These state workers paid into their pension accounts over the course of their careers; they have reduced their lifetime earnings by dozens of thousands of dollars to fund their pensions. The state is responsible for providing matching funds for their pensions, but only rarely has actually paid up fully. Teachers and social workers are funding their own "cushy" retirements. Or at least they're trying to, but their funds keep getting stolen by lawmakers.
Exactly. American unions have been unable to effectively strike because almost all common forms of strike activity and solidarity are illegal. It is illegal to refuse to manufacture with scab materials. It is illegal to strike without authorization from national union leadership who have been bought off by the company in question. It is illegal to organize a general strike. Unions in America can't even enforce actual picket lines -- they can merely stand around outside asking nicely for scabs to respect their right to decent livelihoods. Due to these restrictions, many which were passed into law by the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, the constant demonization of unions in the corporate-owned media, and how less than 5% of the private workforce and 7% of the public workforce are unionized, these worker's organs are completely powerless. And yet, many Americans are compelled to work 10 to 12 hours a day through several different jobs just to feed their families, never mind trying to pay for health care. Restaurants workers, for example, are almost entirely non-union and -- surprise -- restaurants jobs often pay less than minimum wage and flagrantly violate workplace safety laws. I've had friends suffer 2nd degree burns over both arms, who were forced to continue their 6 hour shifts in the kitchen under threat of losing their jobs and being blacklisted by other local managers. The absence of workers' organizations, not to mention *effective* workers' organizations, across broad swaths of the American workforce causes dozens of millions of poor Americans to languish in economic deprivation, thus also in medical, educational, social, and political deprivation.
I went to the Illinois state-run brainiac school (IMSA) upon which Daley is dreaming -- let me tell you, this is not the model that will help Chicago's education program. These elite schools spend exorbitantly on a small crop of students, giving them (myself included) a fucking awesome education while students who didn't make the cut are stuck in the ineffectual morass of public high schools.
To really solve Chicago's education problem, you have to prioritize the schools that cater to the very worst students; it makes no sense to spend more money on students who are already succeeding.
Who would have guessed that individual circumstances play an important role in success? It certainly had never occurred to me that who you know matters more than what you know.
It sounds like you need to do some reading on the Progressive movement as you are completely ignorant about its history. Progressivism is most noted for its popularity in the early 20th century.
'Progressives" inherently back progress. Throughout the past century progressives have been fighting to bring social justice, equality, and higher standards of living to people who were being exploited without restriction by large businesses and the rich.
The increase in American's standard of living is a testament to the labor movement, the women's right's movement, and the civil rights movement, all of which were part of the progressive movement. Before the progressive movement started, the benefits of industrialization were enjoyed only by a very small minority, the super-wealthy capitalists. Progressives spread these to the workers.
No, modern responsible government has high overhead and taxation is necessary. I want to give states leashes to control the federal government. Also, to make states more prominent in politics. I think removing direct election of senators would make the federal government less autonomous.
The writer's strike is about writers wanting a cut of the industry's profit from the internet. They don't get any money from internet sales, and they want that to change. The strike has nothing to do with piracy; in fact, the strike shows that piracy doesn't matter at all, because there's lots of dough to be pocketed from internet sales.
Our plans for municipal wifi through AT&T just fell through, too. All of these muni-wifi plans biting the dust at just about the same time seems a little suspicious.
State and local governments rely on Excel for financial management nationwide. I work in a financial unit of my state's department of child services, and if our Excel sheets were to calculate incorrectly there could be extremely inconvenient problems that could result in deaths through neglect.
From what I was told of that era, segregation was huge and popular, especially in the North. White Only signs attracted customers because it was not social suicide to be openly racist.
I'm pretty fucking sure that some asshole's usage of swear-words in speech is a poor indicator of his articulation. While there may be vast hosts of half-dumb fuckwads who utter profanities in place of descriptive verbs and nouns to the extent that the substance of their speech is devoid of value (that is to say, not worth its own weight in shit), there indeed exist some fellows who indulge in these verbalizations but do not lose the ability to participate in a exchange of ideas. I'll be damned if my appreciation for vulgarities hampers the expression of my thoughts.
You sir are confused. These glasses would enhance the psychedelic experience rather than compete with it, regardless of randomize functions. I would hope, however, that each lens could be individually manipulated.
> "School officials do not generally have control over what students do outside of school,"
Who wrote this and when was the last time they were inside a school? In the past several years, nationwide it has been reaffirmed that schools can punish kids for whatever the school wants. Smoked something over the weekend? That's the school's business. Made fun of your teacher on MySpace from your home computer? That's the school's business again. School officials do have control of students outside of school, and increasingly have sweeping powers that are rarely even contested.
If public money funds research, it is unthinkable that the public should be forbidden to review the product of their contributions. Even things that GWB would label 'threats to national security'; the government exists to facilitate public interest, not to manipulate us like pawns. We have a right to know what is going on, and in the case of research, there is little, if any, defense provided in saying that information is simply too dangerous for normal people to know.
While this is no doubt what a thorough shake-down would resolve, such a shake-down has not yet occured and Sealand's sovereignty has not been disputed during its decades of existence. Additionally, Sealand claims that certain interactions it has undertaken with other nations constitute de facto international recognition. Until the UK gets pissed and tries to take out the tiny nation, your bold declarations are legally baseless. Remember, at the time of Sealand's proclamation of independence, the British maritime claim did not include the platform.
But while I vouch for Sealand, I'm not willing to put my wallet or freedom on the line in its name.
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These state workers paid into their pension accounts over the course of their careers; they have reduced their lifetime earnings by dozens of thousands of dollars to fund their pensions. The state is responsible for providing matching funds for their pensions, but only rarely has actually paid up fully. Teachers and social workers are funding their own "cushy" retirements. Or at least they're trying to, but their funds keep getting stolen by lawmakers.
So when will facebook stop censoring the web in the US? For example, links to strikes and other labor rights activities are regularly blocked.
Exactly. American unions have been unable to effectively strike because almost all common forms of strike activity and solidarity are illegal. It is illegal to refuse to manufacture with scab materials. It is illegal to strike without authorization from national union leadership who have been bought off by the company in question. It is illegal to organize a general strike. Unions in America can't even enforce actual picket lines -- they can merely stand around outside asking nicely for scabs to respect their right to decent livelihoods. Due to these restrictions, many which were passed into law by the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, the constant demonization of unions in the corporate-owned media, and how less than 5% of the private workforce and 7% of the public workforce are unionized, these worker's organs are completely powerless. And yet, many Americans are compelled to work 10 to 12 hours a day through several different jobs just to feed their families, never mind trying to pay for health care. Restaurants workers, for example, are almost entirely non-union and -- surprise -- restaurants jobs often pay less than minimum wage and flagrantly violate workplace safety laws. I've had friends suffer 2nd degree burns over both arms, who were forced to continue their 6 hour shifts in the kitchen under threat of losing their jobs and being blacklisted by other local managers. The absence of workers' organizations, not to mention *effective* workers' organizations, across broad swaths of the American workforce causes dozens of millions of poor Americans to languish in economic deprivation, thus also in medical, educational, social, and political deprivation.
I went to the Illinois state-run brainiac school (IMSA) upon which Daley is dreaming -- let me tell you, this is not the model that will help Chicago's education program. These elite schools spend exorbitantly on a small crop of students, giving them (myself included) a fucking awesome education while students who didn't make the cut are stuck in the ineffectual morass of public high schools.
To really solve Chicago's education problem, you have to prioritize the schools that cater to the very worst students; it makes no sense to spend more money on students who are already succeeding.
Curious; when I have javascript enabled (NoScript off) I'm only 1 in 6000 but it gives me unique when it's disabled.
Who would have guessed that individual circumstances play an important role in success? It certainly had never occurred to me that who you know matters more than what you know.
now I resume wasting hours of my life where I left off nearly a decade ago
you're probably better off encrypting your emails yourself instead of allowing a third party to convince you that they have encrypted it.
It sounds like you need to do some reading on the Progressive movement as you are completely ignorant about its history. Progressivism is most noted for its popularity in the early 20th century.
'Progressives" inherently back progress. Throughout the past century progressives have been fighting to bring social justice, equality, and higher standards of living to people who were being exploited without restriction by large businesses and the rich.
The increase in American's standard of living is a testament to the labor movement, the women's right's movement, and the civil rights movement, all of which were part of the progressive movement. Before the progressive movement started, the benefits of industrialization were enjoyed only by a very small minority, the super-wealthy capitalists. Progressives spread these to the workers.
...the algorithm wasn't 'better' enough.
No, modern responsible government has high overhead and taxation is necessary. I want to give states leashes to control the federal government. Also, to make states more prominent in politics. I think removing direct election of senators would make the federal government less autonomous.
You should end the war on consumers before you start talking about how it was a mistake.
The writer's strike is about writers wanting a cut of the industry's profit from the internet. They don't get any money from internet sales, and they want that to change. The strike has nothing to do with piracy; in fact, the strike shows that piracy doesn't matter at all, because there's lots of dough to be pocketed from internet sales.
Our plans for municipal wifi through AT&T just fell through, too. All of these muni-wifi plans biting the dust at just about the same time seems a little suspicious.
It is the improved stellarator design that is new; stellarators have been around for decades.
Drugs are actually still popular, and have been all along.
State and local governments rely on Excel for financial management nationwide. I work in a financial unit of my state's department of child services, and if our Excel sheets were to calculate incorrectly there could be extremely inconvenient problems that could result in deaths through neglect.
From what I was told of that era, segregation was huge and popular, especially in the North. White Only signs attracted customers because it was not social suicide to be openly racist.
I'm pretty fucking sure that some asshole's usage of swear-words in speech is a poor indicator of his articulation. While there may be vast hosts of half-dumb fuckwads who utter profanities in place of descriptive verbs and nouns to the extent that the substance of their speech is devoid of value (that is to say, not worth its own weight in shit), there indeed exist some fellows who indulge in these verbalizations but do not lose the ability to participate in a exchange of ideas. I'll be damned if my appreciation for vulgarities hampers the expression of my thoughts.
That said, raise your kids however you wish.
...joked. Then hastily looked over his shoulder and shuddered.
You sir are confused. These glasses would enhance the psychedelic experience rather than compete with it, regardless of randomize functions. I would hope, however, that each lens could be individually manipulated.
> "School officials do not generally have control over what students do outside of school,"
Who wrote this and when was the last time they were inside a school? In the past several years, nationwide it has been reaffirmed that schools can punish kids for whatever the school wants. Smoked something over the weekend? That's the school's business. Made fun of your teacher on MySpace from your home computer? That's the school's business again. School officials do have control of students outside of school, and increasingly have sweeping powers that are rarely even contested.
If public money funds research, it is unthinkable that the public should be forbidden to review the product of their contributions. Even things that GWB would label 'threats to national security'; the government exists to facilitate public interest, not to manipulate us like pawns. We have a right to know what is going on, and in the case of research, there is little, if any, defense provided in saying that information is simply too dangerous for normal people to know.
While this is no doubt what a thorough shake-down would resolve, such a shake-down has not yet occured and Sealand's sovereignty has not been disputed during its decades of existence. Additionally, Sealand claims that certain interactions it has undertaken with other nations constitute de facto international recognition. Until the UK gets pissed and tries to take out the tiny nation, your bold declarations are legally baseless. Remember, at the time of Sealand's proclamation of independence, the British maritime claim did not include the platform.
But while I vouch for Sealand, I'm not willing to put my wallet or freedom on the line in its name.