What if I link to the image instead of copying it to my site? As it stands this gets close to making hyperlinks a copyright violation. If I load your site in an iFrame is that a copyright violation?
Think of it this way, if I'm walking past a concert and overhear a song can the venue demand payment from me? This isn't a 1-1 comparison, but it's also not that far off.
e.g. if you don't want something public, don't make it public. Put it behind a paywall.
Then there's the issue of fair use. e.g. if I wanted to do something nasty and make sure you couldn't film it I could play some incidental music that's copyrighted, show a few copyrighted images and then sue you for including them in your documentary on the nasty thing I did.
that the comments weren't real. Also, if you're a Russian troll you're doing a terrible job of it. And if you're not you're even worse at whatever the hell it is you're doing. I can't decide.
and look at _how_ those industries maintain their stranglehold on American politics it isn't with arguments and advertisements so much as voter suppression. It just bugs me that we talk about democracy all over the world and then stopping people from voting is a central plank of our political system...
And I suspect the country would move noticably to the left. Stuff like Medicare for all, tuition free college, ending the 8 wars we're in and legal pot all poll in the 60s and 70s but never seem to make it into law. The Dems have twice now won major elections by popular vote and lost due to how the votes are counted (losing the House is especially galling)
The term 'hack' comes from MIT train hobbyist and the "hacking" they did to their model train setups to do crazy stuff. It describes any elaborate and convoluted means of achieving a desired end. Arranging for tens of thousands of obviously fake comments to get posted and for those fake comments to be accepted as real definitely fits the bill.
you have to take care of their basic needs first. In America 80% of us live paycheck to paycheck. When you're living hand to mouth you don't really care about 20 years from now.
or at least that's how they sold it to investors. If nothing else this proves that folks like going to the movies and would go more often if the price was lower.
if you don't fire _all_ of them. When they let one go the one that got 'canned' goes to a cushy job at the telecoms (or whatever lobbyist group is buying whatever law we're talking about) and then another gets replaced.
This won't stop until Americans make refusing corporate & PAC money the primary litmus test for their candidates; _especially_ in primary elections. You can't serve two masters. Either you serve the people or you serve the donor class.
but like science you better be prepared to put up or shut up. There are some opinions that are just so obviously wrong they don't deserve consideration. Somewhere along the line we started acting like everybody's unsupported opinion had value (right around the time economists started buying into the Laffer curve I think). Academia of all stripes isn't like that. If you've got some fresh new insights by all means, bring them.
OTOH the sort of crap that used to fly in the 1950s that was used to excuse "Manifest Destiny" and the like is rightfully being called out as bullshit. Not that folks in Texas (who've managed to change references the American slave trade to make it sound like the slaves were paid laborers, I kid you not) got the memo. But folks like Aronra of Youtube fame are still going to call them out on it.
You want liberal arts and the humanities because you _can_ teach critical thinking. If you're dealing with someone that doesn't get that naturally you need a subject simple enough they can grasp it. Liberal arts fits the bill. Maybe they won't grasp everything, but unlike Math there's value in being 50% right.
As for why you want to train people to think critically, well, if you don't like dictatorships & fascism then you want an electorate that thinks critically. I mean, ever notice how one of the 1st things a dictator does is go after the intelligentsia?
is that they're having trouble making ends meet. Given what student loans are like these days and the high cost of living in a lot of areas I can believe it. Nurses are one of those essential services you need even when the average cost of a house is $500k+. Like school teachers, police and fire department. People living in those communities want those services but they don't want to pay the people providing them enough to live where they work.
People have started using the word "gentrification" but I think we need something better to describe what happens when the working class are squeezed out of an area but the well to do and rich still want their services.
the housing crash was caused by deregulation. Clinton (Bill) repealed a bunch of laws meant to prevent Mainstreet and Wallstreet banks from intermingling. That's how you got Credit Derivative Swaps that let them hide their losses.
Also, most of the houses foreclosed during the crash were investment properties. Besides a few high profile cases touted in the media there wasn't a lot of folks borrowing outside their means for their main domicile. Again, a lack of regulation made this possible as there was no regulatory oversight when people were borrowing for these investment properties. Banks weren't required to check ability to pay much or at all, which further inflated the bubble.
Donald Trump & the Republican lead Congress (with a bit of help from the right wing Dems) have further deregulated the banks and given them license to go back to the kind of lending and over-extending that caused the 2008 crash. On the plus side for Trump & Co he'll likely be out of office by the time the effects take place, just like how the Bush/Clinton deregulation got handed off to Obama to fix.
outside the top 10-15% of jobs. I mean, we have nurses striking because their pay is too low, something I don't think I've seen in 30+ years.
This would be an interesting conversation if we had single payer healthcare. More so if we had basic income. In other words if all or a majority of people had their basic needs met. But in a country where 45,000 people die every year and overtime pay isn't guaranteed anymore this comes off as a bunch of managers trying to figure out how they get can 80 hours of value for 40 hours pay.
now, you can't have _excessive_ wealth for all. Excessive wealth is when it ceases to be material wealth and becomes _power_. It's when you can control access to food, shelter, medicine, education and transportation such that you begin to decide who lives and who dies. We have that in America today. 45,000 people die of completely preventable diseases every year.
The fear that comes from knowing that could be you is a big part of how our ruling class keeps the working class divided among themselves. You fight against single payer healthcare because you're afraid if the other guy has healthcare you won't get it. Only fear can make that work because it's been demonstrated multiple times that single payer healthcare works (Canada, Germany, France, all of Scandinavia, I could go on...).
Money is not necessarily power. It only becomes power when you can force someone to do something they otherwise would never consider doing. That's not fixing your plumbing. That's going to Afghanistan to fight for an oil pipeline we didn't need.
that was a large part of what made America successful. Rebuilding (West) Germany & Japan allowed us to pry money out of the hands of our ruling class and put it in the hands of the working class. It kept our post war economy going. In the absence of fear and war the ruling class will claim all the money and resources for themselves only seldom doling them out in exchange for power. When that happens you get a Dark Age. Progress stops in favor of right wing conservatism because the ruling class, who already have the best of everything civilization has to offer, work to prevent anything that threatens their cushy lives.
Eisenhower knew this was coming and oversaw the creation of the Military Industrial Complex to stop it. Go watch some youtube videos from Norm Chromsky or read Eisenhower's memoirs where he laments the creation of the MIC (having decided the damage caused by basing the most powerful country's economy on a war machine outweighed the benefits of prying money from the hands of the rich). This is all well verified history.
was basically destroyed by two World Wars, where as America made it out almost completely unscathed. They didn't have fuel to bring their tanks home for Christ's sake.
And there's always lots of make work jobs in a post industrial world (and more everyday). The different between the USSR and America is we use out military to create make work jobs so it's not so damn obvious. The downside to that is that much military power sitting around constantly destabilizes the world.
it wouldn't be a lot of resources. Give a few guys some training and some cheap drones and some explosives. Pretty good RIA actually if it ends up toppling the country's leader and we get to replace him with one friendly to our interests (e.g. that lets us take the oil money).
These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, VENEZUELA and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?
His point was that 3 "Banana Republics" had more equally distributed wealth than what is ostensibly the Greatest Nation on Earth. He was right to point that out, but like all popular politicians fighting against the American oligarchy he's got to be careful how he says things least people take quotes out of context to smear him.
in Venezuela and so I'm sure there's plenty of people with the means to carry out a hit. Also, a cheap drone and substandard security procedures could make anyone a target.
And if we're going to engage in conspiracy theories I wouldn't put it past the American CIA to arrange a hit. We've been attacking them economically for some time now (yeah, yeah, authoritarian regime and all that, talk to me about it when we stop doing business with the Chinese and the Saudis) so an overt attack wouldn't be out of character. Lord knows we do that sort of crap all the time.
it's oligarchy. Occupy Wall Street was shut down by a coordinated effort between the FBI and local law enforcement made possible by the Patriot Act (something they pinkie swore would never happen).
I think folks have figured this out, but after 50 years of gerrymandering, voter suppression and the anti-Democratic effects of our Senate and Electoral College I'm not sure what can be done. The Unions being allowed to die with the manufacturing base hurt too. The working class is completely disorganized. The ruling class doesn't have that problem.
I won't be washing plastic to recycle it. In 20 years I'll be lucky if I have water to wash myself. I suppose we could be building desalanization plants water infrastructure but, well, there's no political will to raise the taxes to pay for it.
if the end result is they turn the internet into a high priced television service where they get a cut of every single purchase that happens then they'll consider it a win. It's not like when the record labels sued folks for sharing MP3s. Cox can defend itself. The companies will settle out court, and killing NN will still be a win for them. After all, if you're pirating music you're not paying for it and there's no opportunity for Cox to charge a 30% premium for delivering it.
I've had patches take over 2 hours to install, and woe be onto you if you turn your computer off in the meantime. I don't even know what the hell it's doing. These are not slow computers. i5 6600U & 8 gigs of ram.
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What if I link to the image instead of copying it to my site? As it stands this gets close to making hyperlinks a copyright violation. If I load your site in an iFrame is that a copyright violation?
Think of it this way, if I'm walking past a concert and overhear a song can the venue demand payment from me? This isn't a 1-1 comparison, but it's also not that far off.
e.g. if you don't want something public, don't make it public. Put it behind a paywall.
Then there's the issue of fair use. e.g. if I wanted to do something nasty and make sure you couldn't film it I could play some incidental music that's copyrighted, show a few copyrighted images and then sue you for including them in your documentary on the nasty thing I did.
that the comments weren't real. Also, if you're a Russian troll you're doing a terrible job of it. And if you're not you're even worse at whatever the hell it is you're doing. I can't decide.
and look at _how_ those industries maintain their stranglehold on American politics it isn't with arguments and advertisements so much as voter suppression. It just bugs me that we talk about democracy all over the world and then stopping people from voting is a central plank of our political system...
And I suspect the country would move noticably to the left. Stuff like Medicare for all, tuition free college, ending the 8 wars we're in and legal pot all poll in the 60s and 70s but never seem to make it into law. The Dems have twice now won major elections by popular vote and lost due to how the votes are counted (losing the House is especially galling)
The term 'hack' comes from MIT train hobbyist and the "hacking" they did to their model train setups to do crazy stuff. It describes any elaborate and convoluted means of achieving a desired end. Arranging for tens of thousands of obviously fake comments to get posted and for those fake comments to be accepted as real definitely fits the bill.
you have to take care of their basic needs first. In America 80% of us live paycheck to paycheck. When you're living hand to mouth you don't really care about 20 years from now.
or at least that's how they sold it to investors. If nothing else this proves that folks like going to the movies and would go more often if the price was lower.
if you don't fire _all_ of them. When they let one go the one that got 'canned' goes to a cushy job at the telecoms (or whatever lobbyist group is buying whatever law we're talking about) and then another gets replaced.
This won't stop until Americans make refusing corporate & PAC money the primary litmus test for their candidates; _especially_ in primary elections. You can't serve two masters. Either you serve the people or you serve the donor class.
but like science you better be prepared to put up or shut up. There are some opinions that are just so obviously wrong they don't deserve consideration. Somewhere along the line we started acting like everybody's unsupported opinion had value (right around the time economists started buying into the Laffer curve I think). Academia of all stripes isn't like that. If you've got some fresh new insights by all means, bring them.
OTOH the sort of crap that used to fly in the 1950s that was used to excuse "Manifest Destiny" and the like is rightfully being called out as bullshit. Not that folks in Texas (who've managed to change references the American slave trade to make it sound like the slaves were paid laborers, I kid you not) got the memo. But folks like Aronra of Youtube fame are still going to call them out on it.
This looks bad for everyone except Facebook.
You want liberal arts and the humanities because you _can_ teach critical thinking. If you're dealing with someone that doesn't get that naturally you need a subject simple enough they can grasp it. Liberal arts fits the bill. Maybe they won't grasp everything, but unlike Math there's value in being 50% right.
As for why you want to train people to think critically, well, if you don't like dictatorships & fascism then you want an electorate that thinks critically. I mean, ever notice how one of the 1st things a dictator does is go after the intelligentsia?
is that they're having trouble making ends meet. Given what student loans are like these days and the high cost of living in a lot of areas I can believe it. Nurses are one of those essential services you need even when the average cost of a house is $500k+. Like school teachers, police and fire department. People living in those communities want those services but they don't want to pay the people providing them enough to live where they work.
People have started using the word "gentrification" but I think we need something better to describe what happens when the working class are squeezed out of an area but the well to do and rich still want their services.
the housing crash was caused by deregulation. Clinton (Bill) repealed a bunch of laws meant to prevent Mainstreet and Wallstreet banks from intermingling. That's how you got Credit Derivative Swaps that let them hide their losses.
Also, most of the houses foreclosed during the crash were investment properties. Besides a few high profile cases touted in the media there wasn't a lot of folks borrowing outside their means for their main domicile. Again, a lack of regulation made this possible as there was no regulatory oversight when people were borrowing for these investment properties. Banks weren't required to check ability to pay much or at all, which further inflated the bubble.
Donald Trump & the Republican lead Congress (with a bit of help from the right wing Dems) have further deregulated the banks and given them license to go back to the kind of lending and over-extending that caused the 2008 crash. On the plus side for Trump & Co he'll likely be out of office by the time the effects take place, just like how the Bush/Clinton deregulation got handed off to Obama to fix.
and when pressed they'll admit it's basically gambling that they can get out of the market and leave someone else holding the bag.
outside the top 10-15% of jobs. I mean, we have nurses striking because their pay is too low, something I don't think I've seen in 30+ years.
This would be an interesting conversation if we had single payer healthcare. More so if we had basic income. In other words if all or a majority of people had their basic needs met. But in a country where 45,000 people die every year and overtime pay isn't guaranteed anymore this comes off as a bunch of managers trying to figure out how they get can 80 hours of value for 40 hours pay.
now, you can't have _excessive_ wealth for all. Excessive wealth is when it ceases to be material wealth and becomes _power_. It's when you can control access to food, shelter, medicine, education and transportation such that you begin to decide who lives and who dies. We have that in America today. 45,000 people die of completely preventable diseases every year.
The fear that comes from knowing that could be you is a big part of how our ruling class keeps the working class divided among themselves. You fight against single payer healthcare because you're afraid if the other guy has healthcare you won't get it. Only fear can make that work because it's been demonstrated multiple times that single payer healthcare works (Canada, Germany, France, all of Scandinavia, I could go on...).
Money is not necessarily power. It only becomes power when you can force someone to do something they otherwise would never consider doing. That's not fixing your plumbing. That's going to Afghanistan to fight for an oil pipeline we didn't need.
that was a large part of what made America successful. Rebuilding (West) Germany & Japan allowed us to pry money out of the hands of our ruling class and put it in the hands of the working class. It kept our post war economy going. In the absence of fear and war the ruling class will claim all the money and resources for themselves only seldom doling them out in exchange for power. When that happens you get a Dark Age. Progress stops in favor of right wing conservatism because the ruling class, who already have the best of everything civilization has to offer, work to prevent anything that threatens their cushy lives.
Eisenhower knew this was coming and oversaw the creation of the Military Industrial Complex to stop it. Go watch some youtube videos from Norm Chromsky or read Eisenhower's memoirs where he laments the creation of the MIC (having decided the damage caused by basing the most powerful country's economy on a war machine outweighed the benefits of prying money from the hands of the rich). This is all well verified history.
was basically destroyed by two World Wars, where as America made it out almost completely unscathed. They didn't have fuel to bring their tanks home for Christ's sake.
And there's always lots of make work jobs in a post industrial world (and more everyday). The different between the USSR and America is we use out military to create make work jobs so it's not so damn obvious. The downside to that is that much military power sitting around constantly destabilizes the world.
it wouldn't be a lot of resources. Give a few guys some training and some cheap drones and some explosives. Pretty good RIA actually if it ends up toppling the country's leader and we get to replace him with one friendly to our interests (e.g. that lets us take the oil money).
His point was that 3 "Banana Republics" had more equally distributed wealth than what is ostensibly the Greatest Nation on Earth. He was right to point that out, but like all popular politicians fighting against the American oligarchy he's got to be careful how he says things least people take quotes out of context to smear him.
in Venezuela and so I'm sure there's plenty of people with the means to carry out a hit. Also, a cheap drone and substandard security procedures could make anyone a target.
And if we're going to engage in conspiracy theories I wouldn't put it past the American CIA to arrange a hit. We've been attacking them economically for some time now (yeah, yeah, authoritarian regime and all that, talk to me about it when we stop doing business with the Chinese and the Saudis) so an overt attack wouldn't be out of character. Lord knows we do that sort of crap all the time.
it's oligarchy. Occupy Wall Street was shut down by a coordinated effort between the FBI and local law enforcement made possible by the Patriot Act (something they pinkie swore would never happen).
I think folks have figured this out, but after 50 years of gerrymandering, voter suppression and the anti-Democratic effects of our Senate and Electoral College I'm not sure what can be done. The Unions being allowed to die with the manufacturing base hurt too. The working class is completely disorganized. The ruling class doesn't have that problem.
I won't be washing plastic to recycle it. In 20 years I'll be lucky if I have water to wash myself. I suppose we could be building desalanization plants water infrastructure but, well, there's no political will to raise the taxes to pay for it.
if the end result is they turn the internet into a high priced television service where they get a cut of every single purchase that happens then they'll consider it a win. It's not like when the record labels sued folks for sharing MP3s. Cox can defend itself. The companies will settle out court, and killing NN will still be a win for them. After all, if you're pirating music you're not paying for it and there's no opportunity for Cox to charge a 30% premium for delivering it.
I've had patches take over 2 hours to install, and woe be onto you if you turn your computer off in the meantime. I don't even know what the hell it's doing. These are not slow computers. i5 6600U & 8 gigs of ram.