I'm not buying the productivity numbers either. Tesla became a top 5 car dealer in less than 10 years. That's crazy. Manufacturing output continues to rise with less workers.
and were fine before ICE. ICE is a new thing. It's unpopular because it brings together two groups on the left and right to hate on it.
On the one hand you've got lefties who are fine with the immigrants, especially the ones that ICE cracks down on. As a lefty/.er I'm not that worried about they guy who slings my hash or picks fruit being an illegal, I'm more concerned about the H1-Bs here legally who take jobs I should have had.
On the right wing you've got the libertarians worried about government expansion. It's an entirely new federal police force with massive resources. If you're paying attention to things like ICE and the border wall and you're a libertarian you're asking yourself when they'll be used against you. That wall can be used to keep people in, just like in East Germany. Same thing with ICE. They can be used against you, and they make you nervous. Like the TSA and anything else that points to authoritarianism.
That's the main reason ICE is under attack. There's folks on both sides with a reason to want it shut down.
not when companies can just say "Oh well, we tried, time to get an H1-B" any time they can't find somebody willing to take a job for $20/hr, weekend graveyards, $220/week health insurance and you need a 4 year degree and 8 years experience in tech for this senior position that is somehow critical enough that we get an H1-B but not so critical that we can't have a contract worker do it.
Workers have lost virtually all bargaining power in the global economy. It's why Donald Trump is our president. He ran on fixing that and it resonated for a reason.
if he/she's not a contractor. Facts not in evidence. It does not follow from "company A hired a 60 year old" that they wouldn't have hired them without the advantages from contracting.
There is one big advantage to a contract when hiring 60 year olds: You can fire them and hire somebody younger and it's not age discrimination, it's just that their contract was up, and they just happened to give a guy in his 20s the permanent position.
not a contractor. Most contractors are really full time employees. They're doing work critical to the business on a routine schedule. Companies hire them explicitly to get out of paying unemployment insurance, health benefits and payroll taxes.
The problem isn't actual contract gigs or consultancies. The problem is when the company hires contractors to do stuff like tech support of key, long running products or monitoring of base systems. That's the bulk of your "contractors". It's the IT equivalent of Uber.
it's a tax/benefits dodge. The 150% cost is still less than paying the various benefits and taxes to the employee. For one thing contractors don't have unemployment benefits. Plus upper management likes being able to fire on a moments notice if they need a quick stock bump. Most jurisdictions require a few months notice.
while we're at it we should get that Newton schmuck to stop wasting his time on his "theory of gravity". I mean, if you can't show profitable results in a decade or two it's time to pack it in.
If your complaint is government enforced censorship I don't know of anyone, left or right, advocating for that (maybe a few AC trolls on/.). So far it's the major players policing their own networks, almost completely for the sake of keeping them advertiser friendly (with a side order of "We're afraid one of these guys is going to incite violence and we'll get sued").
I keep saying this, but if we want a free platform nobody can get banned from the solution is easy: National Public Access. Have the government build a site anyone can post video to. Then if somebody gets banned for anything besides a crime then it really will be a first amendment issue.
The article you linked to for Kevin says it's about what data they can hold and how they hold it. Nothing about Hate speech.
You're the one moving the goal post, from "Regulating Hate Speech" to "Data retention and storage". You don't have a leg to stand on here.
Again, nobody outside of trolls on/. wants to regulate hate speech on Facebook. The only one regulating speech online are the owners of the platforms, and they're doing it to keep the advertisers happy. The right wing are losing out here because their beliefs are too extreme for Americans and advertisers are afraid of being associated with those extreme beliefs.
An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that “it would be hard to ban hate speech because people can’t agree what speech is hateful
You can get any results from a survey with the right questions. Show me somebody who matters that wants to regulate hate speech through the government. Preferably someone on the left.
Goal's right where it's always been. The burden's on you, not me. Give me names and sources for what they said.
specifically who is asking the US Government to regulate speech on Facebook?
Now, there are Senators who want to regulate Disclosure, but that's not speech. If the Russians want to run pro-Trump adverts let them. But they need to register as foreign agents.
So by all means, show me somebody more credible than a/. poster who is asking the government to regulate speech on Facebook.
we pay 2x-5x market rates. That's how we do socialism in America. I'd rather see us cut out the middle man and do UBI, but that doesn't seem like it's happening. We can always afford another $1 billion dollar bomber but Medicare for All is "Pie in the Sky", even when right wing think tanks say it's $2 trillion cheaper...
Now, do you support laws making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of political views? How about sexuality? After all, if you're against political discrimination you'd pretty much be stuck being against sexuality discrimination, since they're both a choice. Of course, you can argue that folks are born gay, but then that falls under the same logic as being white. You're born white, so should I be able to discriminate against you for being white?
I don't think anyone is asking for the government to step in and police hate speech. Certainly nobody who has any pull. But for the same reason you don't see Alex Jones on Fox News you're not seeing him on Twitter and Facebook anymore: Advertisers.
Heck, guys doing silly videos about big chested anime girls are getting banned on Youtube left and right (eh hem... or so I've heard) because they're not advertiser friendly. Bloody Call of Duty streamers are having a tough time. A guy like Alex Jones isn't going to last. Especially with the veiled threats of violence (anyone remember the Pizza Gate shooter?).
If you want a free and open platform for video discourse there's an easy solution: National Public Access. Make a national Youtube. You'll have to pay for it though, and that means taxes. Otherwise the price you pay is your watered down, advertiser friendly content.
_everybody_ does this. It's a quick and easy way to get H1-B workers for one thing. It lowers tech wages too since you don't have long term employment. Plus it dodges taxes.
Thing is, what are we (/. techies) gonna do about it? Nobody wants to vote for strong worker protections. It pisses us off when somebody abuses them. So we'd rather give them up for ourselves than risk somebody else getting them.
If you want this to change you're going to need help from the government. By ourselves we're too weak. We don't have any solidarity for one thing. And there's so much cheap, overseas labor we can't hope to compete. It's Ok to want nice things, and to take steps to get those things. And it's OK if you can't do it on your own.
which is exactly what ANTIFA is. And nobody's laughing at the neo-nazis. We're terrified of them and of how mainstream they've become. I'll take a bit of heckling at a restaurant to a lynch mob's noose any day of the week.
to funnel cheap foreign workers into government contracts they normally wouldn't be allowed into. That would be my guess. I'll remind everyone we're 2 years into this administration and Trump hasn't recinded the Obama era rule that allows the spouses of H1-bs to work in the country (effectively doubling the number of work visas issued).
Also it would let Google and Amazon function as contracting agencies. Basically free money for them.
but they do need content, not to get new subscribers but to keep the old ones. You need a series of shows you can either go back to or discover. It's not even that big a deal if they're not finished. My kid watched a ton of cheap, unfinished shows on DVD back in the day when she was laid up sick. But the point is to have enough content that folks want to keep the subscription.
Assuming Voter Suppression doesn't shut them down the young'uns they're gonna come back with a vengeance. Their completely weighted down by debt. Usually that means they'll want progressive policies.
OTOH they might just turn against the old folks. Demand an end to Social Security, Medicare, shutting down the VA & military pension programs, etc, etc. Hard to say.
But given how screwed they are (they make 20% less than baby boomers with more education) they're gonna be more political, Youtube or not.
Democracy is a governmental one. The two aren't related.
You're reciting a right wing talking point meant to give Democracy a bad name. Somebody wants to turn you into a fascist so they can take your stuff. Now you just have to figure out who.
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why aren't wages rising?
I'm not buying the productivity numbers either. Tesla became a top 5 car dealer in less than 10 years. That's crazy. Manufacturing output continues to rise with less workers.
and miners. For the last 18 months you couldn't get a VR capable graphics card for less than $500 and the PS4 Pro just isn't powerful enough.
and were fine before ICE. ICE is a new thing. It's unpopular because it brings together two groups on the left and right to hate on it.
/.er I'm not that worried about they guy who slings my hash or picks fruit being an illegal, I'm more concerned about the H1-Bs here legally who take jobs I should have had.
On the one hand you've got lefties who are fine with the immigrants, especially the ones that ICE cracks down on. As a lefty
On the right wing you've got the libertarians worried about government expansion. It's an entirely new federal police force with massive resources. If you're paying attention to things like ICE and the border wall and you're a libertarian you're asking yourself when they'll be used against you. That wall can be used to keep people in, just like in East Germany. Same thing with ICE. They can be used against you, and they make you nervous. Like the TSA and anything else that points to authoritarianism.
That's the main reason ICE is under attack. There's folks on both sides with a reason to want it shut down.
not when companies can just say "Oh well, we tried, time to get an H1-B" any time they can't find somebody willing to take a job for $20/hr, weekend graveyards, $220/week health insurance and you need a 4 year degree and 8 years experience in tech for this senior position that is somehow critical enough that we get an H1-B but not so critical that we can't have a contract worker do it.
Workers have lost virtually all bargaining power in the global economy. It's why Donald Trump is our president. He ran on fixing that and it resonated for a reason.
if he/she's not a contractor. Facts not in evidence. It does not follow from "company A hired a 60 year old" that they wouldn't have hired them without the advantages from contracting.
There is one big advantage to a contract when hiring 60 year olds: You can fire them and hire somebody younger and it's not age discrimination, it's just that their contract was up, and they just happened to give a guy in his 20s the permanent position.
not a contractor. Most contractors are really full time employees. They're doing work critical to the business on a routine schedule. Companies hire them explicitly to get out of paying unemployment insurance, health benefits and payroll taxes.
The problem isn't actual contract gigs or consultancies. The problem is when the company hires contractors to do stuff like tech support of key, long running products or monitoring of base systems. That's the bulk of your "contractors". It's the IT equivalent of Uber.
it's a tax/benefits dodge. The 150% cost is still less than paying the various benefits and taxes to the employee. For one thing contractors don't have unemployment benefits. Plus upper management likes being able to fire on a moments notice if they need a quick stock bump. Most jurisdictions require a few months notice.
while we're at it we should get that Newton schmuck to stop wasting his time on his "theory of gravity". I mean, if you can't show profitable results in a decade or two it's time to pack it in.
Should ISP spam filters be banned?
/.). So far it's the major players policing their own networks, almost completely for the sake of keeping them advertiser friendly (with a side order of "We're afraid one of these guys is going to incite violence and we'll get sued").
If your complaint is government enforced censorship I don't know of anyone, left or right, advocating for that (maybe a few AC trolls on
I keep saying this, but if we want a free platform nobody can get banned from the solution is easy: National Public Access. Have the government build a site anyone can post video to. Then if somebody gets banned for anything besides a crime then it really will be a first amendment issue.
see here
/. wants to regulate hate speech on Facebook. The only one regulating speech online are the owners of the platforms, and they're doing it to keep the advertisers happy. The right wing are losing out here because their beliefs are too extreme for Americans and advertisers are afraid of being associated with those extreme beliefs.
The article you linked to for Kevin says it's about what data they can hold and how they hold it. Nothing about Hate speech.
You're the one moving the goal post, from "Regulating Hate Speech" to "Data retention and storage". You don't have a leg to stand on here.
Again, nobody outside of trolls on
And now his post gets seen. As the saying goes, don't feed the trolls.
It makes it sound 1000x more legit. Like it's backed by the government or something.
That said, I can't think of any reason to use this besides money laundering. If I have a dollar I'll spend a dollar. I don't need crypto to do that.
You can get any results from a survey with the right questions. Show me somebody who matters that wants to regulate hate speech through the government. Preferably someone on the left.
Goal's right where it's always been. The burden's on you, not me. Give me names and sources for what they said.
specifically who is asking the US Government to regulate speech on Facebook?
/. poster who is asking the government to regulate speech on Facebook.
Now, there are Senators who want to regulate Disclosure, but that's not speech. If the Russians want to run pro-Trump adverts let them. But they need to register as foreign agents.
So by all means, show me somebody more credible than a
we pay 2x-5x market rates. That's how we do socialism in America. I'd rather see us cut out the middle man and do UBI, but that doesn't seem like it's happening. We can always afford another $1 billion dollar bomber but Medicare for All is "Pie in the Sky", even when right wing think tanks say it's $2 trillion cheaper...
doesn't speak for Hollywood.
Now, do you support laws making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of political views? How about sexuality? After all, if you're against political discrimination you'd pretty much be stuck being against sexuality discrimination, since they're both a choice. Of course, you can argue that folks are born gay, but then that falls under the same logic as being white. You're born white, so should I be able to discriminate against you for being white?
this one.
I don't think anyone is asking for the government to step in and police hate speech. Certainly nobody who has any pull. But for the same reason you don't see Alex Jones on Fox News you're not seeing him on Twitter and Facebook anymore: Advertisers.
Heck, guys doing silly videos about big chested anime girls are getting banned on Youtube left and right (eh hem... or so I've heard) because they're not advertiser friendly. Bloody Call of Duty streamers are having a tough time. A guy like Alex Jones isn't going to last. Especially with the veiled threats of violence (anyone remember the Pizza Gate shooter?).
If you want a free and open platform for video discourse there's an easy solution: National Public Access. Make a national Youtube. You'll have to pay for it though, and that means taxes. Otherwise the price you pay is your watered down, advertiser friendly content.
_everybody_ does this. It's a quick and easy way to get H1-B workers for one thing. It lowers tech wages too since you don't have long term employment. Plus it dodges taxes.
Thing is, what are we (/. techies) gonna do about it? Nobody wants to vote for strong worker protections. It pisses us off when somebody abuses them. So we'd rather give them up for ourselves than risk somebody else getting them.
If you want this to change you're going to need help from the government. By ourselves we're too weak. We don't have any solidarity for one thing. And there's so much cheap, overseas labor we can't hope to compete. It's Ok to want nice things, and to take steps to get those things. And it's OK if you can't do it on your own.
which is exactly what ANTIFA is. And nobody's laughing at the neo-nazis. We're terrified of them and of how mainstream they've become. I'll take a bit of heckling at a restaurant to a lynch mob's noose any day of the week.
to funnel cheap foreign workers into government contracts they normally wouldn't be allowed into. That would be my guess. I'll remind everyone we're 2 years into this administration and Trump hasn't recinded the Obama era rule that allows the spouses of H1-bs to work in the country (effectively doubling the number of work visas issued).
Also it would let Google and Amazon function as contracting agencies. Basically free money for them.
but they do need content, not to get new subscribers but to keep the old ones. You need a series of shows you can either go back to or discover. It's not even that big a deal if they're not finished. My kid watched a ton of cheap, unfinished shows on DVD back in the day when she was laid up sick. But the point is to have enough content that folks want to keep the subscription.
they need a back catalog to keep subs. As everyone and their dog jumps into the streaming services market Netflix needs their own content.
As for, why debt, the answer is taxes. They'll write it off as a business expense.
Assuming Voter Suppression doesn't shut them down the young'uns they're gonna come back with a vengeance. Their completely weighted down by debt. Usually that means they'll want progressive policies.
OTOH they might just turn against the old folks. Demand an end to Social Security, Medicare, shutting down the VA & military pension programs, etc, etc. Hard to say.
But given how screwed they are (they make 20% less than baby boomers with more education) they're gonna be more political, Youtube or not.
amateur.
Democracy is a governmental one. The two aren't related.
You're reciting a right wing talking point meant to give Democracy a bad name. Somebody wants to turn you into a fascist so they can take your stuff. Now you just have to figure out who.