all we have to do is vote for people who are going to be pro-NN. Yes, this means many of us will have to hold our noses and vote for candidates we otherwise do not like. This is what it means to win in politics. The question is, how bad do you actually want NN?
the big companies have the money for the fees and this means no upstarts can shut them down. Remember, at the end of the day Facebook is just a website with crummy adverts. All it takes for it to implode is for the teenagers to get bored and leave. Then nobody'll think they're cool anymore and the whole house of cards blows up.
If Uber was going to be killed off it'd happened by now. The amount of money that is on the table when you're talking about a company that has managed to legally side step minimum wage and other worker protection laws can't be understated. Uber has redefined the work dynamic anywhere it's been allowed. They got away with it because the law was turning a blind eye to Taxi cab driver's abuse. Assuming there isn't a massive sea change in pro worker regulations then in 10, 20 years everybody but Doctors and Lawyers (who have strong Unions to protect them) will be in the gig economy.
They're mostly taking advantage of old people whose heads aren't all there anymore. Like it or not that's going to be a lot of us. It's not just Alzheimer's either. There's a general decline as you get older and you become more vulnerable. I'm guessing nobody likes talking about it because old people are a major voting block and it would play well with them. Regardless, it would make things so much easier if we'd acknowledge it and work on counter measures.
Citation. This is why Net Neutrality is a non-starter. If we want Americans to care about these kinds of 'freedom' issues we need to take care of their economic problems first.
I'd like us to start with Single Payer health care so we can compete effectively with first world nations that already have it (Canada I'm looking at you) and end medical bankruptcy. From there how about making public University Tuition free of charge and fixing our infrastructure with the money we'd save by not sending their sons and daughters off to war.
What I'm saying is, if we don't have real policy that helps these people they're going to keep turning to populists who promise them those policies. Guys like Trump. And those guys are never going to be friends of Net Neutrality and the like.
my kid has had 4 iPhones, and every single one lasted about 18 months before it started having tons of problems, performance degradation, etc. I figured the heat was killing some of the cores or the ram or something. But this makes much more sense. The best part being you can't even replace the battery.
it's why we got Trump and with him a Republican lead FCC. Trump promised the rust belters jobs. Hilary took their votes for granted. If we keep ignoring the plight of the lower working class and blue collar types this is only going to get worse. Remember in the 90s and 2000s when everybody on/. kept telling them to update their skills (ignoring the fact that it's hard to do that when you're a)over 30 and b) working for a living)? Remember when we did basically nothing to help the people displaced by NAFTA? This is the end result. So yeah, keep f*cking that chicken. Keep blowing off the working class in the name of small government and low taxes. And keep getting screwed over along with them.
Another day, another article encouraging woman to enter tech in the hopes of driving down already depressed wages. For the record I made sure my daughter got into medicine. And I tell anyone who'll listen, man I'm woman, to stay out of tech. Math is fine, but Math != Tech.
See here.. The difference is what you were doing was always recognized as illegal but the law was not being enforced. What Uber's doing is generally being recognized as legal.
And you should have been outraged. You were being exploited. Just because there is a time in your life when you were no longer being exploited doesn't mean you weren't. I see this periodically, where people wonder why we need all these regulations, laws and rules when the problems they're supposed to solve are gone. What this usually means is either a) the problem doesn't affect me anymore so I don't see why it's a problem (your case) or worse b) the regulations and laws prevent the problem from happening and people can't understand that without those laws the problem would come back...
The working class actually tried to organize. Remember Occupy WallStreet? It was shut down by a coordinated effort of the FBI and local police using legal tools put in place by the Patriot Act that everybody pinkie swore would never be used against American Citizens.
What gets my goat is the same folks who keep putting these jokers in power yell the loudest about government overreach except when it screws with somebody they don't like. Whether it's liberal elites, Muslims, college students or just plain whatever racial background they don't like. It's all a scam. It's how the Aristocracy has maintained power for centuries: get the working class to blame their plight on somebody else (Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Mongolians, the Untouchable class, whatever) while they laugh all the way to the bank. Works too.
she took them for granted. Given Trump's very highly publicized flaws (p****ygate, his rambling speeches, his decades of poor business decisions) she assumed nobody in their right mind would vote for him. Hence the 'Deplorables' line. What she failed to account for is that people _want_ economic populism. They _want_ the government to take action to better their lives. Trump promised all that (even as he ran with a party who's central plank is laissez faire capitalism).
And no, that is not me. I'm a Democratic Socialist. A Bernie Bro. A Justice Democrat. All members of the working class are welcome in my tent. The aristocracy can enter too, but with some caveats. Mainly that we stop bending society to satisfy their extravagant whims and desires.
You would think the last election, where the winner lost by 3 million votes, would have made that abundantly clear. That loss wasn't an accident or a side effect of the electoral college. It was by design. That college has always been a buffer between the people and policy to keep them from getting too uppity and losing respect for their betters in the aristocracy. It's got nothing to do with being fair to Montana et al.
side stepping minimum wage laws. Thing is, I'm guessing 99% of/.ers aren't in a position to worry about this. What we _are_ in a position to worry about is how 40 years of stagnant wages mean it's harder and harder for us to make ends meet. So we'll turn a blind eye. Thing is this will come around to bite us eventually, but when you're barely hanging on eventually doesn't really matter. Me? I'm just trying to get my kid through college and to hell with everything else. And that about sums it up. The working class is too busy surviving to band together and make a positive change. It's almost as if somebody designed it that way...
I know. But what do you propose I do about it? We couldn't even keep Trump out of the Whitehouse. His tax plan is going to f'n kill me (kid in college and I'm in a state with SALT). I'm getting the shit kicked out of me. So are a lot of working class Americans. And all I hear from anyone else ever is: "Why don't you go back to school and update your skills?". Like that's so damn easy.
America abandoned it's working class. Do you really think they care about the rest of the world that abandoned them?
The word 'con' has been short for convention well, forever. This is why jury trials suck. There's no way this should have passed muster. I'm guessing the schmucks that run San Diego's Comic Convention just had better lawyers. I'm guessing the chewbacca defense was employed, because I can't think of a single damn good reason why else they'd win this.
I'm afraid of the aristocracy. Those are different things. And while the aristocracy has better tools to keep the working class down so too has the working class gained it's own tools. Knowledge mostly. As people learn more and become more grounded in reason and a belief in science and cause/effect it becomes harder to manipulate them. China's experiencing this with a growing middle class. America is seeing it with a general mellowing out of our religious zealots. It'll continue to spread making it harder and harder for the aristocracy to use their old standbys for controlling the rabble (wedge issues and racism).
they want them visible so a would be thief sees them and moves on to less risky targets. This is much, much more likely to be regular, run of the mill perverts.
because they were promised Good Jobs by Donald Trump, and will easily be able to afford that fee. This is what the believed, or at least what they were willing to take a chance on. As it stands most of them can't afford the $80-$100/mo home internet costs. The rust belt isn't called that for fun. They literally don't care what you raise the price to. If the price of a yacht triples I don't care. I couldn't afford one when it was a third the price.
Abandon your working class and they abandon you. The Germans learned this. The French learned it. I sure wish Americans would learn it.
they just don't care to run it the way you want them to. They're not stupid. Stop treating them as such. These people are winning and the rest of us are losing. One of the chief things that gets them support is that their supporters _don't_like_being_made_to_feel_dumb. I can't emphasize that enough. You won't believe the number of people who voted Trump (which is why we're losing NN, let us not forget) because they wanted to show people who looked down on them that they have political strength and power.
That didn't vote for Trump are protesting. Folks, you do realize this doesn't matter, right? Steve Bannon might be an unrepentant asshole but he said something brilliant. I'm paraphrasing here but the gist is: if the other side keeps banging on about issue the working class doesn't care about and we're sticking to a message of economic popularism we're going to be in power for the next 1000 years. I know a bunch of liberals who were upset that the 1000 year part was a thinly veiled reference to the Third Reich, again, missing the point entirely...
than you think. Our entire system of government was built from the ground up for corruption, specifically to protect the interests of wealthy land owners from the growing population of the cities. The Electoral college is the most famous example of that. In addition to putting a buffer between the people and their president it also put a lot of power in the hands of rural voters and took power away from the cities. The entire Senate was created for the same purpose: To a small number of rural voters could override the cities. This was done to keep the city voters from taxing the wealthy land owner class to pay for their cities.
All the nice stuff you were taught in grade school about our system of government was basically crap. Our entire system was built to give the illusion of democracy without the actual practical consequences of it. It's why policy after policy with overwhelming support gets shot down. That's not just 'politics as usual', that's a fundamental design feature of our political system. It's also easily fixable (parliamentary systems with proportional representation), but good luck with that.
they're cutting production of Gas turbines while Natural Gas production is exploding. That doesn't make a lot of sense. Renewables are nice and all but they're still not dominating our power grid. My guess is this is more to do with a weak global economy for the working class leading to less demand for power. The switch to LED bulbs isn't helping either, or energy efficient devices in general. Again, less demand for new power. This are either politically sensitive or long term structural things, neither of which GE is going to be keen to talk about. Just keep telling everybody that it's just because of a switch to renewables becuase hey, GE can fix this by switching themselves, right?
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all we have to do is vote for people who are going to be pro-NN. Yes, this means many of us will have to hold our noses and vote for candidates we otherwise do not like. This is what it means to win in politics. The question is, how bad do you actually want NN?
the big companies have the money for the fees and this means no upstarts can shut them down. Remember, at the end of the day Facebook is just a website with crummy adverts. All it takes for it to implode is for the teenagers to get bored and leave. Then nobody'll think they're cool anymore and the whole house of cards blows up.
If Uber was going to be killed off it'd happened by now. The amount of money that is on the table when you're talking about a company that has managed to legally side step minimum wage and other worker protection laws can't be understated. Uber has redefined the work dynamic anywhere it's been allowed. They got away with it because the law was turning a blind eye to Taxi cab driver's abuse. Assuming there isn't a massive sea change in pro worker regulations then in 10, 20 years everybody but Doctors and Lawyers (who have strong Unions to protect them) will be in the gig economy.
They're mostly taking advantage of old people whose heads aren't all there anymore. Like it or not that's going to be a lot of us. It's not just Alzheimer's either. There's a general decline as you get older and you become more vulnerable. I'm guessing nobody likes talking about it because old people are a major voting block and it would play well with them. Regardless, it would make things so much easier if we'd acknowledge it and work on counter measures.
Citation. This is why Net Neutrality is a non-starter. If we want Americans to care about these kinds of 'freedom' issues we need to take care of their economic problems first.
I'd like us to start with Single Payer health care so we can compete effectively with first world nations that already have it (Canada I'm looking at you) and end medical bankruptcy. From there how about making public University Tuition free of charge and fixing our infrastructure with the money we'd save by not sending their sons and daughters off to war.
What I'm saying is, if we don't have real policy that helps these people they're going to keep turning to populists who promise them those policies. Guys like Trump. And those guys are never going to be friends of Net Neutrality and the like.
my kid has had 4 iPhones, and every single one lasted about 18 months before it started having tons of problems, performance degradation, etc. I figured the heat was killing some of the cores or the ram or something. But this makes much more sense. The best part being you can't even replace the battery.
it's why we got Trump and with him a Republican lead FCC. Trump promised the rust belters jobs. Hilary took their votes for granted. If we keep ignoring the plight of the lower working class and blue collar types this is only going to get worse. Remember in the 90s and 2000s when everybody on /. kept telling them to update their skills (ignoring the fact that it's hard to do that when you're a)over 30 and b) working for a living)? Remember when we did basically nothing to help the people displaced by NAFTA? This is the end result. So yeah, keep f*cking that chicken. Keep blowing off the working class in the name of small government and low taxes. And keep getting screwed over along with them.
Another day, another article encouraging woman to enter tech in the hopes of driving down already depressed wages. For the record I made sure my daughter got into medicine. And I tell anyone who'll listen, man I'm woman, to stay out of tech. Math is fine, but Math != Tech.
You're going to have to show up at the polls. And that includes your primary. Until there's a party in charge that supports it it's dead.
See here.. The difference is what you were doing was always recognized as illegal but the law was not being enforced. What Uber's doing is generally being recognized as legal.
And you should have been outraged. You were being exploited. Just because there is a time in your life when you were no longer being exploited doesn't mean you weren't. I see this periodically, where people wonder why we need all these regulations, laws and rules when the problems they're supposed to solve are gone. What this usually means is either a) the problem doesn't affect me anymore so I don't see why it's a problem (your case) or worse b) the regulations and laws prevent the problem from happening and people can't understand that without those laws the problem would come back...
not the cause. The cause is 40 years of stagnant wages as all the gains from decades of increased productivity go to the top 1%.
The working class actually tried to organize. Remember Occupy WallStreet? It was shut down by a coordinated effort of the FBI and local police using legal tools put in place by the Patriot Act that everybody pinkie swore would never be used against American Citizens.
What gets my goat is the same folks who keep putting these jokers in power yell the loudest about government overreach except when it screws with somebody they don't like. Whether it's liberal elites, Muslims, college students or just plain whatever racial background they don't like. It's all a scam. It's how the Aristocracy has maintained power for centuries: get the working class to blame their plight on somebody else (Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Mongolians, the Untouchable class, whatever) while they laugh all the way to the bank. Works too.
she took them for granted. Given Trump's very highly publicized flaws (p****ygate, his rambling speeches, his decades of poor business decisions) she assumed nobody in their right mind would vote for him. Hence the 'Deplorables' line. What she failed to account for is that people _want_ economic populism. They _want_ the government to take action to better their lives. Trump promised all that (even as he ran with a party who's central plank is laissez faire capitalism).
And no, that is not me. I'm a Democratic Socialist. A Bernie Bro. A Justice Democrat. All members of the working class are welcome in my tent. The aristocracy can enter too, but with some caveats. Mainly that we stop bending society to satisfy their extravagant whims and desires.
You would think the last election, where the winner lost by 3 million votes, would have made that abundantly clear. That loss wasn't an accident or a side effect of the electoral college. It was by design. That college has always been a buffer between the people and policy to keep them from getting too uppity and losing respect for their betters in the aristocracy. It's got nothing to do with being fair to Montana et al.
side stepping minimum wage laws. Thing is, I'm guessing 99% of /.ers aren't in a position to worry about this. What we _are_ in a position to worry about is how 40 years of stagnant wages mean it's harder and harder for us to make ends meet. So we'll turn a blind eye. Thing is this will come around to bite us eventually, but when you're barely hanging on eventually doesn't really matter. Me? I'm just trying to get my kid through college and to hell with everything else. And that about sums it up. The working class is too busy surviving to band together and make a positive change. It's almost as if somebody designed it that way...
I know. But what do you propose I do about it? We couldn't even keep Trump out of the Whitehouse. His tax plan is going to f'n kill me (kid in college and I'm in a state with SALT). I'm getting the shit kicked out of me. So are a lot of working class Americans. And all I hear from anyone else ever is: "Why don't you go back to school and update your skills?". Like that's so damn easy.
America abandoned it's working class. Do you really think they care about the rest of the world that abandoned them?
The word 'con' has been short for convention well, forever. This is why jury trials suck. There's no way this should have passed muster. I'm guessing the schmucks that run San Diego's Comic Convention just had better lawyers. I'm guessing the chewbacca defense was employed, because I can't think of a single damn good reason why else they'd win this.
I'm afraid of the aristocracy. Those are different things. And while the aristocracy has better tools to keep the working class down so too has the working class gained it's own tools. Knowledge mostly. As people learn more and become more grounded in reason and a belief in science and cause/effect it becomes harder to manipulate them. China's experiencing this with a growing middle class. America is seeing it with a general mellowing out of our religious zealots. It'll continue to spread making it harder and harder for the aristocracy to use their old standbys for controlling the rabble (wedge issues and racism).
they want them visible so a would be thief sees them and moves on to less risky targets. This is much, much more likely to be regular, run of the mill perverts.
because they were promised Good Jobs by Donald Trump, and will easily be able to afford that fee. This is what the believed, or at least what they were willing to take a chance on. As it stands most of them can't afford the $80-$100/mo home internet costs. The rust belt isn't called that for fun. They literally don't care what you raise the price to. If the price of a yacht triples I don't care. I couldn't afford one when it was a third the price.
Abandon your working class and they abandon you. The Germans learned this. The French learned it. I sure wish Americans would learn it.
they just don't care to run it the way you want them to. They're not stupid. Stop treating them as such. These people are winning and the rest of us are losing. One of the chief things that gets them support is that their supporters _don't_like_being_made_to_feel_dumb. I can't emphasize that enough. You won't believe the number of people who voted Trump (which is why we're losing NN, let us not forget) because they wanted to show people who looked down on them that they have political strength and power.
attention. They're trying to get yours, and everyone else's, in the hopes you'll change out the government to one that _does_ pay attention.
That didn't vote for Trump are protesting. Folks, you do realize this doesn't matter, right? Steve Bannon might be an unrepentant asshole but he said something brilliant. I'm paraphrasing here but the gist is: if the other side keeps banging on about issue the working class doesn't care about and we're sticking to a message of economic popularism we're going to be in power for the next 1000 years. I know a bunch of liberals who were upset that the 1000 year part was a thinly veiled reference to the Third Reich, again, missing the point entirely...
But can it run Crysis?
than you think. Our entire system of government was built from the ground up for corruption, specifically to protect the interests of wealthy land owners from the growing population of the cities. The Electoral college is the most famous example of that. In addition to putting a buffer between the people and their president it also put a lot of power in the hands of rural voters and took power away from the cities. The entire Senate was created for the same purpose: To a small number of rural voters could override the cities. This was done to keep the city voters from taxing the wealthy land owner class to pay for their cities.
All the nice stuff you were taught in grade school about our system of government was basically crap. Our entire system was built to give the illusion of democracy without the actual practical consequences of it. It's why policy after policy with overwhelming support gets shot down. That's not just 'politics as usual', that's a fundamental design feature of our political system. It's also easily fixable (parliamentary systems with proportional representation), but good luck with that.
they're cutting production of Gas turbines while Natural Gas production is exploding. That doesn't make a lot of sense. Renewables are nice and all but they're still not dominating our power grid. My guess is this is more to do with a weak global economy for the working class leading to less demand for power. The switch to LED bulbs isn't helping either, or energy efficient devices in general. Again, less demand for new power. This are either politically sensitive or long term structural things, neither of which GE is going to be keen to talk about. Just keep telling everybody that it's just because of a switch to renewables becuase hey, GE can fix this by switching themselves, right?