because they can always dangle the threat of turning you into a temp when you get too uppity. Crap like this is why workers Unionized and why companies spend a small fortune demonizing Unions. You can't negotiate with mega companies on your own unless you're one of the top 1% of math geniuses. And let's be real here, if you're spending your time reading posts on/. you're probably not...
But damn, if IT folks aren't the most stuck up I've ever met. I think it comes from talking to people who can barely turn on a computer all day. It gives us a big head.
data isn't. So if you have a pricey plan and an iPhone you won't notice this in the slightest. If you've got a cheap subsidized burner phone it'll hit you hard. You'll have to choose between texting and doing your homework. A lot of regressives like that choice.
There's a sizable group of people in this country that want poor people to suffer. The idea is that their suffering will encourage them to stop being so damn poor. Now, virtually all research on the topic shows that pressure does not in fact make diamonds, and instead the stress from constantly being screwed and the mental gymnastics poor folks do calculating every little nickle and dime stolen from them exhausts them and leads to poor decision making, but that's not the point. Some folks just want somebody else to have it worse them them, and they don't care how that happens.
they do not use people as bargaining chips, which is hilarious since Trump as chief Executive is the head of the Justice Dept (yeah, yeah, I know it's "non-partisan", tell me another one and say hi to the Attorney General he fired for not playing ball). The real damage Trump has done was to the rule of law in America.
Thing is, his poll numbers haven't budge an inch (according to 538, which is usually right). He's a true Demagogue. Nothing he does or says makes his base second guess him. The GOP is even trying to get him to go after Social Security and Medicare, with the assumption being that he could do it without taking any damage politically. And you know what? I think they're right. Fortunately he's said no (so far).
the dividing line is pretty clear. As soon as you call for violence, either directly or in the classic "Won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest" way then blamo, out you go. At least as far as deplatforming goes. If you take it far enough you'll face criminal charges (just like that kid who kept swatting did) though if you keep a modest lid on it you can at least still get a web site hosted, much like Alex Jones does.
for low income residences than with a regressive tax that disproportionately impacts the working class, including the working poor.
Seriously, in 2018 does anyone still fall for this crap? It's like when they rebranded trickle down economics as "Tax cuts for Job Creators" and left out the fact that "Job Creators" don't pay taxes when they invest in their companies...
outrage culture. Like right wing SJWs. It's folks using outrage of any kind to get Youtube views, ad-clicks and Pateron donations.
There's a youtuber named "Cult of Dusty" that does a good job calling people out on this. He made the point that there's only so many blue haired college chicks saying crazy anti-man crap out there, so that we're getting increasingly crazy attacks on things that are "SJW" and the like. The left wing SJWs for their part are often happy to join in on the circle jerk of clicks and Pateron donations, though I don't think they do as well as the right wing guys.
It's all crap to distract you and me from economic issues like healthcare, low and declining wages, expensive college and are general declining standard of living. If you're engaging in it yourself stop it. It's a mean, nasty thing to do. If you've falling in with the anti-SJW crowd get yourself out and start focusing on real, substantive economic policy instead.
They take money from every corporation on Earth. I call the "Clinton Democrats" because they got their start under Clinton, but Wikipedia calls them "New Democrats", which is B.S., they don't act like the Dems and don't follow the principles of the party platform).
3 Republicans voted for NN, but they did so safe in the knowledge that it wouldn't pass. I'm guessing the Clinton Dems will do the same. When the vote has a real chance to pass their either abstain to give the GOP the votes to kill it or they'll vote no and pack peddle.
You see the same thing on Medicare for All. There's a whole bunch of right wing Dems who backed Bernie's bill because Medicare for All has a 70% approval rating nationally and they want to run for president. But if you press them to start campaigning for it they clam up and, again, back peddle.
It's actually really easy to spot a politician who's lying to you, and it's not the old "Ha ha, they opened their Mouth, ha ha". Just press them on issues that matter to you and that they take money to oppose and wait for them to either double down and fight for the issue (like Bernie does) or back peddle and tell you how "Oh, that's a wonderful idea but it's just too Pie In the Sky" like Pelosi and Schumer.
the Senate passed it while they could be content in the knowledge that it couldn't pass the House. Now that the House is flipping to Dems it'll die in the Senate next. And in any case it doesn't have a super majority to overcome a Presidential Veto.
I say this on every NN forum, but if this matters to you then you're going to have to change your voting. That means showing up at Primaries, voting against both the GOP _and_ the Clinton Democrats and putting actual, left wing candidates in office who are in favor of government regulation like NN.
Because make no mistake, Net Neutrality _is_ a government regulation on a private industry. The libertarians can argue that it's only a psuedo-private industry and that everything would be fine if the government just deregulated completely (because that worked so well when AT&T was in charge) but it's _still_ a government regulation. If we keep voting for folks who don't believe in government this is what we're going to get.
it shows the base cost of broadband internet is $5 bucks a month. Maybe add another $5 for maintenance. I don't know about the rest of you but I pay $100 bucks a month.
I'm inclined to think it has less to do with religion and more to do with the ruling class wanting to keep a lid on the working class. Too much education and critical thinking will get folks to start demanding better pay and working conditions.
in practice powerful propagandists prop up bad ideas all the time.
Put another way, there is no such thing as a "Free Marketplace of Ideas" anymore than there's a free marketplace anywhere or any time. In the absence of anti-trust laws you get robber barons, but I'd hardly call a regulated economy a "free marketplace".
So you make trade offs between protecting vulnerable groups and having freedom and innovation. Google's done an alright job so far. The only folks I've seen completely deplatformed ere the ones actively encouraging violence (and no, having your ad revenue go away isn't a deplatforming...).
just go look at other content made by the same media outlet. It's no secret Fox News is in the tank for the GOP or that MSNBC is in it for the Clinton wing of the Democratic party. 20 minutes on either site will tell you that. Similarly folks like Secular Talk are part of the left wing progressive movement while Alex Jones and crew again are tanking it for the GOP.
Now, how to get folks with little or no critical thinking skills to do that is beyond me. It is something that can be taught, but you generally need to do that when they're kids or they're too busy to learn...
I guess it's not different than some of the tool tips in modern video games or Microsoft Office, but when it comes to a browser that's a bit much. It's like looking at the books I check out from the library only worse.
Secular Talk, Dave Packman, The Young Turks. To be honest they're mostly just commenting on BBC stories and some Al Jazeerez. I'll check CNN & MSNBC but both are more or less the Establishment party line. For general news there's Fark (not the comments section, but the aggregator part).
I think folks stopped caring about newspapers when they started to be 24/7 nonstop corporate propaganda. Back in the day newspapers would muckrake and dig up dirt on powerful men. That was something worth paying for. These days those men either buy out or sue the papers until they toe the line. What's the point.
there were a ton of left wing candidates who accept no corporate PAC money that tried to primary the right wing "Clinton" Democrats. Most of them lost but a few (notably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who took out the "young" 55 year old replacement for Nancy Pelosi).
The real power in American politics is in primary elections. By the time it gets to the general it's too late. But that doesn't mean you can't vote in your primary.
when I first saw their headline I thought it meant folks were changing jobs, not getting fired. Also they call 3 weeks of severance per year of work "generous"...
Trump just signed NAFTA 1.2. It's just like NAFTA except he snuck a few provisions from the TPP in there (notably the one that lets companies sue governments for lost profits, which should have be a big no-no among his America First base...).
At any rate even if they bought a factory here I doubt we'd see jobs. There's always automation. Ever see the Steam controller get made? One guy dumps parts manufactured in China into a machine and out comes controllers.
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because they can always dangle the threat of turning you into a temp when you get too uppity. Crap like this is why workers Unionized and why companies spend a small fortune demonizing Unions. You can't negotiate with mega companies on your own unless you're one of the top 1% of math geniuses. And let's be real here, if you're spending your time reading posts on /. you're probably not...
But damn, if IT folks aren't the most stuck up I've ever met. I think it comes from talking to people who can barely turn on a computer all day. It gives us a big head.
data isn't. So if you have a pricey plan and an iPhone you won't notice this in the slightest. If you've got a cheap subsidized burner phone it'll hit you hard. You'll have to choose between texting and doing your homework. A lot of regressives like that choice.
There's a sizable group of people in this country that want poor people to suffer. The idea is that their suffering will encourage them to stop being so damn poor. Now, virtually all research on the topic shows that pressure does not in fact make diamonds, and instead the stress from constantly being screwed and the mental gymnastics poor folks do calculating every little nickle and dime stolen from them exhausts them and leads to poor decision making, but that's not the point. Some folks just want somebody else to have it worse them them, and they don't care how that happens.
they do not use people as bargaining chips, which is hilarious since Trump as chief Executive is the head of the Justice Dept (yeah, yeah, I know it's "non-partisan", tell me another one and say hi to the Attorney General he fired for not playing ball). The real damage Trump has done was to the rule of law in America.
Thing is, his poll numbers haven't budge an inch (according to 538, which is usually right). He's a true Demagogue. Nothing he does or says makes his base second guess him. The GOP is even trying to get him to go after Social Security and Medicare, with the assumption being that he could do it without taking any damage politically. And you know what? I think they're right. Fortunately he's said no (so far).
the dividing line is pretty clear. As soon as you call for violence, either directly or in the classic "Won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest" way then blamo, out you go. At least as far as deplatforming goes. If you take it far enough you'll face criminal charges (just like that kid who kept swatting did) though if you keep a modest lid on it you can at least still get a web site hosted, much like Alex Jones does.
for low income residences than with a regressive tax that disproportionately impacts the working class, including the working poor.
Seriously, in 2018 does anyone still fall for this crap? It's like when they rebranded trickle down economics as "Tax cuts for Job Creators" and left out the fact that "Job Creators" don't pay taxes when they invest in their companies...
your higher education system and providing government grants for research results in more science being done. I know, crazy talk, right?
*ducks*.
outrage culture. Like right wing SJWs. It's folks using outrage of any kind to get Youtube views, ad-clicks and Pateron donations.
There's a youtuber named "Cult of Dusty" that does a good job calling people out on this. He made the point that there's only so many blue haired college chicks saying crazy anti-man crap out there, so that we're getting increasingly crazy attacks on things that are "SJW" and the like. The left wing SJWs for their part are often happy to join in on the circle jerk of clicks and Pateron donations, though I don't think they do as well as the right wing guys.
It's all crap to distract you and me from economic issues like healthcare, low and declining wages, expensive college and are general declining standard of living. If you're engaging in it yourself stop it. It's a mean, nasty thing to do. If you've falling in with the anti-SJW crowd get yourself out and start focusing on real, substantive economic policy instead.
and you can get around the paywall. They don't go out of their way to enforce it.
They take money from every corporation on Earth. I call the "Clinton Democrats" because they got their start under Clinton, but Wikipedia calls them "New Democrats", which is B.S., they don't act like the Dems and don't follow the principles of the party platform).
3 Republicans voted for NN, but they did so safe in the knowledge that it wouldn't pass. I'm guessing the Clinton Dems will do the same. When the vote has a real chance to pass their either abstain to give the GOP the votes to kill it or they'll vote no and pack peddle.
You see the same thing on Medicare for All. There's a whole bunch of right wing Dems who backed Bernie's bill because Medicare for All has a 70% approval rating nationally and they want to run for president. But if you press them to start campaigning for it they clam up and, again, back peddle.
It's actually really easy to spot a politician who's lying to you, and it's not the old "Ha ha, they opened their Mouth, ha ha". Just press them on issues that matter to you and that they take money to oppose and wait for them to either double down and fight for the issue (like Bernie does) or back peddle and tell you how "Oh, that's a wonderful idea but it's just too Pie In the Sky" like Pelosi and Schumer.
the Senate passed it while they could be content in the knowledge that it couldn't pass the House. Now that the House is flipping to Dems it'll die in the Senate next. And in any case it doesn't have a super majority to overcome a Presidential Veto.
I say this on every NN forum, but if this matters to you then you're going to have to change your voting. That means showing up at Primaries, voting against both the GOP _and_ the Clinton Democrats and putting actual, left wing candidates in office who are in favor of government regulation like NN.
Because make no mistake, Net Neutrality _is_ a government regulation on a private industry. The libertarians can argue that it's only a psuedo-private industry and that everything would be fine if the government just deregulated completely (because that worked so well when AT&T was in charge) but it's _still_ a government regulation. If we keep voting for folks who don't believe in government this is what we're going to get.
it shows the base cost of broadband internet is $5 bucks a month. Maybe add another $5 for maintenance. I don't know about the rest of you but I pay $100 bucks a month.
the whole thing stinks. I'm guessing somebody made out like a bandit and left somebody else (probably smaller shareholders) holding the bag.
not all of them, but the Evangelicals are.
I'm inclined to think it has less to do with religion and more to do with the ruling class wanting to keep a lid on the working class. Too much education and critical thinking will get folks to start demanding better pay and working conditions.
in practice powerful propagandists prop up bad ideas all the time.
Put another way, there is no such thing as a "Free Marketplace of Ideas" anymore than there's a free marketplace anywhere or any time. In the absence of anti-trust laws you get robber barons, but I'd hardly call a regulated economy a "free marketplace".
So you make trade offs between protecting vulnerable groups and having freedom and innovation. Google's done an alright job so far. The only folks I've seen completely deplatformed ere the ones actively encouraging violence (and no, having your ad revenue go away isn't a deplatforming...).
meanwhile the lobbyist are no doubt hard at work to get municipal broadband banned in the state.
just go look at other content made by the same media outlet. It's no secret Fox News is in the tank for the GOP or that MSNBC is in it for the Clinton wing of the Democratic party. 20 minutes on either site will tell you that. Similarly folks like Secular Talk are part of the left wing progressive movement while Alex Jones and crew again are tanking it for the GOP.
Now, how to get folks with little or no critical thinking skills to do that is beyond me. It is something that can be taught, but you generally need to do that when they're kids or they're too busy to learn...
I guess it's not different than some of the tool tips in modern video games or Microsoft Office, but when it comes to a browser that's a bit much. It's like looking at the books I check out from the library only worse.
You're rich enough to have internet scams. You made it. You're one of the big boys now.
Secular Talk, Dave Packman, The Young Turks. To be honest they're mostly just commenting on BBC stories and some Al Jazeerez. I'll check CNN & MSNBC but both are more or less the Establishment party line. For general news there's Fark (not the comments section, but the aggregator part).
I think folks stopped caring about newspapers when they started to be 24/7 nonstop corporate propaganda. Back in the day newspapers would muckrake and dig up dirt on powerful men. That was something worth paying for. These days those men either buy out or sue the papers until they toe the line. What's the point.
there were a ton of left wing candidates who accept no corporate PAC money that tried to primary the right wing "Clinton" Democrats. Most of them lost but a few (notably Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who took out the "young" 55 year old replacement for Nancy Pelosi).
The real power in American politics is in primary elections. By the time it gets to the general it's too late. But that doesn't mean you can't vote in your primary.
when I first saw their headline I thought it meant folks were changing jobs, not getting fired. Also they call 3 weeks of severance per year of work "generous"...
Trump just signed NAFTA 1.2. It's just like NAFTA except he snuck a few provisions from the TPP in there (notably the one that lets companies sue governments for lost profits, which should have be a big no-no among his America First base...).
At any rate even if they bought a factory here I doubt we'd see jobs. There's always automation. Ever see the Steam controller get made? One guy dumps parts manufactured in China into a machine and out comes controllers.
but is anyone going to actually change how they vote based on this? If not, then all that outrage is exactly as effective as this report...
usually have rich parents to fall back on so they can go back and finish their real degree when the start up fails.