Women tend to be paid the same amount as men with similar experience. The issue is women leave the work force to have kids and when they return they have five or six fewer years of experience then their peers. Numerous sources for this, you should really stop trotting out that falsified canard.
Despite passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which requires that men and women in the same work place be given equal pay for equal work, the "gender gap" in pay persists. Full-time women workers’ earnings are only about 77 percent of their male counterparts’ earnings. The pay gap is even greater for African-American and Latina women, with African-American women earning 64 cents and Latina women earning 56 cents for every dollar earned by a Caucasian man. Decades of research shows that no matter how you evaluate the data, there remains a pay gap — even after factoring in the kind of work people do, or qualifications such as education and experience — and there is good evidence that discrimination contributes to the persistent pay disparity between men and women. In other words, pay discrimination is a real and persistent problem that continues to shortchange American women and their families.
In other words, 51 years after the feds made it illegal to pay people with the same qualifications and experience less, it's still happening. When comparing people with the same qualifications and experience, women get paid less. You saying otherwise won't make it true, especially when a quick search shows otherwise.
Everyone should watch this movie just as an act of patriotism.
Id say as a matter of principles.
I'd say it's the way of the future. Think of it - this is the first $100 MILLION movie that's going direct to pay-per-view. This is a North America only release, so if it succeeds in taking in $30 million from that market, they will consider it would have been a success if it had been released world-wide.
"Also don't get why people care about the gender gaps, but whatever."
You would if it affected you personally, or your daughter (assuming you have one). Maybe it had a direct impact on you if your mom worked, because women tend to be paid less for the same work.
Not so much having to leave a message, but listening to the messages others left. And smartphones are worse, some giving you the date and time that the phone call was made before playing the message. It won't be missed.
>After all, they know they'll have packed theatres and extra showings to fill the demand.
Will they? This movie looks terrible, and there's only so much that a controversy will do to market crap.
Hey, Team America World Police was crap, but that didn't stop it. The English Patient should have been put out of it's misery after the first 20 minutes of nothing going on, but people watched it. Some of the Austin Powers stuff is "like, really, is that all you've got?" but people loved it. I'd rather watch Spaceballs a dozen times than any of them. (then again, any excuse is a good excuse for watching spaceballs:-)
A century ago HL Mencken said "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." Nothing's changed.
aka we need to do whatever we can do still cash in on this other wise they just release it as normal.
Sony wasn't the one who pulled the plug - it was the 5 major movie chains. Now that "the ice is broken", maybe some of them will step up as well. After all, they know they'll have packed theatres and extra showings to fill the demand.
I suspect we're going to have to move to some sort of basic income for those who are displaced. Since the machines will be more productive, they can support a higher level of taxation to finance this, and it will put money in the hands of the people who buy the products.
Or the alternatives, which include revolution, but also other, still more ugly, scenarios.
And who owns these robots? Who decides where they're allowed to be used (don't want noise or awful smells in the neighborhood in paradise).
And until these robots can do everything, who does the non-robotic stuff? How are they compensated? Even in Star Trek they had money.
Creativity? AI can beat a human hands down, when it gets to the point that it can observe your reactions and custom-tailor things in real time. For example, your video game won't be the same as everyone else's - at any moment it'll have the exact level of difficulty to keep you glued to the screen, a custom plot that changes as the AI measures your autonomic reactions to variations and drives the plot to your interests in real time, the introduction of different characters and scenarios based on your history, etc.
To the author, re your tag-line. Are you boasting, or complaining, or justifying? My private life is mine
Others have also either been open about their transsexuality or outed. I was encouraged by their stories, so this is one way for me to pay it forward:-)
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You can be sure that Sony will be uploading crap to pollute the torrent sites. After all, in their shoes, wouldn't you?
How will you tell the difference from the movie then?
The torrent won't have ads for Glosettes and O'Henry Bars before the main show :-)
I'm going to say "Yes" because adding yet another boring "spectator sport" will help eventually end that money-grubbing fiasco called the IOC.
Women tend to be paid the same amount as men with similar experience. The issue is women leave the work force to have kids and when they return they have five or six fewer years of experience then their peers. Numerous sources for this, you should really stop trotting out that falsified canard.
Absolutely NOT true. Linky
Despite passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which requires that men and women in the same work place be given equal pay for equal work, the "gender gap" in pay persists. Full-time women workers’ earnings are only about 77 percent of their male counterparts’ earnings. The pay gap is even greater for African-American and Latina women, with African-American women earning 64 cents and Latina women earning 56 cents for every dollar earned by a Caucasian man. Decades of research shows that no matter how you evaluate the data, there remains a pay gap — even after factoring in the kind of work people do, or qualifications such as education and experience — and there is good evidence that discrimination contributes to the persistent pay disparity between men and women. In other words, pay discrimination is a real and persistent problem that continues to shortchange American women and their families.
In other words, 51 years after the feds made it illegal to pay people with the same qualifications and experience less, it's still happening. When comparing people with the same qualifications and experience, women get paid less. You saying otherwise won't make it true, especially when a quick search shows otherwise.
should be on the torrent sites in time for Christmas?
You can be sure that Sony will be uploading crap to pollute the torrent sites. After all, in their shoes, wouldn't you?
Everyone should watch this movie just as an act of patriotism.
Id say as a matter of principles.
I'd say it's the way of the future. Think of it - this is the first $100 MILLION movie that's going direct to pay-per-view. This is a North America only release, so if it succeeds in taking in $30 million from that market, they will consider it would have been a success if it had been released world-wide.
"Also don't get why people care about the gender gaps, but whatever."
You would if it affected you personally, or your daughter (assuming you have one). Maybe it had a direct impact on you if your mom worked, because women tend to be paid less for the same work.
I had submitted that as a story two weeks ago. Newcastle University study: Men are bigger idiots I guess people didn't like the title :-)
The good news: It's so bad it's not hobbit-forming.
Telix, Grapevine BBS ... ascii art for "graphics". Kind of miss it.
2 more words: Call history. Call back the rest when you want to. Or send them a text. Or an email.
Not so much having to leave a message, but listening to the messages others left. And smartphones are worse, some giving you the date and time that the phone call was made before playing the message. It won't be missed.
>After all, they know they'll have packed theatres and extra showings to fill the demand.
Will they? This movie looks terrible, and there's only so much that a controversy will do to market crap.
Hey, Team America World Police was crap, but that didn't stop it. The English Patient should have been put out of it's misery after the first 20 minutes of nothing going on, but people watched it. Some of the Austin Powers stuff is "like, really, is that all you've got?" but people loved it. I'd rather watch Spaceballs a dozen times than any of them. (then again, any excuse is a good excuse for watching spaceballs :-)
A century ago HL Mencken said "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." Nothing's changed.
aka we need to do whatever we can do still cash in on this other wise they just release it as normal.
Sony wasn't the one who pulled the plug - it was the 5 major movie chains. Now that "the ice is broken", maybe some of them will step up as well. After all, they know they'll have packed theatres and extra showings to fill the demand.
helm is not a verb
Nowadays you can verb pretty much anything. (See what I did there?)
better filter out all bible sites, then. there is a lot of extreme violence (much of it by our so-called loving god!) in the OT.
And the news ...
it wants to create a "family friendly" Internet free from pornography, gambling, extreme violence and other content inappropriate for children.
No more streaming video like Netflix? Oh, well, guess the kids will have to get their violence the old-fashioned way - from TV.
Easy solution - get a screen made out of dark matter ... since it's 90% of the universe, what could possibly go wrong?
Is is possible you're in my neck of the woods? I'm in the West Island (DDO)
I suspect we're going to have to move to some sort of basic income for those who are displaced. Since the machines will be more productive, they can support a higher level of taxation to finance this, and it will put money in the hands of the people who buy the products.
Or the alternatives, which include revolution, but also other, still more ugly, scenarios.
And who owns these robots? Who decides where they're allowed to be used (don't want noise or awful smells in the neighborhood in paradise).
And until these robots can do everything, who does the non-robotic stuff? How are they compensated? Even in Star Trek they had money.
Creativity? AI can beat a human hands down, when it gets to the point that it can observe your reactions and custom-tailor things in real time. For example, your video game won't be the same as everyone else's - at any moment it'll have the exact level of difficulty to keep you glued to the screen, a custom plot that changes as the AI measures your autonomic reactions to variations and drives the plot to your interests in real time, the introduction of different characters and scenarios based on your history, etc.
If you're going to complain about it being paywalled (and it is a valid complaint!)
How hard is it to reject any story that links to a paywalled site? It's literally one click away.
Hey, maybe we can suggest it to the editors by submitting a story titled "The One Click Trick to Better Stories"
One of the cola companies wanted to implement a vending machine that would charge more when it was hot. The hotter it gets, the more you pay.
To the author, re your tag-line. Are you boasting, or complaining, or justifying? My private life is mine
Others have also either been open about their transsexuality or outed. I was encouraged by their stories, so this is one way for me to pay it forward :-)
tourists contaminated the pools with make-a-wish coins and other detritus.
Translation: "quit peeing in the pools!"
I imagine #they'd totally $freak at a @book about &perl.