a criminal record, and except for the most extreme cases (rape, child molestation, murder) it won't show up in background checks. Well, except for one other thing, which is defrauding banks. That shit follows you for life because you do not fuck with the ruling class. Still, for relatively minor infractions it won't follow you forever. br>
I don't see a lot of wide eyed mobs making no place in society if the person shows some self awareness and contrition. Neeson just went and told everyone that at one point in his life he went around looking for a black person to kill because a friend of his was victimized by a black person. The story went nowhere because he realized what he did was wrong and owned it. Where folks get shut down is if there's decades of bad behavior (usual sexual harassment), often recent and with a weak, token apologies.
I couldn't find the Chase account lock reference you made, can you provide links? I'd like context.
That said, we could we do with a bit more forgiveness in society. Folks like Bernie Sanders & Liz Warren are pushing legalizing drugs so that you're not put on what are effectively watch lists for a little pot, broader criminal justice reforms and above all federal jobs programs so that nobody, and I mean _nobody_ is shut out of the economy. Those are the kinds of practical steps we need. Basically, we need a society where, even if everybody hates your guts, you're guaranteed food, shelter, healthcare and education. That's where real freedom comes from.
the purpose is to create a new caste system to replace the old ones that modern life are chipping away at.
In the US we've been using racism, but now that it's waning we're moving to SJWism and political divides. India still has it's caste system. Europe is divided along religion and nationality. Even Japan had a caste system (based on, I shit you not, the job you had, with "unclean" jobs being at the bottom caste).
The goal is always the same: break the working class into manageable chunks that right among themselves so the ruling class can take all the power and money. The part that irritates me is that after hundreds of years of modern history nobody seems to pick up on this trick.
but they aren't AAA games. They can't be, they don't have the money. It's a different experience. Like comparing a big budget Hollywood block buster to a cheap slasher flick. Both are fun, but for different reasons, and I liked it when I had both.
Also there's not a lot of AA games left. There's Obsidian, but Microsoft just bought them and who knows what'll happen. Most of the AA Japanese devs are gone (even Konami dropped out except for PES).
There were neat little nooks and crannies all over the map. Never went 30 minutes without doing anything unless you did it on purpose.
I think the author's point is that a lot of these open worlds are kind of empty. Saying "Well, the designers meant to invoke the loneliness of the old west" is all well and good, but while that imagery might make for good cinema it makes for dull as paint drying games...
e.g. few couldn't be mastered with enough skill. Most games rewarded skill with more play per quarter. This was fine because to get to that skill level you'd invested heavily in the game. As much or more as a console game. But those games understood value.
To be fair they had a _lot_ more competition too. There are very few AAA publishers left. Activision, EA, Sony, Capcom, Ubisoft, Bethesday and Square are about it (might include Gearbox in that). That's 8 companies. There were dozens back in the arcade heydays.
older games needed hard penalties so you didn't blow through them in an afternoon. When I was a kid I could make it through Shinobi on the Master System in an hour flat.
Good Modern games have a ton of content, so they don't need lives to keep you from blowing through the game. Bad modern games, OTOH, don't have much to do, so they substitute grinding.
In the old days the goal was to keep the game out of the used bins (and before that to keep your parents from getting made when you asked for a new game in less than a day). Nowadays the goal is "engagement". To keep you playing so they can sell you more crap. That'd be fine if the crap was more gameplay, but these days it's skins and minor stat tweaks.
What I hate about modern games is how the constant nagging for microtransactions reminds me of the real world. I play games to unwind after a long day. It's an escape. Nothing drags me back faster than a frickin' advert and a reminder about real money in the real world.
and you have to worry about things like the breaks not being properly maintained. For one thing a skilled mechanic is going to make at least $12/hr and probably not going to work "gig" economy. You could do it with unskilled labor but you risk maintenance not being done. If you use gig economy piece workers they're likely to cut corners (since they're doing it for temp work to make ends meet they don't care about long term job prospects).
As it stands Bird and Lime shift the blame for failed maintenance to the manufacturer. If they start repairing the scooters that's on them now.
even the positive ones said the same thing: It's a great experience but a lousy game.
This is the problem with "Live Services". Because the game has to go on forever with an endless loop chock full of microtransactions and loot boxes nothing substantial or interesting can happen in the game. Even Destiny 2 with it's instance dungeons fell victim to that.
The consoles still have 2 or 3 decent single player releases a year so there's that. But they're only there to move consoles. If we ever get the "ever-console" that streams the games then we'll lose that too.
What I don't get is these kids who pay real money for crap in game. Guess I'm just too old, but it ruins the experience to have a store front in my face non-stop. Even when I was at the arcades as a kid I didn't have that. Once the quarters dropped the game was a game (Double Dragon 3 not withstanding). Pac-man didn't distract me with a power pellets store and I couldn't buy armor for my flying ostrich in Joust.
they just have to pay their taxes, same as everybody else. Also, they're not going to be getting that helipad or the $500 million in grants. Anymore than I would if I was setting up shop there.
No more economic terrorism. No more race to the bottom. Time to stop letting these companies bully us. We're the God Damned US of A. We're better than that.
is to function as a sort of bank where they can trade money between people without transaction fees right up until the users need the cash to buy some real world good. It'd be a nice scheme if they could make it work.
I'm guessing government will keep that from happening, and not necessarily for bad reasons. Banks are heavily regulated to prevent large ones from crashing the economy (well, heavily regulated for about 8 years until we put a batch of neo-cons in office long enough to strip away the repairs from the last recession, but I digress).
Facebook is likely to end up in a rock and a hard place. The lefties won't let them operate without the heavy duty oversight that makes banking expensive. The righties won't want Facebook musclin' in on their territory.
I predict the whole thing will fizzle out under the weight of regulations meant to protect consumers and regulations just plain meant to kill it.
who took a coal mining course at his local community college. The interview asked him why he'd do that when there were other courses and very few mining jobs.
His answer was pretty sound. The only jobs in his town were at the mine and at Walmart. He could take another course, but then he'd have to move. That meant leaving friends and family behind, the town he grew up in, and coming up with the money to move a long distance and get an apartment in an unfamiliar city.
Basically, we've backed these kids into a corner where all their choices are bad.
go play the original COD Modern Warfare, Not even sure if you can actually, but last I heard (2014...ish?) it was less a game and more an exercise in how far you could push online cheat engines. There were accusations that Activision ignored the cheaters so people would move on to the current release (now with more Microtransactions(c) ).
and you can still buy stuff. Not so much if you're one of the ones that lost jobs to automation (and process improvement, don't forget that).
Farming isn't just about automation, btw. We radically changed how we mange farms to prevent over farming and we use oil byproducts to replenish soil and massively increase yields. Then there's GMOs. My point is that not everything we have is because of robots. Hell, consumer electronics didn't get cheap until Japan and then China started making them. That wasn't automation, that was cheaper labor and longer (non-Union) work hours....
I honestly don't think most people want to taste real efficiency. Folks joke about how little work gets done in an office (Scott Adams made a career of it) but it's only half a joke.
so that's not the best analogy... The need an entirely new type of work, but also one that they're capable of doing. "Learn to Code" is not an answer. I've worked with ex-miners who tried that. One one ever lasted more than 6 months, and that guy quit after 18 or so.
for that alternative. Folks are laughing off the Green New Deal as "Pie In the Sky" or just plain crazy, but I haven't heard a single solution to the widespread unemployment that grips the rust belt.
That's what made Trump win. He listened to what folks like those coal miners were saying and promised them their jobs back. Heck, he even tried (a little) by trying to declare coal a national emergency so he could divert subsidies to them. Now, odds are most of that would have gone to the mine owners, but there'd at least be jobs in the meantime.
text only interfaces or limited guis. Simple, non-multithreaded environments. Bloody Green Screens.
JavaScript apps do a hell of a lot more than the apps of the 80s. You had to _train_ folks on using those apps from 1980 because they were pretty basic. Let me write software designed for a highly trained operator who's expected to be in the job for decades and it'll be a lot better/different than what I write for somebody who's gonna be in the job for 6 months before they get canned/look for more pay.
it's that the systems were debugged before the nonstop drive to cut costs. They launched just as buggy, but there was time and money to fix it. Nobody remembers the bugs, they just know the current system (mostly) works.
my bro insisted for years we keep it but last year we barely used it. The last rate hike was it. My kid makes me keep it for the time being, but once she's on her own in a few years I'll likely say good bye to it. Especially if it's pushing $20/mo.
if you want coal to come back you'll need somebody in charge who wants it to come back and wants it at any cost. Natural gas is just too competitive (let alone Solar and Wind). You're gonna have to start loosening environmental regs around coal.
One of the key reasons for the "Green New Deal" (the "New Deal" part) is jobs for ex coal miners. These folks are clustered in critical voting districts where there is literally no work outside of Walmart, the mines and a handful of service jobs (doctors to treat black lung, police to lock up the occasional drunk miner, etc).
Folks are confused why these guys would fight so hard to mine coal given the health and safety risks. Folks who wonder that have never been without a job for 12 months and counting....
as somebody who watched dozens of low tier employees have their AOL stock outright stolen during the Time/Warner merger just take the money and run. If you try to wait they'll just find a way to snatch it from you if it ever becomes valuable.
I knew folks who were planing to buy houses with their stock options before the company just said "We're taking them back and there's nothing you can do about it. Go ahead an sue us, you'll run out of money or die before it hits the Supreme Court".
the entire economic systems does it. Here's how it works: You work hard, get a good job, but you don't have a college degree. You move up in your company, but then the layoffs come. Outsourcing, automation, H1-B replacement. You're out. Now you're starting over. HR filters mean you can't get an equivalent job because your lack of a college degree means you don't even get a human being to look at your resume. You could lie and say you have a degree, but you'll fail the background checks (that are now universal and cheap).
But you've got this car from when you had a good job. A few years old, 30,40k miles. You gotta pay rent/mortgage. So you join the gig economy. You know you're on borrowed time. You're making less than it takes to keep a roof over your head and that car running. You're taking a payday loan where the interest is the mileage on your car... Sooner or later it's going all collapse unless you get lucky and get a real job. And even if you do you'll spend those earnings digging out of the hole you were in while unemployed. So you'll never get ahead. Meanwhile inflation in necessities (food, shelter, healthcare, education, etc) is 4.5% but your raises are 1.5%....
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This is modern day slavery. You're overtly never forced, but the alternatives are abject poverty and homelessness. Starvation if you take if far enough. Unemployment without the gig economy is pushing 10%, but if you ask anyone we're at "full" employment.
One of the things that hurt the Southern United States was they had billions, maybe Trillions of dollars tied up in slaves. Meanwhile the north had employees. The employees were disposable. You didn't care what happened to them. Sure they were "free", but if they tried to unionize they got their heads busted in just like a runaway slave. On a long term scale the freemen in the North were better off because eventually Unions formed and got better wages, but it took decades. And the wealthy have noticed this. They don't like paying for your quality of life.
Because the research I've seen says it's worthless. And like just about everywhere else Toronto's crime rate is going down. 2005 seemed to be the peak.
Stop and Frisk in the States is mostly used to keep undesirables (read: the poor) out of your neighborhood. It's also used as a segregation technique in large parts of the South. That's why we shot it down. Not sure about Canada though.
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you insensitive clod!
a criminal record, and except for the most extreme cases (rape, child molestation, murder) it won't show up in background checks. Well, except for one other thing, which is defrauding banks. That shit follows you for life because you do not fuck with the ruling class. Still, for relatively minor infractions it won't follow you forever.
br> I don't see a lot of wide eyed mobs making no place in society if the person shows some self awareness and contrition. Neeson just went and told everyone that at one point in his life he went around looking for a black person to kill because a friend of his was victimized by a black person. The story went nowhere because he realized what he did was wrong and owned it. Where folks get shut down is if there's decades of bad behavior (usual sexual harassment), often recent and with a weak, token apologies.
I couldn't find the Chase account lock reference you made, can you provide links? I'd like context.
That said, we could we do with a bit more forgiveness in society. Folks like Bernie Sanders & Liz Warren are pushing legalizing drugs so that you're not put on what are effectively watch lists for a little pot, broader criminal justice reforms and above all federal jobs programs so that nobody, and I mean _nobody_ is shut out of the economy. Those are the kinds of practical steps we need. Basically, we need a society where, even if everybody hates your guts, you're guaranteed food, shelter, healthcare and education. That's where real freedom comes from.
the purpose is to create a new caste system to replace the old ones that modern life are chipping away at.
In the US we've been using racism, but now that it's waning we're moving to SJWism and political divides. India still has it's caste system. Europe is divided along religion and nationality. Even Japan had a caste system (based on, I shit you not, the job you had, with "unclean" jobs being at the bottom caste).
The goal is always the same: break the working class into manageable chunks that right among themselves so the ruling class can take all the power and money. The part that irritates me is that after hundreds of years of modern history nobody seems to pick up on this trick.
but they aren't AAA games. They can't be, they don't have the money. It's a different experience. Like comparing a big budget Hollywood block buster to a cheap slasher flick. Both are fun, but for different reasons, and I liked it when I had both.
Also there's not a lot of AA games left. There's Obsidian, but Microsoft just bought them and who knows what'll happen. Most of the AA Japanese devs are gone (even Konami dropped out except for PES).
There were neat little nooks and crannies all over the map. Never went 30 minutes without doing anything unless you did it on purpose.
I think the author's point is that a lot of these open worlds are kind of empty. Saying "Well, the designers meant to invoke the loneliness of the old west" is all well and good, but while that imagery might make for good cinema it makes for dull as paint drying games...
e.g. few couldn't be mastered with enough skill. Most games rewarded skill with more play per quarter. This was fine because to get to that skill level you'd invested heavily in the game. As much or more as a console game. But those games understood value.
To be fair they had a _lot_ more competition too. There are very few AAA publishers left. Activision, EA, Sony, Capcom, Ubisoft, Bethesday and Square are about it (might include Gearbox in that). That's 8 companies. There were dozens back in the arcade heydays.
older games needed hard penalties so you didn't blow through them in an afternoon. When I was a kid I could make it through Shinobi on the Master System in an hour flat.
Good Modern games have a ton of content, so they don't need lives to keep you from blowing through the game. Bad modern games, OTOH, don't have much to do, so they substitute grinding.
In the old days the goal was to keep the game out of the used bins (and before that to keep your parents from getting made when you asked for a new game in less than a day). Nowadays the goal is "engagement". To keep you playing so they can sell you more crap. That'd be fine if the crap was more gameplay, but these days it's skins and minor stat tweaks.
What I hate about modern games is how the constant nagging for microtransactions reminds me of the real world. I play games to unwind after a long day. It's an escape. Nothing drags me back faster than a frickin' advert and a reminder about real money in the real world.
and you have to worry about things like the breaks not being properly maintained. For one thing a skilled mechanic is going to make at least $12/hr and probably not going to work "gig" economy. You could do it with unskilled labor but you risk maintenance not being done. If you use gig economy piece workers they're likely to cut corners (since they're doing it for temp work to make ends meet they don't care about long term job prospects).
As it stands Bird and Lime shift the blame for failed maintenance to the manufacturer. If they start repairing the scooters that's on them now.
even the positive ones said the same thing: It's a great experience but a lousy game.
This is the problem with "Live Services". Because the game has to go on forever with an endless loop chock full of microtransactions and loot boxes nothing substantial or interesting can happen in the game. Even Destiny 2 with it's instance dungeons fell victim to that.
The consoles still have 2 or 3 decent single player releases a year so there's that. But they're only there to move consoles. If we ever get the "ever-console" that streams the games then we'll lose that too.
What I don't get is these kids who pay real money for crap in game. Guess I'm just too old, but it ruins the experience to have a store front in my face non-stop. Even when I was at the arcades as a kid I didn't have that. Once the quarters dropped the game was a game (Double Dragon 3 not withstanding). Pac-man didn't distract me with a power pellets store and I couldn't buy armor for my flying ostrich in Joust.
they just have to pay their taxes, same as everybody else. Also, they're not going to be getting that helipad or the $500 million in grants. Anymore than I would if I was setting up shop there.
No more economic terrorism. No more race to the bottom. Time to stop letting these companies bully us. We're the God Damned US of A. We're better than that.
is to function as a sort of bank where they can trade money between people without transaction fees right up until the users need the cash to buy some real world good. It'd be a nice scheme if they could make it work.
I'm guessing government will keep that from happening, and not necessarily for bad reasons. Banks are heavily regulated to prevent large ones from crashing the economy (well, heavily regulated for about 8 years until we put a batch of neo-cons in office long enough to strip away the repairs from the last recession, but I digress).
Facebook is likely to end up in a rock and a hard place. The lefties won't let them operate without the heavy duty oversight that makes banking expensive. The righties won't want Facebook musclin' in on their territory.
I predict the whole thing will fizzle out under the weight of regulations meant to protect consumers and regulations just plain meant to kill it.
who took a coal mining course at his local community college. The interview asked him why he'd do that when there were other courses and very few mining jobs.
His answer was pretty sound. The only jobs in his town were at the mine and at Walmart. He could take another course, but then he'd have to move. That meant leaving friends and family behind, the town he grew up in, and coming up with the money to move a long distance and get an apartment in an unfamiliar city.
Basically, we've backed these kids into a corner where all their choices are bad.
I'm color blind, you insensitive clod!
go play the original COD Modern Warfare, Not even sure if you can actually, but last I heard (2014...ish?) it was less a game and more an exercise in how far you could push online cheat engines. There were accusations that Activision ignored the cheaters so people would move on to the current release (now with more Microtransactions(c) ).
and you can still buy stuff. Not so much if you're one of the ones that lost jobs to automation (and process improvement, don't forget that).
Farming isn't just about automation, btw. We radically changed how we mange farms to prevent over farming and we use oil byproducts to replenish soil and massively increase yields. Then there's GMOs. My point is that not everything we have is because of robots. Hell, consumer electronics didn't get cheap until Japan and then China started making them. That wasn't automation, that was cheaper labor and longer (non-Union) work hours....
I honestly don't think most people want to taste real efficiency. Folks joke about how little work gets done in an office (Scott Adams made a career of it) but it's only half a joke.
so that's not the best analogy... The need an entirely new type of work, but also one that they're capable of doing. "Learn to Code" is not an answer. I've worked with ex-miners who tried that. One one ever lasted more than 6 months, and that guy quit after 18 or so.
for that alternative. Folks are laughing off the Green New Deal as "Pie In the Sky" or just plain crazy, but I haven't heard a single solution to the widespread unemployment that grips the rust belt.
That's what made Trump win. He listened to what folks like those coal miners were saying and promised them their jobs back. Heck, he even tried (a little) by trying to declare coal a national emergency so he could divert subsidies to them. Now, odds are most of that would have gone to the mine owners, but there'd at least be jobs in the meantime.
text only interfaces or limited guis. Simple, non-multithreaded environments. Bloody Green Screens.
JavaScript apps do a hell of a lot more than the apps of the 80s. You had to _train_ folks on using those apps from 1980 because they were pretty basic. Let me write software designed for a highly trained operator who's expected to be in the job for decades and it'll be a lot better/different than what I write for somebody who's gonna be in the job for 6 months before they get canned/look for more pay.
it's that the systems were debugged before the nonstop drive to cut costs. They launched just as buggy, but there was time and money to fix it. Nobody remembers the bugs, they just know the current system (mostly) works.
Java programmers with experience from the 1980s.
my bro insisted for years we keep it but last year we barely used it. The last rate hike was it. My kid makes me keep it for the time being, but once she's on her own in a few years I'll likely say good bye to it. Especially if it's pushing $20/mo.
if you want coal to come back you'll need somebody in charge who wants it to come back and wants it at any cost. Natural gas is just too competitive (let alone Solar and Wind). You're gonna have to start loosening environmental regs around coal.
One of the key reasons for the "Green New Deal" (the "New Deal" part) is jobs for ex coal miners. These folks are clustered in critical voting districts where there is literally no work outside of Walmart, the mines and a handful of service jobs (doctors to treat black lung, police to lock up the occasional drunk miner, etc).
Folks are confused why these guys would fight so hard to mine coal given the health and safety risks. Folks who wonder that have never been without a job for 12 months and counting....
as somebody who watched dozens of low tier employees have their AOL stock outright stolen during the Time/Warner merger just take the money and run. If you try to wait they'll just find a way to snatch it from you if it ever becomes valuable.
I knew folks who were planing to buy houses with their stock options before the company just said "We're taking them back and there's nothing you can do about it. Go ahead an sue us, you'll run out of money or die before it hits the Supreme Court".
the entire economic systems does it. Here's how it works: You work hard, get a good job, but you don't have a college degree. You move up in your company, but then the layoffs come. Outsourcing, automation, H1-B replacement. You're out. Now you're starting over. HR filters mean you can't get an equivalent job because your lack of a college degree means you don't even get a human being to look at your resume. You could lie and say you have a degree, but you'll fail the background checks (that are now universal and cheap).
But you've got this car from when you had a good job. A few years old, 30,40k miles. You gotta pay rent/mortgage. So you join the gig economy. You know you're on borrowed time. You're making less than it takes to keep a roof over your head and that car running. You're taking a payday loan where the interest is the mileage on your car... Sooner or later it's going all collapse unless you get lucky and get a real job. And even if you do you'll spend those earnings digging out of the hole you were in while unemployed. So you'll never get ahead. Meanwhile inflation in necessities (food, shelter, healthcare, education, etc) is 4.5% but your raises are 1.5%....
. This is modern day slavery. You're overtly never forced, but the alternatives are abject poverty and homelessness. Starvation if you take if far enough. Unemployment without the gig economy is pushing 10%, but if you ask anyone we're at "full" employment.
One of the things that hurt the Southern United States was they had billions, maybe Trillions of dollars tied up in slaves. Meanwhile the north had employees. The employees were disposable. You didn't care what happened to them. Sure they were "free", but if they tried to unionize they got their heads busted in just like a runaway slave. On a long term scale the freemen in the North were better off because eventually Unions formed and got better wages, but it took decades. And the wealthy have noticed this. They don't like paying for your quality of life.
Because the research I've seen says it's worthless. And like just about everywhere else Toronto's crime rate is going down. 2005 seemed to be the peak.
Stop and Frisk in the States is mostly used to keep undesirables (read: the poor) out of your neighborhood. It's also used as a segregation technique in large parts of the South. That's why we shot it down. Not sure about Canada though.