when his salary depends on him not understanding it.
None of this matters. I don't care about climate change. I care about whether I'm going to have a job and whether my kid's gonna have a job because in our civilization those who work eat and those who don't starve.
It's impossible to have a meaningful discussion on climate change without socialism. As long as we accept that it's OK to abandon over half the populace to abject poverty in the name of freedom we have to accept that those people will oppose anything that takes away what little they have in the short term even with the promise of the long term. Like Trump said, these people have nothing to lose.
I used to work at a fast food restaurant where the manager's husband depended on the insurance (crappy as it was) for his meds. The owner found out (and this was pre-Obamacare, so no coverage for pre-existing conditions) and worked her 60,70 hours a week. She was still doing it when I left 15 or so years ago...
people, especially children, are a lot more easily influenced than you're allowing for. This is why in the 60s people fought hard (and lost) to keep TV advertisements from hitting children. There's a theory that one of the reasons the boomers are as self centered/narcissistic as they are (compared to other generations) is they were the first generation raised on TV.
what matters is the aggregate, and in the aggregate older people work less and are less productive. There's no good reason for a hiring manager to take a chance on you when there's a dozen young guys lined up who, odds are can work just as much as you do and don't have that risk.
And there's no such thing as illegal if the law's not enforced.
is a bad idea. You're dealing with young people with all the wants and needs of an adult but none of the earning potential. People forget that for thousands of years you were pretty much living your adult life by 16-18. Your asking those folks to put everything on hold for another 4 years with the promise of someday making a good living (and not a very firm promise, I might add). That's too much, and you're being unreasonable and flippant by asking for it.
We should support kids in college with a decent lifestyle. We should do this because, well, we're going to be depending on them when we're old; save for a few very wealthy people and a few folks with amazing genetics; If you're counting on that just keep buying lottery tickets. I'm sure it'll turn out fine...
Oh, and regarding grade inflation and college getting easier: As a parent of a kid in college who sees her work load and how tough it is: Fuck off.
Just wrong. Saying the world doesn't owe you shit is something the haves say to assuage their conscience.
Old people aren't retiring. They can't. They were sold a bill of goods in the form of 401k/IRA/whatever your local flavor is and they can't afford it. That's because a) those programs were designed by the wealthy and don't work for middle class and b) everytime the economy crashes (every 10 years like clockwork after we repeal the regulations that were passed the last time it tanked) all your savings get wiped out.
I'll take most of your last two (shorter hours & nationalized benefits) but minimum wage is a necessity. It's _never_ affordable to hire employees if you ask employers. If you let them they'll make us all slaves and use the same rationalizations you did at the start of your rant to excuse it (suck it up, buttercup).
the smart readers are either paid for by the tax payer direct or a surcharge on the bill (which looks like a tax to anyone). Meanwhile the cost savings from firing all the meter readers went straight into the pockets of the folks skimming 10%-20% off every power bill.
Privatize the profit and socialize the expense. This is why you don't let companies run essential services for profit.
it's not a person, it's an abstract concept commonly known as a company...
I don't suppose anyone who actually made/forced these decisions will be pleading guilty to anything? A pound of weed'll put you in jail for half a decade or more but I'm guessing these guys will just pay a token fine that's less than 1/3 what they made off the cheating.
and unique and well, doing that for real is hard and moderately risky. Using your purchases to differentiate yourself is an easy/safe solution. Yeah, it's shallow, but that's also what makes it easy. For a more extreme example look for anyone who owns a Scout or a Saab.
but the owners don't. The owner class (aka the "Ruling Class") is a different group of people. I don't need people to buy my stuff if I already own everything. They'll do what I say or they'll starve to death trap on reservations like we did to the American Indians.
it's just marketing. We need to tax the super rich because they have everything (not just all the money, literally everything). But if you say you're gonna tax a person the media (which is far right on economic issues) starts talking about the govmmint stealing from them (even when they have nothing worth stealing) and the whole thing shuts down.
This is the same thing we did with social security & medicare. A socialist program masquerading as a tax to get people who desperately need help to accept that help.
as a developer? I guess it might mean my code runs on really low end devices. There's some money to be made there I suppose. But complex JavaScript apps already run fine on my el-cheapo LG phone. Unless I'm targeting the developing world or writing games I'm not sure I see the use case.
because he'll push through it or quickly get replaced. H1-Bs work 60, 70,90 hours a week. Whatever it takes. If they don't it's back to their home country and well, there's a reason they came here.
The H1-Bs we're mad about aren't the rocket scientists, cryptography experts and geniuses. They're rank and file programmers taking jobs us/.ers used to have. This stuff isn't hard. It's mostly database driven apps and entry level engineering. 4 years college..hell 2 years of self training and you're good to go. That's what makes us replaceable and it's why we need laws to protect our standard of living. There's nothing wrong with that. There's no good reason to engage in a race to the bottom with countries that don't have food security let alone the basic freedoms we enjoy.
"What have you got to lose?". The trouble with Hilary was a) she campaigned on no policy whatsoever (seriously, there was just an article about how her ads were almost completely policy free) and she didn't campaign in the rust belt (either because she took 'em for granted or was too old/tired to do so, doesn't matter really).
Trump's voters don't expect him to keep his promises, but his opponent didn't make any. And the ones that put him in office (Blue collar guys abandoned by us white collar guys, so much for worker solidarity) don't have anything left. The ones that have jobs make $9/hr if they're lucky when they used to make 3x that. They go nothin'.
he's not going to be working that hard. It's a miracle he made it through the election. Hilary didn't (she looked tired the entire time) and that lack of campaigning cost her the election.
you can get a lot of functionality and improvements for 'free' as the libraries update. Stuff like bootstrap.js, jquery and angular. If that's too scary for you can you switch the libraries out on a test system and see how they perform first.
For any complex web app you're building it with libraries. No sane person does that much work on their own, just like no sane person writes their own browser just run their own web apps on.
really fast. They're a nightmare to edit, support and debug. Tables are great for, well, tables. Lists of information. A grid layout is something else entirely. It's a UI construct you use to layout application controls. Sure, you can use tables for that, but with tables if you make one change the whole thing falls apart. If you ever used Swing or VB's layout tools this looks to be a step in that direction, which would rock.
And that doesn't stand for "Bachelor of Science" in case you're wondering. The stock market rallied when Pence came out and said: We know Trump said he was going to do all these really popularist things like tariffs and healthcare for all but trust me, that ain't happening. Until then it was in free fall.
Obama's "You didn't Built it" was true and that stung like a motherfarker. There's a bumper sticker I saw the other day that made me laugh: "If you don't like socialism get off my public roads!". This is civilization. We work together to make things better. Remember the Dark Ages? A thousand years of no progress so a few kings and their retainers could claim everything themselves. Just keep telling yourself you're doing it for freedom, all the way back to monarchy and the divine right of kings. Good job.
super efficient world. Waste employees a _lot_ of people. And as those folks lose more and more jobs to efficiency they'll be more and more competition for the few jobs left. We'll work harder and harder to please the owner class that calls the shots and makes the rules.
And somehow I don't see us transitioning to Star Trek utopia. That means taking money from that owner class and giving it to everybody else. People call that stealing, and while I could write a book about how that's hokey and hogwash it wouldn't make anyone feel better about it. I've yet to hear a good, one sentence answer to the question: "You just gonna steal my money and give it to the poor?"
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when his salary depends on him not understanding it.
None of this matters. I don't care about climate change. I care about whether I'm going to have a job and whether my kid's gonna have a job because in our civilization those who work eat and those who don't starve.
It's impossible to have a meaningful discussion on climate change without socialism. As long as we accept that it's OK to abandon over half the populace to abject poverty in the name of freedom we have to accept that those people will oppose anything that takes away what little they have in the short term even with the promise of the long term. Like Trump said, these people have nothing to lose.
I used to work at a fast food restaurant where the manager's husband depended on the insurance (crappy as it was) for his meds. The owner found out (and this was pre-Obamacare, so no coverage for pre-existing conditions) and worked her 60,70 hours a week. She was still doing it when I left 15 or so years ago...
Or maybe it's just the Curling is really, really dull?
people, especially children, are a lot more easily influenced than you're allowing for. This is why in the 60s people fought hard (and lost) to keep TV advertisements from hitting children. There's a theory that one of the reasons the boomers are as self centered/narcissistic as they are (compared to other generations) is they were the first generation raised on TV.
after they finish laughing.
what matters is the aggregate, and in the aggregate older people work less and are less productive. There's no good reason for a hiring manager to take a chance on you when there's a dozen young guys lined up who, odds are can work just as much as you do and don't have that risk.
And there's no such thing as illegal if the law's not enforced.
is a bad idea. You're dealing with young people with all the wants and needs of an adult but none of the earning potential. People forget that for thousands of years you were pretty much living your adult life by 16-18. Your asking those folks to put everything on hold for another 4 years with the promise of someday making a good living (and not a very firm promise, I might add). That's too much, and you're being unreasonable and flippant by asking for it.
We should support kids in college with a decent lifestyle. We should do this because, well, we're going to be depending on them when we're old; save for a few very wealthy people and a few folks with amazing genetics; If you're counting on that just keep buying lottery tickets. I'm sure it'll turn out fine...
Oh, and regarding grade inflation and college getting easier: As a parent of a kid in college who sees her work load and how tough it is: Fuck off.
Just wrong. Saying the world doesn't owe you shit is something the haves say to assuage their conscience.
Old people aren't retiring. They can't. They were sold a bill of goods in the form of 401k/IRA/whatever your local flavor is and they can't afford it. That's because a) those programs were designed by the wealthy and don't work for middle class and b) everytime the economy crashes (every 10 years like clockwork after we repeal the regulations that were passed the last time it tanked) all your savings get wiped out.
I'll take most of your last two (shorter hours & nationalized benefits) but minimum wage is a necessity. It's _never_ affordable to hire employees if you ask employers. If you let them they'll make us all slaves and use the same rationalizations you did at the start of your rant to excuse it (suck it up, buttercup).
the smart readers are either paid for by the tax payer direct or a surcharge on the bill (which looks like a tax to anyone). Meanwhile the cost savings from firing all the meter readers went straight into the pockets of the folks skimming 10%-20% off every power bill.
Privatize the profit and socialize the expense. This is why you don't let companies run essential services for profit.
assuming Chelsea doesn't run.
it's not a person, it's an abstract concept commonly known as a company...
I don't suppose anyone who actually made/forced these decisions will be pleading guilty to anything? A pound of weed'll put you in jail for half a decade or more but I'm guessing these guys will just pay a token fine that's less than 1/3 what they made off the cheating.
and unique and well, doing that for real is hard and moderately risky. Using your purchases to differentiate yourself is an easy/safe solution. Yeah, it's shallow, but that's also what makes it easy. For a more extreme example look for anyone who owns a Scout or a Saab.
but the owners don't. The owner class (aka the "Ruling Class") is a different group of people. I don't need people to buy my stuff if I already own everything. They'll do what I say or they'll starve to death trap on reservations like we did to the American Indians.
it's just marketing. We need to tax the super rich because they have everything (not just all the money, literally everything). But if you say you're gonna tax a person the media (which is far right on economic issues) starts talking about the govmmint stealing from them (even when they have nothing worth stealing) and the whole thing shuts down.
This is the same thing we did with social security & medicare. A socialist program masquerading as a tax to get people who desperately need help to accept that help.
You get to squeeze an extra hour of work from your employees while daylight's out. Folks are used to working when the sun's up.
if this many folks who are that rich and powerful hate it.
as a developer? I guess it might mean my code runs on really low end devices. There's some money to be made there I suppose. But complex JavaScript apps already run fine on my el-cheapo LG phone. Unless I'm targeting the developing world or writing games I'm not sure I see the use case.
because he'll push through it or quickly get replaced. H1-Bs work 60, 70,90 hours a week. Whatever it takes. If they don't it's back to their home country and well, there's a reason they came here.
/.ers used to have. This stuff isn't hard. It's mostly database driven apps and entry level engineering. 4 years college..hell 2 years of self training and you're good to go. That's what makes us replaceable and it's why we need laws to protect our standard of living. There's nothing wrong with that. There's no good reason to engage in a race to the bottom with countries that don't have food security let alone the basic freedoms we enjoy.
The H1-Bs we're mad about aren't the rocket scientists, cryptography experts and geniuses. They're rank and file programmers taking jobs us
"What have you got to lose?". The trouble with Hilary was a) she campaigned on no policy whatsoever (seriously, there was just an article about how her ads were almost completely policy free) and she didn't campaign in the rust belt (either because she took 'em for granted or was too old/tired to do so, doesn't matter really).
Trump's voters don't expect him to keep his promises, but his opponent didn't make any. And the ones that put him in office (Blue collar guys abandoned by us white collar guys, so much for worker solidarity) don't have anything left. The ones that have jobs make $9/hr if they're lucky when they used to make 3x that. They go nothin'.
he's not going to be working that hard. It's a miracle he made it through the election. Hilary didn't (she looked tired the entire time) and that lack of campaigning cost her the election.
I was wondering about this so I googled it. Dems opposed mandatory wellness back in 2013. tranquilidad is full of it. Got modded up to +5 even.
you can get a lot of functionality and improvements for 'free' as the libraries update. Stuff like bootstrap.js, jquery and angular. If that's too scary for you can you switch the libraries out on a test system and see how they perform first.
For any complex web app you're building it with libraries. No sane person does that much work on their own, just like no sane person writes their own browser just run their own web apps on.
really fast. They're a nightmare to edit, support and debug. Tables are great for, well, tables. Lists of information. A grid layout is something else entirely. It's a UI construct you use to layout application controls. Sure, you can use tables for that, but with tables if you make one change the whole thing falls apart. If you ever used Swing or VB's layout tools this looks to be a step in that direction, which would rock.
And that doesn't stand for "Bachelor of Science" in case you're wondering. The stock market rallied when Pence came out and said: We know Trump said he was going to do all these really popularist things like tariffs and healthcare for all but trust me, that ain't happening. Until then it was in free fall.
Obama's "You didn't Built it" was true and that stung like a motherfarker. There's a bumper sticker I saw the other day that made me laugh: "If you don't like socialism get off my public roads!". This is civilization. We work together to make things better. Remember the Dark Ages? A thousand years of no progress so a few kings and their retainers could claim everything themselves. Just keep telling yourself you're doing it for freedom, all the way back to monarchy and the divine right of kings. Good job.
super efficient world. Waste employees a _lot_ of people. And as those folks lose more and more jobs to efficiency they'll be more and more competition for the few jobs left. We'll work harder and harder to please the owner class that calls the shots and makes the rules.
And somehow I don't see us transitioning to Star Trek utopia. That means taking money from that owner class and giving it to everybody else. People call that stealing, and while I could write a book about how that's hokey and hogwash it wouldn't make anyone feel better about it. I've yet to hear a good, one sentence answer to the question: "You just gonna steal my money and give it to the poor?"