That is actually less true than you think. Many people work, hard, even though they don't need to. But while there will always be work to be done, we need to transition away from thinking that everyone needs to work: there are many people who should be paid *not* to work.
Socialism is not necessarily the coordination of all economic activity by a centralized national state. It is the end of the artificial distinction between political citizenship (where we have rights, and everyone is equal) and economic function (where you have no real rights except the "right" to compete, and we are not equal.) This artificial distinction was useful for a time, but I believe it has outlived its usefulness.
The problem is there hasn't been a "true" socialism" movement.
You don't want to have communism or the crappy socialism we've had up till now? Easy, stop making it so whomevers in charge, has no one to answer to.
We have to put check and balances in, and make it so everyone has someone to report to. No lifelong Senate positions, no lifelong government positions. Everyone does there part.
The problem is, with most government, is there are loopholes for people to stay in power. That will change.
But of course, the problem is, people are greedy and would rather let the world go to hell instead of actually change to make it better.
In this case, yes, it absolutely was. The riots were caused because a sports team lost a game.
If you want to riot, riot over something that matters.
Well, the sport team losing was the straw the broke the camels back, but what got these people so riled up in their life that they felt it was okay to riot and destroy stuff?
I'm just glad my grandfather who fought against this kind of shit in WWII isn't around to witness this shit. WTH has happened to this country?
The way i see it is this:
In the late 60's we had the hippies that were going to change the world.
In the 80's though they decided to sell their hippy beliefs for the yuppie way. yep, they are so brained dead from the 60's that they thought "trick down economics" was a smart decision.
and well now, we got the lame fucks that let greed rule, when they gave the corporations more power, and totally changed what America was about.
And the same fucks that were hippies, that used to protest vietnam war, are suddenly okay with us spending shit loads of money we don't have, in other wars in parts of the world.
So yes, my parents generation sucks shit, fucked up, and are still fucked in the head because they can't stand on their morals and sold our souls to the corporations.
Which is sad, seeing as the hippies/yuppies/shitheads, were your grandfathers kids.
Now its up to us to fix things, and well, bitch slapping our parents generation is the first start.
...Seems an old pentium or x386 would be more useful in their current state and cheaper as well (free). I'm not discrediting the whole idea but I think their grandiose vision is a bit off.
Is your old pentium and 386 small enough for fit in your hand? How small of a power supply you going to use for the 386?
Oh, wait. We have an item here, thats more powerful, very small and can connect to modern things.
While I'm sure you can't think of anything useful (which was apparent by your post), a lot of us can see the potential in this item.
When will people realize, when you decline to purchase a game due to restrictive DRM, opting instead to pirate it, you are hurting other gamers. Your decision to pirate the game, rather than not play it at all, contributes to the justification for these companies to come up with even more intrusive DRM, to combat the "rampant" piracy of their titles. As long as piracy occurs on any title, those studios will blame sales shortfalls on piracy. Not the ever decreasing length, or quality, of the their games. Not the decision to kill dedicated servers, cap player limits, or release slapped together console-ports. Not the required third-party multiplayer platforms (GFWL, Gamespy, etc.).
They see things in one context: If there be pirates, there be demand, we just need more DRM.
Quit towing the company line.
Piracy doesn't hurt shit.
Piracy of video games have been around since video games have been around. You don't believe me? My first video games, for the TRS-80, no one paid for, we shared them amounst ourselves. My C64, same. etc.
Guess what? Most of the same publishers are still around, making their profits over the years, like they have been.
Studies show that pirates tend to buy more media then non pirates, but those keep getting repressed because it goes against what the companies want you to believe.
It isn't about piracy, it's about the companies feel that they should be getting money from everything. It's called greed. It's what is the current style of companies that dont' want to inovate, they just want to make money.
For example, I pirate. I pirate a lot of stuff. New movies, music, games. Guess what? None of that stuff i download, I would ever pay money for. None of it. The stuff I do, i go and buy. You'll find EA games that i paid for, why? Because I enjoy the Need For Speed games (well, some of them) and I support EA by purchasing the games I like.
I downloaded Need For Speed Shift. While it was an okay game, it's not my style. So I'm not buying it. Did my download of the game rob EA from a sale? No. Because I will never buy with out trying, and if they didn't put a demo out, then i would never get to try it, and would never buy it.
If you can't understand this is just corporate greed, let me bust a recent example. Second Hand games. See, the industry doesn't like them, because they get no money from them. Which is how it's been for a long time (cars, music, houses, etc.) once you sell something you own, you aren't entitled to any money from future sales. yet the game industry wants all money, from any sales of games, to go to their pocket, even which they already got paid the first time.
It's called greed, and it's big in the music, movies and game industry currently.
It's also one of the big sins, if your one of those religious freaks.
I know so many people who used to pirate music before music became DRM-free..../p>
WTF are you talking about?
What you are saying there, is that music used to not be DRM free, and people would still pirate it.
Here's a clue for ya stupid.
Music was DRM free in the beginning. It wasn't until the last 10 years that shitbrains started to put DRM on music, because they were finding that CD's provided exact copies of the songs, unlike recording a LP or Cassette tape. Then with the advent of iTunes, we started getting a lot of DRM on some online music.
But there was always sources for the same music without DRM on it.
So are you like 14 years old and think that music started with iTunes?
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The whole 1080p thing has obliterated decent computer monitor resolutions. I don't give a rat's buttock about TVs and BluRays and home theater setups and all that crap, but the faster the mainstream media tech goes beyond 1080p, the faster I can have cheap high resolution computer monitors again.
1080 is low resolution garbage when it comes to desktop displays.
wah, wah wah.
go buy yourself a fucking huge ass CRT then that takes up more room then probably your desktop.
or maybe, use your fucking brain (doubt this will happen) and use a couple or more lcd monitors together to make a bigger screen. Ya, i know, you are probably way too stupid to think of something like that. So instead, lets bitch about the current monitors because, shit, i might get karma for it.
Not to mention those monitors you are talking about cost well over $500, because they weren't that common. While yes, at the end, they started making more monitors like that, they are usually on screen smaller then my fucking 1080p LCD monitor, yet the whole monitor takes up more room then everything else combined.
And while you might bitch, I still own a CRT that can do high res. Yet i keep it for when i want to run stuff in lower then 1080p because that stuff looks better on a crt, then trying to do biggers screeens on the crt.
I'm starting to think some of this monitor bitching is just peeps equivilent of "Get off my lawn".
Just for the record. I also have like 3 Commodore monitors of yesteryear. (1972, 1080, 1084). Why? Because unlike you feeling it's best to bitch about what was good in the past, i actually kept some of that stuff, because I knew old stuff isn't going to work on the new stuff as well. Which is smart, because my PS2 looks like crap on my 1080p HDTV, but the games look great on my Commodore monitor.
The point is, what you remember isn't as good as it was, and there isn't any thing wrong with the new LCD's that you can figure out how to overcome. That is, if you had a brain.
As soon as they get rid of the guys pulling 30 to 100 gig a month there will be some bandwidth for the rest of us.
Yes, we would all like a 3g network that could be used like a cable modem, but the the fact of the matter is that wireless is more constrained for bandwidth than wireline, and even wireline is getting caps.
...
Um, no. You are buying towing the company line there.
First off, there isn't a wired problem. Well, there is, as in the ISP don't bother installing more lines for peeps. Don't bother upgrading peeps connections, etc, and are over subscribing their lines, all for their bottom line.
Now with wireless, we have the same problem. the co's don't want to spend money upgrading their stuff to run with demand of what they are selling, so they are making it seem like it's the customers fault, or some of the customers fault, which the truth is, the company over subscribed what they could handle and are way too cheap to fix that.
The recent riot in Vancouver is an excellent example of this. The police probably caught a good hundred people directly thanks to social media. Maybe they would have found most of those people by other means.. but they basically had the worst offenders all identified within hours thanks to social media.
... Suddenly the nutritional information on the back of a pepperoni wrapper is vitally important.
If we can't understand what the nutritional information of the back of any food really says, i'm pretty sure the archaeologist is going to have trouble also.
If you use Adblock and Noscript, it is nearly impossible to get infected. Why that functionality is not in every browser and enabled by default I simply don't understand.
I have good enough karma with Slashdot that I'm given the option to disable ads. I don't. Why? Because ads fund Slashdot and keep it free. If ad blockers were on by default most of the sites people like and use would go out of business.
That is stupid. Ad revenue is by clicks, not by showing it.
I'm hardly going to debate the ethics or constitutionality or whatever of this, because to the following, it's irrelevant:
If you care about your privacy that much, why are you willingly carrying around a device that's transmitting your position with little or no encryption to everyone who wants to see it? If you want to secure your network, do you leave an open WAP transmitting its SSID as widely as possible? This isn't someone planting a tracking device. This is you shouting loudly to everyone that you're here, and then complaining when someone takes note.
um, ya, don't you see all the peeps bitching about the wifi info google gathered? bunch of stupid ass consumers out there.
You all act like if google did something bad. They didn't. They collected data is you and me are streaming out there.
Anyone can do this. ANYONE.
The government, a foreign government, mcdonalds, the homeless dude across the street you give quarters to.
You don't want peeps to know where you are at? Don't use fucking wireless.
If you use wireless, shut the fuck up, and grow a set, and join us in reality.
If you don't want your wifi going outside your house? Either don't use it, or leadline your house.
The reality is, anyone can read the data out there. Accept that, and plan around that. Encrypt your shit, turn off wifi when your not using it, or whatever, but quit throwing a fit because people can get your wifi also.
This is how life is now. Google didn't do anything wrong, at all. If anyone did, it was you for using wireless.
Actually it's not similar, it's way worse. Apple cached information about the user location on the user's terminal, for performance purposes (although it wasn't stored in the safest way possible). Google grabbed this info from the street, without asking permission, and used that information for business purpose (and not a very fair one, see the Skyhook vs. Google lawsuit). Plus, the notion that a company can collect data “accidentally” is laughable, especially considering the process in which it was acquired.
You don't want anyone picking up your wireless? Don't use one.
.... Get rid of social security and watch how fast it plunges the US into mass poverty as the elderly suddenly can't pay any of their bills.
No, they cut of SS, then they've already cut welfare and disablity off. What you are going to get an a big increase in crime, and a lot of pissed off people with nothing better to do.
And the poor already out number the rich, by huge amounts. You want to risk walking down the street when there's going to be pissed off people who feel they having nothing to lose anymore?
Shit, even in jail they'd get fed and shelter, so even getting caught for crimes would be better.
You don't hold the poor, the elderly, and the disabled as hostages (bargaining chips), because it pisses off the masses. And yes, the masses are made of that poor. And the poor peeps parents are getting SS, which you just cut off.
If they are this stupid, i can't wait to see what August 7th is like, after almost a week of rioting.
To be pedantic: No US president did that. FDR signed an order allowing the military to create exclusion zones. Race wasn't mentioned. It is critically important to remember that, because of it's far wider implications then an order to inter X people. Had race been specified, it never would have stood against the supreme court.
It was General DeWitts order that interred the Japanese.
IT can be argues that the Nihau incident was the tipping point from a military perspective, and fueled by the farmers of CA desire to rid the Japanese from farming.
So, let me get this right.
The President is the man. (or women, maybe in the future). The one in charge.
So this General DeWitts, decided to put all the Japanese American Citizens, into camps, and the president didn't know?
So either FDR sucked as a president (arguable) and didn't really know what was going on, or your trying to say someone did it without his knowledge?
I'll tell ya what happen. The president was all for it, but didn't want to sign his name on, so they picked a general to take one for the team.
In fact, they were good at making generals or even admirals targets for crap that the president/congress/peeps in charge screwed up on. Like Admiral Kimmel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husband_E._Kimmel
Sorry, but FDR not only knew, he gave it his okay.
... Japan attacked the US because the FDR administration would not budge on their efforts to coordinate sanctions against Japan for their activities in China, which were indeed heinous crimes against humanity. Would you rather the US did nothing? Should we have continued to trade with and supply a nation known to be committing a wanton genocide?....
USA knew Japan was going to attacking Pearl Harbor. It got us into the war that FDR wanted.
Not really unlike how 9/11 got us to do all the crap Bush and hit butt buddies wanted.
Some people think it might be concidence, but it's not.
This is how politics are done when you want to do something that the people may not agree with.
People bitch and moan about how "rich people" and corporations have their money locked up and are not hiring, yet when they engage in commerce with that very same money, purchasing high end goods that end up paying for many, many salaries, they are demonized by this POS POTUS.
While I agree with most your post, the section i quote i don't agree with.
People are out of jobs because all the rich people are tightening their wallets and firing people and not hiring people.
A corporation decides to lay off 1000's of peeps so they can still make profits for the share holder. Problem is, those 1000's of laid off peeps? They aren't working, so they aren't going to be able to spend much money on the economy.
So yes, all these business that laid people off and aren't highering, are causing the problem. And seeing that most corporations are owned by just the small percentage of rich people, it's fucking shit up.
When shit hits the fan, laying off most the workforce, or even a percentage, is going to affect everyone else. When you have lots and lots of companies doing this, you get a fuck up recession.
And why did this happen? Because of greedy rich bankers who wanted to get better bonuses, even though it tanked the economy, and what did they get? Bailed the fuck out.
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First off, hometown don't mean shit.
I didn't get assigned my SSN in my hometown, i was across the country at the time.
In fact, i've had local pigs claim i was giving them a fake SSN back when i would get hassled more (when i was a junkie).
Of course, the average IQ of the local police is like 12 or something.
But whatever.
The other weird part is, most peeps I grew up with, don't live here anymore. So once again, what does hometown have to do with shit?
for the emotional stress they cause me.
But seriously, what's better (or smarter) then firefox with noscript & adblock plus?
That is actually less true than you think. Many people work, hard, even though they don't need to. But while there will always be work to be done, we need to transition away from thinking that everyone needs to work: there are many people who should be paid *not* to work.
Socialism is not necessarily the coordination of all economic activity by a centralized national state. It is the end of the artificial distinction between political citizenship (where we have rights, and everyone is equal) and economic function (where you have no real rights except the "right" to compete, and we are not equal.) This artificial distinction was useful for a time, but I believe it has outlived its usefulness.
The problem is there hasn't been a "true" socialism" movement.
You don't want to have communism or the crappy socialism we've had up till now? Easy, stop making it so whomevers in charge, has no one to answer to.
We have to put check and balances in, and make it so everyone has someone to report to. No lifelong Senate positions, no lifelong government positions. Everyone does there part.
The problem is, with most government, is there are loopholes for people to stay in power. That will change.
But of course, the problem is, people are greedy and would rather let the world go to hell instead of actually change to make it better.
In this case, yes, it absolutely was. The riots were caused because a sports team lost a game.
If you want to riot, riot over something that matters.
Well, the sport team losing was the straw the broke the camels back, but what got these people so riled up in their life that they felt it was okay to riot and destroy stuff?
What could go wrong with this?
surely not starting the zombie invasion.
I'm just glad my grandfather who fought against this kind of shit in WWII isn't around to witness this shit. WTH has happened to this country?
The way i see it is this:
In the late 60's we had the hippies that were going to change the world.
In the 80's though they decided to sell their hippy beliefs for the yuppie way. yep, they are so brained dead from the 60's that they thought "trick down economics" was a smart decision.
and well now, we got the lame fucks that let greed rule, when they gave the corporations more power, and totally changed what America was about.
And the same fucks that were hippies, that used to protest vietnam war, are suddenly okay with us spending shit loads of money we don't have, in other wars in parts of the world.
So yes, my parents generation sucks shit, fucked up, and are still fucked in the head because they can't stand on their morals and sold our souls to the corporations.
Which is sad, seeing as the hippies/yuppies/shitheads, were your grandfathers kids.
Now its up to us to fix things, and well, bitch slapping our parents generation is the first start.
It only took them 57 horses getting stolen before they decided to lock the barn door.
good job! way to keep on top of things.
...Seems an old pentium or x386 would be more useful in their current state and cheaper as well (free). I'm not discrediting the whole idea but I think their grandiose vision is a bit off.
Is your old pentium and 386 small enough for fit in your hand? How small of a power supply you going to use for the 386?
Oh, wait. We have an item here, thats more powerful, very small and can connect to modern things.
While I'm sure you can't think of anything useful (which was apparent by your post), a lot of us can see the potential in this item.
... how come i never run into it?
I run across everything on the internet.
Pirated software, music, games.
We got government leaks, banks emails, etc.
We got dogs fucking chicks, dudes fucking ducks, 2girls1cup, and we even had a black hole of an anus.
I'm offered a done of spam, but none of them ever has been related to child porn.
so I ask, where is this child porn that is so bad on the internet, that we need laws made using it as an excuse?
oh, here we can find them, on the peeps in charge:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20011494-38.html
http://www.uaff.us/pentagon_workers_tied_to_child_porn.htm
http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/07/child-pornography-found-on-assistant-u-s-attorney%E2%80%99s-computer/
I think the only problem with child porn is in the government.
When will people realize, when you decline to purchase a game due to restrictive DRM, opting instead to pirate it, you are hurting other gamers. Your decision to pirate the game, rather than not play it at all, contributes to the justification for these companies to come up with even more intrusive DRM, to combat the "rampant" piracy of their titles. As long as piracy occurs on any title, those studios will blame sales shortfalls on piracy. Not the ever decreasing length, or quality, of the their games. Not the decision to kill dedicated servers, cap player limits, or release slapped together console-ports. Not the required third-party multiplayer platforms (GFWL, Gamespy, etc.).
They see things in one context: If there be pirates, there be demand, we just need more DRM.
Quit towing the company line.
Piracy doesn't hurt shit.
Piracy of video games have been around since video games have been around. You don't believe me? My first video games, for the TRS-80, no one paid for, we shared them amounst ourselves.
My C64, same.
etc.
Guess what? Most of the same publishers are still around, making their profits over the years, like they have been.
Studies show that pirates tend to buy more media then non pirates, but those keep getting repressed because it goes against what the companies want you to believe.
It isn't about piracy, it's about the companies feel that they should be getting money from everything. It's called greed. It's what is the current style of companies that dont' want to inovate, they just want to make money.
For example, I pirate. I pirate a lot of stuff. New movies, music, games. Guess what? None of that stuff i download, I would ever pay money for. None of it. The stuff I do, i go and buy. You'll find EA games that i paid for, why? Because I enjoy the Need For Speed games (well, some of them) and I support EA by purchasing the games I like.
I downloaded Need For Speed Shift. While it was an okay game, it's not my style. So I'm not buying it. Did my download of the game rob EA from a sale? No. Because I will never buy with out trying, and if they didn't put a demo out, then i would never get to try it, and would never buy it.
If you can't understand this is just corporate greed, let me bust a recent example. Second Hand games. See, the industry doesn't like them, because they get no money from them. Which is how it's been for a long time (cars, music, houses, etc.) once you sell something you own, you aren't entitled to any money from future sales. yet the game industry wants all money, from any sales of games, to go to their pocket, even which they already got paid the first time.
It's called greed, and it's big in the music, movies and game industry currently.
It's also one of the big sins, if your one of those religious freaks.
I know so many people who used to pirate music before music became DRM-free. .../p>
WTF are you talking about?
What you are saying there, is that music used to not be DRM free, and people would still pirate it.
Here's a clue for ya stupid.
Music was DRM free in the beginning. It wasn't until the last 10 years that shitbrains started to put DRM on music, because they were finding that CD's provided exact copies of the songs, unlike recording a LP or Cassette tape. Then with the advent of iTunes, we started getting a lot of DRM on some online music.
But there was always sources for the same music without DRM on it.
So are you like 14 years old and think that music started with iTunes?
The whole 1080p thing has obliterated decent computer monitor resolutions. I don't give a rat's buttock about TVs and BluRays and home theater setups and all that crap, but the faster the mainstream media tech goes beyond 1080p, the faster I can have cheap high resolution computer monitors again.
1080 is low resolution garbage when it comes to desktop displays.
wah, wah wah.
go buy yourself a fucking huge ass CRT then that takes up more room then probably your desktop.
or maybe, use your fucking brain (doubt this will happen) and use a couple or more lcd monitors together to make a bigger screen. Ya, i know, you are probably way too stupid to think of something like that. So instead, lets bitch about the current monitors because, shit, i might get karma for it.
Not to mention those monitors you are talking about cost well over $500, because they weren't that common. While yes, at the end, they started making more monitors like that, they are usually on screen smaller then my fucking 1080p LCD monitor, yet the whole monitor takes up more room then everything else combined.
And while you might bitch, I still own a CRT that can do high res. Yet i keep it for when i want to run stuff in lower then 1080p because that stuff looks better on a crt, then trying to do biggers screeens on the crt.
I'm starting to think some of this monitor bitching is just peeps equivilent of "Get off my lawn".
Just for the record. I also have like 3 Commodore monitors of yesteryear. (1972, 1080, 1084). Why? Because unlike you feeling it's best to bitch about what was good in the past, i actually kept some of that stuff, because I knew old stuff isn't going to work on the new stuff as well.
Which is smart, because my PS2 looks like crap on my 1080p HDTV, but the games look great on my Commodore monitor.
The point is, what you remember isn't as good as it was, and there isn't any thing wrong with the new LCD's that you can figure out how to overcome. That is, if you had a brain.
No, they are making it better.
As soon as they get rid of the guys pulling 30 to 100 gig a month there will be some bandwidth for the rest of us.
Yes, we would all like a 3g network that could be used like a cable modem, but the the fact of the matter is that
wireless is more constrained for bandwidth than wireline, and even wireline is getting caps.
...
Um, no. You are buying towing the company line there.
First off, there isn't a wired problem. Well, there is, as in the ISP don't bother installing more lines for peeps. Don't bother upgrading peeps connections, etc, and are over subscribing their lines, all for their bottom line.
Now with wireless, we have the same problem. the co's don't want to spend money upgrading their stuff to run with demand of what they are selling, so they are making it seem like it's the customers fault, or some of the customers fault, which the truth is, the company over subscribed what they could handle and are way too cheap to fix that.
The recent riot in Vancouver is an excellent example of this. The police probably caught a good hundred people directly thanks to social media. Maybe they would have found most of those people by other means.. but they basically had the worst offenders all identified within hours thanks to social media.
You say that like rioting is a bad thing.
... Suddenly the nutritional information on the back of a pepperoni wrapper is vitally important.
If we can't understand what the nutritional information of the back of any food really says, i'm pretty sure the archaeologist is going to have trouble also.
Anyways, real pizza doesn't come from a store.
If you use Adblock and Noscript, it is nearly impossible to get infected. Why that functionality is not in every browser and enabled by default I simply don't understand.
I have good enough karma with Slashdot that I'm given the option to disable ads. I don't. Why? Because ads fund Slashdot and keep it free. If ad blockers were on by default most of the sites people like and use would go out of business.
That is stupid. Ad revenue is by clicks, not by showing it.
I'm hardly going to debate the ethics or constitutionality or whatever of this, because to the following, it's irrelevant:
If you care about your privacy that much, why are you willingly carrying around a device that's transmitting your position with little or no encryption to everyone who wants to see it? If you want to secure your network, do you leave an open WAP transmitting its SSID as widely as possible? This isn't someone planting a tracking device. This is you shouting loudly to everyone that you're here, and then complaining when someone takes note.
um, ya, don't you see all the peeps bitching about the wifi info google gathered? bunch of stupid ass consumers out there.
You all act like if google did something bad. They didn't. They collected data is you and me are streaming out there.
Anyone can do this. ANYONE.
The government, a foreign government, mcdonalds, the homeless dude across the street you give quarters to.
You don't want peeps to know where you are at? Don't use fucking wireless.
If you use wireless, shut the fuck up, and grow a set, and join us in reality.
If you don't want your wifi going outside your house? Either don't use it, or leadline your house.
The reality is, anyone can read the data out there. Accept that, and plan around that. Encrypt your shit, turn off wifi when your not using it, or whatever, but quit throwing a fit because people can get your wifi also.
This is how life is now. Google didn't do anything wrong, at all. If anyone did, it was you for using wireless.
Actually it's not similar, it's way worse. Apple cached information about the user location on the user's terminal, for performance purposes (although it wasn't stored in the safest way possible). Google grabbed this info from the street, without asking permission, and used that information for business purpose (and not a very fair one, see the Skyhook vs. Google lawsuit). Plus, the notion that a company can collect data “accidentally” is laughable, especially considering the process in which it was acquired.
You don't want anyone picking up your wireless? Don't use one.
fucking wankers
.... Get rid of social security and watch how fast it plunges the US into mass poverty as the elderly suddenly can't pay any of their bills.
No, they cut of SS, then they've already cut welfare and disablity off. What you are going to get an a big increase in crime, and a lot of pissed off people with nothing better to do.
And the poor already out number the rich, by huge amounts. You want to risk walking down the street when there's going to be pissed off people who feel they having nothing to lose anymore?
Shit, even in jail they'd get fed and shelter, so even getting caught for crimes would be better.
You don't hold the poor, the elderly, and the disabled as hostages (bargaining chips), because it pisses off the masses. And yes, the masses are made of that poor. And the poor peeps parents are getting SS, which you just cut off.
If they are this stupid, i can't wait to see what August 7th is like, after almost a week of rioting.
To be pedantic: No US president did that. FDR signed an order allowing the military to create exclusion zones. Race wasn't mentioned. It is critically important to remember that, because of it's far wider implications then an order to inter X people. Had race been specified, it never would have stood against the supreme court.
It was General DeWitts order that interred the Japanese.
IT can be argues that the Nihau incident was the tipping point from a military perspective, and fueled by the farmers of CA desire to rid the Japanese from farming.
So, let me get this right.
The President is the man. (or women, maybe in the future). The one in charge.
So this General DeWitts, decided to put all the Japanese American Citizens, into camps, and the president didn't know?
So either FDR sucked as a president (arguable) and didn't really know what was going on, or your trying to say someone did it without his knowledge?
I'll tell ya what happen. The president was all for it, but didn't want to sign his name on, so they picked a general to take one for the team.
In fact, they were good at making generals or even admirals targets for crap that the president/congress/peeps in charge screwed up on. Like Admiral Kimmel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husband_E._Kimmel
Sorry, but FDR not only knew, he gave it his okay.
... Japan attacked the US because the FDR administration would not budge on their efforts to coordinate sanctions against Japan for their activities in China, which were indeed heinous crimes against humanity. Would you rather the US did nothing? Should we have continued to trade with and supply a nation known to be committing a wanton genocide? ....
USA knew Japan was going to attacking Pearl Harbor. It got us into the war that FDR wanted.
Not really unlike how 9/11 got us to do all the crap Bush and hit butt buddies wanted.
Some people think it might be concidence, but it's not.
This is how politics are done when you want to do something that the people may not agree with.
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People bitch and moan about how "rich people" and corporations have their money locked up and are not hiring, yet when they engage in commerce with that very same money, purchasing high end goods that end up paying for many, many salaries, they are demonized by this POS POTUS.
While I agree with most your post, the section i quote i don't agree with.
People are out of jobs because all the rich people are tightening their wallets and firing people and not hiring people.
A corporation decides to lay off 1000's of peeps so they can still make profits for the share holder. Problem is, those 1000's of laid off peeps? They aren't working, so they aren't going to be able to spend much money on the economy.
So yes, all these business that laid people off and aren't highering, are causing the problem. And seeing that most corporations are owned by just the small percentage of rich people, it's fucking shit up.
When shit hits the fan, laying off most the workforce, or even a percentage, is going to affect everyone else. When you have lots and lots of companies doing this, you get a fuck up recession.
And why did this happen? Because of greedy rich bankers who wanted to get better bonuses, even though it tanked the economy, and what did they get? Bailed the fuck out.
What do I get? My disability being threatened.
If you don't like it, don't use it.
I don't. and damn, life hasn't changed for me.