And the government can serve us by balancing the power gap that exists between corporations and consumers. Anyone who thinks that corporations should have more rights than The People have their allegiances in the wrong place.
These devices are being built to intentionallly fail early and be unrepairable, as it drives sales for the newer versions. Planned obsolescence at an extreme.
There are phone plans they try to push where you can get a new phone every two years or 18 months or such. So I have to ask why would I want to upgrade in two years, are the current models I'm thinking about buying today so unreliable that I should cancel my purchase and shop elsewhere?
And what's wrong with that? Most of these parts are manufactured by others anyway, even Apple doesn't do everything in-house. I know everywhere I've worked we have had to maintain or repair older products, and provide firmware or software patches for old releases, because we sold this stuff for long term use and some customers are even paying for support. Outside of the Apple Reality Distortion Field, it's basic business sense to maintain good customer relationships in order to continue earning revenue. So screwing over a customer generally means you lose money. If you've got a defective product then you recall it or allow repairs, if it's too expensive to maintain then you offer to allow an upgrade at a discount, etc. If you don't do this then you lose customers.
I have to agree with this. There are too many people who when they hear someone is not fond of Trump they instantly jump to the retort "you're a loser", "you're a Hillary lover", "you're a traitor" etc. They don't understand that Trump is not the perfect human being that they assert. They're stuck in a drunken sports fan mindset that they're favorite team is perfect and all other teams are despicable. Except that this isn't supposed to be about something trivial like sports teams but it is about governing a country.
It's so bad that even when staunchly traditional conservative Republicans say "I like much of what Trump has done but I think he's got many flaws" they still get castigated as RINOs. They are in a binary world of 1s and 0s, where no 0.9s are allowed.
This is somewhat true. H1-B employees are sort of stuck in their current job, it's difficult to migrate to a different company and losing your job may mean you have to leave the country.
You don't need a fit, often the decision comes down to being able to hire 2 or 4 people for the cost of one. Forget H1-B, this is about outsourcing and it's a bigger issue than H1-B.
You don't want to be a cookie cutter clone of every other job candidate out there (especially in IT). The snag is that as an entry level job it is extremely hard to stand out our have experience in a desired specialty.
For H1-B generally the hiring company still wants someone above average for the most part, because it's a pain to hire H1-B (paperwork, legal issues, etc). And they're often not paid less for the position than others in the same role. If you want to save money then H1-B doesn't help for the most part. I know when interviewing someone I usually don't know if the person is H1-B or a green-card holder or a citizen.
Can hire someone who's really good and experienced and local, or two people in an eastern European country, or 4 people in India (in, not from). So when you can't find anyone competent locally you get the pressure to look overseas. Then you think, well I can get 4 instead of 1 and the position isn't for a senior role, and the summary sent to me is probably full of lies but with 4 of them maybe they can do something.
And that's the rationale for a *skilled* job requiring experience. Most of these jobs are grunt labor in IT. Most programming jobs outside of IT don't actually generate good revenue (especially entry level jobs, and especially if it's not at an overvalued startup), so there's *always* pressure to do more with less cost. And yes, it works out badly, you generally get your senior local people spending far too much of their time training or micro managing the remote workers.
I posted more than that:-) I'm going to save some of the stuff, there were links to a lot of things I posted that wouldn't make it on Facebook for being too nerdy. Some things you post to family and old high school friends, and some things you post to current friends, and they don't often overlap.
This used to be true for me. In the last year or so however, 99.9% of all incoming calls on my mobile phone are scams and spams. Sometimes they don't even call but go straight to voicemail.
Very common now in the US, or at least in California, is the scam call in Mandarin. It apparently is requesting the person contact the Chinese embassy at a certain number.
Don't forget that Forgotten Realms killed off all other D&D gaming worlds before and after it. The D&D owners were very good at limiting your imagination.
But Baldur's Gate (2 at least, w/o the expansion) is a great game if you can look past D&D and Forgotten Realms. Planescape: Torment is one of the all time classics, and the only time ever that alignment as a game mechanic made sense.
The Wizards of the Coast, and TSR before that, often stepped in to ensure that the computer versions of the games strictly held to the rules or would insist that the newer versions of the rules be used. To them the computer games were for marketing purposes. Sometimes the D&D games weren't great because of D&D but because the games were good enough that you could ignore the D&D underneath.
Running a D&D game in college the group comes across a gnome in the tunnels, and I am completely improvising. "What's he doing?", "he's digging a tunnel", "I ask him what he's digging it with", "he says he's digging it with his thpoon". "What's a thpoon?" they ask and the gnome says "a thpoon, you know, what you eat thoup with."
So over 30 years later, my friends still remember this gnome with a lisp even if they don't remember much of the other stuff.
Culture is very weird. In China when that dress style was first in fashion, you did not wear it if you were in the wrong social class anyway. A lot of cultural things that survive the test of time were often from one particular subset of the larger ethnic group anyway.
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And the government can serve us by balancing the power gap that exists between corporations and consumers. Anyone who thinks that corporations should have more rights than The People have their allegiances in the wrong place.
These devices are being built to intentionallly fail early and be unrepairable, as it drives sales for the newer versions. Planned obsolescence at an extreme.
There are phone plans they try to push where you can get a new phone every two years or 18 months or such. So I have to ask why would I want to upgrade in two years, are the current models I'm thinking about buying today so unreliable that I should cancel my purchase and shop elsewhere?
Inspector: It doesn't say anything here about lark's vomit!
Mr. Hilton: Ah, it does, on the bottom of the box, after 'monosodium glutamate'.
Inspector: I hardly think that's good enough! I think it's be more appropriate if the box bore a great red label: 'WARNING: LARK'S VOMIT!!!'
Mr. Hilton: Our sales would plummet!
And what's wrong with that? Most of these parts are manufactured by others anyway, even Apple doesn't do everything in-house. I know everywhere I've worked we have had to maintain or repair older products, and provide firmware or software patches for old releases, because we sold this stuff for long term use and some customers are even paying for support. Outside of the Apple Reality Distortion Field, it's basic business sense to maintain good customer relationships in order to continue earning revenue. So screwing over a customer generally means you lose money. If you've got a defective product then you recall it or allow repairs, if it's too expensive to maintain then you offer to allow an upgrade at a discount, etc. If you don't do this then you lose customers.
I have to agree with this. There are too many people who when they hear someone is not fond of Trump they instantly jump to the retort "you're a loser", "you're a Hillary lover", "you're a traitor" etc. They don't understand that Trump is not the perfect human being that they assert. They're stuck in a drunken sports fan mindset that they're favorite team is perfect and all other teams are despicable. Except that this isn't supposed to be about something trivial like sports teams but it is about governing a country.
It's so bad that even when staunchly traditional conservative Republicans say "I like much of what Trump has done but I think he's got many flaws" they still get castigated as RINOs. They are in a binary world of 1s and 0s, where no 0.9s are allowed.
It used to do this in the past, but there have been many many updates since that point.
Given that their example was an Assassin's Creed game was enough to make me ignore the rest of it.
"Virtue signal" is ungrammatical and silly. You're allowed to say "signal their virtuousness" if you like.
And Visas make poachers' jobs harder.
This is somewhat true. H1-B employees are sort of stuck in their current job, it's difficult to migrate to a different company and losing your job may mean you have to leave the country.
You don't need a fit, often the decision comes down to being able to hire 2 or 4 people for the cost of one. Forget H1-B, this is about outsourcing and it's a bigger issue than H1-B.
You don't want to be a cookie cutter clone of every other job candidate out there (especially in IT). The snag is that as an entry level job it is extremely hard to stand out our have experience in a desired specialty.
For H1-B generally the hiring company still wants someone above average for the most part, because it's a pain to hire H1-B (paperwork, legal issues, etc). And they're often not paid less for the position than others in the same role. If you want to save money then H1-B doesn't help for the most part. I know when interviewing someone I usually don't know if the person is H1-B or a green-card holder or a citizen.
Can hire someone who's really good and experienced and local, or two people in an eastern European country, or 4 people in India (in, not from). So when you can't find anyone competent locally you get the pressure to look overseas. Then you think, well I can get 4 instead of 1 and the position isn't for a senior role, and the summary sent to me is probably full of lies but with 4 of them maybe they can do something.
And that's the rationale for a *skilled* job requiring experience. Most of these jobs are grunt labor in IT. Most programming jobs outside of IT don't actually generate good revenue (especially entry level jobs, and especially if it's not at an overvalued startup), so there's *always* pressure to do more with less cost. And yes, it works out badly, you generally get your senior local people spending far too much of their time training or micro managing the remote workers.
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I posted more than that :-) I'm going to save some of the stuff, there were links to a lot of things I posted that wouldn't make it on Facebook for being too nerdy. Some things you post to family and old high school friends, and some things you post to current friends, and they don't often overlap.
This used to be true for me. In the last year or so however, 99.9% of all incoming calls on my mobile phone are scams and spams. Sometimes they don't even call but go straight to voicemail.
Very common now in the US, or at least in California, is the scam call in Mandarin. It apparently is requesting the person contact the Chinese embassy at a certain number.
Keep the box closed. Those aren't moon rocks, they're eggs!
Should try FUDGE, just tell the players that it's 6e D&D.
Don't forget that Forgotten Realms killed off all other D&D gaming worlds before and after it. The D&D owners were very good at limiting your imagination.
But Baldur's Gate (2 at least, w/o the expansion) is a great game if you can look past D&D and Forgotten Realms. Planescape: Torment is one of the all time classics, and the only time ever that alignment as a game mechanic made sense.
The Wizards of the Coast, and TSR before that, often stepped in to ensure that the computer versions of the games strictly held to the rules or would insist that the newer versions of the rules be used. To them the computer games were for marketing purposes. Sometimes the D&D games weren't great because of D&D but because the games were good enough that you could ignore the D&D underneath.
There's D&D Online, still going.
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Or ignored all the other girls until he found the one that was worth chasing.
If you played in a mixed group, it delayed it at least until the end of the gaming session.
Running a D&D game in college the group comes across a gnome in the tunnels, and I am completely improvising. "What's he doing?", "he's digging a tunnel", "I ask him what he's digging it with", "he says he's digging it with his thpoon". "What's a thpoon?" they ask and the gnome says "a thpoon, you know, what you eat thoup with."
So over 30 years later, my friends still remember this gnome with a lisp even if they don't remember much of the other stuff.
Culture is very weird. In China when that dress style was first in fashion, you did not wear it if you were in the wrong social class anyway. A lot of cultural things that survive the test of time were often from one particular subset of the larger ethnic group anyway.