If you care about this take care of the working class & poor. Once they're secure in their food, shelter, healthcare, education and transportation (e.g. the basics of life) then you can talk to them about global warming.
Crypto Currencies value is predicated on black market goods and services. e.g. Drugs, Prostitution, Ransomware and money laundering. People buy crypto currency to purchase illegal things. These things are highly desirable so the person buying is willing to take the risks. As for the seller, the product's cost is negligible but an artificially constricted supply means they can charge so much for it that the risk of getting stuck with worthless currency can be mitigated by charging 3, 5 or even 10 -20 times the raw cost of the product.
The black market created a floor of value for crypto currency. Once that grew large enough speculators moved in and drove up the value.
The real risk is that the government will clamp down on the illegal activity or (worse) make the activity legal (e.g. legalize drugs and prostitution, the latter two examples aren't likely to be legalized).
CEOs of successful companies are members of the ruling class. That's because they're less like positions of leadership and more like fiefdoms doled out to barons and baronesses.
He supports DACA, TPP, the endless wars and neo-liberal economics. Take away those massive tax cuts and the attacks on Obama care and you've got a Hilary presidency with a little more racism and a few more pot heads in jail. I suppose the latter matters if you're one of those pot heads or on Obamacare, but my point is we're still in the world of incrementalism. We coulda had Bernie and some real change but folks got scared.
you're adding in health care, the cost of which has long since spiraled out of control and is several times inflation. That's not more wages because it's not more wealth. My company might be paying $2000 a month for my health care on top of the $500 I pay but that doesn't mean I get $2500 worth of value. That money just gets filtered back up to the 1% in the form of stock dividends. It's another trick to keep wages low. Nothing more, nothing less.
Cheap electronics I rarely buy don't solve the wage decline problem. You need to consider what I call "Real" inflation, which is the rising cost of necessities (food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation & retirement savings). As those things become an increasingly large percentage of your expenses your actual buying power goes down. This is why a woman who got laid off from K-Mart recently after 44 years started at $3/hr ($16/hr inflation adjusted dollars) and ended at $10.50. She lost a third of her pay over her career.
You don't get better results by cherry picking your stats, you get the Establishment's results. The funny thing is your sig rails against that same establishment but you're falling in line with their narrative. Wake up and go watch some clips from Bernie Sanders. You've been had.
those sweet, sweet super cookies? Even Homestarrunner Abandoned flash and put their content on Youtube as videos (sadly you lose a lot of in interactivity).
so they get to pay Irish tax rates, I ought to get Irish privacy. I ought to, but looks like I don't.
I do like how the EU does fines. A percentage of gross revenue. Here in the states we do dollar amounts, which tends to make them less than the profit from the crime.
Apparently China loses a freighter every other day. It was causally mentioned in a news story because an American freighter went down (which is rare). It's bizarre to think that as I type this there's a 50/50 chance an entire ship's crew is going to die. It's also bizarre that their cargo and lives are so cheap that nobody notices or cares. I'd love to think we could put an end to that with humanitarianism, but hell, I didn't even know about it until it was mentioned offhand in an article...
Oh, one other thing, is it just me or do a lot of these start ups come out of Universities? It kinda bugs me that my tax dollars go to something that's promptly turned into profit for investors. Maybe it got funded with private funds (which raises the question of why public Universities have to go begging for private funds) but I'd like to see more open research that's free to the public.
30 - 40 years of declining wages mean we're all doing whatever we can to hang on. The most obvious thing is buying cheap stuff from China through online retailers.
It saves me a couple grand a year, which has just barely kept my income ahead of inflation these last few years. I'm just trying to make it until the kid's out of college. I know full well the human cost of it all, but I'm a pretty weak guy. I can barely hang on myself. I know logically that if we'd all stand together we'd be saved but I also know that's just not what happens. I'm an American, and I can't even more than 60% of us to agree that we should all get healthcare. And most of that 60% is in two out of 50 States.
I think the race to the bottom is just going to accelerate. We could stop it whenever we want, but it would mean accepting the occasional guy like this. From what I'd see folks would rather starve to death in the streets than see a guy like that get food stamps and health care.
Karl Marx talked about how capital would flow to where ever labor was cheapest in a never ending race to the bottom but all anybody can remember about him is that a couple of fascists borrowed his books for rhetoric.
Here's a crazy idea: Instead of the folks in the UK getting worse lives how about the rest of Europe get _better_ lives?
or large swaths of the Southern United States? You just plain get trapped. It's got nothing to do with your abilities. There just isn't much work unless you're rockin' a college degree and then you probably get out of Dodge because the schools suck and the water's full of lead.
Walmart hasn't been scrapping the bottom since the.com boom. Stop blaming the victim. GP is 100% right. Any attempt to Unionize it met with the full force of their corporate legal team plus every lobbyist they can muster.
so I can give the company a like. I'm not the only one. So yeah, lots of people force people to use Facebook. It's like Cell phones. These days if you apply for any job better than burger flipper's assistant and don't have one you're unemployable. Facebook is getting there, and don't think they haven't noticed (and are taking steps to encourage this line of thought).
like we do here in America? e.g. massively under report the number of unemployed and underemployed? America plays all sorts of games with unemployment statistics so we can make excuses to give out more "temporary" work visas. During Trump's campaign there were interviews with people who applied at his resorts for seasonal work and weren't hired because their jobs went to visa holders (who work longer hours for less pay).
or socialist. Yeah, this is slightly off topic, but folks get confused so much when they hear this term that I think it's worth pointing out. Neoliberal is in line with the "Clintonian" or "Corporate" side of the Democratic party. e.g. Low regulations, free trade, legalize things that aren't directly harmful like drugs, etc. It's like a pro-corporate libertarian.
like most poor States they don't have the resources to build a power grid without help. The same is true for KY, AL, SC and just about the entire South. That's one of the reasons they're a net importer of Federal dollars.
PR's problem is that they're like a state but they're not. They have the disadvantages (paying taxes, military service requirements, etc) but none of the benefits. They've been trying to become a full state for ages but they lean Democrat and the Republicans have been in charge since Reagan (I'm not counting Clinton, he was so right wing he might as well have been a Republican).
all lived, all walked out of the hospital. As shootings go it was barely even a blip. It only made the news because it happened at Youtube and the women is kinda odd looking.
at night. As I've gotten older I'm hyper sensitive to light and my vision quality's gone down. The two combined can sometimes almost completely blind me at night (between folks lights and already less than perfect vision). I'm guessing by my mid-50s I won't be able to drive at night...
your primary vote is incredibly powerful since so few people show up to it. If you show up at your primaries you can do away with crap like the "Sheldon" primary (google it).
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and how it works and when I've recovered from the shock, I'll write 'Fancy That' on the side of my ****.
it's called closing the app.
cut through the street when they want to get home sooner.
When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It.
If you care about this take care of the working class & poor. Once they're secure in their food, shelter, healthcare, education and transportation (e.g. the basics of life) then you can talk to them about global warming.
Crypto Currencies value is predicated on black market goods and services. e.g. Drugs, Prostitution, Ransomware and money laundering. People buy crypto currency to purchase illegal things. These things are highly desirable so the person buying is willing to take the risks. As for the seller, the product's cost is negligible but an artificially constricted supply means they can charge so much for it that the risk of getting stuck with worthless currency can be mitigated by charging 3, 5 or even 10 -20 times the raw cost of the product.
The black market created a floor of value for crypto currency. Once that grew large enough speculators moved in and drove up the value.
The real risk is that the government will clamp down on the illegal activity or (worse) make the activity legal (e.g. legalize drugs and prostitution, the latter two examples aren't likely to be legalized).
CEOs of successful companies are members of the ruling class. That's because they're less like positions of leadership and more like fiefdoms doled out to barons and baronesses.
He supports DACA, TPP, the endless wars and neo-liberal economics. Take away those massive tax cuts and the attacks on Obama care and you've got a Hilary presidency with a little more racism and a few more pot heads in jail. I suppose the latter matters if you're one of those pot heads or on Obamacare, but my point is we're still in the world of incrementalism. We coulda had Bernie and some real change but folks got scared.
you're adding in health care, the cost of which has long since spiraled out of control and is several times inflation. That's not more wages because it's not more wealth. My company might be paying $2000 a month for my health care on top of the $500 I pay but that doesn't mean I get $2500 worth of value. That money just gets filtered back up to the 1% in the form of stock dividends. It's another trick to keep wages low. Nothing more, nothing less.
Cheap electronics I rarely buy don't solve the wage decline problem. You need to consider what I call "Real" inflation, which is the rising cost of necessities (food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation & retirement savings). As those things become an increasingly large percentage of your expenses your actual buying power goes down. This is why a woman who got laid off from K-Mart recently after 44 years started at $3/hr ($16/hr inflation adjusted dollars) and ended at $10.50. She lost a third of her pay over her career.
You don't get better results by cherry picking your stats, you get the Establishment's results. The funny thing is your sig rails against that same establishment but you're falling in line with their narrative. Wake up and go watch some clips from Bernie Sanders. You've been had.
those sweet, sweet super cookies? Even Homestarrunner Abandoned flash and put their content on Youtube as videos (sadly you lose a lot of in interactivity).
so they get to pay Irish tax rates, I ought to get Irish privacy. I ought to, but looks like I don't.
I do like how the EU does fines. A percentage of gross revenue. Here in the states we do dollar amounts, which tends to make them less than the profit from the crime.
Apparently China loses a freighter every other day. It was causally mentioned in a news story because an American freighter went down (which is rare). It's bizarre to think that as I type this there's a 50/50 chance an entire ship's crew is going to die. It's also bizarre that their cargo and lives are so cheap that nobody notices or cares. I'd love to think we could put an end to that with humanitarianism, but hell, I didn't even know about it until it was mentioned offhand in an article...
Oh, one other thing, is it just me or do a lot of these start ups come out of Universities? It kinda bugs me that my tax dollars go to something that's promptly turned into profit for investors. Maybe it got funded with private funds (which raises the question of why public Universities have to go begging for private funds) but I'd like to see more open research that's free to the public.
the CEO of Savedroid for helping lower the price of graphics cards.
30 - 40 years of declining wages mean we're all doing whatever we can to hang on. The most obvious thing is buying cheap stuff from China through online retailers.
It saves me a couple grand a year, which has just barely kept my income ahead of inflation these last few years. I'm just trying to make it until the kid's out of college. I know full well the human cost of it all, but I'm a pretty weak guy. I can barely hang on myself. I know logically that if we'd all stand together we'd be saved but I also know that's just not what happens. I'm an American, and I can't even more than 60% of us to agree that we should all get healthcare. And most of that 60% is in two out of 50 States.
I think the race to the bottom is just going to accelerate. We could stop it whenever we want, but it would mean accepting the occasional guy like this. From what I'd see folks would rather starve to death in the streets than see a guy like that get food stamps and health care.
Karl Marx talked about how capital would flow to where ever labor was cheapest in a never ending race to the bottom but all anybody can remember about him is that a couple of fascists borrowed his books for rhetoric.
Here's a crazy idea: Instead of the folks in the UK getting worse lives how about the rest of Europe get _better_ lives?
when the Teamsters ran them.
or large swaths of the Southern United States? You just plain get trapped. It's got nothing to do with your abilities. There just isn't much work unless you're rockin' a college degree and then you probably get out of Dodge because the schools suck and the water's full of lead.
.com boom. Stop blaming the victim. GP is 100% right. Any attempt to Unionize it met with the full force of their corporate legal team plus every lobbyist they can muster.
Walmart hasn't been scrapping the bottom since the
so I can give the company a like. I'm not the only one. So yeah, lots of people force people to use Facebook. It's like Cell phones. These days if you apply for any job better than burger flipper's assistant and don't have one you're unemployable. Facebook is getting there, and don't think they haven't noticed (and are taking steps to encourage this line of thought).
like we do here in America? e.g. massively under report the number of unemployed and underemployed? America plays all sorts of games with unemployment statistics so we can make excuses to give out more "temporary" work visas. During Trump's campaign there were interviews with people who applied at his resorts for seasonal work and weren't hired because their jobs went to visa holders (who work longer hours for less pay).
or socialist. Yeah, this is slightly off topic, but folks get confused so much when they hear this term that I think it's worth pointing out. Neoliberal is in line with the "Clintonian" or "Corporate" side of the Democratic party. e.g. Low regulations, free trade, legalize things that aren't directly harmful like drugs, etc. It's like a pro-corporate libertarian.
For the record, Stallman is very left wing.
like most poor States they don't have the resources to build a power grid without help. The same is true for KY, AL, SC and just about the entire South. That's one of the reasons they're a net importer of Federal dollars.
PR's problem is that they're like a state but they're not. They have the disadvantages (paying taxes, military service requirements, etc) but none of the benefits. They've been trying to become a full state for ages but they lean Democrat and the Republicans have been in charge since Reagan (I'm not counting Clinton, he was so right wing he might as well have been a Republican).
when you're dirt poor in PR. We've been dumping on PR for ages because they lean left.
and there are political reasons for both of those things.
all lived, all walked out of the hospital. As shootings go it was barely even a blip. It only made the news because it happened at Youtube and the women is kinda odd looking.
at night. As I've gotten older I'm hyper sensitive to light and my vision quality's gone down. The two combined can sometimes almost completely blind me at night (between folks lights and already less than perfect vision). I'm guessing by my mid-50s I won't be able to drive at night...
your primary vote is incredibly powerful since so few people show up to it. If you show up at your primaries you can do away with crap like the "Sheldon" primary (google it).