And shortsightedness of youth. It's hard to see past your immediate problems. You not only see no future for yourself but you also can't see our comprehend the socio-economic causes for your misery. Only the most obvious ones are apparent to most folks, and that leaves the bullies. People love picking on nerds. Even teachers do it. We didn't stop bullies until the nerds started packing heat...
Taxis are a quasi public service in most regions. The gov't requires taxi drivers to take fares that are virtually impossible to do profitably. Either the fare is so expensive that no rider could afford to pay (Think $300 to get home) or there are no drivers because there's so few fares at that time that the fares don't cover operating costs. You could argue that this is the way it should be, but only if you ignore that reality you like so much. How many of these late night fares are from folks that would otherwise be driving drunk?
The other bit of reality that Uber likes to ignore again rests on the quasi public nature of our civilization. Specifically we base the quality of life on several job perks Uber is actively trying to get out of (Minimum Wage, Health Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, Taxes to pay for social services, Business and Drivers Insurance, etc, etc).
Basically, Uber is only profitable when they externalize their costs, similar to what Walmart is doing by paying their employees so little they qualify for food stamps and local gov't's free healthcare. We could tax Uber to make up for this, but it's almost impossible with all the tax shelters unless we're willing to start making direct attacks on our Ruling Class (good luck with that).
Uber will go one of two ways: Either the whole house of cards will fall when people decide they have to uphold their end of the social bargain or an entire generation of workers will be driven into abject poverty by the race to the bottom.
my kid mostly drinks water and occasionally Starbucks coffee flavored shakes ( I refuse to call them 'coffee'). Even the Starbucks is occasional. Once in a blue moon lemonade.
to avoid this. We actually rebuild the country instead of throwing billions in it's general vicinity and then letting Dick Cheny and his buds take all the money. Seriously, it's just that simple.
they're to put money in a lawyers pocket and a $5 off your next phone coupon in yours. It'd probably be too hard to sue over something like this. It's too hard for a jury of 50 somethings (who are the only folks that could take 6 months off for the trial) to understand. How's that joke go? 10 people too dumb to get out of jury duty...
what we call "conservatives" are actually radical regressives. They want to roll us back to the 1800s when capitalists were kings. They don't really try to hide this, they just say it'll be better for us all.
Otherwise you'll have no voting block, and without a voting block you have no power. Like it or not we're a two party system. You need something to overcome social issue voters if you're going to put the economy back on the table.
And yes I know what literally means. Fox News was called on their overwhelming right wing bias and successfully argued before a judge that the were an entertainment network and so laws governing equal time didn't apply.
written by Marx. The only thing he gave a shit about was who owned the means of production. You can still own crap. It's OK. Nobody's coming for your BMW. They're after the factories that make the BMW. Marx saw all this automation shit coming. It's a logical extension of the factory system. He also figured out that capital (ownership) was going to pit labor against each other in an endless race to the bottom. And finally he figured out that a smaller and smaller group of assclowns would end up owning all the capital. Seriously, what the fuck difference does it make to regular joes like you and me? We're screwed either way, either the state owns everything and abuses it or the 1% own it all and abuse it, right?
There's another way you know. It's called Democratic Socialism. Instead of bothering with all that messy ownership crap (and the shitstorm that comes with the Revolution of the Proles) you just regulate ownership and prevent people from abusing it. Wanna say you own the fuckin' earth? Go right ahead. Fat lot o good it'll do you when we tax you 99% and use Basic Income to distribute it so that nobody's dependent on you for daily bread.
they're screwed either way. Either they don't make enough money to survive or they get replaced by robots. God knows we're not going to just give them enough money to live (the damn Welfare Queens (tm) ). They've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
in 20 years they'll be no petty crime outside of the poor stealing from the poor and the occasional white collar crook who manages to steal things legally Bain style. Software will eat the world.
to protect me from other non-technical managers so I can get work done. It's just the way things are and they way people are. I need someone watching out for me and my departments well being (and the well being of the company as a whole). That's a full time and surprisingly difficult job. It'd be nice if it wasn't. It would also be nice if we lived in a Star Trek style socialist Utopia. We don't.
You just don't realize it. You're not anywhere near as in control as you think you are. Like it or not advertising works. Not always, but lot and lots of times. It's especially effective on kids. Out of spite you might personally block your kids from consoles if you become aware that it's the advertising that makes them interested, but if so you're very much in the minority. Your opinions, beliefs and desires were heavily shaped while you were young and vulnerable, and so are your kids. The advertisers are more interested in iPad games because they're cheaper to make and just as profitable as an aggregate whole. We'll all do as we say because as kids we literally can't think for ourselves. That's why in the 60s and 70s Mr Rogers and others fought against advertising directed at children, and it's also why they lost.
it's there to get people ready for the workforce. That's why we have bells and it's why we start it early when research shows kids need more sleep. I always find it annoying to see people who can't or won't acknowledge that virtually everything in our society exists to serve the ruling class. You'll never get anywhere with reform until you acknowledge and deal with that basic root problem. It's why FDR was so successful and it's what Eisenhower was afraid of when he talked about the Military Industrial Complex...
Cars have a variety of sensors to warn you when you breaks don't work, emergency breaks, and improperly installed breaks usually just screw up your rotors, not prevent the car from stopping. A seat belt is hard to install wrong, and you're not going to hurt yourself installing it unless you're really dumb. And I suppose Honda might have cut corners somewhere on safety to get weight down or some such and be afraid of lawsuits.
But yeah, you're probably right and it's bullshit.
have replacements handy for anything that matters? The browser is Open Source. The messaging apps are what make blackberry blackberry, so they could give a *bleep* about losing those. I suppose there's google maps. But google makes that available because the positional data is too valuable to give up. I guess you'll lose that awesome mid-90s style music player.
the problem is that we live in a world where businesses are not held accountable for their actions. Look at VW. Their CEO resigns and gets a 30 million golden parachute. Look at GM and Toyota. Token fines that aren't even a fraction of their annual profits for something that deaths were linked to. Christ, look at Fukushima. Just the idea that some of the people responsible might get indicted is historical and even there it's only happening because of a bizarre loophole the 1% forgot to close. It's the old "Don't spill the blood of kings" crap.
If you want to have a gov't run nuke plant then fine. Take the profit motive out of it. But I wouldn't even trust that because sooner or later a bunch of those free market yabos are gonna want to hand it of to a private contractor in the name of efficiency. Until you can tell me how to stop that or make it more profitable for the plants to be safe than dangerous in the _short_ term then I won't trust nukes.
that ad blockers needed to work? Firefox has all that stuff (my firefox plug-in needs it to build youtube links). I've been trying to finish a Chrome port in my spare time but Chrome is missing a lot of that stuff and I haven't found a good way to hack it in (my C/C++-fu is only so-so).
that mattered? At these kind of profits they've got armed security and the police more or less in their employ. You'd show up in their neighborhood and stick out like a sore thumb because you'd _look_ poor. The best you could hope for is suicide by cop.
You're not going to get anywhere going after the 1% with violence. Take a look into what a Mr Bernie Sanders is doing these days. It's a good start. He's a good kid.
that's what scares me the most. At least Hitler _hated_ the Jews. It was irrational. He was nuts. I can comfort myself with that. Tell myself we can watch out for that kinda crazy in the future. With business men there's no end to the horrible things they can do and just write it off as "Just Business". It's like a religion with a false air of science...
it'd mean fuck all. Maybe less. It's childs play for a large pharma company to manipulate social media. And besides people will loss interest when your post gets pushed down in favor of cat videos and pictures of what they just ate.
Votes on the other hand get attention, but you need to vote left. Vote for the most left leaning candidate you can get.
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And shortsightedness of youth. It's hard to see past your immediate problems. You not only see no future for yourself but you also can't see our comprehend the socio-economic causes for your misery. Only the most obvious ones are apparent to most folks, and that leaves the bullies. People love picking on nerds. Even teachers do it. We didn't stop bullies until the nerds started packing heat...
Taxis are a quasi public service in most regions. The gov't requires taxi drivers to take fares that are virtually impossible to do profitably. Either the fare is so expensive that no rider could afford to pay (Think $300 to get home) or there are no drivers because there's so few fares at that time that the fares don't cover operating costs. You could argue that this is the way it should be, but only if you ignore that reality you like so much. How many of these late night fares are from folks that would otherwise be driving drunk?
The other bit of reality that Uber likes to ignore again rests on the quasi public nature of our civilization. Specifically we base the quality of life on several job perks Uber is actively trying to get out of (Minimum Wage, Health Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, Taxes to pay for social services, Business and Drivers Insurance, etc, etc).
Basically, Uber is only profitable when they externalize their costs, similar to what Walmart is doing by paying their employees so little they qualify for food stamps and local gov't's free healthcare. We could tax Uber to make up for this, but it's almost impossible with all the tax shelters unless we're willing to start making direct attacks on our Ruling Class (good luck with that).
Uber will go one of two ways: Either the whole house of cards will fall when people decide they have to uphold their end of the social bargain or an entire generation of workers will be driven into abject poverty by the race to the bottom.
my kid mostly drinks water and occasionally Starbucks coffee flavored shakes ( I refuse to call them 'coffee'). Even the Starbucks is occasional. Once in a blue moon lemonade.
to avoid this. We actually rebuild the country instead of throwing billions in it's general vicinity and then letting Dick Cheny and his buds take all the money. Seriously, it's just that simple.
they're to put money in a lawyers pocket and a $5 off your next phone coupon in yours. It'd probably be too hard to sue over something like this. It's too hard for a jury of 50 somethings (who are the only folks that could take 6 months off for the trial) to understand. How's that joke go? 10 people too dumb to get out of jury duty...
Crap, I've got a PS4 so it's locked at 30fps.
what we call "conservatives" are actually radical regressives. They want to roll us back to the 1800s when capitalists were kings. They don't really try to hide this, they just say it'll be better for us all.
Otherwise you'll have no voting block, and without a voting block you have no power. Like it or not we're a two party system. You need something to overcome social issue voters if you're going to put the economy back on the table.
And yes I know what literally means. Fox News was called on their overwhelming right wing bias and successfully argued before a judge that the were an entertainment network and so laws governing equal time didn't apply.
written by Marx. The only thing he gave a shit about was who owned the means of production. You can still own crap. It's OK. Nobody's coming for your BMW. They're after the factories that make the BMW. Marx saw all this automation shit coming. It's a logical extension of the factory system. He also figured out that capital (ownership) was going to pit labor against each other in an endless race to the bottom. And finally he figured out that a smaller and smaller group of assclowns would end up owning all the capital. Seriously, what the fuck difference does it make to regular joes like you and me? We're screwed either way, either the state owns everything and abuses it or the 1% own it all and abuse it, right?
There's another way you know. It's called Democratic Socialism. Instead of bothering with all that messy ownership crap (and the shitstorm that comes with the Revolution of the Proles) you just regulate ownership and prevent people from abusing it. Wanna say you own the fuckin' earth? Go right ahead. Fat lot o good it'll do you when we tax you 99% and use Basic Income to distribute it so that nobody's dependent on you for daily bread.
they're screwed either way. Either they don't make enough money to survive or they get replaced by robots. God knows we're not going to just give them enough money to live (the damn Welfare Queens (tm) ). They've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
in 20 years they'll be no petty crime outside of the poor stealing from the poor and the occasional white collar crook who manages to steal things legally Bain style. Software will eat the world.
to protect me from other non-technical managers so I can get work done. It's just the way things are and they way people are. I need someone watching out for me and my departments well being (and the well being of the company as a whole). That's a full time and surprisingly difficult job. It'd be nice if it wasn't. It would also be nice if we lived in a Star Trek style socialist Utopia. We don't.
You just don't realize it. You're not anywhere near as in control as you think you are. Like it or not advertising works. Not always, but lot and lots of times. It's especially effective on kids. Out of spite you might personally block your kids from consoles if you become aware that it's the advertising that makes them interested, but if so you're very much in the minority. Your opinions, beliefs and desires were heavily shaped while you were young and vulnerable, and so are your kids. The advertisers are more interested in iPad games because they're cheaper to make and just as profitable as an aggregate whole. We'll all do as we say because as kids we literally can't think for ourselves. That's why in the 60s and 70s Mr Rogers and others fought against advertising directed at children, and it's also why they lost.
it's there to get people ready for the workforce. That's why we have bells and it's why we start it early when research shows kids need more sleep. I always find it annoying to see people who can't or won't acknowledge that virtually everything in our society exists to serve the ruling class. You'll never get anywhere with reform until you acknowledge and deal with that basic root problem. It's why FDR was so successful and it's what Eisenhower was afraid of when he talked about the Military Industrial Complex...
The worlds most expensive social program. If we want to keep our economy going how about we build some roads instead?
Cars have a variety of sensors to warn you when you breaks don't work, emergency breaks, and improperly installed breaks usually just screw up your rotors, not prevent the car from stopping. A seat belt is hard to install wrong, and you're not going to hurt yourself installing it unless you're really dumb. And I suppose Honda might have cut corners somewhere on safety to get weight down or some such and be afraid of lawsuits.
But yeah, you're probably right and it's bullshit.
have replacements handy for anything that matters? The browser is Open Source. The messaging apps are what make blackberry blackberry, so they could give a *bleep* about losing those. I suppose there's google maps. But google makes that available because the positional data is too valuable to give up. I guess you'll lose that awesome mid-90s style music player.
the problem is that we live in a world where businesses are not held accountable for their actions. Look at VW. Their CEO resigns and gets a 30 million golden parachute. Look at GM and Toyota. Token fines that aren't even a fraction of their annual profits for something that deaths were linked to. Christ, look at Fukushima. Just the idea that some of the people responsible might get indicted is historical and even there it's only happening because of a bizarre loophole the 1% forgot to close. It's the old "Don't spill the blood of kings" crap.
If you want to have a gov't run nuke plant then fine. Take the profit motive out of it. But I wouldn't even trust that because sooner or later a bunch of those free market yabos are gonna want to hand it of to a private contractor in the name of efficiency. Until you can tell me how to stop that or make it more profitable for the plants to be safe than dangerous in the _short_ term then I won't trust nukes.
but you will be giving up the last of your XP compatibility (my bros a strat gamer and he bemoans it's lack of Space Empires 4 compatibility )
that ad blockers needed to work? Firefox has all that stuff (my firefox plug-in needs it to build youtube links). I've been trying to finish a Chrome port in my spare time but Chrome is missing a lot of that stuff and I haven't found a good way to hack it in (my C/C++-fu is only so-so).
you think I want to trust the equivalent service to pick my doctor?
that mattered? At these kind of profits they've got armed security and the police more or less in their employ. You'd show up in their neighborhood and stick out like a sore thumb because you'd _look_ poor. The best you could hope for is suicide by cop.
You're not going to get anywhere going after the 1% with violence. Take a look into what a Mr Bernie Sanders is doing these days. It's a good start. He's a good kid.
that's what scares me the most. At least Hitler _hated_ the Jews. It was irrational. He was nuts. I can comfort myself with that. Tell myself we can watch out for that kinda crazy in the future. With business men there's no end to the horrible things they can do and just write it off as "Just Business". It's like a religion with a false air of science...
it'd mean fuck all. Maybe less. It's childs play for a large pharma company to manipulate social media. And besides people will loss interest when your post gets pushed down in favor of cat videos and pictures of what they just ate.
Votes on the other hand get attention, but you need to vote left. Vote for the most left leaning candidate you can get.