Yes! How terrible that a project adopt a code of conduct where people are asked to be courteous and treat others with respect!
So is that the part where they attack people for holding opinions, political opinions and views that don't conform to the CoC's gatekeepers? Plenty of evidence over the last 2 years of SJW's going after a persons job, family, and so on for say supporting Trump, being a conservative, speaking out against antifa, disliking Trudeau, being against Merkel, speaking out against illegals, having no desire to suppress speech or restrict protected freedoms for example.
Oops, we've apparently decided it's not a theory and a fact! Linus has been captured by the SJWs!! Someone rally an army of obnoxious politically incorrect men to save him!!!
So we don't have previous examples in history where people who hold particular points of view aren't pushed out of their own companies? Wait...we do. And we don't have examples of SJW's going after people to financially ruin a person? Well whatja know we do. And we sure don't have any examples of SJW's claiming a person is sexist/misogynist/racist/homophobic/etc to get them removed from a job. Oh...wait...we do. And we sure don't have past examples of SJW's then hounding a person in a new job to get them fired. Oh well...fuck, we do. And we sure don't have any proof that SJW's claim meritocracy is a tool of the patriarchy. Oh well...son of a bitch, we do too. And we sure don't have any evidence of progressive sites then latching on to these cases, and trying to shame the person for holding views they don't agree with. Man I'm sure drawing blanks here, so many sites haven't done this. And we sure don't have any examples of SJW's making shit up to get people fired, or taking things out of context to get people fired, or quote mining to get people fired.
And there's absolutely no shortage of feminists, race baiters, and sjw's shaking down companies if they don't bow to their demands. Or suddenly coming up with "diversity problems" and it suddenly being all over the news. Oh...wait...
And we sure don't have cases where sjw's and feminists falsely accuse a person of sexual assault or rape to try and ruin them for their own gain. And we sure don't have a long list of sjw's, feminists, and progressives latching on to #metoo to ruin a persons life either, even when the evidence shows otherwise with claims of "well he might have done it anyway." And we sure don't have examples from #metoo of women lying, then sjw's, progressives, and feminist circling the wagons and saying "you should believe all women anyway! She did it for the right reasons."
Oh...boy! It's a giant three ring circus of non-meritocratic and shitty people abusing what some people thought was a good idea, and ruining everything all the way down.
Doubt is good. You found out what other people are saying as true, you saw the evidence of a person trying to be a gatekeeper and gain control over something you see as important. Remember github and how they had a "Meritocracy is all" type stance? Notice that after the new CEO came into play, not only did they toss that but ramped the new policies to 11, banning people for using the wrong words because it "might offend" someone?
Well, let me welcome you to the culture war. Enjoy getting tossed into the pit with the rest of us, there are no dues, there is no secret meetings, there is no secret handshake. Your own post makes you a target because you're on the wrong side of the issue.
I don't see why you can't respect people's feelings and have great code quality. There's nothing wrong with having standards. And there's nothing wrong with treating people with respect either -- especially when you disagree with them.
Many people in these areas where meritocracy matters don't care if you're the biggest asshole in the world, that's why. The only care is that you're doing the absolute best at what you're doing. And if that isn't the case they want someone better. You should know that areas in IT, draw people who really have problems with social skills, understanding other people and so on. But, they're absolutely brilliant in thinking their way around a problem.
Ah but hell. Just look at the areas where "touchy feely non-meritocracy" bullshit has been pushed. People flee in droves, the projects, sometimes even companies fall apart in rapid succession because those core maintainers are driven out. The people that push CoC's are moral busybodies, and they're trying to become the gatekeepers of what's acceptable. They're no different then the people trying to push people out of hobbies, or demand that you censor music or video games because it hurts someones feelings. Try to dictate speech because it might hurt someones feelings. Try to dictate social or political discourse because it might hurt someones feelings.
On the plus side, it will take many years before SJW incompetence will have destroyed the Linux kernel, and we may just see a serious fork that still values technological merits over everything else.
Nope, because the first thing that's going to happen now is they'll start sifting through contributors social media accounts to find things that they can sanction them with against the CoC. You'll see them demand people link accounts, or give places they've posted on in order to "make the best community." Once that happens they'll demand that the person "do as they're told" or they'll launch a smear campaign and attempt to displace the person via the rules they've introduced. If they refuse, they'll use their social media circle to attack them via various leftwing publications and smear the person until they fall in line or quit. And they'll bring out the various smear allegations of rape, sexual assault, misogyny, women hater, and so on. They'll find people who are willing to accuse because their feelings got hurt.
The entire thing is like a cult, you've got everything from the in-group to the out-group, original sin, and the demand to bow to the one-true-god. At least if you were catholic you could buy an indulgence. The best you can hope for is that core contributors fork it and say fuck you to the entire thing, otherwise you're going to see it go stagnant and die, unless the community gives a resounding "fuck you" to the entire pile of garbage.
I have a 780 and still have this problem: my driver reboots randomly. No rhyme or reason behind it.
Two things you can do. You can get the "bin-ID" off the GPU and then look up through the database to see what the cards core vmm/gpu voltages should be. Or use rivatuner, and up the core voltage by just a tiny bit then lock it so that the drivers can't change it. You shouldn't have anymore problems. The "bin-ID" is the number that the GPU was dumped into when QC testing, in general a lower number = higher quality, while higher means lower quality. That doesn't always translate into a stable card though.
Check guru3d there's a big thread on it that can help you solve the problem.
Those are for consumer GPUs in which errors don't matter if they are not very common
Remember the massive TDR(driver reboot) problem with nvidia cards back in the 500/600/700 days? No? It was because their drivers were undervolting during low draw states, even during gaming in order to reduce the amount of heat that GPU was producing. This caused the infinite TDR/blackscreen problem that went on for years, until nvidia finally admitted that yes, it wasn't the customers PC's, it was us. It was bad enough they were paying to have people ship their PC's directly to nvidia for testing.
In the Netherlands, plowing is rare enough that it won't be a significant factor. Snow deep enough to need plowing occurs maybe 1-2 times per winter, and many winters we don't have snow at all. Mostly the roads are just salted.
Maybe in the Netherlands, but in most of North America? Not a chance. To make it clear what the OP is saying, I live in Ontario(Canada). Figure there's 400km between the two of us, for him the plowing could be 1-2 times per day. For us, it can be 1-2 times per hour or more. The winters though the US central states, and north eastern states can be severe. ~9 years ago here in Ontario, we had snowfall amounts of 5.7m(19ft) over a 3 day weekend in the southwestern part of the province, that's actually fairly rare. But used to be common enough that houses were built with a door on the second floor so you could get out, pretty much any house that hasn't been renovated and built prior to 1970 still has them. Get into eastern and western Canada(minus very southern BC) outside of Southern Ontario and not even salt cuts it anymore, gets too cold. We use gravel-crush mixed with sand on the winter roads.
The biggest source of micro'plastics' from roads is from tire and brake wear. Tarmac roads also produce microscopic particles from road wear.
Well that's not really true. Tires are pretty much all rubber(natural or synthetic about 60-80% component material the rest being carbon and other non-plastic materials) to the outside, the belts are usually a fiber-plastic blend, or blended with a steel belt. If tires are throwing plastic, then you're driving on the belts. Brakes on cars are either semi-metallic or ceramic. Semi-metallic is iron, copper, waste steel(i.e. poor quality steel), mixed with sand and a resin binder. Fun fact, the resin binder was thought at one point to be more toxic then asbestos(what brake shoes used to be made out of). More expensive semi-metallic components may contain carbon fiber. Ceramic shoes are around 95% ceramic and 5% copper or steel. There's no plastic in either type of shoe in use, brakes get far too hot.
To summarize: it's not Hitler level evil, it's modern communist level evil.
Well Stalin's Gulag's were modern communist levels of evil too. If you don't think people aren't "getting the bullet" in those places today, you're just being naive.
I'm pretty sure that if minimum wages increased enough, one of the main effects of that increase would be an increase in worker bargaining.
Doesn't work out like that sadly. We just saw that here in Ontario, the previous government bumped the minimum wage up fast, first quarter of implementation and we lost ~80k jobs. Second quarter ~68k jobs. New hires over both quarters? 7k jobs FT, no PT. That means there's ~141k people out there now earning less money because companies cut back on the number of people employed.
Oh and round it out with the giant shitshow of Trudeau and Co., and NAFTA? BNN is now estimating ~690k job losses over the next 3 quarters. That would be among the biggest job losses since the 1970's, if anything most of what's happening in Canada right now is a replay of the late 1970's and early 80's, when the economy crashed, hyperinflation kicked in and Trudeau Sr., implemented wage and price controls.
To stop idiots from posting and reposting memes with misleading information and flat out lies that are nothing more than propaganda.
You mean, it's not to control the discourse and tell people what to think? It's a very easy line to cross as one can see with sites like snopes or politifact can go out of their way to claim something is false, when a meme for example uses a single different word.
I'm also going to point out to you, that Media Matters, the organization in question has a very long history of quote mining, and making fabrications in order to attempt "gotcha moments." Here's an example from the other day. Rush Limbaugh(like or hate him), says "And in this article, people are claiming that sharks were being dropped on land by hurricane Florence." Media Matters then reports this tongue-in-cheek moment where he's laughing his ass off, as "Rush Limbaugh reports, that sharks were falling from the sky. This is another blahblahblahblah." They've been doing this for decades. Oh yes, they've got a very long history of being among the worst abusers.
LOL. You think the Weekly Standard is biased to the right? There's a reason why it has the name the Neocon Standard among conservatives, and it's articles and founder are heavily given happy treatment by democrats in the US. Because the owner of the site, and many of the authors are never-trumpers and neocons. Those same neocons that were driven out by the Tea Party groups, and were welcomed with open arms by democrats and progressives.
No, you probably don't know that. Why don't you go look up people like Hugh Hewitt, David Frum, or even Ken White(popehat), who sperged the fuck out screeching that "the republicans left me!" And started pushing anti-free speech policies at soon as they flipped. Once you're done that, go look up why the democrats are in the middle of a civil war, and are losing to the communists. I'll give you a hint, it's because the elected a leadership that's perfectly fine with those ideals.
You can't pay under the minimum wage. Stores have been caught, indeed but that's not their corporate policy either, stores that have been caught doing that have had their entire management staff terminated. Every person from the lowly floor manager right up to the person in charge of the store. The store closures though? No that's shady, there was a case in Quebec where they attempted to unionize and they simply shut it down. Walmart got sued over it, they've lost every case on it. Simply put? It's still not over, but the courts are getting tired of it, so are the appeals courts. Expect the judgement to be overzealous in response to that, with employees getting 5-20yr backpay plus interest.
What continues to surprise me is that the warehouse workers simply haven't revolted over this. This is Canada, but it seems more and more that there's simply a lack of employees wanting to do something over it. Back in the 90's, I did a stint at a small company warehouse. These guys were small, had 3 plants in Canada, 2 in the US, 1 in Europe. The min. wage was around $7/hr, I was making $13/hr the second I walked in the door with no experience. A decade ago when I wanted to earn some extra money, I did a stint at what's called a National Parts Distribution Center or NPDC by the big auto companies, or gigantic fucking warehouses that supply entire sections of North America and can backfill auto parts plants thousands of components(hoods and doors, down to entire dashboard assemblies or just the ECU) at a time. Walking in the door, they paid me $21.75/hr(part-time), 3mo I'd have benefits, provided lift truck training, and offered "shunt" or A(truck heavy) and AZ(tractor trailer+air brake) D-Class(license for vehicles weighing 11,000kg+ but not a tractor-trailer) for anyone who wanted them.
Really all this screams to me is that amazon is massively heavy handed on workers trying to unionize, secure any type of improvement to their job positions and so on.
It's kind of butt-ironic that many US states have a constitutional amendment forbidding tax dollars from going to religious schools because their Protestant majorities were scared Catholic schools might get a piece of the Protestant school tax action.
Considering the shitshows between Catholics and Protestants, right or wrong reasons that people chose against it. It was still the better option in the long run.
Again, it is the power in the hands of government that is wrong, not who wields it or why. Neither side learns this.
Well, here's the interesting thing. The Catholics up here in Canada were basically the "government of the day" when they got this little perk, there's lots of history on it but to say it's been a gigantic clusterfuck the size of a black hole would be an understatement.
Here's the difference, in Canada all the provinces and territories "buy as a block" on medications. US states could do the same, but they don't. Individual insurance companies do though, look at what Trump's admin did though and how much of a shockwave went through the industry when they forced through generics on several drugs. The name brand prices dropped through the floor, even in some cases undercutting generic drugs that were being newly manufactured.
You can be denied supplemental insurance in Canada for the same thing. If you were in Canada, your best option would be to get a disability waiver so the province(or if you live in a territory or mil base, the feds), to cover part of the cost. If you can live with the 42%(likely closer to 45% tax) rate that we pay up here, you can take your choice.
Oh come on, there's plenty of Wal-Mart employees that could qualify too...
Difference is walmart pays over the minimum wage and offers healthcare insurance to PT and FT employees, and gives them upto 20%(people who are struggling financially can get even higher discounts) off in store purchases and that counts for everything from the cellphone kiosk to the McD's or other fast/food loctions, amazon only offers 10% on their own items or none at all. That's in Canada and the US. You can bash them however much you want, but in general they're far better as a 'corporate citizen' then other companies especially when their position in employment isn't meant to be a stay-long-term job, but as a foothold. Though there's plenty of people who climb up the ladder into management and even internal corporate positions, and they have the policy of hiring inside for them instead of outside.
Is that taking into account Chinese speakers' superior grammar, spelling, punctuation, accent and familiarity with English literature?
Let me put it this way. When the company I work for sends something off for fabbing in Japan, S.Korea, or doing work in Singapore, we don't need translators. When we do it in China, we require at least four different levels. If you're part of the "highly educated" segment of Chinese society you have a pretty good chance of getting english. But if you're some poor-boy/girl that's looking to make their money after leaving the dirt farm, you're outta luck. On the other hand, a 10 year old has a better grasp of english then your average person in China. This is because there is a massive education gap, and really it's no different then any society that's working through modernizing.
But a second, third, fourth language is like any other skill. If you don't practice it, it degrades. ~30 years ago, I could speak and write fluent french, japanese, and german, besides english. That's because I grew up in a multiethnic household, french was required until grade 12 and all that. Today? My english and japanese is meh, my german is terrible, my french is horrible(even though everything is bilingual here in Ontario). Simply because of a lack of use beyond speaking, or hammering something out in a technical paper.
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Yes! How terrible that a project adopt a code of conduct where people are asked to be courteous and treat others with respect!
So is that the part where they attack people for holding opinions, political opinions and views that don't conform to the CoC's gatekeepers? Plenty of evidence over the last 2 years of SJW's going after a persons job, family, and so on for say supporting Trump, being a conservative, speaking out against antifa, disliking Trudeau, being against Merkel, speaking out against illegals, having no desire to suppress speech or restrict protected freedoms for example.
Oops, we've apparently decided it's not a theory and a fact! Linus has been captured by the SJWs!! Someone rally an army of obnoxious politically incorrect men to save him!!!
So we don't have previous examples in history where people who hold particular points of view aren't pushed out of their own companies? Wait...we do. And we don't have examples of SJW's going after people to financially ruin a person? Well whatja know we do. And we sure don't have any examples of SJW's claiming a person is sexist/misogynist/racist/homophobic/etc to get them removed from a job. Oh...wait...we do. And we sure don't have past examples of SJW's then hounding a person in a new job to get them fired. Oh well...fuck, we do. And we sure don't have any proof that SJW's claim meritocracy is a tool of the patriarchy. Oh well...son of a bitch, we do too. And we sure don't have any evidence of progressive sites then latching on to these cases, and trying to shame the person for holding views they don't agree with. Man I'm sure drawing blanks here, so many sites haven't done this. And we sure don't have any examples of SJW's making shit up to get people fired, or taking things out of context to get people fired, or quote mining to get people fired.
And there's absolutely no shortage of feminists, race baiters, and sjw's shaking down companies if they don't bow to their demands. Or suddenly coming up with "diversity problems" and it suddenly being all over the news. Oh...wait...
And we sure don't have cases where sjw's and feminists falsely accuse a person of sexual assault or rape to try and ruin them for their own gain. And we sure don't have a long list of sjw's, feminists, and progressives latching on to #metoo to ruin a persons life either, even when the evidence shows otherwise with claims of "well he might have done it anyway." And we sure don't have examples from #metoo of women lying, then sjw's, progressives, and feminist circling the wagons and saying "you should believe all women anyway! She did it for the right reasons."
Oh...boy! It's a giant three ring circus of non-meritocratic and shitty people abusing what some people thought was a good idea, and ruining everything all the way down.
Respect is earned, not granted.
You sound like a Fox News viewer.
Fox news huh? How about right from another horses mouth. Don't worry, they ARE going after you on your other social media accounts.It's not like we don't have examples. Holy fuck! Look at that, we've got just another case for wrong think. Oh, and this one too. Just to show that the Mike Pence rule applies too.
I apologize for having doubted you, AC.
Doubt is good. You found out what other people are saying as true, you saw the evidence of a person trying to be a gatekeeper and gain control over something you see as important. Remember github and how they had a "Meritocracy is all" type stance? Notice that after the new CEO came into play, not only did they toss that but ramped the new policies to 11, banning people for using the wrong words because it "might offend" someone?
Well, let me welcome you to the culture war. Enjoy getting tossed into the pit with the rest of us, there are no dues, there is no secret meetings, there is no secret handshake. Your own post makes you a target because you're on the wrong side of the issue.
I don't see why you can't respect people's feelings and have great code quality. There's nothing wrong with having standards. And there's nothing wrong with treating people with respect either -- especially when you disagree with them.
Many people in these areas where meritocracy matters don't care if you're the biggest asshole in the world, that's why. The only care is that you're doing the absolute best at what you're doing. And if that isn't the case they want someone better. You should know that areas in IT, draw people who really have problems with social skills, understanding other people and so on. But, they're absolutely brilliant in thinking their way around a problem.
Ah but hell. Just look at the areas where "touchy feely non-meritocracy" bullshit has been pushed. People flee in droves, the projects, sometimes even companies fall apart in rapid succession because those core maintainers are driven out. The people that push CoC's are moral busybodies, and they're trying to become the gatekeepers of what's acceptable. They're no different then the people trying to push people out of hobbies, or demand that you censor music or video games because it hurts someones feelings. Try to dictate speech because it might hurt someones feelings. Try to dictate social or political discourse because it might hurt someones feelings.
Bullshit all the way around.
On the plus side, it will take many years before SJW incompetence will have destroyed the Linux kernel, and we may just see a serious fork that still values technological merits over everything else.
Nope, because the first thing that's going to happen now is they'll start sifting through contributors social media accounts to find things that they can sanction them with against the CoC. You'll see them demand people link accounts, or give places they've posted on in order to "make the best community." Once that happens they'll demand that the person "do as they're told" or they'll launch a smear campaign and attempt to displace the person via the rules they've introduced. If they refuse, they'll use their social media circle to attack them via various leftwing publications and smear the person until they fall in line or quit. And they'll bring out the various smear allegations of rape, sexual assault, misogyny, women hater, and so on. They'll find people who are willing to accuse because their feelings got hurt.
The entire thing is like a cult, you've got everything from the in-group to the out-group, original sin, and the demand to bow to the one-true-god. At least if you were catholic you could buy an indulgence. The best you can hope for is that core contributors fork it and say fuck you to the entire thing, otherwise you're going to see it go stagnant and die, unless the community gives a resounding "fuck you" to the entire pile of garbage.
Who needs an ounce of scientific study to prove this? We only had to look at node.js and rust to see exactly what's going to happen.
The good news is that every project compromised by these people will eventually go down the drains.
Well I guess we can say that this year won't be the year of the linux desktop. If anything, it might be the year that linux dies.
Microplastics are not uniquely dangerous. Microscopic anything non-biodegradable can be a problem when it gets into the food chain.
Yeah, well the world isn't a safe place either. And if you don't want to develop skin cancer, stay indoors and become a vampire to boot.
I have a 780 and still have this problem: my driver reboots randomly. No rhyme or reason behind it.
Two things you can do. You can get the "bin-ID" off the GPU and then look up through the database to see what the cards core vmm/gpu voltages should be. Or use rivatuner, and up the core voltage by just a tiny bit then lock it so that the drivers can't change it. You shouldn't have anymore problems. The "bin-ID" is the number that the GPU was dumped into when QC testing, in general a lower number = higher quality, while higher means lower quality. That doesn't always translate into a stable card though.
Check guru3d there's a big thread on it that can help you solve the problem.
Those are for consumer GPUs in which errors don't matter if they are not very common
Remember the massive TDR(driver reboot) problem with nvidia cards back in the 500/600/700 days? No? It was because their drivers were undervolting during low draw states, even during gaming in order to reduce the amount of heat that GPU was producing. This caused the infinite TDR/blackscreen problem that went on for years, until nvidia finally admitted that yes, it wasn't the customers PC's, it was us. It was bad enough they were paying to have people ship their PC's directly to nvidia for testing.
That's simply not true. Stop lying.
Under the new regulations posting a meme(i.e. transformative work), is considered "criminal infringement."
In the Netherlands, plowing is rare enough that it won't be a significant factor. Snow deep enough to need plowing occurs maybe 1-2 times per winter, and many winters we don't have snow at all. Mostly the roads are just salted.
Maybe in the Netherlands, but in most of North America? Not a chance. To make it clear what the OP is saying, I live in Ontario(Canada). Figure there's 400km between the two of us, for him the plowing could be 1-2 times per day. For us, it can be 1-2 times per hour or more. The winters though the US central states, and north eastern states can be severe. ~9 years ago here in Ontario, we had snowfall amounts of 5.7m(19ft) over a 3 day weekend in the southwestern part of the province, that's actually fairly rare. But used to be common enough that houses were built with a door on the second floor so you could get out, pretty much any house that hasn't been renovated and built prior to 1970 still has them. Get into eastern and western Canada(minus very southern BC) outside of Southern Ontario and not even salt cuts it anymore, gets too cold. We use gravel-crush mixed with sand on the winter roads.
The biggest source of micro'plastics' from roads is from tire and brake wear. Tarmac roads also produce microscopic particles from road wear.
Well that's not really true. Tires are pretty much all rubber(natural or synthetic about 60-80% component material the rest being carbon and other non-plastic materials) to the outside, the belts are usually a fiber-plastic blend, or blended with a steel belt. If tires are throwing plastic, then you're driving on the belts. Brakes on cars are either semi-metallic or ceramic. Semi-metallic is iron, copper, waste steel(i.e. poor quality steel), mixed with sand and a resin binder. Fun fact, the resin binder was thought at one point to be more toxic then asbestos(what brake shoes used to be made out of). More expensive semi-metallic components may contain carbon fiber. Ceramic shoes are around 95% ceramic and 5% copper or steel. There's no plastic in either type of shoe in use, brakes get far too hot.
To summarize: it's not Hitler level evil, it's modern communist level evil.
Well Stalin's Gulag's were modern communist levels of evil too. If you don't think people aren't "getting the bullet" in those places today, you're just being naive.
I'm pretty sure that if minimum wages increased enough, one of the main effects of that increase would be an increase in worker bargaining.
Doesn't work out like that sadly. We just saw that here in Ontario, the previous government bumped the minimum wage up fast, first quarter of implementation and we lost ~80k jobs. Second quarter ~68k jobs. New hires over both quarters? 7k jobs FT, no PT. That means there's ~141k people out there now earning less money because companies cut back on the number of people employed.
Oh and round it out with the giant shitshow of Trudeau and Co., and NAFTA? BNN is now estimating ~690k job losses over the next 3 quarters. That would be among the biggest job losses since the 1970's, if anything most of what's happening in Canada right now is a replay of the late 1970's and early 80's, when the economy crashed, hyperinflation kicked in and Trudeau Sr., implemented wage and price controls.
To stop idiots from posting and reposting memes with misleading information and flat out lies that are nothing more than propaganda.
You mean, it's not to control the discourse and tell people what to think? It's a very easy line to cross as one can see with sites like snopes or politifact can go out of their way to claim something is false, when a meme for example uses a single different word.
I'm also going to point out to you, that Media Matters, the organization in question has a very long history of quote mining, and making fabrications in order to attempt "gotcha moments." Here's an example from the other day. Rush Limbaugh(like or hate him), says "And in this article, people are claiming that sharks were being dropped on land by hurricane Florence." Media Matters then reports this tongue-in-cheek moment where he's laughing his ass off, as "Rush Limbaugh reports, that sharks were falling from the sky. This is another blahblahblahblah." They've been doing this for decades. Oh yes, they've got a very long history of being among the worst abusers.
LOL. You think the Weekly Standard is biased to the right? There's a reason why it has the name the Neocon Standard among conservatives, and it's articles and founder are heavily given happy treatment by democrats in the US. Because the owner of the site, and many of the authors are never-trumpers and neocons. Those same neocons that were driven out by the Tea Party groups, and were welcomed with open arms by democrats and progressives.
No, you probably don't know that. Why don't you go look up people like Hugh Hewitt, David Frum, or even Ken White(popehat), who sperged the fuck out screeching that "the republicans left me!" And started pushing anti-free speech policies at soon as they flipped. Once you're done that, go look up why the democrats are in the middle of a civil war, and are losing to the communists. I'll give you a hint, it's because the elected a leadership that's perfectly fine with those ideals.
Wake up, Mister Freeman. Wake up and ... smell the ashes.
You can't pay under the minimum wage. Stores have been caught, indeed but that's not their corporate policy either, stores that have been caught doing that have had their entire management staff terminated. Every person from the lowly floor manager right up to the person in charge of the store. The store closures though? No that's shady, there was a case in Quebec where they attempted to unionize and they simply shut it down. Walmart got sued over it, they've lost every case on it. Simply put? It's still not over, but the courts are getting tired of it, so are the appeals courts. Expect the judgement to be overzealous in response to that, with employees getting 5-20yr backpay plus interest.
What continues to surprise me is that the warehouse workers simply haven't revolted over this. This is Canada, but it seems more and more that there's simply a lack of employees wanting to do something over it. Back in the 90's, I did a stint at a small company warehouse. These guys were small, had 3 plants in Canada, 2 in the US, 1 in Europe. The min. wage was around $7/hr, I was making $13/hr the second I walked in the door with no experience. A decade ago when I wanted to earn some extra money, I did a stint at what's called a National Parts Distribution Center or NPDC by the big auto companies, or gigantic fucking warehouses that supply entire sections of North America and can backfill auto parts plants thousands of components(hoods and doors, down to entire dashboard assemblies or just the ECU) at a time. Walking in the door, they paid me $21.75/hr(part-time), 3mo I'd have benefits, provided lift truck training, and offered "shunt" or A(truck heavy) and AZ(tractor trailer+air brake) D-Class(license for vehicles weighing 11,000kg+ but not a tractor-trailer) for anyone who wanted them.
Really all this screams to me is that amazon is massively heavy handed on workers trying to unionize, secure any type of improvement to their job positions and so on.
It's kind of butt-ironic that many US states have a constitutional amendment forbidding tax dollars from going to religious schools because their Protestant majorities were scared Catholic schools might get a piece of the Protestant school tax action.
Considering the shitshows between Catholics and Protestants, right or wrong reasons that people chose against it. It was still the better option in the long run.
Again, it is the power in the hands of government that is wrong, not who wields it or why. Neither side learns this.
Well, here's the interesting thing. The Catholics up here in Canada were basically the "government of the day" when they got this little perk, there's lots of history on it but to say it's been a gigantic clusterfuck the size of a black hole would be an understatement.
Here's the difference, in Canada all the provinces and territories "buy as a block" on medications. US states could do the same, but they don't. Individual insurance companies do though, look at what Trump's admin did though and how much of a shockwave went through the industry when they forced through generics on several drugs. The name brand prices dropped through the floor, even in some cases undercutting generic drugs that were being newly manufactured.
You can be denied supplemental insurance in Canada for the same thing. If you were in Canada, your best option would be to get a disability waiver so the province(or if you live in a territory or mil base, the feds), to cover part of the cost. If you can live with the 42%(likely closer to 45% tax) rate that we pay up here, you can take your choice.
Oh come on, there's plenty of Wal-Mart employees that could qualify too...
Difference is walmart pays over the minimum wage and offers healthcare insurance to PT and FT employees, and gives them upto 20%(people who are struggling financially can get even higher discounts) off in store purchases and that counts for everything from the cellphone kiosk to the McD's or other fast/food loctions, amazon only offers 10% on their own items or none at all. That's in Canada and the US. You can bash them however much you want, but in general they're far better as a 'corporate citizen' then other companies especially when their position in employment isn't meant to be a stay-long-term job, but as a foothold. Though there's plenty of people who climb up the ladder into management and even internal corporate positions, and they have the policy of hiring inside for them instead of outside.
Is that taking into account Chinese speakers' superior grammar, spelling, punctuation, accent and familiarity with English literature?
Let me put it this way. When the company I work for sends something off for fabbing in Japan, S.Korea, or doing work in Singapore, we don't need translators. When we do it in China, we require at least four different levels. If you're part of the "highly educated" segment of Chinese society you have a pretty good chance of getting english. But if you're some poor-boy/girl that's looking to make their money after leaving the dirt farm, you're outta luck. On the other hand, a 10 year old has a better grasp of english then your average person in China. This is because there is a massive education gap, and really it's no different then any society that's working through modernizing.
But a second, third, fourth language is like any other skill. If you don't practice it, it degrades. ~30 years ago, I could speak and write fluent french, japanese, and german, besides english. That's because I grew up in a multiethnic household, french was required until grade 12 and all that. Today? My english and japanese is meh, my german is terrible, my french is horrible(even though everything is bilingual here in Ontario). Simply because of a lack of use beyond speaking, or hammering something out in a technical paper.