that made companies use trucks. It's because rail takes longer and needs more planing. The trend was started by Walmart because it lets them have no warehouses and keep the bare minimum amount of goods on hand instead of tying up cash with inventory. It also lets them keep only what sells on hand, avoiding discount sales and driving up the prices they can charge for what goods they do sell (since they don't have to clearance things that might be equivalents).
That said, we probably could change our tax structure to encourage rail. Also better computer algorithms might make it possible to do Just In Time shipping with rail. I don't know enough about the subject to say.
team driving still pays well, and even better if you own your own truck. Note that is 'own'. After the 2008 crash truck companies took advantage of drivers to put them into phony "leases" instead of hiring them (think the gig economy crap but worse) with impossible numbers. There's interviews with guys that have.06 cent checks after the fees.
But if you can team drive you can still make upwards to $100k/yr. Mind you, a lot of that money gets spent on the road (living on the road ain't cheap) but you're still doing alright. The ones that get screwed are the short runs (think California to New Mexico). There's a lot of drivers who want those routes because you can drive all week and make it home to the family for the weekend.
Source, close friend of mine was a driver and he gave up because he had trouble doing team runs and couldn't get steady work on short runs.
and easier jobs pay less. Also, Uber & co are hard at work automating that job too, so this rings doubly hollow.
The way you can tell automation is going to screw the working class is easy, look at how whenever the ruling class brings it up they put so much effort into reassuring us.
has a pretty convincing debunking of the Bannana Equvalent Dose theory in it, right? Basically you're not continuously exposed to the banana's radiation because your body passes the radioactive potassium in excess to what it can take in and store (e.g. homeostasis). That makes it a poor measure of something you have continuous exposure to (like cell phone radiation).
Hell, I'm not sure we have _anything_ we can compare to the constant low level radio waves we've been generating for the last 100 or so years.
here's the context. The reason they were showing a song sung in Greece from the 50s with pictures from that era is because it was before immigrants came, e.g. when the country was Greeks only. The subtext is "Things were better before immigrants came, so we should send them away".
I guess the question is, is a segregationist message hate speech? In the United States it most certainly is. We have a long history of what's called "Separate by Equal" between our black and white populations where things were anything but equal. Not sure about Greece, but I'm inclined to agree with Youtube here.
or poor folks in the rust belt and inner cities. Tell that to somebody who just isn't as sharp as you and I. You can't tell me you don't know folks who just don't 'get' computers. Hell, if it's that easy, what the hell are you doing on/.? Shouldn't you be out there making millions? Or could it be you're just blaming folks for their limitations because you don't want the guilt that comes with abandoning them to poverty?
Trump just wants to be rich and liked. Trouble is, the folks he's hanging with who are making him rich and liked are authoritarian despots. And he does whatever they tell him as long as the money and the likes keep rolling in. Trump's a lot of things, a leader isn't one of them.
the president is suppose to fire people if the FBI isn't being handled the way it should be. He's not supposed to engage in off handed pissing matches. This is Gas Lighting to distract from the corruption he and his administration are being investigated for. And not that Russian nonsense either, but actual money laundering, bribes and outright corruption.
who is in turn accountable to the American People and to Congress? You might be thinking of the CIA, which is more a military organization.
I suppose an argument could be made that the President isn't accountable to the American people, since there's a strong argument to be made that America isn't really a Democracy (something like 85% of passed legislation is opposed by the American people IIRC, and then there's the whole "Sheldon Primary' thing).
used elements of the Patriot Act to coordinate a response to occupy Wallstreet between the FBI and local law enforcement in order to shut the protests down. And it worked. The best part? They didn't even hide that they did it. Privacy isn't the problem. The problem is that nobody is calling them out on abuse of power, and lots of folks approve of it ('Gosh darn lazy Millennials, why don't they get a job', etc, etc).
AI is being used as a short hand for the phrase 'Automation'. I know techies and scientists don't like it when terms get used loosely, but it doesn't change the fact that there are massive changes coming and that in all likelihood they are not going to be positive.
Outside of a few Nordic countries your entire quality of life is predicated on your job. And there have been no meaningful attempts to change that. People _should_ be panicking. It's OK to be afraid of something bad that is going to happen. There's a reason why evolution gave us fight or flight. And make no mistake, we can't choose 'flight' here. There's nowhere to run in a global economy. So they should be fighting. This doesn't have to mean hysteria. But you can't solve a problem if you refuse to acknowledge it.
the last time it took two world wars to get us out of the rut we were in. This time we've got a global communication network and an aristocracy that doesn't live bound to one country. What if instead of the productivity eventually creating new forms of work we just enter another dark age? The last one lasted 1200 years...
the bad news is 1/4 haven't. When the industrial rev took off it put more folks out of work than it employed. That's where Luddites came from. The were freaking out over losing their livelihoods in a society where your quality of life is determiined by your job.
It took 80 years for other tech to catch up and employee more people than it put out of work. The people alive during those 80 years either lived like kings or like crap. And as far as I can tell nothing's changed. Your quality of life is determined by your job (or lack thereof)
about this kind of tracking. I've got bigger fish to fry. I'm in the US, so I'm not guaranteed access to health care. My jobs keep getting offshored and if they can't do that they try to bring in cheap labor to do them (e.g. H1-Bs or whatever your local equivalent is) and I'm staring down the barrel of a massive Automation push that, even if it doesn't take my job, is going to displace so many workers it's going to royally fsck the economy. Then there's climate change and water shortages coming, the absurd cost of college for my kids and not being able to retire when I can't work anymore. Oh yeah, and my country's involved in 8 wars and working on 9 and 10.
When I read stories like this I think about that XKCD comic about the guy with megabit encryption getting hit with a $2 wrench until he gives up his password. There's just much, much easier ways to oppress me than taking away a bit of my privacy so they can sell me crap.
you could fix that with a bit of low-fi tech. And besides, I pay with Paypal periodically (I also Sell Sea Shells on the Sea Shore, but I digress) and while it might be ugly tech it works and it's not hard for the user.
I read the article too. All it says is Ebay split the company off at the behest of their shareholders. That doesn't preclude them from using them as a payment service. Maybe I'm just being dense (I'm pretty tired) but I still haven't heard an definitive 'why'.
but Clinton was conservative on the only thing that mattered (economics). That's how he got elected. Wallstreet backed him and he backed Wallstreet; cutting tons of regulations that eventually lead to the 2008 crash (which got delayed by the.com boom and then the housing boom). He also looked the other way while our jobs were shipped overseas, promising new jobs and training support that never came.
we should remove Saudi Arabia's status as an ally until they agree to fix their record on human rights, and that includes their treatment of women. And no, I don't care one rat's buttered behind if they say it's for religious reasons. I'm a student of Richard Dawkins (figuratively).
And yes, I'm horrified by the treatment of the refugees coming here. They're escaping genocide.
we point to statistics regarding much hire rates of enforcement against minorities (especially blacks) even accounting for other factors (location, economics, education level, etc). We point to longer prison sentences, higher incidence of police's use of force and lower rates of approved loan applications. We point to Flint Mi and Puerto Rico. We have statistics and specific (and recent) examples.
When the right uses the phrase I hear a few anecdotes about how somebody didn't get a job because of Affirmative Action (nevermind that AA has no quotas and only specifies that businesses are required to keep records of hiring decisions) and a lot of talk about white christian males being oppressed.
My point is, As far as the focus on identity politics goes, it all seems to come from the right. And besides, it's all a smokescreen to blind right wing voters while the ruling class robs them blind. It's a caste system. I'm reminded of this quote
thanks our drug policy and uneven enforcement it's still living full stop. When you're black you learn what neighborhoods you belong in and which ones you don't. After all, the majority of Americans have smoked weed and you can be sent up the river for years for a joint and spend the rest of your life with the consequences of jail time and a conviction.
just no. The left hate Bill. Not because of his philandering but because his right wing economic policies. He cut funding to schools, his Wallstreet deregulation lead to the 2008 crash (he broke down the barriers between Wallstreet & Main Street banks that allowed derivatives to go nuts) and he cut taxes on the wealthy. The.com boom and housing bubble masked the damage he did until 2008, but it was going to collapse eventually.
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I know there is for the State Dept. If so, it would probably help improve things if you could fire somebody and hire their replacement.
that made companies use trucks. It's because rail takes longer and needs more planing. The trend was started by Walmart because it lets them have no warehouses and keep the bare minimum amount of goods on hand instead of tying up cash with inventory. It also lets them keep only what sells on hand, avoiding discount sales and driving up the prices they can charge for what goods they do sell (since they don't have to clearance things that might be equivalents).
That said, we probably could change our tax structure to encourage rail. Also better computer algorithms might make it possible to do Just In Time shipping with rail. I don't know enough about the subject to say.
team driving still pays well, and even better if you own your own truck. Note that is 'own'. After the 2008 crash truck companies took advantage of drivers to put them into phony "leases" instead of hiring them (think the gig economy crap but worse) with impossible numbers. There's interviews with guys that have .06 cent checks after the fees.
But if you can team drive you can still make upwards to $100k/yr. Mind you, a lot of that money gets spent on the road (living on the road ain't cheap) but you're still doing alright. The ones that get screwed are the short runs (think California to New Mexico). There's a lot of drivers who want those routes because you can drive all week and make it home to the family for the weekend.
Source, close friend of mine was a driver and he gave up because he had trouble doing team runs and couldn't get steady work on short runs.
and easier jobs pay less. Also, Uber & co are hard at work automating that job too, so this rings doubly hollow.
The way you can tell automation is going to screw the working class is easy, look at how whenever the ruling class brings it up they put so much effort into reassuring us.
has a pretty convincing debunking of the Bannana Equvalent Dose theory in it, right? Basically you're not continuously exposed to the banana's radiation because your body passes the radioactive potassium in excess to what it can take in and store (e.g. homeostasis). That makes it a poor measure of something you have continuous exposure to (like cell phone radiation).
Hell, I'm not sure we have _anything_ we can compare to the constant low level radio waves we've been generating for the last 100 or so years.
it's even harder if you're doing rigorous science.
here's the context. The reason they were showing a song sung in Greece from the 50s with pictures from that era is because it was before immigrants came, e.g. when the country was Greeks only. The subtext is "Things were better before immigrants came, so we should send them away".
I guess the question is, is a segregationist message hate speech? In the United States it most certainly is. We have a long history of what's called "Separate by Equal" between our black and white populations where things were anything but equal. Not sure about Greece, but I'm inclined to agree with Youtube here.
or poor folks in the rust belt and inner cities. Tell that to somebody who just isn't as sharp as you and I. You can't tell me you don't know folks who just don't 'get' computers. Hell, if it's that easy, what the hell are you doing on /.? Shouldn't you be out there making millions? Or could it be you're just blaming folks for their limitations because you don't want the guilt that comes with abandoning them to poverty?
Trump just wants to be rich and liked. Trouble is, the folks he's hanging with who are making him rich and liked are authoritarian despots. And he does whatever they tell him as long as the money and the likes keep rolling in. Trump's a lot of things, a leader isn't one of them.
the president is suppose to fire people if the FBI isn't being handled the way it should be. He's not supposed to engage in off handed pissing matches. This is Gas Lighting to distract from the corruption he and his administration are being investigated for. And not that Russian nonsense either, but actual money laundering, bribes and outright corruption.
who is in turn accountable to the American People and to Congress? You might be thinking of the CIA, which is more a military organization.
I suppose an argument could be made that the President isn't accountable to the American people, since there's a strong argument to be made that America isn't really a Democracy (something like 85% of passed legislation is opposed by the American people IIRC, and then there's the whole "Sheldon Primary' thing).
used elements of the Patriot Act to coordinate a response to occupy Wallstreet between the FBI and local law enforcement in order to shut the protests down. And it worked. The best part? They didn't even hide that they did it. Privacy isn't the problem. The problem is that nobody is calling them out on abuse of power, and lots of folks approve of it ('Gosh darn lazy Millennials, why don't they get a job', etc, etc).
Again, We've got way, way bigger fish to fry.
AI is being used as a short hand for the phrase 'Automation'. I know techies and scientists don't like it when terms get used loosely, but it doesn't change the fact that there are massive changes coming and that in all likelihood they are not going to be positive.
Outside of a few Nordic countries your entire quality of life is predicated on your job. And there have been no meaningful attempts to change that. People _should_ be panicking. It's OK to be afraid of something bad that is going to happen. There's a reason why evolution gave us fight or flight. And make no mistake, we can't choose 'flight' here. There's nowhere to run in a global economy. So they should be fighting. This doesn't have to mean hysteria. But you can't solve a problem if you refuse to acknowledge it.
the last time it took two world wars to get us out of the rut we were in. This time we've got a global communication network and an aristocracy that doesn't live bound to one country. What if instead of the productivity eventually creating new forms of work we just enter another dark age? The last one lasted 1200 years...
the bad news is 1/4 haven't. When the industrial rev took off it put more folks out of work than it employed. That's where Luddites came from. The were freaking out over losing their livelihoods in a society where your quality of life is determiined by your job.
It took 80 years for other tech to catch up and employee more people than it put out of work. The people alive during those 80 years either lived like kings or like crap. And as far as I can tell nothing's changed. Your quality of life is determined by your job (or lack thereof)
about this kind of tracking. I've got bigger fish to fry. I'm in the US, so I'm not guaranteed access to health care. My jobs keep getting offshored and if they can't do that they try to bring in cheap labor to do them (e.g. H1-Bs or whatever your local equivalent is) and I'm staring down the barrel of a massive Automation push that, even if it doesn't take my job, is going to displace so many workers it's going to royally fsck the economy. Then there's climate change and water shortages coming, the absurd cost of college for my kids and not being able to retire when I can't work anymore. Oh yeah, and my country's involved in 8 wars and working on 9 and 10.
When I read stories like this I think about that XKCD comic about the guy with megabit encryption getting hit with a $2 wrench until he gives up his password. There's just much, much easier ways to oppress me than taking away a bit of my privacy so they can sell me crap.
you could fix that with a bit of low-fi tech. And besides, I pay with Paypal periodically (I also Sell Sea Shells on the Sea Shore, but I digress) and while it might be ugly tech it works and it's not hard for the user.
I read the article too. All it says is Ebay split the company off at the behest of their shareholders. That doesn't preclude them from using them as a payment service. Maybe I'm just being dense (I'm pretty tired) but I still haven't heard an definitive 'why'.
they own PayPal, don't they? What possible benefit could this have?
but Clinton was conservative on the only thing that mattered (economics). That's how he got elected. Wallstreet backed him and he backed Wallstreet; cutting tons of regulations that eventually lead to the 2008 crash (which got delayed by the .com boom and then the housing boom). He also looked the other way while our jobs were shipped overseas, promising new jobs and training support that never came.
we should remove Saudi Arabia's status as an ally until they agree to fix their record on human rights, and that includes their treatment of women. And no, I don't care one rat's buttered behind if they say it's for religious reasons. I'm a student of Richard Dawkins (figuratively).
And yes, I'm horrified by the treatment of the refugees coming here. They're escaping genocide.
the last movie was surprisingly good.
we point to statistics regarding much hire rates of enforcement against minorities (especially blacks) even accounting for other factors (location, economics, education level, etc). We point to longer prison sentences, higher incidence of police's use of force and lower rates of approved loan applications. We point to Flint Mi and Puerto Rico. We have statistics and specific (and recent) examples.
When the right uses the phrase I hear a few anecdotes about how somebody didn't get a job because of Affirmative Action (nevermind that AA has no quotas and only specifies that businesses are required to keep records of hiring decisions) and a lot of talk about white christian males being oppressed.
My point is, As far as the focus on identity politics goes, it all seems to come from the right. And besides, it's all a smokescreen to blind right wing voters while the ruling class robs them blind. It's a caste system. I'm reminded of this quote
thanks our drug policy and uneven enforcement it's still living full stop. When you're black you learn what neighborhoods you belong in and which ones you don't. After all, the majority of Americans have smoked weed and you can be sent up the river for years for a joint and spend the rest of your life with the consequences of jail time and a conviction.
just no. The left hate Bill. Not because of his philandering but because his right wing economic policies. He cut funding to schools, his Wallstreet deregulation lead to the 2008 crash (he broke down the barriers between Wallstreet & Main Street banks that allowed derivatives to go nuts) and he cut taxes on the wealthy. The .com boom and housing bubble masked the damage he did until 2008, but it was going to collapse eventually.