It's almost as if employees are being offered pay and benefits that are directly proportional to the value they bring to the company. Huh. Whoulda thunk
Except that's not how it has worked in the real world since the late 1960s in the USA.
For that you might want to look at a few facts about pay (NY Times, Economic Policy Institute, UN economics reports, etc). 1) What the average US worker would be earning if their salary had increased at the same pace as CEO's salaries? Slight more than $160,000. 2) The fact that the average US worker is earning slightly less than their 1970 counterpart when adjusted for inflation, 4% less, in fact. 3) The average US CEO earned 20x an average workers salary in 1970, and now that's closer to 350% It was 296% in 2013, and has neared 380% since then. 4) While the average worker's productivity has risen 248% since 1973, wages have only risen 108%. 5) Real average hourly wages of young college graduates has fallen every year since 2000. 6) If minimum wage in the US has matched productivity gains, it'd be over $18/hour.
But please, keep thinking pay structure is all about the actual monetary and intangible (brand) value someone brings to an organization if you like. I'd suggest that those who are making more money, might possibly be doing that since the system is becoming increasingly rigged for them (and by them) to do so.
Our Craiglist personal pages work just fine. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to write a reply to a woman who only wants to go shopping at Holt Renfrew in exchange for me to experience her one hour bikini Jello wrestling in-call only services.
Actually, when fascism (aka control of government by corporations, at least according to Mussolini, who was, you know, a fascist-par-excellence), you'll recognize it by these signs...
Powerful and Continuing Nationalism, Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights, Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause, Supremacy of the Military, Rampant Sexism, Controlled Mass Media, Obsession with National Security, Religion and Government are Intertwined, Corporate Power is Protected, Labor Power is Suppressed, Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts, Obsession with Crime and Punishment, Rampant Cronyism and Corruption, and Fraudulent Electionss.
It brings the content (or at least the first few paragraphs or so) of all my news sites into one place, without any ads.
People who manually click open 20 sites to read them are not geeks. end of.
Precisely. RSS lets me monitor the content of 33 websites that I frequently find interesting content on a real-time basis in a single small window, rather than having to have 33 tabs open constantly refreshing them. And as you pointed out, it provides a quick-to-read, easily digestible summary to decide to read the full article or not, with a non-visualized simple user experience. RSS is made for information addicts.
just because companies CAN do something does not mean they WILL.
And you seem to be, what was the phrase, "willfully ignorant" of how almost every corporation ever has behaved within the framework of capitalism, methinks.
Externalities and any sense of ethics goes out the window when their motive to exist is profit for the shareholders. You seriously don't think that the largely monopolistic or dualistic telcos that control both pipe and content aren't salivating? Won't take advantage? You can't be that naive.
Huh? Canuck here. Sick at home Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last week. Slacked my co-workers (not even head office) said, "Sick, staying home"... response was "Okay, great." I get 10 sick days and 10 personal health days off, none of which I need any documentation for. I also worked nearly a decade in the US and was docked pay (and verbally berated) for taking a measly three days off after my second son was born and my wife wasn't mobile. I call BS, AC.
Does this cunning plan involve some feathers, a dress, some oil, an easel, some sleeping draught, lots of paper, a prostitute and the best portrait-painter in England?
Well, first off, there's the fact that research done by visual researchers reveals that that human forgets faces not of his/her ethnicity significantly faster their own ethnicity. Your memory of a face in a crowd declines in under 10 seconds, and happens even faster than that when you're glancing at someone who doesn't look like you. Crowds are also very confusing because of other visual factors that are similar in what you're looking at and distract... movement, colours, clothing, shapes, etc.
Second, people have an utterly terrible memory for faces, and one's cognitive ability runs across a wide spectrum. Unless there is a mark or deformity that is significant, people are generally poor with faces, especially ones in a crowd. And while it's unlikely that someone with a condition like prosopagnosia is going into law enforcement, it still means that about 2% of the population is hopelessly "blind" when it comes to recognizing people's faces. Additional research shows, in experiments we can replicate, that even close family members, if their appearance is slightly altered, are missed in a crowd to a significant degree when scanning faces in a crowd.
Third, it takes on average 2.5 seconds for the average human to look at and recognize a face. Sometimes as long as 5 seconds. How do you imagine that you could have enough security personal around to scan the thousands of people who move through crowded public spaces like airports, train stations etc every minute or two?
I've been in the same room as two police detectives trying to get accurate descriptions of criminals one time, and the variations of what the guys supposedly looked like from one interviewee to the next was amazing to hear. There is no way a human scanning a crowd is going to do anywhere near as good a job at facial recognition than decent software that stores potentially millions of faces (note that accuracy is debatable, and is still pretty hard to get right with most of these systems). I think the problem here are the questions around who has this data, how is it being used that you're not being told about, how long is it kept, who is it being shared with, and what is the measurement of it's success (besides a few companies making 100s of millions of dollars). A better system takes into account different physiological aspects of you... height, weight, appendage movements, stride type and length, etc. But I have no clue whether or not it's legal, though.
So you're talking about Genesis 11, Deuteronomy 21, and the third bit somewhere in Exodus... wait, you're only mocking *one* of the three misogynistic, err, montheistic desert fairytales, err, religions. Pot == kettle.
Is this the same Ayn Rand who parasitically decided to use her husband's name (O'Connor) when she (and Frank both) decided to steal/take/use both Social Security and Medicare after her 1974 lung cancer diagnosis? You know, the one where reality sort of rudely interrupted her ideological pipe-dreams? Where she realized she was actually human and needed help from other humans? The same Ayn Rand who said there is "no such thing as the public interest” and programs like Social Security and Medicare steal from “creators” and illegitimately redistribute their wealth? That Ayn Rand? Funny how reality intrudes on someone's fantasy.
And the original system you're referring to was called "social libertarianism". Thought out in the late 1850s in France (of all places) that identified four (not three) structures that caused personal liberties to be eroded... government, military, the church, and guess what else? The free market/capitalism. So-called libertarians I hear blathering on about how the first three need to be changed, always conveniently seem to have forgotten that last one.
My work explores the relationship between emerging sexualities and unwanted gifts.
With influences as diverse as Wittgenstein and Andy Warhol, new synergies are distilled from both constructed and discovered dialogues.
Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the unrelenting divergence of relationships. What starts out as contemplation soon becomes manipulated into a manifesto of temptation, leaving only a sense of decadence and the possibility of a new beginning.
As intermittent phenomena become frozen through diligent and repetitive practice, the viewer is left with a tribute to the limits of our future.
Not the ][+, the original one. Would have been late 77 I think? After that we had a few go through the house over time... A Franklin (Apple clone) that I remember having to insert the ROM chip into the motherboard for due to the legal wrangles the company was having with Apple, a VIC-20, and a TRS-8- Model 4 from my mom's work. The oddest piece I remember was a "hard drive" that was about 2 feet square by 6" high but I can't recall the capacity or where it came from. Then it was all-aboard the Apple train with a Mac 512... that's the one that started a streak of something like 20 different Apple machines owned.
Unless my conspiracy theory holds true and Trump is secretly a Marxist.
I doubt it since he has a self-proclaimed Leninist on his staff (Bannon). Bannon stated to The Daily Beast in late 2013 “I’m a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” Does this mean either Trump or Bannon is going to wind up with an icepick in his head?
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Coming here to post exactly this. Well done, good sir.
Ajit must be loving his 10 pieces of silver. Hope it was worth it for the price of your soul.
You error in logic is to assume he actually has a soul.
No lifespans over 120 (two significant digits) years.
Jeanne Clement. 122 years, 164 days.
It's almost as if employees are being offered pay and benefits that are directly proportional to the value they bring to the company. Huh. Whoulda thunk
Except that's not how it has worked in the real world since the late 1960s in the USA.
For that you might want to look at a few facts about pay (NY Times, Economic Policy Institute, UN economics reports, etc). 1) What the average US worker would be earning if their salary had increased at the same pace as CEO's salaries? Slight more than $160,000. 2) The fact that the average US worker is earning slightly less than their 1970 counterpart when adjusted for inflation, 4% less, in fact. 3) The average US CEO earned 20x an average workers salary in 1970, and now that's closer to 350% It was 296% in 2013, and has neared 380% since then. 4) While the average worker's productivity has risen 248% since 1973, wages have only risen 108%. 5) Real average hourly wages of young college graduates has fallen every year since 2000. 6) If minimum wage in the US has matched productivity gains, it'd be over $18/hour.
But please, keep thinking pay structure is all about the actual monetary and intangible (brand) value someone brings to an organization if you like. I'd suggest that those who are making more money, might possibly be doing that since the system is becoming increasingly rigged for them (and by them) to do so.
Slartibartfast?
Our Craiglist personal pages work just fine. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to write a reply to a woman who only wants to go shopping at Holt Renfrew in exchange for me to experience her one hour bikini Jello wrestling in-call only services.
"Dumb fucks", when asked in an interview why people gave FB so much information voluntarily?*
Pot, meet kettle.
*Zuck has since said he really didn't mean it. Honestly. Probably meant to say "Stupid c&nts".
Actually, when fascism (aka control of government by corporations, at least according to Mussolini, who was, you know, a fascist-par-excellence), you'll recognize it by these signs ...
Powerful and Continuing Nationalism, Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights, Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause, Supremacy of the Military, Rampant Sexism, Controlled Mass Media, Obsession with National Security, Religion and Government are Intertwined, Corporate Power is Protected, Labor Power is Suppressed, Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts, Obsession with Crime and Punishment, Rampant Cronyism and Corruption, and Fraudulent Electionss.
Or is that hitting too close to home?
It brings the content (or at least the first few paragraphs or so) of all my news sites into one place, without any ads.
People who manually click open 20 sites to read them are not geeks. end of.
Precisely. RSS lets me monitor the content of 33 websites that I frequently find interesting content on a real-time basis in a single small window, rather than having to have 33 tabs open constantly refreshing them. And as you pointed out, it provides a quick-to-read, easily digestible summary to decide to read the full article or not, with a non-visualized simple user experience. RSS is made for information addicts.
As I understand, death by natural causes is usually pretty slow and horrible.
It's apparently a popular past-time though, since we're all lined up to it once.
just because companies CAN do something does not mean they WILL.
And you seem to be, what was the phrase, "willfully ignorant" of how almost every corporation ever has behaved within the framework of capitalism, methinks. Externalities and any sense of ethics goes out the window when their motive to exist is profit for the shareholders. You seriously don't think that the largely monopolistic or dualistic telcos that control both pipe and content aren't salivating? Won't take advantage? You can't be that naive.
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Huh? Canuck here. Sick at home Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last week. Slacked my co-workers (not even head office) said, "Sick, staying home" ... response was "Okay, great." I get 10 sick days and 10 personal health days off, none of which I need any documentation for. I also worked nearly a decade in the US and was docked pay (and verbally berated) for taking a measly three days off after my second son was born and my wife wasn't mobile. I call BS, AC.
Romanes eunt domus.
Ghostery is telling me there are over 17 trackers on slashdot.
15 to be precise ... 11 advertising and four analytics.
Does this cunning plan involve some feathers, a dress, some oil, an easel, some sleeping draught, lots of paper, a prostitute and the best portrait-painter in England?
Well, first off, there's the fact that research done by visual researchers reveals that that human forgets faces not of his/her ethnicity significantly faster their own ethnicity. Your memory of a face in a crowd declines in under 10 seconds, and happens even faster than that when you're glancing at someone who doesn't look like you. Crowds are also very confusing because of other visual factors that are similar in what you're looking at and distract ... movement, colours, clothing, shapes, etc.
Second, people have an utterly terrible memory for faces, and one's cognitive ability runs across a wide spectrum. Unless there is a mark or deformity that is significant, people are generally poor with faces, especially ones in a crowd. And while it's unlikely that someone with a condition like prosopagnosia is going into law enforcement, it still means that about 2% of the population is hopelessly "blind" when it comes to recognizing people's faces. Additional research shows, in experiments we can replicate, that even close family members, if their appearance is slightly altered, are missed in a crowd to a significant degree when scanning faces in a crowd.
Third, it takes on average 2.5 seconds for the average human to look at and recognize a face. Sometimes as long as 5 seconds. How do you imagine that you could have enough security personal around to scan the thousands of people who move through crowded public spaces like airports, train stations etc every minute or two?
I've been in the same room as two police detectives trying to get accurate descriptions of criminals one time, and the variations of what the guys supposedly looked like from one interviewee to the next was amazing to hear. There is no way a human scanning a crowd is going to do anywhere near as good a job at facial recognition than decent software that stores potentially millions of faces (note that accuracy is debatable, and is still pretty hard to get right with most of these systems). I think the problem here are the questions around who has this data, how is it being used that you're not being told about, how long is it kept, who is it being shared with, and what is the measurement of it's success (besides a few companies making 100s of millions of dollars). A better system takes into account different physiological aspects of you ... height, weight, appendage movements, stride type and length, etc. But I have no clue whether or not it's legal, though.
FB users, I mean. Well, at least according to Mark Zuckerberg.
So you're talking about Genesis 11, Deuteronomy 21, and the third bit somewhere in Exodus ... wait, you're only mocking *one* of the three misogynistic, err, montheistic desert fairytales, err, religions. Pot == kettle.
Is this the same Ayn Rand who parasitically decided to use her husband's name (O'Connor) when she (and Frank both) decided to steal/take/use both Social Security and Medicare after her 1974 lung cancer diagnosis? You know, the one where reality sort of rudely interrupted her ideological pipe-dreams? Where she realized she was actually human and needed help from other humans? The same Ayn Rand who said there is "no such thing as the public interest” and programs like Social Security and Medicare steal from “creators” and illegitimately redistribute their wealth? That Ayn Rand? Funny how reality intrudes on someone's fantasy.
And the original system you're referring to was called "social libertarianism". Thought out in the late 1850s in France (of all places) that identified four (not three) structures that caused personal liberties to be eroded ... government, military, the church, and guess what else? The free market/capitalism. So-called libertarians I hear blathering on about how the first three need to be changed, always conveniently seem to have forgotten that last one.
"Assuming you're looking for a cord replacement, not abandoning live television altogether ..."
How'd we go from a title that talks about cord-cutting, to one about replacing the cable with just another form of getting the same crap?
To implement. I meant to say hard to implement.
My work explores the relationship between emerging sexualities and unwanted gifts.
With influences as diverse as Wittgenstein and Andy Warhol, new synergies are distilled from both constructed and discovered dialogues.
Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the unrelenting divergence of relationships. What starts out as contemplation soon becomes manipulated into a manifesto of temptation, leaving only a sense of decadence and the possibility of a new beginning.
As intermittent phenomena become frozen through diligent and repetitive practice, the viewer is left with a tribute to the limits of our future.
Not the ][+, the original one. Would have been late 77 I think? After that we had a few go through the house over time ... A Franklin (Apple clone) that I remember having to insert the ROM chip into the motherboard for due to the legal wrangles the company was having with Apple, a VIC-20, and a TRS-8- Model 4 from my mom's work. The oddest piece I remember was a "hard drive" that was about 2 feet square by 6" high but I can't recall the capacity or where it came from. Then it was all-aboard the Apple train with a Mac 512 ... that's the one that started a streak of something like 20 different Apple machines owned.
I, sadly, lack the tremendous amount of thumbs this deserves. I can only offer two. Bravo, good sir.
Unless my conspiracy theory holds true and Trump is secretly a Marxist.
I doubt it since he has a self-proclaimed Leninist on his staff (Bannon). Bannon stated to The Daily Beast in late 2013 “I’m a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” Does this mean either Trump or Bannon is going to wind up with an icepick in his head?