where the gov't didn't do anything except fight wars and life was nasty, brutish and short. I've got about 70 years where the gov't did a bunch of stuff and things got a lot better really fast. You'd think folks would have noticed this by now.
The reason you can't have a state do that is a state doesn't have enough power to stand up to a global mega corp run by robber barons. Did you ever see the pic of a snake cut in 13 pieces when you were a kid? It wasn't from a snake cook book.
what got discussions on gun control going (at least in the US) was when shooting became cheap enough that minorities could afford guns to defend themselves.
Reminds me of one of the funniest things I've ever read. A bunch of those "People's Militia" folks decided to get their Assault rifles and go scare some Muslims by hanging around their Mosque with their guns slung over their back.
Apparently these fine upstanding citizens didn't realize that the Nation of Islam is a different branch of faith than what they were used to. Then went home real quick when a bunch of brothers and sisters came to meet them with their own rifles slung over their backs.
That said, it's funny in hindsight but I'm glad they back down without a shoot out. I'd prefer to live in a world where folks didn't do (and get away with) nonsense like that...
and I wish you'd drop the issue. We here on the left have. Bernie f'in Sanders got an A from the NRA.
Meanwhile it's being used as a wedge issue to distract you from economic issues. So you go to the polls and vote for the gun loving guy and he sells you out on the economy. How the hell do you think NAFTA got through? They knew the gun lovers would vote them in no matter what they did to the economy. Nevermind the fact that you and your little pea shooter of a rifle is about as useless as tits on a bull against a modern, well supplied military; 80s action movies to the contrary.
How about this: You can have a mother f'in bazooka if I can have Single Payer healthcare & college tuition for my kid. Deal?
would stop crashing every 10 years. But it's been doing that since I was a lad and if I want to look it up before that.
You survived 20 years of layoffs, were rocking a college degree and still couldn't avoid bankruptcy. At some point we have to stop stop blaming the parents and blame the system. The government, using tax dollars taken from the wealthy must fund college. Why the wealth? Because they benefit most from having an educated workforce.
Parents already put massive amounts of time, effort and money into raising the next generations of employees. They're already doing their part. It's the other side, the employers, who aren't keeping up their end of the bargain.
when the internships aren't mandatory to graduate. Interns aren't suppose to do work an employee would normally do. That means they're of limited use to a business. It's why they're called gophers (go fer coffee).
The dynamic changes drastically when you suddenly mandate 800,000 people get an internship or don't graduate. It's the same thing as that schmuk in Chicago who wants to mandate a 'plan' before high schoolers can graduate. Businesses will take advantage of the students need for an internship to force them to work full time for little or no pay. This will in turn drive down wages and opportunities for people in the job market proper, which is exactly what this is suppose to do. I'm sure if it was looked into you'd find some wealthy plutocrat buddy-buddy with whoever suggested this.
because if it's one way I know for sure to lower unemployment it's to dump hundreds of thousands of employees at intern level wages directly into a market. I foresee this will in no way have any negative consequences or backfire. This is most certainly not a transparent attempt to get cheap labor in an already overburdened job market. Nosiree.
Also, good to know India has the same B.S. narrative about why folks can't find work as the US.
College is a _lot_ more competitive than it used to be. 20 years of non-stop federal funding cuts (mostly to finance tax cuts) mean they've had to be insanely selective with students. Even with a 4.0 GPA she'll still have an interview because there's too many applicants with high GPAs.
This is one of those things nobody talks about. The only way to solve it is to fund schools again, but fat chance of that. It means people going to the polls and voting for tax increases. Yeah, those tax raises would need to come out of the rich mostly (since they've got most of the money) but folks just hear tax raise and shut it down. I'm guessing it's because so many folks live paycheck to paycheck (60-70% depending on which study you're reading) that they're terrified of even a 1% raise.
I'm guessing this is addressing that silly tech narrative that you can drop out of college and become a billionaire Does anyone really believe that? If you take even a cursory glance at the rich 'dropouts' they were all from well to do families who could afford to take a break and come back. Meanwhile my kid basically gets one shot at college since if she takes even 1 year off because she didn't get into her 300 level courses (not enough space for somebody with a measly 3.8 GPA / average is 3.9 to be admitted to her major) all her loans come due and you can't get more loans until the first batch are paid off.
they added Hyper threading to the G series (though you might have to wait a bit to get a G4560 for a decent price, they're out there though). An i3-7350 can hang with last gen's i5s, which is something I didn't think I'd be writing again anytime soon. Intel isn't gimping their low end like they used to.
it's massively overkill for her. A Ryzen 3 is on par with a high end i3 or low end i5 (depending on the part). Grandma gets one of these. Ryzen 3 is for her grandson and his RX 460 (or 480 if he can talk Grandma into it).
This is something middle management is really concerned about./. is mostly middle managers by now since most of us where forced out of tech by the influx of cheap Visas forced us to move on from the nuts and bolts of tech and into management. Automating work done by call centers is the new hotness right now for tech managers.
so folks have the resources to slow down. To live in a community instead of abandoning it every time a modest pay raise or better schools for their kids are offered. Folks need a buffer from the current state of desperation.
and it's important to realize that. They know exactly what they're doing. It's wealth transfer from the working class to the investor class. It's an 800 billion dollar tax cut paid for by gutting our medical system. The stakes are enormous. That 800 billion is going to go mostly to the top.01%. It's hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. A lot of it will become legal bribes in the form of campaign contributions.
This was never a healthcare bill. It's a tax bill to benefit the riches of the rich.
we call them soccer hooligans. Every time there's a big event they come out. When my local college sports team won a playoff the same damn thing happened. The difference is nobody threatened them with 20 years in jail because it was pretty damn obvious they were hooligans. Here it's still just as obvious they're hooligans the difference is they were protesting a sitting President who doesn't think once about abusing power.
because most of what he accomplished is being rapidly rolled back at the first sign of a weak economy. Trump and his AG are _horrible_ for equality and justice but all it took to get them in power was a mess of blue collar guys getting abandoned by the economy. What he accomplished was far too fragile...
or is this more attempts to discredit climate change science by setting an impossible bar for proof? I honestly don't know, it's the first I've heard of this. Still, it's hard to imagine it being controversial otherwise.
the mega-donors who created and fund the movement are. Also, they didn't have the Republican lead Congress attacking their main voter turnout organization.
What's that old Gore Vidal quote? "I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.".
You know he dies at the end, right? Oh, and while we're linking Wikipedia articles how about this one? Only problem is the use of 'was' in the opening line...
and nothing could be further from the truth. The company has a _lot_ more power. You can't, for example, control public policy to increase your job opportunities except in the most indirect way at the ballot box. Companies OTOH do this regularly. I read stories on/. every week about new initiatives to get more kids into programming. They manipulate supply, we just hope for the best...
people are social animals. Stagnant wages mean people aren't changing jobs (and moving, don't forget the moving) to get ahead, they're doing it to keep up. Meanwhile social ties are breaking down as a result of all this moving around. As an added bonus it makes Unionization (and it's best buddy Collective Bargaining) damn near impossible.
Like the 'Sharing' economy the 'Quitting' economy isn't a win for workers. It's a bug, not a feature.
I know several LGBTQs because a good friend is. Every one got relentlessly bullied growing up. Often by people in positions of power (teachers, principals, police). Most had parents that were unsupportive. The lucky ones were ignored by their parents. The less lucky received a constant stream of emotional abuse and for the really unlucky ones it as physical abused.
What I'm saying is, in the environment our society has created for them, not shit they got some issues. The correct response isn't to shit on them by denying them one of the few economic opportunities they might have (and make no mistake, our military is a giant socialism program meant to prop up our economy in the face of mind boggling wealth inequality. If you doubt me go read what Eisenhower had to say about the MIC). The correct response is to stop dumping on them non-stop.
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where the gov't didn't do anything except fight wars and life was nasty, brutish and short. I've got about 70 years where the gov't did a bunch of stuff and things got a lot better really fast. You'd think folks would have noticed this by now.
The reason you can't have a state do that is a state doesn't have enough power to stand up to a global mega corp run by robber barons. Did you ever see the pic of a snake cut in 13 pieces when you were a kid? It wasn't from a snake cook book.
what got discussions on gun control going (at least in the US) was when shooting became cheap enough that minorities could afford guns to defend themselves.
Reminds me of one of the funniest things I've ever read. A bunch of those "People's Militia" folks decided to get their Assault rifles and go scare some Muslims by hanging around their Mosque with their guns slung over their back.
Apparently these fine upstanding citizens didn't realize that the Nation of Islam is a different branch of faith than what they were used to. Then went home real quick when a bunch of brothers and sisters came to meet them with their own rifles slung over their backs.
That said, it's funny in hindsight but I'm glad they back down without a shoot out. I'd prefer to live in a world where folks didn't do (and get away with) nonsense like that...
and I wish you'd drop the issue. We here on the left have. Bernie f'in Sanders got an A from the NRA.
Meanwhile it's being used as a wedge issue to distract you from economic issues. So you go to the polls and vote for the gun loving guy and he sells you out on the economy. How the hell do you think NAFTA got through? They knew the gun lovers would vote them in no matter what they did to the economy. Nevermind the fact that you and your little pea shooter of a rifle is about as useless as tits on a bull against a modern, well supplied military; 80s action movies to the contrary.
How about this: You can have a mother f'in bazooka if I can have Single Payer healthcare & college tuition for my kid. Deal?
would stop crashing every 10 years. But it's been doing that since I was a lad and if I want to look it up before that.
You survived 20 years of layoffs, were rocking a college degree and still couldn't avoid bankruptcy. At some point we have to stop stop blaming the parents and blame the system. The government, using tax dollars taken from the wealthy must fund college. Why the wealth? Because they benefit most from having an educated workforce.
Parents already put massive amounts of time, effort and money into raising the next generations of employees. They're already doing their part. It's the other side, the employers, who aren't keeping up their end of the bargain.
when the internships aren't mandatory to graduate. Interns aren't suppose to do work an employee would normally do. That means they're of limited use to a business. It's why they're called gophers (go fer coffee).
The dynamic changes drastically when you suddenly mandate 800,000 people get an internship or don't graduate. It's the same thing as that schmuk in Chicago who wants to mandate a 'plan' before high schoolers can graduate. Businesses will take advantage of the students need for an internship to force them to work full time for little or no pay. This will in turn drive down wages and opportunities for people in the job market proper, which is exactly what this is suppose to do. I'm sure if it was looked into you'd find some wealthy plutocrat buddy-buddy with whoever suggested this.
because if it's one way I know for sure to lower unemployment it's to dump hundreds of thousands of employees at intern level wages directly into a market. I foresee this will in no way have any negative consequences or backfire. This is most certainly not a transparent attempt to get cheap labor in an already overburdened job market. Nosiree.
Also, good to know India has the same B.S. narrative about why folks can't find work as the US.
College is a _lot_ more competitive than it used to be. 20 years of non-stop federal funding cuts (mostly to finance tax cuts) mean they've had to be insanely selective with students. Even with a 4.0 GPA she'll still have an interview because there's too many applicants with high GPAs.
This is one of those things nobody talks about. The only way to solve it is to fund schools again, but fat chance of that. It means people going to the polls and voting for tax increases. Yeah, those tax raises would need to come out of the rich mostly (since they've got most of the money) but folks just hear tax raise and shut it down. I'm guessing it's because so many folks live paycheck to paycheck (60-70% depending on which study you're reading) that they're terrified of even a 1% raise.
I'm guessing this is addressing that silly tech narrative that you can drop out of college and become a billionaire Does anyone really believe that? If you take even a cursory glance at the rich 'dropouts' they were all from well to do families who could afford to take a break and come back. Meanwhile my kid basically gets one shot at college since if she takes even 1 year off because she didn't get into her 300 level courses (not enough space for somebody with a measly 3.8 GPA / average is 3.9 to be admitted to her major) all her loans come due and you can't get more loans until the first batch are paid off.
What a tab is... Hell I talk to people in their 20s who browse in one tab...
they added Hyper threading to the G series (though you might have to wait a bit to get a G4560 for a decent price, they're out there though). An i3-7350 can hang with last gen's i5s, which is something I didn't think I'd be writing again anytime soon. Intel isn't gimping their low end like they used to.
it's massively overkill for her. A Ryzen 3 is on par with a high end i3 or low end i5 (depending on the part). Grandma gets one of these. Ryzen 3 is for her grandson and his RX 460 (or 480 if he can talk Grandma into it).
This is something middle management is really concerned about. /. is mostly middle managers by now since most of us where forced out of tech by the influx of cheap Visas forced us to move on from the nuts and bolts of tech and into management. Automating work done by call centers is the new hotness right now for tech managers.
so folks have the resources to slow down. To live in a community instead of abandoning it every time a modest pay raise or better schools for their kids are offered. Folks need a buffer from the current state of desperation.
and it's important to realize that. They know exactly what they're doing. It's wealth transfer from the working class to the investor class. It's an 800 billion dollar tax cut paid for by gutting our medical system. The stakes are enormous. That 800 billion is going to go mostly to the top .01%. It's hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. A lot of it will become legal bribes in the form of campaign contributions.
This was never a healthcare bill. It's a tax bill to benefit the riches of the rich.
we call them soccer hooligans. Every time there's a big event they come out. When my local college sports team won a playoff the same damn thing happened. The difference is nobody threatened them with 20 years in jail because it was pretty damn obvious they were hooligans. Here it's still just as obvious they're hooligans the difference is they were protesting a sitting President who doesn't think once about abusing power.
There's plenty of evidence that non-violent protestors are being prosecuted.
I'm _not_ faulting him for his failure. Just lamenting it.
because most of what he accomplished is being rapidly rolled back at the first sign of a weak economy. Trump and his AG are _horrible_ for equality and justice but all it took to get them in power was a mess of blue collar guys getting abandoned by the economy. What he accomplished was far too fragile...
or is this more attempts to discredit climate change science by setting an impossible bar for proof? I honestly don't know, it's the first I've heard of this. Still, it's hard to imagine it being controversial otherwise.
the mega-donors who created and fund the movement are. Also, they didn't have the Republican lead Congress attacking their main voter turnout organization.
What's that old Gore Vidal quote? "I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.".
You know he dies at the end, right? Oh, and while we're linking Wikipedia articles how about this one? Only problem is the use of 'was' in the opening line...
and nothing could be further from the truth. The company has a _lot_ more power. You can't, for example, control public policy to increase your job opportunities except in the most indirect way at the ballot box. Companies OTOH do this regularly. I read stories on /. every week about new initiatives to get more kids into programming. They manipulate supply, we just hope for the best...
people are social animals. Stagnant wages mean people aren't changing jobs (and moving, don't forget the moving) to get ahead, they're doing it to keep up. Meanwhile social ties are breaking down as a result of all this moving around. As an added bonus it makes Unionization (and it's best buddy Collective Bargaining) damn near impossible.
Like the 'Sharing' economy the 'Quitting' economy isn't a win for workers. It's a bug, not a feature.
there's be some contention. Or how about Muslims? So yeah, there's still a debate to be had. The President is not a God-King.
I know several LGBTQs because a good friend is. Every one got relentlessly bullied growing up. Often by people in positions of power (teachers, principals, police). Most had parents that were unsupportive. The lucky ones were ignored by their parents. The less lucky received a constant stream of emotional abuse and for the really unlucky ones it as physical abused.
What I'm saying is, in the environment our society has created for them, not shit they got some issues. The correct response isn't to shit on them by denying them one of the few economic opportunities they might have (and make no mistake, our military is a giant socialism program meant to prop up our economy in the face of mind boggling wealth inequality. If you doubt me go read what Eisenhower had to say about the MIC). The correct response is to stop dumping on them non-stop.