this is colluding right out in the open. They outright announced it. This is the kind of thing you don't normally talk about. You'd expect regulators to come down like a ton of bricks on this stuff.
No, this is very much a Republican issue. The Sherman Anti-Trust act was passed in 1890 before the party realignments changed who was right and who was left in the 30s. And monopolies are very free market depending on your philosophy. A truly free market is one free from government interference where only the strong survive. But even without that philosophy the Republican party has been championing less and less regulation for 40+ years. If you're going to push for less regulation you're going to get it. My point is you don't get to pick and choose when you've made "less regulation" a fundamental part of your party's platform.
saying they were attacked instead of the obvious truth (that they were overwhelmed by demand) is the kind of thing I'd expect from the Iraqi ministry of information, not the US Government.
Answer: there's a Republican in the Whitehouse. Seriously, elections have consequences. Especially when you give power to a party whose Central plank is small government and minimal regulations. For the last time: That doesn't mean "only the regulations I don't like"
Obama generally sided with the working class (generally, he's a politician and that means compromises). I'm not expecting the same from a billionaire. It's the difference between convincing Ayn Rand to take Social Security in her old age and her writings to convince people on SS are paracytes. There is actually a difference, ya know.
So of course my boss it less stressed, he makes more. I'm guessing this started out as another narrative along the lines of "job creators" and the like meant to stop the working class from questioning their declining standard of living...
Lawyers are cheap to train but the degrees are expensive. That's made them highly desirable for schools. My Kid's in Nursing and the average GPA of a kid admitted into the undergrad program (e.g. third year classes) is 3.9. If she wanted to get into Law School it'd be much easier.
So we've got schools turning out lawyers left and right and making a surplus. Meanwhile we're putting them out of work. And just 'cause it's cheap doesn't mean the kids get a discount, so they're in debt up to their ears. That's a recipe for a lot of desperate sue happy lawyers who won't care much if they get disbarred since the degree's worthless anyway.
This folks is why socialists don't want to abandon people. When you do that they turn desperate and there's all sorts of nasty consequences. I guess we can use oppression to take 'em down a notch, but thing is unless you're part of the ruling class you're gonna get caught in the crossfire...
Though to be fair Macron was orders of magnitude better than Hillary. Maybe not as a public servant but at least at campaigning. Hopefullyâ post Trump the rest of the world will take the far right and the working class problems they play to seriously.
Twitter doesn't like their platform being used to spread (Russian) propaganda.
And it's their service, so at no point in time does it become censorship. Censorship is when the government acts to repress speech and last I check Twitter is not an arm of any government.
"Information just wants to be Free" crowd (Russians?). Seriously, everybody has some secrets and there's not necessarily anything wrong with that. What's the old saying? Never ask a man how he made his first million. Put another way, why is it everybody's gun ho about privacy on this forum until it's the privacy of a private political party? Moreover, it's terrifying that Putin's probably going to take over the Ukraine thanks to nothing more than an info war.
If you really want everything done out in the open just mandate public servants use public computers & phones while running for office and bar them permanently from politics if they cheat. But that's not really what folks want. There's a lot of folks that side with Putin and his ilk. Authoritarians have always been popular. Especially during tough economic times like these.
and everyone will rally behind him like they did Bush. The press has been touching on the subject (somewhat fearfully) that he's basically a sucker for praise and adoration and the only time he's gotten that so far is when he bombed the shit out of Syria & Afghanistan. Right now I'm guessing he's choosing between North Korea & Syria. NK is easier but Syria has oil so it's a tough call.
except to deceive the jury. Any defense attorney, no matter how green will know that and get the video tossed. The point of a "reenactment" isn't to be illustrative, it's to paint a certain emotional picture to swing the jury to your side despite the evidence.
because he remembers working as a computer tech and the singular "restrictive regulation" he experienced in 8 years was when he hauled a bunch of computers to the dump and they made him drive it to a special section so it wouldn't contaminate the ground water. That, sir or madam, is your "Burdensome Regulations" in a nutshell. They barely register with small businesses. Now, _big_ businesses who would like to build factories like they have in China that kill everyone without cancer resistant genes (google "Cancer Villages"), they might have some additional things to watch for. Oh, and Wall Street. About every 8 years we elect somebody to reign them in long enough so they can crash the economy the next time...
Data only appears more valuable because the cost to "mine" it is very, very low. That makes the margins on it look great. But in terms of actual value show me anybody who'd rather have the same amount of data vs land if you're measuring in dollars.
move to a left leaning state. The trouble is, they tend to be nicer places to live (go figure) so they're expensive. And no, it's not all the Taxes and burdensome regulations. It's all the people moving there to escape the crap our crummy two party political system and antiquated Senate & Presidential elections force down their throats. Seriously, only in America can a majority of Americans vote against a guy and he still wins. At least in North Korea they have the courtesy to fix the elections for real.
is Obama got the blame for post-Bush recession (which to be fair was caused by deregulation started by Clinton) and now Trump gets the credit for Obama's work fixing things.
billions of my tax dollars went into making these things possible. Maybe if the folks profiting from them weren't stashing all their cash overseas I'd be a little less interested. But well, that's not how these thing go.
but it's $40/mo. I've pretty much got to have a cell phone for a variety of reasons. I can't afford to spend money on something as superfluous as a land line. I know I'll be screwed in the event of a disaster but, well, I'm an American. When disaster strikes I'm gonna be screwed no matter what. What's the phrase I used to use? "My safety net is made of razor wire"...
Makes me tempted to do a few "Go fund mes" for some things. I got buddies with illnesses that are gonna be high and dry (read:dead) if the ACA gets repealed. And no, it's not "Bad Livin'" it's genetic. But yeah, there's a Republican Congressman who blamed it on that while pinky swearing he'd give guys like my friend a pass. Only thing is that's not what happened pre-ACA. Wish more people would just say "You Lie!" to these guys.
I can't afford cable, so first chance I got I cancelled it. My internet is $80/mo no matter what I do. After that they start getting nervous that I'm gonna buy a cell phone with HDMI out and watch Netflix that way. Last I had cable (for my kid to watch shows so she could chat with her friends about 'em) it was $80/mo from Dish and they were set to raise it to $100 soon. Sorry folks, after 20 years of stagnant wages I can't blow that kinda money on TV. Netflix is less than 1/10th that.
famously to Vlassic Pickle. when you buy them these days it's a different company that bought the brand when it went under. The scam is you go to a company, give them a huge contract, they borrow a bunch of money to buy equipment to meet demand and then you leverage that by threatening to break the agreement. The bigger company might be breaking a contract but by the time that gets hashed out in court the smaller one is going to be bankrupt...
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this is colluding right out in the open. They outright announced it. This is the kind of thing you don't normally talk about. You'd expect regulators to come down like a ton of bricks on this stuff.
No, this is very much a Republican issue. The Sherman Anti-Trust act was passed in 1890 before the party realignments changed who was right and who was left in the 30s. And monopolies are very free market depending on your philosophy. A truly free market is one free from government interference where only the strong survive. But even without that philosophy the Republican party has been championing less and less regulation for 40+ years. If you're going to push for less regulation you're going to get it. My point is you don't get to pick and choose when you've made "less regulation" a fundamental part of your party's platform.
saying they were attacked instead of the obvious truth (that they were overwhelmed by demand) is the kind of thing I'd expect from the Iraqi ministry of information, not the US Government.
Answer: there's a Republican in the Whitehouse. Seriously, elections have consequences. Especially when you give power to a party whose Central plank is small government and minimal regulations. For the last time: That doesn't mean "only the regulations I don't like"
Obama generally sided with the working class (generally, he's a politician and that means compromises). I'm not expecting the same from a billionaire. It's the difference between convincing Ayn Rand to take Social Security in her old age and her writings to convince people on SS are paracytes. There is actually a difference, ya know.
So of course my boss it less stressed, he makes more. I'm guessing this started out as another narrative along the lines of "job creators" and the like meant to stop the working class from questioning their declining standard of living...
Didn't the Bible have a passage about this? I don't recall it being a happy parable.
Lawyers are cheap to train but the degrees are expensive. That's made them highly desirable for schools. My Kid's in Nursing and the average GPA of a kid admitted into the undergrad program (e.g. third year classes) is 3.9. If she wanted to get into Law School it'd be much easier.
So we've got schools turning out lawyers left and right and making a surplus. Meanwhile we're putting them out of work. And just 'cause it's cheap doesn't mean the kids get a discount, so they're in debt up to their ears. That's a recipe for a lot of desperate sue happy lawyers who won't care much if they get disbarred since the degree's worthless anyway.
This folks is why socialists don't want to abandon people. When you do that they turn desperate and there's all sorts of nasty consequences. I guess we can use oppression to take 'em down a notch, but thing is unless you're part of the ruling class you're gonna get caught in the crossfire...
Oh come on, you're exaggerating. World cups only every 4 years.
Though to be fair Macron was orders of magnitude better than Hillary. Maybe not as a public servant but at least at campaigning. Hopefullyâ post Trump the rest of the world will take the far right and the working class problems they play to seriously.
Twitter doesn't like their platform being used to spread (Russian) propaganda.
And it's their service, so at no point in time does it become censorship. Censorship is when the government acts to repress speech and last I check Twitter is not an arm of any government.
"Information just wants to be Free" crowd (Russians?). Seriously, everybody has some secrets and there's not necessarily anything wrong with that. What's the old saying? Never ask a man how he made his first million. Put another way, why is it everybody's gun ho about privacy on this forum until it's the privacy of a private political party? Moreover, it's terrifying that Putin's probably going to take over the Ukraine thanks to nothing more than an info war.
If you really want everything done out in the open just mandate public servants use public computers & phones while running for office and bar them permanently from politics if they cheat. But that's not really what folks want. There's a lot of folks that side with Putin and his ilk. Authoritarians have always been popular. Especially during tough economic times like these.
and everyone will rally behind him like they did Bush. The press has been touching on the subject (somewhat fearfully) that he's basically a sucker for praise and adoration and the only time he's gotten that so far is when he bombed the shit out of Syria & Afghanistan. Right now I'm guessing he's choosing between North Korea & Syria. NK is easier but Syria has oil so it's a tough call.
except to deceive the jury. Any defense attorney, no matter how green will know that and get the video tossed. The point of a "reenactment" isn't to be illustrative, it's to paint a certain emotional picture to swing the jury to your side despite the evidence.
because he remembers working as a computer tech and the singular "restrictive regulation" he experienced in 8 years was when he hauled a bunch of computers to the dump and they made him drive it to a special section so it wouldn't contaminate the ground water. That, sir or madam, is your "Burdensome Regulations" in a nutshell. They barely register with small businesses. Now, _big_ businesses who would like to build factories like they have in China that kill everyone without cancer resistant genes (google "Cancer Villages"), they might have some additional things to watch for. Oh, and Wall Street. About every 8 years we elect somebody to reign them in long enough so they can crash the economy the next time...
Data only appears more valuable because the cost to "mine" it is very, very low. That makes the margins on it look great. But in terms of actual value show me anybody who'd rather have the same amount of data vs land if you're measuring in dollars.
move to a left leaning state. The trouble is, they tend to be nicer places to live (go figure) so they're expensive. And no, it's not all the Taxes and burdensome regulations. It's all the people moving there to escape the crap our crummy two party political system and antiquated Senate & Presidential elections force down their throats. Seriously, only in America can a majority of Americans vote against a guy and he still wins. At least in North Korea they have the courtesy to fix the elections for real.
in a lot of cases, which is probably why they're targeting business.
is Obama got the blame for post-Bush recession (which to be fair was caused by deregulation started by Clinton) and now Trump gets the credit for Obama's work fixing things.
billions of my tax dollars went into making these things possible. Maybe if the folks profiting from them weren't stashing all their cash overseas I'd be a little less interested. But well, that's not how these thing go.
but it's $40/mo. I've pretty much got to have a cell phone for a variety of reasons. I can't afford to spend money on something as superfluous as a land line. I know I'll be screwed in the event of a disaster but, well, I'm an American. When disaster strikes I'm gonna be screwed no matter what. What's the phrase I used to use? "My safety net is made of razor wire"...
Makes me tempted to do a few "Go fund mes" for some things. I got buddies with illnesses that are gonna be high and dry (read:dead) if the ACA gets repealed. And no, it's not "Bad Livin'" it's genetic. But yeah, there's a Republican Congressman who blamed it on that while pinky swearing he'd give guys like my friend a pass. Only thing is that's not what happened pre-ACA. Wish more people would just say "You Lie!" to these guys.
This one comes to mind. It's a good way to protest. Gets a lot of attention for relatively little cash.
I can't afford cable, so first chance I got I cancelled it. My internet is $80/mo no matter what I do. After that they start getting nervous that I'm gonna buy a cell phone with HDMI out and watch Netflix that way. Last I had cable (for my kid to watch shows so she could chat with her friends about 'em) it was $80/mo from Dish and they were set to raise it to $100 soon. Sorry folks, after 20 years of stagnant wages I can't blow that kinda money on TV. Netflix is less than 1/10th that.
famously to Vlassic Pickle. when you buy them these days it's a different company that bought the brand when it went under. The scam is you go to a company, give them a huge contract, they borrow a bunch of money to buy equipment to meet demand and then you leverage that by threatening to break the agreement. The bigger company might be breaking a contract but by the time that gets hashed out in court the smaller one is going to be bankrupt...
is there a different kind of leap when developing a Quantum Computer? I mean, it's right there in the name and all...