that driving for a living is going away soon but you'd be amazed how many don't believe that. It's gonna be like when computers decimated junior accountants but without all the new jobs working on computers.
that includes Medicare for All, College for All, a $15 minimum wage and end the 7 wars we're fighting (be 'cha didn't know there were 7, and NK would make 8).
It's what used to be called a 'Party Platform' before money took over politics. There's a group calling themselves the "Justice Democrats" trying to push it through by primarying a bunch of the right wing Dems that got in on Clinton (Bill)'s coat tails. They're hoping they managge to knock Diane "Supports gun control but carries a gun" Feinstein out of office.
reminds of that story where a father found out his teenage daughter was pregnant because Target sent her a coupon for baby powder or some such based on her purchase history. I understand it's a big problem in the closeted LBGTQ community and among sex workers because they'll have two FB profiles for their double lives and FB will constantly link the two.
One of the only reasons Public Us get any funding anymore is so businesses can swoop in, take the research and profit from it. Unless you can somehow get the public at large to stop voting against the tax cuts and voting for the wars that defund education (good luck) then it's going to have to be a for profit enterprise.
my plugin still more or less works (minus some features) for a lot of users (myself included). They've left a lot of compatibility in (even if you sometimes have to edit about:config to get it). Mind you, that was not done by choice.
What is this, the laziest application of Betteridge's law of headlines in/. history? Of course not. Vigilantism is _never_ a good idea. It takes years of training and constant surveillance to apply force and violence even as evenly as police do and let's face it, they screw it up all the time. You want some random yahoo who's probably mad as hell their severs just got DDOS'd doing it?
I haven't gotten to porting my Extension to the new APIs. They're not at all stable. Plus it's not so much a 'port' as it is a complete re-write from scratch. Firefox needs to sort out the new APIs _before_ shutting down the old ones.
where you'd leave your wet cloths after walking in from the rain/snow. There were two doors, one to get into the foyer and another to get into the house. I'm assuming that's the sort of folks this would be for.
Everybody does something wrong every now and then. And if all else fails just buy their parent company. That's the trouble with billionaires. You give somebody that much money they can do whatever they want.
Using money to take control of media. It worked for Gawker. Gawker's pretty well disliked for their tabloid journalism, but they did a lot of real journalism on the side and used the tabloid stuff to pay for it. That's why Thiel shut them down. They'd done exposes into some of his dirty dealings in finance (and no, it wasn't because they outed him as gay).
So get used to this. When they can't crush they'll buy and vice versa. If you want the kind of muck racking that shines a light on the bad parts of the world you've got to pay for it somehow. That used to be the tabloids, but folks seem to have forgotten that, and all that's left is corporate propaganda paid for to push their message.
You've got to pay people enough so that they can have a stable life. One where they're car doesn't break down all the time and they're not spending weekends and nights driving Uber to make rent. Even the most competent person is going to start making mistakes if they spend 50/hr week at their job and another 40/wk putting out fires in their personal life caused by a lack of resources.
It's more the rank and file IT guys that keep the servers running that they're talking about. Actually, the software engineers tend to have almost no access at all since 90% of what they do gets done in test environments and then pushed to production.
who's job is to make you want to buy their mostly unnecessary stuff?
The jump from Atari -> Colecovision was pretty big.
The jump from Atari/Colecovision -> NES was bigger.
The Jump from NES -> Genesis/SNES was bigger still.
And from Genesis/SNES -> Playstation? Enormous.
I remember the first time I saw a Dreamcast and though, "Wow, I can't believe we can do graphics like that now". I did not get the same feeling with the PS2, the PS3 or the PS4 let alone the Xbox One X.
It's not just that we're good enough either. The tools we have are limiting what artists can do. 8 cores don't matter much if it's a nightmare to make those cores do enough work to matter. On paper the Sega Saturn blew the PSX out of the water but I can count on half a hand the number of times that happened (Virtual Fighter, Dead or Alive, _maybe_ Grandia and two of those didn't make it out of Japan).
I've had lots of high level access over the years because I need it to do my job. I've also seen lots of overworked, overtired people in charge of massively important systems because in theory the work isn't that hard. The thing is, if you pay somebody minimum wage they live like somebody making minimum wage. Meaning their lives are a never ending parade of problems they can't solve. They're going to make mistakes, and you're going to pay for them. The only question is do you save more money by paying them like crap than you do cleaning up the mistakes. Depress wages far enough and the answer is 'yes'.
I guess there's local news, but most of the stations around here got bought out by Fox and aren't really local anymore. It's actually creepy to see their fox news style politics seeping into it...
Communism never gets past the 'Dictatorship of the Proles' phase. The left figured that out ages ago. See, we on the left learn from our mistakes. How's that Trickle Down Economics doing for you?
if the Pyramids got tore down, but they're not symbols any more, they're historic curiosities.
But even as symbols there's strong evidence that they were built for one of two reasons:
a. Religion. And I don't hear anyone calling to tear down the sistine chapel.
b. As a show of power to other nations. To say "Look what we can do, don't mess with us".
Now, as for those famous slaver monuments, they were built during the 'Jim Crow' era when the south was trying to oppress black people. They sent a very, very clear message: You are still slaves. They were not nor where they ever meant to honor the fallen. They weren't even meant as an 'F.U.' to the north. The historic significance is well know. They were put up to scare black people into submission as part of a broader campaign of terrorism that included both institutionalized violence and general fear-mongering.
they didn't side with Russian, they sided with Communism. Never mind the fact that Russia was not and never has been communist. They were a dictatorship that happened to use communist rhetoric. And then there's the fact that the American communists were a small minority even in the left wing.
Nice politics troll though. The part at the end was a little odd though. Are you working for the Ruskies?
in the past we didn't have a significant portion of the population willing to side with the Russians in order to achieve victory. 30 years ago just the allegations would have kept Trump (and Hilary) out of the Whitehouse. Folks were willing to ignore widespread election meddling just to get their man in office.
what nasty thing they're doing that this is supposed to distract us from? I will never believe that our CIA does anything out of the goodness of their heart. If I saw one of them reach down to pet a puppy I'd have it checked by a bomb squad.
They can berate all they want. They can't get any meaningful legislation through. This is all just deck chairs on the Titanic. Meanwhile the Republicans are 3 seats away from holding a Constitutional Convention. That should end well.
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that driving for a living is going away soon but you'd be amazed how many don't believe that. It's gonna be like when computers decimated junior accountants but without all the new jobs working on computers.
that includes Medicare for All, College for All, a $15 minimum wage and end the 7 wars we're fighting (be 'cha didn't know there were 7, and NK would make 8).
It's what used to be called a 'Party Platform' before money took over politics. There's a group calling themselves the "Justice Democrats" trying to push it through by primarying a bunch of the right wing Dems that got in on Clinton (Bill)'s coat tails. They're hoping they managge to knock Diane "Supports gun control but carries a gun" Feinstein out of office.
if you make $1 million/yr. If you do this is BAU/functioning as designed.
reminds of that story where a father found out his teenage daughter was pregnant because Target sent her a coupon for baby powder or some such based on her purchase history. I understand it's a big problem in the closeted LBGTQ community and among sex workers because they'll have two FB profiles for their double lives and FB will constantly link the two.
One of the only reasons Public Us get any funding anymore is so businesses can swoop in, take the research and profit from it. Unless you can somehow get the public at large to stop voting against the tax cuts and voting for the wars that defund education (good luck) then it's going to have to be a for profit enterprise.
my plugin still more or less works (minus some features) for a lot of users (myself included). They've left a lot of compatibility in (even if you sometimes have to edit about:config to get it). Mind you, that was not done by choice.
What is this, the laziest application of Betteridge's law of headlines in /. history? Of course not. Vigilantism is _never_ a good idea. It takes years of training and constant surveillance to apply force and violence even as evenly as police do and let's face it, they screw it up all the time. You want some random yahoo who's probably mad as hell their severs just got DDOS'd doing it?
I haven't gotten to porting my Extension to the new APIs. They're not at all stable. Plus it's not so much a 'port' as it is a complete re-write from scratch. Firefox needs to sort out the new APIs _before_ shutting down the old ones.
where you'd leave your wet cloths after walking in from the rain/snow. There were two doors, one to get into the foyer and another to get into the house. I'm assuming that's the sort of folks this would be for.
Everybody does something wrong every now and then. And if all else fails just buy their parent company. That's the trouble with billionaires. You give somebody that much money they can do whatever they want.
Using money to take control of media. It worked for Gawker. Gawker's pretty well disliked for their tabloid journalism, but they did a lot of real journalism on the side and used the tabloid stuff to pay for it. That's why Thiel shut them down. They'd done exposes into some of his dirty dealings in finance (and no, it wasn't because they outed him as gay).
So get used to this. When they can't crush they'll buy and vice versa. If you want the kind of muck racking that shines a light on the bad parts of the world you've got to pay for it somehow. That used to be the tabloids, but folks seem to have forgotten that, and all that's left is corporate propaganda paid for to push their message.
You've got to pay people enough so that they can have a stable life. One where they're car doesn't break down all the time and they're not spending weekends and nights driving Uber to make rent. Even the most competent person is going to start making mistakes if they spend 50/hr week at their job and another 40/wk putting out fires in their personal life caused by a lack of resources.
It's more the rank and file IT guys that keep the servers running that they're talking about. Actually, the software engineers tend to have almost no access at all since 90% of what they do gets done in test environments and then pushed to production.
I prefer a bit more muck racking, and WSJ is too thoroughly owned by corporate interests to do any of that.
who's job is to make you want to buy their mostly unnecessary stuff?
The jump from Atari -> Colecovision was pretty big.
The jump from Atari/Colecovision -> NES was bigger.
The Jump from NES -> Genesis/SNES was bigger still.
And from Genesis/SNES -> Playstation? Enormous.
I remember the first time I saw a Dreamcast and though, "Wow, I can't believe we can do graphics like that now". I did not get the same feeling with the PS2, the PS3 or the PS4 let alone the Xbox One X.
It's not just that we're good enough either. The tools we have are limiting what artists can do. 8 cores don't matter much if it's a nightmare to make those cores do enough work to matter. On paper the Sega Saturn blew the PSX out of the water but I can count on half a hand the number of times that happened (Virtual Fighter, Dead or Alive, _maybe_ Grandia and two of those didn't make it out of Japan).
I've had lots of high level access over the years because I need it to do my job. I've also seen lots of overworked, overtired people in charge of massively important systems because in theory the work isn't that hard. The thing is, if you pay somebody minimum wage they live like somebody making minimum wage. Meaning their lives are a never ending parade of problems they can't solve. They're going to make mistakes, and you're going to pay for them. The only question is do you save more money by paying them like crap than you do cleaning up the mistakes. Depress wages far enough and the answer is 'yes'.
I guess there's local news, but most of the stations around here got bought out by Fox and aren't really local anymore. It's actually creepy to see their fox news style politics seeping into it...
Communism never gets past the 'Dictatorship of the Proles' phase. The left figured that out ages ago. See, we on the left learn from our mistakes. How's that Trickle Down Economics doing for you?
So why not vote Bernie?
if the Pyramids got tore down, but they're not symbols any more, they're historic curiosities.
But even as symbols there's strong evidence that they were built for one of two reasons:
a. Religion. And I don't hear anyone calling to tear down the sistine chapel.
b. As a show of power to other nations. To say "Look what we can do, don't mess with us".
Now, as for those famous slaver monuments, they were built during the 'Jim Crow' era when the south was trying to oppress black people. They sent a very, very clear message: You are still slaves. They were not nor where they ever meant to honor the fallen. They weren't even meant as an 'F.U.' to the north. The historic significance is well know. They were put up to scare black people into submission as part of a broader campaign of terrorism that included both institutionalized violence and general fear-mongering.
they didn't side with Russian, they sided with Communism. Never mind the fact that Russia was not and never has been communist. They were a dictatorship that happened to use communist rhetoric. And then there's the fact that the American communists were a small minority even in the left wing.
Nice politics troll though. The part at the end was a little odd though. Are you working for the Ruskies?
in the past we didn't have a significant portion of the population willing to side with the Russians in order to achieve victory. 30 years ago just the allegations would have kept Trump (and Hilary) out of the Whitehouse. Folks were willing to ignore widespread election meddling just to get their man in office.
what nasty thing they're doing that this is supposed to distract us from? I will never believe that our CIA does anything out of the goodness of their heart. If I saw one of them reach down to pet a puppy I'd have it checked by a bomb squad.
is a brilliant expose on the dangers of Slashvertisements.
They can berate all they want. They can't get any meaningful legislation through. This is all just deck chairs on the Titanic. Meanwhile the Republicans are 3 seats away from holding a Constitutional Convention. That should end well.