is that it's a payday loan where the interest and fees are the miles on your car. The folks I've talked to who drive Uber are doing it to make rent. With one exception they've all been people who were either recently laid off or took a massive paycut after a buyout. Uber is all about taking advantage of desperate, formally middle class Americans who still have the car from when they were gainfully employed.
this is basically a mass protest against Uber's arbitration process. 12,000 Uber employees (I refuse to call them contractors, they're not) all triggered the arbitration clause at once. Uber wanted control of the arbitration process so they could cheat, so they offered to pay all costs. The employees are actually pretty well organized on various forums. The reason they don't have any power is that workers lack solidarity, so they don't have a teamsters Union to give them money for food/rent while they strike, giving most of the actual power to Uber. But they noticed this clever little problem with Uber's contract.
I say more power to them. This is a win/win for the employees either way. Uber probably doesn't want to lose 12,000 drivers at once (though I suspect they could get by). So a mass firing probably isn't in the cards just yet. If they don't pay the fees the arbitration clause becomes null & void, leading to class action. But if they do pay they're probably out at least $12 million, which won't look good on the old balance sheet. Plus if this works they'll do it again.
there's not problem. Folks know there's a problem, but the average person is living paycheck to paycheck (60-80% of them, depending on if you define "paycheck to paycheck" as "very little in the bank" or "not a dime in the bank").
I've said this before, but it's worth repeating: Climate change is years from now, rent's due at the end of the month. If you want folks to care about climate change you have to solve their short term economic problems. That means taxes. If you're making good money (figure $300k/yr+) your taxes are going up to fund public works projects. Also we're gonna have to pull back on all those wars and, well, let's not mince words, your stock portfolio profits handsomely from the Military Industrial Complex...
Still, unless we do something about working class Americans then they're gonna keep voting climate change deniers in office because anything we can do about Climate change is likely to cost them money, and they're barely making it.
a huge part of what leads to obesity is gut bacteria. Genetics also plays a role. As has been pointed out elsewhere on the forum a lot of us fatties do so because we need to keep our energy levels up. In America you work 40-50/hr/week minimum like it or not. 6 hours into an 8 hour shift there's still work to do, and you need to be alert enough to do it. Then it's time to go home, cook for the kids, help with homework (because we've cut funding to schools for 40 years straight now so it's not like the teachers are gonna do it), clean the house up and try to get some sleep so you can do it all over again.
If I'm not exercising like a mad man I need to be at about 1500 cal/day or I'm gaining weight. I eat throughout the day to keep my energy levels up. It doesn't help that I can't have caffeine (mild heart condition that's exacerbated by it).
I've got a $250 lg phone that's just fine. Does everything but play Fortnite (and I can't imagine wanting to play a game like that on my phone). There are $400 Motorolas with user serviceable parts and super fast processors. There's tons of mid range options. Heck, I don't know why anyone would buy the $800 google phone. My coworker's got one and their kinda meh. Near as I can tell You buy it to buy it. Either because you want to own the "cutting edge" or you want folks to think you do.
and understands why it's important. So does Liz Warren. And Ro Khanna.
Here's a list of Senators and how they voted on NN. Notice all the "D"s when it comes to "for" and all the "Rs" when it comes to against? I know partisanship isn't popular on/., but at a certain point it really is a partisan issue. 3 Republicans voted for NN out of 52. Not a single Dem voted against it. We've got another election in 2020, so now's the time to decide if NN is really something important to you or not...
the way are, not the way you want them to be. Is it crazy to transform our entire civilization for 70,000 coal miners? Maybe. But it's either that or they vote another 4 years of Trump. And nobody wins then. Trump will screw them and us over.
She didn't even offer to pay them for it. She offered to give them slightly better terms on student loans. To people in their 30s and 40s that couldn't make it through college when they were in their 20s and didn't already have kids to watch.
The problem with Hilary is she's one of those people who found school easy-peasy and can't understand why everyone else isn't just like her. Romney had the same problem. It's that whole "Why can't the poor just buy more money?". When you say it like that it's a joke, but what it really means is that for some people life is just easy, and all they have to do to get rich is reach out their hands and take it. Those folks can't comprehend why those of us who are struggling don't just do the same thing. I don't even mean that as an insult to them. They're not immoral, they're amoral. They literally don't understand.
in 2020 I'd go to the coal miners (who are likely to swing the election) and offer them jobs in gov't run factories building solar panels. That's the kind of infrastructure spending and green jobs that would make a real difference.
It's all well and good to see what California's doing, but getting onto renewables should be a national effort. Not just to Shave the Whales, but because I'm tired of my country being OPEC's whipping boy. And I'd like to breath cleaner air. My family is prone to lung cancer from smoking, and while I don't smoke I get a lung full of carcinogens every time I go outside.
instead of a 'perk'. You do need to build your cities around it though, which most European cities did. The problem with America is that our car companies got to decide how our cities would be laid out in the 30s, 40s and 50s.
because it's got a ton of extra features that only work when you're texting somebody on an iPhone. It's a defacto social network. Take iMessage away and she'd buy a Samsung.
and most of Europe. While we reneged on the deal (and by "we" I mean "Trump") the rest of the world, including Iran, are upholding it hoping that the US of A comes to it's senses.
If we keep this going we're going to have war with Iran. And that is, of course, the point. The question is will the American Voters let it happen again.
because it makes the lighting look too realistic. I want my lighting to be dramatic. I'm not sure the exact issue (I think you're right and it's framerate) but I've definately seen it in action and it ruins the lighting. Directors spend decades learning how to get lighting just right only to have it wrecked by a post process filter on an expensive TV...
behind 10 LLCs to obscure who's really paying for it? If you're a journalist with lots of free time maybe you can track that down (assuming they haven't covered their tracks well). Also, the point of a lot of these adverts is to influence the easily influenced. We already know a lot of them are being bought up by foreign governments looking to destabilize enemy nations on the cheap.
For starters I think foreign governments should have to disclose that in the adverts. Same for anyone financially tied to a major party (either direction, if they give money or they receive). And more education. Make college tuition free. An English Lit degree (or whatever the Indian equivalent is) might not get you a lot of jobs, but you've at least learned enough critical thinking to question a political advert. Pay attention to who keeps attacking education and start asking yourself why they're doing that.
even if you just want to watch TV let alone if you want your kids to do homework, and give how big a disparity this is (it's 7 times more than the number Pai gave) I think it's pretty obvious Pai is cooking his books.
It's like that voter fraud going on right now in North Carolina. Nobody outside the GOP is going to say "We should investigate why a 61% Democrat district only polled for the Democrat candidate at 19%". There's noone alive who can't see that as fishy. And that's only a factor of 3...
For me, the question is, when are Americans gonna get tired of being lied to? Even if you agree with the results, doesn't it suck to be lied to all the time?
he's absolutely right. Movies look terrible when this is applied. I saw a bit of Braveheart on this and mistook it for some daytime TV junk. It completely ruins the lighting.
unless we stop voting for folks who take corporate money we're only delaying the inevitable. Heck, we're probably not really delaying it. The companies can flaunt a rule they know is on the way out the door since they can expect no enforcement.
what the rural folk need is water lines. Their lines date back 60,70, sometimes 100 years. They're starting to have major health problems. What I don't get is why no one's talking about this. Maybe it's the $750 billion dollar price tag to fix our water infrastructure...
the courts have been packed with pro-corporate judges for 30,40 years. They'll throw in with the side of property on this one. The EPA stuff is a bit easier to grasp since the ones that have been challenged have pretty immediate implications for the water table. NN doesn't really affect them. Worst case it doubles their cable bill but that'll be more than offset by the stock they own in AT&T and Comcast going up in value.
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is that it's a payday loan where the interest and fees are the miles on your car. The folks I've talked to who drive Uber are doing it to make rent. With one exception they've all been people who were either recently laid off or took a massive paycut after a buyout. Uber is all about taking advantage of desperate, formally middle class Americans who still have the car from when they were gainfully employed.
this is basically a mass protest against Uber's arbitration process. 12,000 Uber employees (I refuse to call them contractors, they're not) all triggered the arbitration clause at once. Uber wanted control of the arbitration process so they could cheat, so they offered to pay all costs. The employees are actually pretty well organized on various forums. The reason they don't have any power is that workers lack solidarity, so they don't have a teamsters Union to give them money for food/rent while they strike, giving most of the actual power to Uber. But they noticed this clever little problem with Uber's contract.
I say more power to them. This is a win/win for the employees either way. Uber probably doesn't want to lose 12,000 drivers at once (though I suspect they could get by). So a mass firing probably isn't in the cards just yet. If they don't pay the fees the arbitration clause becomes null & void, leading to class action. But if they do pay they're probably out at least $12 million, which won't look good on the old balance sheet. Plus if this works they'll do it again.
there's not problem. Folks know there's a problem, but the average person is living paycheck to paycheck (60-80% of them, depending on if you define "paycheck to paycheck" as "very little in the bank" or "not a dime in the bank").
I've said this before, but it's worth repeating: Climate change is years from now, rent's due at the end of the month. If you want folks to care about climate change you have to solve their short term economic problems. That means taxes. If you're making good money (figure $300k/yr+) your taxes are going up to fund public works projects. Also we're gonna have to pull back on all those wars and, well, let's not mince words, your stock portfolio profits handsomely from the Military Industrial Complex...
Still, unless we do something about working class Americans then they're gonna keep voting climate change deniers in office because anything we can do about Climate change is likely to cost them money, and they're barely making it.
a huge part of what leads to obesity is gut bacteria. Genetics also plays a role. As has been pointed out elsewhere on the forum a lot of us fatties do so because we need to keep our energy levels up. In America you work 40-50/hr /week minimum like it or not. 6 hours into an 8 hour shift there's still work to do, and you need to be alert enough to do it. Then it's time to go home, cook for the kids, help with homework (because we've cut funding to schools for 40 years straight now so it's not like the teachers are gonna do it), clean the house up and try to get some sleep so you can do it all over again.
If I'm not exercising like a mad man I need to be at about 1500 cal/day or I'm gaining weight. I eat throughout the day to keep my energy levels up. It doesn't help that I can't have caffeine (mild heart condition that's exacerbated by it).
I've got a $250 lg phone that's just fine. Does everything but play Fortnite (and I can't imagine wanting to play a game like that on my phone). There are $400 Motorolas with user serviceable parts and super fast processors. There's tons of mid range options. Heck, I don't know why anyone would buy the $800 google phone. My coworker's got one and their kinda meh. Near as I can tell You buy it to buy it. Either because you want to own the "cutting edge" or you want folks to think you do.
they extremely high markup means if somebody walks off with merchandise it doesn't really matter.
because the deals were actually pretty good, but lately they're the same prices I can get any old time of the week.
and understands why it's important. So does Liz Warren. And Ro Khanna.
/., but at a certain point it really is a partisan issue. 3 Republicans voted for NN out of 52. Not a single Dem voted against it. We've got another election in 2020, so now's the time to decide if NN is really something important to you or not...
Here's a list of Senators and how they voted on NN. Notice all the "D"s when it comes to "for" and all the "Rs" when it comes to against? I know partisanship isn't popular on
the way are, not the way you want them to be. Is it crazy to transform our entire civilization for 70,000 coal miners? Maybe. But it's either that or they vote another 4 years of Trump. And nobody wins then. Trump will screw them and us over.
to build factories. The government runs the bloody factories. Like the Post Office. Otherwise it just turns into corruption.
She didn't even offer to pay them for it. She offered to give them slightly better terms on student loans. To people in their 30s and 40s that couldn't make it through college when they were in their 20s and didn't already have kids to watch.
The problem with Hilary is she's one of those people who found school easy-peasy and can't understand why everyone else isn't just like her. Romney had the same problem. It's that whole "Why can't the poor just buy more money?". When you say it like that it's a joke, but what it really means is that for some people life is just easy, and all they have to do to get rich is reach out their hands and take it. Those folks can't comprehend why those of us who are struggling don't just do the same thing. I don't even mean that as an insult to them. They're not immoral, they're amoral. They literally don't understand.
in 2020 I'd go to the coal miners (who are likely to swing the election) and offer them jobs in gov't run factories building solar panels. That's the kind of infrastructure spending and green jobs that would make a real difference.
It's all well and good to see what California's doing, but getting onto renewables should be a national effort. Not just to Shave the Whales, but because I'm tired of my country being OPEC's whipping boy. And I'd like to breath cleaner air. My family is prone to lung cancer from smoking, and while I don't smoke I get a lung full of carcinogens every time I go outside.
instead of a 'perk'. You do need to build your cities around it though, which most European cities did. The problem with America is that our car companies got to decide how our cities would be laid out in the 30s, 40s and 50s.
because it's got a ton of extra features that only work when you're texting somebody on an iPhone. It's a defacto social network. Take iMessage away and she'd buy a Samsung.
and most of Europe. While we reneged on the deal (and by "we" I mean "Trump") the rest of the world, including Iran, are upholding it hoping that the US of A comes to it's senses.
If we keep this going we're going to have war with Iran. And that is, of course, the point. The question is will the American Voters let it happen again.
because it makes the lighting look too realistic. I want my lighting to be dramatic. I'm not sure the exact issue (I think you're right and it's framerate) but I've definately seen it in action and it ruins the lighting. Directors spend decades learning how to get lighting just right only to have it wrecked by a post process filter on an expensive TV...
behind 10 LLCs to obscure who's really paying for it? If you're a journalist with lots of free time maybe you can track that down (assuming they haven't covered their tracks well). Also, the point of a lot of these adverts is to influence the easily influenced. We already know a lot of them are being bought up by foreign governments looking to destabilize enemy nations on the cheap.
For starters I think foreign governments should have to disclose that in the adverts. Same for anyone financially tied to a major party (either direction, if they give money or they receive). And more education. Make college tuition free. An English Lit degree (or whatever the Indian equivalent is) might not get you a lot of jobs, but you've at least learned enough critical thinking to question a political advert. Pay attention to who keeps attacking education and start asking yourself why they're doing that.
I think reality did, and the FCC just finally caught up. I'm on a 100 mbps line and I couldn't imagine going from that to 25 mbps let alone 4 mbps.
Put another way, could you go from 56k to 300 baud in 1995? How about 150 baud? Would you even consider that "Internet" at that point?
even if you just want to watch TV let alone if you want your kids to do homework, and give how big a disparity this is (it's 7 times more than the number Pai gave) I think it's pretty obvious Pai is cooking his books.
It's like that voter fraud going on right now in North Carolina. Nobody outside the GOP is going to say "We should investigate why a 61% Democrat district only polled for the Democrat candidate at 19%". There's noone alive who can't see that as fishy. And that's only a factor of 3...
For me, the question is, when are Americans gonna get tired of being lied to? Even if you agree with the results, doesn't it suck to be lied to all the time?
he's absolutely right. Movies look terrible when this is applied. I saw a bit of Braveheart on this and mistook it for some daytime TV junk. It completely ruins the lighting.
unless we stop voting for folks who take corporate money we're only delaying the inevitable. Heck, we're probably not really delaying it. The companies can flaunt a rule they know is on the way out the door since they can expect no enforcement.
what the rural folk need is water lines. Their lines date back 60,70, sometimes 100 years. They're starting to have major health problems. What I don't get is why no one's talking about this. Maybe it's the $750 billion dollar price tag to fix our water infrastructure...
the courts have been packed with pro-corporate judges for 30,40 years. They'll throw in with the side of property on this one. The EPA stuff is a bit easier to grasp since the ones that have been challenged have pretty immediate implications for the water table. NN doesn't really affect them. Worst case it doubles their cable bill but that'll be more than offset by the stock they own in AT&T and Comcast going up in value.
can they survive losing 28% of their audience? We're gonna find out.