We made flame throwers when I was a kid - the old vacuum cleaners could be reversed and used, along with the included spray accessory, to do things like wash cars. We filled the spray jar up with varsol and ignited it with a propane torch. Total cost? $0.00.
I wrote a 64-bit crc function, and it worked fine over billions of records of random-length text, was extremely fast (written in c), only required 8 bytes of storage, and was thread-safe.
_When_ was the last time you actually needed a different CRC function from the standard 32-bit one?
When trying to create unique crcs to use as hashes for 8 billion pieces of data daily so as to find them quickly. 32 bits isn't enough. 64 bits is way more than enough.
Well, art is different from many goods in that no one knows if anyone will want it until it's created. It's a high-risk high-failure business model.
The lack of certainty about demand isn't limited to art. *cough* Zune *cough*. Or the reverse case, IBM estimating that their Entry Systems Department (PCs) if they were lucky might sell up to 100,000 units.
The "video game industry" in quebec is a joke. All the software stays under the control of the head offices - they only reason those drawing jobs are here is the 40% tax credit, not just for those jobs, but everyone supervising them as well. The highest government subsidies in the free world, and when the subsidies are gone, so are the jobs.
Or do like we have hear, where leave is paid for out of a fund that all taxpayers contribute to, so nobody is penalized for taking it, and the employer doesn't pay it.
You don't have to look to Europe - just look north of the New York border.
Also, I think most people would say that life and health is more important than money, and the US fails on that basis. Even the ACA is nowhere near as good as universal healthcare. Compare life expectancy. I'll stay in Kanuckistan, thanks:-)
We solved that here by having a specific payroll tax that is deducted to pay for maternity and paternity benefits. This covers a maximum of 50 weeks, and can be split between the parents as they wish. It also applies to same-sex couples and adopted children of all couples. And couples who aren't married. And single parents.
Considering that most couples in long-term relationships here no longer choose to get married, it's the only fair approach that doesn't discriminate against people based on their civil status. And employers can't ask about your civil status or children until after they've extended a job offer, again to prevent hiring discrimination.
After the leave expires, there's daycare available on a sliding revenue scale. $7.30 a day for families making less than $50,000, $8.00 a day for those making less than $100,000, and a maximum of $20.00 a day for those making $150,000 or more.
This addresses most of the situations you've brought up.
I've kept this tab open so that I can better answer you.
I don't miss much, if anything wrt male privilege. That could be just me, though - it's more comfortable to be who you are than to pretend to be something you really don't identify with all that much. Since I'm no longer programming (health issues), I don't miss all the - for want of a better word - bs that comes with it and takes all the enjoyment out of the creative process. Besides, I can get my Recommended Daily Allotment of bs right here on slashdot by reading at -1:-)
I know that my perspective has certainly changed - probably because I can permit myself to feel and act differently now. The rigid pretense of maintaining the fiction is gone, and ultimately that's a huge relief.
After I transitioned, for a long time I still carried much of the previous mind-set. For example, for years I kept trying to "tough it out" when dealing with PTSD and depression. That was a really stupid mistake, and it's a relief to not to try to live up to that "I can handle this by myself" habit, because there are things I just can't fix by myself and I can now admit it more easily. Good thing too, because this last depression ended up lasting 6 months, and only started to abate a couple of weeks ago.
My goals have had to change because of my health problems. Programming had allowed me to express my curiosity and creativity, and giving it up was not easy. Still, life remains an adventure, with plenty of opportunities to learn something new, either about the world or about myself, and to do things I hadn't had a real change to do before because I was "too busy."
One example is a story I had been intending to write for ages. I gave the opening for it here, with names removed. I'll eventually change the real names of others to pseudonyms, for obvious reasons. Mine? No, I have no secrets, at least none that are better off shared so they can possibly help others, if only to access a different perspective.
My life isn't typical, even for someone who is trans, so the usual warning about YMMV applies double here.
To give mom a break? Or for the same reasons as women want to spend time with their newborn kids? You know, to bond with them so that when they screw up in later life you don't immediately want to beat the living hell out of them, as too many parents do?
That problem is solved by providing paternity leave.
Solved is a pretty strong word to use to describe a benefit that lasts for, what, a few weeks? Maybe two months? Three?
Paternity leave is great and I'm all for it. But what happens afterward? Daycare, grandparents, or one of mom or dad stays home. And you can probably guess pretty well who it's going to be.
Up here in PoutineVille it's up to 50 weeks (paid for through a special line item on everyone's income tax). The total leave can be split as the parents decide. This also applies for adoption, and for same-sex couples (married or not).
After that, subsidized cay care is $7.30 a day for families earning under $50,000 a year, $8.00 a day for those earning up to $100,000 a year, to a maximum of $20 a day for families earning more than $150,000 a year.
In this journal entry I posit that SJWs 15 minutes of fame is almost over. There's some arguments going on there for both sides (ok, all sorts of sides).
SJWs have shown themselves to be trolls looking for emotional, rather than rational, reactions. Probably because it's not all that exciting to try to actually solve the problems via calm discussions, and it doesn't get them the attention their egos crave.
They've done everyone on both sides of the gender divide a disservice by polarizing people. Fortunately their credibility is shot to heck, though it's going to take a while for anyone who is a bit gun-shy because of them to re-engage in more rational discussion.
They can always sub-contract it out and take their 20%. But do you honestly think that neo-nazis are going to want to eat only kosher? No bacon, no ham, etc.? (And the bakery isn't discriminating by refusing to supply non-kosher food to them because they don't supply it to anyone).
There's a word for when someone uses fear and lies to control someone else's behavior for their own gain. Generally we call that an abusive relationship.
Sounds like most employer/employee relations nowadays.
That problem is solved by providing paternity leave. It the wave of the future, and men should be pushing for it so they can spend some time with their newborn kids as well.
If the Constitution hasn't granted Congress the power to pass those respective laws, then they're unconstitutional and will be unenforceable in court.
The Constitution sets limits on the powers of the federal government, as well as its responsibilities and powers.
Those powers not reserved by the federal government are powers that fall to the individual states. And individual states handle things like incorporating towns and cities, and give them the right to regulate and tax activities and properties within their boundaries.
Or have you forgotten that most of the individual states have legalized same-sex marriage, because they have the power to?
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Gasoline and vaseline.
We made flame throwers when I was a kid - the old vacuum cleaners could be reversed and used, along with the included spray accessory, to do things like wash cars. We filled the spray jar up with varsol and ignited it with a propane torch. Total cost? $0.00.
he's obviously talented
He's obviously stupid! Otherwise, he would have cut and run after getting the initial 1.8 million pounds.
I wrote a 64-bit crc function, and it worked fine over billions of records of random-length text, was extremely fast (written in c), only required 8 bytes of storage, and was thread-safe.
haircuts, gasoline, legal representation, prescription drugs (though sellers have been caught illegally selling prescription drugs through Amazon), etc.
It's not realistic for Amazon to even know when it's violated
How about when the potential employer makes a few phone calls to their previous work history?
_When_ was the last time you actually needed a different CRC function from the standard 32-bit one?
When trying to create unique crcs to use as hashes for 8 billion pieces of data daily so as to find them quickly. 32 bits isn't enough. 64 bits is way more than enough.
Well, art is different from many goods in that no one knows if anyone will want it until it's created. It's a high-risk high-failure business model.
The lack of certainty about demand isn't limited to art. *cough* Zune *cough*. Or the reverse case, IBM estimating that their Entry Systems Department (PCs) if they were lucky might sell up to 100,000 units.
So the tax is to "support the movie, music, and book publishing industries."
My question is, will this be limited to french only movies, music and books? There's still a large contingent of english here.
You do know that you can change the keymap / keyboard type in the OS, right?
Check your phone bill. See the provincial sales tax? There's a difference between regulation and taxation.
The "video game industry" in quebec is a joke. All the software stays under the control of the head offices - they only reason those drawing jobs are here is the 40% tax credit, not just for those jobs, but everyone supervising them as well. The highest government subsidies in the free world, and when the subsidies are gone, so are the jobs.
Or do like we have hear, where leave is paid for out of a fund that all taxpayers contribute to, so nobody is penalized for taking it, and the employer doesn't pay it.
You don't have to look to Europe - just look north of the New York border.
Also, I think most people would say that life and health is more important than money, and the US fails on that basis. Even the ACA is nowhere near as good as universal healthcare. Compare life expectancy. I'll stay in Kanuckistan, thanks :-)
It's more sustainable than McMansions in the exburbs.
We solved that here by having a specific payroll tax that is deducted to pay for maternity and paternity benefits. This covers a maximum of 50 weeks, and can be split between the parents as they wish. It also applies to same-sex couples and adopted children of all couples. And couples who aren't married. And single parents.
Considering that most couples in long-term relationships here no longer choose to get married, it's the only fair approach that doesn't discriminate against people based on their civil status. And employers can't ask about your civil status or children until after they've extended a job offer, again to prevent hiring discrimination.
After the leave expires, there's daycare available on a sliding revenue scale. $7.30 a day for families making less than $50,000, $8.00 a day for those making less than $100,000, and a maximum of $20.00 a day for those making $150,000 or more.
This addresses most of the situations you've brought up.
I've kept this tab open so that I can better answer you.
I don't miss much, if anything wrt male privilege. That could be just me, though - it's more comfortable to be who you are than to pretend to be something you really don't identify with all that much. Since I'm no longer programming (health issues), I don't miss all the - for want of a better word - bs that comes with it and takes all the enjoyment out of the creative process. Besides, I can get my Recommended Daily Allotment of bs right here on slashdot by reading at -1 :-)
I know that my perspective has certainly changed - probably because I can permit myself to feel and act differently now. The rigid pretense of maintaining the fiction is gone, and ultimately that's a huge relief.
After I transitioned, for a long time I still carried much of the previous mind-set. For example, for years I kept trying to "tough it out" when dealing with PTSD and depression. That was a really stupid mistake, and it's a relief to not to try to live up to that "I can handle this by myself" habit, because there are things I just can't fix by myself and I can now admit it more easily. Good thing too, because this last depression ended up lasting 6 months, and only started to abate a couple of weeks ago.
My goals have had to change because of my health problems. Programming had allowed me to express my curiosity and creativity, and giving it up was not easy. Still, life remains an adventure, with plenty of opportunities to learn something new, either about the world or about myself, and to do things I hadn't had a real change to do before because I was "too busy."
One example is a story I had been intending to write for ages. I gave the opening for it here, with names removed. I'll eventually change the real names of others to pseudonyms, for obvious reasons. Mine? No, I have no secrets, at least none that are better off shared so they can possibly help others, if only to access a different perspective.
My life isn't typical, even for someone who is trans, so the usual warning about YMMV applies double here.
To give mom a break? Or for the same reasons as women want to spend time with their newborn kids? You know, to bond with them so that when they screw up in later life you don't immediately want to beat the living hell out of them, as too many parents do?
Solved is a pretty strong word to use to describe a benefit that lasts for, what, a few weeks? Maybe two months? Three?
Paternity leave is great and I'm all for it. But what happens afterward? Daycare, grandparents, or one of mom or dad stays home. And you can probably guess pretty well who it's going to be.
Up here in PoutineVille it's up to 50 weeks (paid for through a special line item on everyone's income tax). The total leave can be split as the parents decide. This also applies for adoption, and for same-sex couples (married or not).
After that, subsidized cay care is $7.30 a day for families earning under $50,000 a year, $8.00 a day for those earning up to $100,000 a year, to a maximum of $20 a day for families earning more than $150,000 a year.
The argument you make can be used to justify eliminating sick days, pension plans, weekends off, 12-hour work days, and no annual vacation.
You should be working to live, not living to work. If other countries can do it, why can't the US?
He could have just asked the previous owner what their internet service was like.
In this journal entry I posit that SJWs 15 minutes of fame is almost over. There's some arguments going on there for both sides (ok, all sorts of sides).
SJWs have shown themselves to be trolls looking for emotional, rather than rational, reactions. Probably because it's not all that exciting to try to actually solve the problems via calm discussions, and it doesn't get them the attention their egos crave.
They've done everyone on both sides of the gender divide a disservice by polarizing people. Fortunately their credibility is shot to heck, though it's going to take a while for anyone who is a bit gun-shy because of them to re-engage in more rational discussion.
They can always sub-contract it out and take their 20%. But do you honestly think that neo-nazis are going to want to eat only kosher? No bacon, no ham, etc.? (And the bakery isn't discriminating by refusing to supply non-kosher food to them because they don't supply it to anyone).
There's a word for when someone uses fear and lies to control someone else's behavior for their own gain. Generally we call that an abusive relationship.
Sounds like most employer/employee relations nowadays.
That problem is solved by providing paternity leave. It the wave of the future, and men should be pushing for it so they can spend some time with their newborn kids as well.
If the Constitution hasn't granted Congress the power to pass those respective laws, then they're unconstitutional and will be unenforceable in court.
The Constitution sets limits on the powers of the federal government, as well as its responsibilities and powers.
Those powers not reserved by the federal government are powers that fall to the individual states. And individual states handle things like incorporating towns and cities, and give them the right to regulate and tax activities and properties within their boundaries.
Or have you forgotten that most of the individual states have legalized same-sex marriage, because they have the power to?