and ban them if they don't play ball the way we want them to? Only instead of asking them to do help us do bad things we could make them do good things. You don't have to accept the world as a bad place. This isn't the middle ages.
first, Christians. There's a concept I call "Aggregate Sin" because I can't think of a better name for it. Christians (the ones who take the Bible literally) believe that if there's too much sin in the world God will punish us. e.g. God punishes the Faithful for the sins of the heretic. Therefore sin, any sin, is an existent threat to them. If you extrapolate from the tales of Sodom & Gomorrah & Noah's Ark this makes sense. You see this most commonly when a natural disaster strikes and a bunch of them come out of the wood work to claim it's the Lord punishing us for sinning. The important thing here is to understand that the Lord isn't very picky about who he punishes. This incentivizes Christians to control non Christian behavior; up to and including converting them. It's a big part of why Christianity spreads the way it does.
As for the other reason, well the entire system is designed to keep the working class' attention somewhere else while the Aristocracy pockets all the money. It's a classic technique (along with Balkanization, usually along racial or caste divides but sometimes along ideological, e.g. wedge issues). Basically, if 1% of the populace is going to take 50-90% of the wealth for themselves they have to create all sorts of crazy systems to make that work.
but that's not why he won. He won on economic populism; by promising the government would solve people's problems. His speeches where chock full of socialist rhetoric. Those ideas are overwhelmingly popular, it's just people don't like to admit to them. It's like this: get a room full of people together and ask them what kind of coffee they like and they'll tell you they want a bold, rich roast. But look at coffee says and what people actually drink and, well, you've got Starbucks frappachinnos and the like. See here. Yeah, it's a Ted Talk, and worse Malcolm Gladwell, but his points are solid (also not his).
tl;dr; It's not racism, it's the economy stupid. That's important because if you start thinking it's racism you'll try to solve the wrong problem, and Trump and his ilk will keep on winning.
because he can't say 'Rich people become assholes'. For one thing odds are good he works for a corporation run by rich people. For another thing, anything that would suggest class warfare exists in America (it does) is taboo. So he dances around the issue, rather poorly I might add.
that successfully interfered in our elections and achieved all of their ends? Maybe you agree with the Russians that Trump should be president. But it still would have been nice for America to be able to decide it's president on our own.
because that's some mighty fine Whataboutsim right there. It's also got nothing to do with the conversation, which is about Russian election interference which noone disputes was anything less than 100% pro-Trump.
Daylight savings is being kept around because it the extra hour of daylight is an extra hour of shopping. You're going to have a powerful lobby of retail chains fighting against ending it. It's similar to why we can't have good public transport: if you could get around easy you'd be less likely to stop at a restaurant for dinner. In the days before chain stores and restaurants people didn't think this way, but when you do stuff on the scale the chains do then all sorts of silly evils become worthwhile. I remember finding out that my town refused to build an express way to route around a 3 year highway closure because the local fast food owners paid off the city council to stop it. You'd be amazed how much local corruption there is.
and courtship. They also can't afford places to have sex. Besides the 20 year recession Japan's wealth inequality is worth than the states.
So yeah, cookie cutter socialist solutions are _exactly_ what's needed here, at least if they actually want to solve the birth rate problem. Or I guess they could do what the States does and get religion and ban birth control. But barring that it's either socialism or Japan goes away as a country. The South has much higher rates than the North and Western states, but they've also got crazy levels of poverty to go with it.
What I'm saying is, there is no way to solve this problem that doesn't make people's lives worse except socialism. You either distribute the benefits of civilization more equitably or you shrug your shoulders and live with the social distortions that come from not doing that.
by all accounts they put so much effort into making their own version of the Star Wars mythos they completely ignored how characters like Luke and Leia should act. The nail in the coffin was that Mark Hamill interview where he's basically said he tried to get them to let him act like Luke and they wouldn't do it.
I'm not opposed to them doing their own thing, but if you're going to the writing needs to be much better. In the first movie they shoe-horned in a lightsabre battle that was just dumb. An untrained girl should not have held her own against a Dark Jedi. And Finn kept changing from a bumbling fool to a seasoned warrior depending on the writer's needs. I left the theater with a positive impression but the more I thought about it the more I knew it was a bad movie. I'm guessing the second one's going to be like that but more so (especially given the sharp drop off in viewership going on right now).
I just expect more from a Star Wars movie. Write better scripts guys. This isn't Transformers.
or do you just do a CTRL-F on every/. article for 'wealth inequality' and throw out a rant?
This has _everything_ to do with wealth inequality. This is about the working poor (which 99% of call center employees are) being forced to do questionable and illegal things. Companies give employees unreasonable sales metrics and either threaten them with disciplinary action if they don't meet them and/or cut their pay to the point where it's impossible to survive without the meager bonuses. When the employees inevitably lie and cheat to survive the company blames the employees. Wells Fargo's mistake was doing it to such a scale that they couldn't use the 'bad actors' excuse, it was too pervasive in the company.
As a lawyer with a spouse who's also a lawyer you've probably never had to struggle to get by, or if you did it was so long ago you simply forgot what it's like. Push people hard enough and they're going to do bad things. Also, as a lawyer, essentially a member of the merchant class that aids the Aristocracy, you should pay careful attention to how far you push the working class. We had two World Wars when we pushed them too far, and with the exception of war profiteers they were not kind to the merchant class.
not everything needs or should be left in the hands of the 'free' market. Especially when the market isn't exactly free. I paid for all those roads you know... And I probably paid for the research that made the self driving cars work (public University + subsidized student loans). I've never understood why people, especially Americans, are so keen to pay for things and then give them away to rich folk so they can sell them back to you. Is maintaining our psuedo free market really that important? If you think the aristocracy is going to settle for small government for themselves you're just nuts. What's the old quote, Capitalism for the poor and Socialism for the rich. Give up and let's all just have socialism.
and work them less. This isn't because they don't want kids. Multiple studies and surveys have shown that. They can't afford to have kids and only work 12/day, 6 days/week. Since they don't have the Christian hang ups about using birth control that Americans have the birth rate keeps going down. Meanwhile their prime minister is coming up with all sorts of crazy schemes to try and get people to keep up their crazy pace of work and still squeeze out 3-4 kids.
this happens because call center reps are required to get a certain number of add on sales to keep their jobs. Even in rare instances where they're not the low pay means they need to push a number of these in the desperate hope they'll make enough money this month for rent _and_ food. It's a symptom of wealth inequality.
and very few people buy their coffee black or with just a hint of milk or sugar. They just won't admit it when they're drinking their Unicorn or Christmas Tree Fraps. This isn't me being a mean spirited person. There's a body of marketing research that shows folks don't like to admit their personal tastes when asked. It's why marketing and market research is so hard. The way it was put to me (in a speech by Malcolm Gladwell although it wasn't his idea) is this:
Ask anybody what their favorite coffee is and they'll tell you they like a bold, rich roast. But put them in front of a coffee machine and most will go for something less strong. That's because nobody likes to say they like their coffee milky and weak.
you can leave parents to flounder, be self interested and not be dumb (as you imply). The key is to limit access to birth control while creating a propaganda system that encourages child birth. Then you can get the people you want/need to do the things you want done by shear weight of numbers rather than by investing in their quality of life. All it takes is a willingness to condemn 98% of the populace to poverty, misery and death. And that we've got in spades.
to deter most would be 'hackers'. It's like putting a club on your car steering wheel. It gets them to move on to easier targets.
Also, there's other things you can do. Like track IPs or use browser fingerprinting to mitigate these attacks. Real ipsec is complicated as hell. At least if you put any real effort into it, which believe it or not most companies do. Where they get hacked is they skimp on the rank and file who do the server patching or they skimp on training their employees to watch out for scams.
it's because refugees aren't immigrants. They didn't move for a better life, they moved because they got kicked out. So they don't integrate with the host society. This is a big problem in Europe right now. It's giving their far right ammunition. It's also put the Jews in a bind as they're sandwiched between a far right that hates them and Muslim refugees that aren't exactly crazy about them either. Meanwhile demagogues are using all this social friction to rise to power.
reCAPTCHA means you can't brute force user checks, because even if you can get around it most have a 5-10 second delay built in; which slows any attempt to get a meaningful list of active usernames to a crawl. This is lame click bait. Another 'article' that reads more like a poorly conceived/. post that was made on a better article.
Doctor's prefer this because you don't always know what you're getting when you buy OTC vitamins. They're largely unregulated. When you buy prescription vitamins you know exactly what you're getting because they're now fully regulated by the FDA. Source: I've had close family members with cancer who've been prescribed vitamins.
See here. Some folks just have to work a lot. Some folks had kids before they knew better or live in a state where birth control isn't available. It's hard to say no to sex. If it wasn't the human race would've died out.
What I'm saying is, a smart (and decent) society helps support parents. It doesn't just blame their kid's problems on them being lazy. Never forget that.
and a bunch of other children's television folks campaigned against child advertising in the 70s. Fat lot of good it did. Still, I'm not sure this new world of no commercials will last. As I recall Cable TV didn't have commercials at the start...
turning out for you? You know, you can't drain it when there's a billionaire with a sewage pump twice the size of your drain, right? If you thought they were going to just let you go do your own thing, well, I can't even rightly call that naive. There's got to be another word for it. Maybe in German. They've got long words for bad things, right?
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They're just seeing what they can get away with.
and ban them if they don't play ball the way we want them to? Only instead of asking them to do help us do bad things we could make them do good things. You don't have to accept the world as a bad place. This isn't the middle ages.
first, Christians. There's a concept I call "Aggregate Sin" because I can't think of a better name for it. Christians (the ones who take the Bible literally) believe that if there's too much sin in the world God will punish us. e.g. God punishes the Faithful for the sins of the heretic. Therefore sin, any sin, is an existent threat to them. If you extrapolate from the tales of Sodom & Gomorrah & Noah's Ark this makes sense. You see this most commonly when a natural disaster strikes and a bunch of them come out of the wood work to claim it's the Lord punishing us for sinning. The important thing here is to understand that the Lord isn't very picky about who he punishes. This incentivizes Christians to control non Christian behavior; up to and including converting them. It's a big part of why Christianity spreads the way it does.
As for the other reason, well the entire system is designed to keep the working class' attention somewhere else while the Aristocracy pockets all the money. It's a classic technique (along with Balkanization, usually along racial or caste divides but sometimes along ideological, e.g. wedge issues). Basically, if 1% of the populace is going to take 50-90% of the wealth for themselves they have to create all sorts of crazy systems to make that work.
but that's not why he won. He won on economic populism; by promising the government would solve people's problems. His speeches where chock full of socialist rhetoric. Those ideas are overwhelmingly popular, it's just people don't like to admit to them. It's like this: get a room full of people together and ask them what kind of coffee they like and they'll tell you they want a bold, rich roast. But look at coffee says and what people actually drink and, well, you've got Starbucks frappachinnos and the like. See here. Yeah, it's a Ted Talk, and worse Malcolm Gladwell, but his points are solid (also not his).
tl;dr; It's not racism, it's the economy stupid. That's important because if you start thinking it's racism you'll try to solve the wrong problem, and Trump and his ilk will keep on winning.
because he can't say 'Rich people become assholes'. For one thing odds are good he works for a corporation run by rich people. For another thing, anything that would suggest class warfare exists in America (it does) is taboo. So he dances around the issue, rather poorly I might add.
that successfully interfered in our elections and achieved all of their ends? Maybe you agree with the Russians that Trump should be president. But it still would have been nice for America to be able to decide it's president on our own.
because that's some mighty fine Whataboutsim right there. It's also got nothing to do with the conversation, which is about Russian election interference which noone disputes was anything less than 100% pro-Trump.
Daylight savings is being kept around because it the extra hour of daylight is an extra hour of shopping. You're going to have a powerful lobby of retail chains fighting against ending it. It's similar to why we can't have good public transport: if you could get around easy you'd be less likely to stop at a restaurant for dinner. In the days before chain stores and restaurants people didn't think this way, but when you do stuff on the scale the chains do then all sorts of silly evils become worthwhile. I remember finding out that my town refused to build an express way to route around a 3 year highway closure because the local fast food owners paid off the city council to stop it. You'd be amazed how much local corruption there is.
and courtship. They also can't afford places to have sex. Besides the 20 year recession Japan's wealth inequality is worth than the states.
So yeah, cookie cutter socialist solutions are _exactly_ what's needed here, at least if they actually want to solve the birth rate problem. Or I guess they could do what the States does and get religion and ban birth control. But barring that it's either socialism or Japan goes away as a country. The South has much higher rates than the North and Western states, but they've also got crazy levels of poverty to go with it.
What I'm saying is, there is no way to solve this problem that doesn't make people's lives worse except socialism. You either distribute the benefits of civilization more equitably or you shrug your shoulders and live with the social distortions that come from not doing that.
nobody read the posts much less the Articles around here.
by all accounts they put so much effort into making their own version of the Star Wars mythos they completely ignored how characters like Luke and Leia should act. The nail in the coffin was that Mark Hamill interview where he's basically said he tried to get them to let him act like Luke and they wouldn't do it.
I'm not opposed to them doing their own thing, but if you're going to the writing needs to be much better. In the first movie they shoe-horned in a lightsabre battle that was just dumb. An untrained girl should not have held her own against a Dark Jedi. And Finn kept changing from a bumbling fool to a seasoned warrior depending on the writer's needs. I left the theater with a positive impression but the more I thought about it the more I knew it was a bad movie. I'm guessing the second one's going to be like that but more so (especially given the sharp drop off in viewership going on right now).
I just expect more from a Star Wars movie. Write better scripts guys. This isn't Transformers.
or do you just do a CTRL-F on every /. article for 'wealth inequality' and throw out a rant?
This has _everything_ to do with wealth inequality. This is about the working poor (which 99% of call center employees are) being forced to do questionable and illegal things. Companies give employees unreasonable sales metrics and either threaten them with disciplinary action if they don't meet them and/or cut their pay to the point where it's impossible to survive without the meager bonuses. When the employees inevitably lie and cheat to survive the company blames the employees. Wells Fargo's mistake was doing it to such a scale that they couldn't use the 'bad actors' excuse, it was too pervasive in the company.
As a lawyer with a spouse who's also a lawyer you've probably never had to struggle to get by, or if you did it was so long ago you simply forgot what it's like. Push people hard enough and they're going to do bad things. Also, as a lawyer, essentially a member of the merchant class that aids the Aristocracy, you should pay careful attention to how far you push the working class. We had two World Wars when we pushed them too far, and with the exception of war profiteers they were not kind to the merchant class.
not everything needs or should be left in the hands of the 'free' market. Especially when the market isn't exactly free. I paid for all those roads you know... And I probably paid for the research that made the self driving cars work (public University + subsidized student loans). I've never understood why people, especially Americans, are so keen to pay for things and then give them away to rich folk so they can sell them back to you. Is maintaining our psuedo free market really that important? If you think the aristocracy is going to settle for small government for themselves you're just nuts. What's the old quote, Capitalism for the poor and Socialism for the rich. Give up and let's all just have socialism.
and work them less. This isn't because they don't want kids. Multiple studies and surveys have shown that. They can't afford to have kids and only work 12/day, 6 days/week. Since they don't have the Christian hang ups about using birth control that Americans have the birth rate keeps going down. Meanwhile their prime minister is coming up with all sorts of crazy schemes to try and get people to keep up their crazy pace of work and still squeeze out 3-4 kids.
this happens because call center reps are required to get a certain number of add on sales to keep their jobs. Even in rare instances where they're not the low pay means they need to push a number of these in the desperate hope they'll make enough money this month for rent _and_ food. It's a symptom of wealth inequality.
and very few people buy their coffee black or with just a hint of milk or sugar. They just won't admit it when they're drinking their Unicorn or Christmas Tree Fraps. This isn't me being a mean spirited person. There's a body of marketing research that shows folks don't like to admit their personal tastes when asked. It's why marketing and market research is so hard. The way it was put to me (in a speech by Malcolm Gladwell although it wasn't his idea) is this:
Ask anybody what their favorite coffee is and they'll tell you they like a bold, rich roast. But put them in front of a coffee machine and most will go for something less strong. That's because nobody likes to say they like their coffee milky and weak.
you can leave parents to flounder, be self interested and not be dumb (as you imply). The key is to limit access to birth control while creating a propaganda system that encourages child birth. Then you can get the people you want/need to do the things you want done by shear weight of numbers rather than by investing in their quality of life. All it takes is a willingness to condemn 98% of the populace to poverty, misery and death. And that we've got in spades.
to deter most would be 'hackers'. It's like putting a club on your car steering wheel. It gets them to move on to easier targets.
Also, there's other things you can do. Like track IPs or use browser fingerprinting to mitigate these attacks. Real ipsec is complicated as hell. At least if you put any real effort into it, which believe it or not most companies do. Where they get hacked is they skimp on the rank and file who do the server patching or they skimp on training their employees to watch out for scams.
on the Apple II. The Sticky Bear community has waited years for this. HD Graphics, real time weapon change, the works.
it's because refugees aren't immigrants. They didn't move for a better life, they moved because they got kicked out. So they don't integrate with the host society. This is a big problem in Europe right now. It's giving their far right ammunition. It's also put the Jews in a bind as they're sandwiched between a far right that hates them and Muslim refugees that aren't exactly crazy about them either. Meanwhile demagogues are using all this social friction to rise to power.
reCAPTCHA means you can't brute force user checks, because even if you can get around it most have a 5-10 second delay built in; which slows any attempt to get a meaningful list of active usernames to a crawl. This is lame click bait. Another 'article' that reads more like a poorly conceived /. post that was made on a better article.
Doctor's prefer this because you don't always know what you're getting when you buy OTC vitamins. They're largely unregulated. When you buy prescription vitamins you know exactly what you're getting because they're now fully regulated by the FDA. Source: I've had close family members with cancer who've been prescribed vitamins.
See here. Some folks just have to work a lot. Some folks had kids before they knew better or live in a state where birth control isn't available. It's hard to say no to sex. If it wasn't the human race would've died out.
What I'm saying is, a smart (and decent) society helps support parents. It doesn't just blame their kid's problems on them being lazy. Never forget that.
and a bunch of other children's television folks campaigned against child advertising in the 70s. Fat lot of good it did. Still, I'm not sure this new world of no commercials will last. As I recall Cable TV didn't have commercials at the start...
turning out for you? You know, you can't drain it when there's a billionaire with a sewage pump twice the size of your drain, right? If you thought they were going to just let you go do your own thing, well, I can't even rightly call that naive. There's got to be another word for it. Maybe in German. They've got long words for bad things, right?