In one scenario, Hobby Lobby pays the insurance company who pays the pharmacy who gives the contraception to the employee. In the second scenario, Hobby Lobby pays the employee who pays the pharmacy who gives the contraception to the employee. Hobby Lobby is the same distance from the use of contraception in both cases. The only difference is that in the second case the company is using its position of power to disadvantage the employee who has to pay a higher cost out of pocket for an important medial good.
As a libertarian though my main issue is really with the state having to much power in the first place. Private security forces are just fine, but they should work for private groups. Your home owners association should be hiring security to keep your neighborhood safe for example, they naturally don't get the legal protection and police powers a 'state' agency would have, which is a powerful and important check on them and you.
Wow. As if the poor parts of town weren't crime-ridden enough already, you want them to be practically un-policed because they can't afford it? I'd much prefer my money go into a generalized geographical pool so I don't have to be escorted by a private bodyguard whenever I leave my safe little bubble of a neighborhood.
Better yet, make the law that without the camera on, the cop loses all privileges normally enjoyed by law enforcement officers. If he injures or kills anyone, he goes to jail for murder or assault like anyone else.
Mankind extending its reach out to space is like moving out of your parent's house when you're an adult. It might not make the most sense financially but it's important for you to learn how to make it out there on your own. It's for your own good.
1. They take $50 from your taxes 2. Hand that money to people that are not doing anything productive 3. They spend that money, first and foremost, on things that they need 4. People that produce things they need hire more workers to handle the increase in demand. 5. People that were previously doing nothing productive now have a job and take their wages and contribute back to the economy.
Wealth redistribution should be more thought of as demand redistribution. People without wealth still have needs but have no way to express that within the market. Past a certain point, what you have are wants rather than needs. While I'm sure you think your wants are more important because you are capable of managing and hiring a bunch of minimum wage drones and keeping the profits to yourself, some people realize that it's worth sacrificing the wants of some to fulfill the needs of others. Taxing for welfare allows those needs to have a voice in the market where they otherwise would be ignored.
Free riders are a solved problem. The state I attended college in, Florida, has a tuition assistance program called "Bright Futures". It pays 50%/75%/100% of your tuition based on your HS and college grades regardless of need. However, if you flunk out of even one class, you have to pay them back the money you got for that class. I don't know the exact rules if you don't graduate but you could also make people pay the money back if they fail to graduate.
Ultimately, though, all we're talking about here is tuition. Not a full "free ride". Someone who goes to college just to party still has to pay room and board, food costs, school fees, etc.
The country has moved further left? Hardly. Instead, the center point has leaped further to the right. Many of this president's poilicies are no more liberal than Ronald Reagan yet the far right calls him a socialist. Check this out. Look at the graph labeled "Party Means on Liberal-Conservative Dimension" and notice the jump on the conservative side. In particular, the Republican House of Representatives.
This is the case that I was referencing specifically. The only thing the man was guilty of was being incapable of following the officers' orders and we all know how authoritative thugs hate it when someone doesn't listen to them. This was not supply second decision making, the man was completely unarmed. This was just a ruthless murderous beating.
They don't need to discard it. Very few officers have ever been charged with murder while on duty regardless of whether or not there's video evidence and/or tons of witnesses.
Even if you, say, bash an innocent homeless man's face in, tase him repeatedly as he screams for help, and pile six officers on him until he suffocates.
The managers are the ones that ultimately make the decision about what moves forward and what doesn't. The individual developers don't get to make that choice.
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
The government should start using Slashdot Beta instead of music to torture detainees. Just sit them down in a room with a computer that can't go to any website except Slashdot Beta. They wouldn't last 5 minutes. I know I couldn't.
Hah. You're right about the word veracity. I should have used arrogance or audacity.
You're also possibly right that the workers think they have created gold too. However, any project manager worth his salt would look at the reaction to the redesign and change the course of the work. The lowly nerd at the bottom of the totem pole might be stubborn enough to want to keep his way, but he has no power. The managers are the ones with the power to decide whether or not the beta moves forward. It is ultimately their fault but it's unlikely that they will shoulder the blame.
My advice to the peons working on Slashdot: find another job. The veracity with which this "upgrade" is being pushed displays a stubbornness that can only be attributed to MBAs with no idea of what Slashdot is about. The fact that the commenting system is such an afterthought in the Beta is as much evidence as I need that the people pushing this redesign never use this site.
I know you don't get to decide whether or not the Beta moves forward or which design gets used, but believe this: You WILL be blamed when it fails. You work for a corporation now and the higher ups with undoubtedly throw you under the bus when they have to explain to their bosses or shareholders why the website redesign failed. This failure is going to be associated with you and your teammates and it will set back any hopes you have of being promoted within the company. Take the advice of me and my fellow Slashdotters: Get out now.
Slashdot Mirror
In one scenario, Hobby Lobby pays the insurance company who pays the pharmacy who gives the contraception to the employee. In the second scenario, Hobby Lobby pays the employee who pays the pharmacy who gives the contraception to the employee. Hobby Lobby is the same distance from the use of contraception in both cases. The only difference is that in the second case the company is using its position of power to disadvantage the employee who has to pay a higher cost out of pocket for an important medial good.
Come on, guys. Post the damn transcript instead of a stupid video.
Next year may create an entirely new set of problems for tech.
Problems like how to treat their employees like human beings rather than disposable trash?
As a libertarian though my main issue is really with the state having to much power in the first place. Private security forces are just fine, but they should work for private groups. Your home owners association should be hiring security to keep your neighborhood safe for example, they naturally don't get the legal protection and police powers a 'state' agency would have, which is a powerful and important check on them and you.
Wow. As if the poor parts of town weren't crime-ridden enough already, you want them to be practically un-policed because they can't afford it? I'd much prefer my money go into a generalized geographical pool so I don't have to be escorted by a private bodyguard whenever I leave my safe little bubble of a neighborhood.
Better yet, make the law that without the camera on, the cop loses all privileges normally enjoyed by law enforcement officers. If he injures or kills anyone, he goes to jail for murder or assault like anyone else.
Mankind extending its reach out to space is like moving out of your parent's house when you're an adult. It might not make the most sense financially but it's important for you to learn how to make it out there on your own. It's for your own good.
Greed is good if you have money and want more. Greed is bad if you don't have money but you want more.
"You want how much for working at McDonalds!?!? Fuck that! Now where's my capital gains tax break?"
No. It goes like this:
1. They take $50 from your taxes
2. Hand that money to people that are not doing anything productive
3. They spend that money, first and foremost, on things that they need
4. People that produce things they need hire more workers to handle the increase in demand.
5. People that were previously doing nothing productive now have a job and take their wages and contribute back to the economy.
Wealth redistribution should be more thought of as demand redistribution. People without wealth still have needs but have no way to express that within the market. Past a certain point, what you have are wants rather than needs. While I'm sure you think your wants are more important because you are capable of managing and hiring a bunch of minimum wage drones and keeping the profits to yourself, some people realize that it's worth sacrificing the wants of some to fulfill the needs of others. Taxing for welfare allows those needs to have a voice in the market where they otherwise would be ignored.
Free riders are a solved problem. The state I attended college in, Florida, has a tuition assistance program called "Bright Futures". It pays 50%/75%/100% of your tuition based on your HS and college grades regardless of need. However, if you flunk out of even one class, you have to pay them back the money you got for that class. I don't know the exact rules if you don't graduate but you could also make people pay the money back if they fail to graduate.
Ultimately, though, all we're talking about here is tuition. Not a full "free ride". Someone who goes to college just to party still has to pay room and board, food costs, school fees, etc.
In particular, they'll have to grow a spin and stop pandering to the nutters.
At first I thought you meant "grow a spine." Then I realized that growing a spin makes way more sense when you're talking about politicians...
The country has moved further left? Hardly. Instead, the center point has leaped further to the right. Many of this president's poilicies are no more liberal than Ronald Reagan yet the far right calls him a socialist. Check this out. Look at the graph labeled "Party Means on Liberal-Conservative Dimension" and notice the jump on the conservative side. In particular, the Republican House of Representatives.
Here's the citation, for anyone interested: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324103504578372342066362234
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kelly_Thomas The actual link
This is the case that I was referencing specifically. The only thing the man was guilty of was being incapable of following the officers' orders and we all know how authoritative thugs hate it when someone doesn't listen to them. This was not supply second decision making, the man was completely unarmed. This was just a ruthless murderous beating.
They don't need to discard it. Very few officers have ever been charged with murder while on duty regardless of whether or not there's video evidence and/or tons of witnesses.
Even if you, say, bash an innocent homeless man's face in, tase him repeatedly as he screams for help, and pile six officers on him until he suffocates.
The managers are the ones that ultimately make the decision about what moves forward and what doesn't. The individual developers don't get to make that choice.
Slashdot is officially being actively destroyed because it doesn't make enough advertising revenue anymore
From the report:
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Slashdot is officially being actively destroyed because it doesn't make enough advertising revenue anymore
From the report:
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Holy shit, that's huge. It all makes sense now.
So here we go: BETA SUCKS!
Audacity was the word I was thinking of. Arrogance.
The government should start using Slashdot Beta instead of music to torture detainees. Just sit them down in a room with a computer that can't go to any website except Slashdot Beta. They wouldn't last 5 minutes. I know I couldn't.
The FBI wants some of the worst, most vile, malicious, terrible crap on the internet.
Yet even they don't want Slashdot Beta.
Hah. You're right about the word veracity. I should have used arrogance or audacity.
You're also possibly right that the workers think they have created gold too. However, any project manager worth his salt would look at the reaction to the redesign and change the course of the work. The lowly nerd at the bottom of the totem pole might be stubborn enough to want to keep his way, but he has no power. The managers are the ones with the power to decide whether or not the beta moves forward. It is ultimately their fault but it's unlikely that they will shoulder the blame.
My advice to the peons working on Slashdot: find another job. The veracity with which this "upgrade" is being pushed displays a stubbornness that can only be attributed to MBAs with no idea of what Slashdot is about. The fact that the commenting system is such an afterthought in the Beta is as much evidence as I need that the people pushing this redesign never use this site.
I know you don't get to decide whether or not the Beta moves forward or which design gets used, but believe this: You WILL be blamed when it fails. You work for a corporation now and the higher ups with undoubtedly throw you under the bus when they have to explain to their bosses or shareholders why the website redesign failed. This failure is going to be associated with you and your teammates and it will set back any hopes you have of being promoted within the company. Take the advice of me and my fellow Slashdotters: Get out now.