OT: Algebra is a civil rights issue

Leadfoot? :-)

I am close to 80k on the Mitsubishi and the pads have more than half left.

You don't daily drive 80MPH+ ?>:-}

Actually I don't do that much heavy braking... only when some dumb-ass does something stupid in front of me. I tend to float nice-and-easy with the traffic. ...Jim Thompson

On my road bike I can hold 20mph for half an hour. A friend does 25mph and it almost looks like that's idling to him, I can't keep up with that. On bike paths one has to watch for smokey. I was stopped twice on my bike for speeding. In WA state they let me go but in Germany (on a road, not even a bike path) they made me pay right then and there. They gave me a receipt. I wonder what would have happened if I didn't have enough money in German currency on me.

Same here with the car, but I keep to the speed limit. Stupid stuff has mostly happened while I was on the bicycle but much less ever since I have really bright light on them. They are always on, even on a bright sunny day.

Yes, of course, US auto makers had no control at all over the cars they designed and built.

Try reading "The Reckoning" by David Halberstam. He contrasts the US and Japanese auto industries after WWII. For sure the unions have a roll in the efficiency of US automaking but most of the problems are how the companies treat the employees. Unions are simply workers' response over the decades to the way management has treated workers.

Workers don't have kids??? There is a lot you could learn about unions. They have even had benefit in companies that were never unionized. Some employers have given benefits to workers in order to prevent unions from gaining a foothold. Benefits the employees would never have seen had the unions not been on the doorstep.

Yes, even though many unions are a fraction of their size at one time, their mere existence poses a threat to all US industry. 8-o

Is there nothing left to learn? You must be a wise man indeed!

They don't have to but why not? It's good money and it is identified as paid content. There is no pretense that the WSJ endorses any content.

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I read bits of the Washington Post on-line from time to time.

That's not what European visitors to the US think.

Wall > Street Journal.

Which is owned by Rupert Murdoch - not exactly a leading left-winger, nor a leading light of ethical journalism.

They didn't have a lot of choice - the car industry was one of the few in t he US that did get properly unionised. The choices that lead to the US car industry losing to European and Asian manufacturers didn't have much to do with trade union influence. The American industry were late in offering com pact cars, and their marketing people misread their market with such enthus iasm that the first generation of US compact cars got bigger, and bigger ye ar by year.

The kids are the product, and if somebody else is producing a better produc t, the unions just as screwed as everybody else. If chartered schools aren' t hiring unionised teachers (and they don't seem to be)

and deliver better education (as opposed to claiming to) the unions have ex actly the kind of competition which forces them to take teacher performance seriously.

The manufacturing base in the US is eroding because US capital wants the lo west possible wages, and finds them outside the US. If they were more inter ested in investing in increasing the productivity of US workers (as Germany does with German workers) the story would be different. Union are interest ed in raising the productivity of their members, but it isn't a proposition that US employers find interesting. Once China has followed Singapore and educated enough of its work-force to the point where they can earn higher w ages, US employers may have to rethink their strategy.

Your confidence is being fed by anti-union propaganda from the Murdoch medi a. Murdoch did a useful job in the UK in putting a stop to the ridiculous exce sses of the print unions in some UK newspapers, but he's got a long history of throwing a lot of baby out with the bathwater.

Apparently some people of mature years don't do any reading at all - just watch TV. Give them a form they have to read before they can fill it in and they need help.

Anybody who can detect leftist bias in a US newspaper is actually detecting a lack of far-right bias.

Tweets don't get filtered by people who know enough to snip out idiocies.

Very few US papers have any world coverage. The WSJ does serve a market that needs it, but the Murdoch press take on the world as a whole does seem to be that it isn't nearly right-wing enough.

They'd get into very hot water if they started cherry-picking who can place an ad and who can't.

That goes without saying for ads.

it was WSJ that ran a smear campaign against youtube under the pretense that advertising on youtube somehow means endorsing every video their ads might be show on

lowest possible wages, and finds them outside the US. If they were more int erested in investing in increasing the productivity of US workers (as Germa ny does with German workers) the story would be different. "

You seem to be missing a few facts. First of all, with modern technology, O ne can do the work of ten, what happens to the other nine ? Well Germany is finding out. They are so productive that there are practically no full tim e jobs there, even though they cut dow to a shorter work week years ago. Ge rmans are calling their jobs "McJobs".

Most of them who are not engineers or something cannot afford to live on th eir own and are forced to take on roomies, because they don't get enough ho urs to pay the rent on their own and make all their other bills. Older Germ ans who have a really good skill set and have probably paid off their house are alright, but the younger ones are struggling.

Financially they are not doing all that bad, and they are not bitching abou t the Chinese taking their jobs. They still build alot of car parts, a bit less than before nut still alot of them. At one time they made almost every fuel injector for cars in the world. There was one to sixteen of them in e very car built in (most of) the world, at about maybe $15 apiece. And all t hey are is a cone shaped orifice with a little ball in it and a coil of wir e. But it needs precision and that's where the Germans excel.

Bosch, one of their main companies, has been around for some time. They bui lt most of the old mechanical fuel injection systems. Have any idea how ha rd that is ? It is harder for a gas engine than a diesel. For a diesel all you needed was that high pressure unit with the swash plate that was contro lled by the accelerator pedal. With gas you need to control the mixture. Th ey has a vane in the intake, somewhat like a mass air flow sensor, and it i s mechanically coupled to the injectors. Imagine calibrating a nightmare li ke that. But they did it.

I will have to admit that because of automation, the world is going to have to be more socialistic. I don't like it but it is inevitable. We need to h ave a stipend for people, and if they are able bodied they can help out wit h the infrastructure, and the US infrastructure needs help.

But finding the skilled will not be easy. Our schools are failing and that means we are going to have trouble finding good engineers. Without good eng ineers, projects are designed to fail.

But we cannot trust the government here. I believe they knew Solyndra would fail. They just wanted to channel some tax money to some friends. It is al most impossible for everybody involved in that whole debacle not to know th e market and that they could not compete in it. If private money isn't in i t, it isn't worth doing unless it is infrastructure. Roads, bridges and suc h. We lose money on that, but it supports what's left of the economy.

The jobs are not coming back to anywhere. China might pick up some work ass embling cellphones n shit like TVs. But even they will suffer as production increases. They already lick your ass to bring in a new factory there. Loo k up "Confessions Of An Economic Hitman". It's not a long read.

But there are no jobs to bring back. Trump doesn't realize that, but if he can get us back in the loop somewhat that would be good. I am not sure he c an. He's a rich boy and does not understand certain things. I hope the assh oles who voted for Clinton are enjoying this. (they aren't)But Clinton coul d have done nothing about it either.

Why? It's their paper. They aren't a common carrier. They're under no obligation to be "fair", in any sense of the word. I suppose you think the NYT is criminal?

If it's paid, it *is* an ad. No more, no less.

Where did you you get this nonsense information about Germany from? Most Germans have full time jobs and are working the standard 40h/week and most can easily live on their own and don't have to take "roomies".

For me it is no wonder that the American school system is failing when more and more religious nonsense if taught instead of science.

Where do you get that "religious nonsense"? That's BS! jurb6006 is more insane than bitrex, Slowman or bloggs. ...Jim Thompson

Apparently Germany is in need of more workers, so they are bringing in muzzies like there is no tomorrow. Sadly, they will soon realize that is true!

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote on 7/26/2017 7:44 PM:

I think that means the Germans would become 10 times more productive. Somehow people see automation as eliminating jobs. That would only be true if there was limited demand for goods. But demand always fills in to take up the slack as long as the benefits of automation are shared equally. Instead of thinking of production being a universal constant, think of human resource as the limitation and you will see automation simply makes things cheaper so more can afford the fruits.

I don't know of anything in my life that hasn't been better than in my parents days... in spite of the prognostications of the economists who some decades ago were saying the limitations of natural resources would be forcing us to live lower on the ladder than our parents.

Failing? Really? I don't know how we lasted this long???!!!

Not interested in discussing your paranoid delusions.

Back *from* where? We didn't lose jobs overseas as much as we did to automation. Many decades ago we had the same problem where the Japanese recovered from WWII by building a new steel industry using modern processes that made steel cheaper and better. The US steel industry chose to shut down rather than invest and remain competitive. We didn't lose to Japan, we lost to time and technology and we did it willingly.

I think Trump has his limitation, but I don't think he isn't smart. He knows the jobs are there to be had. But he really understands marketing his brand so he will say what he needs to say.

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In Taxed and Spent's dreams. Germay has been taking in guest workers from T urkey for many decades now. Give Muslims a western job and a a western life

-style and they end up looking remarkably like every other westerner. I wor ked with enough of them in England and the Netherlands to be able to attest to that on the basis of personal experience, but there's plenty of other e vidence around.

Right wing lunatics have always had silly ideas about the evil consequences of immigration - the immigrants that excite their anxieties change with ti me, but the threat they pose always seems to be the same.

I agree IF you give them a job. But there are plenty of unemployed rabble rousers, perhaps less so in Germany.

The internet of course. I find it difficult to confirm though. I also read that ten years ago they went to a four day work week. Can't seem to find th at either.

re and more religious nonsense if taught instead of science. "

From what I am hearing that is mostly in the southern, Bible belt states. U p north they seem to teach nothing. "This Is Are Story" is a perfect exampl e.

Schools do not belong teaching religion. Catholic schools have no problem w ith it, the science teacher teaches science and the religion teacher teache s religion. They get along just fine.

The difference here is that they do not use public money to do it. These pe ople in the south want the public schools to teach that en walked with dino saurs and the Earth is 6,000 years old. I wouldn't let you teach my kids th at.

And then we got the geeral incompetence. I corresponded with a Woman who wa s making dinner or whatever and her teenager saw a reference to the equator on TV. She asked her Mother what the equator is. Being a teenager, her Mot her thought she should already know that.

She goes down to the school and grills the science teacher. The science tea cher does not know what the equator is. She goes to the principal, and the principal does not know what the equator is.

The government just keeps on throwing money at these incompetent people. Ho w can you teach what you do not know ?

I admit that I am remiss on geography and could not find most countries on a globe or map, but people are getting way stupider than that.

You know, I am not against unions. In fact I support trade unions, the kind of union that provides training and all that. But the teacher's union is n othing but a labor union, designed to protect the incompetent. If you are f ound incompetent by a trade union you get thrown out. With a labor union it is different. You could kill a busload of people and they would fight for you to keep your job. There is a BIG difference.

Big business has had its attack dog on labor unions for a long time, but ne ver attacked where they should - government workers. Look at the police uni on(s). Kill someone get a free vacation. And the police union, as far as I know, does not provide training and all that like the plumber's union, the electrician's union and the masonry union.

Enough.

The internet, of course. Did it ever come to your mind your source might be incorrect? About four day work week: I lived in Germany for 60 years, there was no general four day work week. There once was a car maker (VW) who reduced their work week because of not enough work. This happened only for a short time. You should research the credibility of your "internet" sources before posting such nonsense.