This isn't about "multiculturalism", nobody cares what nationality, color or religion they are. This is about keeping wages low. This is what it is always about. Cost and profit are what corporations do, they have no concept of anything else.
No more H1Bs, slavery was abolished a long time ago. If corporations truly cannot find qualified citizens (and I think they define that as capabilities/$), then I would allow them to sponsor a certain number of people for green cards. If avg. wages dropped the next year, I would not allow them to sponsor any at all. Then I would say anyone here on H1B may either apply for a green card, or serve the rest of his sentence and return home, but there would be no more H1Bs.
If this is truly about labor shortage, this process would work fine. But we know there's plenty of people out there who can do the job who are under/un-employed.
I bet this doesn't hold up in court. Just wait for someone to unlock the phone, get in trouble, and escalate up to the supreme court.
The DMCA's teeth have always primarily been about threats and take-down. Actually having this aspect of it put on trial would destroy that, so no company would risk it. All this stops are small businesses who unlock phones for people for a fee, without paying whatever dues are required to the carrier monopoly.
If a kid with down's syndrome comes up and punches you in the face, you don't beat the shit out of him in response. You gain nothing by such a hollow victory, and you cause more trouble for yourself than you solved.
That's ok, nobody did, because TFA is actually by an artist referencing that old paper, but he's really showing time lapses of dying plants. I been trolled.
No I'm a liberal nutcase, and have no problems paying my taxes. I've accepted the fact that I am going to work until the day I die, and that is in everyone else's best interest. I work hard to get a somewhat bigger share of the pie than the clown next to me who 9 to 5's it and takes 3 hour lunch breaks. I don't have much sympathy for the wealthy who think they've "worked hard" and should get to retire early and live on their pile of money. Spend it or pay it, but nobody gets to rest on his laurels, especially these magic "job creators" who feel they're better then everyone else. They should be working twice as hard!
That said, in order to be productive, and produce for the society I live in, I do need to have a job that pays money to keep me in food, housing, medicine etc. That is difficult if we've created a system that forces companies to take their money and squirrel it in trees rather than put it to work (or pay it to Caesar). It also makes it difficult for our alleged capitalism to work, if I have worked hard, developed strong technical skills, and can demand a high salary, if the company would rather hire a sea of overseas idiots to do the job poorer, but net positive on the books because of huge tax loopholes.
Taxing a company doesn't sound at all like the right solution to any problem. If company profits are going to shareholders without being taxed properly, work on that.
"Sin" is already taxed at the state and local level. There is perhaps some untaxed "sin" out there, or perhaps our definition of "sin" is a little too new age-spiritualism and needs to be more hard core roman catholic, and should include ALL forms of hedonism (video games, movies, magazines, any any other form of entertainment).
I'm not advocating a restructuring of taxes as we know it. Just removing a tax that, as you say, is counter productive. Taxes are always regressive, and that's why we tax the wealthy by % more than we tax the poor. The law upholds an individuals right to tax avoidance, the wealthy have more capacity for tax avoidance, so we have to compensate, because at the end of the day, ends must meet and thus we must arm wrestle each other as to where the burden should lie.
But taxing something that is actively hurting everyone is insane. The rich don't benefit from these shenanigans, although it hurts them less than it hurts the guy who lost his job because his company invested overseas money overseas to avoid a higher tax burden in his own country. Unemployment means lost productivity, which macro-economic bullshit aside, is what REALLY matters.. So it hurts everyone, and it should change. However say it and the rich fear we'll come gunning for them again and the poor will think they're having to pay more in taxes (that they already pay, indirectly), in reality both will get taxes but perhaps both will be more prosperous such that the tax hurts less.
So we can't do good because we're afraid. I think that's a sin too, maybe we should tax the tax.
Better idea don't tax companies, tax people. I don't know who thought taxing companies was a good idea, I haven't heard a single reason why we should be doing it and all it does is worsen an already terrifying labor region issue.
Taxing companies SOUNDS like a tax on the rich, but it's really a tax on everyone: people that pay for the tax via sales, and then people who pay for higher income taxes due to the need to fund various benefits that tie in to unemployment (including unemployment itself, but also some of the other social services that the unemployed may use that those with jobs may not).
I view management as cogs too, they are fairly interchangeable, and on their own worthless. Put them all together in a bag and you get a percussion instrument. Percussion instruments are essential to music, and you can bang on them with sticks or mallets.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I've found that if your wife isn't in to games (or wants to play games "differently" than you do) and you try to make her, bad things happen.
Put it this way, maybe she agrees to play a couple hours a week with you, then asks you to go shopping a couple hours of week with her. Are you happy? I'm not, I still hate shopping, I put items i need on a list, I head straight to the aisle with them, score. Then 1 hour and 59 minutes of waiting around pretending to be interested.
Of course if she LIKES games, so much the better...but you can't make someone like something.
They also pointed out that the lines in the book are deliberately constructed for impact. Facebook is full of a bunch of disposable bon mots.
I don't think this is all that interesting of a discovery, one liners are always easy to remember, and frequently become redeployed out of context and occasionally in direct opposition to their intent.
I'm amazed it worked, after having pulled my 3rd all nighter supporting our cheap chinese labor (who I had no choice on) and their absolutely brain-dead retarded mistakes, I question that someone wouldn't have figured out that this was happening.
Because it's more bullshit than symbolic. You do as they want you to do, the clock moves further from midnight. You do what they don't want and/or ignore their issues, and they move it closer.
How close we really are to doomsday is not measured here, there's no accurate and unbiased measure of things as diverse and unrelated as nuclear proliferation and climate change, there can't be. If there was we'd ride that sucker like the fiscal cliff, right up to the very last second for DECADES. It seems like we're much further away though than when I was a kid (and my parents would say they felt mere seconds away). Our problems right now seem far more practical such that if we do not solve them, then nuclear war or resource exhaustion become far more likely scenarios.
Seems more like "if this offends you, don't go there", since you neither have to ask nor be told to know what's going on there.
If there is no need to rub the GLBT issue in people's faces, why do it? If you ask me this is the reason places like California still do not have gay marriage. You can't make people change their minds, you arrange it so that they don't have to until it's too late.
I agree for stories, movies, etc. But I'm not sure it's a bad thing for corporations to be able to trademark their name, a logo and a limited number of other things to distinguish themselves. If I want an Apple product, I do not want some taiwanese shitshop selling me their "Apple", I want an Apple.
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This isn't about "multiculturalism", nobody cares what nationality, color or religion they are. This is about keeping wages low. This is what it is always about. Cost and profit are what corporations do, they have no concept of anything else.
No more H1Bs, slavery was abolished a long time ago. If corporations truly cannot find qualified citizens (and I think they define that as capabilities/$), then I would allow them to sponsor a certain number of people for green cards. If avg. wages dropped the next year, I would not allow them to sponsor any at all. Then I would say anyone here on H1B may either apply for a green card, or serve the rest of his sentence and return home, but there would be no more H1Bs.
If this is truly about labor shortage, this process would work fine. But we know there's plenty of people out there who can do the job who are under/un-employed.
I bet this doesn't hold up in court. Just wait for someone to unlock the phone, get in trouble, and escalate up to the supreme court.
The DMCA's teeth have always primarily been about threats and take-down. Actually having this aspect of it put on trial would destroy that, so no company would risk it. All this stops are small businesses who unlock phones for people for a fee, without paying whatever dues are required to the carrier monopoly.
Let go your conscious self and act on instinct. Feel the brown matter flow through you.
SOME people even think it's poison!
Some of us liberals are against gun control. Be careful where you point that thing.
Luke, Leia and Han are supercool heroes from a galaxy far, far away. And boy are they full of angst.
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They surely know that we can.
If a kid with down's syndrome comes up and punches you in the face, you don't beat the shit out of him in response. You gain nothing by such a hollow victory, and you cause more trouble for yourself than you solved.
That's ok, nobody did, because TFA is actually by an artist referencing that old paper, but he's really showing time lapses of dying plants. I been trolled.
No I'm a liberal nutcase, and have no problems paying my taxes. I've accepted the fact that I am going to work until the day I die, and that is in everyone else's best interest. I work hard to get a somewhat bigger share of the pie than the clown next to me who 9 to 5's it and takes 3 hour lunch breaks. I don't have much sympathy for the wealthy who think they've "worked hard" and should get to retire early and live on their pile of money. Spend it or pay it, but nobody gets to rest on his laurels, especially these magic "job creators" who feel they're better then everyone else. They should be working twice as hard!
That said, in order to be productive, and produce for the society I live in, I do need to have a job that pays money to keep me in food, housing, medicine etc. That is difficult if we've created a system that forces companies to take their money and squirrel it in trees rather than put it to work (or pay it to Caesar). It also makes it difficult for our alleged capitalism to work, if I have worked hard, developed strong technical skills, and can demand a high salary, if the company would rather hire a sea of overseas idiots to do the job poorer, but net positive on the books because of huge tax loopholes.
Taxing a company doesn't sound at all like the right solution to any problem. If company profits are going to shareholders without being taxed properly, work on that.
"Sin" is already taxed at the state and local level. There is perhaps some untaxed "sin" out there, or perhaps our definition of "sin" is a little too new age-spiritualism and needs to be more hard core roman catholic, and should include ALL forms of hedonism (video games, movies, magazines, any any other form of entertainment).
I'm not advocating a restructuring of taxes as we know it. Just removing a tax that, as you say, is counter productive. Taxes are always regressive, and that's why we tax the wealthy by % more than we tax the poor. The law upholds an individuals right to tax avoidance, the wealthy have more capacity for tax avoidance, so we have to compensate, because at the end of the day, ends must meet and thus we must arm wrestle each other as to where the burden should lie.
But taxing something that is actively hurting everyone is insane. The rich don't benefit from these shenanigans, although it hurts them less than it hurts the guy who lost his job because his company invested overseas money overseas to avoid a higher tax burden in his own country. Unemployment means lost productivity, which macro-economic bullshit aside, is what REALLY matters.. So it hurts everyone, and it should change. However say it and the rich fear we'll come gunning for them again and the poor will think they're having to pay more in taxes (that they already pay, indirectly), in reality both will get taxes but perhaps both will be more prosperous such that the tax hurts less.
So we can't do good because we're afraid. I think that's a sin too, maybe we should tax the tax.
Better idea don't tax companies, tax people. I don't know who thought taxing companies was a good idea, I haven't heard a single reason why we should be doing it and all it does is worsen an already terrifying labor region issue.
Taxing companies SOUNDS like a tax on the rich, but it's really a tax on everyone: people that pay for the tax via sales, and then people who pay for higher income taxes due to the need to fund various benefits that tie in to unemployment (including unemployment itself, but also some of the other social services that the unemployed may use that those with jobs may not).
I view management as cogs too, they are fairly interchangeable, and on their own worthless. Put them all together in a bag and you get a percussion instrument. Percussion instruments are essential to music, and you can bang on them with sticks or mallets.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I've found that if your wife isn't in to games (or wants to play games "differently" than you do) and you try to make her, bad things happen.
Put it this way, maybe she agrees to play a couple hours a week with you, then asks you to go shopping a couple hours of week with her. Are you happy? I'm not, I still hate shopping, I put items i need on a list, I head straight to the aisle with them, score. Then 1 hour and 59 minutes of waiting around pretending to be interested.
Of course if she LIKES games, so much the better...but you can't make someone like something.
Like many whores, they charge extra to get it in both ends.
They also pointed out that the lines in the book are deliberately constructed for impact. Facebook is full of a bunch of disposable bon mots.
I don't think this is all that interesting of a discovery, one liners are always easy to remember, and frequently become redeployed out of context and occasionally in direct opposition to their intent.
I'm amazed it worked, after having pulled my 3rd all nighter supporting our cheap chinese labor (who I had no choice on) and their absolutely brain-dead retarded mistakes, I question that someone wouldn't have figured out that this was happening.
Because it's more bullshit than symbolic. You do as they want you to do, the clock moves further from midnight. You do what they don't want and/or ignore their issues, and they move it closer.
How close we really are to doomsday is not measured here, there's no accurate and unbiased measure of things as diverse and unrelated as nuclear proliferation and climate change, there can't be. If there was we'd ride that sucker like the fiscal cliff, right up to the very last second for DECADES. It seems like we're much further away though than when I was a kid (and my parents would say they felt mere seconds away). Our problems right now seem far more practical such that if we do not solve them, then nuclear war or resource exhaustion become far more likely scenarios.
Seems more like "if this offends you, don't go there", since you neither have to ask nor be told to know what's going on there.
If there is no need to rub the GLBT issue in people's faces, why do it? If you ask me this is the reason places like California still do not have gay marriage. You can't make people change their minds, you arrange it so that they don't have to until it's too late.
Yeah I don't think we're getting fat on Broccoli. Maybe if it can suck the ranch dressing or cheese off the broccoli we can call it a deal.
I agree for stories, movies, etc. But I'm not sure it's a bad thing for corporations to be able to trademark their name, a logo and a limited number of other things to distinguish themselves. If I want an Apple product, I do not want some taiwanese shitshop selling me their "Apple", I want an Apple.
One thing we can agree on in union vs. non-union debates, is that it's always management's fault.
The best reason is that the vendor has chosen not to release the video you want in a streaming format, or is delaying it arbitrarily, etc.
And unlimited usually means well over 4 billion, but telco's have a different understanding of numbers than the rest of us.
And it's social! Like AIDS!