Their shortage would be solved over night if they doubled the engineering positions' salaries. The real question is then: why are their salaries so low that they're having problems finding workers? Maybe their working environments suck too, but that's easily solved by making it suck less or upping the pay further to compensate.
You're saying that research to regrow or replace lost limbs is a bad thing? You know that people can injured outside of a war, right? How in hell can you argue medical advancement is a bad thing?
Who cares where the funding is coming from? I'm more saddened that people listen to it. I can't imagine listening to unimaginative trash can enrich one's life. A lot of those songs seem like HOWTOs on how to be a douche by partying too hard and sleeping around as much as possible.
It took years, but my friend finally stopped listening to rap. He now listens to what I'd call chill out music. He's a lot happier, less stressed, and no longer content with living a hook up lifestyle. I'm tempted to say there's more than a correlation.
I'm going to have to disagree. All the examples you've given are things I've learned on my own from books. I've heard colleges use these books too. So what exactly does college provide, other than someone to hold your hand?
Don't be so negative. Most people would be honest. Those who've tried to quit before, and failed, also know that hiding smoking when you've said you've quit is nigh impossible (TL;DIR: IMPOSSIBRU!!!!11).
Even if you'd like to be super negative, those who successfully deceive their coworkers into believing they've quit, still have have won positive health benefits. At minimum, they've decreased the amount of smoking during workings hours. They've also gained incentive to quit in their off time, as being a smoker while not smoking for a full shift is a shit life.
I'm actually going to see if my boss is willing to buy me a new chair at work if I dont't smoke on the clock for 2 weeks. I won't quit, but I'll go the "deceitful route" but with full disclosure. If I understand economics properly, and my boss is as awesome as I think he is, this'd be a good test case.
(Hypothesis: Arbitrary prize if XYZ is done => less nicotine => healthier/longer life ?=> ?compete cessation?)
Um... No. Why was this modded up? Trump isn't stupid enough to let Russian have a backdoor into millions of Americans homes. That reduces leverage and he's all about making deals. I think he paid someone to write a book about it...
The money is probably what will get me to quit. My guess is I spend about $4k on cigs a year. That's like $6k of income before taxes. Started running to try and quit years ago. That didn't work. I ended up not being able to finish an ultra marathon because I ran out of cigarettes. During a marathon I'll spoke about 6 cigarettes, figured a half pack would be enough to do 50km... I was wrong.
When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I could not afford a home, and I was "homeless". I lived in a van, which was worth about $10k, in my employer's parking lot... I was employed, earning good money
If Good Money* can't afford someone to even rent an apartment, that's pretty messed up. When even the educated and gainfully employed can't afford to not live in a van, the situation is already FUBAR. How do certain municipalities even think they can address homelessness, which a vastly more difficult problem?
That's like thinking that you'll be great at calculus even though you suck at algebra.
If you want a car analogy: it's like worrying about gas mileage when your car is resting on blocks. Before worrying about that, maybe replace the wheels stolen that were stolen? Maybe?
* - For sake of argument, and to keep the bar as low as possible, I'll consider anything above 2x the minimum wage to be good enough. Where I live (Pittsburgh, PA) that'd work out to roughly $30k a year. Finding a place where rent + utilities is under $1000 is easy. If you look around a bit, that can get you a 2 bedroom duplex with a garage, deck, dish washer, washer/dryer, and a backyard for $1,000-$1,500.
Oh, an article about a free online knowledge warehouse that doesn't charge for access nor show ads? Cool! Let's go read that... wait a tick. The article is behind a paywall and a legion of ads.
No. That's not how things work. Your fragile feelings are your own problem. Guessing you don't know the difference between sticks, stones, and words? If so, I blame your parents.
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I'm happy to hear they're still facing consequences, even if those consequences aren't nearly severe enough to make me content.
Their shortage would be solved over night if they doubled the engineering positions' salaries. The real question is then: why are their salaries so low that they're having problems finding workers? Maybe their working environments suck too, but that's easily solved by making it suck less or upping the pay further to compensate.
You're saying that research to regrow or replace lost limbs is a bad thing? You know that people can injured outside of a war, right? How in hell can you argue medical advancement is a bad thing?
Moving the goal posts back a couple hundred years? Yeah... I see what you did there.
So jail anyone who takes the time to clean up another's mess? Trying to solve everything by prison terms seems a bad idea. Hasn't worked in America...
Wow... First time I've scene "social justice" used in a proper way that wasn't steeped in sophistry... Kudos.
You missed 'AI' in the buzzword salad. No mod for you.
It took years, but my friend finally stopped listening to rap. He now listens to what I'd call chill out music. He's a lot happier, less stressed, and no longer content with living a hook up lifestyle. I'm tempted to say there's more than a correlation.
I'm going to have to disagree. All the examples you've given are things I've learned on my own from books. I've heard colleges use these books too. So what exactly does college provide, other than someone to hold your hand?
That's easy enough to set as your homepage, yet hard to explain to a significant other...
Well played.
I was unaware Apple was an American company. Thought it was Irish since that's where all their money is...
Sounds harder than getting titanite slabs in Dark Souls to level all your armor... No thanks.
I'd like Samsung to ask Apple how it looks and feels today with sosumi on loop playing softly in the background...
Amazing new study shows people will lie for $600
Don't be so negative. Most people would be honest. Those who've tried to quit before, and failed, also know that hiding smoking when you've said you've quit is nigh impossible (TL;DIR: IMPOSSIBRU!!!!11).
Even if you'd like to be super negative, those who successfully deceive their coworkers into believing they've quit, still have have won positive health benefits. At minimum, they've decreased the amount of smoking during workings hours. They've also gained incentive to quit in their off time, as being a smoker while not smoking for a full shift is a shit life.
I'm actually going to see if my boss is willing to buy me a new chair at work if I dont't smoke on the clock for 2 weeks. I won't quit, but I'll go the "deceitful route" but with full disclosure. If I understand economics properly, and my boss is as awesome as I think he is, this'd be a good test case.
(Hypothesis: Arbitrary prize if XYZ is done => less nicotine => healthier/longer life ?=> ?compete cessation?)
Um... No. Why was this modded up? Trump isn't stupid enough to let Russian have a backdoor into millions of Americans homes. That reduces leverage and he's all about making deals. I think he paid someone to write a book about it...
The money is probably what will get me to quit. My guess is I spend about $4k on cigs a year. That's like $6k of income before taxes. Started running to try and quit years ago. That didn't work. I ended up not being able to finish an ultra marathon because I ran out of cigarettes. During a marathon I'll spoke about 6 cigarettes, figured a half pack would be enough to do 50km... I was wrong.
When I first moved to Silicon Valley, I could not afford a home, and I was "homeless". I lived in a van, which was worth about $10k, in my employer's parking lot... I was employed, earning good money
If Good Money* can't afford someone to even rent an apartment, that's pretty messed up. When even the educated and gainfully employed can't afford to not live in a van, the situation is already FUBAR. How do certain municipalities even think they can address homelessness, which a vastly more difficult problem?
That's like thinking that you'll be great at calculus even though you suck at algebra.
If you want a car analogy: it's like worrying about gas mileage when your car is resting on blocks. Before worrying about that, maybe replace the wheels stolen that were stolen? Maybe?
I'm not saying that they should give up on the homeless. I don't think anyone would argue that. What baffles me is how can they simply say "we want more money" and then they reveal a "solution" no one really likes.
* - For sake of argument, and to keep the bar as low as possible, I'll consider anything above 2x the minimum wage to be good enough. Where I live (Pittsburgh, PA) that'd work out to roughly $30k a year. Finding a place where rent + utilities is under $1000 is easy. If you look around a bit, that can get you a 2 bedroom duplex with a garage, deck, dish washer, washer/dryer, and a backyard for $1,000-$1,500.
Apple can't even make a goddamn keyboard properly these days. I trust them even less w/ politics.
I think your point could be argued more effectively if you had underlined or italicized more words.
The original Ferris Bueler's Day Off where he didn't go to jail was better.
Prayers to Gaia? How is Captain Planet supposed to help?
Oh, an article about a free online knowledge warehouse that doesn't charge for access nor show ads? Cool! Let's go read that... wait a tick. The article is behind a paywall and a legion of ads.
The unintended consequence being you got yourself out of a shitty job? Seems like a fair trade...
No. That's not how things work. Your fragile feelings are your own problem. Guessing you don't know the difference between sticks, stones, and words? If so, I blame your parents.