any congress critter who voted against that bill was going to get hammered during reelection with "soft on crime" adverts. The two who voted against it are both completely "safe". Short of a dead girl or a live boy neither of them have to be afraid of the "Willie Horton" effect
Still, I was a bit shocked Bernie and Warren went in for it.
those are scams. Obama was well on his way to shutting them down but, well, we just put Betsy DeVos in charge of education and she tore all that to shreds.
The article is disingenuous at best and dishonest at worst. It uses bad practices at private for profit schools to paint all schools bad. The authors of the article have a pretty clear, anti-education agenda. It's part of a broader narrative being used to discredit education in order to save money and keep the working class from being taught to think critically.
I know, I know, I sound like a nut job. But as the saying goes, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy analyst. If you think the ruling class of America hasn't noticed the cost and effect of education on their worker drones then you aren't paying attention.
There's a huge, right wing media apparatus in place to make sure they don't. Folks are always banging on about the "Liberal Media" because the media is a little left on social issues (though that's changing what with Sinclair media buying out the local channels). But watch them on economics and they fall in line with their corporate owners.
except for the rich kid's dorms. I just put my kid through the dorms (moved her to an apartment after yr 1 because it was cheaper and nicer). Yes, there are "nice" dorms. They're crazy expensive and only for the rich kids. They're a profit center for the schools, and my kid got nowhere near them.
I've already put this link in the thread but it deserves repeating. Once again, Fancy dorms are _not_ the problem. Cutting state and federal funding so we could cut taxes on the rich is. And the rich don't care because you're expendable. They don't need you or your kids to be educated. They've got H1-Bs for that.
and the last 2 years is basically on the job training I'm paying for. Not that I have much choice, but I can tell you that if you're in STEM the workload is nuts. You come out of college ready to hit the ground (or you don't graduate). You are most certainly prepared for the job market after that gauntlet.
Now, the diploma mills might be another thing. The last administration was trying to reign them in, to the point where big ones like the U of Phoenix were almost put out of business (good riddance). But the current admin... not so much. Hell, the current Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos is openly trying to shift public funds into religious schools (of her particular denomination, of course)
at least in America. Here in the States you can't even get your foot in the door if you don't have a degree. Thanks to work visa programs like H1-B companies don't have to train and they get to pick and choose exactly who they want to hire. You won't even make it past the computerized HR filter with a bachelor's.
If you don't want to spend your life at Walmart or (if you're lucky) earning $15/hr doing welding/HVAC (with no raises and ever decreasing pay due to inflation) you need a degree.
If I may rant like a crazy man for a bit here: This comes off as more anti-education propaganda pushed by an increase right wing media whose corporate masters are tired of paying for schools in the form of taxes.
of a regulation not being enforced is to throw the regulation out entirely. That's like saying that because folks speed we shouldn't have speed limits...
Also something that came out after the crash was that most of the defaults were from rental and investment properties. e.g. house flippers and retirees who didn't have enough to live on but had enough to gamble on. The problem wasn't so much that they paid too much. It was that when the economy tanked they either couldn't get renters (since they renters were stuck renting shit holes) or they couldn't flip the house. Since they weren't living in the places they just walked away. That made all the phony baloney Credit Derivatives collapse and the economy went with it.
The real solution to the 2008 crash isn't to stop appraising houses. It's a) build a more robust retirement system so old folks don't gamble their life savings and b) put the regulations that Clinton & Bush Jr cut down back in place so we can split mainstreet and wallstreet banks, thereby killing those damn credit default swaps. e.g. Don't let the banks mix safe mortgage investments and risky wallstreet ones.
tl;dr: we don't want less regulation, we want more.
a project doesn't turn into a dystopian nightmare. You can just leave the project. Societies turn into dystopian nightmares. And you haven't convinced me that making people be civil in a workplace environment leads to that.
since we let them buy up our hog farms. That was just nuts, BTW. Who the hell lets a hostile foreign power buy it's food supply? Seriously, who does that?
it's not a job creator. It's just money in the hands of whoever owns the patents.
All he did was get them to agree to talk. That's not much of an outcome. Also, there's no way in hell Trump could throw an across the board 25% tariff on Chinese goods on the books. We rely on cheap Chinese goods to make up for declining and/or stagnant wages. His base, and indeed the entire country, would notice that big time. It would torpedo his next election.
This whole thing is political theater. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Meanwhile more manufacturing jobs keep getting outsourced.
they got us to back down on tariffs. OTOH Trump probably couldn't have done those tariffs anyway. Not without wrecking the economy.
Meanwhile the outsourcing continues, with GM moving 14,000 jobs to Mexico (and rather cleverly blaming it on declining demand for cars vs SUVs while ignoring the new SUV & Truck factories in Mexico).
Nothing change. Everything continues apace. Well, except we borrowed another $1 trillion as a giveaway to Trump's wealthy friends in the top 1%.
to fuck off. I've also never told anyone on a developer forum to fuck off. I can't even imagine why somebody would outside of taking out their frustration on somebody else. If you want to do that there's a time and a place for it. It's called 4chan.
That was putting them out of work. Coal plants would be profitable if they could run like they did before the EPA and mine safety. But on that other hand we'd miners dying left and right and cancer villages.
Hillary's problem wasn't the message, it was how she said it and more importantly her complete lack of leadership when it came to finding real solutions for out of work coal miners.
Bernie has the solution, which is a federal jobs guarantee. Put those coal miners to work but building solar panels. Time will tell if he gets a chance to do it.
Not saying it doesn't mean their findings shouldn't be looked at more closely since they clearly have an agenda. But it's in line with the coal plant closings we're seeing. Can you site a study where coal plants _are_ profitable in aggregate?
Put another way, here's the left wing bastion of Forbes discussion the same thing.
Posting this particular study on/. is just an excuse to talk about a trend that seems pretty obvious. If Coal wasn't losing ground Trump wouldn't have been able to capitalize on out of work miners. The market would have those folks well employed.
so long as coal miners can decide our presidential elections by swinging Ohio and Virginia. That said, I've yet to hear anyone from the left give those workers a viable alternative to working in the mines. So far the answer has been "Time to reskill". Those guys know coal mining is a dying thing. They'd reskill if they could.
What we really need is a federal jobs guarantee like they did in the 30s. But nobody wants to pay for that. So expect more political distortions.
living and working conditions. India has a massive number of people with food insecurity. This results in much cheaper labor because they're literally fighting for their lives. You can't compete when there's that much inequality.
it costs a ton to bring an H1-B here. On top of that it's much, much cheaper to pay them in their home country. If businesses could offshore these jobs they would. Sometimes you just need people on site to collaborate. Yahoo, for example, learned that the hard way.
you can measure the hours they work and how many lines of code their write. I know/.ers like to bang on about code quality, and yes that matters in some places. But in a lot of place it doesn't. The phrase "Code Monkey" exists for a reason.
in my post. Are you stalking me? Cool, I got my first stalker!
Anyway, I'm not opposed to killing ICE. Like I said above, We already have immigration enforcement. ICE was created _post_ 9/11. And like the patriot act that freaks me out. I can't help but wonder why we didn't just put more money into existing structures. To be blunt, it makes me wonder if ICE is going to turn into the American Version of the SS.
Here's a crazy thought about The Wall: What makes you think it's there to keep people out? Germany had one. They used it to keep people _in_.
we have immigration enforcement for a reason. Deport both when the spouse is caught.
And it doesn't make me a dime. That money doesn't get to me. Whatever they pay in taxes I lose in tax cuts to the wealthy. Until we get politicians who stop pushing Trickle Down economics and that Job Creator Bullshit lie then it really doesn't matter to me. I don't care about the economy at large. I care about _my_ economy. The working man's economy.
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any congress critter who voted against that bill was going to get hammered during reelection with "soft on crime" adverts. The two who voted against it are both completely "safe". Short of a dead girl or a live boy neither of them have to be afraid of the "Willie Horton" effect
Still, I was a bit shocked Bernie and Warren went in for it.
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If you think she's talking about Islam or even Judaism when she says "God's Kingdom"... well, I don't know if I'd call what you have naivete....
the key is to par boil them first. Otherwise your babies turn out all soggy. That's how the restaurants do it.
those are scams. Obama was well on his way to shutting them down but, well, we just put Betsy DeVos in charge of education and she tore all that to shreds.
The article is disingenuous at best and dishonest at worst. It uses bad practices at private for profit schools to paint all schools bad. The authors of the article have a pretty clear, anti-education agenda. It's part of a broader narrative being used to discredit education in order to save money and keep the working class from being taught to think critically.
I know, I know, I sound like a nut job. But as the saying goes, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy analyst. If you think the ruling class of America hasn't noticed the cost and effect of education on their worker drones then you aren't paying attention.
There's a huge, right wing media apparatus in place to make sure they don't. Folks are always banging on about the "Liberal Media" because the media is a little left on social issues (though that's changing what with Sinclair media buying out the local channels). But watch them on economics and they fall in line with their corporate owners.
except for the rich kid's dorms. I just put my kid through the dorms (moved her to an apartment after yr 1 because it was cheaper and nicer). Yes, there are "nice" dorms. They're crazy expensive and only for the rich kids. They're a profit center for the schools, and my kid got nowhere near them.
I've already put this link in the thread but it deserves repeating. Once again, Fancy dorms are _not_ the problem. Cutting state and federal funding so we could cut taxes on the rich is. And the rich don't care because you're expendable. They don't need you or your kids to be educated. They've got H1-Bs for that.
and the last 2 years is basically on the job training I'm paying for. Not that I have much choice, but I can tell you that if you're in STEM the workload is nuts. You come out of college ready to hit the ground (or you don't graduate). You are most certainly prepared for the job market after that gauntlet.
Now, the diploma mills might be another thing. The last administration was trying to reign them in, to the point where big ones like the U of Phoenix were almost put out of business (good riddance). But the current admin... not so much. Hell, the current Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos is openly trying to shift public funds into religious schools (of her particular denomination, of course)
any more than fancy dorms are the cause of rising tuition.
Per the article I linked above tuition is going up because we slashed federal and state subsidies. I'm so tired of this lie being repeated...
at least in America. Here in the States you can't even get your foot in the door if you don't have a degree. Thanks to work visa programs like H1-B companies don't have to train and they get to pick and choose exactly who they want to hire. You won't even make it past the computerized HR filter with a bachelor's.
If you don't want to spend your life at Walmart or (if you're lucky) earning $15/hr doing welding/HVAC (with no raises and ever decreasing pay due to inflation) you need a degree.
If I may rant like a crazy man for a bit here: This comes off as more anti-education propaganda pushed by an increase right wing media whose corporate masters are tired of paying for schools in the form of taxes.
of a regulation not being enforced is to throw the regulation out entirely. That's like saying that because folks speed we shouldn't have speed limits...
Also something that came out after the crash was that most of the defaults were from rental and investment properties. e.g. house flippers and retirees who didn't have enough to live on but had enough to gamble on. The problem wasn't so much that they paid too much. It was that when the economy tanked they either couldn't get renters (since they renters were stuck renting shit holes) or they couldn't flip the house. Since they weren't living in the places they just walked away. That made all the phony baloney Credit Derivatives collapse and the economy went with it.
The real solution to the 2008 crash isn't to stop appraising houses. It's a) build a more robust retirement system so old folks don't gamble their life savings and b) put the regulations that Clinton & Bush Jr cut down back in place so we can split mainstreet and wallstreet banks, thereby killing those damn credit default swaps. e.g. Don't let the banks mix safe mortgage investments and risky wallstreet ones.
tl;dr: we don't want less regulation, we want more.
a project doesn't turn into a dystopian nightmare. You can just leave the project. Societies turn into dystopian nightmares. And you haven't convinced me that making people be civil in a workplace environment leads to that.
since we let them buy up our hog farms. That was just nuts, BTW. Who the hell lets a hostile foreign power buy it's food supply? Seriously, who does that?
it's not a job creator. It's just money in the hands of whoever owns the patents.
All he did was get them to agree to talk. That's not much of an outcome. Also, there's no way in hell Trump could throw an across the board 25% tariff on Chinese goods on the books. We rely on cheap Chinese goods to make up for declining and/or stagnant wages. His base, and indeed the entire country, would notice that big time. It would torpedo his next election.
This whole thing is political theater. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Meanwhile more manufacturing jobs keep getting outsourced.
they got us to back down on tariffs. OTOH Trump probably couldn't have done those tariffs anyway. Not without wrecking the economy.
Meanwhile the outsourcing continues, with GM moving 14,000 jobs to Mexico (and rather cleverly blaming it on declining demand for cars vs SUVs while ignoring the new SUV & Truck factories in Mexico).
Nothing change. Everything continues apace. Well, except we borrowed another $1 trillion as a giveaway to Trump's wealthy friends in the top 1%.
to fuck off. I've also never told anyone on a developer forum to fuck off. I can't even imagine why somebody would outside of taking out their frustration on somebody else. If you want to do that there's a time and a place for it. It's called 4chan.
what's wrong with that? They make money, we get tons and tons of free software (free as in beer & speech).
It's the intent behind it that matters.
That was putting them out of work. Coal plants would be profitable if they could run like they did before the EPA and mine safety. But on that other hand we'd miners dying left and right and cancer villages.
Hillary's problem wasn't the message, it was how she said it and more importantly her complete lack of leadership when it came to finding real solutions for out of work coal miners.
Bernie has the solution, which is a federal jobs guarantee. Put those coal miners to work but building solar panels. Time will tell if he gets a chance to do it.
Not saying it doesn't mean their findings shouldn't be looked at more closely since they clearly have an agenda. But it's in line with the coal plant closings we're seeing. Can you site a study where coal plants _are_ profitable in aggregate?
/. is just an excuse to talk about a trend that seems pretty obvious. If Coal wasn't losing ground Trump wouldn't have been able to capitalize on out of work miners. The market would have those folks well employed.
Put another way, here's the left wing bastion of Forbes discussion the same thing.
Posting this particular study on
so long as coal miners can decide our presidential elections by swinging Ohio and Virginia. That said, I've yet to hear anyone from the left give those workers a viable alternative to working in the mines. So far the answer has been "Time to reskill". Those guys know coal mining is a dying thing. They'd reskill if they could.
What we really need is a federal jobs guarantee like they did in the 30s. But nobody wants to pay for that. So expect more political distortions.
living and working conditions. India has a massive number of people with food insecurity. This results in much cheaper labor because they're literally fighting for their lives. You can't compete when there's that much inequality.
it costs a ton to bring an H1-B here. On top of that it's much, much cheaper to pay them in their home country. If businesses could offshore these jobs they would. Sometimes you just need people on site to collaborate. Yahoo, for example, learned that the hard way.
you can measure the hours they work and how many lines of code their write. I know /.ers like to bang on about code quality, and yes that matters in some places. But in a lot of place it doesn't. The phrase "Code Monkey" exists for a reason.
in my post. Are you stalking me? Cool, I got my first stalker!
Anyway, I'm not opposed to killing ICE. Like I said above, We already have immigration enforcement. ICE was created _post_ 9/11. And like the patriot act that freaks me out. I can't help but wonder why we didn't just put more money into existing structures. To be blunt, it makes me wonder if ICE is going to turn into the American Version of the SS.
Here's a crazy thought about The Wall: What makes you think it's there to keep people out? Germany had one. They used it to keep people _in_.
we have immigration enforcement for a reason. Deport both when the spouse is caught.
And it doesn't make me a dime. That money doesn't get to me. Whatever they pay in taxes I lose in tax cuts to the wealthy. Until we get politicians who stop pushing Trickle Down economics and that Job Creator Bullshit lie then it really doesn't matter to me. I don't care about the economy at large. I care about _my_ economy. The working man's economy.