the point is to get the votes on record. The Obamacare repeals were genuine symbolism. Everybody knew where everybody else stood on Obamacare. But with NN lots of folks have said they support it without doing anything to support it. This will at least put them on record as a 'nay' when it came time to save it.
you know you're going to lose. Especially Casino gambling. It was one thing before video games when there was novelty and excitement in the bleeping lights. I suppose there's more to poker and the like, but that's not what most folks play. Is there anyone here under 40 who regularly gambles at Casinos? Or even thinks it's anything other than strange and offputting?
the Catholic Church were more or less rulers at one point. Less priests and more kings. There's bound to be no shortage of dirt in there. And Catholicism has been getting beat up lately as it is. That's why we got a Pope who openly questions the reality of Hell. A vast library full of texts nobody ever thought would be read by the common rabble wouldn't exactly improve their standing. In this case the Truth won't set them free.
Also 2050 is way to conservative. We're worried about lower crop yields and severe weather leading to food shortages and wars. It doesn't take a massive change to screw everything up.
after many years living in a borderilne slum (cheap rent from relatives who owned the place). The first thing he noticed is he didn't have to buy nearly as many school supplies as he did when his kids went to a poor district.
In America we use property taxes to fund individual school districts. This means we've got nice, rich districts and lousy poor ones. This is by design. I've read one of the Scandinavian countries has laws about schools being funded equally to prevent just these kind of shenanigans. I'd love to see those kind of laws here in the States. As an added bonus it'd make forced busing pointless outside of specialty magnet schools.
there's two huge benefits. You get that 50% as customers (and then some, since women tend to make the purchasing decisions in most families) and you get access to a slew of new employees, thereby dropping the wages you have to pay. From a business standpoint it's win/win. With sci-fi you have to be careful since the nerd demographic gets a little testy on the subject, but there's plenty of sci-fi and fantasy that have broken out into the mainstream (Avengers, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Fallout 4/Skyrim) and that's worth a lot more caps than the nerd demographic (too much Fallout 4 for me:) ).
women have very different tastes than men, and by and large they make the purchasing decisions in most families. The people running these shows don't care so much that you enjoy what you want so long as you watch it. If the reason you watch it is your wife/girlfriend wants to that's fine too. Though ultimately the Goal is to have crossover shows and movies that appeal to both. Like Pokemon but for adults.
and then they did all that 'uncarrier' stuff. Mostly they stopped overcharging for data and stopped with the roaming changes. But it was a major shift in the cell phone industry and cut data and roaming charges across the board. I'm guessing with this merger we'll see them bring back all the old practices. The only reason they stopped them is they were getting squeezed out by AT&T, Sprint & Verizon. With the merger that won't happen.
the Comcast AT&T merger got derailed because absolutely everybody, rich or poor, has a reason to hate those too companies. They treat everybody equally awful.
The current administration's pretty pro corporate (supports TPP, work visa programs and guest worker programs, massive tax cuts for corps, deregulation, backing off on enforcement, still full of Goldman Sachs people, the list goes on). Without pressure from folks hating on one or both companies this'll sail through.
Sucks, I'm sure it means my bills going to go up and I'll probably end up with data overrage fees again.
Don't look at China, Japan and India. They have high marks in math and science because it's a cutthroat world over there. It's like the Charter Schools in America. If you're grades drop you get kicked out of school. One of the things folks like to ignore when they point out that test scores in America have been dropping is that we're no longer kicking kids to the curb when they can't hack it.
Think of it this way: No Shit a pro sports team can beat amateurs. All the amateurs who tried out got kicked off the team before they even made it. Now that's fine for sports. I don't think it's so fine for education. I _want_ a well educated country. A well educated people are less likely to support fascism.
which is why places like Oklahoma are on a 4 day school week. In America we use property taxes to fund individual school districts. We do this so the well to do and wealthy don't have to pay for poor kids to go to school.
so yeah, populism works to get fascists in power. Preaching doesn't mean doing. Looks at Jim Baker and Clefary Dollar. It's easy to fool desperate people because, Hey, what Have You Got to Lose? Now, who else do we know who used that line...
IIRC the Netherlands did it but I might be getting my countries wrong. You mandate equal funding for all schools, public and private. Then the rich are forced to properly fund education. Next make public Uni & vocational schools tuition-free. Lastly do a few social programs so kids aren't getting beaten up (literally and figuratively) at home when the economy sucks. Problem solved.
when Clinton (Bill) shifted the Democratic party right to win the presidency. The Republicans then moved right to protect their own identity (after all, why vote Republican when the Dems are damn near the same) and then the Dems decided to move to the new "center" and here we are with both parties far, far to the right of Eisenhower. Bernie's trying to get things moving back in the direction of FDR and the like.
we think he's a proto-Hitler. He's not competent enough (or brutal enough) to be the next Hitler. What we're afraid of is that he's eroding the institutions that are supposed to stop the next (real) fascist. He's also probably going to tank the economy (between the Walstreet deregulation, massive debt for tax cuts and general graft and incompetence). And nothing helps a fascist rise to power better than an economic crash.
I know this all seems like hyperbole, but I also know that, as a historic fact, folks said the same thing back when Hitler came to power. Patter recognition. We humans can do it if we try...
and by modern I mean the last 50 years. Remember, it's 2018. Even if his stuff is 50 years old we're talking the 70s. And he's been blowing off his populaces well being for weapons this entire time. I'm guessing he's got plenty of OK stuff from the Soviets.
what triggered this is folks think Trump and his Cabinet are crazy enough to actually go to war and let NK make good on their threat to flatten Seoul.
I still don't like this outcome. We've not acknowledged Kim Jun Un's regime as legitimate. At least legally (and practically, since there's plenty of folks who don't follow politics enough to know NK's a monarchy and not a Democracy).
any more than we pulled out of Japan. NK is still a military threat to SK anyway. And why would SK spend money on defense when we're doing it for them?
As long as he can blast Seoul into rubble (and he can) I just don't see him needing them. He's got plenty of deterrent right there. It's not like the Israelis who, thanks to anti-Semites and their deeply rooted hate (boarding on psychosis), have to worry about nut cases rolling in to exterminate them and just not caring about conventional weaponry. The NK/SK dynamic has always been a hostage situation. It's odd that the media never really talks about it. Then again like I said we're shopping around for our next big war. Looks like NK is out of the running. Syria & Iran are next up.
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the point is to get the votes on record. The Obamacare repeals were genuine symbolism. Everybody knew where everybody else stood on Obamacare. But with NN lots of folks have said they support it without doing anything to support it. This will at least put them on record as a 'nay' when it came time to save it.
you know you're going to lose. Especially Casino gambling. It was one thing before video games when there was novelty and excitement in the bleeping lights. I suppose there's more to poker and the like, but that's not what most folks play. Is there anyone here under 40 who regularly gambles at Casinos? Or even thinks it's anything other than strange and offputting?
the Catholic Church were more or less rulers at one point. Less priests and more kings. There's bound to be no shortage of dirt in there. And Catholicism has been getting beat up lately as it is. That's why we got a Pope who openly questions the reality of Hell. A vast library full of texts nobody ever thought would be read by the common rabble wouldn't exactly improve their standing. In this case the Truth won't set them free.
I agree. Can we get a more sane measurement? How many bees to the hogshead?
Because America is not a Democracy. I don't think it ever was. But for some reason we insist on the charade.
it'll be bad for consumers and employees. The shareholders & CEOs, OTOH, will make out like bandits.
Also 2050 is way to conservative. We're worried about lower crop yields and severe weather leading to food shortages and wars. It doesn't take a massive change to screw everything up.
after many years living in a borderilne slum (cheap rent from relatives who owned the place). The first thing he noticed is he didn't have to buy nearly as many school supplies as he did when his kids went to a poor district.
In America we use property taxes to fund individual school districts. This means we've got nice, rich districts and lousy poor ones. This is by design. I've read one of the Scandinavian countries has laws about schools being funded equally to prevent just these kind of shenanigans. I'd love to see those kind of laws here in the States. As an added bonus it'd make forced busing pointless outside of specialty magnet schools.
there's two huge benefits. You get that 50% as customers (and then some, since women tend to make the purchasing decisions in most families) and you get access to a slew of new employees, thereby dropping the wages you have to pay. From a business standpoint it's win/win. With sci-fi you have to be careful since the nerd demographic gets a little testy on the subject, but there's plenty of sci-fi and fantasy that have broken out into the mainstream (Avengers, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Fallout 4/Skyrim) and that's worth a lot more caps than the nerd demographic (too much Fallout 4 for me :) ).
women have very different tastes than men, and by and large they make the purchasing decisions in most families. The people running these shows don't care so much that you enjoy what you want so long as you watch it. If the reason you watch it is your wife/girlfriend wants to that's fine too. Though ultimately the Goal is to have crossover shows and movies that appeal to both. Like Pokemon but for adults.
and then they did all that 'uncarrier' stuff. Mostly they stopped overcharging for data and stopped with the roaming changes. But it was a major shift in the cell phone industry and cut data and roaming charges across the board. I'm guessing with this merger we'll see them bring back all the old practices. The only reason they stopped them is they were getting squeezed out by AT&T, Sprint & Verizon. With the merger that won't happen.
the Comcast AT&T merger got derailed because absolutely everybody, rich or poor, has a reason to hate those too companies. They treat everybody equally awful.
The current administration's pretty pro corporate (supports TPP, work visa programs and guest worker programs, massive tax cuts for corps, deregulation, backing off on enforcement, still full of Goldman Sachs people, the list goes on). Without pressure from folks hating on one or both companies this'll sail through.
Sucks, I'm sure it means my bills going to go up and I'll probably end up with data overrage fees again.
Don't look at China, Japan and India. They have high marks in math and science because it's a cutthroat world over there. It's like the Charter Schools in America. If you're grades drop you get kicked out of school. One of the things folks like to ignore when they point out that test scores in America have been dropping is that we're no longer kicking kids to the curb when they can't hack it.
Think of it this way: No Shit a pro sports team can beat amateurs. All the amateurs who tried out got kicked off the team before they even made it. Now that's fine for sports. I don't think it's so fine for education. I _want_ a well educated country. A well educated people are less likely to support fascism.
which is why places like Oklahoma are on a 4 day school week. In America we use property taxes to fund individual school districts. We do this so the well to do and wealthy don't have to pay for poor kids to go to school.
instead of a copyright case, so point to Microsoft.
so yeah, populism works to get fascists in power. Preaching doesn't mean doing. Looks at Jim Baker and Clefary Dollar. It's easy to fool desperate people because, Hey, what Have You Got to Lose? Now, who else do we know who used that line...
they're still the Gatekeepers to virtually all content. They can raise the price as high as they want. WallStreet has to know that.
IIRC the Netherlands did it but I might be getting my countries wrong. You mandate equal funding for all schools, public and private. Then the rich are forced to properly fund education. Next make public Uni & vocational schools tuition-free. Lastly do a few social programs so kids aren't getting beaten up (literally and figuratively) at home when the economy sucks. Problem solved.
their weight around and they couldn't.
when Clinton (Bill) shifted the Democratic party right to win the presidency. The Republicans then moved right to protect their own identity (after all, why vote Republican when the Dems are damn near the same) and then the Dems decided to move to the new "center" and here we are with both parties far, far to the right of Eisenhower. Bernie's trying to get things moving back in the direction of FDR and the like.
we think he's a proto-Hitler. He's not competent enough (or brutal enough) to be the next Hitler. What we're afraid of is that he's eroding the institutions that are supposed to stop the next (real) fascist. He's also probably going to tank the economy (between the Walstreet deregulation, massive debt for tax cuts and general graft and incompetence). And nothing helps a fascist rise to power better than an economic crash.
I know this all seems like hyperbole, but I also know that, as a historic fact, folks said the same thing back when Hitler came to power. Patter recognition. We humans can do it if we try...
and by modern I mean the last 50 years. Remember, it's 2018. Even if his stuff is 50 years old we're talking the 70s. And he's been blowing off his populaces well being for weapons this entire time. I'm guessing he's got plenty of OK stuff from the Soviets.
what triggered this is folks think Trump and his Cabinet are crazy enough to actually go to war and let NK make good on their threat to flatten Seoul.
I still don't like this outcome. We've not acknowledged Kim Jun Un's regime as legitimate. At least legally (and practically, since there's plenty of folks who don't follow politics enough to know NK's a monarchy and not a Democracy).
any more than we pulled out of Japan. NK is still a military threat to SK anyway. And why would SK spend money on defense when we're doing it for them?
As long as he can blast Seoul into rubble (and he can) I just don't see him needing them. He's got plenty of deterrent right there. It's not like the Israelis who, thanks to anti-Semites and their deeply rooted hate (boarding on psychosis), have to worry about nut cases rolling in to exterminate them and just not caring about conventional weaponry. The NK/SK dynamic has always been a hostage situation. It's odd that the media never really talks about it. Then again like I said we're shopping around for our next big war. Looks like NK is out of the running. Syria & Iran are next up.