massive solar plants combined with massive desalination plants. Sadly it looks like it's just time for more tickle down economics. I'm really not looking forward to all the money that's about to get repatriated. There was an article on cnn with a whole mess of CEOs salivating over all the Mergers and Acquisitions they're gonna do. I wouldn't care if ever round of M&A didn't end in massive layoffs...
my coworkers were talking about how Hilary lost the popular vote. This is a lie, and a useful lie. It was started on a right wing blog with ties to other right wing propagandists.
If you really think fake news didn't help put Trump in office you're not paying even a little attention. Hell, you don't want to. You're old enough and cynical enough to spot it.
As for Trump, all the things you don't like he's going to do and more. He'll sell you out on a scale you can't even imagine. He's already back tracked on every promise and he's not even if office yet. What I don't know is how to keep you from blaming Obama for the damage Trump's about to do...
Trump got the exact same voters Romney did. Look it up. Hilary lost because she wasn't charismatic enough to get the swing state voters out for her like Obama did. Also, having a vagina didn't help. Women don't really care about having one of their own in the white house but men don't like bossy chicks.
That said, I'm sure the 20 year long multi-billion dollar campaign of character assassination that at best turned up some very, very mild corruption didn't help things. Seriously, we Dems have to run Jesus H Christ to win against the smear machine the Right Wing Media brings to bear. Look at Obama. I fully expect him to be carried aloft on Angel Wings when he finally does leave office. The best your side could come up with was Sekret Muzlem. You did manage to make that one stick though, so bravo.
It's massively improved outcomes for poor and disadvantaged kids. Especially those from broken homes that are predisposed to low self-esteem.
Treating people like shit in the hopes that adversity will make them better only works when you don't care about the ones that fall in the gutter and get devoured by rats. Sure, Lincoln went to a log cabin school, but what about the other kids that die before the age of 12 (look up the survival rates past childhood in the 1800s sometime).
Somebody who spent a lot more time and effort than you did on your/. post figured out that shitting all over people doesn't really make things better. They're called teachers. Who knew?
If you knew anything about our education system you'd know that the reason math scores, grammar scores and even writing and history scores are down is because we're no longer abandoning kids to life in the factories. Teachers work hard and relentlessly to give all kids not just a chance at an education, but an actual education.
Well, public teachers do. If you look at the charter schools you'll find higher scores. You'll also find kids below a B average getting expelled. _Especially_ the poor ones.
So yeah, bigger sample size and taking care of the disadvantaged is where your scores are dipping. Throw those little shits back in the gutter like the good 'ole days and you too can have back your pretty statistics.
repeating the same right wing talking points that have been used since Regan to cut funding to education and public services.
Let's see, where do I begin:
1. Real wages are down. Way down. You can't spend money on sh*t you need if you don't have it in the first place. You can't budget what isn't there. And you can't pay your way through college on $17k/yr (full time min wage) when tuition alone is $11k of that, scholarships are dried up or hyper competitive and even borrowing doesn't pay enough to get you through.
2. Kids have learned plenty about cause and effect. See above. They've got the math skills to see they can't afford higher education. Why don't you?
3. Did it ever cross your mind that that 2nd year college kid might just be exhausted from working and studying full time?
4. The "precious little snowflake" movement was an educational movement started by real teachers who had actually studied real students. As opposed to knee jerk armchair commenters like yourself. What they found were millions and millions of unwanted children who existed because their parents had sex. Kids who got little or no positive reinforcement at home and who'd been conditioned to failure. It's a solution for combating that. If you knew anything about teaching or education you would know this. This is what happens when you take something that looks easy (teaching) but is actually really, really fucking hard and don't leave it in the hands of experts. This is gonna get me modded down but fuck it, I got karma to burn: Elites are elite for a reason. Donald Trump is not elite. My friend's mom who just finished her Doctorate in education? Yeah, she's mother fucking bad ass elite.
and that issue is pro-corporate, pro 1%. This is what makes them so strong. Their only issue is putting as much money into the hands of the upper class as possible. So they can turn on a dime on any other issue so long as it serves that end.
The left, by contrast, are a mess. The social left and economic left are always at odds with each other. So they get picked apart and you get candidates like Hilary that nobody liked enough to bother voting for. Meanwhile the right can get behind Trump because he'll say anything that gets their base out and the money behind him knows he's one of them and he'll take care of them.
just don't give a fuck. 60 million voted for Trump, 120 million didn't bother voting.
After that everything else is just semantics. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that anyone of the people we just put in charge cares about ethics, principles or consistency. They care about results. End Justifies the Means. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law; etc, etc. If something like Common Carrier gets in the way they'll just trample it.
This is the consequences of people either not voting or voting their gut.
not unless they have more bombs than us anyway. Reparation payments are made by folks who lack military and/or economic power. The United States has both. Given the enormous natural resources we have that's not likely to change. We're also the only nation with a proper navy (though China's catching up).
they don't get rumbled. Don't know about the rest of the world but in America if you can afford cloths that get ironed for something other than a funeral you're doing really, really good.
See here. So good luck with that. There are limits to the amount of pollution folks will tolerate. China and India have long since reached those limits.
not much anyway. Actual scalpers don't provide the ticket to someone who otherwise wouldn't have it. They buy up all the tickets and sell them back to people that would have bought them on the show night. The venue owners turn a blind eye because they're shifting the risk to the scalper. the scalpers know their business so they might lose a little here and there but they make it up from people that desperately want to see see the show.
It also screws the bands. They need to sell out their show and make money on merch because they don't get the ticket sales, the record labels do. So when a show sells out and only a thousand people show up they bands are screwed. People stop caring about the band because they can't see their shows. It sucks all around.
My kid wanted to see Hanna Montana when she was young, but the $40 tickets were selling for over $1000.
the amount of money you can make at a fast food joint has long since been too little to get you through college. $8 x 40/week x 52 weeks = $16,640/yr. Tuition alone is $11k/yr at a public school Rent in a 'cheap' college town is $400/mo ($800 if you're in the dorms). Food if you're not eating Raman/Natty Lite (which doesn't really work, you'll get malnutrition) is $150-$200/mo ($400 if you don't have a kitchen. Dorms again). If you're not living in the Dorms you'll probably need a car (the stuff in biking distance is just as expensive as the dorms).
Full disclosure: I've got a kid in college right now. It's fucking _expensive_.
Like the Stones, Barbra Streisand and Madona the Record company pockets all the ticket sales. That's what I mean when I say they "Sell at a loss". They're there, they're working, they're not getting paid. They get to sell merch.
they're meant for tickets but might apply to any good or service being scalped. So depending on your jurisdiction yeah, laws might be broken.
And in any case they're violating Google's terms of service. Google can't control what you do with the phone after they sell it to you (right of first sale) but they can choose not to sell it to you.
And there are lots of good reasons to prevent scalping. For tickets the reasons are obvious. Bands sell tickets at a loss and make it up with merch at the show. I've seen photos of sold out Red Hot Chili Pepper's concerts where the auditorium was 1/10th full because the scalpers bought all the tickets and only sold them to the few rich folks who could afford it. Great for the venue (100% sell out) horrible for the band.
I see the same thing with a product like the NES classic. Nintendo isn't just selling those to make money, they're selling them to keep themselves in the consumer's mindshare while they work on their next console. So they sell them at a lower price to ensure 100% sell out. Scalpers blow that to hell since they're sitting on all the product.
I also saw this with the Gundam Seed toyline. Really nice toyline. $10 figures with amazing detail and playability. Got scalped like crazy and were going for $50 online. The Scalper could make a profit by selling 2 to OCD collectors and sitting on 7 of them. So they did. The show needed the merch to stay in mindshare. Cool toys are one of the things that made Wing and G Gundam so big. Fans and kids couldn't get the toys, show died on the vine.
When artists of all stripes can't get their product in consumers hands for a price that all but a handful can afford they lose out. That's the real cost of scalpers. For a real business making real product it's not just about the sales today, it's about the sales tomorrow, next month, next year. The scalpers cut that off like a parasite.
is it's free, so that's what the India tech workers get trained on. Training in India is cutthroat and cheap so they're not going to pay for software unless they have to. That's also why being an Oracle DB is one of the few things that's been a sorta safe haven for workers in the America, Canada & the UK. It's too expensive to train our replacements.
There was an article on folks switching from Oracle DB to Mongo DB on/. the other day and I suspect that's what's really driving the change. Like I always say: Good enough is always good enough.
this is already a non story. Google is reactivating the accounts so long as the users promise not to do it again. They'll flush out the shill accounts and give everyone else a smack on the wrist for doing something that's pretty self evidently wrong (scalping).
are the pages small because rural voters lack high speed internet or because the message resonates with rural votes and so the message size is tailored for them?
Just thinking about two of his most recent lies that take the cake. He claimed he saved a car factory in Kentucky that wasn't going anywhere (while not lifting a finger for one that is). He also claimed he was going to keep the Obamacare pre-existing provision while his running mate and Paul Ryan go around saying you'll only be protected if there's no gap in coverage (you know, exactly how it was before Obamacare).
There's nothing being omitted there. Just bold face lies. And it's not just him. Nobody calls the American right wing on their lies except an itty bitty left wing press (think Mother Jones) that nobody pays any attention to. Lies by Omission don't even register in the face of falsehood of this magnitude.
and more afraid of numskulls who don't understand science and disaster response and will take this to mean Zika was never a threat. A lot of stuff about the coming US Presidential Administration scares me but the thought of Trump putting cronies in charge of this sort of thing instead of experts is pants shittingly terrifying...
they need single payer health care so they don't have to compete with mega-corps insurance pools when they're pricing out insurance for themselves and their employees.
Unless if by "red tape" you mean repealing minimum wage and eliminating OSHA. I guess that'd work, but then they'd still have to compete with the mega-corps who are also paying like shit and using employees like toilet paper.
seriously though. Coal and Gas are much, much more expensive than nuclear when you can't _externalize_your_costs_. The pollution gets into the air, water and land. It causes massive health problems to anyone living anywhere near the plant. You also need to risk miner's lives to mine it cheaply or you need to do fracking (which has it's own unique problems: earthquakes, water you can light on fire, etc).
All of this either gets paid for by the taxpayer or you let the people hurt by it suffer and die (google "Cancer Villages"). Sorry, but you really have no idea wtf you're going on about...
is what I'm guessing this is. Notice there's a lot of talk about shaking up the brand and very little about sales figures dropping. Nobody really cared much about this scandal except the shareholders who are gonna see VW's cash reserves (slightly) eaten into.
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massive solar plants combined with massive desalination plants. Sadly it looks like it's just time for more tickle down economics. I'm really not looking forward to all the money that's about to get repatriated. There was an article on cnn with a whole mess of CEOs salivating over all the Mergers and Acquisitions they're gonna do. I wouldn't care if ever round of M&A didn't end in massive layoffs...
my coworkers were talking about how Hilary lost the popular vote. This is a lie, and a useful lie. It was started on a right wing blog with ties to other right wing propagandists.
If you really think fake news didn't help put Trump in office you're not paying even a little attention. Hell, you don't want to. You're old enough and cynical enough to spot it.
As for Trump, all the things you don't like he's going to do and more. He'll sell you out on a scale you can't even imagine. He's already back tracked on every promise and he's not even if office yet. What I don't know is how to keep you from blaming Obama for the damage Trump's about to do...
Trump got the exact same voters Romney did. Look it up. Hilary lost because she wasn't charismatic enough to get the swing state voters out for her like Obama did. Also, having a vagina didn't help. Women don't really care about having one of their own in the white house but men don't like bossy chicks.
That said, I'm sure the 20 year long multi-billion dollar campaign of character assassination that at best turned up some very, very mild corruption didn't help things. Seriously, we Dems have to run Jesus H Christ to win against the smear machine the Right Wing Media brings to bear. Look at Obama. I fully expect him to be carried aloft on Angel Wings when he finally does leave office. The best your side could come up with was Sekret Muzlem. You did manage to make that one stick though, so bravo.
It's massively improved outcomes for poor and disadvantaged kids. Especially those from broken homes that are predisposed to low self-esteem.
/. post figured out that shitting all over people doesn't really make things better. They're called teachers. Who knew?
Treating people like shit in the hopes that adversity will make them better only works when you don't care about the ones that fall in the gutter and get devoured by rats. Sure, Lincoln went to a log cabin school, but what about the other kids that die before the age of 12 (look up the survival rates past childhood in the 1800s sometime).
Somebody who spent a lot more time and effort than you did on your
and saying it on /. doesn't make it so.
If you knew anything about our education system you'd know that the reason math scores, grammar scores and even writing and history scores are down is because we're no longer abandoning kids to life in the factories. Teachers work hard and relentlessly to give all kids not just a chance at an education, but an actual education.
Well, public teachers do. If you look at the charter schools you'll find higher scores. You'll also find kids below a B average getting expelled. _Especially_ the poor ones.
So yeah, bigger sample size and taking care of the disadvantaged is where your scores are dipping. Throw those little shits back in the gutter like the good 'ole days and you too can have back your pretty statistics.
repeating the same right wing talking points that have been used since Regan to cut funding to education and public services.
Let's see, where do I begin:
1. Real wages are down. Way down. You can't spend money on sh*t you need if you don't have it in the first place. You can't budget what isn't there. And you can't pay your way through college on $17k/yr (full time min wage) when tuition alone is $11k of that, scholarships are dried up or hyper competitive and even borrowing doesn't pay enough to get you through.
2. Kids have learned plenty about cause and effect. See above. They've got the math skills to see they can't afford higher education. Why don't you?
3. Did it ever cross your mind that that 2nd year college kid might just be exhausted from working and studying full time?
4. The "precious little snowflake" movement was an educational movement started by real teachers who had actually studied real students. As opposed to knee jerk armchair commenters like yourself. What they found were millions and millions of unwanted children who existed because their parents had sex. Kids who got little or no positive reinforcement at home and who'd been conditioned to failure. It's a solution for combating that. If you knew anything about teaching or education you would know this. This is what happens when you take something that looks easy (teaching) but is actually really, really fucking hard and don't leave it in the hands of experts. This is gonna get me modded down but fuck it, I got karma to burn: Elites are elite for a reason. Donald Trump is not elite. My friend's mom who just finished her Doctorate in education? Yeah, she's mother fucking bad ass elite.
and that issue is pro-corporate, pro 1%. This is what makes them so strong. Their only issue is putting as much money into the hands of the upper class as possible. So they can turn on a dime on any other issue so long as it serves that end.
The left, by contrast, are a mess. The social left and economic left are always at odds with each other. So they get picked apart and you get candidates like Hilary that nobody liked enough to bother voting for. Meanwhile the right can get behind Trump because he'll say anything that gets their base out and the money behind him knows he's one of them and he'll take care of them.
just don't give a fuck. 60 million voted for Trump, 120 million didn't bother voting.
After that everything else is just semantics. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that anyone of the people we just put in charge cares about ethics, principles or consistency. They care about results. End Justifies the Means. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law; etc, etc. If something like Common Carrier gets in the way they'll just trample it.
This is the consequences of people either not voting or voting their gut.
not unless they have more bombs than us anyway. Reparation payments are made by folks who lack military and/or economic power. The United States has both. Given the enormous natural resources we have that's not likely to change. We're also the only nation with a proper navy (though China's catching up).
they don't get rumbled. Don't know about the rest of the world but in America if you can afford cloths that get ironed for something other than a funeral you're doing really, really good.
See here. So good luck with that. There are limits to the amount of pollution folks will tolerate. China and India have long since reached those limits.
not much anyway. Actual scalpers don't provide the ticket to someone who otherwise wouldn't have it. They buy up all the tickets and sell them back to people that would have bought them on the show night. The venue owners turn a blind eye because they're shifting the risk to the scalper. the scalpers know their business so they might lose a little here and there but they make it up from people that desperately want to see see the show.
It also screws the bands. They need to sell out their show and make money on merch because they don't get the ticket sales, the record labels do. So when a show sells out and only a thousand people show up they bands are screwed. People stop caring about the band because they can't see their shows. It sucks all around.
My kid wanted to see Hanna Montana when she was young, but the $40 tickets were selling for over $1000.
the amount of money you can make at a fast food joint has long since been too little to get you through college. $8 x 40/week x 52 weeks = $16,640/yr. Tuition alone is $11k/yr at a public school Rent in a 'cheap' college town is $400/mo ($800 if you're in the dorms). Food if you're not eating Raman/Natty Lite (which doesn't really work, you'll get malnutrition) is $150-$200/mo ($400 if you don't have a kitchen. Dorms again). If you're not living in the Dorms you'll probably need a car (the stuff in biking distance is just as expensive as the dorms).
Full disclosure: I've got a kid in college right now. It's fucking _expensive_.
Like the Stones, Barbra Streisand and Madona the Record company pockets all the ticket sales. That's what I mean when I say they "Sell at a loss". They're there, they're working, they're not getting paid. They get to sell merch.
they're meant for tickets but might apply to any good or service being scalped. So depending on your jurisdiction yeah, laws might be broken.
And in any case they're violating Google's terms of service. Google can't control what you do with the phone after they sell it to you (right of first sale) but they can choose not to sell it to you.
And there are lots of good reasons to prevent scalping. For tickets the reasons are obvious. Bands sell tickets at a loss and make it up with merch at the show. I've seen photos of sold out Red Hot Chili Pepper's concerts where the auditorium was 1/10th full because the scalpers bought all the tickets and only sold them to the few rich folks who could afford it. Great for the venue (100% sell out) horrible for the band.
I see the same thing with a product like the NES classic. Nintendo isn't just selling those to make money, they're selling them to keep themselves in the consumer's mindshare while they work on their next console. So they sell them at a lower price to ensure 100% sell out. Scalpers blow that to hell since they're sitting on all the product.
I also saw this with the Gundam Seed toyline. Really nice toyline. $10 figures with amazing detail and playability. Got scalped like crazy and were going for $50 online. The Scalper could make a profit by selling 2 to OCD collectors and sitting on 7 of them. So they did. The show needed the merch to stay in mindshare. Cool toys are one of the things that made Wing and G Gundam so big. Fans and kids couldn't get the toys, show died on the vine.
When artists of all stripes can't get their product in consumers hands for a price that all but a handful can afford they lose out. That's the real cost of scalpers. For a real business making real product it's not just about the sales today, it's about the sales tomorrow, next month, next year. The scalpers cut that off like a parasite.
is it's free, so that's what the India tech workers get trained on. Training in India is cutthroat and cheap so they're not going to pay for software unless they have to. That's also why being an Oracle DB is one of the few things that's been a sorta safe haven for workers in the America, Canada & the UK. It's too expensive to train our replacements.
/. the other day and I suspect that's what's really driving the change. Like I always say: Good enough is always good enough.
There was an article on folks switching from Oracle DB to Mongo DB on
this is already a non story. Google is reactivating the accounts so long as the users promise not to do it again. They'll flush out the shill accounts and give everyone else a smack on the wrist for doing something that's pretty self evidently wrong (scalping).
are the pages small because rural voters lack high speed internet or because the message resonates with rural votes and so the message size is tailored for them?
Just thinking about two of his most recent lies that take the cake. He claimed he saved a car factory in Kentucky that wasn't going anywhere (while not lifting a finger for one that is). He also claimed he was going to keep the Obamacare pre-existing provision while his running mate and Paul Ryan go around saying you'll only be protected if there's no gap in coverage (you know, exactly how it was before Obamacare).
There's nothing being omitted there. Just bold face lies. And it's not just him. Nobody calls the American right wing on their lies except an itty bitty left wing press (think Mother Jones) that nobody pays any attention to. Lies by Omission don't even register in the face of falsehood of this magnitude.
is very likely to give him that law. IIRC Rudy Giuliani wasn't exactly a big fan of encryption.
and more afraid of numskulls who don't understand science and disaster response and will take this to mean Zika was never a threat. A lot of stuff about the coming US Presidential Administration scares me but the thought of Trump putting cronies in charge of this sort of thing instead of experts is pants shittingly terrifying...
or are all the Ukraine pirate sites getting shut down? Thoughts on why?
they need single payer health care so they don't have to compete with mega-corps insurance pools when they're pricing out insurance for themselves and their employees.
Unless if by "red tape" you mean repealing minimum wage and eliminating OSHA. I guess that'd work, but then they'd still have to compete with the mega-corps who are also paying like shit and using employees like toilet paper.
seriously though. Coal and Gas are much, much more expensive than nuclear when you can't _externalize_your_costs_. The pollution gets into the air, water and land. It causes massive health problems to anyone living anywhere near the plant. You also need to risk miner's lives to mine it cheaply or you need to do fracking (which has it's own unique problems: earthquakes, water you can light on fire, etc).
All of this either gets paid for by the taxpayer or you let the people hurt by it suffer and die (google "Cancer Villages"). Sorry, but you really have no idea wtf you're going on about...
is what I'm guessing this is. Notice there's a lot of talk about shaking up the brand and very little about sales figures dropping. Nobody really cared much about this scandal except the shareholders who are gonna see VW's cash reserves (slightly) eaten into.