Hard to believe - can't trust anything from a right-wing source.
That aside - if it's accurate - you wonder how such a deal would've been swung?
2015-06-30
2015-06-29
The corporatization of space flight continues ...
One glorious disaster after another.
Like this one -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_CRS-7
SpaceX CRS-7 was a private American rocket cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, contracted to NASA, and launched and failed on June 28, 2015. It exploded 139 seconds into the flight after launch from Cape Canaveral, just before the first stage was to separate from the second stage.[1]
Like this one -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_CRS-7
SpaceX CRS-7 was a private American rocket cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, contracted to NASA, and launched and failed on June 28, 2015. It exploded 139 seconds into the flight after launch from Cape Canaveral, just before the first stage was to separate from the second stage.[1]
2015-06-27
The three critical functions of corporate enterprise management.
The three critical functions of corporate enterprise management.
People in an enterprise are about effort, execution and delivery. But it's up to managers to make all that successful by guiding based on what they know, how they request things get done, and the directions they take to get there.
I assert that when the people who report to you as a manager actually make you successful,
that means the work is happening in spite of you. You're not doing your job as a manager very well. Why?
A group of people - however large in size - doing a whole lot of different things concurrently can
only go on for so long before it soon gets random and stops moving together. It's inevitable. Leadership at the top provides vision and inspires people to motivate them (i.e. why am I doing this?), but it's management that provides the crucial layer between the vision and the work.
1. Experience - Do you know what you're requesting?
Do managers have to the experience in doing the work they are asking to be performed of their
Individual Contributors and Teams? Often times people who have a title that has manager in it, got it because of something other than what they've done in the past successfully. Having experience in doing something gives one who manages other to do the same thing some perspective. Note I said SOME. Just because you've done it doesn't always mean it was the best and/or the right way, an/or the quickest way to do it. There might be other or better ways and talking with people about what's being requested helps arrive at what could be best and right way to get something.
And I've found that it's usually a disaster when someone is in a position of authority to try and get people to do something, when they themselves don't know what they're talking about because
they've never done it. Can that still be done? Yes, but I think it's a lot harder to without having some experience in doing the work, but being successful without it I think only comes if you absolutely have the two other things below.
2. Style - How do you go about requesting?
Do managers order people around, command, bully, demand things get done? Or to they ask? Do they say 'please' when asking, and 'thank you' when it's done? Is it verbal? Is it in email? Is it consistent across various mediums of communication?
Do they ask in private, or put on the spot in a meeting or in front of a whole bunch of others? Do they create a culture where people can point out blocking issues or potential roadblocks to getting something done, or is it a culture of fear management, or 'can-do'?
Do they come up to you and act like they're your friend one minute, then the next
send an email to you and copy five directors that you have 10 things to do and complete it by yesterday? It may seem like semantics to some, but hearing and seeing those things, being recognized for it - they do count and they do mean things because we're not machines or software - we're human beings and human beings need to feel like what they're doing has value. That they're putting their time, effort, energy into doing something, and it's appreciated by someone.
And I get that as a manager you want to 'protect' your team from shit or bad things or just plain CYA. But when a manager praises their own team by shitting on someone else or someone else's group or team, what does that really indicate about that person? Are they really as protective as they seem, or is it they're just doing so to protect their own reputation?
Then you have sociopaths - people who do or say anything to enhance their reputations in front of others (oftentimes those in higher authority). Imagine such people as managers of others - they will say or agree to or commit not only themselves but their teams, their people to their agendas. For me it's a telling sign when they refer a group or team they manage as 'my team' or 'my staff' or 'my people', or worse; they commit to things as themselves (I can do this, or I can't do that) but really are referring to the group of people they manage.
3. Prioritization - What are you willing to do to help get what's being requested done?
Multitasking is myth. People can do multiple things at once, but that's not the same as focusing on many things at once. Human beings by and large have single minds (those with multiple minds I think have something along the lines of SAD), and are normally singularly focused. One can set multiple things into motion and watch them as they go, but not truly doing them and focusing on them at the same time.
Computers multitask when they have multiple CPU and threads. Humans cannot - at least they're not evolved enough presently to do so.
That being said - people in general can only do what's requested of them when they know what to do, and what can get in the way of getting it done. And if they're able to be honest enough to share that (i.e. being as realistic as possible), then as a manager, what are you doing to help them get there?
Do managers know when they're needing something done by someone - what they are currently working on, what's their focus, what's their bandwidth, can they be realistic, what are the costs or the price in having them work on this?
And crucially - if in order for people to get this work done, are they willing to step up and remove any identified blocking issues in order for said work to get done? If you ask someone on the team you're the manager of to get a report out to a large audience of several organizations, and it requires them to do research, get data from various systems or sources, talk to others, they themselves have to request things of others, they need to time to think, assess, organize, review, and so on; are you as their manager willing to help them get there? Are you willing to ensure you work with other teams' managers to ensure those systems are up, that the team you manage has the time, has the ability to drive and work with others to do what's needed? And if they're blocked, if they're telling you there's a problem, or someone isn't helping them, or something isn't working - are you willing to advise them,
understand what they're telling you, calling people, communicating to other managers, even jumping to help them - are you willing to do all that and more?
People in an enterprise are about effort, execution and delivery. But it's up to managers to make all that successful by guiding based on what they know, how they request things get done, and the directions they take to get there.
I assert that when the people who report to you as a manager actually make you successful,
that means the work is happening in spite of you. You're not doing your job as a manager very well. Why?
A group of people - however large in size - doing a whole lot of different things concurrently can
only go on for so long before it soon gets random and stops moving together. It's inevitable. Leadership at the top provides vision and inspires people to motivate them (i.e. why am I doing this?), but it's management that provides the crucial layer between the vision and the work.
1. Experience - Do you know what you're requesting?
Do managers have to the experience in doing the work they are asking to be performed of their
Individual Contributors and Teams? Often times people who have a title that has manager in it, got it because of something other than what they've done in the past successfully. Having experience in doing something gives one who manages other to do the same thing some perspective. Note I said SOME. Just because you've done it doesn't always mean it was the best and/or the right way, an/or the quickest way to do it. There might be other or better ways and talking with people about what's being requested helps arrive at what could be best and right way to get something.
And I've found that it's usually a disaster when someone is in a position of authority to try and get people to do something, when they themselves don't know what they're talking about because
they've never done it. Can that still be done? Yes, but I think it's a lot harder to without having some experience in doing the work, but being successful without it I think only comes if you absolutely have the two other things below.
2. Style - How do you go about requesting?
Do managers order people around, command, bully, demand things get done? Or to they ask? Do they say 'please' when asking, and 'thank you' when it's done? Is it verbal? Is it in email? Is it consistent across various mediums of communication?
Do they ask in private, or put on the spot in a meeting or in front of a whole bunch of others? Do they create a culture where people can point out blocking issues or potential roadblocks to getting something done, or is it a culture of fear management, or 'can-do'?
Do they come up to you and act like they're your friend one minute, then the next
send an email to you and copy five directors that you have 10 things to do and complete it by yesterday? It may seem like semantics to some, but hearing and seeing those things, being recognized for it - they do count and they do mean things because we're not machines or software - we're human beings and human beings need to feel like what they're doing has value. That they're putting their time, effort, energy into doing something, and it's appreciated by someone.
And I get that as a manager you want to 'protect' your team from shit or bad things or just plain CYA. But when a manager praises their own team by shitting on someone else or someone else's group or team, what does that really indicate about that person? Are they really as protective as they seem, or is it they're just doing so to protect their own reputation?
Then you have sociopaths - people who do or say anything to enhance their reputations in front of others (oftentimes those in higher authority). Imagine such people as managers of others - they will say or agree to or commit not only themselves but their teams, their people to their agendas. For me it's a telling sign when they refer a group or team they manage as 'my team' or 'my staff' or 'my people', or worse; they commit to things as themselves (I can do this, or I can't do that) but really are referring to the group of people they manage.
3. Prioritization - What are you willing to do to help get what's being requested done?
Multitasking is myth. People can do multiple things at once, but that's not the same as focusing on many things at once. Human beings by and large have single minds (those with multiple minds I think have something along the lines of SAD), and are normally singularly focused. One can set multiple things into motion and watch them as they go, but not truly doing them and focusing on them at the same time.
Computers multitask when they have multiple CPU and threads. Humans cannot - at least they're not evolved enough presently to do so.
That being said - people in general can only do what's requested of them when they know what to do, and what can get in the way of getting it done. And if they're able to be honest enough to share that (i.e. being as realistic as possible), then as a manager, what are you doing to help them get there?
Do managers know when they're needing something done by someone - what they are currently working on, what's their focus, what's their bandwidth, can they be realistic, what are the costs or the price in having them work on this?
And crucially - if in order for people to get this work done, are they willing to step up and remove any identified blocking issues in order for said work to get done? If you ask someone on the team you're the manager of to get a report out to a large audience of several organizations, and it requires them to do research, get data from various systems or sources, talk to others, they themselves have to request things of others, they need to time to think, assess, organize, review, and so on; are you as their manager willing to help them get there? Are you willing to ensure you work with other teams' managers to ensure those systems are up, that the team you manage has the time, has the ability to drive and work with others to do what's needed? And if they're blocked, if they're telling you there's a problem, or someone isn't helping them, or something isn't working - are you willing to advise them,
understand what they're telling you, calling people, communicating to other managers, even jumping to help them - are you willing to do all that and more?
2015-06-26
Long weekend ... of work
It's been a crazy few weeks that have gotten even crazier.
- Endless micromanagement 'huddles'
- Forever being bullied into commit time estimates on tasks completely in isolation only to see those dropped into project schedules
- Forced to work on several Priority 1's - concurrently.
Gay Marriage legal in the US
About time this form of discrimination was wiped away.
I here some judges are now refusing to not only to issue marriage licenses to gays and lesbians (judges breaking law; that's a good one), but refusing to issue marriage licenses altogether.
That's not really smart is it? I mean not only are is one showing their bigotry, not only are they costing their voters revenue, but really - aren't they demonstrating they cannot do their job competently?
I here some judges are now refusing to not only to issue marriage licenses to gays and lesbians (judges breaking law; that's a good one), but refusing to issue marriage licenses altogether.
That's not really smart is it? I mean not only are is one showing their bigotry, not only are they costing their voters revenue, but really - aren't they demonstrating they cannot do their job competently?
2015-06-23
LIfe moves at many speeds.
Why is it I can never seem to move at whatever pace everything else is at?
Focus?
Drive?
Energy?
Age?
Patience?
Ego?
Knowledge?
Connections?
Time?
Some of the above? None of the above?
I don't know.
Focus?
Drive?
Energy?
Age?
Patience?
Ego?
Knowledge?
Connections?
Time?
Some of the above? None of the above?
I don't know.
2015-06-22
A sad day in Canadian history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182
To think, we were in the same airport as that flight on that same day. One of my siblings even saw the plane as passengers were boarding.
So horrible and so sad.
To think, we were in the same airport as that flight on that same day. One of my siblings even saw the plane as passengers were boarding.
So horrible and so sad.
2015-06-20
Happy Summer Solstice.
Maybe we can celebrate hope that the people of the world will turn things around.
2015-06-18
Another government shutdown?
This time in Washington State.
https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2015/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-a-state-government-shutdown.html
So basically, Republicans are willing to shut down the state government to protect the rich from being taxed to pay for public schools?
Exactly.
You'd think the right-wing would learn from the last time they tried this.
https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2015/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-a-state-government-shutdown.html
So basically, Republicans are willing to shut down the state government to protect the rich from being taxed to pay for public schools?
Exactly.
You'd think the right-wing would learn from the last time they tried this.
2015-06-16
Why the NRA should never ever be considered a voice of anything other than a lobby for gun corporations.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/16/gun-maker-colt-neared-bankruptcy-made-payments-nra-political-allies-former-general-mcchrsytal/
The creditor matrix document filed by Colt doesn’t list amounts, but shows that the firm owed money to the National Rifle Association along with the NRA’s affiliated foundation and its “Life of Duty” outreach program to law enforcement. In recent election cycles, the NRA has used its nonprofit entity, backed with money from corporate partners and dues-paying members, to run aggressive campaign advertisements, largely to elect Republicans to Congress.
2015-06-15
A corporation afraid of something?
You don't say!
http://www.bioscienceresource.org/2015/05/monsantos-worst-fear-may-be-coming-true/
http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/monsantos-worst-fear-may-be-coming-true/
Synopsis: The decision of the restaurant chain Chipotle to go GMO-free is potentially a huge blow to the agbiotech industry. The decision opens up a crack in the previously solid front offered by the food industry in support of GMOs. Two factors are at work that will widen that crack: the growing unpopularity of GMOs and the pressure being felt by most sectors of the food industry to produce safer, healthier, and more sustainable products. Going GMO-free is a simple and manageable way for stores and brands to meet that demand. Consequently, a race to become GMO-free may be developing. But there is a third factor in this scenario: hazards in the GMO product pipeline. Many new GMOs are expected to be produced using a phenomenon called RNA interference which uses perfectly double stranded RNAs (dsRNAs). Our research shows that RNA molecules exactly like these were tried and rejected by medical researchers in the 1960s and 1970s as being too hazardous for medicine. The scientific literature evaluating the hazards of RNA molecules in crop biotechnology has so far overlooked this important historical research. As this research becomes better known, it will make defending the use of GMOs much harder.
http://www.bioscienceresource.org/2015/05/monsantos-worst-fear-may-be-coming-true/
http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/monsantos-worst-fear-may-be-coming-true/
Synopsis: The decision of the restaurant chain Chipotle to go GMO-free is potentially a huge blow to the agbiotech industry. The decision opens up a crack in the previously solid front offered by the food industry in support of GMOs. Two factors are at work that will widen that crack: the growing unpopularity of GMOs and the pressure being felt by most sectors of the food industry to produce safer, healthier, and more sustainable products. Going GMO-free is a simple and manageable way for stores and brands to meet that demand. Consequently, a race to become GMO-free may be developing. But there is a third factor in this scenario: hazards in the GMO product pipeline. Many new GMOs are expected to be produced using a phenomenon called RNA interference which uses perfectly double stranded RNAs (dsRNAs). Our research shows that RNA molecules exactly like these were tried and rejected by medical researchers in the 1960s and 1970s as being too hazardous for medicine. The scientific literature evaluating the hazards of RNA molecules in crop biotechnology has so far overlooked this important historical research. As this research becomes better known, it will make defending the use of GMOs much harder.
2015-06-14
No metalinjection.net, it doesn't sound good at at all.
'He's hitting the notes!' - > No he's not. He's hitting a lower set
of notes, not 'the' notes. If he can't then he shouldn't pretend he is. Better to simply write/perform a new set of songs in D and simply drop the older material.
2015-06-11
You'd think with all the massive overlap these days between government and corporations, shit like this wouldn't happen ...
... but no.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/11/federal-hack-union/
http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/11/federal-hack-union/
Hackers stole all federal employees' SSN and private info, union says
2015-06-10
This is why corporations should be kept out of owning professional sport teams.
I'm all for them sponsoring and promoting things in advance of that, fine.
But owning teams and dictating things in the name of solely making money? No - why?
http://www.tsn.ca/talent/glendale-votes-to-cancel-arena-deal-1.305250
"During a special meeting convened Wednesday night that featured threats of a $200-million lawsuit and emotional fans wearing team jerseys, city councillors in Glendale, Arizona, voted to cancel the arena management contract that sees the city pay $15 million a year to the Arizona Coyotes."
The juicy bit -
"The departure of former city attorney Craig Tindall's from his position more than two years ago was central to the argument to cancel the agreement.
Tindall was asked to resign as city attorney in February 2013 by Weiers. Tindall left his position on April 1, 2013, but accepted six months of severance, meaning he was on the city payroll through Oct. 1, 2013.
The city and Coyotes reached their arena management deal on July 2, 2013, when Tindall, who had gone to work for the Coyotes, was still being paid by the city.
The city in its vote Wednesday relied on state statute 38-511. That statute, which is included in the arena management deal, says that the state can cancel a contract within three years if anyone involved in negotiating or drafting the contract for the state or any public department, is an employee of any party to the contract (the Coyotes)."
Why so juicy?
Well ... (h/t NHL to Seattle)
"Attorney Craig Tindall, who was waived by Glendale in the spring, now is starting for the Phoenix Coyotes.
The former city attorney, who was involved in negotiations with various potential ownership groups for the Coyotes for years, took a position with the team Tuesday. The city and NHL had sought new owners since 2009.
Tindall is serving as general counsel, handling work excluding player contracts.
“I’m being a lawyer. I’ve got to be a lawyer somewhere,” he told The Arizona Republic.
That became an issue this past February when four of the seven Glendale City Council members asked him to resign from his municipal position, citing the need for the city to move in a more business-friendly direction.
Tindall’s resignation became effective April 1, but according to an agreement with the city, he retains the title “special counsel” to Glendale for six months from the date of his resignation as the city pays out the balance of his $167,000 severance package. The package includes severance pay, accrued vacation pay and more."
Any thinking human being with an ounce of integrity could see this as a conflict of interest. And anyone with any intellgence would've been smarter to not have gotten involved exclusively to avoid said conflict of interest.
Corporations however don't do that. And people who act on behalf of said corporations tend to turn their integrity meters off when all they focus on is what the corporations pay them to.
But owning teams and dictating things in the name of solely making money? No - why?
http://www.tsn.ca/talent/glendale-votes-to-cancel-arena-deal-1.305250
Glendale votes to cancel arena deal
"During a special meeting convened Wednesday night that featured threats of a $200-million lawsuit and emotional fans wearing team jerseys, city councillors in Glendale, Arizona, voted to cancel the arena management contract that sees the city pay $15 million a year to the Arizona Coyotes."
The juicy bit -
"The departure of former city attorney Craig Tindall's from his position more than two years ago was central to the argument to cancel the agreement.
Tindall was asked to resign as city attorney in February 2013 by Weiers. Tindall left his position on April 1, 2013, but accepted six months of severance, meaning he was on the city payroll through Oct. 1, 2013.
The city and Coyotes reached their arena management deal on July 2, 2013, when Tindall, who had gone to work for the Coyotes, was still being paid by the city.
The city in its vote Wednesday relied on state statute 38-511. That statute, which is included in the arena management deal, says that the state can cancel a contract within three years if anyone involved in negotiating or drafting the contract for the state or any public department, is an employee of any party to the contract (the Coyotes)."
Why so juicy?
Well ... (h/t NHL to Seattle)
Former Glendale attorney takes job with Coyotes
The Republic | azcentral.com
Fri Aug 23, 2013 2:42 PM
"Attorney Craig Tindall, who was waived by Glendale in the spring, now is starting for the Phoenix Coyotes.
The former city attorney, who was involved in negotiations with various potential ownership groups for the Coyotes for years, took a position with the team Tuesday. The city and NHL had sought new owners since 2009.
Tindall is serving as general counsel, handling work excluding player contracts.
“I’m being a lawyer. I’ve got to be a lawyer somewhere,” he told The Arizona Republic.
That became an issue this past February when four of the seven Glendale City Council members asked him to resign from his municipal position, citing the need for the city to move in a more business-friendly direction.
Tindall’s resignation became effective April 1, but according to an agreement with the city, he retains the title “special counsel” to Glendale for six months from the date of his resignation as the city pays out the balance of his $167,000 severance package. The package includes severance pay, accrued vacation pay and more."
Any thinking human being with an ounce of integrity could see this as a conflict of interest. And anyone with any intellgence would've been smarter to not have gotten involved exclusively to avoid said conflict of interest.
Corporations however don't do that. And people who act on behalf of said corporations tend to turn their integrity meters off when all they focus on is what the corporations pay them to.
The work of my son.
Kids. Instead focusing on schoolwork, they are finding ways to make tiny little pencils like this.
I can totally see where he's coming from.
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/05/john-frusciante-will-no-longer-release-music-for-public-consumption/
“For the last year and a half I made the decision to stop making music for anybody and with no intention of releasing it, which is what I was doing between 2008 and 2012,” Frusciante explains.” I felt that if I took the public into consideration at all, I wasn’t going to grow and I wasn’t going to learn. Being an electronic musician meant I had to woodshed for a while, so I have a good few years worth of material from that period that’s never been released…”
“At this point, I have no audience. I make tracks and I don’t finish them or send them to anybody, and consequently I get to live with the music. The music becomes the atmosphere that I’m living in. I either make really beautiful music that comes from classical, or I make music where the tempo is moving the whole time, and there’s no melodic or rhythmic center.”
“For the last year and a half I made the decision to stop making music for anybody and with no intention of releasing it, which is what I was doing between 2008 and 2012,” Frusciante explains.” I felt that if I took the public into consideration at all, I wasn’t going to grow and I wasn’t going to learn. Being an electronic musician meant I had to woodshed for a while, so I have a good few years worth of material from that period that’s never been released…”
“At this point, I have no audience. I make tracks and I don’t finish them or send them to anybody, and consequently I get to live with the music. The music becomes the atmosphere that I’m living in. I either make really beautiful music that comes from classical, or I make music where the tempo is moving the whole time, and there’s no melodic or rhythmic center.”
2015-06-08
Another event from the past that the right wing has tried to whitewash and bury.
Those attempts fail here, thanks to Wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident#Ongoing_controversy_and_unresolved_questions
"Motive: James Bamford, among others, says one possible motive was to prevent the United States from eavesdropping on Israeli military activities and monitoring the events taking place in nearby Gaza.[105] In a study of the incident concluding that there was insufficient evidence to support either accidental or deliberate attack, Colonel Peyton E. Smith wrote of the possibility that "The attack was most likely deliberate for reasons far too sensitive to be disclosed by the US (or) Israeli government and that the truth may never be known".[108] Author and former crew member James M. Ennes theorized, in the epilogue of his book Assault on the Liberty, that the motive was to prevent the ship's crew from monitoring radio traffic that might reveal Israel being the aggressor in its impending invasion of Syria, which the White House opposed. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident#Ongoing_controversy_and_unresolved_questions
"Motive: James Bamford, among others, says one possible motive was to prevent the United States from eavesdropping on Israeli military activities and monitoring the events taking place in nearby Gaza.[105] In a study of the incident concluding that there was insufficient evidence to support either accidental or deliberate attack, Colonel Peyton E. Smith wrote of the possibility that "The attack was most likely deliberate for reasons far too sensitive to be disclosed by the US (or) Israeli government and that the truth may never be known".[108] Author and former crew member James M. Ennes theorized, in the epilogue of his book Assault on the Liberty, that the motive was to prevent the ship's crew from monitoring radio traffic that might reveal Israel being the aggressor in its impending invasion of Syria, which the White House opposed. "
First Triple Crown Winner in over 35 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pharoah#2015:_three-year-old_season
"American Pharoah began his 2015 campaign with wins in the Rebel Stakes and Arkansas Derby and went on to win both the 2015 Kentucky Derby and 2015 Preakness Stakes. He won the Triple Crown in a wire-to-wire victory at the Belmont Stakes."
"American Pharoah began his 2015 campaign with wins in the Rebel Stakes and Arkansas Derby and went on to win both the 2015 Kentucky Derby and 2015 Preakness Stakes. He won the Triple Crown in a wire-to-wire victory at the Belmont Stakes."
1984 on this day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
| Author | George Orwell |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Michael Kennard |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Dystopian, political fiction, social science fiction |
| Published | 8 June 1949 (Secker and Warburg, London) |
2015-06-04
New word of the day - Precariat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat
In sociology and economics, the precariat is a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which is a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare as well as being a member of a proletariat class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labour to live. Specifically, it is applied to the condition of lack of job security, in other words intermittent employment or underemployment and the resultant precarious existence.[1] The emergence of this class has been ascribed to the entrenchment of neoliberal capitalism.[2][3]
The term is a portmanteau obtained by merging precarious with proletariat.[4]
And if this can believed, a lot more people are going to be like me very soon.
In sociology and economics, the precariat is a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which is a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare as well as being a member of a proletariat class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labour to live. Specifically, it is applied to the condition of lack of job security, in other words intermittent employment or underemployment and the resultant precarious existence.[1] The emergence of this class has been ascribed to the entrenchment of neoliberal capitalism.[2][3]
The term is a portmanteau obtained by merging precarious with proletariat.[4]
- That's me and my family to a 't'.
- That's more or less how we live - paycheck to paycheck.
- That's why I really have no friends - I'm too ashamed to admit how poor my family is because of me and the financial situation we're in.
- That's why I hate traveling - it's too fucking expensive and too evasive on me. I just don't feel like having my crotch felt up at the airport by some asshole who's only real reason to do so is because they can.
- That's why I loathe talking to my siblings and parents - because it's too pathetic and sad to explain the reality of how much of a fucked up situation I've put myself in.
And if this can believed, a lot more people are going to be like me very soon.
2015-06-03
Daily Kos: I noticed.
I didn't know, but do now thanks to you - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/03/1390109/-The-Guardian-UK-embarrasses-All-US-Media-but-will-we-notice?detail=email
The Guardian's The Counted
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/about-the-counted
The Counted is a project by the Guardian – and you – working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died
The database will combine Guardian reporting with verified crowdsourced information to build a more comprehensive record of such fatalities. The Counted is the most thorough public accounting for deadly use of force in the US, but it will operate as an imperfect work in progress – and will be updated by Guardian reporters and interactive journalists as frequently and as promptly as possible.
Wed Jun 03, 2015 at 02:07 AM PDT
The Guardian UK embarrasses All US Media but will we notice?
The Guardian UK has decided to keep a running total of ALL people killed by police in 2015, and keep a live running total that you can check on their website.The Guardian's The Counted
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/about-the-counted
The Counted is a project by the Guardian – and you – working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died
The database will combine Guardian reporting with verified crowdsourced information to build a more comprehensive record of such fatalities. The Counted is the most thorough public accounting for deadly use of force in the US, but it will operate as an imperfect work in progress – and will be updated by Guardian reporters and interactive journalists as frequently and as promptly as possible.
2015-06-01
Temporary window of freedom
"For a few days or weeks at least, the NSA must shut down actual programs for spying on Americans.
This is the first significant win to restrain the NSA in almost 40 years, and it would never have happened without Snowden’s sacrifice, a huge stand last week by Senator Paul, and the work of millions of activists like you, around the world.
So, you should savor the victory with us today! It could be very brief."
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/
This is the first significant win to restrain the NSA in almost 40 years, and it would never have happened without Snowden’s sacrifice, a huge stand last week by Senator Paul, and the work of millions of activists like you, around the world.
So, you should savor the victory with us today! It could be very brief."
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/
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