elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: Never Lie About Who You Really Are
I don't mean to be presumptuous, but are you straight? Not feeling compelled to tell people about your sexuality is a luxury afforded to people who fit into the norm. It's what LGBT activists would call "privilege", and it's something that we as straight/white/male/other dominant group need to be aware of if we don't wish to alienate minority groups.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: xkcd: Instagram
Yeah, how does that work? If someone uploads a photo they took of me to Instagram, can Instagram now sell that to an advertiser and use the image of me without my consent?
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: Is Facebook down?
DNS issue? I can ping some of their IP addresses but not others.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: Is Facebook down?
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: SwiftKey Flow beta now open
> The 'never lift your finger from the screen' thing works very well
Really? I can't get it to work at all. It looks like it tries to predict the entire sentence, and if it gets lost it just drops the whole thing. I would much rather it spit out a word each time I swipe down to the spacebar, that way if there is a prediction error I can stop and correct that word without losing an entire sentence.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: If Peter Thiel And Garry Kasparov Are Right, Then We're In Trouble
What taxes are you talking about that are much higher than in prior periods? I've heard from a lot of investors that high taxes don't really impact their decisions. A good investment is a good investment. High taxes on middle class people however can have a stifling effect, because they don't have the extra cash to keep circulating in the economy.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: Engineers suck at finding the right jobs
Not everyone can or even should be a programmer.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: Engineers suck at finding the right jobs
Yeah, I got a call from a recruiter when I was out to lunch with non-programmer friends. The fact that I was annoyed by it drew some death glares.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
> You can't really control the amounts of pressure and negative influence you get in life.
The entire premise of OWS is that we can. Another world is possible.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
That's great that you went to all that effort, but I still think you're missing the point. This is not about "putting the man on his ear". You're the only one who sounds like a pseudo-anarchist here. It's the same noise we heard about how the encampments were ineffective, while the national conversation changed around us.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
Because it's a signal to all these debtors that there's a significant segment of the population that doesn't want to play by the old rules. It shows that they can count on their fellow citizens to help them out when they are down on their luck, the very definition of social capital.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
This is not necessarily connected to the Sandy relief efforts, and there's nothing wrong with different parts of the Occupy movement working on different problems.
There's already enough houses, we don't need to build more. What needs to change is peoples' tacit acceptance of the current debt relations, which is precisely what this action is challenging.
I'm not sure why you put social capital in scare quotes, it has an accepted definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
With a straight face, you're going to tell me that the reason there was such a brutal crackdown on OWS was that people were smoking pot and there were isolated incidents of rape?
Also keep in mind that the Tea Partiers were carrying around assault rifles.
Yeah I'm not buying it.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
That's what you want my argument to be, because it would be much easier to dismiss. In reality what I'm saying is that I don't think it's right to have a society that puts crazy amounts of pressure on people and simultaneously refuses to acknowledge the negative influence that those pressures have on behavior.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
Not sure what DUIs have to do with this. I'm thinking about the guy who lost his job, and the closest position he could find was 50 miles away from his home, which he can't move out of without losing a lot of money. He's exhausted from the long commute each day and the stress of being up to his neck in debt, which is what he's distracted by when he doesn't see the pedestrian step out from behind a parked car. It's got nothing to do with maturity or whatever, it's about doing what is necessary to survive and provide for your family. It's pretty callous and insulting to tell someone in this situation that they deserve to be crushed under debt because you don't want to "enable" their behavior.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
You're still only thinking in terms of the market. This action is about raising social capital.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
> People need food, shelter, clothes, toiletries, warmth
That's exactly what Occupy Sandy provided, in some cases better than the Red Cross or FEMA could:
http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/
This is an action by Strike Debt. OWS didn't go away, it's evolved into these different platforms.
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
The issue is also, is it really entitlement to ask for a level playing field and a functioning democracy?
elemenohpee
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13 years ago
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on: The People's Bailout
> Civil liberties and free speech are supposed to be the cornerstone of American democracy and yada yada, but people suddenly feel extremely threatened when people want to exercise them.
Notice the government doesn't get their panties in a bunch over the Westboro church, or Tea Party townhalls, but turn your attention towards the plutocrats and suddenly there's riot police in the street. The fact that the government feels threatened lends credence to their critique.
