These so-called "trends" tend to follow similar patterns: as soon as enough people are chipped, and that method is used in financial transactions, then everyday activities such as public waste disposal [throwing away a tissue in the street bin] will automatically be billed against the individual via their embedded chips; billings us for virtually everything!
Not that I am unsympathetic to the slaughter of muslims in Myanmar and the destruction of their homes their, but there has been a lengthy genocide against the (mostly Christian) Kachin people in that country, and there is little reporting about it, most definitely NOT in Amerika.
I think the first real SF I ever viewed on the TV, which was severely limited in my youth as I was in an orphanage which forbade it, was the Outer Limits dual segments by Harlan titled, Demon With a Glass Hand, which was truly awesome and well worth watching today --- spoiled most future SF for me because it was at such a high level.
Did Micro$oft recall Melinda Gates to do their latest super-crappy Hotmail/Outlook PoS interface? I believe she must be the unholy architect behind it?????
for corporations doing poorly to advertise for nonexisting jobs. I recall back in the 1990s, when a local company called Traveling Software, kept advertising for positions after they had laid off over 60% of their workforce --- and surprise of surprises --- they never bothered to fill any of those advertised-for positions.
Well --- if there really were so many jobs, why are 47% of millennials working as free lancers, with 35% of the overall working population (which has been shrunk considerably with jobs offshoring and foreign visa replacement workers insourced)? And why have an estimated 94% of new job creation been those unsustainable gig economy-type jobs?
Yup, and why are employers doubling down on yearning for younger and younger workers? If there were really a demand, as neither of us believe, wages would have shot up long ago, and my old employers would be bothering me and others without let up.
Great comments from a rarely well-informed individual.
Sadly, just a handful of Americans today are even aware that Carnegie was a war profiteer, then later a war-rebuilding profiteer, who made his original fortune by being appointed to Superintendent of Railways and Telegraphs by his boyfriend, Thomas Scott, creator of the financial construct known as the "holding company."
. . . for an intelligent comment here, getting to be quite rare.
Now why would anyone care about this since it has been going on forever???? And American pathetic corporate biz shows how anti-experience has destroyed any real business in America today, which shows up in crapola design of anything and everything (evidently everyone has forgotten The Design of Everyday Things ????).
I recall being forced down to nonexistence in the IT field, regardless if they even were aware of my contributions (used by billions daily) --- and having to deal with endless IT wannabe morons who, after you patiently explained how to clear up the problem, would respond that the solution was not correct, then return six months later, claiming to have figured out the problem --- which was EXACTLY what you had previously explained to them in a most tactful and patient manner, so even the most halfwitted millennial could grasp it!
Oh God, please not the PDP--11/70 series!!!! (I forget, was that the one you had to boot up with paper tape????) Now, the older Perkin/Elmer super-minis were sweet!
So-Called Locals: The Road to Corporate Taxation in Seattle
Over the past decade large capital flows --- frequently if not mostly of money laundering and speculation origin --- have poured into the Pacific Northwest, from Vancouver, Canada, to
King County (Seattle), Washington, USA.
During the last mayoral election, candidate Cary Moon, along with Councilmember
Lisa Herbold, raised the issue of external impacts on our local housing market.
A logical critique, given reports by local realtors of a 70% unoccupied rate of
recently purchased homes --- obviously not purchased to be lived in! The candidate for
mayor who would later be elected, Jenny Durkan, along with other elected
politicians, pushed back against any investigation into rampant real
estate/housing speculation, citing that bugaboo of the political theater crowd,
racism. (As Trump won the presidential election thanks to low voter turnout, an even lower voter turnout in Seattle --- at 37% of registered voters --- ensured Durkan's victory as
mayor --- a sad day for the American electorate all around! Interestingly, they both won with around the same percentage of votes.)
When Gary Gensler was chief of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during
the Obama Administration, he instigated a study of futures trades, long claimed
to be done for "hedging purposes," and found that over 90% were pure
speculation trades, only done for quick profit and market manipulation. (Price
setting, which occurs in the futures markets)
Although so-called pundits at Fox may refer to Seattle as a "socialist
hellhole" --- Seattle has long been run as the personal fiefdom of the
rich through their influential Community Devleopment Roundtable (with tenant
rights having been essentially missing over the past century).
Along with that rampant money laundering/speculative capital flows into local real estate (also
involving private equity/leveraged buyouts of local apartment buildings, etc.),
many financial/economic forces worked together to drive up housing prices: the
destruction of local affordable housing, with the replacement of high-end
condos and rentals, while local jobs were displaced in the corporate rush to
offshore labor, leading to an extreme tightening of the housing market, further
aggravated by the recent surge and influx of new Amazon employees.
The employment picture was exacerbated by Amazon's (and Bezos') destruction,
both locally and nationally, of thousands of book and record stores in its
march to be the One World Retail Corporation! Add to that the cited 50% first-year turnover rate for new hires at Amazon (for whatever myriad reasons???) and consequently one observes
a general rise in rental rates. (I.e., both supply and demand --- and turnover
--- drive up the rates as landlords typically jack up rental rates each time an
apartment becomes vacant.)
With Amazon's traditional history of tax avoidance,
it is no surprise of their strong push back against the recent city council
measure.
As cities in Canada (and throughout the Americas and Europe) have raised taxes
on foreign purchases of local real estate, it is almost logical that Seattle
would follow a similar trajectory.
An excellent recent financial article in the Epoch Times further explains how the banking system
drives up housing prices.
. . . since Google itself has actually acted in a moral fashion as regards refusing to give up the store to China, which Narus, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple have soooo willingly done so, ensuring the deaths and forced organ harvesting of too many Chinese individuals deemed to be enemies of the state due to their not following the CCP doctrine.
The dood whose Gates Foundation's Global Advisory Board originally read like a who's who of a criminal rogues gallery?
The dood whose Gates Foundation-funded, Oxitec (now owned by a hedge fund), released genetically engineered mosquitoes at each point there was a Zika explosion?
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These so-called "trends" tend to follow similar patterns: as soon as enough people are chipped, and that method is used in financial transactions, then everyday activities such as public waste disposal [throwing away a tissue in the street bin] will automatically be billed against the individual via their embedded chips; billings us for virtually everything!
Excellent!
This is EXACTLY what we should expect in the future from driverless vehicles . . . .
Not that I am unsympathetic to the slaughter of muslims in Myanmar and the destruction of their homes their, but there has been a lengthy genocide against the (mostly Christian) Kachin people in that country, and there is little reporting about it, most definitely NOT in Amerika.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
Starbucks is essentially for consumers who don't read books and have no taste in coffees.
I'm sure there must be at least one brilliant one, or were they all slain by the Spartans?
EXACTLY! Porn has looooooong been the driver in tech advances over the decades - - how can this not be understood????
https://www.dailymotion.com/vi...
I think the first real SF I ever viewed on the TV, which was severely limited in my youth as I was in an orphanage which forbade it, was the Outer Limits dual segments by Harlan titled, Demon With a Glass Hand, which was truly awesome and well worth watching today --- spoiled most future SF for me because it was at such a high level.
And AT&T a close second . . .
never mismanaged??????
Did Micro$oft recall Melinda Gates to do their latest super-crappy Hotmail/Outlook PoS interface? I believe she must be the unholy architect behind it?????
for corporations doing poorly to advertise for nonexisting jobs. I recall back in the 1990s, when a local company called Traveling Software, kept advertising for positions after they had laid off over 60% of their workforce --- and surprise of surprises --- they never bothered to fill any of those advertised-for positions.
Well --- if there really were so many jobs, why are 47% of millennials working as free lancers, with 35% of the overall working population (which has been shrunk considerably with jobs offshoring and foreign visa replacement workers insourced)? And why have an estimated 94% of new job creation been those unsustainable gig economy-type jobs?
Yup, and why are employers doubling down on yearning for younger and younger workers? If there were really a demand, as neither of us believe, wages would have shot up long ago, and my old employers would be bothering me and others without let up.
http://luiscabral.net/economic...
Great comments from a rarely well-informed individual.
Sadly, just a handful of Americans today are even aware that Carnegie was a war profiteer, then later a war-rebuilding profiteer, who made his original fortune by being appointed to Superintendent of Railways and Telegraphs by his boyfriend, Thomas Scott, creator of the financial construct known as the "holding company."
My points exactly and well made. . .
http://luiscabral.net/economic...
Perhaps you are mistaken, and are simply witnessing the final stage in the dismantling of the American economy and American innovation:
http://luiscabral.net/economic...
. . . for an intelligent comment here, getting to be quite rare.
Now why would anyone care about this since it has been going on forever???? And American pathetic corporate biz shows how anti-experience has destroyed any real business in America today, which shows up in crapola design of anything and everything (evidently everyone has forgotten The Design of Everyday Things ????).
I recall being forced down to nonexistence in the IT field, regardless if they even were aware of my contributions (used by billions daily) --- and having to deal with endless IT wannabe morons who, after you patiently explained how to clear up the problem, would respond that the solution was not correct, then return six months later, claiming to have figured out the problem --- which was EXACTLY what you had previously explained to them in a most tactful and patient manner, so even the most halfwitted millennial could grasp it!
. . . we have already witnessed this in the Bush Crime Family, the Trump Crime Family and the Clinton Crime Family.
Oh God, please not the PDP--11/70 series!!!! (I forget, was that the one you had to boot up with paper tape????) Now, the older Perkin/Elmer super-minis were sweet!
So-Called Locals: The Road to Corporate Taxation in Seattle
Over the past decade large capital flows --- frequently if not mostly of money laundering and speculation origin --- have poured into the Pacific Northwest, from Vancouver, Canada, to King County (Seattle), Washington, USA.
During the last mayoral election, candidate Cary Moon, along with Councilmember Lisa Herbold, raised the issue of external impacts on our local housing market. A logical critique, given reports by local realtors of a 70% unoccupied rate of recently purchased homes --- obviously not purchased to be lived in! The candidate for mayor who would later be elected, Jenny Durkan, along with other elected politicians, pushed back against any investigation into rampant real estate/housing speculation, citing that bugaboo of the political theater crowd, racism. (As Trump won the presidential election thanks to low voter turnout, an even lower voter turnout in Seattle --- at 37% of registered voters --- ensured Durkan's victory as mayor --- a sad day for the American electorate all around! Interestingly, they both won with around the same percentage of votes.)
When Gary Gensler was chief of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the Obama Administration, he instigated a study of futures trades, long claimed to be done for "hedging purposes," and found that over 90% were pure speculation trades, only done for quick profit and market manipulation. (Price setting, which occurs in the futures markets)
Although so-called pundits at Fox may refer to Seattle as a "socialist hellhole" --- Seattle has long been run as the personal fiefdom of the rich through their influential Community Devleopment Roundtable (with tenant rights having been essentially missing over the past century).
http://archive.seattleweekly.c...
https://www.thestranger.com/se...
Along with that rampant money laundering/speculative capital flows into local real estate (also involving private equity/leveraged buyouts of local apartment buildings, etc.), many financial/economic forces worked together to drive up housing prices: the destruction of local affordable housing, with the replacement of high-end condos and rentals, while local jobs were displaced in the corporate rush to offshore labor, leading to an extreme tightening of the housing market, further aggravated by the recent surge and influx of new Amazon employees.
The employment picture was exacerbated by Amazon's (and Bezos') destruction, both locally and nationally, of thousands of book and record stores in its march to be the One World Retail Corporation! Add to that the cited 50% first-year turnover rate for new hires at Amazon (for whatever myriad reasons???) and consequently one observes a general rise in rental rates. (I.e., both supply and demand --- and turnover --- drive up the rates as landlords typically jack up rental rates each time an apartment becomes vacant.)
With Amazon's traditional history of tax avoidance,
https://itep.org/amazon-inc-pa...
it is no surprise of their strong push back against the recent city council measure.
As cities in Canada (and throughout the Americas and Europe) have raised taxes on foreign purchases of local real estate, it is almost logical that Seattle would follow a similar trajectory.
An excellent recent financial article in the Epoch Times further explains how the banking system drives up housing prices.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/...
Beginning in the first year of the 21st century, Seattle's local chamber of commerce, togethe
. . . since Google itself has actually acted in a moral fashion as regards refusing to give up the store to China, which Narus, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple have soooo willingly done so, ensuring the deaths and forced organ harvesting of too many Chinese individuals deemed to be enemies of the state due to their not following the CCP doctrine.
The dood whose Gates Foundation's Global Advisory Board originally read like a who's who of a criminal rogues gallery?
The dood whose Gates Foundation-funded, Oxitec (now owned by a hedge fund), released genetically engineered mosquitoes at each point there was a Zika explosion?
Hmmmmmmm . . . .