where the roads are broken and cracked, the schools run down and the police & fire departments hard to come by. The ones that can leave do and the jobs go with them.
the iPhoneX was trying to solve. Namely that having an iPhone isn't a big deal anymore. The X was suppose to restore the iPhone to being a premium product you could show off your wealth with. Like expensive clothing, headphones and cars.
for one of the newer Samsungs is they often have the latest Radio tech, so you might (might) get better signal out of it. If you're on T-Mobile they're going to be the only way to hop on the new bandwidth they bought in that big auction for a while. Them and LG, and both phones will be in the $700 range. Other than that anything in the $220 range has virtually all the performance save for 3D gaming and less than 1/2 the price.
it sounds like the major political parties boycotted the referendum because it was chock full of poison pills. Both parties were still in favor of statehood. They probably didn't think it was worth swallowing poison for something that had zero chance of making them a State. Your post though, makes it sound like the people of PR would reject Statehood given a chance. A lie by omission perhaps?
which is just how slim a margin Trump won by. A small amount of spending in the right place is all that was really needed. Now, to be fair a big part of the problem is Hilary, like Romney before her, got ripped off by her consultants (by all accounts 5 of them took $700 million of the $1 billion she had and did nothing with it, they just kept it).
You're also forgetting what they ads were like. They weren't 'vote Trump!' ads. They were targeted to Trump voters. They were there to rile up and scare Trump voters. Their purpose was to make sure those people showed up at the polls for Trump.
A lot of things went into the disaster that is the Trump presidency. DNC corruption, Hilary's arrogance and incompetence, Obama not paying attention to his party, right wing Dems taking the working class for granted. The list goes on and on. It took a fundamental break down of our political system. God willing the Dems won't run a right wing shmuck like Biden or another Hilary like Kamala Harris. If they do it's 4 more years of Trump.
Explain this. What you call chain migration others call reuniting families.
To be fair the Dems aren't out to protect us all that much either. If they were they'd do something about the 500,000 workers here on expired visas, most of whom came here on H1-Bs. I don't really care about 'chain' migration because that's mostly Mexicans taking low pay service jobs.
But anyway, Trump could send those 500k illegal aliens (expired visas, so the term fits) back any time he wants. With the stroke of a pen. He could also undo the Obama era rule allowing H1-B worker's spouses to work in the States. Again, stroke of a pen, no input from Congress, he could do it today. The fact that he doesn't shows you something. It shows you who he really works for.
That's not what's happening. The Dems have two issues they won't move on. DACA & CHIP. Both are supported by a majority of Americans. Both seem fairly reasonable. Furthermore, the Republicans have a long, long history of reneging on promises. The Dems would be fools to take the bait. They'll just get blamed when either DACA or CHIP goes down in flames.
The Republicans have a huge edge here. For one thing they control all branches of the government. For another their largely indifferent to DACA & CHIP. They'd just as soon pocket the CHIP money for themselves in the form of tax cuts. As for DACA, they don't want to lose 3 million workers (imagine what that would do for wages in this country when that kind of labor shortage hit) but their base wants DACA dead and counteracting the backlash when they reinstate it is going to be expensive.
Basically, the Republicans are much, much better at playing hardball. But to be blunt, it's easier when you're not considering the collateral damage in terms of pain and suffering. And I think there's a strong argument to be made that, frankly, they don't.
For one thing the two Arizona Republicans voted no/abstained. For another the new _Democrat_ Alabama Senator Voted yes. But more importantly you can thank that tax cut for the rich for it. The Republicans probably could have gotten it through with a simple majority on Reconciliation _except_ that process has limits on how much they can ad to the deficit/debt in a year and the tax bill put them right at those limits.
This shutdown belongs to the Rs, and by the poll the Americans know it. Your attempts to believe otherwise not withstanding. And we shouldn't be surprised the Rs can't govern. We put a party in power that fundamentally believes government can't work. It's a core part of their platform. How the heck are you suppose to run something you want to tear down? It's like putting Peta in charge of McDonald's.
but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do something about it. I'm not surprised murders and robbers exist. But that doesn't mean I disband the police and leave my doors unlocked.
And I recognize there are a _lot_ of mentally vulnerable people out there. It's too difficult and risky to bar them from voting. It's also tough to get the right information to them, but we can at least try. We can also invest in teaching people critical thinking and making them aware that propaganda exists.
that wrote the trump dossier? Just seening some summaries would be enough. Trump _is_ more friendly with Russia. That's not alleged. He has tens of millions of dollars of sketchy loans and business deals with them. One of their oligarchs bought a property from them for $45 million more than it was worth. They're also the reason he could get credit. Russians bought enough property from him that he was able to get loans on the basis of those sales when he otherwise couldn't get loans (proof of high per unit sales can be used to secure loans in the real estate industry). And his ties the the Russian mafia are anything but alleged.
Everyone talks about the pee tape but the real story is that Russia could pretty easily blackmail our president. Hell, they're probably doing it as we speak.
and a big part of why is because it's nerdy men's work. She's on her way to becoming an oncology nurse.
And my point is Pichai doesn't care how he gets his workers. But if he can poach ones that otherwise would have entered the medical field he'd be happy to. My kid's smart, and she's never going to work for Google or any other tech company. And her perception of IT work is a big part of that. Not that I would have encouraged it though. Way too much wage suppression and outsourcing. If Pichai and his ilk don't think I see what he's doing he's nuts.
When you want to know who _really_ has power over you look to those who don't even notice when you criticize them. The ones that get made at criticism are at least aware of you enough to retaliate.
worst case he pitches a few million to Demore and his lawyer. Pichai is after bigger fish, to wit: the largely untapped labor pool of female software engineers. There's a dirty joke in there somewhere, but my consideration of it is one of the reasons that labor pool remains untapped.
Now, a better organization could have it's cake an eat it too. e.g. they could keep guys like Damore without driving out women. But I've been in IT for 20 years and I know what a boys club it is. Changing that is _hard_.
most of the studies he cited are highly suspect. I think Google over reacted firing him (they're terrified of losing women engineers since it's a large, untapped labor pool) but I don't think that makes his arguments sound. Also, having worked in IT for 20 years the "locker room" talk gets pretty bad. I could see most ladies not wanting to be anywhere near that. Google's trying to reign that in. That said, they're doing it the wrong way, and I'm fairly certain that California law is such they'll lose the upcoming lawsuit (though almost ironically I'm pretty sure federal law wouldn't be enough to protect Damore, so it's those libby libs that will more than likely make his suit fly).
the downfall of Radio shack was device convergence. There are just plain fewer devices to sell. My cell phone is a radio, a phone, a GPS, a mini-computer, a PDA, a games machine, a video chat client, an mp3 player, a portable video player. I could go on. The only one that survived was Best Buy who made it through mostly by having the floor space to sell 60" TVs when they suddenly got cheap and everyone was ditching their tubes.
Hobbyists couldn't save Radio Shack because America's manufacturing base is gone. Those tinkers were factory workers and engineers. We don't have very many of those left because most of their jobs are in China now.
That left cell phones and not much else for Radio Shack to sell, and the margins on those finally got too tight to support them...
is engaged in that kind of engineering. Their autonomous car division. The rest sell ads.
That said, it goes both ways. If the Alpha male screws up and the beta finds the fuck up your hard-core environment can break down when the beta keeps his mouth shut to avoid conflict (or because he knows damn well nobody's gonna listen to him since he's not a jock).
Hell, on a smaller scale, who here reading this hasn't kept their mouth shut about some impending doom at work because it wasn't worth the hassle to speak up.
it's because the Republicans can't afford to piss off rural voters. The US system of government gives them a disproportionate amount of voting power and their interests don't often align with the city voters, making them a prime candidate for politicking.
People massively underestimate the value of getting women in tech. Women are no less capable, there's plenty of studies to bear that out. But they're massively under represented. Get them to show up and you'd have a large increase in tech workers which translates into lower pay all around. Supply and Demand.
Bernie Sanders had to turn to alternative news to get coverage for his Medicare for All push. Once in the while MSNBC will have him on to bash Trump but they don't let him get too far into the weeds on substantive policy. CNN just pretends he doesn't exist.
to another city Social Networks helped a lot. It let her keep in touch with the friends from the old city and make ones in the new city. This was especially important because she was one of the poor kids in her school. The job I got that made us move paid better than my old one (which was probably on it's way to being offshored anyway), but it wasn't quite enough to live well anywhere near where I worked. It didn't help that there wasn't a lot of time to drive the kid around town to hang out (and I'm in America, so public transit is a no go, most of her friends weren't reachable by it).
Yeah, my entire situation was dysfunctional. I shoulda had more money and more time. But, well, here we are. Now, for a guy like Tim Cook with his kind of money none of this is every a thing he'd need to spare a thought to.
does everything I want, was 1/4 the prices of an iPhone (1/5 if you count the X) and has a a 3.5 jack. Oh, and a replaceable battery too. And it's no thicker than an iPhone.
who claimed he could strike up a lively conversation with anyone just by knowing their IQ. He's at a party and asks the first guy, what's your IQ? They guy says 170, and so they start talking about quantum physics, calculus and cellular biology. He asks another guy and he says 100. They talk about football and fixing cars. Lastly he asks a third guy who says 70. So he asks the guy, well, what kind of sticks do you us?
& the "Leveraged Buyout" business model he and his company pioneered. Also his complete lack of caring about the common man. In photo ops He and his wife seemed to barely contain their disgust for common folks. The "Chocolate Goodies" comment was a bizarre example of it. The part about having to sell the stock his father gave him to sell got on my nerves too. I grew up in a broken home with a dead beat dad like a lot of Americans. Having somebody tell me they were so poor their dad had to give them tens of thousands of dollars didn't go over well. I bet a lot of Americans felt that way.
Oh yeah, His old company outsourced hundreds of good paying pharma jobs _during_ the campaign. The folks losing their jobs showed up at one of Romney's events to try and petition for his help. He didn't just say no, his people had the cops escort them out of the building. Yeah, yeah, he doesn't work there anymore, but he ran the company so long that he established their culture and business practices. And regardless, once again we show how little he actually cares.
Romney was, to me, exactly light Hilary Clinton. A right of center politician who was going to ship more jobs overseas not because they're evil, but because they view the folks getting screwed like ants, which is to say they don't even think of us when they step on us. I didn't want that for my president.
they can run the country with good 'ole fashion common sense. It doesn't help that it looks easy. After all, anyone can tell somebody else what to do, right? It's like writing. You learn to do it in grade school. How hard can this Shakespear stuff be, amiright? The trouble is it's scary to think that the problems of the world are too complex for you to understand and solve. Rather than face that fact and seek help a lot of folks deny it and try to force the world to conform the the reality they've chosen to believe in; with predictable results...
Also, a significant portion of the population really, really hates to feel talked down to; and, well, it's easy to rile these folks up, drive them to the polls and get them to vote you into office. Clinton (Bill) used to do it. When he talked to old people he dyed his hair gray. Young folks got a brown dye. And his southern drawl pretty much vanished when he wasn't on the campaign in the South.
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where the roads are broken and cracked, the schools run down and the police & fire departments hard to come by. The ones that can leave do and the jobs go with them.
the iPhoneX was trying to solve. Namely that having an iPhone isn't a big deal anymore. The X was suppose to restore the iPhone to being a premium product you could show off your wealth with. Like expensive clothing, headphones and cars.
for one of the newer Samsungs is they often have the latest Radio tech, so you might (might) get better signal out of it. If you're on T-Mobile they're going to be the only way to hop on the new bandwidth they bought in that big auction for a while. Them and LG, and both phones will be in the $700 range. Other than that anything in the $220 range has virtually all the performance save for 3D gaming and less than 1/2 the price.
it sounds like the major political parties boycotted the referendum because it was chock full of poison pills. Both parties were still in favor of statehood. They probably didn't think it was worth swallowing poison for something that had zero chance of making them a State. Your post though, makes it sound like the people of PR would reject Statehood given a chance. A lie by omission perhaps?
which is just how slim a margin Trump won by. A small amount of spending in the right place is all that was really needed. Now, to be fair a big part of the problem is Hilary, like Romney before her, got ripped off by her consultants (by all accounts 5 of them took $700 million of the $1 billion she had and did nothing with it, they just kept it).
You're also forgetting what they ads were like. They weren't 'vote Trump!' ads. They were targeted to Trump voters. They were there to rile up and scare Trump voters. Their purpose was to make sure those people showed up at the polls for Trump.
A lot of things went into the disaster that is the Trump presidency. DNC corruption, Hilary's arrogance and incompetence, Obama not paying attention to his party, right wing Dems taking the working class for granted. The list goes on and on. It took a fundamental break down of our political system. God willing the Dems won't run a right wing shmuck like Biden or another Hilary like Kamala Harris. If they do it's 4 more years of Trump.
Explain this. What you call chain migration others call reuniting families.
To be fair the Dems aren't out to protect us all that much either. If they were they'd do something about the 500,000 workers here on expired visas, most of whom came here on H1-Bs. I don't really care about 'chain' migration because that's mostly Mexicans taking low pay service jobs.
But anyway, Trump could send those 500k illegal aliens (expired visas, so the term fits) back any time he wants. With the stroke of a pen. He could also undo the Obama era rule allowing H1-B worker's spouses to work in the States. Again, stroke of a pen, no input from Congress, he could do it today. The fact that he doesn't shows you something. It shows you who he really works for.
That's not what's happening. The Dems have two issues they won't move on. DACA & CHIP. Both are supported by a majority of Americans. Both seem fairly reasonable. Furthermore, the Republicans have a long, long history of reneging on promises. The Dems would be fools to take the bait. They'll just get blamed when either DACA or CHIP goes down in flames.
The Republicans have a huge edge here. For one thing they control all branches of the government. For another their largely indifferent to DACA & CHIP. They'd just as soon pocket the CHIP money for themselves in the form of tax cuts. As for DACA, they don't want to lose 3 million workers (imagine what that would do for wages in this country when that kind of labor shortage hit) but their base wants DACA dead and counteracting the backlash when they reinstate it is going to be expensive.
Basically, the Republicans are much, much better at playing hardball. But to be blunt, it's easier when you're not considering the collateral damage in terms of pain and suffering. And I think there's a strong argument to be made that, frankly, they don't.
For one thing the two Arizona Republicans voted no/abstained. For another the new _Democrat_ Alabama Senator Voted yes. But more importantly you can thank that tax cut for the rich for it. The Republicans probably could have gotten it through with a simple majority on Reconciliation _except_ that process has limits on how much they can ad to the deficit/debt in a year and the tax bill put them right at those limits.
This shutdown belongs to the Rs, and by the poll the Americans know it. Your attempts to believe otherwise not withstanding. And we shouldn't be surprised the Rs can't govern. We put a party in power that fundamentally believes government can't work. It's a core part of their platform. How the heck are you suppose to run something you want to tear down? It's like putting Peta in charge of McDonald's.
but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do something about it. I'm not surprised murders and robbers exist. But that doesn't mean I disband the police and leave my doors unlocked.
And I recognize there are a _lot_ of mentally vulnerable people out there. It's too difficult and risky to bar them from voting. It's also tough to get the right information to them, but we can at least try. We can also invest in teaching people critical thinking and making them aware that propaganda exists.
that wrote the trump dossier? Just seening some summaries would be enough. Trump _is_ more friendly with Russia. That's not alleged. He has tens of millions of dollars of sketchy loans and business deals with them. One of their oligarchs bought a property from them for $45 million more than it was worth. They're also the reason he could get credit. Russians bought enough property from him that he was able to get loans on the basis of those sales when he otherwise couldn't get loans (proof of high per unit sales can be used to secure loans in the real estate industry). And his ties the the Russian mafia are anything but alleged.
Everyone talks about the pee tape but the real story is that Russia could pretty easily blackmail our president. Hell, they're probably doing it as we speak.
and a big part of why is because it's nerdy men's work. She's on her way to becoming an oncology nurse.
And my point is Pichai doesn't care how he gets his workers. But if he can poach ones that otherwise would have entered the medical field he'd be happy to. My kid's smart, and she's never going to work for Google or any other tech company. And her perception of IT work is a big part of that. Not that I would have encouraged it though. Way too much wage suppression and outsourcing. If Pichai and his ilk don't think I see what he's doing he's nuts.
When you want to know who _really_ has power over you look to those who don't even notice when you criticize them. The ones that get made at criticism are at least aware of you enough to retaliate.
worst case he pitches a few million to Demore and his lawyer. Pichai is after bigger fish, to wit: the largely untapped labor pool of female software engineers. There's a dirty joke in there somewhere, but my consideration of it is one of the reasons that labor pool remains untapped.
Now, a better organization could have it's cake an eat it too. e.g. they could keep guys like Damore without driving out women. But I've been in IT for 20 years and I know what a boys club it is. Changing that is _hard_.
most of the studies he cited are highly suspect. I think Google over reacted firing him (they're terrified of losing women engineers since it's a large, untapped labor pool) but I don't think that makes his arguments sound. Also, having worked in IT for 20 years the "locker room" talk gets pretty bad. I could see most ladies not wanting to be anywhere near that. Google's trying to reign that in. That said, they're doing it the wrong way, and I'm fairly certain that California law is such they'll lose the upcoming lawsuit (though almost ironically I'm pretty sure federal law wouldn't be enough to protect Damore, so it's those libby libs that will more than likely make his suit fly).
the downfall of Radio shack was device convergence. There are just plain fewer devices to sell. My cell phone is a radio, a phone, a GPS, a mini-computer, a PDA, a games machine, a video chat client, an mp3 player, a portable video player. I could go on. The only one that survived was Best Buy who made it through mostly by having the floor space to sell 60" TVs when they suddenly got cheap and everyone was ditching their tubes.
Hobbyists couldn't save Radio Shack because America's manufacturing base is gone. Those tinkers were factory workers and engineers. We don't have very many of those left because most of their jobs are in China now.
That left cell phones and not much else for Radio Shack to sell, and the margins on those finally got too tight to support them...
is engaged in that kind of engineering. Their autonomous car division. The rest sell ads.
That said, it goes both ways. If the Alpha male screws up and the beta finds the fuck up your hard-core environment can break down when the beta keeps his mouth shut to avoid conflict (or because he knows damn well nobody's gonna listen to him since he's not a jock).
Hell, on a smaller scale, who here reading this hasn't kept their mouth shut about some impending doom at work because it wasn't worth the hassle to speak up.
it's because the Republicans can't afford to piss off rural voters. The US system of government gives them a disproportionate amount of voting power and their interests don't often align with the city voters, making them a prime candidate for politicking.
People massively underestimate the value of getting women in tech. Women are no less capable, there's plenty of studies to bear that out. But they're massively under represented. Get them to show up and you'd have a large increase in tech workers which translates into lower pay all around. Supply and Demand.
This isn't politics, it's business.
Bernie Sanders had to turn to alternative news to get coverage for his Medicare for All push. Once in the while MSNBC will have him on to bash Trump but they don't let him get too far into the weeds on substantive policy. CNN just pretends he doesn't exist.
to another city Social Networks helped a lot. It let her keep in touch with the friends from the old city and make ones in the new city. This was especially important because she was one of the poor kids in her school. The job I got that made us move paid better than my old one (which was probably on it's way to being offshored anyway), but it wasn't quite enough to live well anywhere near where I worked. It didn't help that there wasn't a lot of time to drive the kid around town to hang out (and I'm in America, so public transit is a no go, most of her friends weren't reachable by it).
Yeah, my entire situation was dysfunctional. I shoulda had more money and more time. But, well, here we are. Now, for a guy like Tim Cook with his kind of money none of this is every a thing he'd need to spare a thought to.
does everything I want, was 1/4 the prices of an iPhone (1/5 if you count the X) and has a a 3.5 jack. Oh, and a replaceable battery too. And it's no thicker than an iPhone.
who claimed he could strike up a lively conversation with anyone just by knowing their IQ. He's at a party and asks the first guy, what's your IQ? They guy says 170, and so they start talking about quantum physics, calculus and cellular biology. He asks another guy and he says 100. They talk about football and fixing cars. Lastly he asks a third guy who says 70. So he asks the guy, well, what kind of sticks do you us?
& the "Leveraged Buyout" business model he and his company pioneered. Also his complete lack of caring about the common man. In photo ops He and his wife seemed to barely contain their disgust for common folks. The "Chocolate Goodies" comment was a bizarre example of it. The part about having to sell the stock his father gave him to sell got on my nerves too. I grew up in a broken home with a dead beat dad like a lot of Americans. Having somebody tell me they were so poor their dad had to give them tens of thousands of dollars didn't go over well. I bet a lot of Americans felt that way.
Oh yeah, His old company outsourced hundreds of good paying pharma jobs _during_ the campaign. The folks losing their jobs showed up at one of Romney's events to try and petition for his help. He didn't just say no, his people had the cops escort them out of the building. Yeah, yeah, he doesn't work there anymore, but he ran the company so long that he established their culture and business practices. And regardless, once again we show how little he actually cares.
Romney was, to me, exactly light Hilary Clinton. A right of center politician who was going to ship more jobs overseas not because they're evil, but because they view the folks getting screwed like ants, which is to say they don't even think of us when they step on us. I didn't want that for my president.
of Ian Bank's Culture novels.
they can run the country with good 'ole fashion common sense. It doesn't help that it looks easy. After all, anyone can tell somebody else what to do, right? It's like writing. You learn to do it in grade school. How hard can this Shakespear stuff be, amiright? The trouble is it's scary to think that the problems of the world are too complex for you to understand and solve. Rather than face that fact and seek help a lot of folks deny it and try to force the world to conform the the reality they've chosen to believe in; with predictable results...
Also, a significant portion of the population really, really hates to feel talked down to; and, well, it's easy to rile these folks up, drive them to the polls and get them to vote you into office. Clinton (Bill) used to do it. When he talked to old people he dyed his hair gray. Young folks got a brown dye. And his southern drawl pretty much vanished when he wasn't on the campaign in the South.