if you don't like it you need to bring back more manufacture (not the jobs, Americans make too much, it'll mostly be robots). And if you're gonna bring back manufacturing you're either going to have the kind of pollution that gives people cancer or a large and powerful gov't apparatus that monitors and punishes factories for polluting. Neither of which is palatable to Americans.
Insurance companies fight you tooth and nail, often for years. Especially on a big payout like a burnt down house. Every year they delay inflation bites into the payout and you get more desperate to take whatever they'll give.
I don't even think they'll stop letting people sell through them. They're in it for the long game, which is completely dominating all retail. This isn't even a bump in the road.
system, the concept of "Presumed Innocence" and the fact that judges err on the side of caution when issuing injunctions and the like (with the assumption that they can order payment in full with interest to the aggrieved party at the end of the trial).
In the states it's only an issue because our Judicial branch overwhelmingly sides with property and the wealthy. Even more so than in the UK. Which is impressive when you think about it.
I've got a buddy who's in about the lowest income position you can be and when faced with the prospect that we might give Fast Food workers "free" money when we don't need them to work anymore (because robots took their jerbs) he was genuinely uncomfortable. He might even agree if you press him on it but when he gets to the polls that's not how his 'gut' will tell him to vote.
Giving people who don't work money just plain _feels_ bad. Entitlement is a bad word around here too. Think about how much of a backlash there's been with that 'everybody gets a gold star' style of teaching. That pisses everyone who works hard off.
Unless you're really, really smart then just working hard is not it's own reward. I don't say that because being smart makes these ideas palpable. When you're Albert Einstein level you can absorb yourself with problems and solutions that are beyond the vast majority of us. But thing is that's not nearly enough % of the population to base a society around...
it's almost all middle class whites without college educations. They're generally doing well for themselves and when asked why Trump they say it's for the country and their children. 538's got a decent article on Trump Supporter demographics. They key to Trump supporters is they _vote_. The urban poor don't (it's debatable if it's laziness or voter suppression).
we just finished prosecuting a mine exec for ignoring safety. It was a big deal because he'll do some jail time, which has almost never happened. The saddest thing is that somewhere is somebody who'll argue we shouldn't have prosecuted that guy because this is what will happen. E.g. it's better to have a job you get killed at than no job at all. Even when there's no good reason for that job to exist anymore. People just can't get over the idea that if you don't work you don't eat.
and a few IT jobs replace 'em (probably H1-Bs, since this work is so new it's easy to say there'd be no local talent that qualifies). Can I has basic income yet?
at least over here in the States is that they exist to shield the company from property taxes and liabilities involved with owning the land. The leases are a fraction of those costs. In America we have a thing called "Trusts" where land is held "In Trust". What it really means is the gov't is holding onto the land for a wealthy land owner until it's worth owning (usually if they want to build houses on it). That way no property taxes.
buddy of mine (pun not intended) is a part runner who sometimes delivers on the mines and they already control the roads so tightly that automation would be cake. Plus robots work around the clock, don't unionize and you don't go to jail for ignoring their safety.
The real question is, given that mines are natural resources why the *bleep* do we let so few people claim ownership of them? I suppose we could just tax the end product on the way out too, but we don't even do much of that. We just sorta give away something that's the birthright of all mankind without batting an eye. Not saying we go full on commie ( the wars and violence that come out of that would just shift the ownership ) but there ought to be a better way.
but that wouldn't happen. The police don't publish the names of victims. Your anecdote doesn't work. It's kinda like when people say the gov't has a monopoly on violence. It sounds right (the police, military, etc) but when you think about it self defense means they don't really. And both the police & military are heavily regulated. All allowed violence is.
I think the problem here is tracking. It reminds us how much privacy we give up by carrying cell phones. Personally I'm much more concerned with wealth inequality than privacy. The latter is almost always abused to maintain the former.
to get a phone to dial a number. There's lots of APIs for it once you've got access and there's tonnes of 'sploit kits to get you that access. This is the very definition of a 'script kiddie'. Give 'em a slap on the wrist and so long as he doesn't do it again move on. Short of torturing him to death you're not gonna get enough notice out of this to make an 'example' out of it but you might ruin some dumb kid's life. Then again this is Joe Arpaio...
On a completely unrelated note our 911 system is so fragile that a script kiddie can bring it down. Thanks constant tax & spending cuts and rampant program defunding!
If it did she would have been charged under USC 18 (for which the standard _is_ gross negligence). This is one of those "Get your facts straight" things. You can disagree with the investigation's conclusions but you can't disagree with what they found. They ran the investigation, not you.
between "take appropriate investigative steps" and reopening an investigation. The latter fires off all sorts of processes and allocates resources to a full scale effort. The former really just means "We're gonna go read some email".
Intent is required. You have to prove gross negligence. Given that virtually _everyone_ in Washington runs these kind of servers you're going to find that damn near impossible. Hell, if they ever did it would be open season on both parties. Yeah, if you want the world to burn that'd be nice. Some of us don't.
to vote 3rd party. See here. Please Know what you're getting into with our two third parties. I'll be over here voting for the only politician besides Obama who's made it this far and supports single payer health care.
which has much weaker employee protections than the UK. Not that the UK is doing great. Ever since Reagan/Thatcher their working class has been getting picked apart.
What the hell do I care? She supports single payer health care, increased taxes on the wealthy and is only as hawkish as she needs to be to win over her party's right wing (the Dems are a _lot_ more right wing than people think).
Again, I live in the real world and have to vote for viable candidates. You're not going to get to where Hilary is now without a lot of money and influence. You say she sells influence and ignore her buying it to. She's a politician. A progressive. A real one who gets shit done. Like I keep saying (because it's a great quote): this is how the sausage is made. Either Deal with it, or get the hell out of the way for those of us who can.
I want my grandkids to be realists. I don't want them sitting in imaginary glass towers waiting for their equally imaginary prince (or princess) charming to come sweep them off their feet. I'm hoping some day we can all live in the real world; warts and all.
don't work for Uber then. They dictate all of your terms except when you're 'on', and if you're 'on' and turn down a ride (even one you know you'll lose money on) they'll penalize you.
they're campaigning for real jobs, with real job protections. People died for minimum wage and the 40 hour work week, ya know? Don't underestimate the working class. They're not as dumb as folks like think. Down on their luck, yeah. But not dumb.
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if you don't like it you need to bring back more manufacture (not the jobs, Americans make too much, it'll mostly be robots). And if you're gonna bring back manufacturing you're either going to have the kind of pollution that gives people cancer or a large and powerful gov't apparatus that monitors and punishes factories for polluting. Neither of which is palatable to Americans.
Insurance companies fight you tooth and nail, often for years. Especially on a big payout like a burnt down house. Every year they delay inflation bites into the payout and you get more desperate to take whatever they'll give.
I don't even think they'll stop letting people sell through them. They're in it for the long game, which is completely dominating all retail. This isn't even a bump in the road.
system, the concept of "Presumed Innocence" and the fact that judges err on the side of caution when issuing injunctions and the like (with the assumption that they can order payment in full with interest to the aggrieved party at the end of the trial).
In the states it's only an issue because our Judicial branch overwhelmingly sides with property and the wealthy. Even more so than in the UK. Which is impressive when you think about it.
I've got a buddy who's in about the lowest income position you can be and when faced with the prospect that we might give Fast Food workers "free" money when we don't need them to work anymore (because robots took their jerbs) he was genuinely uncomfortable. He might even agree if you press him on it but when he gets to the polls that's not how his 'gut' will tell him to vote.
Giving people who don't work money just plain _feels_ bad. Entitlement is a bad word around here too. Think about how much of a backlash there's been with that 'everybody gets a gold star' style of teaching. That pisses everyone who works hard off.
Unless you're really, really smart then just working hard is not it's own reward. I don't say that because being smart makes these ideas palpable. When you're Albert Einstein level you can absorb yourself with problems and solutions that are beyond the vast majority of us. But thing is that's not nearly enough % of the population to base a society around...
it's almost all middle class whites without college educations. They're generally doing well for themselves and when asked why Trump they say it's for the country and their children. 538's got a decent article on Trump Supporter demographics. They key to Trump supporters is they _vote_. The urban poor don't (it's debatable if it's laziness or voter suppression).
we just finished prosecuting a mine exec for ignoring safety. It was a big deal because he'll do some jail time, which has almost never happened. The saddest thing is that somewhere is somebody who'll argue we shouldn't have prosecuted that guy because this is what will happen. E.g. it's better to have a job you get killed at than no job at all. Even when there's no good reason for that job to exist anymore. People just can't get over the idea that if you don't work you don't eat.
and a few IT jobs replace 'em (probably H1-Bs, since this work is so new it's easy to say there'd be no local talent that qualifies). Can I has basic income yet?
at least over here in the States is that they exist to shield the company from property taxes and liabilities involved with owning the land. The leases are a fraction of those costs. In America we have a thing called "Trusts" where land is held "In Trust". What it really means is the gov't is holding onto the land for a wealthy land owner until it's worth owning (usually if they want to build houses on it). That way no property taxes.
from the billions of American dollars that don't get scammed.
you rock.
buddy of mine (pun not intended) is a part runner who sometimes delivers on the mines and they already control the roads so tightly that automation would be cake. Plus robots work around the clock, don't unionize and you don't go to jail for ignoring their safety.
The real question is, given that mines are natural resources why the *bleep* do we let so few people claim ownership of them? I suppose we could just tax the end product on the way out too, but we don't even do much of that. We just sorta give away something that's the birthright of all mankind without batting an eye. Not saying we go full on commie ( the wars and violence that come out of that would just shift the ownership ) but there ought to be a better way.
but that wouldn't happen. The police don't publish the names of victims. Your anecdote doesn't work. It's kinda like when people say the gov't has a monopoly on violence. It sounds right (the police, military, etc) but when you think about it self defense means they don't really. And both the police & military are heavily regulated. All allowed violence is.
I think the problem here is tracking. It reminds us how much privacy we give up by carrying cell phones. Personally I'm much more concerned with wealth inequality than privacy. The latter is almost always abused to maintain the former.
to get a phone to dial a number. There's lots of APIs for it once you've got access and there's tonnes of 'sploit kits to get you that access. This is the very definition of a 'script kiddie'. Give 'em a slap on the wrist and so long as he doesn't do it again move on. Short of torturing him to death you're not gonna get enough notice out of this to make an 'example' out of it but you might ruin some dumb kid's life. Then again this is Joe Arpaio...
On a completely unrelated note our 911 system is so fragile that a script kiddie can bring it down. Thanks constant tax & spending cuts and rampant program defunding!
it's gross negligence, which they didn't find. Not in any legal sense they could prove. If they had they would have charged her.
If it did she would have been charged under USC 18 (for which the standard _is_ gross negligence). This is one of those "Get your facts straight" things. You can disagree with the investigation's conclusions but you can't disagree with what they found. They ran the investigation, not you.
between "take appropriate investigative steps" and reopening an investigation. The latter fires off all sorts of processes and allocates resources to a full scale effort. The former really just means "We're gonna go read some email".
Intent is required. You have to prove gross negligence. Given that virtually _everyone_ in Washington runs these kind of servers you're going to find that damn near impossible. Hell, if they ever did it would be open season on both parties. Yeah, if you want the world to burn that'd be nice. Some of us don't.
to vote 3rd party. See here. Please Know what you're getting into with our two third parties. I'll be over here voting for the only politician besides Obama who's made it this far and supports single payer health care.
which has much weaker employee protections than the UK. Not that the UK is doing great. Ever since Reagan/Thatcher their working class has been getting picked apart.
What the hell do I care? She supports single payer health care, increased taxes on the wealthy and is only as hawkish as she needs to be to win over her party's right wing (the Dems are a _lot_ more right wing than people think).
Again, I live in the real world and have to vote for viable candidates. You're not going to get to where Hilary is now without a lot of money and influence. You say she sells influence and ignore her buying it to. She's a politician. A progressive. A real one who gets shit done. Like I keep saying (because it's a great quote): this is how the sausage is made. Either Deal with it, or get the hell out of the way for those of us who can.
I want my grandkids to be realists. I don't want them sitting in imaginary glass towers waiting for their equally imaginary prince (or princess) charming to come sweep them off their feet. I'm hoping some day we can all live in the real world; warts and all.
don't work for Uber then. They dictate all of your terms except when you're 'on', and if you're 'on' and turn down a ride (even one you know you'll lose money on) they'll penalize you.
they're campaigning for real jobs, with real job protections. People died for minimum wage and the 40 hour work week, ya know? Don't underestimate the working class. They're not as dumb as folks like think. Down on their luck, yeah. But not dumb.
leaving satisfied.