that the political family connections he had tipped him off so he could get out of the market before it crashed. But hey, the shoe shine story sounds much happier and lets go on us pretend we're not an oligarchy where privilege and nepotism are weighted more than good sense. I suppose if I was going to pass a story down I'd pick it instead of "nepotism".
because he's the only populist. Everyone else is either like the Republicans and busy telling us why we can't have nice things (austerity) or the Dems and just shouting about how bad the other side is because they're in deep with the same mega corps that bought off the Right. There's an itty bitty tinsy tiny group that rally around Bernie Sanders and that's about it. So when Trump started saying things like healthcare for all and good jobs and education folks rallied around him because, hey, whatdayagot to lose?
but I don't want it being done on religious grounds. It's a terrifying precedence. We're effectively establishing a defacto state religion. This isn't a slippery slope, it's the bloody K-12 from Better Off Dead.
it's about a law defacto establishing a state religion (Christianity). We're not protecting the immigrants, we're protecting the citizens from having Christianity forced on them by the rule of law.
the feds are also suppose to regulate interstate commerce; and in a modern civilization that is orders of magnitude more complex.
Besides, trust me, you don't want federalism. If you think you're having trouble standing up to Mega corps now wait until the biggest thing you have to stand up to them is a State Government. Remember Join or Die? Mega corps are the modern day monarchy. They'll eat your alive piece by piece.
make anybody rich. Which is the main point. Sure, you'll have made the lives of 600 million people better, but what about that 1 person who wants profits now? They need outside capital flowing in rapidly and a product to sell at middle class labor rates for slave labor prices.
which used to be a nice gig with lots of Americans doing it in the 70s through the early 90s. You don't need a CS degree (read: a specialized Math degree) to do that. Or you didn't until we stopped protecting our workforce in favor of that sweet, sweet cheap labor. Fuck people, Unionize already.
where it wasn't being enforced. Places where 'no jury would convict him'. They're an artifact of our incredibly fucked up system of government who's main goal was never justice but protecting the land rights of the wealthy (which is why we have a Senate, look it up).
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
It's a Muslim ban. Trump has publicly said so. I don't see how that can be anything else but a law respecting the establishment of religion. You can argue it's the President doing it, but the President only enforces laws (occasionally with some interpretation). Basically, he doesn't have the authority to bypass Congress here, which is why he wasn't mentioned by name.
do you actually think that way? e.g. Money == Life? I really don't even know where to begin. I'll just leave this little though: under your system the value of a billionaire's life is necessarily more valuable than that of a pauper. After all, the billionaire makes so much more. You could gut the pauper for organs to keep the billionaire alive and it's perfectly OK. Because economically it's a sound proposition.
to the Philippians. The Philippians finally got it's act together with regards to telecom, so outsourcing there is now possible. Plus they speak native English. Expect a lot of work to flow there now.
Also, if instead of 2-3 deaths out of 6 billion it was 2-3 deaths on a 20 man team I think we'd do something. That's the kind of numbers the industrial revolution brought to the table, and the A.I Revolution looks to be doing the same.
to keep the scalpers at bay. It's going to sell for 3x the asking price, meaning a scalper could buy 3, sit on 1 and sell two and make a nice profit. I could do a little more math and tell you how many they could sit on and still do well. Basically, these would have to be so common that the scalpers can't keep up.
when we took action during the civil rights movement. The point is to get folks to take action, particularly at the polls, by making sure the narrative is steered away from "Everything's fine now and there's no racism or oppression" when nothing could be further from the truth.
to cut taxes. Local governments have to scrap for every penny and resort to crap like this. I don't think you'll find any honest traffic engineer who says these things make the world safer. If you want safe make the yellow longer. Problem solved.
what's been happening is we've let more and more people partake of higher education. Partially to keep them out of the job market since we don't really need them. Most of them don't make it past year of college. A few get liberal arts degrees. On a whole the increase in education still makes society a better place since they've got better critical thinking skills than they otherwise would have.
Recently folks have been hard at work to reverse that trend. Religious leaders don't like that the kids with all that education mellow out religiously. The rich don't like paying the taxes for them and would prefer to just import cheap foreign labor (think H1-Bs). And nobody likes to have to pay for somebody else's kids to go to college.
and calling someone a racist aren't even remotely the same thing. If we're going to tackle a problem we have to acknowledge it's existence. You can't really believe Philando Castile was shot just because the cop thought he was reaching for his gun. Hell, the worst thing was the cop probably really thought he was. The cop was more likely to believe a black man would shoot him than hand over his driver's license.
That's institutionalized racism in a nutshell. When you don't even realize you're doing it. When you can say with a straight face "my black friends are fine but..." and mean it. Are law enforcement practices are a huge part of that.
that's the big one (save for the occasional raid on somebody selling sex toys in Texas).
It's the same thing. Our drug laws are used to contain the poor and keep them from spilling over. If group of poor people wanders into a well to do neighborhood to use their services (parks, schools, etc) odds are one of them has pot on them. The (selectively enforced) laws let the cops crack down when it's convenient. In parts that want it racial segregation can be maintained without bringing down the feds. Hell, if you look at the history of making drugs illegal it was done for pot to chase Mexicans out and for Opium to crack down on the Chinese.
None of this is racism for racism's sake. At the end of the day it's to create lower classes that it's OK to abuse and divide the working class. Works too.
is making sure the crime doesn't spill over from the poor neighborhoods to the rich ones. Crime 'fighting' is about containment. If you're old enough to remember the Rodney King riots you might also remember people asking why they just destroyed their own neighborhoods. The reason was the neighborhoods were surrounded by swat teams. The teams didn't move in and quell the riots, they just kept 'em in.
we're currently ignoring the whole water shortage thing here in Arizona. It'll bite us in the next 20 years. The wealthier parts where I'm at are crazy with how much green there is. It's like they terraformed the landscape. You can do that when water's cheap due to subsidies but that's not going to last forever.
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that the political family connections he had tipped him off so he could get out of the market before it crashed. But hey, the shoe shine story sounds much happier and lets go on us pretend we're not an oligarchy where privilege and nepotism are weighted more than good sense. I suppose if I was going to pass a story down I'd pick it instead of "nepotism".
J.M. only had 320 gb of storge.
he's an effective Politician. As a Governor and a Leader he's terrible. But neither of those things win elections.
because he's the only populist. Everyone else is either like the Republicans and busy telling us why we can't have nice things (austerity) or the Dems and just shouting about how bad the other side is because they're in deep with the same mega corps that bought off the Right. There's an itty bitty tinsy tiny group that rally around Bernie Sanders and that's about it. So when Trump started saying things like healthcare for all and good jobs and education folks rallied around him because, hey, whatdayagot to lose?
but I don't want it being done on religious grounds. It's a terrifying precedence. We're effectively establishing a defacto state religion. This isn't a slippery slope, it's the bloody K-12 from Better Off Dead.
it's about a law defacto establishing a state religion (Christianity). We're not protecting the immigrants, we're protecting the citizens from having Christianity forced on them by the rule of law.
the feds are also suppose to regulate interstate commerce; and in a modern civilization that is orders of magnitude more complex.
Besides, trust me, you don't want federalism. If you think you're having trouble standing up to Mega corps now wait until the biggest thing you have to stand up to them is a State Government. Remember Join or Die? Mega corps are the modern day monarchy. They'll eat your alive piece by piece.
make anybody rich. Which is the main point. Sure, you'll have made the lives of 600 million people better, but what about that 1 person who wants profits now? They need outside capital flowing in rapidly and a product to sell at middle class labor rates for slave labor prices.
it invalidates his entire argument. We could easily test for those electrolyte imbalances and prevent them. Hell, just drink more Gatorade.
which used to be a nice gig with lots of Americans doing it in the 70s through the early 90s. You don't need a CS degree (read: a specialized Math degree) to do that. Or you didn't until we stopped protecting our workforce in favor of that sweet, sweet cheap labor. Fuck people, Unionize already.
where it wasn't being enforced. Places where 'no jury would convict him'. They're an artifact of our incredibly fucked up system of government who's main goal was never justice but protecting the land rights of the wealthy (which is why we have a Senate, look it up).
It's a Muslim ban. Trump has publicly said so. I don't see how that can be anything else but a law respecting the establishment of religion. You can argue it's the President doing it, but the President only enforces laws (occasionally with some interpretation). Basically, he doesn't have the authority to bypass Congress here, which is why he wasn't mentioned by name.
do you actually think that way? e.g. Money == Life? I really don't even know where to begin. I'll just leave this little though: under your system the value of a billionaire's life is necessarily more valuable than that of a pauper. After all, the billionaire makes so much more. You could gut the pauper for organs to keep the billionaire alive and it's perfectly OK. Because economically it's a sound proposition.
to the Philippians. The Philippians finally got it's act together with regards to telecom, so outsourcing there is now possible. Plus they speak native English. Expect a lot of work to flow there now.
why not ask what could be done to prevent them?
Also, if instead of 2-3 deaths out of 6 billion it was 2-3 deaths on a 20 man team I think we'd do something. That's the kind of numbers the industrial revolution brought to the table, and the A.I Revolution looks to be doing the same.
to keep the scalpers at bay. It's going to sell for 3x the asking price, meaning a scalper could buy 3, sit on 1 and sell two and make a nice profit. I could do a little more math and tell you how many they could sit on and still do well. Basically, these would have to be so common that the scalpers can't keep up.
when we took action during the civil rights movement. The point is to get folks to take action, particularly at the polls, by making sure the narrative is steered away from "Everything's fine now and there's no racism or oppression" when nothing could be further from the truth.
So yeah, it's helps.
to cut taxes. Local governments have to scrap for every penny and resort to crap like this. I don't think you'll find any honest traffic engineer who says these things make the world safer. If you want safe make the yellow longer. Problem solved.
what's been happening is we've let more and more people partake of higher education. Partially to keep them out of the job market since we don't really need them. Most of them don't make it past year of college. A few get liberal arts degrees. On a whole the increase in education still makes society a better place since they've got better critical thinking skills than they otherwise would have.
Recently folks have been hard at work to reverse that trend. Religious leaders don't like that the kids with all that education mellow out religiously. The rich don't like paying the taxes for them and would prefer to just import cheap foreign labor (think H1-Bs). And nobody likes to have to pay for somebody else's kids to go to college.
and calling someone a racist aren't even remotely the same thing. If we're going to tackle a problem we have to acknowledge it's existence. You can't really believe Philando Castile was shot just because the cop thought he was reaching for his gun. Hell, the worst thing was the cop probably really thought he was. The cop was more likely to believe a black man would shoot him than hand over his driver's license.
That's institutionalized racism in a nutshell. When you don't even realize you're doing it. When you can say with a straight face "my black friends are fine but..." and mean it. Are law enforcement practices are a huge part of that.
I'm just saying that's not their main purpose; any more than prison's main purpose is to rehabilitate people.
that's the big one (save for the occasional raid on somebody selling sex toys in Texas).
It's the same thing. Our drug laws are used to contain the poor and keep them from spilling over. If group of poor people wanders into a well to do neighborhood to use their services (parks, schools, etc) odds are one of them has pot on them. The (selectively enforced) laws let the cops crack down when it's convenient. In parts that want it racial segregation can be maintained without bringing down the feds. Hell, if you look at the history of making drugs illegal it was done for pot to chase Mexicans out and for Opium to crack down on the Chinese.
None of this is racism for racism's sake. At the end of the day it's to create lower classes that it's OK to abuse and divide the working class. Works too.
is making sure the crime doesn't spill over from the poor neighborhoods to the rich ones. Crime 'fighting' is about containment. If you're old enough to remember the Rodney King riots you might also remember people asking why they just destroyed their own neighborhoods. The reason was the neighborhoods were surrounded by swat teams. The teams didn't move in and quell the riots, they just kept 'em in.
we're currently ignoring the whole water shortage thing here in Arizona. It'll bite us in the next 20 years. The wealthier parts where I'm at are crazy with how much green there is. It's like they terraformed the landscape. You can do that when water's cheap due to subsidies but that's not going to last forever.