What exactly are they going to do to improve the economy? Deregulation broke it in 2007 (of which Democrat B. Clinton gets some of the blame per banking dereg).
But Steve would lie through his teeth and trap you with his reality distortion field, and you'd be convinced he invented everything on the requirements list.
When I was having difficulty finding a job after the dot-com crash, I often got the advice, "You better lie and learn to lie well because you are competing with experienced liars. It's part of the IT game." Even a Mormon told me that with the justification, "you are obligated to take care of your family as your primary duty to God. Accuracy to employers ranks second."
Please create a blog. I love reading stories about management and HR incompetence. Seeing that other orgs are as bleeped up as my own gives me comfort that I am not alone in DilbertVille.
So if robots take OTHER people's job it's, "Too bad, you lost in life". But if robots take YOUR job, then it's, "Shit, somebody do something now! This is horrible."
If manufacturing robots put almost a billion workers out of a job, the Chinese gov't is going to have a giant riot on their hands. The "Occupy Wall-street" movement in the US may have been indirectly the result of automation taking jobs (and offshoring).
The government there may not have enough experience to deal with protests in a way that doesn't make them worse, as their relationship with Hong Kong has shown. And HK residents are economically well-off. People take even more risk if they have no existing job to lose. Jail is not much of a deterrent to somebody starving to death. At least you have a reasonable chance of a meal and roof in jail.
The future regarding automation versus jobs is going to get interesting, both here and China.
1. Obamacare failures -- New large programs often have initial glitches. W's medicare D did, and so did Medicare's roll-out. The GOP refuses to help with adjustments, instead just complains and tries to repeal it over and over. That's not problem-solving.
2. Loss of press freedom -- Both parties guilty of press games. It doesn't excuse anyone, but changing parties won't solve it.
3. Lowest labor force participation in many decades -- Most "mature" industrial nations are facing the same problem; it's not special to the US. It appears to be a combination of offshoring to cheap-labor countries, and automation. GOP has shown no intention of doing anything different to solve those. They seem to believe that if you can't compete with slave commies and robots, that's your problem: Social Darwinism.
4. Incompetence on Ebola -- I have not seen anything specific and verifiable, just cherry-picking facts to make O look bad. GOP tends to want to cut fed. health R&D in general. That's not going to help the next outbreaks.
5. Overweening regulation -- The devil's in the details. Most new regulations relate to preventing another banking melt-down. The banks failed to regulate themselves last time, so they have more rules now. Do you want a repeat? See also #8.
6. Politicization of DoJ and IRS -- Vague. There's no evidence of intentional bias at IRS. Sloppy procedures, perhaps, but not bias. DoJ has always been political for the decades I've been alive.
7. Extrajudicial killings of US citizens -- I've seen no evidence the GOP is against such practices over-all. Both parties are arguably "war mongers".
8. Crony capitalism bailouts of banks and GM -- The real problem is lack of anti-trust enforcement. If companies and banks grow too-big-too-fail, then failure creates a domino effect, which can wreck a weak economy. And I've seen no evidence that the GOP is for stronger anti-trust enforcement. If anything, they see it as "gov't interference" and wish to do nothing to stop it in the name of "free markets".
9. Increasing levels of poverty, highest levels of food stamp use ever. -- See #3
I realize "the other party also does it" doesn't sit well with voters, and they'll punish the party in charge regardless of what the other party would do instead. Voters are short-term thinkers, unfortunately, and that's why we get pendulum politics. Each side over-promises and then fails to deliver. Rinse, repeat.
No, not even a republic, but a plutocracy in practice. Technically we are a republic, but in terms of who or what actually has the influence, we are mostly a plutocracy.
One day a man walks into a bar and to his amazement, he finds a tiny person playing a tiny piano. Stunned, the man asked the bartender where he got this amazing person. The bartender replied that inside the closet there is a genie that will grant him a single wish.
The man dashed into the the closet and as the bartender said, there was a genie inside. Without hesitation the man wished for a million bucks.
But instead, 1 million ducks instantly appeared, quacking up a storm and making a ruckus. Infuriated, the man rushed to the bartender and screamed, "I think your genie is hard of hearing, I asked for a million bucks but instead I got a million ducks."
The bartender shook his head and replied, "You're telling me... Do you really think I really asked for a 12 inch pianist?"
Despite liberal rhetoric claiming shutdowns hurt the Right, Republicans are doing well this cycle
GOP Congress does not poll well at all, though. Other issues like Iraq and Ebola seem to be spooking people. The right's FUD engine is well oiled with big money.
I wrote in another post what a disaster Excel is, exactly because it allows every manager to create a business-logic spreadsheet - most of which are never checked for errors or boundary conditions and may fail you without even telling you that something is wrong.
Often such is a good way to prototype ideas. It's when you keep using it long-term that the problems pile up.
A liberal arts or pure science education is not meant to be a professional degree. It's a way to learn a lot about a particular topic, independently of whether that directly helps your employment chances or not...Historically,...But it had the unfortunate side effect of starting the thought in people's minds that universities are vocational institutions, rather than institutions of higher learning...
The "culture wars" is at play here. Since Uncle Sam is handing out these loans, many tax payers want a good monetary return on their investment (or lowest loss).
Typically Republicans want their tax money going to direct job creation rather than what might be called general enlightenment. They view general enlightenment education as less useful, the job of religion instead of college, and/or "liberal indoctrination". Thus, they are against anything outside of (directly) providing jobs to the loanees.
I'm not trying to pick sides here, but rather convey the conflicting political views that are at play.
The administration missed an opportunity to issue a strong rule, to take strong executive action and provide real leadership on this issue
I'm tired of politicians & pundits saying somebody didn't display "real leadership" when they don't get exactly what they want. Politics usually involves compromise: you rarely get exactly what you want. (Republicans typically push back on what they see as "excess regulations" of schools.)
"Mom didn't display real leadership by giving me 3 cookies. Instead she gave me 1 cookie and a banana."
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Until you have to clean up their poop.
Your numbers look dodgy to me. I'll have to check them against other sources on the weekend.
Note that Reagan had a pretty big "stimulus" in his defense buildup.
Link? I'm skeptical. Plus, the budget is a negotiated item, not something the prez makes/controls alone.
What exactly are they going to do to improve the economy? Deregulation broke it in 2007 (of which Democrat B. Clinton gets some of the blame per banking dereg).
The trick is to get the Federal gov't to subsidize it, then vote "the tax-and-spend bums" out as a reward. Works every time.
Does that mean Comcast et al will get the boot from more municipalities?
But Steve would lie through his teeth and trap you with his reality distortion field, and you'd be convinced he invented everything on the requirements list.
When I was having difficulty finding a job after the dot-com crash, I often got the advice, "You better lie and learn to lie well because you are competing with experienced liars. It's part of the IT game." Even a Mormon told me that with the justification, "you are obligated to take care of your family as your primary duty to God. Accuracy to employers ranks second."
Humans.
Please create a blog. I love reading stories about management and HR incompetence. Seeing that other orgs are as bleeped up as my own gives me comfort that I am not alone in DilbertVille.
It is. Unfortunately, the passenger is the marshmallow.
So if robots take OTHER people's job it's, "Too bad, you lost in life". But if robots take YOUR job, then it's, "Shit, somebody do something now! This is horrible."
If manufacturing robots put almost a billion workers out of a job, the Chinese gov't is going to have a giant riot on their hands. The "Occupy Wall-street" movement in the US may have been indirectly the result of automation taking jobs (and offshoring).
The government there may not have enough experience to deal with protests in a way that doesn't make them worse, as their relationship with Hong Kong has shown. And HK residents are economically well-off. People take even more risk if they have no existing job to lose. Jail is not much of a deterrent to somebody starving to death. At least you have a reasonable chance of a meal and roof in jail.
The future regarding automation versus jobs is going to get interesting, both here and China.
Replies:
1. Obamacare failures -- New large programs often have initial glitches. W's medicare D did, and so did Medicare's roll-out. The GOP refuses to help with adjustments, instead just complains and tries to repeal it over and over. That's not problem-solving.
2. Loss of press freedom -- Both parties guilty of press games. It doesn't excuse anyone, but changing parties won't solve it.
3. Lowest labor force participation in many decades -- Most "mature" industrial nations are facing the same problem; it's not special to the US. It appears to be a combination of offshoring to cheap-labor countries, and automation. GOP has shown no intention of doing anything different to solve those. They seem to believe that if you can't compete with slave commies and robots, that's your problem: Social Darwinism.
4. Incompetence on Ebola -- I have not seen anything specific and verifiable, just cherry-picking facts to make O look bad. GOP tends to want to cut fed. health R&D in general. That's not going to help the next outbreaks.
5. Overweening regulation -- The devil's in the details. Most new regulations relate to preventing another banking melt-down. The banks failed to regulate themselves last time, so they have more rules now. Do you want a repeat? See also #8.
6. Politicization of DoJ and IRS -- Vague. There's no evidence of intentional bias at IRS. Sloppy procedures, perhaps, but not bias. DoJ has always been political for the decades I've been alive.
7. Extrajudicial killings of US citizens -- I've seen no evidence the GOP is against such practices over-all. Both parties are arguably "war mongers".
8. Crony capitalism bailouts of banks and GM -- The real problem is lack of anti-trust enforcement. If companies and banks grow too-big-too-fail, then failure creates a domino effect, which can wreck a weak economy. And I've seen no evidence that the GOP is for stronger anti-trust enforcement. If anything, they see it as "gov't interference" and wish to do nothing to stop it in the name of "free markets".
9. Increasing levels of poverty, highest levels of food stamp use ever. -- See #3
I realize "the other party also does it" doesn't sit well with voters, and they'll punish the party in charge regardless of what the other party would do instead. Voters are short-term thinkers, unfortunately, and that's why we get pendulum politics. Each side over-promises and then fails to deliver. Rinse, repeat.
No, not even a republic, but a plutocracy in practice. Technically we are a republic, but in terms of who or what actually has the influence, we are mostly a plutocracy.
One day a man walks into a bar and to his amazement, he finds a tiny person playing a tiny piano. Stunned, the man asked the bartender where he got this amazing person. The bartender replied that inside the closet there is a genie that will grant him a single wish.
The man dashed into the the closet and as the bartender said, there was a genie inside. Without hesitation the man wished for a million bucks.
But instead, 1 million ducks instantly appeared, quacking up a storm and making a ruckus. Infuriated, the man rushed to the bartender and screamed, "I think your genie is hard of hearing, I asked for a million bucks but instead I got a million ducks."
The bartender shook his head and replied, "You're telling me... Do you really think I really asked for a 12 inch pianist?"
GOP Congress does not poll well at all, though. Other issues like Iraq and Ebola seem to be spooking people. The right's FUD engine is well oiled with big money.
Early rumor had it that passenger Justin Bieber died, and I was trying really hard to feel sad.
Often such is a good way to prototype ideas. It's when you keep using it long-term that the problems pile up.
It's only an island, whaddya expect?
US has never had an unmanned sample return mission from the moon. Soviets did, though, in the early 70's.
They can spin it, "US sucks, they have to send up humans because their robots are too dumb."
I use my middle finger for the ID.
"Here ya go, Mr. Judge..."
The new particle is called the wildcardion. It plugs gaps in theories nicely.
The "culture wars" is at play here. Since Uncle Sam is handing out these loans, many tax payers want a good monetary return on their investment (or lowest loss).
Typically Republicans want their tax money going to direct job creation rather than what might be called general enlightenment. They view general enlightenment education as less useful, the job of religion instead of college, and/or "liberal indoctrination". Thus, they are against anything outside of (directly) providing jobs to the loanees.
I'm not trying to pick sides here, but rather convey the conflicting political views that are at play.
I'm tired of politicians & pundits saying somebody didn't display "real leadership" when they don't get exactly what they want. Politics usually involves compromise: you rarely get exactly what you want. (Republicans typically push back on what they see as "excess regulations" of schools.)
"Mom didn't display real leadership by giving me 3 cookies. Instead she gave me 1 cookie and a banana."
How about this: any large rocky body that is difficult to classify is called a "Plutoid".
Their motivation is simple: They want a cheaper supply of IT labor so that they have more profits.
The impact of that on society per general employment, bubbles, etc. is not their care, for good or bad.