I spend $70/mo on streaming services (Hulu/Netflix/Crunchy Roll/). The closest equivalent from cable TV would be at least $120/mo (accounting for the DVDs I get from Netflix that count as about 4 pay per views/mo). Plus there's no cable equivalent of Crunchy roll. As a consumer I'm still coming out way ahead. And when the kid graduates college and pays her own bills I'll kill the Hulu.
this is the problem with America today. When a tragedy takes some effort to avoid we just throw up our hands and say "Welp, nothing we can do about it".
It's like Gun Control. The stuff the left is suggesting ("assault weapon" bans and banning high capacity mags) won't work. There was just a case of a 61 year old guy with dementia who got shot by cops coming to take his guns (literally pried from his cold, dead hands). But then we've got the right wing saying it's OK for a guy with a long history of beating his wife to be armed to the teeth. It's a really, really hard problem to solve. But we mostly just give up, and when we do do something there's so much fighting over it that we do the wrong thing.
We as a country need to agree that problems can be solved and tragedy can be averted. That old man didn't have to die, and neither did the latest round of 12 shot at a bar. That town didn't have to burn down, and New Orleans didn't have to drown. We put a man on the moon, we can keep one old man from being shot by cops and we can keep towns and cities from being wrecked.
right wing media bias. Step out of your media bubble. The hard right have bought up so much (re:Sinclair media) that it's tough to get away from them.
I'm not saying excessive Political Correctness and over eager SJWs and hucksters like Anita Sarkeesian aren't a problem (they're fanning flames to make quick cash). But I _am_ saying that a safe work environment is a good thing and that sexual harassment is a real problem. Men can be predatory. Not always, not even in a majority of the time. But that doesn't mean we don't need protections in place. You put locks on your doors, right?
that's the real trouble liberals have. Yes, there are cases where logging companies have misused forestry policy to cut trees that didn't need cutting. But that doesn't make make the funding cuts for fire safety any less real.
like New Orleans before it (yes, there are ways to build levies that would have prevented the Bush Jr era flood, the Dutch have them). The news to me is we let a town burn down in 2018 when we have technological means (controlled burns and the like) to stop it.
A big part of what's making these wild fires so bad is that California cut funding for controlled burns and other forest management techniques you need to do during a drought.
I saw this in my city too. We cut the sanitation budget, including the funds for the guys that go around clearing debris from the storm drains. Sure enough first really big storm floods the whole city.
I've said it before and I will say it again: The government doesn't waste nearly as much money as people think. When you start demanding substantial cuts this is what happens.
but somebody once observed that some of the brightest minds of our generation are figuring out how to get me to watch cat videos (and the 15 second ad spot before them) instead of curing cancer. To say nothing of all the math wiz's working on quicker High Frequency Transactions for Wall Street.
they workers were angry about the forced arbitration. That's a legitimate complaint. It's also being downplayed in most stories in favor of the SJW angle. Now that you know that you should be asking yourself why.
If I may go off on a tangent here (feel free to stop readying if you're not into a libtard libtarding out) I've been complaining about our right wing media narratives for years. Workers are understandably angry that a sexual harassment claim is forced into binding arbitration instead of being litigated as it should. Workers have lost a valuable right. This is barely discussed in most media outlets (CNN, to their credit, did) in favor of a focus on the part most likely to rile up the anti-SJW crowd. This is what I mean about the right wing media bias.
Another amazing example. Fiat-Chrysler just got caught bribing Union leaders to weaken worker benefits and pay. The news stories all ran it as a Union Corruption scandal and did everything they could to gloss over the fact that Fiat-Chrysler was the one paying the bribes. The message is loud and clear: Unions are bad because they are corrupt. Again, right wing narrative at play.
The media is a bit left on a few social issues. A bit. They (like Hilary Clinton I might add) opposed Gay marriage until changing times forced their hand. I'm sick of it. It's like living in bizzaro world where everyone around me clamors on about the left wing media meanwhile I watch stories like the above unfold over and over again...
something for the company to solve? Because companies are required to take steps to have a safe work environment. Workers forced them too in the 1900s because until they were forced to companies didn't bother. Workers were replaceable when something went wrong.
Also it's good for the work environment. Women are essential to modern business. Like it or not more of them are graduating college right now. The reason is girls calm down sooner in their early childhood and can focus on school, meanwhile boys are still balls of excitement and rage for a few more years. That gives girls a bit of a head start in early education which translates to a lead in long term education. Yes, this means boys could do with a bit of extra attention. The pendulum has swung the other way, but only because we've improved things so much for girls. Still, it does highlight the need for more funding in schools, if only to attract and keep better teachers.
Anyway, until we radically improve our education system (which ain't happening any time soon) this improves Google's bottom line while protecting workers. It's a win-win.
metered. I managed to get a deal on "business" class for $100/mo to go unmetered, but eventually they'll get wise to that and I'll have to pay $140+/mo.
They're well aware we're cutting the cords. If anything they like it. Right now they have to pay each and every channel to run them. With cord cutters I pay $100+/mo for the line and then $70/mo for all my services. Worst case they break even and best case best case they come out ahead. Internet is cheap to provide.
on their hands? I mean, worst case their kids are grown up and the work. A lot are just plain retired. Of course they don't mind spending time in a car the way a Millennial working two jobs and taking care of the kids does.
we spent a few hundred on a sensor that only trips if a car pulls up. Your city's being cheap. The sensors work and work well. They're not even that expensive.
I didn't have one in high school. By the time I did it was an expensive nuisance and constant source of stress mostly used to get me to work.
That said if I had one in high school (along with the increase in social standing that comes with one) my opinion would probably be very different.
Meanwhile I drive home against traffic each day and it's terrifying to me how bad things are. Traffic will be backed up several miles on surface streets. Freeways are at least a half mile. Meanwhile all those cars are spewing toxins and we're wasting gas and getting into wars we can't afford to feed our hungry engines.
you're comparing two completely unrelated things. One is an app that tells my friends I voted and reminds them to do the same. The other is a massive data dump that aggregates large amount of voter data in a state full of people who have a history of racially tinged terrorism (e.g. the KKK). You're being deliberately misleading. Shame on you.
they have a laser like focus on their goal. And there is only one: shift as much money to themselves and their donors. Always, always, always follow the money.
The Dems will sometimes sell you out. Sometimes they won't. Even the worst (Pelosi & Schumer mostly) are happy as long as they get reelected and have pangs of conscience. Some of them (the Bernicrats) even have a real desire to make the world better. There's none of that with the GOP. And it makes them _strong_. When you focus on one and only one goal you can move mountains.
Watch what the GOP does. What it's always done. Don't listen to their rhetoric. Do not, under any circumstances, watch a Trump rally. Those are there to make you _feel_. You need to think. Watch how they vote.
and the Dems just took the House. That's all the evidence these people need. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a 3 hour wait in line to vote at my left leaning districts polls....
is that enough ballots went "missing" that it would have swung the election to the GOP. Nobody contested the ballots were real or not. The GOP tried to steal the election. I think that's both obvious and terrifying.
Oh, and even bigger news, I didn't know about this, and I follow the news a lot. This should have been front page news. Especially if the constant complaints from the right about the "Liberal Media" were to be believed.
It's because their ideas aren't popular. Seriuosly, they're not. 90% of Americans support legal protections for pre-existing conditions. 70% of Americans support Medicare for all (52% of _Republicans_). 70% of Americans are pro-choice. And I've never met anyone but a member of the GOP inner circle who favors the kind of trickle down economics they popularized in Kansas (and apparently neither has Kansas, they just kicked Scott Walker to the Curb).
Americans are surprisingly left wing when you poll them. Which makes sense. The left wing tends to focus on worker's rights and quality of life, and most Americans are workers. We're not a nation of well to do aristocrats. There's not enough serfs to go around for that.
If the GOP ever stops cheating they'll stop winning.
he's only thinking about Information Tech. Most of society's problems are economic. Food, shelter, healthcare. Look at every major societal in human history it's always been traceable to money. WWI and II were land grabs by nations looking for more wealth. 9/11 was due to US meddling in the middle east to secure cheap oil. The only other problem to solve is disease, and we're doing pretty good there. No more small pox. We kept bird flu in check.
Bio tech changes everything. People don't realize how much we've changed farming in the last 100 years. We use oil byproducts to recondition land so that we need fewer or no crop rotation cycles. We used genetic modification to massively increase yields and make pest resistant crops. We can feed everyone on the plant now.
Yeah, tech moved faster than our society at fixing problems, but our society wouldn't even get a chance to fix them without tech.
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I spend $70/mo on streaming services (Hulu/Netflix/Crunchy Roll/). The closest equivalent from cable TV would be at least $120/mo (accounting for the DVDs I get from Netflix that count as about 4 pay per views/mo). Plus there's no cable equivalent of Crunchy roll. As a consumer I'm still coming out way ahead. And when the kid graduates college and pays her own bills I'll kill the Hulu.
this is the problem with America today. When a tragedy takes some effort to avoid we just throw up our hands and say "Welp, nothing we can do about it".
It's like Gun Control. The stuff the left is suggesting ("assault weapon" bans and banning high capacity mags) won't work. There was just a case of a 61 year old guy with dementia who got shot by cops coming to take his guns (literally pried from his cold, dead hands). But then we've got the right wing saying it's OK for a guy with a long history of beating his wife to be armed to the teeth. It's a really, really hard problem to solve. But we mostly just give up, and when we do do something there's so much fighting over it that we do the wrong thing.
We as a country need to agree that problems can be solved and tragedy can be averted. That old man didn't have to die, and neither did the latest round of 12 shot at a bar. That town didn't have to burn down, and New Orleans didn't have to drown. We put a man on the moon, we can keep one old man from being shot by cops and we can keep towns and cities from being wrecked.
right wing media bias. Step out of your media bubble. The hard right have bought up so much (re:Sinclair media) that it's tough to get away from them.
I'm not saying excessive Political Correctness and over eager SJWs and hucksters like Anita Sarkeesian aren't a problem (they're fanning flames to make quick cash). But I _am_ saying that a safe work environment is a good thing and that sexual harassment is a real problem. Men can be predatory. Not always, not even in a majority of the time. But that doesn't mean we don't need protections in place. You put locks on your doors, right?
that's the real trouble liberals have. Yes, there are cases where logging companies have misused forestry policy to cut trees that didn't need cutting. But that doesn't make make the funding cuts for fire safety any less real.
like New Orleans before it (yes, there are ways to build levies that would have prevented the Bush Jr era flood, the Dutch have them). The news to me is we let a town burn down in 2018 when we have technological means (controlled burns and the like) to stop it.
A big part of what's making these wild fires so bad is that California cut funding for controlled burns and other forest management techniques you need to do during a drought.
I saw this in my city too. We cut the sanitation budget, including the funds for the guys that go around clearing debris from the storm drains. Sure enough first really big storm floods the whole city.
I've said it before and I will say it again: The government doesn't waste nearly as much money as people think. When you start demanding substantial cuts this is what happens.
but somebody once observed that some of the brightest minds of our generation are figuring out how to get me to watch cat videos (and the 15 second ad spot before them) instead of curing cancer. To say nothing of all the math wiz's working on quicker High Frequency Transactions for Wall Street.
they workers were angry about the forced arbitration. That's a legitimate complaint. It's also being downplayed in most stories in favor of the SJW angle. Now that you know that you should be asking yourself why.
they protesting the forced arbitration.
If I may go off on a tangent here (feel free to stop readying if you're not into a libtard libtarding out) I've been complaining about our right wing media narratives for years. Workers are understandably angry that a sexual harassment claim is forced into binding arbitration instead of being litigated as it should. Workers have lost a valuable right. This is barely discussed in most media outlets (CNN, to their credit, did) in favor of a focus on the part most likely to rile up the anti-SJW crowd. This is what I mean about the right wing media bias.
Another amazing example. Fiat-Chrysler just got caught bribing Union leaders to weaken worker benefits and pay. The news stories all ran it as a Union Corruption scandal and did everything they could to gloss over the fact that Fiat-Chrysler was the one paying the bribes. The message is loud and clear: Unions are bad because they are corrupt. Again, right wing narrative at play.
The media is a bit left on a few social issues. A bit. They (like Hilary Clinton I might add) opposed Gay marriage until changing times forced their hand. I'm sick of it. It's like living in bizzaro world where everyone around me clamors on about the left wing media meanwhile I watch stories like the above unfold over and over again...
something for the company to solve? Because companies are required to take steps to have a safe work environment. Workers forced them too in the 1900s because until they were forced to companies didn't bother. Workers were replaceable when something went wrong.
Also it's good for the work environment. Women are essential to modern business. Like it or not more of them are graduating college right now. The reason is girls calm down sooner in their early childhood and can focus on school, meanwhile boys are still balls of excitement and rage for a few more years. That gives girls a bit of a head start in early education which translates to a lead in long term education. Yes, this means boys could do with a bit of extra attention. The pendulum has swung the other way, but only because we've improved things so much for girls. Still, it does highlight the need for more funding in schools, if only to attract and keep better teachers.
Anyway, until we radically improve our education system (which ain't happening any time soon) this improves Google's bottom line while protecting workers. It's a win-win.
I can eat breakfast, shave, catch up on the news and post to /. all while dri#$#![CARRIER LOST]
you're in pretty good shape. Not saying you shouldn't be mad about how crap life is. Just saying the rest of us should be way, way more angry.
metered. I managed to get a deal on "business" class for $100/mo to go unmetered, but eventually they'll get wise to that and I'll have to pay $140+/mo.
They're well aware we're cutting the cords. If anything they like it. Right now they have to pay each and every channel to run them. With cord cutters I pay $100+/mo for the line and then $70/mo for all my services. Worst case they break even and best case best case they come out ahead. Internet is cheap to provide.
By some drunk and/or dumb person way more stressful. Plus I have to worry about my car breaking down and the price of gas.
on their hands? I mean, worst case their kids are grown up and the work. A lot are just plain retired. Of course they don't mind spending time in a car the way a Millennial working two jobs and taking care of the kids does.
we spent a few hundred on a sensor that only trips if a car pulls up. Your city's being cheap. The sensors work and work well. They're not even that expensive.
I didn't have one in high school. By the time I did it was an expensive nuisance and constant source of stress mostly used to get me to work.
That said if I had one in high school (along with the increase in social standing that comes with one) my opinion would probably be very different.
Meanwhile I drive home against traffic each day and it's terrifying to me how bad things are. Traffic will be backed up several miles on surface streets. Freeways are at least a half mile. Meanwhile all those cars are spewing toxins and we're wasting gas and getting into wars we can't afford to feed our hungry engines.
Why do we live like this?
you're comparing two completely unrelated things. One is an app that tells my friends I voted and reminds them to do the same. The other is a massive data dump that aggregates large amount of voter data in a state full of people who have a history of racially tinged terrorism (e.g. the KKK). You're being deliberately misleading. Shame on you.
we're human beings. We are not "good people". Air everybody's dirty laundry and we'd descend on each other in a blood orgy until no one was left.
they have a laser like focus on their goal. And there is only one: shift as much money to themselves and their donors. Always, always, always follow the money.
The Dems will sometimes sell you out. Sometimes they won't. Even the worst (Pelosi & Schumer mostly) are happy as long as they get reelected and have pangs of conscience. Some of them (the Bernicrats) even have a real desire to make the world better. There's none of that with the GOP. And it makes them _strong_. When you focus on one and only one goal you can move mountains.
Watch what the GOP does. What it's always done. Don't listen to their rhetoric. Do not, under any circumstances, watch a Trump rally. Those are there to make you _feel_. You need to think. Watch how they vote.
and the Dems just took the House. That's all the evidence these people need. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a 3 hour wait in line to vote at my left leaning districts polls....
it took you several paragraphs to explain all that. Meanwhile the GOP can get by with "Millions of illegal Mexicans are voting!" and call it a day...
It's hard to have a reasoned discussion with bad actors...
is that enough ballots went "missing" that it would have swung the election to the GOP. Nobody contested the ballots were real or not. The GOP tried to steal the election. I think that's both obvious and terrifying.
Oh, and even bigger news, I didn't know about this, and I follow the news a lot. This should have been front page news. Especially if the constant complaints from the right about the "Liberal Media" were to be believed.
It's because their ideas aren't popular. Seriuosly, they're not. 90% of Americans support legal protections for pre-existing conditions. 70% of Americans support Medicare for all (52% of _Republicans_). 70% of Americans are pro-choice. And I've never met anyone but a member of the GOP inner circle who favors the kind of trickle down economics they popularized in Kansas (and apparently neither has Kansas, they just kicked Scott Walker to the Curb).
Americans are surprisingly left wing when you poll them. Which makes sense. The left wing tends to focus on worker's rights and quality of life, and most Americans are workers. We're not a nation of well to do aristocrats. There's not enough serfs to go around for that.
If the GOP ever stops cheating they'll stop winning.
he's only thinking about Information Tech. Most of society's problems are economic. Food, shelter, healthcare. Look at every major societal in human history it's always been traceable to money. WWI and II were land grabs by nations looking for more wealth. 9/11 was due to US meddling in the middle east to secure cheap oil. The only other problem to solve is disease, and we're doing pretty good there. No more small pox. We kept bird flu in check.
Bio tech changes everything. People don't realize how much we've changed farming in the last 100 years. We use oil byproducts to recondition land so that we need fewer or no crop rotation cycles. We used genetic modification to massively increase yields and make pest resistant crops. We can feed everyone on the plant now.
Yeah, tech moved faster than our society at fixing problems, but our society wouldn't even get a chance to fix them without tech.