"tech companies have become independent fiefs with dry cleaning, gyms, doctors, shuttle buses and bountiful free meals...
Fantastic quote from the article. The fiefdoms of tech campuses are creating a new kind of society: the corporate city, open only to those with a badge. On the large scale practiced in the SF Bay Area, this corporate coddling certainly seems to be capable of whittling away at the vibrance of city life.
NEWS RELEASE: "The independent city-state of Google has declared war on the city of San Francisco by poaching its best chefs." LOL.
So, let me get this straight; the noble employees would have been out enjoying the "vibrance" (like homeless crapping on the sidewalks?), but the evil corp executives made that completely impossible by... building cafeterias.
... I suppose it is kind of funny to watch the smug eat themselves, lol!
"These tech companies have decided to leave their suburban campuses because their employees want to be in the city, and yet the irony is, they come to the city and are creating isolated, walled-off campuses," said Aaron Peskin, a city supervisor who is co-sponsoring the bill with Ahsha Safai.
Funny, isn't it? People are human. Being urbane might even be more of a pose for most; it's almost like they are human or something.
Raising the cost two or three times the rate of inflation for 20 years will do that.
When you throw money at something, prices go up.
It's Economics 101. And all sort of government aid and government backed student loans that can't be discharged in bankruptcies, guess what, that's throwing money at it.
Yeah, we didn't have smartphones, but we had hand held entertainment devices of various sorts.
Formal or informal, guess what, you didn't get to play with them in class, or essentially use them in school at all. If they were ubiquitous then the ban surely would have been formal.
... the precipitating event was that a manager I used to work under called me up, and asked me if I'd consider going where she was now. I said yes and am super glad that I did.
I was receptive to that because of a number of factors. But the root factor to all those factors was (in my opinion) a Marketing department that couldn't stop making decisions based on "ooh, shiny!"
Parenthetically, I either have a knack or great luck at leaving places before the ship sinks.
I think about that, what if the the US really is an authoritarian police state?
If it is, why doesn't it feel like that all the time? I mean, how do you explain how easy it is to get a gun, go places, bitch about the government, etc?
This is a good thing. Your logic is kicking in!
Your doubts make sense. Why, indeed, can you say anything you want about the political leadership, if we're a police state? It's because we aren't one.
There are legitimate concerns and debates we can have, but the overheated hyperventilating going on is absurd. You are catching onto that. That's a good thing!
As the saying goes, idle hands are the devil's workshop.
We've actually conducted fairly large scale experiments in just giving people money for many decades now. The results are not, to say the least, encouraging.
The guys selling drugs on the corner, or roaming the streets causing trouble, would in fact be better off breaking rocks somewhere for eight hours a day, whether or not those rocks need to be broken. And society would be better off with them doing that too.
Maybe an "early retirement": when they get old enough to calm down, then they get the UBI...
Show how not building a wall is the same as unrestricted free-for-all access to all and you are a genius... but you can't, because you and your "arguments" are dog shit stupid.
You must not be using an enterprise version then. RedHat charges $299 per workstation license, per year.
Somebody uses Redhat for workstations? Who? The vast majority of Redhat installs are servers. Stupidly expensive maintenance subscriptions imho, but it makes sense to somebody. I suppose, the cost is nothing compared to managing more machines with fewer admins.
It's a lame debate tactic. Yeah, if you cherry pick the most expensive way you could use Linux, it's expensive. How about that.
Opera is shit. It used to be the best browser around, until they ditched their engine and internals to become a chrome-clone. Once upon a time it was innovative and full of awesome features that other browsers didn't have, but they just... gave it all up.
If I want Chrome I'll use Chrome. If I want it open sourced I'll use Chromium. There's no need or desire for the festering reminder of a once great browser.
(And yes, I AM butthurt about it. )
Well, if you are a developer, you can use to run two Chromes. That's about it.
The built in ad blocker's nice. Built in VPN too, come to think of it.
You must not be using an enterprise version then. RedHat charges $299 per workstation license, per year, if you want support, $179 if you want to do it yourself. You can get the desktop version with no support, but you're still going to pay $49 / yr. Windows 10 is $84 / yr in comparison. So if you're going to compare apples to apples by comparing the pricing of enterprise licensing with support, then you're not really any better off in either camp.
And?
Realistically, most places with Windows support it themselves. That's while still paying for the licenses.
And you know perfectly well there are good usable Linux distributions that don't require paid support licenses. With Windows, you pay whether you use any support or not, no matter what.
With Linux you can have any kind of custom distribution you want. Not so, Windows.
Yes, every single political development that "progressives' don't like is actually caused by nefarious activities (which noted reactionaries like tech executives of course happily signed on to).
Had it been unoccupied, of course, that would be totally fine.
Well then he could have found the wireless router, looked at the presumably default password in the bottom, got online and carried on.
If that was indeed his objective, which nobody can know until it is too late. (Not that that would make home invasion ok, even if it was.)
Since in reality he had moved their bicycle (which he later stole) from the back yard to the front, before he even "asked" for the wifi password, it sounds like that was a just a bizarre excuse that he had ready.
The system identifies the age and gender of the user. This system is of great use in these Internet days, since nobody seems to be quite sure of their age or gender.
But... but... can it detect what gender they identify as???
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Sony is now in a close contest with HTC for the title of being the least relevant global Android device vendor.
Er, well if you are global you are still kinda relevant, no?
Is that something like "least athletic olympian"?
"tech companies have become independent fiefs with dry cleaning, gyms, doctors, shuttle buses and bountiful free meals...
Fantastic quote from the article. The fiefdoms of tech campuses are creating a new kind of society: the corporate city, open only to those with a badge. On the large scale practiced in the SF Bay Area, this corporate coddling certainly seems to be capable of whittling away at the vibrance of city life.
NEWS RELEASE: "The independent city-state of Google has declared war on the city of San Francisco by poaching its best chefs." LOL.
So, let me get this straight; the noble employees would have been out enjoying the "vibrance" (like homeless crapping on the sidewalks?), but the evil corp executives made that completely impossible by ... building cafeterias.
Or, maybe you mean something else?
... I suppose it is kind of funny to watch the smug eat themselves, lol!
"These tech companies have decided to leave their suburban campuses because their employees want to be in the city, and yet the irony is, they come to the city and are creating isolated, walled-off campuses," said Aaron Peskin, a city supervisor who is co-sponsoring the bill with Ahsha Safai.
Funny, isn't it? People are human. Being urbane might even be more of a pose for most; it's almost like they are human or something.
Could be awesome for prosthetics.
A general command could be issued for the appendage, and the "AI" can fill in the gaps about how to execute the action.
Blame the Colleges.
Raising the cost two or three times the rate of inflation for 20 years will do that.
When you throw money at something, prices go up.
It's Economics 101. And all sort of government aid and government backed student loans that can't be discharged in bankruptcies, guess what, that's throwing money at it.
Yeah, we didn't have smartphones, but we had hand held entertainment devices of various sorts.
Formal or informal, guess what, you didn't get to play with them in class, or essentially use them in school at all. If they were ubiquitous then the ban surely would have been formal.
Information wants to be free! Unless it's about guns or something.
... in lake Woebegone, all the children are above average.
For example, he says, "Order here at the Amazon link. Don't clip any coupons or promo codes.
Not sure how that evades detection. Wouldn't normal shoppers clip coupons?
By "legacy media" you mean traditional news sources that fact-check, edit, and issue corrections when mistakes are discovered?
That would be nice. Instead, we had Dan Rather.
... the precipitating event was that a manager I used to work under called me up, and asked me if I'd consider going where she was now. I said yes and am super glad that I did.
I was receptive to that because of a number of factors. But the root factor to all those factors was (in my opinion) a Marketing department that couldn't stop making decisions based on "ooh, shiny!"
Parenthetically, I either have a knack or great luck at leaving places before the ship sinks.
I'm sorry, when's the last time anyone in a civilized country was executed for not paying their taxes?
When they resist the big guys with guns who show up eventually when they refuse to pay them?
Force is behind laws.
I think about that, what if the the US really is an authoritarian police state?
If it is, why doesn't it feel like that all the time? I mean, how do you explain how easy it is to get a gun, go places, bitch about the government, etc?
This is a good thing. Your logic is kicking in!
Your doubts make sense. Why, indeed, can you say anything you want about the political leadership, if we're a police state? It's because we aren't one.
There are legitimate concerns and debates we can have, but the overheated hyperventilating going on is absurd. You are catching onto that. That's a good thing!
To quote a German comedian, I need money, not an occupation. I can keep busy all right myself, no need for that.
That's actually the problem, not the solution.
We have been experimenting with giving people money and then they find stuff to do. For quite some time.
The results may make for exciting movies and rap videos, but aren't real good for society overall.
As the saying goes, idle hands are the devil's workshop.
We've actually conducted fairly large scale experiments in just giving people money for many decades now. The results are not, to say the least, encouraging.
The guys selling drugs on the corner, or roaming the streets causing trouble, would in fact be better off breaking rocks somewhere for eight hours a day, whether or not those rocks need to be broken. And society would be better off with them doing that too.
Maybe an "early retirement": when they get old enough to calm down, then they get the UBI ...
"We play both kinds of music here; country, and western!"
Show how not building a wall is the same as unrestricted free-for-all access to all and you are a genius ... but you can't, because you and your "arguments" are dog shit stupid.
Winning friends and influencing people, I see.
I was agreeing with you, and arguing (implicitly) with the guy you had replied to.
You must not be using an enterprise version then. RedHat charges $299 per workstation license, per year.
Somebody uses Redhat for workstations? Who? The vast majority of Redhat installs are servers. Stupidly expensive maintenance subscriptions imho, but it makes sense to somebody. I suppose, the cost is nothing compared to managing more machines with fewer admins.
It's a lame debate tactic. Yeah, if you cherry pick the most expensive way you could use Linux, it's expensive. How about that.
Opera is shit. It used to be the best browser around, until they ditched their engine and internals to become a chrome-clone. Once upon a time it was innovative and full of awesome features that other browsers didn't have, but they just... gave it all up.
If I want Chrome I'll use Chrome. If I want it open sourced I'll use Chromium. There's no need or desire for the festering reminder of a once great browser.
(And yes, I AM butthurt about it. )
Well, if you are a developer, you can use to run two Chromes. That's about it.
The built in ad blocker's nice. Built in VPN too, come to think of it.
You must not be using an enterprise version then. RedHat charges $299 per workstation license, per year, if you want support, $179 if you want to do it yourself. You can get the desktop version with no support, but you're still going to pay $49 / yr. Windows 10 is $84 / yr in comparison. So if you're going to compare apples to apples by comparing the pricing of enterprise licensing with support, then you're not really any better off in either camp.
And?
Realistically, most places with Windows support it themselves. That's while still paying for the licenses.
And you know perfectly well there are good usable Linux distributions that don't require paid support licenses. With Windows, you pay whether you use any support or not, no matter what.
With Linux you can have any kind of custom distribution you want. Not so, Windows.
Linux, "telemetry" optional. Windows, mandatory ...
Yes, every single political development that "progressives' don't like is actually caused by nefarious activities (which noted reactionaries like tech executives of course happily signed on to).
You could never, you know, just lose ...
Had it been unoccupied, of course, that would be totally fine.
Well then he could have found the wireless router, looked at the presumably default password in the bottom, got online and carried on.
If that was indeed his objective, which nobody can know until it is too late. (Not that that would make home invasion ok, even if it was.)
Since in reality he had moved their bicycle (which he later stole) from the back yard to the front, before he even "asked" for the wifi password, it sounds like that was a just a bizarre excuse that he had ready.
The system identifies the age and gender of the user. This system is of great use in these Internet days, since nobody seems to be quite sure of their age or gender.
But ... but ... can it detect what gender they identify as???
See, we do live in a dystopian dictatorship!! Truuuuuummmmmppp!!!
Oh ... you said Canada?
Er .. look, a squirrel!