FCP Bob 1,312 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Matt DrangeVerified account @mattdrange 2h2 hours ago Wow. This all-staff moment of reckoning by @Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is ... *something*. Read: gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to-neo-nazi-site-1797915295 … Link to post Share on other sites
FCP Bob 1,312 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Matt DrangeVerified account @mattdrange 2h2 hours ago Wow. This all-staff moment of reckoning by @Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is ... *something*. Read: gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to-neo-nazi-site-1797915295 … Matthew PrinceVerified account @eastdakota Why we terminated Daily Stormer. https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/ Link to post Share on other sites
FCP Bob 1,312 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Watch the video at the link Benjamin Dixon @BenjaminPDixon I prefer my Nazis broken, alienated, scared, and sobbing. Link to post Share on other sites
FCP Bob 1,312 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 MetalSucks @metalsucks Pro-Trump Rally Set to Clash with Juggalo March in Washington, D.C. in September http://www.metalsucks.net/2017/08/14/pro-trump-rally-set-to-clash-with-juggalo-march-in-washington-d-c-in-september/ … Link to post Share on other sites
FCP Bob 1,312 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Very interesting article on the Global Value Chains and Trade. Global value chains shed new light on trade WHO WINS AND WHO LOSES? The same changes in technology and global trade can be seen in overall statistics on factor use and income distribution in industries affected by GVCs in developed and developing countries. In the U.S. information communication technology manufacturing sector, for example, labor productivity grew an impressive 200 percent over the 15 years covered by the study. At the same time, there was a large shift in the kind of labor used: The share of high-skilled labor (with college education and above) increased sharply from about one-third to one-half (see figure). And proportionally more of the compensation went to high-skilled workers (right panel). For low-skilled workers, it was flat, and for the medium-skilled it increased but in a smaller amount. These shifts match the overall transformation of the industry: from initially producing in the United States to primarily designing and providing supporting services, while still producing some high-tech inputs. What about changes in China’s information communication technology industry? The first thing to note is that labor productivity grew at a phenomenal rate: about 6-fold over just 15 years. During the period, labor’s share of value added in the industry dropped from over 40 percent to about 30 percent, while capital’s share increased from less than 60 percent to nearly 70 percent. Clearly, capital was able to reap much of the benefit of the productivity gain (as did consumers worldwide through lower prices). It should be emphasized that the real gains were won by capital deployed in China, including multinationals that play a critical role in managing GVCs. There have been big wage increases in China as well, starting from a very low base. Most workers in China’s information communication technology industry were low- and middle- skilled, though this decreased over the period (from more than 95 percent of hours to about 90 percent). Very few workers are high-skilled, and the hours they work still amounted to less than 10 percent of total hours by the end of the period. As for workers’ pay (right panel), real wages for all workers increased, although the big proportional gain went to skilled labor (which nearly doubled). Compensation of medium-skilled workers, with high school degrees, also went up over the period, by about 80 percent. Even low-skilled workers in this industry saw their compensation increase more than 50 percent during the period. SPREADING THE BENEFITS These findings—which illuminate how gains and losses in trade are distributed—shed some light on the growing protectionist sentiment in the United States and other advanced economies. They also help explain why globalization remains popular in developing countries that are deeply involved in GVCs, such as China, Mexico, and Vietnam. The benefits from GVC-related trade have been distributed highly unevenly. On the U.S. side, the big winners appear to be high-skilled workers and multinational corporations. GVCs have enabled them to benefit from enormous productivity gains in developing countries such as China. Ordinary American workers have not seen much, if any, benefit. In China, ordinary workers have benefited. Even at the beginning of the process, factory wages in China were far ahead of rural incomes; and those wages rose significantly over 15 years. This is one of the driving factors behind the impressive decline of absolute poverty in China. However, relatively speaking, the really big benefits in China accrued to the small number of high-skilled workers and to the owners of capital, including foreign investors. What does all this mean for policy? First, about two-thirds of world trade now is involved in value chains that cross borders during the production process. The United States is deeply involved in supply chains with Asia, as well as with NAFTA partners. It would be difficult and disruptive to undo these supply chains. A policy that sounds straight-forward—such as a 45 percent tariff on imports of “Chinese” products, as then-candidate Donald Trump proposed during his campaign—would hurt many firms and workers in the United States, as well as in allies such as Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Second, we can get more benefits from GVCs by improving our infrastructure and strengthening education at all levels. Third, technological change and global trade will inevitably create economic dislocation and we need to do a better job with adjustment assistance and the safety net to help workers and communities deal with the changes. Link to post Share on other sites
FCP Bob 1,312 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 For those who haven't seen this Vice News report from Charlottesville Link to post Share on other sites
FCP Bob 1,312 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Jack @LahartJack 14h14 hours ago More Oh god the Martin Shkreli jury selection transcript is just too good https://harpers.org/archive/2017/09/public-enemy/ … Link to post Share on other sites
JustDoIt 10 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Jake Tapper Triggered https://twitter.com/...on-journalists/ Link to post Share on other sites
JustDoIt 10 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Terry McAuliffe lies blows up in his face http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/16/virginia-state-police-say-they-didnt-fin Then the NY Times McAuliffe delete McAuliffe lies from their article 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Wolf Blitzer just said...on purpose...with a straight face...that the Barcelona vehicle attack might be a copy cat of Charlottesville. Please, do not watch CNN with the sound on, it has been proven to lower collective iq of largeish groups of voters known as the Democrat party. Luckily they are disappearing so we shouldn't have to worry for long Link to post Share on other sites
JustDoIt 10 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice knocks it out of the park https://youtu.be/kXgcc4c2MKw Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 https://amp.timeinc.net/time/4521241/ghana-gandhi-statue-removing/ Gandhi statue to be removed because he was a racist. Yeah, we need to purge anyone with wrong think. What could go wrong? Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 ESPN goes full retard. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-41022954 Is like a race on the left to see who can virtue signal their open-mindedness the most by being the dumbest. The are a lot of potential winners for that race. Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 ESPN goes full retard. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-41022954 Is like a race on the left to see who can virtue signal their open-mindedness the most by being the dumbest. The are a lot of potential winners for that race. (you are an idiot) Link to post Share on other sites
scuudagouch 15 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 ESPN is lying....they are political hacks, they have been for years. The viewers know it, they have gotten buried countless times for it....but yea now they are just worried for the poor young Asian guy. This doesn't pass the smell test at all. Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Yes, your nutjob version makes way more sense.... Link to post Share on other sites
JustDoIt 10 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Amazing Justification for Attacking Free Speech https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/22/when-free-speech-becomes-a-political-weapon/?utm_term=.afe3e009f295 Link to post Share on other sites
scuudagouch 15 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Interesting perspective, kind of amazing actually. the last line posted below is quite a statement. I mean really? they need to protect the institutions from conservative attacks...that is one twisted thought priceless. "Until university presidents offer real leadership in reconciling the liberal critique of “identity politics” with a new generation of diverse students, faculty and staff for whom such politics represent progress, they will be unable to protect their institutions from conservative attacks." Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 (you are an idiot) It's funny that you think them explaining why they did this doesn't confirm their actions. They took the guy off the job because his name might open the door to ridicule by racist. They pro actively decided that an oriental guy with the name Robert Lee would be mocked because it's funny/ closer to Robert E Lee. Let me show endometriosis how forward thinking and caring I am by telling you that wet can't let a black man in a commercial with watermelon in it. We can't have a political ad talking about bad drivers have an oriental woman in it. We cannot have anything remotely stereotypical because that would be racist or give racist people ammo. We are so non racist that we will not even allow anything that could be twisted into racism to exist. Meanwhile the real world recognizes that it would have been irrelevant to have a guy name Bob Lee call a basketball game because surprisingly viewers are more into football then who the commentators are. And as my friend above said, ESPN had gone full Social Justice Warrior for years now. Ask Curt Schilling. So it is more accurate to point out their racism than to assume they aren't virtue signaling. Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Amazing Justification for Attacking Free Speech https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/22/when-free-speech-becomes-a-political-weapon/?utm_term=.afe3e009f295 Of course the alt-right is seem as the all encompassing covert to the entire right side movement. The difference between Richard Spencer and Milo is pretty big. Especially given that Milo's talks at campuses were about feminism. But let's group the gay jew with white separatist and both of them with nationalist. They are all the same thing. Link to post Share on other sites
GOCUBSGO 77 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 I think the best part of this discussion is that we all know that had ESPN not proactively switched their broadcaster, it absolutely would have become a story, and BG would be on these very same forums calling ESPN lefty idiots for not seeing the obvious implications. Link to post Share on other sites
JustDoIt 10 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Rapper Joey Bada$$ was too bad for eclipse glasses, and now he’s canceling shows Unfortunily he may pay a huge price. On Wednesday he tweeted about “seeing double, stacking triple,” which is hip-hop slang for “seeing spots, stacking Benjamins at the eye doctor.” Check out this Classic twitter response. Mac FaulknerVerified account @macfaulkner Replying to @joeyBADASS http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/stargazing/article169062802.html Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 I think the best part of this discussion is that we all know that had ESPN not proactively switched their broadcaster, it absolutely would have become a story, and BG would be on these very same forums calling ESPN lefty idiots for not seeing the obvious implications. Libspeak: I can tell you what other people think and will do because I am a liberal. I do not need to meet anyone first, I know their inner thoughts. Therefore I can judge them and be content that I am right. Enjoy fantasy-land, population:you Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Rapper Joey Bada$$ was too bad for eclipse glasses, and now he’s canceling shows Unfortunily he may pay a huge price. On Wednesday he tweeted about “seeing double, stacking triple,” which is hip-hop slang for “seeing spots, stacking Benjamins at the eye doctor.” Speaking of idiots and the eclipse: http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/22/tucker-carlson-responds-criticism-his-trump-eclipse-joke-invokes-chuck-norris Tucker Carlson makes joke about Trump looking into sun without glasses ( like someone on this board (Bob)) and the left media actually reports it as insane that Tucker would praise Trump for this. Glorious how stupid the left is, just magnificent in their obliviousness of their smug ignorance. Link to post Share on other sites
JustDoIt 10 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Amazing, a unique approach to journalism. “Sorry. This is commentary dressed up as news reporting,” Mr. Baker wrote at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday morning to a group of Journal reporters and editors, in response to a draft of the rally article that was intended for the newspaper’s final edition. He added in a follow-up, “Could we please just stick to reporting what he said rather than packaging it in exegesis and selective criticism?” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/media/wall-street-journal-editor-admonishes-reporters-over-trump-coverage.html Link to post Share on other sites
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