I've got karma to burn, so I'll point out that this is the inevitable result of our misguide attacks on gov't and "Bureaucracy" (which work since we all hate the DMV). America never seems to cut down on the pork and waste going to the top but we do a fine job cutting back on enforcement. Then we all sit around/. and complain that AT&T made 20x profit on a piddly fine and that they'll do it again.
Whenever somebody tells you "Gov't's not the solution, it's the problem" check their credentials. They probably hail from a right wing think tank funded by a billionaire.
they're another in a long line of companies that got "Bained". They owned a ton of property (it's how they survived so long, they could weather down turns in the economy because they weren't saddled with expensive leases). They got bought out and liquidated for the short term gains selling their property. I miss them. They were a few steps above Walmart/Target without the crazy expensiveness of a Men's Warehouse. I've got a 40 year old freezer bought from them that still works great.
you just advocated voter disenfranchisement, right? And what, exactly, do you define as sufficient effort? Here in my neck of the woods voting for Bernie in the primaries was a 3 hour wait. That wasn't an accident, you know. Wasn't there some old saying about coming round for the socialists? I forget how it went, and evidently you did too.
Oh, and only 9% of voters turned out for the Primaries. That's why you get to choose between Fuckface von Clownstick and Wallstreet's Girl.
We've been an oligarchy well... pretty much always. Then entire point of the electoral college, the Senate and our entire system of representative gov't was to protect the interests of wealthy landowners. We only bothered to form a Federal gov't in case the British attacked again. What little flirting with actual democracy we've done was the result of a member of the ruling class (FDR) breaking ranks with his peers and throwing in for the workers. That an WWII killing a huge number of working males requiring the ruling class to practically coddle the survivors (plus the cold war delaying global competition among wage earners).
We have not and are not a Democracy. Online voting might actually change that though. Disenfranchisement has been the best method used to keep up the ruse. Online voting would make voting possible for the working poor (who traditionally can't make it to the polls before they close around their 12-16/hr/day jobs; not by accident). Like mandatory voting the ruling class is scared shitless of this.
Any fraud large enough to influence elections is likely to get caught. It was in Florida too, it's just that Gore underestimated the damage of a Bush presidency and over estimated the damage a fight would have. That's not a mistake anyone's going to make twice.
Make no mistake, the Republicans are absolutely shitting themselves at the thought of this. Right now Trump's strategy of trying to appeal to new voters is freaking them out (538, Nate Silver's blog, just did a piece on it). A huge part of American politics is controlling who actually gets to vote. That's why progressives like Obama have been flying the idea of mandatory voting for a few years now. The working class generally is too busy working 50 hours/week to think much about it. And the working class isn't too friendly to the Republicans. They're diametrically opposed to their economic and they're becoming indifferent to the social issues (if only because the Repubs have failed to deliver on any victories).
The American left need enfranchisement to succeed. If you accept that as a truism (and I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader) then it stands to reason the American Right need disenfranchisement. This also explains the popularity of "voter Id" laws.
This will result in pales in comparison to the amount of enfranchisement it will create. Every time I've seen someone railing against voter fraud it's always been a transparent attempt to keep some kind of "undesirables" from voting. Usually members of the working class.
they need you to work your ass off. You can't or won't put in 60-80 hour work weeks. Investors make their money not by being geniuses but by having a shitload of money and being able to throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks (with the added bonus that if they _really_ fuck up their gov'ts will bail them out since they are, after all, the ruling class).
Iteration is more important than reproducible results in most cases. Those cases where it's not a young guy trying to establish himself and get enough scratch to start a family will be far more productive.
With few exceptions old people can't compete with young people when it comes to profitability. You just can't work that hard after 40. Not sure about the rest of the world but in America we like to treat outliers like their normal and demand everybody either work that hard or drop dead trying. I think the rest of the world isn't like that, but I also think their ruling class has noticed how much better our ruling class' private jets and yachts are and they're taking notes. RE: Britain's Muslim scare.
the left wing fringe isn't nearly as large as Fox News would have you believe.
As for the tweets, I got lazy with my writing and used the word 'tweet' when I should have wrote 'post'. Tweet is the Kleenex of the internet.
And you're missing my point, which is that the left's fringe is fueled by horror stories they see around the world. It's really only been the last few decades that we didn't have regular terrorism practiced against black people and that people didn't look the other way when a husband beat their wife. 1950s wasn't the world of sunshine and lolly pops. Humanity has been awful to everybody but a few winners for 5000 years of recorded history.
If you spend a few years studying that (e.g. if you're rocking an actual history degree as opposed to reading Fark from time to time) then you're gonna be a litter jittery if you're not part of the winning class. In America that's white European males. That's real. That's a thing. It didn't have to be them, but it is. And if you're not one of them... if your on the outside looking in... then you'd be a fool to believe that 5000 years of history was wiped away by 50-100 years of good behavior.
Super happy fun time not speech? If you're going to try and do community management as a large scale science then it's useful to have terms to discuss certain classes of comments. There are some among us who _want_ the non-stop cavalcade of racist tweets to stop. A big community like/. has enough moderators to prune the trolls before I see them. Smaller communities not so much.
It's the same class as folks who managed to make a concept like social justice into a bad thing. Yeah, there are a few obnoxious radicals that wanna ruin everybody's fun. Every movement has those; especially movements that are trying to stop Very Bad Things (tm) like institutionalize racism. 5000 years of humans doing bad thing in the name of race, creed & sex kinda scares the piss out of some people and that fear can push folks a little too far.
There was just a story about a guy in Nigeria who hacked off his wife's arms because she hadn't got preggers yet. In 2016 this shit still happens in this world. You'll forgive me if I don't cut the feminazi's some slack for being genuinely terrified sometimes and more than a little worried about their countries slipping back into a state where somebody might think that's acceptable to do.
but is there a reason it's so easy to reprogram the key fobs to start a car? I mean, my bloody credit card has a chip in it for Pete's sake and I got it free with my account. Heck my crummy bank card has one.
If we've narrowed it down to 40 call centers it'd be child's play to put a stop to this. When you cut all that "Bureaucratic Waste" you've got no money for enforcement. The Drug War gets a pass because private prisons lobby for dollars since locking up non-violent offenders is the only way they're profitable.
some don't. See, the world is complicated like that. Go watch some speeches from Bernie Sanders on progressivism. Folks like him, Barry Obama & even Hilary are getting stuff done. There's 40 years of regressive policies by Regan et al and billions were spent making that happen. You're not going to change that by pouting about the opportunists among the Democrats.
And nice straw man ya got there. Shame if anything were to happen to him...
I'm impressed how quickly the powers that be got the whole "live streaming" thing under control. As for the whole black lives matter aspect that part makes me nervous. I'm not really worried about overt racism so much any more as the casual kind. Were they more likely to use force or just plain more aggressive because they were dealing with a black perp. That's what makes the issue so hard, and that's what folks mean by "Institutional" racism.
For those of you playing at home those are taxes that disproportionately impact the poor, working poor and (in this case) working class. They're worth double points because not only do you get to use money to fund tax cuts on the 1% but the people you tax get angry and start demanding tax cuts; which you can oblige with even _more_ tax cuts for the 1%. Uncle Rove calls this "Starve the Beast".
Parties have been doing this for decades, they just don't normally have the Russian gov't hacking into their computers. Bernie is nice and all but he never had a chance. Trump would run adds where Bernie says he's a Socialist and that would scare the pants off a certain class of voter who doesn't know the difference between a National Socialist and a Democratic Socialist. Bernie never planned on winning and he told anyone who would listen that. He wanted to move the party platform to the left and support progressive ideals. He did that. I'd like more, but America is a right wing country. At least it's voters are. That can change, but not all at once. Not overnight. Real Revolutions don't really end well and peacefully. Positive change is a process, not a revolution.
about this sort of thing. The slightest crime was punished by death to fill the organ banks. It's gonna get really ugly, really fast if we solve organ rejection before we can make organs. Already some horror stories coming out of China... Dick Cheney's got an artificial heart, and I can't think of anyone less deserving...
And it's been pretty well proven that blood transfusions from young to old improve quality of life so long as nothing goes wrong with the transfusion.
because they don't make enough money to have and maintain successful long term relationships. Yeah, I know I'm feeding the trolls here, but somebody out there actually believes what this assclown wrote. His comment doesn't exist in a background. It came out of a right wing think tank that's working to divide the working class into voting blocks that win elections for them.
to stop selling me out to mega corps & the 1% maybe we'll talk. Until then at least Hilary's shit got reigned in by Bernie. Who do you guys got? Mike Pence? Sam Brownback? Yeah... you can just keep on walkin' with that.
we bastardized it into chip & sig because our laws are different. Using a credit card is a loan. Legally speaking you're borrowing money (at 0% interest if paid off in time). Our laws hold consumers blameless if somebody borrows money in your name. The signature is needed because there's centuries of law built around the legal framework of a signature that doesn't apply to a pin. "Digital Signatures" don't really fly here. That doesn't really matter for your $300 Playstation bought at best buy. But there's plenty of big spenders out there that'll drop $20 grand at a Hotel party and then fight the charge. The signature makes it legally binding in a way a pin doesn't. You're not likely to get those laws changed because they protect the upper class here and they'll notice if the credit card companies start lobbying for them.
We were suppose to move to chip & pin in 2008. We didn't (what with our whole economy imploding around then nobody had any money to do crap like that). So there's tons of old hardware businesses were sold in 2005-2008 that never got used. The businesses are pissed that they spent hundreds (thousands?) on new terminals and readers that did nothing. So it's like pulling teeth to get them onboard. Imagine spending $800 on something that offered you little value but you have to, then you never use it and now you've got to spend another $400 (prices have dropped to be fair).
Oh, and we only do chip & signature, no pins, so the businesses are nervous they'll be made to buy even more hardware when chip & pin rolls out.
Now, I don't know about Canada but in Europe if your pin gets stolen you the consumer are liable (which is hilarious, because chip & pin has been broken before). In the US we have a law that keeps consumers blameless for any credit card transaction. That's because everytime you use your card you're borrowing money. Legally It's a loan (with 0% interest if paid off by the next billing cycle and if you pretend merchant fees don't exist). If somebody fraudulently borrows money in your name you're not on the hook in the US and it would take a major change in law that's not likely to happen (it would be tremendously unpopular and it would affect our upper middle class, and you don't screw with those guys).
Basically, one of the best parts of chip & pin (a major liability shift to the consumer) doesn't fly in the states. The businesses taking the cards get some liability shift but the Card companies themselves don't. So it's not as big a win for the various players here in the States as it was elsewhere. Add to that America's traditional aversion to infrastructure spending and you've got a product dead in the water.
that Wikileaks just wanted to hurt Hilary & the DNC. The timing coupled with their unwillingness to clean out credit card numbers and individual donor names pretty much proves that. The question is why? Is Assange just bitter? I suppose he's got good reason to be (the trumped up rape charges). But if that's his reason he's not after justice, he just wants to see America burn.
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I've got karma to burn, so I'll point out that this is the inevitable result of our misguide attacks on gov't and "Bureaucracy" (which work since we all hate the DMV). America never seems to cut down on the pork and waste going to the top but we do a fine job cutting back on enforcement. Then we all sit around /. and complain that AT&T made 20x profit on a piddly fine and that they'll do it again.
Whenever somebody tells you "Gov't's not the solution, it's the problem" check their credentials. They probably hail from a right wing think tank funded by a billionaire.
they're another in a long line of companies that got "Bained". They owned a ton of property (it's how they survived so long, they could weather down turns in the economy because they weren't saddled with expensive leases). They got bought out and liquidated for the short term gains selling their property. I miss them. They were a few steps above Walmart/Target without the crazy expensiveness of a Men's Warehouse. I've got a 40 year old freezer bought from them that still works great.
you just advocated voter disenfranchisement, right? And what, exactly, do you define as sufficient effort? Here in my neck of the woods voting for Bernie in the primaries was a 3 hour wait. That wasn't an accident, you know. Wasn't there some old saying about coming round for the socialists? I forget how it went, and evidently you did too.
Oh, and only 9% of voters turned out for the Primaries. That's why you get to choose between Fuckface von Clownstick and Wallstreet's Girl.
We've been an oligarchy well... pretty much always. Then entire point of the electoral college, the Senate and our entire system of representative gov't was to protect the interests of wealthy landowners. We only bothered to form a Federal gov't in case the British attacked again. What little flirting with actual democracy we've done was the result of a member of the ruling class (FDR) breaking ranks with his peers and throwing in for the workers. That an WWII killing a huge number of working males requiring the ruling class to practically coddle the survivors (plus the cold war delaying global competition among wage earners).
We have not and are not a Democracy. Online voting might actually change that though. Disenfranchisement has been the best method used to keep up the ruse. Online voting would make voting possible for the working poor (who traditionally can't make it to the polls before they close around their 12-16/hr/day jobs; not by accident). Like mandatory voting the ruling class is scared shitless of this.
Any fraud large enough to influence elections is likely to get caught. It was in Florida too, it's just that Gore underestimated the damage of a Bush presidency and over estimated the damage a fight would have. That's not a mistake anyone's going to make twice.
Make no mistake, the Republicans are absolutely shitting themselves at the thought of this. Right now Trump's strategy of trying to appeal to new voters is freaking them out (538, Nate Silver's blog, just did a piece on it). A huge part of American politics is controlling who actually gets to vote. That's why progressives like Obama have been flying the idea of mandatory voting for a few years now. The working class generally is too busy working 50 hours/week to think much about it. And the working class isn't too friendly to the Republicans. They're diametrically opposed to their economic and they're becoming indifferent to the social issues (if only because the Repubs have failed to deliver on any victories).
The American left need enfranchisement to succeed. If you accept that as a truism (and I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader) then it stands to reason the American Right need disenfranchisement. This also explains the popularity of "voter Id" laws.
This will result in pales in comparison to the amount of enfranchisement it will create. Every time I've seen someone railing against voter fraud it's always been a transparent attempt to keep some kind of "undesirables" from voting. Usually members of the working class.
they need you to work your ass off. You can't or won't put in 60-80 hour work weeks. Investors make their money not by being geniuses but by having a shitload of money and being able to throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks (with the added bonus that if they _really_ fuck up their gov'ts will bail them out since they are, after all, the ruling class).
Iteration is more important than reproducible results in most cases. Those cases where it's not a young guy trying to establish himself and get enough scratch to start a family will be far more productive.
With few exceptions old people can't compete with young people when it comes to profitability. You just can't work that hard after 40. Not sure about the rest of the world but in America we like to treat outliers like their normal and demand everybody either work that hard or drop dead trying. I think the rest of the world isn't like that, but I also think their ruling class has noticed how much better our ruling class' private jets and yachts are and they're taking notes. RE: Britain's Muslim scare.
the left wing fringe isn't nearly as large as Fox News would have you believe.
As for the tweets, I got lazy with my writing and used the word 'tweet' when I should have wrote 'post'. Tweet is the Kleenex of the internet.
And you're missing my point, which is that the left's fringe is fueled by horror stories they see around the world. It's really only been the last few decades that we didn't have regular terrorism practiced against black people and that people didn't look the other way when a husband beat their wife. 1950s wasn't the world of sunshine and lolly pops. Humanity has been awful to everybody but a few winners for 5000 years of recorded history.
If you spend a few years studying that (e.g. if you're rocking an actual history degree as opposed to reading Fark from time to time) then you're gonna be a litter jittery if you're not part of the winning class. In America that's white European males. That's real. That's a thing. It didn't have to be them, but it is. And if you're not one of them... if your on the outside looking in... then you'd be a fool to believe that 5000 years of history was wiped away by 50-100 years of good behavior.
Super happy fun time not speech? If you're going to try and do community management as a large scale science then it's useful to have terms to discuss certain classes of comments. There are some among us who _want_ the non-stop cavalcade of racist tweets to stop. A big community like /. has enough moderators to prune the trolls before I see them. Smaller communities not so much.
It's the same class as folks who managed to make a concept like social justice into a bad thing. Yeah, there are a few obnoxious radicals that wanna ruin everybody's fun. Every movement has those; especially movements that are trying to stop Very Bad Things (tm) like institutionalize racism. 5000 years of humans doing bad thing in the name of race, creed & sex kinda scares the piss out of some people and that fear can push folks a little too far.
There was just a story about a guy in Nigeria who hacked off his wife's arms because she hadn't got preggers yet. In 2016 this shit still happens in this world. You'll forgive me if I don't cut the feminazi's some slack for being genuinely terrified sometimes and more than a little worried about their countries slipping back into a state where somebody might think that's acceptable to do.
but is there a reason it's so easy to reprogram the key fobs to start a car? I mean, my bloody credit card has a chip in it for Pete's sake and I got it free with my account. Heck my crummy bank card has one.
If we've narrowed it down to 40 call centers it'd be child's play to put a stop to this. When you cut all that "Bureaucratic Waste" you've got no money for enforcement. The Drug War gets a pass because private prisons lobby for dollars since locking up non-violent offenders is the only way they're profitable.
I signed an anti compete clause for my job, why not make every one working for the govt above the level of mail carrier do the same?
some don't. See, the world is complicated like that. Go watch some speeches from Bernie Sanders on progressivism. Folks like him, Barry Obama & even Hilary are getting stuff done. There's 40 years of regressive policies by Regan et al and billions were spent making that happen. You're not going to change that by pouting about the opportunists among the Democrats.
And nice straw man ya got there. Shame if anything were to happen to him...
and the voters aren't the same thing. There's a _lot_ of voter suppression in America :(. And googling "Diebold voter fraud" is terrifying.
I'm impressed how quickly the powers that be got the whole "live streaming" thing under control. As for the whole black lives matter aspect that part makes me nervous. I'm not really worried about overt racism so much any more as the casual kind. Were they more likely to use force or just plain more aggressive because they were dealing with a black perp. That's what makes the issue so hard, and that's what folks mean by "Institutional" racism.
how automation & robotics isn't a threat to jobs?
For those of you playing at home those are taxes that disproportionately impact the poor, working poor and (in this case) working class. They're worth double points because not only do you get to use money to fund tax cuts on the 1% but the people you tax get angry and start demanding tax cuts; which you can oblige with even _more_ tax cuts for the 1%. Uncle Rove calls this "Starve the Beast".
Parties have been doing this for decades, they just don't normally have the Russian gov't hacking into their computers. Bernie is nice and all but he never had a chance. Trump would run adds where Bernie says he's a Socialist and that would scare the pants off a certain class of voter who doesn't know the difference between a National Socialist and a Democratic Socialist. Bernie never planned on winning and he told anyone who would listen that. He wanted to move the party platform to the left and support progressive ideals. He did that. I'd like more, but America is a right wing country. At least it's voters are. That can change, but not all at once. Not overnight. Real Revolutions don't really end well and peacefully. Positive change is a process, not a revolution.
about this sort of thing. The slightest crime was punished by death to fill the organ banks. It's gonna get really ugly, really fast if we solve organ rejection before we can make organs. Already some horror stories coming out of China... Dick Cheney's got an artificial heart, and I can't think of anyone less deserving...
And it's been pretty well proven that blood transfusions from young to old improve quality of life so long as nothing goes wrong with the transfusion.
because they don't make enough money to have and maintain successful long term relationships. Yeah, I know I'm feeding the trolls here, but somebody out there actually believes what this assclown wrote. His comment doesn't exist in a background. It came out of a right wing think tank that's working to divide the working class into voting blocks that win elections for them.
to stop selling me out to mega corps & the 1% maybe we'll talk. Until then at least Hilary's shit got reigned in by Bernie. Who do you guys got? Mike Pence? Sam Brownback? Yeah... you can just keep on walkin' with that.
maybe billions shoving it down our throats before we realized what they were doing. It's the same reason you buy your wife a diamond ring.
we bastardized it into chip & sig because our laws are different. Using a credit card is a loan. Legally speaking you're borrowing money (at 0% interest if paid off in time). Our laws hold consumers blameless if somebody borrows money in your name. The signature is needed because there's centuries of law built around the legal framework of a signature that doesn't apply to a pin. "Digital Signatures" don't really fly here. That doesn't really matter for your $300 Playstation bought at best buy. But there's plenty of big spenders out there that'll drop $20 grand at a Hotel party and then fight the charge. The signature makes it legally binding in a way a pin doesn't. You're not likely to get those laws changed because they protect the upper class here and they'll notice if the credit card companies start lobbying for them.
We were suppose to move to chip & pin in 2008. We didn't (what with our whole economy imploding around then nobody had any money to do crap like that). So there's tons of old hardware businesses were sold in 2005-2008 that never got used. The businesses are pissed that they spent hundreds (thousands?) on new terminals and readers that did nothing. So it's like pulling teeth to get them onboard. Imagine spending $800 on something that offered you little value but you have to, then you never use it and now you've got to spend another $400 (prices have dropped to be fair).
Oh, and we only do chip & signature, no pins, so the businesses are nervous they'll be made to buy even more hardware when chip & pin rolls out.
Now, I don't know about Canada but in Europe if your pin gets stolen you the consumer are liable (which is hilarious, because chip & pin has been broken before). In the US we have a law that keeps consumers blameless for any credit card transaction. That's because everytime you use your card you're borrowing money. Legally It's a loan (with 0% interest if paid off by the next billing cycle and if you pretend merchant fees don't exist). If somebody fraudulently borrows money in your name you're not on the hook in the US and it would take a major change in law that's not likely to happen (it would be tremendously unpopular and it would affect our upper middle class, and you don't screw with those guys).
Basically, one of the best parts of chip & pin (a major liability shift to the consumer) doesn't fly in the states. The businesses taking the cards get some liability shift but the Card companies themselves don't. So it's not as big a win for the various players here in the States as it was elsewhere. Add to that America's traditional aversion to infrastructure spending and you've got a product dead in the water.
that Wikileaks just wanted to hurt Hilary & the DNC. The timing coupled with their unwillingness to clean out credit card numbers and individual donor names pretty much proves that. The question is why? Is Assange just bitter? I suppose he's got good reason to be (the trumped up rape charges). But if that's his reason he's not after justice, he just wants to see America burn.