And that's the problem. He's right and it goes against every dumb thing you were taught in grade school. You're taught American Exceptionalism and how scary the commies and their governments were. But fact is that small governments get picked apart by corporations. Divide and conquer. Remember that picture of the snake cut to bits? Seriously, there's a reason we have a Federal gov't, and the power your average multi-national wields today would make the British empire run for the hills.
all that money comes from.05% of Americans. I forget where the statistic came from. One of the liberal pundits noticed it. But basically all the money in politics comes from a fraction of a percent of Americans. They vet every single candidate. Nobody gets elected unless they want them to be.
Not saying to give up, but we need to start moving this country left and not stop. Left is the opposite of corporatism. Like it or not someone is going to have massive power over our lives. It's going to happen. Power tends to collect in one place. Wealth and privilege gets passed down, a bust comes and the ones with all the money from their dads buy up the property from those of us trying to survive. This happens every 10 to 15 years like clockwork. I'd rather the gov't have that power. If I give it to some random guy who's dad was in the right place at the right time I know I'm screwed. With gov't there's a chance, however small.
we're saying that the wealthy should pay to maintain the society they live in and benefit handsomely from. But nice try there. Keep pushing that Fox news theft narrative. Because we all know the real problem isn't bankers and billionaires monopolizing all the wealth. No, it's a little black kid with a sandwich his mommy didn't pay for that brought the American Financial system to it's knees.
You're employed at will. You have no less (or more) security than any other employee. I'm assuming you're paying out of pocket for insurance and hoping you don't get sick. That's the 'risk' most people are talking about. If you have a catastrophic medical issue you're going to end up on gov't health care or dead. There's no in between (if you think there is, you have no idea how the US health care system works). When guys like you have the shit hit the fan you don't just put a bullet in your heads, you do everything you can to hang on. Ayn Rand did it, and so will you.
Also, deductions are needed for a progressive tax system. If you care about anyone except yourself progressive tax systems are good. The rich pay more to maintain the society they're getting all that enjoyment out of.
Finally unless you're a billionaire or don't give a $h@t about your grandkids you care about a progressive society. The billionaires are coming for your money. You think they're going to tolerate your $100k/yr salary? Haven't you noticed the non-stop flood of new visa programs?
Judges are part of the ruling class. Oh wait, America doesn't have class, right? And it's certainly not true that 95% of political donations come from.05% of Americans, right?
I like to call it the Cheney effect, after the American Vice President and political pundit that perfected it. Strictly speaking it was Karl Rove's idea though. You just lie brazenly and publicly about something nobody really wanted to believe in the first place.
And so are you. And so is EVERY American. Stop thinking that way. When you do, they win. They being the 1%. br>
You're worth a decent wage. You're entitle to food, shelter and Health care. You EARNED a good life just by being BORN. Pull you're head out of your rear and stop beating up on yourself just because your daddy wasn't board rich. Bill Gates, Mark Zuck, Dick Cheney. Every last one had wealthy parents and connections. Not a damn one of them got anywhere near a boot strap. Lies, all lies.
just lies. There's plenty of Qualified Americans. I can't compete with India. They come here alone, work, and can support their whole family by sending a fraction of their wages back. Meanwhile my kid's school cloths will run $600+ this year and that's if I send her to Walmart and have her pick out the cheap stuff. Triple that if I shop somewhere she wont' get bullied for.
As for qualified Americans, I've seen what the H1-Bs do. They're ever loving code monkeys. You will never, ever, ever trick me into believing there's a shortage of VB programmers. What you've got a shortage of is people you can abuse that can take the abuse and bang out your crap.
which is largely socialist. A 'real' capitalist economy and a free market handles it just fine. Everyone's wages plummet, we're all short on food and we start working 80 hours a week to get by. That's what a 'real' capitalist economy does. A rising tide doesn't raise all boats, it sinks all but the largest.
Also, you're political anti-union tripe doesn't match with your typing accent. I see that crap in England because we more or less bought them, but not in the rest of Europe. I really hope you're just an astroturfer and you're not actually believing the non-sense you spout. READ a little about the history of Unions in American and how things were before them, or just look at how those Chinese workers are treated right _now_. You're nuts if you're attacking unions. Or an astro turfer.
Like I said, here's hoping you're an Astroturfer, because you owe everything you have to unions and socialism. Pisses me off to see ppl like that turning against it.Arrogant bunch of...
to do something that any idiot with 5 seconds looking at an Economy can do. Here's a hint: If a lot of people don't have food and there's a nearby ethnic group that makes a good scapegoat you've got a Genocide on your hands. Don't like it? Give 'em food. Seriously ppl, if we hadn't shit all over the Germans at the end of WWI Hitler never woulda got anywhere.
Face it, we're all going to get replaced by Expert Systems. They talked about this in the 80s and you didn't believe. 95% of us follow pretty simple patterns. There's damn little that most of us can do that a machine can't. Sure, there are exceptions. But most of us don't qualify, we just think we do.
You're being replaced. The real question is how are you going to deal with it? What do we do when 95% of us are completely unnecessary?
Boy us programmers sure work too fsckin' hard. You don't see lawyers saying they need to know 5 types of law, or doctors saying they need to specialize in 5 types of business. Than again Doctors and Lawyers have unions...
it just got easier to write the apps, and India programers got common. And Malaysian programmers. And Spain, Greece, Mexico. You got outsourced. Whine all you want about "quality", but you can't compete with people living for 1/100 your cost. It's also tough to compete with people who've never had anything bad happen to them in their lives. Survival bias. When you've got so many programmers you get to pick and choose those one.
But the bubble isn't gone. There's 100 million android devices. They need software. There's no bubble, there's a really big market.
then the owners of Target can have more wealth than 140 million people. Sorry, but you sort of missed my point, which is that wealth inequity and the lack of economic security are much bigger issues than privacy. Put another way, do peasants in Africa care about privacy?
You don't see billionaires caring when people read about the horrid things they do every day. Why? Because they're economically secure. I'd like to see less talk about information and privacy bugaboos and more talk about the rising cost of basic necessities (food, shelter, health care). It's all well and good to get distracted by scary men watching you, but in case nobody's noticed real wages haven't rose in 30 years, and the 6 ppl that run Walmart have more money than 40% of America COMBINED.
but you're just being naive. There's a million reasons why it doesn't work. For one thing, you're ignoring how horrible things were 250 years ago for everyone except a lucky few. For another, America won it's revolution with lots and lots of French help, and countries don't do that any more. The rulers work together. If you want a future, the working class have to work together sensibly for it. That means using the only tool with enough power to stand up against old money: Government.
Sure, you might screw up and create the same sort of beast. But you're not going to make a worse beast. It's the same demon by a different name. Meanwhile at least you have a CHANCE of a better world. I'll take a one in a million chance against hopelessness any day. And I don't think they odds are nearly that bad.
1000+ years of little or no progress. Do you not understand what conservationism is? It's keeping things the same because if you're rich, hey, everything's fine.
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And that's the problem. He's right and it goes against every dumb thing you were taught in grade school. You're taught American Exceptionalism and how scary the commies and their governments were. But fact is that small governments get picked apart by corporations. Divide and conquer. Remember that picture of the snake cut to bits? Seriously, there's a reason we have a Federal gov't, and the power your average multi-national wields today would make the British empire run for the hills.
If you're writing Java it's easy. It's a bit more trouble with .Net because nobody's bothered with a good tutorial.
all that money comes from .05% of Americans. I forget where the statistic came from. One of the liberal pundits noticed it. But basically all the money in politics comes from a fraction of a percent of Americans. They vet every single candidate. Nobody gets elected unless they want them to be.
Not saying to give up, but we need to start moving this country left and not stop. Left is the opposite of corporatism. Like it or not someone is going to have massive power over our lives. It's going to happen. Power tends to collect in one place. Wealth and privilege gets passed down, a bust comes and the ones with all the money from their dads buy up the property from those of us trying to survive. This happens every 10 to 15 years like clockwork. I'd rather the gov't have that power. If I give it to some random guy who's dad was in the right place at the right time I know I'm screwed. With gov't there's a chance, however small.
we're saying that the wealthy should pay to maintain the society they live in and benefit handsomely from. But nice try there. Keep pushing that Fox news theft narrative. Because we all know the real problem isn't bankers and billionaires monopolizing all the wealth. No, it's a little black kid with a sandwich his mommy didn't pay for that brought the American Financial system to it's knees.
You're employed at will. You have no less (or more) security than any other employee. I'm assuming you're paying out of pocket for insurance and hoping you don't get sick. That's the 'risk' most people are talking about. If you have a catastrophic medical issue you're going to end up on gov't health care or dead. There's no in between (if you think there is, you have no idea how the US health care system works). When guys like you have the shit hit the fan you don't just put a bullet in your heads, you do everything you can to hang on. Ayn Rand did it, and so will you.
Also, deductions are needed for a progressive tax system. If you care about anyone except yourself progressive tax systems are good. The rich pay more to maintain the society they're getting all that enjoyment out of.
Finally unless you're a billionaire or don't give a $h@t about your grandkids you care about a progressive society. The billionaires are coming for your money. You think they're going to tolerate your $100k/yr salary? Haven't you noticed the non-stop flood of new visa programs?
how do you make an add supported app? Or do you?
Jeez, might as well just break out the blueprints for the Edsel while they're at it and wash the ride down with some New Coke.
but they do tend to side with the property owners, because that's their sorta people. The 'class' if you will.
By the time I'm done with taxes, fees, and the price hike after 3 months it's $95. I guess I can pay $50/mo for over the air if I want.
Judges are part of the ruling class. Oh wait, America doesn't have class, right? And it's certainly not true that 95% of political donations come from .05% of Americans, right?
I like to call it the Cheney effect, after the American Vice President and political pundit that perfected it. Strictly speaking it was Karl Rove's idea though. You just lie brazenly and publicly about something nobody really wanted to believe in the first place.
And so are you. And so is EVERY American. Stop thinking that way. When you do, they win. They being the 1%.
br> You're worth a decent wage. You're entitle to food, shelter and Health care. You EARNED a good life just by being BORN. Pull you're head out of your rear and stop beating up on yourself just because your daddy wasn't board rich. Bill Gates, Mark Zuck, Dick Cheney. Every last one had wealthy parents and connections. Not a damn one of them got anywhere near a boot strap. Lies, all lies.
just lies. There's plenty of Qualified Americans. I can't compete with India. They come here alone, work, and can support their whole family by sending a fraction of their wages back. Meanwhile my kid's school cloths will run $600+ this year and that's if I send her to Walmart and have her pick out the cheap stuff. Triple that if I shop somewhere she wont' get bullied for.
As for qualified Americans, I've seen what the H1-Bs do. They're ever loving code monkeys. You will never, ever, ever trick me into believing there's a shortage of VB programmers. What you've got a shortage of is people you can abuse that can take the abuse and bang out your crap.
which is largely socialist. A 'real' capitalist economy and a free market handles it just fine. Everyone's wages plummet, we're all short on food and we start working 80 hours a week to get by. That's what a 'real' capitalist economy does. A rising tide doesn't raise all boats, it sinks all but the largest.
Also, you're political anti-union tripe doesn't match with your typing accent. I see that crap in England because we more or less bought them, but not in the rest of Europe. I really hope you're just an astroturfer and you're not actually believing the non-sense you spout. READ a little about the history of Unions in American and how things were before them, or just look at how those Chinese workers are treated right _now_. You're nuts if you're attacking unions. Or an astro turfer.
Like I said, here's hoping you're an Astroturfer, because you owe everything you have to unions and socialism. Pisses me off to see ppl like that turning against it.Arrogant bunch of...
to do something that any idiot with 5 seconds looking at an Economy can do. Here's a hint: If a lot of people don't have food and there's a nearby ethnic group that makes a good scapegoat you've got a Genocide on your hands. Don't like it? Give 'em food. Seriously ppl, if we hadn't shit all over the Germans at the end of WWI Hitler never woulda got anywhere.
Face it, we're all going to get replaced by Expert Systems. They talked about this in the 80s and you didn't believe. 95% of us follow pretty simple patterns. There's damn little that most of us can do that a machine can't. Sure, there are exceptions. But most of us don't qualify, we just think we do.
You're being replaced. The real question is how are you going to deal with it? What do we do when 95% of us are completely unnecessary?
And can't do 1080p w/o hardware excel. My CPU might be old, but it's still miles ahead of an i3 and bumps up against the low end i5s.
Boy us programmers sure work too fsckin' hard. You don't see lawyers saying they need to know 5 types of law, or doctors saying they need to specialize in 5 types of business. Than again Doctors and Lawyers have unions...
You're a cog in somebody's machine. You can be replaced and nobody knows the difference.
it just got easier to write the apps, and India programers got common. And Malaysian programmers. And Spain, Greece, Mexico. You got outsourced. Whine all you want about "quality", but you can't compete with people living for 1/100 your cost. It's also tough to compete with people who've never had anything bad happen to them in their lives. Survival bias. When you've got so many programmers you get to pick and choose those one.
But the bubble isn't gone. There's 100 million android devices. They need software. There's no bubble, there's a really big market.
That'll show 'em. There's nothing a tourist trap hates more than tourists.
then the owners of Target can have more wealth than 140 million people. Sorry, but you sort of missed my point, which is that wealth inequity and the lack of economic security are much bigger issues than privacy. Put another way, do peasants in Africa care about privacy?
You don't see billionaires caring when people read about the horrid things they do every day. Why? Because they're economically secure. I'd like to see less talk about information and privacy bugaboos and more talk about the rising cost of basic necessities (food, shelter, health care). It's all well and good to get distracted by scary men watching you, but in case nobody's noticed real wages haven't rose in 30 years, and the 6 ppl that run Walmart have more money than 40% of America COMBINED.
but you're just being naive. There's a million reasons why it doesn't work. For one thing, you're ignoring how horrible things were 250 years ago for everyone except a lucky few. For another, America won it's revolution with lots and lots of French help, and countries don't do that any more. The rulers work together. If you want a future, the working class have to work together sensibly for it. That means using the only tool with enough power to stand up against old money: Government.
Sure, you might screw up and create the same sort of beast. But you're not going to make a worse beast. It's the same demon by a different name. Meanwhile at least you have a CHANCE of a better world. I'll take a one in a million chance against hopelessness any day. And I don't think they odds are nearly that bad.
1000+ years of little or no progress. Do you not understand what conservationism is? It's keeping things the same because if you're rich, hey, everything's fine.