If police departments didn't get to keep a substantial portion of the seized goods and money, you might have a point. But since they do, and many smaller departments essentially fund themselves with this and bogus traffic tickets, they should be criminally prosecuted.
The last time I was in Colorado, literally every single highway I drove on was torn up. As best I could tell, the plan was to tear up every highway in the state that year, let the winter trash the bedding, then beg the feds for money to tear it up some more the next year.
On the other hand, given how Coloradans drive, maybe that's a good thing. I swear, diving down I-25, every single driver had to stop and check out every single orange cone. It was, BTW, well after quitting time (and after dark). The one thing they didn't stop and stare at was the pickup truck that was dripping fire that smelled like fireworks. That's apparently not a noteworthy sight on the side of the interstate in Colorado.
The problem is that Waze has a reason to exist. The problem is cities, counties and states that allow two day road repairs to take six months. If they'd make the construction crews do their job correctly, Waze would cease to exist within a few months, because the main thruways wouldn't be clogged up all the time and nobody would care.
Shit like this is the reasons taxis are regulated. And the reason why Uber is fighting regulation tooth and nail: so they can screw people for every last penny they possibly can.
What I'm "advocating" is people - everyone - not being so fucking cheap. Skip the fast food, not because it tastes like shit (it does, but bear with me), but because the true cost of making it is several time as much as you pay for it. Instead, go to places that pay a decent living wage, and buy stuff whose costs reflect the actual cost in human labor to make, instead of the cheapass crap that Wally World sells.
The minimum wage employees aren't the only ones being subsidized by the taxpayers, so are all the customers of places like McDonald's and Wallmart, who rely on those subsidies to get richer.
As long as the taxpayers are willing to subsidize wealthy corporations, it's not.
leave L.A. At $15/hour, it would only take a few hours to save up enough for a bus ticket
Every dollar you save for that bus ticket is one less dollar in food you eat. And most of your meals only cost a few bucks, because all you have.
You've clearly never had to make a choice between eating and a bus pass to get to work.
to somewhere with a lower cost of living.
LA isn't even all that exceptional as far as rent as a percentage of income goes in big cities. In not-big cities, jobs are scarce. And you arrive with, at best, the cost a Big Mac in your pocket, so you'll be sponging off the taxpayer until you find a job. Again.
There's a difference between can't survive, and choose to stay and complain because it's easier than stepping out of your comfort-city.
Most people making minimum wage would love to move somewhere cheaper, except wages are lower, too, and moving costs more than they have. It is literally "put $5 towards that magic bus ticket to nowhere or eat dinner" for many.
Entitled snowflakes who have never had to work to eat are incapable of grasping even the simplest economics.
The average rent in Los Angeles for half of a two bedroom apartment is about what someone making minimum wage takes home. Studios are roughly the same rent as a one bedroom, only with less space. The old school rule of thumb on whether or not you can afford an apartment is that rent should be no more than 1/3 your take home, or 1/4 your gross income. That means someone making $15/hour can afford $200/month in rent. In reality, most people are paying at least 50% of their take home, and relying on the taxpayers for a lot of necessities.
There are a number of reasons for this, but people demanding 99 cent hamburgers, and corporate execs expecting six or seven figure bonuses every quarter - at the taxpayer's expense - are the two biggest ones.
Even at $15/hour, it's not a livable wage in most places. You can't survive on it when your pre-tax, gross income is less than the average one bedroom apartment costs per month, as is the case in Los Angeles. So what happens is that people making minimum wage doing scut work jobs are subsidized by family, friends, or, far more often than not, the taxpayer. They can't afford a car, so they go to work on subsidized public transportation. They can't afford medical insurance, so they get subsidized by the taxpayer, or go to the emergency room they can't afford to pay for. They can't afford child care, so they sign up for subsidized versions of that, or their children grow up feral, and the taxpayer pays for keeping them in prison.
All that so we can buy a cheap, mass produced hamburger for 99 cents.
The problem isn't paying employees $15/hour, the problem is paying McDonald's a quarter of the true cost of making a Big Mac, so that the corporate investors can get richer.
All big, national chains are heavily (if covertly) subsidized by the taxpayer. Sam Walton became a billionarire on those subsidies, while his employees were living on food stamps.
If you can't afford to pay your employees enough to live on without subsidies, then your business model is broken, and you should be driven out of business by pitchfork wielding mobs.
The only option you offer is, literally, to go out of business and put 300 people out of work. I'm not the one who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. If you work in IT, which I don't believe you do, you are incompetent, stupid, and malicious. Do you work for Microsoft's malware department?
Since the Windows Drive Model hardly changed between Windows versions I've not found a driver that existed in Windows 7/8 that didn't currently work in 10.
You've apparently never worked with Epson receipt printers. When I tried the Win 7 drivers on Win 8, it blue screened so hard the blue screen crashed. That's 7 to 8, not 7 to 10. Our receipt printers would cost at least $100k to replace, and until two days day, our point of sale vendor (they have the only software that works correctly with the national franchise) did not sell a printer that had working Windows 8 drivers. Yes, they are very slow updating stuff; they test thoroughly, and yes, they suck in many ways, but it would cost us seven figures to replace them, and nothing we could build ourselves would actually work.
Microsoft knows there are millions of computers out there that cannot be upgraded without destroying the ability to perform the work they were bought to perform. And they don't care.
I understand it perfectly. That's why I know what a sleazy bunch of malware distributors Microsoft has become.
We have little choice on software that we use for point of sale. What we use is the only system that interacts with the national franchise, so if we don't use it, 300+ employees are out of a job. We don't write hardware driver for printers, and we don't write the software that interacts with those drivers. We can't. No retailer our size can. The resources simply aren't there. If you believe otherwise, you have no idea what you're jabbering about.
The only alternative to keeping a close watch at Microsoft's malware attempts is to go out of business. We finally have the option of moving to Windows 10, but I'm still not convinced it's possible to turn off enough telemetrics to be PCI compliant. It's entirely possible that we cannot continue to use Microsoft products without committing fraud against our merchant service. That not only has Microsoft resorted to being a criminal enterprise, they're going to force their customers to do so as well.
Bullshit. How hard it is to understand that I bought Windows 7 and that's exactly what I was delivered. If I need 10, I would have upgraded already.
When they released Windows 7, they published a life cycle that said they would provide security updates until 2020. That's an implicit contract that it be usable until 2020. Now they're trying to cheat their customers out of four years of use.
Fraud is a predicate offense for racketeering. And racketeering lawsuits can be brought privately. Is there a Kickstarter for legal fees?
Until literally this week, there were no hardware drivers available for our receipt printers. Without GWX Control Panel, an automatic Windows 10 upgrade would literally put us out of business. Is that a good enough reason for you? Probably not.
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"One of the responsibilities of parents is to teach your kids social graces,"
Yes. This is the parent's responsibility. Not the computers. If you're too lazy to teach your children how to act, they will never learn how to act.
If police departments didn't get to keep a substantial portion of the seized goods and money, you might have a point. But since they do, and many smaller departments essentially fund themselves with this and bogus traffic tickets, they should be criminally prosecuted.
The last time I was in Colorado, literally every single highway I drove on was torn up. As best I could tell, the plan was to tear up every highway in the state that year, let the winter trash the bedding, then beg the feds for money to tear it up some more the next year.
On the other hand, given how Coloradans drive, maybe that's a good thing. I swear, diving down I-25, every single driver had to stop and check out every single orange cone. It was, BTW, well after quitting time (and after dark). The one thing they didn't stop and stare at was the pickup truck that was dripping fire that smelled like fireworks. That's apparently not a noteworthy sight on the side of the interstate in Colorado.
You want to suck my what? Dude, I only mate within my own species. Try the petting zoo.
The problem is that Waze has a reason to exist. The problem is cities, counties and states that allow two day road repairs to take six months. If they'd make the construction crews do their job correctly, Waze would cease to exist within a few months, because the main thruways wouldn't be clogged up all the time and nobody would care.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't discrimination based on political affiliation a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Or are they giving up ad money from all political parties?
Why do you want to vote for him? He's
exactly like Hillary, and every other candidate, except for one thing: He's honest about it.
Not to mention not being properly insured. Pray you don't get his by a driver without insurance, when it's the other guy's fault.
The reason people don't like taxis is because drivers always play shenanigans with fares. Always.
You mean, like, surge pricing during a terrorist attack? Oh, wait, that wasn't taxis, that was Uber.
Shit like this is the reasons taxis are regulated. And the reason why Uber is fighting regulation tooth and nail: so they can screw people for every last penny they possibly can.
Yeah, that's why more innovations come from outside the US than anywhere else. Oh, wait . . .
While I agree, that's a complaint of the idiots who post articles on /., and no one else.
And you have no right to have your research funded by the EU unless you agree to the strings that come with the money.
Get over it.
Styrofoam will disintegrate instantly on impact, and melt in heat.
Doesn't Styrofoam explode with sharp impacts?
I'm one of the middle class who subsidizes the billions in profits for Walmart and McDonald's. I'd give your left nut to be entitled. I really would.
What I'm "advocating" is people - everyone - not being so fucking cheap. Skip the fast food, not because it tastes like shit (it does, but bear with me), but because the true cost of making it is several time as much as you pay for it. Instead, go to places that pay a decent living wage, and buy stuff whose costs reflect the actual cost in human labor to make, instead of the cheapass crap that Wally World sells.
The minimum wage employees aren't the only ones being subsidized by the taxpayers, so are all the customers of places like McDonald's and Wallmart, who rely on those subsidies to get richer.
...as is the case in Los Angeles
If survival is really on the line,
As long as the taxpayers are willing to subsidize wealthy corporations, it's not.
leave L.A. At $15/hour, it would only take a few hours to save up enough for a bus ticket
Every dollar you save for that bus ticket is one less dollar in food you eat. And most of your meals only cost a few bucks, because all you have.
You've clearly never had to make a choice between eating and a bus pass to get to work.
to somewhere with a lower cost of living.
LA isn't even all that exceptional as far as rent as a percentage of income goes in big cities. In not-big cities, jobs are scarce. And you arrive with, at best, the cost a Big Mac in your pocket, so you'll be sponging off the taxpayer until you find a job. Again.
There's a difference between can't survive, and choose to stay and complain because it's easier than stepping out of your comfort-city.
Most people making minimum wage would love to move somewhere cheaper, except wages are lower, too, and moving costs more than they have. It is literally "put $5 towards that magic bus ticket to nowhere or eat dinner" for many.
Entitled snowflakes who have never had to work to eat are incapable of grasping even the simplest economics.
The average rent in Los Angeles for half of a two bedroom apartment is about what someone making minimum wage takes home. Studios are roughly the same rent as a one bedroom, only with less space. The old school rule of thumb on whether or not you can afford an apartment is that rent should be no more than 1/3 your take home, or 1/4 your gross income. That means someone making $15/hour can afford $200/month in rent. In reality, most people are paying at least 50% of their take home, and relying on the taxpayers for a lot of necessities.
There are a number of reasons for this, but people demanding 99 cent hamburgers, and corporate execs expecting six or seven figure bonuses every quarter - at the taxpayer's expense - are the two biggest ones.
Even at $15/hour, it's not a livable wage in most places. You can't survive on it when your pre-tax, gross income is less than the average one bedroom apartment costs per month, as is the case in Los Angeles. So what happens is that people making minimum wage doing scut work jobs are subsidized by family, friends, or, far more often than not, the taxpayer. They can't afford a car, so they go to work on subsidized public transportation. They can't afford medical insurance, so they get subsidized by the taxpayer, or go to the emergency room they can't afford to pay for. They can't afford child care, so they sign up for subsidized versions of that, or their children grow up feral, and the taxpayer pays for keeping them in prison.
All that so we can buy a cheap, mass produced hamburger for 99 cents.
The problem isn't paying employees $15/hour, the problem is paying McDonald's a quarter of the true cost of making a Big Mac, so that the corporate investors can get richer.
All big, national chains are heavily (if covertly) subsidized by the taxpayer. Sam Walton became a billionarire on those subsidies, while his employees were living on food stamps.
If you can't afford to pay your employees enough to live on without subsidies, then your business model is broken, and you should be driven out of business by pitchfork wielding mobs.
You clearly have no idea how much point of sale equipment costs. It's not that many printers or systems.
And I don't take advice form clueless morons, or people who promote malware.
The only option you offer is, literally, to go out of business and put 300 people out of work. I'm not the one who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. If you work in IT, which I don't believe you do, you are incompetent, stupid, and malicious. Do you work for Microsoft's malware department?
Since the Windows Drive Model hardly changed between Windows versions I've not found a driver that existed in Windows 7/8 that didn't currently work in 10.
You've apparently never worked with Epson receipt printers. When I tried the Win 7 drivers on Win 8, it blue screened so hard the blue screen crashed. That's 7 to 8, not 7 to 10. Our receipt printers would cost at least $100k to replace, and until two days day, our point of sale vendor (they have the only software that works correctly with the national franchise) did not sell a printer that had working Windows 8 drivers. Yes, they are very slow updating stuff; they test thoroughly, and yes, they suck in many ways, but it would cost us seven figures to replace them, and nothing we could build ourselves would actually work.
Microsoft knows there are millions of computers out there that cannot be upgraded without destroying the ability to perform the work they were bought to perform. And they don't care.
And that's fraudulent.
I understand it perfectly. That's why I know what a sleazy bunch of malware distributors Microsoft has become.
We have little choice on software that we use for point of sale. What we use is the only system that interacts with the national franchise, so if we don't use it, 300+ employees are out of a job. We don't write hardware driver for printers, and we don't write the software that interacts with those drivers. We can't. No retailer our size can. The resources simply aren't there. If you believe otherwise, you have no idea what you're jabbering about.
The only alternative to keeping a close watch at Microsoft's malware attempts is to go out of business. We finally have the option of moving to Windows 10, but I'm still not convinced it's possible to turn off enough telemetrics to be PCI compliant. It's entirely possible that we cannot continue to use Microsoft products without committing fraud against our merchant service. That not only has Microsoft resorted to being a criminal enterprise, they're going to force their customers to do so as well.
Thanks. Microsoft.
Bullshit. How hard it is to understand that I bought Windows 7 and that's exactly what I was delivered. If I need 10, I would have upgraded already.
When they released Windows 7, they published a life cycle that said they would provide security updates until 2020. That's an implicit contract that it be usable until 2020. Now they're trying to cheat their customers out of four years of use.
Fraud is a predicate offense for racketeering. And racketeering lawsuits can be brought privately. Is there a Kickstarter for legal fees?
It's one step away from literally being ransomware.
That comes in July, when it stops being free, but doesn't stop being an automatic install.
"You're copy of windows is unlicensed. Pay us $100+ or you will never see your own data again."
I wish I thought this was an exaggeration, but frankly, I expect exactly that.
Microsoft should be prosecuted for racketeering for how they've handled Windows 10.
Until literally this week, there were no hardware drivers available for our receipt printers. Without GWX Control Panel, an automatic Windows 10 upgrade would literally put us out of business. Is that a good enough reason for you? Probably not.