I've seen plenty of articles about "How the Democratic Party can win" but not "How _we_ can win".
And Trump did have a 15% chance of winning. That's what statistics mean. A chance. His chances were still very, very low and he won by less than a hair's breath. That's what our "All or Nothing" political system gets you.
And reading his comments section tells you nothing about the man. You're trolling. Stop it. It's annoying, and you're doing it just enough on the edge that some well meaning person might actually mod you up and reduce the quality of what's left of/.'s discourse.
There was never much press coverage of individual emails. The reason the email scandal stuck was a) Hilary didn't shut it down by coming forward to claim responsibility day 1 and b) (and more importantly) the Republicans invest heavily in a content and narrative engine (Fox News, InfoWars, Beitbart, etc, etc) to drive their narrative. They can do that because their primary goal in office is tax cuts for the rich, so they can go to the rich and get billions to run a media engine to control the narrative.
Hillary was pounded with 20 years of bad press by a billion dollar media empire who's sole job is to get Republicans elected. Now, what should have happened is she should have fell on her sword to save the party and let Biden run. The worst thing in all this is now that the beast Hilary is slain the RNC is turning that engine on Liz Warren. She, you'll recall, is about the only thing that stands between us and unfettered banks...
he's a statistical aggregator. He takes all the polls, adjusts them for historical accuracy and likely margin for error and then presents the results. His methodology is reasonably straightforward (by statistician standards) and well vetted. Basically he just approaches polling as a science and remains impartial. Since he's not employed by either party he doesn't mind giving them bad news. And he's not out to bilk anyone (like Rhomney's data team was when they were basically taking the money and running).
There's a distinct possibility that the RNC got their hands on those leaked voter rolls. Now, whether they got them from the Russians or not is up to debate. But regardless of where they got them from if they had them it woulda made their data ops world class regardless. There's no doubt the RNC did amazing things with targeted advertising in 2016. It's a big part of how they won. But it's kinda scary to think they mighta pulled it off not with skill but with data they weren't entitled to given to them by a bad actor looking to destabilize the country with a loose cannon party/president...
Field offices are just the folks who knock on doors. A data operation is a centralized thing.
She's actually probably right. She lost because she didn't campaign in the rust belt. That's probably because their data op said they had a lock on it. Also keep in mind she lost by very, very slim margins. It came down to a few tens of thousands of votes in a few dozen districts.
Why she didn't campaign in the rust belt. They thought they had a lock on it. That said, as far as I can tell the Republican listened to Nate Silver and the Dems did not. That's what cost her the election.
Battery tech is fine. But electric fill stations are useless. Gas cars are cheaper to own and operate and likely will be unless bat tech gets a _lot_ better. As for Hyperloops, a) good luck getting Americans to use them, we like our cross country drives and b) even better luck getting an infrastructure bill passed in America (you tax and spend liberal you).
Yeah, it's a bad treaty. But it's the kind of treaty you get in a screwed up world like this. And for the most part nobody wants to fix the things that make it a screwed up world. So here we are.
Music dropped in popularity as home video, video games and 24/7 TV ate away at people's free time (longer work hours in bad economies didn't help). Folks had more places to get the weather and didn't need that guy and his radar map as much so ratings fell. Minimum wage went up (marginally, but up all the same) and the cost of food shot way up pushing McDonald's into the fast casual market whether they wanted to or not. ESPN's in the same boat as music: fighting for attention.
There's been a lot of changes in the last 20 years. Nearly all of them for the worse. These companies are trying to adapt best that can. Lots of them can't. Not won't. Can't. The thing they used to do has been made obsolete or just plain marginalized. The world doesn't stay the same. I don't understand why folks don't seem to get that. Seems like a basic thing that we get upset when stuff changes and try our damnedest to deny the change happened in the first place.
we're currently selling arms to the Saudis so they can bomb the shit out of Yemen (Women, Children, Hospitals, you name it) and a guy that ran a web site and poses no further danger to the community gets life...
there were decades of unemployment and social strife during the industrial revolution before tech caught up (and wars thinned the herd) and we returned to near full employment.
Also, everything he described was infrastructure bought and paid for by tax dollars. Folks don't want to pay those taxes anymore and the infrastructure spending has more or less stopped. The build out of suburban America was financed by tax payers. They paid to pave the roads, run electricity, phone & internet, etc,etc. They're done. They don't want to pay anymore.
and check out SSF & Yabause. Last I checked they got After Burner Climax running on it. Which is nice since you can't buy the game anymore when the F-14 Tomcat license ran out (which sucks)
I shy away from MSNBC because they're 99% video and that drives me nuts. I don't want 20 minutes of video just to get to a few salient details. I steer clear of Fox News because I know a corporate shill when I see it. Not that CNN doesn't do a fair amount of shilling...
Besides that there's the BBC if I want something more or less objective, but it's getting harder to act objective when half the country is is objectively nutso. That's kinda the trouble with CNN: They give nut cases a platform in the name of objectivity...
Finally there's youtube and a few left wing political sites (MotherJones, Politico). They tend to have less obvious fake news because their readership tends to call them on it when they do (and if the readership doesn't you can damn well bet the other side will). It's the difference between right wing media which has billions of pro-corporate dollars and left wing media that gets buy on hawking hipster junk to Millennials.
a lot of kids are trying to work full time while going to school. Except for a few freaks of nature who don't need sleep and the occasional genius that doesn't work. Most end up dropping out. A few fake it till they make it to a real job and aren't trying to do 40 hours/week of course work + 40/week waiting tables because they don't have enough money for food, shelter _and_ tuition...
it might mean the companies have to work a little more (very little) to get 'em, but the goal is jobs going to Americans. I haven't seen any evidence of that whatsoever (unless you count the places the H1-B's sometimes shop at as 'jobs for Americans', which the pro-H1-B side does).
he's made some pronouncements, but so far just words. Talk to me when some legislation is being voted on. Or hell when he's rescinded Obama's 2014 executive order allowing H1-B spouses to work in the country. I noticed a _lot_ more female tech workers after that... And it got through while the economy was (and is) still crap. So far Trump is all populist talk and Goldman Sachs action.
just like we do spam. Spam fines are so massive that only criminals still do it. The criminals who get big enough get caught and get jail time. Privacy violating is easier to enforce since it's only profitable to do when you've got a legit business backing it up. Either that or the government, but you can keep the gov't from violating privacy by banning people who commit violations from public office and lobbying roles.
Yeah, I know that's not a nice thing to say, but you're not going to get anywhere with privacy laws while 76% of the country lives paycheck to paycheck. You just won't be able to get the kinds of people in office that'll bother. The crooks will actively oppose it and anyone decent will be too busy with more pressing matters.
Take care of the poor. Outside of the occasional loon organized terror only works because we've got millions (billions?) that lack food security. Said it before, will probably say it again: you abandon your poor at your peril.
if they got behind HR 676 (aka Medicare for all). UBI is still a complete pipe dream. If they care about the working class there's plenty they could do right now. Me thinks they don't because like Trump and other false populists they don't really care. It's easy to promise something that in the current political climate is basically impossible.
it's about taking the rich's ability to decide who lives and who dies away from them. And make no mistake, anyone that controls your access to food, shelter, health care, transportation and education decides whether you live or if you die.
Productivity has been sky rocketing for decades. Wages have not. That's to be expected. As workers produce more demand for their services declines. Massive changes in technology and society might fix that, but even when they do they take decades to happen. In the mean time the vast majority of people live in abject poverty for no other reason that greed and lust for power.
All that said, don't abandon you're poor. If you do, somebody like Trump (or Mussolini) will show up and mobilize them against you. They'll use them to take what you have from you. Socialists will keep you from owning 3 Olympic swimming pools and a pair of private jets. A fascist will keep you from owning bread.
and internal tools are written in html/javascript because it's quick n dirty. Chrome being faster means programmers spend less time optimizing. Also when Chrome breaks you uninstall/reinstall and you're back up. When IE breaks it's time to reimage the PC.
a. Restaurants are cheaper than cooking now. Well, the kind of cheap crap ones Millennials eat at are.
b. The fact that it was even possible for your grandparents to raise 8 kids on 1 blue collar income doesn't strike you as odd? Go read Liz Warren's "The Two Income Trap". Pirate it if you have to.
c. "Council Housing" tells me you're British (or there abouts). Meaning Single Payer medicine.
d. Hell yes cooks & bus drivers make a _lot_ less. Buddy of mine is a bus driver. His Mari age fell apart because he couldn't make ends meet.
e. That's the trouble, your grandparents _didn't_ have it easy. We live in a horrible world where luck, hardwork _and_ a shitload of help is needed to succeed. When they came back from the war they felt they were owed something. And they were. But not because they fought a war (which was mostly the ruling class trying to grab money and power from other members of the same class and using your Granddad as a pawn). They're owned something because they're human. If you rely on any other justification for being owed a good life somebody is gonna take it away from you sooner or later. Because at the end of the day the only thing we really have is our humanity.
when they were just buying up porno and suing people for what they owned they did just fine. It worked until they started doing things that were actively illegal. I wonder if anyone else is out there running the original scam and just keeping a lower profile doing it legally.
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I've seen plenty of articles about "How the Democratic Party can win" but not "How _we_ can win".
/.'s discourse.
And Trump did have a 15% chance of winning. That's what statistics mean. A chance. His chances were still very, very low and he won by less than a hair's breath. That's what our "All or Nothing" political system gets you.
And reading his comments section tells you nothing about the man. You're trolling. Stop it. It's annoying, and you're doing it just enough on the edge that some well meaning person might actually mod you up and reduce the quality of what's left of
There was never much press coverage of individual emails. The reason the email scandal stuck was a) Hilary didn't shut it down by coming forward to claim responsibility day 1 and b) (and more importantly) the Republicans invest heavily in a content and narrative engine (Fox News, InfoWars, Beitbart, etc, etc) to drive their narrative. They can do that because their primary goal in office is tax cuts for the rich, so they can go to the rich and get billions to run a media engine to control the narrative.
Hillary was pounded with 20 years of bad press by a billion dollar media empire who's sole job is to get Republicans elected. Now, what should have happened is she should have fell on her sword to save the party and let Biden run. The worst thing in all this is now that the beast Hilary is slain the RNC is turning that engine on Liz Warren. She, you'll recall, is about the only thing that stands between us and unfettered banks...
he's a statistical aggregator. He takes all the polls, adjusts them for historical accuracy and likely margin for error and then presents the results. His methodology is reasonably straightforward (by statistician standards) and well vetted. Basically he just approaches polling as a science and remains impartial. Since he's not employed by either party he doesn't mind giving them bad news. And he's not out to bilk anyone (like Rhomney's data team was when they were basically taking the money and running).
There's a distinct possibility that the RNC got their hands on those leaked voter rolls. Now, whether they got them from the Russians or not is up to debate. But regardless of where they got them from if they had them it woulda made their data ops world class regardless. There's no doubt the RNC did amazing things with targeted advertising in 2016. It's a big part of how they won. But it's kinda scary to think they mighta pulled it off not with skill but with data they weren't entitled to given to them by a bad actor looking to destabilize the country with a loose cannon party/president...
Field offices are just the folks who knock on doors. A data operation is a centralized thing.
She's actually probably right. She lost because she didn't campaign in the rust belt. That's probably because their data op said they had a lock on it. Also keep in mind she lost by very, very slim margins. It came down to a few tens of thousands of votes in a few dozen districts.
Why she didn't campaign in the rust belt. They thought they had a lock on it. That said, as far as I can tell the Republican listened to Nate Silver and the Dems did not. That's what cost her the election.
Battery tech is fine. But electric fill stations are useless. Gas cars are cheaper to own and operate and likely will be unless bat tech gets a _lot_ better. As for Hyperloops, a) good luck getting Americans to use them, we like our cross country drives and b) even better luck getting an infrastructure bill passed in America (you tax and spend liberal you).
Yeah, it's a bad treaty. But it's the kind of treaty you get in a screwed up world like this. And for the most part nobody wants to fix the things that make it a screwed up world. So here we are.
Music dropped in popularity as home video, video games and 24/7 TV ate away at people's free time (longer work hours in bad economies didn't help). Folks had more places to get the weather and didn't need that guy and his radar map as much so ratings fell. Minimum wage went up (marginally, but up all the same) and the cost of food shot way up pushing McDonald's into the fast casual market whether they wanted to or not. ESPN's in the same boat as music: fighting for attention.
There's been a lot of changes in the last 20 years. Nearly all of them for the worse. These companies are trying to adapt best that can. Lots of them can't. Not won't. Can't. The thing they used to do has been made obsolete or just plain marginalized. The world doesn't stay the same. I don't understand why folks don't seem to get that. Seems like a basic thing that we get upset when stuff changes and try our damnedest to deny the change happened in the first place.
we're currently selling arms to the Saudis so they can bomb the shit out of Yemen (Women, Children, Hospitals, you name it) and a guy that ran a web site and poses no further danger to the community gets life...
there were decades of unemployment and social strife during the industrial revolution before tech caught up (and wars thinned the herd) and we returned to near full employment.
,etc. They're done. They don't want to pay anymore.
Also, everything he described was infrastructure bought and paid for by tax dollars. Folks don't want to pay those taxes anymore and the infrastructure spending has more or less stopped. The build out of suburban America was financed by tax payers. They paid to pave the roads, run electricity, phone & internet, etc
and check out SSF & Yabause. Last I checked they got After Burner Climax running on it. Which is nice since you can't buy the game anymore when the F-14 Tomcat license ran out (which sucks)
I shy away from MSNBC because they're 99% video and that drives me nuts. I don't want 20 minutes of video just to get to a few salient details. I steer clear of Fox News because I know a corporate shill when I see it. Not that CNN doesn't do a fair amount of shilling...
Besides that there's the BBC if I want something more or less objective, but it's getting harder to act objective when half the country is is objectively nutso. That's kinda the trouble with CNN: They give nut cases a platform in the name of objectivity...
Finally there's youtube and a few left wing political sites (MotherJones, Politico). They tend to have less obvious fake news because their readership tends to call them on it when they do (and if the readership doesn't you can damn well bet the other side will). It's the difference between right wing media which has billions of pro-corporate dollars and left wing media that gets buy on hawking hipster junk to Millennials.
a lot of kids are trying to work full time while going to school. Except for a few freaks of nature who don't need sleep and the occasional genius that doesn't work. Most end up dropping out. A few fake it till they make it to a real job and aren't trying to do 40 hours/week of course work + 40/week waiting tables because they don't have enough money for food, shelter _and_ tuition...
it might mean the companies have to work a little more (very little) to get 'em, but the goal is jobs going to Americans. I haven't seen any evidence of that whatsoever (unless you count the places the H1-B's sometimes shop at as 'jobs for Americans', which the pro-H1-B side does).
Sorry guys, looks like you just adopted US style work visas. In a few years tops you'll be forced out of your jobs...
he's made some pronouncements, but so far just words. Talk to me when some legislation is being voted on. Or hell when he's rescinded Obama's 2014 executive order allowing H1-B spouses to work in the country. I noticed a _lot_ more female tech workers after that... And it got through while the economy was (and is) still crap. So far Trump is all populist talk and Goldman Sachs action.
just like we do spam. Spam fines are so massive that only criminals still do it. The criminals who get big enough get caught and get jail time. Privacy violating is easier to enforce since it's only profitable to do when you've got a legit business backing it up. Either that or the government, but you can keep the gov't from violating privacy by banning people who commit violations from public office and lobbying roles.
Yeah, I know that's not a nice thing to say, but you're not going to get anywhere with privacy laws while 76% of the country lives paycheck to paycheck. You just won't be able to get the kinds of people in office that'll bother. The crooks will actively oppose it and anyone decent will be too busy with more pressing matters.
Take care of the poor. Outside of the occasional loon organized terror only works because we've got millions (billions?) that lack food security. Said it before, will probably say it again: you abandon your poor at your peril.
if they got behind HR 676 (aka Medicare for all). UBI is still a complete pipe dream. If they care about the working class there's plenty they could do right now. Me thinks they don't because like Trump and other false populists they don't really care. It's easy to promise something that in the current political climate is basically impossible.
it's about taking the rich's ability to decide who lives and who dies away from them. And make no mistake, anyone that controls your access to food, shelter, health care, transportation and education decides whether you live or if you die.
Productivity has been sky rocketing for decades. Wages have not. That's to be expected. As workers produce more demand for their services declines. Massive changes in technology and society might fix that, but even when they do they take decades to happen. In the mean time the vast majority of people live in abject poverty for no other reason that greed and lust for power.
All that said, don't abandon you're poor. If you do, somebody like Trump (or Mussolini) will show up and mobilize them against you. They'll use them to take what you have from you. Socialists will keep you from owning 3 Olympic swimming pools and a pair of private jets. A fascist will keep you from owning bread.
and internal tools are written in html/javascript because it's quick n dirty. Chrome being faster means programmers spend less time optimizing. Also when Chrome breaks you uninstall/reinstall and you're back up. When IE breaks it's time to reimage the PC.
a. Restaurants are cheaper than cooking now. Well, the kind of cheap crap ones Millennials eat at are.
b. The fact that it was even possible for your grandparents to raise 8 kids on 1 blue collar income doesn't strike you as odd? Go read Liz Warren's "The Two Income Trap". Pirate it if you have to.
c. "Council Housing" tells me you're British (or there abouts). Meaning Single Payer medicine.
d. Hell yes cooks & bus drivers make a _lot_ less. Buddy of mine is a bus driver. His Mari age fell apart because he couldn't make ends meet.
e. That's the trouble, your grandparents _didn't_ have it easy. We live in a horrible world where luck, hardwork _and_ a shitload of help is needed to succeed. When they came back from the war they felt they were owed something. And they were. But not because they fought a war (which was mostly the ruling class trying to grab money and power from other members of the same class and using your Granddad as a pawn). They're owned something because they're human. If you rely on any other justification for being owed a good life somebody is gonna take it away from you sooner or later. Because at the end of the day the only thing we really have is our humanity.
when they were just buying up porno and suing people for what they owned they did just fine. It worked until they started doing things that were actively illegal. I wonder if anyone else is out there running the original scam and just keeping a lower profile doing it legally.