This is the EU's method of paying for their massive social spending. Every few years they pick a successful American company and file bogus "anti-trust" charges, then extort billions from them. They all need to just tell the EU to go fuck themselves and pull out - and make a very public announcement as to WHY they're leaving. After the people actually living there find out that they'll no longer have Amazon / eBay / Windows / Xbox / Android / etc, they'll be pretty pissed at the greedy politicians who drove those companies out.
Except they're not the same thing. They may be the same general concept with the same objective, but being pushy lacks any tact or politeness. There's a huge difference between person A saying something like "Your competitor is offering me $5k more a year, but I feel this company is a better fit...is there any way you can match that?" or person B saying "I refuse to work for anything less than $X!".
So if they're willing to sell themselves short and work for less (when they have just as much access to information about average salary for the field / region), how is that men's fault? Maybe when they got the offer, the economy wasn't good and they were desperate and didn't negotiate - that's just basic labor economics, not sexism. I've worked jobs where I knew that I was being paid less than average for my qualifications, but I also knew that the economy at the time was shit and I had no other offers. However, when conditions are better (such as when I obtained my current job) and I have a decent paying job already, then yes - I will push it further because worst case scenario is that I keep working at the existing job and keep searching, best case scenario I get a much bigger raise than I was expecting. Sometimes you take that gamble and lose, other times it pays out in a 25% pay increase. Just because women in general are less willing to take that sort of risk doesn't mean that men are "evil" or should be punished.
It always seems sort of shady, they have all of these combinations you can put together on their website, yet the dealership lots are filled with dozens of identical cars missing all of the cool shit they show on their website.
You mean the most discriminated against group in the US? Let's check all of those discrimination laws saying things like anyone but a straight, white male gets priority for getting into college...or priority for getting a job...gets special scholarships, etc.
A government is different from a private company. It's sad that I have to point that out. A private business that chooses to be assholes will not stay in business for long unless they happen to be located in a very bigoted part o the world.
Especially since Apple keeps the number of stores per state extremely low, thus it increases the number of customers in store and creates an illusion that there's more demand than there really is. Again, brilliant marketing - if only they had the hardware / software to justify buying it.
Really? You mean that there were other laws on the books saying that blacks or whites who sympathized with blacks were unable to start their own businesses?
Everyone discriminates. You choose physical / personality traits that you require in someone to date / marry / have sex with. You choose your hobbies, bands, etc. You say "I love McDonald's" or "I hate White Castle". EVERYONE DISCRIMINATES.
Business owners are supposed to (and used to) have the right to refuse service to anyone that they didn't want to work with. Then with the Civil Rights movement, they decided that for blacks to have equal rights, business owners had to lose their rights (yeah, I don't get the logic either). This issue came up recently with the cases of both a photographer and a baker being forced, under threat of fine and jail, to work for gay couples getting married when the business owners were against gay marriage for religious reasons. This law was written because of the fact that other governments in the country have been forcing people to work for others against their will. If people didn't have to be afraid of being forced to do something they find immoral, then there wouldn't have been demand for a law to protect them from it.
Instead of just allowing businesses to operate how they want and customers deciding who succeeds and who doesn't (can you imagine how fast Walmart or McDonald's would go out of business if they put up "No blacks allowed" signs?), people want to decide that by opening a business, you lose any right to decide how you live your life and who you associate with. It's idiotic, to say the least. The only reason that people currently are opposed to the "religious freedom" law is because they don't like THAT religious view. However, when this law is used to allow a black business owner to tell KKK members to go to hell and he won't serve them, maybe you'll realize that it's a two-way street.
Sad, but true. No one will ever do anything to promote real change and actually following the Constitution, because you'd need several hundred thousand people to support you and join in (if not millions of people), otherwise you'd be quickly arrested or killed and the media would gladly label you a "terrorist" and "extremist". Your actions would then be used as further justification to take away more rights.
So you think that a Mac user would never need to charge their laptop, connect to a second screen, and access a flash drive at the same time? I wasn't aware that Mac users just stared at the system instead of actually using it to do something.
We need phones that let you back up EVERYTHING for that to be practical. Make it so that backing up to the cloud is like making an image of a PC and absolutely, that would be the smart choice.
Which is still annoying. I know it's installing software because I told it to install. I'm the one and only person using the system and I don't need it second guessing me.
First thing? That's the first thing I do after opening a folder on a fresh install of Windows. The absolute first thing after installation is turn of the goddamn User Account Control pop-ups. "You pressed a button, are you sure you wanted to do that?!" That shit makes Clippy look pleasant.
Well, for a few decades now, Republicans have been more and more big-government (which is the exact opposite of the party platform). Generally at the national level though, they seem Democrats win (primarily due to people being against Republicans wanting to legislate the Bible) and their illogical response is to try to out-Democrat the Democrat candidate. Both Republicans and Democrats keep coming under more and more criticism for being too similar while support for third parties (primarily the Libertarian party) grows, but instead of acknowledging that the voters want someone more libertarian minded, they just insult that growing portion of the population and go even more extreme towards the things that Americans dislike.
We seriously need to change our voting laws that allow candidates to win with very low percentages of the vote and also push people to vote for "the lesser evil" instead of their preferred candidate.
Well, seeing how the last few elections, the Republican strategy has been trying to run a Democrat as a Republican (thus ensuring they won't win, because Democrats still won't vote for them and conservative Republicans won't vote for them - as well as driving away moderates), we'll be shouting the same thing at Republicans most likely.
I liked Prometheus and have never understood the hate for it. Now 2001: A Space Odyssey, that's a movie you can bash for having a poor / incoherent story line.
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This is the EU's method of paying for their massive social spending. Every few years they pick a successful American company and file bogus "anti-trust" charges, then extort billions from them. They all need to just tell the EU to go fuck themselves and pull out - and make a very public announcement as to WHY they're leaving. After the people actually living there find out that they'll no longer have Amazon / eBay / Windows / Xbox / Android / etc, they'll be pretty pissed at the greedy politicians who drove those companies out.
No shit, they don't live long enough to GET dementia. You don't exactly see a lot of fat people at the retirement home - there's a reason for that.
Except they're not the same thing. They may be the same general concept with the same objective, but being pushy lacks any tact or politeness. There's a huge difference between person A saying something like "Your competitor is offering me $5k more a year, but I feel this company is a better fit...is there any way you can match that?" or person B saying "I refuse to work for anything less than $X!".
So if they're willing to sell themselves short and work for less (when they have just as much access to information about average salary for the field / region), how is that men's fault? Maybe when they got the offer, the economy wasn't good and they were desperate and didn't negotiate - that's just basic labor economics, not sexism. I've worked jobs where I knew that I was being paid less than average for my qualifications, but I also knew that the economy at the time was shit and I had no other offers. However, when conditions are better (such as when I obtained my current job) and I have a decent paying job already, then yes - I will push it further because worst case scenario is that I keep working at the existing job and keep searching, best case scenario I get a much bigger raise than I was expecting. Sometimes you take that gamble and lose, other times it pays out in a 25% pay increase. Just because women in general are less willing to take that sort of risk doesn't mean that men are "evil" or should be punished.
It always seems sort of shady, they have all of these combinations you can put together on their website, yet the dealership lots are filled with dozens of identical cars missing all of the cool shit they show on their website.
You can also use keyfiles too.
You mean the most discriminated against group in the US? Let's check all of those discrimination laws saying things like anyone but a straight, white male gets priority for getting into college...or priority for getting a job...gets special scholarships, etc.
A government is different from a private company. It's sad that I have to point that out. A private business that chooses to be assholes will not stay in business for long unless they happen to be located in a very bigoted part o the world.
Especially since Apple keeps the number of stores per state extremely low, thus it increases the number of customers in store and creates an illusion that there's more demand than there really is. Again, brilliant marketing - if only they had the hardware / software to justify buying it.
Really? You mean that there were other laws on the books saying that blacks or whites who sympathized with blacks were unable to start their own businesses?
Everyone discriminates. You choose physical / personality traits that you require in someone to date / marry / have sex with. You choose your hobbies, bands, etc. You say "I love McDonald's" or "I hate White Castle". EVERYONE DISCRIMINATES.
Business owners are supposed to (and used to) have the right to refuse service to anyone that they didn't want to work with. Then with the Civil Rights movement, they decided that for blacks to have equal rights, business owners had to lose their rights (yeah, I don't get the logic either). This issue came up recently with the cases of both a photographer and a baker being forced, under threat of fine and jail, to work for gay couples getting married when the business owners were against gay marriage for religious reasons. This law was written because of the fact that other governments in the country have been forcing people to work for others against their will. If people didn't have to be afraid of being forced to do something they find immoral, then there wouldn't have been demand for a law to protect them from it.
Instead of just allowing businesses to operate how they want and customers deciding who succeeds and who doesn't (can you imagine how fast Walmart or McDonald's would go out of business if they put up "No blacks allowed" signs?), people want to decide that by opening a business, you lose any right to decide how you live your life and who you associate with. It's idiotic, to say the least. The only reason that people currently are opposed to the "religious freedom" law is because they don't like THAT religious view. However, when this law is used to allow a black business owner to tell KKK members to go to hell and he won't serve them, maybe you'll realize that it's a two-way street.
I'd argue that for most non-business users, the main issue is DirectX forcing anyone who wants to play games to use Windows.
So I guess the huge "EDIT - This applies worldwide" part of the summary was hard to see? It was there at least 7 hours before you commented.
Or just wait until Win 10 comes out, pirate Win 7, then use the free upgrade to 10.
Sad, but true. No one will ever do anything to promote real change and actually following the Constitution, because you'd need several hundred thousand people to support you and join in (if not millions of people), otherwise you'd be quickly arrested or killed and the media would gladly label you a "terrorist" and "extremist". Your actions would then be used as further justification to take away more rights.
Now, name one person who actually USES those ports instead of the HDMI ports.
So you think that a Mac user would never need to charge their laptop, connect to a second screen, and access a flash drive at the same time? I wasn't aware that Mac users just stared at the system instead of actually using it to do something.
We need phones that let you back up EVERYTHING for that to be practical. Make it so that backing up to the cloud is like making an image of a PC and absolutely, that would be the smart choice.
Which is still annoying. I know it's installing software because I told it to install. I'm the one and only person using the system and I don't need it second guessing me.
First thing? That's the first thing I do after opening a folder on a fresh install of Windows. The absolute first thing after installation is turn of the goddamn User Account Control pop-ups. "You pressed a button, are you sure you wanted to do that?!" That shit makes Clippy look pleasant.
Well, for a few decades now, Republicans have been more and more big-government (which is the exact opposite of the party platform). Generally at the national level though, they seem Democrats win (primarily due to people being against Republicans wanting to legislate the Bible) and their illogical response is to try to out-Democrat the Democrat candidate. Both Republicans and Democrats keep coming under more and more criticism for being too similar while support for third parties (primarily the Libertarian party) grows, but instead of acknowledging that the voters want someone more libertarian minded, they just insult that growing portion of the population and go even more extreme towards the things that Americans dislike.
We seriously need to change our voting laws that allow candidates to win with very low percentages of the vote and also push people to vote for "the lesser evil" instead of their preferred candidate.
Well, seeing how the last few elections, the Republican strategy has been trying to run a Democrat as a Republican (thus ensuring they won't win, because Democrats still won't vote for them and conservative Republicans won't vote for them - as well as driving away moderates), we'll be shouting the same thing at Republicans most likely.
We stop overpopulating the planet and burning up non-renewable resources at an absurd pace? The horror!
Do you know what will happen to her? Not. A. God. Damn. Thing.
I liked Prometheus and have never understood the hate for it. Now 2001: A Space Odyssey, that's a movie you can bash for having a poor / incoherent story line.