The article says "Years later" but from looking at the site, most of the employees have been there less than a year and not many have been there for more than two. I suppose describing the elapsed time as years is strictly accurate but it's a bit misleading.
but rather a combination of critical thinking courses and civics
That is a great idea but churches would see that as being worse than teaching evolution. And then have some consideration for the poor politicians... how on earth could they mislead an electorate versed in critical thinking.
They will probably move most of the positions to India, Brazil, Hungary, where-ever
Yep. The IT team I used to work in got to train up IBM support teams in Poland and India to take over a company's UK IT support allowing IBM to redeploy us. I took voluntary redundancy a year ago which has turned out to be good timing because I've heard from former colleagues that the headcount reduction with reduced severance terms is happening in the UK too.
Oh, so it's cherry picked examples to inflame those on the right and make them froth at the mouth and also worry those who could be coerced onto being more right-leaning.
The John William Pope Center sounds like a training ground for Daily Mail journalists.
I'm the only person in my office that still uses wired keyboard and mouse and I don't find it inconvenient at all. My mug of tea sits between the keyboard and mouse cables and there have been no mishaps.
They're not going to tell anyone, let alone the FBI, if they have technique for getting information from locked iPhones. Many western politicians use them and that would be too good a source of intel to pass up.
It may have been billed purely as "Star Wars" but I can remember being puzzled as I sat in the cinema over the fact that the scrolling text at the start was titled "Episode IV: A New Hope". Why haven't I heard of episodes I, II and III, I wondered.
Now I'm nearly 40 years older and wish I had never heard of episodes I, II and III.
I did wonder why they were actually doing a consultation rather than just plunging headlong into introducing short-sighted, impractical and unworkable legislation like they usually do when trying to pander to their main support base.
Of course, if they don't like what the consultation suggests then it will probably be back to knee-jerk plan A.
'Yuri Zhirkov was in attendance at the Stamford Bridge at the start of the second half but neither Drogba nor Malouda was able to push on through the Barcelona defence.'
Barcelona playing at Stamford Bridge? That hasn't happened for years!
There's probably financial reward for someone as well... at least once Google figure out how to give a non-exec position where someone as useless as George Osborne can't do any harm.
But what country actually provides more than the illusion of liberty and privacy?
I think the answer is your country, wherever you may be, _if_ you are fantastically rich. At least that seems to be the case in any, what would generally be classed as, "first-world" country.
Well if you assume the majority of Slashdot commentators are based in the US, then, from that link you provided...
Making The U.S. One Percent
Of course, Americans live in the United States, contending with U.S. prices. Who constitutes the one percent if you just look at the U.S.? Not surprisingly, it takes a massively higher income to crack the top percentile of wage earners: You’d have to make $434,682 in adjusted gross income to make the cut, according to the non-partisan Tax Foundation.
And to rank amongst the highest one percent of Americans by wealth? That requires net assets of more than $7 million, based on the latest Federal Reserve figures.
Being in the global one percent doesn't cut it when you're in a country where not many fall within the global poor 99%.
Disclaimer: I have always lived in United Kingdom. We don't really have basements.
I'd expect the flat-earthers to have a stock reply for that one. Much like the believers of other ridiculous things have their toolkit of responses to use to deflect the truth.
Having said that, I would be really interested in their explanation of how it can be noon in Hawaii at the same time as it's the middle of the night in Paris. That's got to be a good one.
It seems the report is only available after registration and I'm not going to bother but there's a question on my mind.
This was based on response entries on a website devoted to linking job seekers with employment. So the majority of users, who will be the job seekers rather than the employers, will want employers to have the expectation that greater salaries are required to attract, motivate and retain staff...
...so how likely is it that a proportion of the responses were wishful thinking rather then accurate?
It's funny how everyone seems to "know" that benefit tourism exists, well by everyone I mean those who read The Daily Mail/Express/Telegraph, but the actual evidence seems to be harder to find.
Maybe my experience is atypical but everyone I'm acquainted with who is from elsewhere in Europe is either a student or has a job and everyone I know on benefits was born here.
If it becomes established then there will probably be penalties for not choosing to. "But why would you decline something that can help you?" says the university administrator as they set the "expel at earliest minor infraction" flag on the students file.
Well it's not a million miles away from the schoolboy's clock mistaken for bomb story. Although I'm pretty sure someone would have said that didn't belong on this site either.
I noticed some link a friend had posted with a news parody site with the headline "Schoolboy anxiously spellchecks homework after writing about the iris in his garden".
Slashdot Mirror
The article says "Years later" but from looking at the site, most of the employees have been there less than a year and not many have been there for more than two. I suppose describing the elapsed time as years is strictly accurate but it's a bit misleading.
but rather a combination of critical thinking courses and civics
That is a great idea but churches would see that as being worse than teaching evolution. And then have some consideration for the poor politicians... how on earth could they mislead an electorate versed in critical thinking.
They will probably move most of the positions to India, Brazil, Hungary, where-ever
Yep. The IT team I used to work in got to train up IBM support teams in Poland and India to take over a company's UK IT support allowing IBM to redeploy us. I took voluntary redundancy a year ago which has turned out to be good timing because I've heard from former colleagues that the headcount reduction with reduced severance terms is happening in the UK too.
Oh, so it's cherry picked examples to inflame those on the right and make them froth at the mouth and also worry those who could be coerced onto being more right-leaning.
The John William Pope Center sounds like a training ground for Daily Mail journalists.
Maybe Osborne did give Google money and then claim to the press that they had paid a "substantial" value in back taxes to the treasury.
I guess the Eton curriculum doesn't cover the correct use of "substantial".
I'm the only person in my office that still uses wired keyboard and mouse and I don't find it inconvenient at all. My mug of tea sits between the keyboard and mouse cables and there have been no mishaps.
They're not going to tell anyone, let alone the FBI, if they have technique for getting information from locked iPhones. Many western politicians use them and that would be too good a source of intel to pass up.
Wiki page agrees with you.
Flaky memory on my part I guess. I was sure I was familiar with the concept of episode IV from '78 (I'm also in UK) but it seems I can't have been.
It may have been billed purely as "Star Wars" but I can remember being puzzled as I sat in the cinema over the fact that the scrolling text at the start was titled "Episode IV: A New Hope". Why haven't I heard of episodes I, II and III, I wondered.
Now I'm nearly 40 years older and wish I had never heard of episodes I, II and III.
I did wonder why they were actually doing a consultation rather than just plunging headlong into introducing short-sighted, impractical and unworkable legislation like they usually do when trying to pander to their main support base.
Of course, if they don't like what the consultation suggests then it will probably be back to knee-jerk plan A.
'Yuri Zhirkov was in attendance at the Stamford Bridge at the start of the second half but neither Drogba nor Malouda was able to push on through the Barcelona defence.'
Barcelona playing at Stamford Bridge? That hasn't happened for years!
There's probably financial reward for someone as well... at least once Google figure out how to give a non-exec position where someone as useless as George Osborne can't do any harm.
The original Robocop movie correctly predicted how these things might turn out. Infallible is not the adjective to apply.
Still, at least it shot a company exec during a demo, so not a total failure.
But what country actually provides more than the illusion of liberty and privacy?
I think the answer is your country, wherever you may be, _if_ you are fantastically rich. At least that seems to be the case in any, what would generally be classed as, "first-world" country.
and the way the UK has dumped all of her colonies
The UK didn't really have much say in it; they all chose to leave and there was often war or conflict involved.
Well if you assume the majority of Slashdot commentators are based in the US, then, from that link you provided...
Making The U.S. One Percent Of course, Americans live in the United States, contending with U.S. prices. Who constitutes the one percent if you just look at the U.S.? Not surprisingly, it takes a massively higher income to crack the top percentile of wage earners: You’d have to make $434,682 in adjusted gross income to make the cut, according to the non-partisan Tax Foundation. And to rank amongst the highest one percent of Americans by wealth? That requires net assets of more than $7 million, based on the latest Federal Reserve figures.
Being in the global one percent doesn't cut it when you're in a country where not many fall within the global poor 99%.
Disclaimer: I have always lived in United Kingdom. We don't really have basements.
globe
A flat-earther just had an aneurysm.
I'd expect the flat-earthers to have a stock reply for that one. Much like the believers of other ridiculous things have their toolkit of responses to use to deflect the truth.
Having said that, I would be really interested in their explanation of how it can be noon in Hawaii at the same time as it's the middle of the night in Paris. That's got to be a good one.
It seems the report is only available after registration and I'm not going to bother but there's a question on my mind.
This was based on response entries on a website devoted to linking job seekers with employment. So the majority of users, who will be the job seekers rather than the employers, will want employers to have the expectation that greater salaries are required to attract, motivate and retain staff...
...so how likely is it that a proportion of the responses were wishful thinking rather then accurate?
It's funny how everyone seems to "know" that benefit tourism exists, well by everyone I mean those who read The Daily Mail/Express/Telegraph, but the actual evidence seems to be harder to find.
Maybe my experience is atypical but everyone I'm acquainted with who is from elsewhere in Europe is either a student or has a job and everyone I know on benefits was born here.
...if they choose.
If it becomes established then there will probably be penalties for not choosing to. "But why would you decline something that can help you?" says the university administrator as they set the "expel at earliest minor infraction" flag on the students file.
Was this a few years ago? Because if it was recent then I'd worry whenever there was a knock at the door.
Well it's not a million miles away from the schoolboy's clock mistaken for bomb story. Although I'm pretty sure someone would have said that didn't belong on this site either.
I noticed some link a friend had posted with a news parody site with the headline "Schoolboy anxiously spellchecks homework after writing about the iris in his garden".
It does have Sky News though but it's not quite the same.
Sky is just another Murdoch outlet.