when we started cutting all the federal funds. They warned about this in the 90s when the cuts started and everybody said it wouldn't matter because salaries would be so high to compensate. Meanwhile we've still got folks spreading the already disproved lies that it's all because of fancy dorms and rich teachers. Yeah, a few nasty little diploma mills were taking advantage of the loan programs. The last administration shut that down. Of course, I'm not expecting the current administration to be so student friendly...
It's child's play to keep those records. If you can't keep them it's because you're either a) Staggeringly incompetent or b) Committing acts of racial discrimination. If that's what you want folks to be able to do then come right out and say it why don't you. Man up and put the dog whistle down.
Our laws were designed to combat institutionalized racism. That's actually a thing, you know, and not something Uncle Bill O'rielly scares his children with at night (he used the bruises on his ex for that). The entire South had built up discrete institutions to enforce racist policies without codifying them in law. The only thing that broke that is when the Feds moved in and made rules like AA that didn't let them get away with that bullshit. It's like when you try to pass laws controlling banks without rules requiring proof that they followed those rule. The banks don't follow the rules. Who the fuck knew?
engineers. Nobody wants to bother with older IT guys. Their experience doesn't matter that much because you just don't need that many experienced techs to watch over the young guys and they can't work 60+ hour work weeks and be productive. Human beings just don't work that way.
What does irritate me though is seeing them spouting anti-Union / laissez faire clap-trap right up until they're personally discriminated against. Then they want the government to step in an regulate. But the young guys wanting to unionize or (God forbid) have a living minimum wage? Let 'em just work harder. Good for goose, good for gander. Or how about we protect _all_ workers?
people want the government to keep _them_ safe. Them. No the other guy. The other guy just needs to work harder and stop leaching off them.
The best quote I've heard in years came from a CNN pundit calling Rick Santorum to task over his opposition to Medicaid for the poor. She said Nobody's a Conservative when it comes to their family. She was right, too.
and he's got the power to do it via Executive Orders. He won the election by a hair's breath and part of that was tech workers who want their jobs back. It's not unreasonable to expect a man who's portrayed as a great negotiator and who's party controls a super majority in Congress could get some Executive Orders done. American Tech workers are suffering now. They don't want to wait another year, two or 4. If they wanted to be patient they could have thrown their lot in with Hilary.
they're the Indian middle class. I don't know why it's so hard for Americans to understand that India has a middle class. They're a country of over a billion people.
These aren't refugees from poverty, they're mostly folks coming over here to take advantage of the currency differences with the plan to go back home with fat stacks of cash. A lot don't because they have kids, they kids put down roots and they stay around. But they're not escaping poverty. If you want those guys than ban the Indians are let the Syrians in. They're not just escaping poverty, they're escaping genocide.
the rest won't care because they'll be at their second jobs while their kids are cramming to get a scholarship that (maybe) pays half the $500k college now costs.
Or, as that Dilbert guy said (ironically now that his politics have changed): You can get used to anything if somebody force you to.
increase in population. Seriously though, is this just the new administration's doing? It seems to me a single boom in population isn't enough to base a change in classification on. It's a little coincidental this happened shortly after the guard changed.
are you doing the Karl Rove thing of accusing the other side of what you're doing or something? But even that doesn't make any sense. Nobody goes after the police for much anything. The Dems mostly ignore the BLM movement. If anyone's after the police it's the right with their anti-union politics. I guess we like to forgot that policemen have a union...
it says their Democratic governor previously opposed the measure, but it doesn't say who sponsored the amendment. It just notes Democrats control their State Senate. If the bill passes you might have a point. The Dems are tight with the police, so that could be where this is coming from. If so my party just done fucked up. But OTOH if the bill fails then, well, nothing to see here. It might also be a poison pill meant to kill the bill. Who knows. Politics is a mess.
to society? If you just want punishment for punishment's sake I guess there's that. He's a first time offender, the damage was minimal. Nobody got hurt, and they just needed a few contractors (read: Cheap Windows guys) to sort it all out. "Core Files" here if you RTFA means he broke the OS.
He should get slapped with restitution equal to lost sales and the contractor hours + a little for pain/suffering (very little) and sent on his merry way. Maybe get some court mandated therapy. By the sound of it this was a spur of the moment/rage thing. Throwing him in jail is a waste of everyone's time and money and might unnecessarily destroy his life.
if you want people in your life it's a good way to do it, especially if you're an extroverted nerd. Yeah, they exists (and they're among the most unfortunate folks in a modern world). There's tons of D&D, Warhammer, Overwatch and general gaming/meetup forums built around them.
or our fringes. We own that. It's also not what the right wing press tells you it is. They'll tell you it's giving unqualified black men a job that rightfully belonged to a qualified white guy. They say it with a dog whistle but they still say it.
All AA really says is that if 10% of the population is black and you don't have 10% blacks you better have a reason for that and it better be documented. For most that just means keeping resume's around. That's it. Book it. Done.
OTOH, if you're a racist POS who's too cowardly to admit your racism you don't get to hide behind "It's my business, I'll hire who I want!". When you opened a public business you joined the public. Don't like it? There's a perfectly good cave in the Ozarks. You will not be missed.
And nice straw man. Care to bother addressing any of my actual points? Probably not. You'll lose.
I don't recall saying "Koch Bros". Motherfning Zuckerberg is _not_ a progressive lefty. Hell, he just found God in advance of running for office. None of those guys are progressives. That's my point. Saying we shouldn't burn homosexuals (or if you're being nice about it "convert" them to hetro) doesn't make you a progressive. There's a whole world of economics and workers rights these guys don't give two shits about. Hell, they don't really care about the LGBTQs, they just don't like bad press
Yes, right wing is bad. The policies of the right wing ( Trickle Down economics, religious extremism & opposition to science, privatization of the commons, etc, etc) are objectively bad. Everywhere they've been tried they've been a disaster (re: Kansas).
Finally, the Dems _aren't_ progressives. Bill the Clinton moved them hard right to get into the White House in the 90s. He shifted the whole country right. Why the heck do you think we just elected Donny Trump over Bill's wife? It was a choice between a populist demagogue & a Republican. America picked Donald Trump because, heh, what did we have to lose.
Not sure about Australia, but here in the States the trouble is we keep giving our upper class massive tax cuts. Then we don't cut services (because if we did people would demand we repeal those tax cuts) and instead borrow the money. The idea is the system will eventually collapse and the rich will swoop in during the chaos and take control of the country. I'd like to think we'll be smart and stop that, but so far no such luck.
If you guys are going through this then my apologies. Your ruling class learned it from ours.
What's scary about Apple isn't that they over charge, it's that they've shown that a company can be the most profitable company in history (even outpacing some of the Robber Barrons adjusted for inflation) while selling relatively little product. Apple shows that the rich can abandon not just the poor but the working class and still do just fine.
As for those Communists... well they weren't. At no point in the history of the USSR were the spoils of economic output distributed "From each according to his ability to each according to his need". Stalin et al weren't communists, they were Fascists who borrowed Marx's book for rhetoric. And no, this isn't a 'No True Scottsman' argument. People can lie about their motives and facts will show they're lying. Yelling 'No True Scottsman' doesn't change that.
what was scary about Popcorn Time was that it's interface was so slick I knew folks who had it and didn't even know what bit torrent was or that they were pirating content. Remember, high speed internet is around $80-$100/mo in most places. That's 10-15x the ISP's cost (based on SEC filings from Comcast). For that kind of money folks don't necessarily realize that they're just getting a data communication line and nothing else...
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when we started cutting all the federal funds. They warned about this in the 90s when the cuts started and everybody said it wouldn't matter because salaries would be so high to compensate. Meanwhile we've still got folks spreading the already disproved lies that it's all because of fancy dorms and rich teachers. Yeah, a few nasty little diploma mills were taking advantage of the loan programs. The last administration shut that down. Of course, I'm not expecting the current administration to be so student friendly...
to this. Kinda terrifying, actually.
Coal is much more labor intensive, especially in the 70s and 80s.
since you're wrong and all.
It's child's play to keep those records. If you can't keep them it's because you're either a) Staggeringly incompetent or b) Committing acts of racial discrimination. If that's what you want folks to be able to do then come right out and say it why don't you. Man up and put the dog whistle down.
Our laws were designed to combat institutionalized racism. That's actually a thing, you know, and not something Uncle Bill O'rielly scares his children with at night (he used the bruises on his ex for that). The entire South had built up discrete institutions to enforce racist policies without codifying them in law. The only thing that broke that is when the Feds moved in and made rules like AA that didn't let them get away with that bullshit. It's like when you try to pass laws controlling banks without rules requiring proof that they followed those rule. The banks don't follow the rules. Who the fuck knew?
engineers. Nobody wants to bother with older IT guys. Their experience doesn't matter that much because you just don't need that many experienced techs to watch over the young guys and they can't work 60+ hour work weeks and be productive. Human beings just don't work that way.
What does irritate me though is seeing them spouting anti-Union / laissez faire clap-trap right up until they're personally discriminated against. Then they want the government to step in an regulate. But the young guys wanting to unionize or (God forbid) have a living minimum wage? Let 'em just work harder. Good for goose, good for gander. Or how about we protect _all_ workers?
and if that doesn't scare you nothing will.
as "Perverse Incentives". I mean, otherwise we might have companies like Rentberry lobbying to block the expansion of affordable housing...
because they've gotten so huge they're buying up their competitors left and right, and we don't really do much anti-trust enforcement anymore.
was suppose to make the world a better place? So far all I'm seeing is crap like this and Fake News. It's not lookin' good.
Oh, and you know, we could just ban stuff like this. I'm just saying...
anyone else remember seeing "Don't re-nig"?
people want the government to keep _them_ safe. Them. No the other guy. The other guy just needs to work harder and stop leaching off them.
The best quote I've heard in years came from a CNN pundit calling Rick Santorum to task over his opposition to Medicaid for the poor. She said Nobody's a Conservative when it comes to their family. She was right, too.
and he's got the power to do it via Executive Orders. He won the election by a hair's breath and part of that was tech workers who want their jobs back. It's not unreasonable to expect a man who's portrayed as a great negotiator and who's party controls a super majority in Congress could get some Executive Orders done. American Tech workers are suffering now. They don't want to wait another year, two or 4. If they wanted to be patient they could have thrown their lot in with Hilary.
they're the Indian middle class. I don't know why it's so hard for Americans to understand that India has a middle class. They're a country of over a billion people.
These aren't refugees from poverty, they're mostly folks coming over here to take advantage of the currency differences with the plan to go back home with fat stacks of cash. A lot don't because they have kids, they kids put down roots and they stay around. But they're not escaping poverty. If you want those guys than ban the Indians are let the Syrians in. They're not just escaping poverty, they're escaping genocide.
Just look at Apple. They're the most profitable company on Earth and they did it with prices 2-3x market.
the rest won't care because they'll be at their second jobs while their kids are cramming to get a scholarship that (maybe) pays half the $500k college now costs.
Or, as that Dilbert guy said (ironically now that his politics have changed): You can get used to anything if somebody force you to.
increase in population. Seriously though, is this just the new administration's doing? It seems to me a single boom in population isn't enough to base a change in classification on. It's a little coincidental this happened shortly after the guard changed.
are you doing the Karl Rove thing of accusing the other side of what you're doing or something? But even that doesn't make any sense. Nobody goes after the police for much anything. The Dems mostly ignore the BLM movement. If anyone's after the police it's the right with their anti-union politics. I guess we like to forgot that policemen have a union...
it says their Democratic governor previously opposed the measure, but it doesn't say who sponsored the amendment. It just notes Democrats control their State Senate. If the bill passes you might have a point. The Dems are tight with the police, so that could be where this is coming from. If so my party just done fucked up. But OTOH if the bill fails then, well, nothing to see here. It might also be a poison pill meant to kill the bill. Who knows. Politics is a mess.
to society? If you just want punishment for punishment's sake I guess there's that. He's a first time offender, the damage was minimal. Nobody got hurt, and they just needed a few contractors (read: Cheap Windows guys) to sort it all out. "Core Files" here if you RTFA means he broke the OS. He should get slapped with restitution equal to lost sales and the contractor hours + a little for pain/suffering (very little) and sent on his merry way. Maybe get some court mandated therapy. By the sound of it this was a spur of the moment/rage thing. Throwing him in jail is a waste of everyone's time and money and might unnecessarily destroy his life.
if you want people in your life it's a good way to do it, especially if you're an extroverted nerd. Yeah, they exists (and they're among the most unfortunate folks in a modern world). There's tons of D&D, Warhammer, Overwatch and general gaming/meetup forums built around them.
or our fringes. We own that. It's also not what the right wing press tells you it is. They'll tell you it's giving unqualified black men a job that rightfully belonged to a qualified white guy. They say it with a dog whistle but they still say it.
All AA really says is that if 10% of the population is black and you don't have 10% blacks you better have a reason for that and it better be documented. For most that just means keeping resume's around. That's it. Book it. Done.
OTOH, if you're a racist POS who's too cowardly to admit your racism you don't get to hide behind "It's my business, I'll hire who I want!". When you opened a public business you joined the public. Don't like it? There's a perfectly good cave in the Ozarks. You will not be missed.
And nice straw man. Care to bother addressing any of my actual points? Probably not. You'll lose.
I don't recall saying "Koch Bros". Motherfning Zuckerberg is _not_ a progressive lefty. Hell, he just found God in advance of running for office. None of those guys are progressives. That's my point. Saying we shouldn't burn homosexuals (or if you're being nice about it "convert" them to hetro) doesn't make you a progressive. There's a whole world of economics and workers rights these guys don't give two shits about. Hell, they don't really care about the LGBTQs, they just don't like bad press
Yes, right wing is bad. The policies of the right wing ( Trickle Down economics, religious extremism & opposition to science, privatization of the commons, etc, etc) are objectively bad. Everywhere they've been tried they've been a disaster (re: Kansas).
Finally, the Dems _aren't_ progressives. Bill the Clinton moved them hard right to get into the White House in the 90s. He shifted the whole country right. Why the heck do you think we just elected Donny Trump over Bill's wife? It was a choice between a populist demagogue & a Republican. America picked Donald Trump because, heh, what did we have to lose.
Not sure about Australia, but here in the States the trouble is we keep giving our upper class massive tax cuts. Then we don't cut services (because if we did people would demand we repeal those tax cuts) and instead borrow the money. The idea is the system will eventually collapse and the rich will swoop in during the chaos and take control of the country. I'd like to think we'll be smart and stop that, but so far no such luck.
If you guys are going through this then my apologies. Your ruling class learned it from ours.
What's scary about Apple isn't that they over charge, it's that they've shown that a company can be the most profitable company in history (even outpacing some of the Robber Barrons adjusted for inflation) while selling relatively little product. Apple shows that the rich can abandon not just the poor but the working class and still do just fine.
As for those Communists... well they weren't. At no point in the history of the USSR were the spoils of economic output distributed "From each according to his ability to each according to his need". Stalin et al weren't communists, they were Fascists who borrowed Marx's book for rhetoric. And no, this isn't a 'No True Scottsman' argument. People can lie about their motives and facts will show they're lying. Yelling 'No True Scottsman' doesn't change that.
what was scary about Popcorn Time was that it's interface was so slick I knew folks who had it and didn't even know what bit torrent was or that they were pirating content. Remember, high speed internet is around $80-$100/mo in most places. That's 10-15x the ISP's cost (based on SEC filings from Comcast). For that kind of money folks don't necessarily realize that they're just getting a data communication line and nothing else...