= = = People are not as stupid and helpless as you assume. If Uber really paid sub-minimum wage, they wouldn't be able to attract drivers. = = =
I've seen people with extensive training in engineering economics who do cost/benefit analysis at their day job make terrible financial decisions in their personal lives. Unlike catching a tossed ball, which seems to be built in to the brain, humans just aren't good at doing full lifecycle cost analysis and comparisons of different sets of expense/revenue streams outside of a rigorous and enforced framework - which is typically only found in a work context. Besides being fundamentally based on breaking the law Uber also takes advantage of that flaw in the plains ape brain living in a complex industrialized world.
= = = Manufacturers have learnt from Moto 360 that people want round smartwatches that actually look like traditional watches, with a couple of glaring exceptions = = =
Personally I agree the round Moto looks great. Unfortunately based on actual sales figures virtually no one is buying it, which is a bit of a problem for long-term sustainability...
= = = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d... "My people are so smart -- and you know what else they say about my people? The polls?" Trump asked a crowd at a Sioux Center, Iowa, rally Saturday. "I have the most loyal people -- did you ever see that?"
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" he said, referring to the major street in New York City that cuts through Manhattan's large commercial district. "It's, like, incredible."
- - - - - https://www.usmagazine.com/cel... Several former Miss Teen USA contestants alleged to BuzzFeed News that Donald Trump walked in on them while they were changing.
Four women who competed in the annual event in 1997 claimed that the real estate tycoon — who had partial ownership of the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants from 1996 until 2015 — barged in uninvited while the contestants (some as young as 15) were not fully dressed.
“I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, Oh, my god, there’s a man in here,” former Miss Teen USA Vermont Mariah Billado recounted.
According to Billado, the Republican presidential nominee, now 70, said something along the lines of “Don’t worry ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”
Which is why the hard Radical Right spends so much time trying to forceably change the proper name of their opponent: because it is meaningless. Got it.
"Democrat Senators"? So the Slashdot headline writers are now following the lead of Jesse Helms and Rush Limbaugh in attempting to change proper naming conventions to serve their own political ends?
If Uber is an incorporated entity in the United States then various laws and civil requirements apply, including Sarbanes-Oxley documentation requirements and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure business document archiving "guidelines" [where "guidelines" = requirements]. A brief introduction:
- - - - - In addition to ditching its own net neutrality rules, the Federal Communications Commission also plans to tell state and local governments that they cannot impose local laws regulating broadband service. - - - - -
I suspect that tomorrow will not be a big day for my hard Radical Right coworkers to expound on the centrality of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, nor to opine on "states' rights". Just a guess.
= = = But Tesla was the First company to sell an all battery powered Car.= = =
You don't read much of automotive history, do you? All-battery-powered cars have been on the market since 1890 and were looking to be the winning technology before the gasoline IC engine was really developed. Various major manufacturers have tried all-electric model from time to time from then through to today, Elon Musk or no.
= = = And then the "side of body" issue, where the wing connection to the fuselage wasn't strong enough and had to be strengthened. = = =
Good account, however IIRC the "side-of-body" join was too strong (too stiff) and had to be weakened to prevent stress from propagating where it should not have.
Every technology goes through a cycle where the homebuilders and tinkerers are an important part of the ecosystem, and have a lot of fun doing so. Telegraph, electricity, radio, automobiles, airplanes all went through that cycle. Then the technology gets perfected, cleaned up, buttoned up, and ordinary human beings (non-tinkerers) just start using it for everyday. That leaves the hobbyists who come along at the end of the cycle and the greybeards who were there in the early days sad and unhappy, but that's the way it goes. Personal computers and mobile computing have now reached that point.
Economics 101 says a labor shortage is not possible - employers need only raise offered wages until all positions are filled. What went wrong? Econ 101 explanations seem to be highly satisfactory when the job market is on the way down (in a recession for example).
= = = I agree that there should be a backup, but maybe one of the first considerations in having a backup site is selecting a location that is unlikely to be hit by hurricanes because your primary site could get hit by hurricanes. = = = Particularly since there are several "well-used" hurricane tracks that can whack Canaveral, Huntsville, and Houston in one sweep.
= = = There is a backup, the russion control centre near Moscow. However, given the construction of the building in Houston, its buttressing against flooding, and the overall situation, camping out in that building was likely the safest place for the controllers to be during the storm and its aftermath. = = =
Presumably their families and dependents agreed to the controllers accepting a job whose requirements include being locked into an impregnable bunker during catastrophic disasters while the family copes on its own. As a one-time employee of an old line electric company where the standard work shift was "until you are relived" [company record: 9 days] I understand the concept but in those days it was a more common family understanding than it is in the 'teens.
If you are an engineer working on emissions control software, part of your job is to have a knowledgeable layman's understanding of the applicable laws and regulations and also to know when you need to call Legal for an analysis of whether or not something you are designing fulfills said laws and regulations.
- - - - - You always have a choice. You document the request for the illegal thing, refuse to do it, and if you get fired, you sue for a juicy payout. - - - - -
"Can no one rid me of this meddlesome USEPA test requirement?"
Document away - it would take a very determined prosecutor to even get that through a US grand jury as an indictable statement. Also, the trend in the US is for individual whistleblowers to (a) be ignored by the investigative authorities (b) then criminally prosecuted for 'theft of employee property' after a few phone calls are made CEO-to-Attorney General.
Do news and publishing organizations really not understand that they are selling their future revenue streams and future customer base, if not outright their souls, when they cut these deals with Facebook? That's not even a jab at Facebook - just a cold-hearted business analysis.
Everyone who doesn't work for a top-tier tech company has had their health benefits cut proportionally, so although my post started "back in the day" everyone not working for a top-tier firm today is still proportionally worse off. Freedom!
= = = We were also told that the Affordable Care Act would result in an average savings of $2500 per family per year, that the quality of healthcare would improve for everyone, and that if we had a plan and/or doctor that we liked we could keep that plan and/or doctor. It turns out that none of those things were actually true. = = =
Back in the day when I had Really Nice Corporate Medical Benefits I ran the risk of being forced to either change doctors every two years when corporate renegotiated the reinsurance deals with the major carriers. Or I could stay with the same doctor and pay huge percentages out of pocket when the carrier changed from BigCo to SuperBigCo - my choice. I have definitely had to change dentists multiple times for the same reason. Other than a few cherry-picked anecdotes pumped by Bannon/Breitbart I'm not aware of any reliable surveys that show large percentages of people had to change their doctor due to the provisions of the ACA. And since most USisns obtain their insurance through work there was no reason they should have - unless their employer used the ACA as cover to "restructure" (ie cut) their employee benefits.
If you needed to take an ACA exchange plan and the (private business!) carrier changed that plan, than you might have had to change doctors, but as I noted that can happen when you are on IBM's best corporate plan as well.
= = = Reminds me a little of Steve Jobs when it comes to business instincts. = = =
Steve Jobs may have stretched a few laws and regulations over the years (the 'agreement' on not cross-recruiting comes to mind), but none of Jobs' businesses were founded fundamentally on wholesale breaking and flouting of the law. So not such a great comparison there.
Because just yesterday on this site Musk and his "Hyperloop" pie in the sky were being extolled as the next coming of Hank Reardon, ready to save the world if it weren't for those pesky governments in his way.
- - - - - f enough people die in HyperLoop, people will simply stop using it. And they will be forced to increase their safety standards or go out of business.- - - - -
Nah. At that point the cold-eyed capitalist with the heart of Reardon Metal will turn to the government for lawsuit relief, subsidies and taxpayer-funded bailouts.
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I've seen people with extensive training in engineering economics who do cost/benefit analysis at their day job make terrible financial decisions in their personal lives. Unlike catching a tossed ball, which seems to be built in to the brain, humans just aren't good at doing full lifecycle cost analysis and comparisons of different sets of expense/revenue streams outside of a rigorous and enforced framework - which is typically only found in a work context. Besides being fundamentally based on breaking the law Uber also takes advantage of that flaw in the plains ape brain living in a complex industrialized world.
There's also this:
Personally I agree the round Moto looks great. Unfortunately based on actual sales figures virtually no one is buying it, which is a bit of a problem for long-term sustainability...
Which is why the hard Radical Right spends so much time trying to forceably change the proper name of their opponent: because it is meaningless. Got it.
"Democrat Senators"? So the Slashdot headline writers are now following the lead of Jesse Helms and Rush Limbaugh in attempting to change proper naming conventions to serve their own political ends?
If Uber is an incorporated entity in the United States then various laws and civil requirements apply, including Sarbanes-Oxley documentation requirements and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure business document archiving "guidelines" [where "guidelines" = requirements]. A brief introduction:
http://www.metrocorpcounsel.co...
Arthur Andersen says hi.
I suspect that tomorrow will not be a big day for my hard Radical Right coworkers to expound on the centrality of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, nor to opine on "states' rights". Just a guess.
You don't read much of automotive history, do you? All-battery-powered cars have been on the market since 1890 and were looking to be the winning technology before the gasoline IC engine was really developed. Various major manufacturers have tried all-electric model from time to time from then through to today, Elon Musk or no.
George F. Will
Good account, however IIRC the "side-of-body" join was too strong (too stiff) and had to be weakened to prevent stress from propagating where it should not have.
Every technology goes through a cycle where the homebuilders and tinkerers are an important part of the ecosystem, and have a lot of fun doing so. Telegraph, electricity, radio, automobiles, airplanes all went through that cycle. Then the technology gets perfected, cleaned up, buttoned up, and ordinary human beings (non-tinkerers) just start using it for everyday. That leaves the hobbyists who come along at the end of the cycle and the greybeards who were there in the early days sad and unhappy, but that's the way it goes. Personal computers and mobile computing have now reached that point.
Economics 101 says a labor shortage is not possible - employers need only raise offered wages until all positions are filled. What went wrong? Econ 101 explanations seem to be highly satisfactory when the job market is on the way down (in a recession for example).
Presumably their families and dependents agreed to the controllers accepting a job whose requirements include being locked into an impregnable bunker during catastrophic disasters while the family copes on its own. As a one-time employee of an old line electric company where the standard work shift was "until you are relived" [company record: 9 days] I understand the concept but in those days it was a more common family understanding than it is in the 'teens.
If you are an engineer working on emissions control software, part of your job is to have a knowledgeable layman's understanding of the applicable laws and regulations and also to know when you need to call Legal for an analysis of whether or not something you are designing fulfills said laws and regulations.
"Can no one rid me of this meddlesome USEPA test requirement?"
Document away - it would take a very determined prosecutor to even get that through a US grand jury as an indictable statement. Also, the trend in the US is for individual whistleblowers to (a) be ignored by the investigative authorities (b) then criminally prosecuted for 'theft of employee property' after a few phone calls are made CEO-to-Attorney General.
Do news and publishing organizations really not understand that they are selling their future revenue streams and future customer base, if not outright their souls, when they cut these deals with Facebook? That's not even a jab at Facebook - just a cold-hearted business analysis.
Everyone who doesn't work for a top-tier tech company has had their health benefits cut proportionally, so although my post started "back in the day" everyone not working for a top-tier firm today is still proportionally worse off. Freedom!
Back in the day when I had Really Nice Corporate Medical Benefits I ran the risk of being forced to either change doctors every two years when corporate renegotiated the reinsurance deals with the major carriers. Or I could stay with the same doctor and pay huge percentages out of pocket when the carrier changed from BigCo to SuperBigCo - my choice. I have definitely had to change dentists multiple times for the same reason. Other than a few cherry-picked anecdotes pumped by Bannon/Breitbart I'm not aware of any reliable surveys that show large percentages of people had to change their doctor due to the provisions of the ACA. And since most USisns obtain their insurance through work there was no reason they should have - unless their employer used the ACA as cover to "restructure" (ie cut) their employee benefits.
If you needed to take an ACA exchange plan and the (private business!) carrier changed that plan, than you might have had to change doctors, but as I noted that can happen when you are on IBM's best corporate plan as well.
Nothing like the smell of pure capitalism in the morning. John Galt (a native of Milwaukee) would be proud!
Steve Jobs may have stretched a few laws and regulations over the years (the 'agreement' on not cross-recruiting comes to mind), but none of Jobs' businesses were founded fundamentally on wholesale breaking and flouting of the law. So not such a great comparison there.
Because just yesterday on this site Musk and his "Hyperloop" pie in the sky were being extolled as the next coming of Hank Reardon, ready to save the world if it weren't for those pesky governments in his way.
Nah. At that point the cold-eyed capitalist with the heart of Reardon Metal will turn to the government for lawsuit relief, subsidies and taxpayer-funded bailouts.