it lowers the bar for abuse. It makes all sorts of nasty things that weren't practical suddenly worthwhile. There's all sorts of implications on this. For one thing, we have pretty uneven law enforcement in this country. A popular example is a pretty woman in a low cut dress getting out of speeding tickets. A not so popular example is how our drug war is waged mostly on minorities and was started by Nixon to attack the left.
On the one hand if big data forces even law enforcement that's a good thing. But on the other hand it's not hard to alter the inputs. Then there's various inherent biases. Black people's faces are harder to recognize (remember XBox Kinnect?) That could lead to uneven outcomes when white people are easier to collar. Or it might go the other way when more leg work is done chasing down black people to make up for perceived inequalities in the system.
I guess my point is we haven't really put a lot of thought to long term side effects of something like this. Like a lot of things there's no quick and easy answer. It's going to be a mess.
I've got an LG something or other with a cheap plastic back. I've dropped it on concrete more than once. It's like a bug hitting a windshield, not enough weight to go splat.
Seriously. Who? Again, I can't think of a single viable candidate (remember, he still has to get them confirmed by the Senate) who's pro-Consumer. I suppose he could have found a Democrat, had them switch party affiliations and go from there, but that would have been sniffed out right off the bat.
I think it's just time to face facts, the Republican party is completely, totally pro-Corporate. There's a few who are at least indifferent to workers (John McCain comes to mind) but when a decision is made they _always_ side with the mega corps. And often they go out of their way to screw workers to benefit their real masters.
Again, this isn't that Democrats don't have problems, but there are at least _some_ members of the party that refuse corporate and PAC money and side with workers. This makes the Dem party at least _potentially_ redeemable. Can you name one Republican who has refused Corporate PAC money? The Dems have an entire wing of their party (the "Justice" Democrats) for who that's a litmus test.
in the 50s and 60s. Their reasoning was quite sound. The constitution has several clauses guaranteeing equal treatment under the law. It was shown that "Separate but equal" never could be. It created an inherent inferiority complex in children that often extended into adulthood (exactly as it was designed to do). Segregation was ruled fundamentally incompatible with the constitution and our framework of laws because it is.
That's the hard part about law. People are _always_ trying to wiggle out of it and do awful things. That's why we have judges in the first place.
they're the "Bernie" Wing of the party. They're the only ones that refuse corporate PAC money. It's a requirement to join. Show up at your primary. There's plenty of candidates there and your vote is incredibly powerful in a primary because hardly anybody votes in them.
and I'd argue it made no difference which one he appointed. To be blunt, while the Dems often side with mega corps over the working class I literally can't think of a single time when a Republican, any Republican, didn't unless they knew it was safe to do so (e.g. the Senate vote on Net Neutrality when they knew damn well it won't pass the House let alone get signed by Trump). The Republicans are completely pro corporate. If you're OK with that, then carry on. But if not you'd better start voting for the Bernie wing of the Democratic party, because they're the only credible threat to the status quo. I think after Trump staffed his cabinet with the same Goldman Sachs people, got caught making deals with the UAE to get elected and started supporting TPP it's pretty safe to say he's not doing jack for shaking things up.
because the only notable things that came out of the Obama administration was Net Neutrality and stopping several anti-consumer mergers (that are now going through under Trump).
The article you link to just say that Obama was bad because the FCC regulated the info ISPs could gather but that it's mostly Facebook abusing your privacy and Obama didn't do jack about that. You're basically saying Obama didn't go far enough, which is fair. He never did. If he did, we'd have single payer healthcare and a fully regulated Wall Street banking system now. But to be fair to Obama he was saddled first with a Congress full of right wing Corporate Democrats (Pelosi, Schumer, I'm looking at you) and then the Republicans took over every other branch of the government, even stealing a Supreme Court seat from Obama.
I've yet to meet anyone who will agree that Trump's economic policies are a good thing when they're faced with the reality of them. He supports TPP, DACA, borrowed $1 trillion to finance tax cuts and 83% of that went to the top 1%. What I _have_ met is folks who like him because he "tells it like it is". I've found, to be blunt, this means he makes "elites" angry. If you dig further "elites" are never the billionaires that actually oppress them and fight to lower their wages and benefits. Elites are professors. Engineers. Scientists. To be blunt, they're folks who are just plain smarter than they are.
It can be annoying to be told what to do by somebody smarter. Especially when that person isn't much better off than you ("If your so smart why aren't you rich"). I'm not saying all Trump voters fall into this category, but I am saying he wouldn't be president without them.
One last thing. I don't want to abandon these people. I couldn't if I did. But I have no idea how to reach them. What do you do with people who's major complaint in life is they aren't very smart and are sick of smarter people telling them what to do?
if the other side has significantly more power than the other. This is also why you can't write a contract that sells yourself into slavery. Our laws have long since considered this and there's plenty of outs.
He's the president of the United States. There are some things you _do_not_say_. Period. End of subject. Dehumanizing people leads to genocides. We have thousands and thousands of years of history to back this up. The fact that the quote can be taken out of context is itself a problem. To you and me we see it as a nasty gut reaction. To a White Supremacist they see it as a call to arms. Like being asked to Rid him of a meddlesome priest.
and calling them animals is still a problem. Did you know there were death squads set up in parts of South America to kill street urchins like rats because they were a nuisance to the tourist industry? This is a real thing that happened in the 20th century. No human being should ever be called an animal. Ever. That will always end the same way. Concentration camps and death squads. Because once you get folks thinking that a person isn't a person then you can kill with impunity. And they will _always_ come for you when you become inconvenient.
is constitutional. Forced arbitration is a clear violation of the due process clause. It sets up Kangaroo courts run by our corporate masters. A completely separate "justice" system by the mega-corp and for the mega-corp.
telling them what they wanted to hear was Bernie Sanders, and it's been pretty well documented that the DNC & the Mass Media (CNN/MSNBC/Fox News, etc) were actively ignoring him and trying to bury his campaign.
Like Trump said, what have you got to lose? Hilary is pretty far right economically. What folks wanted was a populist. Trump is a populist on the podium. Too bad that ended as soon as he got elected.
and the American fleet is aging since people can't afford new cars. What matters is what the allowed spec is and what the spec is "in the field", not the theoreticals we extrapolate from a car's spec when it came off the line. And that's before we start talking about stuff like the many, many cheating emissions scandals going on right now.
is his comment about immigrants being animals. Don't get me wrong, I have issues with America's immigration policies (I'm a tech worker and the constant stream of H1-Bs has killed my wages and lead to companies that won't train or promote), but it frightens me to see anyone referred to as an animal. Once we start dehumanizing people we can do anything to anyone because it's not a big leap to declare anyone who's inconvenient an 'animal'. That line of thought shouldn't be in our country much less our president.
Now, I don't actually thing Trump believes that. But that's the problem. He knows how to work a crowd and will do and say _anything_ to do it. He's amoral. No immoral, amoral. He has no morality whatsoever. He feeds the crowd whatever it wants and, well, things are tough in America right now for about 80% of the population. And when things get tough people get mean. Trump's feeding that sentiment with wild abandon...
and you can't succeed in a society that's already set you up to fail. This is something I've had a really hard time getting my poorer friends who didn't have the chops for college to understand. They'd live like shit and save every penny and always come up a day late and a buck short.
Real wages have been falling for anyone except the top 10% for 40 years. Even in the 90-99% wages have been stagnant. Only the 1% have seen gains, and coincidentally they've been massive and in line with the productivity increases from the bottom 99%. We let them take everything and so they did. These are facts. They're not open for discussion. Google "Wages & Productivity" and read up a few.
You're just a troll and I get it. Full of hate and spite because the things you want are out of reach. At least I hope you are, and that you're not one of those professional trolls here to set us Americans at each other's throats for the glory of some nation or another. You've somehow gotten up to +2, which looks like the default/. boost for consistently being modded up, but you've got a low/. number. Low enough that you should be considering retirement if you're a real person. Do you realize the ruling class is going to discard you soon? You're too old, easy to replace. And they see no intrinsic value in human beings like I do (and like the American left does).
But either way Now's the time to get woke. For yourself and everyone else. Again, if you're a reason person and not a troll who bought a low number it's going to be hard. As you get older the part of your brain that lets you empathize with people seems to deteriorate. You'll need reason and logic to see yourself through this....
American is having to rely heavily on foreign scientists immigrating here. This is going to accelerate because, well, we slashed funding to schools in the 90s and kept at it through the 2000s. Schools don't have enough space for the qualified applicants. After all, why pay for your own schools if you can get other countries to do it for you?
Trouble is those immigrant scientists don't have a lot of attachment to the country. Now, if you're a wealthy billionaire nationalism is kind of pointless. You're investments are global and so are you. But if you're a working class stiff you're lucky if the fees from your 401k don't make your contributions a wash. You're very much local.
What I'm saying is, we need to invest more in home grown talent that'll be loyal to the community and want to see it prosper. And by 'we' I mean those of us who live off our work instead of live off our investments.
Bill Gates has kind of a cult of personality among working class Americans who see him as somebody who came up from nothing to become the richest man on earth. For some reason He's not lumped into the "elites" category like Jobs or Bezos. Not sure why, since he grew up wealthy and used his mom's connections to get an in with IBM and his dad's advice to take advantage of it, but go figure.
Anyway, him saying Trump is a bit of a buffoon is going to resonate with Trump voters. It'll be a significant hit to Trump's reputation with his base.
if having unlimited access to transport without having to pay for it and clean air as a result of more efficient transport pays for the cost of the transportation in increased productivity and health outcomes (all that smog from personal cars is a big impact on heart health) then yes, in a sense it's "free".
Yes, everything has a cost. We're not Gods and we can't make matter and energy from nothing. But you need to consider the costs of the alternatives and that in many cases the alternatives are inevitable. It's like the American Healthcare system. We're gonna spend an extra $17 trillion on our private employer funded healthcare vs single payer in the next 10 years (much of that profits for Pharmaceuticals & health insurance companies). We could pay off the national _debt_ with that kind of dough...
A low mileage 3 yr old car costs about the same as a low mileage 1 year old car. Cars don't start getting cheaper until either the mileage hits 40k+ or the age hits 5 years+. The reason is a car is a necessity in most of America. I had to buy my kid one because her college courses are all over town (major public U no less), they dictate your schedule to you and unless she has mutant teleporting powers I don't know about it's physically impossible for her to get to class. Thanks to 20 years of budget cuts there's not enough slots for all the kids with high GPAs so the school could care less if she can't make it.
Before judging people for buying things they can't afford you should do a bit more research into why they're buying these things. If more people questioned the system instead of blaming people for getting caught up in it we wouldn't have all these problems.
if they other side doesn't know it's playing. Yeah, this is complicated stuff, but we've really only been seriously trying to solve these problems for about 100 years or so. Hell, it wasn't too long ago folks argued against the germ theory. Now, if we can just avoid blowing everything to hell for once and regressing back into primitive superstition...
In America Talk radio has a pretty large political impact. I worked as an apprentice electrician for a few years before going back to school and Rush Limbaugh was on pretty much everywhere, but that was mostly because it was on the classic Rock channel for an hour every day. I don't think anybody went out of their way to listen to it per se.
Digital means more spectrum going to phones, which means faster cell phone data and better reception for that data. And that means folks don't have to just listen to whatever comes on the radio. When folks can just listen to music all day I'm guessing they will. I know here in the state's Rush Limbaugh famously quotes listener numbers from the late 90s/early 2000s. I'm guessing it's been downhill since satellite radio was a thing and cheap smart phones have only pushed it lower.
they're just like Republicans but they (sometimes) support Gay Marriage and abortion rights. But on anything economic they're hard right and in the pocket of the mega-corps, same as the Republicans. There's a wing of the party called "Justice Democrats" that's trying to take the party over from within. They grew out of the Bernie Bros.
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it lowers the bar for abuse. It makes all sorts of nasty things that weren't practical suddenly worthwhile. There's all sorts of implications on this. For one thing, we have pretty uneven law enforcement in this country. A popular example is a pretty woman in a low cut dress getting out of speeding tickets. A not so popular example is how our drug war is waged mostly on minorities and was started by Nixon to attack the left.
On the one hand if big data forces even law enforcement that's a good thing. But on the other hand it's not hard to alter the inputs. Then there's various inherent biases. Black people's faces are harder to recognize (remember XBox Kinnect?) That could lead to uneven outcomes when white people are easier to collar. Or it might go the other way when more leg work is done chasing down black people to make up for perceived inequalities in the system.
I guess my point is we haven't really put a lot of thought to long term side effects of something like this. Like a lot of things there's no quick and easy answer. It's going to be a mess.
I've got an LG something or other with a cheap plastic back. I've dropped it on concrete more than once. It's like a bug hitting a windshield, not enough weight to go splat.
Seriously. Who? Again, I can't think of a single viable candidate (remember, he still has to get them confirmed by the Senate) who's pro-Consumer. I suppose he could have found a Democrat, had them switch party affiliations and go from there, but that would have been sniffed out right off the bat.
I think it's just time to face facts, the Republican party is completely, totally pro-Corporate. There's a few who are at least indifferent to workers (John McCain comes to mind) but when a decision is made they _always_ side with the mega corps. And often they go out of their way to screw workers to benefit their real masters.
Again, this isn't that Democrats don't have problems, but there are at least _some_ members of the party that refuse corporate and PAC money and side with workers. This makes the Dem party at least _potentially_ redeemable. Can you name one Republican who has refused Corporate PAC money? The Dems have an entire wing of their party (the "Justice" Democrats) for who that's a litmus test.
in the 50s and 60s. Their reasoning was quite sound. The constitution has several clauses guaranteeing equal treatment under the law. It was shown that "Separate but equal" never could be. It created an inherent inferiority complex in children that often extended into adulthood (exactly as it was designed to do). Segregation was ruled fundamentally incompatible with the constitution and our framework of laws because it is.
That's the hard part about law. People are _always_ trying to wiggle out of it and do awful things. That's why we have judges in the first place.
they're the "Bernie" Wing of the party. They're the only ones that refuse corporate PAC money. It's a requirement to join. Show up at your primary. There's plenty of candidates there and your vote is incredibly powerful in a primary because hardly anybody votes in them.
and I'd argue it made no difference which one he appointed. To be blunt, while the Dems often side with mega corps over the working class I literally can't think of a single time when a Republican, any Republican, didn't unless they knew it was safe to do so (e.g. the Senate vote on Net Neutrality when they knew damn well it won't pass the House let alone get signed by Trump). The Republicans are completely pro corporate. If you're OK with that, then carry on. But if not you'd better start voting for the Bernie wing of the Democratic party, because they're the only credible threat to the status quo. I think after Trump staffed his cabinet with the same Goldman Sachs people, got caught making deals with the UAE to get elected and started supporting TPP it's pretty safe to say he's not doing jack for shaking things up.
because the only notable things that came out of the Obama administration was Net Neutrality and stopping several anti-consumer mergers (that are now going through under Trump).
The article you link to just say that Obama was bad because the FCC regulated the info ISPs could gather but that it's mostly Facebook abusing your privacy and Obama didn't do jack about that. You're basically saying Obama didn't go far enough, which is fair. He never did. If he did, we'd have single payer healthcare and a fully regulated Wall Street banking system now. But to be fair to Obama he was saddled first with a Congress full of right wing Corporate Democrats (Pelosi, Schumer, I'm looking at you) and then the Republicans took over every other branch of the government, even stealing a Supreme Court seat from Obama.
I've yet to meet anyone who will agree that Trump's economic policies are a good thing when they're faced with the reality of them. He supports TPP, DACA, borrowed $1 trillion to finance tax cuts and 83% of that went to the top 1%. What I _have_ met is folks who like him because he "tells it like it is". I've found, to be blunt, this means he makes "elites" angry. If you dig further "elites" are never the billionaires that actually oppress them and fight to lower their wages and benefits. Elites are professors. Engineers. Scientists. To be blunt, they're folks who are just plain smarter than they are.
It can be annoying to be told what to do by somebody smarter. Especially when that person isn't much better off than you ("If your so smart why aren't you rich"). I'm not saying all Trump voters fall into this category, but I am saying he wouldn't be president without them.
One last thing. I don't want to abandon these people. I couldn't if I did. But I have no idea how to reach them. What do you do with people who's major complaint in life is they aren't very smart and are sick of smarter people telling them what to do?
if the other side has significantly more power than the other. This is also why you can't write a contract that sells yourself into slavery. Our laws have long since considered this and there's plenty of outs.
He's the president of the United States. There are some things you _do_not_say_. Period. End of subject. Dehumanizing people leads to genocides. We have thousands and thousands of years of history to back this up. The fact that the quote can be taken out of context is itself a problem. To you and me we see it as a nasty gut reaction. To a White Supremacist they see it as a call to arms. Like being asked to Rid him of a meddlesome priest.
Go read Bruce Sterling's Distraction...
and calling them animals is still a problem. Did you know there were death squads set up in parts of South America to kill street urchins like rats because they were a nuisance to the tourist industry? This is a real thing that happened in the 20th century. No human being should ever be called an animal. Ever. That will always end the same way. Concentration camps and death squads. Because once you get folks thinking that a person isn't a person then you can kill with impunity. And they will _always_ come for you when you become inconvenient.
is constitutional. Forced arbitration is a clear violation of the due process clause. It sets up Kangaroo courts run by our corporate masters. A completely separate "justice" system by the mega-corp and for the mega-corp.
here's one right now.
telling them what they wanted to hear was Bernie Sanders, and it's been pretty well documented that the DNC & the Mass Media (CNN/MSNBC/Fox News, etc) were actively ignoring him and trying to bury his campaign.
Like Trump said, what have you got to lose? Hilary is pretty far right economically. What folks wanted was a populist. Trump is a populist on the podium. Too bad that ended as soon as he got elected.
and the American fleet is aging since people can't afford new cars. What matters is what the allowed spec is and what the spec is "in the field", not the theoreticals we extrapolate from a car's spec when it came off the line. And that's before we start talking about stuff like the many, many cheating emissions scandals going on right now.
is his comment about immigrants being animals. Don't get me wrong, I have issues with America's immigration policies (I'm a tech worker and the constant stream of H1-Bs has killed my wages and lead to companies that won't train or promote), but it frightens me to see anyone referred to as an animal. Once we start dehumanizing people we can do anything to anyone because it's not a big leap to declare anyone who's inconvenient an 'animal'. That line of thought shouldn't be in our country much less our president.
Now, I don't actually thing Trump believes that. But that's the problem. He knows how to work a crowd and will do and say _anything_ to do it. He's amoral. No immoral, amoral. He has no morality whatsoever. He feeds the crowd whatever it wants and, well, things are tough in America right now for about 80% of the population. And when things get tough people get mean. Trump's feeding that sentiment with wild abandon...
and you can't succeed in a society that's already set you up to fail. This is something I've had a really hard time getting my poorer friends who didn't have the chops for college to understand. They'd live like shit and save every penny and always come up a day late and a buck short. Real wages have been falling for anyone except the top 10% for 40 years. Even in the 90-99% wages have been stagnant. Only the 1% have seen gains, and coincidentally they've been massive and in line with the productivity increases from the bottom 99%. We let them take everything and so they did. These are facts. They're not open for discussion. Google "Wages & Productivity" and read up a few. You're just a troll and I get it. Full of hate and spite because the things you want are out of reach. At least I hope you are, and that you're not one of those professional trolls here to set us Americans at each other's throats for the glory of some nation or another. You've somehow gotten up to +2, which looks like the default /. boost for consistently being modded up, but you've got a low /. number. Low enough that you should be considering retirement if you're a real person. Do you realize the ruling class is going to discard you soon? You're too old, easy to replace. And they see no intrinsic value in human beings like I do (and like the American left does).
But either way Now's the time to get woke. For yourself and everyone else. Again, if you're a reason person and not a troll who bought a low number it's going to be hard. As you get older the part of your brain that lets you empathize with people seems to deteriorate. You'll need reason and logic to see yourself through this....
it's the dues you pay for civilization.
American is having to rely heavily on foreign scientists immigrating here. This is going to accelerate because, well, we slashed funding to schools in the 90s and kept at it through the 2000s. Schools don't have enough space for the qualified applicants. After all, why pay for your own schools if you can get other countries to do it for you?
Trouble is those immigrant scientists don't have a lot of attachment to the country. Now, if you're a wealthy billionaire nationalism is kind of pointless. You're investments are global and so are you. But if you're a working class stiff you're lucky if the fees from your 401k don't make your contributions a wash. You're very much local.
What I'm saying is, we need to invest more in home grown talent that'll be loyal to the community and want to see it prosper. And by 'we' I mean those of us who live off our work instead of live off our investments.
Bill Gates has kind of a cult of personality among working class Americans who see him as somebody who came up from nothing to become the richest man on earth. For some reason He's not lumped into the "elites" category like Jobs or Bezos. Not sure why, since he grew up wealthy and used his mom's connections to get an in with IBM and his dad's advice to take advantage of it, but go figure.
Anyway, him saying Trump is a bit of a buffoon is going to resonate with Trump voters. It'll be a significant hit to Trump's reputation with his base.
if having unlimited access to transport without having to pay for it and clean air as a result of more efficient transport pays for the cost of the transportation in increased productivity and health outcomes (all that smog from personal cars is a big impact on heart health) then yes, in a sense it's "free".
Yes, everything has a cost. We're not Gods and we can't make matter and energy from nothing. But you need to consider the costs of the alternatives and that in many cases the alternatives are inevitable. It's like the American Healthcare system. We're gonna spend an extra $17 trillion on our private employer funded healthcare vs single payer in the next 10 years (much of that profits for Pharmaceuticals & health insurance companies). We could pay off the national _debt_ with that kind of dough...
A low mileage 3 yr old car costs about the same as a low mileage 1 year old car. Cars don't start getting cheaper until either the mileage hits 40k+ or the age hits 5 years+. The reason is a car is a necessity in most of America. I had to buy my kid one because her college courses are all over town (major public U no less), they dictate your schedule to you and unless she has mutant teleporting powers I don't know about it's physically impossible for her to get to class. Thanks to 20 years of budget cuts there's not enough slots for all the kids with high GPAs so the school could care less if she can't make it.
Before judging people for buying things they can't afford you should do a bit more research into why they're buying these things. If more people questioned the system instead of blaming people for getting caught up in it we wouldn't have all these problems.
if they other side doesn't know it's playing. Yeah, this is complicated stuff, but we've really only been seriously trying to solve these problems for about 100 years or so. Hell, it wasn't too long ago folks argued against the germ theory. Now, if we can just avoid blowing everything to hell for once and regressing back into primitive superstition...
In America Talk radio has a pretty large political impact. I worked as an apprentice electrician for a few years before going back to school and Rush Limbaugh was on pretty much everywhere, but that was mostly because it was on the classic Rock channel for an hour every day. I don't think anybody went out of their way to listen to it per se.
Digital means more spectrum going to phones, which means faster cell phone data and better reception for that data. And that means folks don't have to just listen to whatever comes on the radio. When folks can just listen to music all day I'm guessing they will. I know here in the state's Rush Limbaugh famously quotes listener numbers from the late 90s/early 2000s. I'm guessing it's been downhill since satellite radio was a thing and cheap smart phones have only pushed it lower.
they're just like Republicans but they (sometimes) support Gay Marriage and abortion rights. But on anything economic they're hard right and in the pocket of the mega-corps, same as the Republicans. There's a wing of the party called "Justice Democrats" that's trying to take the party over from within. They grew out of the Bernie Bros.