Really the biggest problem I see, is how Gen X and Millennials are getting blocked out of their advancement tracks. When people in their 60+ are not retiring, that is creating a workforce where it is difficult to for the younger folks to advance in, because these promotion jobs are already covered by people with more experience.
So much this! In addition to people being stuck in jobs because of no promotion path, it means that we would see 70 year old people in manual labor careers. They can't move up, they can't retire, so they will be trying to work manual labor as their bodies deteriorate.
Plus the next set of problem, is these older people are not planning on retiring, so this means, they are not taking promising young people under their wing, mentoring them the tricks of the trade, to be ready to step up and continue on the work. Now these people are working to their death, without a transition plan in effect.
We already have the beginnings of this. The bean counters have largely eliminated mentoring programs in order to reduce overhead - and usually hire more bean counters. So very often a person who does retire now will be called back into work as an emergency hire. I know I was. And in a further preview of the future, after returning, there was still no transition planned, they apparently just figured I'd keep going until I dropped.
Screw that.
This no retirement bullshit simply Occams out as the concept that a select group wants your money. And if the select few need your pension and other retirement money, and need to pay you at a level that makes it very difficult to save or invest for retirement, and still cry the blues about the select not having enough, I guess the next step is euthanasia when you can't "Tote that barge. Lift that bale." any more.
Apparently the present US Administration declares you wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... As Patriot Kellyanne Conway noted when she defended Press Secretary Spicer's obvious lie about the size of Trump's inauguration crowd size "Our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to [these claims], but the point remains that..." before she was inturrupted by rude biased and lying liberal media representative Chuck Todd who said "Wait a minute. Alternative facts?... Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."
In Trump's America, people have no respect for the people so mentally limited as to have only one set of facts.
I think the crazy thing here is that 22% of Americans still trust Facebook with their private data. That number is astonishingly high.
I thiink that the 20 percent rule is in effect. That's the concept that 20 percent of any group will be good with whatever.
Which means that there is a group of people who are just fine with Facebook giving data to say, Cambridge Analytica, who used that data to help make things happen that they wanted to happen.
If it was a different political group of a different leaning that CA helped, that 20 percent would have been happy.
The vast majority of people don't give two shits about privacy.
If they did, Facebook wouldn't have hundreds of millions of users.
The true headline here is "Facebook is run by evil scumbags and most people are just fine with that."
Your vast majority data and your subject are at odds with each other.
My own assessment is that probably most people do not mind if a site like FB uses their data to send them ads or information that can be helpful. Say a auto buff does't mind getting ads for cars and parts and gatherings that he or she is likely to be interested in. My gusee is that most people find that pretty handy.
But after getting caught giving people's information to groups that have weaponized it, I don't think very many people think that is a good thing at all.
And that 22 percent of people who trust Facebook seem to be those who find they like the weaponized personal data, fonr one reason or another.
Everyone get tested, so that people who come down with Alzheimer's will be called a pre-existing condition.
From dealing with this from my father's case, he "got" it after he was on medicare, so the pre-existing part didn't really come into play.
And honestly, there wasn't much the doctors did or could do about it. The vast majority of the cost isn't helped by health insurance. The only place the insurance would have come into play is with long-term care, which he does not have. So perhaps in some respects, you wouldn't want to get tested until your insurance situation is locked in.
The first part of the comment is also very important. What people would even have access to this test? As the poster said - maybe everyone gets tested. But my experience is that currently, any testing gets done only after a person exhibits lots of signs. And
almost all of this is driven by family or friends. So, even when the diagnosis is confirmed, the window of most treatments is closed.
In addition, the medications for "treating" Alzheimer's dementia, merely slow down the progression, something I consider the very height of cruelty.
If I'm confused, and very likely depressed and unhappy, I want to die as quickly as possible. Go to a dementia ward sometimes folks. If someone manages to miss out on the haldol, or whatever they drug you up with to keep you from being a problem, you'll see how unhappy most dementia victims are.
So if the family doesn't comply with my wish to put me on a one way ticket to a remote village in Alaska where they can put me out to freeze, I hope they at least have the kindness to leave a loaded pistol on the kitchen table. Then I can cure my dementia the old fashioned and humane way.
Forbes does this bullshit. Guess what, I don't care about Forbes anymore.
Your broken business model isn't my problem.
Never let this die:
After demanding that people disable their ad-blocker, Forbes served them up the Angler exploit toolkit https://www.networkworld.com/a...
The article claims it isn't Forbes fault. Well, kindasorta isn't. But Forbes and all other sites using this ad model share in the blame. Fix it so you aren't serving up computer STD's
I've forgotten what they look like. So much so, that when I used a friend's PC the other day I was just flabbergasted by all the ads littering the page. "Hmmmm," I thought, "this is ungood."
A few clicks later I had installed NoScript and Adblock, and peace and tranquility reigned throughout the land again.
He hasn't stopped thanking me since- "And the pages load so fucking fast dude!!"
He's now on an absolute crusade to install NoScript and Adblock on every PC he sees, lol.
This! The times I have for one reason or another had to ride the net bareback, I've found it almost unusable. And has anyone wondered why smartphone users are getting more and more bandwidth? not to do anything but allow them to get more ads. I used to blow through my cap regularly until I started tethering a laptop to it. Now I have much un-throttled data to use.
This is basically why the ad industry is in the huge pit they're in today. You might notice that the amount of sites that beg and whine to turn off the adblocker has increased in the past 1-2 years. Why? Because now even the computer illiterates block ads.
I've installed adblockers on several grandma's computers to rejuvenate them. Suddenly the thing runs much better. And ther's nothing like Grandma net to get the word out.
Regardless, not allowing me into their site because I have ad and script blocking means I still won't see their malware bearing bullshit. So it still means they fail.
The ad industry managed to piss off THIS user enough to get off his ass and install an ad blocker.
And he's not gonna uninstall it. Can you imagine just HOW much you have to piss off someone like this to block your ads? You could promise him a new car to uninstall that ad blocker and he won't uninstall it. That ship has sailed.
Exactly. I've used ad blockers since maybe punch the monkey days. Now? Mainstream. Do not piss off the people that are hard to piss off. Especially with assholes like me that spread the word to them.
In the Windows-as-a-service era, it's perfectly understandable that problems will occasionally crop up.
Why is it perfectly understandable? Because they're Microsoft and you just know they're going to screw something up once every month, or because of some other unknown reason?
Because Windows 10 is a piece of shit. Microsoft is incompetent, and admits they do not test updates.
Yeah and there a lot of full grown adults that treat Disney like a religion. I remember enjoying Disney World as a kid but these people that have been 10+ times I just don't get it.
Brother in law and his wife actually moved to Florida to be near Disney World. Weird, once was enough for me. Then again, he thinks it's weird that the wife and I like to visit Kennedy Space Center.
Those were once nerdy franchises, to be sure. However, I'm done with Star Wars until there's a major shift in creative control, Marvel is getting stale, and Pixar has been in a drought for a long time.
Not to say they won't make money, but I think the "News for Nerds" audience is moving on.
I'm totally stoked to watch Star Wars, Social Justice Succeeds.
T
Closer to home and the demographics more commonly represented here on Slashdot, CBS All Access was panned when when it was announced too, with lots of comments along the lines of "I won't pay another sub just for 'Star Trek: Discovery'
STD HAR!, they should have thought of a different name with an alphabetization like that - anyhow STD has been widely panned for being terribly un-Star Trek like, and cinematically bad. Parts I've seen of it look like overacted, with so much overly dramatic lighting that it doesn't communicate basic cinematic cues.
The cinematics indeed look like something from people who flunked out of film school. I'd be pissed if i signed up for CBS all access just to get that POS.
The only few things I bother watching that Disney owns is typically in theater anyways, so I couldn't care less.
Iff I have kids at some point, I'll give them a diet of non-Disney and let it die a bit with my generation. It's all greed, it has nothing to do with culture.
Over time, Disney offerings have become rather political. And those who don't believe that just happen to agree with Disney's politics.
Even so, a rebooted High School Musical? Damn, just be careful to not get hurt in the stampede to sign up, y'all!
You also know that the ballot is not secret? In the local courthouse my voting record is there for everyone to see if they wish.
They are here. It should only ever be that way.
But it is instantly an irrefutable proof of voter fraud. If people who have a hardon for Voter ID actually wanted to eliminate fraud, those silly Voter ID's would not be what they would work at.
Which by the way, is why they think our idea is bad. Irrefutable proof is not their goal. Their goal is something completely different.
Ballots "found" 5 weeks after the election change the results by being just enough in favor of the loser, the Democrat, who by virtue of the found ballots, won the election.
You do know that ballots can be traced do you not? I get a numbered ballot that corresponds to a number on the sheet I have attached my signature on, after the ylook it up after I show them my ID and confirm a few other things. You also know that the ballot is not secret? In the local courthouse my voting record is there for everyone to see if they wish.
So instead of the whining and moaning and "Muh Voter fraud!", the evidence is right there in front of everyone. If these ballots were found, following the path backward on each and every ballot is so simple that you could have irrefutable evidence of direct fraud in a few hours.
Wonder why that did not happen? Hint: constant accusations of voter fraud are a much more effective fearvote tool. The touchstones of political parties are not there to be cured, they are there to be wielded like a bludgeon.
Whatabutt that guy in Chicago a hundred years ago, huh? Whatabutt that? Dems did it once!
It's surprising how often conservative arguments against Democrats point to actions by Democrats from 100 years ago, when the Democrats were the conservative party, and Republicans the progressive party.
Don't forget the Dixiecrats, who formed the core of the modern Republican party. Someone always likes to bring that one up as if modern Demoncrats walk in lockstep with Dixiecrat principles.
why is it that whenever you hear of a politician or public administrator disenfranchising or otherwise outright fucking voters over it's virtually always a republican?
Whatabutt that guy in Chicago a hundred years ago, huh? Whatabutt that? Dems did it once!
You don't understand the rules. Dirty tricks are ok if your side is doing them, they're only wrong if the other side uses them. Being a hypocrite is a prerequisite for becoming a politician (and how I wish this was only a joke).
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Really the biggest problem I see, is how Gen X and Millennials are getting blocked out of their advancement tracks. When people in their 60+ are not retiring, that is creating a workforce where it is difficult to for the younger folks to advance in, because these promotion jobs are already covered by people with more experience.
So much this! In addition to people being stuck in jobs because of no promotion path, it means that we would see 70 year old people in manual labor careers. They can't move up, they can't retire, so they will be trying to work manual labor as their bodies deteriorate.
Plus the next set of problem, is these older people are not planning on retiring, so this means, they are not taking promising young people under their wing, mentoring them the tricks of the trade, to be ready to step up and continue on the work. Now these people are working to their death, without a transition plan in effect.
We already have the beginnings of this. The bean counters have largely eliminated mentoring programs in order to reduce overhead - and usually hire more bean counters. So very often a person who does retire now will be called back into work as an emergency hire. I know I was. And in a further preview of the future, after returning, there was still no transition planned, they apparently just figured I'd keep going until I dropped.
Screw that.
This no retirement bullshit simply Occams out as the concept that a select group wants your money. And if the select few need your pension and other retirement money, and need to pay you at a level that makes it very difficult to save or invest for retirement, and still cry the blues about the select not having enough, I guess the next step is euthanasia when you can't "Tote that barge. Lift that bale." any more.
The plight of the 1 percenters: https://www.businessinsider.co...
Oh yes it is. Ask me how I know.
Okay, how do you know?
Because I've used it and it works great.
Oh heck - I do that too. I was hoping you'd have something real juicy to share with us 8^)
I I'd rather watch the episode where Captain Janeway gets turned into a salamander, because at least that episode had a promising premise.
Oh boy. Kinky salamander sex with Tom Paris. I didn't mind that episode, although I laughed like hell at it.
Wow. Thanks for that link! I'm going to coin a new phrase:
Practice safe hex -- use an ad blocker.
Remember, if they insist on you dropping your adblocker, and you just navigate away, they have lost twice.
The ad service doesn't get their ads seen, and the site takes a hit on page views.
Were you fapping while you wrote that?
You cannot choose a different set of facts.
Apparently the present US Administration declares you wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... As Patriot Kellyanne Conway noted when she defended Press Secretary Spicer's obvious lie about the size of Trump's inauguration crowd size "Our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to [these claims], but the point remains that..." before she was inturrupted by rude biased and lying liberal media representative Chuck Todd who said "Wait a minute. Alternative facts? ... Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."
In Trump's America, people have no respect for the people so mentally limited as to have only one set of facts.
I think the crazy thing here is that 22% of Americans still trust Facebook with their private data. That number is astonishingly high.
I thiink that the 20 percent rule is in effect. That's the concept that 20 percent of any group will be good with whatever.
Which means that there is a group of people who are just fine with Facebook giving data to say, Cambridge Analytica, who used that data to help make things happen that they wanted to happen.
If it was a different political group of a different leaning that CA helped, that 20 percent would have been happy.
The vast majority of people don't give two shits about privacy.
If they did, Facebook wouldn't have hundreds of millions of users.
The true headline here is "Facebook is run by evil scumbags and most people are just fine with that."
Your vast majority data and your subject are at odds with each other.
My own assessment is that probably most people do not mind if a site like FB uses their data to send them ads or information that can be helpful. Say a auto buff does't mind getting ads for cars and parts and gatherings that he or she is likely to be interested in. My gusee is that most people find that pretty handy.
But after getting caught giving people's information to groups that have weaponized it, I don't think very many people think that is a good thing at all.
And that 22 percent of people who trust Facebook seem to be those who find they like the weaponized personal data, fonr one reason or another.
Everyone get tested, so that people who come down with Alzheimer's will be called a pre-existing condition.
From dealing with this from my father's case, he "got" it after he was on medicare, so the pre-existing part didn't really come into play. And honestly, there wasn't much the doctors did or could do about it. The vast majority of the cost isn't helped by health insurance. The only place the insurance would have come into play is with long-term care, which he does not have. So perhaps in some respects, you wouldn't want to get tested until your insurance situation is locked in.
The first part of the comment is also very important. What people would even have access to this test? As the poster said - maybe everyone gets tested. But my experience is that currently, any testing gets done only after a person exhibits lots of signs. And almost all of this is driven by family or friends. So, even when the diagnosis is confirmed, the window of most treatments is closed.
In addition, the medications for "treating" Alzheimer's dementia, merely slow down the progression, something I consider the very height of cruelty.
If I'm confused, and very likely depressed and unhappy, I want to die as quickly as possible. Go to a dementia ward sometimes folks. If someone manages to miss out on the haldol, or whatever they drug you up with to keep you from being a problem, you'll see how unhappy most dementia victims are.
So if the family doesn't comply with my wish to put me on a one way ticket to a remote village in Alaska where they can put me out to freeze, I hope they at least have the kindness to leave a loaded pistol on the kitchen table. Then I can cure my dementia the old fashioned and humane way.
Everyone get tested, so that people who come down with Alzheimer's will be called a pre-existing condition.
Forbes does this bullshit. Guess what, I don't care about Forbes anymore.
Your broken business model isn't my problem.
Never let this die:
After demanding that people disable their ad-blocker, Forbes served them up the Angler exploit toolkit https://www.networkworld.com/a...
The article claims it isn't Forbes fault. Well, kindasorta isn't. But Forbes and all other sites using this ad model share in the blame. Fix it so you aren't serving up computer STD's
Fraud is not an appropriate way to fight.
Oh yes it is. Ask me how I know.
Okay, how do you know?
I've forgotten what they look like. So much so, that when I used a friend's PC the other day I was just flabbergasted by all the ads littering the page. "Hmmmm," I thought, "this is ungood."
A few clicks later I had installed NoScript and Adblock, and peace and tranquility reigned throughout the land again.
He hasn't stopped thanking me since- "And the pages load so fucking fast dude!!"
He's now on an absolute crusade to install NoScript and Adblock on every PC he sees, lol.
This! The times I have for one reason or another had to ride the net bareback, I've found it almost unusable. And has anyone wondered why smartphone users are getting more and more bandwidth? not to do anything but allow them to get more ads. I used to blow through my cap regularly until I started tethering a laptop to it. Now I have much un-throttled data to use.
This is basically why the ad industry is in the huge pit they're in today. You might notice that the amount of sites that beg and whine to turn off the adblocker has increased in the past 1-2 years. Why? Because now even the computer illiterates block ads.
I've installed adblockers on several grandma's computers to rejuvenate them. Suddenly the thing runs much better. And ther's nothing like Grandma net to get the word out.
Regardless, not allowing me into their site because I have ad and script blocking means I still won't see their malware bearing bullshit. So it still means they fail.
The ad industry managed to piss off THIS user enough to get off his ass and install an ad blocker.
And he's not gonna uninstall it. Can you imagine just HOW much you have to piss off someone like this to block your ads? You could promise him a new car to uninstall that ad blocker and he won't uninstall it. That ship has sailed.
Exactly. I've used ad blockers since maybe punch the monkey days. Now? Mainstream. Do not piss off the people that are hard to piss off. Especially with assholes like me that spread the word to them.
Why is it perfectly understandable? Because they're Microsoft and you just know they're going to screw something up once every month, or because of some other unknown reason?
Because Windows 10 is a piece of shit. Microsoft is incompetent, and admits they do not test updates.
That's completely understandable.
That probably wasn't what the shill meant though.
No it didn't
Yeah and there a lot of full grown adults that treat Disney like a religion. I remember enjoying Disney World as a kid but these people that have been 10+ times I just don't get it.
Brother in law and his wife actually moved to Florida to be near Disney World. Weird, once was enough for me. Then again, he thinks it's weird that the wife and I like to visit Kennedy Space Center.
Those were once nerdy franchises, to be sure. However, I'm done with Star Wars until there's a major shift in creative control, Marvel is getting stale, and Pixar has been in a drought for a long time.
Not to say they won't make money, but I think the "News for Nerds" audience is moving on.
I'm totally stoked to watch Star Wars, Social Justice Succeeds.
T Closer to home and the demographics more commonly represented here on Slashdot, CBS All Access was panned when when it was announced too, with lots of comments along the lines of "I won't pay another sub just for 'Star Trek: Discovery'
STD HAR!, they should have thought of a different name with an alphabetization like that - anyhow STD has been widely panned for being terribly un-Star Trek like, and cinematically bad. Parts I've seen of it look like overacted, with so much overly dramatic lighting that it doesn't communicate basic cinematic cues.
The cinematics indeed look like something from people who flunked out of film school. I'd be pissed if i signed up for CBS all access just to get that POS.
The only few things I bother watching that Disney owns is typically in theater anyways, so I couldn't care less.
Iff I have kids at some point, I'll give them a diet of non-Disney and let it die a bit with my generation. It's all greed, it has nothing to do with culture.
Over time, Disney offerings have become rather political. And those who don't believe that just happen to agree with Disney's politics.
Even so, a rebooted High School Musical? Damn, just be careful to not get hurt in the stampede to sign up, y'all!
You also know that the ballot is not secret? In the local courthouse my voting record is there for everyone to see if they wish.
They are here. It should only ever be that way.
But it is instantly an irrefutable proof of voter fraud. If people who have a hardon for Voter ID actually wanted to eliminate fraud, those silly Voter ID's would not be what they would work at.
Which by the way, is why they think our idea is bad. Irrefutable proof is not their goal. Their goal is something completely different.
Ballots found after the election, breaking heavily for Franken.
Felons casting illegal votes in MN
Ballots "found" 5 weeks after the election change the results by being just enough in favor of the loser, the Democrat, who by virtue of the found ballots, won the election.
You do know that ballots can be traced do you not? I get a numbered ballot that corresponds to a number on the sheet I have attached my signature on, after the ylook it up after I show them my ID and confirm a few other things. You also know that the ballot is not secret? In the local courthouse my voting record is there for everyone to see if they wish.
So instead of the whining and moaning and "Muh Voter fraud!", the evidence is right there in front of everyone. If these ballots were found, following the path backward on each and every ballot is so simple that you could have irrefutable evidence of direct fraud in a few hours.
Wonder why that did not happen? Hint: constant accusations of voter fraud are a much more effective fearvote tool. The touchstones of political parties are not there to be cured, they are there to be wielded like a bludgeon.
Whatabutt that guy in Chicago a hundred years ago, huh? Whatabutt that? Dems did it once!
It's surprising how often conservative arguments against Democrats point to actions by Democrats from 100 years ago, when the Democrats were the conservative party, and Republicans the progressive party.
Don't forget the Dixiecrats, who formed the core of the modern Republican party. Someone always likes to bring that one up as if modern Demoncrats walk in lockstep with Dixiecrat principles.
why is it that whenever you hear of a politician or public administrator disenfranchising or otherwise outright fucking voters over it's virtually always a republican?
Whatabutt that guy in Chicago a hundred years ago, huh? Whatabutt that? Dems did it once!
Her email.
You don't understand the rules. Dirty tricks are ok if your side is doing them, they're only wrong if the other side uses them. Being a hypocrite is a prerequisite for becoming a politician (and how I wish this was only a joke).
Your post is a good place to drop this:
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Gun owner permit lists are public and not classified. So this is a similar issue.