but benchmarks or not Chrome "feels" faster than Firefox these days. As for IE, it's JavaScript compiler is dog slow so pages take forever to load, making the entire experience pretty rough since pages still transition a lot (AngularJS and one page sites haven't really taken over like everybody thought they would...)
my other fav contradiction is that they like to claim that raising minimum wage will cause prices to spiral out of control while also arguing that the only people who earn min wage are high/college school kids doing it for videogame/beer money and bored retirees.
So which is it? Are Minimum Wage employees the bedrock of our economy without whose sacrifice at the alter of capital inflation goes crazy or are they a bunch of kids and bored retirees who hardly matter? It can't be both.
You'd be amazed at the convoluted logic I hear trying to justify _why_ it's both when I point this out to the "fiscal conservative" crowd...
it elected the more pro-business, pro-oligarch candidate.
Hilary one 48% to 46%. Almost 3 million more people vote for her. The fact that we still end up with Trump shows how unfair things are in America. A voter in, say, Montana has around 46 times more voting power than one in California.
Again, this is by design. When the constitution was drawn up the wealthy's interests were aligned with rural voters. So our government was specifically built to give them more power. As time went on it became easier to mange those rural voters and control their voting. Easier to keep the wrong ones from voting (e.g. voter suppression). Easier to gerrymander their districts (fewer people to fight back and with less money to do it) and easier to blitz their media (mostly talk radio and TV).
If we had a functioning democracy Hilary would have won. Hell, if we had a functioning democracy _Bernie_ would have won (thanks, Democrat Super Delegates).
The left wing of the Democratic party is trying to kill super delegates. If it works then Trump won't have a second term. If it fails they'll bury Bernie in the next primary and say hello to Trump term 2. You do not want this. Look into his fiscal policy and compare it to the run up to the 2008 crash. We are all screwed if he gets a second term.
about "fiscal conservatives" is while claiming people will take that extra 25% and solve the world's problems they simultaneously believe that raising wages (especially the minimum) is pointless because prices will just go up.
I can't help but wonder why. Usually businesses make the government build infrastructure for them on the taxpayer's dime. Why would Apple spend their own money? Sorry, but you're not going to convince me it's out of the goodness of their heart. And that's not because I hate Apple (I do, but that's because I keep having to buy their overpriced products for my kid's birthdays and X-Mas'), it's because no corporation spends money they don't have to.
you do know we just spent the last 40 years systematically dismantling the social safety net so we could make way for tax cuts for billionaires, right?
In the entire history of humankind charity has never once solved any problem long term. It's always been civilization in the form of government that did. A few nice people at the middle can't make up for the bad done by folks up at the top. Complex, widespread problems (like public health) need comprehensive solutions done an a society wide scale. You and me dropping change into a plastic bucket twice a year is not a viable solution to the world's problems.
or hell, even Hilary Clinton. Yeah, she's a right wing corporatists bitch, but at least she isn't openly anti-science. As terrible as she was/is it's always better to pick the lesser of two evils.
for one thing less than 50% of us choose that fate. It's only because of a messed up political system designed specifically to favor wealthy land owners (seriously, look it up, the electoral college, senate and even the SCOTUS were all checks not on the president but on the voters).
There's a lot out of folks hands. Hell, I'm stuck in a red state with a ton of problems I wouldn't have healthcare wise if I lived back east or even California. Why am I stuck here? Mom moved me here when I was 6 and by the time I was old enough to know better I couldn't afford to move. This country crushes people, and when it does you can't just go where life doesn't suck. You've got to make due with what you got.
I can watch exactly the content I want on any number of streaming services for around $50 bucks a month total (assuming I want to subscribe to them all at once). I don't care for sports so the cable tv industry can bite me. Of course, they own the wires so they've been hosing me on my Internet to make up for it though. Hopefully we'll get some pro-consumer congress critters in during the mid terms and they'll have to back off on that crap though.
and anti-science administration. I'm not saying this to troll. We (or the 45% who voter for him) knew exactly what they were getting. Americans have been kicked around non stop for 40 years and unfortunately instead of blaming the billionaires that outsourced their jobs and brought in cheap labor to replace what they couldn't outsource they blamed "elites"; e.g. scientists and college professors. You know, nerds. And, well, this is the result.
right? Business want cheap labor. The left doesn't want to be unnecessarily cruel. Personally, I'd like to see us legalize drugs so Mexico & South America can stop being hell holes and maybe fix out foreign policy. While I'm at it tariffs should be based on working conditions & environmental impact.
And Sinclair is right wing propaganda. Gawker is muckracking journalism that often brings to light the abuses of our ruling class. There's no comparison. I'd take Gawker any day of any week and so should you if you value freedom.
And counting. Seems to be going quite well to me. Let's not forget how long Watergate took, and that was just some schmucks at a hotel and not a hostile Foreign power run by ex KGB...
there's nothing terrible about it. This is how the sausage is made. It's why muck rackers go after has-beens like Hogan. They get a bump in the ratings, Gawker gets a story, the public gets some juicy gossip. Everybody wins. Except Thiel and the other targets of Gawker's real journalism. Well, used to be that way anyway. Thiel won. And now he's pretty much free to do whatever the hell he wants without anybody to call him out on it. But I'm sure that'll be just fine, right?
we did exactly what we wanted them to do. We freaked the hell out, got involved in several pointless wars that are killing our nation (our infrastructure crumbles while we waste trillions in Iraq/Afghanistan). They played us like a harp.
because people _couldn't_ flee the country. Most of them were still using corn stalks to wipe their asses. Even the best educated couldn't just up and leave. What makes Venezuela odd is they're a modern nation that looks to be regressing. That probably wouldn't be the case without the sanctions. They could have just barely weathered the oil collapse. But as always we Americans have to stick our noses in where they don't belong and force our world view down everybody's throat (often at the barrel of a gun, RE: Iraq & Afghanistan).
Imagine what would have become of America if, during the Great Depression, the most powerful nation on the world decided to take a dislike to us?
the media gave Trump massive amount of coverage, much more than Hilary. What matters in an election as close as this is coverage, not the quality of the coverage. But even if we're talking quality Hilary stories were non-stop negative. How many hours were devoted to your emails? So many that it's become a meme ("But her emails...").
The media didn't really care who got elected as long as it wasn't Bernie (they were caught doing a Bernie Blackout when the guy who runs the youtube Channel "The Young Turks" refused a sweet gig in exchange for shutting up about Bernie). The media sided with Trump because they wanted a horse race (so long as there was no risk of an anti-corportist getting elected). And they're loving the results. Hilary was a safe, boring choice. Trump is a ratings bonanza.
Gawker was a muck racking site for sure, but they published a lot of real journalism and used the muck to pay for it (a tradition as old as journalism itself). This is BAU for the entertainment industry. The way it works is Gawker publishes a Celeb sex tape, the Celeb sues, gets a bunch of free publicity, Gawker gets a ton of views and sells a ton of ads and the whole thing gets settled out of court for what's basically a portion of the ad revenue less the cost of the free advertising.
The difference was Gawker didn't know Hogan (and more importantly Thiel) was out for blood. They ignored the judges orders because, well, that's just what you do in these cases. The whole thing blows over before the judge can lay the smack down. Our legal system's designed this way because people like it to be. Folks like these kind of scandals. Had Gawker realized Thiel was behind Hogan they'd have taken it seriously. But of course that's why Thiel hid his involvement until it was too late...
Make no mistake, we as a nation have lost something here. Without muckracking to fund real investigative journalism it'll die out. That'll leave guys like Thiel free to do whatever he wants in the shadows. Thiel didn't hate Gawker for outing him as Gay (no, the Saudi's weren't going to kill one of the richest men in the world while he was in their country). Gawker was reporting on Thiel's shady business dealings. We've not lost that reporting, and odds are nobody is going to want to risk picking up the torch. Remember Upton Sinclair's Jungle? That's the kind of journalism we just lost.
quite the opposite. The nations with the highest standards of living are Democratic Socialist nations (Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, Canada etc). America, with it's Dog-Eat-Dog capitalism ranks far down the lists in virtually everything (including infant mortality).
I can already here a chorus of shouts yelling "But Venezuela!" to which I reply "But the American Great Depression!". If the entire basis of your entire economy collapse in on itself no political system in the universe will save you. Venezuela had the market drop out from under them, so did we. The difference is Venezuela is doing better than we did at that time and that's accounting for the sanctions we put on their country (which I have never once heard a good reason for why those exist. Seriously, why are we sanctioning a country that is no threat to us who isn't engaged in banned research on nuclear weapon? I'm just kidding, I know the answer, we can't bear to see Socialism work so we'll sabotage it every chance we get).
note I said "US Citizens". Because they're here for the long haul. They're citizens. They expect to have careers. Throw away contractors know they're throw away contractors and behave accordingly; spending as much time preparing for the next contract as doing their jobs.
if they could have outsourced the jobs to someplace cheaper they would have already done it. You can safely ignore these threats. Lack of H1-Bs will never be a reason to lose jobs. The ability to outsource them is. Capital flows to where labor is cheapest (and yes, that's from Marx, he was right about some things ya know).
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in either browser. If ads are annoying me I stop going to the site.
but benchmarks or not Chrome "feels" faster than Firefox these days. As for IE, it's JavaScript compiler is dog slow so pages take forever to load, making the entire experience pretty rough since pages still transition a lot (AngularJS and one page sites haven't really taken over like everybody thought they would...)
my other fav contradiction is that they like to claim that raising minimum wage will cause prices to spiral out of control while also arguing that the only people who earn min wage are high/college school kids doing it for videogame/beer money and bored retirees.
So which is it? Are Minimum Wage employees the bedrock of our economy without whose sacrifice at the alter of capital inflation goes crazy or are they a bunch of kids and bored retirees who hardly matter? It can't be both.
You'd be amazed at the convoluted logic I hear trying to justify _why_ it's both when I point this out to the "fiscal conservative" crowd...
it elected the more pro-business, pro-oligarch candidate.
Hilary one 48% to 46%. Almost 3 million more people vote for her. The fact that we still end up with Trump shows how unfair things are in America. A voter in, say, Montana has around 46 times more voting power than one in California.
Again, this is by design. When the constitution was drawn up the wealthy's interests were aligned with rural voters. So our government was specifically built to give them more power. As time went on it became easier to mange those rural voters and control their voting. Easier to keep the wrong ones from voting (e.g. voter suppression). Easier to gerrymander their districts (fewer people to fight back and with less money to do it) and easier to blitz their media (mostly talk radio and TV).
If we had a functioning democracy Hilary would have won. Hell, if we had a functioning democracy _Bernie_ would have won (thanks, Democrat Super Delegates).
The left wing of the Democratic party is trying to kill super delegates. If it works then Trump won't have a second term. If it fails they'll bury Bernie in the next primary and say hello to Trump term 2. You do not want this. Look into his fiscal policy and compare it to the run up to the 2008 crash. We are all screwed if he gets a second term.
about "fiscal conservatives" is while claiming people will take that extra 25% and solve the world's problems they simultaneously believe that raising wages (especially the minimum) is pointless because prices will just go up.
I can't help but wonder why. Usually businesses make the government build infrastructure for them on the taxpayer's dime. Why would Apple spend their own money? Sorry, but you're not going to convince me it's out of the goodness of their heart. And that's not because I hate Apple (I do, but that's because I keep having to buy their overpriced products for my kid's birthdays and X-Mas'), it's because no corporation spends money they don't have to.
you do know we just spent the last 40 years systematically dismantling the social safety net so we could make way for tax cuts for billionaires, right?
In the entire history of humankind charity has never once solved any problem long term. It's always been civilization in the form of government that did. A few nice people at the middle can't make up for the bad done by folks up at the top. Complex, widespread problems (like public health) need comprehensive solutions done an a society wide scale. You and me dropping change into a plastic bucket twice a year is not a viable solution to the world's problems.
or hell, even Hilary Clinton. Yeah, she's a right wing corporatists bitch, but at least she isn't openly anti-science. As terrible as she was/is it's always better to pick the lesser of two evils.
for one thing less than 50% of us choose that fate. It's only because of a messed up political system designed specifically to favor wealthy land owners (seriously, look it up, the electoral college, senate and even the SCOTUS were all checks not on the president but on the voters).
There's a lot out of folks hands. Hell, I'm stuck in a red state with a ton of problems I wouldn't have healthcare wise if I lived back east or even California. Why am I stuck here? Mom moved me here when I was 6 and by the time I was old enough to know better I couldn't afford to move. This country crushes people, and when it does you can't just go where life doesn't suck. You've got to make due with what you got.
I can watch exactly the content I want on any number of streaming services for around $50 bucks a month total (assuming I want to subscribe to them all at once). I don't care for sports so the cable tv industry can bite me. Of course, they own the wires so they've been hosing me on my Internet to make up for it though. Hopefully we'll get some pro-consumer congress critters in during the mid terms and they'll have to back off on that crap though.
and anti-science administration. I'm not saying this to troll. We (or the 45% who voter for him) knew exactly what they were getting. Americans have been kicked around non stop for 40 years and unfortunately instead of blaming the billionaires that outsourced their jobs and brought in cheap labor to replace what they couldn't outsource they blamed "elites"; e.g. scientists and college professors. You know, nerds. And, well, this is the result.
right? Business want cheap labor. The left doesn't want to be unnecessarily cruel. Personally, I'd like to see us legalize drugs so Mexico & South America can stop being hell holes and maybe fix out foreign policy. While I'm at it tariffs should be based on working conditions & environmental impact.
And Sinclair is right wing propaganda. Gawker is muckracking journalism that often brings to light the abuses of our ruling class. There's no comparison. I'd take Gawker any day of any week and so should you if you value freedom.
And counting. Seems to be going quite well to me. Let's not forget how long Watergate took, and that was just some schmucks at a hotel and not a hostile Foreign power run by ex KGB...
there's nothing terrible about it. This is how the sausage is made. It's why muck rackers go after has-beens like Hogan. They get a bump in the ratings, Gawker gets a story, the public gets some juicy gossip. Everybody wins. Except Thiel and the other targets of Gawker's real journalism. Well, used to be that way anyway. Thiel won. And now he's pretty much free to do whatever the hell he wants without anybody to call him out on it. But I'm sure that'll be just fine, right?
we did exactly what we wanted them to do. We freaked the hell out, got involved in several pointless wars that are killing our nation (our infrastructure crumbles while we waste trillions in Iraq/Afghanistan). They played us like a harp.
because people _couldn't_ flee the country. Most of them were still using corn stalks to wipe their asses. Even the best educated couldn't just up and leave. What makes Venezuela odd is they're a modern nation that looks to be regressing. That probably wouldn't be the case without the sanctions. They could have just barely weathered the oil collapse. But as always we Americans have to stick our noses in where they don't belong and force our world view down everybody's throat (often at the barrel of a gun, RE: Iraq & Afghanistan).
Imagine what would have become of America if, during the Great Depression, the most powerful nation on the world decided to take a dislike to us?
the media gave Trump massive amount of coverage, much more than Hilary. What matters in an election as close as this is coverage, not the quality of the coverage. But even if we're talking quality Hilary stories were non-stop negative. How many hours were devoted to your emails? So many that it's become a meme ("But her emails...").
The media didn't really care who got elected as long as it wasn't Bernie (they were caught doing a Bernie Blackout when the guy who runs the youtube Channel "The Young Turks" refused a sweet gig in exchange for shutting up about Bernie). The media sided with Trump because they wanted a horse race (so long as there was no risk of an anti-corportist getting elected). And they're loving the results. Hilary was a safe, boring choice. Trump is a ratings bonanza.
it's a bonus if it is, but it doesn't have to be. That's not it's purpose.
Gawker was a muck racking site for sure, but they published a lot of real journalism and used the muck to pay for it (a tradition as old as journalism itself). This is BAU for the entertainment industry. The way it works is Gawker publishes a Celeb sex tape, the Celeb sues, gets a bunch of free publicity, Gawker gets a ton of views and sells a ton of ads and the whole thing gets settled out of court for what's basically a portion of the ad revenue less the cost of the free advertising.
The difference was Gawker didn't know Hogan (and more importantly Thiel) was out for blood. They ignored the judges orders because, well, that's just what you do in these cases. The whole thing blows over before the judge can lay the smack down. Our legal system's designed this way because people like it to be. Folks like these kind of scandals. Had Gawker realized Thiel was behind Hogan they'd have taken it seriously. But of course that's why Thiel hid his involvement until it was too late...
Make no mistake, we as a nation have lost something here. Without muckracking to fund real investigative journalism it'll die out. That'll leave guys like Thiel free to do whatever he wants in the shadows. Thiel didn't hate Gawker for outing him as Gay (no, the Saudi's weren't going to kill one of the richest men in the world while he was in their country). Gawker was reporting on Thiel's shady business dealings. We've not lost that reporting, and odds are nobody is going to want to risk picking up the torch. Remember Upton Sinclair's Jungle? That's the kind of journalism we just lost.
quite the opposite. The nations with the highest standards of living are Democratic Socialist nations (Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, Canada etc). America, with it's Dog-Eat-Dog capitalism ranks far down the lists in virtually everything (including infant mortality).
I can already here a chorus of shouts yelling "But Venezuela!" to which I reply "But the American Great Depression!". If the entire basis of your entire economy collapse in on itself no political system in the universe will save you. Venezuela had the market drop out from under them, so did we. The difference is Venezuela is doing better than we did at that time and that's accounting for the sanctions we put on their country (which I have never once heard a good reason for why those exist. Seriously, why are we sanctioning a country that is no threat to us who isn't engaged in banned research on nuclear weapon? I'm just kidding, I know the answer, we can't bear to see Socialism work so we'll sabotage it every chance we get).
called Sinclair news just bought virtually all local stations (and were allowed to do it by our current FCC) that's not really an issue.
I keep saying this, but when it comes to economics the media has a distinct right wing, pro-corporate bias.
right as they're about to get another pro-corporate justice who's likely to side with AT&T...
note I said "US Citizens". Because they're here for the long haul. They're citizens. They expect to have careers. Throw away contractors know they're throw away contractors and behave accordingly; spending as much time preparing for the next contract as doing their jobs.
if they could have outsourced the jobs to someplace cheaper they would have already done it. You can safely ignore these threats. Lack of H1-Bs will never be a reason to lose jobs. The ability to outsource them is. Capital flows to where labor is cheapest (and yes, that's from Marx, he was right about some things ya know).