"...stay at companies an average of six months longer...greater loyalty, which leads to the ability for someone to have an impact in their company, for them to actually have greater career development within that company..."
Greater impact my ass. 6 additional months isn't going to define career development or impact the company in some grandiose way.
People used to stay at companies for far longer than the 29 months being celebrated here. The turnover rate today is a joke. Then again, so is the fact that employees are no longer treated like people, but instead like commodity resources that can be exchanged as the wind blows.
"48 (percent) said they would stop, or watch less illegal content after they were told about the damaging effects of piracy on the media industry."
As movies continue to smash box office earnings records, and leading movie stars continue to justify obscene paychecks, I'd love to know how the MPAA is going to convey those "damaging" effects.
Sure as shit doesn't seem like they're hurting, especially in the face of what appears to be rampant piracy.
a woman excusing herself for a few weeks to give birth
If it was a few weeks you'd have a point.
It's a whole fucking year, paid, and often another year or four unpaid after that. Following which I think it's exceedingly fucking reasonable that they come back to work and have to prove they can even do the same fucking job before you even start talking about any progression.
Meanwhile a male colleague will have 1-5 years extra experience, understanding and progression. Yes, he's going to earn more. No, that's not unfair, and no, that's not a fucking pay gap.
Ah, nothing like re-defining a work/life balance by prioritizing a career over life itself. Yes, let's shame all women for even having the thought of wanting to become a mother. Great fucking answer to the inequality issue.
Nobody's fucking shaming any mother. They're just pointing out that she made a simple choice, and that has some benefits and some downsides. Meanwhile her children's partner will on balance have chosen financial security through career progression and an excessive work burden.
So the woman gets to sit at home for a couple of years, the man gets to slave away paying for it. And somehow you and every other cunt of a feminist is making out he's the evil one? No.
As you want to label me some cunt of a feminist, let me remind you that I feel the ultimate answer is to share the burden of raising a child equally between both parents involved where applicable, which other countries laws account for this, as to not be so one-sided. That doesn't excuse the fact that women are still likely to earn less than men for doing the same job for the exact same amount of time. Ultimately, gender should have fuck-all to do with pay rates, but the simple fact is that it still does.
As far as women making that "simple" choice, well it happens to be a fucking required choice for the survival of our species. Ignorance dictates the answer to equality being no children ever.
As far as those who consider work "slaving away" as compared to raising a child, that argument tends to be dispelled when we find they sure as shit won't trade places.
"...Note that while this should disable the OneDrive ads, it will also stop you from seeing potentially important notifications from OneDrive.
Er, important notifications?
If I don't intend to use OneDrive at all, I'd love to know what the true impact is of disabling yet another advertising "feature".
With the amount of shit going on with this OS, I can already see a market for a dedicated corporate firewall appliance that updates its anti-telemetry ruleset about as often as an A/V signatures.
Maybe you need to do an internship in an organization that has implemented Holacracy. Then let's revisit your opinion of org charts.
"Holacracy distinguishes between roles and the people who fill them, as one individual can hold multiple roles at any given time"
Given corporate greed and downsizing, many employees are already experiencing holding "multiple roles", doing a hell of a lot more with far less people.
Holacracy sounds like an interesting concept. Just wondering how it survives without corporate politics tainting it.
The key to agility would be less executives, IT or otherwise. Executives rarely ever produce anything and often act as an inhibitor to those who do. Also, renumeration tied to real performance. This would lead to more value for stock holders and hungrier executives. If an executive who claims to have to layoff a significant part of a company workforce to remain "competitive" while retaining giant salaries and getting huge bonuses because they met some goal setup by a friend on the board should be fired immediately and investigated for fraud.
Clearly this common sense approach will never happen, because it makes too much sense and not enough money for those in Control.
You could have ripped TFS from a circa 1990's Forbes IT article, also proving the bullshit status quo will never change.
And I just read some immature childish bullshit, and while my comments are related to a gender-based discussion, it really has little to do with gender, so grow the fuck up.
Women have the full capability to make choices the same as men. If they choose to stop and have kids, etc, then come back to the workplace, while that same man has continued to work, no, she does NOT warrant being brought up to the exact same pay as the man.
I see. Then perhaps the best answer is to force both genders to excuse themselves from their career to help raise a child, since you feel that a woman excusing herself for a few weeks to give birth is some kind of "bullshit" excuse. I mean, this is an inequality discussion after all, so let's make it equal for all involved.
She could have chose not to have kids and kept going with her career - which studies have shown she would have equal, or more, pay, than the man
Yes, you're right. Perhaps we should just tell ALL women to get their ass to work and never consider having children. Regardless of the studies related to biology and perpetuating our existence, I'm sure that if all women stop "wasting time" procreating, the human race will magically somehow survive.
Ah, nothing like re-defining a work/life balance by prioritizing a career over life itself. Yes, let's shame all women for even having the thought of wanting to become a mother. Great fucking answer to the inequality issue.
There is a reason why 9-5 exists. Its to be productive, its so everyone at the same time is known to be available.
The general reason 9-5 exists is because the human body functions best during daylight hours, and a reasonable expectation of work/life balance should be maintained in order to make this thing we call life worth living. That said, plenty of people can extend that workday and not negatively impact their life or health. In fact, it can drastically be improved.
If the women want to be free of that, then start a web business that allows you do run your own hours.
Being realistic, it's rather hard in today's world to even create a product that isn't somehow infringing on some patent houses catalog, let alone actually compete with those selling thousands at razor-thin margins. And that's regardless of gender.
There ARE options. Not every job has to cater to everyones needs.
I agree. There are plenty of options for businesses today to cater to employees who can still get the job done but would prefer to work some alternate hours. If job X has a deliverable by the end of the week, then who cares how or when it gets done during the days preceding the deadline? The more relevant factor is the work getting done, but far too many businesses want to still subscribe to the ridiculous mantra of the 9-5 and force employees that could easily do the same job remotely to waste hours every week commuting during peak hours. With traffic, I had a hour-long commute one way. That equated to pissing away 40 hours of productivity every month, wasted sitting behind the wheel of a car, in addition to causing increased expense (gas), stress (traffic), and physical abuse (sitting for hours). I gave back half of my wasted time to my company when I negotiated to work remotely in exchange for spending an hour exercising every morning instead of sitting behind a wheel. 20 more hours of productivity every month for the employer, and 20 hours of exercise time for the employee. A win-win for all involved.
If employers don't want to bend, then they can enjoy the increased expense related to lost productivity and employee attrition, along with paying business rates for real estate and taxes to warehouse humans in a room for the simple pleasure of running a corporate daycare center to babysit their employees.
Like good chocolate, the dark web has gone 85% darker.
The dark web found Darth Vader on Tinder, and has gone to the Dark Side.
The dark web has been replaced by FBI honeypots. Pay no attention to those FTP servers. It's totally legit. Honest. We pinky swear.
The dark web is actually a spoon, because the Sysadmin is Neo.
Kind of fun playing conspiracy theory playhouse, but on a serious note, fucking FTP? And we wonder why identities get stolen by by grade-school kids these days. Even the dark web can't learn to be secure.
Never gonna happen, sorry. Not for most salaried jobs anyway. The boss wants employees under control and visibly working in the office, not working odd hours at home. And most people need that sort of regimented schedule anyway. Nope unless you're a superstar, a prima donna, or work for yourself it's 8-5 M-F.
Then I hope that mentality of needing to physically oversee the workforce enslaved in a building dies with the aging generation of old-fashioned bosses who refuse to adapt.
If you want to be part of it, then choose to be part of it like the rest of us business world men and women do. You aren't so special that the whole world is gonna rearrange itself for your schedule.
What utter bullshit.
I'll believe the business world runs "9-5" when you shut down your corporate website promptly at 5PM local time every weekday, and keep it shut down all weekend.
From the creation of an entire digital world to 24-hour Walmarts, along with helping resolve the issues related to "business hours" traffic congestion, this world needs to fucking learn to adapt and operate to accommodate all.
The chasm between the rich greedy people at the top and the other 99.9% of the planet isn't shrinking.
Actually... it is shrinking. Over the last two decades the people that have done the best are the extremely poor: factory workers in Guangzhou, seamstresses in Bangladesh, coffee farmers in Tanzania. It is "poor people in rich countries" have been the losers, but those people aren't really poor. They are in the 85-95% range, so actually relatively rich by world standards.
In 2010, it took 388 people to represent the wealthy elite who owned as much as half of the global population. In 2016, it took only 62.
In 2015, a new metric was born by the top 1% who owned more than the rest of the world combined.
I have no idea what metrics you're looking at, but that chasm between the wealthy elite and the rest of us is not shrinking. It's also not displaced by trying to marginalize how some in extreme poverty are now doing "better" by jumping up to mild poverty. Slight improvements are not going to do a damn thing to prevent the inevitable, which is going to be a massive shift in world standards through automation and AI. Once that happens, Welfare 2.0 (UBI) will define the standard poverty line for all.
...When you automate people out of a job, you temporarily displace them. However, that frees up a lot of capital. And, before you say that the rich greedy people at the top will just pocket all that money, remember that they are rich and greedy and want even more money, so they'll take that money and start new businesses that employ lots of people.
Well that's a cute fairy tale version of the future. Now let me enlighten you to the reality of today.
The chasm between the rich greedy people at the top and the other 99.9% of the planet isn't shrinking.
The automation of yesteryear still left the door open to educating a human, to allow displaced workers to move on to find employment in another field. Automation and AI is now targeting educated jobs, so this next iteration of automation will not be temporary by any means. When most education becomes irrelevant due to the utter lack of employment opportunities, society will start to question the purpose of wasting time or money on higher education, which we are already facing those concerns today, as graduates struggle to escape the "gig" economy to try and find a career.
Even if automation only removed the lowly jobs out there, it's replacing the employment opportunities that allow humans to climb the proverbial ladder. When you remove the 10 lowest rungs on the ladder of success, tends to make it impossible to climb.
The rich and greedy may start new businesses, but those businesses will employ automation and AI in order to remain competitive.
And much like TFS implies, this is going to happen much faster than anyone thinks.
Thanks for posting this. The information you provide is fairly accurate, but unfortunately comes across a bit as the rambling of a madman, so you might want to think about revising your communication strategy.
Speaking of revised communications, you have one hell of a way of saying nothing to see here, move along.
There was nothing rambling about the parents post other than the fact that it contains a metric fuckton of actions that should be of considerable concern to the general populous.
The insanity here is watching the masses ignore the shit out of it, while claiming they still care about privacy and security.
Good catch, but the bylaw also states that where there are two or more rules, the most restrictive one applies (section 591.8, page 10). Section 591-2 (on page 5) is "the most restrictive."
No person shall make, cause or permit noise or vibration, at any time, which is likely to disturb the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of the inhabitants of the City.
So forget that air compressor and air gun to change tires, zip gun or hammering to loosen parts, etc.
Regardless of the cited minutiae here, this restriction is pretty much all related to a noise ordinance, and since I don't need to run a loud air compressor or hammer away on parts to change my oil, my original point stands. One can perform general vehicle maintenance during reasonable hours in your own driveway.
"...To allay fears about lost jobs due to automation, the report authors said they expect that the increase in robots will likely yield new jobs and opportunities for businesses."
What utter bullshit. There's a reason companies are looking to replace humans with robots, so let's dispel with the illusions about how robots will somehow not impact the job market.
Jobs will ultimately be lost to automation. It's kind of the entire fucking point.
When you're suicidally depressed with no hope for the future and unable to get any non-horrible feeling emotion out of anything you do, that moment you get a like tells you someone actually noticed you, someone cared enough to respond, that person actually liked whatever you said or did, and you improved that person's life for a moment. Or at least you can make yourself believe all those things. Hell yes that's addicting! You got to feel something!
The quest for likes can quickly turn you into a troll to get reactions from people, but if you stop, you're back to your best option being suicide. Commit suicide or troll to feel some emotion, while your life continues to crumble apart around you. Those are your only two options, pick one. You can't get better because you're a failure at life and don't deserve to be better. Tomorrow will always be worse than today. You should punish yourself for not pulling yourself up by your bootstraps today. It's only fair, bad people deserve to be punished and there's no one worse than you. Life is hopeless and you don't feel depressed when you're dead. Death is more enjoyable than life. Suicide is the only way to improve your life. Suicide is your best option, if you only had the energy to carry out a plan. So much work. Let me click on a few things first, maybe I'll have the energy to kill myself tomorrow. And repeat.
~Some insight into how some depressed people view their world.
When depression has grown to the point where suicide becomes a resounding thought, then therapy is likely the better path over reaching out to social media. A therapist isn't going to turn into a troll and start pushing someone to commit suicide just for the entertainment or to win a dare, which has happened, and is the reason why social media comes with risk. Therapists genuinely care and want to help people, and are trained to do so.
Life finds a way to create hope where you never expect it.
This is a bandaid on the much deeper problem. Inadequate highway infrastructure. Fix the root cause, not the symptom.
Not every congested location has space to add new freeway lanes (or new freeways). Take I-5 through downtown Seattle sometime, then figure out where you'd put the new "infrastructure".
Never been to Seattle, but every other major city has pretty much the same answer. Build another layer above.
Don't have the funds in the city coffer and can't stomach the tax hike for fear of citizen revolt? Fine. Make the next layer a toll road to pay for it. People hate traffic and are impatient enough these days they'll pay, believe me.
You basically have two options in the "advanced" society:
1) Accept your media programming to become irrational ravenous consumers that are only drawn to fake boobies, blinky lights, reality television and anything that projects if you just buy X you will live fantasy Y
2) Screw #1 and deal with reality with all its ups and downs, good, bad and indifferent things and just be thankful for having the opportunity to experience existence and admit you don't know a lot of shit
If you pick #2 you will be lonely because you will separate yourself from all the delusional morons in the #1 camp. If you pick #1 and you are actually somewhat intelligent, you will want to shoot yourself. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
You have managed to completely misunderstand the root of the word. This is not surprising based on your other posts.
And yet my point clearly stands.
Feel free to go to battle with dictionary and thesaurus in hand, deep in the land of Minutiae, far away from here. There's a valid reason we've associated Nazis with grammar.
Theories in the report suggest the more time a person spends online, the less time they have for real-world interactions.
If time spent on social media was worth as much as time spent in the real world, you could argue that it balances out. Unfortunately, time spent on social media is mostly time wasted on social media. The quality of interactions just isn't there. So in the final analysis, social media degrades the quality of the user's life.
Of course, that void then creates a hunger for contact, which the user tries to fill with still more social media use, because it's easy to do, rather than get off your butt and walk the dog, pick up the phone and call someone, or knock on your neighbor's door and ask them if they want to come over for coffee or tea.
While accurate, you somehow avoided the most obvious descriptor in this entire narrative.
Capitalism really isn't who/what you want to blame though. Capitalism just encourages taking the most profitable action/route. The underlying problem is that we, as humans, can't get enough of this clickbait bullshit.
Capitalism is capitalizing on the true underlying problem.
Because of technology, humans have become obscenely lazy.
It's far easier to believe and perpetuate bullshit than put in actual effort to find truth.
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"...stay at companies an average of six months longer...greater loyalty, which leads to the ability for someone to have an impact in their company, for them to actually have greater career development within that company..."
Greater impact my ass. 6 additional months isn't going to define career development or impact the company in some grandiose way.
People used to stay at companies for far longer than the 29 months being celebrated here. The turnover rate today is a joke. Then again, so is the fact that employees are no longer treated like people, but instead like commodity resources that can be exchanged as the wind blows.
"48 (percent) said they would stop, or watch less illegal content after they were told about the damaging effects of piracy on the media industry."
As movies continue to smash box office earnings records, and leading movie stars continue to justify obscene paychecks, I'd love to know how the MPAA is going to convey those "damaging" effects.
Sure as shit doesn't seem like they're hurting, especially in the face of what appears to be rampant piracy.
a woman excusing herself for a few weeks to give birth
If it was a few weeks you'd have a point.
It's a whole fucking year, paid, and often another year or four unpaid after that. Following which I think it's exceedingly fucking reasonable that they come back to work and have to prove they can even do the same fucking job before you even start talking about any progression.
Meanwhile a male colleague will have 1-5 years extra experience, understanding and progression. Yes, he's going to earn more. No, that's not unfair, and no, that's not a fucking pay gap.
Ah, nothing like re-defining a work/life balance by prioritizing a career over life itself. Yes, let's shame all women for even having the thought of wanting to become a mother. Great fucking answer to the inequality issue.
Nobody's fucking shaming any mother. They're just pointing out that she made a simple choice, and that has some benefits and some downsides. Meanwhile her children's partner will on balance have chosen financial security through career progression and an excessive work burden.
So the woman gets to sit at home for a couple of years, the man gets to slave away paying for it. And somehow you and every other cunt of a feminist is making out he's the evil one? No.
As you want to label me some cunt of a feminist, let me remind you that I feel the ultimate answer is to share the burden of raising a child equally between both parents involved where applicable, which other countries laws account for this, as to not be so one-sided. That doesn't excuse the fact that women are still likely to earn less than men for doing the same job for the exact same amount of time. Ultimately, gender should have fuck-all to do with pay rates, but the simple fact is that it still does.
As far as women making that "simple" choice, well it happens to be a fucking required choice for the survival of our species. Ignorance dictates the answer to equality being no children ever.
As far as those who consider work "slaving away" as compared to raising a child, that argument tends to be dispelled when we find they sure as shit won't trade places.
"...Note that while this should disable the OneDrive ads, it will also stop you from seeing potentially important notifications from OneDrive.
Er, important notifications?
If I don't intend to use OneDrive at all, I'd love to know what the true impact is of disabling yet another advertising "feature".
With the amount of shit going on with this OS, I can already see a market for a dedicated corporate firewall appliance that updates its anti-telemetry ruleset about as often as an A/V signatures.
Maybe you need to do an internship in an organization that has implemented Holacracy. Then let's revisit your opinion of org charts.
"Holacracy distinguishes between roles and the people who fill them, as one individual can hold multiple roles at any given time"
Given corporate greed and downsizing, many employees are already experiencing holding "multiple roles", doing a hell of a lot more with far less people.
Holacracy sounds like an interesting concept. Just wondering how it survives without corporate politics tainting it.
The key to agility would be less executives, IT or otherwise. Executives rarely ever produce anything and often act as an inhibitor to those who do. Also, renumeration tied to real performance. This would lead to more value for stock holders and hungrier executives. If an executive who claims to have to layoff a significant part of a company workforce to remain "competitive" while retaining giant salaries and getting huge bonuses because they met some goal setup by a friend on the board should be fired immediately and investigated for fraud.
Clearly this common sense approach will never happen, because it makes too much sense and not enough money for those in Control.
You could have ripped TFS from a circa 1990's Forbes IT article, also proving the bullshit status quo will never change.
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That's what I just read.
And I just read some immature childish bullshit, and while my comments are related to a gender-based discussion, it really has little to do with gender, so grow the fuck up.
Women have the full capability to make choices the same as men. If they choose to stop and have kids, etc, then come back to the workplace, while that same man has continued to work, no, she does NOT warrant being brought up to the exact same pay as the man.
I see. Then perhaps the best answer is to force both genders to excuse themselves from their career to help raise a child, since you feel that a woman excusing herself for a few weeks to give birth is some kind of "bullshit" excuse. I mean, this is an inequality discussion after all, so let's make it equal for all involved.
She could have chose not to have kids and kept going with her career - which studies have shown she would have equal, or more, pay, than the man
Yes, you're right. Perhaps we should just tell ALL women to get their ass to work and never consider having children. Regardless of the studies related to biology and perpetuating our existence, I'm sure that if all women stop "wasting time" procreating, the human race will magically somehow survive.
Ah, nothing like re-defining a work/life balance by prioritizing a career over life itself. Yes, let's shame all women for even having the thought of wanting to become a mother. Great fucking answer to the inequality issue.
There is a reason why 9-5 exists. Its to be productive, its so everyone at the same time is known to be available.
The general reason 9-5 exists is because the human body functions best during daylight hours, and a reasonable expectation of work/life balance should be maintained in order to make this thing we call life worth living. That said, plenty of people can extend that workday and not negatively impact their life or health. In fact, it can drastically be improved.
If the women want to be free of that, then start a web business that allows you do run your own hours.
Being realistic, it's rather hard in today's world to even create a product that isn't somehow infringing on some patent houses catalog, let alone actually compete with those selling thousands at razor-thin margins. And that's regardless of gender.
There ARE options. Not every job has to cater to everyones needs.
I agree. There are plenty of options for businesses today to cater to employees who can still get the job done but would prefer to work some alternate hours. If job X has a deliverable by the end of the week, then who cares how or when it gets done during the days preceding the deadline? The more relevant factor is the work getting done, but far too many businesses want to still subscribe to the ridiculous mantra of the 9-5 and force employees that could easily do the same job remotely to waste hours every week commuting during peak hours. With traffic, I had a hour-long commute one way. That equated to pissing away 40 hours of productivity every month, wasted sitting behind the wheel of a car, in addition to causing increased expense (gas), stress (traffic), and physical abuse (sitting for hours). I gave back half of my wasted time to my company when I negotiated to work remotely in exchange for spending an hour exercising every morning instead of sitting behind a wheel. 20 more hours of productivity every month for the employer, and 20 hours of exercise time for the employee. A win-win for all involved.
If employers don't want to bend, then they can enjoy the increased expense related to lost productivity and employee attrition, along with paying business rates for real estate and taxes to warehouse humans in a room for the simple pleasure of running a corporate daycare center to babysit their employees.
More like 1/16 actually, my math sucks today. Ignore me.
Perhaps the more relevant analysis is what percentage of the most popular websites on the internet have switched to HTTPS by default in recent years.
Like good chocolate, the dark web has gone 85% darker.
The dark web found Darth Vader on Tinder, and has gone to the Dark Side.
The dark web has been replaced by FBI honeypots. Pay no attention to those FTP servers. It's totally legit. Honest. We pinky swear.
The dark web is actually a spoon, because the Sysadmin is Neo.
Kind of fun playing conspiracy theory playhouse, but on a serious note, fucking FTP? And we wonder why identities get stolen by by grade-school kids these days. Even the dark web can't learn to be secure.
Never gonna happen, sorry. Not for most salaried jobs anyway. The boss wants employees under control and visibly working in the office, not working odd hours at home. And most people need that sort of regimented schedule anyway. Nope unless you're a superstar, a prima donna, or work for yourself it's 8-5 M-F.
Then I hope that mentality of needing to physically oversee the workforce enslaved in a building dies with the aging generation of old-fashioned bosses who refuse to adapt.
If you want to be part of it, then choose to be part of it like the rest of us business world men and women do. You aren't so special that the whole world is gonna rearrange itself for your schedule.
What utter bullshit.
I'll believe the business world runs "9-5" when you shut down your corporate website promptly at 5PM local time every weekday, and keep it shut down all weekend.
From the creation of an entire digital world to 24-hour Walmarts, along with helping resolve the issues related to "business hours" traffic congestion, this world needs to fucking learn to adapt and operate to accommodate all.
The chasm between the rich greedy people at the top and the other 99.9% of the planet isn't shrinking.
Actually ... it is shrinking. Over the last two decades the people that have done the best are the extremely poor: factory workers in Guangzhou, seamstresses in Bangladesh, coffee farmers in Tanzania. It is "poor people in rich countries" have been the losers, but those people aren't really poor. They are in the 85-95% range, so actually relatively rich by world standards.
In 2010, it took 388 people to represent the wealthy elite who owned as much as half of the global population. In 2016, it took only 62.
In 2015, a new metric was born by the top 1% who owned more than the rest of the world combined.
I have no idea what metrics you're looking at, but that chasm between the wealthy elite and the rest of us is not shrinking. It's also not displaced by trying to marginalize how some in extreme poverty are now doing "better" by jumping up to mild poverty. Slight improvements are not going to do a damn thing to prevent the inevitable, which is going to be a massive shift in world standards through automation and AI. Once that happens, Welfare 2.0 (UBI) will define the standard poverty line for all.
...When you automate people out of a job, you temporarily displace them. However, that frees up a lot of capital. And, before you say that the rich greedy people at the top will just pocket all that money, remember that they are rich and greedy and want even more money, so they'll take that money and start new businesses that employ lots of people.
Well that's a cute fairy tale version of the future. Now let me enlighten you to the reality of today.
The chasm between the rich greedy people at the top and the other 99.9% of the planet isn't shrinking.
The automation of yesteryear still left the door open to educating a human, to allow displaced workers to move on to find employment in another field. Automation and AI is now targeting educated jobs, so this next iteration of automation will not be temporary by any means. When most education becomes irrelevant due to the utter lack of employment opportunities, society will start to question the purpose of wasting time or money on higher education, which we are already facing those concerns today, as graduates struggle to escape the "gig" economy to try and find a career.
Even if automation only removed the lowly jobs out there, it's replacing the employment opportunities that allow humans to climb the proverbial ladder. When you remove the 10 lowest rungs on the ladder of success, tends to make it impossible to climb.
The rich and greedy may start new businesses, but those businesses will employ automation and AI in order to remain competitive.
And much like TFS implies, this is going to happen much faster than anyone thinks.
Thanks for posting this. The information you provide is fairly accurate, but unfortunately comes across a bit as the rambling of a madman, so you might want to think about revising your communication strategy.
Speaking of revised communications, you have one hell of a way of saying nothing to see here, move along.
There was nothing rambling about the parents post other than the fact that it contains a metric fuckton of actions that should be of considerable concern to the general populous.
The insanity here is watching the masses ignore the shit out of it, while claiming they still care about privacy and security.
Good catch, but the bylaw also states that where there are two or more rules, the most restrictive one applies (section 591.8, page 10). Section 591-2 (on page 5) is "the most restrictive."
No person shall make, cause or permit noise or vibration, at any time, which is likely to disturb the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of the inhabitants of the City.
So forget that air compressor and air gun to change tires, zip gun or hammering to loosen parts, etc.
Regardless of the cited minutiae here, this restriction is pretty much all related to a noise ordinance, and since I don't need to run a loud air compressor or hammer away on parts to change my oil, my original point stands. One can perform general vehicle maintenance during reasonable hours in your own driveway.
"...To allay fears about lost jobs due to automation, the report authors said they expect that the increase in robots will likely yield new jobs and opportunities for businesses."
What utter bullshit. There's a reason companies are looking to replace humans with robots, so let's dispel with the illusions about how robots will somehow not impact the job market.
Jobs will ultimately be lost to automation. It's kind of the entire fucking point.
When you're suicidally depressed with no hope for the future and unable to get any non-horrible feeling emotion out of anything you do, that moment you get a like tells you someone actually noticed you, someone cared enough to respond, that person actually liked whatever you said or did, and you improved that person's life for a moment. Or at least you can make yourself believe all those things. Hell yes that's addicting! You got to feel something!
The quest for likes can quickly turn you into a troll to get reactions from people, but if you stop, you're back to your best option being suicide. Commit suicide or troll to feel some emotion, while your life continues to crumble apart around you. Those are your only two options, pick one. You can't get better because you're a failure at life and don't deserve to be better. Tomorrow will always be worse than today. You should punish yourself for not pulling yourself up by your bootstraps today. It's only fair, bad people deserve to be punished and there's no one worse than you. Life is hopeless and you don't feel depressed when you're dead. Death is more enjoyable than life. Suicide is the only way to improve your life. Suicide is your best option, if you only had the energy to carry out a plan. So much work. Let me click on a few things first, maybe I'll have the energy to kill myself tomorrow. And repeat.
~Some insight into how some depressed people view their world.
When depression has grown to the point where suicide becomes a resounding thought, then therapy is likely the better path over reaching out to social media. A therapist isn't going to turn into a troll and start pushing someone to commit suicide just for the entertainment or to win a dare, which has happened, and is the reason why social media comes with risk. Therapists genuinely care and want to help people, and are trained to do so.
Life finds a way to create hope where you never expect it.
Many entire cities also have the same rules.
Uh, entire cities?
Care to bring an example of where I cannot do work in a driveway of a house I own?
This is a bandaid on the much deeper problem. Inadequate highway infrastructure. Fix the root cause, not the symptom.
Not every congested location has space to add new freeway lanes (or new freeways). Take I-5 through downtown Seattle sometime, then figure out where you'd put the new "infrastructure".
Never been to Seattle, but every other major city has pretty much the same answer. Build another layer above.
Don't have the funds in the city coffer and can't stomach the tax hike for fear of citizen revolt? Fine. Make the next layer a toll road to pay for it. People hate traffic and are impatient enough these days they'll pay, believe me.
You basically have two options in the "advanced" society: 1) Accept your media programming to become irrational ravenous consumers that are only drawn to fake boobies, blinky lights, reality television and anything that projects if you just buy X you will live fantasy Y 2) Screw #1 and deal with reality with all its ups and downs, good, bad and indifferent things and just be thankful for having the opportunity to experience existence and admit you don't know a lot of shit If you pick #2 you will be lonely because you will separate yourself from all the delusional morons in the #1 camp. If you pick #1 and you are actually somewhat intelligent, you will want to shoot yourself. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Wow.
So much truth here, it hurts.
Nailed it though...
Capitalism is capitalizing...
You have managed to completely misunderstand the root of the word. This is not surprising based on your other posts.
And yet my point clearly stands.
Feel free to go to battle with dictionary and thesaurus in hand, deep in the land of Minutiae, far away from here. There's a valid reason we've associated Nazis with grammar.
Theories in the report suggest the more time a person spends online, the less time they have for real-world interactions.
If time spent on social media was worth as much as time spent in the real world, you could argue that it balances out. Unfortunately, time spent on social media is mostly time wasted on social media. The quality of interactions just isn't there. So in the final analysis, social media degrades the quality of the user's life.
Of course, that void then creates a hunger for contact, which the user tries to fill with still more social media use , because it's easy to do, rather than get off your butt and walk the dog, pick up the phone and call someone, or knock on your neighbor's door and ask them if they want to come over for coffee or tea.
While accurate, you somehow avoided the most obvious descriptor in this entire narrative.
Addiction.
Yeah, I know. The truth hurts.
Capitalism really isn't who/what you want to blame though. Capitalism just encourages taking the most profitable action/route. The underlying problem is that we, as humans, can't get enough of this clickbait bullshit.
Capitalism is capitalizing on the true underlying problem.
Because of technology, humans have become obscenely lazy.
It's far easier to believe and perpetuate bullshit than put in actual effort to find truth.
I wonder if Prof took the time to review with the students the difference between a search result and a fact.
(Professor) "Students, let this be a lesson. Don't trust those search results."
*Every student bookmarks Wikipedia*
(Students) "Well, that was easy. I wonder why everyone is so worried about fake news..."