its utter bullshit that those with the money and power, refuse to do anything to help beyond their own fence.
And exactly why should I care? What does my country get out of all this money being paid out?
I mean, hey, we all started at the same starting point, and it just so happens some countries developed faster and apparently were smarter at inventing and doing things.
Just because others couldn't keep up....why should we have to pay, or even lower out quality of life just because of the straggler countries in the world?
Why must I be my brothers keeper? What do I get out of it besides altruistic self sacrifice?
If those states want more voting power under a one-man-one-vote system, then they can just go ahead and institute policies that attract people to the state. States that are so shit that no one wants to live there should not get to spread their shittiness to other states.
Don't you think that's a rather elitist point of view?
Are you really wanting to fundamentally break up the USA? 'Cause what you're wanting, would pretty much do it.
We are they way we are, because that's how it was originally set up. Otherwise, we would just be another Europe, made up of little completely independent countries.
See I don't get this. Why is the CableTV version so $$$$?
I only watch ESPN really during college football season.
I cut the cord with cable TV and now I pay $35/mo for Playstation VUE. I get like all 3 ESPN's plus a dedicated SEC channel, all my various cable news channels, etc....everything I watched on UVerse...and dropped from $118/mo to $35/mo.
I don't count my internet in that equation, as that I have a business connection for $69/mo...I'd have that for work regardless of my TV needs.
But with VUE and my Tivo OTA set up for local channels....why pay cable TV high prices?
I've not been able to track down to verify, but it appeared this agreement in Paris, would have us in the US paying more "tax"...carbon tax, etc on all sorts of things.
Screw that if true...we pay enough here in the US, and I certainly don't want to pay taxes to the "world" at large.
Which they do not deserve. You know what's interesting about population distribution in America? It actually corresponds fairly closely to how important the state is to the nation, except Florida, which we can hope will be washed off the face of the planet any day now.
Well, then, I"m glad you're not the one in charge of making the decisions.
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I feel the needs of S/N Dakota are just as important at the needs of CA, TX and RI. But their needs are different and they have different viewpoints, etc.
And *THAT* is precisely one of the great things we need to retain about the US (United States you know)...is that each state is sovereign, or should be as much as possible, so that if you don't like how they think about things in NY (say guns), then you are free to move to TX that may share more of your views.
This country is a union of STATES, and that's how it was set up. No, it is not and never has been a full blown democracy, but a democratically elected republic.
I don't think the same as someone in many ways in IA as I do here in LA. I have coastal issues...they have corn issues....and we need to have those voices heard and interests looked out for....and the electoral system, which it could use some tuning, should stay fundamentally the same to as to keep the balance of power on the state side.
I do with we could take it away from being "all or nothing" on the electoral votes, that way we'd have possibilities for viable 3rd parties to get in there, but that has to be decided on a state by state level.
But no...I don't think that all power should reside in two pretty small geographic regions for the whole US.
Now, instead of blaming Trump, or the Republicans, or whatever else scapegoat you come up, would PLEASE fix the electoral SYSTEM first.
Otherwise, we all just get more or worse of the same as each 4 year cycle goes by.
Our electoral systems works just fine. It is designed to get the majority of power, and of electing the president based on the unit of STATES. This is so that each state has a relative voice in who is elected president which should force the candidates to take in all state issues (which vary greatly with geography), into mind when campaigning....otherwise, you'd have our presidents decided by pretty much 2-3 populous states on each end of the country which do not even come close as bearing a somewhat representative view of the US and our policies of the country as a whole.
...we could end up with large numbers people starving because they aren't capable of getting the education and skills they need to get a job.
Err....and just why can't they get the education and skills needed to get a job?
I mean, if the "communities" would get serious about making their kids understand the importance of an education, and that being a famous sports start, or musical person likely isn't the road to wealth and happy life....then we don't have a problem.
They already CAN get that education, but they don't because they don't prioritize it in their childrens' lives.
And, sadly, you just can't legislate that, so....some communities are likely to be poor and doomed unless they themselves figure out what's important in life.
"for 1,300 years, we see complete genetic continuity." Despite repeated conquests of Egypt, by Alexander the Great, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Assyrians -- the list goes on -- ancient Egyptians showed little genetic change. "The other big surprise," Krause said, "was we didn't find much sub-Saharan African ancestry."
Hmm...with no diversity, I guess by todays SJW standards, they'd be branded a racist, xenophobic, close minded civilization.....
How dare they...!! No civilization can accomplish much with this type of closed minded thinking, I mean look at how little the Egyptians accomplish......ed.
You might be able to choose to forgo a regularized W-2 job, but not many others can.
There is a HUGE contracting industry, particularly in the field of I.T. that would like to argue with you on that.....an industry that has been very healthy and profitable for many decades.
Reality is capitalism, marketing, corrupt governance are all psychopathically designed to strip youth of the minds and their wealth and then the gods of capitalism complain when youth are broke...
Funny..it worked all the way up until this most recent generation that for some reason, can't seem to get with the program, and learn you have to work and earn it.
What this article also missed is that nearly 60% of all Americans don't have enough savings to cover a $500 - $1000 unplanned expense [cnn.com]. This article is trying to make this a Millennial problem, but in truth it is just a reality of the majority of all US households.
I guess the last couple of generations for some reason, weren't taught to budget, and save most of your money....that luxury items like the latest phone or $$ Nike's or whatever were meant to be saved for only after you save everything else for a rainy day or things that matter.
And...if you don't make enough money after living and saving as you need to, then you DON'T get those luxury items, you are not entitled to them, hence the term "luxury".
It's a rabbit hole. Sure you and some other's moonlight a
NO...I do NOT moonlight 1099 work, it is a very profitable career for me in IT. 6 figures are easy bill rates. Yes, out of that you pay your insurance, your vacation/sick time, and retirement....and save for times when you are between contracts, or want to take a month or so off.
This "über" type gig economy is very new....the traditional 1099 contractor I talk about has been around for a VERY long time, in fact, in IT...as you get older and more experienced, this is often the route you want to go to keep pay increase and employment.
And hell these days...you have no more job security in a W2 job than you do as a 1099 contractor....I figure, you might as well get the bill rate for it.
But these new jobs like uber, that pay a pittance....well, that is new in the 1099 game...and if you're doing it for side money, I see no problem with it. But if you're stupid enough to think that's making a living....then well, live with the consequences of your choices...or better yet, wise up and get a better JOB!!
There are plenty of other 'real' jobs out there other than the low, part time jobs like uber. You may not get to live in the big city like you want and move to where the work is, but that's nothing new in the past 30 years....why can't people be industrious and do what they have to to get real work. It is out there, but it isn't going to come knocking at your door while you sit on the couch at your parents house, in the afternoon watching Family Guy on netflix.
1099 work might have been fine at one point, but it is NOW becoming a capitalists' wet dream and a regular worker's worst nightmare.
There is PLENTY of W2 work out there. You may have to move to where the job is, but that's nothing new in the past 3 decades or so....
Again, just because some people can do it, shouldn't mean you should regulate it out of existence for the majority of those who can and thrive doing it!!
Hmm..maybe the snowflake generation didn't realize they had to save on their own...?
I mean, they were raised with everyone getting a trophy just for showing up...maybe they thought mommy and daddy (or the mommy state) would give them a house too...?
Ok...please get this...UBER is not a real job, not a primary source of income.
Gig work is a synonym with 1099 contracting.
There are plenty of us out here (especially in IT) that make very good livings doing contract work (I call each contract I have a 'gig').
Let's face it. If you are going to go this route, you need to put on your big boy pants, and think like an adult.
If you find a contract, and can negotiate a bill rate that will cover you wages, your insurance, your retirement and give you time to take off (no work hours no pay, remember?)...then you are working a gig that can be a primary source of income.
If you are working a contract that does not give you this type of bill rate, you either figure "this is not my customer", or you are doing this just as some side money to supplment your "real job" which mostly likely could be a W2 job.
But please, lets not get the govt to throw out the baby with the bathwater, MANY people for many years, have enjoyed working 1099. You are your own boss. You decide where your retirement investments are going. YOU decide what and how much insurance you need.
To do this on a full time basis, you have to be and adult, now how to budget, put money aside for periods between contracts (sometimes you may want to take a month off)....
But please...lets keep in mind, all these people are adults, and they can and should make their own decision and live with the consequences of such.
You realize that all this data "shared" between your devices is stored somewhere on Google servers? I don't trust anyone with my data, except me. I'll sure not trust a company that has been proven to provide all its data to 3-letter agencies.
At least with Firefox, I can disable all the call-home features. On Chrome? Hahaha! Google's core business is your data. You think they provide Chrome for the sake of having an open Internet? Nope. It's for them to retrieve all the data they can about you and sell it to their advertisers.
Interesting....
I"m in the basic same boat. When I saw the sync thing on FF (I've not really used chrome)...I thought "oh no way...I don't want my bookmarks/history/etc on their servers".
So, I promptly shut that shit off.
If I were on chrome associated with google, I'd be very concerned what they were storing about me...
I could probably count the number of times I"ve used chrome on one hand.
I don't really know any of my friends that use it either....
Where I work, IE is still the browser of choice for the company....you have to actually get special dispensation for them to allow you to install FF or chrome (usually for testing web apps).
So, in light of my anecdotal experience with it, might I ask those many of you that *do* use chrome as your primary browser.....why?
What benefits does it give over other browsers? I primarily use FF on my windows and Linux boxes...and mostly safari on my OS X boxes.
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I have no inclination to help usher in the early precedents of the "telescreen" from 1984...
And exactly why should I care? What does my country get out of all this money being paid out?
I mean, hey, we all started at the same starting point, and it just so happens some countries developed faster and apparently were smarter at inventing and doing things.
Just because others couldn't keep up....why should we have to pay, or even lower out quality of life just because of the straggler countries in the world?
Why must I be my brothers keeper? What do I get out of it besides altruistic self sacrifice?
And I've often said I think it would be better if we did tweak the system so that all states' votes aren't all or nothing.
I'd like to see proportional votes be done where the votes are split among the candidates, it would allow for viable 3rd party candidates.
It could be changed...HOWEVER, it is up to each individual state as to how this is done.
The people are free to change it, I believe a couple of states have in recent decades?
Don't you think that's a rather elitist point of view?
Are you really wanting to fundamentally break up the USA? 'Cause what you're wanting, would pretty much do it.
We are they way we are, because that's how it was originally set up. Otherwise, we would just be another Europe, made up of little completely independent countries.
No power at all then.
I only watch ESPN really during college football season.
I cut the cord with cable TV and now I pay $35/mo for Playstation VUE. I get like all 3 ESPN's plus a dedicated SEC channel, all my various cable news channels, etc....everything I watched on UVerse...and dropped from $118/mo to $35/mo.
I don't count my internet in that equation, as that I have a business connection for $69/mo...I'd have that for work regardless of my TV needs.
But with VUE and my Tivo OTA set up for local channels....why pay cable TV high prices?
Screw that if true...we pay enough here in the US, and I certainly don't want to pay taxes to the "world" at large.
Well, then, I"m glad you're not the one in charge of making the decisions.
I feel the needs of S/N Dakota are just as important at the needs of CA, TX and RI. But their needs are different and they have different viewpoints, etc.
And *THAT* is precisely one of the great things we need to retain about the US (United States you know)...is that each state is sovereign, or should be as much as possible, so that if you don't like how they think about things in NY (say guns), then you are free to move to TX that may share more of your views.
This country is a union of STATES, and that's how it was set up. No, it is not and never has been a full blown democracy, but a democratically elected republic.
I don't think the same as someone in many ways in IA as I do here in LA. I have coastal issues...they have corn issues....and we need to have those voices heard and interests looked out for....and the electoral system, which it could use some tuning, should stay fundamentally the same to as to keep the balance of power on the state side.
I do with we could take it away from being "all or nothing" on the electoral votes, that way we'd have possibilities for viable 3rd parties to get in there, but that has to be decided on a state by state level.
But no...I don't think that all power should reside in two pretty small geographic regions for the whole US.
Our electoral systems works just fine. It is designed to get the majority of power, and of electing the president based on the unit of STATES. This is so that each state has a relative voice in who is elected president which should force the candidates to take in all state issues (which vary greatly with geography), into mind when campaigning....otherwise, you'd have our presidents decided by pretty much 2-3 populous states on each end of the country which do not even come close as bearing a somewhat representative view of the US and our policies of the country as a whole.
Yet they *still* pay approx half the taxes in the US....so, you're saying they should pay 3/4 of all taxes...or maybe all of them?
Err....and just why can't they get the education and skills needed to get a job?
I mean, if the "communities" would get serious about making their kids understand the importance of an education, and that being a famous sports start, or musical person likely isn't the road to wealth and happy life....then we don't have a problem.
They already CAN get that education, but they don't because they don't prioritize it in their childrens' lives.
And, sadly, you just can't legislate that, so....some communities are likely to be poor and doomed unless they themselves figure out what's important in life.
Well, that's not a problem, because port-johns are single occupancy facilities.
They problem comes when your in a restroom with capacity > 1, and you end up standing/sitting beside someone who's not "one of you".
And, at least on the men's side of that, many public facilities like that often don't have doors on the stalls, etc....
Hmm...with no diversity, I guess by todays SJW standards, they'd be branded a racist, xenophobic, close minded civilization.....
How dare they...!! No civilization can accomplish much with this type of closed minded thinking, I mean look at how little the Egyptians accomplish......ed.
Errr.....ok, wait a minute.
Ok, I guess they somehow overcame this....
Bill rates between $100-$200/hr would beg to differ with you.
In the IT field, if you can pretty readily find $125-$175/hr bill rates.
It goes up from there if you are a US citizen and can get into government contracting...and those are often for quit LONG terms.
There is a HUGE contracting industry, particularly in the field of I.T. that would like to argue with you on that.....an industry that has been very healthy and profitable for many decades.
Funny..it worked all the way up until this most recent generation that for some reason, can't seem to get with the program, and learn you have to work and earn it.
I guess the last couple of generations for some reason, weren't taught to budget, and save most of your money....that luxury items like the latest phone or $$ Nike's or whatever were meant to be saved for only after you save everything else for a rainy day or things that matter.
And...if you don't make enough money after living and saving as you need to, then you DON'T get those luxury items, you are not entitled to them, hence the term "luxury".
NO...I do NOT moonlight 1099 work, it is a very profitable career for me in IT. 6 figures are easy bill rates. Yes, out of that you pay your insurance, your vacation/sick time, and retirement....and save for times when you are between contracts, or want to take a month or so off.
This "über" type gig economy is very new....the traditional 1099 contractor I talk about has been around for a VERY long time, in fact, in IT...as you get older and more experienced, this is often the route you want to go to keep pay increase and employment.
And hell these days...you have no more job security in a W2 job than you do as a 1099 contractor....I figure, you might as well get the bill rate for it.
But these new jobs like uber, that pay a pittance....well, that is new in the 1099 game...and if you're doing it for side money, I see no problem with it. But if you're stupid enough to think that's making a living....then well, live with the consequences of your choices...or better yet, wise up and get a better JOB!!
There are plenty of other 'real' jobs out there other than the low, part time jobs like uber. You may not get to live in the big city like you want and move to where the work is, but that's nothing new in the past 30 years....why can't people be industrious and do what they have to to get real work. It is out there, but it isn't going to come knocking at your door while you sit on the couch at your parents house, in the afternoon watching Family Guy on netflix.
There is PLENTY of W2 work out there. You may have to move to where the job is, but that's nothing new in the past 3 decades or so....
Again, just because some people can do it, shouldn't mean you should regulate it out of existence for the majority of those who can and thrive doing it!!
I mean, they were raised with everyone getting a trophy just for showing up...maybe they thought mommy and daddy (or the mommy state) would give them a house too...?
Gig work is a synonym with 1099 contracting.
There are plenty of us out here (especially in IT) that make very good livings doing contract work (I call each contract I have a 'gig').
Let's face it. If you are going to go this route, you need to put on your big boy pants, and think like an adult.
If you find a contract, and can negotiate a bill rate that will cover you wages, your insurance, your retirement and give you time to take off (no work hours no pay, remember?)...then you are working a gig that can be a primary source of income.
If you are working a contract that does not give you this type of bill rate, you either figure "this is not my customer", or you are doing this just as some side money to supplment your "real job" which mostly likely could be a W2 job.
But please, lets not get the govt to throw out the baby with the bathwater, MANY people for many years, have enjoyed working 1099. You are your own boss. You decide where your retirement investments are going. YOU decide what and how much insurance you need.
To do this on a full time basis, you have to be and adult, now how to budget, put money aside for periods between contracts (sometimes you may want to take a month off)....
But please...lets keep in mind, all these people are adults, and they can and should make their own decision and live with the consequences of such.
Interesting....
I"m in the basic same boat. When I saw the sync thing on FF (I've not really used chrome)...I thought "oh no way...I don't want my bookmarks/history/etc on their servers".
So, I promptly shut that shit off.
If I were on chrome associated with google, I'd be very concerned what they were storing about me...
Hmm...guess I"ll have to try to find out what "hangouts" are....?
Since you mentioned chrome was necessary for it, I"m assuming this is something associated with google?
Can you please elaborate in what ways it is a better browsing experience.
I mean for a browser, you mainly just need to click a link and it takes you to a page..click another...lather, rinse, repeat.
So, what differentiates chrome from other browsers?
I could probably count the number of times I"ve used chrome on one hand.
I don't really know any of my friends that use it either....
Where I work, IE is still the browser of choice for the company....you have to actually get special dispensation for them to allow you to install FF or chrome (usually for testing web apps).
So, in light of my anecdotal experience with it, might I ask those many of you that *do* use chrome as your primary browser.....why?
What benefits does it give over other browsers? I primarily use FF on my windows and Linux boxes...and mostly safari on my OS X boxes.