Google are what are often called politely "New Democrats" and not so politely "Clinton Democrats". They're Progressive on Social Issues, meaning they don't mind gays, especially since gays tend to be higher income earners and thus good customers (or product in google's case, since they're basically an ad agency). When it comes to matters of money they're hard, hard right.
The American media is like this too. Folks talk about the "Liberal Media Bias" because the media pushes climate change, abortion rights and civil rights. But those are social issues. Watch them on economics. Watch the coverage on Medicare for All, for example. Watch Brett Hume try to get negative sound bites out of Alexandria Orcasio-Cortez for a half hour on MSNBC (the supposed left wing Fox News).
Corporations are in it for money. Always, always, always follow the money.
7 years with the money we would save from Medicare for All. We could pay the rest of it in about 40 years, which would be in my kid's lifetime (not mine, I'm old:) ).
how about instead we just elect politicians who aren't corrupt and who will close tax loopholes and shelters? It's not even hard, just make it a point to vote for candidates who refuse corporate PAC money.
I've complained about this for years. It's a line item on my T-Mobile bill specifically designed to make me think it's a tax. It was not disclosed when I switched carriers. It's not a tax. It's a fee T-Mobile charges, ostensibly to comply with regulations. You know, like every other bloody company on earth is required to
It's a cynical and immoral attempt to shift the blame for their high prices onto government taxes. As an added bonus it also undermines people's faith in government, which large corporations are happy to do since that discourages people from participating in Democracy, creating a power vacuum they can exploit for their own benefit.
you give them your old iPhone (which probably just needs a new battery), they sell you a new one for $100 bucks off. Then they take the old phone and put a $10 battery in it and sell it for $300 in China or India.
people bought fewer new iPhones because you let the cat out of the bag on how replacing the battery fixes performance issues. I mean, I guess that is _technically_ a repair...
And I've replaced two iPhones now for what turned out to be a dying battery.
not because they're somehow special, but because they've been given almost nothing. Between student loan debt and the 20% lower pay than boomers they own nothing to speak of.
The right wing stay in power by exploiting people's natural conservative natures (e.g. the genuine fear of change). This works because people have something to lose and that lack a sense of entitlement. The Millennials have nothing to lose and they're at least a bit entitled (the media likes to portray them as entitled brats, this is more right wing propaganda, since it's sense of entitlement that makes people demand a better life, which the rich don't want to pay for).
There's other factors. Evangelical Religion is melting away, with 24% of Americans declaring "none" as their religion. Religion's another easy to exploit system for the right wing to use. Racism is yet another and is fading away, with people in the South openly challenging the phony civil war monuments (phony because they were erected to remind blacks to stay in their place, not to honor the fallen).
If there's anything that worries me it's the right wing Wallstreet Democrats. These folks were created by Bill Clinton and are basically economic right wingers who regularly sell out the working class. They're planing on using the GOP's reliance on rural racists against them as demographics change and the number of Hispanics increase. I don't think it's a good strategy, those Hispanics are likely to be right wing as anything, but since the Wallstreet Dems can't do real policy to solve real problems they're grasping at straws.
there's still numerous lawsuits going on. I can't believe I have to even say this on/., but the downsides are:
a. Price increases. ISP will leverage their control of the pipes to charge us more for services like on demand video.
b. Censorship. Again, ISP no longer have to treat all packets equally. That means if they don't like the Alt-Right (or the left) they can ban them.
c. No innovation. Small players won't even be able to get started because they won't be able to afford the bandwidth fees.
d. No more ala cart streaming services. No More cord cutting. It's only NN that made these possible. Say goodbye to Netflix, Crunchyroll and Youtube. Even the big guys won't be able to compete when the ISPs can charge them but not you. Same thing happened with Microsoft. Nobody could compete with them because they could leverage their defacto monopoly.
If I may digress for a moment longer: This is a constant thing I hear on the right and I'm fucking sick of it. To wit:
"We don't need this regulation to stop a bad thing because the bad thing is not happening".
It's like saying Murder can be legal because nobody I know got murdered this week. It's nonsensical and in any other aspect of life folks would call it out as bullshit. But there's a multi million dollar propaganda machine trying to get folks to distrust and hate regulation in general so the rich and powerful can splay us open and gut us like fish. And we're bloody god damned letting it happen.
thank the GOP. There have been a few votes to save Net Neutrality and they were lost along party lines (a few GOPers did break ranks but it wasn't enough).
I know folks don't like partisanship, but there are partisan issues and NN is one of them. Had Trump lost the election we wouldn't be reading this story today. Had the Democrats taken the Senate & House by a wide enough majority to override vetos we would be reading about the upcoming vote to restore NN. These aren't debatable points, they're just facts. Cold, hard facts.
We've got another election in about 2 years. Show up at your primary. The Dems have a wing that refuses corporate PAC money. If Net Neutrality matters to you then you know what to do.
on road trips or stuck at grandma's house away from their computer. Also, lots of kids have internet at home for school work but not cable TV ($100-$150/mo is kind of a non-starter).
Last year the crypto currency boom meant that anything faster than a 1050 (non TI) was selling for 2-3x retail. Fortnite runs find on a 5 year old mid range card you could get off ebay for $100 bucks. If you wanted a multiplayer game on PC, especially if you wanted to get into the battle royal genre, fortnite was the way to go.
In America the people we call conservative aren't. They're in favor of sweeping changes to social order. They seem to use the word "conservative" to mask that as most Americans are conservative (mostly because they live paycheck to paycheck and are terrified of any change that might push them over the edge into homelessness).
As for the racism, I've never once heard a left winger defend the left wing for accusations of racism, but I hear it constantly from the right wing. That's because we on the left censor our racists (yes, that includes the occasional twat who takes SJW political correctness to the point of racism). The right at least tolerates and usually welcomes the racist into their fold in a sort of "ends justify the means". I mean, the right wing president famously said "both sides were bad" when a literal nazi ran over a woman. I could give dozens of other examples of mainstream right wing apologizing for racists (spend an hour on youtube watching anti-SJW videos sometime and you'll get an eye full of the stuff) but I spare everyone for brevity.
What I'm saying is, maybe if ya'all would stop buddying up with the racists us lefties would stop callin' ya racists. Your words don't matter, your actions do.
Iran was well on it's way to secularizing before we put a fanatical right wing whack job in power because we didn't want them keeping their oil (which rightfully belonged to American corporations and the American ruling class). Then when it came time to throw those bums out the only place to foment a revolution was in mosques so we wound up with more right wing whack jobs with the added bonus of being completely batshit religiously insane. We did the same in South America (the guy who started MS-13 did so in America with training from our CIA) and Afghanistan (we created the Taliban).
Jokes aside, approx 38 % of Americans believe in "Young Earth" creationism and 24% believe everything in the bible is the literal word of God ("literal" here means that nothing is a parable).
These guys _aren't_ Disney. They're they guys who make Star Control. There's a paper trail where Stardock said they wouldn't be using Star Control assets in their games several years ago. They also repeatedly tried to buy the rights for Star Control from the creators and were told no, we want to make our own game.
There's a good reading of it here. I'm not 100% sure if the original creators are in the right (IANAL), but it looks like they are.
browsers are ridiculously complex now and need a lot of staff to keep up with all the requirements people have for them. They used to get a ton of money from google but these days they just get a bit from Yahoo. It's not as though they've got office monopoly money to fall back on or search money of their own.
to get you banned from owning credit and banking has it in for you then you're pretty well screwed already.
The solution is to build other, parallel power structures to keep those sorts of people in check. Specifically a democratic socialist government. The "socialist" part is important because you need to make sure that everybody is taken care of or sooner or later you'll end up with a large number of dispossessed who'll go find themselves a dictator like we say in China, Germany, Russia, pretty much everywhere a significant portion of the population was abandoned to survival of the fittest..
Anyway, If you don't like private companies having that much power there is a solution: Postal Banking. You've already accepted a fiat currency, so there's no point in railing against the gov't here; unless you're planing to go back to using chickens as a currency, but I wouldn't suggest it, they don't fit in any wallet you can buy on Amazon.com...
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that they can use on other sites when folks reuse them.
since people are looking now. Plus it's my kid's phone and she graduates in 2 years and then has to buy her own phones :D.
Google are what are often called politely "New Democrats" and not so politely "Clinton Democrats". They're Progressive on Social Issues, meaning they don't mind gays, especially since gays tend to be higher income earners and thus good customers (or product in google's case, since they're basically an ad agency). When it comes to matters of money they're hard, hard right.
The American media is like this too. Folks talk about the "Liberal Media Bias" because the media pushes climate change, abortion rights and civil rights. But those are social issues. Watch them on economics. Watch the coverage on Medicare for All, for example. Watch Brett Hume try to get negative sound bites out of Alexandria Orcasio-Cortez for a half hour on MSNBC (the supposed left wing Fox News).
Corporations are in it for money. Always, always, always follow the money.
7 years with the money we would save from Medicare for All. We could pay the rest of it in about 40 years, which would be in my kid's lifetime (not mine, I'm old :) ).
And we could do it faster if we'd stop meddling in other country's affairs for the sake of our mega corporations.
I keep on saying this, but vote, vote in your primary, and vote for candidates who refuse corporate PAC money. That's how you fix this.
how about instead we just elect politicians who aren't corrupt and who will close tax loopholes and shelters? It's not even hard, just make it a point to vote for candidates who refuse corporate PAC money.
I've complained about this for years. It's a line item on my T-Mobile bill specifically designed to make me think it's a tax. It was not disclosed when I switched carriers. It's not a tax. It's a fee T-Mobile charges, ostensibly to comply with regulations. You know, like every other bloody company on earth is required to
It's a cynical and immoral attempt to shift the blame for their high prices onto government taxes. As an added bonus it also undermines people's faith in government, which large corporations are happy to do since that discourages people from participating in Democracy, creating a power vacuum they can exploit for their own benefit.
Even the mainstream media has made this point. It's pretty obvious what's going on.
you give them your old iPhone (which probably just needs a new battery), they sell you a new one for $100 bucks off. Then they take the old phone and put a $10 battery in it and sell it for $300 in China or India.
people bought fewer new iPhones because you let the cat out of the bag on how replacing the battery fixes performance issues. I mean, I guess that is _technically_ a repair...
And I've replaced two iPhones now for what turned out to be a dying battery.
not because they're somehow special, but because they've been given almost nothing. Between student loan debt and the 20% lower pay than boomers they own nothing to speak of.
The right wing stay in power by exploiting people's natural conservative natures (e.g. the genuine fear of change). This works because people have something to lose and that lack a sense of entitlement. The Millennials have nothing to lose and they're at least a bit entitled (the media likes to portray them as entitled brats, this is more right wing propaganda, since it's sense of entitlement that makes people demand a better life, which the rich don't want to pay for).
There's other factors. Evangelical Religion is melting away, with 24% of Americans declaring "none" as their religion. Religion's another easy to exploit system for the right wing to use. Racism is yet another and is fading away, with people in the South openly challenging the phony civil war monuments (phony because they were erected to remind blacks to stay in their place, not to honor the fallen).
If there's anything that worries me it's the right wing Wallstreet Democrats. These folks were created by Bill Clinton and are basically economic right wingers who regularly sell out the working class. They're planing on using the GOP's reliance on rural racists against them as demographics change and the number of Hispanics increase. I don't think it's a good strategy, those Hispanics are likely to be right wing as anything, but since the Wallstreet Dems can't do real policy to solve real problems they're grasping at straws.
there's still numerous lawsuits going on. I can't believe I have to even say this on /., but the downsides are:
a. Price increases. ISP will leverage their control of the pipes to charge us more for services like on demand video.
b. Censorship. Again, ISP no longer have to treat all packets equally. That means if they don't like the Alt-Right (or the left) they can ban them.
c. No innovation. Small players won't even be able to get started because they won't be able to afford the bandwidth fees.
d. No more ala cart streaming services. No More cord cutting. It's only NN that made these possible. Say goodbye to Netflix, Crunchyroll and Youtube. Even the big guys won't be able to compete when the ISPs can charge them but not you. Same thing happened with Microsoft. Nobody could compete with them because they could leverage their defacto monopoly.
If I may digress for a moment longer: This is a constant thing I hear on the right and I'm fucking sick of it. To wit:
"We don't need this regulation to stop a bad thing because the bad thing is not happening".
It's like saying Murder can be legal because nobody I know got murdered this week. It's nonsensical and in any other aspect of life folks would call it out as bullshit. But there's a multi million dollar propaganda machine trying to get folks to distrust and hate regulation in general so the rich and powerful can splay us open and gut us like fish. And we're bloody god damned letting it happen.
thank the GOP. There have been a few votes to save Net Neutrality and they were lost along party lines (a few GOPers did break ranks but it wasn't enough).
I know folks don't like partisanship, but there are partisan issues and NN is one of them. Had Trump lost the election we wouldn't be reading this story today. Had the Democrats taken the Senate & House by a wide enough majority to override vetos we would be reading about the upcoming vote to restore NN. These aren't debatable points, they're just facts. Cold, hard facts.
We've got another election in about 2 years. Show up at your primary. The Dems have a wing that refuses corporate PAC money. If Net Neutrality matters to you then you know what to do.
on road trips or stuck at grandma's house away from their computer. Also, lots of kids have internet at home for school work but not cable TV ($100-$150/mo is kind of a non-starter).
Last year the crypto currency boom meant that anything faster than a 1050 (non TI) was selling for 2-3x retail. Fortnite runs find on a 5 year old mid range card you could get off ebay for $100 bucks. If you wanted a multiplayer game on PC, especially if you wanted to get into the battle royal genre, fortnite was the way to go.
I don't think the hype train hurts though.
but being conservative means "opposed to change".
In America the people we call conservative aren't. They're in favor of sweeping changes to social order. They seem to use the word "conservative" to mask that as most Americans are conservative (mostly because they live paycheck to paycheck and are terrified of any change that might push them over the edge into homelessness).
As for the racism, I've never once heard a left winger defend the left wing for accusations of racism, but I hear it constantly from the right wing. That's because we on the left censor our racists (yes, that includes the occasional twat who takes SJW political correctness to the point of racism). The right at least tolerates and usually welcomes the racist into their fold in a sort of "ends justify the means". I mean, the right wing president famously said "both sides were bad" when a literal nazi ran over a woman. I could give dozens of other examples of mainstream right wing apologizing for racists (spend an hour on youtube watching anti-SJW videos sometime and you'll get an eye full of the stuff) but I spare everyone for brevity.
What I'm saying is, maybe if ya'all would stop buddying up with the racists us lefties would stop callin' ya racists. Your words don't matter, your actions do.
Iran was well on it's way to secularizing before we put a fanatical right wing whack job in power because we didn't want them keeping their oil (which rightfully belonged to American corporations and the American ruling class). Then when it came time to throw those bums out the only place to foment a revolution was in mosques so we wound up with more right wing whack jobs with the added bonus of being completely batshit religiously insane. We did the same in South America (the guy who started MS-13 did so in America with training from our CIA) and Afghanistan (we created the Taliban).
Go Team America!
but it checks out.
Jokes aside, approx 38 % of Americans believe in "Young Earth" creationism and 24% believe everything in the bible is the literal word of God ("literal" here means that nothing is a parable).
own the rights to what they created?
These guys _aren't_ Disney. They're they guys who make Star Control. There's a paper trail where Stardock said they wouldn't be using Star Control assets in their games several years ago. They also repeatedly tried to buy the rights for Star Control from the creators and were told no, we want to make our own game.
There's a good reading of it here. I'm not 100% sure if the original creators are in the right (IANAL), but it looks like they are.
Minesweeper Certified Solitaire Engineer.
than pay conductors? Then it's ready for prime time.
does it have beam sabres?
browsers are ridiculously complex now and need a lot of staff to keep up with all the requirements people have for them. They used to get a ton of money from google but these days they just get a bit from Yahoo. It's not as though they've got office monopoly money to fall back on or search money of their own.
to get you banned from owning credit and banking has it in for you then you're pretty well screwed already.
The solution is to build other, parallel power structures to keep those sorts of people in check. Specifically a democratic socialist government. The "socialist" part is important because you need to make sure that everybody is taken care of or sooner or later you'll end up with a large number of dispossessed who'll go find themselves a dictator like we say in China, Germany, Russia, pretty much everywhere a significant portion of the population was abandoned to survival of the fittest..
Anyway, If you don't like private companies having that much power there is a solution: Postal Banking. You've already accepted a fiat currency, so there's no point in railing against the gov't here; unless you're planing to go back to using chickens as a currency, but I wouldn't suggest it, they don't fit in any wallet you can buy on Amazon.com...
though I now suspect that was due to a failing battery. Her 8 I'm gonna make her get a new battery for when the time comes :).
dangerous? Dangerous cartel?
You realize you just described bacon, right?