The ADA has a long, long history of abuse. In fact, the are many documented cases of where somebody sues a business for not being handicap accessible, and it has turned out that the person suing never even set foot in the establishment to find out. Nonetheless, the businesses often settle because it's cheaper to do that than it is just to pay a lawyer's retainer fee.
The was one interesting case where somebody sued Clint Eastwood over some restaurant for ADA violations. He countersued and won, but it was still less than what he paid his lawyers. He just did it over the principle of the thing, but most business owners don't have as much money to throw away as he does.
If they lean toward authoritarianism, then by all definitions they will be a fascist government.
Even in that case, they still wouldn't be. The central philosophy of fascism is a complete rejection of individualism, hence the name, which references a bundle of sticks. If you just went by authoritarianism and militarism, then just about anything that isn't a democracy would qualify, including the British Empire.
If you want a political system comparable to fascism, see Stalinism.
When you have a system like that of the US of A one tends to wonder they bother complaining at all. Unions are by the people, for the people.
That's funny. Let me tell you how it really works.
In the USA, unions are by the mafia, for the mafia. Typically the mindset is that they want more dues so that the union boss can be rich. They'll push for things like higher wages or preventing lazy workers from getting shitcanned towards that end. They'll also sabotage the employer whenever possible and throw union members under the bus towards that end as well.
Unions in other countries (especially Europe) tend to be good organizations, just not the ones in the US. European companies tend to like labor unions because it gives them a medium to openly have dialogue with their employees, and collective bargaining can be seen as mutually beneficial for the employee and employer alike. This is why Volkswagen's management tried to get their US employees to unionize; they were expecting European style unionization. However the employees themselves declined because they were a bit more wise about just how corrupt and thuggish UAW really is:
Two forms of comedy which must be banned under "hate" speech because it is impossible to discern comedy from hate. That is exactly why comedians will no longer perform on College campuses in the US today, and most stopped a decade ago.
It's somewhat an open secret these days that colleges are not places of free speech like they once were. If you don't follow certain unwritten speech rules, you'll be kicked out. This can even include not speaking at all, such as simply reading a book that has a title that somebody doesn't like.
The hardware issues are largely overblown. It's just a combination of hype around the release, a lot of press coverage, and a shortage of replacement stock. The vast majority have no problems with their hardware. They sold 2 million pre-orders, and you're hearing maybe a couple of thousand vocal complainers, the true failure rate is well under 1%.
I kind of doubt that. While I'm not interested in owning one of these (or any console for that matter) a complaint that seems universal at this point is that they use a plastic touchscreen with a plastic dock that has no means of buffering the display against scratches. That invariably means a high number of these are going to have scratched/scuffed screens just because of normal use. That is by definition a defect, and basically 100% of them are affected.
Also, as a universal rule in quality control for any industry, a defect is anything that causes customer dissatisfaction. Nintendo can argue all they want about what is and isn't a defect, but if a customer complains about it, then it is to be considered a defect, unless their quality control department just plain sucks, which it likely does with what I've seen of this tablet.
CATV, or Community Antenna TeleVision, was literally exactly that: Effectively a big long antenna that allowed reception of channels that were otherwise out of your geographical reach, and this concept was later extended to bring "superstations" like WGN and WTBS to more markets than just their home market. Nonetheless, these channels were never without commercials until the concept was even further extended to include content that wasn't broadcast anywhere and could only be seen with a subscription, at which point channels like HBO became a thing, and THAT would have had no commercials.
Nonetheless, cable did in fact start with commercials. Channels like HBO eventually became tiered so you had to pay an additional fee, (by the way, until the 80's when congress passed a law saying otherwise, it was legal to receive pay channels without paying) but they remained commercial free.
What the AC said about employment law is true. It is illegal for companies in the US to ask about such things.
It's also illegal for employers to forbid you from talking about your wages with your co-workers, but employers do it anyways as an unwritten rule.
Though honestly, if your employer is really that much of a douche, just threaten to quit and go elsewhere. If you're really that talented and people like you are hard to come by, your employer will likely work with you. One company I worked for went out of its way to hire an individual who quit because a certain director kept running his mouth and pissed him off, and during the exit interview he mentioned this. That director was fired for this and only this, even though he was otherwise in good standing.
How can one assume that this is not totally normal? The CIA is a spy agency. That means they spy on people. That would be like saying we should be shocked that Burger King makes hamburgers.
The NSA was a shock mainly because they were spying domestically when they clearly aren't supposed to. So long as the CIA isn't spying domestically, I personally don't care what means they use. Furthermore, the fact that CIA tactics are more analogous to a fishing line than a dragnet (like the NSA prism program was) then they aren't doing anything wrong, and indeed this particular leak is doing a disservice to the US, whereas the Snowden leak was being productive.
The whole nvidia thing is a moot point; you don't even need to get that far to see the ads. Here's a collection of ads that have been found on Windows 10:
Ad to buy tomb raider from Windows store: https://www.howtogeek.com/2432... (Side note: This is why Microsoft no longer allows you to disable the lock screen on desktop systems. Yes, you can turn the lock screen ads off, but Microsoft wants you to get used to seeing it there meanwhile.)
Ads to buy Solitaire: http://images.techhive.com/ima... (Side note: Windows 10 now includes lots of freemium and trialware apps in general, like Candy Crush, which is another form of advertising. Also, didn't solitaire used to be totally free?)
Ads in the share tool: https://betanews.com/wp-conten... (In that screenshot, most of these apps aren't installed, thus these are ads to install these apps.)
I think it mostly depends on what your degree is in. I'm a very recent graduate (May 2014) and I haven't had any difficulty finding work, and in fact have already had two major bumps in salary since starting. What I did, and what I think more people would benefit from, is to just play the job market like an economist would: Find a career field where the demand for workers exceeds the supply, and then do that. From there, expansion comes naturally (i.e. transferable skills, promotion, etc.) That said, if you go for a degree like art history or some crap that there's no actual demand for, then it's your own damn fault if you come out of school with craploads of debt and nothing to show for it.
Sure, there's something to be said for doing what you like to do, but not everybody wants what you like doing, nor should there be any societal expectation that one should just be able to make ends meet by doing anything they want. (Otherwise, watching pornography should be a high paying job.)
From where I sit, I do observe that certain jobs that people traditionally associate with being high skilled and high paying aren't necessarily high paying because the supply is much higher than the actual economic demand. This would include lawyers of basically all stripes, and certain kinds of engineers (namely, mechanical and aeronautical engineers.)
American cars (except Ford) have barely any presence in Europe, because they are lower quality than most other cars. So I guess Americans buying VW's were looking for quality.
That makes very little sense because European cars are among the worst when it comes to reliability. Japanese tend to be the most reliable, with American second, and European third. Volvo, Volkswagen, and Fiat in particular all tend to be horrid.
Except they won't. An current industrial robot can be very profitable for a big company, but it's way out of reach of ordinary consumers. And what are you going to do with a single robot ? You need a whole bunch of infrastructure and logistics around it to make it work efficiently.
The problem is you're limiting your thinking to how the technology presently works and just assuming that all existing limitations will always apply.
I'll bite, there's a chicken and egg problem here. If you can only afford to feed and shelter yourself, where are the savings to buy a robot and ramp up a business going to come from?
Just like all other consumer goods, it would most likely cheapen itself so much that just anybody can obtain it.
Between mass production, automation, and economies of scale, nice things tend to start as being just for the rich (like cars, big screen TVs, computers, and mobile phones all once were) and end up being available to all. Capitalism tends to do that. If you walk around in any deep urban area, you'll find people who otherwise can't even afford to feed and shelter themselves carrying around laptops and cell phones (though some of these people make up to $40 an hour through panhandling alone, you'll still find this among those who don't do any panhandling at all.)
Reminds me of when W was blamed for the economic downturn in the two years following the 00 election.
The Democrats in the early run-up to the primaries were all shouting loudly "Bush cost us 3 million jobs!" as if the dot-com bust and 9/11 were totally irrelevant.
In the theoretical Free Market, anyone can break in and become a success and all they need is a little seed capital and lots of hard work. Unless, of course the Evul Gubbmint interferes!
In the real Free Market, the only businesses that can do that are ones where either no prior competition exists or there are no economies of scale to give a market advantage to the big fish.
Interesting; then how did all 5 of these companies start if not by the means you say is only theoretical?
Microsoft and Apple rose in the era of IBM and Commodore. Google rose in the era of Yahoo. Facebook rose in the era of Myspace. Amazon rose in the era of Barnes and Noble.
Or just disconnect the antenna plugs from the wireless card. It's not going to be able to talk to any networks if you reduce its effective range to less than 6 inches. You can always plug them back in when you're finished.
I don't think it was the internet that killed radio shack. The internet is nice and all, but what if you quickly need an electronics component and don't want to wait for it to ship? Having a local components store nearby is useful. Unfortunately, radio shack decided to really limit their stock of components and shift to being more of a consumer electronics store, thus becoming just another less interesting version of a best buy, circuit city, compusa, etc.
Other big box stores picked up where radio shack left off by holding a bigger selection of components while also doing a much better job in that consumer electronics role. Namely, stores like Fry's Electronics and Microcenter, which do really well at both components and consumer electronics, whereas radio shack was crappy at both.
Yep, I have renal insufficiency, and I was curious if sweating would help lower blood urea nitrogen, uric acid, and serum phosphorus, and sure enough, I found an NIH white paper that found that sweat has higher amounts of them (and creatinine, and potassium) than blood.
So, I deliberately spend relatively long periods in the hot tub to help excrete fluids and electrolytes. In other words, I pee in the hot tub just because of the fact that I'm sitting in it.
And my lab results turn out better, not to mention I get less edema in my legs, thus I can tolerate drinking more water.
2. Get rid of this, "Up To" bullshit. no one is interested in some speed you might get once in a while.
I think this is necessary because they have to put a disclaimer that when you download something from www.slowasswebsite.com, they can't guarantee how much bandwidth you'll get.
I'm not Greek, Orthodox, or Christian, but I agree with you 100%. Our bodies are designed to digest mainly vegetable based food.
Designed by whom?
Before you answer that, note that vegetables that can provide enough calories that you can actually survive off of are a fairly recent invention, and most of them can't even grow without human intervention.
If you disagree, then go to camp out in the woods and tell me how many plants you can find that you could survive off of for a whole year (spoiler: There aren't any. Sure, you might find some berries or leaves to munch on, but the amount of calories you'd need to forage for them would never be met by the calories that they provide. In short, you'd starve to death very quickly.)
There's a whole bunch of crappy side-effects from eating too much meat, even if many people have lost weight on higher protein diets.
But this isn't true. There are many well known indigenous populations that survive quite well on almost nothing but meat, and the ones that survive mostly on meat tend to live much longer than those who survive mostly on plants. Not only that, but there are plenty of examples of people who ate nothing but meat for a year or longer and had no apparent adverse health effects:
Well, let's think this over for at least one second:
If nobody has any money to buy anything, then who is going to buy this stuff that we're creating automatically? Obviously you can't have both, so a correction has to happen somewhere. And yes, free markets tend to be very self correcting.
In fact, we just had a minor market correction last year that primarily impacted the tech sector, and we'll probably have another big one either this year or next that will lead to the next recession.
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The ADA has a long, long history of abuse. In fact, the are many documented cases of where somebody sues a business for not being handicap accessible, and it has turned out that the person suing never even set foot in the establishment to find out. Nonetheless, the businesses often settle because it's cheaper to do that than it is just to pay a lawyer's retainer fee.
The was one interesting case where somebody sued Clint Eastwood over some restaurant for ADA violations. He countersued and won, but it was still less than what he paid his lawyers. He just did it over the principle of the thing, but most business owners don't have as much money to throw away as he does.
If they lean toward authoritarianism, then by all definitions they will be a fascist government.
Even in that case, they still wouldn't be. The central philosophy of fascism is a complete rejection of individualism, hence the name, which references a bundle of sticks. If you just went by authoritarianism and militarism, then just about anything that isn't a democracy would qualify, including the British Empire.
If you want a political system comparable to fascism, see Stalinism.
the whole internet runs on javascript, just saying
The web isn't the internet, just saying.
When you have a system like that of the US of A one tends to wonder they bother complaining at all.
Unions are by the people, for the people.
That's funny. Let me tell you how it really works.
In the USA, unions are by the mafia, for the mafia. Typically the mindset is that they want more dues so that the union boss can be rich. They'll push for things like higher wages or preventing lazy workers from getting shitcanned towards that end. They'll also sabotage the employer whenever possible and throw union members under the bus towards that end as well.
Unions in other countries (especially Europe) tend to be good organizations, just not the ones in the US. European companies tend to like labor unions because it gives them a medium to openly have dialogue with their employees, and collective bargaining can be seen as mutually beneficial for the employee and employer alike. This is why Volkswagen's management tried to get their US employees to unionize; they were expecting European style unionization. However the employees themselves declined because they were a bit more wise about just how corrupt and thuggish UAW really is:
http://www.labornotes.org/2001...
Two forms of comedy which must be banned under "hate" speech because it is impossible to discern comedy from hate. That is exactly why comedians will no longer perform on College campuses in the US today, and most stopped a decade ago.
It's somewhat an open secret these days that colleges are not places of free speech like they once were. If you don't follow certain unwritten speech rules, you'll be kicked out. This can even include not speaking at all, such as simply reading a book that has a title that somebody doesn't like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's rich, considering that we in the US just elected a nationalistic militaristic fascist.
If you think Trump is fascist then either you don't know what fascism is, don't know what Trump is, or don't know either.
The hardware issues are largely overblown. It's just a combination of hype around the release, a lot of press coverage, and a shortage of replacement stock. The vast majority have no problems with their hardware. They sold 2 million pre-orders, and you're hearing maybe a couple of thousand vocal complainers, the true failure rate is well under 1%.
I kind of doubt that. While I'm not interested in owning one of these (or any console for that matter) a complaint that seems universal at this point is that they use a plastic touchscreen with a plastic dock that has no means of buffering the display against scratches. That invariably means a high number of these are going to have scratched/scuffed screens just because of normal use. That is by definition a defect, and basically 100% of them are affected.
Also, as a universal rule in quality control for any industry, a defect is anything that causes customer dissatisfaction. Nintendo can argue all they want about what is and isn't a defect, but if a customer complains about it, then it is to be considered a defect, unless their quality control department just plain sucks, which it likely does with what I've seen of this tablet.
You're quite mistaken here.
CATV, or Community Antenna TeleVision, was literally exactly that: Effectively a big long antenna that allowed reception of channels that were otherwise out of your geographical reach, and this concept was later extended to bring "superstations" like WGN and WTBS to more markets than just their home market. Nonetheless, these channels were never without commercials until the concept was even further extended to include content that wasn't broadcast anywhere and could only be seen with a subscription, at which point channels like HBO became a thing, and THAT would have had no commercials.
Nonetheless, cable did in fact start with commercials. Channels like HBO eventually became tiered so you had to pay an additional fee, (by the way, until the 80's when congress passed a law saying otherwise, it was legal to receive pay channels without paying) but they remained commercial free.
What the AC said about employment law is true. It is illegal for companies in the US to ask about such things.
It's also illegal for employers to forbid you from talking about your wages with your co-workers, but employers do it anyways as an unwritten rule.
Though honestly, if your employer is really that much of a douche, just threaten to quit and go elsewhere. If you're really that talented and people like you are hard to come by, your employer will likely work with you. One company I worked for went out of its way to hire an individual who quit because a certain director kept running his mouth and pissed him off, and during the exit interview he mentioned this. That director was fired for this and only this, even though he was otherwise in good standing.
How can one assume that this is not totally normal? The CIA is a spy agency. That means they spy on people. That would be like saying we should be shocked that Burger King makes hamburgers.
The NSA was a shock mainly because they were spying domestically when they clearly aren't supposed to. So long as the CIA isn't spying domestically, I personally don't care what means they use. Furthermore, the fact that CIA tactics are more analogous to a fishing line than a dragnet (like the NSA prism program was) then they aren't doing anything wrong, and indeed this particular leak is doing a disservice to the US, whereas the Snowden leak was being productive.
The whole nvidia thing is a moot point; you don't even need to get that far to see the ads. Here's a collection of ads that have been found on Windows 10:
Ad to install Microsoft's shopping extension:
https://www.cnet.com/news/wind...
Ad to buy tomb raider from Windows store:
https://www.howtogeek.com/2432...
(Side note: This is why Microsoft no longer allows you to disable the lock screen on desktop systems. Yes, you can turn the lock screen ads off, but Microsoft wants you to get used to seeing it there meanwhile.)
Ad to browse bing for rewards points:
http://core0.staticworld.net/i...
Ad to install Office:
http://images.techhive.com/ima...
Ads to buy Solitaire:
http://images.techhive.com/ima...
(Side note: Windows 10 now includes lots of freemium and trialware apps in general, like Candy Crush, which is another form of advertising. Also, didn't solitaire used to be totally free?)
Ads in the share tool:
https://betanews.com/wp-conten...
(In that screenshot, most of these apps aren't installed, thus these are ads to install these apps.)
Ads in the ink workspace:
http://cdn.windowsreport.com/w...
Ad telling you to stop using firefox:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/l6JL...
Ad telling you to stop using chrome:
http://www.laptopmag.com/image...
Another ad telling you to switch to edge for bing rewards:
https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-c...
Ad telling you to subscribe to onedrive:
http://images.techhive.com/ima...
Ad to buy apps on the start menu:
https://davescomputertips.com/...
So TFA is correct, windows 10 IS an ad platform.
I think it mostly depends on what your degree is in. I'm a very recent graduate (May 2014) and I haven't had any difficulty finding work, and in fact have already had two major bumps in salary since starting. What I did, and what I think more people would benefit from, is to just play the job market like an economist would: Find a career field where the demand for workers exceeds the supply, and then do that. From there, expansion comes naturally (i.e. transferable skills, promotion, etc.) That said, if you go for a degree like art history or some crap that there's no actual demand for, then it's your own damn fault if you come out of school with craploads of debt and nothing to show for it.
Sure, there's something to be said for doing what you like to do, but not everybody wants what you like doing, nor should there be any societal expectation that one should just be able to make ends meet by doing anything they want. (Otherwise, watching pornography should be a high paying job.)
From where I sit, I do observe that certain jobs that people traditionally associate with being high skilled and high paying aren't necessarily high paying because the supply is much higher than the actual economic demand. This would include lawyers of basically all stripes, and certain kinds of engineers (namely, mechanical and aeronautical engineers.)
American cars (except Ford) have barely any presence in Europe, because they are lower quality than most other cars. So I guess Americans buying VW's were looking for quality.
That makes very little sense because European cars are among the worst when it comes to reliability. Japanese tend to be the most reliable, with American second, and European third. Volvo, Volkswagen, and Fiat in particular all tend to be horrid.
Except they won't. An current industrial robot can be very profitable for a big company, but it's way out of reach of ordinary consumers. And what are you going to do with a single robot ? You need a whole bunch of infrastructure and logistics around it to make it work efficiently.
The problem is you're limiting your thinking to how the technology presently works and just assuming that all existing limitations will always apply.
I'll bite, there's a chicken and egg problem here. If you can only afford to feed and shelter yourself, where are the savings to buy a robot and ramp up a business going to come from?
Just like all other consumer goods, it would most likely cheapen itself so much that just anybody can obtain it.
Between mass production, automation, and economies of scale, nice things tend to start as being just for the rich (like cars, big screen TVs, computers, and mobile phones all once were) and end up being available to all. Capitalism tends to do that. If you walk around in any deep urban area, you'll find people who otherwise can't even afford to feed and shelter themselves carrying around laptops and cell phones (though some of these people make up to $40 an hour through panhandling alone, you'll still find this among those who don't do any panhandling at all.)
Reminds me of when W was blamed for the economic downturn in the two years following the 00 election.
The Democrats in the early run-up to the primaries were all shouting loudly "Bush cost us 3 million jobs!" as if the dot-com bust and 9/11 were totally irrelevant.
Who cares? A response doesn't have to be original to be appropriate and sincere.
In general, yes, but Samsung has a long, long history of not giving a shit about security on their smartphones even though they always pretend to.
In the theoretical Free Market, anyone can break in and become a success and all they need is a little seed capital and lots of hard work. Unless, of course the Evul Gubbmint interferes!
In the real Free Market, the only businesses that can do that are ones where either no prior competition exists or there are no economies of scale to give a market advantage to the big fish.
Interesting; then how did all 5 of these companies start if not by the means you say is only theoretical?
Microsoft and Apple rose in the era of IBM and Commodore.
Google rose in the era of Yahoo.
Facebook rose in the era of Myspace.
Amazon rose in the era of Barnes and Noble.
Or just disconnect the antenna plugs from the wireless card. It's not going to be able to talk to any networks if you reduce its effective range to less than 6 inches. You can always plug them back in when you're finished.
I don't think it was the internet that killed radio shack. The internet is nice and all, but what if you quickly need an electronics component and don't want to wait for it to ship? Having a local components store nearby is useful. Unfortunately, radio shack decided to really limit their stock of components and shift to being more of a consumer electronics store, thus becoming just another less interesting version of a best buy, circuit city, compusa, etc.
Other big box stores picked up where radio shack left off by holding a bigger selection of components while also doing a much better job in that consumer electronics role. Namely, stores like Fry's Electronics and Microcenter, which do really well at both components and consumer electronics, whereas radio shack was crappy at both.
Quasi means not.
Yep, I have renal insufficiency, and I was curious if sweating would help lower blood urea nitrogen, uric acid, and serum phosphorus, and sure enough, I found an NIH white paper that found that sweat has higher amounts of them (and creatinine, and potassium) than blood.
So, I deliberately spend relatively long periods in the hot tub to help excrete fluids and electrolytes. In other words, I pee in the hot tub just because of the fact that I'm sitting in it.
And my lab results turn out better, not to mention I get less edema in my legs, thus I can tolerate drinking more water.
2. Get rid of this, "Up To" bullshit. no one is interested in some speed you might get once in a while.
I think this is necessary because they have to put a disclaimer that when you download something from www.slowasswebsite.com, they can't guarantee how much bandwidth you'll get.
I'm not Greek, Orthodox, or Christian, but I agree with you 100%. Our bodies are designed to digest mainly vegetable based food.
Designed by whom?
Before you answer that, note that vegetables that can provide enough calories that you can actually survive off of are a fairly recent invention, and most of them can't even grow without human intervention.
If you disagree, then go to camp out in the woods and tell me how many plants you can find that you could survive off of for a whole year (spoiler: There aren't any. Sure, you might find some berries or leaves to munch on, but the amount of calories you'd need to forage for them would never be met by the calories that they provide. In short, you'd starve to death very quickly.)
There's a whole bunch of crappy side-effects from eating too much meat, even if many people have lost weight on higher protein diets.
But this isn't true. There are many well known indigenous populations that survive quite well on almost nothing but meat, and the ones that survive mostly on meat tend to live much longer than those who survive mostly on plants. Not only that, but there are plenty of examples of people who ate nothing but meat for a year or longer and had no apparent adverse health effects:
http://inhumanexperiment.blogs...
Well, let's think this over for at least one second:
If nobody has any money to buy anything, then who is going to buy this stuff that we're creating automatically? Obviously you can't have both, so a correction has to happen somewhere. And yes, free markets tend to be very self correcting.
In fact, we just had a minor market correction last year that primarily impacted the tech sector, and we'll probably have another big one either this year or next that will lead to the next recession.