Some people do. Hence the article. What is your problem with it?
Let me know how "interesting" a Millennial's life becomes when their gig job doesn't pay medial or dental benefits, and an accident happens.
How exactly is a gig economy going to provide benefits for things like starting a family. How will that family cope when tragedy strikes as no life insurance benefit is offered.
The "gig" economy is a bullshit attempt to glamorize and hide the real issue, which is a population outpacing the availability stable employment that provides necessary benefits. And as the parent pointed it, this bullshit is a slippery slope we don't want.
Instability should never be viewed as a good thing.
"The money is little...but I want a more interesting life."
While the part-time choice while attending college may be the rather obvious choice due to school demand, I'm wondering about those who are choosing not to seek out stable full-time employment post-graduation. Things like getting married, starting a family, or even moving out from underneath Mom and Dads roof; all of these life events will likely cost more than the average "interesting" salary.
This story seems to glamorize Lifestyles of the Poor but Interesting, but perhaps the glamor is hiding the true problem, which hints to a growing shortage of full-time jobs.
It shouldn't be collecting data of any kind unless you opt to submit crash reports
20 years ago, humans used computers.
Today, it's the other way around.
If you're looking for the activity that shouldn't be happening, perhaps we need to start looking at the people who legally allow corporations to make humans the product, which is buried inside every EULA targeting people that don't give a shit about privacy.
Spilling beer during some drunken orbital hijinks could also risk damaging equipment... without the assistance of gravity, liquid and gases can tumble around in an astronaut's stomach, causing them to produce rather soggy burps.
Isn't it about time they started doing the whole artificial gravity thing? From what I've read, it can be done cheaply with a long tether and a counter weight at the other end.
A lot of special considerations are necessary for space living. Think showers, where you not only need a pump for the water, you also need one sucking the water down the drain. Sleeping? You need straps to keep you in place. Using a laptop? You need external fans to cycle hot air away from it. Even your body starts deteriorating because it's not exercising as much, and you need to devote many hours to physical fitness just to stay healthy. Zero G living is just to foreign to us.
I wonder how many millions are spent on plastic surgery due to the effects of gravity on the human body over time.
I wonder how many millions are spent treating back pain due to bulging and compressed discs due to the effects of gravity on the human body over time.
Gravity can be a bitch on the body too. Not saying Zero G is the answer, but I'd settle for lunar gravity.
Another reason to ban beer: It would cost the taxpayers several thousand dollars to launch a pint of beer into LEO. The bill for a small Superbowl party on the ISS would easily exceed the average US worker's annual salary...
Speaking of wasted cost, companies collectively pissed away over $200 million to create stupid commercials during the Superbowl, which is a tad more than the average US worker's annual salary...
He's already Uncle Dinosaur. He doesn't need to elevate that to Uncle Tinfoil. If anything, Snapchat is far better than Facebook due to the ephemeral nature of the chats.
(Interviewer)"Oh, so you say you're very experienced with social media? Do you have any evidence of this?"
(Facebook Dinosaur)"Why yes, I do. I've established my company, started community groups, and initiated several marketing campaigns right here."
Microsoft has described Google's announcements of unpatched Windows bugs as "disappointing"...
Perhaps if Microsoft wasn't so focused on making the Microsoft Telemetry OS (a.k.a. Windows 10) to feed unethical revenue channels, they would be more concerned about Security in their products.
In short, Screw You, Microsoft, for having the unmitigated gall to make such a statement after having months to fix your shit. I would suggest that you should start taking Security seriously, but you've failed to do that for decades now. Don't even know what to say about your new-and-improved patch process other than par for the course.
Perhaps what would be truly innovative is to listen to Common F. Sense and make a shake by mixing up all the ingredients equally for humans to consume it the same way we've been doing for the last century.
Boy, nothing quite like humans coming together to find solutions without problems. Talk about one of those jobs you leave off your resume...
No, as the summary stated its mostly due to layoffs from large floundering companies... of course this is only about layoffs and doesn't take into account any new hiring which may or may not outpace the layoffs.
While this report is rather one-sided, gut feeling tells me if the end result of hiring and firing was a net gain, we wouldn't be talking about this.
The problem is not innovation itself, but more what we're defining as innovation.
When a person can act like a complete fucking idiot on YouTube and amass a billion look-at-this-dumbass clicks resulting in a six-figure salary, I'd say that says a lot about what is "innovative" today. Don't even get me started on reality TV.
The scary part is watching Wall Street get high as a kite off the innovation fumes as they drool over shit like Snapchat, who loses hundreds of millions every year and arrogantly brags how they may never become profitable, defying all common sense with a multi-billion dollar IPO valuation.
Not that we have any.bomb evidence of what happens when bullshit infects innovation...
This bill has been introduced a number of previous times (earliest is 2011) and has always gotten stuck in committee. This just seems like a bill that gets some press for the politicians, but isn't really meant to actually be enacted
Then perhaps we need to start reporting on how much taxpayer money is wasted on bullshit do-nothing committee members.
No matter your political standing, it's shit like this that justifies the "drain the swamp" mentality.
I think that as more 'digital natives' run for political office, this will improve. In the Senate at least, many of the members are older and have probably never sent an email in their lives. As those people die off and get replaced, people who are more comfortable with modern technology will fill the vacancies. I doubt Orrin Hatch, for example, knows how to operate anything more complicated than an IBM Selectric -- even then, he'd have some gal type up his documents and fetch his coffee for him, too.
A lack of understanding technology is hardly a valid excuse, given the age of the laws they are in charge of upholding and protecting.
There was nothing in the Constitution or Bill of Rights about an IBM Selectric, and any 80-year old dinosaur fully understands the words "warrantless mass surveillance" no matter what decade you say them in. If they don't, then they're not fit to serve.
...Quite obviously, I know nothing about the inner workings of stingray technology, but it is clear to me that the principle by which it operates is to deem that every cell phone user within range is guilty of a crime - since the technology indiscriminately targets them.
The way it operates is by design, and the electronic system itself is not responsible for defining guilt; our society does that.
...As technologists we know that it would be possible to develop a stingray device that had to be pre-programmed with a cell phone ID before it could be activated. We know that it would also be possible to require that device to have a legally tamper-proof log, to require that to have a license to operate (it is a wireless device that surely needs FCC approval to be used) that there would be supervisory controls that could be enforce.
As technologists and citizens who wish for our Rights to be upheld by all, we know all of this is possible. The problem is someone decided to design this device to circumvent a lot of those protections. Personally, I really don't feel this was an accidental design by any means. Someone designed ISMI catchers to operate in the way that they do, as simple filters to mandate the capture of specific cell data could have been easily created from the start. That would not grant law enforcement the ability to build cases using parallel construction, which we already know is used and essentially now an accepted and legal practice, as it seems to be rather easy to come up with some bullshit excuse to validate evidence based on parallel construction, which of course helps feed the Prison Industrial Complex.
...The Enforcement of the law must itself be legal, or it undermines any and all claims of authority it may have over the citizenry it was designed to protect.
Common F. Sense would agree with you.
Greed N. Corruption is in charge, so it really doesn't matter.
To me, the salient question is whether they are investing to increase profits, or to make better products. The lack of updates in most of the mac line, along with battery and memory issues that crippled the new Macbooks, are decisions about resource allocation - Apple simply isn't interested. This is especially strange, since they still have strong development on OSX. On the mobile side, there is a lot of criticism about a lack of innovation to drive new product sales—but what I see is Apple simply looking to R&D to stabilise cost and production, based on the goal of meeting market expectations more consistently. All of this is very Tim Cook, and not very Steve Jobs. For all his faults, Steve did seem genuine about his passion to make "insanely great" products. Tim seems committed to demonstrable returns stability.
No matter who is in charge, they are beholden to Wall Street Greed above all.
In case you needed any clarity regarding your salient question.
consumers who repair their own phones could cause lithium batteries to catch fire.
yep, and changing the oil on my motorcycle could cause scalding hot oil to burn me, but well documented processes from the vendor generally limit this risk. Repairing the power regulator for my refrigerator could have caused a shock, however repair manuals clearly instructed me to unplug and de-energize the appliance.
the reason these bills are being fought incessantly is because modern consumer capitalism is predicated on brand consumption, not product consumption, and includes concessions to allow for the hedonic treadmill to spin freely. Sure, Apple may be forced to support older architectures that do not support the latest whizbang features but the real argument is that they would have to support the idea that the user owns the device instead of rents it until the next model comes out. being able to repair a cellphone or tablet, or even a macbook for that matter erodes the concept of the brand as an experience and slowly drags apple back to the earthly realm of hardware manufacturer and not a lifestyle. Owning a product, and not a brand in the 21st century is a slow death for any company.
Perhaps what ultimately needs to die is the unadulterated greed that is driving this whole "lifestyle" business model.
To every greedy vendor out there; Sell me a fucking product. One that I own, and buy outright. Fuck you and your corrupt business model that demands I rent your "brand" and pay in perpetuity. You no longer want to maintain customers. You want slaves. We're already killing off the concept of competition, as mega-corps become more and more powerful, consuming and controlling the global market.
If we don't start constraining greed, this mentality will eventually take over the food supply, with every human will be forced to buy their sustenance one meal at a time instead of owning a food source, or making it themselves. If you think this concept is delusional, then tell me again how the chasm between the greedy elite and the other 99.9% of the population will somehow start to shrink.
Sadly the last years of the 20th century were the peak of our civilization, for the years which followed brought us into the 21st century of the War On Terror, the Great Recession, and President Trump.
I more thought of the last years of the 20th century as peak corruption. You know, back when you could sell vaporware for millions, resulting in the dot bomb crash.
Or maybe peak corruption was in 2008 when the deregulated banking industry started fucking about, resulting in one of the worst financial crashes in history.
And then we come to today, where companies can file for multi-billion-dollar IPOs after demonstrating a unique ability to lose hundreds of millions per year, and may never sustain profitability, resulting in...
Seems the only constant we've demonstrated is our ability to accept corruption as a legitimized component of capitalism, resulting in a predictable Rise and Fall.
We should be demanding access to the data and algorithms used to generate pricing for mandatory services like the ACA, home insurance, and automobile insurance. We should never be required to buy anything without even knowing the basis for the charges.
When greed and corruption pervert capitalism, one doesn't have to look far to understand pricing.
Let's also not pretend insurance is a business concept that has ever struggled to survive. They collect a few billion, and then hire an army of lobbyists to ensure their flavor greed is mandatory.
How this corrupt process works isn't some kind of mystery to solve.
This is a bad parent. A person that should never have had a child....He, "raised" a child that, "Grew Up" to be a person that gets drunk and endangers the lives of everyone around because she wants to have a good time....This was caused by an irresponsible cunt, raised by an incompetent parent.
This was caused by a human who made a mistake. Sometimes when humans make mistakes, it can be fatal, and this sure as shit isn't the first human to do this.
Humans make mistakes. Kind of like the one you made here by trying to dig deeper into this and not recognizing and acknowledging the fucking obvious.
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Some people do. Hence the article. What is your problem with it?
Let me know how "interesting" a Millennial's life becomes when their gig job doesn't pay medial or dental benefits, and an accident happens.
How exactly is a gig economy going to provide benefits for things like starting a family. How will that family cope when tragedy strikes as no life insurance benefit is offered.
The "gig" economy is a bullshit attempt to glamorize and hide the real issue, which is a population outpacing the availability stable employment that provides necessary benefits. And as the parent pointed it, this bullshit is a slippery slope we don't want.
Instability should never be viewed as a good thing.
"The money is little...but I want a more interesting life."
While the part-time choice while attending college may be the rather obvious choice due to school demand, I'm wondering about those who are choosing not to seek out stable full-time employment post-graduation. Things like getting married, starting a family, or even moving out from underneath Mom and Dads roof; all of these life events will likely cost more than the average "interesting" salary.
This story seems to glamorize Lifestyles of the Poor but Interesting, but perhaps the glamor is hiding the true problem, which hints to a growing shortage of full-time jobs.
It shouldn't be collecting data of any kind unless you opt to submit crash reports
20 years ago, humans used computers.
Today, it's the other way around.
If you're looking for the activity that shouldn't be happening, perhaps we need to start looking at the people who legally allow corporations to make humans the product, which is buried inside every EULA targeting people that don't give a shit about privacy.
Spilling beer during some drunken orbital hijinks could also risk damaging equipment ... without the assistance of gravity, liquid and gases can tumble around in an astronaut's stomach, causing them to produce rather soggy burps.
Isn't it about time they started doing the whole artificial gravity thing? From what I've read, it can be done cheaply with a long tether and a counter weight at the other end. A lot of special considerations are necessary for space living. Think showers, where you not only need a pump for the water, you also need one sucking the water down the drain. Sleeping? You need straps to keep you in place. Using a laptop? You need external fans to cycle hot air away from it. Even your body starts deteriorating because it's not exercising as much, and you need to devote many hours to physical fitness just to stay healthy. Zero G living is just to foreign to us.
I wonder how many millions are spent on plastic surgery due to the effects of gravity on the human body over time.
I wonder how many millions are spent treating back pain due to bulging and compressed discs due to the effects of gravity on the human body over time.
Gravity can be a bitch on the body too. Not saying Zero G is the answer, but I'd settle for lunar gravity.
Another reason to ban beer: It would cost the taxpayers several thousand dollars to launch a pint of beer into LEO. The bill for a small Superbowl party on the ISS would easily exceed the average US worker's annual salary...
Speaking of wasted cost, companies collectively pissed away over $200 million to create stupid commercials during the Superbowl, which is a tad more than the average US worker's annual salary...
He's already Uncle Dinosaur. He doesn't need to elevate that to Uncle Tinfoil. If anything, Snapchat is far better than Facebook due to the ephemeral nature of the chats.
(Interviewer)"Oh, so you say you're very experienced with social media? Do you have any evidence of this?"
(Facebook Dinosaur)"Why yes, I do. I've established my company, started community groups, and initiated several marketing campaigns right here."
(Snapchat addict)"Uhhhhhhhh....."
is the new "I don't have a TV."
It's more like "I have an actual life I enjoy in the real world."
For the social media addicts out there, you don't have to tell me how pathetic your life is. We already know.
Microsoft has described Google's announcements of unpatched Windows bugs as "disappointing"...
Perhaps if Microsoft wasn't so focused on making the Microsoft Telemetry OS (a.k.a. Windows 10) to feed unethical revenue channels, they would be more concerned about Security in their products.
In short, Screw You, Microsoft, for having the unmitigated gall to make such a statement after having months to fix your shit. I would suggest that you should start taking Security seriously, but you've failed to do that for decades now. Don't even know what to say about your new-and-improved patch process other than par for the course.
Whenever a user calls up to ask why his computer rebooted after I install an update, I say... drumroll, please... gamma radiation.
Computers and Incredible Hulks don't interface well together, but a Ctrl-Alt-SMASH sequence? I'd buy that.
Perhaps what would be truly innovative is to listen to Common F. Sense and make a shake by mixing up all the ingredients equally for humans to consume it the same way we've been doing for the last century.
Boy, nothing quite like humans coming together to find solutions without problems. Talk about one of those jobs you leave off your resume...
No, as the summary stated its mostly due to layoffs from large floundering companies... of course this is only about layoffs and doesn't take into account any new hiring which may or may not outpace the layoffs.
While this report is rather one-sided, gut feeling tells me if the end result of hiring and firing was a net gain, we wouldn't be talking about this.
At all.
The problem is not innovation itself, but more what we're defining as innovation.
When a person can act like a complete fucking idiot on YouTube and amass a billion look-at-this-dumbass clicks resulting in a six-figure salary, I'd say that says a lot about what is "innovative" today. Don't even get me started on reality TV.
The scary part is watching Wall Street get high as a kite off the innovation fumes as they drool over shit like Snapchat, who loses hundreds of millions every year and arrogantly brags how they may never become profitable, defying all common sense with a multi-billion dollar IPO valuation.
Not that we have any.bomb evidence of what happens when bullshit infects innovation...
...we probably need to legalize whatever he's smoking.
This bill has been introduced a number of previous times (earliest is 2011) and has always gotten stuck in committee. This just seems like a bill that gets some press for the politicians, but isn't really meant to actually be enacted
Then perhaps we need to start reporting on how much taxpayer money is wasted on bullshit do-nothing committee members.
No matter your political standing, it's shit like this that justifies the "drain the swamp" mentality.
I think that as more 'digital natives' run for political office, this will improve. In the Senate at least, many of the members are older and have probably never sent an email in their lives. As those people die off and get replaced, people who are more comfortable with modern technology will fill the vacancies. I doubt Orrin Hatch, for example, knows how to operate anything more complicated than an IBM Selectric -- even then, he'd have some gal type up his documents and fetch his coffee for him, too.
A lack of understanding technology is hardly a valid excuse, given the age of the laws they are in charge of upholding and protecting.
There was nothing in the Constitution or Bill of Rights about an IBM Selectric, and any 80-year old dinosaur fully understands the words "warrantless mass surveillance" no matter what decade you say them in. If they don't, then they're not fit to serve.
...Quite obviously, I know nothing about the inner workings of stingray technology, but it is clear to me that the principle by which it operates is to deem that every cell phone user within range is guilty of a crime - since the technology indiscriminately targets them.
The way it operates is by design, and the electronic system itself is not responsible for defining guilt; our society does that.
...As technologists we know that it would be possible to develop a stingray device that had to be pre-programmed with a cell phone ID before it could be activated. We know that it would also be possible to require that device to have a legally tamper-proof log, to require that to have a license to operate (it is a wireless device that surely needs FCC approval to be used) that there would be supervisory controls that could be enforce.
As technologists and citizens who wish for our Rights to be upheld by all, we know all of this is possible. The problem is someone decided to design this device to circumvent a lot of those protections. Personally, I really don't feel this was an accidental design by any means. Someone designed ISMI catchers to operate in the way that they do, as simple filters to mandate the capture of specific cell data could have been easily created from the start. That would not grant law enforcement the ability to build cases using parallel construction, which we already know is used and essentially now an accepted and legal practice, as it seems to be rather easy to come up with some bullshit excuse to validate evidence based on parallel construction, which of course helps feed the Prison Industrial Complex.
...The Enforcement of the law must itself be legal, or it undermines any and all claims of authority it may have over the citizenry it was designed to protect.
Common F. Sense would agree with you.
Greed N. Corruption is in charge, so it really doesn't matter.
But they make some damn fine dongles.
...says Courage, the Cowardly Slave to Wall Street.
To me, the salient question is whether they are investing to increase profits, or to make better products. The lack of updates in most of the mac line, along with battery and memory issues that crippled the new Macbooks, are decisions about resource allocation - Apple simply isn't interested. This is especially strange, since they still have strong development on OSX. On the mobile side, there is a lot of criticism about a lack of innovation to drive new product sales—but what I see is Apple simply looking to R&D to stabilise cost and production, based on the goal of meeting market expectations more consistently. All of this is very Tim Cook, and not very Steve Jobs. For all his faults, Steve did seem genuine about his passion to make "insanely great" products. Tim seems committed to demonstrable returns stability.
No matter who is in charge, they are beholden to Wall Street Greed above all.
In case you needed any clarity regarding your salient question.
I'd say the only thing one can accurately get out of TFS is the fact that no one involved wants to be the scapegoat when the shit hits the fan.
Gotta love it when fucking finger pointing is the true cause of a vulnerable environment.
Wait, that's a legit company? I assumed it was a virus. It always pops up anytime I visit any sketchy site with the most obnoxious ads.
Tends to question the legitimacy of the rest of the Anti-Vendor market, doesn't it...
"...Komplex infected Macs by exploiting a known vulnerability in the MacKeeper antivirus software...
Oh, the irony of an antivirus program running on a BSD-based OS being the vulnerability.
Yes, Mr. Anti-Vendor, please sell me another wonderful solution you think I need...
consumers who repair their own phones could cause lithium batteries to catch fire.
yep, and changing the oil on my motorcycle could cause scalding hot oil to burn me, but well documented processes from the vendor generally limit this risk. Repairing the power regulator for my refrigerator could have caused a shock, however repair manuals clearly instructed me to unplug and de-energize the appliance. the reason these bills are being fought incessantly is because modern consumer capitalism is predicated on brand consumption, not product consumption, and includes concessions to allow for the hedonic treadmill to spin freely. Sure, Apple may be forced to support older architectures that do not support the latest whizbang features but the real argument is that they would have to support the idea that the user owns the device instead of rents it until the next model comes out. being able to repair a cellphone or tablet, or even a macbook for that matter erodes the concept of the brand as an experience and slowly drags apple back to the earthly realm of hardware manufacturer and not a lifestyle. Owning a product, and not a brand in the 21st century is a slow death for any company.
Perhaps what ultimately needs to die is the unadulterated greed that is driving this whole "lifestyle" business model.
To every greedy vendor out there; Sell me a fucking product. One that I own, and buy outright. Fuck you and your corrupt business model that demands I rent your "brand" and pay in perpetuity. You no longer want to maintain customers. You want slaves. We're already killing off the concept of competition, as mega-corps become more and more powerful, consuming and controlling the global market.
If we don't start constraining greed, this mentality will eventually take over the food supply, with every human will be forced to buy their sustenance one meal at a time instead of owning a food source, or making it themselves. If you think this concept is delusional, then tell me again how the chasm between the greedy elite and the other 99.9% of the population will somehow start to shrink.
Sadly the last years of the 20th century were the peak of our civilization, for the years which followed brought us into the 21st century of the War On Terror, the Great Recession, and President Trump.
I more thought of the last years of the 20th century as peak corruption. You know, back when you could sell vaporware for millions, resulting in the dot bomb crash.
Or maybe peak corruption was in 2008 when the deregulated banking industry started fucking about, resulting in one of the worst financial crashes in history.
And then we come to today, where companies can file for multi-billion-dollar IPOs after demonstrating a unique ability to lose hundreds of millions per year, and may never sustain profitability, resulting in...
Seems the only constant we've demonstrated is our ability to accept corruption as a legitimized component of capitalism, resulting in a predictable Rise and Fall.
We should be demanding access to the data and algorithms used to generate pricing for mandatory services like the ACA, home insurance, and automobile insurance. We should never be required to buy anything without even knowing the basis for the charges.
When greed and corruption pervert capitalism, one doesn't have to look far to understand pricing.
Let's also not pretend insurance is a business concept that has ever struggled to survive. They collect a few billion, and then hire an army of lobbyists to ensure their flavor greed is mandatory.
How this corrupt process works isn't some kind of mystery to solve.
This is a bad parent. A person that should never have had a child....He, "raised" a child that, "Grew Up" to be a person that gets drunk and endangers the lives of everyone around because she wants to have a good time....This was caused by an irresponsible cunt, raised by an incompetent parent.
This was caused by a human who made a mistake. Sometimes when humans make mistakes, it can be fatal, and this sure as shit isn't the first human to do this.
Humans make mistakes. Kind of like the one you made here by trying to dig deeper into this and not recognizing and acknowledging the fucking obvious.