wasn't it true in the 90s? And the economy is way worse now than it was in the 90s. The 90s had the bloody.com boom.
Violent crime's down all around. The growing consensus seems to be getting lead out of the air is why. That means less violent youths and so less school shootings.
As for why they're getting more coverage? Not sure, we'd need more studies, and there's a ton of laws and rules in effect to discourage them (yeah, I know they're not banned outright, that's not how you suppress a thing. Ban it and you get Streisand effect).
If I had to make a guess I'd say the shootings are worse now. e.g. more deaths, more wounded. But that's barely even a guess.
Then again maybe it's only the rich kids with connections that get away with it. There's not a teacher alive who doesn't spot every cheat device you can think of. Even the drunk ones (they just don't particularly care)
This is why the Republicans win time and again. They fight to win. While you're busy debating whether the existing laws allow for Net Neutrality they're busy taking over state legislatures so they can gerrymander and keep your pro-NN law from passing.
The existing laws are there, use them. You just need to vote for people who will enforce them. Fight to win or get ready to lose... everything.
It's very much commenting on the situation. I know he's a kid, but AFAIK fundamental rights still apply when it comes to prosecution. His school can punish/expel him, but I would think the cops are gonna get a call from the ACLU...
and it's a common mistake among the Democrats that facts and fact checking can make a difference. Liz Warren just learned that the hard way when she proved her points about her Native American heritage were factually correct (e.g. she had enough that it wasn't unreasonable for her grandma to tell her that she had some India blood) but got nowhere defusing the "Pocahontas" situation.
Political debates are won with hope, fear and confidence. For the Dems to make NN an issue (and it would only be the Dems, as the GOP has way too much telecom money to be converted) they need to use fear, and fear of cable bills skyrocketing is the best bet because, well, it's fairly likely. They can lean into a little hope with more rural services and above all they need to double down on their talking points and never go on the defensive.
Go look up Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez. That's the one thing she seemed to have learned; when she gaffs she doesn't apologize or even acknowledge the gaff. Politics is a shark tank and they'll eat you alive the first taste of blood they get.
Bottom line, if we want NN (and anything good) for this country we've got to play the game and play it to win it.
Hormonal levels in the womb, temperature differences, nutrients and other environmental factors can play a role. Not saying we won't work it out, but it won't be as easy as, say, curing hereditary blindness or hearing loss. Meaning we've got time to sort some other odds/ends out before we move on to that thorny issue.
because odds are you're just going to do business with a subsidiary. And even if they company isn't owned outright odds are good that it's the same people sitting on the board of directors and the same folks are the major owners via stocks. In short, you can't get away from Mega corps anymore.
This is why we need more government regulation. We've let too many mergers & acquisitions go on.
I don't chunk it and get a new car, especially if all I need to do is replace a fuse or even a solenoid.
I think the basic structures can be made to work with a few adjustments (the big one being to make it so people refuse to vote for somebody if they take corporate cash. The other big one to end all forms of voter suppression).
Ranked Choice would be good and I want to see it, but it solves one specific problem (spoiler candidates like the Green Party, who helped give us Trump). There's plenty more to do.
so it can be brought up during elections. Not just national ones either, but state ones. The point is to make the GOP the party that opposes Net Neutrality (they are, after all).
As for how you get folks to understand NN, you don't. All Joe Schmoe needs to know is that NN == Lower Cable Bills. Hammer that point home.
We're a democracy, and a pretty corrupt one. But it's fixable if we try. I agree it's frustrating we can't just fix something this simple, but the way to do it is not throwing our hands up in disgust and giving up.
it's just a different issue. There can be more than one problem with the internet. Yes, if there was a massive amount of competition you could just switch to an ISP that supported NN, but given the centralized nature of internet access and how much it costs to build out a network you're more or less stuck with natural monopoies.
Now, if you want to talk about red herrings, I'd say the real red herring is this notion that Internet should be provided by public companies in the first place. In 2019 it's too valuable a service. It's up there with water and electricity. My kid couldn't do her homework in bloody high school without it. I don't mean because she needed google, I mean because half her homework was delivered online and maybe 1/4 of her tests. And that got worse with college.
Here's a good video on privatization. Lots of things shouldn't be run by private companies because they're so universal that it's not just everybody wants them it's that society and civilization is improved when everybody has them. You can save more money giving stuff away sometimes.
normally investors would be putting massive pressure on Amazon to increase profits. This would normally mean Amazon would do short term, boneheaded stuff that brought in cash but hurt them in the long wrong (or that didn't bring the cash in but they thought would).
Amazon has been free of that pressure. They're profitable but they could (in the short term) be _more_ profitable. To an investor that's usually all that matters.
The reason it's worse for Amazon to mix their stuff is that they have a disproportionate amount of power and can and will leverage that power. That's the essense of monopoly. The time to act against a monopoly is before they control everything.
if I got anything from them. But as it stands I get virtually no services from my government. We're not building roads. We slashed funding to Schools and the sciences (I'm paying for most of my kid's college out of pocket and living like shit to do it) and I spent $14k on medical insurance last year.
Americans are having less kids. That's normal for a developed country. So yeah, if we want our 401ks to have value in 20 years we'd need immigrants. But my 401k has been eaten up by fees and market crashes. And with my wages so low due to stiff competition with H1-Bs it's not like I have a lot of money to put into it anyway. Meanwhile I've got a Democrat, Joe fricken' Biden, attacking Social Security
What I'm saying is screw the social order. The rich and powerful broke the social contract so screw it all. End the H1-B program until we have systems in place so that there's some benefit to me, you and every American who isn't a fucking multi millionaire. Hell, stop all immigration until that time.
The white collar guys laughed when the blue collared folks had their jobs sent to China & Mexico. We told them to reskill. When it happened to us the blue collared guys didn't give two shits. Meanwhile the rich were gorging on a buffet of cheap labor all around while our middle class lives were decimated and our pensions looted.
Wasn't there a line about something something at first I didn't speak out because I wasn't a something something?
Missing from the stories I've read is that the cap was 65,000 2 years ago. Trump's Admin raised the cap by 20,000, which is where those newly favored Master's and Doctoral candidates land.
Meanwhile he still hasn't undone the Obama era executive rule that allows the spouses of H1-Bs to work in this country even though a) doing so would be consistent with the cries of abuse of power we heard for 8 years during the Obama admin and b) He promised to during the campaign.
Donald Trump is a man who consistently hired illegal immigrants for his golf courses. There were interviews with angry Americans who wanted to but couldn't get hired to work his courses. Don't be fooled. He's after the same thing all the GOP is: Cheap Labor.
this isn't about protectionism, this is about preventing a potentially hostile company from monopolizing, well, everything.
Amazon has been allowed to run at profit margins that no other company every would be because investors are waiting for the day when they put literally everyone out of business. When that happens it'll be like a company store on a national or global basis.
India is right to worry about that. It's crazy that the rest of the world isn't.
when it comes with it's own risks. Yes, it's useful for a smoker trying to quit, but from a health standpoint you really shouldn't be breathing something other than air on a regular basis...
This is why she lost. She told a bunch of 40 something blue collar guys to go back to college for advanced degrees. The amount of cluelessness on display there is astonishing.
he got exactly what he wanted out of the deal: a political prop to use for winning the 2016 election. A fair trade for a bunch of tax dollars collected mostly from working class Americans.
This was always just them extracting money from Wisconsin tax payers (and all of the United States, since like a lot of Red states Wisconsin takes in more than it pays out in fed taxes) in exchange for bribes.
If you don't "Click the Bell Icon" (which most don't) you don't get notifications. Youtube no longer just shows you a list of all the videos from your subs. Instead you get a "curated" list. That list _will_ have the folks you clicked the bell on. But whether anyone else shows up is up to Youtube's algorithm.
More than once I've subscribed to a Youtuber, forgot to click the bell (or accidentally unclicked it) and a few months later wondered "gee, they dropped off the net" only to find I'd missed 4 or 5 good videos when Youtube dumped them back in my feed at random.
Well, not random. Consistently posting 10+ minute videos is (at the moment) how to rank up. Drop off for a week and your ranking goes to hell.
you never get a break because if you take two weeks off you come back and find 2/3rds of your subscribers gone. As for Patreon, the people "donating" are doing so with the expectation of more content. They're not really patrons in the traditional sense (e.g. a rich person throwing money at the arts with little regard to the results) they're basically pre-ordering the next vid, and if it doesn't arrive they cancel fast.
I'll take the 9-5 over being a Youtuber any day of the week.
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wasn't it true in the 90s? And the economy is way worse now than it was in the 90s. The 90s had the bloody .com boom.
Violent crime's down all around. The growing consensus seems to be getting lead out of the air is why. That means less violent youths and so less school shootings.
As for why they're getting more coverage? Not sure, we'd need more studies, and there's a ton of laws and rules in effect to discourage them (yeah, I know they're not banned outright, that's not how you suppress a thing. Ban it and you get Streisand effect).
If I had to make a guess I'd say the shootings are worse now. e.g. more deaths, more wounded. But that's barely even a guess.
because there's been repeated school shootings and the adults don't seem to be doing anything about it.
if you buy last gen.
Then again maybe it's only the rich kids with connections that get away with it. There's not a teacher alive who doesn't spot every cheat device you can think of. Even the drunk ones (they just don't particularly care)
This is why the Republicans win time and again. They fight to win. While you're busy debating whether the existing laws allow for Net Neutrality they're busy taking over state legislatures so they can gerrymander and keep your pro-NN law from passing.
The existing laws are there, use them. You just need to vote for people who will enforce them. Fight to win or get ready to lose... everything.
You're right about the second kid though. It's no longer joke in poor taste when you've shown you have the means to act.
It's very much commenting on the situation. I know he's a kid, but AFAIK fundamental rights still apply when it comes to prosecution. His school can punish/expel him, but I would think the cops are gonna get a call from the ACLU...
and it's a common mistake among the Democrats that facts and fact checking can make a difference. Liz Warren just learned that the hard way when she proved her points about her Native American heritage were factually correct (e.g. she had enough that it wasn't unreasonable for her grandma to tell her that she had some India blood) but got nowhere defusing the "Pocahontas" situation.
Political debates are won with hope, fear and confidence. For the Dems to make NN an issue (and it would only be the Dems, as the GOP has way too much telecom money to be converted) they need to use fear, and fear of cable bills skyrocketing is the best bet because, well, it's fairly likely. They can lean into a little hope with more rural services and above all they need to double down on their talking points and never go on the defensive.
Go look up Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez. That's the one thing she seemed to have learned; when she gaffs she doesn't apologize or even acknowledge the gaff. Politics is a shark tank and they'll eat you alive the first taste of blood they get.
Bottom line, if we want NN (and anything good) for this country we've got to play the game and play it to win it.
Hormonal levels in the womb, temperature differences, nutrients and other environmental factors can play a role. Not saying we won't work it out, but it won't be as easy as, say, curing hereditary blindness or hearing loss. Meaning we've got time to sort some other odds/ends out before we move on to that thorny issue.
because odds are you're just going to do business with a subsidiary. And even if they company isn't owned outright odds are good that it's the same people sitting on the board of directors and the same folks are the major owners via stocks. In short, you can't get away from Mega corps anymore.
This is why we need more government regulation. We've let too many mergers & acquisitions go on.
I don't chunk it and get a new car, especially if all I need to do is replace a fuse or even a solenoid.
I think the basic structures can be made to work with a few adjustments (the big one being to make it so people refuse to vote for somebody if they take corporate cash. The other big one to end all forms of voter suppression).
Ranked Choice would be good and I want to see it, but it solves one specific problem (spoiler candidates like the Green Party, who helped give us Trump). There's plenty more to do.
so it can be brought up during elections. Not just national ones either, but state ones. The point is to make the GOP the party that opposes Net Neutrality (they are, after all).
As for how you get folks to understand NN, you don't. All Joe Schmoe needs to know is that NN == Lower Cable Bills. Hammer that point home.
We're a democracy, and a pretty corrupt one. But it's fixable if we try. I agree it's frustrating we can't just fix something this simple, but the way to do it is not throwing our hands up in disgust and giving up.
it's just a different issue. There can be more than one problem with the internet. Yes, if there was a massive amount of competition you could just switch to an ISP that supported NN, but given the centralized nature of internet access and how much it costs to build out a network you're more or less stuck with natural monopoies.
Now, if you want to talk about red herrings, I'd say the real red herring is this notion that Internet should be provided by public companies in the first place. In 2019 it's too valuable a service. It's up there with water and electricity. My kid couldn't do her homework in bloody high school without it. I don't mean because she needed google, I mean because half her homework was delivered online and maybe 1/4 of her tests. And that got worse with college.
Here's a good video on privatization. Lots of things shouldn't be run by private companies because they're so universal that it's not just everybody wants them it's that society and civilization is improved when everybody has them. You can save more money giving stuff away sometimes.
normally investors would be putting massive pressure on Amazon to increase profits. This would normally mean Amazon would do short term, boneheaded stuff that brought in cash but hurt them in the long wrong (or that didn't bring the cash in but they thought would).
Amazon has been free of that pressure. They're profitable but they could (in the short term) be _more_ profitable. To an investor that's usually all that matters.
The reason it's worse for Amazon to mix their stuff is that they have a disproportionate amount of power and can and will leverage that power. That's the essense of monopoly. The time to act against a monopoly is before they control everything.
if I got anything from them. But as it stands I get virtually no services from my government. We're not building roads. We slashed funding to Schools and the sciences (I'm paying for most of my kid's college out of pocket and living like shit to do it) and I spent $14k on medical insurance last year.
Americans are having less kids. That's normal for a developed country. So yeah, if we want our 401ks to have value in 20 years we'd need immigrants. But my 401k has been eaten up by fees and market crashes. And with my wages so low due to stiff competition with H1-Bs it's not like I have a lot of money to put into it anyway. Meanwhile I've got a Democrat, Joe fricken' Biden, attacking Social Security
What I'm saying is screw the social order. The rich and powerful broke the social contract so screw it all. End the H1-B program until we have systems in place so that there's some benefit to me, you and every American who isn't a fucking multi millionaire. Hell, stop all immigration until that time.
if it led to a big of God Damned Solidarity.
The white collar guys laughed when the blue collared folks had their jobs sent to China & Mexico. We told them to reskill. When it happened to us the blue collared guys didn't give two shits. Meanwhile the rich were gorging on a buffet of cheap labor all around while our middle class lives were decimated and our pensions looted.
Wasn't there a line about something something at first I didn't speak out because I wasn't a something something?
Missing from the stories I've read is that the cap was 65,000 2 years ago. Trump's Admin raised the cap by 20,000, which is where those newly favored Master's and Doctoral candidates land.
Meanwhile he still hasn't undone the Obama era executive rule that allows the spouses of H1-Bs to work in this country even though a) doing so would be consistent with the cries of abuse of power we heard for 8 years during the Obama admin and b) He promised to during the campaign.
Donald Trump is a man who consistently hired illegal immigrants for his golf courses. There were interviews with angry Americans who wanted to but couldn't get hired to work his courses. Don't be fooled. He's after the same thing all the GOP is: Cheap Labor.
this isn't about protectionism, this is about preventing a potentially hostile company from monopolizing, well, everything.
Amazon has been allowed to run at profit margins that no other company every would be because investors are waiting for the day when they put literally everyone out of business. When that happens it'll be like a company store on a national or global basis.
India is right to worry about that. It's crazy that the rest of the world isn't.
if the adverts are there.
I suppose the sports team are upset, but as a tax payer currently paying interest on bonds for 3 or 4 stadiums they can bite my shinny metal ass.
when it comes with it's own risks. Yes, it's useful for a smoker trying to quit, but from a health standpoint you really shouldn't be breathing something other than air on a regular basis...
This is why she lost. She told a bunch of 40 something blue collar guys to go back to college for advanced degrees. The amount of cluelessness on display there is astonishing.
he got exactly what he wanted out of the deal: a political prop to use for winning the 2016 election. A fair trade for a bunch of tax dollars collected mostly from working class Americans.
in the first place.
This was always just them extracting money from Wisconsin tax payers (and all of the United States, since like a lot of Red states Wisconsin takes in more than it pays out in fed taxes) in exchange for bribes.
If you don't "Click the Bell Icon" (which most don't) you don't get notifications. Youtube no longer just shows you a list of all the videos from your subs. Instead you get a "curated" list. That list _will_ have the folks you clicked the bell on. But whether anyone else shows up is up to Youtube's algorithm.
More than once I've subscribed to a Youtuber, forgot to click the bell (or accidentally unclicked it) and a few months later wondered "gee, they dropped off the net" only to find I'd missed 4 or 5 good videos when Youtube dumped them back in my feed at random.
Well, not random. Consistently posting 10+ minute videos is (at the moment) how to rank up. Drop off for a week and your ranking goes to hell.
you never get a break because if you take two weeks off you come back and find 2/3rds of your subscribers gone. As for Patreon, the people "donating" are doing so with the expectation of more content. They're not really patrons in the traditional sense (e.g. a rich person throwing money at the arts with little regard to the results) they're basically pre-ordering the next vid, and if it doesn't arrive they cancel fast.
I'll take the 9-5 over being a Youtuber any day of the week.
your offline, disc based games?