The Springer article was paywalled but didn't seem to mention anything about health (or taste).
Here is the link to the free article. As you said, the study doesn't seem to indicate negative effects of soy.
Overall, although the SPI and acid- and alcohol-washed SPC produced from EE meals had lower protein contents than their counterparts from white flakes, certain functional proper-ties, such as emulsification capacity and dispersibility of acid-washed SPC, and emulsification capacity of SPI made from EE meals, were similar to, or higher than, those from white flakes. This indicates that certain soy protein products with good functional properties can be made from protein meals processed by extruding-expelling.
This research was financially supported by Iowa Soybean Promotion Board.
Read this http://link.springer.com/artic... and then say you are jumping for joy at the thought of consuming soy protein isolate and soy protein concentrate, hmm, i can imagine the taste and goodness of the high temperature acid bath. Soy protein isolate not a food any more, just the cheapest possible molecular chain you can get away with calling it food. If there was cheaper worse shit they could get away with calling food, they would. Personally I read that article and it sent a shudder down my spine and made me nauseas to think of some of the crap I have eaten. Here read about your 'food?' for a change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... If you think that shit is healthier than chicken, you are an idiot.
A better (and free download) link for the article which is not behind the pay wall is here.
How about we actually enforce the law rather than change it
Because it's difficult to enforce. How much does a 'software engineer' earn? The same job title applies to someone doing security and timing sensitive code for a microcontroller with 16KB of RAM and someone tweaking some PHP on a low-volume web site. The law requires that you pay the average wage for the profession, but if you want to hire people for the former occupation you're able to point to the large volume of people doing the latter to justify the salary. And the only thing that you have to do to justify hiring an H1B is advertise the job and be unable to find an American willing to do it (which is easy if you offer a sufficiently low salary).
You should do some research on H1B application process, then you would have a better idea of how it works. What you are saying here is a typical misconception of H1B process. There is a prevailing wage which should be around or above median wage of Americans, and it is separated by job type and location (e.g. prevailing wage for Software developer in Albany, NY). There is no need for job posting in any media for H1B in order to get LCA but rather post it at the work site (employer place). The job description must be clarified before selecting a job position. And so on... However, the abuse which has been going on works around the H1B process...
Haven't you noticed hundreds of tiny ads in the classified sections of local newspapers asking for programmers or testers and they include salary information? But when you contact them you never hear anything back? Those ads are generating the "proof" needed for the government that the position can't be filled by American workers.
H1B application job does NOT NEED to be posted in any newspaper. The job posting is only at the work site of the employers (and unionize negotiators will receive it too if it is a union job).
To understand how this scam works... H1-B Indian will have BS/MS degrees (from India) and they are willing to work for $35,000. So the body shop takes out tiny ads in local newspapers offering to hire programmers/testers with a BS/MS for $35,000. Of course no qualified US computer person is going to take work at $35,000/yr. These ads generate the "proof" needed that these jobs can't be filled by Americans.
The body shop then brings in 500 H1-B people and pays them $35,000/yr. According to the law this is allowed, there are no US citizen willing to take these jobs at $35,000/yr. But then the owner of this body shop turns right around and places these people as temp workers for $80,000/yr. He undercuts the US temp workers who would get $90,000/yr.
This is a great business $80,000 - $35,000 = $45,000 profit per H1-B visa per year. This is how you make $100M from owning a body shop over the course of a few years.
To go into a bit more detail of your example, there are more work to do on the body shop part. The body shops call themselves as "recruiting" or "consulting" companies.
1. The fresh graduated can be from India or the U.S. However, those body shops that have better connection in India would prefer those from India because they tend to be cheaper.
2. Due to the process of getting LCA, employers must post the job offer at their work site. This meant, there is no posting because body shop does NOT have a work site but a training site (explained below).
3. Due to H1B prevailing wage (each position has its own fixed wage), the body shop will pick the cheapest prevailing wage position but still relate to IT (e.g. Web Designer, etc.) in their application.
4. Those who are candidates to work for body shop will have their resume fabricated. The resume usually starts from junior to manager depending on how a candidate appears (and/or education). There will be multiple projects in the resume, and each would length from 6 months to 2 years.
5. The candidates will be trained to be familiar with their new resume. This training includes all questions about the job experience in the resume, as if they have worked in those projects. If there is any programming involved with the projects, the candidates will be trained in basic programming of the related technology. Often times, train with someone who works with the technology. No need real programming.
6. After the body shop feels confident about the candidates (a couple weeks afterward), they will start putting these candidates in their supply pool. Let them get interviewed by companies. They don't expect the candidates to get a job at the first time.
7. Whenever a candidate fails an interview, they will help the candidate to analyze why the candidate fails. Then try to improve strategies for future interview. It could be a learning experience for the body shop as well.
8. If a candidate keeps failing an interview, the body shop would either terminate the person or retouch the candidate's resume to be something a bit different.
9. If the candidate lands a job, they will earn big profit.
The reason is that the body shop will apply for H1B with much lower salary (prevailing wage), but at the same time gets paid for higher experience job. Everything (book keeping) is internal. Anyone who can't hold on the job, the body shop will swap the person out with a different one they have got in the pool. Then the body shop may terminate or move the person to somewhere else.
This abuse has been done for over 10 years, but it was very small at the time. However, it became very popular, especially Indian companies, about 10 years ago. Remember when the H1B application went through the roof (140k+ applications) within the first 2 days of opening?
my ignorance = what is a body shop? I'm thinking car repair. Do you mean it's a business "moving around bodies & personnel"?
A body shop in this case means that the company hires people at a certain qualification, fabricated their resume to be qualified at much higher position, and then sell them to work matched with their fabricated resume. For example, the company hires someone who is a freshly graduated. Then fabricate the person's resume to have 3~5 years experience. Now the person could be hired at that level (e.g. $75k~80k a year), but the company is paying the person for fresh graduate payment ($45k~$50 a year).
"Right now H-1B visas are awarded by random lottery and many of you will be surprised to know that about 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields. Only 5% to 6%, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognized by the Department of Labor. [...] If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard for skill or wage, to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers [...] It's a very elegant way of solving very systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."
Seriously, it's right there in the summary.
It is still NOT a total scam. Because the program is being abused so bad, the program itself is NOT a scam, but it is the way some big companies are using it. Of course, the program needs better processing and qualification reform.
By the way, there is a prevailing wage set to every single position in H1B, and the wage is supposed to be around the mean and/or median. How could 80% being paid lower than the median? How could they let it happen? Of course, loop holes.
in vr that sends these signals you would be leaning against a virtual wall. i guess in theory your sensation would be real but simulated by electrical input thats supposed to felt.
Well, VR can't imitate leaning against a wall regardless sensation unless it can adjust your body's center of gravity in a way that your body can be tilted without falling down. Or you would just be falling "inside" VR wall when you attempt to lean against it.
Insurance premiums are a factor of how many insurance claims are made. If the number of claims made goes down, premiums will also go down.
Are you serious? Why does my insurance premium go up bit by bit every year even though I have never made a claim since I have had the policies with them (for 5+ years now)? Oh wait, I am getting older... That's how insurance company gave me the excuse of why the cost is going up. They always have a way to explain (excuse) what they are doing...
Most people who have at least the basic knowledge of Earth Science will tell you changing course is what rivers do.
I think you missed the point. Of course, rivers can change course by either their own or direct human influences. In this case, TFA said it is from the climate change. I believe humans are parts of the climate change. However, I'm still not sure how much impact of human causes to the climate change which in turn causes the river to change course. There seems to be a missing link (explanation) to the whole process. It is rather a big leap to conclusion. Need more study of those impacts before making a big jump as in TFA...
Hmm... I think TFA already said what Uber did with the data the collected from their fake rider account...
While keeping an eye on its rivals' cars, though, Uber noticed that Lyft's drivers are identified by special numbered IDs that never change like its own tokens do. That allowed the team running Hell to learn of each driver's habits, which, in turn, helped them to figure out which drivers practice "double-apping." In other words, they used the data they gathered to pinpoint the Lyft drivers that drove for them, as well.
Travis Kalanick and his select employees then executed a plan meant to entice double-appers to drive exclusively for them. First, the Hell program would send more riders to double-appers than to those who drove solely for Uber. Then, the company would give them special bonuses for meeting a certain number of rides per week. Considering the program's data revealed that 60 percent of Lyft's drivers were double-apping, Uber ended up doling out tens of millions of dollars a week in bonuses. Clearly, loyalty didn't pay for those who stuck with Uber those years.
I agree with your statement that they are as smart as all of us... a large number of highly educated mainland Chinese were in fact educated in the west, including top US universities. It's hard to have respect for the kid who copies your homework, regardless of their intelligence or ability.
Why do you have no respect for them? The ACM Programming Contest, which has teams from various universities all over the world, has had Chinese universities place higher than US universities consistently for well over a decade... and that's only one example. Their university students surely aren't getting educated in the West. When some other kid's getting higher marks than you, it's usually not because they're copying your homework.
I actually agreed with the parent post. I have no doubt that Chinese people are smart. However, their "smart" covers more than just book smart. You need to read the whole post to understand the context, not just pick a part you want to argue. It is misleading.
See, your mistake is assuming that those things (facial expressions and past actions) matter in a game where the winner is very clearly almost always the person with the best chances at winning based on the cards they hold. The facial expression and past action thing is just another way to be wrong, whereas going by statistical likelihood is almost always the correct bet.
Are they bluffing? The look on their face says they're bluffing! But wait, what if they made that face to make me think they're bluffing...
You should bet on stats, not on feels. AI is good with stats.
I believe you are partially correct in this case.
Bluffing doesn't only mean facial expression or posture that required vision sensors. For humans, we usually have reaction to our surrounding, so facial expression and posture are quite obvious to others. Because of the reaction, our decision becomes dynamic and could be changed depending on what's going on around us. That's what bluffing is about. The AI, in this case, eliminates the obvious part of bluffing, but may still analyze certain behaviors of opponents while playing the game that most humans do not notice or they simply ignore, such as timing, betting amount, etc.
Also, bluffing is both ways (attempt to mislead your opponents while read your opponent reactions). Unlike humans, computer doesn't need to react to facial expression or posture. They are interferences and could be ignored. Because there are less interferences (bluffing), the calculated winning probability of each game would become more accurate for the computer. However, this would have the opposite effect on human opponents because bluffing is the key to shake the winning probability.
Lawsuits? To get what, money in compensation? How does money smooth out wrongdoings? Money is not justice.
You are an idealist... What else do you think the person who was forcibly taken out of the airplane should try to do in return then? Asking for a formal apology from the airline at his home? The pride can't feed him, and it would be forgotten pretty soon. Laws changed? He can't simply change the law; besides, why would he spend even more money to lobby? A law suit is a tangible (monetary) reward that he could get at best...
I thought I replied to this, but now don't see it - that link describes involuntary bumping; I was talking about voluntary bumping. There should be no such thing as involuntary bumping - the airlines should keep upping the incentives for people to volunteer until they have enough.
Sadly, for voluntary bumping, the DoT doesn't want to be involved but rather let you directly negotiate with the airline (no specific rules). You can read on Overbooking at their site.
Your reply seems to miss the point and/or doesn't make sense of the gp...
People living there receive more services, and businesses located there get more customers
That depends on the services you are seeking and what sort of customers you are looking for. Good luck finding a tractor repair store or any customers for one in downtown Manhattan.
Why would people who own a tractor be living in Manhattan or nearby for? What are other services usually located in a big city? Farming??? A repair shop for heavy equipment like this may not have good business in the city because of the cost of the land/lease and surrounding businesses...
And nobody's forced to use a mode of transportation they dislike - you're allowed to walk, you can take a bus or train, or you can drive.
You can only drive in a city like NYC if you are rather wealthy. Costs too much and is far too impractical for most people. You essentially are forced to take public transit and not everyone likes that.
The example does not need to apply to NYC only because NYC is quite a unique case. Other big cities aren't lands that surrounded by water...
It's a win-win for everyone.
It's a win-win for people who want/need to be in a dense city. It's a huge loss for those who dislike living in such a place. Dense populations have their good and bad features. It's not a clear "win-win".
You actually explained it in your own reply. Those who want to live in dense population (big cities) would be happy to live there (win-win). Those who aren't will move out at some point to find a more suitable place for themselves because they dislike to live there anyway. I'm sure people are living where they are for reasons (often times work). Though, most people have a goal to get to in the future, and in this case could be retirement. Many people are not retired at where they work anyway. Besides, a town/city wouldn't suddenly become a dense population location unless either it already a dense population city or there are some special sudden changes in the area (which is extremely rare).
Well, corporations sort of *are* people. To "incorporate" is literally to "embody".
No person, business, town (incorporated) or anything else comprising one or more people can exist, i.e., do business, with anyone else without having a "body".
So yes, a corporation has rights. Just like your body. Corporations are born and die every day.
Sometimes they are powerful "people" and get by with stuff that a smaller, less powerful "person" can't. But a "corporation" isn't a bad thing in itself. It's merely a legal entity that can continue if one or more members leave.
So, they are "people", in many important ways.
You attempt to mislead others by extending the meaning of the word "embody" as people; however. the word "embody" is not the same as "body". Also, a corporation/incorporated business consists of investors that aren't really have anything much to do together besides "business". People are humans. We are much more than just business. In other words, corporation is just a part of people activities, not people themselves.
I don't think that the experience is that overpowering, relatively speaking. The power of the big screen made sense decades ago, when at home you had a 23' screen with a modest resolution. These days, Saving Private Ryan is overpowering at the theater, and also at home, on a 60' screen. You can get an experience at home almost as overpowering as that at the theater. A huge screen and a very loud sound are not worth the price of admission any more.
Where can I buy a 23' screen TV, let alone 60' screen TV? And how much is it cost to you?:)
Not exactly wording but to me is quite close -- Wikipedia. Luckily, he didn't get into the office.
"I, too, certainly stand for life. I know there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view. But I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have, to have an abortion, is in that case of the life of the mother. I've struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
I know what I've seen discussed here, and that is usually a case of outsourcing an IT function currently provided by employees to an American outsourcing firm, which itself has H1-Bs. That is apparently legal. I don't buy your assertion that the companies getting away with abuse are forging documents, otherwise we'd see more stories like this, and not about people training their replacements and then losing their job.
Because I experienced in one, but I quited the company before anything got done. It is not my thing and it is illegal. The forging documents do not need to be "legal" paper at all. It could be as simple as a resume (fabricated and submit it to those who want to hire staffs). There are some desperate people who will do whatever they can to stay, so yes there exists. It won't be any big news or stories because those who are involved would never want to disclose. You should know why they don't want to...
Because they are stupid or uninformed. A queen bee is the best fed bee in the hive. In many species it also has the most miserable life because it has to carry all the children. See where I am going with this?
I see this, but it is different in humans. Why? Because of human politics, and that already creates a lot more complex relationships than the logic you presented.
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The Springer article was paywalled but didn't seem to mention anything about health (or taste).
Here is the link to the free article. As you said, the study doesn't seem to indicate negative effects of soy.
Overall, although the SPI and acid- and alcohol-washed SPC produced from EE meals had lower protein contents than their counterparts from white flakes, certain functional proper-ties, such as emulsification capacity and dispersibility of acid-washed SPC, and emulsification capacity of SPI made from EE meals, were similar to, or higher than, those from white flakes. This indicates that certain soy protein products with good functional properties can be made from protein meals processed by extruding-expelling.
This research was financially supported by Iowa Soybean Promotion Board.
Read this http://link.springer.com/artic... and then say you are jumping for joy at the thought of consuming soy protein isolate and soy protein concentrate, hmm, i can imagine the taste and goodness of the high temperature acid bath. Soy protein isolate not a food any more, just the cheapest possible molecular chain you can get away with calling it food. If there was cheaper worse shit they could get away with calling food, they would. Personally I read that article and it sent a shudder down my spine and made me nauseas to think of some of the crap I have eaten. Here read about your 'food?' for a change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... If you think that shit is healthier than chicken, you are an idiot.
A better (and free download) link for the article which is not behind the pay wall is here.
How about we actually enforce the law rather than change it
Because it's difficult to enforce. How much does a 'software engineer' earn? The same job title applies to someone doing security and timing sensitive code for a microcontroller with 16KB of RAM and someone tweaking some PHP on a low-volume web site. The law requires that you pay the average wage for the profession, but if you want to hire people for the former occupation you're able to point to the large volume of people doing the latter to justify the salary. And the only thing that you have to do to justify hiring an H1B is advertise the job and be unable to find an American willing to do it (which is easy if you offer a sufficiently low salary).
You should do some research on H1B application process, then you would have a better idea of how it works. What you are saying here is a typical misconception of H1B process. There is a prevailing wage which should be around or above median wage of Americans, and it is separated by job type and location (e.g. prevailing wage for Software developer in Albany, NY). There is no need for job posting in any media for H1B in order to get LCA but rather post it at the work site (employer place). The job description must be clarified before selecting a job position. And so on... However, the abuse which has been going on works around the H1B process...
Haven't you noticed hundreds of tiny ads in the classified sections of local newspapers asking for programmers or testers and they include salary information? But when you contact them you never hear anything back? Those ads are generating the "proof" needed for the government that the position can't be filled by American workers.
H1B application job does NOT NEED to be posted in any newspaper. The job posting is only at the work site of the employers (and unionize negotiators will receive it too if it is a union job).
To understand how this scam works... H1-B Indian will have BS/MS degrees (from India) and they are willing to work for $35,000. So the body shop takes out tiny ads in local newspapers offering to hire programmers/testers with a BS/MS for $35,000. Of course no qualified US computer person is going to take work at $35,000/yr. These ads generate the "proof" needed that these jobs can't be filled by Americans.
The body shop then brings in 500 H1-B people and pays them $35,000/yr. According to the law this is allowed, there are no US citizen willing to take these jobs at $35,000/yr. But then the owner of this body shop turns right around and places these people as temp workers for $80,000/yr. He undercuts the US temp workers who would get $90,000/yr.
This is a great business $80,000 - $35,000 = $45,000 profit per H1-B visa per year. This is how you make $100M from owning a body shop over the course of a few years.
To go into a bit more detail of your example, there are more work to do on the body shop part. The body shops call themselves as "recruiting" or "consulting" companies.
The reason is that the body shop will apply for H1B with much lower salary (prevailing wage), but at the same time gets paid for higher experience job. Everything (book keeping) is internal. Anyone who can't hold on the job, the body shop will swap the person out with a different one they have got in the pool. Then the body shop may terminate or move the person to somewhere else.
This abuse has been done for over 10 years, but it was very small at the time. However, it became very popular, especially Indian companies, about 10 years ago. Remember when the H1B application went through the roof (140k+ applications) within the first 2 days of opening?
my ignorance = what is a body shop? I'm thinking car repair. Do you mean it's a business "moving around bodies & personnel"?
A body shop in this case means that the company hires people at a certain qualification, fabricated their resume to be qualified at much higher position, and then sell them to work matched with their fabricated resume. For example, the company hires someone who is a freshly graduated. Then fabricate the person's resume to have 3~5 years experience. Now the person could be hired at that level (e.g. $75k~80k a year), but the company is paying the person for fresh graduate payment ($45k~$50 a year).
"Right now H-1B visas are awarded by random lottery and many of you will be surprised to know that about 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields. Only 5% to 6%, depending on the year, of H-1B workers command the highest wage tier recognized by the Department of Labor. [...] If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard for skill or wage, to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers [...] It's a very elegant way of solving very systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."
Seriously, it's right there in the summary.
It is still NOT a total scam. Because the program is being abused so bad, the program itself is NOT a scam, but it is the way some big companies are using it. Of course, the program needs better processing and qualification reform.
By the way, there is a prevailing wage set to every single position in H1B, and the wage is supposed to be around the mean and/or median. How could 80% being paid lower than the median? How could they let it happen? Of course, loop holes.
in vr that sends these signals you would be leaning against a virtual wall. i guess in theory your sensation would be real but simulated by electrical input thats supposed to felt.
Well, VR can't imitate leaning against a wall regardless sensation unless it can adjust your body's center of gravity in a way that your body can be tilted without falling down. Or you would just be falling "inside" VR wall when you attempt to lean against it.
Insurance premiums are a factor of how many insurance claims are made. If the number of claims made goes down, premiums will also go down.
Are you serious? Why does my insurance premium go up bit by bit every year even though I have never made a claim since I have had the policies with them (for 5+ years now)? Oh wait, I am getting older... That's how insurance company gave me the excuse of why the cost is going up. They always have a way to explain (excuse) what they are doing...
I am sorry that would be because rivers don't change course on their own.
https://www.google.com/search?...
This one is particularly good
http://www.npr.org/sections/in...
Anyone who had read their Mark Twain was aware of the Mississippi doing this all the time.
Here's more
https://www.google.com/search?...
Most people who have at least the basic knowledge of Earth Science will tell you changing course is what rivers do.
I think you missed the point. Of course, rivers can change course by either their own or direct human influences. In this case, TFA said it is from the climate change. I believe humans are parts of the climate change. However, I'm still not sure how much impact of human causes to the climate change which in turn causes the river to change course. There seems to be a missing link (explanation) to the whole process. It is rather a big leap to conclusion. Need more study of those impacts before making a big jump as in TFA...
While keeping an eye on its rivals' cars, though, Uber noticed that Lyft's drivers are identified by special numbered IDs that never change like its own tokens do. That allowed the team running Hell to learn of each driver's habits, which, in turn, helped them to figure out which drivers practice "double-apping." In other words, they used the data they gathered to pinpoint the Lyft drivers that drove for them, as well.
Travis Kalanick and his select employees then executed a plan meant to entice double-appers to drive exclusively for them. First, the Hell program would send more riders to double-appers than to those who drove solely for Uber. Then, the company would give them special bonuses for meeting a certain number of rides per week. Considering the program's data revealed that 60 percent of Lyft's drivers were double-apping, Uber ended up doling out tens of millions of dollars a week in bonuses. Clearly, loyalty didn't pay for those who stuck with Uber those years.
I agree with your statement that they are as smart as all of us... a large number of highly educated mainland Chinese were in fact educated in the west, including top US universities. It's hard to have respect for the kid who copies your homework, regardless of their intelligence or ability.
Why do you have no respect for them? The ACM Programming Contest, which has teams from various universities all over the world, has had Chinese universities place higher than US universities consistently for well over a decade... and that's only one example. Their university students surely aren't getting educated in the West. When some other kid's getting higher marks than you, it's usually not because they're copying your homework.
I actually agreed with the parent post. I have no doubt that Chinese people are smart. However, their "smart" covers more than just book smart. You need to read the whole post to understand the context, not just pick a part you want to argue. It is misleading.
See, your mistake is assuming that those things (facial expressions and past actions) matter in a game where the winner is very clearly almost always the person with the best chances at winning based on the cards they hold. The facial expression and past action thing is just another way to be wrong, whereas going by statistical likelihood is almost always the correct bet.
Are they bluffing? The look on their face says they're bluffing! But wait, what if they made that face to make me think they're bluffing...
You should bet on stats, not on feels. AI is good with stats.
I believe you are partially correct in this case.
Bluffing doesn't only mean facial expression or posture that required vision sensors. For humans, we usually have reaction to our surrounding, so facial expression and posture are quite obvious to others. Because of the reaction, our decision becomes dynamic and could be changed depending on what's going on around us. That's what bluffing is about. The AI, in this case, eliminates the obvious part of bluffing, but may still analyze certain behaviors of opponents while playing the game that most humans do not notice or they simply ignore, such as timing, betting amount, etc.
Also, bluffing is both ways (attempt to mislead your opponents while read your opponent reactions). Unlike humans, computer doesn't need to react to facial expression or posture. They are interferences and could be ignored. Because there are less interferences (bluffing), the calculated winning probability of each game would become more accurate for the computer. However, this would have the opposite effect on human opponents because bluffing is the key to shake the winning probability.
Ironically (or not) it was a chrome bug.
Err... Chromium != Chrome
Lawsuits? To get what, money in compensation? How does money smooth out wrongdoings? Money is not justice.
You are an idealist... What else do you think the person who was forcibly taken out of the airplane should try to do in return then? Asking for a formal apology from the airline at his home? The pride can't feed him, and it would be forgotten pretty soon. Laws changed? He can't simply change the law; besides, why would he spend even more money to lobby? A law suit is a tangible (monetary) reward that he could get at best...
I thought I replied to this, but now don't see it - that link describes involuntary bumping; I was talking about voluntary bumping. There should be no such thing as involuntary bumping - the airlines should keep upping the incentives for people to volunteer until they have enough.
Sadly, for voluntary bumping, the DoT doesn't want to be involved but rather let you directly negotiate with the airline (no specific rules). You can read on Overbooking at their site.
It looks like there actually is a maximum ($1,350).
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cf...
You should be using this link instead because it is from DoT. :)
Your reply seems to miss the point and/or doesn't make sense of the gp...
People living there receive more services, and businesses located there get more customers
That depends on the services you are seeking and what sort of customers you are looking for. Good luck finding a tractor repair store or any customers for one in downtown Manhattan.
Why would people who own a tractor be living in Manhattan or nearby for? What are other services usually located in a big city? Farming??? A repair shop for heavy equipment like this may not have good business in the city because of the cost of the land/lease and surrounding businesses...
And nobody's forced to use a mode of transportation they dislike - you're allowed to walk, you can take a bus or train, or you can drive.
You can only drive in a city like NYC if you are rather wealthy. Costs too much and is far too impractical for most people. You essentially are forced to take public transit and not everyone likes that.
The example does not need to apply to NYC only because NYC is quite a unique case. Other big cities aren't lands that surrounded by water...
It's a win-win for everyone.
It's a win-win for people who want/need to be in a dense city. It's a huge loss for those who dislike living in such a place. Dense populations have their good and bad features. It's not a clear "win-win".
You actually explained it in your own reply. Those who want to live in dense population (big cities) would be happy to live there (win-win). Those who aren't will move out at some point to find a more suitable place for themselves because they dislike to live there anyway. I'm sure people are living where they are for reasons (often times work). Though, most people have a goal to get to in the future, and in this case could be retirement. Many people are not retired at where they work anyway. Besides, a town/city wouldn't suddenly become a dense population location unless either it already a dense population city or there are some special sudden changes in the area (which is extremely rare).
5MB are a *LOT* of text messages in Signal, WhatsApp, Viber, whatever.
Unless you keep sending pictures to each other (as many people usually do)...
Well, corporations sort of *are* people. To "incorporate" is literally to "embody".
No person, business, town (incorporated) or anything else comprising one or more people can exist, i.e., do business, with anyone else without having a "body". So yes, a corporation has rights. Just like your body. Corporations are born and die every day.
Sometimes they are powerful "people" and get by with stuff that a smaller, less powerful "person" can't. But a "corporation" isn't a bad thing in itself. It's merely a legal entity that can continue if one or more members leave.
So, they are "people", in many important ways.
You attempt to mislead others by extending the meaning of the word "embody" as people; however. the word "embody" is not the same as "body". Also, a corporation/incorporated business consists of investors that aren't really have anything much to do together besides "business". People are humans. We are much more than just business. In other words, corporation is just a part of people activities, not people themselves.
I don't think that the experience is that overpowering, relatively speaking. The power of the big screen made sense decades ago, when at home you had a 23' screen with a modest resolution. These days, Saving Private Ryan is overpowering at the theater, and also at home, on a 60' screen. You can get an experience at home almost as overpowering as that at the theater. A huge screen and a very loud sound are not worth the price of admission any more.
Where can I buy a 23' screen TV, let alone 60' screen TV? And how much is it cost to you? :)
If you only think about connecting your computer to a remote server, then their functionality is the same. However, there are differences...
Not exactly wording but to me is quite close -- Wikipedia. Luckily, he didn't get into the office.
"I, too, certainly stand for life. I know there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view. But I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have, to have an abortion, is in that case of the life of the mother. I've struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
I know what I've seen discussed here, and that is usually a case of outsourcing an IT function currently provided by employees to an American outsourcing firm, which itself has H1-Bs. That is apparently legal. I don't buy your assertion that the companies getting away with abuse are forging documents, otherwise we'd see more stories like this, and not about people training their replacements and then losing their job.
Because I experienced in one, but I quited the company before anything got done. It is not my thing and it is illegal. The forging documents do not need to be "legal" paper at all. It could be as simple as a resume (fabricated and submit it to those who want to hire staffs). There are some desperate people who will do whatever they can to stay, so yes there exists. It won't be any big news or stories because those who are involved would never want to disclose. You should know why they don't want to...
Because they are stupid or uninformed. A queen bee is the best fed bee in the hive. In many species it also has the most miserable life because it has to carry all the children. See where I am going with this?
I see this, but it is different in humans. Why? Because of human politics, and that already creates a lot more complex relationships than the logic you presented.