Finland has the Nordic model of social democracy. A heavily regulated capitalist economy with a comprehensive welfare state and collective bargaining at the national level..
And tell me, if free universal health care and education and collective bargaining and comprehensive welfare aren't "socialist" then why do all the right-wing jackoffs always complain about them being socialist? And if those things are not socialist, then can we please have those things in the US? I'm prepared to adopt the Nordic model, are you?
This bit of libertarian free market horseshit clickbait is all about what they "hope to learn", not what they've actually learned.
The one bit of factual data shown in this story is as follows:
""One participant who hoped to start his own business with the help of the unconditional monthly payment complained that, after speaking to 140 TV crews and reporters from as far afield as Japan and Korea, he has simply not been able to find the time."
This is what passes for compelling data in right-wing neo-liberal economic circles..."one participant".
Finland is a great country. You know why you don't see people lining up to move to the US from Finland? Because they have hot blondes, great black metal bands and excellent vodka. Also, education and health care are free and both spouses get at least six months of paid parental leave when they have a kid. Socialism, and more economic liberty and mobility than the U.S.of A. The only downside is that it gets dark for a big part of the year. But that's what the hot blondes and vodka and black metal are for.
We need to vote for whichever candidate cheated on his wife with the hottest porn star. I have to say, I'm a little bit disappointed that Benedict Donald decided to choose Stormy Daniels, who has done interracial scenes. I didn't think Trump would like following a black guy.
And at $130,000.00, I think he may have overpaid. I thought he was a better negotiator than that.
I've quit using it for the last six months and what really drove me away was the relentless partisan bitching.
Things will get better. The partisan bitching over the past six months (more like a year) is because of one major factor, and he's not looking too healthy, thank god.
...is watching how long slashdot takes to release one of the twitter "shadowban" stories currently burning up its firehose all morning...
The only source reporting the "shadowban" is James O'Keefe, who has never, ever broken an honest story. I would think that before you believe anything a source has to say, there needs to be at least one instance of that source not being dishonest.
Whatever your definition of credible source, O'Keefe and Project Veritas are the exact opposite of that.
The problem with HD radio is it requires a proprietary chip as it's using a proprietary codec (
Ah, that's definitely a problem. I had no idea.
As for general FM radio, I don't care. Most of the FM band is Clear Channel crap, which is generally why most people don't care for it.
I've been lucky enough to have lived either in big cities or college towns that have good FM stations outside the mainstream. But yeah, you get into rural America and you're limited to three types of FM stations: Country, Western, or Right-wing talk.
What about HD Radio? Does HD radio require the same kind of antenna as FM radio? I'd like to see HD radio on cell phones instead of vanilla FM, because there are a lot more station choices. I've got an old MP3 player that has HD radio and it gets all the local FM stations and a lot more. Great quality, too.
I'm not sure if there's HD in the rural areas, though. I live in what would be a rural area, except we've got tens of thousands of students here nine months of the year, so there's very good broadcast infrastructure for what is really a small, Pacific Coast town that's spread out with population sprinkled around mountains and the ocean.
Good points. I don't think we need a "committee of angels" to make sure congressional districts are created fairly, though. Another solution would be proportional representation, where you break down the number of votes for each party and seats are assigned based on proportion. That's far superior to a situation where the majority of the voters in a state vote for one party, but the other party gets to send the most legislators. Many democratic legislatures in the world use this approach and it works fine.
Right now we have a situation where both houses of congress and the presidency are all controlled by the party that got fewer votes.
Not really. The most common proposal is using independent or non-partisan commissions for re-redistricting, which is done in several states including Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, and Washington.
You could say, "how do we know if a commission is non-partisan?" and the answer would be "by their results". If the courts see these tortured-looking districts again, they can be thrown out, just like the North Carolina ones were.
Democrats won in nine of the 10 most-gerrymandered districts. But eight out of 10 of those districts were drawn by Republicans.
That's how gerrymandering works. You don't create districts for your own party to win, you create single safe districts for the other party to win to "contain" the opposition votes in one district so they don't affect the others.
For example, the most common type of gerrymandering in North Carolina is to put all the black voters into one district. By sacrificing that one district, you improve your chances in the five surrounding districts. This is from the article you cited:
"Contrary to one popular misconception about the practice, the point of gerrymandering isn't to draw yourself a collection of overwhelmingly safe seats. Rather, it's to give your opponents a small number of safe seats, while drawing yourself a larger number of seats that are not quite as safe, but that you can expect to win comfortably. "
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Finland has the Nordic model of social democracy. A heavily regulated capitalist economy with a comprehensive welfare state and collective bargaining at the national level..
And tell me, if free universal health care and education and collective bargaining and comprehensive welfare aren't "socialist" then why do all the right-wing jackoffs always complain about them being socialist? And if those things are not socialist, then can we please have those things in the US? I'm prepared to adopt the Nordic model, are you?
Again, you are correct. It was a shit idea, though 100% true. Gawker could be called a lot of things, but "fake news" is not one of them.
...the answer is "no".
This bit of libertarian free market horseshit clickbait is all about what they "hope to learn", not what they've actually learned.
The one bit of factual data shown in this story is as follows:
This is what passes for compelling data in right-wing neo-liberal economic circles..."one participant".
Finland is a great country. You know why you don't see people lining up to move to the US from Finland? Because they have hot blondes, great black metal bands and excellent vodka. Also, education and health care are free and both spouses get at least six months of paid parental leave when they have a kid. Socialism, and more economic liberty and mobility than the U.S.of A. The only downside is that it gets dark for a big part of the year. But that's what the hot blondes and vodka and black metal are for.
That is correct, but don't forget the stories they were sued over were completely and 100% true.
Gawker wasn't fake news. In fact, Thiel sued them because they were too real.
It was Peter Thiel's in the sense that Peter Thiel paid for it. Hulk Hogan couldn't have financed that lawsuit on his own.
We need to vote for whichever candidate cheated on his wife with the hottest porn star. I have to say, I'm a little bit disappointed that Benedict Donald decided to choose Stormy Daniels, who has done interracial scenes. I didn't think Trump would like following a black guy.
And at $130,000.00, I think he may have overpaid. I thought he was a better negotiator than that.
I say "thank you" to my fleshlight. Also, I give it cab fare.
As someone who's been to South Africa, I can pretty much guarantee that it was Castle lager and not Budweiser.
The problem will be resolved long before 2020.
Things will get better. The partisan bitching over the past six months (more like a year) is because of one major factor, and he's not looking too healthy, thank god.
Everybody's out of sorts at the moment.
Try a browser extension called "F.B.Purity". It does exactly that, and fixes a lot of things in the Facebook interface.
Damn Slashdot stepped on my joke. The subject line of my above comment was supposed to be,
Just out of curiosity, do all "security researchers" come from shithole countries?
Dishonest from start to finish.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
https://www.snopes.com/2016/10...
No, he employs editorsK to make it seem like they say something they actually don't.
The only source reporting the "shadowban" is James O'Keefe, who has never, ever broken an honest story. I would think that before you believe anything a source has to say, there needs to be at least one instance of that source not being dishonest.
Whatever your definition of credible source, O'Keefe and Project Veritas are the exact opposite of that.
Or to be president.
Ah, that's definitely a problem. I had no idea.
I've been lucky enough to have lived either in big cities or college towns that have good FM stations outside the mainstream. But yeah, you get into rural America and you're limited to three types of FM stations: Country, Western, or Right-wing talk.
What about HD Radio? Does HD radio require the same kind of antenna as FM radio? I'd like to see HD radio on cell phones instead of vanilla FM, because there are a lot more station choices. I've got an old MP3 player that has HD radio and it gets all the local FM stations and a lot more. Great quality, too.
I'm not sure if there's HD in the rural areas, though. I live in what would be a rural area, except we've got tens of thousands of students here nine months of the year, so there's very good broadcast infrastructure for what is really a small, Pacific Coast town that's spread out with population sprinkled around mountains and the ocean.
Good points. I don't think we need a "committee of angels" to make sure congressional districts are created fairly, though. Another solution would be proportional representation, where you break down the number of votes for each party and seats are assigned based on proportion. That's far superior to a situation where the majority of the voters in a state vote for one party, but the other party gets to send the most legislators. Many democratic legislatures in the world use this approach and it works fine.
Right now we have a situation where both houses of congress and the presidency are all controlled by the party that got fewer votes.
Not really. The most common proposal is using independent or non-partisan commissions for re-redistricting, which is done in several states including Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, and Washington.
You could say, "how do we know if a commission is non-partisan?" and the answer would be "by their results". If the courts see these tortured-looking districts again, they can be thrown out, just like the North Carolina ones were.
That's how gerrymandering works. You don't create districts for your own party to win, you create single safe districts for the other party to win to "contain" the opposition votes in one district so they don't affect the others.
For example, the most common type of gerrymandering in North Carolina is to put all the black voters into one district. By sacrificing that one district, you improve your chances in the five surrounding districts. This is from the article you cited:
I didn't realize meth labs required so much bandwidth.
Crackdown on legal reefer states and broadband so grandma can buy her oxycontin on the dark web. Clearly, America is being made great again.
There are no good fights, only satisfying ones.