I mean, _really_ read it and considered all the implications of how it sets up our system of government? The entire thing was built from the ground up to protect the interests of wealthy land owners. I'd say they're doing a fabulous job of uphodling the Constitution.
Now, if you mean the parts of the Constitution that have no legal meaning I guess I could agree. But they're meaningless fluff. Want a real government by the people for the people? Then you want a parliamentary system. Not a Representative Democracy with branches structured to prevent populist uprisings. This is why we can't have nice things.
after 20-30 years of stagnant wages it's built into our economy. It's not how lucrative the incentive is. It's whether the spiff gives you enough to make rent, car payment _and_ eat this week. It's whether you can hang on to your meager standard of living (such as it is)...
They're lying. You're not allowed to talk about widening income inequality and the fact that the next two or three generations will be worse off than their parents. As long as we refuse to acknowledge it Millennials will keep blaming themselves for their lower income instead of a system rigged against them. It's been working to transfer wealth from the working class for 40 years now, it's not going to stop now.
when the same discussion was had over advertising to kids on TV laws to curtail it got shut down hard. I guess everything is scarier if you add "The Internet" to it.
that's what killed 'em. Both Google and Apple kick the rank and file salesmen a spiff in exchange for moving one of their phones. For some reason (anti-trust fears?) Microsoft didn't do that. So their phones were relegated to the deepest, darkest reaches of any store they were sold at.
I think their plan was folks would gravitate to their phones because they already knew 'em from learning Windows 8. But even ignoring the fact that Win8 was a mess people hate PCs and love phones. You don't need to get them to like their PCs. They're stuck with them because of work. And you don't need to make them feel comfortable with their phones. They love the damn things so much their put up with any amount of crap for them.
see post above. Yelp has been caught removing reviews that don't help their sales people and promoting paying customer's good reviews to the first page. If you ask me they're exercising editorial control. What gets me is these websites always go after the libel angle exclusively. I'm guessing because libel suits are cheaper to bring and the lawyer's hoping for a settlement. But a company like Yelp couldn't survive if they lost even one of these suits.
One thing I don't see Yelp doing is going after big targets like Gawker did with that billionaire. They know better.
"They concluded that excluded groups had significantly lower access compared to the groups in power, and that this can't be explained by other economic or geographic factors (like living in rural vs. urban areas)..."
Institutionalized racism is used by _all_ of humanity to segment the population so that the ruling class can maintain control. How the hell else is 1% of the population going to grab 60-90% of the wealth and get away with it?
First, if you've got one in most major cities there's an EV/Carpool lane on the freeways you get to use. So if you've got the scratch for one you can cut your commute in half. Second, a lot of the emissions regulations are based on car companies having/selling a certain amount of low or (in this case) zero emission vehicles. This lets car companies sell gas guzzlers like the Charger/Impala and still meet the regs. The extra cost is (mostly) offset by tax incentives (e.g. you and me paying for it).
As usual, the most cynical answer is correct. Is there a law for that?
and you'll be caught in about 1 year when most businesses do their yearly reconciliation accounting process and compare Amount of work done to amount of money in. Big data will spot your patters (which will need to be simple and repetitive to make any money at whatever scheme you come up with). The full force of our "justice" system will come down on you like a ton of bricks. In exchange for a year of "sticking it to the man" you'll do 10 years in prison. Maybe 20 if you don't plead out (you'll plead, everybody does).
Company's like Uber are owned/operated by members of the ruling class. You do not f with the ruling class for very long. Once in a while somebody like Madoff does it by joining the ruling class. Like any organization they're vulnerable from within. But you should let your hacker fantasies go. It's just not how things go in the real world...
is that in the absence of regulation free enterprise would drive down costs and result in better services without oppressive government rules and the risk of fascist dictatorships rising up out of the enormous power structures necessitated by widespread regulation.
Now, I could write two or three paragraphs debunking the above, but they would be dry and make people feel down. Deregulation is a nice, simple solution to a complex problem. Like most simple solutions to complex problems it causes more problems, but simple solutions feel great, make great sound bites and are easy to market.
It's the difference between Hilary boring everyone to tears saying she's gonna sweat the details on Donald Trump's wall. They're both solutions to our economic problems, but the latter is simpler, bolder and just feels better (as long as you don't think too much about it).
If anyone knows a way to make the hard work of solving complex problems marketable let me know.
Exactly where is the evidence that the IRS is, quote, A political attack dog with a leash held by Obama? Is it by any chance in the same place as Barry's long form Kenyan Birth Certificate?
Here's the story: A bunch of right wing think tanks were campaigning for Republican politicians and calling themselves charities. They weren't even trying to hide it. The IRS went after them because hey, low hanging fruit. That didn't change a damn thing about how illegal their actions were. There's a reason it's illegal to pretend to be a charity. A good one. And you're being disingenuous (read: lying through your teeth) when you suggest otherwise.
Christ, the shit that gets Modded up on/.... folks. If you think Hilary is bad wait till you get a load of Mike "Bathroom Bill" Pence running the show (look it up).
shmoes in jail for doing something they were probably ordered to do by the powers that be isn't in the best interests of society? Jeez, what is it with people always wanting to punish the little guy. There are much, much better targets for your outrage than a few dirt poor losers trying to make rent this week.
"...some states started using recidivism models to guide sentencing. These take into account things like prior convictions, where you live, drug and alcohol use, previous police encounters, and criminal records of friends and family. "
That sounds pretty awful to me. Grow up in a bad neighborhood thanks to 250 years of institutionalized racism (google it if you don't understand the term), Go directly to Jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
I couldn't think of a good reason for me to stay on Win 7 (if you're into hard core Strategy games there's lots that don't run on Win 10, when I say hard core I mean the grand scale hex based ones with menus that look like they were drawn with old Win32 libraries:) ) but other than that it's solid and the few Directx 12 games I have (the Gamecube/Wii emulator Dolphin & Killer Instinct) run great even on my 5 year old A10-5800k (which wasn't that great in 2011 when it launched). About the only thing I really don't like is being able to go file->new->new folder. They changed the short cut and it drives me nuts.
for not going out of their way to support Win 7. That market is only going to shrink, and the core market for new processors is an enthusiast likely to be running Win10 already. It's like Mac users who say they're 20% of the market. Yeah, but that 20% isn't really the market. The market for Mac users is the ones that won't just go out and buy a cheap Windows PC to run their PC apps...
I wish we'd tax these mega corps more. Ever since the 50's we started dropping the tax rates on the 1%. They've got all the money now and nothing better to do with it besides buy up every company in existence. It makes me laugh when people think a boycott has the slightest difference. Gonna buy from company A instead of B? Go ahead. After 50 years of giving all the money in the world to 1% of the population they own literally everything.
it's called a veblen good. It's something you buy to show people that you can. Apple does it too. They've had this stuff since at least the 70s. The difference is with the internet you hear about it, whereas before you had to be pretty well off to even know it existed.
I was wondering about your stat, so I googled it. The two take aways from that article are
1. They're counting our entire healthcare system ("The private sector finances a much greater share of social spending in America, particularly healthcare")
2. The numbers are being calculated off our per capita GDP. In other words, they're not taking into account the effects of our insane levels income inequality.
Sorry, but If this were one of those fact checker sites you'd get 4 Pinocchios.
doesn't mean it shouldn't be better, which, like it or not, is the subtext of your post. Maybe you don't personally mean that, but the folks opposing progress (billionaires. the ruling class, etc) do.
The other thing you'll see with the poor is they're used to everything going to shit. It's tough to plan ahead and stick to the plan when you've spent your entire life having shit fall apart around you. When things are going well you don't expect it to last, so you live for the moment.
as soon as the phrase "Active Ingredient" gets involved. e.g. when you're making claims about actual medical effects. Homeopathy has dozens of ways to dance around this which is how they get away with their shenanigans.
and make-up too. GRAS: Generally Regarded As Safe. In the states food & make-up are innocent until proven guilty. It's why European makeup is so popular and why Mexico bans more food additives than the US. For medicine I think the opposite is true though.
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Do not talk about IMSI club. Second rule: it this is your first night you have to violate someone's rights.
I mean, _really_ read it and considered all the implications of how it sets up our system of government? The entire thing was built from the ground up to protect the interests of wealthy land owners. I'd say they're doing a fabulous job of uphodling the Constitution.
Now, if you mean the parts of the Constitution that have no legal meaning I guess I could agree. But they're meaningless fluff. Want a real government by the people for the people? Then you want a parliamentary system. Not a Representative Democracy with branches structured to prevent populist uprisings. This is why we can't have nice things.
after 20-30 years of stagnant wages it's built into our economy. It's not how lucrative the incentive is. It's whether the spiff gives you enough to make rent, car payment _and_ eat this week. It's whether you can hang on to your meager standard of living (such as it is)...
They're lying. You're not allowed to talk about widening income inequality and the fact that the next two or three generations will be worse off than their parents. As long as we refuse to acknowledge it Millennials will keep blaming themselves for their lower income instead of a system rigged against them. It's been working to transfer wealth from the working class for 40 years now, it's not going to stop now.
when the same discussion was had over advertising to kids on TV laws to curtail it got shut down hard. I guess everything is scarier if you add "The Internet" to it.
that's what killed 'em. Both Google and Apple kick the rank and file salesmen a spiff in exchange for moving one of their phones. For some reason (anti-trust fears?) Microsoft didn't do that. So their phones were relegated to the deepest, darkest reaches of any store they were sold at.
I think their plan was folks would gravitate to their phones because they already knew 'em from learning Windows 8. But even ignoring the fact that Win8 was a mess people hate PCs and love phones. You don't need to get them to like their PCs. They're stuck with them because of work. And you don't need to make them feel comfortable with their phones. They love the damn things so much their put up with any amount of crap for them.
see post above. Yelp has been caught removing reviews that don't help their sales people and promoting paying customer's good reviews to the first page. If you ask me they're exercising editorial control. What gets me is these websites always go after the libel angle exclusively. I'm guessing because libel suits are cheaper to bring and the lawyer's hoping for a settlement. But a company like Yelp couldn't survive if they lost even one of these suits.
One thing I don't see Yelp doing is going after big targets like Gawker did with that billionaire. They know better.
But did you even read the summary?
"They concluded that excluded groups had significantly lower access compared to the groups in power, and that this can't be explained by other economic or geographic factors (like living in rural vs. urban areas)..."
Institutionalized racism is used by _all_ of humanity to segment the population so that the ruling class can maintain control. How the hell else is 1% of the population going to grab 60-90% of the wealth and get away with it?
First, if you've got one in most major cities there's an EV/Carpool lane on the freeways you get to use. So if you've got the scratch for one you can cut your commute in half. Second, a lot of the emissions regulations are based on car companies having/selling a certain amount of low or (in this case) zero emission vehicles. This lets car companies sell gas guzzlers like the Charger/Impala and still meet the regs. The extra cost is (mostly) offset by tax incentives (e.g. you and me paying for it).
As usual, the most cynical answer is correct. Is there a law for that?
and you'll be caught in about 1 year when most businesses do their yearly reconciliation accounting process and compare Amount of work done to amount of money in. Big data will spot your patters (which will need to be simple and repetitive to make any money at whatever scheme you come up with). The full force of our "justice" system will come down on you like a ton of bricks. In exchange for a year of "sticking it to the man" you'll do 10 years in prison. Maybe 20 if you don't plead out (you'll plead, everybody does).
Company's like Uber are owned/operated by members of the ruling class. You do not f with the ruling class for very long. Once in a while somebody like Madoff does it by joining the ruling class. Like any organization they're vulnerable from within. But you should let your hacker fantasies go. It's just not how things go in the real world...
is that in the absence of regulation free enterprise would drive down costs and result in better services without oppressive government rules and the risk of fascist dictatorships rising up out of the enormous power structures necessitated by widespread regulation.
Now, I could write two or three paragraphs debunking the above, but they would be dry and make people feel down. Deregulation is a nice, simple solution to a complex problem. Like most simple solutions to complex problems it causes more problems, but simple solutions feel great, make great sound bites and are easy to market.
It's the difference between Hilary boring everyone to tears saying she's gonna sweat the details on Donald Trump's wall. They're both solutions to our economic problems, but the latter is simpler, bolder and just feels better (as long as you don't think too much about it).
If anyone knows a way to make the hard work of solving complex problems marketable let me know.
I see no issue with this whatsoever. Also, I for one welcome our giant insect overlords.
Exactly where is the evidence that the IRS is, quote, A political attack dog with a leash held by Obama? Is it by any chance in the same place as Barry's long form Kenyan Birth Certificate?
/.... folks. If you think Hilary is bad wait till you get a load of Mike "Bathroom Bill" Pence running the show (look it up).
Here's the story: A bunch of right wing think tanks were campaigning for Republican politicians and calling themselves charities. They weren't even trying to hide it. The IRS went after them because hey, low hanging fruit. That didn't change a damn thing about how illegal their actions were. There's a reason it's illegal to pretend to be a charity. A good one. And you're being disingenuous (read: lying through your teeth) when you suggest otherwise.
Christ, the shit that gets Modded up on
shmoes in jail for doing something they were probably ordered to do by the powers that be isn't in the best interests of society? Jeez, what is it with people always wanting to punish the little guy. There are much, much better targets for your outrage than a few dirt poor losers trying to make rent this week.
"...some states started using recidivism models to guide sentencing. These take into account things like prior convictions, where you live, drug and alcohol use, previous police encounters, and criminal records of friends and family. "
That sounds pretty awful to me. Grow up in a bad neighborhood thanks to 250 years of institutionalized racism (google it if you don't understand the term), Go directly to Jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
I couldn't think of a good reason for me to stay on Win 7 (if you're into hard core Strategy games there's lots that don't run on Win 10, when I say hard core I mean the grand scale hex based ones with menus that look like they were drawn with old Win32 libraries :) ) but other than that it's solid and the few Directx 12 games I have (the Gamecube/Wii emulator Dolphin & Killer Instinct) run great even on my 5 year old A10-5800k (which wasn't that great in 2011 when it launched). About the only thing I really don't like is being able to go file->new->new folder. They changed the short cut and it drives me nuts.
for not going out of their way to support Win 7. That market is only going to shrink, and the core market for new processors is an enthusiast likely to be running Win10 already. It's like Mac users who say they're 20% of the market. Yeah, but that 20% isn't really the market. The market for Mac users is the ones that won't just go out and buy a cheap Windows PC to run their PC apps...
I wish we'd tax these mega corps more. Ever since the 50's we started dropping the tax rates on the 1%. They've got all the money now and nothing better to do with it besides buy up every company in existence. It makes me laugh when people think a boycott has the slightest difference. Gonna buy from company A instead of B? Go ahead. After 50 years of giving all the money in the world to 1% of the population they own literally everything.
it's called a veblen good. It's something you buy to show people that you can. Apple does it too. They've had this stuff since at least the 70s. The difference is with the internet you hear about it, whereas before you had to be pretty well off to even know it existed.
wow man, you hit the nail on the head there.
I was wondering about your stat, so I googled it. The two take aways from that article are
1. They're counting our entire healthcare system ("The private sector finances a much greater share of social spending in America, particularly healthcare")
2. The numbers are being calculated off our per capita GDP. In other words, they're not taking into account the effects of our insane levels income inequality.
Sorry, but If this were one of those fact checker sites you'd get 4 Pinocchios.
doesn't mean it shouldn't be better, which, like it or not, is the subtext of your post. Maybe you don't personally mean that, but the folks opposing progress (billionaires. the ruling class, etc) do.
The other thing you'll see with the poor is they're used to everything going to shit. It's tough to plan ahead and stick to the plan when you've spent your entire life having shit fall apart around you. When things are going well you don't expect it to last, so you live for the moment.
as soon as the phrase "Active Ingredient" gets involved. e.g. when you're making claims about actual medical effects. Homeopathy has dozens of ways to dance around this which is how they get away with their shenanigans.
and make-up too. GRAS: Generally Regarded As Safe. In the states food & make-up are innocent until proven guilty. It's why European makeup is so popular and why Mexico bans more food additives than the US. For medicine I think the opposite is true though.