is that he just said he doesn't think the troops are important and somehow he's still in the running. That's the kinda gaff that should've broke him. It's amazing what unlimited funds can do. Thanks Citizens United.
I can buy a loaf of bread for a dollar. Off sale. Off sale 6 ounces of berries is $4.00. Not a lot of options there unless you're very, very wealthy...
there isn't any good reason to belong to one anymore. A modern military can easily and effortlessly put down any resistance a Militia cares to offer. They have training and weapons that are simply out of reach of most of us. If you want to protect your country you either join the main force or take up politics. Anything else is just ignoring reality, which by definition makes you a kook. Sorry.
they're a gun industry lobby. That's the part you're missing. They exist to promote the sale of guns for profit. The whole gun rights thing is just to add legitimacy to what is really just an industry lobby.
for poor kids. For kids who's parents work all day and have no disposable income (not even enough for the bus). Summer's very different when you're middle class. The War on Summer is just another example of the middle class going away. Yes, I know very well the origins of Summer vacation (farm work). I also know the origins of the education system (training farmers to work in a factory).
What I like best about this entire article is not one person asked why the hell we'd want to work that hard?
This would be a great time for the two candidates to sit down over a beer and talk... oh. Wait. He's a Morman. Oh well. I guess he can drink weak tea. Wait. Sorry. Can't have that either. Caffeine. I guess there's always caffeine free diet Pepsi.
was never an office killer. Calc is missing a tonne of stuff people use Excel for (e.g. as a poor man's application database). Writer has several nasty document eater bugs that haven't been fixed to this day. There's also nothing that competes with Outlook for Enterprise grade messaging. The fact is that stuff is expensive and above all boring to write. Large gov't grants could do it, but good luck getting that done between Microsoft's lobbying and the cries of 'Socialism!'.
there are real conspiracies out there. A conspiracy is just a bunch of people doing something together, usually something bad. The financial industry conspired to hide the worthlessness of their real-estate portfolios when they bundled them for sale. But you can't talk about that because talking about conspiracies makes you a loon...
the constant pressure to pass tests in classrooms of ever increasing size, cutting back and eliminating PE, adding large fees to sports activities, or getting the kids up at 6am because the buses come at 6:45am to get 'em there by 8. Nope. It's the frickin' iPad that's at fault for kids not sleeping...
we opened up education to more people. Regular people started going to school, instead of just the elite idle rich and the occasional genius. This is why test scores have been failing in America. It's not because people are dumber, it's because we're trying to uplift more of them. In the past they would have worked like slave for 40 years and then died. The cool thing is that the powers that be are using the lower test scores as an excuse to privatize the school system and reduce the quality of education in America. Ain't American Great?
but I read that as a) lots of protections against the DOJ looking into the financial meltdowns we cause every 10 to 15 years like the rising of the sun and b) we're going to stop policing the telcos and let them form monopolies again.
Besides, true freedom is economic security. Without that you're just a wage slave. True security can never be obtained by individuals. That's what society is for, and gov't is the instrument of society's will. If you've lost control of your gov't to an oligarchy, so what? They were going to win anyway. At least with the gov't I had a chance.
Role Playing is something you do as an escape. If you're the kind of person that's looking for that you'll find it on your own. If not, you'll probably never find it, or want to...
and vengeance is a popular pastime for the idle rich. Besides, if anyone notices you getting taken out you're an example of what not to do. That's why we have the death penalty.
I've watched videogame companies bailed out by the owners. The president of Sega did it. He put up his fortune to keep the company afloat and lost most of it.
That's not what's happening here. What's happening here is that a bunch of people were promised valuable stock options in exchange for a lower salary than they would normally command. They were then systematically cheated out of that using blatant and dishonest legal tactics. They've been defrauded in practice, just not legally. AOL did this too, and we all railed against them.
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And @$#! am I fed up with conservatards using the threat of job loses to keep us at each others throats. Better let the Job Creators do what they want or they'll take EVERYTHING away. It's there's after all. Mitt $#F#!@ Romney built it all with his own two hands. Him and John Galt. Jesus, what the hell is wrong with us? When did we become such a bunch of fsckin' cowards that we let these yahoo's push us around?
when I see stories like this. Sorry, sorta hard not to do.
There's lots and lots of problems here, but the fundamental one is that the workers are at a marked disadvantage over the Capitalists. Those employees can't really do anything about any of this. OnLive wins, they lose. Even if they get a lawyer and go all class action they'll probably get nothing except a $5 off coupon for a 12 month subscription of OnLive.
I was just reading Wikipedia's articles on Voluntary Slavery and Wage Slavery. The point made by the Capitalists was you should have the right to sell yourself, the point made by the Socialists was that if you're in that position you're bargaining from such a weak stance that you don't really have any right's to begin with.
I guess my point is this: "Free Market" Capitalists argue that freedom will win out in the end. As near as I can tell this is either a hopelessly naive sentiment, willful ignorance, or a carefully calculated lie. I'm still waiting to be proved wrong. After all, it'd be nice to believe in the basic good of people and civilization. But I'm a cynical ole coot.
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Corporations are an abuse of the government by the wealthy. I think the phrase is along the lines of "Privatize the profits and Socialize the losses". Our last round of bail outs exemplifies this sentiment.
Ok, let's see you died in the wool capitalists
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This looks to me like classic example of a fundamental problem with free market capitalism. All perfectly legal too. So come on: defend this. Seriously. Not trolling. I'm dying to know why it is that we should tolerate this sort of thing.
Stuff like this is why countries have laws against firing people, btw.
is structured in a way to implies that the government making things safer is a bad thing. It's a loaded comment with a surprising amount of things implied, and the sentiment behind it is why we get stuff like this.
Plus it's ridiculously well documented that the government makes things safer.
gov't can't do that in a democracy, only in a dictatorship. Businesses can and will OTOH can use Monopoly tactics to raise revenue, use laws to put competitors out of business, etc.
The trouble is you're comparing the best of business (freemarket competition resulting in better and cheaper products) to the worst of gov't (fascist dictatorships oppressing their people) and expecting us all to swallow it. Nice try though.
I spend every dollar I get my hands on. Willard Romney? Not so much. What scares me about the very rich is that give the chance they will halt all human progress. Not because their evil, but because when you're that rich you can't imagine a better life. How can you be progressive when you already have the best that can be imagined?
The lowest bidder that could claim to do the job always got the work anywhere I worked, except when there was nepotism involved (*cough*Paul Ryan*Cough).
Oh, come off it! Businesses and Gov't both screw up and get screwed. It's part of buying goods and services. The gov't stands out from private enterprise only because whenever society needs something done and it's too expensive to get anyone to pay for it we have the gov't do it. So the numbers are bigger and the loses are too.
Like cars? Like Roads? Guess what, a highway system was too expensive for private industry to bother with. Too much investment, there were better places to make short term gains. Same is true for drugs. You didn't think those companies actually PAID for their research, did you? Lately they can't even get the US gov't to pay for it (deficit cuts you see), and it's all done in Europe. They the drug Co's move it, do a little bit of testing, and release a product. Privatize the profits and socialize the loses. Capitalism at it's finest.
YOU need big science. You need it to maintain your comfortable middle class life style in the face of increased demands for resources. Paul Ryan, OTOH, has no use for it. This is what scares me about the really, really rich. Yeah, I know Paul's just a lackey for guys like Willard Romney, but the principle is the same.
The trouble with allowing anyone to amass as much of society's wealth (aka "The Good Stuff") is that when you're that high up the Totem pole you can't imagine anything better. How can you be expected to lead us all to a better world if you can't understand the concept?
Oh, and as for why guys like ole Willy Romney are responsible for my well being; I never said they were. Leading the rest of us to the promise land is the justification I hear for why they're allowed to be so rich. I think the Capitalists call it "Leadership". The CEO leads, we follow to prosperity. The last 10 years of tax cuts for them have worked great, right?
That's what I don't like about Corporatism
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the entire company's about to be gutted but that leadership will come out smelling of roses. How many times have we watch a company collapse and reform as a legal entity with no debt? I wish I (with my large looming debts from years of paycuts) could do that... back to the grind stone, except I don't really have a nose left to grind after 30 years of this $@!T
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is that he just said he doesn't think the troops are important and somehow he's still in the running. That's the kinda gaff that should've broke him. It's amazing what unlimited funds can do. Thanks Citizens United.
I can buy a loaf of bread for a dollar. Off sale. Off sale 6 ounces of berries is $4.00. Not a lot of options there unless you're very, very wealthy...
there isn't any good reason to belong to one anymore. A modern military can easily and effortlessly put down any resistance a Militia cares to offer. They have training and weapons that are simply out of reach of most of us. If you want to protect your country you either join the main force or take up politics. Anything else is just ignoring reality, which by definition makes you a kook. Sorry.
they're a gun industry lobby. That's the part you're missing. They exist to promote the sale of guns for profit. The whole gun rights thing is just to add legitimacy to what is really just an industry lobby.
for poor kids. For kids who's parents work all day and have no disposable income (not even enough for the bus). Summer's very different when you're middle class. The War on Summer is just another example of the middle class going away. Yes, I know very well the origins of Summer vacation (farm work). I also know the origins of the education system (training farmers to work in a factory).
What I like best about this entire article is not one person asked why the hell we'd want to work that hard?
This would be a great time for the two candidates to sit down over a beer and talk... oh. Wait. He's a Morman. Oh well. I guess he can drink weak tea. Wait. Sorry. Can't have that either. Caffeine. I guess there's always caffeine free diet Pepsi.
was never an office killer. Calc is missing a tonne of stuff people use Excel for (e.g. as a poor man's application database). Writer has several nasty document eater bugs that haven't been fixed to this day. There's also nothing that competes with Outlook for Enterprise grade messaging. The fact is that stuff is expensive and above all boring to write. Large gov't grants could do it, but good luck getting that done between Microsoft's lobbying and the cries of 'Socialism!'.
there are real conspiracies out there. A conspiracy is just a bunch of people doing something together, usually something bad. The financial industry conspired to hide the worthlessness of their real-estate portfolios when they bundled them for sale. But you can't talk about that because talking about conspiracies makes you a loon...
the constant pressure to pass tests in classrooms of ever increasing size, cutting back and eliminating PE, adding large fees to sports activities, or getting the kids up at 6am because the buses come at 6:45am to get 'em there by 8. Nope. It's the frickin' iPad that's at fault for kids not sleeping...
we opened up education to more people. Regular people started going to school, instead of just the elite idle rich and the occasional genius. This is why test scores have been failing in America. It's not because people are dumber, it's because we're trying to uplift more of them. In the past they would have worked like slave for 40 years and then died. The cool thing is that the powers that be are using the lower test scores as an excuse to privatize the school system and reduce the quality of education in America. Ain't American Great?
but I read that as a) lots of protections against the DOJ looking into the financial meltdowns we cause every 10 to 15 years like the rising of the sun and b) we're going to stop policing the telcos and let them form monopolies again.
Besides, true freedom is economic security. Without that you're just a wage slave. True security can never be obtained by individuals. That's what society is for, and gov't is the instrument of society's will. If you've lost control of your gov't to an oligarchy, so what? They were going to win anyway. At least with the gov't I had a chance.
Role Playing is something you do as an escape. If you're the kind of person that's looking for that you'll find it on your own. If not, you'll probably never find it, or want to...
and vengeance is a popular pastime for the idle rich. Besides, if anyone notices you getting taken out you're an example of what not to do. That's why we have the death penalty.
was more or less derailed by Michael Jackson dying. I wouldn't really trust the public eye to keep me safe, they're too easily distracted.
I've watched videogame companies bailed out by the owners. The president of Sega did it. He put up his fortune to keep the company afloat and lost most of it. That's not what's happening here. What's happening here is that a bunch of people were promised valuable stock options in exchange for a lower salary than they would normally command. They were then systematically cheated out of that using blatant and dishonest legal tactics. They've been defrauded in practice, just not legally. AOL did this too, and we all railed against them.
RANT MODE ON
And @$#! am I fed up with conservatards using the threat of job loses to keep us at each others throats. Better let the Job Creators do what they want or they'll take EVERYTHING away. It's there's after all. Mitt $#F#!@ Romney built it all with his own two hands. Him and John Galt. Jesus, what the hell is wrong with us? When did we become such a bunch of fsckin' cowards that we let these yahoo's push us around?
RANT MODE OFF
when I see stories like this. Sorry, sorta hard not to do.
There's lots and lots of problems here, but the fundamental one is that the workers are at a marked disadvantage over the Capitalists. Those employees can't really do anything about any of this. OnLive wins, they lose. Even if they get a lawyer and go all class action they'll probably get nothing except a $5 off coupon for a 12 month subscription of OnLive.
I was just reading Wikipedia's articles on Voluntary Slavery and Wage Slavery. The point made by the Capitalists was you should have the right to sell yourself, the point made by the Socialists was that if you're in that position you're bargaining from such a weak stance that you don't really have any right's to begin with.
I guess my point is this: "Free Market" Capitalists argue that freedom will win out in the end. As near as I can tell this is either a hopelessly naive sentiment, willful ignorance, or a carefully calculated lie. I'm still waiting to be proved wrong. After all, it'd be nice to believe in the basic good of people and civilization. But I'm a cynical ole coot.
Corporations are an abuse of the government by the wealthy. I think the phrase is along the lines of "Privatize the profits and Socialize the losses". Our last round of bail outs exemplifies this sentiment.
This looks to me like classic example of a fundamental problem with free market capitalism. All perfectly legal too. So come on: defend this. Seriously. Not trolling. I'm dying to know why it is that we should tolerate this sort of thing.
Stuff like this is why countries have laws against firing people, btw.
is structured in a way to implies that the government making things safer is a bad thing. It's a loaded comment with a surprising amount of things implied, and the sentiment behind it is why we get stuff like this.
Plus it's ridiculously well documented that the government makes things safer.
where are my mod points when I need 'em.
gov't can't do that in a democracy, only in a dictatorship. Businesses can and will OTOH can use Monopoly tactics to raise revenue, use laws to put competitors out of business, etc.
The trouble is you're comparing the best of business (freemarket competition resulting in better and cheaper products) to the worst of gov't (fascist dictatorships oppressing their people) and expecting us all to swallow it. Nice try though.
I spend every dollar I get my hands on. Willard Romney? Not so much. What scares me about the very rich is that give the chance they will halt all human progress. Not because their evil, but because when you're that rich you can't imagine a better life. How can you be progressive when you already have the best that can be imagined?
The lowest bidder that could claim to do the job always got the work anywhere I worked, except when there was nepotism involved (*cough*Paul Ryan*Cough).
Oh, come off it! Businesses and Gov't both screw up and get screwed. It's part of buying goods and services. The gov't stands out from private enterprise only because whenever society needs something done and it's too expensive to get anyone to pay for it we have the gov't do it. So the numbers are bigger and the loses are too.
Like cars? Like Roads? Guess what, a highway system was too expensive for private industry to bother with. Too much investment, there were better places to make short term gains. Same is true for drugs. You didn't think those companies actually PAID for their research, did you? Lately they can't even get the US gov't to pay for it (deficit cuts you see), and it's all done in Europe. They the drug Co's move it, do a little bit of testing, and release a product. Privatize the profits and socialize the loses. Capitalism at it's finest.
YOU need big science. You need it to maintain your comfortable middle class life style in the face of increased demands for resources. Paul Ryan, OTOH, has no use for it. This is what scares me about the really, really rich. Yeah, I know Paul's just a lackey for guys like Willard Romney, but the principle is the same.
The trouble with allowing anyone to amass as much of society's wealth (aka "The Good Stuff") is that when you're that high up the Totem pole you can't imagine anything better. How can you be expected to lead us all to a better world if you can't understand the concept?
Oh, and as for why guys like ole Willy Romney are responsible for my well being; I never said they were. Leading the rest of us to the promise land is the justification I hear for why they're allowed to be so rich. I think the Capitalists call it "Leadership". The CEO leads, we follow to prosperity. The last 10 years of tax cuts for them have worked great, right?
the entire company's about to be gutted but that leadership will come out smelling of roses. How many times have we watch a company collapse and reform as a legal entity with no debt? I wish I (with my large looming debts from years of paycuts) could do that... back to the grind stone, except I don't really have a nose left to grind after 30 years of this $@!T