unless you asked for NN to be abolished. I have no idea why anyone is surprised. We put a political party in charge that is against the government regulating private enterprise. They never made any secret of this, ever. It's a central plank of their party. They control the House, Senate, presidency and soon the Judiciary. They control the State and local legislatures. They control literally all of government except a few parts of NY & CA.
Fact is the vast majority of people oppose gov't regulation except when it's something they want regulated. But it doesn't work that way. You can't have a functioning government except when you don't. You can't have a gov't that looks out for your interests but not your neighbors (well, not unless you're very, very rich). Elections have consequences. Here's one right now.
that racism underpins your whole economy. That's what institutionalized racism _means_. It means you've built racism into your institutions. That's what makes it so insidious. And it's one of the few times in my life I get to use the world insidious for it's real meaning (proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects)
instead of just using it as a generic word that means something is bad, m'kay.
And sure, this is an extreme example being used to get attention to the problem. My hypothetical black man and his missed opportunity are much more grounded but they also don't strike up a discussion of institutionalized racism.
here's a good example of the sort of fallacy you're falling into and told much better than I could.
And there's generally very little looting after disasters in America. Less when there's a Democrat in charge and the response to the disaster is something besides incompetence or indifference. Trump's response was Ok (if you're not in PR) because he hadn't finished replacing the Obama FEMA appointees. In PR where he handed over to his men they're still mostly without power.
You're pushing a false narrative that poor people are poor because they have bad morals. It's used by the wealthy to excuse abandoning them to their fate. It helps you feel better about yourself when you ignore their plight. It's a narrative, and a false one. If it wasn't society would be in chaos since 100 years ago during the Guilded Age 90% of people were what we called poor. There's plenty of other evidence to make that narrative into so much bullshit, but the folks who push it (like yourself) generally won't look for such evidence because, well, it means admitting you're being a stinker by abandoning the poor.
I realize this is going to touch a nerve. But it's like dentistry. There's no way to fix it without some pain. And I'm not a very good dentist either. You should probably see a specialist. I recommend Bernie Sanders.
is while that yes, Blacks are getting screwed over by institutionalized racism whites are also suffering (albeit from just plain old declining wages, outsourcing and poor economic prospects). That's where the whole 'White Lives Matters' thing comes in.
Basically everybody's screwed. Sure, some more than others, but it means nobody has any sympathy for anybody. We're all at each other's throats. Maybe we should be asking just who it is that set up at each other's throats?
the point of articles like this is to point out that trends like segregation still exist even in 2017. Apple stores showing up in 'white' neighborhoods is a symptom, not a cause. You've got to recognize symptoms as real before you can treat a disease.
the point of the story is to start a discussion on the concept of "Institutionalized Racism". You're reaction to this story ought to be confusion instead of disbelief. That fact that phrases like "White Neighborhood" and "Black Neighborhood" still exist in 2017 should clue you in that something is wrong.
on the problem of institutionalized racism. Blacks and Hispanics are still at a tremendous disadvantage in the country. There's still a _lot_ of racism out there. It didn't all go away because a few federal laws passed and we mostly stopped lynching them.
That said before the alt-right crowd piles in here about the war on white men I'll say this: Yes, there is a war one white men. It's being run by billionares like the Koch bros et al. It is not being masterminded by a few female community college professors who would like it very much if you'd stop hitting on them thank you very much. If you're a white man you're correct that you're getting the short end of the straw, but you're rage is misdirected. What's worse it's mostly directed against people who want to help you economically.
I forget who said it (Pretty sure it was a brit) but there was some commentator who stood aghast as folks marched in the street against them being given health insurance (e.g. the ACA). That's the problem we've got right now. We need to get you guys on board with addressing the real source of your problems. Google "Justice Democrats" if you want a place to start.
but you're doing a bang up job of blaming the victim. You do know that poor people don't actually go after whitey, no matter what Charles Manson tells you (read the article, I'm not just trolling).
Poor people overwhelmingly commit crimes against other poor people. That makes sense. I've experienced the reason personally when I moved to a well to do area after landing a nice job and got followed around by cops in my junker car for 3 weeks until they learned I was harmless. If you're poor in a rich neighborhood and you're not cleaning their pools or mowing their lawns you stand out like a sore thumb. If you keep showing up you're liable to get pulled over and have some trumped up drug charges thrown at you. Heck, our entire drug war is a combination of subsidies for private prisons (who couldn't survive w/o the huge numbers of non-violent drug offenders that are cheap to house) and excuse to screw with minorities. Ever look up the history of why Marijuana is illegal? Hint, migrant farm workers from a certain country liked it and it was a great way to kick 'em out of the country at the end of the season.
this is it. It's kind of 'default' racism.There was a/. story about how algorithms en up being 'racist' because of it.
It's not racism on Apple's part per se, but the natural result of centuries of accumulated bias. It's little things, like a black family getting a worse rate on home loans because the dad got passed over for a promotion a few years ago because he went to worse schools. It all percolates up until things like this just draw attention to it. When a SJW talks about 'micro-aggression' that's also kind of what they mean. A lot of little things building up with complex interactions over time.
The problem is that the journey from 'black guy passed up for one promotion' to "Apple puts stores in white neighborhoods" is a long one. So when you read headlines like this you're first reaction is probably "That's bullshit, Apple doesn't care where they put their stores". Although a few might start to wonder why the phrases 'white neighborhood' and 'black neighborhood' exist and if that's a sign of something underneath...
just hire some programmers and build it in house. Pay the programmers well and give them long term career options and they'll make good software instead of crap. I suppose you don't get to take trips to San Francisco every year to hang out at the ERP trade shows if you do that though.
since I've always hated the stuff, but modern fruit is just awful. Oranges especially. They grow to the size of grapefruits and as a result the tree can't get enough sugar or flavor to them. They taste like balls of fiber and wax. I stopped buying them. I can by the various breed of tangerines I guess but it's just not the same. I miss real oranges.
nor is it an invoicing system. If you're a small company you can get away with using it as such. In the 70s they were probably still better than paper. But it always amazing and mildly frightens me how many folks in big companies still use it for major parts of their business because, hey, it's already there and I know how to use it.
you'd have done that anyway. And besides, they don't care. You're gonna hurt a few advertisers, but unless you stop consuming content (particularly video) then your ISP is about to get a cut of everything you do online. Heck, even if you just shop they'll probably get a cut.
If you want to do something that matters vote against the Republican party, because it's _always_ the Republicans that do this crap. Then show up at your party's primary (Libertarian, Democrat, Green, Monster Loony, whatever) and _vote_ or the folks who run the Republicans will just take over whatever party you defected to to get away from them like they did with the Democrats. Right now there's a movement called Justice Democrats trying to take back the Dems. Libs and green are still too small to matter.
it legitimizes their business. What they should be fined for is skirting minimum wage laws and mis-classifying employees as contractors. This is more or less the exact opposite of that.
Basically, who's to say what clearly disqualifies somebody? I've seen it pointed out several times that just about any serious crime should probably disqualify somebody from being alone in a tiny, high speed vehicle that probably has the ability to control whether the passenger leaves or not (child locks). And that's before we start talking about whether someone with a history of DUI/DWI should be allowed to drive professionally.
I'm generally in agreement on the whole punishment factor though. I'd like to see punishment ended entirely as numerous studies show it's worthless past about age 10. Probably a better solution is things like basic income, which if we're wishing for things that aren't politically feasible and just aren't going to happen (like not abusing ex-cons) then we might as well wish for that.
is it will be used as ammo by anti-federalists to push states rights issues, completely ignoring the fact that it's cheap as free to buy off state legislatures and that with few exceptions they're all in the hands of the likes of the Koch bros. et al. e.g. in the absence of the FCC forcing NN we wouldn't have had it in the first place as each of the State legislatures was picked off one at a time by the elite ruling class. Anyone else remember that picture of the snake cut into 13 pieces? Anyone?
set the minimum wage for an H1-B to 300% of the prevailing wage in the industry. Then levy a 300% tax on their wages. If they're that critical to your business you'll pay it, since you won't have a business without them. Take that 300% and give it to the Americans put out of work by the import of cheap labor.
You've got to watch it so subsidies don't creep in to keep the effective costs down (like they do with Tobacco, where we tax cigarettes then subsidize tobacco growth). But it's a start.
that treated workers just fine (and with the sorts of protections we expect American workers to have). They only did it because they thought being able to have a phone to market 6 months sooner (because no ocean shipping) was worth it. When those benefits didn't materialize they moved right back to China. But at no time where they ever unprofitable due to high labor costs. The labor barely factored in. But why leave money on the table when you don't have to. Indeed, if you do your shareholders will oust you first chance they get. Or else you'll get Bained in a leveraged buyout when somebody notices the money left on the table and gets a loan from the bank to buy your company out in a hostile takeover.
The world works the way it does because we let it. We let it because we're greedy, short sighted and lack worker solidarity. It's got nothing to do with actual economics and everything to do with people being generally awful.
because they can use it to push their store front. Apple doesn't have that so it's a tougher sell. Also they'll have a hard time competing with Echo when Amazon can give the things away and make it up from store purchases & prime membership fees.
maybe you support abortion, maybe you don't. Maybe you want to take my guns away. Maybe you'd like an end to mass shootings. Maybe you'll raise my taxes and I'm barely making it as is. Maybe I need my schools federally funded because my property values tanked when the jobs went overseas and there's not enough tax base left.
The working class is fighting among itself for scraps while the elites take everything from us. But I have no idea how to stop that fighting. In the 30s, 40s and 50s churches were used to organize the working class. The right wing picked up on that in the 70s and 80s and took them over with wedge issues and mega-pastors. We need to get people to stop clawing at each other's throats, but I'll be damned if I know how to do that around stuff like gun control and abortion.
that's not how this works. That's now how _any_ of this works. They raise their rates and we all pay it because high speed internet is becoming more and more a necessity. Your kid's homework will be delivered on it. You'll be required to work from home on it. You're electronics won't work without it. A few will cut the cord, live without. They'll just raise the rates higher for those that have to have it.
This is hardly news anymore. At a certain point we either start demanding parity in how workers are treated or just admit that an iPhone is more important. For a lot of folks for whom the iPhone gets them access to a robust social network (in the form of iMessage) the answer is the latter.
the definition of 'voluntary'. It's no longer voluntary if you've set up a society where you have no other viable options. This is why we don't let people sell themselves into slavery. Because if you're at the point where you're selling yourself into slavery then you're no longer at the point where anything is truly voluntary.
Said it before, I'll say it again, you're not a free man (or woman) so long as somebody else controls your access to food, shelter and medicine. Until then you're one step away from being made to do whatever the person in charge of those things wants.
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unless you asked for NN to be abolished. I have no idea why anyone is surprised. We put a political party in charge that is against the government regulating private enterprise. They never made any secret of this, ever. It's a central plank of their party. They control the House, Senate, presidency and soon the Judiciary. They control the State and local legislatures. They control literally all of government except a few parts of NY & CA.
Fact is the vast majority of people oppose gov't regulation except when it's something they want regulated. But it doesn't work that way. You can't have a functioning government except when you don't. You can't have a gov't that looks out for your interests but not your neighbors (well, not unless you're very, very rich). Elections have consequences. Here's one right now.
that racism underpins your whole economy. That's what institutionalized racism _means_. It means you've built racism into your institutions. That's what makes it so insidious. And it's one of the few times in my life I get to use the world insidious for it's real meaning (proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects) instead of just using it as a generic word that means something is bad, m'kay.
And sure, this is an extreme example being used to get attention to the problem. My hypothetical black man and his missed opportunity are much more grounded but they also don't strike up a discussion of institutionalized racism.
here's a good example of the sort of fallacy you're falling into and told much better than I could.
And there's generally very little looting after disasters in America. Less when there's a Democrat in charge and the response to the disaster is something besides incompetence or indifference. Trump's response was Ok (if you're not in PR) because he hadn't finished replacing the Obama FEMA appointees. In PR where he handed over to his men they're still mostly without power.
You're pushing a false narrative that poor people are poor because they have bad morals. It's used by the wealthy to excuse abandoning them to their fate. It helps you feel better about yourself when you ignore their plight. It's a narrative, and a false one. If it wasn't society would be in chaos since 100 years ago during the Guilded Age 90% of people were what we called poor. There's plenty of other evidence to make that narrative into so much bullshit, but the folks who push it (like yourself) generally won't look for such evidence because, well, it means admitting you're being a stinker by abandoning the poor.
But don't take my word for it, here's a much better explanation.
I realize this is going to touch a nerve. But it's like dentistry. There's no way to fix it without some pain. And I'm not a very good dentist either. You should probably see a specialist. I recommend Bernie Sanders.
is while that yes, Blacks are getting screwed over by institutionalized racism whites are also suffering (albeit from just plain old declining wages, outsourcing and poor economic prospects). That's where the whole 'White Lives Matters' thing comes in.
Basically everybody's screwed. Sure, some more than others, but it means nobody has any sympathy for anybody. We're all at each other's throats. Maybe we should be asking just who it is that set up at each other's throats?
the point of articles like this is to point out that trends like segregation still exist even in 2017. Apple stores showing up in 'white' neighborhoods is a symptom, not a cause. You've got to recognize symptoms as real before you can treat a disease.
the point of the story is to start a discussion on the concept of "Institutionalized Racism". You're reaction to this story ought to be confusion instead of disbelief. That fact that phrases like "White Neighborhood" and "Black Neighborhood" still exist in 2017 should clue you in that something is wrong.
on the problem of institutionalized racism. Blacks and Hispanics are still at a tremendous disadvantage in the country. There's still a _lot_ of racism out there. It didn't all go away because a few federal laws passed and we mostly stopped lynching them.
That said before the alt-right crowd piles in here about the war on white men I'll say this: Yes, there is a war one white men. It's being run by billionares like the Koch bros et al. It is not being masterminded by a few female community college professors who would like it very much if you'd stop hitting on them thank you very much. If you're a white man you're correct that you're getting the short end of the straw, but you're rage is misdirected. What's worse it's mostly directed against people who want to help you economically.
I forget who said it (Pretty sure it was a brit) but there was some commentator who stood aghast as folks marched in the street against them being given health insurance (e.g. the ACA). That's the problem we've got right now. We need to get you guys on board with addressing the real source of your problems. Google "Justice Democrats" if you want a place to start.
but you're doing a bang up job of blaming the victim. You do know that poor people don't actually go after whitey, no matter what Charles Manson tells you (read the article, I'm not just trolling).
Poor people overwhelmingly commit crimes against other poor people. That makes sense. I've experienced the reason personally when I moved to a well to do area after landing a nice job and got followed around by cops in my junker car for 3 weeks until they learned I was harmless. If you're poor in a rich neighborhood and you're not cleaning their pools or mowing their lawns you stand out like a sore thumb. If you keep showing up you're liable to get pulled over and have some trumped up drug charges thrown at you. Heck, our entire drug war is a combination of subsidies for private prisons (who couldn't survive w/o the huge numbers of non-violent drug offenders that are cheap to house) and excuse to screw with minorities. Ever look up the history of why Marijuana is illegal? Hint, migrant farm workers from a certain country liked it and it was a great way to kick 'em out of the country at the end of the season.
this is it. It's kind of 'default' racism.There was a /. story about how algorithms en up being 'racist' because of it.
It's not racism on Apple's part per se, but the natural result of centuries of accumulated bias. It's little things, like a black family getting a worse rate on home loans because the dad got passed over for a promotion a few years ago because he went to worse schools. It all percolates up until things like this just draw attention to it. When a SJW talks about 'micro-aggression' that's also kind of what they mean. A lot of little things building up with complex interactions over time.
The problem is that the journey from 'black guy passed up for one promotion' to "Apple puts stores in white neighborhoods" is a long one. So when you read headlines like this you're first reaction is probably "That's bullshit, Apple doesn't care where they put their stores". Although a few might start to wonder why the phrases 'white neighborhood' and 'black neighborhood' exist and if that's a sign of something underneath...
Probably. In my neck of the woods grapefruit were always about the size of a big softball, maybe a little bigger.
it's a really slow news day.
just hire some programmers and build it in house. Pay the programmers well and give them long term career options and they'll make good software instead of crap. I suppose you don't get to take trips to San Francisco every year to hang out at the ERP trade shows if you do that though.
since I've always hated the stuff, but modern fruit is just awful. Oranges especially. They grow to the size of grapefruits and as a result the tree can't get enough sugar or flavor to them. They taste like balls of fiber and wax. I stopped buying them. I can by the various breed of tangerines I guess but it's just not the same. I miss real oranges.
nor is it an invoicing system. If you're a small company you can get away with using it as such. In the 70s they were probably still better than paper. But it always amazing and mildly frightens me how many folks in big companies still use it for major parts of their business because, hey, it's already there and I know how to use it.
you'd have done that anyway. And besides, they don't care. You're gonna hurt a few advertisers, but unless you stop consuming content (particularly video) then your ISP is about to get a cut of everything you do online. Heck, even if you just shop they'll probably get a cut.
If you want to do something that matters vote against the Republican party, because it's _always_ the Republicans that do this crap. Then show up at your party's primary (Libertarian, Democrat, Green, Monster Loony, whatever) and _vote_ or the folks who run the Republicans will just take over whatever party you defected to to get away from them like they did with the Democrats. Right now there's a movement called Justice Democrats trying to take back the Dems. Libs and green are still too small to matter.
it legitimizes their business. What they should be fined for is skirting minimum wage laws and mis-classifying employees as contractors. This is more or less the exact opposite of that.
Basically, who's to say what clearly disqualifies somebody? I've seen it pointed out several times that just about any serious crime should probably disqualify somebody from being alone in a tiny, high speed vehicle that probably has the ability to control whether the passenger leaves or not (child locks). And that's before we start talking about whether someone with a history of DUI/DWI should be allowed to drive professionally.
I'm generally in agreement on the whole punishment factor though. I'd like to see punishment ended entirely as numerous studies show it's worthless past about age 10. Probably a better solution is things like basic income, which if we're wishing for things that aren't politically feasible and just aren't going to happen (like not abusing ex-cons) then we might as well wish for that.
is it will be used as ammo by anti-federalists to push states rights issues, completely ignoring the fact that it's cheap as free to buy off state legislatures and that with few exceptions they're all in the hands of the likes of the Koch bros. et al. e.g. in the absence of the FCC forcing NN we wouldn't have had it in the first place as each of the State legislatures was picked off one at a time by the elite ruling class. Anyone else remember that picture of the snake cut into 13 pieces? Anyone?
set the minimum wage for an H1-B to 300% of the prevailing wage in the industry. Then levy a 300% tax on their wages. If they're that critical to your business you'll pay it, since you won't have a business without them. Take that 300% and give it to the Americans put out of work by the import of cheap labor.
You've got to watch it so subsidies don't creep in to keep the effective costs down (like they do with Tobacco, where we tax cigarettes then subsidize tobacco growth). But it's a start.
that treated workers just fine (and with the sorts of protections we expect American workers to have). They only did it because they thought being able to have a phone to market 6 months sooner (because no ocean shipping) was worth it. When those benefits didn't materialize they moved right back to China. But at no time where they ever unprofitable due to high labor costs. The labor barely factored in. But why leave money on the table when you don't have to. Indeed, if you do your shareholders will oust you first chance they get. Or else you'll get Bained in a leveraged buyout when somebody notices the money left on the table and gets a loan from the bank to buy your company out in a hostile takeover.
The world works the way it does because we let it. We let it because we're greedy, short sighted and lack worker solidarity. It's got nothing to do with actual economics and everything to do with people being generally awful.
because they can use it to push their store front. Apple doesn't have that so it's a tougher sell. Also they'll have a hard time competing with Echo when Amazon can give the things away and make it up from store purchases & prime membership fees.
maybe you support abortion, maybe you don't. Maybe you want to take my guns away. Maybe you'd like an end to mass shootings. Maybe you'll raise my taxes and I'm barely making it as is. Maybe I need my schools federally funded because my property values tanked when the jobs went overseas and there's not enough tax base left.
The working class is fighting among itself for scraps while the elites take everything from us. But I have no idea how to stop that fighting. In the 30s, 40s and 50s churches were used to organize the working class. The right wing picked up on that in the 70s and 80s and took them over with wedge issues and mega-pastors. We need to get people to stop clawing at each other's throats, but I'll be damned if I know how to do that around stuff like gun control and abortion.
that's not how this works. That's now how _any_ of this works. They raise their rates and we all pay it because high speed internet is becoming more and more a necessity. Your kid's homework will be delivered on it. You'll be required to work from home on it. You're electronics won't work without it. A few will cut the cord, live without. They'll just raise the rates higher for those that have to have it.
This is hardly news anymore. At a certain point we either start demanding parity in how workers are treated or just admit that an iPhone is more important. For a lot of folks for whom the iPhone gets them access to a robust social network (in the form of iMessage) the answer is the latter.
the definition of 'voluntary'. It's no longer voluntary if you've set up a society where you have no other viable options. This is why we don't let people sell themselves into slavery. Because if you're at the point where you're selling yourself into slavery then you're no longer at the point where anything is truly voluntary.
Said it before, I'll say it again, you're not a free man (or woman) so long as somebody else controls your access to food, shelter and medicine. Until then you're one step away from being made to do whatever the person in charge of those things wants.