The players made those requests with the specific intent of improving their odds unfairly. In Contract Law (which is what applies when 2 parties make an agreement, in this case the rules to be used for a specific game) this is called acting in bad faith
1) n. intentional dishonest act by not fulfilling legal or contractual obligations, misleading another, entering into an agreement without the intention or means to fulfill it, or violating basic standards of honesty in dealing with others.
Landing a rocket is quite an achievement but the real test (and the ultimate goal) is to actually relaunch a used rocket successfully without extensive refurbishing
China's has built extensive infrastructure including high-speed rail to connect the Developed coastal regions with the Underdeveloped Interior. Much of the infrastructure remains underutilized and the development of the interior is still very slow despite the huge problems with overpopulation and pollution in the Developed regions. The truth is that it takes a lot more then infrastructure to develop economically-depressed areas.
The danger of huge losses due to the inherent risk of explosions is what's kept rocket technology squarely in the hands of government programs for most of its development. At the time when NASA seems to have lost its way, thank you SpaceX and BlueOrigin for having the guts to move the technology forward despite the enormous risks
An even better solution - move to a points system and no guest workers.
Here's another even better solution: Set a fixed limit, and then auction off the visas to the highest bidder, with the proceeds going to the US Treasury. Currently, they are free (other than a processing fee) and issued to whomever is first in the queue. An auction would ensure they go to the companies that value them the most, and have a real need to import critical skills, rather than just looking for cheap labor.
Seriously? Like the Tech Giants don't already have enough unfair advantages over smaller rivals and especially Startups which are the companies most likely to need to look offshore for people with uncommon skills
I am not a psychometrician and my number was a rather crude deduction from a quick google search that gives %68 of the population between between IQ's of 85 and 115. Assuming the remainder is roughly evenly divided between above and below, I deduced the %15 figure giving it a %2 margin of error. Thank you for the information though. Just because my post was mostly a rant against self-important jerks it doesn't mean I should have skimped on research
Most people don't upgrade the OS, you can see that perfectly clearly at the dismal %25 Windows 10 marketshare even though it was offered as a free upgrade and MS used all kinds of sleazy tactics to trick people into the upgrade. Most people end up with a new OS only when buying new PC's and the major problem Vista had was buckling to Vendor pressure and lowering the "required minimum specs" just before release. Those lowered specs simply were not good enough to provide a consistent and satisfactory user experience in Vista. MS significantly increased minimum specs in Windows 7, RAM requirements were doubled among other things
So the poor sucker that lost in the genetic lottery and is someone in the %15 of the population below average intelligence, has to stand all day doing an incredibly boring and repetitive job all the while being belittles and humiliated from average intelligence assholes like yourself; $15/hour? Not even $50 is good enough for having to deal with bullies like you
First of all the OP was talking about employer-provided health care which is all together different then people covered directly under the ACA marketplace plans.
Second. Comparing Private-insurance pre ACA plans with post ACA is not an apples-to-apples comparison. The ACA set requirements on the minimum plans must cover as well as ban common tactics like lifetime limits, which kept premiums down but made the plans all but useless for common but expensive ailments like heart disease and cancer. Treatment for those would easily surpass the lifetime limits and leave you liable to pay out-of-pocket until you became poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, were forced into Bankruptcy (or both).
As per the large 2015-2017 increase you saw. That was down to compensating for the laws new requirements as well as some growing pains as insurers figured out where the premiums need to be. Since the ACA requires the %85 of premiums be spent on actual health-care this was not a simple case of profiteering by insurers. Since then as your analysis shows the increases have stabilized below the historical average
You mean to tell me you empoyer dropped health insurance coverage, saving itself a bundle, but didn't increase your salary? I would say you got fleeced by your employer. In reality employer sponsored premium growth has actually slowed down since the ACA http://www.factcheck.org/2015/... so not only they fleeced you, they lied to you as well. It had nothing to do with the ACA and everything to do with the suits getting big fat bonuses for "trimming costs" at your expense
And what would you have without farms, you urbanite scum?
$20 billion less farm subsidies a year. Most of the money goes to big, rich farmers producing staple commodities such as corn and soyabeans in Midwestern states. Most of these States pay less in Federal taxes then they receive in benefits (including farm subsidies) from the Federal Government. Yep that's right, the urbanite taxpaying scum is subsidizing your non-competitive businesses
But many developers probably use Safari Developer Mode to work on their projects, and this will help them.
Yes, but those developers don't get their recommendations from Consumer Reports. That magazine's audience would never have encountered that bug.
Obligatory car analogy: say they're testing a Ford Focus. They disable its antilock brakes so that a professional driver can get its best-case dry pavement stopping distance. Along the way, the find an OBD-II bug that causes the brakes to take twice as long to stop the car. They report the bad results instead of the normal, expected values. Yes, their test was correct! It found a bug that needs to be fixed. However, the only people who would ever see that bug are the exact ones who'd notice something was wrong and be able to troubleshoot it. You and I aren't ever going to disable our antilock brakes, even if a test engineer might.
I think that's kind of what happened here. Again, yes, they legit found a bug. My problem with it is that they reported the buggy results instead of the actual ones that a normal non-developer would see. A developer would notice their battery draining in a fourth the expected time and that it only happened when they were debugging in Safari, so they probably wouldn't even be significantly affected by the bug.
It is not a Bug. Disabling caching actually saves battery life to developers as it skips the steps where it checks to see if the cached version on disk is still up to date before downloading the new and writing to cache a version which will soon be outdated again. Sorry but I can't think of an obligatory car analogy
Climate is a long term average. 1 year has no meaning. Stupid articles such as these only open Climate Science to attacks when inevitable you end up with a colder then usual year despite the long-term average shows a clear upward trend
This is about training rounds polluting 100's of square miles of U.S soil used by the Military for combined arms training and war-games. Why pollute our own soil if it can be avoided?
Trench warfare went out of style with the invention of the Blitzkrieg, or what the U.S military likes to call it "Shock and Awe." The issue is not rounds fired at the shooting range, those are easy to clean up with a couple of shovels, what they are worried about is the shells scattered over 100's of square miles of Training grounds during live-fire war games
Intel's Itanium was a HPC (high performance computing) architecture meant to compete with IBM's Power and Sun's SPARC. Unfortunately delays and underperformance turned the product into a joke in the chip industry. There was never a road-map or intention to eventually bring it to the desktop as a i386 replacement. AMD saw an opportunity to score a marketing victory by extending i386 to 64bit before Intel did. The main benefit of 64bit is being able to address more memory then the 4GB 32bit registers are limited to. When the Opteron (first AMD64 processor) was released in 2003 the average amount of memory shipped with desktops was just 500Mb. Despite x86-64 underwhelming performance compared to HPC architectures, its cheap price and readily availability made it popular in the Enterprise market eventually killing Intel's own Itanium, all-but killing SPARC and relegating IBM's Power to a niche player
You assume that "getting worked on for longer" correlates with a higher probability of recovery. That's simply not the case. Health care workers are the ones most likely to have DNR's and living will's stating "no extraordinary measures" as they know that Standard procedure is to extend the life of the patient no matter how hopeless the chances of recovery or how painful those procedures and the extra time they are giving you is. Organ donor or not, I would rather go then live a few more hours in excruciating pain
Well I guess %99 of France is smarter then the %97.4 of the U.S in demanding policies that work for them
Sure, except that the policies aren't working. French unemployment is sky high, productivity is stagnant, and their public debt is unsustainable. So instead of dealing with any of those issues, they vote themselves more bread and circuses.
We just elected Trump, a populist egomaniac with no experience and ambiguous, often contradicting policy agendas. Are you sure you want to talk about the circus?
In other words you have a %2.6 chance of being a millionaire in the U.S vs a %1 in France.
Note quite. If you work both hard and at least a little smart in the US you are almost sure to become a millionaire by retirement. It would take less than 10% of median income in retirement savings over a 45 year career to reach millionaire status (in 2017 dollars). Either way for it to be nearly 3x harder to become a millionaire, which is by no means rich for a someone in the developed world, in France vs the USA is a serious problem.
In the U.S thanks to the disappearance of private sector pension systems, you better be a millionaire (in 2017 dollars) or soon after retirement you will be living just on the Social Security Income which is only supposed to be a safety net retirement income. In France the Social Security System is more like a pension system then a safety net
Well I guess %99 of France is smarter then the %97.4 of the U.S in demanding policies that work for them instead of hoping that one day they will get lucky and be one of those tiny percentages
As long as the 97.4% don't need salaries paid for by millionaire owners your logic is valid.
Millionaires don't pay salaries, the companies they are shareholders of do, they end up making more in dividends from those shares, then all the salaries paid to the employees working hard for the company. Salaries have remained stagnant for decades now meanwhile Corporate profits have skyrocketed. Most of those profits have been paid out as dividends to the rich shareholders thanks to the "Shareholder Primacy" theory which holds the employees to be just Red Ink on the balance sheet
How is that a better analogy? There are over 8M millionaires in the US, and less than 500K in France. And while the American number is increasing, that French number is *decreasing* - http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0...
What these policies are accomplishing is to get the entrepreneurs to leave France for other countries. Now, you might argue (as many in France do) that quality of life is more important than money. But for some quality of life it to be left the hell alone and not have your life run by a nanny state.
In other words you have a %2.6 chance of being a millionaire in the U.S vs a %1 in France. Well I guess %99 of France is smarter then the %97.4 of the U.S in demanding policies that work for them instead of hoping that one day they will get lucky and be one of those tiny percentages
In return they end up with the bottom of the barrel teachers that trains a know-nothing labor-force. Then Kansas sits there astonished how their Tax cuts couldn't convince the "overtaxed" Californian corporations to move there. Guess what Red States, the most important thing for Business is having the right tools to compete in the marketplace.
France already has very strong labor-protection laws. Nobody could be sanctioned because they didn't answer e-mail's while off the clock. This law is illogical, why stop people that want to work off-hours? Personally I often find it more satisfying to do some off-the-clock work then watch TV when I'm bored
The real question bekens whether Jesus would have wanted to have existed, had he known he would end up as the central figure of a Religion based in Rome that ends up persecuting his Jewish people in his own name
Trying to colonize Mars with rocket technology is like trying to Colonize the New World with canoes. What's really needed is a way to get off the planet that can do better then 10% takeoff weight to orbit (about theoretical max). Saturn V managed about 4%
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The players made those requests with the specific intent of improving their odds unfairly. In Contract Law (which is what applies when 2 parties make an agreement, in this case the rules to be used for a specific game) this is called acting in bad faith 1) n. intentional dishonest act by not fulfilling legal or contractual obligations, misleading another, entering into an agreement without the intention or means to fulfill it, or violating basic standards of honesty in dealing with others.
Landing a rocket is quite an achievement but the real test (and the ultimate goal) is to actually relaunch a used rocket successfully without extensive refurbishing
China's has built extensive infrastructure including high-speed rail to connect the Developed coastal regions with the Underdeveloped Interior. Much of the infrastructure remains underutilized and the development of the interior is still very slow despite the huge problems with overpopulation and pollution in the Developed regions. The truth is that it takes a lot more then infrastructure to develop economically-depressed areas.
The danger of huge losses due to the inherent risk of explosions is what's kept rocket technology squarely in the hands of government programs for most of its development. At the time when NASA seems to have lost its way, thank you SpaceX and BlueOrigin for having the guts to move the technology forward despite the enormous risks
An even better solution - move to a points system and no guest workers.
Here's another even better solution: Set a fixed limit, and then auction off the visas to the highest bidder, with the proceeds going to the US Treasury. Currently, they are free (other than a processing fee) and issued to whomever is first in the queue. An auction would ensure they go to the companies that value them the most, and have a real need to import critical skills, rather than just looking for cheap labor.
Seriously? Like the Tech Giants don't already have enough unfair advantages over smaller rivals and especially Startups which are the companies most likely to need to look offshore for people with uncommon skills
I am not a psychometrician and my number was a rather crude deduction from a quick google search that gives %68 of the population between between IQ's of 85 and 115. Assuming the remainder is roughly evenly divided between above and below, I deduced the %15 figure giving it a %2 margin of error. Thank you for the information though. Just because my post was mostly a rant against self-important jerks it doesn't mean I should have skimped on research
Most people don't upgrade the OS, you can see that perfectly clearly at the dismal %25 Windows 10 marketshare even though it was offered as a free upgrade and MS used all kinds of sleazy tactics to trick people into the upgrade. Most people end up with a new OS only when buying new PC's and the major problem Vista had was buckling to Vendor pressure and lowering the "required minimum specs" just before release. Those lowered specs simply were not good enough to provide a consistent and satisfactory user experience in Vista. MS significantly increased minimum specs in Windows 7, RAM requirements were doubled among other things
So the poor sucker that lost in the genetic lottery and is someone in the %15 of the population below average intelligence, has to stand all day doing an incredibly boring and repetitive job all the while being belittles and humiliated from average intelligence assholes like yourself; $15/hour? Not even $50 is good enough for having to deal with bullies like you
First of all the OP was talking about employer-provided health care which is all together different then people covered directly under the ACA marketplace plans.
Second. Comparing Private-insurance pre ACA plans with post ACA is not an apples-to-apples comparison. The ACA set requirements on the minimum plans must cover as well as ban common tactics like lifetime limits, which kept premiums down but made the plans all but useless for common but expensive ailments like heart disease and cancer. Treatment for those would easily surpass the lifetime limits and leave you liable to pay out-of-pocket until you became poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, were forced into Bankruptcy (or both).
As per the large 2015-2017 increase you saw. That was down to compensating for the laws new requirements as well as some growing pains as insurers figured out where the premiums need to be. Since the ACA requires the %85 of premiums be spent on actual health-care this was not a simple case of profiteering by insurers. Since then as your analysis shows the increases have stabilized below the historical average
You mean to tell me you empoyer dropped health insurance coverage, saving itself a bundle, but didn't increase your salary? I would say you got fleeced by your employer. In reality employer sponsored premium growth has actually slowed down since the ACA http://www.factcheck.org/2015/... so not only they fleeced you, they lied to you as well. It had nothing to do with the ACA and everything to do with the suits getting big fat bonuses for "trimming costs" at your expense
And what would you have without farms, you urbanite scum?
$20 billion less farm subsidies a year. Most of the money goes to big, rich farmers producing staple commodities such as corn and soyabeans in Midwestern states. Most of these States pay less in Federal taxes then they receive in benefits (including farm subsidies) from the Federal Government. Yep that's right, the urbanite taxpaying scum is subsidizing your non-competitive businesses
"Thank you sir, may I have another"
But many developers probably use Safari Developer Mode to work on their projects, and this will help them.
Yes, but those developers don't get their recommendations from Consumer Reports. That magazine's audience would never have encountered that bug.
Obligatory car analogy: say they're testing a Ford Focus. They disable its antilock brakes so that a professional driver can get its best-case dry pavement stopping distance. Along the way, the find an OBD-II bug that causes the brakes to take twice as long to stop the car. They report the bad results instead of the normal, expected values. Yes, their test was correct! It found a bug that needs to be fixed. However, the only people who would ever see that bug are the exact ones who'd notice something was wrong and be able to troubleshoot it. You and I aren't ever going to disable our antilock brakes, even if a test engineer might.
I think that's kind of what happened here. Again, yes, they legit found a bug. My problem with it is that they reported the buggy results instead of the actual ones that a normal non-developer would see. A developer would notice their battery draining in a fourth the expected time and that it only happened when they were debugging in Safari, so they probably wouldn't even be significantly affected by the bug.
It is not a Bug. Disabling caching actually saves battery life to developers as it skips the steps where it checks to see if the cached version on disk is still up to date before downloading the new and writing to cache a version which will soon be outdated again. Sorry but I can't think of an obligatory car analogy
Climate is a long term average. 1 year has no meaning. Stupid articles such as these only open Climate Science to attacks when inevitable you end up with a colder then usual year despite the long-term average shows a clear upward trend
This is about training rounds polluting 100's of square miles of U.S soil used by the Military for combined arms training and war-games. Why pollute our own soil if it can be avoided?
Trench warfare went out of style with the invention of the Blitzkrieg, or what the U.S military likes to call it "Shock and Awe." The issue is not rounds fired at the shooting range, those are easy to clean up with a couple of shovels, what they are worried about is the shells scattered over 100's of square miles of Training grounds during live-fire war games
Intel's Itanium was a HPC (high performance computing) architecture meant to compete with IBM's Power and Sun's SPARC. Unfortunately delays and underperformance turned the product into a joke in the chip industry. There was never a road-map or intention to eventually bring it to the desktop as a i386 replacement. AMD saw an opportunity to score a marketing victory by extending i386 to 64bit before Intel did. The main benefit of 64bit is being able to address more memory then the 4GB 32bit registers are limited to. When the Opteron (first AMD64 processor) was released in 2003 the average amount of memory shipped with desktops was just 500Mb. Despite x86-64 underwhelming performance compared to HPC architectures, its cheap price and readily availability made it popular in the Enterprise market eventually killing Intel's own Itanium, all-but killing SPARC and relegating IBM's Power to a niche player
You assume that "getting worked on for longer" correlates with a higher probability of recovery. That's simply not the case. Health care workers are the ones most likely to have DNR's and living will's stating "no extraordinary measures" as they know that Standard procedure is to extend the life of the patient no matter how hopeless the chances of recovery or how painful those procedures and the extra time they are giving you is. Organ donor or not, I would rather go then live a few more hours in excruciating pain
Well I guess %99 of France is smarter then the %97.4 of the U.S in demanding policies that work for them
Sure, except that the policies aren't working. French unemployment is sky high, productivity is stagnant, and their public debt is unsustainable. So instead of dealing with any of those issues, they vote themselves more bread and circuses.
We just elected Trump, a populist egomaniac with no experience and ambiguous, often contradicting policy agendas. Are you sure you want to talk about the circus?
In other words you have a %2.6 chance of being a millionaire in the U.S vs a %1 in France.
Note quite. If you work both hard and at least a little smart in the US you are almost sure to become a millionaire by retirement. It would take less than 10% of median income in retirement savings over a 45 year career to reach millionaire status (in 2017 dollars). Either way for it to be nearly 3x harder to become a millionaire, which is by no means rich for a someone in the developed world, in France vs the USA is a serious problem.
In the U.S thanks to the disappearance of private sector pension systems, you better be a millionaire (in 2017 dollars) or soon after retirement you will be living just on the Social Security Income which is only supposed to be a safety net retirement income. In France the Social Security System is more like a pension system then a safety net
Well I guess %99 of France is smarter then the %97.4 of the U.S in demanding policies that work for them instead of hoping that one day they will get lucky and be one of those tiny percentages
As long as the 97.4% don't need salaries paid for by millionaire owners your logic is valid.
Millionaires don't pay salaries, the companies they are shareholders of do, they end up making more in dividends from those shares, then all the salaries paid to the employees working hard for the company. Salaries have remained stagnant for decades now meanwhile Corporate profits have skyrocketed. Most of those profits have been paid out as dividends to the rich shareholders thanks to the "Shareholder Primacy" theory which holds the employees to be just Red Ink on the balance sheet
How is that a better analogy? There are over 8M millionaires in the US, and less than 500K in France. And while the American number is increasing, that French number is *decreasing* - http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/0...
What these policies are accomplishing is to get the entrepreneurs to leave France for other countries. Now, you might argue (as many in France do) that quality of life is more important than money. But for some quality of life it to be left the hell alone and not have your life run by a nanny state.
In other words you have a %2.6 chance of being a millionaire in the U.S vs a %1 in France. Well I guess %99 of France is smarter then the %97.4 of the U.S in demanding policies that work for them instead of hoping that one day they will get lucky and be one of those tiny percentages
In return they end up with the bottom of the barrel teachers that trains a know-nothing labor-force. Then Kansas sits there astonished how their Tax cuts couldn't convince the "overtaxed" Californian corporations to move there. Guess what Red States, the most important thing for Business is having the right tools to compete in the marketplace.
France already has very strong labor-protection laws. Nobody could be sanctioned because they didn't answer e-mail's while off the clock. This law is illogical, why stop people that want to work off-hours? Personally I often find it more satisfying to do some off-the-clock work then watch TV when I'm bored
The real question bekens whether Jesus would have wanted to have existed, had he known he would end up as the central figure of a Religion based in Rome that ends up persecuting his Jewish people in his own name
Trying to colonize Mars with rocket technology is like trying to Colonize the New World with canoes. What's really needed is a way to get off the planet that can do better then 10% takeoff weight to orbit (about theoretical max). Saturn V managed about 4%