Low paid jobs are corporate welfare. They want employees but don't want to pay enough for them to remain alive and healthy and live near where the labour is required, so they rely on the government to make up the shortfall.
It's pure greed. If they are forced to pay more they won't say "okay, let's just shot down the whole thing", they will simply make a bit less profit or raise prices. They will adjust their business model, or realize that it is not viable without government subsidy.
I had a Mitsubishi with this feature and it was fine. I used it a lot too. I guess your boss' problems were more to do with the implementation than the concept.
Yeah, but you also have to remember that every time a rule is introduced someone lost the opportunity to make some profit, had to pay for some safety gear, was forced to fit a filter, had to internalize a cost. That regulation injured someone's wallet. It was enacted to reduce someone's bottom line.
And that someone was probably a major donor./sarcasm
When Clinton runs a private email server it's the crime of the century, when one of Trump's friends illegal supports him or pays off a porn star on his behalf it's just a witch hunt.
The story submission system has been broken for a while. Everything you submit gets marked as spam, and then it stops you posting comments too, and you have to email the site staff to get it fixed but your submission remains in the spam folder anyway... So naturally people got fed up of being punished for submitting stuff.
Allegedly it's fixed now, but I have not tried it yet. Maybe later today.
Most of them are scams. A few do actually work though (Adderall being a popular choice), but they are all prescription only and have quite a few side effects.
They are like a club with an open mic. They might allow most people but can certainly ban anyone they want to as well.
The "public space" argument is mostly coming from the freeze peach crowd, but they have little credibility. Guys like Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon, complain about being silenced while raking in nearly $8000/month from Patreon and having nearly 800,000 subscribers on YouTube alone. Sure, he was banned from Twitter, but simply moved to Gab and is now more popular then ever.
So given that he clearly isn't being silenced in any meaningful way, he has to claim that Twitter is a public space and he permaban is a global outrage and 1st amendment violation.
It's true that he can easily evade this if he wants to, although it is kinda embarrassing to be effectively barred from visiting a country because you don't want to answer questions about the scandals you presided over.
Considering how well he came off from the US hearings I think he might come. Our MPs are pretty tame really.
To be fair you are mixing up Google and Facebook there, and Google is still far more liberal in terms of what it allows on YouTube. There are a lot of channels far more extreme than Diamond and Silk. It has to be said that SoundCloud is quite good too with hosting far right podcasts, although maybe because they get less attention.
But yes, commercial realities hit YouTube. They make money from ads, and advertisers are more discerning than they had hoped.
Miles of shelving is easier for me to visualize than Libraries of Congress. I don't have any idea how much text the latter holds. In fact the only ever time I've heard it mentioned is on Slashdot.
We can probably guess why the channel was removed. Some of the videos seemed to be making medical claims about the drugs, and the descriptions had links where you could buy them... So basically a bunch of infomercials making claims not backed up by medical science.
Some people just do it for the thrill. I play the lottery, even though the chance of winning is tiny it gives me a little bit of entertainment each week in exchange for a tiny sum of money I can afford to lose.
But like most things that are fun and pleasurable, it can be addictive. That little hit of adrenaline when the wheel spins or you get a good hand creates a feedback loop. It's a known vulnerability in the human brain, there is probably a CVE for it somewhere.
A lot of this hostility is coming from Shog9. Ever since they hired that guy he has been ruining SO and encouraging other moderators to do the same. The community staff are completely useless under his leadership and direction, and he personally likes to wade in late to the party and blunder around making things worse.
It's for recruiting purposes. I've seen more than one person boast about their great rep on SO, as evidence that they are teaching other people. I'm always tempted to point out that at least 75% of the answers on SO are awful, but get lots of votes anyway.
If you read the discussion about this blog post on Meta (Stack Exchange's discussion site for meta issues) it's all just people whining that they can't possible be nice because it would lower the quality of the site, and it's too much hassle for them (but they can't possibly stop playing), or they just deny the problem even exists and call the author an SJW.
It's basically become another Wikipedia. Elitist and extremely hostile to new players. And the joke it, this much valued quality is actually pretty low - most technical questions have really, really bad answers.
I see quite a few people on SE using the name Mohammed.
As to your question about why people are using their real names... I could ask you the same thing, Alvin. Maybe that isn't your real name, but SE is also a job site and many people use their real names on job sites like Monster and LinkedIn.
But you beg the question, why should people have to hide their identity online? If SE were an egalitarian utopia then surely it wouldn't matter. So perhaps we can at least agree that there is a problem.
No, the very basis of modern feminist theory, the most fundamental aspect of it, is that the issue is the patriarchal nature of society. Not men, not ideology, the system we live in that is mostly shaped by historical factors.
You are right, it is absurd, but it's also your own straw man.
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Low paid jobs are corporate welfare. They want employees but don't want to pay enough for them to remain alive and healthy and live near where the labour is required, so they rely on the government to make up the shortfall.
It's pure greed. If they are forced to pay more they won't say "okay, let's just shot down the whole thing", they will simply make a bit less profit or raise prices. They will adjust their business model, or realize that it is not viable without government subsidy.
I had a Mitsubishi with this feature and it was fine. I used it a lot too. I guess your boss' problems were more to do with the implementation than the concept.
Yeah, but you also have to remember that every time a rule is introduced someone lost the opportunity to make some profit, had to pay for some safety gear, was forced to fit a filter, had to internalize a cost. That regulation injured someone's wallet. It was enacted to reduce someone's bottom line.
And that someone was probably a major donor. /sarcasm
When Clinton runs a private email server it's the crime of the century, when one of Trump's friends illegal supports him or pays off a porn star on his behalf it's just a witch hunt.
The story submission system has been broken for a while. Everything you submit gets marked as spam, and then it stops you posting comments too, and you have to email the site staff to get it fixed but your submission remains in the spam folder anyway... So naturally people got fed up of being punished for submitting stuff.
Allegedly it's fixed now, but I have not tried it yet. Maybe later today.
He's just waiting for her to fail.
Rudd was fucked over by being made May's shield. Anyone who hitches themselves to her mast eventually lives to regret it.
If a CA is not verifying identity then what use is their certificate?
It allows your connection to the web site to be encrypted, preventing ISPs and other nefarious agents from spying on you to a limited extent.
Most of them are scams. A few do actually work though (Adderall being a popular choice), but they are all prescription only and have quite a few side effects.
They are like a club with an open mic. They might allow most people but can certainly ban anyone they want to as well.
The "public space" argument is mostly coming from the freeze peach crowd, but they have little credibility. Guys like Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon, complain about being silenced while raking in nearly $8000/month from Patreon and having nearly 800,000 subscribers on YouTube alone. Sure, he was banned from Twitter, but simply moved to Gab and is now more popular then ever.
So given that he clearly isn't being silenced in any meaningful way, he has to claim that Twitter is a public space and he permaban is a global outrage and 1st amendment violation.
It's true that he can easily evade this if he wants to, although it is kinda embarrassing to be effectively barred from visiting a country because you don't want to answer questions about the scandals you presided over.
Considering how well he came off from the US hearings I think he might come. Our MPs are pretty tame really.
To be fair you are mixing up Google and Facebook there, and Google is still far more liberal in terms of what it allows on YouTube. There are a lot of channels far more extreme than Diamond and Silk. It has to be said that SoundCloud is quite good too with hosting far right podcasts, although maybe because they get less attention.
But yes, commercial realities hit YouTube. They make money from ads, and advertisers are more discerning than they had hoped.
I agree, they should be much more transparent about the reasons for bans.
Miles of shelving is easier for me to visualize than Libraries of Congress. I don't have any idea how much text the latter holds. In fact the only ever time I've heard it mentioned is on Slashdot.
We can probably guess why the channel was removed. Some of the videos seemed to be making medical claims about the drugs, and the descriptions had links where you could buy them... So basically a bunch of infomercials making claims not backed up by medical science.
Some people just do it for the thrill. I play the lottery, even though the chance of winning is tiny it gives me a little bit of entertainment each week in exchange for a tiny sum of money I can afford to lose.
But like most things that are fun and pleasurable, it can be addictive. That little hit of adrenaline when the wheel spins or you get a good hand creates a feedback loop. It's a known vulnerability in the human brain, there is probably a CVE for it somewhere.
A lot of this hostility is coming from Shog9. Ever since they hired that guy he has been ruining SO and encouraging other moderators to do the same. The community staff are completely useless under his leadership and direction, and he personally likes to wade in late to the party and blunder around making things worse.
Start by getting rid of the root of the problem.
Yes, PLEASE do this. Some of us want to discuss these topics, and if you are not interested or find them offensive then please just scroll on.
If you suspect you won't get a good response if your gender is known, don't make it known.
I dislike this argument because it reminds me of telling women to wear a burka to avoid unwanted attention.
It's for recruiting purposes. I've seen more than one person boast about their great rep on SO, as evidence that they are teaching other people. I'm always tempted to point out that at least 75% of the answers on SO are awful, but get lots of votes anyway.
See the little "1" next to Stack Overflow in the article? Scroll to the bottom and you will find this:
"1. This post focuses on Stack Overflow, but most of it applies to the broader Stack Exchange network as well."
I don't know why people keep paying to see the latest Transformers movie, I just wish they would stop.
If you read the discussion about this blog post on Meta (Stack Exchange's discussion site for meta issues) it's all just people whining that they can't possible be nice because it would lower the quality of the site, and it's too much hassle for them (but they can't possibly stop playing), or they just deny the problem even exists and call the author an SJW.
It's basically become another Wikipedia. Elitist and extremely hostile to new players. And the joke it, this much valued quality is actually pretty low - most technical questions have really, really bad answers.
I see quite a few people on SE using the name Mohammed.
As to your question about why people are using their real names... I could ask you the same thing, Alvin. Maybe that isn't your real name, but SE is also a job site and many people use their real names on job sites like Monster and LinkedIn.
But you beg the question, why should people have to hide their identity online? If SE were an egalitarian utopia then surely it wouldn't matter. So perhaps we can at least agree that there is a problem.
No, the very basis of modern feminist theory, the most fundamental aspect of it, is that the issue is the patriarchal nature of society. Not men, not ideology, the system we live in that is mostly shaped by historical factors.
You are right, it is absurd, but it's also your own straw man.