folks coming to their senses and not paying $2000 for a $600 laptop didn't make the list. Yeah, yeah, I know it's the only good option for Unix + 100% Working WiFi. Then again, I can get a pretty sweet phone for $200 unlocked from newegg now so there's some pressure there. The difference between a decent smart phone and top of the line got a lot smaller these last 2 years.
when the industrial revolution started causing mass unemployment. One problem though, it took 50-100 years for science to catch up and make that revolution to happen. In the meantime there were decades of completely unnecessary war, death and misery. An entire generation lost to it really.
That's where the Luddites came from. Believe it or not that word is more than just a slur. They weren't just a bunch of fuddy duddies, they were real people facing a real problems that were beyond the current technical means for anyone to solve. It could have been solved with social means, but we didn't do that. Now that we're facing down the same problem are we going to do the same thing all over?
I'll play devil's advocate here. Why should we be looking at that. Specifically, why should my tax dollars have to go to it. I earn my money at a crushing 9-5 (usually longer) gig. What do you say to the age old question: "The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money"?
I'm asking as a socialist. I've got a raft of sound, good, complex answers to that question that all fall flat with more than half of the electorate. And don't fall back on the "If we don't take care of the poor they'll revolt". Tried that, and it doesn't work. For starters nobody likes to be threatened and besides, it's an empty threat. There's nothing a bunch of poor people with rifles and revolvers can do against a real police force, let alone a military.
to put these "walls" in place. Same thing happened when the US put up "The Fence". It's a pork project combined with a bone to throw at your countries far right. A win-win really.
Repair work is long gone. Cheaper to rebuild and recycle. Cleaning and Blue collar jobs require folks with money to hire the workers, but how are you supposed to get money to hire a cleaning lady or a roofer if you're a cleaning lady or roofer yourself? Very few folks have the intellect to invent. It's bloody hard. So what are we gonna do with all these people we don't need? I mean besides let then all die for the 50-100 years it'll take for some new tech to come along and employ them?
It literally costs $7 bucks a month to provide service (including support). Cox themselves admitted this in their SEC filing last year. You don't even get to ask (in a whiny voice) "well who's gonna pay for it?". They're charging 10 times the going rate. The existing subscriber base could pay for everyone and their dog and their dog's squeaky toy to have unlimited internet and we'd _still_ come out ahead. Christ, what is it with this country and it's dread fear of public utilities? People, outside of the south where they do it on purpose to scare folks off the big bad gov't DMV has at 15 minute waits for a decade. I wait longer than that to buy milk from a real check cashier.
And Lidar. Plus cheap cameras mean you could stud the outside surface with sensors. Multiple droids could gun down the protestors long before they were camera blind. While your at it you can make buying paint in those quantities hard. See, it's easy to solve technical problem when your working for the ruling class. You've got an entire civilization bent to your whims...
The purpose of this is to prevent employers from working their salaried employees 60-80 hours/week. It basically will encourage if not force employers to hire more people or pay a penalty. More jobs == Less competition for work == Hire wages for all. It's supply and demand. Right now there's an oversupply of labor. This will help that.
We find our schools with property taxes so the rich can have nice public schools. I'm guessing this is to watch out for signs of school shooters. No amount of money keeps kids from bullying and rich neighborhood have been shown to be just as vulnerable.
what people and what groups. Specifically. I'd like to know. I do see them angry at Nazi's. And I do see them angry at police officers who feel they can get away with extra force against blacks. You'll noticed I said 'extra', not excessive. The problem being that cops feel safe using _more_ force and that makes the likelihood of things getting out of hand higher...
You're words are hollow. What I hear is the same technique Karl Rove pioneered. I'm not even sure I'm aware you're doing it. It's a simple technique: Whatever negative traits you're side has you accuse the other side of having. See "Swift Boating" for the best known example of this ever (and by no means the most egregious).
So again, you show me a case of a "Social Justice Warrior" treating someone who deserves respect with disdain. Be specific, and citations would be nice.
nobody complains about a roast, because it's understood you're there for fun. It's the random bit of nastiness thrown out at LGBTs that Gaiman and thoses "SJWs" are railing against.
the small guy doesn't own rental property and stocks. Not really enough to matter anyway. You underestimate just how screwed most of America is. 40 years now of declining wages, a labor market that favors employers and an entire society where job quality and quality of life are the same thing sorta do that to most.
Our tax laws were fairly progressive for a long time. That 90% rate was marginal and prevented capital and resources from gathering at the top where they sat and did nothing. Then Regan happened, followed by Clinton and no matter how many times it doesn't work we still fall back to voodoo economics. At least in the 90s we had earned income to offset rising state taxes for the poor.
These days the only thing left for tax benefits are the child credits used to subsidize raising kids. Those haven't been chipped away too much because the 1%ers still want employees and because they benefit just about everyone. There's a little bit of it left, but if you're just a working slob you're still pretty boned.
there's been massive increases in automation and productivity. So much so that China has warned Foxconn not to automate too much to keep from causing social unrest. We already produce enough food to feed everyone. The problem is logistics. What I'm saying is the world doesn't need ditch diggers too.
Why should we create miserable make work just because a few people are uncomfortable with the idea of someone not being miserable in a job 40-60 hours a week? What, specifically, makes you uncomfortable with the idea that when people don't need to work we don't make them?
is that a lot of folks will counter by saying that the last thing we need is _more_ government regulation. Gov't is the problem, not the solution, and the worst words you'll ever here are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.
I don't know what to say to that. I've never found a way to counter folks that say that. Part of the problem is these folks listen to right wing talk radio that gives them talking points to reinforce their viewpoint. They can out maneuver most folks in a debate because they've got a multi-billion dollar industry feeding them lines to say.
As for why this tiny minority of people matter, well that's because we're a 2 party winner take all system of government that frequently engages in voter suppression. None of that is an accident. Our entire system of gov't was designed from the ground up to limit the capacity of democracy to challenge the ruling class.
and the religion is just a front for it. Really, the US did (and does) a _lot_ of nasty things in the Middle East to secure enough oil to drive it's economy at the prices needed. It wouldn't be the first time religion was just a pretext, and it's in everybody's interests to keep the pretext up. For the Jihadi leaderss they get a supply of the really faithful ready to die and for the United States they don't have to discuss the very real grievances these countries have (like how we disposed Iran's democratically elected gov't and how we did the same in Afghanistan to get an oil pipeline they didn't want).
"Hells Angels smuggle cocaine into the country through terrorist organizations"
Is there anything that we won't declare a Terrorist Organization? And no, I'm not an anti-gov't guy. Hell, I'm a bleedin' socialist and voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary (waited in line 2 1/2 hours to do that, too).
As for the weapons, to be honest in America that's not really a big deal. I don't mean that as a joke either. I know gun nuts who've got that kinda spread. Gernande launchers are legal here. It's the munitions we regulate. Different gun culture though.
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There's this. Or you could always jailbreak an Amazon Fire.
folks coming to their senses and not paying $2000 for a $600 laptop didn't make the list. Yeah, yeah, I know it's the only good option for Unix + 100% Working WiFi. Then again, I can get a pretty sweet phone for $200 unlocked from newegg now so there's some pressure there. The difference between a decent smart phone and top of the line got a lot smaller these last 2 years.
when the industrial revolution started causing mass unemployment. One problem though, it took 50-100 years for science to catch up and make that revolution to happen. In the meantime there were decades of completely unnecessary war, death and misery. An entire generation lost to it really.
That's where the Luddites came from. Believe it or not that word is more than just a slur. They weren't just a bunch of fuddy duddies, they were real people facing a real problems that were beyond the current technical means for anyone to solve. It could have been solved with social means, but we didn't do that. Now that we're facing down the same problem are we going to do the same thing all over?
I'll play devil's advocate here. Why should we be looking at that. Specifically, why should my tax dollars have to go to it. I earn my money at a crushing 9-5 (usually longer) gig. What do you say to the age old question: "The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money"?
I'm asking as a socialist. I've got a raft of sound, good, complex answers to that question that all fall flat with more than half of the electorate. And don't fall back on the "If we don't take care of the poor they'll revolt". Tried that, and it doesn't work. For starters nobody likes to be threatened and besides, it's an empty threat. There's nothing a bunch of poor people with rifles and revolvers can do against a real police force, let alone a military.
to put these "walls" in place. Same thing happened when the US put up "The Fence". It's a pork project combined with a bone to throw at your countries far right. A win-win really.
Repair work is long gone. Cheaper to rebuild and recycle. Cleaning and Blue collar jobs require folks with money to hire the workers, but how are you supposed to get money to hire a cleaning lady or a roofer if you're a cleaning lady or roofer yourself? Very few folks have the intellect to invent. It's bloody hard. So what are we gonna do with all these people we don't need? I mean besides let then all die for the 50-100 years it'll take for some new tech to come along and employ them?
Worked too.
Is just using chrome books to dodge the Microsoft tax without losing their OEM license?
It's so brazen I almost think it's not. They usually try to hide them a _little_ bit... I mean, I don't even... I mean... come on.
because I have a reasonable expectation that the driver has commercial insurance, and if I get in a wreck I won't be on the hook for my medical bills.
our entire Republic system of gov't was designed from the get go to protect wealthy land and property owns. This is BAU, functioning as designed.
It literally costs $7 bucks a month to provide service (including support). Cox themselves admitted this in their SEC filing last year. You don't even get to ask (in a whiny voice) "well who's gonna pay for it?". They're charging 10 times the going rate. The existing subscriber base could pay for everyone and their dog and their dog's squeaky toy to have unlimited internet and we'd _still_ come out ahead. Christ, what is it with this country and it's dread fear of public utilities? People, outside of the south where they do it on purpose to scare folks off the big bad gov't DMV has at 15 minute waits for a decade. I wait longer than that to buy milk from a real check cashier.
And Lidar. Plus cheap cameras mean you could stud the outside surface with sensors. Multiple droids could gun down the protestors long before they were camera blind. While your at it you can make buying paint in those quantities hard. See, it's easy to solve technical problem when your working for the ruling class. You've got an entire civilization bent to your whims...
So, what are the rest of us doing?
The purpose of this is to prevent employers from working their salaried employees 60-80 hours/week. It basically will encourage if not force employers to hire more people or pay a penalty. More jobs == Less competition for work == Hire wages for all. It's supply and demand. Right now there's an oversupply of labor. This will help that.
We find our schools with property taxes so the rich can have nice public schools. I'm guessing this is to watch out for signs of school shooters. No amount of money keeps kids from bullying and rich neighborhood have been shown to be just as vulnerable.
what people and what groups. Specifically. I'd like to know. I do see them angry at Nazi's. And I do see them angry at police officers who feel they can get away with extra force against blacks. You'll noticed I said 'extra', not excessive. The problem being that cops feel safe using _more_ force and that makes the likelihood of things getting out of hand higher...
You're words are hollow. What I hear is the same technique Karl Rove pioneered. I'm not even sure I'm aware you're doing it. It's a simple technique: Whatever negative traits you're side has you accuse the other side of having. See "Swift Boating" for the best known example of this ever (and by no means the most egregious).
So again, you show me a case of a "Social Justice Warrior" treating someone who deserves respect with disdain. Be specific, and citations would be nice.
nobody complains about a roast, because it's understood you're there for fun. It's the random bit of nastiness thrown out at LGBTs that Gaiman and thoses "SJWs" are railing against.
the small guy doesn't own rental property and stocks. Not really enough to matter anyway. You underestimate just how screwed most of America is. 40 years now of declining wages, a labor market that favors employers and an entire society where job quality and quality of life are the same thing sorta do that to most.
Our tax laws were fairly progressive for a long time. That 90% rate was marginal and prevented capital and resources from gathering at the top where they sat and did nothing. Then Regan happened, followed by Clinton and no matter how many times it doesn't work we still fall back to voodoo economics. At least in the 90s we had earned income to offset rising state taxes for the poor.
These days the only thing left for tax benefits are the child credits used to subsidize raising kids. Those haven't been chipped away too much because the 1%ers still want employees and because they benefit just about everyone. There's a little bit of it left, but if you're just a working slob you're still pretty boned.
getting tired of people railing against social justice? Anyway, I'll just leave this here.
there's been massive increases in automation and productivity. So much so that China has warned Foxconn not to automate too much to keep from causing social unrest. We already produce enough food to feed everyone. The problem is logistics. What I'm saying is the world doesn't need ditch diggers too.
Why should we create miserable make work just because a few people are uncomfortable with the idea of someone not being miserable in a job 40-60 hours a week? What, specifically, makes you uncomfortable with the idea that when people don't need to work we don't make them?
is that a lot of folks will counter by saying that the last thing we need is _more_ government regulation. Gov't is the problem, not the solution, and the worst words you'll ever here are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.
I don't know what to say to that. I've never found a way to counter folks that say that. Part of the problem is these folks listen to right wing talk radio that gives them talking points to reinforce their viewpoint. They can out maneuver most folks in a debate because they've got a multi-billion dollar industry feeding them lines to say.
As for why this tiny minority of people matter, well that's because we're a 2 party winner take all system of government that frequently engages in voter suppression. None of that is an accident. Our entire system of gov't was designed from the ground up to limit the capacity of democracy to challenge the ruling class.
and the religion is just a front for it. Really, the US did (and does) a _lot_ of nasty things in the Middle East to secure enough oil to drive it's economy at the prices needed. It wouldn't be the first time religion was just a pretext, and it's in everybody's interests to keep the pretext up. For the Jihadi leaderss they get a supply of the really faithful ready to die and for the United States they don't have to discuss the very real grievances these countries have (like how we disposed Iran's democratically elected gov't and how we did the same in Afghanistan to get an oil pipeline they didn't want).
"Hells Angels smuggle cocaine into the country through terrorist organizations"
Is there anything that we won't declare a Terrorist Organization? And no, I'm not an anti-gov't guy. Hell, I'm a bleedin' socialist and voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary (waited in line 2 1/2 hours to do that, too).
As for the weapons, to be honest in America that's not really a big deal. I don't mean that as a joke either. I know gun nuts who've got that kinda spread. Gernande launchers are legal here. It's the munitions we regulate. Different gun culture though.
After all, dying and going to heaven (or hell) is a pretty important part of most religions...