to their shareholders, which is the only legal requirement they have.
If we want them to behave well to their employees we have to force them, and that means electing the kinds of people who will do that. That means less Nancy Pelosi and Paul Ryan and more Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-cortez. But the latter leaves a bad taste in people's mouth because nobody likes paying taxes, even if it's for things they want (like enforcing pro-worker regulations)
in the slightest. He talks a big game but never does anything. He could undo the Obama era rule regarding spouses of H1-Bs whenever he wants, instantly adding 100k jobs for Americans (and putting pressure on the H1-Bs to demand higher salaries to afford stay at home spouses). He promised to do it on the campaign trail, so it's not like he's unaware of the issue too.
Trump runs his businesses with H2-Bs. This is well known. Cutting back on work visas reduces his businesses profitability. Anyone expecting him to do anything that doesn't benefit him personally hasn't been paying attention.
was that if you ever had your insurance cover acne medication and got skin cancer they'd claim your acne was in fact cancerous lesions and declare it a pre-existing condition.
this brings up an interesting question. Here on/. we're used to not RTFA (reading the f****** article). We took that up a notch years ago and started not RTFS (Reading the f****** summary). Progress continued as progress does and now we don't even RTFS (Read the f******* Summary). At last we've reached what I would call "Late stage Slashdot" where even the Subby doesn't RTFS.
I'm not sure where we go from here. Does subby not RTFH (Read the f****** Headline)? And even if we can achieve that, what then? It's like those questions about the existence of God. Could subby sub a story so devoid of content that subby couldn't sub it?
These weighty matters are what keep me up at night.
I see one and only one bias: Pro-corporate, anti-worker. The drive is always for more free trade, more globalism, less safety and environmental regulations, less social safety programs and more of the military industrial complex. We're thrown a bone on social issues to chew on while all the meat goes to the guys running the board of directors.
Also, am I the only one who's sick and tired of hearing mainstream media called "liberal biased" when that same media falls in line with their corporate masters 99% of the time (occasionally supporting Gay rights and Abortion rights as if doing so excuses the 24/7 pro-corporate coverage on economics)?
Pai is making the government more _useful_. It's just a difference of opinion regarding for whom it should be useful. Pai thinks it's the wealthy oligarchs who pay him and you seem to be of the opinion that it's the people who elected his boss (Donald Trump). See, just a difference of opinion really...
The FCC is reading and working informal complaints now. The proposal is to stop doing that and just pass the complaints on. I can be ignored by my phone company and ISP all by myself, thank you very much. If I'm contacting the FCC it's _because_ I'm being ignored. This let's the FCC ignore the complaints unless you pay $225 bucks. It's practically a poll tax.
at some point you can't get parts that old anymore. Their suppliers would move on. Apples big, but not that big. They make money on high margin, not high volume.
The Supreme court could just declare each and every law they don't like unconstitutional. It's easy to do with the 10th amendment. Heck, they're basically making laws at that point since no law will pass that they oppose.
If you stack the courts with pro-corporate judges expect pro-corporate laws to be the only ones that survive. Once you accept that the only question is are you OK with that.
the only reason we lost 'Nam was the press was paying attention and they wouldn't let us kill civilians indiscriminately. Take a look at the civilian casualties we admitted to for Iraq. It's over 200k. That's just what we admit to. By the time Iraq/Afghanistan came along the military industrial complex and mega corps had control of the media. Problem solved.
See, all it takes is a willingness to use brutality. If you're at the point where you're taking up arms against your own country then I guarantee you that your country is ready, willing and able to use that same brutality against you. Remember, we managed to make torture^XEnhanced Interrogation OK again. If we can do that we can do anything to you and your ragtag band of rebels. This isn't Star Wars, this is reality. And reality is not nice.
I'm freaking out over Trump because he's attacking Obamacare. I have a type-I diabetic friend (born with it, symptom's started in his pre-teens) who is alive today because the Medicare expansion covered his insulin. Until then he was fighting with our local state government to get enough meds to live. The affect of the disease means he can't work, he spends 2-3 months out of the year just down and out. He's smart enough (smarter than me) but nobody's going to hire you if you randomly disappear 3 months out of the year and good luck starting your on business. He almost died of a heart attack once... in his 30s.
I've got other family members with medical conditions that will be screwed in the pre-existing coverage protections go away. Trump's allowing a lawsuit against those protections to go unchallenged. And I'm 40, so I've got my own problems too....
I'm not anti-Trump because he says mean things. We could do with less civility in this country. I'm so fucking tired of people stabbing me in the gut, twisting the knife and people telling me it's OK because the guy with the knife is _smilling_ while he kills me and mine...
538's tracking it. See here. There are plenty of right wing Democrats who support what he's doing. They helped him repeal Dodd Frank in piece meal, so you can thank those right wing Dems like Pelosi & Schumer for the next election.
not much anyway. Patriotism is waning here quite a bit. But Americans are very, very conservative. Not right wing (which is what most people think of when they hear the word) but actually conservative. We're terrified of change. Wages have been falling for 40 years we've got multiple wars going on and if you're under 50 odds are you're worse off than your parents (I know I am). Change has been bad for most of us. So the last thing we want is anyone mucking about with the document that defines our basic government.
And we've got good reason to be afraid. I know the Koch brothers were trying to take over the state legislatures so they could call a Constitutional convention. They fell just short of the votes to do it too (they lost a few special elections due to some really, really bad candidates. Like literal Nazi grade bad). I can't imagine they had anything good in store if they had been able to call a convention.
Keep in mind that as a country we can't even get everybody to agree that everyone deserves healthcare. We're kind of at each other's throats over here....
you oppose standing armies, right? Because that was a large part of why the 2nd amendment exists ya know?
Sorry, I know it's off topic, but it seems a silly thing to hang everything on. Even a well armed citizenry is no match for a modern military. Hell, it's been like that for centuries. The only reason America won it's revolution is the British were too busy with the French and the French were actively helping us to oppose Britain. Heck, we got beat by the Canadian army for Pete's sake...
Also, are you really sure he's going to defer to the authors of the Constitution and not his corporate buddies? Don't forget the media feeding you all this information is owned lock stock and barrel by mega corps who would very much like you to think that.
so it most certainly does apply. There are still plenty of us that are of the mind that the existing law gives the FCC the right to enforce it. At some point there are going to be challenges made to both the Net Neutrality repeal and local Net Neutrality laws and they are both going to go before this man (if he's appointed).
But even if it wasn't a matter of law if shows his character and belief system; specifically that he sides with corporations over people.
/. has a lot of older folks on it, many of them have done quite well for themselves and many are right wing. Many voted for Trump (few seem to want to admit it).
Trump opposed Net Neutrality, supports TPP, has rolled back none of Obama's executive orders on H1-B visas (he could have stopped spouses from working in this country with the stroke of a pen on day 1). He let Carrier and Harley Davidson get away with sending jobs overseas after they both got fat checks from the government for keeping them here. He's cut back the VA and is attacking pre-existing condition coverage (again,/. has lots of older folks who depend on both those things). His tax cut is causing the treasure to raise interest rates to keep inflation in check driving up prices for things like houses, cars and schools. This supreme court nominee is probably going to overturn Roe v Wade, and let's not forget why we legalized abortion in America. And let's not forget the whole separating kids of asylum seekers thing or the fact that the money trail for all those detention centers leads back to him and his friends. I could go on, and on...
His administration did just allow 3D printed guns. I'll give you that.
I guess what I'm saying is, I get it, he's not Hilary. But Hilary's gone, and Trump's poll numbers don't budge. I know Trump supporters are out there on this forum. I also know they mostly keep to themselves on political issue. But if any are out there willing to raise their voices I want to ask: what, if anything, will make you stop supporting him?
saying so let's them off the hook. They know exactly what they're doing. I just wish the voters would stop calling them names and start calling them out on their pro-corporate, anti-consumer and anti-worker agenda. There just comes a time to call a spade a spade...
so do cars. We heavily regulate cars. Also, it's kinda hard to get a car into a school hall way. I mean, I've seen some enterprising young lads pull it off, but it's a lot of effort.
ya know? If, for example, you've been shown to be too aggressive when driving or drive while drinking you lose your right to drive. Based on what I've seen on youtube involving Americans of a Southern persuasion, their guns and alcohol no such equivalent rules apply...
also several articles about the design of the AR-15 and similar rifles.
Fact is the rest of the world doesn't have mass shootings all the time. Or any kind of shootings for that matter. You can blame culture, but we're not going to change that. You can blame medical care, but nobody wants to pay for that. So what's left? Gun regulations. I can't drive a car over a certain tonnage w/o a commercial license but I can buy just about anything up to and including a grenade launcher (I cant' get the ammo, but really it's not hard to make).
they're being pretty specific. It's a class of rifle with larger (20+ round) magazines and low velocity rounds designed to leave a large (usually fatal) wound. That's what makes them "Assault" rifles. Words really do have meaning here. Your hunting rifle might have the wounding power but it doesn't have enough rounds to rack up kills. The lower weight of an Assault rifle is a nice touch too.
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to their shareholders, which is the only legal requirement they have.
If we want them to behave well to their employees we have to force them, and that means electing the kinds of people who will do that. That means less Nancy Pelosi and Paul Ryan and more Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-cortez. But the latter leaves a bad taste in people's mouth because nobody likes paying taxes, even if it's for things they want (like enforcing pro-worker regulations)
in the slightest. He talks a big game but never does anything. He could undo the Obama era rule regarding spouses of H1-Bs whenever he wants, instantly adding 100k jobs for Americans (and putting pressure on the H1-Bs to demand higher salaries to afford stay at home spouses). He promised to do it on the campaign trail, so it's not like he's unaware of the issue too.
Trump runs his businesses with H2-Bs. This is well known. Cutting back on work visas reduces his businesses profitability. Anyone expecting him to do anything that doesn't benefit him personally hasn't been paying attention.
was that if you ever had your insurance cover acne medication and got skin cancer they'd claim your acne was in fact cancerous lesions and declare it a pre-existing condition.
this brings up an interesting question. Here on /. we're used to not RTFA (reading the f****** article). We took that up a notch years ago and started not RTFS (Reading the f****** summary). Progress continued as progress does and now we don't even RTFS (Read the f******* Summary). At last we've reached what I would call "Late stage Slashdot" where even the Subby doesn't RTFS.
I'm not sure where we go from here. Does subby not RTFH (Read the f****** Headline)? And even if we can achieve that, what then? It's like those questions about the existence of God. Could subby sub a story so devoid of content that subby couldn't sub it?
These weighty matters are what keep me up at night.
I'm sure this ill only increase competition and lower prices.
I see one and only one bias: Pro-corporate, anti-worker. The drive is always for more free trade, more globalism, less safety and environmental regulations, less social safety programs and more of the military industrial complex. We're thrown a bone on social issues to chew on while all the meat goes to the guys running the board of directors.
reality has a well known liberal bias
Also, am I the only one who's sick and tired of hearing mainstream media called "liberal biased" when that same media falls in line with their corporate masters 99% of the time (occasionally supporting Gay rights and Abortion rights as if doing so excuses the 24/7 pro-corporate coverage on economics)?
Pai is making the government more _useful_. It's just a difference of opinion regarding for whom it should be useful. Pai thinks it's the wealthy oligarchs who pay him and you seem to be of the opinion that it's the people who elected his boss (Donald Trump). See, just a difference of opinion really...
The FCC is reading and working informal complaints now. The proposal is to stop doing that and just pass the complaints on. I can be ignored by my phone company and ISP all by myself, thank you very much. If I'm contacting the FCC it's _because_ I'm being ignored. This let's the FCC ignore the complaints unless you pay $225 bucks. It's practically a poll tax.
at some point you can't get parts that old anymore. Their suppliers would move on. Apples big, but not that big. They make money on high margin, not high volume.
The Supreme court could just declare each and every law they don't like unconstitutional. It's easy to do with the 10th amendment. Heck, they're basically making laws at that point since no law will pass that they oppose.
If you stack the courts with pro-corporate judges expect pro-corporate laws to be the only ones that survive. Once you accept that the only question is are you OK with that.
the only reason we lost 'Nam was the press was paying attention and they wouldn't let us kill civilians indiscriminately. Take a look at the civilian casualties we admitted to for Iraq. It's over 200k. That's just what we admit to. By the time Iraq/Afghanistan came along the military industrial complex and mega corps had control of the media. Problem solved.
See, all it takes is a willingness to use brutality. If you're at the point where you're taking up arms against your own country then I guarantee you that your country is ready, willing and able to use that same brutality against you. Remember, we managed to make torture^XEnhanced Interrogation OK again. If we can do that we can do anything to you and your ragtag band of rebels. This isn't Star Wars, this is reality. And reality is not nice.
I'm freaking out over Trump because he's attacking Obamacare. I have a type-I diabetic friend (born with it, symptom's started in his pre-teens) who is alive today because the Medicare expansion covered his insulin. Until then he was fighting with our local state government to get enough meds to live. The affect of the disease means he can't work, he spends 2-3 months out of the year just down and out. He's smart enough (smarter than me) but nobody's going to hire you if you randomly disappear 3 months out of the year and good luck starting your on business. He almost died of a heart attack once... in his 30s.
I've got other family members with medical conditions that will be screwed in the pre-existing coverage protections go away. Trump's allowing a lawsuit against those protections to go unchallenged. And I'm 40, so I've got my own problems too....
I'm not anti-Trump because he says mean things. We could do with less civility in this country. I'm so fucking tired of people stabbing me in the gut, twisting the knife and people telling me it's OK because the guy with the knife is _smilling_ while he kills me and mine...
538's tracking it. See here. There are plenty of right wing Democrats who support what he's doing. They helped him repeal Dodd Frank in piece meal, so you can thank those right wing Dems like Pelosi & Schumer for the next election.
just judging by the comments on any gun control thread here, and you won't convince me that very many of them voted for Hilary.
not much anyway. Patriotism is waning here quite a bit. But Americans are very, very conservative. Not right wing (which is what most people think of when they hear the word) but actually conservative. We're terrified of change. Wages have been falling for 40 years we've got multiple wars going on and if you're under 50 odds are you're worse off than your parents (I know I am). Change has been bad for most of us. So the last thing we want is anyone mucking about with the document that defines our basic government.
And we've got good reason to be afraid. I know the Koch brothers were trying to take over the state legislatures so they could call a Constitutional convention. They fell just short of the votes to do it too (they lost a few special elections due to some really, really bad candidates. Like literal Nazi grade bad). I can't imagine they had anything good in store if they had been able to call a convention.
Keep in mind that as a country we can't even get everybody to agree that everyone deserves healthcare. We're kind of at each other's throats over here....
you oppose standing armies, right? Because that was a large part of why the 2nd amendment exists ya know?
Sorry, I know it's off topic, but it seems a silly thing to hang everything on. Even a well armed citizenry is no match for a modern military. Hell, it's been like that for centuries. The only reason America won it's revolution is the British were too busy with the French and the French were actively helping us to oppose Britain. Heck, we got beat by the Canadian army for Pete's sake...
Also, are you really sure he's going to defer to the authors of the Constitution and not his corporate buddies? Don't forget the media feeding you all this information is owned lock stock and barrel by mega corps who would very much like you to think that.
so it most certainly does apply. There are still plenty of us that are of the mind that the existing law gives the FCC the right to enforce it. At some point there are going to be challenges made to both the Net Neutrality repeal and local Net Neutrality laws and they are both going to go before this man (if he's appointed).
But even if it wasn't a matter of law if shows his character and belief system; specifically that he sides with corporations over people.
/. has a lot of older folks on it, many of them have done quite well for themselves and many are right wing. Many voted for Trump (few seem to want to admit it).
/. has lots of older folks who depend on both those things). His tax cut is causing the treasure to raise interest rates to keep inflation in check driving up prices for things like houses, cars and schools. This supreme court nominee is probably going to overturn Roe v Wade, and let's not forget why we legalized abortion in America. And let's not forget the whole separating kids of asylum seekers thing or the fact that the money trail for all those detention centers leads back to him and his friends. I could go on, and on...
Trump opposed Net Neutrality, supports TPP, has rolled back none of Obama's executive orders on H1-B visas (he could have stopped spouses from working in this country with the stroke of a pen on day 1). He let Carrier and Harley Davidson get away with sending jobs overseas after they both got fat checks from the government for keeping them here. He's cut back the VA and is attacking pre-existing condition coverage (again,
His administration did just allow 3D printed guns. I'll give you that.
I guess what I'm saying is, I get it, he's not Hilary. But Hilary's gone, and Trump's poll numbers don't budge. I know Trump supporters are out there on this forum. I also know they mostly keep to themselves on political issue. But if any are out there willing to raise their voices I want to ask: what, if anything, will make you stop supporting him?
saying so let's them off the hook. They know exactly what they're doing. I just wish the voters would stop calling them names and start calling them out on their pro-corporate, anti-consumer and anti-worker agenda. There just comes a time to call a spade a spade...
so do cars. We heavily regulate cars. Also, it's kinda hard to get a car into a school hall way. I mean, I've seen some enterprising young lads pull it off, but it's a lot of effort.
ya know? If, for example, you've been shown to be too aggressive when driving or drive while drinking you lose your right to drive. Based on what I've seen on youtube involving Americans of a Southern persuasion, their guns and alcohol no such equivalent rules apply...
also several articles about the design of the AR-15 and similar rifles.
Fact is the rest of the world doesn't have mass shootings all the time. Or any kind of shootings for that matter. You can blame culture, but we're not going to change that. You can blame medical care, but nobody wants to pay for that. So what's left? Gun regulations. I can't drive a car over a certain tonnage w/o a commercial license but I can buy just about anything up to and including a grenade launcher (I cant' get the ammo, but really it's not hard to make).
they're being pretty specific. It's a class of rifle with larger (20+ round) magazines and low velocity rounds designed to leave a large (usually fatal) wound. That's what makes them "Assault" rifles. Words really do have meaning here. Your hunting rifle might have the wounding power but it doesn't have enough rounds to rack up kills. The lower weight of an Assault rifle is a nice touch too.
is the velocity of the round is slightly slower leading to a large exit wound that is often fatal (and debilitating if it's not).