I was wondering when this was going to happen. They've got a Republican in the Whitehouse who'll sign anything so now's a good time. Not that I think Obama wouldn't have signed this crap, but it still pisses me off. The only politician who _might_ have told them to take a leap is Bernie, and even he might not have bothered. Christ, what a country, what a world.
you'll be sending formal letters every 2 weeks to tell some creditor or another that you didn't borrow money from them. And you better stay on top of it or they'll kill your credit unless you pay them.
he just implied it sucks rocks. As someone who likes breathing clean air I'd like to see more EVs out there. It's lot easier to keep 10 power plant's emissions low or at zero than 10 million cars.
I always wondered why techies don't organize. In America We've been getting screwed since 2000 when the outsourcing started. And offshore I see guys working 16 hours a day 6 days a week (7 during crunch time). It's not like we don't all have the internet.
their facemen (Trump, Alex Jones, Bill O'Rielly) are, but the ones pulling the strings are not. They'll see right through calling it a 'Trade Union' and if it gets any traction come down on it. They might as well use the Union moniker. When things turn to shit people turn to Unions because organizing is the only real solution. If app devs are using that word it tells you how dire their situation is.
it's called "Justice Democrats". It's basically the Bernie Wing of the Democratic party. But it's not so much an uphill battle as it's more a "Vertical Line" battle.
nothing was getting better. That's why we turned to a populist (Trump). Sadly so far I don't think it's turned out the way we'd hoped. Our populist put the same Goldman Sach's folks in charge that have run the show since Reagan and now he support's TPP & increases to guest worker programs. His tax cuts expire on us in 10 years but not on the 1%ers. Oh, and the $1 trillion in debt from those tax cuts is already being used as ammo to shoot down Medicare & Social Security, so we're fucked when we got old.
don't feed them. They bring the whole discourse down.
Also, "Progressive Capitalist"? I suppose it's possible but the folks who sold us out are anything but. Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren would be Progressive Capitalists. Guys like Tim Cook & Bill Gates not so much (and no, donating a tiny fraction of your money to whitewash all the bad things you did does not make you "Progressive" Bill).
Sorry, had to vent. I hate seeing the word Progressive misapplied. I don't think you mean anything by it, but it's easy to pick up negative connotations on the word because there's a constant hum of anti-worker sentiment in this country and Progressives are the pro-worker wing of most parties, so we're always under attack.
they do it in the American South all the time. Do away with Sex Education, ban or make birth control unobtainable. Hammer into kid's skulls that masturbating is a crime (or like they did in Texas make it literally a crime for girls) and blamo, problem solved. Well, except for all the kids people can't afford. But you can take care of that with brutal oppression and a bit 'o the old "Opiate of the Masses" like we and every other civilization's done for centuries
but I'm in a Red (got dragged here by my parents when I was young and been stuck here ever since) and I'm paying $11k/yr for the first two and then it goes up to $16k/yr for the last at my kids State college. I get a few thousand in grants and a few in tuition waivers (and you lose the tuition waivers if you have to take a break, which if your GPA is
Also, add a car to that. Colleges don't have everything on one campus anymore. At least my Kid's doesn't. Classes are a two hour bus ride apart and you don't get to pick your schedule. If you don't have a card you're not going to school. They'll kick you out in favor of a kid who does.
this is about keeping the data out of people's hands. They'll raise the price to prohibitive levels. The goal is to squash scientific research into climate change so their rich donors don't have to pay to address the problem.
pay us. Births are dropping because Americans are becoming less religious (so no opposition to birth control, not even the token opposition you get from most Catholics).
To be honest the solution right now isn't to pay us more, it's to bring in more labor from overseas. It's hard to argue with that since it's working. It just sucks if you're a member of the working class.
that people aren't wolves and sheep. The majority of folks aren't looking to devour each other. A small group of us are and they use a simple set of tricks (mostly Bigotry to divide the working class into manageable groups). The way out is for folks to realize this and work together. The way out is reason and science. E.g. the things that make us human.
the constitution and replace our crap system designed by and for wealthy landowners with actual democracy, meaning a parliamentary system. That still won't save us from a total collapse of the country's economic systems (e.g. what's going on in Venezuela right now) but it'll put a stop to the systems we built that are designed intentionally to limit democracy, to wit: The Senate & The Electoral College (there are others, it's a complex topic).
The problem is if we call a convention to fix the Constitution the likes of the Koch Bros are waiting in the wings to hijack it. So it's not a good idea. I think out best bet is to figure out a way to get voters to demand politicians don't accept corporate & PAC money. Maybe put a law in that triggers an Automatic recall election if they're found doing it. Then give politicians good sized pensions for life and forbid them from having jobs or investing in companies after they get out of office. If you want to serve your country, serve your country. You can't serve two masters.
There's this. That doesn't seem very fair to me. Every bit of data fed into that algorithm was a fact though. Now, if some of those facts were choose... shall we say "selectively", well, that's fair. It's a free country right? Right?
because racism is pretty rampant here in the US still. The best example is when zip codes are used to make decisions. For example, you want to advertise your public Universities to encourage the best students to go to them. So you do a bunch of surveys and find which schools have the best students. Decades of institutional racism means those neighborhoods have higher percentages of white students than minorities. Here "institutional racism" means things like blacks being less likely to get loans, being turned down for jobs and promotions, getting arrested for a gram of weed, etc, etc.
Racism in America didn't go away just because we made it illegal any more than banning drugs did. The difference is there's a good case to be made for legalizing drugs. I can't think of any good reason to legalize racism.
a lot of thought and effort goes into making them as quick and dirty as possible so you can "plate" them quickly and make the most profit. That's why most restaurants are built around meat. It freezes well and any idiot can cook it without ruining it.
squashes such things with the help of the same right wing government. Remember Occupy Wall street? Parts of the patriot act were used to quash it and the media didn't say a peep. Our media leans left on a few social issues but when it comes to money and the economy they're hard, hard right. Good luck getting any coverage of anti-union behavior out of them either while you're at it.
it doesn't get much nerdier than that. Thanks to the internet kids have information they didn't have before. A bad couch can be shown to be a bad coach by a skilled student and they can move on or learn on their own.
When I was a kid learning to code I hit a wall over something silly on my old C64. Years later I went back to it and had a good laugh that I couldn't understand it (It was just C64 basic data statements, it didn't make sense to my 11 year old brain that I could enter the statements at the end of the program and read the data at the front). If I'd had Stack overflow back then I'd have posted, taken a few lumps for being a dumb kid and got on with programming.
That's a huge technological change. We'd probably see it everywhere if we looked. And that's just talking about how it impacts people's success in life. The political ramifications to widespread access to information are crazy. I can find a list of every lie my President & Congress critter told since their term started. I can find evidence of climate change and how many people have died of Marijuana overdoes. There's a ton of things that, so long as I can think critically, I can confirm.
We're just at the tip of the iceberg that is the information age. The only thing that worries me is the powers that be are going to get tired of it disrupting their little fiefdoms and try to shut it all down. You're already seeing this with the end of Net Neutrality...
and throwing away the brand and connections the Dems have I think the progressives should take the party over from within. Progressive policies are overwhelmingly popular. They take a hit from time to time because of billion dollar ad blitzes like what the Health Insurance industry did during the lead up to Obamacare but when you're not running propaganda campaigns to counter them they've got numbers in the high 60s at the low end and mid 80s at the high end.
it's not even a stretch to put it under the commerce clause. How do you think Title II got created in the first place. Commerce Clause was created for _precisely_ these situtaions (e.g. having a level playing field among states for things that impact the business between states).
Also, if you'll allow me to go off the rails a bit and vent: I'm getting a tad tired of folks hoping NY and CA will pull their fat out of the fire everytime the red states do something boneheaded (and yes, killing NN happened by a Republican and the vote that kills it in the House in a week or two will be along party lines, so let's stop kidding ourselves about which party is killing NN). I swear, I wish we'd have just let the bloody South go.
in Red States? This was almost completely along party lines. So unless a lot of Republican seats flip (and those seats don't give filled with "Blue Dog" Corporate Dems who sell us out for campaign cash) we're right back where we started. The question is will the Bernie wing of the Democratic party get anywhere this election. Yeah, the Corportists supported NN in the Senate, but they did that knowing full well it would get shot down in the House. Will they keep doing that when there's a chance of it actually passing?
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I was wondering when this was going to happen. They've got a Republican in the Whitehouse who'll sign anything so now's a good time. Not that I think Obama wouldn't have signed this crap, but it still pisses me off. The only politician who _might_ have told them to take a leap is Bernie, and even he might not have bothered. Christ, what a country, what a world.
you'll be sending formal letters every 2 weeks to tell some creditor or another that you didn't borrow money from them. And you better stay on top of it or they'll kill your credit unless you pay them.
follow the money. I'll wager you'll find FedEx & UPS bribes of some kind behind this.
there is no coal industry. It's not profitable if they can't pollute. Natural Gas burns too clean and, well, "Clean Coal" isn't.
he just implied it sucks rocks. As someone who likes breathing clean air I'd like to see more EVs out there. It's lot easier to keep 10 power plant's emissions low or at zero than 10 million cars.
I always wondered why techies don't organize. In America We've been getting screwed since 2000 when the outsourcing started. And offshore I see guys working 16 hours a day 6 days a week (7 during crunch time). It's not like we don't all have the internet.
their facemen (Trump, Alex Jones, Bill O'Rielly) are, but the ones pulling the strings are not. They'll see right through calling it a 'Trade Union' and if it gets any traction come down on it. They might as well use the Union moniker. When things turn to shit people turn to Unions because organizing is the only real solution. If app devs are using that word it tells you how dire their situation is.
it's called "Justice Democrats". It's basically the Bernie Wing of the Democratic party. But it's not so much an uphill battle as it's more a "Vertical Line" battle.
nothing was getting better. That's why we turned to a populist (Trump). Sadly so far I don't think it's turned out the way we'd hoped. Our populist put the same Goldman Sach's folks in charge that have run the show since Reagan and now he support's TPP & increases to guest worker programs. His tax cuts expire on us in 10 years but not on the 1%ers. Oh, and the $1 trillion in debt from those tax cuts is already being used as ammo to shoot down Medicare & Social Security, so we're fucked when we got old.
don't feed them. They bring the whole discourse down.
Also, "Progressive Capitalist"? I suppose it's possible but the folks who sold us out are anything but. Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren would be Progressive Capitalists. Guys like Tim Cook & Bill Gates not so much (and no, donating a tiny fraction of your money to whitewash all the bad things you did does not make you "Progressive" Bill).
Sorry, had to vent. I hate seeing the word Progressive misapplied. I don't think you mean anything by it, but it's easy to pick up negative connotations on the word because there's a constant hum of anti-worker sentiment in this country and Progressives are the pro-worker wing of most parties, so we're always under attack.
they do it in the American South all the time. Do away with Sex Education, ban or make birth control unobtainable. Hammer into kid's skulls that masturbating is a crime (or like they did in Texas make it literally a crime for girls) and blamo, problem solved. Well, except for all the kids people can't afford. But you can take care of that with brutal oppression and a bit 'o the old "Opiate of the Masses" like we and every other civilization's done for centuries
but I'm in a Red (got dragged here by my parents when I was young and been stuck here ever since) and I'm paying $11k/yr for the first two and then it goes up to $16k/yr for the last at my kids State college. I get a few thousand in grants and a few in tuition waivers (and you lose the tuition waivers if you have to take a break, which if your GPA is
Also, add a car to that. Colleges don't have everything on one campus anymore. At least my Kid's doesn't. Classes are a two hour bus ride apart and you don't get to pick your schedule. If you don't have a card you're not going to school. They'll kick you out in favor of a kid who does.
this is about keeping the data out of people's hands. They'll raise the price to prohibitive levels. The goal is to squash scientific research into climate change so their rich donors don't have to pay to address the problem.
pay us. Births are dropping because Americans are becoming less religious (so no opposition to birth control, not even the token opposition you get from most Catholics).
To be honest the solution right now isn't to pay us more, it's to bring in more labor from overseas. It's hard to argue with that since it's working. It just sucks if you're a member of the working class.
that people aren't wolves and sheep. The majority of folks aren't looking to devour each other. A small group of us are and they use a simple set of tricks (mostly Bigotry to divide the working class into manageable groups). The way out is for folks to realize this and work together. The way out is reason and science. E.g. the things that make us human.
the constitution and replace our crap system designed by and for wealthy landowners with actual democracy, meaning a parliamentary system. That still won't save us from a total collapse of the country's economic systems (e.g. what's going on in Venezuela right now) but it'll put a stop to the systems we built that are designed intentionally to limit democracy, to wit: The Senate & The Electoral College (there are others, it's a complex topic).
The problem is if we call a convention to fix the Constitution the likes of the Koch Bros are waiting in the wings to hijack it. So it's not a good idea. I think out best bet is to figure out a way to get voters to demand politicians don't accept corporate & PAC money. Maybe put a law in that triggers an Automatic recall election if they're found doing it. Then give politicians good sized pensions for life and forbid them from having jobs or investing in companies after they get out of office. If you want to serve your country, serve your country. You can't serve two masters.
and mass media, not the Government. George Orwell was a socialist.
There's this. That doesn't seem very fair to me. Every bit of data fed into that algorithm was a fact though. Now, if some of those facts were choose... shall we say "selectively", well, that's fair. It's a free country right? Right?
because racism is pretty rampant here in the US still. The best example is when zip codes are used to make decisions. For example, you want to advertise your public Universities to encourage the best students to go to them. So you do a bunch of surveys and find which schools have the best students. Decades of institutional racism means those neighborhoods have higher percentages of white students than minorities. Here "institutional racism" means things like blacks being less likely to get loans, being turned down for jobs and promotions, getting arrested for a gram of weed, etc, etc.
Racism in America didn't go away just because we made it illegal any more than banning drugs did. The difference is there's a good case to be made for legalizing drugs. I can't think of any good reason to legalize racism.
a lot of thought and effort goes into making them as quick and dirty as possible so you can "plate" them quickly and make the most profit. That's why most restaurants are built around meat. It freezes well and any idiot can cook it without ruining it.
squashes such things with the help of the same right wing government. Remember Occupy Wall street? Parts of the patriot act were used to quash it and the media didn't say a peep. Our media leans left on a few social issues but when it comes to money and the economy they're hard, hard right. Good luck getting any coverage of anti-union behavior out of them either while you're at it.
it doesn't get much nerdier than that. Thanks to the internet kids have information they didn't have before. A bad couch can be shown to be a bad coach by a skilled student and they can move on or learn on their own.
When I was a kid learning to code I hit a wall over something silly on my old C64. Years later I went back to it and had a good laugh that I couldn't understand it (It was just C64 basic data statements, it didn't make sense to my 11 year old brain that I could enter the statements at the end of the program and read the data at the front). If I'd had Stack overflow back then I'd have posted, taken a few lumps for being a dumb kid and got on with programming.
That's a huge technological change. We'd probably see it everywhere if we looked. And that's just talking about how it impacts people's success in life. The political ramifications to widespread access to information are crazy. I can find a list of every lie my President & Congress critter told since their term started. I can find evidence of climate change and how many people have died of Marijuana overdoes. There's a ton of things that, so long as I can think critically, I can confirm.
We're just at the tip of the iceberg that is the information age. The only thing that worries me is the powers that be are going to get tired of it disrupting their little fiefdoms and try to shut it all down. You're already seeing this with the end of Net Neutrality...
and throwing away the brand and connections the Dems have I think the progressives should take the party over from within. Progressive policies are overwhelmingly popular. They take a hit from time to time because of billion dollar ad blitzes like what the Health Insurance industry did during the lead up to Obamacare but when you're not running propaganda campaigns to counter them they've got numbers in the high 60s at the low end and mid 80s at the high end.
it's not even a stretch to put it under the commerce clause. How do you think Title II got created in the first place. Commerce Clause was created for _precisely_ these situtaions (e.g. having a level playing field among states for things that impact the business between states).
Also, if you'll allow me to go off the rails a bit and vent: I'm getting a tad tired of folks hoping NY and CA will pull their fat out of the fire everytime the red states do something boneheaded (and yes, killing NN happened by a Republican and the vote that kills it in the House in a week or two will be along party lines, so let's stop kidding ourselves about which party is killing NN). I swear, I wish we'd have just let the bloody South go.
in Red States? This was almost completely along party lines. So unless a lot of Republican seats flip (and those seats don't give filled with "Blue Dog" Corporate Dems who sell us out for campaign cash) we're right back where we started. The question is will the Bernie wing of the Democratic party get anywhere this election. Yeah, the Corportists supported NN in the Senate, but they did that knowing full well it would get shot down in the House. Will they keep doing that when there's a chance of it actually passing?