If you're on the public stage, it's all pretend. I've always find it interesting that people expect a politician to be the same in public as they are at home. I'm a different person on Slashdot than I am at the office than I am at home. To quote Shakespeare: "The entire world is a stage."
Democrat Senator Reid is the same way (but he is bat-shit crazy so I almost want to give him a pass.)
Reid had a valid point about Obama being biracial. If Obama's skin tone was jet black, it's very unlikely that he would have gotten elected POTUS. It's called colorism.
Slave-owners were partial to light-skinned slaves because they were often family members. Slave-owners frequently forced slave women into sexual intercourse, and light-skinned offspring were the telltale signs of these sexual assaults. While slave-owners did not officially recognize their mixed-race children as blood, they gave them privileges that dark-skinned slaves did not enjoy. Accordingly, light skin came to be viewed as an asset among the slave community.
Mind you, I don't begrudge her the right to follow Chairman Mao's philosophy as she is after all a liberal democrat and that's pretty much the party line.
I supposed that Trump keeping a copy of "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler on his nightstand would mean that everyone in the Republican Party are neo-Nazis and that's the alt-right party line.
The thing is that when Trump "praises" Putin by calling him a strong leader the DNC propaganda arm of NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN and The NYT all went ape shit. It's silly and stupid.
I disagree. Putin is a threat to the USA. Putin is the only person that Trump has ever respected and praise. It could be that Trump admires dictators who are able to get things done. As an old cold warrior, I find that suspicious as hell and the media isn't doing enough to expose it.
Quoting myself "Heck, the last KKK member that was in the senate was a democrat and the only reason he is out is because he died (Robert Byrd)."
Democratic Senator Robert Byrd renounced being a Klansman and became a respected member of the civil rights movement. Maybe you're thinking of former Democratic and Republican Senator Storm Thurmond who had a child with a black maid and never renounced segregation?
I started college with 30k in savings (in my late twenties).
If you're 25 or older, you're viewed as an adult student for financial aid purposes. The link below explains why parents and students shouldconvert cash into assets that won't count against financial aid for a non-adult student.
But sure, let's hold up Trump as the absolute peak of racism.
I wrote Trump administration, not Trump himself. His cabinet picks and followers are the peak of racism. As for Trump himself, his outreach to black people from safe white neighborhoods was too funny.
Even 25 years ago when I went, it was almost impossible to qualify for need-based aid if you had 2 parents working regular jobs.
I couldn't qualify for need-based aid because I lived with my parents and they contributed nothing to my college education in the 1990's. I spent my first year in college picking up bottles and cans to pay for classes and books. Later on I got a job at the bookstore warehouse and worked 30 hours a week to pay for my schooling and move into a frat house with 12 other guys.
what does that even mean? can you share this story you read?
If you have $30,000+ in savings, it will count against you for financial aid because you have money in the bank. If you spend that $30,000+ on an expensive car and then applied for financial aid, you will qualify for financial aid because you have nothing in the bank. Financial aid officers don't take the value of a car into consideration. I think I read that story in "One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School" by Scott Turow.
I read one story when applicants for the Harvard Law School buy expensive cars to make themselves look "poor" to qualify for financial aid. If you're attending the Harvard Law School and don't have an expensive car, you're doing it wrong. No wonder the U.S. is screwed up.
Disagree that for 200k he would unlock it for them. Fails the sniff test, and sounds like he screwed them on purpose.
I've worked at one company where management fired a long-term programmer responsible for a dial-up server. He refused to turn over the password until he got paid $250K. Management threatened to take him to court. But he had negotiated a clause in his contract to cover a situation like this. So the company paid him because it was cheaper than a lawsuit.
ALL sysadmins have thoughts of what they would do as "revenge" for getting fired.
Whenever I get let go on a contract, I never consider revenge. I feel sorry for that company letting go of one their best IT workers and look forward to the 40% raise at the next company.
I routinely wiped the PCs I've used before returning to an employer. Those PCs are reimaged anyway. The Fortune 500 companies I've worked for stored user data on the network, which I leave alone as my data is just spreadsheets that tracked my daily assignments.
Trying to find secret meanings in words just to support your theory is the epitome of dishonesty.
The statement you quoted is entirely factual. Republicans have used racial dog whistles ("Willie Horton!"), attacked the welfare state (but not corporate welfare) and leveraged resentment against affirmative action ("political correctness") for decades. The Trump administration will be no different.
The Republican creed: We must promote intersectional bullshit in order to foment racial and ethnic tensions, divide the population into groups all trying to out-victim the other, then use that to stay in power in collusion with banksters. To make sure that works, we must excoriate any member of a victim class who dares not to vote against their own interests.
There are more than a few Crony capitalists that were in the Obama cabinet. I'm more than positive that Hilliary's would have been loaded with them too.
Neither Obama nor Hillary ran on "draining the swamp" since everyone knew they were professional politicians. For Trump to turn around and fill the swamp with crony capitalists who have next to no experience with public office is being hypocritical. As one political commentator wrote, it's just changing the team shirts that the alligators wore.
Stone did work for Nixon in "the office of economic opportunity" whatever that was. He was 20 then so I doubt he was more than an errand boy.
He's the most blatant example. Trump has quoted Nixon: "If the president does it, it isn't illegal." Which is why the incoming Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress has a wholesale disregard to ethics. Forty years of post-Watergate reforms is being tossed aside. You don't have to wait to know that Trump administration will be the most corrupt since Nixon and Reagan.
As for Trump praising Putin, it's the same praise anyone heaps on an enemy.
How much does Trump owe the Russians? We don't know since Trump won't release his tax returns like every presidential candidate since Watergate.
many in Obama's cabinet worshiped Chairman Mao
Citation please? Warning: Anything from the right-wing echo chamber is fake news.
Trump, his family, and some of his cabinet picks have extensive contacts with Putin (former KGB agent). Putin is the only person that Trump respect and praises repeatedly in public.
Who is the former Nixon supporter?
The most blantent example would be the Trump adviser with the Nixon tattoo on his back, Roger Stone.
Google has these fancy toilets when I worked IT help desk ten years ago. On several occasions I had the double shock of my balls touching the ice cold water in the bowl and my ass catching on fire on the toilet seat at the same time.
I had a six-week contract to QA ebook titles on the Japanese hardware in the Summer 2005. Linux developers were in Japan, ebook conversion to HTML were in India, and my team of ten testers speed read 600 ebook titles for HTML issues in Silicon Valley. The Sony tax for having the Sony brand name prevented the device from being adopted widespread. Sony discontinued the device in 2014.
Although Sony no longer appears on my resume, I still get contacted by recruiters for jobs that require speaking fluent Japanese. I've worked for Japanese companies well enough to understand culture, and cleaned up Japan-to-English translations as a video game tester. I had to explain to a hiring manager who called from Tokyo that working at a Japanese companies doesn't mean I know how to speak fluent Japanese.
IT help desk in 2007-08 and data center in 2011. I had an interview in 2014 for kiting out the camera cars but I didn't make it to the second round of interviews. In 2011 and 2014, I only saw Apple laptops being used by the engineers.
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And pretend was all it was.
If you're on the public stage, it's all pretend. I've always find it interesting that people expect a politician to be the same in public as they are at home. I'm a different person on Slashdot than I am at the office than I am at home. To quote Shakespeare: "The entire world is a stage."
Democrat Senator Reid is the same way (but he is bat-shit crazy so I almost want to give him a pass.)
Reid had a valid point about Obama being biracial. If Obama's skin tone was jet black, it's very unlikely that he would have gotten elected POTUS. It's called colorism.
http://racerelations.about.com/od/understandingrac1/a/What-Is-Colorism.htm
Slave-owners were partial to light-skinned slaves because they were often family members. Slave-owners frequently forced slave women into sexual intercourse, and light-skinned offspring were the telltale signs of these sexual assaults. While slave-owners did not officially recognize their mixed-race children as blood, they gave them privileges that dark-skinned slaves did not enjoy. Accordingly, light skin came to be viewed as an asset among the slave community.
Mind you, I don't begrudge her the right to follow Chairman Mao's philosophy as she is after all a liberal democrat and that's pretty much the party line.
I supposed that Trump keeping a copy of "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler on his nightstand would mean that everyone in the Republican Party are neo-Nazis and that's the alt-right party line.
The thing is that when Trump "praises" Putin by calling him a strong leader the DNC propaganda arm of NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN and The NYT all went ape shit. It's silly and stupid.
I disagree. Putin is a threat to the USA. Putin is the only person that Trump has ever respected and praise. It could be that Trump admires dictators who are able to get things done. As an old cold warrior, I find that suspicious as hell and the media isn't doing enough to expose it.
Quoting myself "Heck, the last KKK member that was in the senate was a democrat and the only reason he is out is because he died (Robert Byrd)."
Democratic Senator Robert Byrd renounced being a Klansman and became a respected member of the civil rights movement. Maybe you're thinking of former Democratic and Republican Senator Storm Thurmond who had a child with a black maid and never renounced segregation?
I can't say I know anything about his cabinet, only the stances the (soon to be) president himself took.
As one political commentator wrote, the swamp alligators (cabinet picks) are changing team shirts from Obama to Trump and that's about it.
I started college with 30k in savings (in my late twenties).
If you're 25 or older, you're viewed as an adult student for financial aid purposes. The link below explains why parents and students shouldconvert cash into assets that won't count against financial aid for a non-adult student.
http://www.scholarshiphunter.com/getmorefinancialaid.html
But sure, let's hold up Trump as the absolute peak of racism.
I wrote Trump administration, not Trump himself. His cabinet picks and followers are the peak of racism. As for Trump himself, his outreach to black people from safe white neighborhoods was too funny.
Did you read the next sentence?
Your entire comment didn't make sense.
Even 25 years ago when I went, it was almost impossible to qualify for need-based aid if you had 2 parents working regular jobs.
I couldn't qualify for need-based aid because I lived with my parents and they contributed nothing to my college education in the 1990's. I spent my first year in college picking up bottles and cans to pay for classes and books. Later on I got a job at the bookstore warehouse and worked 30 hours a week to pay for my schooling and move into a frat house with 12 other guys.
what does that even mean? can you share this story you read?
If you have $30,000+ in savings, it will count against you for financial aid because you have money in the bank. If you spend that $30,000+ on an expensive car and then applied for financial aid, you will qualify for financial aid because you have nothing in the bank. Financial aid officers don't take the value of a car into consideration. I think I read that story in "One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School" by Scott Turow.
I read one story when applicants for the Harvard Law School buy expensive cars to make themselves look "poor" to qualify for financial aid. If you're attending the Harvard Law School and don't have an expensive car, you're doing it wrong. No wonder the U.S. is screwed up.
And so have Democrats.
Got any examples?
Disagree that for 200k he would unlock it for them. Fails the sniff test, and sounds like he screwed them on purpose.
I've worked at one company where management fired a long-term programmer responsible for a dial-up server. He refused to turn over the password until he got paid $250K. Management threatened to take him to court. But he had negotiated a clause in his contract to cover a situation like this. So the company paid him because it was cheaper than a lawsuit.
ALL sysadmins have thoughts of what they would do as "revenge" for getting fired.
Whenever I get let go on a contract, I never consider revenge. I feel sorry for that company letting go of one their best IT workers and look forward to the 40% raise at the next company.
[...] destroyed property(the data within) [...]
I routinely wiped the PCs I've used before returning to an employer. Those PCs are reimaged anyway. The Fortune 500 companies I've worked for stored user data on the network, which I leave alone as my data is just spreadsheets that tracked my daily assignments.
They got a default judgment on his merit of being an asshole, that's for sure.
If I wasn't an asshole, I would be working in IT.
Trying to find secret meanings in words just to support your theory is the epitome of dishonesty.
The statement you quoted is entirely factual. Republicans have used racial dog whistles ("Willie Horton!"), attacked the welfare state (but not corporate welfare) and leveraged resentment against affirmative action ("political correctness") for decades. The Trump administration will be no different.
Beaners are the janitors.
So are white guys who go to lunch at Taco Bell and come back to the office.
The Republican creed: We must promote intersectional bullshit in order to foment racial and ethnic tensions, divide the population into groups all trying to out-victim the other, then use that to stay in power in collusion with banksters. To make sure that works, we must excoriate any member of a victim class who dares not to vote against their own interests.
FTFY - AKA, The southern strategy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
There are more than a few Crony capitalists that were in the Obama cabinet. I'm more than positive that Hilliary's would have been loaded with them too.
Neither Obama nor Hillary ran on "draining the swamp" since everyone knew they were professional politicians. For Trump to turn around and fill the swamp with crony capitalists who have next to no experience with public office is being hypocritical. As one political commentator wrote, it's just changing the team shirts that the alligators wore.
Stone did work for Nixon in "the office of economic opportunity" whatever that was. He was 20 then so I doubt he was more than an errand boy.
He's the most blatant example. Trump has quoted Nixon: "If the president does it, it isn't illegal." Which is why the incoming Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress has a wholesale disregard to ethics. Forty years of post-Watergate reforms is being tossed aside. You don't have to wait to know that Trump administration will be the most corrupt since Nixon and Reagan.
As for Trump praising Putin, it's the same praise anyone heaps on an enemy.
How much does Trump owe the Russians? We don't know since Trump won't release his tax returns like every presidential candidate since Watergate.
many in Obama's cabinet worshiped Chairman Mao
Citation please? Warning: Anything from the right-wing echo chamber is fake news.
I'm not sure war with Russia is a good idea.
War with China is most likely.
Who is the "KGB" sympathizer?
Trump, his family, and some of his cabinet picks have extensive contacts with Putin (former KGB agent). Putin is the only person that Trump respect and praises repeatedly in public.
Who is the former Nixon supporter?
The most blantent example would be the Trump adviser with the Nixon tattoo on his back, Roger Stone.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-dirty-trickster
Crony capitalist is so inclusive as to be meaningless.
Most of Trump's cabinet picks, the millionaires and billionaires.
Google has these fancy toilets when I worked IT help desk ten years ago. On several occasions I had the double shock of my balls touching the ice cold water in the bowl and my ass catching on fire on the toilet seat at the same time.
The fact that Trump surrounded himself with former Nixon supporters, KGB sympathizers, and crony capitalists is no joke.
2006: Sony releases the Sony Reader for $600 USD.
I had a six-week contract to QA ebook titles on the Japanese hardware in the Summer 2005. Linux developers were in Japan, ebook conversion to HTML were in India, and my team of ten testers speed read 600 ebook titles for HTML issues in Silicon Valley. The Sony tax for having the Sony brand name prevented the device from being adopted widespread. Sony discontinued the device in 2014.
Although Sony no longer appears on my resume, I still get contacted by recruiters for jobs that require speaking fluent Japanese. I've worked for Japanese companies well enough to understand culture, and cleaned up Japan-to-English translations as a video game tester. I had to explain to a hiring manager who called from Tokyo that working at a Japanese companies doesn't mean I know how to speak fluent Japanese.
Maybe you worked for a different Google?
IT help desk in 2007-08 and data center in 2011. I had an interview in 2014 for kiting out the camera cars but I didn't make it to the second round of interviews. In 2011 and 2014, I only saw Apple laptops being used by the engineers.
Why would it be a problem?
Trump.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314693-trump-puts-pressure-on-gop-congress
See how Bush the second got reelected after some of the most catastrophic policy decisions in the last fifty years.
George W. has been out of office for eight years. Time to let go and move on.