POWER9 is open. Not free in the sense of RISC-V or SPARC, but at least it's not based on mysterious binary blobs and undocumented coprocessors like the options from RPi/Broadcom, Intel and AMD.
My house doesn't have an engine. And there were taxes and common law before the invention of the steam engine. You absolutely had taxes in old England's common law on something like an axe head, even though an axe is very much human powered. And there were similar taxes in the colonies and the early history of the United States.
Taxing for walking on private property would start to fall into your category, and I like to think courts would block such a frivolous tax. A bicycle is purchased and commerce can be regulated by local governments. This should not be of much surprise to you. Now the people have every right to be upset and demand that it be overturned, but such an arrangement is not illegal.
The Constitution is explicit about allowing taxation of just about anything as long as the federal government doesn't try to use different tax rates for different states. "The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States"
The federal government, if it chose to, could apply a nation wide sales tax. It's not illegal. The federal government could even choose to apply the tax only to certain categories of goods. As a silly example, they could even choose to apply the tax only at certain times. Like a 10% liquor tax for drinks served on a Wednesday. Or a 1% sales tax every day of the year except July 4th.
When has earmarked tax dollars ever amounted to much? It gets spent on hiring cronies to oversee new departments the tax dollars create. Basically your bike tax pays the rent for some government office space in Salem.
I don't know, I like to retain company knowledge and have a stable company culture. Some of the most productive tech companies in silicon valley like Apple and Intel have many employees pushing 10 years at the company.
I had lawyers from Amazon send my new employer and myself envelopes full of bunch of bullshit about non-compete policies. So they really will go to the effort to do some posturing and intimidation tactics. My HR director told me to ignore it, so I hung onto it for a few months before throwing it in the trash.
I work in the tech industry and I'm a pretty good negotiator when it comes to payment and other terms for a new job. But I've never been able to refuse to sign a non-compete and still get the job. It is likely impossible for a new college grad to refuse a non-compete, who doesn't have nearly as much power in these situations as I do.
Now if you are a successful executive, then you have way more power and those kinds of things can be negotiated. But I assure you that at least in the Bay Area tech industry, you will find it difficult to negotiate anything like a severance package before your first day.
Now if you're being terminated anyways, you should politely refuse to sign any new paperwork. If they want you to sign something bad enough that's when the severance packages come in. Sadly I've worked at places that cut 10% of their staff to save money, and to save even more money did not give severance to a single one of them. And rather than give them a 2 weeks notice, the company was concerned about employee sabotage and gave no notice other than everyone was invited to a room full of moving boxes and security escort. That's how some of the tech industry operates in my professional experience.
Jimmy John's is a sandwich place that was in the news last year for making low-wage employees sign non-competes that prevented them from working at other sandwich shops within 2 miles of a Jimmy John's. And it wasn't clear if working at a restaurant that happened to serve sandwiches also count, so Jimmy John's lawyers would blast ex-employees with scary letters just in case.
Indeed, it's related to a general trend that most companies would rather throw away old employees than maintain a long term relationship. You'll find hot tech start-ups in the Bay Area with very high churn rates. Ordinarily this would be a problem, but the culture here wants to believe there is some huge advantage to switching jobs every 30 months or so.
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It's the decadent west trying to corrupt the youth. It's that rock and roll problem all over again.
Is all crypto currency over-valued when it is so frequently anonymously stolen?
Are you suggesting we violate The Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, Protocol IV of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons?
But it only costs $1 per enemy soldier to do it, you can easily outspend any army. We could win even the largest wars for less than a billion dollars.
In San Francisco we charge tourists $7.00 for the privilege of hanging off the cable cars.
The "dollar a shot" plan is included with your $35m/month premium.
But eyes are easier to disable than a steel engine.
Consumers don't know what AI even is, so it's not deceptive to use a term that is completely meaningless to them.
EU can fine Google each day it fails to comply. It will be a handy of source of revenue for the EU.
What a culturally insensitive thing for you to say.
You wish the editors were the only problem here.
POWER9 is open. Not free in the sense of RISC-V or SPARC, but at least it's not based on mysterious binary blobs and undocumented coprocessors like the options from RPi/Broadcom, Intel and AMD.
The right to be forgotten violates my cultural beliefs.
There is a whole new generation of Slashdot users who don't know what the fuck they are doing.
My house doesn't have an engine. And there were taxes and common law before the invention of the steam engine. You absolutely had taxes in old England's common law on something like an axe head, even though an axe is very much human powered. And there were similar taxes in the colonies and the early history of the United States.
Taxing for walking on private property would start to fall into your category, and I like to think courts would block such a frivolous tax. A bicycle is purchased and commerce can be regulated by local governments. This should not be of much surprise to you. Now the people have every right to be upset and demand that it be overturned, but such an arrangement is not illegal.
The Constitution is explicit about allowing taxation of just about anything as long as the federal government doesn't try to use different tax rates for different states. "The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States"
The federal government, if it chose to, could apply a nation wide sales tax. It's not illegal. The federal government could even choose to apply the tax only to certain categories of goods. As a silly example, they could even choose to apply the tax only at certain times. Like a 10% liquor tax for drinks served on a Wednesday. Or a 1% sales tax every day of the year except July 4th.
PS - IANAL either
When has earmarked tax dollars ever amounted to much? It gets spent on hiring cronies to oversee new departments the tax dollars create. Basically your bike tax pays the rent for some government office space in Salem.
Remember the Cotton Tax of the 1860's
Use the new gas tax increase in Oregon to pay for roads and pathways for bicycles, since cars are the ones running over and killing cyclists.
I don't know, I like to retain company knowledge and have a stable company culture. Some of the most productive tech companies in silicon valley like Apple and Intel have many employees pushing 10 years at the company.
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I had lawyers from Amazon send my new employer and myself envelopes full of bunch of bullshit about non-compete policies. So they really will go to the effort to do some posturing and intimidation tactics. My HR director told me to ignore it, so I hung onto it for a few months before throwing it in the trash.
I work in the tech industry and I'm a pretty good negotiator when it comes to payment and other terms for a new job. But I've never been able to refuse to sign a non-compete and still get the job. It is likely impossible for a new college grad to refuse a non-compete, who doesn't have nearly as much power in these situations as I do.
Now if you are a successful executive, then you have way more power and those kinds of things can be negotiated. But I assure you that at least in the Bay Area tech industry, you will find it difficult to negotiate anything like a severance package before your first day.
Now if you're being terminated anyways, you should politely refuse to sign any new paperwork. If they want you to sign something bad enough that's when the severance packages come in. Sadly I've worked at places that cut 10% of their staff to save money, and to save even more money did not give severance to a single one of them. And rather than give them a 2 weeks notice, the company was concerned about employee sabotage and gave no notice other than everyone was invited to a room full of moving boxes and security escort. That's how some of the tech industry operates in my professional experience.
Do you think you can operate a business without a license from the local government?
Jimmy John's is a sandwich place that was in the news last year for making low-wage employees sign non-competes that prevented them from working at other sandwich shops within 2 miles of a Jimmy John's. And it wasn't clear if working at a restaurant that happened to serve sandwiches also count, so Jimmy John's lawyers would blast ex-employees with scary letters just in case.
Indeed, it's related to a general trend that most companies would rather throw away old employees than maintain a long term relationship. You'll find hot tech start-ups in the Bay Area with very high churn rates. Ordinarily this would be a problem, but the culture here wants to believe there is some huge advantage to switching jobs every 30 months or so.