Posted on 06/19/2017 11:54:06 PM PDT by Helicondelta
They stripped clorox from Procter and Gamble over monopoly laws. A soap company. Worried about control of soap. Peanuts compared to Amazon and grocery inroads. They would control retail, and they are already maliciously priced.
“Interesting. I’m not sure if the typewriting class was a requirement - but my mom sure made me take it. Boy am I glad she did. We made our kids do it as well. (Except now of course it is keyboarding).”
The same here. My Mother told us that learning how to type would not only be a job enhancer, it would make our academic studies in college easier. She had learned how to type in high school and typing basically paid for her college courses. She got an education degree and teaching jobs were hard to come by in the depression and post WWII. She was a secratary until the Korean War. Then, she got a teaching job and taught for decades until she retired in her 70’s. My sister learned how to type and became a secretary when she was a junior in high school. Her typing skills helped her to be an Honor Student in college.
Both of us got a portable Underwood Typewriter for high school graduation. I used it all the time in college and after college. Then, it was passed on to our kids, and they used it in high school. We gave it to a younger friend of theirs. He used it for decades.
The typing course was a great way to meet girls in high school and to get to know them.
I had excellent high school English teachers, a good geometry teacher and a great physics teacher in high school. I have used those skills everyday of my life from high school to now.
Of course the typing skills made using the early pc’s easier for me.
“Did anyone say, a room full of Freshman Girls. Ruf Ruf Ruf! :)
BOL! See my reply: http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3562425/posts?page=62#62
The gals in my typing class were sophs and juniors, and I was a senior. I learned from knowing/dating them, that I didn’t want an intellectual snob for dates and eventually a wife. The intellectual snobs were basically the gals in my homeroom and math classes. We were supposedly the advanced kids.
I believe the main difference is that the Clintons ALWAYS make sure they get theirs first. If some there is a coincidental benefit to who they’re dealing with, that’s ok. Anyone who deals with the Clintons knows that they have to get the major share of whatever is being exchanged, with minimal payback by them.
Not at all. Conservative free enterprise supporter with libertarian leanings (from Friedman, Hayek, Simmons, etc).
Have you noticed how well closed captions now work on Youtube? News channels retired court recorders should do so well.
The stick is that FB AMZN GOOG and TWTR, the FAGT stocks, all have lucrative contracts with the NSA and/or other agencies for data mining. None of these companies would be profitable without these contracts, although GOOG might be able to break even.
I was horrified when the nation’s largest producer of pork products, Smithfield, sold itself to China two or three years ago. The shrewd Chinese waited until this year to raise the price of bacon. Corporations will be the death of us, and not just media corporations.
No, no let the Post keep it up. They are destroying their credibility with each passing day. Go, Post, go Times. Oh, and I haven’t forgotten CNN -sick ‘em boys.
The problem is our children are so mis-educated that they can’t handle any serious subjects. Math has been replaced by Diversity Training, English by Ebonics and Shakespeare by Angelou.
These companies are looking for the best and that, sad to say, is often not an American.
Of course, any immigration policy must be based on LAW, however. Our policy wrt to immigrants needs to be able to tell which ones have character and skills we can put to work, not the dregs of the Islamic refugee camps and stragglers from the Third World.
Forget they people who work at their HQ here in the US that create new products. I’m talking about the actual manufacturing of their products. iPhones are manufactured all over the world. It is assembled mostly in China.
BEZOS is a snake, his propaganda arm the Washington Post has done nothing but lie about Trump and anything he does for over a year now at his direction... I don’t trust Bezos as far as anyone could throw him.
There is an economic truth involved here called the “Export Cycle”. Basically, it is a dynamic theory which makes a distinction between creative work and repetitive work.
Hence, a product is invented in the US and takes off. At some point it will cost less to produce it elsewhere in a World Economy. Economic efficiency demands it and it is repetitive work and of itself not producing anything new. Our Competitive Advantage is and, has always been, in creating the new not trying to preserve a status quo which is inefficient.
We have to face the fact that for some products it is just too costly to limit the input of domestic labor. Of course, this also means we need forward-looking leadership after decades of incompetence.
Creative Destruction is the motive force in a growing economy and it has costs as well as benefits. So economic policy should have as one of its goals the concept of making sure that cost is not put on one group or industry.
We are living in a world where “change is the essence of life” as Heraclitus said.
“It’s obvious Trump wants to cut regulations, which all smart businessmen want.”
My favorite economics professor, Dr. Walter Williams, dispelled me of that myth over 37 years ago.
He asked the following question:
“Who here thinks that Big Pharm hates the FDA and all the costly regulatory hurdles and hoops the government forces them to jump through to get new drugs approved?”
One of us said “sounds about right” and the rest nodded in agreement.
Dr. Williams said “Then you’ll be surprised to learn that Big Pharm LOVES the FDA and its regulatory hurdles and spends hundreds of millions each year lobbying (bribing) congress to INCREASE them.
“Why? They understand that as regulations are increased, there comes a point where smaller competing pharmacuetical corporations can’t afford to comply, but due to economies of scale, Big Pharm can easily afford to staff entire departments which do nothing but compliance work.”
This is how large corporations use the federal government to kill off their competition and enforce monopolies within their industries.
So these beginning coders can eventually train their H-1B replacements?
If nothing is done to keep tech jobs here in the future, the coding training is nothing more than a waste of money.
Announce this afternoon waivers of MIPS regulations of MACRA were increased from 790k to 830k... not certain of the exact numbers. But that is still just a small percentage of those covered by MIPS/MACRA.
Don’t know what MIPS/MACRA is? It is a large set of contradictory regulations that all medical professionals allegedly have to obey. Slowly, very slowly the waivers go up.
Better yet, Trump should tell Pompeo to look at the Bezos/CIA/WaPo $600M deal. During the Pompeo confirmation, I can't remember any senator from either party mentioning this. Bezos provides a cloud service for the CIA and WaPo keeps using fake "leaks" from the deep state.
I need a link for that for my files. Thanks.
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