at a local community college. The text book was crap, so the instructor told the students not to bother with it, and taught from notes. Trouble was, the book was written by the head of the department. Their grades were held hostage until all the copies of the book at the book store were sold.
It's used by cheap labor conservatives to justify crap wages, especially for white collar IT workers. The argument goes it's OK to kill yourself making $3/hour because it's better than goofing off you lazy bastard. It's like when factory owners argued in the 19th century against the 40 hour work week because they lower classes would just spend it drinking anyway.
Hey, you know what? I like living in a world where there's more to life than endless toil. You think the rich bastards that shoved this crap down your throat in grade school work 70 hours a week? If you do, you haven't been paying attention. Here's an idea: Pay people enough to make a difference in their lives and see how much interest you get.
You're right that neither were ever socialist. But neither were ever communist either. They were fascist dictatorships that happen to use Karl Marx's books for rhetoric.
Aren't web apps very different? Inside my Intranet I can make certain assumptions that I can't on the Web. If those assumptions prove false, it's because another layer above me isn't doing it's job. You might balk at this, but the fact is that as programmers we're constantly relying on some layer above us; whether it's network (TCP/IP, SSL, TSL), software (the OS, the API) or hardware (is the Memory on this board bad?).
they used the Patriot Act against the Occupy Wall Street protestors:). This folks, is why I'm a left wing socialist. And for those of you keeping score Obama centrist leaning to the right (or a liberal without the stomach for a good fight, but same thing really).
Accepting that politicians are inherently corrupt and there's nothing you can do about it isn't a natural state of humanity. We could use more people with faith in their politicians. That way when that faith is abused there'd be some shock, instead of acceptance mixed with defeat and irritation.
Oh, and if you need some faith restored and live in American, check out Alan Grayson, and if you can spare it please donate. After he pointed out the hypocrisy of our health care system the powers that be came down on him like a ton of bricks and ran him out of office with money...
HTC just opened up their phones. There's tonnes of cheap tablets that are open. Thing is, even big guys like IBM want to keep things open. Look at HTML5. They're all too scared of Microsoft to risk a complete lock down.
Um, in case you hadn't noticed, the middle class has been shrinking since 1970. There's been a lot of talk about raising taxes on the poor to give them a 'stake in the country'. There isn't enough money left in the middle class to run the country and not tax the rich, so they're after the poor now. I think the phrase is 'Balance the budget on the backs of the poor.".
it can best be summed up by the phrase "Screw the poor!". With a few exceptions (Alan Grayson & Barney Frank) a Democrat is just a Republican that isn't very good at it. BTW, this comes from a card carrying Dem. My theory is at least their Rhetoric isn't openly hostile to me. Anyway, you want change in this country? Do something about racism and Homophobia. That's what the 1% use to divide and conqueror the rest of us.
about how useless competition is in health care because you need too much specialized knowledge to make informed decisions, are too distraught to do so and don't use the service enough. This is interesting since it looks at it from the other end, e.g. someone with the knowledge to weigh their options for real.
these people are dirt poor in the richest country on earth. Their entire lives are a series of bad decisions. Maybe if instead of reveling in a kind of sick joy over their misery (Germans's call it schadenfreude I think) we would provide them a support structure to improve their lot (and not take it away at the first sign of improvement), they could get somewhere.
Oh, and nobody drinks energy drinks for their delicious refreshing taste. Those poor f#$kers are on their way to another fun filled 12 hour shift at their dead end service job after listing to their kid scream itself to sleep for 4 hours. Their not abusing, their self medicating...
it's the weekly ad. That's what they're advertising to get you into the store. Price fluctuation are kinda hard to take when you get $100/mo to feed 2 adults and 2 kids.
let's try able. Try 6 12 hour shifts at a dead end restaurant or construction job and see how much cooking you do. Add in screaming kids (because you don't have ready access to healthcare) and season your misery to taste.
Off topic, but seriously, what the hell is with this (uniquely American) thing where we revel in the suffering of people that make poor life decisions while under heavy duress? We give the poor just enough support to live miserable lives and as soon as they start making any head way we pull the rug out from under them. WTF?
"Also, politically, the poor tended to side with those who paid to feed them."
Sadly, Not even close. It really doesn't take much to turn the poor against themselves. Just a little racism & homophobia. Mix in a poor education system and a populace that's bad at math and indoctrinated to treat capitalism as God and socialism as the devil, and you're all set. Witness the signs about keeping the gov't out of Medicare (real) and the tea party rallies where people 'march' on their Medicare provided scooters...
How much do you save every month for retirement?
How much do you save every month for your 4 children's college fund?
What would you do if your car was wrecked by someone with no insurance and no ability to pay?
What would you do if you were out of work for 6 months due to an injury?
Being middle class isn't about where you are right now, it's about how secure you are in that position. This is the point most people miss. For the record, studies show you need about $65,000/yr average in America to be secure in your middle class standard of living.
taking that a step further, you can argue that the decline in middle class wages is a bigger part of that. Women can't afford to work for low wages as school teachers because their husbands no longer bring home enough money to maintain a middle class standard of living.
Especially since kids don't get textbooks anymore (thanks to Republican backed funding cuts). My kid often comes home with homework that I have no idea how to help with, because there's a particular answer / way of doing it they're using. More than once I've had my kid doing twice as much work solving a math problem because we did more than what the teacher wanted. With the white boards I started getting the teacher's notes, so I can see what the heck they actually want.
So yeah, in a properly funded school electronic whiteboards aren't needed. But in today's run down hell holes that we pass off as schools they're a life saver.
the workers are paid like crap? You can't make a lot of money when you're paying a few cents to a dollar/hr. Raise their wages, add $50 bucks to the cost of iCrap and suddenly China's probably not doing so bad.
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at a local community college. The text book was crap, so the instructor told the students not to bother with it, and taught from notes. Trouble was, the book was written by the head of the department. Their grades were held hostage until all the copies of the book at the book store were sold.
It's used by cheap labor conservatives to justify crap wages, especially for white collar IT workers. The argument goes it's OK to kill yourself making $3/hour because it's better than goofing off you lazy bastard. It's like when factory owners argued in the 19th century against the 40 hour work week because they lower classes would just spend it drinking anyway.
Hey, you know what? I like living in a world where there's more to life than endless toil. You think the rich bastards that shoved this crap down your throat in grade school work 70 hours a week? If you do, you haven't been paying attention. Here's an idea: Pay people enough to make a difference in their lives and see how much interest you get.
I think he meant does the guy who buys the C$ pay the 15% or does the guy cashing out the C% pay it? And I'll bet the answer is: both.
A practical application for my Warhammer 40K painting!
Your Wrong. Now say 40 Hail Emacs & use VI for a week.
You're right that neither were ever socialist. But neither were ever communist either. They were fascist dictatorships that happen to use Karl Marx's books for rhetoric.
Aren't web apps very different? Inside my Intranet I can make certain assumptions that I can't on the Web. If those assumptions prove false, it's because another layer above me isn't doing it's job. You might balk at this, but the fact is that as programmers we're constantly relying on some layer above us; whether it's network (TCP/IP, SSL, TSL), software (the OS, the API) or hardware (is the Memory on this board bad?).
they used the Patriot Act against the Occupy Wall Street protestors :). This folks, is why I'm a left wing socialist. And for those of you keeping score Obama centrist leaning to the right (or a liberal without the stomach for a good fight, but same thing really).
Accepting that politicians are inherently corrupt and there's nothing you can do about it isn't a natural state of humanity. We could use more people with faith in their politicians. That way when that faith is abused there'd be some shock, instead of acceptance mixed with defeat and irritation.
Oh, and if you need some faith restored and live in American, check out Alan Grayson, and if you can spare it please donate. After he pointed out the hypocrisy of our health care system the powers that be came down on him like a ton of bricks and ran him out of office with money...
HTC just opened up their phones. There's tonnes of cheap tablets that are open. Thing is, even big guys like IBM want to keep things open. Look at HTML5. They're all too scared of Microsoft to risk a complete lock down.
Um, in case you hadn't noticed, the middle class has been shrinking since 1970. There's been a lot of talk about raising taxes on the poor to give them a 'stake in the country'. There isn't enough money left in the middle class to run the country and not tax the rich, so they're after the poor now. I think the phrase is 'Balance the budget on the backs of the poor.".
it can best be summed up by the phrase "Screw the poor!". With a few exceptions (Alan Grayson & Barney Frank) a Democrat is just a Republican that isn't very good at it. BTW, this comes from a card carrying Dem. My theory is at least their Rhetoric isn't openly hostile to me. Anyway, you want change in this country? Do something about racism and Homophobia. That's what the 1% use to divide and conqueror the rest of us.
Talkies don't give me a pounding headache, even at THX volumes.
about how useless competition is in health care because you need too much specialized knowledge to make informed decisions, are too distraught to do so and don't use the service enough. This is interesting since it looks at it from the other end, e.g. someone with the knowledge to weigh their options for real.
I had no idea this product existed before this. It'll probably make my X-Mas list for my XBox fanatic friend next year.
these people are dirt poor in the richest country on earth. Their entire lives are a series of bad decisions. Maybe if instead of reveling in a kind of sick joy over their misery (Germans's call it schadenfreude I think) we would provide them a support structure to improve their lot (and not take it away at the first sign of improvement), they could get somewhere.
Oh, and nobody drinks energy drinks for their delicious refreshing taste. Those poor f#$kers are on their way to another fun filled 12 hour shift at their dead end service job after listing to their kid scream itself to sleep for 4 hours. Their not abusing, their self medicating...
it's the weekly ad. That's what they're advertising to get you into the store. Price fluctuation are kinda hard to take when you get $100/mo to feed 2 adults and 2 kids.
I mean birth control, not healthcare. Same thing really, but oh Well.
let's try able. Try 6 12 hour shifts at a dead end restaurant or construction job and see how much cooking you do. Add in screaming kids (because you don't have ready access to healthcare) and season your misery to taste.
Off topic, but seriously, what the hell is with this (uniquely American) thing where we revel in the suffering of people that make poor life decisions while under heavy duress? We give the poor just enough support to live miserable lives and as soon as they start making any head way we pull the rug out from under them. WTF?
"Also, politically, the poor tended to side with those who paid to feed them."
Sadly, Not even close. It really doesn't take much to turn the poor against themselves. Just a little racism & homophobia. Mix in a poor education system and a populace that's bad at math and indoctrinated to treat capitalism as God and socialism as the devil, and you're all set. Witness the signs about keeping the gov't out of Medicare (real) and the tea party rallies where people 'march' on their Medicare provided scooters...
US birth rates are hovering at 1.9, and that's before the introduction of several new contraceptive solutions.
Moreover, I would ask:
How much do you save every month for retirement?
How much do you save every month for your 4 children's college fund?
What would you do if your car was wrecked by someone with no insurance and no ability to pay?
What would you do if you were out of work for 6 months due to an injury?
Being middle class isn't about where you are right now, it's about how secure you are in that position. This is the point most people miss. For the record, studies show you need about $65,000/yr average in America to be secure in your middle class standard of living.
taking that a step further, you can argue that the decline in middle class wages is a bigger part of that. Women can't afford to work for low wages as school teachers because their husbands no longer bring home enough money to maintain a middle class standard of living.
Especially since kids don't get textbooks anymore (thanks to Republican backed funding cuts). My kid often comes home with homework that I have no idea how to help with, because there's a particular answer / way of doing it they're using. More than once I've had my kid doing twice as much work solving a math problem because we did more than what the teacher wanted. With the white boards I started getting the teacher's notes, so I can see what the heck they actually want.
So yeah, in a properly funded school electronic whiteboards aren't needed. But in today's run down hell holes that we pass off as schools they're a life saver.
the workers are paid like crap? You can't make a lot of money when you're paying a few cents to a dollar /hr. Raise their wages, add $50 bucks to the cost of iCrap and suddenly China's probably not doing so bad.