>Our problem is that the press isn’t doing their job ... Well, it's practically impossible to get a person to do something when their paycheck depends on their not doing it.
Maybe when Steven Pruitt starts hallucinating facts we can make the "both sides" argument. But until then....
>Purely rhetorical--with sugar cane being so dominant, why are we turning corn into corn syrup again? The same reason we sold a "whale oil" replacement for lamps as "food". Money. It always comes down to money.
I think he's using "rest of the world" sized people and not "american sized" ones.
> Two dozen of largest enterprises and unicorns and so on. Nobody wanted the billing department "inline" of systems controls. And of course, two dozen enterprises trump hundreds if not thousands of other small…
But it's nice to point out to youngins who may not realize how "embrace and extend" worked historically.
I know. I'm still upset about being unable to be "happy and gay".
don't forget the "auto reset all consent flags to 'allowed'" oopsie bug.
>Luddites have existed since the dawn of times: Pet peeve - luddites had never been against technology. They had been against using low paid inexperienced grunt workers to displace well paid experts. See:…
>deleted all data that was uploaded. Hahahahaha... Well, if you believe that, I've got a bridge for sale...
> Mark "they trust me; dumb fucks" Zuckerberg There's also Mark "company over country" Zuckerberg.
Another point for "Pretty Privilege / Halo Effect"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_privilege
I had to replace a fire alarm last week, so sometimes they do shriek at us at all hours!
Yay capitalism! Imagine how much value is being created for shareholders by this destruction! Another example of "great work" being done! Jokes aside, I don't know what I would do in this situation either. Maybe find a…
It's cheaper for the manufacturer. Not necessarily for the consumer.
All of them. Don't you know you're supposed to make fun of people that a "different" from you? Get with the program already. (/s if it wasn't already clear.)
There is more than enough research. https://thehighwire.com/news/metas-internal-research-proves-... But nothing's going to change as long as we continue pretending that billionaires hoarding pieces of "special" paper…
I know it's hard - but I was referring to companies taking tax dollars and not doing anything with it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/att-took-283-mil... >AT&T falsely told the US government that it met its…
>So the health insurance alone doesn't come close to covering the gap. You're right - I was also including all the other taxes - SS/Medicare/Unemployment/State/city etc. For ex: someone living in NYC, with 150-200k…
>I see that it has a size of about 85.5 thousand square miles (and about 2 million people). >I've never understood the value in comparing relatively densely populated European countries to America. The practical…
It's "Do More Evil" now.
>Would you rather they never hire those people? Because that is one option. Yup, and that way those people should be hired by companies who are in it for the long term and not looking just at the next quarter (and using…
>Now compare your cousin’s yearly salary in Belgium with the average salary of a US employee doing the same job. Take home is about the same after including health insurance and all the myriad taxes that US employees…
>Do you think those natural resources would have been taken advantage of as well in some other system? Yes. See Norway for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
>It was not okay for them, they had to pay one billion dollars. Essentially peanuts compared to what they would have to pay to obtain the rights of everything they pirated.
>Our problem is that the press isn’t doing their job ... Well, it's practically impossible to get a person to do something when their paycheck depends on their not doing it.
Maybe when Steven Pruitt starts hallucinating facts we can make the "both sides" argument. But until then....
>Purely rhetorical--with sugar cane being so dominant, why are we turning corn into corn syrup again? The same reason we sold a "whale oil" replacement for lamps as "food". Money. It always comes down to money.
I think he's using "rest of the world" sized people and not "american sized" ones.
> Two dozen of largest enterprises and unicorns and so on. Nobody wanted the billing department "inline" of systems controls. And of course, two dozen enterprises trump hundreds if not thousands of other small…
But it's nice to point out to youngins who may not realize how "embrace and extend" worked historically.
I know. I'm still upset about being unable to be "happy and gay".
don't forget the "auto reset all consent flags to 'allowed'" oopsie bug.
>Luddites have existed since the dawn of times: Pet peeve - luddites had never been against technology. They had been against using low paid inexperienced grunt workers to displace well paid experts. See:…
>deleted all data that was uploaded. Hahahahaha... Well, if you believe that, I've got a bridge for sale...
> Mark "they trust me; dumb fucks" Zuckerberg There's also Mark "company over country" Zuckerberg.
Another point for "Pretty Privilege / Halo Effect"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_privilege
I had to replace a fire alarm last week, so sometimes they do shriek at us at all hours!
Yay capitalism! Imagine how much value is being created for shareholders by this destruction! Another example of "great work" being done! Jokes aside, I don't know what I would do in this situation either. Maybe find a…
It's cheaper for the manufacturer. Not necessarily for the consumer.
All of them. Don't you know you're supposed to make fun of people that a "different" from you? Get with the program already. (/s if it wasn't already clear.)
There is more than enough research. https://thehighwire.com/news/metas-internal-research-proves-... But nothing's going to change as long as we continue pretending that billionaires hoarding pieces of "special" paper…
I know it's hard - but I was referring to companies taking tax dollars and not doing anything with it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/att-took-283-mil... >AT&T falsely told the US government that it met its…
>So the health insurance alone doesn't come close to covering the gap. You're right - I was also including all the other taxes - SS/Medicare/Unemployment/State/city etc. For ex: someone living in NYC, with 150-200k…
>I see that it has a size of about 85.5 thousand square miles (and about 2 million people). >I've never understood the value in comparing relatively densely populated European countries to America. The practical…
It's "Do More Evil" now.
>Would you rather they never hire those people? Because that is one option. Yup, and that way those people should be hired by companies who are in it for the long term and not looking just at the next quarter (and using…
>Now compare your cousin’s yearly salary in Belgium with the average salary of a US employee doing the same job. Take home is about the same after including health insurance and all the myriad taxes that US employees…
>Do you think those natural resources would have been taken advantage of as well in some other system? Yes. See Norway for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
>It was not okay for them, they had to pay one billion dollars. Essentially peanuts compared to what they would have to pay to obtain the rights of everything they pirated.