If that was true and a Democratic victory is inevitable, why doesn't Mr. Moskovitz save his money?
Because taking the election for granted is the quickest way to lose the election. Mitt Romney was supposed to win the 2012 election. Everyone told him so. He even went to so far as not to write a concession speech. But Obama won the election with 51% of the vote, becoming the first president since Eisenhower to win consecutive elections with 51% of the vote. As Obama demonstrated twice in a row, getting out the vote operations is money well spent and extremely effective at winning elections.
But it sure looks to be a close horse race this time around.
It's not even a horserace according to the electoral college map. Hillary's going to win. She may not win the popular vote, but she will win the electoral college vote in a landslide. Trump can win only if he wins Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Florida can go either way. No Republican has ever won the White House without Ohio. The last time Pennsylvania went Republican was in 1988. If he lose one of these states, it's game over.
The history US schools do teach, is also biased to seem patriotic to the point of straight wrong.
The history book I had in the early 1980's ended just before Watergate and President Nixon's resignation. The instructors made no attempt to explain what happened since then. I had to go to college to learn about the history they don't teach in public schools.
I am no fan of Facebook and their communist leanings, but do people really think it's Zuckerberg sitting at his desk clicking a "nix" button on these things?
According to my Jewish friends, Zuckerberg personally nixes all pro-Israel posts and approves all anti-Israel posts.
The rich people moving in are as Liberal as the traditional Libs that have always graced that city. And being surrounded by the likes of Oakland, Berkeley & Santa Cruz, that's not likely to change
The new rich people moving into San Francisco are more conservative than the old liberals, pushing the poor and middle class out of the city. The not too rich people are moving into Oakland and Berkeley, making those places less liberal than before. If the SF Bay Area was still a true liberal bastion, out of state Republicans wouldn't be fundraising here.
Depends on where you fall on the political spectrum. Some people would regard "Made in USA" as cronyism because the work would benefit unionized workers who typically vote for the Democrats and not Republicans.
Yes, but this is in character with CA politicians. Recently when the Bay Bridge was constructed they used Chinese steel.
If the CA politicians put in a "Made in USA" provision into the contract and it cost the project more money, you would be complaining about crony capitalism.
This was likely a factor in the decision: the minimum wage is $13/hour and will be $15/hour by 2018.
Never mind that those kind of IT jobs are typically $25+ per hour.
When something is more expensive, less of it gets bought. When it costs more to hire people, jobs start to go away.
That's funny. So many hipsters want to live and work in San Francisco, recruiters are offering higher pay rates ($35+ per hour) to get people to work in southern half of Silicon Valley (San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale).
Healthcare IT is badly funded and there's never enough money to do anything interesting.
I did a PC refresh project at a local hospital in Silicon Valley a few years ago. All the old Dell workstations with Windows XP got replaced with new Dell workstations with Windows XP. The new hardware was needed to deploy Windows 7 virtual machines in the near future (should be available now). Whenever someone logs into a workstation, their Win7 VM is downloaded from the network and run locally.
There is absolutely no task that is better done by an outsourcer than your own employees.
The contracting agency I worked for has everything outsourced, as there is an app for everything. Headquarters in New York City has six full-time employees who manages 120+ contractors across the country.
However, the idea of making the iPhone water- and dust-resistant seems like an interesting concept.
Each iPhone has water-sensitive stripes to indicate water damage. But these are stripes are so sensitive that they change color if someone across the street spits into the gutter. Hence, the need for water-resistance.
You mean the asshat CEO of a Fortune 500 company who got a 60% raise for having a lousy fiscal year and implemented a 10% layoff that put me out of work for eight months?
Dude, you gotta look for something better, like, I don't know, being a professional poker player or HVAC or something. Sheet metal work pays good and you don't have to deal with Microsoft products.
I'm making easy money as it is with Microsoft products. Meanwhile, I can focus on alternative streams of income that will eventually replace my IT job.
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If that was true and a Democratic victory is inevitable, why doesn't Mr. Moskovitz save his money?
Because taking the election for granted is the quickest way to lose the election. Mitt Romney was supposed to win the 2012 election. Everyone told him so. He even went to so far as not to write a concession speech. But Obama won the election with 51% of the vote, becoming the first president since Eisenhower to win consecutive elections with 51% of the vote. As Obama demonstrated twice in a row, getting out the vote operations is money well spent and extremely effective at winning elections.
But it sure looks to be a close horse race this time around.
It's not even a horserace according to the electoral college map. Hillary's going to win. She may not win the popular vote, but she will win the electoral college vote in a landslide. Trump can win only if he wins Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Florida can go either way. No Republican has ever won the White House without Ohio. The last time Pennsylvania went Republican was in 1988. If he lose one of these states, it's game over.
[...] Trump represents the majority of Americans [...]
Citation please?
Would that be your Jewish friends with the tinfoil yamakas by any chance?
Tinfoil Yakamas, no. Tinfoil underwear, yes.
What kind of name is Zuckerberg anyway?
Zuckerberg Name Meaning Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of German Zucker 'sugar' + Berg 'mountain', 'hill'.
http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=zuckerberg
The history US schools do teach, is also biased to seem patriotic to the point of straight wrong.
The history book I had in the early 1980's ended just before Watergate and President Nixon's resignation. The instructors made no attempt to explain what happened since then. I had to go to college to learn about the history they don't teach in public schools.
I am no fan of Facebook and their communist leanings, but do people really think it's Zuckerberg sitting at his desk clicking a "nix" button on these things?
According to my Jewish friends, Zuckerberg personally nixes all pro-Israel posts and approves all anti-Israel posts.
The rich people moving in are as Liberal as the traditional Libs that have always graced that city. And being surrounded by the likes of Oakland, Berkeley & Santa Cruz, that's not likely to change
The new rich people moving into San Francisco are more conservative than the old liberals, pushing the poor and middle class out of the city. The not too rich people are moving into Oakland and Berkeley, making those places less liberal than before. If the SF Bay Area was still a true liberal bastion, out of state Republicans wouldn't be fundraising here.
In fact, last time I looked, Sacramento was sorta moderate, as was San Diego and Orange County - has that changed?
Except for Los Angeles, Southern California and the Central Valley is the conservative promise land.
But I don't know of any part of CA that is conservative - and if there are, they have next to nobody living there.
That could explain why the CA GOP has more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the U.S. population.
That's kinda beside the point at the UC in question here is UCSF.
All those rich people moving into San Francisco is changing the character of the city. It's no longer the liberal bastion it used to be.
Also, with the possible exceptions of Irvine and Davis, all UC campuses are coastal.
Locating campuses in major population centers was probably a good idea.
"Made in USA" is not cronyism.
Depends on where you fall on the political spectrum. Some people would regard "Made in USA" as cronyism because the work would benefit unionized workers who typically vote for the Democrats and not Republicans.
Welcome to Slashdot! :)
You are aware that the coastal regions (Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento) are liberal and the rest of California is quite conservative?
Yes, but this is in character with CA politicians. Recently when the Bay Bridge was constructed they used Chinese steel.
If the CA politicians put in a "Made in USA" provision into the contract and it cost the project more money, you would be complaining about crony capitalism.
This was likely a factor in the decision: the minimum wage is $13/hour and will be $15/hour by 2018.
Never mind that those kind of IT jobs are typically $25+ per hour.
When something is more expensive, less of it gets bought. When it costs more to hire people, jobs start to go away.
That's funny. So many hipsters want to live and work in San Francisco, recruiters are offering higher pay rates ($35+ per hour) to get people to work in southern half of Silicon Valley (San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale).
Healthcare IT is badly funded and there's never enough money to do anything interesting.
I did a PC refresh project at a local hospital in Silicon Valley a few years ago. All the old Dell workstations with Windows XP got replaced with new Dell workstations with Windows XP. The new hardware was needed to deploy Windows 7 virtual machines in the near future (should be available now). Whenever someone logs into a workstation, their Win7 VM is downloaded from the network and run locally.
There is absolutely no task that is better done by an outsourcer than your own employees.
The contracting agency I worked for has everything outsourced, as there is an app for everything. Headquarters in New York City has six full-time employees who manages 120+ contractors across the country.
The Europeans get bitchy if they don't get some of the cool stuff first.
However, the idea of making the iPhone water- and dust-resistant seems like an interesting concept.
Each iPhone has water-sensitive stripes to indicate water damage. But these are stripes are so sensitive that they change color if someone across the street spits into the gutter. Hence, the need for water-resistance.
If people want an education they should pay for it.
That's funny. Higher education used to be free or low cost.
the cost has gone up and up since when?
When state politicians decided it was a brilliant idea to stop subsidizing high education and cut the education budgets to the bone.
Future healthcare workers.
They will *HAVE* to do something differently in order to survive.
Programming boot camps. Big money now that the federal government is getting involved.
You mean the asshat CEO of a Fortune 500 company who got a 60% raise for having a lousy fiscal year and implemented a 10% layoff that put me out of work for eight months?
Dude, you gotta look for something better, like, I don't know, being a professional poker player or HVAC or something. Sheet metal work pays good and you don't have to deal with Microsoft products.
I'm making easy money as it is with Microsoft products. Meanwhile, I can focus on alternative streams of income that will eventually replace my IT job.
Microsoft accounts for 95% of the software security problems of the planet.
As an IT support contractor for 20+ years, I give thanks to Microsoft for providing daily job security.
Click bait are for the ad revenues. If there's no ad revenue, click baits are useless.
Boogie2988 had six out of 1,600+ videos demonetized from making money. That's less than one percent. For that, he cries CENSORSHIP!
Think about it before trying to insult people.
The only people who should be insulted are the viewers of these YouTube channels where the creator used false drama to juice up their numbers.