eightyone
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Comment · 13 years ago
Speaking from a lot of experience, they're often treated as such.
Comment · 13 years ago
Education is controlled by corporate interest and always will be. In fact the education system was founded by wealthy industrialists so they could churn out great factory workers. To learn more about this read Seth Godin's Linchpin. It's not profitable to have a smart populous.
George Carlin sums it up here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqJvhmD5Yg
Comment · 13 years ago
Read some of the other comments here that dissect how these numbers are purposely misleading. That's his point.
Comment · 13 years ago
I have to say in light of all this PRISM stuff, iWatch takes on a whole new meaning for me.
Comment · 13 years ago
Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy82ntr8HYI
Comment · 13 years ago
I couldn't agree more. BART is way better at PR than the unions and have littered the media with facts to fit their narrative.
Comment · 13 years ago
Snowden is privacy conscious. I'm sure after seeing all the information regarding PRISM and other NSA spying initiatives, he wasn't too thrilled to make a Facebook profile and show off pictures of him drinking beers with his buddies and what not, haha. He's probably tried to keep as minimal a web shadow as possible.
Comment · 13 years ago
Greenwald has written for years about abusive government by both the Republicans and Democrats. He was the best person to pick, in my opinion. Lest us not forget that the Washington Post sat on the documents. So perhaps Snowden did contact other journalists and they weren't interested or just strung him along.
Comment · 13 years ago
Absolutely. Glenn Greenwald is attacked from both the right and left constantly. The Republicans call him a socialist because he's spoken at the Socialism Conference a few times and because he was critical of the Bush administration. Democrats call him a libertarian because he's associated with the Cato Institute and has been critical of the Obama administration. Greenwald has written a really good paper on Portugal and drug decriminalization. [1] I'm assuming it's published by Cato because of the prominence it has on their website.[2], [3] are videos of Glenn Greenwald speaking at Cato conferences. [4] is a video of him doing an interview with Reason.
[1] http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/drug-decriminal...
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPok-FIKGgc
[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PabkB4RnGJQ
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjuvXdqKM0M
Here's some of his articles criticizing the use of the obama administration, use of drones, etc.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/obama-wa...
- http://www.salon.com/2012/04/19/americas_drone_sickness/
- http://www.salon.com/2012/04/20/obamas_dismal_civil_libertie...
- Here's a speech of him criticizing Obama's awful civil liberties record http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rN5Nl...
Without a doubt the Guardian is taking a specific approach to leaking the documents, but I think a big part of it is that they have a lot to process. That's something that Greenwald has continually said on his Twitter feed. I guess what made me so angry about your comment is that it's often used as a smear against Greenwald. Greenwald doesn't prescribe to the left/right paradigm. He is both vilified and exemplified by both the left and right wing media all the time.
Comment · 13 years ago
You obviously aren't familiar with Glenn Greenwald. He's been extremely critical of the Obama administration on a variety of issues. What your claiming makes zero sense. There is a reason why Edward Snowden sought out Greenwald.
Comment · 13 years ago
Do you have a screenshot? Looks like it has been deleted.
Edit: Oops. Never mind, you meant a user on Motorola's website. Please disregard this comment everyone.
Comment · 13 years ago
> "This particular local news has a pretty good track record for being factual and "uninterested" (an odd word to use)."
The news organization didn't even bother to cite their source. We don't know where they're getting their information from. Seeing a slide doesn't tell us anything. They could be reporting the misleading information that the comment I linked to you goes through. Or information given to them from management over at BART. Especially when there's conflicting information, it makes no sense to trust one side over another. Especially when it's management vs. labor because both sides want to appear as best as they can to the general public.
Comment · 13 years ago
I appreciate the graphic, but it seems like there's a lot of conflicting information being handed around. I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to believe. I'd love to see an uninterested 3rd party gather and verify the facts and what not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5975252
"Did you know that there are currently 3,459 BART retirees, and that the average pension payment per retiree/beneficiary is only $21,049?"
Comment · 13 years ago
I shouldn't have to Google it myself, you're making the claims. You can't just drop a whole bunch of numbers in a thread, present them as facts, and not cite any sources whatsoever. It does no one who is trying to learn about the subject matter any favors and isn't constructive at all.
Comment · 13 years ago
Please stop throwing around numbers without citing them. It's not helpful at all. Also, I don't think paid overtime should be considered controversial.