there were decades of poverty brought on by job displacement until the economy caught up. New automation tech put people out of work but it didn't necessarily employ them. They don't teach you about that in high school because a) the books try to keep an upbeat pro-America tone and b) you're lucky to get 20 pages on the topic.
The trouble is we're heading for another industrial revolution. And if you know your history that means decades of unemployment until some new tech comes along. We need political and social solutions for the near term. Or we can just accept a declined standard of living.
the right wing have been complaining about media bias for decades even as the media favors virtually all of their economic policies (tax cuts, the wars which make no mistake are economic, deregulation, unfettered free trade and cheap work visas, etc, etc). Meanwhile those same have tanked the economy for the working class (though the actual elites, the ones making all the money, are doing better than ever). Yeah, the media is a bit left on social issues (gay rights and abortion mostly)
but everything else they've long since been far right. It's not surprising, look who owns them. You don't talk bad about your boss if you want to stay employed...
Colbert is a court jester, calling out the king for his hypocrisy. The quote encapsulates all that. He gets away with it because he's a court jester. No one who matters really takes him too seriously.
the crypto-currency boom to last. AMD will be fine. Ryzen's solid and Vega's a big improvement. They're likely to own consoles for the next few generations (minus the switch since they don't have a low end mobile part like nVidia).
the report is a slowdown in processor sales. That would be everybody who sells processors, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah, AMD's worse off than Intel (they're not as evil^x business savvy). But it's not like the console biz is slowing down.
If it's Gross than he's either team driving with his own truck or he's training.
There's good money in team driving, but it's also kinda crap work. I knew a husband/wife team that did it but besides that it's rough.
If you're a trainer you're taking your life in your hands. The newbies have a high rate of crashes. You're safer in Afghanistan, Iraq or doing undersea welding. It pays well because it's dangerous as hell.
Source: I've got several friends and the aforementioned husband/wife team in truck driving.
because it's a multi-billion dollar boondoggle they can use to line their own pockets with and when the whole thing goes bust unlike a well understood technology like passenger trains they can blame the engineers.
when the service goes away. Making content, like everything, costs money. Maybe if we ever get UBI we can talk. Until then you live with the ads or stop going to the page and complaining.
30 years ago was 1987. If you honestly believe the media wasn't biased you're nuts. When I was a kid there were nonstop stories about scary, incredibly well armed gangs with the sub-text being that they were mostly black. This was the origin of 'tough on crime' and our private prison system. And don't get me started on the media's coverage of drugs. Go back further and you can find them gearing us up for war after war.
Yes, with the advent of Fox news and Rupert Murdoch buying up all the local stations the propaganda's gotten a lot worse (CNN isn't exactly helping, sure they're a little left on social issues but their war and economy coverage is pro-corporate 24/7).
Just because things have gotten so bad that you can notice it without being a news hound doesn't mean you weren't being manipulated 30 years ago. It just means they were better at it back then.
vehicle ownership for truckers is a scam. They're low paid and vulnerable (living on the road is costly, you can't just look at their base pay). Trucking companies used that during the recession to force them into 'leases' where the truck company fronts them money for the truck and takes the cost of buying and maintaining it out of their paycheck. Think Uber but a million times worse. If you stop working the truck company takes the equity in the truck but if there's not enough they leave you with the debt. There was a big expose where a guy was working 90 hours a week and taking home pennies (literally, he showed some pay stubs that were around 20 cents after fees).
That said, this guy is full of crap. Automation will put truckers out of business. And even if it didn't there's no way the trucking companies are giving an arrangement that puts all the cost/risk on somebody else. Not unless the government steps in, and I know I'll get dinged for partisanship here but the Republicans control every single branch of government. I'm not holding my breath.
towards elite rent seekers. Owners, not workers. Those folks don't risk anything. Their loans are guaranteed, they've got insider information given verbally at country clubs, laws don't apply to them and if all else fails we've given them so much wealth that if they go down they take everything with them.
STEM isn't going to get you out/up given the amount of outsourcing going on. Only the very brightest can overcome that barrier and not everybody can be a genius, if they could the definition of genius would change.
If you're referencing that Chinese insult about living in interesting times though you're spot on. Between automation, general attacks on education in the form of funding cuts and our endless wars the working class is boned.
and it's an i5-7500. Not only does it have plenty of headroom on processing but even if I'm running Burn in Test it doesn't get above 40 celcius on a CPU that could comfortably hit 70 for the next 20 years. The electricity cost is negligible too.
I can't even get that worked up about this stuff on my cell phone. I don't generally browse on it for hours on end. Maybe if I used a tablet I'd care, but as it stands this is kind of a non-issue. What surprises me is the amount of white hot rage over it going around the net. I think it makes people feel like marks that they're not getting their cut, nevermind that they got their cut when they consumed the content on the site (assuming they weren't tricked, but then we're talking mal-ware, which is a whole 'nother discussion).
Last I heard you can't just buy off the shelf and rent out. I know you can't do that with video cassettes. Maybe they'll turn a blind eye in the hopes of getting DLC sales? But if you have to pay $60/yr + $15-$20 bucks to play online then I can't see this flying.
or get a bank account? Congrats, you have a contract. It's buried deep in there but you gave the credit agencies carte blanche to do as they please with your information.
it's a big part of it. America is a Christian country, and, well, God punishes the faithful for the sins of the heretic. Look at Sodom & Gamorrah, Noah's Ark or any of the raft of preachers who are currently claiming our sins caused the last round of hurricanes.
Basically, there's a good 10%-20% of the American population that really thinks they're voting in their interests because of social issues (abortion, gay rights, secularism, etc). If you take those parts of the Christian Bible literally they're right. Sure, they're getting hit economically, but will that really matter if God wipes us all out in a flood because there's too much sin?
And yes, I know there's a ton of counter arguments. That's the trouble with Christianity. You can find a reason to do damn near anything in it's history, good or ill.
of those opportunities. It requires a lot of skill and a brutal amount of hard work. If you're already working just to survive you're in no shape to fire off a start up. And nobody's going to give you the capital because odds are you're going to crash and fail. I don't mean that as a colloquialism either. 80% of businesses fail in the first 5 years. And those are just the ones that got off the ground enough to be counted in the statistics.
Try telling somebody making $8/hr at Walmart who's only skills are blue collar ones that they can go off and be the next Zuckerberg. They'll actually agree with you because their pride won't let them admit that it's impossible; that ship sailed. But when that person goes to the polls and he/she's all alone she's going to pull the anti-NN lever because those folks are promising them jobs they know they can actually get and do. And that's sort of the problem. Folks like you look at the polls and see people support NN because they like the dreams you're selling, but they don't really believe in it. That's half of why Trump one. Millions of people who wouldn't admit they're gonna vote for him...
is that it's a small potatoes issue when 60-80% of your people are living paycheck to paycheck. If you want people to care about these sorts of things you've got to take care of their basic needs first. That doesn't just mean bread & circuses, that means actual stability in their lives. Trump and the anti-NN folks won because he went to the folks who are just skating by and said he'd do something that matters for them.
Basically, if you don't take care of your working class somebody's gonna come along to do it for you, and you won't like what that somebody does to you and yours.
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there were decades of poverty brought on by job displacement until the economy caught up. New automation tech put people out of work but it didn't necessarily employ them. They don't teach you about that in high school because a) the books try to keep an upbeat pro-America tone and b) you're lucky to get 20 pages on the topic.
Where do you think the two World Wars came from?
The trouble is we're heading for another industrial revolution. And if you know your history that means decades of unemployment until some new tech comes along. We need political and social solutions for the near term. Or we can just accept a declined standard of living.
the right wing have been complaining about media bias for decades even as the media favors virtually all of their economic policies (tax cuts, the wars which make no mistake are economic, deregulation, unfettered free trade and cheap work visas, etc, etc). Meanwhile those same have tanked the economy for the working class (though the actual elites, the ones making all the money, are doing better than ever). Yeah, the media is a bit left on social issues (gay rights and abortion mostly) but everything else they've long since been far right. It's not surprising, look who owns them. You don't talk bad about your boss if you want to stay employed...
Colbert is a court jester, calling out the king for his hypocrisy. The quote encapsulates all that. He gets away with it because he's a court jester. No one who matters really takes him too seriously.
I've got a whole jar of nickles. Heck, I sometimes see one on the ground and don't even bother picking it up, and I'm not even Bill Gates.
the crypto-currency boom to last. AMD will be fine. Ryzen's solid and Vega's a big improvement. They're likely to own consoles for the next few generations (minus the switch since they don't have a low end mobile part like nVidia).
the report is a slowdown in processor sales. That would be everybody who sells processors, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah, AMD's worse off than Intel (they're not as evil^x business savvy). But it's not like the console biz is slowing down.
If it's Gross than he's either team driving with his own truck or he's training.
There's good money in team driving, but it's also kinda crap work. I knew a husband/wife team that did it but besides that it's rough.
If you're a trainer you're taking your life in your hands. The newbies have a high rate of crashes. You're safer in Afghanistan, Iraq or doing undersea welding. It pays well because it's dangerous as hell.
Source: I've got several friends and the aforementioned husband/wife team in truck driving.
because it's a multi-billion dollar boondoggle they can use to line their own pockets with and when the whole thing goes bust unlike a well understood technology like passenger trains they can blame the engineers.
when the service goes away. Making content, like everything, costs money. Maybe if we ever get UBI we can talk. Until then you live with the ads or stop going to the page and complaining.
30 years ago was 1987. If you honestly believe the media wasn't biased you're nuts. When I was a kid there were nonstop stories about scary, incredibly well armed gangs with the sub-text being that they were mostly black. This was the origin of 'tough on crime' and our private prison system. And don't get me started on the media's coverage of drugs. Go back further and you can find them gearing us up for war after war.
Yes, with the advent of Fox news and Rupert Murdoch buying up all the local stations the propaganda's gotten a lot worse (CNN isn't exactly helping, sure they're a little left on social issues but their war and economy coverage is pro-corporate 24/7).
Just because things have gotten so bad that you can notice it without being a news hound doesn't mean you weren't being manipulated 30 years ago. It just means they were better at it back then.
vehicle ownership for truckers is a scam. They're low paid and vulnerable (living on the road is costly, you can't just look at their base pay). Trucking companies used that during the recession to force them into 'leases' where the truck company fronts them money for the truck and takes the cost of buying and maintaining it out of their paycheck. Think Uber but a million times worse. If you stop working the truck company takes the equity in the truck but if there's not enough they leave you with the debt. There was a big expose where a guy was working 90 hours a week and taking home pennies (literally, he showed some pay stubs that were around 20 cents after fees).
That said, this guy is full of crap. Automation will put truckers out of business. And even if it didn't there's no way the trucking companies are giving an arrangement that puts all the cost/risk on somebody else. Not unless the government steps in, and I know I'll get dinged for partisanship here but the Republicans control every single branch of government. I'm not holding my breath.
towards elite rent seekers. Owners, not workers. Those folks don't risk anything. Their loans are guaranteed, they've got insider information given verbally at country clubs, laws don't apply to them and if all else fails we've given them so much wealth that if they go down they take everything with them.
STEM isn't going to get you out/up given the amount of outsourcing going on. Only the very brightest can overcome that barrier and not everybody can be a genius, if they could the definition of genius would change.
If you're referencing that Chinese insult about living in interesting times though you're spot on. Between automation, general attacks on education in the form of funding cuts and our endless wars the working class is boned.
reality has a well known liberal bias.
was that it wasn't covered by existing disclosure rules. So folks could pour money into it with impunity.
and it's an i5-7500. Not only does it have plenty of headroom on processing but even if I'm running Burn in Test it doesn't get above 40 celcius on a CPU that could comfortably hit 70 for the next 20 years. The electricity cost is negligible too.
I can't even get that worked up about this stuff on my cell phone. I don't generally browse on it for hours on end. Maybe if I used a tablet I'd care, but as it stands this is kind of a non-issue. What surprises me is the amount of white hot rage over it going around the net. I think it makes people feel like marks that they're not getting their cut, nevermind that they got their cut when they consumed the content on the site (assuming they weren't tricked, but then we're talking mal-ware, which is a whole 'nother discussion).
for online play. It's how they make money off used game sales.
Last I heard you can't just buy off the shelf and rent out. I know you can't do that with video cassettes. Maybe they'll turn a blind eye in the hopes of getting DLC sales? But if you have to pay $60/yr + $15-$20 bucks to play online then I can't see this flying.
it's a survival game called "This war of mine".
just significantly less so. Good paying jobs are their #1 concern. The kind that you can do when you're good with your hands but not your head.
or get a bank account? Congrats, you have a contract. It's buried deep in there but you gave the credit agencies carte blanche to do as they please with your information.
it's a big part of it. America is a Christian country, and, well, God punishes the faithful for the sins of the heretic. Look at Sodom & Gamorrah, Noah's Ark or any of the raft of preachers who are currently claiming our sins caused the last round of hurricanes.
Basically, there's a good 10%-20% of the American population that really thinks they're voting in their interests because of social issues (abortion, gay rights, secularism, etc). If you take those parts of the Christian Bible literally they're right. Sure, they're getting hit economically, but will that really matter if God wipes us all out in a flood because there's too much sin?
And yes, I know there's a ton of counter arguments. That's the trouble with Christianity. You can find a reason to do damn near anything in it's history, good or ill.
of those opportunities. It requires a lot of skill and a brutal amount of hard work. If you're already working just to survive you're in no shape to fire off a start up. And nobody's going to give you the capital because odds are you're going to crash and fail. I don't mean that as a colloquialism either. 80% of businesses fail in the first 5 years. And those are just the ones that got off the ground enough to be counted in the statistics.
Try telling somebody making $8/hr at Walmart who's only skills are blue collar ones that they can go off and be the next Zuckerberg. They'll actually agree with you because their pride won't let them admit that it's impossible; that ship sailed. But when that person goes to the polls and he/she's all alone she's going to pull the anti-NN lever because those folks are promising them jobs they know they can actually get and do. And that's sort of the problem. Folks like you look at the polls and see people support NN because they like the dreams you're selling, but they don't really believe in it. That's half of why Trump one. Millions of people who wouldn't admit they're gonna vote for him...
is that it's a small potatoes issue when 60-80% of your people are living paycheck to paycheck. If you want people to care about these sorts of things you've got to take care of their basic needs first. That doesn't just mean bread & circuses, that means actual stability in their lives. Trump and the anti-NN folks won because he went to the folks who are just skating by and said he'd do something that matters for them.
Basically, if you don't take care of your working class somebody's gonna come along to do it for you, and you won't like what that somebody does to you and yours.
the answer is no.
for all intensive purposes.