I am just wondering what business model that employs any significant number of people you think is NOT based on exploiting people desperate for work? Of course, there is desperate and there is desperate, but that is pretty much why it is called work, not fun, and its not easy to be paid to have fun.
Of course the translation of what you are saying is actually: 'I am set up enough to have a solid job with prospects, and I see no reason why people who are not should have a job, because they cannot earn enough to make it worthwhile in my view' And that is pretty god damn bad.
Many people have lost tough with one base truism of the right/left wing political process.
'Successful' people, especially those who made their own way to success, are generally right wing voters, to try and protect what they have. 'Unsuccessful' people are generally left wing voters, because they want more 'give me'. Both sides want more voters. So the right wing generally wants to improve things for the middle classes and try to life people into the middle classes. The left wing generally wants more people on state support, so does their best to force and trap people down to that level.
This is completely sensible from a power point of view, as it gives the two sides more support, more votes, and more chance at power.
THIS folks is the big picture. Politicians care about little else than votes, and while they tend to be rather short sighted, their parties often play the longer game, and do realise this.
A *LOT* of policy makes much more sense when you look at the reality of the voter pools.
When I worked my way through university, I worked two jobs. Neither of which paid me a 'living wage', and without which I would have left carrying one hell of a lot more debt.
Is it your position that it is better to live of the state (which of course means other people who can be bothered working) than work? Is it your position that people who dont have enough skills to get 'a living wage' dont deserve a job?
Of course the Gig economy is also a festering pile of crap, however in any sensible state there are suitable regulations in place, and they are enforced. If that is not happening, look to your state as the problem though, not the employers. If the state wont do sensible things, then organise a union - it may not be easy, but thats actually what they are for! If the state is in effect sponsoring people through other payments to do the job and undercutting you, then take it up with the state.
However, if other people are willing to do the job cheaper than you, then dont gripe about that.
No, it appears he doesnt have a clue about that. Remember, Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. But he is very very sure that the OTHER side is controlled by false beliefs;)
At the time there was only KOREA, in somewhat of a state of flux. China was busy trying to set up its puppet in Korea to make it a stats of china (in effect), under the local communists. America was busy trying to set up its puppet in Korea to grow what they at the time saw as their US state of Japan.
And civil war broke out, followed quickly by America (via the UN) and China rushing in to push 'their guy'.
Of course, personally I would be more than happy to see the US troops out of SK, except for the fact that in effect both the US and China owe Korea somewhat of a debt for fighting a proxy war there, so should help clean up the mess.
Good point! 'Intelligence' (I just love that name... makes me laugh every time) is an expert at things lost. After all, they lost all those WMDs in Iraq, back in the day, so they should know.
In my country it is EXACTLY the opposite, the lower the local social-economic rating of the area, the MORE money a school gets. The catch is they do not measure it just for the students, so you get areas where all the local rich parents kids go away to 'good' schools, but the local school gets no additional funding because they live in the area, and that creates all sorts of problems.
It is not uncommon to see 'poor area' schools where every building is new, every sports team has fresh uniforms each year, and there are monthy (fully funded) school 'educational' trips. I know of a primary school not too far away in a 'rich' area that has floors slumping from rot, asbestos in the walls, and asks the local tradespeople for paint 'donations' to stop the buildings getting too much worse..
1, 'Back in the Day' there was no XML, XMl was not very long ago. 2, its a parser, a serialiser is pretty much the opposite (unless this weeks fashion has redefined that.. anything is possible). 3, 'Back then' we didnt have TCP stacks...
But, actually I agree with you. I can only assume the author thinks there are lots of fake plumbers because they dont cast their own toilet bowels from raw clay, and use pre-build fittings and pipes! That car mechanics start from raw steel scrap and a file.. And that you need REALLY good eyes, and a lot of sand to fix things with microchips in them..
There is however a middle ground. A plumber who cannot open a tap to change a washer is a shit plumber, a mechanic who replaced an engine because the timing chain rattles is of no use, and Apple doesnt know how to fix phones, because replacing them is not fixing (ok, low blow, but hey..).
Hmmm, lets see.. No, no mention of ionising energy anywhere that I can see, moron. Perhaps I suggest you go stick your head in a 300kW microwave, and lets see what happens, shall we?
Boiling oil is also non ionising, perhaps you should take a swim.
Ah, but its nice warm fuzzy AMERICAN microwave energy, not evil terrorist radiation. Its like the American laser 'defense' weapons that instead of burning out eyes, just gently exfoliate the facial skin in a loving caress. Because, you know, otherwise they would be illegal blinding weapons, against conventions the US signed.
But actually the chain of bullshit is MUCH longer here.
Basically, it is know that too much 'blue end' spectrum light can mess with your melatonin levels, as well as other sleep triggers (including psychological..) So then you end up with less sleep, more stress, opprer general body health. And then you see a rise in some cancer rates. And its all the fault of Blue light! From Smartphones! no, really! Its the blue light, not the stressing about peoples thoughts on your current instabookshite, not the being interrupted at 11pm with a work message, not stressing about your mortgage, not worrying if you can survive in the 'gig' economy. No, its because the smartphone screen is a little the wrong colour.
They obviously need more funding. I bet they could link it to heart disease, suicide rates, hair loss, divorce rates, and child abuse if they tried a little harder!
Perhaps just go with 'Thing everyone is doing right now linked to all bad things in their lives', that way they dont need to rewrite it every few years.
And finally pushed people to take action on taking away the flow of luxury goods to 'the great leader' and his cabal. Since prior to that, their life of luxury has been untouchable, why why WOULD they want anything to change?
The old approach was to do things that in effect punished the general population, but never EVER touch those in control, after all they are the ruling elite, and you just cannot do anything to THEM, think of the children!
I dont know what kind of weather balloons you are thinking of, however they are NOT normally on tethers. That is kind of the point, one of their major functions is to measure wind direction, strength, and temperature a LOT higher than any tether will get them.
Making student loans dis chargeable on bankruptcy would be the single worst thing you could do to any and all responsible students. Why? It will greatly increase the cost of repayment to those who actually do repay their loans.
(to the grandparent of the post) I know I know, its so very unfashionable to not just steal from others so you can fund your political studies 'course' which mostly involved backpacking through Uzbekistan instagramming it then discussing your deep insights over soy lattes in fancy cafes, but there are people out there actually trying to make a future for themselves and their families.
The easy availability of student loans has already done massive damage to higher learning by meaning everybody and their dog are going through universities which should really only have the top 10% of people (those who are a little crazy and likely to dedicate their lives to focus on that subject, which is rare) attending, so that professors can actually teach them - instead we just have a production line for meaningless degrees created for lowest common denominator students. 90% of people should be going to trade colleges, apprenticeships, and just damn working.
But no, everyone needs their 'university degree' to somehow show how special they are, like everyone else..
Bribery of public office is relatively easy to stop, you just need to have enforced and large punishments, As in mandatory jail time, confiscation of assets to a level of many times the bribe, banning from any public office, and public ridicule.
Wont happen of course, but that is the solution to bribery, not saying 'everyone does it, so whatever'
Remember, public office bribery is stealing from the public, because no one bribes for more than the value of what is gained..
Yes, it is also clear that Kaspersky is the only major threat protection software that has not agreed to whitelist US government malware.
Have the US government realise that this is just a form of Striesand effect recommending Kaspersky to anyone who doesnt that the US to know their affairs?
Mostly because the tards writing this drivel spent most of their time hanging out with their justice warrior friends in trendy oh so ethnic/organic cafes, attending demonstrations against 'the man' while they took 7 years to complete a 3 year degree in political 'science', while other people were working hard to get degrees in engineering, science, business, and technology.
Now it is so VERY unfair that those other damn people are getting the good jobs, they any attempt to hire based on actual demonstrated ability MUST be banned.
Oh for fuck sake Ami, stop peddling your lies here.
What the blind hiring trials showed is that, when a sign of GENDER was completely erased, more men still got hired. Peraps, just perhaps, they appeared to be better and more professional candidates, and were then selected. But no, you have to try and change the concept to age for some reason, and then, with zero actual evidence, claim we need things 'normalised'.
But, on to your largest screwup. Go and have a look at the employment stats for your loved Nordic countries. You will find the 'bias' in employment is even HIGHER than the US. VERY few males in nursing, VERY few males in teaching, VERY few women in engineering or technology. You know why? Because men are less interesting in some careers, and women are less interested in others.
Yes, I know you would like to force them all to be 50/50, because you believe in totalitarian force, but remember, that means you will be forcing women to take jobs they dont actually WANT. I would call that highly sexist. What about the huge number of women you will have to displace from nursing and teaching? I guess you can 'help' them by pushing them in to construction and garbage disposal? Huge male bias in those areas.
So no, I wont accept your totalitarian dream of controling everyone elses lives, because I actually believe in personal freedom and equality, not enforced quotas.
So, you think when you make an online purchase withing a creditcard you need more than the card number, the 3 digit verification numberon the back, and the name printed on the card?
Internesting.. Because thats all I use.
Never ever EVER let someone take away your card.Why would you, too lazy to stand up? Too 'important'? hmmmm.....
No, just about 100% no. 1 - There are no terms, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT ENTER IN TO A DAMN CONTRACT. Them simply having a sign which you may or may not have seen is NOT a contract, and never will be. For it to be a contract they must verify that you have seen and agreed to it. 2 - They cannot just make up extra parts to this fantasy contract to penalise you further for it. 3 - It would not be legal anyway, because the law says so. In the same way that they cannot put a sign saying 'no gays allowed in our restaurant!'
Ah, so you are what some places would call 'a high roller' and others would call 'a moron?'
The only reason they would do this is that you are an easy mark and they are making nice big fat piles of money off you. They wont be doing this for normal tips - for a start, why would the company (the ones paying for your free whatevers) care about their staff getting tips.
Are you just playing silly games, or are you not thinking?
1 - You can post what you want, you can put up signs saying 'no gays accepted in our restaurant' but the law says otherwise, posting signs does NOT change the law, and the law says that you can use your cash to pay a debt.
2 - Walmart does NOT allow you to eat the candy bar before you pay for it, therefore that is the point you did something wrong - absolutely nothing to do with payment - they just may decide to accept a settlement (in effect) when you pay for it. As to the 'walk out with a televison set' you are just being intentionally stupid there.
3 - It would be quite simply, in the court the diner would say "I offered legal tender to satisfy the debt then, and I offer it now, it is right here, will the restaurant still not accept my payment?' and the judge will laugh at the restaurant, and quite probably award costs.
You last 'point' is getting closer to reality. If a restuarant want so negotiate a contract BEFORE the meal (hello, welcome to out restaurant, do you accept that we do not take cash for payment, and agree to use a debit or credit card to settle the debit?) then they have negotiated a contract and given you the chance to accept or negotiate back, THEN they would have standing.
You have not met many typical scientists have you.
The 'Business Plan' is 'We think someone will give us some funding money to play with robots assembling furniture' That is usually where it starts and ends, on a good day.
Note of course that as usual they are not above stretching the claims to the maximum. In this case it appears that the 'Scientists' pre-programmed all the movement to do the assembly from an exact starting setup, which means this is more a measure of the boredom and lack of useful work these scientists have than anything else.
So no, These robots will not actually assemble your IKEA furniture, unless it is that exact chair, laid out in that exact way, on a good day with a tail wind.
As of February they had reused 8 times, and 25% of their 2017 launches reused. Book value on the first stages is estimated to be around $30 million. Even if you imagine it costs them 1/3 of that to refurb, thats still $20 million saved per reuse. By 8 times is 160 million.
Now, unless you are going to claim all possible development expenses against that, which would be a bit foolish on a technology that is obviously in ongoing use, then it is easily going to be a win already.
Note that in the start of 2018, they reused 7 stages for 9 launches...
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I am just wondering what business model that employs any significant number of people you think is NOT based on exploiting people desperate for work?
Of course, there is desperate and there is desperate, but that is pretty much why it is called work, not fun, and its not easy to be paid to have fun.
Of course the translation of what you are saying is actually:
'I am set up enough to have a solid job with prospects, and I see no reason why people who are not should have a job, because they cannot earn enough to make it worthwhile in my view'
And that is pretty god damn bad.
That is mostly because they want voters.
Many people have lost tough with one base truism of the right/left wing political process.
'Successful' people, especially those who made their own way to success, are generally right wing voters, to try and protect what they have.
'Unsuccessful' people are generally left wing voters, because they want more 'give me'.
Both sides want more voters.
So the right wing generally wants to improve things for the middle classes and try to life people into the middle classes.
The left wing generally wants more people on state support, so does their best to force and trap people down to that level.
This is completely sensible from a power point of view, as it gives the two sides more support, more votes, and more chance at power.
THIS folks is the big picture. Politicians care about little else than votes, and while they tend to be rather short sighted, their parties often play
the longer game, and do realise this.
A *LOT* of policy makes much more sense when you look at the reality of the voter pools.
Care to give ANY reason for that?
When I worked my way through university, I worked two jobs. Neither of which paid me a 'living wage', and without which I would have left carrying one hell of a lot more debt.
Is it your position that it is better to live of the state (which of course means other people who can be bothered working) than work?
Is it your position that people who dont have enough skills to get 'a living wage' dont deserve a job?
Of course the Gig economy is also a festering pile of crap, however in any sensible state there are suitable regulations in place, and they are enforced.
If that is not happening, look to your state as the problem though, not the employers.
If the state wont do sensible things, then organise a union - it may not be easy, but thats actually what they are for!
If the state is in effect sponsoring people through other payments to do the job and undercutting you, then take it up with the state.
However, if other people are willing to do the job cheaper than you, then dont gripe about that.
No, it appears he doesnt have a clue about that. ;)
Remember, Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
But he is very very sure that the OTHER side is controlled by false beliefs
Stop trying to rewrite history.
At the time there was only KOREA, in somewhat of a state of flux.
China was busy trying to set up its puppet in Korea to make it a stats of china (in effect), under the local communists.
America was busy trying to set up its puppet in Korea to grow what they at the time saw as their US state of Japan.
And civil war broke out, followed quickly by America (via the UN) and China rushing in to push 'their guy'.
Of course, personally I would be more than happy to see the US troops out of SK, except for the fact that in effect both the
US and China owe Korea somewhat of a debt for fighting a proxy war there, so should help clean up the mess.
Good point!
'Intelligence' (I just love that name... makes me laugh every time) is an expert at things lost.
After all, they lost all those WMDs in Iraq, back in the day, so they should know.
Wow.
In my country it is EXACTLY the opposite, the lower the local social-economic rating of the area, the MORE money a school gets.
The catch is they do not measure it just for the students, so you get areas where all the local rich parents kids go away to 'good'
schools, but the local school gets no additional funding because they live in the area, and that creates all sorts of problems.
It is not uncommon to see 'poor area' schools where every building is new, every sports team has fresh uniforms each year, and
there are monthy (fully funded) school 'educational' trips. I know of a primary school not too far away in a 'rich' area that has
floors slumping from rot, asbestos in the walls, and asks the local tradespeople for paint 'donations' to stop the buildings getting
too much worse..
1, 'Back in the Day' there was no XML, XMl was not very long ago.
2, its a parser, a serialiser is pretty much the opposite (unless this weeks fashion has redefined that.. anything is possible).
3, 'Back then' we didnt have TCP stacks...
But, actually I agree with you. I can only assume the author thinks there are lots of fake plumbers because they dont cast their own toilet bowels from raw clay, and use pre-build fittings and pipes! That car mechanics start from raw steel scrap and a file.. And that you need REALLY good eyes, and a lot of sand to fix things with microchips in them..
There is however a middle ground. A plumber who cannot open a tap to change a washer is a shit plumber, a mechanic who replaced an engine because the timing chain rattles is of no use, and Apple doesnt know how to fix phones, because replacing them is not fixing (ok, low blow, but hey..).
Hmmm, lets see..
No, no mention of ionising energy anywhere that I can see, moron.
Perhaps I suggest you go stick your head in a 300kW microwave, and lets see what happens, shall we?
Boiling oil is also non ionising, perhaps you should take a swim.
Ah, but its nice warm fuzzy AMERICAN microwave energy, not evil terrorist radiation.
Its like the American laser 'defense' weapons that instead of burning out eyes, just gently exfoliate the facial skin in a loving caress.
Because, you know, otherwise they would be illegal blinding weapons, against conventions the US signed.
Well, that is one factor.
But actually the chain of bullshit is MUCH longer here.
Basically, it is know that too much 'blue end' spectrum light can mess with your melatonin levels, as well as other sleep triggers (including psychological..)
So then you end up with less sleep, more stress, opprer general body health.
And then you see a rise in some cancer rates.
And its all the fault of Blue light! From Smartphones! no, really!
Its the blue light, not the stressing about peoples thoughts on your current instabookshite, not the being interrupted at 11pm with a work message, not
stressing about your mortgage, not worrying if you can survive in the 'gig' economy.
No, its because the smartphone screen is a little the wrong colour.
They obviously need more funding. I bet they could link it to heart disease, suicide rates, hair loss, divorce rates, and child abuse if they tried a little harder!
Perhaps just go with 'Thing everyone is doing right now linked to all bad things in their lives', that way they dont need to rewrite it every few years.
And finally pushed people to take action on taking away the flow of luxury goods to 'the great leader' and his cabal.
Since prior to that, their life of luxury has been untouchable, why why WOULD they want anything to change?
The old approach was to do things that in effect punished the general population, but never EVER touch those in control,
after all they are the ruling elite, and you just cannot do anything to THEM, think of the children!
I dont know what kind of weather balloons you are thinking of, however they are NOT normally on tethers.
That is kind of the point, one of their major functions is to measure wind direction, strength, and temperature a LOT higher than any tether will get them.
This 1000 times.
Making student loans dis chargeable on bankruptcy would be the single worst thing you could do to any and all responsible students.
Why? It will greatly increase the cost of repayment to those who actually do repay their loans.
(to the grandparent of the post)
I know I know, its so very unfashionable to not just steal from others so you can fund your political studies 'course' which mostly involved backpacking through Uzbekistan instagramming it then discussing your deep insights over soy lattes in fancy cafes, but there are people out there actually trying to make a future for
themselves and their families.
The easy availability of student loans has already done massive damage to higher learning by meaning everybody and their dog are going through universities which should really only have the top 10% of people (those who are a little crazy and likely to dedicate their lives to focus on that subject, which is rare) attending, so that professors can actually teach them - instead we just have a production line for meaningless degrees created for lowest common denominator students.
90% of people should be going to trade colleges, apprenticeships, and just damn working.
But no, everyone needs their 'university degree' to somehow show how special they are, like everyone else..
The just means the punishment is not enough.
Bribery of public office is relatively easy to stop, you just need to have enforced and large punishments,
As in mandatory jail time, confiscation of assets to a level of many times the bribe, banning from any public office, and public ridicule.
Wont happen of course, but that is the solution to bribery, not saying 'everyone does it, so whatever'
Remember, public office bribery is stealing from the public, because no one bribes for more than the value of what is gained..
Hmmmm.
I do like my fiskars splitter.
However I also like my husqvarna limber..
Perhaps you are half right?
Yes, it is also clear that Kaspersky is the only major threat protection software that has not agreed to whitelist US government malware.
Have the US government realise that this is just a form of Striesand effect recommending Kaspersky to anyone who doesnt that the US to know their affairs?
Yes, that is pretty much their hope/dream.
Mostly because the tards writing this drivel spent most of their time hanging out with their justice warrior friends in trendy oh so ethnic/organic cafes, attending demonstrations against 'the man' while they took 7 years to complete a 3 year degree in political 'science', while other people were working hard to get degrees in engineering, science, business, and technology.
Now it is so VERY unfair that those other damn people are getting the good jobs, they any attempt to hire based on actual demonstrated ability MUST be banned.
Oh for fuck sake Ami, stop peddling your lies here.
What the blind hiring trials showed is that, when a sign of GENDER was completely erased, more men still got hired.
Peraps, just perhaps, they appeared to be better and more professional candidates, and were then selected.
But no, you have to try and change the concept to age for some reason, and then, with zero actual evidence, claim we need things 'normalised'.
But, on to your largest screwup.
Go and have a look at the employment stats for your loved Nordic countries.
You will find the 'bias' in employment is even HIGHER than the US.
VERY few males in nursing, VERY few males in teaching, VERY few women in engineering or technology.
You know why? Because men are less interesting in some careers, and women are less interested in others.
Yes, I know you would like to force them all to be 50/50, because you believe in totalitarian force, but remember, that means you will be forcing
women to take jobs they dont actually WANT. I would call that highly sexist.
What about the huge number of women you will have to displace from nursing and teaching? I guess you can 'help' them by pushing them in to
construction and garbage disposal? Huge male bias in those areas.
So no, I wont accept your totalitarian dream of controling everyone elses lives, because I actually believe in personal freedom and equality, not
enforced quotas.
So, you think when you make an online purchase withing a creditcard you need more than the card number, the 3 digit verification numberon the back, and the name printed on the card?
Internesting.. Because thats all I use.
Never ever EVER let someone take away your card.Why would you, too lazy to stand up? Too 'important'? hmmmm.....
No, just about 100% no.
1 - There are no terms, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT ENTER IN TO A DAMN CONTRACT. Them simply having a sign which you may or may not have seen is NOT a contract, and never will be. For it to be a contract they must verify that you have seen and agreed to it.
2 - They cannot just make up extra parts to this fantasy contract to penalise you further for it.
3 - It would not be legal anyway, because the law says so. In the same way that they cannot put a sign saying 'no gays allowed in our restaurant!'
Ah, so you are what some places would call 'a high roller' and others would call 'a moron?'
The only reason they would do this is that you are an easy mark and they are making nice big fat piles of money off you.
They wont be doing this for normal tips - for a start, why would the company (the ones paying for your free whatevers) care about their staff getting tips.
BS.
Are you just playing silly games, or are you not thinking?
1 - You can post what you want, you can put up signs saying 'no gays accepted in our restaurant' but the law says otherwise, posting signs does NOT change the law, and the law says that you can use your cash to pay a debt.
2 - Walmart does NOT allow you to eat the candy bar before you pay for it, therefore that is the point you did something wrong - absolutely nothing to do with payment - they just may decide to accept a settlement (in effect) when you pay for it. As to the 'walk out with a televison set' you are just being intentionally stupid there.
3 - It would be quite simply, in the court the diner would say "I offered legal tender to satisfy the debt then, and I offer it now, it is right here, will the restaurant still not accept my payment?' and the judge will laugh at the restaurant, and quite probably award costs.
You last 'point' is getting closer to reality. If a restuarant want so negotiate a contract BEFORE the meal (hello, welcome to out restaurant, do you accept that we do not take cash for payment, and agree to use a debit or credit card to settle the debit?) then they have negotiated a contract and given you the chance to accept or negotiate back, THEN they would have standing.
You have not met many typical scientists have you.
The 'Business Plan' is 'We think someone will give us some funding money to play with robots assembling furniture'
That is usually where it starts and ends, on a good day.
Note of course that as usual they are not above stretching the claims to the maximum.
In this case it appears that the 'Scientists' pre-programmed all the movement to do the assembly from an exact starting setup,
which means this is more a measure of the boredom and lack of useful work these scientists have than anything else.
So no, These robots will not actually assemble your IKEA furniture, unless it is that exact chair, laid out in that exact way, on a good day with a tail wind.
Ummm, no.
As of February they had reused 8 times, and 25% of their 2017 launches reused.
Book value on the first stages is estimated to be around $30 million.
Even if you imagine it costs them 1/3 of that to refurb, thats still $20 million saved per reuse.
By 8 times is 160 million.
Now, unless you are going to claim all possible development expenses against that, which would
be a bit foolish on a technology that is obviously in ongoing use, then it is easily going to be
a win already.
Note that in the start of 2018, they reused 7 stages for 9 launches...