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Quote of the day, "Well, it's not nation-building. We are assisting them in building their nation." ~ Marco Rubio, on Iraq. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPrHm_zyWzw
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So apparently a thing happened. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33017310 Take a drink if anyone says 'cyber pearl harbor'. fake edit: gently caress it quote:US hit by 'massive data breach'
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Jun 4, 2015 23:13
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Ralepozozaxe posted:I knew it was some stupid high number, I wonder how far he's get from his goal. Per PolitiFact: quote:Gov. Scott Walker fell short when it came to his top 2010 campaign promise -- that the state would add 250,000 private-sector jobs in his first term.
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Jun 4, 2015 23:15
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Putting aside the actual stupid thing he said am I the only one who finds it kind of lame that Rubio shows up on all these bum shows like The Five and Outnumbered? I'm all for a candidate being accessible but there's still degrees. I basically get the sense Rubio will show up in any studio at any time if they'll give him TV time. It just seems really "un-presidential" to me. The guy I elect for president should have something better to do at 1 PM on a Thursday than chatting on a couch with Kennedy. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 23:19
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, "Well, it's not nation-building. We are assisting them in building their nation." ~ Marco Rubio, on Iraq. Taking "words mean things" to an idiotic level.
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Jun 4, 2015 23:22
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Raerlynn posted:Crossposting from the police abuse thread: SWAT team kills dog in no knock raid for code violation Man, there's got to be a way of administering society where cops just don't exist.
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Jun 4, 2015 23:23
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STAC Goat posted:Am I the only one who finds it kind of lame that Rubio shows up on all these bum shows like The Five and Outnumbered? I'm all for a candidate being accessible but there's still degrees. I basically get the sense Rubio will show up in any studio at any time if they'll give him TV time. It just seems really "un-presidential" to me. Don't worry because I don't see how Rubio makes it through the primary. The  demographic won't vote for a Mexican.
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Jun 4, 2015 23:23
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STAC Goat posted:Putting aside the actual stupid thing he said am I the only one who finds it kind of lame that Rubio shows up on all these bum shows like The Five and Outnumbered? I'm all for a candidate being accessible but there's still degrees. I basically get the sense Rubio will show up in any studio at any time if they'll give him TV time. It just seems really "un-presidential" to me. Rubio is trying to be the young charismatic guy and appearing on all those shows is his attempt to demonstrate those qualities. I don't think he understands how little charisma he actually has.
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Jun 4, 2015 23:25
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Neat trick for reducing unemployment: Take a bunch of full time jobs and turn them into two half-time jobs each! Not applicable to every industry, but if you can pull it off, you'll even save money on benefits! 
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Jun 4, 2015 23:27
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Nonsense posted:Taking "words mean things" to an idiotic level. A really round-about way to say "leading from behind" without actually saying that.
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Jun 4, 2015 23:31
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Amergin posted:So, uh... tell me how bad that is again? I'll point out the obvious--that you have to put that decline in unemployment rate into context. The absolute number of jobs he promised doesn't really matter as far as I'm concerned. But from Munkeymon's link-- quote:Wisconsin's pace of job creation, which has lagged the national rate for years, fell further behind in the latest quarterly data while landing the Badger State in the bottom tier of its peer Midwestern states. He's doing worse than everyone around him. And pretty bad overall. For someone who's essentially got a laboratory for supply-side, anti-union economics he's not vindicating the theory very well. Out of curiosity, how closely do job creation/loss rates covary in adjacent states? E: I guess you could argue that Wisconsin is some anomaly state that perpetually resists economic policy no matter what that policy is, but eh. Dogstoyevsky fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Jun 5, 2015 00:00
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Ditocoaf posted:Neat trick for reducing unemployment: Take a bunch of full time jobs and turn them into two half-time jobs each! Not applicable to every industry, but if you can pull it off, you'll even save money on benefits! That isn't necessarily a bad thing - but you need State mechanisms to make multiple part-time jobs practical. Right now there are alot of hosed up HR environments where they expect you to be on-call and tirelessly loyal to them and not your other employer (with no benefit to the individual). These are things that the political and pundit classes are completely out of touch with. That is why I bang on about pay-grades, a unified online job market, and a national retirement age/pension.
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Jun 5, 2015 00:01
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Now I know he gutted the hell out of schools, but last I checked 59% is still an F
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Jun 5, 2015 00:12
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Ditocoaf posted:Neat trick for reducing unemployment: Take a bunch of full time jobs and turn them into two half-time jobs each! Not applicable to every industry, but if you can pull it off, you'll even save money on benefits! yeah, for a while during the recession i had a part time office job and a restaurant job. my office boss pulled me in one day and said that it didn't reflect well on the company that i had to leave early on friday afternoons to pick up a serving shift, so if i would consider not doing that so he could report back to HR. he asked what it would take for me to demonstrate my commitment, I said full time and salary, he equivocated and kinda flopped around a bit talking about how it was a two-way street, they reward loyalty when loyalty is demonstrated. i think he was getting some pushback from his boss because i would obviously wear (nice) restaurant shoes and slacks under a dress shirt and it just didn't look professional enough despite meeting dress code so another week goes by and he calls me in and sits me down and tells me i need to make a choice. loving really? i told him the restaurant paid more and that was that
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Jun 5, 2015 00:14
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Amergin posted:Per PolitiFact: Yeah I agree the job numbers would be much better in Wisconsin if you only count the four months it was good and extrapolate it to extend over four years.
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Jun 5, 2015 00:19
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Stereotype posted:Yeah I agree the job numbers would be much better in Wisconsin if you only count the four months it was good and extrapolate it to extend over four years. loving Politifact. What a joke of a website. Also, Wisconsin's LFPR trails the rest of the country which helps explain its low unemployment rate: http://host.madison.com/news/local/...19bb2963f4.html
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Jun 5, 2015 01:00
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Accretionist posted:Man, there's got to be a way of administering society where cops just don't exist. The ED-209 models at least didn't start firing until you picked up a weapon.
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Jun 5, 2015 01:47
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Popular Thug Drink posted:yeah, for a while during the recession i had a part time office job and a restaurant job. my office boss pulled me in one day and said that it didn't reflect well on the company that i had to leave early on friday afternoons to pick up a serving shift, so if i would consider not doing that so he could report back to HR. he asked what it would take for me to demonstrate my commitment, I said full time and salary, he equivocated and kinda flopped around a bit talking about how it was a two-way street, they reward loyalty when loyalty is demonstrated. i think he was getting some pushback from his boss because i would obviously wear (nice) restaurant shoes and slacks under a dress shirt and it just didn't look professional enough despite meeting dress code That is completely insane. Hang the rich by their necks and let them rot as a warning.
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Jun 5, 2015 01:50
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Everblight posted:That is completely insane. Hang the rich by their necks and let them rot as a warning. B-but... Their nutritious animal proteins.  Couldn't we just hang them and hew chunks of them directly onto a cash-and-stocks-fired grill? Why, yes, I am a non-aggressive pacifist, why do you ask?
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Jun 5, 2015 01:59
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It's easy to keep unemployment percentages low if people are fleeing your state for some place better.
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Jun 5, 2015 07:36
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59% to forecast is a straight-up fireable offense in most of the private sector.
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Jun 5, 2015 10:41
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It's good that Walker hasn't had a private sector job since he was like 19 then.
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Jun 5, 2015 11:33
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Radish posted:It's good that Walker hasn't had a private sector job since he was like 19 then. But he wants to run government like a business!
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Jun 5, 2015 12:35
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Sorus posted:It's easy to keep unemployment percentages low if people are fleeing your state for some place better. Wisconsin actually managed to gain 9,000 people since 2010 so someone wants to live there
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Jun 5, 2015 12:36
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Shbobdb posted:59% to forecast is a straight-up fireable offense in most of the private sector. Yes but comparing campaign promises with business forecasts is inherently stupid.
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Jun 5, 2015 12:42
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PUGGERNAUT posted:Depends on her job. Some bosses may be more flexible than others, and some bosses might pry into just why she's getting these calls - and nothing makes the work day go by faster than recounting your sexual assault to your boss. I wonder what her boss will think of this http://jezebel.com/emma-sulkowiczs-newest-art-project-is-a-disturbing-sex-1709234401
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Jun 5, 2015 13:27
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Dr. Tough posted:Wisconsin actually managed to gain 9,000 people since 2010 so someone wants to live there That doesn't sound like that much really.
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Jun 5, 2015 13:43
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Gravel Gravy posted:That doesn't sound like that much really. Actually Wisconsin gained 70,000 people, I was looking at the wrong columns before.
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Jun 5, 2015 13:47
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lil mortimer posted:I wonder what her boss will think of this I assume her boss wouldn't give a poo poo, since the person who was complaining about getting calls about their sexual assault at work was not Emma Sulkowiczs and apparently only vaguely knows Emma Sulkowiczs. Like I realize that the average boss is a massive tool, but "one of your rapists' other victims did something I disapprove of, therefore I'm mad at you" seems inhuman. STAC Goat posted:Putting aside the actual stupid thing he said am I the only one who finds it kind of lame that Rubio shows up on all these bum shows like The Five and Outnumbered? I'm all for a candidate being accessible but there's still degrees. I basically get the sense Rubio will show up in any studio at any time if they'll give him TV time. It just seems really "un-presidential" to me. I mean, if you're Marco Rubio you're trying to appeal to Republican primary voters, and that's like the major audience of The Five and Outnumbered, so it makes sense.
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Jun 5, 2015 14:01
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Luigi Thirty posted:But he wants to run government like a business! Straight into the ground while he golden parachutes out?
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Jun 5, 2015 14:13
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"A little over half is good enough, right? 59% is what, an F? Which stands for 'Fantastic'!"
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Jun 5, 2015 14:17
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I wonder how much 59% compares to how many jobs Wisconsin would have gained without Walker's interference.
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Jun 5, 2015 14:22
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Dr. Tough posted:Wisconsin actually managed to gain 9,000 people since 2010 so someone wants to live there I'm one of them. I wouldn't say I wanted to live in Wisconsin, but a Wisconsin-based company hired me and reimbursed my move, so now I live in Wisconsin.
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Jun 5, 2015 14:34
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Lawman 0 posted:So apparently a thing happened. Dammit. A broadcast email went out saying they are going to be giving 18 months monitoring to the 4 million affected. At this point I don't think you can be active in the US economy and NOT be covered by free credit monitoring due to a data breach.
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Jun 5, 2015 14:51
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Amergin posted:So, uh... tell me how bad that is again? Not great and not the numbers that he promised when he began to enact his vision for Wisconsin. The numbers especially come off badly when compared to neighboring MN, where a more moderate tack has shown better results.
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Jun 5, 2015 15:20
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Shifty Pony posted:Dammit. I'm on 3 or 4 credit monitoring programs due to the Target/Home Depot/Anthem hacks. I opened a new credit card last week and the only one that notified me was the one provided to me as part of my AAA subscription. They're all worthless.
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Jun 5, 2015 16:25
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FCKGW posted:I'm on 3 or 4 credit monitoring programs due to the Target/Home Depot/Anthem hacks. I opened a new credit card last week and the only one that notified me was the one provided to me as part of my AAA subscription. They're all worthless. I was on one from the SC taxpayer record breach and it did manage to pick up a new car loan application. One of them. I shopped around. Credit monitoring is a personal finance Ouija board I swear.
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Jun 5, 2015 16:38
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The only reliable credit reports are the ones you get directly from TransUnion, Equifax, or Experian. Once you've used your annual credit report that's mandated by federal law, just go to each website and find the form you can fill out to get a free credit report. You'll need to make up a reason like "I think I've been a victim of fraud" but they don't give a poo poo and will just show you your report (sans score). http://www.experian.com/reportaccess/ Here's Experian's site, just say you suffered an "adverse action".
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Jun 5, 2015 16:40
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Pixelboy posted:Some of them are just pandering for a spot on Fox... others... TLC, I suppose. Are you implying that some of the candidates are child molesters?
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Mister Macys posted:Are you implying that some of the candidates are child molesters? I would never suggest that prominent members of the GOP are disgusting pederasts, that would be going too far.
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