the goal of these diversity talks is to get more skilled candidates by any means necessary. Tech Businesses are concerned that women and minorities don't enter tech because of a hostile work environment. Having worked in lots of all male tech shops yeah, they're right. There's a lot of casual sexual harassment that turns women off. What we men call 'locker room talk'.
Now, that said their goals are not noble. The point is to have more people to hire from to depress wages. Period. They're not doing this for diversity or SWJism, they're doing it for cheap labor. As always, follow the money.
the only reason he can sue is because California is a left wing state. The right wing states don't have any protections for political views.
I do wish people would stop dumping on right wingers though. As a left winger I don't find it hard to point out why their beliefs are objectively wrong (I'll spare everyone that in this thread) but looking down on them or worse threatening violence doesn't help. Yes, right wingers are wrong. As the saying goes reality as a well known liberal bias. I think we're much better off letting facts speak for themselves then going off half cocked. We're just feeding into a persecution complex encouraged by right wing propaganda...
All that said, I can understand some of the fear and frustration on the part of the left. We had literal Nazis marching in Charlottesville and a President who called them good people on the sly. We've got guys like Alex Jones engaging in extremely thinly veiled anti semitic rants who pull in millions of subscribers. And let's not forget how many of our closest allies treat women (Saudi Arabia comes to mind). Meanwhile Trump ran on populism but has promised to sign any immigration bill that passes his desk.... Don't forget Bernie called out H1-B abuse but still lost out.
What I'm saying is there's a lot to be scared of if you're on the left and a lot to be scared of if you're just plain a working class American. People react badly to fear. We could use a good, stable leader who genuinely has people's interests at heart to calm it all down. Sadly it looks like the Dems are going to give us more milk-toast right wing blue dogs...
for video games outside of the tent pole stuff like GTA/COD/Madden. It's been shown to be ineffective. It's one of the side effects of businesses having much, much better data analytics then they used to. They know what works and what doesn't when it comes to advertising dollars. Sega, for example, massively cut back their ad buys years ago when they found it had little impact on sales.The tent pole franchises only still need it because normal people won't play videogames if you don't remind them to every year. They just forget about it. If you work in the advert business it's got to be all kinds of scary.
who were run out of business by Walmart. As for the wages, tell that to the literally billions of people paid subsistence wages in China, India, Africa, and even wealthy spots like Dubai. America's middle class is an anomaly that came about from the aftermath of WWII and communism. WWII destroyed the world's infrastructure leaving us the only industrialized country for 30 years and communism scared businesses too much to outsource. Both those pressures are gone. Meanwhile the working class didn't just get back from saving the world so they're ready to be shit on all over again. They've stopped demanding education, Unions and better pay and gone back to fighting among themselves over wedge issues.
Spend some time on google learning about the way the world actually works. Folks like you are patsies being used to prop up the aristocracy. The sooner you learn that the sooner you can stop being taken advantage of.
tax the billionaires who benefit from a skilled workforce to pay for maintaining that skilled workforce. It's called paying ones dues. They benefit the most from that work force so they bloody damn well should pay for it. By "exporting" education America's 1% no longer need to maintain funding to schools here.
And it shows, they've slashed budgets non-stop for 30 years in the name of 'fiscal responsibility', all the while cutting their taxes via loopholes and offshore banks.
The reason to bring those folks overseas isn't to fund our education. It's exactly the opposite. It's so somebody else (them and their home country) can pay for it. This is also why we need so many H1-Bs. If you're not going to pay for Americans to go to school and instead rely on foreign countries to do it then you need import those workers too.
none of the ruling class liked him. Yeah, there's plenty of corporatist sellouts on both sides. And Hilary is, well, just awful. Vote in your primary. If you and everyone else had done that we'd be saying Mr President to Bernie instead of a guy that confuses Call of Duty with the real world .
not even a little bit. They're a Kleptocracy. Calling them communist a) gives their system of government more legitimacy than it deserves and b) puts a bad shine on Democratic Socialism, which thanks to a decades long campaign of attacks by various members of the ruling class gets associated with Chinese style Kleptocracy.
and living expenses. The nice thing about foreign students isn't just that they pay more, it's that they have the money to pay. We've been cutting federal funding to Public Us non-stop since Clinton. Hell, I was there in the mid 90s when my school's paper started talking about how the cuts meant tuition would be over $10k by 2020. They were wrong, we passed that milestone in the mid 2000s. The schools didn't get that much more expensive to run either. Nor did the salaries go up all that much (the admin staff always made a tidy sum). We cut the funding, and it had to come from somewhere. Those tax cuts don't really pay for themselves, ya know.
when you're earning $1/hour living in a shanty town. Yeah, yeah, you'll run your own business. It'll get run out of business by mega corps who can undercut your prices. Then you'll go to work for one of those mega corps for enough food to make it through the day...
They're Used to seize evidence when police have a reasonable expectation evidence would be destroyed if subpoenaed. It's up to a judge to decide if that expectation is warranted (pun not intended). In Uber's case we now have definitive proof that they intended from the get go to destroy evidence. They'd built an entire business process around it.
If we take your ideas to their logical conclusion police lose search warrants as a tool and must rely on subpoenas. But if they're not allowed to do a forceful search they're at the mercy of the person being subpoenaed. I somehow doubt that, if Uber had no fear whatsoever of a search warrant, that they would share incriminating documents.
now it's 10%. Also, define "Personal Computer". My bro regularly runs 3-4 VMs in a virtual computer lab on his i7 while learning new tech or testing our scripts. And it's a 4th Gen i7 to boot.
they managed to evade labor law long enough to get entrenched, buy off the necessary politicians and win. Nobody discusses forcing them to comply with minimum wage law. Nobody mentioned that there are millions of commercial drivers without the necessary insurance to protect passengers. No unemployment insurance, no OSHA. Nobody making sure their drivers don't work 30 hours straight off amphetamines, only the most casual background checks....
They've managed to erode several hundred years worth of hard fought worker & consumer protections in about 20 years...
they measure how much money your parents have. If they can afford to send you to test prep classes you do well. If they can't you don't. SAT/ACT are multi-million dollar scams to make money for the ones running the tests.
Disclaimer: I just went through this with my kid. The test had little to nothing to do with what she learned in high school or what she's learning in college right now. It did, however, make it that much harder for her to get the already scarce scholarships since I couldn't afford the thousands of dollars to get her preped. We had to make due with a few hundred worth of books (yay, more profit off my kid!).
gearing up for a political run. Although it's possible this is an attempt to tie up some of the resources the oil companies use to lobby against attempts to address climate change.
Personally, if these sort of tactics are what it takes to get climate change addressed I say go for it. If you believe in science you believe in climate change. And unless you're really, really rich you're not going to be in any position to profit from ignoring it. You'll suffer with the rest of us as the price of food, drink, and everything else shoots up and wars break out because of it.
Even if the people earning minimum wage have degrees that has absolutely nothing to do with their impact on and importance to the overall job market.
You're attacking people with useless degrees (a group especially reviled here on/.) to side track the conversation about minimum wage workers and their place in the US economy. At best that's mean spirited trolling. At worst an active attack on the working class. Either way (and I'm getting tired of saying this): you should be ashamed of yourself. I don't know what you think you're doing, but you're not helping yourself or the people you care about.
and neither is this guy. He's done his research and it's pretty well backed up. You can read about it on his site and in his book (you could probably pirate it if you can't bear to give money to him). The theory is that Hilary was too shocked at losing to challenge the results.
One thing I _am_ sure of is this: Dems need to win by large margins. At least 1.5-3% (yes, in a 2 party system that's 'large', such is the nature of statistics). Dems need to win by enough that shenanigans are too obvious. Either that or you need to do what Obama did: Send lawyers. Lots and lots of Lawyers. In the run up to his first win nobody could figure out what the hell he was doing sitting on all his campaign funds. Then two weeks before election 2000+ lawyers descended on Florida. Obama took Florida. Hilary did not.
to direct traffic; which many of the ones in black neighborhoods had. They were there to threaten and scare minority voters, who have a long history of oppression by police.
Don't kid yourself. If you actually believe that you're being hopelessly naive. If you don't believe that then you have an ulterior motive for saying it, and it can't be a good one. If that's the case, stop it. I don't know what you think you're doing, but it's not helping you or anyone you know and love...
you're not thinking it through. Minorities fear the police, often with good reason. The point is to make them too scared to vote. It's a Jim Crow law. And unless you're very wealthy (or going to be after inheritance) you want these people voting. They, like you, are members of the working class. And their interests align with yours.
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the goal of these diversity talks is to get more skilled candidates by any means necessary. Tech Businesses are concerned that women and minorities don't enter tech because of a hostile work environment. Having worked in lots of all male tech shops yeah, they're right. There's a lot of casual sexual harassment that turns women off. What we men call 'locker room talk'.
Now, that said their goals are not noble. The point is to have more people to hire from to depress wages. Period. They're not doing this for diversity or SWJism, they're doing it for cheap labor. As always, follow the money.
the only reason he can sue is because California is a left wing state. The right wing states don't have any protections for political views.
I do wish people would stop dumping on right wingers though. As a left winger I don't find it hard to point out why their beliefs are objectively wrong (I'll spare everyone that in this thread) but looking down on them or worse threatening violence doesn't help. Yes, right wingers are wrong. As the saying goes reality as a well known liberal bias. I think we're much better off letting facts speak for themselves then going off half cocked. We're just feeding into a persecution complex encouraged by right wing propaganda...
All that said, I can understand some of the fear and frustration on the part of the left. We had literal Nazis marching in Charlottesville and a President who called them good people on the sly. We've got guys like Alex Jones engaging in extremely thinly veiled anti semitic rants who pull in millions of subscribers. And let's not forget how many of our closest allies treat women (Saudi Arabia comes to mind). Meanwhile Trump ran on populism but has promised to sign any immigration bill that passes his desk.... Don't forget Bernie called out H1-B abuse but still lost out.
What I'm saying is there's a lot to be scared of if you're on the left and a lot to be scared of if you're just plain a working class American. People react badly to fear. We could use a good, stable leader who genuinely has people's interests at heart to calm it all down. Sadly it looks like the Dems are going to give us more milk-toast right wing blue dogs...
for video games outside of the tent pole stuff like GTA/COD/Madden. It's been shown to be ineffective. It's one of the side effects of businesses having much, much better data analytics then they used to. They know what works and what doesn't when it comes to advertising dollars. Sega, for example, massively cut back their ad buys years ago when they found it had little impact on sales.The tent pole franchises only still need it because normal people won't play videogames if you don't remind them to every year. They just forget about it. If you work in the advert business it's got to be all kinds of scary.
who were run out of business by Walmart. As for the wages, tell that to the literally billions of people paid subsistence wages in China, India, Africa, and even wealthy spots like Dubai. America's middle class is an anomaly that came about from the aftermath of WWII and communism. WWII destroyed the world's infrastructure leaving us the only industrialized country for 30 years and communism scared businesses too much to outsource. Both those pressures are gone. Meanwhile the working class didn't just get back from saving the world so they're ready to be shit on all over again. They've stopped demanding education, Unions and better pay and gone back to fighting among themselves over wedge issues.
Spend some time on google learning about the way the world actually works. Folks like you are patsies being used to prop up the aristocracy. The sooner you learn that the sooner you can stop being taken advantage of.
tax the billionaires who benefit from a skilled workforce to pay for maintaining that skilled workforce. It's called paying ones dues. They benefit the most from that work force so they bloody damn well should pay for it. By "exporting" education America's 1% no longer need to maintain funding to schools here. And it shows, they've slashed budgets non-stop for 30 years in the name of 'fiscal responsibility', all the while cutting their taxes via loopholes and offshore banks.
The reason to bring those folks overseas isn't to fund our education. It's exactly the opposite. It's so somebody else (them and their home country) can pay for it. This is also why we need so many H1-Bs. If you're not going to pay for Americans to go to school and instead rely on foreign countries to do it then you need import those workers too.
right? If I said I was the undisputed King of the World would you bow down before me and shower me with riches? Maybe I should try that...
have you seen a male sea turtles honey-do list? Their weekends are spend mowing lawns, picking up dry cleaning and fixing fences.
none of the ruling class liked him. Yeah, there's plenty of corporatist sellouts on both sides. And Hilary is, well, just awful. Vote in your primary. If you and everyone else had done that we'd be saying Mr President to Bernie instead of a guy that confuses Call of Duty with the real world .
That's not really a come back, anymore than the Atari box is a come back. They're just using the name to get some press. Worked too.
Answer: Anything it wants.
not even a little bit. They're a Kleptocracy. Calling them communist a) gives their system of government more legitimacy than it deserves and b) puts a bad shine on Democratic Socialism, which thanks to a decades long campaign of attacks by various members of the ruling class gets associated with Chinese style Kleptocracy.
and living expenses. The nice thing about foreign students isn't just that they pay more, it's that they have the money to pay. We've been cutting federal funding to Public Us non-stop since Clinton. Hell, I was there in the mid 90s when my school's paper started talking about how the cuts meant tuition would be over $10k by 2020. They were wrong, we passed that milestone in the mid 2000s. The schools didn't get that much more expensive to run either. Nor did the salaries go up all that much (the admin staff always made a tidy sum). We cut the funding, and it had to come from somewhere. Those tax cuts don't really pay for themselves, ya know.
when you're earning $1/hour living in a shanty town. Yeah, yeah, you'll run your own business. It'll get run out of business by mega corps who can undercut your prices. Then you'll go to work for one of those mega corps for enough food to make it through the day...
They're Used to seize evidence when police have a reasonable expectation evidence would be destroyed if subpoenaed. It's up to a judge to decide if that expectation is warranted (pun not intended). In Uber's case we now have definitive proof that they intended from the get go to destroy evidence. They'd built an entire business process around it.
If we take your ideas to their logical conclusion police lose search warrants as a tool and must rely on subpoenas. But if they're not allowed to do a forceful search they're at the mercy of the person being subpoenaed. I somehow doubt that, if Uber had no fear whatsoever of a search warrant, that they would share incriminating documents.
now it's 10%. Also, define "Personal Computer". My bro regularly runs 3-4 VMs in a virtual computer lab on his i7 while learning new tech or testing our scripts. And it's a 4th Gen i7 to boot.
they managed to evade labor law long enough to get entrenched, buy off the necessary politicians and win. Nobody discusses forcing them to comply with minimum wage law. Nobody mentioned that there are millions of commercial drivers without the necessary insurance to protect passengers. No unemployment insurance, no OSHA. Nobody making sure their drivers don't work 30 hours straight off amphetamines, only the most casual background checks....
They've managed to erode several hundred years worth of hard fought worker & consumer protections in about 20 years...
Let'em hit me. I'm older and better insured!
Also, driving with her was a white knuckle experience if there ever was one....
they measure how much money your parents have. If they can afford to send you to test prep classes you do well. If they can't you don't. SAT/ACT are multi-million dollar scams to make money for the ones running the tests.
Disclaimer: I just went through this with my kid. The test had little to nothing to do with what she learned in high school or what she's learning in college right now. It did, however, make it that much harder for her to get the already scarce scholarships since I couldn't afford the thousands of dollars to get her preped. We had to make due with a few hundred worth of books (yay, more profit off my kid!).
although staling until a favorable administration was in place did.
gearing up for a political run. Although it's possible this is an attempt to tie up some of the resources the oil companies use to lobby against attempts to address climate change.
Personally, if these sort of tactics are what it takes to get climate change addressed I say go for it. If you believe in science you believe in climate change. And unless you're really, really rich you're not going to be in any position to profit from ignoring it. You'll suffer with the rest of us as the price of food, drink, and everything else shoots up and wars break out because of it.
Even if the people earning minimum wage have degrees that has absolutely nothing to do with their impact on and importance to the overall job market.
/.) to side track the conversation about minimum wage workers and their place in the US economy. At best that's mean spirited trolling. At worst an active attack on the working class. Either way (and I'm getting tired of saying this): you should be ashamed of yourself. I don't know what you think you're doing, but you're not helping yourself or the people you care about.
You're attacking people with useless degrees (a group especially reviled here on
when you can sell $90 worth of electronics for $300+ you don't give that up.
and neither is this guy. He's done his research and it's pretty well backed up. You can read about it on his site and in his book (you could probably pirate it if you can't bear to give money to him). The theory is that Hilary was too shocked at losing to challenge the results.
One thing I _am_ sure of is this: Dems need to win by large margins. At least 1.5-3% (yes, in a 2 party system that's 'large', such is the nature of statistics). Dems need to win by enough that shenanigans are too obvious. Either that or you need to do what Obama did: Send lawyers. Lots and lots of Lawyers. In the run up to his first win nobody could figure out what the hell he was doing sitting on all his campaign funds. Then two weeks before election 2000+ lawyers descended on Florida. Obama took Florida. Hilary did not.
to direct traffic; which many of the ones in black neighborhoods had. They were there to threaten and scare minority voters, who have a long history of oppression by police.
Don't kid yourself. If you actually believe that you're being hopelessly naive. If you don't believe that then you have an ulterior motive for saying it, and it can't be a good one. If that's the case, stop it. I don't know what you think you're doing, but it's not helping you or anyone you know and love...
you're not thinking it through. Minorities fear the police, often with good reason. The point is to make them too scared to vote. It's a Jim Crow law. And unless you're very wealthy (or going to be after inheritance) you want these people voting. They, like you, are members of the working class. And their interests align with yours.