If it's any different, it's less secure and will be broken when used on the secure network, detached from the world and can't, for example, use the location data for Cortana / Bing searches, etc... (disabling location disables Cortana, from what I read).
The Marines are using the DoD version of Windows 10, most of that stuff is actually disabled..
Upon booting I'm presented with a Login screen that insists on a password. This machine never had a password on it, but now it does and I have no idea what it is. I cannot get in to my own PC now.
Something is wrong with this story, because the above makes no sense.
More likely you have an infected computer or someone else played with it or you don't know what you're doing.
Windows 7/8 upgrades to 10 don't change or insert passwords.
And I demand the right to cure my children by torturing their bodies until the demons possessing them flee back to Hell. Which one of you idiots gets to get shot trying to stop me?
Joke all you like, but you're closer to the truth than you think...
Read up on "Faith Healing" and the states that allow parents to withhold medical care for their children and provides immunity to charges for abuse or neglect, even if the child dies due to lack of medical care.
I wouldn't call a preliminary profit of $85.9 million "breaking even", but never mind me.
$85.9 million sounds like a lot... to you...
But if your gross annual income was in the billions, it really wouldn't be...
There's no "need" to lay off people and replace them by "ordering kiosks", it's just, well, more profitable.
I don't think you understand how this works. But that's ok, most people don't which is why a few people run companies and most people work for those people.
Your children aren't *yours*, they are individuals with a right to a minimum standard of care. If you can't or won't provide that standard of care, then they belong with someone who will.
You should go join ISIS with that viewpoint...
Seriously, you will reject that and not understand, but I'm more right than you'll admit...
People are not cattle. But our leaders and apparently many of our peers think they are, whether they have the fortitude to realize it or not. In a free society you cannot force people to modify their bodies like this. The state cannot mandate what the composition of your body is to be. This is an extremely profound destruction of freedom. Any evidence to any immediate benefit is irrelevant in whole.
Vaccines make the human species as a whole healthier. They shouldn't be optional unless there are legitimate medical reasons signed off by a real doctor.
Not optional? Or else what, you'll shoot me? Strap me to a table and try and stick me with a needle? Which one of you idiots gets to get shot trying?
The problem with your viewpoint is you ignore the "or else what" part...
My view as well. As I say above, children are wards of their parents, they are not slaves of their parents, and in other cases where parents refuse to provide the basic necessities or where they try to block necessary treatments (like blood transfusions or chemo) courts do step in to insure that the child's life is protected, whatever religious or pseudo-scientific crapola the parents may believe.
The above assumes that you are the arbiter of all things in the world.
That is the sort of thing ISIS would do. Yes, I went there, because you don't get it. You don't understand how completely dangerous your viewpoint really is.
People are entitled to their religious beliefs, even if they disagree with yours. If you want to take away people's rights, prepare for a war... because plenty of people are happy to kill you to stop your stupidity...
While immunization doesn't have the urgency of a blood transfusion, it still represents a significant personal and public health risk to have people not vaccinating their kids, so yes, I think, whether it is "helpful" or not, there should be clear limits on the medical interventions that parents can have the power to deny their children.
You can "think" anything you want, but frankly fuck you...
My children are not yours to raise, you can take your opinions and shove them where the son doesn't shine... I would defend my children to the death and if you come to try and force medical crap on them, you'll have to kill me to get to them and I'll take at least one person with me...
That all sounds nice, but it isn't why eating out is expensive there... it is wages...
Source: My wife, born and raised in Brisbane until she was 30. We've also been back multiple times in the past 10 years.
Eating out is crazy expensive there, but then people who clean tables get paid $18+ per hour (some get over $23/hr)
The only reason it hasn't been automated there is due to the small market. Once the US automates, that stuff will end up overseas very quickly and those jobs will be gone.
16% isn't that much for fast food, really. A $2 sandwich goes up by about $.30, that really isn't that much. People don't flinch at that kind of price fluctuation on gasoline any more, why would they change their habits on food over it?
If they could raise the price $0.30, they would have already. They put a lot of effort into their prices and that might seem minor to you, but it isn't.
The answer of "well they'll just raise their prices" is not an answer.
Allow me to point you to Australia that has a very high min wage... far fewer people eat out there, far fewer fast food places exist, and far more people cook because it is SO expensive to eat out.
It does change behavior.
TL;DR - a company that has the power to raise prices will do so
We saw the same thing with Subway and Papa John's CEOs telling us how the Affordable Care Act was going to bring the sky crashing down on their empires, yet both are doing just fine.
Subway is not, actually...
How much of the cost of the product is actually labor? This one is a big - and difficult - one to answer.
No it isn't... labor is generally just as expensive, if not more expensive than the cost of the food... These are well known costs within the food business...
A lot of corporate types like to live in the fantasy where doubling a worker's salary means everything they make or do is now twice as expensive, but we know that is not the case.
No one believes that who runs a food business... but it will cause overhead to rise about 16%, give or take, for most such places.
That is their existing profit margin, they don't have 16% to give.
The human cost of their product is likely 10-20% at most.
Then you are misinformed, it is at least double that...
A rubber-stamp procedure where one government employee pretends to be an advocate for the government's target while another one pretends to be a neutral magistrate, and a third pretends to be a legitimate officer of the court asking for a legal warrant, is not a court of law at all, and everyone participating in such a farce is complicit in a conspiracy to deny civil rights under color of authority.
Quoted for truth...
This is no different than the "special NAZI courts" that Hitler setup in the 1930s when the open courts weren't ruling "his way".
The Special Courts came into being in 1933, soon after the passage of the Reichstag Fire Decree which all but eliminated civil liberties. The scope of its power was successively augmented by the
"Decree to Protect the Government of the National Socialist Revolution from Treacherous Attacks" (21 March 1933), the "Law of 20 December 1934 against insidious Attacks upon the State and Party and for the Protection of the Party Uniform", the "Law for the Guarantee of Peace Based on Law" of 13 October 1933 and a number of extensions when World War II commenced. The number of Special Courts increased from 26 in 1933 to 74 in 1942.
A special court had three judges, and the defense counsel was appointed by the court. Even as heavy-handed as justice was in Nazi Germany, defendants were afforded at least nominal protections under the regular courts' rules and procedures. These protections were swept away in the special courts, since they existed outside the ordinary judicial system. There was no possibility of appeal, and verdicts could be executed at once. The court decided the extent of evidence to consider, and "the defense attorneys couldn't question the proof of the charges".
Not as a private household. You would need a small castle for that and on top of that an unwise use of energy, e.g. leaving lots of rooms with light on.
You've never heard of air conditioning or electric heat... and you don't have big houses there, at least you don't...
Very unlikely, especially if it was regarding energy.
Except, you're wrong more often than you're not...
A real accounting would be necessary, examining the books of the power companies and everybody else involved. It could even be that Germans are paying taxes through power usage for environmental cleanup, while Americans pay for environmental cleanup costs through other taxes.
While you are likely correct, consider that the average person doesn't care about that level of detail and won't listen even if you try to tell them.
Americans also AREN'T paying massive costs to "clean up" the environmental costs, since those "costs" are largely CO2 and there is no cost attached to that.
Should there be? That is another conversation, there isn't today.
I'm not suggesting that he should keep it, I'm suggesting that it shouldn't be EASY to take it...
Are there cases where you should be able to? Yes. This might well be one of them.
But it shouldn't be EASY to do... he should have his day in court, just like everyone else... The default position should be he keeps it, unless a court finds that it was paid for with stolen funds.
In other words, the state must prove in court that he is guilty, he should be assumed innocent.
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Let me guess...
Windows Home edition, everything on "automatic", and no ongoing maintenance was being done to keep it current outside of business hours.
Yes, MS should adjust how these things work, but the bulk of the responsibility there is with the game store owner, not MS.
Maintain your equipment, install updates on your schedule, and know what you're doing, or don't bitch about it doing it some other way.
If it's any different, it's less secure and will be broken when used on the secure network, detached from the world and can't, for example, use the location data for Cortana / Bing searches, etc... (disabling location disables Cortana, from what I read).
The Marines are using the DoD version of Windows 10, most of that stuff is actually disabled..
Upon booting I'm presented with a Login screen that insists on a password. This machine never had a password on it, but now it does and I have no idea what it is. I cannot get in to my own PC now.
Something is wrong with this story, because the above makes no sense.
More likely you have an infected computer or someone else played with it or you don't know what you're doing.
Windows 7/8 upgrades to 10 don't change or insert passwords.
And I demand the right to cure my children by torturing their bodies until the demons possessing them flee back to Hell. Which one of you idiots gets to get shot trying to stop me?
Joke all you like, but you're closer to the truth than you think...
Read up on "Faith Healing" and the states that allow parents to withhold medical care for their children and provides immunity to charges for abuse or neglect, even if the child dies due to lack of medical care.
I wouldn't call a preliminary profit of $85.9 million "breaking even", but never mind me.
$85.9 million sounds like a lot... to you...
But if your gross annual income was in the billions, it really wouldn't be...
There's no "need" to lay off people and replace them by "ordering kiosks", it's just, well, more profitable.
I don't think you understand how this works. But that's ok, most people don't which is why a few people run companies and most people work for those people.
Man- how do you manage to keep dragging ISIS into a thread about Canadian anti-vaxxers?
Because you fail to understand how fucked up you really are...
You are the other side of the extreme position of ISIS, you just don't know it.
You are blind to how stupid you really are, but this post won't open your eyes, sad to say...
Your children aren't *yours*, they are individuals with a right to a minimum standard of care. If you can't or won't provide that standard of care, then they belong with someone who will.
You should go join ISIS with that viewpoint...
Seriously, you will reject that and not understand, but I'm more right than you'll admit...
People are not cattle. But our leaders and apparently many of our peers think they are, whether they have the fortitude to realize it or not.
In a free society you cannot force people to modify their bodies like this. The state cannot mandate what the composition of your body is to be. This is an extremely profound destruction of freedom. Any evidence to any immediate benefit is irrelevant in whole.
^ Quoted for truth!
Vaccination exemptions for non-medical reasons should outright be school exclusions.
So does that mean I get a school voucher to use that money to send my kids to private school?
Or do I just get a refund on my taxes for that?
Do you really want to give up universal education?
And what about when the kids grow up? Are they not allowed to have a job? Start a business?
Are you aware that you are, right now, in public with people who aren't vaccinated?
This anti-vaxxer movement needs to be culled ruthlessly.
People like you need to be beaten by ISIS until you understand that your viewpoints are evil...
Vaccines make the human species as a whole healthier. They shouldn't be optional unless there are legitimate medical reasons signed off by a real doctor.
Not optional? Or else what, you'll shoot me? Strap me to a table and try and stick me with a needle? Which one of you idiots gets to get shot trying?
The problem with your viewpoint is you ignore the "or else what" part...
My view as well. As I say above, children are wards of their parents, they are not slaves of their parents, and in other cases where parents refuse to provide the basic necessities or where they try to block necessary treatments (like blood transfusions or chemo) courts do step in to insure that the child's life is protected, whatever religious or pseudo-scientific crapola the parents may believe.
The above assumes that you are the arbiter of all things in the world.
That is the sort of thing ISIS would do. Yes, I went there, because you don't get it. You don't understand how completely dangerous your viewpoint really is.
People are entitled to their religious beliefs, even if they disagree with yours. If you want to take away people's rights, prepare for a war... because plenty of people are happy to kill you to stop your stupidity...
While immunization doesn't have the urgency of a blood transfusion, it still represents a significant personal and public health risk to have people not vaccinating their kids, so yes, I think, whether it is "helpful" or not, there should be clear limits on the medical interventions that parents can have the power to deny their children.
You can "think" anything you want, but frankly fuck you...
My children are not yours to raise, you can take your opinions and shove them where the son doesn't shine... I would defend my children to the death and if you come to try and force medical crap on them, you'll have to kill me to get to them and I'll take at least one person with me...
Fuck "parental rights".
Spoken by someone who has no kids...
That all sounds nice, but it isn't why eating out is expensive there... it is wages...
Source: My wife, born and raised in Brisbane until she was 30. We've also been back multiple times in the past 10 years.
Eating out is crazy expensive there, but then people who clean tables get paid $18+ per hour (some get over $23/hr)
The only reason it hasn't been automated there is due to the small market. Once the US automates, that stuff will end up overseas very quickly and those jobs will be gone.
Air conditioning does not use that much power.
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com...
22% of electrical use in the US is cooling
Almost 1/4 of all household power consumed is just to cool the place down.
That is a lot.
Some thoughts...
1. For the size of the company, that is hardly a lot of money... Frankly they are mostly breaking even...
2. Most Wendy's locations are franchised, so how the real places are doing doesn't show up in those numbers...
16% isn't that much for fast food, really. A $2 sandwich goes up by about $.30, that really isn't that much. People don't flinch at that kind of price fluctuation on gasoline any more, why would they change their habits on food over it?
If they could raise the price $0.30, they would have already. They put a lot of effort into their prices and that might seem minor to you, but it isn't.
The answer of "well they'll just raise their prices" is not an answer.
Allow me to point you to Australia that has a very high min wage... far fewer people eat out there, far fewer fast food places exist, and far more people cook because it is SO expensive to eat out.
It does change behavior.
TL;DR - a company that has the power to raise prices will do so
We saw the same thing with Subway and Papa John's CEOs telling us how the Affordable Care Act was going to bring the sky crashing down on their empires, yet both are doing just fine.
Subway is not, actually...
How much of the cost of the product is actually labor? This one is a big - and difficult - one to answer.
No it isn't... labor is generally just as expensive, if not more expensive than the cost of the food... These are well known costs within the food business...
A lot of corporate types like to live in the fantasy where doubling a worker's salary means everything they make or do is now twice as expensive, but we know that is not the case.
No one believes that who runs a food business... but it will cause overhead to rise about 16%, give or take, for most such places.
That is their existing profit margin, they don't have 16% to give.
The human cost of their product is likely 10-20% at most.
Then you are misinformed, it is at least double that...
A rubber-stamp procedure where one government employee pretends to be an advocate for the government's target while another one pretends to be a neutral magistrate, and a third pretends to be a legitimate officer of the court asking for a legal warrant, is not a court of law at all, and everyone participating in such a farce is complicit in a conspiracy to deny civil rights under color of authority.
Quoted for truth...
This is no different than the "special NAZI courts" that Hitler setup in the 1930s when the open courts weren't ruling "his way".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
---
The Special Courts came into being in 1933, soon after the passage of the Reichstag Fire Decree which all but eliminated civil liberties. The scope of its power was successively augmented by the
"Decree to Protect the Government of the National Socialist Revolution from Treacherous Attacks" (21 March 1933),
the "Law of 20 December 1934 against insidious Attacks upon the State and Party and for the Protection of the Party Uniform",
the "Law for the Guarantee of Peace Based on Law" of 13 October 1933
and a number of extensions when World War II commenced.
The number of Special Courts increased from 26 in 1933 to 74 in 1942.
A special court had three judges, and the defense counsel was appointed by the court. Even as heavy-handed as justice was in Nazi Germany, defendants were afforded at least nominal protections under the regular courts' rules and procedures. These protections were swept away in the special courts, since they existed outside the ordinary judicial system. There was no possibility of appeal, and verdicts could be executed at once. The court decided the extent of evidence to consider, and "the defense attorneys couldn't question the proof of the charges".
That may be, but do you really think that athletes and celebrities take out payday loans?
Yes, how do you think Rick at Gold and Silver Pawn Shop ends up with so many gold medals and Super Bowl rings?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Germany - 32.04 cents per KWH - Date - Feb 1, 2015
How about another one:
http://www.statista.com/statis...
2015 - Germany - 0.33 cents per KWh
Not as a private household. You would need a small castle for that and on top of that an unwise use of energy, e.g. leaving lots of rooms with light on.
You've never heard of air conditioning or electric heat... and you don't have big houses there, at least you don't...
Very unlikely, especially if it was regarding energy.
Except, you're wrong more often than you're not...
A real accounting would be necessary, examining the books of the power companies and everybody else involved. It could even be that Germans are paying taxes through power usage for environmental cleanup, while Americans pay for environmental cleanup costs through other taxes.
While you are likely correct, consider that the average person doesn't care about that level of detail and won't listen even if you try to tell them.
Americans also AREN'T paying massive costs to "clean up" the environmental costs, since those "costs" are largely CO2 and there is no cost attached to that.
Should there be? That is another conversation, there isn't today.
I'm not suggesting that he should keep it, I'm suggesting that it shouldn't be EASY to take it...
Are there cases where you should be able to? Yes. This might well be one of them.
But it shouldn't be EASY to do... he should have his day in court, just like everyone else... The default position should be he keeps it, unless a court finds that it was paid for with stolen funds.
In other words, the state must prove in court that he is guilty, he should be assumed innocent.
that I'll sue anyone who prints that I didn't date Jennifer Anniston.
You didn't date Jennifer Anniston! :)