in that we privatize it just enough that a select group of lucky people get to skim 20% off the cost. This works because wealthy people fly too and they want to be safe when they fly. Nuke plants can be kept away from where the well to do live, allowing them to avoid the consequences of their corner cutting.
the wealthy don't like the wind farms messing with their view of ocean though.
They NIMBY's have a point. America has a poor track record of safety, especially in poor counties. Sooner or later some politician gets bought off, privatizes the thing and looks like other way while a plant that should have been shut down decades ago keeps running. You're a couple of elections away from disaster.
If you want nuke plants make one that's cheaper to run safely than not. Either that or fundamentally change American culture and politics to do away with the problem if privatizing stuff that has no business being privatized. Until then I don't want them in anybody's back yard.
I keep saying this, but I won't trust nuclear in America until we can run a safe plant cheaper than a dangerous one. Americans have a long history of privatizing crap that shouldn't be privatized. Hell, look at our response to Flint, MI's water crisis or the PR hurricane. I don't trust Americans with anything dangerous (and yes, I'm an American). We're cheapskates who like to tell ourselves God will take care of it. And in 2018 the rich don't have to live near the damage they cause.
We've had multiple economic crashes in the last 50 years that have hit blue collar workers hard. Combine that with the manufacturing base going overseas and these folks are trying to figure out what the hell to do in a country that abandoned them (much in the way you're abandoning them now). You've got guys in their 50s too young for Medicare with health problems that are going to kill them and their wives in the next 5 years. Then you've got these same guys being told Jesus loves them and will provide for them.
Screw Darwinism. You won't be claiming that in 10-20 years if your job gets offshored and you can't find another and you need a heart splint. You'll do whatever it takes to survive in the limits of your abilities. We're fucking human beings, not dogs. We don't need to eat each other when food gets scarce. We can figure out how to make enough for everyone. That's reason. Use yours. If not the wealthy will come for you in the next 20 years and you'll die just as horribly as the ones you're looking down on.
the goal is cheaper labor. There's a class of people who could be going into tech but who aren't. Often they go into medical, business and finance. If you can get those people to join your labor pool it drives down wages (supply/demand). That's the goal. There's no greater purpose and no SJWs at work. It's just a company trying to get the laborers they want for as little as they can.
so they can pocket their share of the money. Also, people who fall for these scams aren't all there in the head. There's 350 million people in this country. if.1% of them fall into that category that's still 350k potential victims.
though I'd rather they were just gov't operated instead of letting a private citizen skim 10-20% off the top. Anyway, if we're gonna run nuke plants I want them run without a profit motive. Otherwise there's too much incentive to cut corners on safety. And if we're gonna have the gov't run every aspect to prevent that from happen then what's the bloody point of letting private companies run them? If we want to hand out free money we can do that with food stamps and then at least poor people are fed.
for these kinds of scams. The people fall for them are probably going to exist for a long, long time. Of course, the way you prevent this is to teach critical thinking (yes, it can be taught) and I'm not so sure the powers that be would want that taught. I know the current batch doesn't.
the ruling class is global now. They no longer fight among themselves. I realized this when Pakistan looked the other way when a bunch of terrorist attacked India's capital. Everybody expected war because that's what happens. But no war. The ones really in charge wouldn't let them.
We will lose control of the robots from time to time, but it'll be momentary and, most importantly, the ruling class will be far, far away when it happens except for the occasional twit slumming it. That's the real problem with our current system. Globalism breaks Capitalism. We've lost the only control we had (the rich have to live near the poor to rule them).
If you want to fix this now's the time. You need to start taking power away from the 1%ers. That means taking money away from them because money is their power. And that means wealth redistribution. Not for the sake of socialism, but for democracy itself. Remember, you're not free so long as someone controls your access to food, shelter & health care. Because you'll do what they say to get those things.
this is something folks seem to ignore. Thanks to telecom and private jets the Rich live nowhere near the misery and horror they cause. They're completely removed from it. So much so you can't even get to them to revolt as it is. In the past they couldn't do this because they didn't have the resources to monitor their empire and prevent uprising. That's not true anymore. They could care less if a kill bot goes crazy in a city while they're 1000 miles away in the Hamptons. Just like the ruling class of Japan didn't really care when Fukushima happend. The capitalism that Adam Smith envisioned where the rich would skip the worst excesses because they'd be harmed by them true hasn't been a thing in 50 years or so.
with a buzz word (AI in this case). The point still stands even if automated killbots aren't technically AI. We're going to be capable of building them soon and it's going to be a bad thing. The idea is that at the very least you're engaged in the conversation. Now you can many start thinking about doing something before it's too late.
because they'll be cheaper than maintaining a huge standing army and you don't have to worry about a general taking over. The engineers who keep the things running will lack the charisma and ambition to overthrow the current ruling class (they're part of the merchant class after all and will be doing well enough).
The way to stop this crap is pretty clear. Declare all human beings deserving of a decent quality of life and then make that happen. Get over the fact that you'll have a few surfer dudes and wellfare queens that don't work very much or at all (shouldn't be too hard, most of us have long since stopped getting mad at the idle rich with inherited wealth). If you want a population smart enough and paying enough attention to see this kind of crap coming and stop it you need to take care of their basic needs first. Otherwise they'll be too busy fighting for survival to do anything about it, which is kind of the point.
when sending cops to somebody's home counts as attempted murder? Britain and Canada don't have this problem, btw. A bunch of Youtubers from those countries were genuinely confused by the concept of swatting. It just wouldn't work in their countries.
Yeah, these guys should get prosecuted. They knew what they were doing was dangerous. But I'm pissed off that the entire debate has been around how badly these guys should be punished. Besides a few libtards like me on/. bitching about it I've seen zero discussion about what got us to this point. Maybe if we wouldn't be so stupidly Tough on Crime folks wouldn't treat talking to the police like a death sentence.
the article is about a University ending the practice of using SAT & ACT scores in admission criteria. The fact that they noticed some racial bias in the scores is one factor in that decision. The fact that those scores don't appear to be an accurate predictor of academic success is another.
Again, right wing talking points and wedge issues. We're all completely missing the point, which is that the 1% have cut funding to education so they can pocket the money as tax cuts while using cheap foreign labor to avoid paying for an educated workforce.
Every, and I mean everything, is always about the economy. If you and I weren't getting so screwed by wealth inequality you wouldn't give 2 shits about this. Because you wouldn't be at every other working stiff's throat for the scraps left by the billionaires. Face it, you've been had, again.
maybe I'm reading too much into it, but in this context and in American English the implication is that he deserves to face justice of some kind. As someone who'd like to see all drugs legalized (including the hard ones so that they can be treated as medical conditions) the headline reads with more than a little bias.
Shkreli riled up the poors. There was a real danger he was going to become a rallying cry that lead to government regulation of drug prices or, worse, single payer health care. And he just would not stop. He wasn't punished for doing anything illegal. He was punished for raising the cackles of the working class. I almost think he was doing it on purpose. Poe's law. I mean, somebody _had_ to have told him that if he'd just shut up they'd let him off easy.
they're a by product of massive federal funding cuts. Thanks to that schools have cut back and they're getting more qualified applicants than they have places. They predicted this when I was in college 20 years ago but everybody scoffed at it because they wanted those sweet, sweet tax cuts (jokes on them, those only went to the top 1%). You'd know this if you had a kid in college (I do).
And it's been shown that people with black sounding names are much less likely to have applications reviewed. Mr
D'Andre's name is likely to hurt him. If anything the video will be to his advantage. You're parroting a false talking point that comes out of right wing think tanks whose primary goal is to distract you from real economic issues with a persecution complex. Time to get woke my friend.
she took it twice. Once there was profit to be had you could take it as many times as you want as long as your money's good. It felt like a scam to me and I'm happy to see it go.
and the work and tests there in. Basically it appears that SAT scores have little impact on grades except at the very, very top end (e.g. you score a perfect, in which case you're probably not going to your local public Uni). Let the kids in and see how they do. A lot of the high SAT guys and gals drop out while a lot of the lower ones graduate. Humans are more complex than a test score.
right wing think tanks use to keep their billionaire sponsor's taxes low. By every single metric European countries beat the United States with the exception of most Millionaires. Europe is doing a much, much better job of regulating income equality.
The US, thanks to our dumb as dirt "Protestant Work Ethic" and a healthy dose of classism and racism dividing the working class into easily manageable chunks (google "Southern Strategy", no it's not a myth, it's depressingly well documented) works harder for less. We call it "Trickle Down Economics" and it doesn't work and it never did, but we keep Chasing that Dragon.
and as excuse to bring in H1-Bs instead of hiring perfectly qualified Americans for jobs that don't need a degree then I see no problem with that solution.
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in that we privatize it just enough that a select group of lucky people get to skim 20% off the cost. This works because wealthy people fly too and they want to be safe when they fly. Nuke plants can be kept away from where the well to do live, allowing them to avoid the consequences of their corner cutting.
the wealthy don't like the wind farms messing with their view of ocean though.
They NIMBY's have a point. America has a poor track record of safety, especially in poor counties. Sooner or later some politician gets bought off, privatizes the thing and looks like other way while a plant that should have been shut down decades ago keeps running. You're a couple of elections away from disaster.
If you want nuke plants make one that's cheaper to run safely than not. Either that or fundamentally change American culture and politics to do away with the problem if privatizing stuff that has no business being privatized. Until then I don't want them in anybody's back yard.
than I can honestly say I want to err on the side of caution. Nuclear disasters can't be cleaned up easily if at all.
I keep saying this, but I won't trust nuclear in America until we can run a safe plant cheaper than a dangerous one. Americans have a long history of privatizing crap that shouldn't be privatized. Hell, look at our response to Flint, MI's water crisis or the PR hurricane. I don't trust Americans with anything dangerous (and yes, I'm an American). We're cheapskates who like to tell ourselves God will take care of it. And in 2018 the rich don't have to live near the damage they cause.
We've had multiple economic crashes in the last 50 years that have hit blue collar workers hard. Combine that with the manufacturing base going overseas and these folks are trying to figure out what the hell to do in a country that abandoned them (much in the way you're abandoning them now). You've got guys in their 50s too young for Medicare with health problems that are going to kill them and their wives in the next 5 years. Then you've got these same guys being told Jesus loves them and will provide for them.
Screw Darwinism. You won't be claiming that in 10-20 years if your job gets offshored and you can't find another and you need a heart splint. You'll do whatever it takes to survive in the limits of your abilities. We're fucking human beings, not dogs. We don't need to eat each other when food gets scarce. We can figure out how to make enough for everyone. That's reason. Use yours. If not the wealthy will come for you in the next 20 years and you'll die just as horribly as the ones you're looking down on.
the goal is cheaper labor. There's a class of people who could be going into tech but who aren't. Often they go into medical, business and finance. If you can get those people to join your labor pool it drives down wages (supply/demand). That's the goal. There's no greater purpose and no SJWs at work. It's just a company trying to get the laborers they want for as little as they can.
so they can pocket their share of the money. Also, people who fall for these scams aren't all there in the head. There's 350 million people in this country. if .1% of them fall into that category that's still 350k potential victims.
though I'd rather they were just gov't operated instead of letting a private citizen skim 10-20% off the top. Anyway, if we're gonna run nuke plants I want them run without a profit motive. Otherwise there's too much incentive to cut corners on safety. And if we're gonna have the gov't run every aspect to prevent that from happen then what's the bloody point of letting private companies run them? If we want to hand out free money we can do that with food stamps and then at least poor people are fed.
for these kinds of scams. The people fall for them are probably going to exist for a long, long time. Of course, the way you prevent this is to teach critical thinking (yes, it can be taught) and I'm not so sure the powers that be would want that taught. I know the current batch doesn't.
the ruling class is global now. They no longer fight among themselves. I realized this when Pakistan looked the other way when a bunch of terrorist attacked India's capital. Everybody expected war because that's what happens. But no war. The ones really in charge wouldn't let them.
We will lose control of the robots from time to time, but it'll be momentary and, most importantly, the ruling class will be far, far away when it happens except for the occasional twit slumming it. That's the real problem with our current system. Globalism breaks Capitalism. We've lost the only control we had (the rich have to live near the poor to rule them).
If you want to fix this now's the time. You need to start taking power away from the 1%ers. That means taking money away from them because money is their power. And that means wealth redistribution. Not for the sake of socialism, but for democracy itself. Remember, you're not free so long as someone controls your access to food, shelter & health care. Because you'll do what they say to get those things.
this is something folks seem to ignore. Thanks to telecom and private jets the Rich live nowhere near the misery and horror they cause. They're completely removed from it. So much so you can't even get to them to revolt as it is. In the past they couldn't do this because they didn't have the resources to monitor their empire and prevent uprising. That's not true anymore. They could care less if a kill bot goes crazy in a city while they're 1000 miles away in the Hamptons. Just like the ruling class of Japan didn't really care when Fukushima happend. The capitalism that Adam Smith envisioned where the rich would skip the worst excesses because they'd be harmed by them true hasn't been a thing in 50 years or so.
with a buzz word (AI in this case). The point still stands even if automated killbots aren't technically AI. We're going to be capable of building them soon and it's going to be a bad thing. The idea is that at the very least you're engaged in the conversation. Now you can many start thinking about doing something before it's too late.
He's standing up not just for himself but everybody.
because they'll be cheaper than maintaining a huge standing army and you don't have to worry about a general taking over. The engineers who keep the things running will lack the charisma and ambition to overthrow the current ruling class (they're part of the merchant class after all and will be doing well enough).
The way to stop this crap is pretty clear. Declare all human beings deserving of a decent quality of life and then make that happen. Get over the fact that you'll have a few surfer dudes and wellfare queens that don't work very much or at all (shouldn't be too hard, most of us have long since stopped getting mad at the idle rich with inherited wealth). If you want a population smart enough and paying enough attention to see this kind of crap coming and stop it you need to take care of their basic needs first. Otherwise they'll be too busy fighting for survival to do anything about it, which is kind of the point.
when sending cops to somebody's home counts as attempted murder? Britain and Canada don't have this problem, btw. A bunch of Youtubers from those countries were genuinely confused by the concept of swatting. It just wouldn't work in their countries.
/. bitching about it I've seen zero discussion about what got us to this point. Maybe if we wouldn't be so stupidly Tough on Crime folks wouldn't treat talking to the police like a death sentence.
Yeah, these guys should get prosecuted. They knew what they were doing was dangerous. But I'm pissed off that the entire debate has been around how badly these guys should be punished. Besides a few libtards like me on
the article is about a University ending the practice of using SAT & ACT scores in admission criteria. The fact that they noticed some racial bias in the scores is one factor in that decision. The fact that those scores don't appear to be an accurate predictor of academic success is another.
Again, right wing talking points and wedge issues. We're all completely missing the point, which is that the 1% have cut funding to education so they can pocket the money as tax cuts while using cheap foreign labor to avoid paying for an educated workforce.
Every, and I mean everything, is always about the economy. If you and I weren't getting so screwed by wealth inequality you wouldn't give 2 shits about this. Because you wouldn't be at every other working stiff's throat for the scraps left by the billionaires. Face it, you've been had, again.
maybe I'm reading too much into it, but in this context and in American English the implication is that he deserves to face justice of some kind. As someone who'd like to see all drugs legalized (including the hard ones so that they can be treated as medical conditions) the headline reads with more than a little bias.
Shkreli riled up the poors. There was a real danger he was going to become a rallying cry that lead to government regulation of drug prices or, worse, single payer health care. And he just would not stop. He wasn't punished for doing anything illegal. He was punished for raising the cackles of the working class. I almost think he was doing it on purpose. Poe's law. I mean, somebody _had_ to have told him that if he'd just shut up they'd let him off easy.
and squat for the patients she defrauded. Figures.
they're a by product of massive federal funding cuts. Thanks to that schools have cut back and they're getting more qualified applicants than they have places. They predicted this when I was in college 20 years ago but everybody scoffed at it because they wanted those sweet, sweet tax cuts (jokes on them, those only went to the top 1%). You'd know this if you had a kid in college (I do).
And it's been shown that people with black sounding names are much less likely to have applications reviewed. Mr D'Andre's name is likely to hurt him. If anything the video will be to his advantage. You're parroting a false talking point that comes out of right wing think tanks whose primary goal is to distract you from real economic issues with a persecution complex. Time to get woke my friend.
she took it twice. Once there was profit to be had you could take it as many times as you want as long as your money's good. It felt like a scam to me and I'm happy to see it go.
and the work and tests there in. Basically it appears that SAT scores have little impact on grades except at the very, very top end (e.g. you score a perfect, in which case you're probably not going to your local public Uni). Let the kids in and see how they do. A lot of the high SAT guys and gals drop out while a lot of the lower ones graduate. Humans are more complex than a test score.
right wing think tanks use to keep their billionaire sponsor's taxes low. By every single metric European countries beat the United States with the exception of most Millionaires. Europe is doing a much, much better job of regulating income equality.
The US, thanks to our dumb as dirt "Protestant Work Ethic" and a healthy dose of classism and racism dividing the working class into easily manageable chunks (google "Southern Strategy", no it's not a myth, it's depressingly well documented) works harder for less. We call it "Trickle Down Economics" and it doesn't work and it never did, but we keep Chasing that Dragon.
and as excuse to bring in H1-Bs instead of hiring perfectly qualified Americans for jobs that don't need a degree then I see no problem with that solution.
the whole "wealth inequality" thing. When it comes to quality of life America isn't even in the top 10.
Put another way, what the hell do I care if there's 100 billionaires in driving distance of me if I'm living in a slum?