I mean even healthcare workers should not be forced, being that they have an education and background in medicine, they should already know why they should be vaccinated without being forced to do so....and if they do not there is a failure to educate them in the system.
Also isn't vaccinating Disney employees kinda not as useful if the children (and parents) that visit refuse to get vaccinated? The protection you get from vaccinations is on the "herd" level and not the individual. If the majority of the herd is not vaccinated, the vaccine itself provide very little protection to an individual....
Security, has always been and will always will be, an illusion in the work force.
It's a scam they sell you to get you to stay in underpaying, overworked jobs.
Like in every other aspect of life, the more risk you take, the higher the potential rewards. No risk = no rewards.
Do you think a company who is in the red this quarter will be like "Hmmmm we did bad this quarter, we lost money but so did everybody else. Let me just pay my employees and reassure them, so what the execs won't get a massive bonus this year".
Or "Hmmmmm Jeff burned out working for us 3 years ago. Lets offer him a job when he is well as a reward for his loyalty."
The moment anything bad happens, you are instantly terminated. So you do not know where you will be 6 months down the line reguardless...
There are some former bosses I am friends with, hell we sometimes take trips to Vegas together, but I quit working for him not because of him. The Company.
A corporation, as much as lawmakers and conservatives want you to believe, is not a human being. It is a machine. A money making machine. It does not value things like loyalty, mostly because it is not easy to quantify and put on a balance sheet.
When the market is doing well, which is almost all the time since I been in IT in my area, it's not hard to find jobs. So if somebody comes along and offers me more money, equal hours (or better) and equal or better working conditions, well let's just say I have a macro'ed resignation word doc that fills in date and employer name. Why? Because I know if the tables where turned, they would not hesitate to put my head on the chopping block.
Loyalty is for suckers.....
Do I like it this way? No, but this is the world we live in.
That if you are getting a salary while doing this research, then unless you signed a clause in your contract upon being hired, should be going to the corporation.
You basically whored out your "inventivness" to them.....If the company can't sue you to to recoup the money it spent paying you if you develop nothing of value, you should basically not expect a % of something of value.
Like everything else in life, the more risk you take, the better the reward if you succeed.
You make some valid points....especially the part where Canadians are used to having the place to ourselves looool.
Canada, Spain, Russia are also big trading partners with Cuba. It's ironic going to buy Cuban souvenirs and noticing "Made in China" stickers loool....
Americans waste their time fighting over what is essentially 2 sides of the same coin.
Republicans and Democrats are both the same thing; Corporatists that serve their corporate overloads. What little differences the 2 parties have on some issues is used to keep the American people fighting over somewhat meaningless issues instead of paying attention to the fact that they are being robbed blind by the 1%.
But I guess I should not be too hard on Americans, most nations of the West have adopted similar systems.
I digress....But realistically speaking you guys know that Obama is a HUMAN, and as such requires a little bit of down time and light hearted activities...I mean do you really want the President to burn out while in office? Also a lot of decisions and political maneuvering tend to happen during these so called "waste of time" activities...
Always makes me laugh whenever I read an article about US-Cuba relations, more specifically how Americans think Cubans are...
Been to Cuba at least 8 times now? Possibly more, don't recall.
I can assure you Cubans have Internet access, laptops, iPads and iPhones.....
Obviously this is more of a city and tourist area thing. The poorer farmers and villagers on the other hand might not have access to such luxuries.....However generally speaking they all seem to be familiar with the devices, their capabilities and their ability to use them. They are as present as any other developing nation I have visited. Other than their inability to buy original OEM parts for their aging fleet of American produced cars, you would not have known there was an embargo from the US for the past 50-60 years.
The only thing the embargo seems to have accomplished is limit the ability of US based corporations to exploit Cubans. Canada, Spain and Russia where more than happy to jump in and fill that gap....
I have worked in the tech industry for almost 20 years, Before that I studied in it, and before that it was a hobby.
I have met very few women that had any interest in it over the years.
The few women there was where treated like queens and superstars (quite frankly because they where soooo rare).
IMHO there was nobody that I personally knew that behaved in such a manor that would have discouraged women. In fact they would have been treated far better than the average Joe.....
And many times we actually complained to our bosses to hire more women....and the response we got....was there was NONE applying.....
Is there immature jerks? Of course! But no more and no different than any other industry. From my perspective, it seems like Computer Science is not appealing to most women. Why? I do not know, but in my opinion I believe there are some activities that will appeal more to men and vice versa. We are a species that is sexually dimorphic.....so expecting both sexes to be 100% identical is stupid, no matter how much these feminazis scream sexism.
I wonder what % of maids out there are men. Or what % are nurses. Or what % of daycare workers are male....And yet nobody is screaming bloody sexism in those situations. I personally believe the whole caregiver role appeals more to females than males. Same with computer science, it likely appeals more to those inclined to think logically rather than emotionally (again this is my opinion, not a fact).
I also agree with those who raised the point above; That articles such as this do more harm than good at attracting women into the industry, when all the read is all the horror stories of how they will be raped and harassed and not taken seriously. Which of course is likely to be mostly BS. A few bad apples ruining it for all kind of thing....
I am not sure about the rest of you, but I expected this and IMHO Bitcoin will be subject to high volatility for a long time to come.
Also is it not possibly that there are entities out there purposely trying to undermine it? Such as governments who can no longer control the money supply (and their favorite hidden form of taxation, inflation!). Destroy the confidence people place on Bitcoin, if enough lose faith it will start a negative feedback loop and we can watch it spiral down to it's death.
"...depends more on communication skills and personality traits"
Thank you captain obvious.....like pretty much everything else in life with the exception possibly being sports. Even, assholes and anti-social people don't tend to last very long.
It's an environment I inherited....Only been working here for about a year....
And the choice is not really mine. Teachers are students are familiar with Windows environment. I would have a revolution on my hands if I tried to switch them to *nix/Libreoffice. Also an unusually high % of the staff here is 55+...they can barely grasp how to use Windows and iPhone.....I can only imagine the horror in their face first time they have to log in Linux....
Also there is the Smartboard software which we have only runs on Windows.
Also schoolbook publishers give away free software to complement what is taught using their book, which of course also runs in Windows only.....
And then there is the school soft which would be the equivalent of an ERP system...which is Windows only. And I am limited in my selection (basically 3 vendors) because it has to be in FRENCH....
You are correct. I was running Windows 2000 at work and at home until XP SP2. Before that XP was trash, very unstable and (for the time) very taxing on hardware....
Same with Vista.....it sucked at first, hard (and also dishonest hardware vendors/M$ misleading people about hardware being able to run it did not help) but after a couple of service packs, it ran fine. Windows 7 was great from day 1.
I manage the IT infrastructure in a school (both grade and high school).
I still have Windows XP machines (I do want to get rid of them, however I work alone, trying to convince them to hire 1 more person). For the most part, everything still works ok......Apps still install on it, and to be honest teachers and students don't do anything special...Office, browser, flash = 99% of what they use them for. Obviously no more security updates can only be a bad thing, but there is only soo much I can get done in a day.
Most likely I will eventually get around to switching them to Windows 7...and like others have stated, will likely skip Windows 8 and 10....M$ needs to change their business model when it comes to OS....charging $150 per version and not to mention the immense headaches that comes with compatibility issues when upgrading turns a lot of people off....especially when you gain what exactly? I know there are a lot of changes under the hood to take advantage of bleeding edge tech, but honestly for the average person it's not an important selling point. Especially when machines do not change frequently in a work environment. So yeeahhh.....
To be honest I thought they would be asking for more power the day after it occurred.
Also these morons do not realize that whatever draconian spying tech they use against the unwashed masses can and are often turned against themselves....lol...in fact it is more so a danger to them vs Joe Schmoe nobody.....
Never said that the Vatican himself was a Nazi. I was pointing out Christians (and the far majority of Germans where Christian at the time) behaving badly towards those of another faith. And it happened in recent history.
My point is, most of the major faiths have committed and are still committing atrocities towards people of other faiths and to humanity in general.
Israel's treatment of Palestine comes to mind....
Christianity has no better track record than Islam, Islam has no better track record than Judaism, and so on and so forth......
It may seem like Christian nations have made some progress, in reality a lot of those nations where hatred and overall violence have diminished have adopted more secular values over the years.
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I would guess that a doctor is a better person to ask than /.
Should Disney force? No....never....
I mean even healthcare workers should not be forced, being that they have an education and background in medicine, they should already know why they should be vaccinated without being forced to do so....and if they do not there is a failure to educate them in the system.
Also isn't vaccinating Disney employees kinda not as useful if the children (and parents) that visit refuse to get vaccinated? The protection you get from vaccinations is on the "herd" level and not the individual. If the majority of the herd is not vaccinated, the vaccine itself provide very little protection to an individual....
Security, has always been and will always will be, an illusion in the work force.
It's a scam they sell you to get you to stay in underpaying, overworked jobs.
Like in every other aspect of life, the more risk you take, the higher the potential rewards. No risk = no rewards.
Do you think a company who is in the red this quarter will be like "Hmmmm we did bad this quarter, we lost money but so did everybody else. Let me just pay my employees and reassure them, so what the execs won't get a massive bonus this year".
Or "Hmmmmm Jeff burned out working for us 3 years ago. Lets offer him a job when he is well as a reward for his loyalty."
The moment anything bad happens, you are instantly terminated. So you do not know where you will be 6 months down the line reguardless...
You are 100% correct.
There are some former bosses I am friends with, hell we sometimes take trips to Vegas together, but I quit working for him not because of him. The Company.
A corporation, as much as lawmakers and conservatives want you to believe, is not a human being. It is a machine. A money making machine. It does not value things like loyalty, mostly because it is not easy to quantify and put on a balance sheet.
....disposable employers.
When the market is doing well, which is almost all the time since I been in IT in my area, it's not hard to find jobs. So if somebody comes along and offers me more money, equal hours (or better) and equal or better working conditions, well let's just say I have a macro'ed resignation word doc that fills in date and employer name. Why? Because I know if the tables where turned, they would not hesitate to put my head on the chopping block.
Loyalty is for suckers.....
Do I like it this way? No, but this is the world we live in.
It's being tracked even if it is off. Only way to NOT be tracked is to remove the battery.
Lol USGOV never existed for the people.....
And the FBI was worse than the KGB...they just had a better PR firm!
That if you are getting a salary while doing this research, then unless you signed a clause in your contract upon being hired, should be going to the corporation.
You basically whored out your "inventivness" to them.....If the company can't sue you to to recoup the money it spent paying you if you develop nothing of value, you should basically not expect a % of something of value.
Like everything else in life, the more risk you take, the better the reward if you succeed.
You make some valid points....especially the part where Canadians are used to having the place to ourselves looool.
Canada, Spain, Russia are also big trading partners with Cuba. It's ironic going to buy Cuban souvenirs and noticing "Made in China" stickers loool....
Obama this, Bush that bla bla bla bla....
Americans waste their time fighting over what is essentially 2 sides of the same coin.
Republicans and Democrats are both the same thing; Corporatists that serve their corporate overloads. What little differences the 2 parties have on some issues is used to keep the American people fighting over somewhat meaningless issues instead of paying attention to the fact that they are being robbed blind by the 1%.
But I guess I should not be too hard on Americans, most nations of the West have adopted similar systems.
I digress....But realistically speaking you guys know that Obama is a HUMAN, and as such requires a little bit of down time and light hearted activities...I mean do you really want the President to burn out while in office? Also a lot of decisions and political maneuvering tend to happen during these so called "waste of time" activities...
Always makes me laugh whenever I read an article about US-Cuba relations, more specifically how Americans think Cubans are...
Been to Cuba at least 8 times now? Possibly more, don't recall.
I can assure you Cubans have Internet access, laptops, iPads and iPhones.....
Obviously this is more of a city and tourist area thing. The poorer farmers and villagers on the other hand might not have access to such luxuries.....However generally speaking they all seem to be familiar with the devices, their capabilities and their ability to use them. They are as present as any other developing nation I have visited. Other than their inability to buy original OEM parts for their aging fleet of American produced cars, you would not have known there was an embargo from the US for the past 50-60 years.
The only thing the embargo seems to have accomplished is limit the ability of US based corporations to exploit Cubans. Canada, Spain and Russia where more than happy to jump in and fill that gap....
What exactly the problem is.
I have worked in the tech industry for almost 20 years, Before that I studied in it, and before that it was a hobby.
I have met very few women that had any interest in it over the years.
The few women there was where treated like queens and superstars (quite frankly because they where soooo rare).
IMHO there was nobody that I personally knew that behaved in such a manor that would have discouraged women. In fact they would have been treated far better than the average Joe.....
And many times we actually complained to our bosses to hire more women....and the response we got....was there was NONE applying.....
Is there immature jerks? Of course! But no more and no different than any other industry. From my perspective, it seems like Computer Science is not appealing to most women. Why? I do not know, but in my opinion I believe there are some activities that will appeal more to men and vice versa. We are a species that is sexually dimorphic.....so expecting both sexes to be 100% identical is stupid, no matter how much these feminazis scream sexism.
I wonder what % of maids out there are men. Or what % are nurses. Or what % of daycare workers are male....And yet nobody is screaming bloody sexism in those situations. I personally believe the whole caregiver role appeals more to females than males. Same with computer science, it likely appeals more to those inclined to think logically rather than emotionally (again this is my opinion, not a fact).
I also agree with those who raised the point above; That articles such as this do more harm than good at attracting women into the industry, when all the read is all the horror stories of how they will be raped and harassed and not taken seriously. Which of course is likely to be mostly BS. A few bad apples ruining it for all kind of thing....
I am not sure about the rest of you, but I expected this and IMHO Bitcoin will be subject to high volatility for a long time to come.
Also is it not possibly that there are entities out there purposely trying to undermine it? Such as governments who can no longer control the money supply (and their favorite hidden form of taxation, inflation!). Destroy the confidence people place on Bitcoin, if enough lose faith it will start a negative feedback loop and we can watch it spiral down to it's death.
Wrong.
You would have had a valid point if in fact scientists where infallible, but since they are human, they are indeed not.
For example: the researcher who started the whole anti-vac movement.
Unfortunately improving common knowledge does not always pay well.
"...depends more on communication skills and personality traits"
Thank you captain obvious.....like pretty much everything else in life with the exception possibly being sports. Even, assholes and anti-social people don't tend to last very long.
It's an environment I inherited....Only been working here for about a year....
And the choice is not really mine. Teachers are students are familiar with Windows environment. I would have a revolution on my hands if I tried to switch them to *nix/Libreoffice. Also an unusually high % of the staff here is 55+...they can barely grasp how to use Windows and iPhone.....I can only imagine the horror in their face first time they have to log in Linux....
Also there is the Smartboard software which we have only runs on Windows.
Also schoolbook publishers give away free software to complement what is taught using their book, which of course also runs in Windows only.....
And then there is the school soft which would be the equivalent of an ERP system...which is Windows only. And I am limited in my selection (basically 3 vendors) because it has to be in FRENCH....
Blehhhh......
Welcome to IT.
Leave you dignity and expertise at the door. Do everything as cheap as possible in the short term.
You are a cost to the company, with nothing of value to contribute to the core business, be glad we took pity on your and gave you a job.
Sounds familiar?
You are correct. I was running Windows 2000 at work and at home until XP SP2. Before that XP was trash, very unstable and (for the time) very taxing on hardware....
Same with Vista.....it sucked at first, hard (and also dishonest hardware vendors/M$ misleading people about hardware being able to run it did not help) but after a couple of service packs, it ran fine. Windows 7 was great from day 1.
And why not?
Solid stable OS, nice GUI, runs on what is considered low end hardware specs by today's standards...
Feels familiar (unlike stupid metro/modern GUI). No compatibility issues....
I really really do not see a problem with it.
I manage the IT infrastructure in a school (both grade and high school).
I still have Windows XP machines (I do want to get rid of them, however I work alone, trying to convince them to hire 1 more person). For the most part, everything still works ok......Apps still install on it, and to be honest teachers and students don't do anything special...Office, browser, flash = 99% of what they use them for. Obviously no more security updates can only be a bad thing, but there is only soo much I can get done in a day.
Most likely I will eventually get around to switching them to Windows 7...and like others have stated, will likely skip Windows 8 and 10....M$ needs to change their business model when it comes to OS....charging $150 per version and not to mention the immense headaches that comes with compatibility issues when upgrading turns a lot of people off....especially when you gain what exactly? I know there are a lot of changes under the hood to take advantage of bleeding edge tech, but honestly for the average person it's not an important selling point. Especially when machines do not change frequently in a work environment. So yeeahhh.....
Windows 8.1 is ok.....
It's just the UI and stupid metro (modern wtv) stupid start menu crap that annoys me.
Also it seems to be a little shizo...some settings are in classic menus...some in modern....
But in terms of stability, performance, it's actually as good as windows 7.
To be honest I thought they would be asking for more power the day after it occurred.
Also these morons do not realize that whatever draconian spying tech they use against the unwashed masses can and are often turned against themselves....lol...in fact it is more so a danger to them vs Joe Schmoe nobody.....
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that our own Western Govs are funneling money to them indirectly (via heads of states like Saudi Arabia etc).
Keep us in fear, and you keep your people in check...Also convinces a lot of people to WILLINGLY give up their rights and freedoms.....
Of course this is just my speculation......no proof
Never said that the Vatican himself was a Nazi. I was pointing out Christians (and the far majority of Germans where Christian at the time) behaving badly towards those of another faith. And it happened in recent history.
My point is, most of the major faiths have committed and are still committing atrocities towards people of other faiths and to humanity in general.
Israel's treatment of Palestine comes to mind....
Christianity has no better track record than Islam, Islam has no better track record than Judaism, and so on and so forth......
It may seem like Christian nations have made some progress, in reality a lot of those nations where hatred and overall violence have diminished have adopted more secular values over the years.