I've got a 42" TV and it's not even that big by American standards. I've got video games that border on photo realistic (uncanny valley not withstanding). I've got Netflix, YouTube and a video camera built into my $200 cell phone if I want to make my own movies. I don't need them anymore.
Now if only us Americans can not stick our heads in like we did in the 50s (deposing their democratically elected leader not less) then maybe, just maybe they'll have a chance to modernize and secularize.
Our police intentionally turn away people who are too smart out of fear they'll get bored of the job and leave after the (very expensive) training. So we get worse cops in exchange for some cost savings.
as such things go. And you'll find plenty of SJW stuff in DC. I suspect it's more to do with the movie universe making it's way into the comics and turning off the more hardcore, which are generally the only ones that buy more than an issue or two or maybe a graphic novel when a new movie comes out.
By the way, I know this is an intensely unpopular opinion but am I the only one that finds it odd that social justice is a bad word? Yeah, yeah, the crazy feminist who runs your local community college's woman's studies program is pretty annoying, amiright? But then you've got Harvey Weinstein. And Philando Castile. And Flint, Mi. And Puerto Rico. And hell America's entire for profit health insurance industry. There's too many examples of injustice to list. It feels like we're letting the chick who runs the CC's woman's study distract us from real problems. And I'm left wondering if somebody isn't using SJW backlash to engineer that...
For my smurffast this morning, I smurfed up some scrambled smurf with a side of fried smurfg, and fresh-smurfed some smurf juice so I would be sure to get my Vitamin B(lockchain). While I was smurfing my smurf, I read the smurf Post before hailing a smurf for a ride to my downtown smurf where we smurfed a meeting about the week's smurf strategy and smurfed some references to smurf into our corporate smurf statement. Then off to smurf for a three-smurf lunch and a smurfed smurf before heading to our smurfed client's smurf to implement some smurf in their smurf.
Whew! What a smurf of a day. Happy to be home in my smurf so I can pop open a smurf and sit down to smurf Game Of smurfs on the smurf, and maybe play a little first-person smurf VR, or get online and duke it out in World Of smurfs before I turn in for a good night's smurf.
it's unconstitutional. It's against the law to write laws that single out an individual or individual group. That was expressly forbade in our constitution, and for damn good reason.
it won't last forever. Eventually the mediocrity will catch up to them and folks just won't care. Did you see all those ads they did encoraging parents to share star wars with their kids? That was desperation. The product couldn't stand on it's own without nostalgia. When those kids grow up in 10 years and are movie going teenagers their remember star wars as that funny little movie dad liked.
the billionaires funding these ad buys? The Koch brothers just spent $20 million on a "grass roots" campaign sending people knocking on doors to tell people how great the tax bill is. I wouldn't be surprised to find some or all of these ad buys come from their PAC.
that the Post office should charge more, but it's irresponsible for the President to call out a specific company. It would be one thing if Amazon had done something egregious. I could get behind him calling out the various military contractors in Iraq/Afghanistan, or the oil companies who are already spilling oil with the Keystone pipeline or the pharmaceuticals (who he got strangely silent about after the election). Hell, I could get behind him calling Amazon out for their anti-worker practices. But this is just petty politics.
and you should be ashamed of yourself. Middle class and low income tax cuts are good. Both need relief. 62% of the tax cuts in this bill go to the 1% in the first 10 years. After that 100% go to them, since all the middle class tax cuts expire then.
Meanwhile we are borrowing money to give it away to the ultra rich. That borrowed money is being used as a threat to eliminate programs that benefit the middle class and working poor. It's a massive wealth transfer to the monied aristocracy.
You know this. You are far too intelligent not to know this. Why are you doing this? Is somebody paying you? Do you think the aristocracy is going to let you join? Do you have a rich relative that's going to leave you a fortune? Or are you just angry. Really, really angry. I get it. Life sucks. The job market sucks. But this is not how to fix it.
to the tax cuts, any more than the bonuses were. The Bonuses were a hard fought and hard won victory by the Union that AT&T is taking credit for. What's more, they were a pyrrhic victory; the Union was trying to get pay raises but thanks to our shit economy for workers (which somehow posts record stock market wins every other day) they couldn't.
Similarly, AT&T isn't hiring because of the Tax cuts, their CEO admitted that already. They're hiring because they need workers. Again, Trickle down doesn't work. Businesses hire workers to meet demand. You're trying to put cart before horse. Giving the rich money doesn't increase demand because one person can only spend so much in a day.
you're _not_ blaming others for your transgressions. You're saying someone else did the same thing in order to divert attention away from you. It's a straw man argument but it goes unnoticed because of the way human brains work. You're building an association between what you're guilty of by accusing your opponent of it. That association gives people who want to believe you an out. Karl Rove rather famously got a draft dodger elected over a war vet who'd lost their legs with these tactics. By itself it's not enough to win elections, but combined with voter suppression, gerrymandering and other unethical tactics it works.
Remember, the fundamental goal is to get middle class and poor people to vote against their own economic interests and instead vote for the interests of the extreme rich. Making that happen requires all sorts of crazy things.
The reality is that most users have replaced phones over this. I certainly have. Also make sure you don't put any nastiness in a EULA when the user gets their free battery. Nothing shady, you've already done something shady. Now is not the time to try and slip one by your users. They should probably also be handing out coupons for $100 or $200 off your next iPhone. Keep in mind those of use who accepted these phones had a shelf life are still pretty angry. I'd taken all 3 phones I've replaced to Apple and had them reset it and tell me everything was fine now.
Full disclosure, I'm an Android user, the phones in question were my Kid's.
And everybody knows this. What's crazy is that 32% of the population still support this bill (I'm not counting the 1% of the 33%). On the other hand 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Sure, the $1.5 trillion in new debt from this bill is already being used to by Paul Ryan et al argue for entitlement 'reform' (e.g. taking them away from anyone under 55). But you know what? A lot of us are just trying to make it until our kids are on their own. Sure, best case this is $200/mo in your pocket per person. But if you and your wife both suddenly have $400/mo that's a car payment and gas.
Bills like this take advantage of the desperate situation most Americans find themselves in. What sucks the most is, that entire situation is completely by design...
except major corporations. Everyone saw the potential for abuse. But our electorate is heavily divided by wedge social issues, leaving the corporations free to bribe their way to an oligarchy.
when she was little so she could have the rips and not destroy the originals. That way she could play around with a.40 cent disc instead of a $30 dollar one. Yeah, it was only useful for a few years, but we still have those discs now that she's older.
if you put people who are convinced gov't is going to fail in charge of gov't what do you think is going to happen? This is why the right wing can't govern. Either they're just just crooks, or they approach government like it's a disease to be excised from the body public. Bottom line: If you've already decided you're going to fail well, what do you know, you're gonna fail.
the tax on wasn't capped nearly as low as it is now. That's one of the common tricks of the Republican party: Let inflation do the work for you. We haven't raised the limit on Social Security taxes in over 80 years. No shit it's having problems. The Republicans can't kill it directly because old people vote. So they're doing it in sneaky ways. Loading down the US with Debt from pointless wars and the profiteering that goes with them while concern trolling to use the debt as leverage to take all the money.
I will say it again: You are being had. You're their patsy. Wake up. Grow up. Before it's too late.
you simply can't be that naive. Nobody is. The bonuses were already decided on long before the tax bill (which was surprisingly uncertain, but in the end passed because the Republican's donors made it clear that if it didn't they weren't getting any more money). They'll use the $1.5 trillion in new debt as an excuse for entitlement 'reform', meaning they'll pocket our social security and medicare money. We got sold out. All of us. Unless you've got a silver spoon in your mouth you're in for a rude, rude awakening when you're 65 and dying of a completely preventable disease.
is AT&T is going around telling everyone the bonuses they're giving out are due to their tax cut. Turns out the Union fought for a pay raise, lost, and took a one time bonus in lieu of a raise. The amount of gall on display there is stunning. It's a lie up there with Orwell's chocolate rations.
what about those of use who've spent upwards to $1400 replacing phones over the years because of this? Sure, I'm an Android user, but my Kid's got an iPhone, and I've replaced it ever 2 years like clockwork. Now I know why...
telling people up front they were slowing the phone down. My kid took her phones to Apple several times over the years and all they ever did was reboot/reset it. Never once was a battery replacement mentioned even though their engineers knew this was a problem and their customer service reps would have tracked everyone that came in complaining about the problem.
Apple didn't care until they got caught. But it's Apple so it's Ok. Imagine the shit storm if Microsoft had done this with the Lumina.
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I've got a 42" TV and it's not even that big by American standards. I've got video games that border on photo realistic (uncanny valley not withstanding). I've got Netflix, YouTube and a video camera built into my $200 cell phone if I want to make my own movies. I don't need them anymore.
Now if only us Americans can not stick our heads in like we did in the 50s (deposing their democratically elected leader not less) then maybe, just maybe they'll have a chance to modernize and secularize.
will be a minority. If they haven't built up a fan base by then they're toast. These are large companies, they need to think long term.
Our police intentionally turn away people who are too smart out of fear they'll get bored of the job and leave after the (very expensive) training. So we get worse cops in exchange for some cost savings.
as such things go. And you'll find plenty of SJW stuff in DC. I suspect it's more to do with the movie universe making it's way into the comics and turning off the more hardcore, which are generally the only ones that buy more than an issue or two or maybe a graphic novel when a new movie comes out.
By the way, I know this is an intensely unpopular opinion but am I the only one that finds it odd that social justice is a bad word? Yeah, yeah, the crazy feminist who runs your local community college's woman's studies program is pretty annoying, amiright? But then you've got Harvey Weinstein. And Philando Castile. And Flint, Mi. And Puerto Rico. And hell America's entire for profit health insurance industry. There's too many examples of injustice to list. It feels like we're letting the chick who runs the CC's woman's study distract us from real problems. And I'm left wondering if somebody isn't using SJW backlash to engineer that...
For my smurffast this morning, I smurfed up some scrambled smurf with a side of fried smurfg, and fresh-smurfed some smurf juice so I would be sure to get my Vitamin B(lockchain). While I was smurfing my smurf, I read the smurf Post before hailing a smurf for a ride to my downtown smurf where we smurfed a meeting about the week's smurf strategy and smurfed some references to smurf into our corporate smurf statement. Then off to smurf for a three-smurf lunch and a smurfed smurf before heading to our smurfed client's smurf to implement some smurf in their smurf. Whew! What a smurf of a day. Happy to be home in my smurf so I can pop open a smurf and sit down to smurf Game Of smurfs on the smurf, and maybe play a little first-person smurf VR, or get online and duke it out in World Of smurfs before I turn in for a good night's smurf.
of why everybody's so crazy about it? Is it really just companies hoping to offload their server farms to a distributed database ala bit-torrent?
it's unconstitutional. It's against the law to write laws that single out an individual or individual group. That was expressly forbade in our constitution, and for damn good reason.
it won't last forever. Eventually the mediocrity will catch up to them and folks just won't care. Did you see all those ads they did encoraging parents to share star wars with their kids? That was desperation. The product couldn't stand on it's own without nostalgia. When those kids grow up in 10 years and are movie going teenagers their remember star wars as that funny little movie dad liked.
the billionaires funding these ad buys? The Koch brothers just spent $20 million on a "grass roots" campaign sending people knocking on doors to tell people how great the tax bill is. I wouldn't be surprised to find some or all of these ad buys come from their PAC.
that the Post office should charge more, but it's irresponsible for the President to call out a specific company. It would be one thing if Amazon had done something egregious. I could get behind him calling out the various military contractors in Iraq/Afghanistan, or the oil companies who are already spilling oil with the Keystone pipeline or the pharmaceuticals (who he got strangely silent about after the election). Hell, I could get behind him calling Amazon out for their anti-worker practices. But this is just petty politics.
and you should be ashamed of yourself. Middle class and low income tax cuts are good. Both need relief. 62% of the tax cuts in this bill go to the 1% in the first 10 years. After that 100% go to them, since all the middle class tax cuts expire then.
Meanwhile we are borrowing money to give it away to the ultra rich. That borrowed money is being used as a threat to eliminate programs that benefit the middle class and working poor. It's a massive wealth transfer to the monied aristocracy.
You know this. You are far too intelligent not to know this. Why are you doing this? Is somebody paying you? Do you think the aristocracy is going to let you join? Do you have a rich relative that's going to leave you a fortune? Or are you just angry. Really, really angry. I get it. Life sucks. The job market sucks. But this is not how to fix it.
to the tax cuts, any more than the bonuses were. The Bonuses were a hard fought and hard won victory by the Union that AT&T is taking credit for. What's more, they were a pyrrhic victory; the Union was trying to get pay raises but thanks to our shit economy for workers (which somehow posts record stock market wins every other day) they couldn't.
Similarly, AT&T isn't hiring because of the Tax cuts, their CEO admitted that already. They're hiring because they need workers. Again, Trickle down doesn't work. Businesses hire workers to meet demand. You're trying to put cart before horse. Giving the rich money doesn't increase demand because one person can only spend so much in a day.
you're _not_ blaming others for your transgressions. You're saying someone else did the same thing in order to divert attention away from you. It's a straw man argument but it goes unnoticed because of the way human brains work. You're building an association between what you're guilty of by accusing your opponent of it. That association gives people who want to believe you an out. Karl Rove rather famously got a draft dodger elected over a war vet who'd lost their legs with these tactics. By itself it's not enough to win elections, but combined with voter suppression, gerrymandering and other unethical tactics it works.
Remember, the fundamental goal is to get middle class and poor people to vote against their own economic interests and instead vote for the interests of the extreme rich. Making that happen requires all sorts of crazy things.
The reality is that most users have replaced phones over this. I certainly have. Also make sure you don't put any nastiness in a EULA when the user gets their free battery. Nothing shady, you've already done something shady. Now is not the time to try and slip one by your users. They should probably also be handing out coupons for $100 or $200 off your next iPhone. Keep in mind those of use who accepted these phones had a shelf life are still pretty angry. I'd taken all 3 phones I've replaced to Apple and had them reset it and tell me everything was fine now.
Full disclosure, I'm an Android user, the phones in question were my Kid's.
And everybody knows this. What's crazy is that 32% of the population still support this bill (I'm not counting the 1% of the 33%). On the other hand 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Sure, the $1.5 trillion in new debt from this bill is already being used to by Paul Ryan et al argue for entitlement 'reform' (e.g. taking them away from anyone under 55). But you know what? A lot of us are just trying to make it until our kids are on their own. Sure, best case this is $200/mo in your pocket per person. But if you and your wife both suddenly have $400/mo that's a car payment and gas.
Bills like this take advantage of the desperate situation most Americans find themselves in. What sucks the most is, that entire situation is completely by design...
is always be accusing your opponent of whatever it is you do.
except major corporations. Everyone saw the potential for abuse. But our electorate is heavily divided by wedge social issues, leaving the corporations free to bribe their way to an oligarchy.
when she was little so she could have the rips and not destroy the originals. That way she could play around with a .40 cent disc instead of a $30 dollar one. Yeah, it was only useful for a few years, but we still have those discs now that she's older.
if you put people who are convinced gov't is going to fail in charge of gov't what do you think is going to happen? This is why the right wing can't govern. Either they're just just crooks, or they approach government like it's a disease to be excised from the body public. Bottom line: If you've already decided you're going to fail well, what do you know, you're gonna fail.
the tax on wasn't capped nearly as low as it is now. That's one of the common tricks of the Republican party: Let inflation do the work for you. We haven't raised the limit on Social Security taxes in over 80 years. No shit it's having problems. The Republicans can't kill it directly because old people vote. So they're doing it in sneaky ways. Loading down the US with Debt from pointless wars and the profiteering that goes with them while concern trolling to use the debt as leverage to take all the money.
I will say it again: You are being had. You're their patsy. Wake up. Grow up. Before it's too late.
you simply can't be that naive. Nobody is. The bonuses were already decided on long before the tax bill (which was surprisingly uncertain, but in the end passed because the Republican's donors made it clear that if it didn't they weren't getting any more money). They'll use the $1.5 trillion in new debt as an excuse for entitlement 'reform', meaning they'll pocket our social security and medicare money. We got sold out. All of us. Unless you've got a silver spoon in your mouth you're in for a rude, rude awakening when you're 65 and dying of a completely preventable disease.
is AT&T is going around telling everyone the bonuses they're giving out are due to their tax cut. Turns out the Union fought for a pay raise, lost, and took a one time bonus in lieu of a raise. The amount of gall on display there is stunning. It's a lie up there with Orwell's chocolate rations.
what about those of use who've spent upwards to $1400 replacing phones over the years because of this? Sure, I'm an Android user, but my Kid's got an iPhone, and I've replaced it ever 2 years like clockwork. Now I know why...
telling people up front they were slowing the phone down. My kid took her phones to Apple several times over the years and all they ever did was reboot/reset it. Never once was a battery replacement mentioned even though their engineers knew this was a problem and their customer service reps would have tracked everyone that came in complaining about the problem.
Apple didn't care until they got caught. But it's Apple so it's Ok. Imagine the shit storm if Microsoft had done this with the Lumina.