if you're rich you're driving a large, very safe SUV that will survive any and all of the fender benders and minor t-bones this will create. Plus you're enjoying lower taxes with the same level of gov't service thanks to what is basically a regressive tax on the poor. Heck, they won't even put red light cameras in your area, because they learned quick if they start giving you tickets you'll get'em banned.
Ultimately this is another 'screw the (working) poor' initiative. Those always work because it's hard to orchestrate a political movement when you're living paycheck to paycheck, moving all the time to find work, and don't have Unions anymore.
and as we all know, if somebody predicted something and it didn't happen right away, it will never ever ever happen. Ever.
Point is: So the time frame was a bit off. It's still happening. The US is undergoing a manufacturing boom. Google it. There's tonnes of articles asking the question: where are all the manufacturing jobs. We all know the answer, but we're not allowed to say it. Because it inevitably leads to Socialism. To wealth redistribution. That's the white elephant we're all dancing around. The ones that own the robots not only can't consume enough to keep us all employed they won't.
After all, what good's being rich if nobody's poor?
but I've worked with plenty of H1-Bs that had plenty of initiative. The substandard code is a byproduct of working them just a bit too hard. They're actually quiet competent, often better than their American Equivalents. But not always, because in the end they're just people. Culture isn't much of a factor. It's wishful thinking and really just more "American Exceptionalism" to think less of these people. I catch myself doing it, hoping against hope that I'm not replaceable:(...
Also never forget that somebody is winning. It's the 1%. They're making money hand over fist destablizing the industry. They're global. They don't have a country. So they could care less if they wreak one. And if the economy really starts to go south enough to threaten their money, well, they run the world. They'll reign it in. You saw what happen to Bernie Maddoff didn't you? He was fine until he screwed with some real 1%. If he'd stuck to widow's pensions he'd have died a free man.
with H1-Bs I can get 2, maybe 3 for the price of 1. That's because not only do they work longer hours but they depress local wages too. Or pocket the savings and use them to put the competitors out of business! It's all up to you when you play the H1-B game.
Good enough will always be good enough. I keep hearing people advance lots of reasons H1-B is a bad idea while every single person who runs a successful business races to get more of them. What do they know that you don't? And it it's nothing than why aren't you eating their lunch with your companies awesome code?
but without the huge barrier to entry into politics that the donations system creates we get an opportunity to work on those other things you mentioned. I guess what I'm saying is, it's a complex problem. Solving even 70% of it gets us well on the road.
between an elite that governs by hoarding wealth and pitting one man against the other and an expert in the field. One is peer reviewed and mistakes cost him his status as elite. The other runs North Korea. Investing in a strong central government is a risk, but siding with the Kim Jong Un's of the world because we won't even try to stand up to them isn't the answer.
Think of it this way. You're on a bridge and a train is coming. It's going to kill you. You can jump, but you don't know if you'll survive the fall. Do you wait for the train?
Once again, I'm open to a third option. I'd love to say the train is going to stop. But for 2000+ years of human history it hasn't...
Individual humans are chaotic in broad we're quiet predictable, and getting more so every day. Google 'Big Data' and see what I mean. Also, you're using a classic 'slippery slope' argument and assuming that as soon as we start regulating banks and eliminating wealth inequality the next logical step is fascism.
See, being a progressive is _hard_. It's hard because you don't have an ideology. You have the ability to make a hypothesis, take action based on it, and observe the results. It'd be so much easier when I can just do what I want based on an ideology and use that to make all my decisions.
So I'm stuck having to do a _lot_ of extra work. I've got to decide, as a progressive, if the benefit of regulating soda outweighs the downsides. And I've got to do that for _everything_. This is why we need 'elites'. One man's elite is another man's subject matter expert.
also, google for 'Railroad Monopoly' and 'Trusts'. Also the history of Unions and how they needed strong outside help from central government before they were effective at raising wages.
it's a chance you take. But at least it's a _chance_. Without the gov't you've got nothing to oppose the massive wealth of the uber-rich. Wealth inequality grows and grows. A rising tide drowns all but the biggest boats.
the hallmark of progressives progress. A focus on a better way of life for everyone. The second feature of progressivism is applying the scientific method to society and politics. Specifically observation and a willingness to change you're mind (See Tim Minchin's Storm for a better (and funnier) explanation of science, and apply that to politics and society.
What progressives have observed, time and again, is that power collects at the top. No matter what. People pass the advantages they have to their offspring, who use those advantages to increase their share of wealth and power at everyone else's expense. The American housing bust is a great example. Millions lost their homes and the equity in them. That wealth wasn't destroyed. It's was claimed by banks owned by the 1%.
So if power is going to gather at the top we're left with two choices. Either a strong central government that can stand up to that power, or hoping against hope that the money and wealth 'trickle's down'. We've also seen that money and wealth don't do that.
I'm open to alternatives (I'm a progressive after all). But I've never once heard one that doesn't boil down to some form of socialism, or that isn't just wishful thinking.
because it doesn't cost near what we pay to operate them. Stuff like this is what made me a socialist. The rich are going to find a way to use the government to their benefit and our detriment. I don't see any reason to pretend they'll not. So if we're going to have a powerful government that hands out socialism to the rich why not just get some of it for the rest of us? Start by making education in all forms free, and keep going from there.
one of the advantages Microsoft has is that they're paying people to do the boring parts. It's hard to get people to finish making open office stable and user friendly because all the glory is in adding new features. After the features are added and they work in 90% of the cases nobody does the dull work of making them work for that last 10%. Trouble is if you use it a lot you're gonna hit one of those last 10% cases sooner than later...
moves about as fast as windows, and I've never once heard of a dist upgrade to it breaking any thing. Slackware too.
Or are you talking a full dist-upgrade. E.g. going from one mainline trunk to another (e.g. Ubuntu 8 to Ubuntu 13). That's not a fair comparison. Try taking your Win XP box to Win 8 and see how that works out for you unless you've got bog standard gear, in which case your Ubuntu upgrade probably worked too.
Oh, and woe be on to you that lets Windows update install a video driver that's not generic Intel. It will lay waste to anything Nvidia or ATI.
Right wing groups marginalized? Did you not notice the 24/7 TV channel that exists solely to promote right wing views? Did you not notice their complete dominance of local politics (fueled by Citizens United Money) that allowed them to Gerrymander themselves control of the country?
Right wingers represent the ruling class. The 1%. The ones with money. Anything else they say or do is lip service to the ignorant. The Tea Party was created out of whole cloth by a super pack run by Dick Army. Fox news ran stories about UPCOMMING spontaneous protests. How the heck do you advertise for a spontaneous protest? Ask Fox News, I don't know.
This sucks. The Dems tried playing a little hardball, but they can't win. That's because when it counts. When it really counts. When it's not about some dumb ass social issue like two dudes marrying. When it's about _money_. When that happens, the media knows for real what side their bread's buttered on. You won't hear about any of the 1000 things the Bush administration did. You won't hear about the voter suppression in democratic districts. About what _really_ the unconstitutional laws used to shut down Acorn, or about how the police and FBI worked together to shut down OWS and the anti-1% movement. None of that. But mark my words, the dems get a little out of line and you'll hear. You'll get outraged, and you'll go right back to giving everything you have and hold dear to the Republicans and their 1% masters. Just like a good little slave. Obey.
just like it's cheaper to have India dismantle old asbestos boats: because they do it without regard to worker safety. It's pretty clear from just the summary let alone TFA that the problem here is the company that got the contract did everything on the cheap for as much profit as possible. If there's a problem with nuclear power it's that as soon as profit motive and corporations gets involved they first thing they do is slash safety to boost revenue.
when they say 'Vulture Capitalist'. Despite the etymology when people use the phrase 'Vulture Capitalist' they mean buying a company with the specific intention of stealing everything of value in a legal manner. See numerous examples elsewhere in this thread.
Moreover, the narrative we're being sold is that you buy a company because you want it to succeed. This is why we allow "job creators" to have so much wealth. It's the justification we're given for wealth inequity that investors will risk their capital to grow a business. Terminology aside the fact is buying companies to gut them is a common business practice today. Hell, it's why you don't have pulp Sci-Fi. The books had one distributor and it got Bained.
but what about Ratchet and Clank or Sly Cooper? I'd argue those are the equal of even a Mario 64. Still, you can play the GBA Sonic games on a Gamecube with adapter (or the upcoming Retron 5). Sonic Colors & Generations on the Wii are really 2D games. Generations is fantastic. And if you just want 2D there's tonnes of great indies. Rayman Origins, Super Meat Boy, Dust Force, La-Mulana, Freedom Planet, etc, etc.
As for a dedicated machine, computers today are so powerful you're not sacrificing anything for the extra features (Netflix, browsers, Facebook, etc).
to get what they want done. My experience is adults learn best when a clear reward is in sight. Also, don't forget the tried and true method of adult education:
1. Tell them what you're going to tell them.
2. Tell it to them.
3. Tell them what you just told them.
I know, it sounds silly and redundant, but it's effective.
You're comparing 20 years of the best of gaming to 3 to 5 years of everything. Look back at not just the crap, but the mediocre. Take out the garbage from the last 5 years and you've got some amazing stuff. La-Mulana, Shogun Total War, Sonic Generations. And there's just no comparing old school racing games to modern stuff like Need for Speed and Burn out. I literally can't go back to playing 16 bit or even 32 bit racers Post Burnout 3.
means people can buy more stuff? Why would I, as a capitalist and owner of most everything, just charge a lot of money. Especially when it's basic necessities like food, cancer meds, etc. Moreover, it's in my best interests to keep the lower 99% fighting among themselves for the little remaining work there is to do.
While we're on the subject, _what_ different industries? The only new industries I see popping up are automation. Unless you mean professional bootlicker for the 1%. But I can't imagine needing too many of those.
Moreover, look at places like China with large surplus populations and no socially accepted means to distribute wealth besides work. They're not exactly living well.
Heck, you end out your post with a link to the spending myth. You're linking to a site that's main narrative is that we're broke. How are we going to buy all this stuff when we have a spending problem, huh?
Basically, you're yet another conservative right winger with no real answers accept the old crap "The Free Market will take care of it". Meanwhile every shred of empirical evidence plus 2000+ years of history shows the free market results in the ultra wealthy use worker surpluses to their advantage and don't care much if the rest of us have jack $@!T.
$200 for an android tablet (these are just tablets with a $10 bluetooth keyboard) is about what I'd expect for a generic, but I've heard nothing but bad about them. Anyone doing this already with one of those cheap Coby's or something from newegg?
the 'giant' late fee was you buying the DVD for what it would cost from the 'pre-viewed' bin. I bought several Scooby doo dvds for my kid that way. It was the one thing they did that I actually liked.
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if you're rich you're driving a large, very safe SUV that will survive any and all of the fender benders and minor t-bones this will create. Plus you're enjoying lower taxes with the same level of gov't service thanks to what is basically a regressive tax on the poor. Heck, they won't even put red light cameras in your area, because they learned quick if they start giving you tickets you'll get'em banned.
Ultimately this is another 'screw the (working) poor' initiative. Those always work because it's hard to orchestrate a political movement when you're living paycheck to paycheck, moving all the time to find work, and don't have Unions anymore.
and as we all know, if somebody predicted something and it didn't happen right away, it will never ever ever happen. Ever.
Point is: So the time frame was a bit off. It's still happening. The US is undergoing a manufacturing boom. Google it. There's tonnes of articles asking the question: where are all the manufacturing jobs. We all know the answer, but we're not allowed to say it. Because it inevitably leads to Socialism. To wealth redistribution. That's the white elephant we're all dancing around. The ones that own the robots not only can't consume enough to keep us all employed they won't.
After all, what good's being rich if nobody's poor?
but I've worked with plenty of H1-Bs that had plenty of initiative. The substandard code is a byproduct of working them just a bit too hard. They're actually quiet competent, often better than their American Equivalents. But not always, because in the end they're just people. Culture isn't much of a factor. It's wishful thinking and really just more "American Exceptionalism" to think less of these people. I catch myself doing it, hoping against hope that I'm not replaceable :(...
Also never forget that somebody is winning. It's the 1%. They're making money hand over fist destablizing the industry. They're global. They don't have a country. So they could care less if they wreak one. And if the economy really starts to go south enough to threaten their money, well, they run the world. They'll reign it in. You saw what happen to Bernie Maddoff didn't you? He was fine until he screwed with some real 1%. If he'd stuck to widow's pensions he'd have died a free man.
with H1-Bs I can get 2, maybe 3 for the price of 1. That's because not only do they work longer hours but they depress local wages too. Or pocket the savings and use them to put the competitors out of business! It's all up to you when you play the H1-B game.
Good enough will always be good enough. I keep hearing people advance lots of reasons H1-B is a bad idea while every single person who runs a successful business races to get more of them. What do they know that you don't? And it it's nothing than why aren't you eating their lunch with your companies awesome code?
it was Gore Vidal that noticed it before me.
but without the huge barrier to entry into politics that the donations system creates we get an opportunity to work on those other things you mentioned. I guess what I'm saying is, it's a complex problem. Solving even 70% of it gets us well on the road.
only allow individual human beings to donate to campaigns, and then only in campaigns they can vote in. Bam, money out of politics instantly.
between an elite that governs by hoarding wealth and pitting one man against the other and an expert in the field. One is peer reviewed and mistakes cost him his status as elite. The other runs North Korea. Investing in a strong central government is a risk, but siding with the Kim Jong Un's of the world because we won't even try to stand up to them isn't the answer.
Think of it this way. You're on a bridge and a train is coming. It's going to kill you. You can jump, but you don't know if you'll survive the fall. Do you wait for the train?
Once again, I'm open to a third option. I'd love to say the train is going to stop. But for 2000+ years of human history it hasn't...
Individual humans are chaotic in broad we're quiet predictable, and getting more so every day. Google 'Big Data' and see what I mean. Also, you're using a classic 'slippery slope' argument and assuming that as soon as we start regulating banks and eliminating wealth inequality the next logical step is fascism.
See, being a progressive is _hard_. It's hard because you don't have an ideology. You have the ability to make a hypothesis, take action based on it, and observe the results. It'd be so much easier when I can just do what I want based on an ideology and use that to make all my decisions.
So I'm stuck having to do a _lot_ of extra work. I've got to decide, as a progressive, if the benefit of regulating soda outweighs the downsides. And I've got to do that for _everything_. This is why we need 'elites'. One man's elite is another man's subject matter expert.
also, google for 'Railroad Monopoly' and 'Trusts'. Also the history of Unions and how they needed strong outside help from central government before they were effective at raising wages.
it's a chance you take. But at least it's a _chance_. Without the gov't you've got nothing to oppose the massive wealth of the uber-rich. Wealth inequality grows and grows. A rising tide drowns all but the biggest boats.
the hallmark of progressives progress. A focus on a better way of life for everyone. The second feature of progressivism is applying the scientific method to society and politics. Specifically observation and a willingness to change you're mind (See Tim Minchin's Storm for a better (and funnier) explanation of science, and apply that to politics and society.
What progressives have observed, time and again, is that power collects at the top. No matter what. People pass the advantages they have to their offspring, who use those advantages to increase their share of wealth and power at everyone else's expense. The American housing bust is a great example. Millions lost their homes and the equity in them. That wealth wasn't destroyed. It's was claimed by banks owned by the 1%.
So if power is going to gather at the top we're left with two choices. Either a strong central government that can stand up to that power, or hoping against hope that the money and wealth 'trickle's down'. We've also seen that money and wealth don't do that.
I'm open to alternatives (I'm a progressive after all). But I've never once heard one that doesn't boil down to some form of socialism, or that isn't just wishful thinking.
because it doesn't cost near what we pay to operate them. Stuff like this is what made me a socialist. The rich are going to find a way to use the government to their benefit and our detriment. I don't see any reason to pretend they'll not. So if we're going to have a powerful government that hands out socialism to the rich why not just get some of it for the rest of us? Start by making education in all forms free, and keep going from there.
one of the advantages Microsoft has is that they're paying people to do the boring parts. It's hard to get people to finish making open office stable and user friendly because all the glory is in adding new features. After the features are added and they work in 90% of the cases nobody does the dull work of making them work for that last 10%. Trouble is if you use it a lot you're gonna hit one of those last 10% cases sooner than later...
moves about as fast as windows, and I've never once heard of a dist upgrade to it breaking any thing. Slackware too.
Or are you talking a full dist-upgrade. E.g. going from one mainline trunk to another (e.g. Ubuntu 8 to Ubuntu 13). That's not a fair comparison. Try taking your Win XP box to Win 8 and see how that works out for you unless you've got bog standard gear, in which case your Ubuntu upgrade probably worked too.
Oh, and woe be on to you that lets Windows update install a video driver that's not generic Intel. It will lay waste to anything Nvidia or ATI.
Right wing groups marginalized? Did you not notice the 24/7 TV channel that exists solely to promote right wing views? Did you not notice their complete dominance of local politics (fueled by Citizens United Money) that allowed them to Gerrymander themselves control of the country?
Right wingers represent the ruling class. The 1%. The ones with money. Anything else they say or do is lip service to the ignorant. The Tea Party was created out of whole cloth by a super pack run by Dick Army. Fox news ran stories about UPCOMMING spontaneous protests. How the heck do you advertise for a spontaneous protest? Ask Fox News, I don't know.
This sucks. The Dems tried playing a little hardball, but they can't win. That's because when it counts. When it really counts. When it's not about some dumb ass social issue like two dudes marrying. When it's about _money_. When that happens, the media knows for real what side their bread's buttered on. You won't hear about any of the 1000 things the Bush administration did. You won't hear about the voter suppression in democratic districts. About what _really_ the unconstitutional laws used to shut down Acorn, or about how the police and FBI worked together to shut down OWS and the anti-1% movement. None of that. But mark my words, the dems get a little out of line and you'll hear. You'll get outraged, and you'll go right back to giving everything you have and hold dear to the Republicans and their 1% masters. Just like a good little slave. Obey.
just like it's cheaper to have India dismantle old asbestos boats: because they do it without regard to worker safety. It's pretty clear from just the summary let alone TFA that the problem here is the company that got the contract did everything on the cheap for as much profit as possible. If there's a problem with nuclear power it's that as soon as profit motive and corporations gets involved they first thing they do is slash safety to boost revenue.
when they say 'Vulture Capitalist'. Despite the etymology when people use the phrase 'Vulture Capitalist' they mean buying a company with the specific intention of stealing everything of value in a legal manner. See numerous examples elsewhere in this thread.
Moreover, the narrative we're being sold is that you buy a company because you want it to succeed. This is why we allow "job creators" to have so much wealth. It's the justification we're given for wealth inequity that investors will risk their capital to grow a business. Terminology aside the fact is buying companies to gut them is a common business practice today. Hell, it's why you don't have pulp Sci-Fi. The books had one distributor and it got Bained.
but what about Ratchet and Clank or Sly Cooper? I'd argue those are the equal of even a Mario 64. Still, you can play the GBA Sonic games on a Gamecube with adapter (or the upcoming Retron 5). Sonic Colors & Generations on the Wii are really 2D games. Generations is fantastic. And if you just want 2D there's tonnes of great indies. Rayman Origins, Super Meat Boy, Dust Force, La-Mulana, Freedom Planet, etc, etc.
As for a dedicated machine, computers today are so powerful you're not sacrificing anything for the extra features (Netflix, browsers, Facebook, etc).
to get what they want done. My experience is adults learn best when a clear reward is in sight. Also, don't forget the tried and true method of adult education:
1. Tell them what you're going to tell them.
2. Tell it to them.
3. Tell them what you just told them.
I know, it sounds silly and redundant, but it's effective.
You're comparing 20 years of the best of gaming to 3 to 5 years of everything. Look back at not just the crap, but the mediocre. Take out the garbage from the last 5 years and you've got some amazing stuff. La-Mulana, Shogun Total War, Sonic Generations. And there's just no comparing old school racing games to modern stuff like Need for Speed and Burn out. I literally can't go back to playing 16 bit or even 32 bit racers Post Burnout 3.
means people can buy more stuff? Why would I, as a capitalist and owner of most everything, just charge a lot of money. Especially when it's basic necessities like food, cancer meds, etc. Moreover, it's in my best interests to keep the lower 99% fighting among themselves for the little remaining work there is to do.
While we're on the subject, _what_ different industries? The only new industries I see popping up are automation. Unless you mean professional bootlicker for the 1%. But I can't imagine needing too many of those.
Moreover, look at places like China with large surplus populations and no socially accepted means to distribute wealth besides work. They're not exactly living well.
Heck, you end out your post with a link to the spending myth. You're linking to a site that's main narrative is that we're broke. How are we going to buy all this stuff when we have a spending problem, huh?
Basically, you're yet another conservative right winger with no real answers accept the old crap "The Free Market will take care of it". Meanwhile every shred of empirical evidence plus 2000+ years of history shows the free market results in the ultra wealthy use worker surpluses to their advantage and don't care much if the rest of us have jack $@!T.
$200 for an android tablet (these are just tablets with a $10 bluetooth keyboard) is about what I'd expect for a generic, but I've heard nothing but bad about them. Anyone doing this already with one of those cheap Coby's or something from newegg?
this sorta thing matters. Whether you're buying it or making it, how these sorta disputes get sorted out makes a difference.
the 'giant' late fee was you buying the DVD for what it would cost from the 'pre-viewed' bin. I bought several Scooby doo dvds for my kid that way. It was the one thing they did that I actually liked.