And you'd really plan on going to court and potentially spending more in legal fees than you earn in a year to keep a crappy service job? It's a no-win situation for the employee.
Fact is that somebody in that position has practically no rights other than to walk out the door on account of how much it costs to exercise those rights.
I can see where you're coming from there, and don't entirely disagree. Whether the rule is fair or not is ultimately going to come down to the judgment call of whoever makes the rules, and it would appear they've elected to put the "think of the children" aspect up first. I'm not going to make an effort to defend it really.
But, as noted, the problem here is unrelated to the logic of the rules--it isn't a case of a creative new solution to a problem, it's a blatant rule violation in a contest entirely dependent on arbitrary rules.
Even given that the rule might be stupid, if one group is allowed to get away with ignoring it, the contest is skewed unfairly against those who follow it. There's no "fair sporting chance" so to speak against a cheater.
No kidding--we can't expect companies NOT to use cheaper labor when we as consumers line around the block to save a few bucks.
I'm not saying outsourcing is all bad, but we as consumers are the ultimate cause of it all.
When you get down to it, all restrictions in sports are arbitrary; it's those arbitrary restrictions by which the sport is defined.
You can oppose the sense of a rule, but in this case, the real issue is that everybody else is following this rule except for a couple people (from one specific place).
I think part of the issue is that the openings are for "wizards." There are a lot of us who aren't at that level yet, and find it hard to get there without any intermediate jobs available...
Unions are fine in principle; unfortunately these days unions tend to represent union leadership as opposed to the workers, and do about as much to exploit labor as as the companies do.
After growing up on a farm and then doing IT jobs for some years, I've come around and also learned to appreciate haying in the hot sun.
The sweat and blisters and dirt give me a feeling of instant-gratitude accomplishment that IT rarely does. These days I do a lot of heavy physical labor after work and on weekends voluntarily, something I'd have never done back on the farm.
Glorified janitorial work, or glorified data entry. I've had some "IT" jobs that consisted of little more than looking at a sheet of paper or a spreadsheet and punching data line by line into some poorly designed GUI.
It was that way for me. After a living hell in school for several years, I went through a period of some years even after leaving when I refused to do pretty much anything academic. It was a couple of years after college by the time I really recovered.
It's a pity that manual labor doesn't get more in terms of respect or pay. However necessary it may be, for some odd reason a lot of people think it's lowly and beneath them.
Of course, coming from a blue-collar background I'm biased to a degree, but somebody actually has to move stuff around and get the physical work done, or all the ideas in the world won't ever be more than abstract "what-if."
Depending on which "you" you're referring to. We now have knowledge of nutrition and effective training programs that put the athletic performance of an in-shape human well above what it was even a century ago.
It's like that in Japan. Not that the police actually care--everybody I was even acquainted with knew I was brewing, and "hey, cool" was the only response I got other than "I don't care".
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I can't think of any feasible government restrictions that would also be reasonable.
And you'd really plan on going to court and potentially spending more in legal fees than you earn in a year to keep a crappy service job? It's a no-win situation for the employee.
Fact is that somebody in that position has practically no rights other than to walk out the door on account of how much it costs to exercise those rights.
And Guinness in Africa is by all accounts thicker and sweeter than anywhere else, as well as contains a large amount of sorghum.
Between the pasteurization and filtering (2 micron, is it?) most commercial offerings are sterile.
Ad hom is relevant here; the issue isn't what a person claims to believe. It's what they actually do.
If by good you mean on the good side of the admins, I'd agree.
A fairly insightful comment; a game and take and hold interest for far longer than a TV, given the lack of breaks in interesting content.
I think your point is that the government shouldn't bail out businesses, not that the best market is one that's left alone. Those are very different.
I can see where you're coming from there, and don't entirely disagree. Whether the rule is fair or not is ultimately going to come down to the judgment call of whoever makes the rules, and it would appear they've elected to put the "think of the children" aspect up first. I'm not going to make an effort to defend it really.
But, as noted, the problem here is unrelated to the logic of the rules--it isn't a case of a creative new solution to a problem, it's a blatant rule violation in a contest entirely dependent on arbitrary rules.
Even given that the rule might be stupid, if one group is allowed to get away with ignoring it, the contest is skewed unfairly against those who follow it. There's no "fair sporting chance" so to speak against a cheater.
No kidding--we can't expect companies NOT to use cheaper labor when we as consumers line around the block to save a few bucks. I'm not saying outsourcing is all bad, but we as consumers are the ultimate cause of it all.
When you get down to it, all restrictions in sports are arbitrary; it's those arbitrary restrictions by which the sport is defined. You can oppose the sense of a rule, but in this case, the real issue is that everybody else is following this rule except for a couple people (from one specific place).
I think part of the issue is that the openings are for "wizards." There are a lot of us who aren't at that level yet, and find it hard to get there without any intermediate jobs available...
This is a state law issue, it won't go to SCOTUS unless there's a federal law question.
Unions are fine in principle; unfortunately these days unions tend to represent union leadership as opposed to the workers, and do about as much to exploit labor as as the companies do.
No kidding. If you can't handle the cup, don't buy it, or don't open the thing until it cools off.
Datacenterknowledge.com might want to take lessons from Wikipedia as well. Slashdotted...
After growing up on a farm and then doing IT jobs for some years, I've come around and also learned to appreciate haying in the hot sun. The sweat and blisters and dirt give me a feeling of instant-gratitude accomplishment that IT rarely does. These days I do a lot of heavy physical labor after work and on weekends voluntarily, something I'd have never done back on the farm.
Glorified janitorial work, or glorified data entry. I've had some "IT" jobs that consisted of little more than looking at a sheet of paper or a spreadsheet and punching data line by line into some poorly designed GUI.
I was told that exact thing, nearly word-for-word, in more than one college economics class in the US. It's not just Japan.
It was that way for me. After a living hell in school for several years, I went through a period of some years even after leaving when I refused to do pretty much anything academic. It was a couple of years after college by the time I really recovered.
It's a pity that manual labor doesn't get more in terms of respect or pay. However necessary it may be, for some odd reason a lot of people think it's lowly and beneath them. Of course, coming from a blue-collar background I'm biased to a degree, but somebody actually has to move stuff around and get the physical work done, or all the ideas in the world won't ever be more than abstract "what-if."
Bring high end incomes down, raise the minimum wage, and see those figures change. I'd be glad to pay more taxes if I made more.
Depending on which "you" you're referring to. We now have knowledge of nutrition and effective training programs that put the athletic performance of an in-shape human well above what it was even a century ago.
When I bought my Yaris (in the US), I saved ~$950 by going manual over auto.
It's like that in Japan. Not that the police actually care--everybody I was even acquainted with knew I was brewing, and "hey, cool" was the only response I got other than "I don't care".