Net Neutrality dies in 10 days. If you want it back you'll have to vote the bums out. And that means _all_ of them. You'll need to give a super majority of NN supporters the House, Senate and then a NN supporter the presidency. Otherwise whichever chamber they hold onto (Senate probably) will just keep blocking it and eventually you'll forget about it and move on with your lives; one more freedom shot down, one more victory lost.
2. New New Deal (federal jobs guarantee + investment in Green energy)
3. Living Minimum Wage
4. End the 8 illegal wars, end the Military Industrial Complex
5. End money in politics and corruption in general (see here
I could go on, but I think you get the point. Listen to Bernie. Watch his Youtube Channel. He's all about policy that helps working class Americans and levels the playing field.
they move to nicer neighborhoods with better schools. Are you old enough to remember the TV show "The Jeffersons"? If not look up the theme song. Also, God I'm old...
like I said in another thread, 60-80% of us live paycheck to paycheck (it's a wide margin because you can run the numbers either as "has money in the bank but not enough for anything major" or "dead broke").
Moving is a sign of upward mobility. Literally. The fact that there is less of it is an indication that upward mobility is slowing down or stopping. There are plenty of other indicators for this too (stagnant wages, an increase in low paying jobs, outsourcing of higher paying jobs, etc, etc). This is one more nail in that coffin.
and couldn't care less about privacy. I'm way, way more worried about not having access to healthcare, the fact that my pay is 20% less than my parents and that my country is fighting 8 illegal wars (illegal in that not a one has Congressional authorization).
Privacy violations are a symptom of the problems faced by the working class, not the problem itself. The real problem is that there's a class war on, and my side is losing.
because that's how they connect with people. In particular adults have a very, very hard time meeting people. Especially in an age of declining church attendance. Facebook groups are a replacement for that. If you want folks off Facebook the only way would be a replacement for that feature.
you're missing the point. The point of a lie detector is to establish probable cause for a search warrant and/or arrest. Same reason we have drug sniffing dogs and bomb dowsing rods.
I moved because I got a huge raise, but it increase my monthly housing costs by well over 50% (small town where I could afford a house to a big city where I couldn't). Now, I more than doubled my pay, so it was economical even with being stuck in an apartment. But I'm no fool, I know I'm not building any wealth, it's just that the jobs in the small town I was in were busy being outsourced and I didn't have a lot of choices.
You're free to wander out into the wilderness and get eaten by a bear or die in the winter...
People gave up on slavery in the 1800s not because they were suddenly moral beings but because wage slaves were a better deal. You didn't have to sink a ton of capital into a slave. If a wage slave got tore up in your factories you didn't care, you just got another one.
Contract workers are going to be the kinds of workers google needs but that they can easily replace. Google, along with the other major companies, are the ones that set the rules. The sheer amount of mergers and acquisitions going on means we have de-facto monopolies. The complete lack of any anti-trust enforcement in regards to workers (there's a tiny bit coming out of Europe for _consumers_) and the murder of Unions (not a death, they were killed) means these workers are running out of options.
TL;DR; If a small group of companies has all the jobs and can easily crush competitors then you no longer have a choice. That's why Unions exist. This is the start (re-start?) of Unionizing. Google's going to do everything to crush it. Google is not your friend. No company is. There is _always_ an adversarial role between worker and boss. Remember that.
the Southern Strategy. It's how the economically right wing pundits in our midst distract us from economic issues. The people pushing for it were never left wing, but they needed something to get the working class off their back.
Take "equal pay for women" as an issue. Ok, we can debate if women are getting less pay or not. But even the most extreme estimates say 3%. Meanwhile workers in general make 20% less than they did 40 years ago. Folks are fighting over 3% while they've lost 20%. It's nuts.
OTOH the reverse (anti-SJW) is just as bad. There's a youtuber called "Cult of Dusty" that's got a series on how the alt-right has pivoted to 24/7 anti-SJW. Meanwhile the Evangelicals (who the alt-right, being skeptics, traditionally didn't get along with) are using the alt-right to win political offices all over.
The only consistently sane voice I know in all this has been Bernie Sanders, who's been trying to get the working class to stop fighting over scraps and go after the meat.
I'm tired of companies using contracting to skirt labor laws. The big one is unemployment insurance. They'll keep you for 18 months (don't know why that's the magic number, IRS maybe?) and then replace you. Sure, you might make a bit more money, but you lose it all to crazy expensive health insurance and being unemployed for weeks after the end of every "contract".
A lot of guys I know stuck in the contract mill are in their late 40s/early 50s and just have to take whatever they get. They never get any savings because they're 2-3 months out of work every 18 months. Being over 40 means they don't just get a job right away (hurry for age discrimination!)
The USSR was destroyed by WWII. The US of A got away largely unmolested. We lost some soldiers, but they were really just surplus population (yes, that's a horrifying thing to say from a moral standpoint, but capitalism doesn't care about your morality and supply and demand means that if there's an oversupply of labor wages plummet).
Still, video games are definitely something that can and should be left in the hands of the free market. They're relatively harmless and not at all essential.
you shouldn't be in business. If I want to keep your argument going we could just go back to company towns and defacto slavery. After all, you're free to sign a contract with the coal mine or starve, right? It's not like the economic is becoming a monopoly or anything, right?
that was something like 80% Dem went the completely opposite direction. e.g. one of the Gerrymandered districts full of Democrats somehow flipped completely blue. And even with all that the Republican still only won by 965 votes...
It's pretty brazen election fraud, but it's usually up to the Fed to move in and fix that sort of thing, which given the current administration I don't see happening...
At least CNN finally covered it. Albeit with a wishy washy opinion piece.
from a much bigger story going on right now. Compared to what's going on with our foreign policy (and the ramifications that has for an Administration that continues to ignore intelligence in favor of money) this isn't even small potatoes...
But I do see you're busy attacking the credibility and methodology of the article than it's content.
The donations are evidence of her long term intentions. DeVos is both deceitful and well educated. She is also what folks call a Dominionist, meaning she wants her brand of religion to take dominion over the earth. If you're OK with that, fine. But if you're not, then by supporting her you done screwed up Mr. You done screwed up bad. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.
most folks say "AI" as a catch all of "Automation informed by large datasets" because it's easier for laypersons to understand. But if you consider that then there's a mountain of "AI" going on right now. Sure, that's not strictly speaking AI, but when lost your job to a bot or some other clever form of automation do you really care?
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Net Neutrality dies in 10 days. If you want it back you'll have to vote the bums out. And that means _all_ of them. You'll need to give a super majority of NN supporters the House, Senate and then a NN supporter the presidency. Otherwise whichever chamber they hold onto (Senate probably) will just keep blocking it and eventually you'll forget about it and move on with your lives; one more freedom shot down, one more victory lost.
I could go on, but I think you get the point. Listen to Bernie. Watch his Youtube Channel. He's all about policy that helps working class Americans and levels the playing field.
they move to nicer neighborhoods with better schools. Are you old enough to remember the TV show "The Jeffersons"? If not look up the theme song. Also, God I'm old...
like I said in another thread, 60-80% of us live paycheck to paycheck (it's a wide margin because you can run the numbers either as "has money in the bank but not enough for anything major" or "dead broke").
Moving is a sign of upward mobility. Literally. The fact that there is less of it is an indication that upward mobility is slowing down or stopping. There are plenty of other indicators for this too (stagnant wages, an increase in low paying jobs, outsourcing of higher paying jobs, etc, etc). This is one more nail in that coffin.
depending on how you run the numbers. I'm pretty sure it's safe to say we're not satisfied. We just don't know what to do about it.
and couldn't care less about privacy. I'm way, way more worried about not having access to healthcare, the fact that my pay is 20% less than my parents and that my country is fighting 8 illegal wars (illegal in that not a one has Congressional authorization).
Privacy violations are a symptom of the problems faced by the working class, not the problem itself. The real problem is that there's a class war on, and my side is losing.
because that's how they connect with people. In particular adults have a very, very hard time meeting people. Especially in an age of declining church attendance. Facebook groups are a replacement for that. If you want folks off Facebook the only way would be a replacement for that feature.
you're missing the point. The point of a lie detector is to establish probable cause for a search warrant and/or arrest. Same reason we have drug sniffing dogs and bomb dowsing rods.
I moved because I got a huge raise, but it increase my monthly housing costs by well over 50% (small town where I could afford a house to a big city where I couldn't). Now, I more than doubled my pay, so it was economical even with being stuck in an apartment. But I'm no fool, I know I'm not building any wealth, it's just that the jobs in the small town I was in were busy being outsourced and I didn't have a lot of choices.
You're free to wander out into the wilderness and get eaten by a bear or die in the winter...
People gave up on slavery in the 1800s not because they were suddenly moral beings but because wage slaves were a better deal. You didn't have to sink a ton of capital into a slave. If a wage slave got tore up in your factories you didn't care, you just got another one.
Contract workers are going to be the kinds of workers google needs but that they can easily replace. Google, along with the other major companies, are the ones that set the rules. The sheer amount of mergers and acquisitions going on means we have de-facto monopolies. The complete lack of any anti-trust enforcement in regards to workers (there's a tiny bit coming out of Europe for _consumers_) and the murder of Unions (not a death, they were killed) means these workers are running out of options.
TL;DR; If a small group of companies has all the jobs and can easily crush competitors then you no longer have a choice. That's why Unions exist. This is the start (re-start?) of Unionizing. Google's going to do everything to crush it. Google is not your friend. No company is. There is _always_ an adversarial role between worker and boss. Remember that.
the Southern Strategy. It's how the economically right wing pundits in our midst distract us from economic issues. The people pushing for it were never left wing, but they needed something to get the working class off their back.
Take "equal pay for women" as an issue. Ok, we can debate if women are getting less pay or not. But even the most extreme estimates say 3%. Meanwhile workers in general make 20% less than they did 40 years ago. Folks are fighting over 3% while they've lost 20%. It's nuts.
OTOH the reverse (anti-SJW) is just as bad. There's a youtuber called "Cult of Dusty" that's got a series on how the alt-right has pivoted to 24/7 anti-SJW. Meanwhile the Evangelicals (who the alt-right, being skeptics, traditionally didn't get along with) are using the alt-right to win political offices all over.
The only consistently sane voice I know in all this has been Bernie Sanders, who's been trying to get the working class to stop fighting over scraps and go after the meat.
in Australia. If they've got it in one country then they've got it everywhere.
if there's a problem, right? No beta testing needed.
For me I'm interested in 5G because with the 5G roll out comes better coverage in buildings for my carrier. And just plain better coverage overall.
I'm tired of companies using contracting to skirt labor laws. The big one is unemployment insurance. They'll keep you for 18 months (don't know why that's the magic number, IRS maybe?) and then replace you. Sure, you might make a bit more money, but you lose it all to crazy expensive health insurance and being unemployed for weeks after the end of every "contract".
A lot of guys I know stuck in the contract mill are in their late 40s/early 50s and just have to take whatever they get. They never get any savings because they're 2-3 months out of work every 18 months. Being over 40 means they don't just get a job right away (hurry for age discrimination!)
The USSR was destroyed by WWII. The US of A got away largely unmolested. We lost some soldiers, but they were really just surplus population (yes, that's a horrifying thing to say from a moral standpoint, but capitalism doesn't care about your morality and supply and demand means that if there's an oversupply of labor wages plummet).
Still, video games are definitely something that can and should be left in the hands of the free market. They're relatively harmless and not at all essential.
who's tired of paying for heathcare, food stamps and other subsidies because Uber's flaunting minimum wage law.
you shouldn't be in business. If I want to keep your argument going we could just go back to company towns and defacto slavery. After all, you're free to sign a contract with the coal mine or starve, right? It's not like the economic is becoming a monopoly or anything, right?
that was something like 80% Dem went the completely opposite direction. e.g. one of the Gerrymandered districts full of Democrats somehow flipped completely blue. And even with all that the Republican still only won by 965 votes...
It's pretty brazen election fraud, but it's usually up to the Fed to move in and fix that sort of thing, which given the current administration I don't see happening...
At least CNN finally covered it. Albeit with a wishy washy opinion piece.
that's what open source is for. In the business world it's like neutral ground.
Raw HTTP GET behind 6 proxies FTW.
from that murdered Journalist.
Seriously, there is way, way too much dirt floating around about the GOP. But somehow it never seems to hurt them that much on election day...
from a much bigger story going on right now. Compared to what's going on with our foreign policy (and the ramifications that has for an Administration that continues to ignore intelligence in favor of money) this isn't even small potatoes...
But I do see you're busy attacking the credibility and methodology of the article than it's content.
The donations are evidence of her long term intentions. DeVos is both deceitful and well educated. She is also what folks call a Dominionist, meaning she wants her brand of religion to take dominion over the earth. If you're OK with that, fine. But if you're not, then by supporting her you done screwed up Mr. You done screwed up bad. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.
most folks say "AI" as a catch all of "Automation informed by large datasets" because it's easier for laypersons to understand. But if you consider that then there's a mountain of "AI" going on right now. Sure, that's not strictly speaking AI, but when lost your job to a bot or some other clever form of automation do you really care?
and kick the right wing "Clinton Democrats" out. You'll be there, right? 'cause the left wing tried to primary Pelosi and got shot down last time...