I'm pretty sure we had widely available instant messaging clients back in the mid-1990's. 20+ years later and we still can't settle on a standard and live with a fractured set of incompatible networks.
The whole point of the Information Age is for everyone to be connected and able to communicate with each other. Several proprietary chat protocols that are deprecated by their vendor every 5 years goes against progress.
I pay about $6.75/mo for my data plan. If I mainly use it for instant messaging and email, so there is no way I can use up even a tenth of my data plan.
That doesn't always translate into better pay and more time off.
Your perceived value will determine [w]hat you ask for, and what you get.
Ideally yes. Practically no.
Most bosses don't volunteer to raise your salary over what you ask for
As both an individual contributor and manager I have several examples where this is not true. The best places give raises to people who are performing above their current position. The discussion of a raise can be automatic if someone is a senior software engineer and start taking on additional responsibilities such as handling the project's architecture, the software schedule estimates, or providing technical know-how to their peers. If you're not sure what more you can do, then a manager that can guide and mentor you in career growth is essential. If you aren't performing consistently with these responsibilities then no matter how "smart" you think you are, or how insistent you are with pestering your boss about it, you probably don't deserve a raise.
If you have 1 week of PTO and make the industry average for your title, then you aren't really valued are you? That's not to say that you as a person don't have value, but if your employer doesn't recognize it, then what do you expect?
You aren't likely to have an instant-death acceleration problem when you have a 2200 kg SUV and 750 kg ultra-light vehicle collide (a typical mid-sized American car is about 1500 kg). A Corbin Sparrow was about 600 kg, and it mostly just blew into pieces rather than bouncing around. It had issues with strength rather than weight.
As a motorcyclist, I know that if a car collides with me I may be thrown far off my bike and my sudden impact with the ground with my relatively unprotected body may kill me.
If we drove around in 200 kg cars (weighs barely more than the occupants) and collided with 10000 kg trucks then sure we'll fly off and die from the shock of acceleration (or deceleration). But that's not the real scale of things there. (feel free to work out the math if you'd like)
Indeed. I'd recommend finding 2 other IT contractors that you don't mind working with and form a 3-person consultant business. Then you can either charge more or you can accept more than 3 jobs at once. Sometimes 5 small jobs pays better than 3 full time ones.
Get an education and earn experiences that companies will value. If you are valued then you will be compensate monetarily as well as in perks like additional time off.
If you are not valued, then you'll be treated like a cog in the system and discarded as soon as a cheaper, younger cog is available.
Poor people in my home town use a windfall to fix or replace their cars because they are tired of throwing money into their rolling wreak that is always broken down. Or to pay off credit cards (which they probably shouldn't have) to get that 22% APR monkey off their backs. Admittedly most of them fail to stop using the credit cards entirely, most people use them for "emergencies" but when your poor everything feels like an emergency. Kid has no school clothes or shoes? Charge it.
You may have missed the bit where Facebook collected and saved information on people who were not users and never signed up. And where never offered a way to opt-out.
Just because Stallman is a crackpot doesn't mean what he says is automatically wrong. Only that it is important to examine the validity given the source. I think in this case some of the things he mentions does ring true. On other topics I strongly disagree with Stallman.
What money-loving neoliberal plutocrat would go for an Amendment? It's already established they don't listen to public opinion.
We have a two party system both trying to maintain the status quo for a small minority of their supporters. It's not so much a democracy as a patrician republic.
...and how many disgruntled employees with day jobs have "gone postal".
Most people with day jobs aren't disgruntled. Those people should probably take action to change their situation, rather than burning the world down. Not that rational discussion has much meaning to someone in such an emotional state.
It's easier to get a gun than build a bomb, but both are within reach of an average human being. If someone is that bent on planning a violent rampage I don't think the lack of access to guns is going to stop them. I question if a complete ban on all guns in the US would even slow them down or reduce the frequency of occurrence.
But I also think zero guns, if that were even possible, would very much reduce our homicide rate. You know, the normal murders were people kill people that they know and make up the bulk of the homicide statistics. As opposed to these weird lone gunman cases that make it into the news because they are exceptional. Which I categorize more as a societal and behavioral problem rather than strictly as a gun problem.
Because there are more Americans than there are Germans and that's how statistics works. You can make similar statements about China.
But I do think there is a cultural difference between some Europeans and typical Americans. I've had Scandinavians express surprise when I stated that most Americans don't report everything on their taxes and generally skip anything they think the IRS doesn't already know about. Like the voluntary reporting and payment of sales tax for internet purchases for California State tax is kind of a running joke.
I think Americans take a certain pride in being scofflaws. Or at least tolerate such behavior in others.
They are also subject to state certification and licensing, and required to teach certain topics within their discipline.
This sounds like a job for Betsy DeVos, United States Secretary of Education. All we need is for an exemption for character schools to have to deal with public servant unions, which kind of makes sense when a character school is a business and not a public services.
W.R.T. Poe's Law - I hope I'm wrong about everything.
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I'm pretty sure we had widely available instant messaging clients back in the mid-1990's. 20+ years later and we still can't settle on a standard and live with a fractured set of incompatible networks.
The whole point of the Information Age is for everyone to be connected and able to communicate with each other. Several proprietary chat protocols that are deprecated by their vendor every 5 years goes against progress.
Context matters. And you should stop worrying about obsolete software unless you're a computer historian.
I pay about $6.75/mo for my data plan. If I mainly use it for instant messaging and email, so there is no way I can use up even a tenth of my data plan.
I was saying you have to have confidence.
That doesn't always translate into better pay and more time off.
Your perceived value will determine [w]hat you ask for, and what you get.
Ideally yes. Practically no.
Most bosses don't volunteer to raise your salary over what you ask for
As both an individual contributor and manager I have several examples where this is not true. The best places give raises to people who are performing above their current position. The discussion of a raise can be automatic if someone is a senior software engineer and start taking on additional responsibilities such as handling the project's architecture, the software schedule estimates, or providing technical know-how to their peers. If you're not sure what more you can do, then a manager that can guide and mentor you in career growth is essential. If you aren't performing consistently with these responsibilities then no matter how "smart" you think you are, or how insistent you are with pestering your boss about it, you probably don't deserve a raise.
no one's civil rights have been taken away.
Well except if you're Hispanic or an undocumented immigrant. But I suppose a lot of misguided people like to pretend that only citizens have rights.
No that's what happens when you aren't valued.
If you have 1 week of PTO and make the industry average for your title, then you aren't really valued are you? That's not to say that you as a person don't have value, but if your employer doesn't recognize it, then what do you expect?
You aren't likely to have an instant-death acceleration problem when you have a 2200 kg SUV and 750 kg ultra-light vehicle collide (a typical mid-sized American car is about 1500 kg). A Corbin Sparrow was about 600 kg, and it mostly just blew into pieces rather than bouncing around. It had issues with strength rather than weight.
As a motorcyclist, I know that if a car collides with me I may be thrown far off my bike and my sudden impact with the ground with my relatively unprotected body may kill me.
If we drove around in 200 kg cars (weighs barely more than the occupants) and collided with 10000 kg trucks then sure we'll fly off and die from the shock of acceleration (or deceleration). But that's not the real scale of things there. (feel free to work out the math if you'd like)
You two must live in real shit holes.
Indeed. I'd recommend finding 2 other IT contractors that you don't mind working with and form a 3-person consultant business. Then you can either charge more or you can accept more than 3 jobs at once. Sometimes 5 small jobs pays better than 3 full time ones.
Get an education and earn experiences that companies will value. If you are valued then you will be compensate monetarily as well as in perks like additional time off.
If you are not valued, then you'll be treated like a cog in the system and discarded as soon as a cheaper, younger cog is available.
Poor people in my home town use a windfall to fix or replace their cars because they are tired of throwing money into their rolling wreak that is always broken down. Or to pay off credit cards (which they probably shouldn't have) to get that 22% APR monkey off their backs. Admittedly most of them fail to stop using the credit cards entirely, most people use them for "emergencies" but when your poor everything feels like an emergency. Kid has no school clothes or shoes? Charge it.
If only it was UBI, it would have worked.
Is there any way to know that for sure?
the total energy of the collision is reduced, even if my car bounces away like a ping-pong ball.
You may have missed the bit where Facebook collected and saved information on people who were not users and never signed up. And where never offered a way to opt-out.
Just because Stallman is a crackpot doesn't mean what he says is automatically wrong. Only that it is important to examine the validity given the source. I think in this case some of the things he mentions does ring true. On other topics I strongly disagree with Stallman.
What money-loving neoliberal plutocrat would go for an Amendment? It's already established they don't listen to public opinion.
We have a two party system both trying to maintain the status quo for a small minority of their supporters. It's not so much a democracy as a patrician republic.
We denounce them as heretics and put them in prison. (We can't burn them at the stake anymore)
And behavior that makes the mainstream uncomfortable is to be punished as if it were equivalent to the actions of a criminal with ill intent.
...and how many disgruntled employees with day jobs have "gone postal".
Most people with day jobs aren't disgruntled. Those people should probably take action to change their situation, rather than burning the world down. Not that rational discussion has much meaning to someone in such an emotional state.
It's easier to get a gun than build a bomb, but both are within reach of an average human being. If someone is that bent on planning a violent rampage I don't think the lack of access to guns is going to stop them. I question if a complete ban on all guns in the US would even slow them down or reduce the frequency of occurrence.
But I also think zero guns, if that were even possible, would very much reduce our homicide rate. You know, the normal murders were people kill people that they know and make up the bulk of the homicide statistics. As opposed to these weird lone gunman cases that make it into the news because they are exceptional. Which I categorize more as a societal and behavioral problem rather than strictly as a gun problem.
Then get a fucking day job like the rest of us losers.
conceptually simple. but fighting millions of years of evolution with will alone is not to be underestimated.
Because there are more Americans than there are Germans and that's how statistics works. You can make similar statements about China.
But I do think there is a cultural difference between some Europeans and typical Americans. I've had Scandinavians express surprise when I stated that most Americans don't report everything on their taxes and generally skip anything they think the IRS doesn't already know about. Like the voluntary reporting and payment of sales tax for internet purchases for California State tax is kind of a running joke.
I think Americans take a certain pride in being scofflaws. Or at least tolerate such behavior in others.
it will probably be another decade before Facebook is totally irrelevant.
Yet you keep coming to Slashdot.
I'm about ready to give up on auto-correct, since I'm obviously never going to start proof reading my own work.
Gun deaths, including suicides and outside of schools is about 11 per 100,000 people.
Death from diabetes is about 21 per 100,000 people.
Perhaps we should worry more about the lunches and snack machines than the guns. (obviously fix both, but priorities matter before we get hysterical)
They are also subject to state certification and licensing, and required to teach certain topics within their discipline.
This sounds like a job for Betsy DeVos, United States Secretary of Education. All we need is for an exemption for character schools to have to deal with public servant unions, which kind of makes sense when a character school is a business and not a public services.
W.R.T. Poe's Law - I hope I'm wrong about everything.