"Exactly. This is the new reality. What we used to call "working class" is being re-defined as "middle class", and the new American Dream is "just getting by." "
That's the pre-WWII American Dream too. That lovely postwar boom and its lovely consequences finally petered out and the rest of the world figured out how to compete.
No, that's just not true - I don't know why you would make such an assertion.
The American Dream, until very recently, was all about living in an environment where every individual can reach his full potential, as long as he is willing to make the sacrifices to get there. Since the founding of the country (and even before, to some degree), the Dream was achievable, but not often not by everyone. Note, first, that some people have greater potential than others, so it was not about everyone being able to reach greatness, but that everyone should have the opportunity to reach the pinnacle of their ability - something that was denied to slaves, women, minorities and other groups throughout the country's history. A situation that moral actors have had to fight and scratch over generations to correct and improve.
The tragedy is that just when the conditions are right for every individual to be accepted for who they are instead of any accident of birth, the Dream is being denied to the vast majority of people, because of an overbearing government that values the status quo over allowing the kind of disruptive progress that can occur in a land of opportunity for all.
“There are allegations [the NSA] listen to all our emails; that’s wrong. We don’t,” Alexander said.
Words matter.
What he said is almost certainly true - these spokes holes are trained how to deceive without lying. Sometimes they use performatives in deceitful ways, but this one is easy: They don't listen to your emails - he didn't say they don't read them.
Pushing subsidies for this has shown to eliminate 1.8 other jobs for every "green" job created
By whom? It seems if a subsidy to generate green energy reduces employment by a net 0.8 jobs, then green energy is going to be much more efficient in the long term that the energy production methods it's replacing.
I'm not one to call for eliminating ATMs because they take the jobs of bank clerks, but this statistic was more about the drag on the overall economy from the redistribution of funds by central planners, not because things became magically more efficient. If it did, it would improve the economy by freeing up capital for other projects.
Ironically, I'd be more worried if the subsidies were creating 0.8 jobs because that would mean we were paying more people to generate the same amount of energy.
Well that's how subsidies work, they use central planning to favor specific activities over others, and abandon the demand side of the market, so consumers are not served.
These are shitty, high stress jobs for people near the end of their ropes.
Ah, so these are the new middle class American jobs!
Exactly. This is the new reality. What we used to call "working class" is being re-defined as "middle class", and the new American Dream is "just getting by."
Among these priorities, listed in order of mention, are:
manufacturing
But Jeff Imelt and Terry McAuliffe are sending jobs to China instead, with Imelt looking to create new markets in South Africa using about $26 billion in taxpayer money that Obama promised last month. Obama talks a lot about manufacturing jobs in the US, but all of his policies, and "partnerships" with US corporations are encouraging manufacturing to move somewhere else.
and high-tech jobs
There's more of those, but they are primarily going to foreign contractors and H1-B visa holders. Companies are working hard to keep high-tech wages low using these techniques, as well as lobbying congress and the White House to make it easier for them to bring in more foreign workers (who are sent home in a few years)
infrastructure jobs
Roads and bridges again? Or propping up AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast a little more?
and clean energy jobs
Sorry, but as much as I would like to see a transition to cleaner energy sources, the subsidies and policies promoting "green energy" jobs is a proven failure. Pushing subsidies for this has shown to eliminate 1.8 other jobs for every "green" job created, and often the green jobs are temporary, lower-paying, or both.
Corporatism is not better than Socialism, and in fact in many ways is worse.
Beef? The blandest of meats? If you want good meat try mountain-raised sheep, buffalo, alpaca or guinea pig. Beef is acceptable if you spice it properly, but we rarely bother to buy it.
Do you really get much out of guinea pig? Most beef sold in the US is very bland, but it's because of all the factory farming, loading them with antibiotics, keeping them confined to small areas, and stuffing them full of corn. Even most of the stuff sold as "grass-fed beef" really just means they got to graze for a while, but they still get sold to a producer that fattens them up on cheap grain and corn.
Look for a local farmer that actually finishes the cows on pasture grass, and without accoutrements or steroids. When I get a good cut of that stuff, I just pass it over the coals and put it on the plate. Delicious.
Given that this is only at two stores, I would bet heavily that this is two managers' policy, not Apple's.
You would probably lose. According to the complaint, "These personal package and bag searches"... are a uniform practice and policy in all Apple retail stores nationwide"
Haters gotta hate. Might as well let them rant on the Tweeters so we at least know who the haters are, than trying to hide them. If you are going to start deleting all they misogynist comments, how about deleting all the misandrist ones, too, including the ones from haters like Joy Behar and Catherine MacKinnon?
Interestingly, my spell checker knows all about misogyny and its variations, but doesn't acknowledge the existance of misandry at all.
This seems to be adding a lot of complexity to a proof-of-concept that should start as simply as possible. Just the tech involved in sending a robot and carving up a chunk seems to be putting a lot more variables into the first mining-asteroids effort than is necessary. I don't see the justification for this, unless it's just because someone wants the entire effort to fail (by design), and put an end to the idea entirely.
and people are starting to question what we're doing
Hardly. There should be outrage, protests in the streets, strikes and work halts. Instead, it seems the vast majority of the American public, even when they hear about these things, mostly just give a collective "Meh".
The cheapest ones I'm seeing right now is $350. That's too high for a Surface RT, when I can get a Nook HD+ for $150. Now, if the Surface could be had for $150, I'd consider it instead. Not likely to happen, though.
So this whole thing was faked up? I'm sure slashdotters will rise up in outrage at the BBC, just as they have at Jenny McCarthy and Andrew Wakefield...
Wow, I was going to say the same thing, but apparently rather than acknowledge that modern medicine has so many problems they are killing people, we just ignore reality and bury any comments that point it out.
One of my college professors used anywhoo a lot and was one of the smartest people I know.
You could have done him a huge favor by mentioning to him that he was doing that, he probably wasn't aware of it, any more than people saying "you know" after every other phrase, or starting every sentence with "so,..."
It's not that I think people that do that don't have opinions worth listening to, it's just a annoying, cringe-worthy speech habit that's so distracting I tend to tune out the rest. I do the same thing when people start a point with "The fact of the matter is..." because I know what follows is sure to be more opinion that fact, and so far off base that it won't matter.
They really should have asked the population whether they actually own an e-book reader. Lots of people don't, and would never buy one because they prefer print books. The thing is, I was in that same category myself, before I bought a Nook. I bought it for other things, not to read books on, but after I had it, I did some reading on it, and I was soon hooked. I really do like reading books on the e-reader instead, it's just more convenient.
Now, I'm a bibliophile and always will be. I won't give up my books, and I still buy paper books when I know it's something I want to keep, or I can get a good deal on the hard cover. What would be really nice if, when I plunk down $25 - $35 for a hardcover book, to have free access to the e-reader version, too. They do this now with music, why not books? Often I would rather read the book on my e-reader, but still have the hardcover for my library, but I don't want to pay an extra $10 for that privilege. I think they would sell a lot more books (and e-readers) if they did that.
Slashdot Mirror
We burn you at the steak.
I thought we were talking about hamburger.
Human meat is much closer to pork.
That's why they call it "long pig".
"Exactly. This is the new reality. What we used to call "working class" is being re-defined as "middle class", and the new American Dream is "just getting by." "
That's the pre-WWII American Dream too. That lovely postwar boom and its lovely consequences finally petered out and the rest of the world figured out how to compete.
No, that's just not true - I don't know why you would make such an assertion.
The American Dream, until very recently, was all about living in an environment where every individual can reach his full potential, as long as he is willing to make the sacrifices to get there. Since the founding of the country (and even before, to some degree), the Dream was achievable, but not often not by everyone. Note, first, that some people have greater potential than others, so it was not about everyone being able to reach greatness, but that everyone should have the opportunity to reach the pinnacle of their ability - something that was denied to slaves, women, minorities and other groups throughout the country's history. A situation that moral actors have had to fight and scratch over generations to correct and improve.
The tragedy is that just when the conditions are right for every individual to be accepted for who they are instead of any accident of birth, the Dream is being denied to the vast majority of people, because of an overbearing government that values the status quo over allowing the kind of disruptive progress that can occur in a land of opportunity for all.
Wonder if they would have got picked up so fast if they used anon search engines like startpage.com or duckduckgo.com?
Maybe, but then they wouldn't have actually FOUND anything!
Thanks, I'm here all week.
“There are allegations [the NSA] listen to all our emails; that’s wrong. We don’t,” Alexander said.
Words matter.
What he said is almost certainly true - these spokes holes are trained how to deceive without lying. Sometimes they use performatives in deceitful ways, but this one is easy: They don't listen to your emails - he didn't say they don't read them.
The President's primary duty is to defend and uphold the Constitution.
Wait, wut? That can't be true. He keeps saying "My first job is to keep the American people safe"!
Pushing subsidies for this has shown to eliminate 1.8 other jobs for every "green" job created
By whom? It seems if a subsidy to generate green energy reduces employment by a net 0.8 jobs, then green energy is going to be much more efficient in the long term that the energy production methods it's replacing.
I'm not one to call for eliminating ATMs because they take the jobs of bank clerks, but this statistic was more about the drag on the overall economy from the redistribution of funds by central planners, not because things became magically more efficient. If it did, it would improve the economy by freeing up capital for other projects.
Ironically, I'd be more worried if the subsidies were creating 0.8 jobs because that would mean we were paying more people to generate the same amount of energy.
Well that's how subsidies work, they use central planning to favor specific activities over others, and abandon the demand side of the market, so consumers are not served.
These are shitty, high stress jobs for people near the end of their ropes.
Ah, so these are the new middle class American jobs!
Exactly. This is the new reality. What we used to call "working class" is being re-defined as "middle class", and the new American Dream is "just getting by."
Among these priorities, listed in order of mention, are:
manufacturing
But Jeff Imelt and Terry McAuliffe are sending jobs to China instead, with Imelt looking to create new markets in South Africa using about $26 billion in taxpayer money that Obama promised last month. Obama talks a lot about manufacturing jobs in the US, but all of his policies, and "partnerships" with US corporations are encouraging manufacturing to move somewhere else.
and high-tech jobs
There's more of those, but they are primarily going to foreign contractors and H1-B visa holders. Companies are working hard to keep high-tech wages low using these techniques, as well as lobbying congress and the White House to make it easier for them to bring in more foreign workers (who are sent home in a few years)
infrastructure jobs
Roads and bridges again? Or propping up AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast a little more?
and clean energy jobs
Sorry, but as much as I would like to see a transition to cleaner energy sources, the subsidies and policies promoting "green energy" jobs is a proven failure. Pushing subsidies for this has shown to eliminate 1.8 other jobs for every "green" job created, and often the green jobs are temporary, lower-paying, or both.
Corporatism is not better than Socialism, and in fact in many ways is worse.
Beef? The blandest of meats? If you want good meat try mountain-raised sheep, buffalo, alpaca or guinea pig. Beef is acceptable if you spice it properly, but we rarely bother to buy it.
Do you really get much out of guinea pig? Most beef sold in the US is very bland, but it's because of all the factory farming, loading them with antibiotics, keeping them confined to small areas, and stuffing them full of corn. Even most of the stuff sold as "grass-fed beef" really just means they got to graze for a while, but they still get sold to a producer that fattens them up on cheap grain and corn.
Look for a local farmer that actually finishes the cows on pasture grass, and without accoutrements or steroids. When I get a good cut of that stuff, I just pass it over the coals and put it on the plate. Delicious.
Given that this is only at two stores, I would bet heavily that this is two managers' policy, not Apple's.
You would probably lose. According to the complaint, "These personal package and bag searches" ... are a uniform practice and policy in all Apple retail stores nationwide"
Haters gotta hate. Might as well let them rant on the Tweeters so we at least know who the haters are, than trying to hide them. If you are going to start deleting all they misogynist comments, how about deleting all the misandrist ones, too, including the ones from haters like Joy Behar and Catherine MacKinnon?
Interestingly, my spell checker knows all about misogyny and its variations, but doesn't acknowledge the existance of misandry at all.
Many critics were saying the Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror was stupid, costly, and far too complex to work, but work is exactly what it did.
:) I hope you're right!
This seems to be adding a lot of complexity to a proof-of-concept that should start as simply as possible. Just the tech involved in sending a robot and carving up a chunk seems to be putting a lot more variables into the first mining-asteroids effort than is necessary. I don't see the justification for this, unless it's just because someone wants the entire effort to fail (by design), and put an end to the idea entirely.
Can the government force me to make a public statement, attesting that it's true?
Because it seems to me that the government using my private keys to sign a packet that I didn't create is substantially similar.
They've been doing that for a long time. It's called a Form 1040.
and people are starting to question what we're doing
Hardly. There should be outrage, protests in the streets, strikes and work halts. Instead, it seems the vast majority of the American public, even when they hear about these things, mostly just give a collective "Meh".
+1
The cheapest ones I'm seeing right now is $350. That's too high for a Surface RT, when I can get a Nook HD+ for $150. Now, if the Surface could be had for $150, I'd consider it instead. Not likely to happen, though.
Global warming ... in Antarctica
Which is it?
So this whole thing was faked up? I'm sure slashdotters will rise up in outrage at the BBC, just as they have at Jenny McCarthy and Andrew Wakefield...
Journalists have a long history of lying to their readers but somehow they are still trusted implicitly.
They are? By whom?
Wow, I was going to say the same thing, but apparently rather than acknowledge that modern medicine has so many problems they are killing people, we just ignore reality and bury any comments that point it out.
One of my college professors used anywhoo a lot and was one of the smartest people I know.
You could have done him a huge favor by mentioning to him that he was doing that, he probably wasn't aware of it, any more than people saying "you know" after every other phrase, or starting every sentence with "so, ..."
It's not that I think people that do that don't have opinions worth listening to, it's just a annoying, cringe-worthy speech habit that's so distracting I tend to tune out the rest. I do the same thing when people start a point with "The fact of the matter is..." because I know what follows is sure to be more opinion that fact, and so far off base that it won't matter.
They really should have asked the population whether they actually own an e-book reader. Lots of people don't, and would never buy one because they prefer print books. The thing is, I was in that same category myself, before I bought a Nook. I bought it for other things, not to read books on, but after I had it, I did some reading on it, and I was soon hooked. I really do like reading books on the e-reader instead, it's just more convenient.
Now, I'm a bibliophile and always will be. I won't give up my books, and I still buy paper books when I know it's something I want to keep, or I can get a good deal on the hard cover. What would be really nice if, when I plunk down $25 - $35 for a hardcover book, to have free access to the e-reader version, too. They do this now with music, why not books? Often I would rather read the book on my e-reader, but still have the hardcover for my library, but I don't want to pay an extra $10 for that privilege. I think they would sell a lot more books (and e-readers) if they did that.
Did he really say "anywhoo"? Just ignore anything after that, it won't be worth hearing.