Some us are tired of the constant whining showing up in these technical treads.
Slashdot exists to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for a script to finish running at work. Thank you for your participation.
At least stick your bitch'n to the political topics.
The topic is coal. Nothing is more political than King Coal is in America. Especially since so many coal miners believe that Trump will bring back millions of lost jobs for a dying — and unprofitable — industry.
Time to make the best of the situation and work to make it a better place.
But you need people to constantly remind Trump — and the Republicans riding the hems of his pants — memento mori ("remember that you have to die").
Memento mori ("remember that you have to die") is a Latin expression, originating from a practice common in Ancient Rome; as a general came back victorious from a battle, and during his parade ("Triumph") received compliments and honors from the crowd of citizens, he ran the risk of falling victim to haughtiness and delusions of grandeur; to avoid it, a slave stationed behind him would say "Respice post te. Hominem te memento" ( "Look after you [to the time after your death] and remember you're [only] a man.").
In the end, you violated your principles and still lost anyway.
That's why I changed my registration from Republican to Democratic last year. Not only did the GOP fielded the weakest candidates for president, they nominated someone who is neither a conservative nor a Republican. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, "I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me."
All the Dems were doing were offering them welfare and some worthless "retraing" program.
George W. signed a $3,000 tax credit for adults to retrain for a different career after 9/11. I went back to community college to learn computer programming on that tax credit while working 60 hours a week as a video game tester. After I graduated with 4.0 GPA in my major, I went in IT support and pay more in taxes than I would if I haven't changed careers. I guess a retraining program isn't worthless if a Republican signs it into law.
Instead of coming off like an idiot why don't you bother to look at the situation logically?
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here.
Trump is a businessman.
He's an epic failure of a businessman, running fast enough to stay ahead of his disasters. What kind of moron sets up three casinos to compete with each other in the same city, loses a billion dollar in a growing economy, and brags about screwing over everyone in involved?
So instead of whining like this why not just do it right?
The only way Trump is going to restore millions of coal miner jobs is to bomb this solar and wind installations out of existence. Coal can't exist with cheaper alternatives. Damn free market capitalism!
And you should know that I call you a retard not as an insult, but as an observation.
No offense taken. I was in Special Ed classes for eight years due to an undiagnosed hearing lost. Every time I blew out the annual evaluation on the genius side, it was called a statistical fluke.
First off, the housing bubble can be directly tied to Clinton policies that led to the "no income loans".
If blaming Clinton floats your boat, I don't have a problem with that.
No one made you take out credit.
I made payments on my credit cards for 18 months while unemployed until my bankruptcy attorney told me to stop paying. I filed for bankruptcy because I ran out of cash in my savings account. If I have stopped paying my credit cards early on, I could have exited bankruptcy with $8,000 in cash.
No one made you be an employee who is always at risk of loosing their employment.
I got laid off from my help desk job because the client told my company that they wanted twice performance for half the cost. Eight years later, the client is still telling whatever help desk company that got the contract to double the performance for half the cost. No one is happy with the help desk at that client. Many of the long time employees that I knew there are long gone.
So all you are is someone who lacks and takes.
I was the top three performer in ticket volume with a 98.8% SLA rating in my department. My supervisor had this mistaken belief that by laying off his top performer instead of his bottom five employees he was protecting everyone's jobs. Didn't work out that way. Eventually, he got canned too. Ironically, he let me picked my own day to leave and I picked Friday the 13th, February 2009.
Now why the hell are you are the internet during company time?
Of course we have to be so fucking politically correct here.
I've noticed that you gave Wall Street a free pass here. Can't blame the brokerage firms for knowingly creating fraudulent securities. Can't blame the stock analysts for grading every POS security as AAA. Can't blame the banks for advertising liar loans to minorities that they damn well knew couldn't afford them. Never Wall Street's fault for nearly killing the economy in the pursuit of illicit profits.
Unemployment is down only because the labor participation rate is down
Let me guess... 92 million Americans are out of work. A number that haven't changed since 2014 or so. Now that Trump will be in office, I expect that number to disappear.
And so on. If we've been in a "recovery" it's been incredibly weak compared to all other recoveries.
My late father was a Great Depression baby, having grown up in the 30's and 40's. He thought the Great Recession was the Great Depression II. It took the economy 25 years to recover from the Great Depression. We're entering Year 8 of the Great Recession recovery. I don't expect things to be normal for another decade or two.
Due to the debt, there's not enough spare fuel for a strong stimulus such that things could get unpleasant for the new administration.
Existing debt plus baby boomers retiring in en masse is going to limit economic activity for the time being. Trump wants to go full throttle when the feds are pinching the fuel line at the same time. That should be interesting.
Ah, Chelsea will run for something in the near future, she has no other marketable skills so might as well ride Bill's coattails into a political career.
Twenty years from now, sure. She'll run against George P. Bush.
how exactly would that be "doing the right thing"? Please explain yourself on how or why that would be right
Trump was never serious about being president, as he never expected to get the nomination. His lack of knowledge of how the government works is appalling. The electoral college should replace him. If they don't, it's going to be a rough four years.
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And they are going to get us to honor our debt how exactly?
Like everything else China does, dumping U.S. debt into the open market.
3. The one holding U.S. debt.
Return our toys or Trump will whine about it on Twitter.
Some us are tired of the constant whining showing up in these technical treads.
Slashdot exists to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for a script to finish running at work. Thank you for your participation.
At least stick your bitch'n to the political topics.
The topic is coal. Nothing is more political than King Coal is in America. Especially since so many coal miners believe that Trump will bring back millions of lost jobs for a dying — and unprofitable — industry.
Its over, Trump won.
The Electoral College haven't voted yet.
Time to make the best of the situation and work to make it a better place.
But you need people to constantly remind Trump — and the Republicans riding the hems of his pants — memento mori ("remember that you have to die").
Memento mori ("remember that you have to die") is a Latin expression, originating from a practice common in Ancient Rome; as a general came back victorious from a battle, and during his parade ("Triumph") received compliments and honors from the crowd of citizens, he ran the risk of falling victim to haughtiness and delusions of grandeur; to avoid it, a slave stationed behind him would say "Respice post te. Hominem te memento" ( "Look after you [to the time after your death] and remember you're [only] a man.").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
Let me guess, by "moderate conservative" you mean "Pro-Choice", "Amnesty for Illegal Aliens" and "Ban 'Assault Weapons'", right?
Reagan Democrat — fiscally conservative, socially liberal.
In the end, you violated your principles and still lost anyway.
That's why I changed my registration from Republican to Democratic last year. Not only did the GOP fielded the weakest candidates for president, they nominated someone who is neither a conservative nor a Republican. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, "I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me."
So this is the real crux of the matter... who you voted for didn't win so you're going to resort to hyperbole and insults to "prove" your point?
What "hyperbole and insults" are you referring to? What point do you think I'm trying to "prove"?
Any promises from him are worthless.
Unless you're a member of The Friends of Putin Club.
All the Dems were doing were offering them welfare and some worthless "retraing" program.
George W. signed a $3,000 tax credit for adults to retrain for a different career after 9/11. I went back to community college to learn computer programming on that tax credit while working 60 hours a week as a video game tester. After I graduated with 4.0 GPA in my major, I went in IT support and pay more in taxes than I would if I haven't changed careers. I guess a retraining program isn't worthless if a Republican signs it into law.
Trump promises jobs. Wall Street jobs.
FTFY
Not necessarily coal jobs.
Tell that to the coal miners.
Instead of coming off like an idiot why don't you bother to look at the situation logically?
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here.
Trump is a businessman.
He's an epic failure of a businessman, running fast enough to stay ahead of his disasters. What kind of moron sets up three casinos to compete with each other in the same city, loses a billion dollar in a growing economy, and brags about screwing over everyone in involved?
So instead of whining like this why not just do it right?
As a moderate conservative, I voted for Hillary.
The only way Trump is going to restore millions of coal miner jobs is to bomb this solar and wind installations out of existence. Coal can't exist with cheaper alternatives. Damn free market capitalism!
But when retards like you post bullshit that didn't happen, google is not going to give us any hits, so we're wind up wasting our time.
That's funny. I found the link I was looking for. Enjoy!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58802-2004May26.html
And you should know that I call you a retard not as an insult, but as an observation.
No offense taken. I was in Special Ed classes for eight years due to an undiagnosed hearing lost. Every time I blew out the annual evaluation on the genius side, it was called a statistical fluke.
It's a shell game, designed to push a narrative of "happy days are here again!"
If that was true, why did the Obama administration waited until December to announced that the unemployment rate dropped from 4.9% to 4.6%?
So because those politically opposed to him saying he wasn't serious - he wasn't serious?
I think Trump wanted a gig of Fox News. He got consolation prize instead.
First off, the housing bubble can be directly tied to Clinton policies that led to the "no income loans".
If blaming Clinton floats your boat, I don't have a problem with that.
No one made you take out credit.
I made payments on my credit cards for 18 months while unemployed until my bankruptcy attorney told me to stop paying. I filed for bankruptcy because I ran out of cash in my savings account. If I have stopped paying my credit cards early on, I could have exited bankruptcy with $8,000 in cash.
No one made you be an employee who is always at risk of loosing their employment.
I got laid off from my help desk job because the client told my company that they wanted twice performance for half the cost. Eight years later, the client is still telling whatever help desk company that got the contract to double the performance for half the cost. No one is happy with the help desk at that client. Many of the long time employees that I knew there are long gone.
So all you are is someone who lacks and takes.
I was the top three performer in ticket volume with a 98.8% SLA rating in my department. My supervisor had this mistaken belief that by laying off his top performer instead of his bottom five employees he was protecting everyone's jobs. Didn't work out that way. Eventually, he got canned too. Ironically, he let me picked my own day to leave and I picked Friday the 13th, February 2009.
Now why the hell are you are the internet during company time?
I'm waiting for a script to finish.
The first lesson was not good enough for you?
What lesson would that be?
Of course we have to be so fucking politically correct here.
I've noticed that you gave Wall Street a free pass here. Can't blame the brokerage firms for knowingly creating fraudulent securities. Can't blame the stock analysts for grading every POS security as AAA. Can't blame the banks for advertising liar loans to minorities that they damn well knew couldn't afford them. Never Wall Street's fault for nearly killing the economy in the pursuit of illicit profits.
You know that - how?
From the lame stream media that gave him $2B+ in free coverage.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/03/28/Ex-Trump-Insider-Donald-Doesn-t-Want-Be-President
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-moore-donald-trump-never-wanted-to-be-president-w434840
He certainly ran hard and pushed hard to win the nomination.
All he did was show up, insult everyone and made promises that he can't keep.
Unemployment is down only because the labor participation rate is down
Let me guess... 92 million Americans are out of work. A number that haven't changed since 2014 or so. Now that Trump will be in office, I expect that number to disappear.
And so on. If we've been in a "recovery" it's been incredibly weak compared to all other recoveries.
My late father was a Great Depression baby, having grown up in the 30's and 40's. He thought the Great Recession was the Great Depression II. It took the economy 25 years to recover from the Great Depression. We're entering Year 8 of the Great Recession recovery. I don't expect things to be normal for another decade or two.
The stock market took off like a rocket in the 20s, too... right before it crashed and caused the great depression.
That was the last time before the 2014 elections that the Republicans had a majority in the House.
It's funny how liberals want to embrace fascism so much.
Are you blind? The Republicans are embracing Putin.
Besides, why do you think Republicans would install Hillary?
Because Trump represents the end of the Republican Party. He's one of the reasons why I left the GOP over a year ago.
Due to the debt, there's not enough spare fuel for a strong stimulus such that things could get unpleasant for the new administration.
Existing debt plus baby boomers retiring in en masse is going to limit economic activity for the time being. Trump wants to go full throttle when the feds are pinching the fuel line at the same time. That should be interesting.
Ah, Chelsea will run for something in the near future, she has no other marketable skills so might as well ride Bill's coattails into a political career.
Twenty years from now, sure. She'll run against George P. Bush.
how exactly would that be "doing the right thing"? Please explain yourself on how or why that would be right
Trump was never serious about being president, as he never expected to get the nomination. His lack of knowledge of how the government works is appalling. The electoral college should replace him. If they don't, it's going to be a rough four years.
The "great recession" was a worldwide phenomenon.
I blame Alan Greenspan for that one.
Overdue?
The economy moves in cycles. The up cycle under Obama is seven years old and the longest since World War II. What goes up must come down eventually.
http://fortune.com/2015/12/07/why-americas-big-banks-are-predicting-a-recession/
Were you expecting a recession under Obama?
Yes. Or the next administration. Depending on when this economic cycle peters out.
Or will this next recession also be caused by Bush?
I hate to break the news but Bush has been out of office for nearly eight years. It's time to move on.