these high paid tech folks still want and need services. They want teachers for their kids, police and fire dept to keep them safe. Housemaids to tidy up for them after an 80 hour work week and restaurant staff to cook food for them.
What they do not want, it seems, is to pay for all that. See, it's not as easy as "Just move out of San Fransico". When your poor you live where you're born. You don't just move to where the work is, and if you try you're taking a huge risk. You have no savings because you're never paid enough for savings.
What we have is servant class asking members of the merchant class to pay for their services. I don't see a problem with that.
But hey, bashing people over the head with the "PC" moniker never gets old, right? So go ahead. I suppose it's a hell of a lot easier than facing the unpleasant consequences of a modern service economy.
when the *bleep* did Motorola change their name and/or get bought out? And what the heck kinda name is Arris anyway? If Motorola was good enough for the Megadrive and Amiga's 68k it was good enough for me.
But since finger print scanners are notoriously easy to fool I can see how it'd be worse. Chip+Pin or chip+sig is your best bet to stop electronic fraud.
Now, Japan is well known for preferring cash to plastic but then if you're going to get a business to buy into this complicated scheme and run a fingerprint scanner Point of Sale wouldn't they be just as likely to take cards? And if they don't I'm stuck with cash anyway.
on why she's bothering with this silliness? I wonder if it's to inject a sense of hope for the future back into American politics. Americans are still blitheringly optimistic but at the same time a large portion of the electorate seems to have given up on the idea of progress. At best their conservative ("don't change _anything_") and at worst regressive ("Back to the good old days"... that never really exists... especially if you weren't white and male). Remember when space was a thing? When science was going to give us a 10 hour work week? When disease was going to be a thing of the past? People aren't really working towards big goals anymore.
Let's call it happy web. Seriously though of course folks want to ban it. If you're not hiding out from an oppressive regime or looking at porn it's not much use to anyone. So we've got something that can be used for bad things and is pretty much useless for good things that matter unless you're part of the under class. Good luck with that.
That we'll see mass unemployment and social unrest. A lot of people don't want to be thinkers and creators. Also very few people have the raw talent to create art good enough for an audience. It's one thing to post your sketch to deviant art and have 12 people comment on it, it's another thing entirely to make a living off it. To put it another way, when the next industrial revolution starts putting people out of work where are we gonna get the money to pay all these so-so artists? Look at how hard getting the NEA funded is...
But our 1%ers have spent the last 40 years with the help of guys like Reagan, Bush Jr and Karl Rove convincing everyone that govt is a problem, not a solution.
a black woman in the 50s had the proverbial snowballs chance in hell of doing what she did. It's speaks volumes to her genius that she wasn't shut out.
I'll know who the big guys are. But everybody knows who Rembrandt is. Same with Van Goh and Michelangelo. I don't think I could name one painter from the last century...
Twitter, like all tech companies, makes liberal use of contractors who do not get these benefits. You didn't think we actually did something nice for real did you?
Our right wing find it morally reprehensible that somebody gets paid to not work. I think it has to do with our obsession with punishment plus a general attitude that if they're not happy with their lives nobody else should be. There are other contributing factors to that belief system, all of them rotten.
What really kills us is our two party system. It's easy to mobilize enough voters full of hatred and bile to win an election and do whatever you please. Also nobody ever believes our right wing is going to do the crap they say they are. Donald Trump just got in a lot of trouble and lost a key race because he said out loud that if we make Abortion murder then we make the woman getting the abortion a murderer. Sounds reasonable, and everywhere abortion is illegal it's what happens. But try telling people that and see if they believe it. It's one of the key reasons we legalized it in the first place but everyone forgets. Crap like that is how you get people saying minimum wage isn't needed anymore because wages are higher, ignoring the fact that minimum wage caused that...
so we're subsidize them to keep the economy growing so the 1% can siphon 40% off the top of their labor. If you're not contributing to that system then don't expect a subsidy for it.
Yeah, that's a crass way to put it, but it really is why we do as much for parents and children as we do in this country. Trying and get the right wing to do something for the poor and middle class without a reward is basically impossible.
companies love to announce stuff like this and soak in the good press. They forget to mention that the vast majority of work they get done is by contractors (often H1-Bs, but I digress) who get none of these benefits. Companies today fall into two categories: the ones that use contractors to do day to day work without paying them benefits and the ones who have so few employees they don't bother ( it's called "scalability" and it means investors can put a little money in and not have to pay for all those pesky employees and their middle class jobs...).
I can't begrudge the guy not wanting to die a painful death at the hands of my countries brutal regime. He's still one of the bravest men alive, and a hell of a lot braver than most of American (which never fights a war without overwhelming tactical and resource superiority...).
Why should I have to pay for Zika virus containment when I'm not anywhere that needs it? And if I am shouldn't I pay for my own containment and not everybody elses?
OK, ok, I'm trolling. But I've actually had these conversation with people. It's not usually about anything as scary as viruses. But try getting anyone to agree to national infrastructure spending. Obama almost lost the US Prez election with his "You didn't build it" comment trying to find a way to say the things you do for your fellow citizens benefit you too. Damned if I know a way to communicate that and not just get shouted down. It doesn't help that the other side has billions in dollars and focus groups to figure out how to get their message across (Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc):(...
Something I often wonder is why we don't hear about 'new' geniuses in art. It's always the same guys from the 1700 and 1800s (once in a while an author from the 1900s sneaks in). Maybe they're all doing hard science now that it's a thing.
you're set. FF now checks a signature (provided by Mozilla's private key) and won't run an addon without it. Basically you can't make Firefox addons without Mozilla's approval anymore (unless you want to run iceweasle or a developer build, but if you're that far into it you're probably OK on your own). Chrome's done the same thing for years. Firefox didn't want to because it makes managing extensions internally (e.g. for gov't contracts and the like) a nightmare.
I guess the way you're post read there seemed like an element of resignation. In consumer law there's more than outright laws. Misrepresentation counts for a lot. Yeah, it's true that exaggerated claims and bragging ("Best School in the World!") is protected but when it comes to the hint/hint/nudge/nudge salesmenship that probably landed a _lot_ of folks in debt that's gonna boil down to a fair amount of subjectivity...
I'd like to see a bit more white hot anger out there among folks. I don't think conservationism (the real kind, where you're just trying to maintain status quo) is gonna cut it any more. There's been too many regressions since WWII...:(
I'm a Firefox add on developer and I get offers like this all the time. Shady companies have been buying extensions and putting malware in them for ages. Firefox and Chrome both have kill switches now that let them disable the extensions outside of developer builds. It's a bit of a pain since I can't throw up a beta of my plugin on my site anymore, but there's a development channel for me to use now so it's not that big of a deal.
If you see this happen tell Mozilla/Google. They'll check the code, see the shenanigans and kill it. The browser will then refuse to run the code. If you're the worried sort or if you have a lot of extensions then disable auto-updates and patch as needed (I generally don't bother updating my plugin unless it breaks, which it just did:) ).
You're OK with a shoddy education so long as they don't make claims that are veritably false? I'm not calling you out, but I think it's worth taking a moment to let that sink in... IMHO we've let sketchy businesses get away with this kind of crap too long. Yeah, you and me know better. But there are _lots_ of desperate and vulnerable kids without the kind of critical thinking skills needed to realize ITT is a scam. Imagine if you went to a crappier school and maybe had an alcoholic parent or two. Or if you live in Flint and just got a healthy dose of lead in your drinking water... Suckers aren't just born, their made...:(
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but wouldn't the solution be to just give them homes to live in? I mean, we're the wealthiest country on plant earth. This shouldn't be a problem.
these high paid tech folks still want and need services. They want teachers for their kids, police and fire dept to keep them safe. Housemaids to tidy up for them after an 80 hour work week and restaurant staff to cook food for them.
What they do not want, it seems, is to pay for all that. See, it's not as easy as "Just move out of San Fransico". When your poor you live where you're born. You don't just move to where the work is, and if you try you're taking a huge risk. You have no savings because you're never paid enough for savings.
What we have is servant class asking members of the merchant class to pay for their services. I don't see a problem with that.
But hey, bashing people over the head with the "PC" moniker never gets old, right? So go ahead. I suppose it's a hell of a lot easier than facing the unpleasant consequences of a modern service economy.
when the *bleep* did Motorola change their name and/or get bought out? And what the heck kinda name is Arris anyway? If Motorola was good enough for the Megadrive and Amiga's 68k it was good enough for me.
But since finger print scanners are notoriously easy to fool I can see how it'd be worse. Chip+Pin or chip+sig is your best bet to stop electronic fraud.
Now, Japan is well known for preferring cash to plastic but then if you're going to get a business to buy into this complicated scheme and run a fingerprint scanner Point of Sale wouldn't they be just as likely to take cards? And if they don't I'm stuck with cash anyway.
on why she's bothering with this silliness? I wonder if it's to inject a sense of hope for the future back into American politics. Americans are still blitheringly optimistic but at the same time a large portion of the electorate seems to have given up on the idea of progress. At best their conservative ("don't change _anything_") and at worst regressive ("Back to the good old days"... that never really exists... especially if you weren't white and male). Remember when space was a thing? When science was going to give us a 10 hour work week? When disease was going to be a thing of the past? People aren't really working towards big goals anymore.
Let's call it happy web. Seriously though of course folks want to ban it. If you're not hiding out from an oppressive regime or looking at porn it's not much use to anyone. So we've got something that can be used for bad things and is pretty much useless for good things that matter unless you're part of the under class. Good luck with that.
That we'll see mass unemployment and social unrest. A lot of people don't want to be thinkers and creators. Also very few people have the raw talent to create art good enough for an audience. It's one thing to post your sketch to deviant art and have 12 people comment on it, it's another thing entirely to make a living off it. To put it another way, when the next industrial revolution starts putting people out of work where are we gonna get the money to pay all these so-so artists? Look at how hard getting the NEA funded is...
But our 1%ers have spent the last 40 years with the help of guys like Reagan, Bush Jr and Karl Rove convincing everyone that govt is a problem, not a solution.
a black woman in the 50s had the proverbial snowballs chance in hell of doing what she did. It's speaks volumes to her genius that she wasn't shut out.
I'll know who the big guys are. But everybody knows who Rembrandt is. Same with Van Goh and Michelangelo. I don't think I could name one painter from the last century...
Twitter, like all tech companies, makes liberal use of contractors who do not get these benefits. You didn't think we actually did something nice for real did you?
Our right wing find it morally reprehensible that somebody gets paid to not work. I think it has to do with our obsession with punishment plus a general attitude that if they're not happy with their lives nobody else should be. There are other contributing factors to that belief system, all of them rotten.
What really kills us is our two party system. It's easy to mobilize enough voters full of hatred and bile to win an election and do whatever you please. Also nobody ever believes our right wing is going to do the crap they say they are. Donald Trump just got in a lot of trouble and lost a key race because he said out loud that if we make Abortion murder then we make the woman getting the abortion a murderer. Sounds reasonable, and everywhere abortion is illegal it's what happens. But try telling people that and see if they believe it. It's one of the key reasons we legalized it in the first place but everyone forgets. Crap like that is how you get people saying minimum wage isn't needed anymore because wages are higher, ignoring the fact that minimum wage caused that...
so we're subsidize them to keep the economy growing so the 1% can siphon 40% off the top of their labor. If you're not contributing to that system then don't expect a subsidy for it.
Yeah, that's a crass way to put it, but it really is why we do as much for parents and children as we do in this country. Trying and get the right wing to do something for the poor and middle class without a reward is basically impossible.
companies love to announce stuff like this and soak in the good press. They forget to mention that the vast majority of work they get done is by contractors (often H1-Bs, but I digress) who get none of these benefits. Companies today fall into two categories: the ones that use contractors to do day to day work without paying them benefits and the ones who have so few employees they don't bother ( it's called "scalability" and it means investors can put a little money in and not have to pay for all those pesky employees and their middle class jobs...).
I can't begrudge the guy not wanting to die a painful death at the hands of my countries brutal regime. He's still one of the bravest men alive, and a hell of a lot braver than most of American (which never fights a war without overwhelming tactical and resource superiority...).
special privileges they wouldn't be the elite, now would they? Don't you just feel silly now?
what a "ruling class" is, do you?
Why should I have to pay for Zika virus containment when I'm not anywhere that needs it? And if I am shouldn't I pay for my own containment and not everybody elses?
:(...
OK, ok, I'm trolling. But I've actually had these conversation with people. It's not usually about anything as scary as viruses. But try getting anyone to agree to national infrastructure spending. Obama almost lost the US Prez election with his "You didn't build it" comment trying to find a way to say the things you do for your fellow citizens benefit you too. Damned if I know a way to communicate that and not just get shouted down. It doesn't help that the other side has billions in dollars and focus groups to figure out how to get their message across (Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc)
Something I often wonder is why we don't hear about 'new' geniuses in art. It's always the same guys from the 1700 and 1800s (once in a while an author from the 1900s sneaks in). Maybe they're all doing hard science now that it's a thing.
I can't wait until the patent gets handed off to somebody to profit from.
you're set. FF now checks a signature (provided by Mozilla's private key) and won't run an addon without it. Basically you can't make Firefox addons without Mozilla's approval anymore (unless you want to run iceweasle or a developer build, but if you're that far into it you're probably OK on your own). Chrome's done the same thing for years. Firefox didn't want to because it makes managing extensions internally (e.g. for gov't contracts and the like) a nightmare.
I guess the way you're post read there seemed like an element of resignation. In consumer law there's more than outright laws. Misrepresentation counts for a lot. Yeah, it's true that exaggerated claims and bragging ("Best School in the World!") is protected but when it comes to the hint/hint/nudge/nudge salesmenship that probably landed a _lot_ of folks in debt that's gonna boil down to a fair amount of subjectivity...
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I'd like to see a bit more white hot anger out there among folks. I don't think conservationism (the real kind, where you're just trying to maintain status quo) is gonna cut it any more. There's been too many regressions since WWII...
The author was honest the buyer wasn't. In that case the seller is going to be the one that notifies google (if only to preserve their reputation).
I'm a Firefox add on developer and I get offers like this all the time. Shady companies have been buying extensions and putting malware in them for ages. Firefox and Chrome both have kill switches now that let them disable the extensions outside of developer builds. It's a bit of a pain since I can't throw up a beta of my plugin on my site anymore, but there's a development channel for me to use now so it's not that big of a deal.
:) ).
If you see this happen tell Mozilla/Google. They'll check the code, see the shenanigans and kill it. The browser will then refuse to run the code. If you're the worried sort or if you have a lot of extensions then disable auto-updates and patch as needed (I generally don't bother updating my plugin unless it breaks, which it just did
You're OK with a shoddy education so long as they don't make claims that are veritably false? I'm not calling you out, but I think it's worth taking a moment to let that sink in... IMHO we've let sketchy businesses get away with this kind of crap too long. Yeah, you and me know better. But there are _lots_ of desperate and vulnerable kids without the kind of critical thinking skills needed to realize ITT is a scam. Imagine if you went to a crappier school and maybe had an alcoholic parent or two. Or if you live in Flint and just got a healthy dose of lead in your drinking water... Suckers aren't just born, their made... :(