True, but Baker fit the character. e.g. an amusing old fuddy duddy. I don't really want to see the character reinvented. Usually when companies do that they try too hard with writers that can't pull it off and it just goes to hell in a handbasket. Dr Who's tough to write already since the solutions are suppose to be non-violent. In writing violence it the easiest way to resolve a plot, but usually the least interesting unless you've got a huge budget.
I know, they don't have to screw this up. But this seems like a cheap gimmick. I'm not familar with the actress. Does she have a body of work that would lend itself well to playing a Doctor? On the plus side I don't expect them to try and go all action hero-y with her. I always hated it when the Doctor got violent.
by anonymity. As tech improves it's inevitable. What we should be focusing on is making sure it doesn't matter. Ask yourself why people abuse tech? It's always the same reason. Wealth inequality. A small group of people take all the money, use it as power and then have to oppress to keep it. Everything always comes down to money. To wealth.
If you want to stop these kinds of abuses you need to create a society where the people with more money than average don't get to decide who lives and who dies. Until then it's all just deck chairs on the Titanic.
depends on your job and where there is virtually no safety net and few governmental services left I'd say the bloody laws shouldn't exist in the first place. That said I'm not naive enough to think I can keep the mega corps from using government to their benefit simply by doing away with the thing (e.g. that anarcho-capitalism that's all the rage with the kiddies nowadays). I'd rather see robust safety nets and social services in place than waste my time fretting about these abuses. As mentioned if your entire quality of life didn't depend on landing a really sweet job this would be less of an issue.
and try harder with your trolling. You've got an entire multi-billion dollar media machine behind you to give you talking points. You can do much better. Me? All I've got is Bernie, Liz Warren and reality on my side.
do we _want_ click EULAs to be legally binding. In particular the ones that obfuscate the terms of the EULA? You know, they don't have to be, right? We as a civilization can decide they are not.
Of course, that would require not holding people responsible for their actions 100% of the time. And that's something folks don't like. People seem to want each other to suffer unnecessarily. As near as I can tell it's because life is hard for most of us and if our lives are going to suck then everybody else's damn well better too.
The red menace has more or less died out. Trump's Russian ties are killing off what little is left. Folks overwhelmingly support Single Payer Healthcare & Subsidized/free college tuition. Heck, Trump got elected on a far left populist platform while his opponent ran a right of center one. Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America (though the 1%ers are putting big money behind a right wing democrat primary challenger).
Folks are ready for Democratic Socialism, they just don't know how to get there.
What the *bleep* are you talking about? The only folks I knew at my college (a big State U) making good money where the football coach and the dean. The dean was just doing OK. Few hundred grand a year and for that he brought in millions in grants and donations. The profs made shit and could walk any day to private sector for a _lot_ more money. Even the humanities guys could get jobs as HR drones making 2-3x as much.
Now, if you're referring to the loan industry that sprung up when we slashed federal subsidies in the 90s (thanks Clinton) to make way for massive tax cuts for the rich (and itty bitty ones for the poor and middle class) than yeah, there's a complex there. The solution isn't to stop sending kids to school. It's to bloody damn well restore the funding and make the rich pay for their kids education. Get mad when you see them bringing H1-Bs in here because they can't find qualified Americans? Make them bloody well pay to train their workers and hire American.
because your media tells you to be upset, and it's hard to stand up to that barrage of media. You're media's telling you that because they don't want to pay taxes for your kids college. They'd much rather you take out high interest loans that you pay back for 30 years.
The anti-college thing has nothing to do with that. My kid's been in college for a year now and has no idea what political correctness is let alone a SJW. Her classes are almost entirely focused on her major save for the odd ball physics, English and a few math courses (she's in Nursing, e.g. medicine).
This entire SJW nonsense is being blown out of proportion by people looking to separate studends & parents from the money. It's a scam and we're falling for it hook/line/sinker.
barrage than anti "SJW". There's a big media complex that would like it very much if you didn't ask questions like why are your taxes so high and a billionaire's so low or why can't your kids afford college or why are your wages stagnant for 30 years or why are there so many people here on work visas for jobs you could do.
The SJW nonsense is just more of the Right Wing propaganda machine pushing a narrative that keeps the working class at each other's throats. It's been working like a charm for 30 years, and there's plenty of evidence of it. This article is just the latest bit of evidence. Hell, the need for evidence on the Left makes it harder for us to move on things like this. It's been obvious for 20 years that economic right wingers and oligarchs have been attacking education. But it took a study to make us start talking about it let alone doing anything.
it's an old joke, but it's not far from the truth. Right wing economics (Supply Side, or what is disparagingly called Trickle Down or Voodoo economics) doesn't work. It's been tried again and again in Red States (Kansas is the latest) and failed miserably. And sure, Communism doesn't work. But Democratic Socialism _does_.
That said, it's not that they're 'growing out of it' but that they're becoming fearful. As you get older and you have something to lose you turn conservative. Not Right Wing. Conservative. You don't want change because you're terrified of losing what you have.
Personally, I'd like to live in a world we're we're not all living in constant terror of dying in a gutter.
most of the left's ideology can be summed up as "Don't do bad things to people" and "Take care of people". That's not an ideology. It's basic human decency.
There's been a non stop media campaign against the 'liberal elite'. It doesn't help that there's a bunch of not job feminists running community college humanities departments for that media to point to. Still, you've got a multi billion dollar media pushing an anti education agenda so they don't have to pay for your kid's college in the form of taxes. Plus there's those sweet high interest college loans. So yeah, college is gonna take a hit
relationships are hard and most folks don't have enough money to make it work, so they're at each other's throats a lot. Heck, I've been on this earth 4 decades and every 10 of them like clockwork the asshats that run the show have tanked the economy, gotten off scott free and left the working stiffs high and dry. Given what most folks go through every 10 years it's no wonder they fight.
it's not illegal to have a surcharge. It may or may not be against whatever agreements you have. There's still pending litigation on that, but there's no law.
The fees are to make money. They're a business after all. But I think you underestimate the value credit cards bring. They're a super low cost way to offer financing with little or no risk to your business beyond the occasional disputed transaction (and there actually _is_ a law about that). They make it much, much easier to tack on added value services since you're not feeling the pain of handing over every cash dollar. And let's not forget, cash costs money to handle too. You've got to count it, make sure it doesn't grow legs. You've got to track it and haul it to the bank. And the more of it you have on hand the more security you need. Next time somebody picks up the cash from a grocery store look at the weapons their carrying and how much armor plating is on their truck.
and it didn't take me long to figure out what the guys offering to 'buy' it were planning. They've been doing this for at least the 4 years I've been writing an extension.
when they can't make cards work. What makes cards work for a business is two things:
1. Tacking on added value products/services. e.g. getting somebody to buy a $20 hdmi cable with their new TV. Folks are more likely to buy these things when they're not handing over cash.
2. Leveraging the fact that you're essentially giving out a loan with little to no risk. Yeah, the customer can dispute the charge, but most don't. The majority of credit card losses happen when the whole economy craps the bed and folks go bankrupt. If you're a business it's nice not having to deal with that. Let Visa clean up that mess and try to collect the money.
Credit Cards are mostly a raw deal for necessities. It's why you can't usually pay for a Car Loan, Mortgage or Rent with a card. We've already got a 'cashless' alternative. It's called ACH. My Car Loan auto drafts every month.
Basically, if you're a retail or service business complaining about taking cards you're doing it wrong.
I bought my kids a $10 pack of some medical drama once only to find out the reason it was cheap was it only got one season. She was not pleased. Shows get cancelled like that all the time.
All that said, what you're asking for is niche content. And you're not likely to get it. Japan gets a little of it with Anime, but it tends to be low quality because of the need to sell merch (think fan service). At the end of the day these are businesses and stuff costs money. They're either gonna need a product with the broadest appeal or they're gonna need a niche that folks will spend big money on.
it's not insider trading if a member of Congress did it (or if it happens at a Country Club). Those billionaire investors are just really, really skilled and you're just jealous. Above all the game is not rigged. Nothing to see. Move along.
and a right wing that pushes fear to get votes. That plus a center wing that goes along with them (Clintons, I'm looking at you). Add to that a media that sells fear as much as sex and yeah, folks are gonna be scared. People are convinced violent crime's going up even though it's a fact that it's not. You're dealing with people that are being manipulated.
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True, but Baker fit the character. e.g. an amusing old fuddy duddy. I don't really want to see the character reinvented. Usually when companies do that they try too hard with writers that can't pull it off and it just goes to hell in a handbasket. Dr Who's tough to write already since the solutions are suppose to be non-violent. In writing violence it the easiest way to resolve a plot, but usually the least interesting unless you've got a huge budget.
I know, they don't have to screw this up. But this seems like a cheap gimmick. I'm not familar with the actress. Does she have a body of work that would lend itself well to playing a Doctor? On the plus side I don't expect them to try and go all action hero-y with her. I always hated it when the Doctor got violent.
by anonymity. As tech improves it's inevitable. What we should be focusing on is making sure it doesn't matter. Ask yourself why people abuse tech? It's always the same reason. Wealth inequality. A small group of people take all the money, use it as power and then have to oppress to keep it. Everything always comes down to money. To wealth.
If you want to stop these kinds of abuses you need to create a society where the people with more money than average don't get to decide who lives and who dies. Until then it's all just deck chairs on the Titanic.
depends on your job and where there is virtually no safety net and few governmental services left I'd say the bloody laws shouldn't exist in the first place. That said I'm not naive enough to think I can keep the mega corps from using government to their benefit simply by doing away with the thing (e.g. that anarcho-capitalism that's all the rage with the kiddies nowadays). I'd rather see robust safety nets and social services in place than waste my time fretting about these abuses. As mentioned if your entire quality of life didn't depend on landing a really sweet job this would be less of an issue.
and try harder with your trolling. You've got an entire multi-billion dollar media machine behind you to give you talking points. You can do much better. Me? All I've got is Bernie, Liz Warren and reality on my side.
do we _want_ click EULAs to be legally binding. In particular the ones that obfuscate the terms of the EULA? You know, they don't have to be, right? We as a civilization can decide they are not.
Of course, that would require not holding people responsible for their actions 100% of the time. And that's something folks don't like. People seem to want each other to suffer unnecessarily. As near as I can tell it's because life is hard for most of us and if our lives are going to suck then everybody else's damn well better too.
The red menace has more or less died out. Trump's Russian ties are killing off what little is left. Folks overwhelmingly support Single Payer Healthcare & Subsidized/free college tuition. Heck, Trump got elected on a far left populist platform while his opponent ran a right of center one. Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America (though the 1%ers are putting big money behind a right wing democrat primary challenger).
Folks are ready for Democratic Socialism, they just don't know how to get there.
I'd at least want a second opinion.
What the *bleep* are you talking about? The only folks I knew at my college (a big State U) making good money where the football coach and the dean. The dean was just doing OK. Few hundred grand a year and for that he brought in millions in grants and donations. The profs made shit and could walk any day to private sector for a _lot_ more money. Even the humanities guys could get jobs as HR drones making 2-3x as much.
Now, if you're referring to the loan industry that sprung up when we slashed federal subsidies in the 90s (thanks Clinton) to make way for massive tax cuts for the rich (and itty bitty ones for the poor and middle class) than yeah, there's a complex there. The solution isn't to stop sending kids to school. It's to bloody damn well restore the funding and make the rich pay for their kids education. Get mad when you see them bringing H1-Bs in here because they can't find qualified Americans? Make them bloody well pay to train their workers and hire American.
because your media tells you to be upset, and it's hard to stand up to that barrage of media. You're media's telling you that because they don't want to pay taxes for your kids college. They'd much rather you take out high interest loans that you pay back for 30 years.
The anti-college thing has nothing to do with that. My kid's been in college for a year now and has no idea what political correctness is let alone a SJW. Her classes are almost entirely focused on her major save for the odd ball physics, English and a few math courses (she's in Nursing, e.g. medicine).
This entire SJW nonsense is being blown out of proportion by people looking to separate studends & parents from the money. It's a scam and we're falling for it hook/line/sinker.
barrage than anti "SJW". There's a big media complex that would like it very much if you didn't ask questions like why are your taxes so high and a billionaire's so low or why can't your kids afford college or why are your wages stagnant for 30 years or why are there so many people here on work visas for jobs you could do.
The SJW nonsense is just more of the Right Wing propaganda machine pushing a narrative that keeps the working class at each other's throats. It's been working like a charm for 30 years, and there's plenty of evidence of it. This article is just the latest bit of evidence. Hell, the need for evidence on the Left makes it harder for us to move on things like this. It's been obvious for 20 years that economic right wingers and oligarchs have been attacking education. But it took a study to make us start talking about it let alone doing anything.
it's an old joke, but it's not far from the truth. Right wing economics (Supply Side, or what is disparagingly called Trickle Down or Voodoo economics) doesn't work. It's been tried again and again in Red States (Kansas is the latest) and failed miserably. And sure, Communism doesn't work. But Democratic Socialism _does_.
That said, it's not that they're 'growing out of it' but that they're becoming fearful. As you get older and you have something to lose you turn conservative. Not Right Wing. Conservative. You don't want change because you're terrified of losing what you have.
Personally, I'd like to live in a world we're we're not all living in constant terror of dying in a gutter.
most of the left's ideology can be summed up as "Don't do bad things to people" and "Take care of people". That's not an ideology. It's basic human decency.
There's been a non stop media campaign against the 'liberal elite'. It doesn't help that there's a bunch of not job feminists running community college humanities departments for that media to point to. Still, you've got a multi billion dollar media pushing an anti education agenda so they don't have to pay for your kid's college in the form of taxes. Plus there's those sweet high interest college loans. So yeah, college is gonna take a hit
relationships are hard and most folks don't have enough money to make it work, so they're at each other's throats a lot. Heck, I've been on this earth 4 decades and every 10 of them like clockwork the asshats that run the show have tanked the economy, gotten off scott free and left the working stiffs high and dry. Given what most folks go through every 10 years it's no wonder they fight.
isn't it about time they hired you on full time? If it's occasional work maybe not, but it sounds like your full time job.
it's not illegal to have a surcharge. It may or may not be against whatever agreements you have. There's still pending litigation on that, but there's no law.
The fees are to make money. They're a business after all. But I think you underestimate the value credit cards bring. They're a super low cost way to offer financing with little or no risk to your business beyond the occasional disputed transaction (and there actually _is_ a law about that). They make it much, much easier to tack on added value services since you're not feeling the pain of handing over every cash dollar. And let's not forget, cash costs money to handle too. You've got to count it, make sure it doesn't grow legs. You've got to track it and haul it to the bank. And the more of it you have on hand the more security you need. Next time somebody picks up the cash from a grocery store look at the weapons their carrying and how much armor plating is on their truck.
and it didn't take me long to figure out what the guys offering to 'buy' it were planning. They've been doing this for at least the 4 years I've been writing an extension.
when they can't make cards work. What makes cards work for a business is two things:
1. Tacking on added value products/services. e.g. getting somebody to buy a $20 hdmi cable with their new TV. Folks are more likely to buy these things when they're not handing over cash.
2. Leveraging the fact that you're essentially giving out a loan with little to no risk. Yeah, the customer can dispute the charge, but most don't. The majority of credit card losses happen when the whole economy craps the bed and folks go bankrupt. If you're a business it's nice not having to deal with that. Let Visa clean up that mess and try to collect the money.
Credit Cards are mostly a raw deal for necessities. It's why you can't usually pay for a Car Loan, Mortgage or Rent with a card. We've already got a 'cashless' alternative. It's called ACH. My Car Loan auto drafts every month.
Basically, if you're a retail or service business complaining about taking cards you're doing it wrong.
I bought my kids a $10 pack of some medical drama once only to find out the reason it was cheap was it only got one season. She was not pleased. Shows get cancelled like that all the time.
All that said, what you're asking for is niche content. And you're not likely to get it. Japan gets a little of it with Anime, but it tends to be low quality because of the need to sell merch (think fan service). At the end of the day these are businesses and stuff costs money. They're either gonna need a product with the broadest appeal or they're gonna need a niche that folks will spend big money on.
And it was the Music Man. 76 Trombones was one of the songs. God I'm old.
Work from home jobs are top tier. That's because you have to be self managed. It's not surprising the do better. They're already in a better position.
it's not insider trading if a member of Congress did it (or if it happens at a Country Club). Those billionaire investors are just really, really skilled and you're just jealous. Above all the game is not rigged. Nothing to see. Move along.
Facebook didn't.
and a right wing that pushes fear to get votes. That plus a center wing that goes along with them (Clintons, I'm looking at you). Add to that a media that sells fear as much as sex and yeah, folks are gonna be scared. People are convinced violent crime's going up even though it's a fact that it's not. You're dealing with people that are being manipulated.