Those ISIS guys better watch now! Anonymous will be sending a barrage of pizzas to them that they didn't even order, and probably posting some dick pics on the their websites!
Have you yourself done anything at all against IS (or their other faces Boko Harem and Al Qaeda) other than talk?
If they can do anything at all that hurts IS, BH or AQ (ie anti-propaganda) they'll have done SOMETHING.
So if you have NOT done something useful, you should probably keep your trap shut.
they would sign up for the military and go bust some rear
You're assuming that the military is actually busting some rear.
I am very much underwhelmed with the progress being made by our military.
As an example, I would like to know why it's only now that the US attacks the oil trucks smuggling oil out of IS held territory when we have known for at least a year that this is how they generate the majority of their revenue. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...
...my company's accountant told me that someone in Los Angeles had used my SSN and the IRS was trying to garnish my wages. She told them that I was certainly not Mr. Aguilar and that I was not responsible for Mr. Aguilar's debt to the IRS. Seems like a simple thing but she was not supposed to tell me about the incident. Because if the proles ever found out how often this happens, they'd lose faith in the integrity of The System. I, as the taxpayer and rightful SSN holder was never contacted by the IRS to either collect money or warn me that there was someone out there using my SSN, possibly ruining my credit.
They're just waiting for the interest to build up -
You should probably get something in writing from them saying that you don't owe anything.
i get all kinds of lingerie and bra ads on my chrome browser because my wife surfs this stuff at home on safari. sometimes big fredricks of hollywood ads at work
At our house it's only me, my wife and the cat. I'm seeing ads for something called "Ashley-Madison". Are they related to Dolly-Madison cupcakes?
Don't worry that's just the pussy looking for someone to play with.
If U.S. companies don't want to hire U.S. workers, then these companies need to stop pretending, and just get the fuck out of the U.S altogether.
They are, but only to avoid paying taxes in the US. Of course they're happy to keep a subsidiary or two in the US that does the selling while the profits are shoveled out of the country. Tax Inversion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How about H1-B Visa holders get paid 110% of the prevailing wage so that only the companies who seriously need a specialist and legitimately can't find any local talent will hire them. Also, give H1-B holders a ten year window to work in the U.S. that isn't dependent on staying with a single employer. If someone else hires away your H1-B employee, that's your company's problem.
Just kill the H1-B program. Companies will either pay market rate or if there's truly a shortage, which in most cases there isn't or train up their existing employees (which they don't like to do now) or even support training programs in schools to provide a future educated resource pool.
Nice of you to dismiss the great work done by the Quakers.
Perhaps you could at least acknowledge that labour is its own market and there's a reason companies offer employment benefits far beyond legal minimums.
But don't let me get in the way of your unionistic propaganda.
Sure labour is a market (many even) and yes, some companies offer benefits above and beyond - but that is the exception and not the rule and when the benefits are higher, the salaries are lower - it's all a package one way or the other.
The key here is that it's some and not many, not most and certainly not all companies who think like this.
Historically (Quakers aside), and generally speaking, business owners will pay the least that they have to in order to get the most hours worked possible out of any employee.
Incidentally I'm not particularly pro-union; I do, however, think that they (or something like them) have a role to play in balancing things out.
You can't, but interesting things may be able to happen if you fail to disclose which finger will unlock the device.
Maybe your right ring finger is what you use to login, but not having specific knowledge of which finger you actually use they have you try your thumb pointer finger... not knowing that your device treats that as a panic button and not only wipes out memory of the old finger print, but also remaining hope of them unlocking the device with or without your help.
Unless they lift even a partial print off the phone button first, to check against your available digits.
If the DNA information is just collected and stored anonymously, with no record of WHOSE DNA it is, I don't think it's a problem. It's useful for compiling statistics and doing studies. However, if law enforcement is interested in this data, it sounds like they are actually keeping track of who the DNA sample came from. Just make it anonymous.
No - why should this be allowed at all? I don't care if it's anonymous or not - my DNA is mine and my baby's DNA is his/hers. It doesn't belong to the state and it sure as hell doesn't belong to any of these companies who are scarfing up DNA data and metadata.
1) If there is no requirement to collect directly related to the health of the patient, then no collection should be made. 2) Should not be collected without the approval of the parents. 3) The parents should not be misled or obligated to give their approval unless an immediate and life threatening situation requires it. 4) At the parents' request the data should be destroyed after whatever immediate analysis is.
You can pretend none of that would've happened without unions, but you're just lying to yourself.
You seem to think that business owners grant things to employees out of the goodness of their hearts where the opposite has always been the case.
I've lived and worked all over the world, in countries with and without labor organizations and I can tell you most definitively that business owners don't give jack shit to their employees unless they have no choice (there being notable exceptions where extreme benefits are part of the company culture like Google).
Do you imagine that things just went from seven day workweeks, sweatshops, child labor, no paid holidays, no paid sick leave, etc. to the state of things today without anyone having to group together and stand up for themselves?
Sorry, but no. Labor organized and pushed back on companies and eventually pushed enough on the government (who has tended to support companies over individuals) to get laws enacted that give you all those nice benefits that you have.
This. Probably most of the anti-union sentiment in this dicussion was ingrained via lifelong propaganda. I don't think it's a Right/Left thing. In the so-called "whitecollar" world, unions are particularly repulsive because "bluecollar" has such a negative connotation. Why?
One problem with unions is they pit Americans against Americans. When an automaker wants to open a factory in the South, which is still America btw, the unions protest. So they are too extreme in their protectionism and that pisses off a lot of people. Same with Boeing, they wanted to build their next plane in like Tennessee or something, the unions went on strike.
The other big perceptional problem is that unions protect lazy and ineffective workers. Protecting against unfair business practices is one thing, but the stereotype of the union requiring 3 guys standing around watching 1 guy dig and 1 guy hold a "SLOW" sign (road construction) is just too damning. That's not what we need or want, because once again, that goes beyond protecting Americans and into dividing us. Paying 4x the labor cost (for that example) is a cost that the rest of us have to absorb, and that sucks. Then people start thinking, "Oh, I know why high speed rail is so goddamn expensive... fucking unions!" And they have a point. It's really unions plus excessive environmentalism.
Things we have because of unions:
Weekends
All Breaks at Work, including your Lunch Breaks
Paid Vacation
FMLA
Sick Leave
Social Security
Minimum Wage
Civil Rights Act/Title VII (Prohibits Employer Discrimination)
8-Hour Work Day
Overtime Pay
Child Labor Laws
Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA)
40 Hour Work Week
Worker's Compensation (Worker's Comp)
Unemployment Insurance
Pensions
Workplace Safety Standards and Regulations
Employer Health Care Insurance
Collective Bargaining Rights for Employees
Wrongful Termination Laws
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
Whistleblower Protection Laws
Employee Polygraph Protect Act (Prohibits Employer from using a lie detector test on an employee)
Veteran's Employment and Training Services (VETS)
Compensation increases and Evaluations (Raises)
Sexual Harassment Laws
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
Holiday Pay
Employer Dental, Life, and Vision Insurance
Privacy Rights
Pregnancy and Parental Leave
Military Leave
The Right to Strike
Public Education for Children
Equal Pay Acts of 1963 & 2011 (Requires employers pay men and women equally for the same amount of work)
Laws Ending Sweatshops in the United States
If you have ever benefited from anything on that list then you should stop whining about unions and start realizing that without organized workers standing up for themselves the middle class is going to join the lower class in being ignorant and dirt poor.
Let's not report on it and give it free marketing. There's no danger to not spreading this: very few people are going to look for the app, and sensible people are going to distrust an app that encourages fighting or any other illegal activity. Let it drop, and take the wind out of sails.
The bigger problem is all the jobs that are going overseas - but there isn't a fix to that.
We could slow it down to avoid the shock impact of too many jobs leaving too quickly instead of allowing companies to say 'Thanks for all your hard work, here's the door' by killing the H1-B program completely.
At the very least we could stop American (and other western) companies from evacuating all of their profits overseas and force it to be taxed where it is earned thus allowing the tax money to be used to keep a decent level of public education instead of burdening students with tons of student debt, keeping infrastructure modernized and enabling inexpensive Internet access at all levels of society - even the poorest and most remote. An educated workforce has value - an ignorant workforce is more easily replaced.
Instead we are headed back towards feudalism where only the wealthy can afford education and only the business owners have anything at all to call their own.
"We do all the design work in the US, because our 250+ Indian counterparts cannot design anything correctly. They code by trial and error. You'll never have a best-in-class product that way. We just give them menial coding tasks, and even then 1 US engineer is as productive as 3 in India. "
You mean like Japan awhile ago and China, more recently, for manufacturing?
Got news for you - they're not stupid and they can learn to design as well as we can.
Doctor and Lawyer salaries are through the roof because those are two of very few jobs that can not be outsourced to a third world country. If Blue Cross could ship you to Haiti for a 40c an hour doctor you don't think they would?
Welcome to the "Global Economy". You have heard all about it I'm sure, and how great it is. A real Utopia where everyone benefits. Assuming of course you are already extremely wealthy, because the rest of the people are expendable. As long as a company can stay afloat using dirt cheap labor, they will. Zuckerberg won the lottery, nothing more. That is your shot to getting out of the cesspool we are creating by complacently watching the government be run by the same people profiteering.
History is cyclical, we have seen this all before. The same result will come eventually, because people never learn to learn from history.
Doctor and lawyer salaries are not high because they can't be outsourced (they can), but because of the fucked up healthcare and legal systems in America.
any more successful than unions at "saving American jobs"?
Unions were quite good at protecting American jobs in the past, and could be again if Americans weren't so impregnated with anti-union propaganda from the time we entered school that the knee jerk reaction to the word is enough to send most of us screaming in the other direction.
If by that, you mean "union", then I doubt it. You'd never get enough support from the folks that are still getting paid very well (like me, who lives in Ohio), and aren't being outsourced. There's no business case to do that for anything but level 0 and 1 helpdesk jobs, and not even all of those.
Read TFA: "Cengage...had outsourced accounting services earlier in the year" "The layoffs affected workers across IT, including networks, desktop support, database administration, developers, data warehouse and other systems."
Also have a look at this, which lists the 33 jobs most likely to be outsourced...noting that many of them pay quite well indeed. Or did. They probably don't anymore. http://cdn.theatlantic.com/sta...
To put it all in context, you may want to consider the quantity of jobs being outsourced - which is in the millions: http://www.statisticbrain.com/...
I'm pretty sure it's the conservative billionaire corporations which are funding this effort...
Nope. On the Internet, the "billionaire corporations" are almost all American, and they almost all oppose the criminalization of hyperlinking. This is being pushed by European governments to protect their media companies from evil Anglo-Saxon hyperlinks.
Isn't it more attacking the hyperlinking to copyrighted material (i.e. torrent links) that might be the end goal here so that they can more easily go after sites that don't host the actual content?
Slashdot Mirror
Those ISIS guys better watch now! Anonymous will be sending a barrage of pizzas to them that they didn't even order, and probably posting some dick pics on the their websites!
Have you yourself done anything at all against IS (or their other faces Boko Harem and Al Qaeda) other than talk?
If they can do anything at all that hurts IS, BH or AQ (ie anti-propaganda) they'll have done SOMETHING.
So if you have NOT done something useful, you should probably keep your trap shut.
they would sign up for the military and go bust some rear
You're assuming that the military is actually busting some rear.
I am very much underwhelmed with the progress being made by our military.
As an example, I would like to know why it's only now that the US attacks the oil trucks smuggling oil out of IS held territory when we have known for at least a year that this is how they generate the majority of their revenue.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...
Article from Jan 4 discussing the funding of IS:
http://www.economist.com/blogs...
"War only works as long as one side believes to have a clear advantage."
Nonsense.
...my company's accountant told me that someone in Los Angeles had used my SSN and the IRS was trying to garnish my wages. She told them that I was certainly not Mr. Aguilar and that I was not responsible for Mr. Aguilar's debt to the IRS. Seems like a simple thing but she was not supposed to tell me about the incident. Because if the proles ever found out how often this happens, they'd lose faith in the integrity of The System. I, as the taxpayer and rightful SSN holder was never contacted by the IRS to either collect money or warn me that there was someone out there using my SSN, possibly ruining my credit.
They're just waiting for the interest to build up -
You should probably get something in writing from them saying that you don't owe anything.
It's ALWAYS going to be mostly white as long as people keep making other races "white" to prop up the agenda they're pushing.
Haven't you heard? [insert colour here] is the new white!
In unrelated news, Indonesia prisons start generating revenue by selling handmade crocodile skin boots, belts and underwear...
i get all kinds of lingerie and bra ads on my chrome browser because my wife surfs this stuff at home on safari. sometimes big fredricks of hollywood ads at work
At our house it's only me, my wife and the cat. I'm seeing ads for something called "Ashley-Madison". Are they related to Dolly-Madison cupcakes?
Don't worry that's just the pussy looking for someone to play with.
This is to allow MS to continue to collect data on European customers without running afoul of the recent EU slam of 'Safe Harbor'.
Marketing spin turns this into "We are protecting you from spies" bullshit.
If U.S. companies don't want to hire U.S. workers, then these companies need to stop pretending, and just get the fuck out of the U.S altogether.
They are, but only to avoid paying taxes in the US. Of course they're happy to keep a subsidiary or two in the US that does the selling while the profits are shoveled out of the country.
Tax Inversion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How about H1-B Visa holders get paid 110% of the prevailing wage so that only the companies who seriously need a specialist and legitimately can't find any local talent will hire them. Also, give H1-B holders a ten year window to work in the U.S. that isn't dependent on staying with a single employer. If someone else hires away your H1-B employee, that's your company's problem.
Just kill the H1-B program. Companies will either pay market rate or if there's truly a shortage, which in most cases there isn't or train up their existing employees (which they don't like to do now) or even support training programs in schools to provide a future educated resource pool.
Nice of you to dismiss the great work done by the Quakers.
Perhaps you could at least acknowledge that labour is its own market and there's a reason companies offer employment benefits far beyond legal minimums.
But don't let me get in the way of your unionistic propaganda.
Sure labour is a market (many even) and yes, some companies offer benefits above and beyond - but that is the exception and not the rule and when the benefits are higher, the salaries are lower - it's all a package one way or the other.
The key here is that it's some and not many, not most and certainly not all companies who think like this.
Historically (Quakers aside), and generally speaking, business owners will pay the least that they have to in order to get the most hours worked possible out of any employee.
Incidentally I'm not particularly pro-union; I do, however, think that they (or something like them) have a role to play in balancing things out.
You can't, but interesting things may be able to happen if you fail to disclose which finger will unlock the device.
Maybe your right ring finger is what you use to login, but not having specific knowledge of which finger you actually use they have you try your thumb pointer finger... not knowing that your device treats that as a panic button and not only wipes out memory of the old finger print, but also remaining hope of them unlocking the device with or without your help.
Unless they lift even a partial print off the phone button first, to check against your available digits.
I do believe I have a right to be secure in my person, papers, etc against an unreasonable search or siezure...
That's probably with regard to the law officers; I think in this case it's more plain old theft.
If the DNA information is just collected and stored anonymously, with no record of WHOSE DNA it is, I don't think it's a problem. It's useful for compiling statistics and doing studies. However, if law enforcement is interested in this data, it sounds like they are actually keeping track of who the DNA sample came from. Just make it anonymous.
No - why should this be allowed at all? I don't care if it's anonymous or not - my DNA is mine and my baby's DNA is his/hers. It doesn't belong to the state and it sure as hell doesn't belong to any of these companies who are scarfing up DNA data and metadata.
1) If there is no requirement to collect directly related to the health of the patient, then no collection should be made.
2) Should not be collected without the approval of the parents.
3) The parents should not be misled or obligated to give their approval unless an immediate and life threatening situation requires it.
4) At the parents' request the data should be destroyed after whatever immediate analysis is.
Bullshit.
You can pretend none of that would've happened without unions, but you're just lying to yourself.
You seem to think that business owners grant things to employees out of the goodness of their hearts where the opposite has always been the case.
I've lived and worked all over the world, in countries with and without labor organizations and I can tell you most definitively that business owners don't give jack shit to their employees unless they have no choice (there being notable exceptions where extreme benefits are part of the company culture like Google).
Do you imagine that things just went from seven day workweeks, sweatshops, child labor, no paid holidays, no paid sick leave, etc. to the state of things today without anyone having to group together and stand up for themselves?
Sorry, but no. Labor organized and pushed back on companies and eventually pushed enough on the government (who has tended to support companies over individuals) to get laws enacted that give you all those nice benefits that you have.
This. Probably most of the anti-union sentiment in this dicussion was ingrained via lifelong propaganda. I don't think it's a Right/Left thing. In the so-called "whitecollar" world, unions are particularly repulsive because "bluecollar" has such a negative connotation. Why?
Sorry, why what?
they were only "good at saving union jobs" in an environment that lacked competent and economically viable competition, IE: lack of alternatives
I disagree. There were always competent and viable alternatives.
One problem with unions is they pit Americans against Americans. When an automaker wants to open a factory in the South, which is still America btw, the unions protest. So they are too extreme in their protectionism and that pisses off a lot of people. Same with Boeing, they wanted to build their next plane in like Tennessee or something, the unions went on strike.
The other big perceptional problem is that unions protect lazy and ineffective workers. Protecting against unfair business practices is one thing, but the stereotype of the union requiring 3 guys standing around watching 1 guy dig and 1 guy hold a "SLOW" sign (road construction) is just too damning. That's not what we need or want, because once again, that goes beyond protecting Americans and into dividing us. Paying 4x the labor cost (for that example) is a cost that the rest of us have to absorb, and that sucks. Then people start thinking, "Oh, I know why high speed rail is so goddamn expensive... fucking unions!" And they have a point. It's really unions plus excessive environmentalism.
Things we have because of unions:
Weekends
All Breaks at Work, including your Lunch Breaks
Paid Vacation
FMLA
Sick Leave
Social Security
Minimum Wage
Civil Rights Act/Title VII (Prohibits Employer Discrimination)
8-Hour Work Day
Overtime Pay
Child Labor Laws
Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA)
40 Hour Work Week
Worker's Compensation (Worker's Comp)
Unemployment Insurance
Pensions
Workplace Safety Standards and Regulations
Employer Health Care Insurance
Collective Bargaining Rights for Employees
Wrongful Termination Laws
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
Whistleblower Protection Laws
Employee Polygraph Protect Act (Prohibits Employer from using a lie detector test on an employee)
Veteran's Employment and Training Services (VETS)
Compensation increases and Evaluations (Raises)
Sexual Harassment Laws
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
Holiday Pay
Employer Dental, Life, and Vision Insurance
Privacy Rights
Pregnancy and Parental Leave
Military Leave
The Right to Strike
Public Education for Children
Equal Pay Acts of 1963 & 2011 (Requires employers pay men and women equally for the same amount of work)
Laws Ending Sweatshops in the United States
If you have ever benefited from anything on that list then you should stop whining about unions and start realizing that without organized workers standing up for themselves the middle class is going to join the lower class in being ignorant and dirt poor.
Let's not report on it and give it free marketing. There's no danger to not spreading this: very few people are going to look for the app, and sensible people are going to distrust an app that encourages fighting or any other illegal activity. Let it drop, and take the wind out of sails.
Why? It's the funniest thing I've seen all day..
The bigger problem is all the jobs that are going overseas - but there isn't a fix to that.
We could slow it down to avoid the shock impact of too many jobs leaving too quickly instead of allowing companies to say 'Thanks for all your hard work, here's the door' by killing the H1-B program completely.
At the very least we could stop American (and other western) companies from evacuating all of their profits overseas and force it to be taxed where it is earned thus allowing the tax money to be used to keep a decent level of public education instead of burdening students with tons of student debt, keeping infrastructure modernized and enabling inexpensive Internet access at all levels of society - even the poorest and most remote. An educated workforce has value - an ignorant workforce is more easily replaced.
Instead we are headed back towards feudalism where only the wealthy can afford education and only the business owners have anything at all to call their own.
"We do all the design work in the US, because our 250+ Indian counterparts cannot design anything correctly. They code by trial and error. You'll never have a best-in-class product that way. We just give them menial coding tasks, and even then 1 US engineer is as productive as 3 in India. "
You mean like Japan awhile ago and China, more recently, for manufacturing?
Got news for you - they're not stupid and they can learn to design as well as we can.
Doctor and Lawyer salaries are through the roof because those are two of very few jobs that can not be outsourced to a third world country. If Blue Cross could ship you to Haiti for a 40c an hour doctor you don't think they would?
Welcome to the "Global Economy". You have heard all about it I'm sure, and how great it is. A real Utopia where everyone benefits. Assuming of course you are already extremely wealthy, because the rest of the people are expendable. As long as a company can stay afloat using dirt cheap labor, they will. Zuckerberg won the lottery, nothing more. That is your shot to getting out of the cesspool we are creating by complacently watching the government be run by the same people profiteering.
History is cyclical, we have seen this all before. The same result will come eventually, because people never learn to learn from history.
Doctors are being outsourced:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6621...
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1...
Lawyers are being outsourced:
http://www.americanbar.org/pub...
http://www.economist.com/node/...
Doctor and lawyer salaries are not high because they can't be outsourced (they can), but because of the fucked up healthcare and legal systems in America.
any more successful than unions at "saving American jobs"?
Unions were quite good at protecting American jobs in the past, and could be again if Americans weren't so impregnated with anti-union propaganda from the time we entered school that the knee jerk reaction to the word is enough to send most of us screaming in the other direction.
If by that, you mean "union", then I doubt it. You'd never get enough support from the folks that are still getting paid very well (like me, who lives in Ohio), and aren't being outsourced. There's no business case to do that for anything but level 0 and 1 helpdesk jobs, and not even all of those.
Read TFA:
"Cengage...had outsourced accounting services earlier in the year"
"The layoffs affected workers across IT, including networks, desktop support, database administration, developers, data warehouse and other systems."
Also have a look at this, which lists the 33 jobs most likely to be outsourced...noting that many of them pay quite well indeed. Or did. They probably don't anymore.
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/sta...
To put it all in context, you may want to consider the quantity of jobs being outsourced - which is in the millions:
http://www.statisticbrain.com/...
I'm pretty sure it's the conservative billionaire corporations which are funding this effort...
Nope. On the Internet, the "billionaire corporations" are almost all American, and they almost all oppose the criminalization of hyperlinking. This is being pushed by European governments to protect their media companies from evil Anglo-Saxon hyperlinks.
Isn't it more attacking the hyperlinking to copyrighted material (i.e. torrent links) that might be the end goal here so that they can more easily go after sites that don't host the actual content?