I can give you an equal raft who will back the police before and after the data comes out.
This is why we need multiple body cams (front and back on the officer) and dash cams front/back/sides from the police car. And they need to be always on and they should all be released quickly when someone is killed.
It's been shown over and over again that police... and people who accuse police... lie, honestly misremember, and selectively fail to report what they observe.
Over 2 million popular votes for clinton (and counting) say you are mathematically wrong.
I'm glad she accepted the results.
The next 4 years are likely to be a massive clusterfuck with corruption of historic proportions. Better the democrats have a good foundation for the next election.
However... we have GOT TO GET AWAY from computerized voting machines. They beg for tampering. We need paper ballots and "dumb" electro mechanical ballot counters with human counts of random portions of the ballots to validate the ballot counting machines.
Computers can be altered in such a way to show they were never altered. That's just not acceptable for elections.
It's mostly prepper types who voted for this. They were afraid of a leftist dictatorship or the democrats leading us into nuclear war.
They are amazingly on board with a rightest dictatorship and an ignorant, over confident, thin skinned President Trump stumbling into war. Many republicans who were against communism and russia their entire lives switched to being pro russia in less than 6 months. It's creepy and unbelievable at the same time.
It makes me think of the Stanford Experiment for some reason.
Abraham Lincoln has often been portrayed by blacks in school settings often.
But Abe is an actual historical figure (not a fictional one created in a highly racist environment where every character was white and minorities were basically invisible like Nick Fury) so most often a white actor who looks like photos of abe lincoln will be selected.
However, Romans (and Roman Ceasars) are often portrayed by British instead of italians. So it's certainly possible that in a few hundred years Lincoln might be portrayed by Chinese actors.
There are legitimate reasons you want to target particular groups of people.
Housing, Employment, and Credit are all flat out illegal.
--- Here's an example: it costs you 10 cents per thousand hits. you are selling hair straightener to blacks. If you can limit your target to blacks, then your advertising will cost you 1.2 cents (because you won't be sending adds to 880 people who don't care about hair straightener).
Wyoming citizens get 1 senator per 280,000 citizens.
California citizens get 1 senator per 19,000,000 citizens.
California should really split into 76 states, each with the population of Wyoming.
And by doing so, it would also get 228 electoral votes.
That's how grossly over represented the citizens of Wyoming are compared to the citizens of California.
The best bet under our current system would be to ship a half million liberal voters from california to wyoming to settle down (perhaps as remote workers)..
yea, you want to buy a house without association fees if you want to retire. this means probably an older house under city law instead of association deed restrictions.
Because a group of ex marine FBI agents based in NY and a larger group of retired FBI agents with strong ties to Guilianni were leaking almost on a daily basis.
Comey didn't have much choice but to try to get ahead of it.
Trump visited the group and donated them a million dollars instead of attending one of the republican debates.
During an internal meeting at the NY office, the pro trump, ex marine FBI agents open displayed their hatred for Clinton so I'm hoping they can be broken up into small groups (like of 1) in field offices. Perhaps in Battle Creek.
Yeah I started working just after the first.bomb and it made me a super saver. I also joined the National Guard and thankfully have a pension and healthcare through them. I am not as cool as you to be retired at 50 but I will be retired before 60 or earlier depending on a few things.
I am for paying off the house fast or bills in general. While not a great investment for many reasons, it is better to not have as many costs in life in my opinion. It gives flexibility. I know I will own my house in 24 months. I have a bit left on one car and that is it. And since I bought what I needed and not what I could afford (maximum house/car) I could easily max my 401k, enjoy my life and double or triple pay all my loan bills. So now having my first kid my bills are low, I don't "fear" unemployment as a disaster because I have a savings/passive income, I have the time to enjoy my family and I can afford to give my child what they need while aggressively saving for their education. And no this is not a miracle, it took 16 years of work to accomplish. I lived poor when I had money to kill the bills while tempering my life. I didn't buy everything in site after graduating college. I believe the ability to understand and enact delayed gratification in life is one of the biggest determination of long term happiness and success. Just my 2 cents.
I do agree with your statement about automation, people just don't get how much is coming in the next 10 years. Whether this leads to UBI or some real dark days is yet to be determined, but factually a lot of things are going to change and the traditional idea of work and the economic system will have to change.
I would always tell people to work on passive income no matter what. Owning dividend stocks, secondary skills that make money, National Guard, part time Cops/Fire, rental property, etc. I like these because if I get sick or need time off I am generally still getting pay and benefits and 0 breaks in the CV!! I also like them for tax benefits, the NG income in some states is not taxed, with rental property you have major tax advantages, etc. The days of having one job and a good life are for the most part over. People need to understand getting to easy street is a constant battle, but achievable with time, patience and INFORMATION. "
Good advice on secondary income.
It was really "cool" to retire at 51 but I had cancer when I was 30 and realized I get very little out of working except the money. I had 5 months off with pay in exchange for vomiting a few days a month and realized you can live a full satisfying life without working if you have money. So like you, I sacrificed (fewer vacations, longer before my first new car, less eating out (eating out is a HUGE hole in most people's budgets and you won't even remember it a few months later so it's dumb). The required sacrifices made the retiring early feel less cool ( I was actually sweating it right up to the finish line).
I do a little massage for extra luxury income now. I've only programmed for fun (minecraft) since I retired.
Trump destroyed thousands of documents in defiance of multiple court orders. As soon as he gets into legal trouble he starts deleting emails. He has no retention policy.
One of the results of this election may be his bankruptcy and the failure of his legal defenses as everyone he's screwed over attacks at the same time while he's finally weak.
At the least, his golf courses and hotels are heavily leveraged and revenues are plummetting. He's even in the middle of rebranding them to "SCION" and dropping the "TRUMP" name as a move to recover. Mark Cuban has said that he thinks Trump could be bankrupt (again) within a couple years. Trump isn't a real billionaire. He has several billion in assets that he has to pay the bills on. He loses them if he can't pay the monthly mortgage.
You can typically get new training easily until you are about 40. Then they start giving the training to the younger staff and suggest you manage.
Which is REALLY ironic because most of the younger staff then leaves after 2 years while most of the older staff would have stayed because older staff has to pay off the house, pay for the kids college, while the younger staff is still changing jobs to move their salary up and build their resumes.
Replacing the entire fixture is easy and doesn't require a plumber.
Go to youtube, find the appropriate video. Turn off your water supply (either under the sink or at the curb) and 30 minutes later you're done.
On the plus side, instead of replacing washers once every couple years, you'll be replacing the entire fixture when yer tired of it or every 10-15 years.
You realize trump imported illegal labor to build his buildings and bought foreign steel as well.
All the politics in the world won't stop the fact that labor at 33% of the price is very attractive. You might stop H1B's (they sort of suck anyway) but then they'll just offshore. Or use L1 visas. Or some other dodge. Or buy a package and just give up a half dozen features they felt were mandatory until they realized they'd have to pay a full time person to support it.
I saw 50 year olds being laid off when in 1980 when I was entering the field. And that's when we had stronger age discrimination protection (pre 2009 gutting by SCOTUS) and no H1B's.
If you are lucky or a genius (top 1% in your field), you'll be fine. otherwise, count on being dumped on the street without warning at about 45 to 54 years old. If we can get the ACA correctly in place, it would reduce some of the incentive ( "self" insuring corporations realize that older people cost a lot more for insurance starting about age 45 and want to dump them unless they have critical skills).
The next 20 years are going to be bad. A glut of older workers with no savings willing to work at anything to keep from starving. Meanwhile fields like Trucking with 3 million employees may practically vanish over 5 years and the new jobs will only be open to 20 year olds trained in the new technologies (and they may not find enough jobs either- the 30 year olds I know are all about 8 years behind my generation to reach their first cars, first homes, etc.) and I was about 8 years behind my parents generation.
When your skills are hot, save half what you make until you have enough to live until age 80 if you lose your job. If your job is stable, buy a house because that will fix your monthly payments. The house payment stays about $1200 a month while the apartment rent goes from $1200 to $1800 over a decade. Sure there are repairs but get home owners insurance and learn to change a washer and patch sheetrock (EASY for IT types).
Management is good money for 4-8 years but a dead end (layoffs). Getting some critical, complex skill that can't easily be outsources is good. And as long as indian language skills suck, business analysts are going to be safe for a while.
Over time- packages are going to become more common. You purchase them and configure them but you don't code them. Problem is they can be replaced with a new hot package you don't get trained in without warning.
No, having been a libertarian for over a decade, I can see how quickly magical libertarianism can fall into fascism in the real world. There is nothing to block the strongest from taking over under a libertarian system. Starship troopers assumes for some magical reason the government wouldn't abuse it's power when history shows military rule is no protection against the corruption of power.
The power armor was the gimmick. The libertarian proto fascist philosophy was the message.
Power armor would have required Ironman level special effects to pull off.
I read starship troopers many times. It's one of my favorite books. I left the theater feeling the movie was pretty faithful to the book. Making some of the same philosophical points and even repeating many scenes from the book
I even felt Rico's parents seemed kinda nebbishy and made a good point in the argument of service equals citizenship. Basically softheads were excluded from ruling. Softheads who actually served the state had a much more realistic attitude by the time they finished their period of service.
Despite being critical, the movie was actually fairly faithful to the book's tone. The characters believed what they were saying and believed in their society. Verderhoven (sp) only turned up the dial an extra 5% to achieve the satirical effect. But the basic material was already there.
It's going to be expensive to maintain that pressure and that temperature.
But what people miss is that the half a percentage point reduces demand for the most expensive oil.
Say Oil is produced at $10 a barrel (19.5%) $24 a barrel (10%) $40 a barrel (40%) $50 a barrel (30%) $65 a barrel (0.5%)
The price for every barrel of oil will be $65 a barrel (out side of some hedging contracts). So if you can reduce demand for oil by just half a percent, the price for every barrel of oil will drop to $50 a barrel.
Of course that sets off a all kinds of feedback loops (lower prices means less new wells means as old wells dry up the price goes back up again). But with increasing conservation, use of alternative fuels, and processes like this we could hold oil at $50 a barrel (adjusted for inflation) for the next decade.
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People are not required to fix machines now.
We rarely fix machines any more.
Machines are not built to be fixed. They are built to be replaced.
Quality machines are built to be modularly replaced which is trivial.
Given a robotic truck, robotic forklift, and a good SLA, humans are optional and likely to be remote observation at best.
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Design new machines yes-- but that's 2 to even 3 orders of magnitude lower labor requirements.
I can give you an equal raft who will back the police before and after the data comes out.
This is why we need multiple body cams (front and back on the officer) and dash cams front/back/sides from the police car. And they need to be always on and they should all be released quickly when someone is killed.
It's been shown over and over again that police... and people who accuse police... lie, honestly misremember, and selectively fail to report what they observe.
Over 2 million popular votes for clinton (and counting) say you are mathematically wrong.
I'm glad she accepted the results.
The next 4 years are likely to be a massive clusterfuck with corruption of historic proportions. Better the democrats have a good foundation for the next election.
However... we have GOT TO GET AWAY from computerized voting machines. They beg for tampering. We need paper ballots and "dumb" electro mechanical ballot counters with human counts of random portions of the ballots to validate the ballot counting machines.
Computers can be altered in such a way to show they were never altered. That's just not acceptable for elections.
It's mostly prepper types who voted for this. They were afraid of a leftist dictatorship or the democrats leading us into nuclear war.
They are amazingly on board with a rightest dictatorship and an ignorant, over confident, thin skinned President Trump stumbling into war. Many republicans who were against communism and russia their entire lives switched to being pro russia in less than 6 months. It's creepy and unbelievable at the same time.
It makes me think of the Stanford Experiment for some reason.
And the president does have the power to pardon people who have not been convicted.
It's clear president obama is siding with the national security agencies on this one.
Since the national security agencies were breaking the law, I think mr. obama is making the wrong call.
That was a bit appalling. It should just be makeup but you know, blackface has a terrible history so it's not just makeup.
It's a little harder with othello tho.
Abraham Lincoln has often been portrayed by blacks in school settings often.
But Abe is an actual historical figure (not a fictional one created in a highly racist environment where every character was white and minorities were basically invisible like Nick Fury) so most often a white actor who looks like photos of abe lincoln will be selected.
However, Romans (and Roman Ceasars) are often portrayed by British instead of italians. So it's certainly possible that in a few hundred years Lincoln might be portrayed by Chinese actors.
There are legitimate reasons you want to target particular groups of people.
Housing, Employment, and Credit are all flat out illegal.
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Here's an example: it costs you 10 cents per thousand hits. you are selling hair straightener to blacks. If you can limit your target to blacks, then your advertising will cost you 1.2 cents (because you won't be sending adds to 880 people who don't care about hair straightener).
That make sense?
Wyoming citizens get 1 senator per 280,000 citizens.
California citizens get 1 senator per 19,000,000 citizens.
California should really split into 76 states, each with the population of Wyoming.
And by doing so, it would also get 228 electoral votes.
That's how grossly over represented the citizens of Wyoming are compared to the citizens of California.
The best bet under our current system would be to ship a half million liberal voters from california to wyoming to settle down (perhaps as remote workers)..
yea, you want to buy a house without association fees if you want to retire. this means probably an older house under city law instead of association deed restrictions.
Because a group of ex marine FBI agents based in NY and a larger group of retired FBI agents with strong ties to Guilianni were leaking almost on a daily basis.
Comey didn't have much choice but to try to get ahead of it.
Here's the link between the groups.
http://www.mc-lef.org/mission-...
Trump visited the group and donated them a million dollars instead of attending one of the republican debates.
During an internal meeting at the NY office, the pro trump, ex marine FBI agents open displayed their hatred for Clinton so I'm hoping they can be broken up into small groups (like of 1) in field offices. Perhaps in Battle Creek.
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Yeah I started working just after the first .bomb and it made me a super saver. I also joined the National Guard and thankfully have a pension and healthcare through them. I am not as cool as you to be retired at 50 but I will be retired before 60 or earlier depending on a few things.
I am for paying off the house fast or bills in general. While not a great investment for many reasons, it is better to not have as many costs in life in my opinion. It gives flexibility. I know I will own my house in 24 months. I have a bit left on one car and that is it. And since I bought what I needed and not what I could afford (maximum house/car) I could easily max my 401k, enjoy my life and double or triple pay all my loan bills. So now having my first kid my bills are low, I don't "fear" unemployment as a disaster because I have a savings/passive income, I have the time to enjoy my family and I can afford to give my child what they need while aggressively saving for their education. And no this is not a miracle, it took 16 years of work to accomplish. I lived poor when I had money to kill the bills while tempering my life. I didn't buy everything in site after graduating college. I believe the ability to understand and enact delayed gratification in life is one of the biggest determination of long term happiness and success. Just my 2 cents.
I do agree with your statement about automation, people just don't get how much is coming in the next 10 years. Whether this leads to UBI or some real dark days is yet to be determined, but factually a lot of things are going to change and the traditional idea of work and the economic system will have to change.
I would always tell people to work on passive income no matter what. Owning dividend stocks, secondary skills that make money, National Guard, part time Cops/Fire, rental property, etc. I like these because if I get sick or need time off I am generally still getting pay and benefits and 0 breaks in the CV!! I also like them for tax benefits, the NG income in some states is not taxed, with rental property you have major tax advantages, etc. The days of having one job and a good life are for the most part over. People need to understand getting to easy street is a constant battle, but achievable with time, patience and INFORMATION.
"
Good advice on secondary income.
It was really "cool" to retire at 51 but I had cancer when I was 30 and realized I get very little out of working except the money. I had 5 months off with pay in exchange for vomiting a few days a month and realized you can live a full satisfying life without working if you have money. So like you, I sacrificed (fewer vacations, longer before my first new car, less eating out (eating out is a HUGE hole in most people's budgets and you won't even remember it a few months later so it's dumb). The required sacrifices made the retiring early feel less cool ( I was actually sweating it right up to the finish line).
I do a little massage for extra luxury income now. I've only programmed for fun (minecraft) since I retired.
That is almost certainly property tax and not the mortgage company. And your home value has probably skyrocketed.
But, to give your self a reality check, look for a comparable apartment to your house. You might be shocked.
Trump destroyed thousands of documents in defiance of multiple court orders. As soon as he gets into legal trouble he starts deleting emails. He has no retention policy.
One of the results of this election may be his bankruptcy and the failure of his legal defenses as everyone he's screwed over attacks at the same time while he's finally weak.
At the least, his golf courses and hotels are heavily leveraged and revenues are plummetting. He's even in the middle of rebranding them to "SCION" and dropping the "TRUMP" name as a move to recover. Mark Cuban has said that he thinks Trump could be bankrupt (again) within a couple years. Trump isn't a real billionaire. He has several billion in assets that he has to pay the bills on. He loses them if he can't pay the monthly mortgage.
My home mortgage was $400 a month. I purchased the house for $68,000 in 1998. The house is worth $350,000 now. Taxes run $320 a month.
Living in other states can work out better or worse. Pay is higher but so is cost of living.
But hey, spend every dime you make and assume you'll have steady employment until 67. It might work, maybe.
You can typically get new training easily until you are about 40. Then they start giving the training to the younger staff and suggest you manage.
Which is REALLY ironic because most of the younger staff then leaves after 2 years while most of the older staff would have stayed because older staff has to pay off the house, pay for the kids college, while the younger staff is still changing jobs to move their salary up and build their resumes.
Replacing the entire fixture is easy and doesn't require a plumber.
Go to youtube, find the appropriate video. Turn off your water supply (either under the sink or at the curb) and 30 minutes later you're done.
On the plus side, instead of replacing washers once every couple years, you'll be replacing the entire fixture when yer tired of it or every 10-15 years.
You realize trump imported illegal labor to build his buildings and bought foreign steel as well.
All the politics in the world won't stop the fact that labor at 33% of the price is very attractive. You might stop H1B's (they sort of suck anyway) but then they'll just offshore. Or use L1 visas. Or some other dodge. Or buy a package and just give up a half dozen features they felt were mandatory until they realized they'd have to pay a full time person to support it.
I saw 50 year olds being laid off when in 1980 when I was entering the field. And that's when we had stronger age discrimination protection (pre 2009 gutting by SCOTUS) and no H1B's.
If you are lucky or a genius (top 1% in your field), you'll be fine. otherwise, count on being dumped on the street without warning at about 45 to 54 years old. If we can get the ACA correctly in place, it would reduce some of the incentive ( "self" insuring corporations realize that older people cost a lot more for insurance starting about age 45 and want to dump them unless they have critical skills).
The next 20 years are going to be bad. A glut of older workers with no savings willing to work at anything to keep from starving. Meanwhile fields like Trucking with 3 million employees may practically vanish over 5 years and the new jobs will only be open to 20 year olds trained in the new technologies (and they may not find enough jobs either- the 30 year olds I know are all about 8 years behind my generation to reach their first cars, first homes, etc.) and I was about 8 years behind my parents generation.
When your skills are hot, save half what you make until you have enough to live until age 80 if you lose your job. If your job is stable, buy a house because that will fix your monthly payments. The house payment stays about $1200 a month while the apartment rent goes from $1200 to $1800 over a decade. Sure there are repairs but get home owners insurance and learn to change a washer and patch sheetrock (EASY for IT types).
Management is good money for 4-8 years but a dead end (layoffs). Getting some critical, complex skill that can't easily be outsources is good. And as long as indian language skills suck, business analysts are going to be safe for a while.
Over time- packages are going to become more common. You purchase them and configure them but you don't code them. Problem is they can be replaced with a new hot package you don't get trained in without warning.
No, having been a libertarian for over a decade, I can see how quickly magical libertarianism can fall into fascism in the real world. There is nothing to block the strongest from taking over under a libertarian system. Starship troopers assumes for some magical reason the government wouldn't abuse it's power when history shows military rule is no protection against the corruption of power.
But it was a great read as a young teenager.
The power armor was the gimmick. The libertarian proto fascist philosophy was the message.
Power armor would have required Ironman level special effects to pull off.
I read starship troopers many times. It's one of my favorite books. I left the theater feeling the movie was pretty faithful to the book. Making some of the same philosophical points and even repeating many scenes from the book
I even felt Rico's parents seemed kinda nebbishy and made a good point in the argument of service equals citizenship. Basically softheads were excluded from ruling. Softheads who actually served the state had a much more realistic attitude by the time they finished their period of service.
Despite being critical, the movie was actually fairly faithful to the book's tone. The characters believed what they were saying and believed in their society. Verderhoven (sp) only turned up the dial an extra 5% to achieve the satirical effect. But the basic material was already there.
Whitewashing the books would be much worse.
It's going to be expensive to maintain that pressure and that temperature.
But what people miss is that the half a percentage point reduces demand for the most expensive oil.
Say Oil is produced at
$10 a barrel (19.5%)
$24 a barrel (10%)
$40 a barrel (40%)
$50 a barrel (30%)
$65 a barrel (0.5%)
The price for every barrel of oil will be $65 a barrel (out side of some hedging contracts).
So if you can reduce demand for oil by just half a percent, the price for every barrel of oil will drop to $50 a barrel.
Of course that sets off a all kinds of feedback loops (lower prices means less new wells means as old wells dry up the price goes back up again). But with increasing conservation, use of alternative fuels, and processes like this we could hold oil at $50 a barrel (adjusted for inflation) for the next decade.
You can look up many states statues online these days.
I read softcopy faster than hard copy with equal comprehension-- I can adjust the font size to be optimal.