up there with Blizzard & Bethesda fans. So I don't think that's likely. I'm not sure if this will turn out for them. Give it a few months and the sites will be back minus Nintendo properties. As it gets harder and harder to get Nintendo games they'll lose generations of gamers. Meanwhile anyone who turns the proverbial blind eye will garner those.
For me, I've got so many games I don't know what to do with them. Nintendo is vying for my time more than ever while putting out kind of mediocre stuff. I played a bit of Super Mario Odyssey on a kiosk and it was OK, but Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper or even Mario 64 seems a lot better overall. Meanwhile I'm working my way through the Amazing Batman Arkham games (I'll probably stop at Origin, I didn't like what little of Knight I played).
pro-corporate, anti-consumer, anti-worker bias. From our basic gov't structures to our media to our culture as laid out for us. It's easy to get discouraged, especially when you have to make a living doing actual work as opposed to living off the proceeds of your dad or granddad's work.
that's now how selling stuff works. You sell new stuff each year so people will buy it. You make it an event because that's what marketing is. You wouldn't say "It's time to end yearly car launch events" because cars are only seeing incremental improvements.
It's bad enough somebody wrote this let alone greenlit it.
exempt cryptocurrencies from state money transition laws? I know it's legal to smoke there but, man, there comes a time when you need to slow down. On the plus side if he pulls it off I could see Colorado being the equivalent to incorporating in Delaware as far as shady crypto currency transactions go.
have you actually looked into some of those "jobs". There's the H1-B bait ($50k salary for 8 years high level systems support). There's the "pay to work" jobs ($40k year, 80 hours/week and you use your own car to get to clients). Then there's the "20 hr/week minimum wage job that replaced a $70k/yr factory job".
As for those programming jobs, good luck getting one without a college degree. In the 80s and 90s I knew lots of guys who programmed for a living with nothing but a high school diploma and took home $80k+ adjusted for inflation. These days you're making $50k a year (in 2018 dollars) which still sounds good until you pay your $800/mo student loans from a major Uni needed to get that job.
TL;DR;, if you step outside your bubble the economy sucks for 80% of Americans. The ironic thing being that if we could have just gotten 1 more person to step outside her bubble we wouldn't have Trump for POTUS...
I've never once heard _anyone_ say God was working through Clinton (I've heard plenty of people accuse Obama of rooting for the other team though, mostly on Fox News).
After what Sinclair has done with it's other purchases I'm happy to see one fall through. It's pretty clear that the owners of Sinclair use their media empire to push a specific ideology; one I think it's pretty obvious I don't agree with. They seem to be buying up virtually all media. Having one group own virtually all major media outlets can't possibly be a good thing for Democracy.
is the problem. The world has more qualified workers than job openings except at the very, very top end of the spectrum (yeah, we can always use more math wizs and surgeons, very few folks have the genetics for that, and yes, a steady hand is genetic).
You'll still do interviews to pick between them. Hell, my Kid had an in person interview to apply for Nursing School so she could get into her 300 level courses. They had twice as many qualified students as openings...
Seriously, this is what they tell their flocks. It doesn't matter how immoral Trump is because God is working through him. To me that's just like saying "The Ends Justify The Means". But there's a literal Pimp running for office with the GOP in Nevada (he runs the brothels) and he's overwhelmingly supported by Evangelicals because, and I kid you not, "He tell's it like it is".
The right wing in America aren't thinking about policy, they're letting feelings get the better of them. Republicans have vastly superior branding, so anyone who's ignoring policy and just listening to their "gut" is going to throw in with them. This is why policies like a Legalized Pot, Living Minimum Wage, Ending the Wars & Medicare for All can consistently poll in the high 60s and low 70s but never pass.
Trump is more than a bit of a clown, but Pence scares me. He actually believes the crap he spouts. If the media was doing it's job his radical religious beliefs would have been front and center during the campaign. If he had his way we'd go back the the 50s with mandatory prayer in schools (yes, that was a thing until a SCOTUS decision shut it down).
one of the hardest challenges in America is prying money out of the hands of our ruling class. But you need to do it because as history has shown the aristocracy will, given the chance, plunge the world into a global dark age of extreme conservatism by monopolizing wealth so they can leverage it as power.
Eisenhower saw this coming. He couldn't figure out how to stop it peacefully, so he allowed the creation of the Military Industrial Complex. The rich pay taxes to fund a bloated military that employees excess laborers.
Eisenhower talked about regretting it in his memoirs. Still, I'm not sure there's another way. People really, really hate to just give stuff away. There's this thing were when a person suffers they want others to suffer exactly as they do. Misery loves company. I've seen this in all walks of life. I know LGBTQ folks who are upset the kids today don't have to go through the same shit they did. They acknowledge that's still a good thing, but it bothers them. They can't help it. Its a knee-jerk, emotional reaction.
I don't know how to counter that so that we can have a society that doesn't abandon 99% of it's people to poverty out of spite. You can't reason with it because it's completely emotional.
there's zero chance of the current right wing Congress voting it down. If you want this to stop you have to stop electing people who support these things. Even if it doesn't feel good.
I also think we don't want to. America is not and has never been a Democracy. And no, I don't mean "We're a Republic". Our entire political system (most notably the Senate and the Electoral college) is built to lesson the effects of Democracy and disenfranchise the 'wrong' type of voter.
and it's happening everywhere. Companies are cutting staff and forcing the ones left to work longer hours. 80% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck (google it). _Everybody's_ stressed out. It's just that when your cyber security guys get that way and start making the mistakes folks under high pressure 24/7 tend to do then your network gets hacked and you've got a PR disaster on your hands.
and there's been plenty of cases citing CU as well as a general lack of new campaign finance law with the stated reason being that new laws are likely to be struck down and the left (what little there is of a left in America) have limited resources to fight such things.
This isn't correlation, this is blindingly obvious results of stuffing our courts with right wing, pro-corporate ideologues for 40+ years.
It doesn't really matter what the ruling says, what matters is the practical effects, which is that most campaign finance laws no longer hold up post CU. Now, maybe in 40 years if we've got a more pro-working class SCOTUS, POTUS, House & Senate then the literal reading of the ruling will prevail. But right now the lower courts and shutting down anything that might stop the non-stop spigot of Corporate PAC money.
in either the Mid Term or the next Presidential election? For all the bad press the Trump Admin has gotten (killing NN, the Helsinki debacle, opening trying to start a war with Iran, NK almost immediately going back to missile research after getting us to acknowledge Kim's govt as legitimate, raising inflation/interest rates being used to counter act economic over inflation brought on by those tax cuts for the rich, economic hits from the tariffs, etc, etc) Trump's poll numbers haven't budged an inch.
I''m starting to get some real fatigue here. Like it does't matter what the hell anyone does because no matter what comes out of this Administration or their party it doesn't change how people vote. At the end of the day if folks are still going to show up and vote for an anti-NN administration then all the dirty laundry in the world is irrelevant. At best it might be of historic interest in a thousand years when archeologists write papers on what the heck went wrong.
in the absence of that regulatory environment your 401k wouldn't be worth the paper your statements are printed on. Those regulations exist for a reason. Small investors were getting robbed blind until they were made. Sad thing is Trump & co removed some Obama era rules that required investment houses to always act in the interests of the client. They've also (with the help of both parties) removed the last of the regulations passed post 2008 to prevent another crash. Time will tell if our 401ks survive the next bubble.
are working on how to get google ads past your blocker, improving high frequency trading and better missile guidance systems to defend us from enemies we wouldn't have if we'd stop meddling in other countries to their obvious detriment.
in America due to a Supreme Court ruling (Citizens United) political corruption is explicitly legal. Money is speech here and virtually all campaign finance laws get shot down as a result (despite literally centuries of case law to the contrary).
Thanks to our right leaning SCOTUS we're pretty boned for at least the next 40 years. Maybe longer.
But you're right about one thing: it's exactly like the Olympics. The last thing on Earth you want to do is 'win' the right to host it. It's going to be a giant Albatross on the neck of anyone who gets stuck with it. Just like that damn Foxconn factory in Wisconsin. I like how it's not socialism when you give billions to a company in cash subsidies and tax breaks and they pass a little on to the employees (who are then mercilessly taxed).
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up there with Blizzard & Bethesda fans. So I don't think that's likely. I'm not sure if this will turn out for them. Give it a few months and the sites will be back minus Nintendo properties. As it gets harder and harder to get Nintendo games they'll lose generations of gamers. Meanwhile anyone who turns the proverbial blind eye will garner those.
For me, I've got so many games I don't know what to do with them. Nintendo is vying for my time more than ever while putting out kind of mediocre stuff. I played a bit of Super Mario Odyssey on a kiosk and it was OK, but Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper or even Mario 64 seems a lot better overall. Meanwhile I'm working my way through the Amazing Batman Arkham games (I'll probably stop at Origin, I didn't like what little of Knight I played).
pro-corporate, anti-consumer, anti-worker bias. From our basic gov't structures to our media to our culture as laid out for us. It's easy to get discouraged, especially when you have to make a living doing actual work as opposed to living off the proceeds of your dad or granddad's work.
that's now how selling stuff works. You sell new stuff each year so people will buy it. You make it an event because that's what marketing is. You wouldn't say "It's time to end yearly car launch events" because cars are only seeing incremental improvements.
It's bad enough somebody wrote this let alone greenlit it.
More asbestos! More asbestos! More asbestos!
Seriously, we literally elected Bart Simpson. What's wrong with my country?
to Trump (and more importantly Pence) being elected (not the book, turning the book into a TV series). So yeah, you hit the nail on the head.
exempt cryptocurrencies from state money transition laws? I know it's legal to smoke there but, man, there comes a time when you need to slow down. On the plus side if he pulls it off I could see Colorado being the equivalent to incorporating in Delaware as far as shady crypto currency transactions go.
have you actually looked into some of those "jobs". There's the H1-B bait ($50k salary for 8 years high level systems support). There's the "pay to work" jobs ($40k year, 80 hours/week and you use your own car to get to clients). Then there's the "20 hr/week minimum wage job that replaced a $70k/yr factory job".
As for those programming jobs, good luck getting one without a college degree. In the 80s and 90s I knew lots of guys who programmed for a living with nothing but a high school diploma and took home $80k+ adjusted for inflation. These days you're making $50k a year (in 2018 dollars) which still sounds good until you pay your $800/mo student loans from a major Uni needed to get that job.
TL;DR;, if you step outside your bubble the economy sucks for 80% of Americans. The ironic thing being that if we could have just gotten 1 more person to step outside her bubble we wouldn't have Trump for POTUS...
I've never once heard _anyone_ say God was working through Clinton (I've heard plenty of people accuse Obama of rooting for the other team though, mostly on Fox News).
After what Sinclair has done with it's other purchases I'm happy to see one fall through. It's pretty clear that the owners of Sinclair use their media empire to push a specific ideology; one I think it's pretty obvious I don't agree with. They seem to be buying up virtually all media. Having one group own virtually all major media outlets can't possibly be a good thing for Democracy.
is the problem. The world has more qualified workers than job openings except at the very, very top end of the spectrum (yeah, we can always use more math wizs and surgeons, very few folks have the genetics for that, and yes, a steady hand is genetic).
You'll still do interviews to pick between them. Hell, my Kid had an in person interview to apply for Nursing School so she could get into her 300 level courses. They had twice as many qualified students as openings...
Seriously, this is what they tell their flocks. It doesn't matter how immoral Trump is because God is working through him. To me that's just like saying "The Ends Justify The Means". But there's a literal Pimp running for office with the GOP in Nevada (he runs the brothels) and he's overwhelmingly supported by Evangelicals because, and I kid you not, "He tell's it like it is".
The right wing in America aren't thinking about policy, they're letting feelings get the better of them. Republicans have vastly superior branding, so anyone who's ignoring policy and just listening to their "gut" is going to throw in with them. This is why policies like a Legalized Pot, Living Minimum Wage, Ending the Wars & Medicare for All can consistently poll in the high 60s and low 70s but never pass.
Trump is more than a bit of a clown, but Pence scares me. He actually believes the crap he spouts. If the media was doing it's job his radical religious beliefs would have been front and center during the campaign. If he had his way we'd go back the the 50s with mandatory prayer in schools (yes, that was a thing until a SCOTUS decision shut it down).
they're still pretty big there. Especially Japan.
one of the hardest challenges in America is prying money out of the hands of our ruling class. But you need to do it because as history has shown the aristocracy will, given the chance, plunge the world into a global dark age of extreme conservatism by monopolizing wealth so they can leverage it as power.
Eisenhower saw this coming. He couldn't figure out how to stop it peacefully, so he allowed the creation of the Military Industrial Complex. The rich pay taxes to fund a bloated military that employees excess laborers.
Eisenhower talked about regretting it in his memoirs. Still, I'm not sure there's another way. People really, really hate to just give stuff away. There's this thing were when a person suffers they want others to suffer exactly as they do. Misery loves company. I've seen this in all walks of life. I know LGBTQ folks who are upset the kids today don't have to go through the same shit they did. They acknowledge that's still a good thing, but it bothers them. They can't help it. Its a knee-jerk, emotional reaction.
I don't know how to counter that so that we can have a society that doesn't abandon 99% of it's people to poverty out of spite. You can't reason with it because it's completely emotional.
there's zero chance of the current right wing Congress voting it down. If you want this to stop you have to stop electing people who support these things. Even if it doesn't feel good.
I also think we don't want to. America is not and has never been a Democracy. And no, I don't mean "We're a Republic". Our entire political system (most notably the Senate and the Electoral college) is built to lesson the effects of Democracy and disenfranchise the 'wrong' type of voter.
and it's happening everywhere. Companies are cutting staff and forcing the ones left to work longer hours. 80% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck (google it). _Everybody's_ stressed out. It's just that when your cyber security guys get that way and start making the mistakes folks under high pressure 24/7 tend to do then your network gets hacked and you've got a PR disaster on your hands.
ever since it was used to describe the rats nest of wires under an MIT model train setup: it's a complex and clever solution to a problem.
and there's been plenty of cases citing CU as well as a general lack of new campaign finance law with the stated reason being that new laws are likely to be struck down and the left (what little there is of a left in America) have limited resources to fight such things.
This isn't correlation, this is blindingly obvious results of stuffing our courts with right wing, pro-corporate ideologues for 40+ years.
It doesn't really matter what the ruling says, what matters is the practical effects, which is that most campaign finance laws no longer hold up post CU. Now, maybe in 40 years if we've got a more pro-working class SCOTUS, POTUS, House & Senate then the literal reading of the ruling will prevail. But right now the lower courts and shutting down anything that might stop the non-stop spigot of Corporate PAC money.
in either the Mid Term or the next Presidential election? For all the bad press the Trump Admin has gotten (killing NN, the Helsinki debacle, opening trying to start a war with Iran, NK almost immediately going back to missile research after getting us to acknowledge Kim's govt as legitimate, raising inflation/interest rates being used to counter act economic over inflation brought on by those tax cuts for the rich, economic hits from the tariffs, etc, etc) Trump's poll numbers haven't budged an inch.
I''m starting to get some real fatigue here. Like it does't matter what the hell anyone does because no matter what comes out of this Administration or their party it doesn't change how people vote. At the end of the day if folks are still going to show up and vote for an anti-NN administration then all the dirty laundry in the world is irrelevant. At best it might be of historic interest in a thousand years when archeologists write papers on what the heck went wrong.
in the absence of that regulatory environment your 401k wouldn't be worth the paper your statements are printed on. Those regulations exist for a reason. Small investors were getting robbed blind until they were made. Sad thing is Trump & co removed some Obama era rules that required investment houses to always act in the interests of the client. They've also (with the help of both parties) removed the last of the regulations passed post 2008 to prevent another crash. Time will tell if our 401ks survive the next bubble.
that I suppose it could be worse. Until the ruling class realized they could make better bombs we used to send physicists off to die in the trenches.
are working on how to get google ads past your blocker, improving high frequency trading and better missile guidance systems to defend us from enemies we wouldn't have if we'd stop meddling in other countries to their obvious detriment.
in America due to a Supreme Court ruling (Citizens United) political corruption is explicitly legal. Money is speech here and virtually all campaign finance laws get shot down as a result (despite literally centuries of case law to the contrary).
Thanks to our right leaning SCOTUS we're pretty boned for at least the next 40 years. Maybe longer.
But you're right about one thing: it's exactly like the Olympics. The last thing on Earth you want to do is 'win' the right to host it. It's going to be a giant Albatross on the neck of anyone who gets stuck with it. Just like that damn Foxconn factory in Wisconsin. I like how it's not socialism when you give billions to a company in cash subsidies and tax breaks and they pass a little on to the employees (who are then mercilessly taxed).