of taking over the Democratic party from the corporate Dems (Nansi Pelosi, Diane Fienstien, Chuck Schumer, etc) then getting a third party in place. Also, I think the too most viable third parties (Libertarian & Green) are hopelessly naive when it comes to policy. Libertarians would gut the gov't to let the free market take over, but there's a reason that 'Libertarian Paradise' meme exists. Sure it's a caricature, but in practice weak gov'ts don't work in complex societies. If all else fails someone comes along and makes a strong one on you lose out by not participating in it.
As for Green.... probably fine but they're a haven for a lot of the really radical feminists. I can sympathize with those people (we're allies with Saudi Arabia, who treat women awfully), but they're not helping. They tend to make men feel threatened, not by a strong women, but by a women who'll lock them up if they make a pass at them. I'd rather see them integrated into the Dems with their good parts (equal opportunity, wage parity, etc) intact and like any radical mellow out and focus on realistic policy.
immigration. Trump could have rescinded the Obama executive order allowing H1-B spouses to work in the country at any time with one stroke of a pen, and he did not. As soon as all eyes were off he let the guys at Carrier twist in the wind.
I've seen zero movement from Republicans to meaningfully restrict the flow of cheap labor from overseas. Just a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
I suppose you might be more worried about immigrants committing crimes (MS-13 and the like), but statistically you'd be better off having those resources spent policing local crimes. Immigrants don't do a lot of crime because they're mostly trying to keep their heads down and keep their jobs. Yes, there are outliers, but they're just that, outliers. The statistics back me up here.
I'm not expecting the Dems to stop the H1-B program the way they are now. But get more of the Bernie style Dems in office and it'll happen. It just means showing up to your primary (and if you're not in a state with open primaries, registering as Dem). Meanwhile, the left wing Dems support things like ending the wars, single payer healthcare, college for all and minimum wage increases that would benefit me directly (I don't earn min-wage, but it's a great way to get money out mega-corps warchests and into the economy doing real work).
I guess my point is: I'm not sure what your goals are, but I'm going to assume the best. And if you're goals are the best, you're throwing in with the wrong crowd. Come on over the the Dems. We'll actually help you and your family. Just don't forget to vote in your primary.
there's two types of Dem. There's the Corporate Dem, who is just like a Republican in that they serve the ruling class to the detriment of the working class, only they don't hate Gays. Several of these are currently supporting Jeff Session's bid to crack down on State laws legalizing marijuana.
Then there's the Democratic Socialists. The Bernie Bros. I don't see these guys getting anywhere. Nobody wants to pay for something else's medical care. Nobody want to pay for their schools. Sure, you can argue that such things benefit everyone (e.g. we could pay our national debt off in 10 years with the money single payer healthcare would save, look it up). But it still doesn't _feel_ right. Especially with a good chunk of the country bigoted against _somebody_. We're balkanized. We're not Americans. We're White Americans. Black Americans. Gay Americans. Christian Americans. But we're not Americans.
see here.. Ben Shapiro is quite possibly the least credible source you could have sited. You can probably email the professor sited (or buy/read his books) if you want more sources.
And it happened between today and the _1860s_, not the 1960s. If you only go back 70 years yeah, you won't find evidence, because you didn't go back far enough. But that was the point, wasn't it?
Also, nice straw man. Whether the Ds & Rs switched sides has nothing to do with the reality of the Southern Strategy. The evidence for which comes from Republican strategists who came clean out of guilt. And that's before we start talking about stuff like how our (heavily supported by Republicans) Drug War is basically a round about way to enforce racial segregation or how all those civil war statues the party's so busy defending were put up in the eras of Jim Crow laws.
Seriously, you can't be this naive. You have to know this stuff. You're either being willfully ignorant to preserve a world view that makes you feel good about yourself or your hoping to join 'ole Benny S. in the popular pass time of making money off the working class by selling them political viewpoints that solve nothing but do separate the working class (there's that Southern Strategy rearin' it's ugly head again).
wanted him to be. Trump could have kept the FCC as is. The law only says 3 Republican _appointees_, it says nothing about the personal party affiliations of those appointees.
And as for Trump, he was in favor of single payer healthcare until the Republicans talked him out of it with what looks like one meeting. He's pretty obviously just doing what the party tells him.
Bottom line, this _is_ a partisan issue. The Dems favor NN and the Republicans oppose it. To suggest otherwise is to ignore mountains of evidence to the contrary; and this is a site for nerds. The one thing we should hold sacred is evidence.
go on record opposing Net Neutrality. So far when the issue's come up they've mostly said they support it while putting 3 folks in charge of the FCC who are against it at all costs. The Republicans have been able to kill NN without much political fallout. This aims to end all that. If it doesn't pass it means the Republican lead Congress opposes NN, despite what they've said. If it _does_ pass it means their party head, Donald Trump, personally killed NN.
Right now everybody's blaming Ajit Pai for the loss of NN. This aims to ship the blame where, I would argue, it rightfully belongs.
bully for California. Assuming Google doesn't have documentation for a proper reason to have fired the guy then yeah, light 'em up. Also, adding to my growing list of reasons I want to move to California.
Conservative is not. As one of those snowflakes I would like it to be, but those sort of worker protections have been shot down by (ironically) white, conservative men...
but my God, the effort. The craft that went into it. It's amazing. The number of period correct references here is staggering. Who even remembers the Elsa Gloria line? How long have you been storing this up?
since google didn't talk. If they did fire him over his manifesto then yeah, I think it was the wrong thing to do. It was also probably completely legal. There are little or no protections for workers on political grounds. Your politics are not a protected class. There were instances of people being fired for Obama bumper stickers after his election.
Ironically Mr Damore's political party (not sure what else to call right wing conservatives) would generally support Google here. The argument goes that the free market should make the decision. If you don't like google's policies, buy from someone else (Bing, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Alta Vista, etc, etc).
All that said, it's also possible he was fired for some other reason and the bad press he generated was just icing on the cake.
in gaming with the new APUs. They're not extraordinary, but they'll play dozens if not hundreds of older steam games at 60 fps and even some of the newer ones at 30 fps. If nothing else it'll be good news for Latin America which seems to favor the APUs (I think because of how their tariffs work).
'bricked' means the hardware is messed up, e.g. you can't reinstall an OS.
I've got some old Athlon boards around I was using until last year. They're great for HTPC if you don't mind a bit of noise from the fan. They make good gaming rigs for e-sports style games if you pair them with something like a 1050 or an RX460. The boards came out after solid state caps were a thing so they last forever.
I had a DX100 because when the Pentium hit you couldn't give them away. Heck, when I wanted a Vesa local bus card I drove down to a computer shop to ask for one and they just handed me one out of the junk pile.
But I got 90% of the performance of a $2000 Pentium for about $300 bucks and most of that was hard drive & ram. I played near arcade perfect ports of X-Men: Children of the Atom & Primal Rage on it not to mention Rise of the Triad and Doom.
Microsoft refused to give out extra spiffs. I don't think it was for the sake of propriety; just arrogance. Still, it meant the only way to get a Win phone was to look in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.”
I'd expect subpoenas here. This is a 20 year old bug, and one that gave Intel a significant performance edge over AMD. It's entirely possible Intel has known for decades. One stray email is all it would take to blow this up like you wouldn't believe.
when Trump threatened a sovereign nation with nuclear annihilation. Also, keeping in mind that NK is hold SK hostage. If we move then nukes or no nukes they'll pound SK into pulp. They've got more than enough conventional weapons to do that.
When you were in school the worse you could dish out were a few bloody noses. We can murder 75-100 million people. At this point the responsible thing for Twitter to do, no the _human_ thing to do would be to cut Trump off from his instant gratification. Make him go through press releases where he has time to calm down. This isn't a bloody game show. Millions of lives are on the line and nearly all of them are innocent lives. It's easy for you to throw stones because you don't live in a glass house. You're not staring down those barrels.
when the disagreement is 'Do we go to nuclear war with North Korea or not?'. There are some opinions that are completely, total, utterly, patently wrong. This is one of them. There are some opinions so abhorrent that when somebody expresses them you shout them down. There's no other sane response. You don't have to lock them up, but you don't give them a bloody podium; especially not for something as trivial as a little ad revenue.
what's crazy isn't that they don't block him, what's crazy is that the things he says have gotten so out there they have to apologize for not blocking him.
then say goodbye to Medicare and Social Security. Maybe you can get buy w/o SS. But when you're 65 nobody, and I mean nobody, is going to insure you. You're job will let you go if you haven't already retired to make way for somebody younger (and under a low-regulation gov't you can forget about suing for age discrimination).
Maybe you're going to be a multi-millionaire who can buy care out of pocket. Don't count on deregulation making it cheap. It's life or death. They can charge what they want. That $2000 tax cut (which is near the maximum unless you're running a corporation) will cost you dearly in your old age.
And when the hell did I defend Clinton and the DNC? They're a bunch of pro-choice Republicans who don't hate gay people. Did you completely miss the part about Justice Democrats? Those are the folks who will change the country for the better.
to improve productivity. If it happens to make their jobs easier that's a side benefit, and one that, in the absence of Unions, will be used to lower their pay.
I'm not saying this is a bad thing, I'm just saying that, like all productivity increases, it needs to be approached with careful forethought. I can't be the only one who's seen this chart.
vote in your primary. Almost nobody does. Next step is to allow primary voting across party lines. After that make sure every election has vote by mail. Finally make voting mandatory and decouple it from jury duty. Kill gerrymandering and switch to a parliamentary system if you want a cherry on your cake. Problem solved.
he shifted the Dems right to forge an alliance that let him win the presidency. In order to maintain a separate brand the Republicans shifted right. The Dems followed suit with with candidates resulting in a country that's been moving hard right for 30 years. Roy Moore and Donald Trump are kind of the apex of all that, but Moore's sex scandal might have the kibosh on things. Here's hoping. I'd really like to join the rest of the civilized world in Single Payer health care, college and ending the wars (Drug and literal ones).
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of taking over the Democratic party from the corporate Dems (Nansi Pelosi, Diane Fienstien, Chuck Schumer, etc) then getting a third party in place. Also, I think the too most viable third parties (Libertarian & Green) are hopelessly naive when it comes to policy. Libertarians would gut the gov't to let the free market take over, but there's a reason that 'Libertarian Paradise' meme exists. Sure it's a caricature, but in practice weak gov'ts don't work in complex societies. If all else fails someone comes along and makes a strong one on you lose out by not participating in it.
As for Green.... probably fine but they're a haven for a lot of the really radical feminists. I can sympathize with those people (we're allies with Saudi Arabia, who treat women awfully), but they're not helping. They tend to make men feel threatened, not by a strong women, but by a women who'll lock them up if they make a pass at them. I'd rather see them integrated into the Dems with their good parts (equal opportunity, wage parity, etc) intact and like any radical mellow out and focus on realistic policy.
immigration. Trump could have rescinded the Obama executive order allowing H1-B spouses to work in the country at any time with one stroke of a pen, and he did not. As soon as all eyes were off he let the guys at Carrier twist in the wind.
I've seen zero movement from Republicans to meaningfully restrict the flow of cheap labor from overseas. Just a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
I suppose you might be more worried about immigrants committing crimes (MS-13 and the like), but statistically you'd be better off having those resources spent policing local crimes. Immigrants don't do a lot of crime because they're mostly trying to keep their heads down and keep their jobs. Yes, there are outliers, but they're just that, outliers. The statistics back me up here.
I'm not expecting the Dems to stop the H1-B program the way they are now. But get more of the Bernie style Dems in office and it'll happen. It just means showing up to your primary (and if you're not in a state with open primaries, registering as Dem). Meanwhile, the left wing Dems support things like ending the wars, single payer healthcare, college for all and minimum wage increases that would benefit me directly (I don't earn min-wage, but it's a great way to get money out mega-corps warchests and into the economy doing real work).
I guess my point is: I'm not sure what your goals are, but I'm going to assume the best. And if you're goals are the best, you're throwing in with the wrong crowd. Come on over the the Dems. We'll actually help you and your family. Just don't forget to vote in your primary.
and I doubt Meltdown/Spectre will much change that. Heck, an i7 2600 + mobo will still set you back $150 on ebay and that's a 7 year old CPU.
there's two types of Dem. There's the Corporate Dem, who is just like a Republican in that they serve the ruling class to the detriment of the working class, only they don't hate Gays. Several of these are currently supporting Jeff Session's bid to crack down on State laws legalizing marijuana.
Then there's the Democratic Socialists. The Bernie Bros. I don't see these guys getting anywhere. Nobody wants to pay for something else's medical care. Nobody want to pay for their schools. Sure, you can argue that such things benefit everyone (e.g. we could pay our national debt off in 10 years with the money single payer healthcare would save, look it up). But it still doesn't _feel_ right. Especially with a good chunk of the country bigoted against _somebody_. We're balkanized. We're not Americans. We're White Americans. Black Americans. Gay Americans. Christian Americans. But we're not Americans.
see here.. Ben Shapiro is quite possibly the least credible source you could have sited. You can probably email the professor sited (or buy/read his books) if you want more sources.
And it happened between today and the _1860s_, not the 1960s. If you only go back 70 years yeah, you won't find evidence, because you didn't go back far enough. But that was the point, wasn't it?
Also, nice straw man. Whether the Ds & Rs switched sides has nothing to do with the reality of the Southern Strategy. The evidence for which comes from Republican strategists who came clean out of guilt. And that's before we start talking about stuff like how our (heavily supported by Republicans) Drug War is basically a round about way to enforce racial segregation or how all those civil war statues the party's so busy defending were put up in the eras of Jim Crow laws.
Seriously, you can't be this naive. You have to know this stuff. You're either being willfully ignorant to preserve a world view that makes you feel good about yourself or your hoping to join 'ole Benny S. in the popular pass time of making money off the working class by selling them political viewpoints that solve nothing but do separate the working class (there's that Southern Strategy rearin' it's ugly head again).
wanted him to be. Trump could have kept the FCC as is. The law only says 3 Republican _appointees_, it says nothing about the personal party affiliations of those appointees.
And as for Trump, he was in favor of single payer healthcare until the Republicans talked him out of it with what looks like one meeting. He's pretty obviously just doing what the party tells him.
Bottom line, this _is_ a partisan issue. The Dems favor NN and the Republicans oppose it. To suggest otherwise is to ignore mountains of evidence to the contrary; and this is a site for nerds. The one thing we should hold sacred is evidence.
go on record opposing Net Neutrality. So far when the issue's come up they've mostly said they support it while putting 3 folks in charge of the FCC who are against it at all costs. The Republicans have been able to kill NN without much political fallout. This aims to end all that. If it doesn't pass it means the Republican lead Congress opposes NN, despite what they've said. If it _does_ pass it means their party head, Donald Trump, personally killed NN.
Right now everybody's blaming Ajit Pai for the loss of NN. This aims to ship the blame where, I would argue, it rightfully belongs.
bully for California. Assuming Google doesn't have documentation for a proper reason to have fired the guy then yeah, light 'em up. Also, adding to my growing list of reasons I want to move to California.
Conservative is not. As one of those snowflakes I would like it to be, but those sort of worker protections have been shot down by (ironically) white, conservative men...
but my God, the effort. The craft that went into it. It's amazing. The number of period correct references here is staggering. Who even remembers the Elsa Gloria line? How long have you been storing this up?
since google didn't talk. If they did fire him over his manifesto then yeah, I think it was the wrong thing to do. It was also probably completely legal. There are little or no protections for workers on political grounds. Your politics are not a protected class. There were instances of people being fired for Obama bumper stickers after his election. Ironically Mr Damore's political party (not sure what else to call right wing conservatives) would generally support Google here. The argument goes that the free market should make the decision. If you don't like google's policies, buy from someone else (Bing, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Alta Vista, etc, etc).
All that said, it's also possible he was fired for some other reason and the bad press he generated was just icing on the cake.
in gaming with the new APUs. They're not extraordinary, but they'll play dozens if not hundreds of older steam games at 60 fps and even some of the newer ones at 30 fps. If nothing else it'll be good news for Latin America which seems to favor the APUs (I think because of how their tariffs work).
'bricked' means the hardware is messed up, e.g. you can't reinstall an OS.
I've got some old Athlon boards around I was using until last year. They're great for HTPC if you don't mind a bit of noise from the fan. They make good gaming rigs for e-sports style games if you pair them with something like a 1050 or an RX460. The boards came out after solid state caps were a thing so they last forever.
I had a DX100 because when the Pentium hit you couldn't give them away. Heck, when I wanted a Vesa local bus card I drove down to a computer shop to ask for one and they just handed me one out of the junk pile.
But I got 90% of the performance of a $2000 Pentium for about $300 bucks and most of that was hard drive & ram. I played near arcade perfect ports of X-Men: Children of the Atom & Primal Rage on it not to mention Rise of the Triad and Doom.
Microsoft refused to give out extra spiffs. I don't think it was for the sake of propriety; just arrogance. Still, it meant the only way to get a Win phone was to look in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.”
have a better spiff. These are sales people. If the Windows phones had a better spiff they'd be singing their praise.
I'd expect subpoenas here. This is a 20 year old bug, and one that gave Intel a significant performance edge over AMD. It's entirely possible Intel has known for decades. One stray email is all it would take to blow this up like you wouldn't believe.
I just bought a new CPU a couple months ago. I was on the fence between AMD & Intel and had I known this I would have gone with Ryzen.
when Trump threatened a sovereign nation with nuclear annihilation. Also, keeping in mind that NK is hold SK hostage. If we move then nukes or no nukes they'll pound SK into pulp. They've got more than enough conventional weapons to do that.
When you were in school the worse you could dish out were a few bloody noses. We can murder 75-100 million people. At this point the responsible thing for Twitter to do, no the _human_ thing to do would be to cut Trump off from his instant gratification. Make him go through press releases where he has time to calm down. This isn't a bloody game show. Millions of lives are on the line and nearly all of them are innocent lives. It's easy for you to throw stones because you don't live in a glass house. You're not staring down those barrels.
when the disagreement is 'Do we go to nuclear war with North Korea or not?'. There are some opinions that are completely, total, utterly, patently wrong. This is one of them. There are some opinions so abhorrent that when somebody expresses them you shout them down. There's no other sane response. You don't have to lock them up, but you don't give them a bloody podium; especially not for something as trivial as a little ad revenue.
what's crazy isn't that they don't block him, what's crazy is that the things he says have gotten so out there they have to apologize for not blocking him.
then say goodbye to Medicare and Social Security. Maybe you can get buy w/o SS. But when you're 65 nobody, and I mean nobody, is going to insure you. You're job will let you go if you haven't already retired to make way for somebody younger (and under a low-regulation gov't you can forget about suing for age discrimination).
Maybe you're going to be a multi-millionaire who can buy care out of pocket. Don't count on deregulation making it cheap. It's life or death. They can charge what they want. That $2000 tax cut (which is near the maximum unless you're running a corporation) will cost you dearly in your old age.
And when the hell did I defend Clinton and the DNC? They're a bunch of pro-choice Republicans who don't hate gay people. Did you completely miss the part about Justice Democrats? Those are the folks who will change the country for the better.
to improve productivity. If it happens to make their jobs easier that's a side benefit, and one that, in the absence of Unions, will be used to lower their pay.
I'm not saying this is a bad thing, I'm just saying that, like all productivity increases, it needs to be approached with careful forethought. I can't be the only one who's seen this chart.
vote in your primary. Almost nobody does. Next step is to allow primary voting across party lines. After that make sure every election has vote by mail. Finally make voting mandatory and decouple it from jury duty. Kill gerrymandering and switch to a parliamentary system if you want a cherry on your cake. Problem solved.
he shifted the Dems right to forge an alliance that let him win the presidency. In order to maintain a separate brand the Republicans shifted right. The Dems followed suit with with candidates resulting in a country that's been moving hard right for 30 years. Roy Moore and Donald Trump are kind of the apex of all that, but Moore's sex scandal might have the kibosh on things. Here's hoping. I'd really like to join the rest of the civilized world in Single Payer health care, college and ending the wars (Drug and literal ones).