That's the theory, but in practice, courts have tapped people for child support when they were just a sperm donor
That would be the "skipped town" version in my post. At least according to Texas's laws where that happened. Once.
or when they never signed anything and were flat out told the child wasn't theirs
That's another case of "skipped town". Or if you're talking about a state/country where the dad doesn't sign the birth certificate, there are other ways they consider you to have taken on the mantle of Dad. Signing a birth certificate was just the shortest-to-type example.
The courts are also known for demanding child support payments from people who simply don't have the money and never did
Income is always taken into account. Tax returns are pulled as part of the process. And a change in income is grounds for modifying child support payments. When most claim they "don't have the money", they mean they don't want to curtail their other spending in order to make payments.
Father: "I'd have to sell my boat to pay this!!". Court: "Ok, go do that. Just like you'd sell your boat to support your kid if you were still married".
You dig at all at the horror stories and you find it's something like this, or that they didn't want to bother having the court modify their support if their income changed.
HIPAA is going to cover the results of the CEO's drug test. You want them to break privacy laws for you in order to show just how much you value privacy?
Failure to immediately pay up $30,000 on command resulted in his drivers license being suspended, losing his job, and being unable to pay the insane $30,000 in a timely fashion.
Your friend had a terrible lawyer. Payment plans can be arranged, and apparently his lawyer didn't bother to try.
It doesn't matter if it was not his biological child. He took on the responsibility of being dad.
Even if he did that under false pretenses, the kid still exists and he still is "dad" to that kid. Punishing the kid for the mother's fraud would be wrong.
As for child support, if the father is denied the parent child relationship (for example by being told it isn't his), it seems reasonable that the support is null and void. And it is certainly unrelated to the right to freedom of movement.
Child support cases are decided based on what is best for the child. The rights and whims of the parents are secondary. Because the kid is far more important than the parents.
It literally does not matter if it is not his biological child. If he took on the responsibility of being "dad" (ie. signed the birth certificate), he gets to pay. Conversely, if he "skips town" before the mother even knows she's pregnant and is later found, he gets to pay. Why? In both cases, it's best for the child to get support.
This, btw, isn't a "law to screw over men". Switch the genders and it still applies. It's just far less likely for the mother, since we have some really strong proof that the child is hers.
Now, if there is an order for support, you usually can demand visitation. Visitation will again be decided as what's best for the child, so if there is not a specific reason to deny visitation in that case, the person paying support should get it.
And I imagine, now that the word is out on this...
Amazon's goal: Not have drivers steal packages. Option 1: Fire and/or file charges against drivers after they steal. Option 2: Let everyone know that they test drivers via dummy packages, preventing thefts in the first place.
- While the driver is delivering a DIFFERENT package, a local thug sneaks into the truck and takes the dummy package. The driver is innocent, but now he will get fired for being a victim.
No, they get fired for failing to secure their vehicle and all the packages inside it.
The package falls out of the truck while in transit. Potholes are a bitch!
No, they get fired for failing to secure their vehicle and all the packages inside it.
The driver delivers the dummy package, but before the recipient gets to it, it is stolen by a local thief. The driver is innocent, but gets fired because of circumstance.
The point of displaying an error is that there is no place for the package to be delivered to. It's supposed to be returned because of the error. So if they deliver it despite the error, they are still doing it wrong.
The massive security holes constantly being found prove it, and the vast majority of those are due to the same mistakes self-confident high IQ morons keep making.
So, did you decide to ignore all the massive security holes of yesteryear, or do you have some intricate retcon for why those holes were not common mistakes?
Also, writing your own version of a common bit of functionality is a fantastic way to introduce your own copy of those common mistakes.
Let's see....screwing over the meeting and the subsequent discussions about Linus not treating others well.....how could that possibly have lead to this....hmmmm......that's a puzzler.:eyeroll:
Well, your theory claims this is "out of the blue". The very first sentence disproves that this is out of the blue. Kinda demolishes the rest of your conspiracy theory.
It sounds like you buy largely into the "everybody has to be a salesman for themselves" crap
Nope. Not at all. The interactions are not "selling" anything. They're basic "can you talk to someone without creeping them out".
For example, plumbing. You'd think this is where you could go and just put pipes together, right? Nope, a huge part of the job is talking with customers, even if you are not doing any sort of sales - They have to tell you what's wrong with their plumbing, or tell you where they want the new fixtures, and so on. So you're going to have to be able to talk with them. Unless you want to stay someone else's apprentice forever.
So no, this is not about having salesman-level people skills. The bar is far, far, far lower.
And why should the Aspies always be the ones making the accomodations?
Well, two reasons: 1) they're a minority of the population, and 2) they can learn to do it well enough as long as they don't hide behind "I'm an Aspie!!! Reeeeeee"
Again, this isn't salesman-quality. This is "I can look at your face wall talking" quality.
California has people that give children bleach enemas and withhold important vaccines because of anti-autistic bigotry, and autistic children make up an enormous portion of bullying victims
Your bigotry against "normal" people does not eliminate bigotry against you. This revenge-based model is just going to build more bigotry.
And again, this isn't salesman-quality. This is "I can use at least six words in a sentence while talking to you" quality.
If society at large doesn't respect them, why would expect them to respect society?
Because you change exactly nothing with this attitude, and society is so much larger that it will crush you. So pick up the rest of the basic skills you actually did need to learn in school, and you'll find 1) you have a much wider set of options for the future, and 2) you don't get relegated to some dark room to hide you away from the people that you actually need to meet if you want to advance your career.
So, for what reasons do you think they are overrepresented?
it's a field where you do not need "people skills" to be considered competent. But that only gets you to "competent". And just like every other field on the planet, the vast majority, autistic or not, are competent and that's it.
And it's not that you need those skills to fake it. The vast majority of jobs require you to work effectively with other people, and having zero "people skills" means you will fail to do that. Especially if you decide you can't possibly develop such skills because "you're an Aspie". That's when you get put away in your office/cube to just go code. It's damage mitigation, not your brilliance.
who do you know who never uses sexual swear-words?
*raises hand*
Get a better vocabulary. Swearing is far more effective when they have to actually pay attention to follow it.
so, assuming that someone falls foul of these sort of fluffy-unicorn requirements the project may no longer have the option to accept the best solution because its author is not acceptable.
And doing the opposite risks driving away people who may have the best solution. And it has, based on some things that were accepted into the kernel from people who have left.
You don't have to accept commits like participation trophies in order to treat people professionally. You also don't have to be an asshole to only get the best solution. In fact, the latter causes the truly good people to leave because they're good enough to not have to put up with your shit.
And, yeah, that might include swearing and telling you that you're not the centre of the universe and that you have become a problem. Dry your lamps and shape up.
And you managed to express that statement with out swearing or questioning someone's intellectual faculties.
where they are actually OVERrepresented relative to the population, due to merit
[Citation Required] for that last part.
A very large percentage of the "Autistics" I've come across in this field were not significantly better than "regular" people. But every single one of them was absolutely sure they were better than everyone else. The more unfounded the belief, the more they held it.
There is no more need to say this than there is to say:
Don't stick your fingers in electrical outlets Don't jump off cliffs Don't dive head first into a shallow puddle of water Don't jump in front of oncoming traffic
The point of something like a CoC (or shock warnings on electrical equipment) is so fewer people can claim they did not know what they were doing was wrong. Such things should not be necessary, but in the real world they are because there are tons of people who will claim to be ignorant as their first defense.
I am as mystified as to why this is even here as the rest. But "crushing student loan debt" is influencing eating habits in a sigificant way? When it affects a tiny fraction of the population, and only those who did something really stupid?
20-somethings were the prime market for people dining out, since the largest percentage of their income is disposable and they were less likely to have a nice kitchen.
So student loan debt is a big deal to the restaurant industry.
For those pesky millennials who are still trying to save up for this middle class life style, cooking at home vs wasting money on prepared food is a good plan.
That not always true. It depends on what you are preparing. Kraft can make Macaroni and Cheese way cheaper than I can.
Also, my Grandmother had a lot more time to cook. It wasn't so much that we are "making" people not cook, it's that we went from single-income households to dual-income households.
It's good to make your own bread. For example: Adm Whole Wheat Flour # 17688, $13.98 / Unit (50 lb) [smartfoodservice.com]. When you buy bread, it may be $2.50 per pound or more, and the weight includes the water in the bread. You can buy the flour used to make bread for $0.28, 28 cents per pound.
Bread is more than water + flour. Sugar, yeast and some sort of fat are generally required, and that increases the cost to you. And no, you can't eliminate all of those ingredients, because there's some chemistry going on that requires them.
Also, it takes a lot of time and physical effort (If you don't have a KitchenAid kneed for you), and requires a reliable oven. All three of those are in quite short supply unless you're in a position where $2/pound bread is not a significant cost....And you'll probably value your labor at more than $0.
No wonder so many people get trapped in a cycle of poverty. That's more than every other day! And the latest figure is still more than every other day.
There are 1,095 chances to eat out in a year (3 meals * 365 days). So a little less than 20% of them are "eating out"....on average, over the entire country.
Let's average Jimmy, the poor guy who always eats a sandwich from home (0 times), Mark, the not-quite-poor guy who eats out twice a month, usually somewhere where his meal is $5-10 (24 times), and Joe the banker, who has a private chef cook and deliver all of his meals (1095 times). That averages to 373 times "dining out" per year. More than once a day!!! Outrageous!! Jimmy needs to stop eating out so much!!!! Oh wait.....
Also, consider something like picking up a cup of $1 coffee is "eating out". So is spending $2 buying a hamburger and small fries at McDonalds as you run between your first and second job, because you don't have time to prepare a meal, nor do you have any way to safely store your food. And I'm not just talking about temperature control there.
You don't have to run your own business to do well. You just need an actual skill, of the kind that you need to go to school and work hard to get, in order to do well. Then, of course, you need to get a job using that skill.
We've spent the last two decades shouting that everyone needs to go get a STEM degree, and then they will have the marketable skills you describe.
We now graduate 1.5 STEM students for every entry-level STEM job opening...with piles of student debt to do so. And then we ponder why, oh why does that 0.5 not dine out as often?
So no, it's not just dumb people getting degrees in fields you do not like, or people not going into plumbing. It's kids doing exactly what we told them to do.
(It's also coupled with the requirements inflation businesses now apply to entry-level jobs. There was a time where you did not need a college degree to get a job as a secretary...or a plumber.)
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That's the theory, but in practice, courts have tapped people for child support when they were just a sperm donor
That would be the "skipped town" version in my post. At least according to Texas's laws where that happened. Once.
or when they never signed anything and were flat out told the child wasn't theirs
That's another case of "skipped town". Or if you're talking about a state/country where the dad doesn't sign the birth certificate, there are other ways they consider you to have taken on the mantle of Dad. Signing a birth certificate was just the shortest-to-type example.
The courts are also known for demanding child support payments from people who simply don't have the money and never did
Income is always taken into account. Tax returns are pulled as part of the process. And a change in income is grounds for modifying child support payments. When most claim they "don't have the money", they mean they don't want to curtail their other spending in order to make payments.
Father: "I'd have to sell my boat to pay this!!". Court: "Ok, go do that. Just like you'd sell your boat to support your kid if you were still married".
You dig at all at the horror stories and you find it's something like this, or that they didn't want to bother having the court modify their support if their income changed.
You're assuming nothing else has been welded over the affected area. Which may not be true.
HIPAA is going to cover the results of the CEO's drug test. You want them to break privacy laws for you in order to show just how much you value privacy?
Failure to immediately pay up $30,000 on command resulted in his drivers license being suspended, losing his job, and being unable to pay the insane $30,000 in a timely fashion.
Your friend had a terrible lawyer. Payment plans can be arranged, and apparently his lawyer didn't bother to try.
It doesn't matter if it was not his biological child. He took on the responsibility of being dad.
Even if he did that under false pretenses, the kid still exists and he still is "dad" to that kid. Punishing the kid for the mother's fraud would be wrong.
As for child support, if the father is denied the parent child relationship (for example by being told it isn't his), it seems reasonable that the support is null and void. And it is certainly unrelated to the right to freedom of movement.
Child support cases are decided based on what is best for the child. The rights and whims of the parents are secondary. Because the kid is far more important than the parents.
It literally does not matter if it is not his biological child. If he took on the responsibility of being "dad" (ie. signed the birth certificate), he gets to pay. Conversely, if he "skips town" before the mother even knows she's pregnant and is later found, he gets to pay. Why? In both cases, it's best for the child to get support.
This, btw, isn't a "law to screw over men". Switch the genders and it still applies. It's just far less likely for the mother, since we have some really strong proof that the child is hers.
Now, if there is an order for support, you usually can demand visitation. Visitation will again be decided as what's best for the child, so if there is not a specific reason to deny visitation in that case, the person paying support should get it.
Because the animals you list are extremely similar to humans, so you'd expect similar responses as humans.
The point was to study a creature dissimilar to humans and see what happened. An octopus fits that bill.
And I imagine, now that the word is out on this...
Amazon's goal: Not have drivers steal packages.
Option 1: Fire and/or file charges against drivers after they steal.
Option 2: Let everyone know that they test drivers via dummy packages, preventing thefts in the first place.
Either way, Amazon gets what it wants.
- While the driver is delivering a DIFFERENT package, a local thug sneaks into the truck and takes the dummy package. The driver is innocent, but now he will get fired for being a victim.
No, they get fired for failing to secure their vehicle and all the packages inside it.
The package falls out of the truck while in transit. Potholes are a bitch!
No, they get fired for failing to secure their vehicle and all the packages inside it.
The driver delivers the dummy package, but before the recipient gets to it, it is stolen by a local thief. The driver is innocent, but gets fired because of circumstance.
The point of displaying an error is that there is no place for the package to be delivered to. It's supposed to be returned because of the error. So if they deliver it despite the error, they are still doing it wrong.
The massive security holes constantly being found prove it, and the vast majority of those are due to the same mistakes self-confident high IQ morons keep making.
So, did you decide to ignore all the massive security holes of yesteryear, or do you have some intricate retcon for why those holes were not common mistakes?
Also, writing your own version of a common bit of functionality is a fantastic way to introduce your own copy of those common mistakes.
Let's see....screwing over the meeting and the subsequent discussions about Linus not treating others well.....how could that possibly have lead to this....hmmmm......that's a puzzler. :eyeroll:
Well, your theory claims this is "out of the blue". The very first sentence disproves that this is out of the blue. Kinda demolishes the rest of your conspiracy theory.
It sounds like you buy largely into the "everybody has to be a salesman for themselves" crap
Nope. Not at all. The interactions are not "selling" anything. They're basic "can you talk to someone without creeping them out".
For example, plumbing. You'd think this is where you could go and just put pipes together, right? Nope, a huge part of the job is talking with customers, even if you are not doing any sort of sales - They have to tell you what's wrong with their plumbing, or tell you where they want the new fixtures, and so on. So you're going to have to be able to talk with them. Unless you want to stay someone else's apprentice forever.
So no, this is not about having salesman-level people skills. The bar is far, far, far lower.
And why should the Aspies always be the ones making the accomodations?
Well, two reasons: 1) they're a minority of the population, and 2) they can learn to do it well enough as long as they don't hide behind "I'm an Aspie!!! Reeeeeee"
Again, this isn't salesman-quality. This is "I can look at your face wall talking" quality.
California has people that give children bleach enemas and withhold important vaccines because of anti-autistic bigotry, and autistic children make up an enormous portion of bullying victims
Your bigotry against "normal" people does not eliminate bigotry against you. This revenge-based model is just going to build more bigotry.
And again, this isn't salesman-quality. This is "I can use at least six words in a sentence while talking to you" quality.
If society at large doesn't respect them, why would expect them to respect society?
Because you change exactly nothing with this attitude, and society is so much larger that it will crush you. So pick up the rest of the basic skills you actually did need to learn in school, and you'll find 1) you have a much wider set of options for the future, and 2) you don't get relegated to some dark room to hide you away from the people that you actually need to meet if you want to advance your career.
So, for what reasons do you think they are overrepresented?
it's a field where you do not need "people skills" to be considered competent. But that only gets you to "competent". And just like every other field on the planet, the vast majority, autistic or not, are competent and that's it.
And it's not that you need those skills to fake it. The vast majority of jobs require you to work effectively with other people, and having zero "people skills" means you will fail to do that. Especially if you decide you can't possibly develop such skills because "you're an Aspie". That's when you get put away in your office/cube to just go code. It's damage mitigation, not your brilliance.
who do you know who never uses sexual swear-words?
*raises hand*
Get a better vocabulary. Swearing is far more effective when they have to actually pay attention to follow it.
so, assuming that someone falls foul of these sort of fluffy-unicorn requirements the project may no longer have the option to accept the best solution because its author is not acceptable.
And doing the opposite risks driving away people who may have the best solution. And it has, based on some things that were accepted into the kernel from people who have left.
You don't have to accept commits like participation trophies in order to treat people professionally. You also don't have to be an asshole to only get the best solution. In fact, the latter causes the truly good people to leave because they're good enough to not have to put up with your shit.
And, yeah, that might include swearing and telling you that you're not the centre of the universe and that you have become a problem. Dry your lamps and shape up.
And you managed to express that statement with out swearing or questioning someone's intellectual faculties.
It seems to odd that Linus would do this out of the blue
So....missed the whole "Oh, I scheduled my vacation during the summit" issue then? You know, the one mentioned in the first sentence of TFSummary?
where they are actually OVERrepresented relative to the population, due to merit
[Citation Required] for that last part.
A very large percentage of the "Autistics" I've come across in this field were not significantly better than "regular" people. But every single one of them was absolutely sure they were better than everyone else. The more unfounded the belief, the more they held it.
There is no more need to say this than there is to say:
Don't stick your fingers in electrical outlets
Don't jump off cliffs
Don't dive head first into a shallow puddle of water
Don't jump in front of oncoming traffic
The point of something like a CoC (or shock warnings on electrical equipment) is so fewer people can claim they did not know what they were doing was wrong. Such things should not be necessary, but in the real world they are because there are tons of people who will claim to be ignorant as their first defense.
slicing the bread evenly by hand is kind of a pain in the ass
Try something like this: https://smile.amazon.com/Kenle...
I am as mystified as to why this is even here as the rest. But "crushing student loan debt" is influencing eating habits in a sigificant way? When it affects a tiny fraction of the population, and only those who did something really stupid?
20-somethings were the prime market for people dining out, since the largest percentage of their income is disposable and they were less likely to have a nice kitchen.
So student loan debt is a big deal to the restaurant industry.
For those pesky millennials who are still trying to save up for this middle class life style, cooking at home vs wasting money on prepared food is a good plan.
That not always true. It depends on what you are preparing. Kraft can make Macaroni and Cheese way cheaper than I can.
Also, my Grandmother had a lot more time to cook. It wasn't so much that we are "making" people not cook, it's that we went from single-income households to dual-income households.
It's good to make your own bread. For example: Adm Whole Wheat Flour # 17688, $13.98 / Unit (50 lb) [smartfoodservice.com]. When you buy bread, it may be $2.50 per pound or more, and the weight includes the water in the bread. You can buy the flour used to make bread for $0.28, 28 cents per pound.
Bread is more than water + flour. Sugar, yeast and some sort of fat are generally required, and that increases the cost to you. And no, you can't eliminate all of those ingredients, because there's some chemistry going on that requires them.
Also, it takes a lot of time and physical effort (If you don't have a KitchenAid kneed for you), and requires a reliable oven. All three of those are in quite short supply unless you're in a position where $2/pound bread is not a significant cost....And you'll probably value your labor at more than $0.
No wonder so many people get trapped in a cycle of poverty. That's more than every other day! And the latest figure is still more than every other day.
There are 1,095 chances to eat out in a year (3 meals * 365 days). So a little less than 20% of them are "eating out"....on average, over the entire country.
Let's average Jimmy, the poor guy who always eats a sandwich from home (0 times), Mark, the not-quite-poor guy who eats out twice a month, usually somewhere where his meal is $5-10 (24 times), and Joe the banker, who has a private chef cook and deliver all of his meals (1095 times). That averages to 373 times "dining out" per year. More than once a day!!! Outrageous!! Jimmy needs to stop eating out so much!!!! Oh wait.....
Also, consider something like picking up a cup of $1 coffee is "eating out". So is spending $2 buying a hamburger and small fries at McDonalds as you run between your first and second job, because you don't have time to prepare a meal, nor do you have any way to safely store your food. And I'm not just talking about temperature control there.
You don't have to run your own business to do well. You just need an actual skill, of the kind that you need to go to school and work hard to get, in order to do well. Then, of course, you need to get a job using that skill.
We've spent the last two decades shouting that everyone needs to go get a STEM degree, and then they will have the marketable skills you describe.
We now graduate 1.5 STEM students for every entry-level STEM job opening...with piles of student debt to do so. And then we ponder why, oh why does that 0.5 not dine out as often?
So no, it's not just dumb people getting degrees in fields you do not like, or people not going into plumbing. It's kids doing exactly what we told them to do.
(It's also coupled with the requirements inflation businesses now apply to entry-level jobs. There was a time where you did not need a college degree to get a job as a secretary...or a plumber.)
You don't have to keep your Telsa hooked up to their network either.