I hadn't thought of that angle, it's genius. Bezos should contact some other huge employers up here and get them involved. Boeing, right down the road from Amazon, has (c) 77K employees.
This move completely follows the recommendation of coal magnate and Head of "Murray Energy", Robert E. Murray. His action plan was given to Energy Secretary Rick Perry.
Murray Energy's plan is to:
* Overturn the clean power plan
* Withdraw and suspend the "endangerment finding" of green house gases
* Eliminate production tax credit for solar/wind
* Withdraw from the "illegal" Paris accord
* Eliminate "mine safety" regulations
* Kill the EPA
* Eliminate environmental safety regulations
* Replace non-conforming panel members on Federal Energy Commission
Read the memo yourselves: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
A picture was taken of Robert E. Murray, the coal Barron hugging the Energy Secretary... The photographer was fired. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
If you don't think this not a cut and clear case of the oligarchy changing Government policy against the health and well being of Americans, you're in sand.
VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT!
I posted this a couple of days ago and was flagged as "off topic", but if people looked, its exactly on topic..
As energy Secretary Rick Perry hugs coal executive, the photographer who posted the file, gets fired: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
That meeting reviewed the Murray Energy Action plan - the Head of Murray energy and huge Trump supporter, his plan inculdes killing off clean energy. read the Trump approved document yourselves and, please, remember this November. https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
That was exactly the point. Good or bad, SCO was actually making money as a viable company selling Unix based hardware & software. McBride correctly recognized Linux as death threat to his company. He purchased a couple of patents from dying Novel (which Novel got when it bought SuSE) and believed he owned all the rights to Linux. Darl then proceeded to hit everyone running linux with pay-up orders, many capitulated (like GM). That worked fine and dandy til IBM received one of SCO's payola demands. The rest, is as Isoroku Yamamoto would say - was a $hit storm for SCO. (actually, Isoroku said "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve").
and the entire drama was chronicled on groklaw.net by the mysterious entity, PJ....
another simplistic moron claims some big "government" is the "problem" to all our ills.
BS... "the government" is owned by huge corporations that give money to ensure their pawns are elected to enact legislation that benefits big corporations... case and point: Net Neutrality.
All the right-wingers that claim these "job killing rules" are stiffing growth.. Yet in a time with record corporate profits, some how things like clean air, clean water, child labor laws are the "job killing rules". Hardly. They simply stop the oligarchy from pillaging every last resource and prevent the United States from becoming a polluted wasteland like China.
These rules were put in place because companies refuse to do what's right and in practice place profit over life and safety. Fire escapes for example: It was the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed 146 people because there were no fire escapes and doors where chained shut to keep people working. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Because of the tragedy, we now have fire escape laws, unlocked door laws. Just like tall buildings in earth quake areas need to be earth quake resistant.
Return to what you want and we'll return to the time of Dickens where everyone but a few are paupers. We've been there and it sucked. I'm willing to bet you're not one of the privileged....
No, what this scum bag is really admitting is that his company doesn't pay livable wages, isn't about to, and wants tax payers to come to the rescue.
Driving someone you don't know, to a place you're not going, for money, is NOT a ride share, that is the definition of a taxi. Uber is skimming money off the backs of the lowest workers and trying to call it profit. A taxi service costs more because it's a real business, with real benefits, that PAYS it employees real wages.
Stop using uber/lyft and use a real taxi. Support workers.
There was a time when America prided itself in it's technological prowess. A time when we believed science had the potential to solve our problems and propel us into the future. It's sad that we've gone the other way, clutching superstition and paranoia, as a great thinker once predicted:
https://www.goodreads.com/quot...
This has historically been a "pro tech" site, which be definition and education should include individuals educated in science... but alas, it's just more politicized, polarized arse holes too willing to jump on the reichwinger "blame libs for all evils" bs....
Your prizes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news... https://worldtop20.org/2017-wo... http://thehill.com/policy/inte...
And the cherry, the US, the Country FOUNDED on the principles of freedom, drops to 21....well done.... http://theweek.com/speedreads/...
Smart phones are just a conduit - it's not the phones. The real problem, as may other studies have pointed out, is social media. Smart phones have allowed people to become addicted to social media. Remember, you could text before there were smartphones, so it's not texting.
Unhampered by "Job Killing" rules like clean air, clean water, intellectual property, and child labor laws, China has claimed top global growth rankings for the past 2 decades...
Now live with it... or try anyway.
Despite the sensationalist headline, 1.6M displaced workers out of the total number of jobs is hardly worth the billions that will be demanded for federal programs.
Considering 5 million jobs - over 3 times this sensationalist number - have been outsourced since 2000 http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/2...
maybe the time to scream has passed....
Considering the GOP has the House, Senate, and Oval Office, the stomach in the US for additional programs is small....
I agree with you - back in the early 80's, while in college I worked at a Godfathers Pizza. We delivered and used company cars. (Chevy Citations, if remember). When the cars would brake down, we would refuse to drive our own vehicles because it cost us money, decreasing our take home. It astonishes me today that anyone would use their own vehicle for delivery, the payback isn't there unless you're desperate.
Fast forward to today, people are willing to take on the expense and liability of using their own vehicles for work. It's a huge win for corporations. If all of a sudden companies start using their own vehicles for pizza deliver, the liability and expense will be enormous. The deeper the pockets, the higher the lawsuit rate. Just wait for a corporate owned autonomous vehicle to kill someone on the road - it will happen. The judgment and ultimate liability, along with cost of implementing a new technology and your maintaining their own corporate fleet will kill this. Remember, it's about profit, not what's cute or fun.
complete BS..
Lyft & Uber are parasite entities that attempt to suck profit off the back of "workers". Calling them "contractors", no benefits, using their own vehicles, competing against each other to drive down cost - by the time you factor in all costs and taxes (of which independent contractors pay ALL), these are sub-minimum wage gigs. Driving someone you don't know to a place you aren't going for money isn't "ride share", it's a taxi. period. The drivers are shorted the most and your municipalities are shorted tax revenue so your roads crumble, first responders go under funded and nobody keeps out the “bad” drivers
ya, one of those "anti-government" types who call taxes stealing... you would rather just see paupers begging street side, the masses of old poor dying from malnutrition and exposure, education only for those who can "afford", companies chaining children to work stations, manufactures polluting at will ravaging the environment, and a genuine return to a Dickenson world where life has little meaning....
You need to realize before you vote for your nirvana, you likely will be one of the masses.
Depends on where - In Seattle, I pay my help desk position over $70K. Network engineers start at $80+.
Of course you can't touch a house for under $600K, so paying IT people $100K isn't all that much.
This really isn't about Open Source, it's about money and Spain is running out. Spain is one of the PIG nations with run away national debt ( Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Munich went the other direction and after a decade of attempting to run Linux on Government desktops, threw up their goose stepping hands and reverted to something that works - Windows. https://www.linuxinsider.com/s...
Overall adoption of Linux desktop is only 1.5% (2017 numbers). Considering hackers, network admins, and die hard fanboys, that's abysmal. http://www.zdnet.com/article/n...
It's been 20 years - time enough to realize that corporate and Government - where it matters - wide scale adoption of Linux desktop is failure. move on.
Considering FaceBook's facial recognition, geotag determinations, friends association and sharing everything with US Government entities - anyone who thinks the US is not already a surveillance state is woefully and purposefully ignorant.
It also likely that China has this information as well via hacking into substandard US security systems with "non-strong" encryption edicts. So, yes, China is already a surveillance state on the US, why not their own people?
Here's what I find to be the practical demarcation:
Consumers - those who consume tech services; read email, surf/browse, watch video, have a specialized app.... etc. work just fine on a tablet.
Producers - programmers, CAD operators, AV content creators, critical office document users (word/excel/powerpoint), use PC's/MAC's/laptops.
Security - need secure environments controlled by active directory and group policies. BYOD not acceptable. Governments, security organizations -all use PC's.
Sure there are "inbetweens" like a writer who can get by with a tablet, but that's infrequent.
The IPAD has been out almost 8 years. That's a life time in tech and they just a fraction of the corporate work space - like 3%. And Yes, a ton of tablets have been sold, but sales are slowing as saturation is close.
In the corporate office we have PC's on 5 year replacement cycles. Try telling your CAD operator he has to use ipad... ya, then tell me again "THE PC IS DEAD"... for thousandth time since 2005...
Secondly I would also recommend replacing the toilet w/ high efficiency ones, inserts into shower heads to restrict water flow, update washing machine, dishwasher,etc.
Third: make sure the tenant pays the water bill as part of the lease. That will get them looking at it.
As someone who also has rentals, would recommend you look for leaks. Faucets, toilets, exterior spigots, rusty water heater in the basement... if all those check out fine, pressure test the lines. Hot water heating system leaks? Somethings wrong. The last time I used that much water 1 month I filled a pool.
We push updates via a 3rd party system (non WSUS) that works well with non-ms updates/applications as well as maintains hardware and software inventories.
of course, always test first.......
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I hadn't thought of that angle, it's genius. Bezos should contact some other huge employers up here and get them involved. Boeing, right down the road from Amazon, has (c) 77K employees.
This move completely follows the recommendation of coal magnate and Head of "Murray Energy", Robert E. Murray. His action plan was given to Energy Secretary Rick Perry.
Murray Energy's plan is to:
* Overturn the clean power plan
* Withdraw and suspend the "endangerment finding" of green house gases
* Eliminate production tax credit for solar/wind
* Withdraw from the "illegal" Paris accord
* Eliminate "mine safety" regulations
* Kill the EPA
* Eliminate environmental safety regulations
* Replace non-conforming panel members on Federal Energy Commission
Read the memo yourselves: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
A picture was taken of Robert E. Murray, the coal Barron hugging the Energy Secretary... The photographer was fired.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
If you don't think this not a cut and clear case of the oligarchy changing Government policy against the health and well being of Americans, you're in sand.
VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT!
I posted this a couple of days ago and was flagged as "off topic", but if people looked, its exactly on topic..
As energy Secretary Rick Perry hugs coal executive, the photographer who posted the file, gets fired:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
That meeting reviewed the Murray Energy Action plan - the Head of Murray energy and huge Trump supporter, his plan inculdes killing off clean energy. read the Trump approved document yourselves and, please, remember this November.
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
That was exactly the point. Good or bad, SCO was actually making money as a viable company selling Unix based hardware & software. McBride correctly recognized Linux as death threat to his company. He purchased a couple of patents from dying Novel (which Novel got when it bought SuSE) and believed he owned all the rights to Linux. Darl then proceeded to hit everyone running linux with pay-up orders, many capitulated (like GM). That worked fine and dandy til IBM received one of SCO's payola demands. The rest, is as Isoroku Yamamoto would say - was a $hit storm for SCO. (actually, Isoroku said "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve").
and the entire drama was chronicled on groklaw.net by the mysterious entity, PJ....
another simplistic moron claims some big "government" is the "problem" to all our ills.
BS... "the government" is owned by huge corporations that give money to ensure their pawns are elected to enact legislation that benefits big corporations... case and point: Net Neutrality.
All the right-wingers that claim these "job killing rules" are stiffing growth.. Yet in a time with record corporate profits, some how things like clean air, clean water, child labor laws are the "job killing rules". Hardly. They simply stop the oligarchy from pillaging every last resource and prevent the United States from becoming a polluted wasteland like China.
These rules were put in place because companies refuse to do what's right and in practice place profit over life and safety. Fire escapes for example: It was the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed 146 people because there were no fire escapes and doors where chained shut to keep people working. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Because of the tragedy, we now have fire escape laws, unlocked door laws. Just like tall buildings in earth quake areas need to be earth quake resistant.
Return to what you want and we'll return to the time of Dickens where everyone but a few are paupers. We've been there and it sucked. I'm willing to bet you're not one of the privileged....
No, what this scum bag is really admitting is that his company doesn't pay livable wages, isn't about to, and wants tax payers to come to the rescue.
Driving someone you don't know, to a place you're not going, for money, is NOT a ride share, that is the definition of a taxi. Uber is skimming money off the backs of the lowest workers and trying to call it profit. A taxi service costs more because it's a real business, with real benefits, that PAYS it employees real wages.
Stop using uber/lyft and use a real taxi. Support workers.
You do know the US Pledge of Allegiance was written by socialist.... don't you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There was a time when America prided itself in it's technological prowess. A time when we believed science had the potential to solve our problems and propel us into the future. It's sad that we've gone the other way, clutching superstition and paranoia, as a great thinker once predicted: https://www.goodreads.com/quot...
This has historically been a "pro tech" site, which be definition and education should include individuals educated in science... but alas, it's just more politicized, polarized arse holes too willing to jump on the reichwinger "blame libs for all evils" bs....
Your prizes:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://worldtop20.org/2017-wo...
http://thehill.com/policy/inte...
And the cherry, the US, the Country FOUNDED on the principles of freedom, drops to 21....well done....
http://theweek.com/speedreads/...
Um... ya, that's close to TaCompton....what the locals call Tacoma. Highest crime rates the State. There's a reason houses are affordable there....
Smart phones are just a conduit - it's not the phones. The real problem, as may other studies have pointed out, is social media. Smart phones have allowed people to become addicted to social media. Remember, you could text before there were smartphones, so it's not texting.
Unhampered by "Job Killing" rules like clean air, clean water, intellectual property, and child labor laws, China has claimed top global growth rankings for the past 2 decades...
Now live with it... or try anyway.
Despite the sensationalist headline, 1.6M displaced workers out of the total number of jobs is hardly worth the billions that will be demanded for federal programs. Considering 5 million jobs - over 3 times this sensationalist number - have been outsourced since 2000
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/2...
maybe the time to scream has passed....
Considering the GOP has the House, Senate, and Oval Office, the stomach in the US for additional programs is small....
I agree with you - back in the early 80's, while in college I worked at a Godfathers Pizza. We delivered and used company cars. (Chevy Citations, if remember). When the cars would brake down, we would refuse to drive our own vehicles because it cost us money, decreasing our take home. It astonishes me today that anyone would use their own vehicle for delivery, the payback isn't there unless you're desperate.
Fast forward to today, people are willing to take on the expense and liability of using their own vehicles for work. It's a huge win for corporations. If all of a sudden companies start using their own vehicles for pizza deliver, the liability and expense will be enormous. The deeper the pockets, the higher the lawsuit rate. Just wait for a corporate owned autonomous vehicle to kill someone on the road - it will happen. The judgment and ultimate liability, along with cost of implementing a new technology and your maintaining their own corporate fleet will kill this. Remember, it's about profit, not what's cute or fun.
Is really all I have to say about that....If anyone was so stupid to jump on cryptocurrency....
complete BS..
Lyft & Uber are parasite entities that attempt to suck profit off the back of "workers". Calling them "contractors", no benefits, using their own vehicles, competing against each other to drive down cost - by the time you factor in all costs and taxes (of which independent contractors pay ALL), these are sub-minimum wage gigs. Driving someone you don't know to a place you aren't going for money isn't "ride share", it's a taxi. period. The drivers are shorted the most and your municipalities are shorted tax revenue so your roads crumble, first responders go under funded and nobody keeps out the “bad” drivers
ya, one of those "anti-government" types who call taxes stealing... you would rather just see paupers begging street side, the masses of old poor dying from malnutrition and exposure, education only for those who can "afford", companies chaining children to work stations, manufactures polluting at will ravaging the environment, and a genuine return to a Dickenson world where life has little meaning....
You need to realize before you vote for your nirvana, you likely will be one of the masses.
Depends on where - In Seattle, I pay my help desk position over $70K. Network engineers start at $80+.
Of course you can't touch a house for under $600K, so paying IT people $100K isn't all that much.
This really isn't about Open Source, it's about money and Spain is running out. Spain is one of the PIG nations with run away national debt ( Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Munich went the other direction and after a decade of attempting to run Linux on Government desktops, threw up their goose stepping hands and reverted to something that works - Windows.
https://www.linuxinsider.com/s...
Overall adoption of Linux desktop is only 1.5% (2017 numbers). Considering hackers, network admins, and die hard fanboys, that's abysmal.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/n...
It's been 20 years - time enough to realize that corporate and Government - where it matters - wide scale adoption of Linux desktop is failure. move on.
Considering FaceBook's facial recognition, geotag determinations, friends association and sharing everything with US Government entities - anyone who thinks the US is not already a surveillance state is woefully and purposefully ignorant.
It also likely that China has this information as well via hacking into substandard US security systems with "non-strong" encryption edicts. So, yes, China is already a surveillance state on the US, why not their own people?
Here's what I find to be the practical demarcation:
Consumers - those who consume tech services; read email, surf/browse, watch video, have a specialized app.... etc. work just fine on a tablet.
Producers - programmers, CAD operators, AV content creators, critical office document users (word/excel/powerpoint), use PC's/MAC's/laptops.
Security - need secure environments controlled by active directory and group policies. BYOD not acceptable. Governments, security organizations -all use PC's.
Sure there are "inbetweens" like a writer who can get by with a tablet, but that's infrequent.
The IPAD has been out almost 8 years. That's a life time in tech and they just a fraction of the corporate work space - like 3%. And Yes, a ton of tablets have been sold, but sales are slowing as saturation is close.
dead drives and bloated OS updateds that turn older slower machines into paperweights.
In the corporate office we have PC's on 5 year replacement cycles. Try telling your CAD operator he has to use ipad... ya, then tell me again "THE PC IS DEAD"... for thousandth time since 2005...
Secondly I would also recommend replacing the toilet w/ high efficiency ones, inserts into shower heads to restrict water flow, update washing machine, dishwasher,etc.
Third: make sure the tenant pays the water bill as part of the lease. That will get them looking at it.
As someone who also has rentals, would recommend you look for leaks. Faucets, toilets, exterior spigots, rusty water heater in the basement... if all those check out fine, pressure test the lines. Hot water heating system leaks? Somethings wrong. The last time I used that much water 1 month I filled a pool.
We push updates via a 3rd party system (non WSUS) that works well with non-ms updates/applications as well as maintains hardware and software inventories.
of course, always test first.......