A large percentage of the 1%'s only qualification for being in the top 1% is that their parents were in the top 1%. It's about 17% from what I recall.
An even larger percentage of the 1%'s only qualification is that their parents were in the top 10% (about 45%).
There are MANY rich and powerful idiots.
Some PD's are as you describe. And (having served on multiple juries) some really don't give a shit and just phone it in.
In one case I was in- it was hard to tell who was more apathetic- the PD or the substitute prosecutor. It was clear from the evidence the guy (who had spent 11 months in jail for lack of bail) was innocent. 11 of 12 of the jury found him innocent on the first vote. The 12th lady... actually said.. "But they didn't PROVE he was innocent." She pretty much collapsed in the face of our reaction to her statement and an explanation of the concept of "innocent until proven guilty".
I've also found people guilty.
I like jury service- I just wish they would move me from the 8:30 am pool to the 12:30pm pool.
Actually demographics in that district have been shifting towards democrats for quite a while and Cantor's winning edge in the general election against the democrats has been dropping.
58%, 59%, 63%, 76%, 69%(the first year he won office).
Extending the trend - it looks like Cantor "would" have won by about 55/45 against a hypothetical democrat. Brak seems more likely to get votes over 50% but under 52%. That's a really close race. Which means after thinking about it more, I'm more sure that the district is in play now.
And the state as a whole elected a democratic senator for the first time in decades in 2008 by a 60% margin and then relected him in 2012. So the state is apparently drifting left.
I think Brak has a reasonable chance. But I also think the Tea Party may have just won the primary but lost the election.
The funny thing about people in denial is that when they finally actually get to court- about 99.9% of them collapse immediately because they really knew all along they were wrong.
About.1% actually believe their crap and fight bitterly to the end. But they usually come off as crazy.
In any case, you can verify what I said is already reality with a trivial google.
If insurance doesn't cover you, then you may suffer enormous expense and go untreated (since no money is available for therapy). In some cases, you'll die due to lack of money for proper treatment.
I speak from personal experience. Having insurance makes you safer if your injuries are serious.
This is only for countries without good national health care. Even there, I think more serious or long term injuries might be prioritized lower.
Brat: âoeI will fight to end crony capitalist programs that benefit the rich and powerful.â
It looks like he ran as an anti-corporate conservative and on cantor being pro-immigration. I didn't see much about the other items you suggested (tho they are good points-- I just don't see Brat using them in the race).
Nope. Here's a direct quote from one of my conservative mailing lists.
"I'm with you; these moderate-to-left RINO old farts have to go."
Apparently he wasn't far enough right. "Cantor opposes public funding of embryonic stem cell research and opposes elective abortion. He is rated 100% by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and 0% by NARAL Pro-Choice America, indicating a pro-life voting record. He is also opposed to same-sex marriage, voting to Constitutionally define marriage as between a male and a female in 2006. In November 2007 he voted against prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation. He also supports making flag burning illegal. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) rated him 19% in 2006, indicating an anti-affirmative action voting record. He is opposed to gun control, voting to ban product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers in 2005, and he voted not to require gun registration and trigger-lock laws in the District of Columbia. He has a rating of "A" from the National Rifle Association (NRA).[32] On Nov. 2, 2010, Cantor told Wolf Blitzer of CNN that he would try to trim the federal deficit by reducing welfare."
And I hear this puts the former republican stronghold district in play for the democrats now. Plus a tremendous loss of seniority and political power for the republicans will be gone so spending in Virginia is likely to drop significantly.
I'm an independent with increasingly strong liberal tendencies since 2004. But I'm not sure if I'm really growing more liberal or if the republicans are simply moving rightward away from the middle.
Is the night vision on google glass really that bad?
Because my cheapy 2 year old cell phone takes great pictures when put into night mode. I even captured the moon and the visible stars during the last eclipse.
Yes there are a half dozen releases of every film on opening night.
They are low video quality (I see 7/10 ratings) and low quality audio (5/10). The few I've seen in the past often had occasional people visibly moving in them.
And, (the reason I stay away from them), I think they are the most likely to get you sued.
I stopped buying DVD's years ago. I could afford them- the problem was I wasn't rewatching them. I have about 500 dvd's that I don't rewatch. It got more noticable as I passed 50 years old too. I just didn't care to spend my time rewatching things. Seemed dumb to buy DVD's, watch them once and put them on the shelf.
There is so much content available I can't keep up. And in my area, theater movies are between $4.25 and $6.25. $10.50 for 3d which I think is excessive for most 3d films.
And (for now), Netflix and Amazon prime are reasonably priced. As my crowd had kids- going to movies as a group faded.
The top 1% is defined by annual income tax filings. This is the common usage. It's what is being referred to when they say the top 1% has turnover and changes.
An alternative top 1% is to break it out by holdings. That's not commonly used. I suspect it's a more stable indicator than income but I bet it's damn hard to actually calculate since many of the assets value aren't set until they are sold.
As a private citizen who has sat on three juries....
The reasoning goes like this.
Does the officer have incentive to lie about the ticket?
Answer: almost always "no".
Does the citizen have a reason to lie about the ticket. Almost always, "yes". And especially if the ticket is going to cost them their license.
Given a "he said, she said" situation with two witnesses contradicting each other, the officer is usually going to win with a jury trial because of that dynamic. The likely hood of the officer lying is always there but it isn't sufficient to rise to the level of "reasonable doubt" needed to find the defendant not guilty.
I prefer there to be video by the officer and the citizen. Then we could get a good "rate" on the amount each side lies. It would protect officers from lying civilians.
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I say all this as a person who both knows a lot of officers are often thuggish, feel above the law, and act ganglike in their behavior and who also donates money to their survivor's fund in my locality.
Actually, more like "poor birth choices" in the united states. 15% of the top 1% are children of the top 1% 20 years ago. 30% of the bottom 20% are children of the bottom 20% 20 years ago.
Interestingly, a portion of the top 1% also flips back and forth between being in the top 1% and a negative income or zero income.
If you are born poor, educated by substandard schools, lack a stable family- your odds of "making poor life choices" is much higher.
That's odd because by normal procedures the bystander's entire video should have been made available to the police officer's defense attorney during discovery.
So either he had a spectacularly bad defense attorney or else the entire film wouldn't improve the officers position.
I advocate comprehensive, server uploaded filming by police officers while they are on duty. It's the best protection for the officers and the citizens.
"Delta is testing a one-armed, four-jointed robot that can move objects, join components and complete similar tasks. By 2016, Delta hopes to sell a version for as little as $10,000, which would be less than half the cost of current mainstream robots.
That price is also cheaper than the salary of a Chinese worker, and the robot can work around the clock."
Ironically, the manufacturing is likely to return to the U.S. in that case, but not the jobs.
We've already seen around the world that even in the harshest regimes, once people lose hope and enjoyment in living, it gets pretty hard to intimidate them.
North Korea seems to have done a pretty good job of it tho. So I guess it will have to get that bad.
Employment in manufacturing in the united states is down over 30% in 40 years. In that time, the population has quadrupled from 76 million to 308 million. Manufacturing employees have dropped from 18 million to 12 million. Manufacturing jobs have dropped from 23% to 4% of jobs. Similar declines in UK and Japan.
A less steep decrease in the EU area generally.
The amount of goods the united states manufactures with those employees has increased. Since china joined the WTO, the number of manufacturing jobs in the united states has taken an even steeper drop with an estimated 2 million more jobs lost which would put manufacturing employees at 10 million. Many of the jobs lost from factories that previously employed 1000 or more employees.
And now (even at china's low wages), they've started to automate as well.
What were you trying to say? I don't think you could be off that dramatically so could you explain a bit more what you mean?
The bottom 80%'s share of the national wealth has been dropping and the bottom 80%'s share of the income has been dropping.
If the wealth had continued to be shared as it had in the past, the effective middle income would be closer to $70,000 per year instead of $50,000 per year.
If you look at things as a "checkmark", it looks better. You have a TV, Refrigerator, etc. as long as you can keep a job.
But the lifespan of all the appliances is a third of what it was. Repairman took a 31 year old capacitor out of my air conditioner last month. He said, "What I'm replacing this with won't last 7 years."
At amusement parks you have two ticket prices. The $70 tickets that provide much lower service than used to be provided and $250 tickets where you get much better service (cutting to the front of the line, even reserved ride times).
Clothing is less durable and of lower quality.
Food is less nutritious and of lower quality. (Go buy some real cage free eggs like everyone used to get back in the 70s. Compare them to supermarket eggs. When scrambled the supermarket eggs are almost white these days.) Real eggs of the same quality people used to get cost $5 per dozen.
Beef becomes less affordable every year.
The beaches are divided into uncrowded luxury areas and smaller and smaller grossly overcrowded - not even "free" areas. You have to pay $10 for what used to be free.
Television shows used to be 52 minutes of content. Most TV shows 42 minutes of content and one recent show was 39 minutes of content. You can buy a microwave- yup- $80 to $200. It will last under 7 years. If you buy a microwave made the way they used to make them- its $1000.
And so on.
I'm not saying it's all bad. I'm just saying we are the frog in the stew pot. The change has been so slow, we didn't notice it. And young people don't even know what they've lost.
I don't think you understand. This was for a senior position that required a college degree and years of experience. It wasn't targeted at a high school student or even a recent graduate.
They didn't want to know you had a high school degree- they specifically wanted to know the date the applicant graduated high school.
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A large percentage of the 1%'s only qualification for being in the top 1% is that their parents were in the top 1%. It's about 17% from what I recall.
An even larger percentage of the 1%'s only qualification is that their parents were in the top 10% (about 45%).
There are MANY rich and powerful idiots.
Some PD's are as you describe. And (having served on multiple juries) some really don't give a shit and just phone it in.
In one case I was in- it was hard to tell who was more apathetic- the PD or the substitute prosecutor. It was clear from the evidence the guy (who had spent 11 months in jail for lack of bail) was innocent. 11 of 12 of the jury found him innocent on the first vote. The 12th lady... actually said.. "But they didn't PROVE he was innocent." She pretty much collapsed in the face of our reaction to her statement and an explanation of the concept of "innocent until proven guilty".
I've also found people guilty.
I like jury service- I just wish they would move me from the 8:30 am pool to the 12:30pm pool.
Actually demographics in that district have been shifting towards democrats for quite a while and Cantor's winning edge in the general election against the democrats has been dropping.
58%, 59%, 63%, 76%, 69%(the first year he won office).
Extending the trend - it looks like Cantor "would" have won by about 55/45 against a hypothetical democrat. Brak seems more likely to get votes over 50% but under 52%. That's a really close race. Which means after thinking about it more, I'm more sure that the district is in play now.
And the state as a whole elected a democratic senator for the first time in decades in 2008 by a 60% margin and then relected him in 2012. So the state is apparently drifting left.
I think Brak has a reasonable chance. But I also think the Tea Party may have just won the primary but lost the election.
They can't afford it any more.
Quality staff and full time editors cost money.
Be nice if we could crowd-source corrections tho.
Movies, books, boardgames, etc. are usually 50%-75% off by then. Sometimes more.
I might pop forward to present time for a very few select items.
But I stopped buying DVD's every week when they came out back around 2002.
You are in denial.
The funny thing about people in denial is that when they finally actually get to court- about 99.9% of them collapse immediately because they really knew all along they were wrong.
About .1% actually believe their crap and fight bitterly to the end. But they usually come off as crazy.
In any case, you can verify what I said is already reality with a trivial google.
The fact is, if an application is desired... and isn't abusing the privileges currently...
Then 99.9% of users simply click thru a list of 17 permissions the same as they do for a list with 5 permissions.
From what I've read, it's more like.
Passenger: "Uh, hi! Are you Dave from Uber?"
Driver: "Yup- please hop in and we'll head to the zoo."
Passenger: "Okay, here's the 17 dollars for the ride"
Driver: "Thanks"
Policemen Passenger: "And here's your $500 ticket. And btw, we'll be impounding your car so you need to find a ride home."
If insurance doesn't cover you, then you may suffer enormous expense and go untreated (since no money is available for therapy). In some cases, you'll die due to lack of money for proper treatment.
I speak from personal experience. Having insurance makes you safer if your injuries are serious.
This is only for countries without good national health care. Even there, I think more serious or long term injuries might be prioritized lower.
Here's the part I like about Brat.
Brat: âoeI will fight to end crony capitalist programs that benefit the rich and powerful.â
It looks like he ran as an anti-corporate conservative and on cantor being pro-immigration. I didn't see much about the other items you suggested (tho they are good points-- I just don't see Brat using them in the race).
Interesting analysis here:
http://www.commondreams.org/vi...
Nope. Here's a direct quote from one of my conservative mailing lists.
"I'm with you; these moderate-to-left RINO old farts have to go."
Apparently he wasn't far enough right.
"Cantor opposes public funding of embryonic stem cell research and opposes elective abortion. He is rated 100% by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and 0% by NARAL Pro-Choice America, indicating a pro-life voting record. He is also opposed to same-sex marriage, voting to Constitutionally define marriage as between a male and a female in 2006. In November 2007 he voted against prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation. He also supports making flag burning illegal. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) rated him 19% in 2006, indicating an anti-affirmative action voting record. He is opposed to gun control, voting to ban product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers in 2005, and he voted not to require gun registration and trigger-lock laws in the District of Columbia. He has a rating of "A" from the National Rifle Association (NRA).[32] On Nov. 2, 2010, Cantor told Wolf Blitzer of CNN that he would try to trim the federal deficit by reducing welfare."
And I hear this puts the former republican stronghold district in play for the democrats now. Plus a tremendous loss of seniority and political power for the republicans will be gone so spending in Virginia is likely to drop significantly.
I'm an independent with increasingly strong liberal tendencies since 2004. But I'm not sure if I'm really growing more liberal or if the republicans are simply moving rightward away from the middle.
Is the night vision on google glass really that bad?
Because my cheapy 2 year old cell phone takes great pictures when put into night mode. I even captured the moon and the visible stars during the last eclipse.
Yes there are a half dozen releases of every film on opening night.
They are low video quality (I see 7/10 ratings) and low quality audio (5/10). The few I've seen in the past often had occasional people visibly moving in them.
And, (the reason I stay away from them), I think they are the most likely to get you sued.
I stopped buying DVD's years ago. I could afford them- the problem was I wasn't rewatching them. I have about 500 dvd's that I don't rewatch. It got more noticable as I passed 50 years old too. I just didn't care to spend my time rewatching things. Seemed dumb to buy DVD's, watch them once and put them on the shelf.
There is so much content available I can't keep up. And in my area, theater movies are between $4.25 and $6.25. $10.50 for 3d which I think is excessive for most 3d films.
And (for now), Netflix and Amazon prime are reasonably priced. As my crowd had kids- going to movies as a group faded.
The top 1% is defined by annual income tax filings. This is the common usage. It's what is being referred to when they say the top 1% has turnover and changes.
An alternative top 1% is to break it out by holdings. That's not commonly used. I suspect it's a more stable indicator than income but I bet it's damn hard to actually calculate since many of the assets value aren't set until they are sold.
As a private citizen who has sat on three juries....
The reasoning goes like this.
Does the officer have incentive to lie about the ticket?
Answer: almost always "no".
Does the citizen have a reason to lie about the ticket. Almost always, "yes". And especially if the ticket is going to cost them their license.
Given a "he said, she said" situation with two witnesses contradicting each other, the officer is usually going to win with a jury trial because of that dynamic. The likely hood of the officer lying is always there but it isn't sufficient to rise to the level of "reasonable doubt" needed to find the defendant not guilty.
I prefer there to be video by the officer and the citizen. Then we could get a good "rate" on the amount each side lies. It would protect officers from lying civilians.
---
I say all this as a person who both knows a lot of officers are often thuggish, feel above the law, and act ganglike in their behavior and who also donates money to their survivor's fund in my locality.
Actually, more like "poor birth choices" in the united states.
15% of the top 1% are children of the top 1% 20 years ago.
30% of the bottom 20% are children of the bottom 20% 20 years ago.
Interestingly, a portion of the top 1% also flips back and forth between being in the top 1% and a negative income or zero income.
If you are born poor, educated by substandard schools, lack a stable family- your odds of "making poor life choices" is much higher.
Well, in this case, the judge sided with the citizen, right?
Don't lose all hope in the justice system.
Judiciary is a separate branch from the police.
That's odd because by normal procedures the bystander's entire video should have been made available to the police officer's defense attorney during discovery.
So either he had a spectacularly bad defense attorney or else the entire film wouldn't improve the officers position.
I advocate comprehensive, server uploaded filming by police officers while they are on duty. It's the best protection for the officers and the citizens.
Ahhh.
Okay, I'll grant that manufacturing employment has improved for people able to work at $217 to $500 dollars per month wages.
Even so, as I said.. china's already automating heavily - so even the incredibly low wages there are not preventing automation.
http://online.wsj.com/news/art...
"Delta is testing a one-armed, four-jointed robot that can move objects, join components and complete similar tasks. By 2016, Delta hopes to sell a version for as little as $10,000, which would be less than half the cost of current mainstream robots.
That price is also cheaper than the salary of a Chinese worker, and the robot can work around the clock."
Ironically, the manufacturing is likely to return to the U.S. in that case, but not the jobs.
We've already seen around the world that even in the harshest regimes, once people lose hope and enjoyment in living, it gets pretty hard to intimidate them.
North Korea seems to have done a pretty good job of it tho. So I guess it will have to get that bad.
Employment in manufacturing in the united states is down over 30% in 40 years.
In that time, the population has quadrupled from 76 million to 308 million.
Manufacturing employees have dropped from 18 million to 12 million.
Manufacturing jobs have dropped from 23% to 4% of jobs.
Similar declines in UK and Japan.
A less steep decrease in the EU area generally.
The amount of goods the united states manufactures with those employees has increased. Since china joined the WTO, the number of manufacturing jobs in the united states has taken an even steeper drop with an estimated 2 million more jobs lost which would put manufacturing employees at 10 million. Many of the jobs lost from factories that previously employed 1000 or more employees.
And now (even at china's low wages), they've started to automate as well.
What were you trying to say? I don't think you could be off that dramatically so could you explain a bit more what you mean?
We are using different terminology.
The bottom 80%'s share of the national wealth has been dropping and the bottom 80%'s share of the income has been dropping.
If the wealth had continued to be shared as it had in the past, the effective middle income would be closer to $70,000 per year instead of $50,000 per year.
If you look at things as a "checkmark", it looks better. You have a TV, Refrigerator, etc. as long as you can keep a job.
But the lifespan of all the appliances is a third of what it was. Repairman took a 31 year old capacitor out of my air conditioner last month. He said, "What I'm replacing this with won't last 7 years."
At amusement parks you have two ticket prices. The $70 tickets that provide much lower service than used to be provided and $250 tickets where you get much better service (cutting to the front of the line, even reserved ride times).
Clothing is less durable and of lower quality.
Food is less nutritious and of lower quality. (Go buy some real cage free eggs like everyone used to get back in the 70s. Compare them to supermarket eggs. When scrambled the supermarket eggs are almost white these days.) Real eggs of the same quality people used to get cost $5 per dozen.
Beef becomes less affordable every year.
The beaches are divided into uncrowded luxury areas and smaller and smaller grossly overcrowded - not even "free" areas. You have to pay $10 for what used to be free.
Television shows used to be 52 minutes of content. Most TV shows 42 minutes of content and one recent show was 39 minutes of content.
You can buy a microwave- yup- $80 to $200. It will last under 7 years. If you buy a microwave made the way they used to make them- its $1000.
And so on.
I'm not saying it's all bad. I'm just saying we are the frog in the stew pot. The change has been so slow, we didn't notice it. And young people don't even know what they've lost.
No.. but giving oil 3 trillion and then saying "well solar can't compete on an even playing field" is kinda ludicrous, ain't it?
I'm concerned that Japan is more of a "Universe 133" situation.
But... improving quality of life would fit in with basic income and other ideas so I hope it works without over shooting.
That's the irony. Imprisoning someone costs $31,000 a year while typical welfare costs $18,000.
I don't think you understand. This was for a senior position that required a college degree and years of experience. It wasn't targeted at a high school student or even a recent graduate.
They didn't want to know you had a high school degree- they specifically wanted to know the date the applicant graduated high school.