I have 25 years of experience. I only work remotely from home now. I live somewhere far away with a low cost of living. I never interview in person anymore. It's a little harder to find a job. But my quality of life is much better. I make a little over half what I could if I went into an office every day. But I clear more because of the lower cost of living.
In 5 or 10 years, I expect to have the problem you're describing. When that happens, I plan to cut 10 to 15 years off my resume and look like I'm that much younger.
The wealthy don't pay taxes. Ever. Taxes are for you and me. Any tax that's imposed anywhere on the food chain will be passed down to us.
The wealth will own the carbon exchanges and make money off every transaction. It's yet another way to suck the life out of an economy at your and my expense.
I'm amused by all the rose colored glasses I see here. Would it be a good thing if everyone had all the food and medical care they needed and a good place to live? Of course it would.
Do you honestly trust the US government not to abuse this idea? Look at what happened with Obamacare. What we were sold is a European style public health care system where capitalists could still keep their doctor and current plans. What did we get instead? You're forced to buy the coverage they tell you to.
This is where the world is going. ANYTHING given to you by the US government (and all other anglophone and western european governments should be suspect) will be given to you for the specific reason of controlling you and taking your freedom. How hard would it be for them to make your basic income contingent on keeping your mouth shut? And all we would need is an "emergency" to allow the government to round you up and make you work wherever they say. Other governments have done it throughout history. And so will the US.
From there, it would be trivial to create an economic crisis so that you can't work more to get ahead because the work doesn't exist. Good thing there's that government income to rely on, right? Oh look, you can't afford your mortgage or property taxes anymore. Good thing they have a nice 100sqft stack and pack closet for you downtown.
Want to eat? Want to keep your closet? Shut up and do as you're told, slave.
Didn't meet your quota? Well then we have a "fun" camp for you. Don't worry, we'll take care of your wife in a different camp and your children in a third. Want to send your wife an email? Better meet your quota.
Didn't meet your quota, we'll I hear the coal mining industry has jobs, and a convenient camp for you to stay at also. Too bad you can only send your wife an email once a month instead of once a week.
I wonder what happens if you don't meet your quota at the coal mine.
I'm a US citizen living outside the US. Let me tell you that these chip cards are a nightmare for us. They work about 50% of the time, with no rhyme or reason as to when they'll work or why. Trying the card a second time sometimes works. Sometimes the machines ask for PIN codes when there isn't one, other times not. When this happens, I can enter any random number and the transaction goes through. A card will work at a particular gas station one day, then not the next, then works again the following day. The cards will usually work in one store, or almost never work in another store.
Locals with the new machines have no idea what they're doing. Sometimes they swipe cards with no magnetic stripe. Sometimes they pull the card out before the transaction is done. Sometimes they argue with me telling me it's a debit card when it's a credit card.
And in all cases, whenever the card doesn't work at a purchase, the error message is "declined".
My chip Visa ATM cards work in almost no machines here, while the magnetic stripe cards did. Some give the wrong menu options on ATM machines, allowing "savings account" as the only option when I have only a checking account. Others work or don't at random. The error message is useless. Or sometimes I get different error messages depending on whether I select english or spanish at the ATM. In general, I have about a 1 in 5 chance of extracting some amount of money from a machine. When I call the customer support number on the back of the card, they swear up and down the card works just fine.
I'm slowly removing myself from a reliance on banks and even money in general. These idiotic chip cards are only encouraging me to hasten my exit.
I'm convinced this is about 10% pilot error at the point of sale, and 90% a technical problem on the bank servers in the US. The development was probably outsourced to the lowest bidding indian consulting firm.
My vote is for active sabotage. Seriously. IT workers should get together and make an example of one of these companies. If enough of them did it, there would be no proof of who did what left to prosecute. Just like the guy who deleted all the websites the other day. One person "forgets" to unmount the backup directories, another makes a dangerous mod to a script. Maybe someone "accidentally" adds neodymium coin magnets to backup tapes. It would be a shame if that credit card database ended up on tor.
Seriously, stop bending over and taking it. Throw a wrench into the machines. Fight back. If you don't, you'll end up a slave.
Exactly. There's a growing technique called the Mittleider method. It's been around for decades, but I've only just discovered it. The claim (backed up by a lot of history, experience, and science) is that plants need 16 different nutrients (not just NPK). So you start with NPK and add in the other trace elements. In his system, you put the same measured amount of fertilizer on the plants every week. They adjust for different uptakes from different types of plants by adjusting plant spacing. You can grow in anything with this technique. But they recommend 3:1 sawdust to sand. The results are incredible, and don't taste like hydroponics vegetables. Just plug mittleider into youtube to see dozens of ordinary not so smart people getting amazing results.
The small pox vaccine was an unusually aggressive vaccine giving severe complication to 1 out of 1.000.000 vaccinated (think hit by lightning). Very few other vaccines are anywhere as dangerous. I think the hepatitis vacinne is the most dangerous of the common vaccines now, and it just gives you joint-pain for a few days if you are unlucky.
When my son (now 12yo) was less than a year old, he received the usual MMR vaccine. What happened that night was the scariest night of my life. Imagine a 12 month (iirc) old baby, clenching his fists and teeth, rigid body, high fever, while screaming through his teeth. This went on non-stop for several hours. The emergency room staff could do nothing. It eventually went away on its own. The doctors later blamed the MMR vaccine and told us not to give him the next round which was due a few years later. Interestingly, he has Asperger's Syndrome. But he got that from me, not the vaccine.
This means that until we have a full understanding of Physics (if ever, see Godel's incompleteness theorem) then the existence of God must remain undecided.
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!" Rush - Free Will
In Islam, a core belief is the belief of predestination (qada' and qadar) meaning what has happened, is happening and will happen is already written. As humans we are given the gift of "free will" [......]
You're a scientist and you can't see that those two things are mutually exclusive?
Christianity is nearly identical in this respect. As a human, you have free will to do whatever you want. That thing you do may be God's will for your life, or may go against God's will and serve your selfish interests instead. And even if you do evil, God may still use your actions as part of his plan, for his glory. But God knew from the foundation of the world who you would be, what you would do, and whether you would have faith in christ.
Tell me, what part of your abilities came from God?
All of them. And yours too. Does the pot tell the potter that he doesn't exist? That the pot spontaneously sprang into existence and is an awesome bit of pottery all by himself?
Did he go through the years of school for you?
I would argue that the school, and the earth where it sits, and the teachers, and the people who taught the teachers back to the beginning, and the laws of physics that govern everything from the science you study to the curing process in the concrete used in the school's foundation come from God. You could use the intelligence and curiosity given to you by God to work hard and toil to learn whatever you want and earn your titles and degrees. And with them, maybe you can even do God's will and participate in God's plan for your life. But without God, it's all for nothing. Hell is full of doctors and scholars, as is Heaven. So, as it is in this world, it must not be the piece of paper that makes you who you are or qualifies you for an afterlife that doesn't suck.
Perhaps he inspired you with the knowledge of how chemical reactions work?
Thanking God for your abilities is just pushing it back a step. Instead of me disrespecting a doctor by giving God the credit instead, that's you disrespecting every human teacher you ever had.
Human pride.
If you're thanking God for the aptitude alone, thank your parents -- nature or nurture, the part you're crediting God with likely came from them.
If you're thanking God for every single event that deterministically led to you being where you are now, basically for setting the universe in motion, even if that were true, that seems absurdly far removed from what you're actually doing with medicine -- how do you know you're even doing what the creator of the universe would want?
The bible, the holy spirit, and prayer. This is probably impossible to understand without being a christian.
What is it I'm supposed to be presuming that isn't possible?
Thus, there's more people, by far, who can easily (for varying values of easy) learn English than there are who can easily learn Chinese.
I once talked with a naitive chinese speaker about learning english vs learning chinese. The guy was very smart and had a good vocabulary in english, but he had real problems with his accent. He says that while learning to read and write chinese is a nightmare, actually speaking chinese is surprisingly easy for americans. He says the major cities are full of foreigners who can speak chinese, have great vocabularies, and nail the pronunciation, even with the crazy intonation. But they may not be able to read it very well at all.
This matches my own experience with Japanese. I'm not fluent, but I get by well. For example, on my last visit to Japan, I managed to navigate customs entirely in Japanese. I can read and write hiragana and katakana well enough. But I only know maybe 100 kanji. Speaking japanese really is not as bad as it sounds. I found it as easy to learn as french for example.
English on the other hand is a nightmare to learn to speak and to read/write. The spelling system is screwed up. There's 600,000 to 1,000,000 million words depending on who you ask. There's a dozen or more dialects, each with their own exclusive set of idioms. The south africans are almost unintelligible. We have crazy grammar rules. We have 273 irregular verbs. (only latin and italian have more iirc) And native speakers abuse the language like you wouldn't believe. Even our grandparents often use different idioms and pronunciations than we do. I'd hate to have to learn english as a second language.
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I have 25 years of experience. I only work remotely from home now. I live somewhere far away with a low cost of living. I never interview in person anymore. It's a little harder to find a job. But my quality of life is much better. I make a little over half what I could if I went into an office every day. But I clear more because of the lower cost of living.
In 5 or 10 years, I expect to have the problem you're describing. When that happens, I plan to cut 10 to 15 years off my resume and look like I'm that much younger.
Treason is a capital offence in the US. And that's exactly what this is.
I assure you I'm no troll. I'm just paying attention.
Now maybe you should put me in prison like Bill Nye says, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBjkn7a-fA
The wealthy don't pay taxes. Ever. Taxes are for you and me. Any tax that's imposed anywhere on the food chain will be passed down to us.
The wealth will own the carbon exchanges and make money off every transaction. It's yet another way to suck the life out of an economy at your and my expense.
Climate change is a lie designed to get you to pay carbon taxes while reversing the industrial revolution (for you).
Forget the 1%. The top 100 wealthiest families in the world are using crap like this to enslave you. They need to be shot.
They're just showing where the settlement boundaries are in Fallout 4.
I'm still looking for vacuum tube based hearing aids. The sound is so much warmer.
My wife's voice falls within the frequency range that I'm losing. I'd prefer not to lose this feature.
How is this different from buses with drivers? That hasn't solved the problem. (Not sure there really is a problem)
I'm amused by all the rose colored glasses I see here. Would it be a good thing if everyone had all the food and medical care they needed and a good place to live? Of course it would.
Do you honestly trust the US government not to abuse this idea? Look at what happened with Obamacare. What we were sold is a European style public health care system where capitalists could still keep their doctor and current plans. What did we get instead? You're forced to buy the coverage they tell you to.
This is where the world is going. ANYTHING given to you by the US government (and all other anglophone and western european governments should be suspect) will be given to you for the specific reason of controlling you and taking your freedom. How hard would it be for them to make your basic income contingent on keeping your mouth shut? And all we would need is an "emergency" to allow the government to round you up and make you work wherever they say. Other governments have done it throughout history. And so will the US.
From there, it would be trivial to create an economic crisis so that you can't work more to get ahead because the work doesn't exist. Good thing there's that government income to rely on, right? Oh look, you can't afford your mortgage or property taxes anymore. Good thing they have a nice 100sqft stack and pack closet for you downtown.
Want to eat? Want to keep your closet? Shut up and do as you're told, slave.
Didn't meet your quota? Well then we have a "fun" camp for you. Don't worry, we'll take care of your wife in a different camp and your children in a third. Want to send your wife an email? Better meet your quota.
Didn't meet your quota, we'll I hear the coal mining industry has jobs, and a convenient camp for you to stay at also. Too bad you can only send your wife an email once a month instead of once a week.
I wonder what happens if you don't meet your quota at the coal mine.
The accounts are in the US. I need to draw the money from there. I don't have a bank account here on purpose because of FACTA.
I'm a US citizen living outside the US. Let me tell you that these chip cards are a nightmare for us. They work about 50% of the time, with no rhyme or reason as to when they'll work or why. Trying the card a second time sometimes works. Sometimes the machines ask for PIN codes when there isn't one, other times not. When this happens, I can enter any random number and the transaction goes through. A card will work at a particular gas station one day, then not the next, then works again the following day. The cards will usually work in one store, or almost never work in another store.
Locals with the new machines have no idea what they're doing. Sometimes they swipe cards with no magnetic stripe. Sometimes they pull the card out before the transaction is done. Sometimes they argue with me telling me it's a debit card when it's a credit card.
And in all cases, whenever the card doesn't work at a purchase, the error message is "declined".
My chip Visa ATM cards work in almost no machines here, while the magnetic stripe cards did. Some give the wrong menu options on ATM machines, allowing "savings account" as the only option when I have only a checking account. Others work or don't at random. The error message is useless. Or sometimes I get different error messages depending on whether I select english or spanish at the ATM. In general, I have about a 1 in 5 chance of extracting some amount of money from a machine. When I call the customer support number on the back of the card, they swear up and down the card works just fine.
I'm slowly removing myself from a reliance on banks and even money in general. These idiotic chip cards are only encouraging me to hasten my exit.
I'm convinced this is about 10% pilot error at the point of sale, and 90% a technical problem on the bank servers in the US. The development was probably outsourced to the lowest bidding indian consulting firm.
...there is a power cord running to the mattress...
I'm intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
"Honestly, honey, the kids were jumping on the bed."
My vote is for active sabotage. Seriously. IT workers should get together and make an example of one of these companies. If enough of them did it, there would be no proof of who did what left to prosecute. Just like the guy who deleted all the websites the other day. One person "forgets" to unmount the backup directories, another makes a dangerous mod to a script. Maybe someone "accidentally" adds neodymium coin magnets to backup tapes. It would be a shame if that credit card database ended up on tor.
Seriously, stop bending over and taking it. Throw a wrench into the machines. Fight back. If you don't, you'll end up a slave.
Exactly. There's a growing technique called the Mittleider method. It's been around for decades, but I've only just discovered it. The claim (backed up by a lot of history, experience, and science) is that plants need 16 different nutrients (not just NPK). So you start with NPK and add in the other trace elements. In his system, you put the same measured amount of fertilizer on the plants every week. They adjust for different uptakes from different types of plants by adjusting plant spacing. You can grow in anything with this technique. But they recommend 3:1 sawdust to sand. The results are incredible, and don't taste like hydroponics vegetables. Just plug mittleider into youtube to see dozens of ordinary not so smart people getting amazing results.
You should stop calling him Al. Albert is much more respectful.
They should give him no quarter.
The competition challenges data hackers to build algorithms that predict who will go to the hospital in the next year, so that they can be dropped.
fixed.
... elementary school kids learning about condoms and safe sex.
Who gets to decide what my children should be taught at what age? You? Maybe I should demand that your children get religion classes at a young age.
The small pox vaccine was an unusually aggressive vaccine giving severe complication to 1 out of 1.000.000 vaccinated (think hit by lightning). Very few other vaccines are anywhere as dangerous. I think the hepatitis vacinne is the most dangerous of the common vaccines now, and it just gives you joint-pain for a few days if you are unlucky.
When my son (now 12yo) was less than a year old, he received the usual MMR vaccine. What happened that night was the scariest night of my life. Imagine a 12 month (iirc) old baby, clenching his fists and teeth, rigid body, high fever, while screaming through his teeth. This went on non-stop for several hours. The emergency room staff could do nothing. It eventually went away on its own. The doctors later blamed the MMR vaccine and told us not to give him the next round which was due a few years later. Interestingly, he has Asperger's Syndrome. But he got that from me, not the vaccine.
This means that until we have a full understanding of Physics (if ever, see Godel's incompleteness theorem) then the existence of God must remain undecided.
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!" Rush - Free Will
In Islam, a core belief is the belief of predestination (qada' and qadar) meaning what has happened, is happening and will happen is already written. As humans we are given the gift of "free will" [......]
You're a scientist and you can't see that those two things are mutually exclusive?
Christianity is nearly identical in this respect. As a human, you have free will to do whatever you want. That thing you do may be God's will for your life, or may go against God's will and serve your selfish interests instead. And even if you do evil, God may still use your actions as part of his plan, for his glory. But God knew from the foundation of the world who you would be, what you would do, and whether you would have faith in christ.
Tell me, what part of your abilities came from God?
All of them. And yours too. Does the pot tell the potter that he doesn't exist? That the pot spontaneously sprang into existence and is an awesome bit of pottery all by himself?
Did he go through the years of school for you?
I would argue that the school, and the earth where it sits, and the teachers, and the people who taught the teachers back to the beginning, and the laws of physics that govern everything from the science you study to the curing process in the concrete used in the school's foundation come from God. You could use the intelligence and curiosity given to you by God to work hard and toil to learn whatever you want and earn your titles and degrees. And with them, maybe you can even do God's will and participate in God's plan for your life. But without God, it's all for nothing. Hell is full of doctors and scholars, as is Heaven. So, as it is in this world, it must not be the piece of paper that makes you who you are or qualifies you for an afterlife that doesn't suck.
Perhaps he inspired you with the knowledge of how chemical reactions work?
Thanking God for your abilities is just pushing it back a step. Instead of me disrespecting a doctor by giving God the credit instead, that's you disrespecting every human teacher you ever had.
Human pride.
If you're thanking God for the aptitude alone, thank your parents -- nature or nurture, the part you're crediting God with likely came from them.
If you're thanking God for every single event that deterministically led to you being where you are now, basically for setting the universe in motion, even if that were true, that seems absurdly far removed from what you're actually doing with medicine -- how do you know you're even doing what the creator of the universe would want?
The bible, the holy spirit, and prayer. This is probably impossible to understand without being a christian.
What is it I'm supposed to be presuming that isn't possible?
That you can save yourself.
Thus, there's more people, by far, who can easily (for varying values of easy) learn English than there are who can easily learn Chinese.
I once talked with a naitive chinese speaker about learning english vs learning chinese. The guy was very smart and had a good vocabulary in english, but he had real problems with his accent. He says that while learning to read and write chinese is a nightmare, actually speaking chinese is surprisingly easy for americans. He says the major cities are full of foreigners who can speak chinese, have great vocabularies, and nail the pronunciation, even with the crazy intonation. But they may not be able to read it very well at all.
This matches my own experience with Japanese. I'm not fluent, but I get by well. For example, on my last visit to Japan, I managed to navigate customs entirely in Japanese. I can read and write hiragana and katakana well enough. But I only know maybe 100 kanji. Speaking japanese really is not as bad as it sounds. I found it as easy to learn as french for example.
English on the other hand is a nightmare to learn to speak and to read/write. The spelling system is screwed up. There's 600,000 to 1,000,000 million words depending on who you ask. There's a dozen or more dialects, each with their own exclusive set of idioms. The south africans are almost unintelligible. We have crazy grammar rules. We have 273 irregular verbs. (only latin and italian have more iirc) And native speakers abuse the language like you wouldn't believe. Even our grandparents often use different idioms and pronunciations than we do. I'd hate to have to learn english as a second language.