because if you don't someone else will. They'll get all those "dumb" people who aren't eating. Give them rifles and boots and, well, I think you can figure out the rest...
not everyone can. For a lot of folks it's hard to be stable for 6 years without a college degree to fall back on. Post high school tuition waivers (usually worth about $4k/yr) generally require you to enroll full time and finish in 4 years. A lot of the grants do too. If there's a break in your enrollment you're kind of screwed.
Also, if you did it for $24k you I'm guessing she didn't go to a regular public U (or she got a bunch of scholarships). These days you're looking at $12k/yer. Now, if her income was low or nonexistant (and the income of her parents wasn't factored in) grans & scholarships might have covered half of that. Again, great if you can get it. But scholarships are hard to come by and as mentioned most grants want you full time.
Source: I've got a kid in college right now for Nursing. It's costing me $16k for her last 2 years (each) alone. That's before I account for the car she has to have (clinicals are too far apart to bus too and Uber costs more than the car, so unless she's secretly Nightcrawler she needs a car) and for food/rent. I could have forced her to live with me and saved about $6k/yr if I had to, but that's about it.
I've got a buddy with Type-I diabetes. The kind your born with and that you die of without insulin. He can't work because the illness kicks the crap out of him for about 2 months every year, and it's a random 2 months. He barely made it through high school. Smart guy, but not Einstein grade smarts so no employer is going to put up with him.
He's pretty right wing. Has a got family who worked in defense. So he gets his political views from there.
When asked about healthcare he understands that he needs socialized medicine or he dies. Again, he's smart. He's figured out that in a pure capitalist economy he couldn't possibly earn the money to pay for his care. You should hear the convoluted mess of a healthcare system he came up with that preserves his ideological system while ensuring he gets care. It was like Obamacare but with much bigger subsidies and more guarantees of care. To his credit when I pointed out that he agreed that he'd basically created a socialized medicine but with a 30% surcharge for private insurance profits.
I'm not saying we can't have a mixed system. I'm in favor of single _payer_, e.g. the gov't pays but otherwise stays out of things. But that's still socialism. At some point I think we have to admit that capitalism as we idolize it just plain doesn't work.
or the Soviets. You do understand that people can misrepresent themselves, right? China is a Kleptocracy, which is where America is heading.
If you want to see Socialism in action look to the Scandanavian countries. Also Germany, France and Canada. Venezuela seemed to be making a run for it but couldn't shake the centuries of political corruption. I think if America hadn't sanctioned them and locked them out of the world banking system when the price of oil collapsed then they might have pulled out of it. Yeah, their ruler's a dictator, but so's the king of Saudi Arabia and we're helping him bomb Yemen, so it's not like we've got much of a leg to stand on. OTOH we did just use their collapsed economy to seize a bunch of their oil assets. Funny how that always seems to work out (RE: Iraq, Afghanistan).
TL;DR; You're misrepresenting socialism, either intentionally or by mistake. Please stop it.
both Democrats & Republicans use race to distract from economic issues that could be solved with socialism. There are right wing pro-Corporate Dems like Pelosi & Schumer who would like very much for us all to forget about silly, pie in the sky things like giving everyone healthcare or ending our 8 endless wars and spend time arguing about how there could be more women in X.
That said, there's a strong number of actual left wing Dems like Bernie Sanders & Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez who are banging the policy drum for real. I've been seeing a lot of right wing press outlets (notably MSNBC & CNN, both of which are economically right wing) running hit pieces on them.
this is a terrible idea. It'll energize the right wing in the State giving them plenty of legitimate talking points/grievances. It's obviously unconstitutional discrimination so it'll get shot down in court wasting a ton of money too.
On the plus side stuff like this is very popular with a certain kind of Democrat. To whit: right wing "corporate" Democrats who need something to throw to the base besides economic issues. This let's them run in left wing districts while opposing stuff like single payer healthcare, college for all, ending the 8 wars we're in, The New New Deal etc, etc. It's the Democrat equivalent to Dog Whistling and just as despicable.
I've got policy coming out my ears. Medicare for All, College for All, Ending the Wars, New New Deal, etc, etc, etc. I don't want or need race to win elections. Polls show my policy is overwhelmingly popular. Like, 70-80% popular.
What I need is to get those folks who voted for Trump because of crap like this and folks who wrongly blame the jews for the raw deal the 1%ers handed them to realize who's really pulling the strings and stop voting against their own interests. It's damn hard to do since the 1%ers own the mass media (mega corps bought everything up, re: Sinclair Media).
Ignoring the impact of racism on American politics isn't naive or foolish, it's deceitful. The Republicans do it so they can dog whistle. There's corportists Dems who do it so they can run on something besides economics since they're basically Republicans when it comes to money. You need to call both groups out because they're doing the same damn thing: Using race to distract from a bad economy. Bernie understands that. So does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That's why they never takes the bait. You shouldn't either. Even when you're trolling on/. If you've got to troll, troll for the good guys.
on the one hand the Republican party really wants to stick it to the poors, especially if they're also colored. Stuff like this is basically fodder for the far right of the base. On the other hand there's corporate subsidies at stake. It's funny to watch the two fight it out until you think about all the completely screwed over people caught in the middle (source: been on the Res, got India friends, and that Casino money hasn't made it all over. Lots of blasted out trailer parks held together by spit and glue).
get it's nasty anti-consumer "tough on crime" bills like this through? In America we use racism to drive an undercurrent of fear, but I didn't think Australia had very much of that. Why would they put up with it? Or is it just relying on rural voters who either don't understand or don't care?
be connected to the Internet? Also, there is no way in hell even 10% of water heaters are ever going to connect to the internet. Most are in apartments (since those have the densest populations) and as somebody who lives in an apartment I can tell you they use the cheapest ones you can buy.
they're either branding or they're political ads. I get ads for HBO making sure I know what HBO is. There's no sales pitch. No "Call to Action". Just a vague 7 second advert about HBO to make sure I know they exist. I got Coke ads until the White Supremacists scared them off. And don't get me started on political ads. I subscribe to a raft of left wing channels so I get bombarded with Praguer U ads (which confused the hell out of me until I learned that Praguer U is not a university, it's a right wing think tank/propaganda mill).
Online advertising doesn't work well to drive sales. What it does do well is make sure you're thinking positively about a given product line.
This was bound to cause some blowback from the community (not a lot though, Bethesda, like Blizzard, could shoot somebody in Time Sqaure on live TV and get away with it). Meanwhile there's no upside to it. Can anyone think of any reason to do this?
and normally you'd do a very careful analysis of the effects of a tariff before putting it in play. You'd expect
1. The POTUS to be aware that aluminum prices are already high due to shortages.
2. You'd expect him to understand that if there is a shortage of a good driving up prices that putting tariffs on it is pointless since high prices for a good mean you've already got a healthy enough market you don't need to protect it.
3. You'd also expect that companies that are hurting due to high aluminum prices would be on the verge of collapse and that a tariff will tip the scales for many, sinking companies that might have weathered the storm otherwise.
4. And above all you would expect the POTUS not to undertake risky national policy to score cheap political points.
either that or he's corrupt and giving out tariffs to help specific businesses/people (he's got friend in the Steel industry who helped bankroll his campaign).
Tariffs make sense when you're protecting existing business. We've spent 40 years outsourcing everything we can. There's nothing left to protect. What's needed is to very carefully build back American industry. And even then the impact on jobs will be so-so due to automation. It's mostly something you do to protect national interests. Still, The current approach is like a kid playing his first management sim on the Amiga. It's not going to end well. This shouldn't be surprising either. Trump's a guy who couldn't make money running a casino. You know, where the house always wins....
breaking the camel's back. Anyone here old enough to remember 3DFX? They went out of business while their cards were flying off the shelves. It really doesn't take much to kill a business. Cases are steel and aluminum, both of which just got slapped with a 20% increase. If you're already struggling to compete because of supply problems and your costs go up 20% what do you suppose happens?
it's just as likely he's gotten by on survival bias and a Steve Jobs grade reality distortion field. In other words, Charisma and guile. That's not inteligence, that's a skill (specifically, knowing how to manipulate people).
Donald Trump is the President of the United States, but given a raft of blunders that I wouldn't expect from a third grader (at one point he said he met with the "President of the Virgin Islands"... they're a territory. He's their President...) I wouldn't consider him Smarter than me. Just somebody who got a really good hand in life. Musk, with his Engineer dad and model mom, seems to have much the same.
This isn't to say Musk is stupid. Far from it (he at least finished an undergrad degree in CS). Just that he's not a genius. He's just a bit on the bright side.
who made a good point that there are several animals (Dolphins, Raccoons) that have nearly human level brains but that their limited bodies (no arms/thumbs) means they're probably stuck at a dead end. My first thought was the Uplift series of books.
is still on the Government, even for securities fraud (drug charges are about the only place where the gov't can put the burden of proof on you). Given the amounts of money involved it wouldn't be hard for Musk to prove he _believed_ he had the money.
they're basically our ruling class. Things you wouldn't think in a million years have laws do. And those laws have teeth and they are enforced. It's good to be the king.
was Pee Tape. Yeah, it would be hard for a run of the mill hacker, but I'm guessing most folks don't expect their Hotel TV to spy on them. It would be a useful attack vector or an intelligence agency.
they've largely corrected their mistakes with the NES & SNES mini and made them accessible. The WII and WII U virtual consoles are even still up and running and you can buy games. Sega makes a lot of games available on steam and even allows modding.
But also to be fair, there's some real classics (Panzer Dragoon Saga comes to mind) that are the video game equivalent of unobtainium...
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because if you don't someone else will. They'll get all those "dumb" people who aren't eating. Give them rifles and boots and, well, I think you can figure out the rest...
not everyone can. For a lot of folks it's hard to be stable for 6 years without a college degree to fall back on. Post high school tuition waivers (usually worth about $4k/yr) generally require you to enroll full time and finish in 4 years. A lot of the grants do too. If there's a break in your enrollment you're kind of screwed.
Also, if you did it for $24k you I'm guessing she didn't go to a regular public U (or she got a bunch of scholarships). These days you're looking at $12k/yer. Now, if her income was low or nonexistant (and the income of her parents wasn't factored in) grans & scholarships might have covered half of that. Again, great if you can get it. But scholarships are hard to come by and as mentioned most grants want you full time.
Source: I've got a kid in college right now for Nursing. It's costing me $16k for her last 2 years (each) alone. That's before I account for the car she has to have (clinicals are too far apart to bus too and Uber costs more than the car, so unless she's secretly Nightcrawler she needs a car) and for food/rent. I could have forced her to live with me and saved about $6k/yr if I had to, but that's about it.
I've got a buddy with Type-I diabetes. The kind your born with and that you die of without insulin. He can't work because the illness kicks the crap out of him for about 2 months every year, and it's a random 2 months. He barely made it through high school. Smart guy, but not Einstein grade smarts so no employer is going to put up with him.
He's pretty right wing. Has a got family who worked in defense. So he gets his political views from there.
When asked about healthcare he understands that he needs socialized medicine or he dies. Again, he's smart. He's figured out that in a pure capitalist economy he couldn't possibly earn the money to pay for his care. You should hear the convoluted mess of a healthcare system he came up with that preserves his ideological system while ensuring he gets care. It was like Obamacare but with much bigger subsidies and more guarantees of care. To his credit when I pointed out that he agreed that he'd basically created a socialized medicine but with a 30% surcharge for private insurance profits.
I'm not saying we can't have a mixed system. I'm in favor of single _payer_, e.g. the gov't pays but otherwise stays out of things. But that's still socialism. At some point I think we have to admit that capitalism as we idolize it just plain doesn't work.
or the Soviets. You do understand that people can misrepresent themselves, right? China is a Kleptocracy, which is where America is heading.
If you want to see Socialism in action look to the Scandanavian countries. Also Germany, France and Canada. Venezuela seemed to be making a run for it but couldn't shake the centuries of political corruption. I think if America hadn't sanctioned them and locked them out of the world banking system when the price of oil collapsed then they might have pulled out of it. Yeah, their ruler's a dictator, but so's the king of Saudi Arabia and we're helping him bomb Yemen, so it's not like we've got much of a leg to stand on. OTOH we did just use their collapsed economy to seize a bunch of their oil assets. Funny how that always seems to work out (RE: Iraq, Afghanistan).
TL;DR; You're misrepresenting socialism, either intentionally or by mistake. Please stop it.
both Democrats & Republicans use race to distract from economic issues that could be solved with socialism. There are right wing pro-Corporate Dems like Pelosi & Schumer who would like very much for us all to forget about silly, pie in the sky things like giving everyone healthcare or ending our 8 endless wars and spend time arguing about how there could be more women in X.
That said, there's a strong number of actual left wing Dems like Bernie Sanders & Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez who are banging the policy drum for real. I've been seeing a lot of right wing press outlets (notably MSNBC & CNN, both of which are economically right wing) running hit pieces on them.
this is a terrible idea. It'll energize the right wing in the State giving them plenty of legitimate talking points/grievances. It's obviously unconstitutional discrimination so it'll get shot down in court wasting a ton of money too.
On the plus side stuff like this is very popular with a certain kind of Democrat. To whit: right wing "corporate" Democrats who need something to throw to the base besides economic issues. This let's them run in left wing districts while opposing stuff like single payer healthcare, college for all, ending the 8 wars we're in, The New New Deal etc, etc. It's the Democrat equivalent to Dog Whistling and just as despicable.
I've got policy coming out my ears. Medicare for All, College for All, Ending the Wars, New New Deal, etc, etc, etc. I don't want or need race to win elections. Polls show my policy is overwhelmingly popular. Like, 70-80% popular.
/. If you've got to troll, troll for the good guys.
What I need is to get those folks who voted for Trump because of crap like this and folks who wrongly blame the jews for the raw deal the 1%ers handed them to realize who's really pulling the strings and stop voting against their own interests. It's damn hard to do since the 1%ers own the mass media (mega corps bought everything up, re: Sinclair Media).
Ignoring the impact of racism on American politics isn't naive or foolish, it's deceitful. The Republicans do it so they can dog whistle. There's corportists Dems who do it so they can run on something besides economics since they're basically Republicans when it comes to money. You need to call both groups out because they're doing the same damn thing: Using race to distract from a bad economy. Bernie understands that. So does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That's why they never takes the bait. You shouldn't either. Even when you're trolling on
on the one hand the Republican party really wants to stick it to the poors, especially if they're also colored. Stuff like this is basically fodder for the far right of the base. On the other hand there's corporate subsidies at stake. It's funny to watch the two fight it out until you think about all the completely screwed over people caught in the middle (source: been on the Res, got India friends, and that Casino money hasn't made it all over. Lots of blasted out trailer parks held together by spit and glue).
get it's nasty anti-consumer "tough on crime" bills like this through? In America we use racism to drive an undercurrent of fear, but I didn't think Australia had very much of that. Why would they put up with it? Or is it just relying on rural voters who either don't understand or don't care?
be connected to the Internet? Also, there is no way in hell even 10% of water heaters are ever going to connect to the internet. Most are in apartments (since those have the densest populations) and as somebody who lives in an apartment I can tell you they use the cheapest ones you can buy.
they're either branding or they're political ads. I get ads for HBO making sure I know what HBO is. There's no sales pitch. No "Call to Action". Just a vague 7 second advert about HBO to make sure I know they exist. I got Coke ads until the White Supremacists scared them off. And don't get me started on political ads. I subscribe to a raft of left wing channels so I get bombarded with Praguer U ads (which confused the hell out of me until I learned that Praguer U is not a university, it's a right wing think tank/propaganda mill).
Online advertising doesn't work well to drive sales. What it does do well is make sure you're thinking positively about a given product line.
This was bound to cause some blowback from the community (not a lot though, Bethesda, like Blizzard, could shoot somebody in Time Sqaure on live TV and get away with it). Meanwhile there's no upside to it. Can anyone think of any reason to do this?
global warming means we're going to have to do something to maintain crop yields. Period. Like it or not GMOs are happening.
and normally you'd do a very careful analysis of the effects of a tariff before putting it in play. You'd expect
1. The POTUS to be aware that aluminum prices are already high due to shortages.
2. You'd expect him to understand that if there is a shortage of a good driving up prices that putting tariffs on it is pointless since high prices for a good mean you've already got a healthy enough market you don't need to protect it.
3. You'd also expect that companies that are hurting due to high aluminum prices would be on the verge of collapse and that a tariff will tip the scales for many, sinking companies that might have weathered the storm otherwise.
4. And above all you would expect the POTUS not to undertake risky national policy to score cheap political points.
None of these expectations have been met.
either that or he's corrupt and giving out tariffs to help specific businesses/people (he's got friend in the Steel industry who helped bankroll his campaign).
Tariffs make sense when you're protecting existing business. We've spent 40 years outsourcing everything we can. There's nothing left to protect. What's needed is to very carefully build back American industry. And even then the impact on jobs will be so-so due to automation. It's mostly something you do to protect national interests. Still, The current approach is like a kid playing his first management sim on the Amiga. It's not going to end well. This shouldn't be surprising either. Trump's a guy who couldn't make money running a casino. You know, where the house always wins....
breaking the camel's back. Anyone here old enough to remember 3DFX? They went out of business while their cards were flying off the shelves. It really doesn't take much to kill a business. Cases are steel and aluminum, both of which just got slapped with a 20% increase. If you're already struggling to compete because of supply problems and your costs go up 20% what do you suppose happens?
it's just as likely he's gotten by on survival bias and a Steve Jobs grade reality distortion field. In other words, Charisma and guile. That's not inteligence, that's a skill (specifically, knowing how to manipulate people).
Donald Trump is the President of the United States, but given a raft of blunders that I wouldn't expect from a third grader (at one point he said he met with the "President of the Virgin Islands"... they're a territory. He's their President...) I wouldn't consider him Smarter than me. Just somebody who got a really good hand in life. Musk, with his Engineer dad and model mom, seems to have much the same.
This isn't to say Musk is stupid. Far from it (he at least finished an undergrad degree in CS). Just that he's not a genius. He's just a bit on the bright side.
the police would show up wanting to know where the bodies were buried.
if you're very wealthy then nothing bad will happen to your data and it will be well cared for.
Oh, you meant for the rest of us? Well, if you're gonna make a two tiered justice system you've got to break some omelets or something.
who made a good point that there are several animals (Dolphins, Raccoons) that have nearly human level brains but that their limited bodies (no arms/thumbs) means they're probably stuck at a dead end. My first thought was the Uplift series of books.
is still on the Government, even for securities fraud (drug charges are about the only place where the gov't can put the burden of proof on you). Given the amounts of money involved it wouldn't be hard for Musk to prove he _believed_ he had the money.
they're basically our ruling class. Things you wouldn't think in a million years have laws do. And those laws have teeth and they are enforced. It's good to be the king.
at least they didn't drop it. At this point I wouldn't be surprised by anything this FCC admin does.
was Pee Tape. Yeah, it would be hard for a run of the mill hacker, but I'm guessing most folks don't expect their Hotel TV to spy on them. It would be a useful attack vector or an intelligence agency.
they've largely corrected their mistakes with the NES & SNES mini and made them accessible. The WII and WII U virtual consoles are even still up and running and you can buy games. Sega makes a lot of games available on steam and even allows modding.
But also to be fair, there's some real classics (Panzer Dragoon Saga comes to mind) that are the video game equivalent of unobtainium...