It's this sort of inane bs that makes me wish for a war; anything that might serve to shed some of the mountain of navel gazing crap we keep adding to the pile. I am convinced that excessive peace is not healthy.
Lowering or eliminating income tax for those who make less than 25K would provide more than $1 an hour.
That's long been done. People earning that little have long since been effectively exempted from Federal income tax and most state income tax. 45% of US households pay no income tax despite the fact that half of those do have taxable income. And it doesn't stop at zero; with "earned income" tax credits tax liability goes negative; you tax the government. To go further you have to go after FICA, but that's difficult because the political fiction that SS and medicare aren't welfare programs is very important to statists.
It looks like the GULAG system the Soviets operated. You set up a bunch of primitive labor camps and fill them with whomever fails to conform with your wishes.
You keep the zeks on a starvation diet and work them to exhaustion. Those that don't die from these conditions are retired to the surrounds after 20 years or so, but not permitted back into populated areas.
It's been done before so you have a working model to draw on for your needs.
I believe a liberated market could easily solve our availablity/cost/privacy/etc. issues easily and quickly. I suspect the "free-market scholars" mentioned here are actually the usual beltway telecom shills that wont be advocating any such liberalization. On the other hand people don't hesitate to blame the failures and inadequacies of this highly regulated and monopoly dominated system to "capitalism," so I suppose the shills are free to call themselves whatever they want, since we're just making stuff up.
(And no, I'm not interested in your view of the meaning of the word, or whatever cherry picked authority you'll cite. So don't bother.)
Some even saying the sorts of things internally in writing.
Indeed. And that was before Google fired Damore. Now these people have had their hate affirmed by their employer. There are probably several bloody minded people looking for any surviving thought criminals; precisely the sort of "direct action" these grievance mongers have been rationalizing all of their lives.
Good job missing the point. Not scheduling it the first place is the "no-brainer." Cancelling is what you do when you realize you failed to use your brain.
The powers-that-be at Google are inexplicably oblivious to the nature of the people they've collected and just how much shit they've involuntarily lost since Damore. They scheduled their little "diversity town hall" all unawares that they've populated their company with culture fascists that are perfectly capable of causing an ugly incident. Apparently there is at least one adult somewhere on the scene that grokked the situation and shut it down.
Someone needs to put that guy in charge for a while.
...Cancels Diversity Town Hall Over Concerns for Employee Safety
It is painfully clear these people have no concept of just how much hate they have been indulging. They've basically built a company populated with rabid malcontents that are prepared to harm or kill their cow-orkers.
Funny how liberals only appreciate the liberty corporations have when thought criminals are getting it. Similar to how Facebook shouldn't be investigated for grooming a news feed because it's a private corporation and has a right to privacy. At any other time the corporate personhood from which these rights are derived makes the exact same people foam at the mouth.
I find it amusing that NK and the US leaders now basically indistinguishable:
Kim: We give you All Out Nuclear War
Trump: You are Looking for Trouble
Kim: The US will End in Catastrophe
Trump: We will be Very Severe
Kim: The Final Doom is Upon You
Trump: We will bring Fire and Fury
Kim: You shall be Made Into To Ashes
(all appear in headlines recently)
What an amazing exhibition of group-think. Google has accumulated thousands of Sarah Meis and by extension the Valley etc. has accrued a couple million rigorously orthodox malcontents. We're now into day three of that monoculture's collective apoplexy because one powerless nobody had the temerity to question the dogma.
Hmm. So the alternative you offer the millennial snowflakery is to forego the voice controlled real time detour aware digital navigation system and instead seek out a truck stop filled with overweight semi driving Rush Limbaugh devotees and staffed by townie meth addicts so that they might salvage a paper atlas from among the racks of CB gear and polished nude mudflap silhouettes?
Yes, it is. Uber is perfectly capable of squashing the algorithm gaming that these drivers are exploiting. If Uber fails and allows drivers to abuse their system then a competitor will emerge. If the drivers won't work for the un-gamed rates then prices will climb. In. Any. Case. customers will still prefer these alternatives to any traditional unresponsive, costly monopoly taxi system. This is a nothingburger and we have no need of your nanny-state ban-hammer instincts.
Now that it's the micro-handed crotch grabber's policy more taxes are bad? What happened to "I like paying taxes" and "taxes pay for civilization herp derp?"
No, it wouldn't. If you look at a map of Walmart locations the big concentrations are in major urban areas. LA, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, Washington, Philidelphia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver etc. There are lots of locations sprinkled over the Eastern hinterlands, but those are 25-50 miles or more apart, whereas you can't swing a wife beater in Tampa without hitting a Walmart.
Walmart's largest demographic is lower income urbanites living in deep blue counties. The snaggletooth trumpsters that haunt your dreams don't tend to live in these big cities; they evacuated long ago to the exburbs and beyond. The big retail chains you can name don't serve these areas well. Out there you find Rural King (yes, that's the actual name), Tractor Supply Co. ("For Life Out Here"), Family Farm and Home, etc., lots of smaller regional chains and many, many independent retailers. The good independents are really nice as well; remember, the median income of the typical Trumpanzee primary voter is $72k. They aren't all poor.
Same shit birds that saluted when this crap appeared earlier; "With the current administration's attitude toward transparency and catering only to the largest corporate donors herp derp."
So the US military will cease to be the target of more progressive social experiments for a few years. End of the world stuff right there; the virtuepocalypse is upon us!
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It's this sort of inane bs that makes me wish for a war; anything that might serve to shed some of the mountain of navel gazing crap we keep adding to the pile. I am convinced that excessive peace is not healthy.
Lowering or eliminating income tax for those who make less than 25K would provide more than $1 an hour.
That's long been done. People earning that little have long since been effectively exempted from Federal income tax and most state income tax. 45% of US households pay no income tax despite the fact that half of those do have taxable income. And it doesn't stop at zero; with "earned income" tax credits tax liability goes negative; you tax the government. To go further you have to go after FICA, but that's difficult because the political fiction that SS and medicare aren't welfare programs is very important to statists.
It's politically inconvenient.
Pretend you're gay. You'll gets lots of kudos and become part of a protected class.
It looks like the GULAG system the Soviets operated. You set up a bunch of primitive labor camps and fill them with whomever fails to conform with your wishes. You keep the zeks on a starvation diet and work them to exhaustion. Those that don't die from these conditions are retired to the surrounds after 20 years or so, but not permitted back into populated areas.
It's been done before so you have a working model to draw on for your needs.
yeah, but burning down their servers is fun and gives the opposition some ammo.
"free-market scholars".... yeah. whatever.
I believe a liberated market could easily solve our availablity/cost/privacy/etc. issues easily and quickly. I suspect the "free-market scholars" mentioned here are actually the usual beltway telecom shills that wont be advocating any such liberalization. On the other hand people don't hesitate to blame the failures and inadequacies of this highly regulated and monopoly dominated system to "capitalism," so I suppose the shills are free to call themselves whatever they want, since we're just making stuff up.
(And no, I'm not interested in your view of the meaning of the word, or whatever cherry picked authority you'll cite. So don't bother.)
Some even saying the sorts of things internally in writing.
Indeed. And that was before Google fired Damore. Now these people have had their hate affirmed by their employer. There are probably several bloody minded people looking for any surviving thought criminals; precisely the sort of "direct action" these grievance mongers have been rationalizing all of their lives.
Cancelling the event is a no-brainer.
Good job missing the point. Not scheduling it the first place is the "no-brainer." Cancelling is what you do when you realize you failed to use your brain.
The powers-that-be at Google are inexplicably oblivious to the nature of the people they've collected and just how much shit they've involuntarily lost since Damore. They scheduled their little "diversity town hall" all unawares that they've populated their company with culture fascists that are perfectly capable of causing an ugly incident. Apparently there is at least one adult somewhere on the scene that grokked the situation and shut it down.
Someone needs to put that guy in charge for a while.
The headline in the first link changed to:
...Cancels Diversity Town Hall Over Concerns for Employee Safety
It is painfully clear these people have no concept of just how much hate they have been indulging. They've basically built a company populated with rabid malcontents that are prepared to harm or kill their cow-orkers.
At-will employment refresher
Funny how liberals only appreciate the liberty corporations have when thought criminals are getting it. Similar to how Facebook shouldn't be investigated for grooming a news feed because it's a private corporation and has a right to privacy. At any other time the corporate personhood from which these rights are derived makes the exact same people foam at the mouth.
A plaza full of stunted Koreans marching around with 50 year old weapons. Very admirable.
why are they not discussed?
Perhaps because Israel isn't in the habit of threatening people with nuclear holocaust every 72 hours.
I find it amusing that NK and the US leaders now basically indistinguishable:
Kim: We give you All Out Nuclear War
Trump: You are Looking for Trouble
Kim: The US will End in Catastrophe
Trump: We will be Very Severe
Kim: The Final Doom is Upon You
Trump: We will bring Fire and Fury
Kim: You shall be Made Into To Ashes
(all appear in headlines recently)
Nissan's battery factories are in Japan; Zama and Sagamihara Kanagawa. They'll be shutting those for GSR's Chinese factories.
What an amazing exhibition of group-think. Google has accumulated thousands of Sarah Meis and by extension the Valley etc. has accrued a couple million rigorously orthodox malcontents. We're now into day three of that monoculture's collective apoplexy because one powerless nobody had the temerity to question the dogma.
Thou doth protest too much, methinks.
I guess this one is good for a few more days.
Hmm. So the alternative you offer the millennial snowflakery is to forego the voice controlled real time detour aware digital navigation system and instead seek out a truck stop filled with overweight semi driving Rush Limbaugh devotees and staffed by townie meth addicts so that they might salvage a paper atlas from among the racks of CB gear and polished nude mudflap silhouettes?
Good luck with that.
One thing is for sure: this guy's career is over.
Indeed. The heinous thoughtcrime offender is doomed.
Isn't deregulation wonderful?
Yes, it is. Uber is perfectly capable of squashing the algorithm gaming that these drivers are exploiting. If Uber fails and allows drivers to abuse their system then a competitor will emerge. If the drivers won't work for the un-gamed rates then prices will climb. In. Any. Case. customers will still prefer these alternatives to any traditional unresponsive, costly monopoly taxi system. This is a nothingburger and we have no need of your nanny-state ban-hammer instincts.
Now that it's the micro-handed crotch grabber's policy more taxes are bad? What happened to "I like paying taxes" and "taxes pay for civilization herp derp?"
No, it wouldn't. If you look at a map of Walmart locations the big concentrations are in major urban areas. LA, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, Washington, Philidelphia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver etc. There are lots of locations sprinkled over the Eastern hinterlands, but those are 25-50 miles or more apart, whereas you can't swing a wife beater in Tampa without hitting a Walmart.
Walmart's largest demographic is lower income urbanites living in deep blue counties. The snaggletooth trumpsters that haunt your dreams don't tend to live in these big cities; they evacuated long ago to the exburbs and beyond. The big retail chains you can name don't serve these areas well. Out there you find Rural King (yes, that's the actual name), Tractor Supply Co. ("For Life Out Here"), Family Farm and Home, etc., lots of smaller regional chains and many, many independent retailers. The good independents are really nice as well; remember, the median income of the typical Trumpanzee primary voter is $72k. They aren't all poor.
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Same shit birds that saluted when this crap appeared earlier; "With the current administration's attitude toward transparency and catering only to the largest corporate donors herp derp."
So the US military will cease to be the target of more progressive social experiments for a few years. End of the world stuff right there; the virtuepocalypse is upon us!
Deplorables with incomes? Ew. Deindustrialize.
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