In the most general of senses, the Democratic party is much more responsive to the will of the electorate.
Laughable. Having a Public Option on health insurance was the most popular policy in recent memory - more popular than Lilly Ledbetter, supported by Republican voters when explained what it would actually do as opposed to the death panel crap - while telecom immunity was overwhelmingly opposed by leftists, liberals and other conservatives.
Democrats killed the former while supporting the latter.
Not one of those bills were authored by democrats.
Batshit irrelevant. NAFTA didn't start out as Democratic legislation, either - but Democrats own it, as it was a Democratic president who fought for it and brought enough party support to pass it.
Yes, well, Accenture is also a Red Hat strategic partner [redhat.com], as well as partner of Google, Salesforce etc.
Because Red Hat has as much of a marketing budget as Microsoft. Google and Salesforce are really known for pushing their Linux operating systems too, for an equally relevant comparison.
An alternative to conspiracy theories could be that the employees of Munich actually want to switch to another system with less problems with standard software and drivers
Neat how we go from slinging conspiracy theorist accusations to slinging FUD in a single sentence. But if you want to go there, how about when Windows 10 breaks part of the system with a mandatory system/driver update, or "helpfully" decides to uninstall a critical piece of software because it is "incompatible" with the OS.
That's why we now say climate change, because "global warming" turned out to be indefensible before the facts.
Has the globe been warming overall? Why yes, it has. Scientists started using the words "climate change" so flat-earthers like yourself and the parent wouldn't have something to wank on about when northern Bumbfuckistan sees their average temperatures fall by a couple degrees while the rest of the continent is still warming.
The findings prove for the first time that prehistoric settlers in Brazil cleared large wooded areas to create huge enclosures meaning that the 'pristine' rainforest celebrated by ecologists is actually relatively new.
And what percentage of the rainforest was cleared to build these structures? Obviously not much or else they wouldn't have needed drones to find them. Seems the writer is using a definition of pristine that means "completely and utterly untouched by human hands anywhere at any time", because reasons.
"We think it takes social policy in the wrong direction," said Ilkka Kaukoranta, chief economist of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), which has nearly 1 million members.
...according to a single person at the umbrella organization, an economist - reminiscent the union leaders that fell over themselves last year to endorse Mrs. Nafta without consulting their members. A UBI, like a minimum wage, raises the floor underneath the floor of workers and would mean union workers would be paid more, not less.
If only there were some new types of reactors designed after 1950...
Non sequitur. The problem with nuclear isn't that there are "new designs" available - the problem is that nuclear power is unjustifiable based on cost alone. You simply cannot justify spending a decade to build a new nuclear plant, when you can build far more wind and solar energy in less time, for less money. And that's before getting into the longterm costs of nuclear power: maintenance, security, and storing waste for hundreds to thousands of years.
And hippies will tell you that any carbon emissions saved by burning natural gas are easily offset by the carbons used in natural gas production - putting the issue of man-made earthquakes and poisoned ground water aside entirely. That solar and wind power generation can be spaced across the grid - with spare power being stored via hydrostatic batteries - reservoirs or water towers in arid climates. No big whoop, with hydroelectric damns and water towers still in use that were built more than a century ago.
Tell that to a conservative, a Libertarian, and a whore for corporate welfare.
Wind is not a base load and can't ever be so long as you don't have a guaranteed 24/7/365 air flow or massive battery reservoir.
Baseline Bullshit - you simply build your generating capacity across the grid. Coal and nuclear power is already moved hundreds of miles over power lines, so space your solar and wind generation across the same distance - the chances of a region being windless and sunless over hundreds of miles at a time is zero. Excess energy can be stored in hydrostatic batteries - pump water into a reservoir, then release the water to move a turbine to generate power when needed. Before dismissing that idea, remember that all your phancy pants nuclear power plants do is heat water - to move a turbine to generate electricity.
You're not getting this.
That's the problem for nuke fans everywhere, we are. Wind and solar are simply more cost effective than coal, much less nuclear.
Islam has a problem with terrorism and authoritarianism. It's the most violent and authoritarian mainstream religion today. That doesn't mean every Muslim is a "suicide bombing America hating crazy", but it does mean Islam as a whole has earned the negative associations of terrorism and tyranny.
American Exceptionalists have a problem with dumbfuckery. It's not Muslims who are bombing 7 countries on the other side of the world of them for bullshit reasons - that's you. It wasn't Iran who had a wordwide kidnapping and torture program - that was you. It wasn't Syria that overthrew two democracies just during the Obama years - that was you. It wasn't Libya that invaded Iraq over lies and got a million people killed and created million more refugees - that was you.
That's the problem here, and what people on "the left" keep missing
Good thing you put "the left" in scare quotes, as Democrats and their sycophants are right-wingers. Current case in point: all the outrage from Dems over Trump's travel ban, Dems who DGAF when Obama was bombing them.
You've avoided the question, with more hand waiving. The answer is that yes, of course you would expect more compensation from a job that expected a higher level of education, but that would interfere with your prior "arguments".
If you'd just read my post, you might notice that I don't claim you'll jump into the top 1% as a result of a university education.
See above. Bootstrap bullshit is still bullshit.
American kids have all the opportunities they need to go to university
Not without people like you sneering at them a second time for taking out student loans they couldn't afford, if their degree/career choice doesn't pay out.
Can we perhaps get back to the topic at hand now?
Never left it. #yourproblems
The question was: do we need universities to "educate American kids first"
Facile reasoning is facile. No, everyone does not need a college degree - plenty of people would be better served by pursuing a trade in plumbing or electrical work. The obvious problem is who "should" be following those career paths is entirely determined by class. You are the child of people who made the minimum wage, or close to it, for most of their careers? A plumbing apprenticeship for you.
You're an alcoholic, cocaine abusing draft dodger with a 2.0 gpa? To the White House with you - after being handed a few multimillion dollar businesses to run into the ground, because of your last name.
It's that case ALL the time. How are you going to complain when it's the lazy moron getting into MIT before your kid, who spent years bullying your son from 2nd grade through High School, because his daddy was on the board of the local charter corporation? The same lazy moron who spent years shoving your kid down the stairs without consequence, because the teacher knew which side of her paycheck was buttered.
However, they have long since outlived their usefulness
Unions will have outlived their usefulness when executive greed has ceased to exist and all employees enjoy the right to due process. So when did this happen? An exact date would be appreciated.
I mean, we can't have hav communities or states set their own educational standards; it's all centrally planned in Washington now.
Unions hate Common Core, teach to the test, NCLB, etc. When did you becoming a card-carrying member of the NEA, comrade?
Right, because taxing people and then also taking away their choice
Choice = elitist shitfucking for "we want to take our kids and your tax dollars to elitist private institutions."
The idea of vouchers or really any other meaningful reform of the public education system is all about due process for parents and students. The teachers unions don't like it because it is a threat to them.
Horseshit. Public education is in the public interest for the same reason that public police and fire protection is in the public interest: it benefits society as a whole. Don't like it....you going to start insisting that companies provide free training for employees that didn't graduate college, much less high school? Didn't think so,
Those who can't have to suffer with having their kids in a sub-par public system,with no way to change it other than moving to areas with considerably higher costs of living.
Elitist entitled white flight, see above. It is your greed, sense of entitlement, and Grover Norquist shitbaggery that makes you feel entitled to first class services - without having to pay for them.
Or if you do, you don't have any actual experience with having or seeing kids in a school system that is simply failing them at every turn.
Because bourgeois entitled fucksticks like yourself have undercut public education - at every turn. Don't like it - ban private schools entirely and mandate that the richest kids have to attend the "poorest performing" public schools in their state. All kids of problems will be solved overnight.
Thinking that statement has an impact on the truth of mine (quoted again below) is a wonderful example of an entitlement issue.
Hand waiving. Would you expect more compensation from a job that expected a master's degree over bachelors, from applicants. A simple yes or no will do.
Your ability to not grasp the obvious is astounding.
That's your problem in a nutshell: I do grasp the obvious. Either pay market rates for what you want, or train employees to do what you want. Anything else is an unearned corporatist sense of entitlement. You know, like I said the first time.
as someone who has a mix of both H1B and american workers under his care, I can tell you this: if you want high end technical labor, we simply DO NOT have enough qualified candidates here in the united states.
Nah, you're just a cheap, lazy bastard. You said so yourself:
we're talking about someone with the background and knowledge to actually do the work that we need to do without spending years training them.
Either pay for what you need or train someone to do what you need. Anything else is unearned corporatist entitlement.
This is beyond ridiculous - especially the part "they send all money to home countries". When they buy houses, automobiles, send their children to school, pay taxes etc. they are a net contributor to the society. And what they do with their money is none of anyone's business...they may send it to their home countries, donate to a Trump charity, or they may go to Las Vegas.
Yes, you are beyond ridiculous. If you went overseas to take a higher paying job but knew you would be going back home in two years, would you:
1) Get married, have a baby, buy a house, buy a car. 2) Save every nickel for your real life when you return to it - it's only a matter of time.
Part of the problem is the continued belief that everyone should go to college. No, they shouldn't.
Yes, some people should try and get a plumbing or HVAC license - might end up making more money than with a STEM masters anyway, and without all the student loan debt. But what it means in practice is that the kids of rich parents get to to school to get those masters (or an Ph.d, or an M.D.) while the working poor are shut out. A caste system based on how much money your parents have.
Actually I think our biggest failure was raising you with no respect for what you have been provided throughout your life. Yea, you are the poor family with 7 kids to a single mom. I get it, you are angry and you feel all the worlds problems are the fault of someone else. Every heard the phrase "If you are not part of the solution....". So before ranting about how someone else messed up everything, the question you need to ask yourself "What could have I done to prevent it".
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Because you're a RWNJ looking for an excuse to hippie punch, even if it has no relation to facts or reality in general.
Mass transit reduces stress on roads and bridges. Sounds like you're cutting off the nose to spite the face.
Not even close. Any more dumb questions?
Laughable. Having a Public Option on health insurance was the most popular policy in recent memory - more popular than Lilly Ledbetter, supported by Republican voters when explained what it would actually do as opposed to the death panel crap - while telecom immunity was overwhelmingly opposed by leftists, liberals and other conservatives.
Democrats killed the former while supporting the latter.
Batshit irrelevant. NAFTA didn't start out as Democratic legislation, either - but Democrats own it, as it was a Democratic president who fought for it and brought enough party support to pass it.
Because Red Hat has as much of a marketing budget as Microsoft. Google and Salesforce are really known for pushing their Linux operating systems too, for an equally relevant comparison.
Neat how we go from slinging conspiracy theorist accusations to slinging FUD in a single sentence. But if you want to go there, how about when Windows 10 breaks part of the system with a mandatory system/driver update, or "helpfully" decides to uninstall a critical piece of software because it is "incompatible" with the OS.
Has the globe been warming overall? Why yes, it has. Scientists started using the words "climate change" so flat-earthers like yourself and the parent wouldn't have something to wank on about when northern Bumbfuckistan sees their average temperatures fall by a couple degrees while the rest of the continent is still warming.
And what percentage of the rainforest was cleared to build these structures? Obviously not much or else they wouldn't have needed drones to find them. Seems the writer is using a definition of pristine that means "completely and utterly untouched by human hands anywhere at any time", because reasons.
If only there were some new types of reactors designed after 1950...
Non sequitur. The problem with nuclear isn't that there are "new designs" available - the problem is that nuclear power is unjustifiable based on cost alone. You simply cannot justify spending a decade to build a new nuclear plant, when you can build far more wind and solar energy in less time, for less money. And that's before getting into the longterm costs of nuclear power: maintenance, security, and storing waste for hundreds to thousands of years.
And hippies will tell you that any carbon emissions saved by burning natural gas are easily offset by the carbons used in natural gas production - putting the issue of man-made earthquakes and poisoned ground water aside entirely. That solar and wind power generation can be spaced across the grid - with spare power being stored via hydrostatic batteries - reservoirs or water towers in arid climates. No big whoop, with hydroelectric damns and water towers still in use that were built more than a century ago.
Tell that to a conservative, a Libertarian, and a whore for corporate welfare.
Baseline Bullshit - you simply build your generating capacity across the grid. Coal and nuclear power is already moved hundreds of miles over power lines, so space your solar and wind generation across the same distance - the chances of a region being windless and sunless over hundreds of miles at a time is zero. Excess energy can be stored in hydrostatic batteries - pump water into a reservoir, then release the water to move a turbine to generate power when needed. Before dismissing that idea, remember that all your phancy pants nuclear power plants do is heat water - to move a turbine to generate electricity.
That's the problem for nuke fans everywhere, we are. Wind and solar are simply more cost effective than coal, much less nuclear.
American Exceptionalists have a problem with dumbfuckery. It's not Muslims who are bombing 7 countries on the other side of the world of them for bullshit reasons - that's you. It wasn't Iran who had a wordwide kidnapping and torture program - that was you. It wasn't Syria that overthrew two democracies just during the Obama years - that was you. It wasn't Libya that invaded Iraq over lies and got a million people killed and created million more refugees - that was you.
Dumb.
Fuck.
Er.
Eee.
Good thing you put "the left" in scare quotes, as Democrats and their sycophants are right-wingers. Current case in point: all the outrage from Dems over Trump's travel ban, Dems who DGAF when Obama was bombing them.
You've avoided the question, with more hand waiving. The answer is that yes, of course you would expect more compensation from a job that expected a higher level of education, but that would interfere with your prior "arguments".
Funny you say that, since I just threw Old Economy Steve at another poster in the same Slashdot story. :)
That's just your problem - I did.
See above. Bootstrap bullshit is still bullshit.
Not without people like you sneering at them a second time for taking out student loans they couldn't afford, if their degree/career choice doesn't pay out.
Never left it. #yourproblems
Facile reasoning is facile. No, everyone does not need a college degree - plenty of people would be better served by pursuing a trade in plumbing or electrical work. The obvious problem is who "should" be following those career paths is entirely determined by class. You are the child of people who made the minimum wage, or close to it, for most of their careers? A plumbing apprenticeship for you.
You're an alcoholic, cocaine abusing draft dodger with a 2.0 gpa? To the White House with you - after being handed a few multimillion dollar businesses to run into the ground, because of your last name.
It's that case ALL the time. How are you going to complain when it's the lazy moron getting into MIT before your kid, who spent years bullying your son from 2nd grade through High School, because his daddy was on the board of the local charter corporation? The same lazy moron who spent years shoving your kid down the stairs without consequence, because the teacher knew which side of her paycheck was buttered.
Unions will have outlived their usefulness when executive greed has ceased to exist and all employees enjoy the right to due process. So when did this happen? An exact date would be appreciated.
Unions hate Common Core, teach to the test, NCLB, etc. When did you becoming a card-carrying member of the NEA, comrade?
Choice = elitist shitfucking for "we want to take our kids and your tax dollars to elitist private institutions."
Horseshit. Public education is in the public interest for the same reason that public police and fire protection is in the public interest: it benefits society as a whole. Don't like it....you going to start insisting that companies provide free training for employees that didn't graduate college, much less high school? Didn't think so,
Elitist entitled white flight, see above. It is your greed, sense of entitlement, and Grover Norquist shitbaggery that makes you feel entitled to first class services - without having to pay for them.
Because bourgeois entitled fucksticks like yourself have undercut public education - at every turn. Don't like it - ban private schools entirely and mandate that the richest kids have to attend the "poorest performing" public schools in their state. All kids of problems will be solved overnight.
Hand waiving. Would you expect more compensation from a job that expected a master's degree over bachelors, from applicants. A simple yes or no will do.
That's your problem in a nutshell: I do grasp the obvious. Either pay market rates for what you want, or train employees to do what you want. Anything else is an unearned corporatist sense of entitlement. You know, like I said the first time.
Nah, you're just a cheap, lazy bastard. You said so yourself:
Either pay for what you need or train someone to do what you need. Anything else is unearned corporatist entitlement.
Yes, you are beyond ridiculous. If you went overseas to take a higher paying job but knew you would be going back home in two years, would you:
1) Get married, have a baby, buy a house, buy a car.
2) Save every nickel for your real life when you return to it - it's only a matter of time.
Basic human nature.
Yes, some people should try and get a plumbing or HVAC license - might end up making more money than with a STEM masters anyway, and without all the student loan debt. But what it means in practice is that the kids of rich parents get to to school to get those masters (or an Ph.d, or an M.D.) while the working poor are shut out. A caste system based on how much money your parents have.
And I'm tired of people with no self-awareness. But please, continue with your own anecdotes.
Whatever you say, Old Economy Steve.