we've been cutting funding to infrastructure since the Clinton (Bill) era. I'm a NIMBY too. I'll be a NIMBY until you can get the average joe to stop voting against necessary investments in the name of "Small" gov't and Freedom. Look at Flint, Mi and how something as critical as a city's water supply was handled. You wanna drop nuclear waste near me, stored and maintained by the lowest bidder with the highest profit margin? Of course I don't want that.
Change our politics if you want nuclear to work. Otherwise I'll continue hoping that some other poor sods get stuck with the inevitable disaster. Yeah, that's messed up, but I don't know what else to do about it.
it was a quick and easy way to show folks (especially girls) that you could drop a ton of money on a phone. Basically a veblen good. Take that away and it's just outdated tech. Nostalgia maybe? I don't see that going very far.
Unless you are very, very wealthy (part of that 1% you mentioned) then you don't own enough shares to prevent your vote from being drowned out by the major stockholders. And if you're part of 45% (at least, depends on how you run the numbers) you don't own any stock. Hell, 66% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, so I'm guessing there's not a lot of stock buying going on there unless you're one of those twats that counts a 401k as 'owning' stock.
Here's the thing: Yes, we should work to enact change. No, stock ownership isn't going to make a damn bit of difference. Vote, make your friends and family vote. Favor mandatory voting and finally vote left.
I hope this is a/vertisement because it'd somehow be worse if the editors greenlit this honestly. Also at the risk of being modded troll: no multi-national, maybe least of all Apple, should be touting the be touting their commitment to community given what they do to their workers overseas.
/. really can't be this dense, can it? Have you never written any software for end users? Have you never had to support the installation of said software? You know what I have to do on my phone to install an app? Tap the "all apps" button, search for google play (my carrier puts about 50 apps on my phone), tap Google Play. Put in the _exact_ name of the app (unless it's one of the top 100). Hope the search finds it. tap it. tap install. Read a scary prompt about all the things this app can now do. Tap OK.
Try doing that with someone in their 60s. That's the problem instant apps are trying to solve. Well that, and the carriers replacing google apps with their own. Look for my post on Allo and expert systems below for why that's a good thing for google.
because you're not paying attention to trends. Allo isn't about messaging, it's about expert systems. You can "chat" with Allo and it will answer questions. Companies can write apps on top of Allo. So you ask Allo: What's my bank balance and it answers. Companies pay Google for the privilege of having it answer questions they would otherwise be paying folks in call centers to answer.
Now, will they get people to bite? Maybe. One way to make this happen is just to pull all your support. Or make the waits really, really long and give a constant message when you're on hold telling you to use Allo. Oh, and that's what the instant apps are about. It means the handset providers can't extort money from Google to get Allo installed vs Facebooks equivalent.
Basically this is more about automation and reducing headcount than anything else.
How does this get modded up? Seriously. If you can't tell the difference between a work of fiction (like an offensive movie, book, or comedy routine) and a real situation (a prank where the person being pranked doesn't know that the hell is going on) then you're part of the bloody problem here.
I'm not sure what they're licensing. Patents maybe? Is the brand still strong in some countries? The only time I hear about Nokia is when folks from Europe talk about how much better the Lumina was than it's competition. But then Apple & Google came out with their phones and well..
see high frequency trading. I suppose you could also make the argument that instant access to high calorie food helps obesity along (hot pockets anyone?). George Orwell wrote a well known book about TV and it's dangers. Cotton mills really did eliminate a lot of jobs ( among other inventions during the industrial rev).
The Luddites had a reason for being. They didn't spring up out of thin air. They were real people losing their livelihoods and they never got them back. Neither did their children. After about 80-100 years their grandkids started to see full employment as tech caught up.
That said I think the argument is off base. Rampant poverty brought on by automation will mean there won't be a lot of folks traveling. It's not like we're gonna build a public transportation network just _anyone_ can use out of these Self Driving Cars, right?
isn't necessarily a bad thing. Given the amount of Automation going on we're either gonna figure out what to do with all the people who aren't genius grade or let billions starve. That was the original purpose of the military industrial complex. Eisenhower talked about it in his memoirs. As for obedience you're reading too much into it and over estimating the average joe's ability to make change. We can't even get these folks to bother voting in a mid term. Who needs obedience when apathy will do?
properly fund the TSA. I don't like the idea of handing off something as important as this to the lowest bidder. And you're _always_ handing it off to the lowest bidder when you let the market decide. That's how markets work.
As for the worse it gets the easier it being to get rid of the TSA, well that's kind of the point. It's called "Starve the Beast" and it's a strategy for privatizing public utilities and services for profit. Works too.
He's not exactly know as a liberal. This stuck me as more of that manufactured rage that billionaire funded think tanks have on offer. The sad thing is I'm sure my right wing friends will be repeating it as fact for years to come...
When we no longer need very much productive human effort? What happens to the ditch diggers when they're obsolete? If you're OK with them starving to death in a gutter then man up and say so, but don't fool yourself into thinking you've done any less. You can't become the next Einstein just by wanting too and working hard no matter what movie montages told you. In the real world people have limits, and we've got billions of them on they're way to planned obsolescence and mass starvation.
take a look at Flint, MI and tell me again how we don't need oversight. Or the Fukushima disaster. Or Chernobyl. Or any one of a dozen horrible and completely unnecessary disasters. You also need oversight for the oversight. Or as it was called in 8th grade gov't class "checks and balances". Finally you need to recognize that no system is perfect, that human society is complex and can't be boiled down into comfy principles and that law, like it or not, is going to get complex.
Because small government is extremely vulnerable to being picked apart by mega corps. You saw this with them buying off the State legislatures so they could gerrymander their way into controlling the house and Senate. You also saw it in the 50s when it took the feds to put an end to "separate but equal" and you're seeing it today from the likes of Ted Cruz who would like very much to create a theocracy but can't get away with it on a national level. There's lots of horrible things you can get away with locally that don't fly nationally.
instead he's whatever the hell you want him to be. He's been running focus groups left and right to figure out what to say. He's still running them. He's saying whatever it takes to get elected and he's so brazen about it and we're so used to him flip flopping that it's not hurting him with voters. Trump couldn't give a rats ass about racism, misogyny or just being plain rude. Now, I _am_ a little scared to find out that all that nonsense he spouted was exactly what Republican primary voters wanted to hear, but at least they voted for the guy not using the dog whistle...
Also, these newspapers are owned by mega corps. Anyone who touches the issue finds themselves out of work in less than a week. Fuck, there was just a story about a cartoonist running a gag in an small Iowan newspaper about the only ones making money farming being the CEOs of Monsato & John Deer. He'd been working for the paper for 33 years and they canned him on the spot when the CEOs in question said "Knock it off". You have a ruling class. Deal with it.
I wondered that too until I found out he ran focus groups to figure out what to say to win the primary. Trump's serious this time. He's not just putting his name out there, he's in it to win it. The scary part is all that stuff about walls and patrolling Muslim neighborhoods is what his base wants to hear too. That said, don't expect any actually action from Trump on any of those thing, or indeed anything he's said. The funny thing is we're so used to hearing him flip-flop I don't think it'll matter. Plus Hilary is about as likeable as a rattlesnake. If she wins it'll be the first time in the history a candidate lost the "Would you rather have a beer with?" poll and won the general.
Expect to see Trump quiet down about the Hispanics and the Muslims in order to prevent fear from driving them to the polls. By the time the general comes around they'll have forgotten most of what he said and they'll forget to vote like usual. Whether Hilary wins or not will largely depend on how many more gaffs Trump has (which, given his experience in public speaking and the focus groups he's running will likely be very few) and how good a job Hilary does scaring minorities and women ( Trump has forgotten his Dog Whistle a few times when it comes to punishing women who seek abortions ) into showing up at the polls. Hilary has a history of being a lousy campaigner though...
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they want lots and they want it now. The idea is to throw a ton of ideas at a wall and see what sticks. That means fast and cheap, not good.
we've been cutting funding to infrastructure since the Clinton (Bill) era. I'm a NIMBY too. I'll be a NIMBY until you can get the average joe to stop voting against necessary investments in the name of "Small" gov't and Freedom. Look at Flint, Mi and how something as critical as a city's water supply was handled. You wanna drop nuclear waste near me, stored and maintained by the lowest bidder with the highest profit margin? Of course I don't want that.
Change our politics if you want nuclear to work. Otherwise I'll continue hoping that some other poor sods get stuck with the inevitable disaster. Yeah, that's messed up, but I don't know what else to do about it.
it was a quick and easy way to show folks (especially girls) that you could drop a ton of money on a phone. Basically a veblen good. Take that away and it's just outdated tech. Nostalgia maybe? I don't see that going very far.
Unless you are very, very wealthy (part of that 1% you mentioned) then you don't own enough shares to prevent your vote from being drowned out by the major stockholders. And if you're part of 45% (at least, depends on how you run the numbers) you don't own any stock. Hell, 66% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, so I'm guessing there's not a lot of stock buying going on there unless you're one of those twats that counts a 401k as 'owning' stock.
Here's the thing: Yes, we should work to enact change. No, stock ownership isn't going to make a damn bit of difference. Vote, make your friends and family vote. Favor mandatory voting and finally vote left.
for those guys at the Square. The one with the tanks.
I hope this is a /vertisement because it'd somehow be worse if the editors greenlit this honestly. Also at the risk of being modded troll: no multi-national, maybe least of all Apple, should be touting the be touting their commitment to community given what they do to their workers overseas.
Most of what mall cops do is make people feel watched. It's the kind of work that's ripe for automation.
/. really can't be this dense, can it? Have you never written any software for end users? Have you never had to support the installation of said software? You know what I have to do on my phone to install an app? Tap the "all apps" button, search for google play (my carrier puts about 50 apps on my phone), tap Google Play. Put in the _exact_ name of the app (unless it's one of the top 100). Hope the search finds it. tap it. tap install. Read a scary prompt about all the things this app can now do. Tap OK.
Try doing that with someone in their 60s. That's the problem instant apps are trying to solve. Well that, and the carriers replacing google apps with their own. Look for my post on Allo and expert systems below for why that's a good thing for google.
because you're not paying attention to trends. Allo isn't about messaging, it's about expert systems. You can "chat" with Allo and it will answer questions. Companies can write apps on top of Allo. So you ask Allo: What's my bank balance and it answers. Companies pay Google for the privilege of having it answer questions they would otherwise be paying folks in call centers to answer.
Now, will they get people to bite? Maybe. One way to make this happen is just to pull all your support. Or make the waits really, really long and give a constant message when you're on hold telling you to use Allo. Oh, and that's what the instant apps are about. It means the handset providers can't extort money from Google to get Allo installed vs Facebooks equivalent.
Basically this is more about automation and reducing headcount than anything else.
How does this get modded up? Seriously. If you can't tell the difference between a work of fiction (like an offensive movie, book, or comedy routine) and a real situation (a prank where the person being pranked doesn't know that the hell is going on) then you're part of the bloody problem here.
I'm not sure what they're licensing. Patents maybe? Is the brand still strong in some countries? The only time I hear about Nokia is when folks from Europe talk about how much better the Lumina was than it's competition. But then Apple & Google came out with their phones and well..
see high frequency trading. I suppose you could also make the argument that instant access to high calorie food helps obesity along (hot pockets anyone?). George Orwell wrote a well known book about TV and it's dangers. Cotton mills really did eliminate a lot of jobs ( among other inventions during the industrial rev).
The Luddites had a reason for being. They didn't spring up out of thin air. They were real people losing their livelihoods and they never got them back. Neither did their children. After about 80-100 years their grandkids started to see full employment as tech caught up.
That said I think the argument is off base. Rampant poverty brought on by automation will mean there won't be a lot of folks traveling. It's not like we're gonna build a public transportation network just _anyone_ can use out of these Self Driving Cars, right?
isn't necessarily a bad thing. Given the amount of Automation going on we're either gonna figure out what to do with all the people who aren't genius grade or let billions starve. That was the original purpose of the military industrial complex. Eisenhower talked about it in his memoirs. As for obedience you're reading too much into it and over estimating the average joe's ability to make change. We can't even get these folks to bother voting in a mid term. Who needs obedience when apathy will do?
properly fund the TSA. I don't like the idea of handing off something as important as this to the lowest bidder. And you're _always_ handing it off to the lowest bidder when you let the market decide. That's how markets work.
As for the worse it gets the easier it being to get rid of the TSA, well that's kind of the point. It's called "Starve the Beast" and it's a strategy for privatizing public utilities and services for profit. Works too.
it's been a tactic of the right wing for years. There's no easier way to convince people that gov't can't work then to break it on purpose.
slightly horrified that they're asking for somebody with a degree, and for a $20/hr job no less...
Expert Systems were going to take over the world. Looks like it just took about 40 years longer than the magazines expected.
He's not exactly know as a liberal. This stuck me as more of that manufactured rage that billionaire funded think tanks have on offer. The sad thing is I'm sure my right wing friends will be repeating it as fact for years to come...
When we no longer need very much productive human effort? What happens to the ditch diggers when they're obsolete? If you're OK with them starving to death in a gutter then man up and say so, but don't fool yourself into thinking you've done any less. You can't become the next Einstein just by wanting too and working hard no matter what movie montages told you. In the real world people have limits, and we've got billions of them on they're way to planned obsolescence and mass starvation.
take a look at Flint, MI and tell me again how we don't need oversight. Or the Fukushima disaster. Or Chernobyl. Or any one of a dozen horrible and completely unnecessary disasters. You also need oversight for the oversight. Or as it was called in 8th grade gov't class "checks and balances". Finally you need to recognize that no system is perfect, that human society is complex and can't be boiled down into comfy principles and that law, like it or not, is going to get complex.
Read a book. Ok, not on the cheap Kindle but, you know what. Just shut up.
Here in the States it was our Federal govt that put an end to "separate but equal" form of institutionalized racism...
Because small government is extremely vulnerable to being picked apart by mega corps. You saw this with them buying off the State legislatures so they could gerrymander their way into controlling the house and Senate. You also saw it in the 50s when it took the feds to put an end to "separate but equal" and you're seeing it today from the likes of Ted Cruz who would like very much to create a theocracy but can't get away with it on a national level. There's lots of horrible things you can get away with locally that don't fly nationally.
instead he's whatever the hell you want him to be. He's been running focus groups left and right to figure out what to say. He's still running them. He's saying whatever it takes to get elected and he's so brazen about it and we're so used to him flip flopping that it's not hurting him with voters. Trump couldn't give a rats ass about racism, misogyny or just being plain rude. Now, I _am_ a little scared to find out that all that nonsense he spouted was exactly what Republican primary voters wanted to hear, but at least they voted for the guy not using the dog whistle...
Also, these newspapers are owned by mega corps. Anyone who touches the issue finds themselves out of work in less than a week. Fuck, there was just a story about a cartoonist running a gag in an small Iowan newspaper about the only ones making money farming being the CEOs of Monsato & John Deer. He'd been working for the paper for 33 years and they canned him on the spot when the CEOs in question said "Knock it off". You have a ruling class. Deal with it.
I wondered that too until I found out he ran focus groups to figure out what to say to win the primary. Trump's serious this time. He's not just putting his name out there, he's in it to win it. The scary part is all that stuff about walls and patrolling Muslim neighborhoods is what his base wants to hear too. That said, don't expect any actually action from Trump on any of those thing, or indeed anything he's said. The funny thing is we're so used to hearing him flip-flop I don't think it'll matter. Plus Hilary is about as likeable as a rattlesnake. If she wins it'll be the first time in the history a candidate lost the "Would you rather have a beer with?" poll and won the general.
Expect to see Trump quiet down about the Hispanics and the Muslims in order to prevent fear from driving them to the polls. By the time the general comes around they'll have forgotten most of what he said and they'll forget to vote like usual. Whether Hilary wins or not will largely depend on how many more gaffs Trump has (which, given his experience in public speaking and the focus groups he's running will likely be very few) and how good a job Hilary does scaring minorities and women ( Trump has forgotten his Dog Whistle a few times when it comes to punishing women who seek abortions ) into showing up at the polls. Hilary has a history of being a lousy campaigner though...