Doesn't PlayStation run on FreeBSD? They get hacked like every 30 minutes. FreeBSD, at best, enjoys security through obscurity. Or, more accurately, nobody giving a shit.
This kind of puts to rest all those new world order conspiracy theories doesn't it? I mean, they can't be that brilliant if they can't even fucking update WordPress once a month. It's literally a calendar reminder to click a button.
I've heard this as well. My understanding is that comes from their desire to avoid filth, while simultaneously not being embarrassed by how much they cause. For example, hovering over a toilet seat to avoid touching it, and then not cleaning up any of their own backsplash.
Are you adding 17 + 37? The 35 is a total to be shared between both parents
Yes, yes I am. What in the sam-fuck are you even talking about? 17+37=54 and 20+20=40. So even if both parents happen to work at twitter, the Canadian benefits are better.
in fact, several US states exceed Canada's employment insurance benefit
Everywhere has employment insurance. Insurance is easy to provide becuase it's simple a matter of math: Subscribers x premium = Total coverage / # of claims. In the United States, birthing a child is not a qualified reason to claim EI benefits, at least not in most states I'm aware. This is the entire point of this thread.
Unsurprising since the company paid $0 for your time away from work
Agreed. That doesn't change the fact that the insurance is publicly managed and not for profit. This is a social benefit running, generally at a surplus, and with great success. The USA should strive to emulate it. My entire point with the statement "so you can do it too".
America according its founding principals is not supposed to mandate things like this.
This is an interpretation, and a false one. America's founding principles are liberty and prosperity for all. To achieve that it is generally recognized that society needs to have some rules. For example, you can't murder people, steal their shit, or take out a patent on air. You can't own all the water, license the use of wood, or trademark the name John. The argument has always been where do you draw the line. You may draw the line at creating and nurturing human life, but many more reasonable people would not.
Ummm, Yep. Did you even look at your own link? All provinces are virtually the same. The shortest amount of time is 52 weeks (1 year) with many provinces exceeding that. So, my statement of Canada giving a full year is very true in literally every case. The government does pay it, and it is at a reduced rate. But many companies top up this benefit as a hiring incentive (just like twitter), or even allow both parents to leave at the same time (admittedly much rarer).
I probably do seem like a genius to you but really I just have greater than a grade 3 education. So let's start by clearing something up. The gestational period for human beings is 9 months. A year has 12. There's generally a one month period before a woman will become fertile so the effective gestational period could be considered 10. Therefore children 10 months apart could be born in the same calendar year but would be 4 months short of qualifying for your "couple kids a year" definition (remember a year is 12 months?). Furthermore, each child only gives you 20 weeks leave. With 52 weeks in a year that means you need to have 2.6 kids per year to realize the idiotic perpetual benefits proposed by the GP. In case you haven't gotten out your calculator by now (who am I kidding, of course you haven't) a woman is only able to have, on average, 1.2 children per year. Since a 0.2 child isn't eligible for 0.2 benefits it presents a pretty significant problem.
Why do these parasites get rewarded for procreating?
Probably because creating new people isn't parasitic and is actually a required function of a species. You want to know what's parasitic? A person that takes great advantage of the society in which they live and refuses to invest in its future. Hypocrit, meet mirror.
Which you will get. Women who return from a 20 week leave usually don't have much to brag about in a performance review. This is a big reason men make more than women in the workforce.
Knocking out a couple of kids a year is even easier to do if you're female? I'm sorry, but you don't get to have an opinion on this if you don't even have an 8 year olds understanding of biology.
Let me be the first to thank you for your selfless sacrifice to humanity. If you're lucky, one day, some woman might find you tolerable enough and we'll get to return the favor.
Except, you still have to care for those kids in the form of child support or, you know, food. You might be thinking you can just give them to the state? Well you could, if you were a very dedicated sociopath. Much longer terms exist in other countries without this problem probably because it's much easier to make money as a sociopath in other ways than to run a government sponsored child birth racket. I'm aware this might be a joke, but I had to say this just in case it isn't. It's a very common approach of hardcore capitalists to erroneously assume all social programs automatically devolve to chaos.
But in Canada we get a full year, by law. I was actually horrified to learn that most American mothers only get a few weeks before they have to go back to work. So for any of you hardcore conservatives out there, we get a full year and still have plenty of businesses and jobs. So you can do it too.
The mark up on sofas is small and so is the purchase cycle. To use my example of designer jeans you're literally looking at markups in the thousands of percent, and they're only "cool" for a season. One of the most interesting things I learned when working in a warehouse for a hardware chain was that their bread and butter was screws, nails, bolts, etc. Why? Because they bought them by the pound for a few cents and sold them individually for more than the pound cost. The markup was insane. So all the lumber, tools, compressors, and tractors they sold we're just ancillary purchases for people who were also, probably, interested in buying nails and screws.
I don't recall a time where the general population ever knew what irc was. Furthermore, it's just a standard protocol, it's not hard to use. Find a server, give yourself a nickname and a channel and you're in. I would be thoroughly impressed if someone couldn't figure out how to use webchat.freenode.net. Your friends are just having problems with the design of the programs they are using to access the servers.
A better question might be why nobody has tried to monetize the irc protocol. I don't know that they haven't, or what license it uses so I can hardly comment. But generally if you're trying to make "the next big thing" you're trying to do so exclusively. No business type I've ever met regularly practices enough foresight and critical thought to see the benefits to themselves, and everyone else, of using pre-existing standards. Business operates on short term profits, and the best way to make short term profits (so they think) is to make something that's fresh, cool, and exclusive.
I have seen a baboon attack a rival, beat it to the point it was rendered paralysed, and then commence to eat parts off it's back while it's still alive and screaming. Eating meat is part of nature, and humans are biologically wired to do so. Your argument about it being cruel to use animals in medical experiments is sound however.
This might be unpopular, but consider this: there's far less baboons on the planet than people, baboons populations and behaviors are having no negative impact on the planet (while humans obviously are), and we're torturing them in medical experiments under the premise that it might one day save a human life.
When did IRC fail? I literally use it every day. It's still one of the best tools available for group chatting. And, as you mentioned, it's not centrally monetized or controlled so it will likely continue to exist way past kik or whatsapp fizzling out to whatever the next trendy chat software is.
Kids have lots of money. Many work and even more have parents eager to but their affection. Kids also have very few other life obligations so they are the most eager to waste it on frivolous things. I'm not a marketing person, but I would bet on teenage kids being the most profitable demographic, by a lot. No other demographic is going to work scooping ice cream for a month just to blow every penny on a pair of designer jeans to impress their friends.
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Doesn't PlayStation run on FreeBSD? They get hacked like every 30 minutes. FreeBSD, at best, enjoys security through obscurity. Or, more accurately, nobody giving a shit.
Maybe Apple should have worked with them after all eh?
*Ducks and runs*
Amen. Anytime I get a bit of splash on the seat I hear that shrill voice in the back of my head... no matter where I am. Cest la vie.
This kind of puts to rest all those new world order conspiracy theories doesn't it? I mean, they can't be that brilliant if they can't even fucking update WordPress once a month. It's literally a calendar reminder to click a button.
You son of a bitch....
I've heard this as well. My understanding is that comes from their desire to avoid filth, while simultaneously not being embarrassed by how much they cause. For example, hovering over a toilet seat to avoid touching it, and then not cleaning up any of their own backsplash.
Are you adding 17 + 37? The 35 is a total to be shared between both parents
Yes, yes I am. What in the sam-fuck are you even talking about? 17+37=54 and 20+20=40. So even if both parents happen to work at twitter, the Canadian benefits are better.
in fact, several US states exceed Canada's employment insurance benefit
Everywhere has employment insurance. Insurance is easy to provide becuase it's simple a matter of math: Subscribers x premium = Total coverage / # of claims. In the United States, birthing a child is not a qualified reason to claim EI benefits, at least not in most states I'm aware. This is the entire point of this thread.
Reduce that to anything less than a number greater than 1 and see what happens to your economy. Anonymous, and probably quite literal, coward.
varies by province, most provide less
It's minimum one year. (link provided by another dipshit in this thread)
Unsurprising since the company paid $0 for your time away from work
Agreed. That doesn't change the fact that the insurance is publicly managed and not for profit. This is a social benefit running, generally at a surplus, and with great success. The USA should strive to emulate it. My entire point with the statement "so you can do it too".
America according its founding principals is not supposed to mandate things like this.
This is an interpretation, and a false one. America's founding principles are liberty and prosperity for all. To achieve that it is generally recognized that society needs to have some rules. For example, you can't murder people, steal their shit, or take out a patent on air. You can't own all the water, license the use of wood, or trademark the name John. The argument has always been where do you draw the line. You may draw the line at creating and nurturing human life, but many more reasonable people would not.
Ummm, Yep. Did you even look at your own link? All provinces are virtually the same. The shortest amount of time is 52 weeks (1 year) with many provinces exceeding that. So, my statement of Canada giving a full year is very true in literally every case. The government does pay it, and it is at a reduced rate. But many companies top up this benefit as a hiring incentive (just like twitter), or even allow both parents to leave at the same time (admittedly much rarer).
I probably do seem like a genius to you but really I just have greater than a grade 3 education. So let's start by clearing something up. The gestational period for human beings is 9 months. A year has 12. There's generally a one month period before a woman will become fertile so the effective gestational period could be considered 10. Therefore children 10 months apart could be born in the same calendar year but would be 4 months short of qualifying for your "couple kids a year" definition (remember a year is 12 months?). Furthermore, each child only gives you 20 weeks leave. With 52 weeks in a year that means you need to have 2.6 kids per year to realize the idiotic perpetual benefits proposed by the GP. In case you haven't gotten out your calculator by now (who am I kidding, of course you haven't) a woman is only able to have, on average, 1.2 children per year. Since a 0.2 child isn't eligible for 0.2 benefits it presents a pretty significant problem.
The sun rose in the East today and set in the West. More at 11.
Why do these parasites get rewarded for procreating?
Probably because creating new people isn't parasitic and is actually a required function of a species. You want to know what's parasitic? A person that takes great advantage of the society in which they live and refuses to invest in its future. Hypocrit, meet mirror.
Which you will get. Women who return from a 20 week leave usually don't have much to brag about in a performance review. This is a big reason men make more than women in the workforce.
Knocking out a couple of kids a year is even easier to do if you're female? I'm sorry, but you don't get to have an opinion on this if you don't even have an 8 year olds understanding of biology.
*Plays the world's smallest violin*
Let me be the first to thank you for your selfless sacrifice to humanity. If you're lucky, one day, some woman might find you tolerable enough and we'll get to return the favor.
Except, you still have to care for those kids in the form of child support or, you know, food. You might be thinking you can just give them to the state? Well you could, if you were a very dedicated sociopath. Much longer terms exist in other countries without this problem probably because it's much easier to make money as a sociopath in other ways than to run a government sponsored child birth racket. I'm aware this might be a joke, but I had to say this just in case it isn't. It's a very common approach of hardcore capitalists to erroneously assume all social programs automatically devolve to chaos.
But in Canada we get a full year, by law. I was actually horrified to learn that most American mothers only get a few weeks before they have to go back to work. So for any of you hardcore conservatives out there, we get a full year and still have plenty of businesses and jobs. So you can do it too.
The mark up on sofas is small and so is the purchase cycle. To use my example of designer jeans you're literally looking at markups in the thousands of percent, and they're only "cool" for a season. One of the most interesting things I learned when working in a warehouse for a hardware chain was that their bread and butter was screws, nails, bolts, etc. Why? Because they bought them by the pound for a few cents and sold them individually for more than the pound cost. The markup was insane. So all the lumber, tools, compressors, and tractors they sold we're just ancillary purchases for people who were also, probably, interested in buying nails and screws.
I don't recall a time where the general population ever knew what irc was. Furthermore, it's just a standard protocol, it's not hard to use. Find a server, give yourself a nickname and a channel and you're in. I would be thoroughly impressed if someone couldn't figure out how to use webchat.freenode.net. Your friends are just having problems with the design of the programs they are using to access the servers.
A better question might be why nobody has tried to monetize the irc protocol. I don't know that they haven't, or what license it uses so I can hardly comment. But generally if you're trying to make "the next big thing" you're trying to do so exclusively. No business type I've ever met regularly practices enough foresight and critical thought to see the benefits to themselves, and everyone else, of using pre-existing standards. Business operates on short term profits, and the best way to make short term profits (so they think) is to make something that's fresh, cool, and exclusive.
I have seen a baboon attack a rival, beat it to the point it was rendered paralysed, and then commence to eat parts off it's back while it's still alive and screaming. Eating meat is part of nature, and humans are biologically wired to do so. Your argument about it being cruel to use animals in medical experiments is sound however.
This might be unpopular, but consider this: there's far less baboons on the planet than people, baboons populations and behaviors are having no negative impact on the planet (while humans obviously are), and we're torturing them in medical experiments under the premise that it might one day save a human life.
When did IRC fail? I literally use it every day. It's still one of the best tools available for group chatting. And, as you mentioned, it's not centrally monetized or controlled so it will likely continue to exist way past kik or whatsapp fizzling out to whatever the next trendy chat software is.
Kids have lots of money. Many work and even more have parents eager to but their affection. Kids also have very few other life obligations so they are the most eager to waste it on frivolous things. I'm not a marketing person, but I would bet on teenage kids being the most profitable demographic, by a lot. No other demographic is going to work scooping ice cream for a month just to blow every penny on a pair of designer jeans to impress their friends.