficient, but they definitely can create consequences for airlines, which are the one thing that will probably budge the TSA.
Either that or he thinks that the invasiveness of government is directly proportional to the tax rate. This is obviously false: If you have country A who taxes at 50%, and spends all that money on great roads and rail and health care and national parks and aid for the poor, that's less invasive than country B who taxes at 20% and spends all that money on police, surveillance of citizens, jails, propaganda, and the military.
I would say less than 30 years ago this was true.
What exactly were you proud of? Because about the only thing I can think of that had a significant positive impact on the world was building the Internet.
And before you say "But we defeated the Commies", I'd lay that one squarely at the feet of Mikhail Gorbachev, who took serious risks to undo what the USSR had been.
Also, you may be able to see the aurora much closer to the equator than normal, which is kinda nifty.
Based on his overall personality, I strongly suspect that if Steve Ballmer hadn't just happened to be college buddies with BillG and Paul Allen, chances are pretty good he'd be selling used cars somewhere and enjoying the nearest football team. Instead, we're going to take him seriously for the rest of his natural life and possible beyond.
Another agent came over and handed me a paper slip
Notice that he's already receiving different treatment, despite absolutely zero evidence that he's any kind of threat to anyone.
“You can leave, but I’m keeping your bag.”
Something that would have been interesting to try at this point: "Ok, then. I presume there's a procedure for handling bags you've collected in this fashion, let's fill out the necessary paperwork and do everything by the book, and I'll need to be kept informed about which office to contact for retrieving such evidence once you've discovered that there's nothing criminal about it."
“What is your religion?”
This whole line of questioning is so obviously in violation of the Free Exercise clause it's not even funny.
He missed a flight, got in trouble at work, and made up an elaborate story about Americans hating Brown People so he missed his flight. What happened to any kind of evidence?
Since when is the testimony of a witness not evidence?
Things like 'getting information 2 seconds earlier' do not affect investors, they affect speculators.
Oh yes they do. Say you hold 100 shares of a company that is generally well-regarded in both their industry and Wall Street, the blue-chip of blue-chips. However, in their last earnings report, it turns out that something truly horrible has happened to their costs or sales that you had no way of being aware of. All of a sudden, the value of those assets has dropped 40% in a matter of seconds.
"Jackson! If you even think of forming a union, we're going to lock everyone out and your kids starve next week!"
Sure, firing someone for considering unionizing is illegal, but Congress has been doing everything it can to prevent the government body responsible for enforcing that law (the NLRB) from being able to function, thus rendering the law toothless.
"Class warfare" gets my vote for the most hackneyed and ultimately meaningless term of the century. What exactly is "class warfare"? From it's reflexive overuse, I can only infer that it means that any discussion of economic conflicts of interest between people of different wealth and income levels should be forbidden as crass, petty, uninformed, counter-productive, and most importantly, something that people who use the term "class warfare" don't want to discuss.
"Class warfare" does mean something: It means that poor and middle-class people are complaining and reacting to being shafted by rich people, but the person who's writing wants to make it seem like those complaints or reactions are somehow illegitimate or will lead to Stalinism in America.
One notable difference between a casino and the stock market is that in the stock market, the odds are in the your favor.
Not any more, for 3 reasons:
1. There is now the equivalent of the House on the stock markets, in the form a few banks who control the majority of assets.
2. The largest investment banks can and do rig almost everything, from International interest rates to aluminum commodity pricing to municipal bonds.
3. HFT combined with premiums paid for slightly early releases of information mean that by the time an ordinary investor has heard about a serious problem in one of their holdings, the damage is already done because someone else found out and reacted to it 2 seconds earlier. In other words, the true price of your assets is based on information you can't see.
It's not exactly a huge shockwave out of the 313 Million people in America.. wondering why this story even made it here.
Because a person shouldn't have to take completely unnecessary risks in order to make a living, all so that a major publicly traded company can save a few bucks.
Wait, that's not Lady Gaga in the egg, that's Weird Al's head on Vlada Gorbaneva's body
Or, depending on your politics, try MSNBC: "Rachel Maddow is after me! Peddle for your life!"