Who cares? If they hadn't made bad decisions they wouldn't be burger flipping disposables, right? Why are you suddenly all worked up about their fate?
You flood their unskilled occupations with immigrant labor and when they complain about it you say; well they should have made better decisions and they wouldn't be in that position. You set up frictionless imports from Asia and watch their unskilled jobs evacuate the country and when the unskilled workers complain about it you say; well they should have made better decisions and they wouldn't be in that position. You outlaw their jobs with regulations and when they complain about it you say: well they should have made better decisions and they wouldn't be in that position.
But let some CEO replace them with kiosks because your Santa Claus wage laws make those numbers line up and all the sudden your little heart breaks! The poor souls.. Aww. That's just unfair!
Tangential whataboutism. The thread is about actual totalitarian government and the knuckleheads that admire it, not your imaginary corporate dystopia.
We know you do. We also know you're not smart enough to make the connection between authoritarian government and lack of free speech, which is why we don't allow you to prevail.
That meeting there in late 2013 signalled a sea change at Intel to many of us who were there.
Well maybe it was, but these problems predate 2013. Guess the "validation" that was happening in the 18 years between 1995 and 2013 didn't amount to much.
So awesome. Grooming deplorables off the public network will make everything so nice. Should be a big help when hiring as well. Maybe voter registration some day. Yay.
Nobody gives fuck number one about "the poor." We deliberately burn literal mountains of food because Al Gore. We apply huge multipliers to the cost of everything — housing, vehicles, energy and on and on — to assuage the endless anxieties of the comfortable. We don't hesitate to freeze our poor elderly to death on behalf of these anxieties. No one will be swayed by arguments with this basis.
Pretty hard to support the arguments of Google et al. re Net Neutrality while this kind of nasty shit is going on. I fully appreciate the fine distinctions, but I also know explaining these subtleties to normals is nigh on impossible. At the end of the day it has every appearance of being just another bunch of corporate rent seekers squabbling with each other, none more obviously noble than the others, and safely ensconced in that stink the Senators from Comcast can back Comcast's FCC chairman with a straight face.
It appears that weather is now officially climate. How many months before the climate glitterati start awarding each other Ph.Ds in Attribution Science? Or has that already happened?
Every bird that falls from the sky is now the direct result of American per capita energy use and anyone that says otherwise is a denying shitheel.
This is an opportunity to condemn the US for its reckless cold war behavior. Also, there are obvious and fun equivalences your supposed to make between the Soviet Union and the US. Further, there are tangential green energy angles to this as well, which you should have picked up on by the subtle conflation of weapons production with and energy supply among the icons assigned to the story. These arguments should to be at hand at all times in case some trumpanzee mentions Chernobyl or Kysthym and you need to step in with the necessary whataboutism.
Remember, the US is a xenophobic, homophobic planet wrecking slave state infested by genocidal Christian white life and we're relying on people like you to keep yourself armed with the correct views at all times.
Michigan has approximately this system in place. It worked well in 2016.
What didn't work well was Wayne County. The county where one finds Detroit is fabulously corrupt and incompetent. Poll workers messed up their job so badly that had Jill Stein's recount been completed in Michigan about half of Detroit votes would have been excluded from the result; state law governing recounts excludes ballots from precincts that fail to balance votes tallied by the machine with paper ballots found in the lock box and the count of voters recorded as having voted in the precinct.
No other precincts in the state had such problems; the system is straightforward to operate and competent workers have no trouble dealing with it. The result was ideal; despite clear incompetence the final result in Michigan matched the intent of voters; had the Stein recount been completed according to the laws of the state the winner's margin (Trump) would only have gotten larger.
Michigan's voter ID law also helped in detecting a number of double votes by people sending in absentee ballots and also voting at polling stations. Absolutely no one anywhere was surprised to discover that the vast majority (29 of 31) of those cases were from (D) dominant Detroit as well.
This "journal" is a McCune operation; the ultra wealthy widow of a banker that funds all manner of establishment approved non-profits and academics. In addition to being the ultimate paymaster of no end of well connected non-profits they fund lots of (D) campaigns in the North East [1,2].
Enjoy your establishment kool-aid. It's telling you want you want to hear so I'm sure the fact that it's 1% "bankster " funded "research" won't be an issue as it ricochets around the liberal echo chamber.
The majority of Americans aren't hate-filled malcontents that actively seek opportunities to be offended by nothing little holiday traditions. The majority of Americans know there is nothing in "Merry Christmas" that needs to be fixed and have low regard the shitheels that think there is.
1. Does the price of services that I'm using go up? Yes
2. Do these services maintain a similar quality of service as they do today? Yes, at some higher price for the service.
3. Will I be able to rent a movie via AppleTV and have it still be instantly watchable? Yes, at some higher price for the service.
4. Will Netflix and Hulu still stream at a watchable rate? Yes, at some higher price for the service.
The rent seekers want you to pay them, not shut you down. This is history; In 2014 Netflix signed a deal with Comcast to end their artificial bandwidth problems reaching Comcast customers. The practice would have become more widespread except NN shut it down. It will now be rapidly applied to every significant streaming service and the cost will be passed on to you.
They won't lose common carrier status. They'll keep it and manipulate content for profit. Anything they do that involves manipulating content and traffic will be judged a function of an "information service," not a common carrier, while the exact same wires, poles and conduits will remain their exclusive property and protected from competitors as a function of being the common carrier. They're going to have both simultaneously.
As a result of working for DOD contractors at various times my identity information — extremely detailed identity stuff, like who I went to grade school with and every place I've ever lived and every foreign country I've ever visited — has been stolen from Federal government systems three times now. We see no end of criminality in the handling of the Federal government's electronic documents and no end to the incompetence and deliberate neglect in maintaining recoverable backups.
This Federal government you imagine of competent, conscientious and moral people that don't neglect things and don't destroy incriminating things is a fiction inside your head, and no amount of billions of dollars can ever make it real; it's broken by design. I can't see how moving the bulk of it to efficiently run and competently maintained cloud environments could do any harm, and it may well improve things in a number of ways. At the very least it may stop being trivially simple for the next Paul Combetta to doctor and erase the record.
This means we cannot have growth because companies will not be able to hire new people
The low unemployment figures published by the labor department have factored out a huge number of employable people that supposedly "gave up" looking for work (according to labor.) The actual pool of available workers is much larger than what the unemployment number suggests. The is corroborated by the fact that wage growth has been modest despite the low unemployment rate; the pool isn't actually empty yet.
Removing people from the "work force" to improve the unemployment number was an obvious and widely criticized tactic during Obama's time. If this growth continues I predict that at some point the labor department will be forced to correct this and factor people back in, otherwise they'll end up with some absurdly low figure that is difficult to explain. We're getting close to that point now; the calculation is already making "record low unemployment rate" headlines. If it gets into the 3's or even lower there will be "ALL TIME RECORD" headlines at which point the jig will be up and everyone will be questioning the legitimacy of these figures if only because they'll make Trump look good.
Tarantino can probably help with that part. Give him some play and the finale will be a seedy hold in the bottom of some pirate space ship filled with sacks of space dope and a bunch of astonished, half naked female bad persons that blast each into bloody chunks spinning in zero g, all in slow motion.
Here I thought Germany had it's collective head screwed on straight. Boy was I ever wrong, I guess.
See elsewhere in this thread; it's Trump's corrupting influence, dontchaknow. Read some of those and your worldview will be back on the rails in no time.
Never mind that Germany has been competing with the UK for years to see who can create the most chilling thought-police state in Western Europe to deal with mass immigration opponents. Nah. You're only just now noticing how bad it's gotten.
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which very few can afford.
Who cares? If they hadn't made bad decisions they wouldn't be burger flipping disposables, right? Why are you suddenly all worked up about their fate?
You flood their unskilled occupations with immigrant labor and when they complain about it you say; well they should have made better decisions and they wouldn't be in that position. You set up frictionless imports from Asia and watch their unskilled jobs evacuate the country and when the unskilled workers complain about it you say; well they should have made better decisions and they wouldn't be in that position. You outlaw their jobs with regulations and when they complain about it you say: well they should have made better decisions and they wouldn't be in that position.
But let some CEO replace them with kiosks because your Santa Claus wage laws make those numbers line up and all the sudden your little heart breaks! The poor souls.. Aww. That's just unfair!
I'm beginning to suspect you're incoherent. We're done.
look at America
You tried to hide your habitual liberal whataboutery by not mentioning the US directly in your first reply. So much for that.
Tangential whataboutism. The thread is about actual totalitarian government and the knuckleheads that admire it, not your imaginary corporate dystopia.
+10 Insightful.
We know you do. We also know you're not smart enough to make the connection between authoritarian government and lack of free speech, which is why we don't allow you to prevail.
That meeting there in late 2013 signalled a sea change at Intel to many of us who were there.
Well maybe it was, but these problems predate 2013. Guess the "validation" that was happening in the 18 years between 1995 and 2013 didn't amount to much.
Please. Let's tear that scab clean off. I would love to live in that shitstorm.
Do it, bitches. Be who you are.
So awesome. Grooming deplorables off the public network will make everything so nice. Should be a big help when hiring as well. Maybe voter registration some day. Yay.
Expensive = Starvation for the poor...
Nobody gives fuck number one about "the poor." We deliberately burn literal mountains of food because Al Gore. We apply huge multipliers to the cost of everything — housing, vehicles, energy and on and on — to assuage the endless anxieties of the comfortable. We don't hesitate to freeze our poor elderly to death on behalf of these anxieties. No one will be swayed by arguments with this basis.
Fix->Block->Fix->Block
Pretty hard to support the arguments of Google et al. re Net Neutrality while this kind of nasty shit is going on. I fully appreciate the fine distinctions, but I also know explaining these subtleties to normals is nigh on impossible. At the end of the day it has every appearance of being just another bunch of corporate rent seekers squabbling with each other, none more obviously noble than the others, and safely ensconced in that stink the Senators from Comcast can back Comcast's FCC chairman with a straight face.
It appears that weather is now officially climate. How many months before the climate glitterati start awarding each other Ph.Ds in Attribution Science? Or has that already happened?
Every bird that falls from the sky is now the direct result of American per capita energy use and anyone that says otherwise is a denying shitheel.
Am I missing something?
Why yes. Yes you are.
This is an opportunity to condemn the US for its reckless cold war behavior. Also, there are obvious and fun equivalences your supposed to make between the Soviet Union and the US. Further, there are tangential green energy angles to this as well, which you should have picked up on by the subtle conflation of weapons production with and energy supply among the icons assigned to the story. These arguments should to be at hand at all times in case some trumpanzee mentions Chernobyl or Kysthym and you need to step in with the necessary whataboutism.
Remember, the US is a xenophobic, homophobic planet wrecking slave state infested by genocidal Christian white life and we're relying on people like you to keep yourself armed with the correct views at all times.
Carry on, Internet warrior!
Michigan has approximately this system in place. It worked well in 2016.
What didn't work well was Wayne County. The county where one finds Detroit is fabulously corrupt and incompetent. Poll workers messed up their job so badly that had Jill Stein's recount been completed in Michigan about half of Detroit votes would have been excluded from the result; state law governing recounts excludes ballots from precincts that fail to balance votes tallied by the machine with paper ballots found in the lock box and the count of voters recorded as having voted in the precinct.
No other precincts in the state had such problems; the system is straightforward to operate and competent workers have no trouble dealing with it. The result was ideal; despite clear incompetence the final result in Michigan matched the intent of voters; had the Stein recount been completed according to the laws of the state the winner's margin (Trump) would only have gotten larger.
Michigan's voter ID law also helped in detecting a number of double votes by people sending in absentee ballots and also voting at polling stations. Absolutely no one anywhere was surprised to discover that the vast majority (29 of 31) of those cases were from (D) dominant Detroit as well.
This "journal" is a McCune operation; the ultra wealthy widow of a banker that funds all manner of establishment approved non-profits and academics. In addition to being the ultimate paymaster of no end of well connected non-profits they fund lots of (D) campaigns in the North East [1,2].
1. https://www.followthemoney.org...
2. https://www.followthemoney.org...
Enjoy your establishment kool-aid. It's telling you want you want to hear so I'm sure the fact that it's 1% "bankster " funded "research" won't be an issue as it ricochets around the liberal echo chamber.
But moral panics are fun!
The majority of Americans aren't hate-filled malcontents that actively seek opportunities to be offended by nothing little holiday traditions. The majority of Americans know there is nothing in "Merry Christmas" that needs to be fixed and have low regard the shitheels that think there is.
I'm just going to go ahead and not participate in this. Thanks anyhow.
1. Does the price of services that I'm using go up? Yes
2. Do these services maintain a similar quality of service as they do today? Yes, at some higher price for the service.
3. Will I be able to rent a movie via AppleTV and have it still be instantly watchable? Yes, at some higher price for the service.
4. Will Netflix and Hulu still stream at a watchable rate? Yes, at some higher price for the service.
The rent seekers want you to pay them, not shut you down. This is history; In 2014 Netflix signed a deal with Comcast to end their artificial bandwidth problems reaching Comcast customers. The practice would have become more widespread except NN shut it down. It will now be rapidly applied to every significant streaming service and the cost will be passed on to you.
They won't lose common carrier status. They'll keep it and manipulate content for profit. Anything they do that involves manipulating content and traffic will be judged a function of an "information service," not a common carrier, while the exact same wires, poles and conduits will remain their exclusive property and protected from competitors as a function of being the common carrier. They're going to have both simultaneously.
As a result of working for DOD contractors at various times my identity information — extremely detailed identity stuff, like who I went to grade school with and every place I've ever lived and every foreign country I've ever visited — has been stolen from Federal government systems three times now. We see no end of criminality in the handling of the Federal government's electronic documents and no end to the incompetence and deliberate neglect in maintaining recoverable backups.
This Federal government you imagine of competent, conscientious and moral people that don't neglect things and don't destroy incriminating things is a fiction inside your head, and no amount of billions of dollars can ever make it real; it's broken by design. I can't see how moving the bulk of it to efficiently run and competently maintained cloud environments could do any harm, and it may well improve things in a number of ways. At the very least it may stop being trivially simple for the next Paul Combetta to doctor and erase the record.
This means we cannot have growth because companies will not be able to hire new people
The low unemployment figures published by the labor department have factored out a huge number of employable people that supposedly "gave up" looking for work (according to labor.) The actual pool of available workers is much larger than what the unemployment number suggests. The is corroborated by the fact that wage growth has been modest despite the low unemployment rate; the pool isn't actually empty yet.
Removing people from the "work force" to improve the unemployment number was an obvious and widely criticized tactic during Obama's time. If this growth continues I predict that at some point the labor department will be forced to correct this and factor people back in, otherwise they'll end up with some absurdly low figure that is difficult to explain. We're getting close to that point now; the calculation is already making "record low unemployment rate" headlines. If it gets into the 3's or even lower there will be "ALL TIME RECORD" headlines at which point the jig will be up and everyone will be questioning the legitimacy of these figures if only because they'll make Trump look good.
too clean
Tarantino can probably help with that part. Give him some play and the finale will be a seedy hold in the bottom of some pirate space ship filled with sacks of space dope and a bunch of astonished, half naked female bad persons that blast each into bloody chunks spinning in zero g, all in slow motion.
Sounds like a plan.
Here I thought Germany had it's collective head screwed on straight. Boy was I ever wrong, I guess.
See elsewhere in this thread; it's Trump's corrupting influence, dontchaknow. Read some of those and your worldview will be back on the rails in no time.
Never mind that Germany has been competing with the UK for years to see who can create the most chilling thought-police state in Western Europe to deal with mass immigration opponents. Nah. You're only just now noticing how bad it's gotten.
Too fucking late.
The grifters of NY and the beltway can pay each other for their private echo chamber. The less exposure everyone else has to it the better.