They likely have home insurance and will be reimbursed.
And then next year their premiums will treble or more. Insurance is primarily there to cover you against things that are either accidental or your own damned fault. That's to say nothing of the fact that the insurance payout will be substantially less than the cost of everything that was lost. I assume you've never had your car written off.
You're saying this as if it the definition of the (now confirmed) employees wasn't the subject of a very long legal inquest.
Apparently obvious things like this are often the subject of complex legal wrangling. The forms must be obeyed, as they say. One might as well ask why someone standing over a dead body with a bloody knife in their hand should have to stand trial before being incarcerated.
They can leave it. If they paid too little, or were too restrictive, drivers would not be using Uber. Apparently enough find it acceptable - or maybe they do negotiate, but people won't/can't talk about it?...
Some people will take any job so long as it pays, just look at all those small employers hiring migrant workers for a pittance. The whole point of the minimum wage* is that employers are legally obliged to pay at least that. Uber (and others) use the whole self-employed canard solely to abrogate their responsibilities as employers to increase profits at the workers' expense; it should really tell you something when even a Conservative government thinks that stinks and does something about it.
One other thing, no-one negotiates a higher salary for low-paying jobs, even if they aren't applying to someone like Uber. The only workers who are in a position to negotiate their salary are the highly skilled ones who can't simply be replaced by any other schmuck off the street who holds a clean driving license.
*Despite what politicians say, the NLW is not a living wage and I refuse to call it thus; it's barely an increase on the old minimum wage and is only called the "living" wage for political reasons.
His leaving the star trek series means its going to be a lot less fun to look at.
But hopefully more fun to listen to. Hannibal was one of the very few shows I've watched where I stopped part-way through. I could deal with the way concepts (and sometimes just isolated sentences) from the original films/books were jammed into odd places on the show but as time went on the show seemed bent on one-upping itself to the point of farce. Hannibal was beautifully directed, true, but for the most part the plot and dialogue were absolute dreck.
Only time I've ever been charged for a text was when it was an international text, which was retarded and I complained and got the fees waived.
That depends on what you mean by "international". If you are abroad and someone sends you a text from your home country there are additional costs involved (in theory). Since your friend has no way to tell if you're abroad it's not fair to pass these costs on to them so you have to foot the bill. The same also used to apply to phone calls: you paid extra for outbound calls and also paid for incoming calls. These days in the EU I understand that the incoming call/text fees have been quashed by an EU directive.
No you don't. Never have done (unless you were roaming at the time). The USA is the only country I've heard of that has carriers who charge for receiving messages.
I don't know about "office culture" but if people get fired for taking sick leave then of course they're going to try and come to work when they're unwell.
Where I work there's a guy sitting about 2 metres away who grinds his teeth. Constantly. Every single day. Have you ever heard the phrase "familiarity breeds contempt"? This is a perfect example. The sound is not unlike the creaking sound an old wooden chair makes when you sit in it.
Then there's the guy who purposely sneezes as loud as he possibly can for reasons only he knows.
Now, one of them makes noise without realising it and stops when he's asked to (briefly) but the other... Working every day with either of them is bound to make any sane person pissed off.
A great film, and one of the few that manages to seriously consider the advent of a real AI yet avoid the "Mad Computer" trope that usually comes with that. Worthy of a link at the very least.
On the other hand, he may be one of the worlds greatest minds, but I truly wish Hawking would stop spouting off on subjects so well-removed from his area of expertise. He's about as well-suited to lecture on artificial intelligence as he is to be the next host of The Great British Bake-Off.
Once again Yes, Minister shows itself to be a frighteningly accurate look at how government works:
Sir Humphrey: Minister I have something to say to you which you may not like to hear.
Jim: Why should today be any different?
Sir Humphrey: Minister, the traditional allocation of executive responsibilities has always been so determined as to liberate the Ministerial incumbent from the administrative minutiae by devolving the managerial functions to those whose experience and qualifications have better formed them for the performance of such humble offices, thereby releasing their political overlords for the more onerous duties and profound deliberations which are the inevitable concomitant of their exalted position.
Jim: Now, whatever made you think I wouldn't want to hear that?
Sir Humphrey: Well I thought it might upset you.
Jim: How could it, I didn't understand a single word. Humphrey for God's sake, for once in your life put it into plain English.
Sir Humphrey: If you insist. You are not here to run this Department.
Jim: I beg your pardon.
Sir Humphrey: You are not here to run this Department.
Jim: I think I am. The people think I am too!
Sir Humphrey: With respect Minister you are... they are wrong.
Jim: And who does run this Department?
Sir Humphrey: I do.
Also, chip+pin does nothing to help with online sales, or any sales where they simply choose not to use a chip+pin transaction. Someone can copy down your card number and expiration date and make transactions.
If you RTFS* you'd see that the card number isn't what changes, it's the CVV2 code on the back of the card. For a long time you've needed these three digits for any "customer not present" transactions (phone or online orders), so just writing down the card number isn't nearly as big a risk as it was in the past.
What this new card does makes it very difficult to do are CNP transactions without having the card physically present; scammers could copy the details but they'd only be good for an hour at most, and most merchants would be wary of dispatching goods to somewhere other than the billing address at least for the first time they're provided with that card's details.
*Easily forgiven when the headline gets it wrong too.
Here the childs welfare is paramount, so men who are not even the father, and the child is a result of adultery, can be forced to pay child support, while the actual father does not. Kooky stuff.
Actually that's how it works in the UK too, estranged lesbian couples notwithstanding. If you're the biological father of a child or you've officially adopted them you have to pay child support, even if the child was conceived out of wedlock. That includes adultery, one night stands etc.
It's not unheard of for a man to raise a child as his own from birth without having any legal obligation to pay child support if he and the mother were to separate. If one were to take a rather callous view one could argue that a man shouldn't have an obligation to support a child he wasn't responsible for bringing into the world. A family court might order differently but that's the way the official child support scheme works in the UK and I fancy that such an order would be on shaky legal ground. (In the UK child support is handled by either the courts or a separate government agency; from what I've heard only the family courts deal with it in the US.)
In the assisted fertilisation example you gave the donor would not have to pay as they aren't legally the child's parent, unless the "donation" was made the old-fashioned way.
A 100 megabit network can only move 100 megabits in a second, so a person moving 100 mbps is consuming the entire network.
This is where your analogy falls down; that never happens.
Look at it this way: The Oreo factory can only make n Oreos a day. The Oreo company will let you take one cookie a day for a buck a month. The Oreo company makes that agreement with >>n people. Some people actually do take one cookie every day, and the Oreo company declares that they should pay more than a buck.
This in itself doesn't have to be a dick move; all the Oreo company need do is be honest about how many cookies one can really take. The alternative is to follow the All-You-Can-Eat buffets' example: suck it up and build a bigger Oreo factory.
ISPs need to stop advertising capped connections as "unlimited", "infinite" or the like. The problem is that the people who do transfer enough to find themselves on the ISP's shit list are too few in number to achieve more than "*Subject to a Fair Usage Policy that we won't show you." in 8pt text at the bottom of the billboard.
We could do worse. I'm sure our saurian masters will be pleased when they learn that humans have been tinkering with mice for so long that we can genetically modify them to be twice the size and ten thousand times as tasty before you can say "Sssss'Sthss".
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As a business owner I haven't paid myself a salary in years, I put everything back into business.
What do you use to pay for food and shelter then?
Funny how the headline gets "will connect passengers" from "evaluate the feasibility".
Then again, those guys do have shitloads of money and very little in the way of restraint when it comes to spending it...
She gets 90%. The government gets 40% or more in taxes. Where does that leave you?
Screwed. Isn't that the point of this arrangement?
What's all this V stuff? It's 07E0, year of the lion.
They likely have home insurance and will be reimbursed.
And then next year their premiums will treble or more. Insurance is primarily there to cover you against things that are either accidental or your own damned fault. That's to say nothing of the fact that the insurance payout will be substantially less than the cost of everything that was lost. I assume you've never had your car written off.
You're saying this as if it the definition of the (now confirmed) employees wasn't the subject of a very long legal inquest.
Apparently obvious things like this are often the subject of complex legal wrangling. The forms must be obeyed, as they say. One might as well ask why someone standing over a dead body with a bloody knife in their hand should have to stand trial before being incarcerated.
They can leave it. If they paid too little, or were too restrictive, drivers would not be using Uber. Apparently enough find it acceptable - or maybe they do negotiate, but people won't/can't talk about it? ...
...If anyone knows differently, please enlighten me?
Some people will take any job so long as it pays, just look at all those small employers hiring migrant workers for a pittance. The whole point of the minimum wage* is that employers are legally obliged to pay at least that. Uber (and others) use the whole self-employed canard solely to abrogate their responsibilities as employers to increase profits at the workers' expense; it should really tell you something when even a Conservative government thinks that stinks and does something about it.
One other thing, no-one negotiates a higher salary for low-paying jobs, even if they aren't applying to someone like Uber. The only workers who are in a position to negotiate their salary are the highly skilled ones who can't simply be replaced by any other schmuck off the street who holds a clean driving license.
*Despite what politicians say, the NLW is not a living wage and I refuse to call it thus; it's barely an increase on the old minimum wage and is only called the "living" wage for political reasons.
Is everyone in this website a moron?
If you smell shit wherever you go, check your shoes.
They are not golden arches, they are golden arcs.
You say potato, I say reformed potato starch with added hydrogenated fats and salt.
Hmm, maybe I'm not remembering that quite right...
His leaving the star trek series means its going to be a lot less fun to look at.
But hopefully more fun to listen to. Hannibal was one of the very few shows I've watched where I stopped part-way through. I could deal with the way concepts (and sometimes just isolated sentences) from the original films/books were jammed into odd places on the show but as time went on the show seemed bent on one-upping itself to the point of farce. Hannibal was beautifully directed, true, but for the most part the plot and dialogue were absolute dreck.
Only time I've ever been charged for a text was when it was an international text, which was retarded and I complained and got the fees waived.
That depends on what you mean by "international". If you are abroad and someone sends you a text from your home country there are additional costs involved (in theory). Since your friend has no way to tell if you're abroad it's not fair to pass these costs on to them so you have to foot the bill. The same also used to apply to phone calls: you paid extra for outbound calls and also paid for incoming calls. These days in the EU I understand that the incoming call/text fees have been quashed by an EU directive.
Where I work there's a guy sitting about 2 metres away who grinds his teeth. Constantly. Every single day.
Damn you've got good hearing...
No, it's just very loud. People even further away from me can hear it.
No you don't. Never have done (unless you were roaming at the time). The USA is the only country I've heard of that has carriers who charge for receiving messages.
I don't know about "office culture" but if people get fired for taking sick leave then of course they're going to try and come to work when they're unwell.
Where I work there's a guy sitting about 2 metres away who grinds his teeth. Constantly. Every single day. Have you ever heard the phrase "familiarity breeds contempt"? This is a perfect example. The sound is not unlike the creaking sound an old wooden chair makes when you sit in it.
Then there's the guy who purposely sneezes as loud as he possibly can for reasons only he knows.
Now, one of them makes noise without realising it and stops when he's asked to (briefly) but the other...
Working every day with either of them is bound to make any sane person pissed off.
p>10-fold = (2^10)*original capacity. 1024*100 percent increase is a 102,400% improvement.
That's not what tenfold means. Saying something increases tenfold is the same as saying ten times (10x or 1000%).
A great film, and one of the few that manages to seriously consider the advent of a real AI yet avoid the "Mad Computer" trope that usually comes with that. Worthy of a link at the very least.
On the other hand, he may be one of the worlds greatest minds, but I truly wish Hawking would stop spouting off on subjects so well-removed from his area of expertise. He's about as well-suited to lecture on artificial intelligence as he is to be the next host of The Great British Bake-Off.
Right, Apple - with approximately 230 billion USD in cash on hand - is really worried about the size of its bank account.
Yes, that's generally the best way to increase the size of one's bank account.
I'm writting wile looking at the screen not keyboard.
Evidently not.
Once again Yes, Minister shows itself to be a frighteningly accurate look at how government works:
Sir Humphrey: Minister I have something to say to you which you may not like to hear.
Jim: Why should today be any different?
Sir Humphrey: Minister, the traditional allocation of executive responsibilities has always been so determined as to liberate the Ministerial incumbent from the administrative minutiae by devolving the managerial functions to those whose experience and qualifications have better formed them for the performance of such humble offices, thereby releasing their political overlords for the more onerous duties and profound deliberations which are the inevitable concomitant of their exalted position.
Jim: Now, whatever made you think I wouldn't want to hear that?
Sir Humphrey: Well I thought it might upset you.
Jim: How could it, I didn't understand a single word. Humphrey for God's sake, for once in your life put it into plain English.
Sir Humphrey: If you insist. You are not here to run this Department.
Jim: I beg your pardon.
Sir Humphrey: You are not here to run this Department.
Jim: I think I am. The people think I am too!
Sir Humphrey: With respect Minister you are... they are wrong.
Jim: And who does run this Department?
Sir Humphrey: I do.
Other than "it's there" and "Nobody else has gone" what's the point?
Are you talking about Mars or Everest?
Also, chip+pin does nothing to help with online sales, or any sales where they simply choose not to use a chip+pin transaction. Someone can copy down your card number and expiration date and make transactions.
If you RTFS* you'd see that the card number isn't what changes, it's the CVV2 code on the back of the card. For a long time you've needed these three digits for any "customer not present" transactions (phone or online orders), so just writing down the card number isn't nearly as big a risk as it was in the past.
What this new card does makes it very difficult to do are CNP transactions without having the card physically present; scammers could copy the details but they'd only be good for an hour at most, and most merchants would be wary of dispatching goods to somewhere other than the billing address at least for the first time they're provided with that card's details.
*Easily forgiven when the headline gets it wrong too.
Here the childs welfare is paramount, so men who are not even the father, and the child is a result of adultery, can be forced to pay child support, while the actual father does not. Kooky stuff.
Actually that's how it works in the UK too, estranged lesbian couples notwithstanding. If you're the biological father of a child or you've officially adopted them you have to pay child support, even if the child was conceived out of wedlock. That includes adultery, one night stands etc.
It's not unheard of for a man to raise a child as his own from birth without having any legal obligation to pay child support if he and the mother were to separate. If one were to take a rather callous view one could argue that a man shouldn't have an obligation to support a child he wasn't responsible for bringing into the world. A family court might order differently but that's the way the official child support scheme works in the UK and I fancy that such an order would be on shaky legal ground. (In the UK child support is handled by either the courts or a separate government agency; from what I've heard only the family courts deal with it in the US.)
In the assisted fertilisation example you gave the donor would not have to pay as they aren't legally the child's parent, unless the "donation" was made the old-fashioned way.
A 100 megabit network can only move 100 megabits in a second, so a person moving 100 mbps is consuming the entire network.
This is where your analogy falls down; that never happens.
Look at it this way:
The Oreo factory can only make n Oreos a day.
The Oreo company will let you take one cookie a day for a buck a month.
The Oreo company makes that agreement with >>n people.
Some people actually do take one cookie every day, and the Oreo company declares that they should pay more than a buck.
This in itself doesn't have to be a dick move; all the Oreo company need do is be honest about how many cookies one can really take. The alternative is to follow the All-You-Can-Eat buffets' example: suck it up and build a bigger Oreo factory.
ISPs need to stop advertising capped connections as "unlimited", "infinite" or the like. The problem is that the people who do transfer enough to find themselves on the ISP's shit list are too few in number to achieve more than "*Subject to a Fair Usage Policy that we won't show you." in 8pt text at the bottom of the billboard.
We could do worse. I'm sure our saurian masters will be pleased when they learn that humans have been tinkering with mice for so long that we can genetically modify them to be twice the size and ten thousand times as tasty before you can say "Sssss'Sthss".