"Damn car manufacturers telling me what to Do... For who exactly, is 112 mph not fast enough?
In fact, unless you're the Madison Avenue stalwart professional driver on a closed course, why should you be able to drive that recklessly on the public highways and put the rest of us at risk of getting caught up in a vehicular altercation with you?
Mah rights!
Well, some of us do drive road cars on a track, so a track mode that disables the limiter would be useful in such situations. As for on the street, I agree; however there are roads in the Western US that are long, straight, and you can very well be the only one on the road. In such cases, driving fast in a well maintained car on a well maintained road doesn't endanger other drivers. Not the smartest idea, but the only idiot being endangered is behind the wheel. Not every road in the world is heavily trafficked.
You can be working as a Level 4 Software Engineer for a year or for 10 years. Surely there's a difference.
I would expect when doing salary comparisons time of service would be a consideration; although in some cases new hires start at a higher salary due to market cases. In such cases, companies often give across the board raises to keep staff happy.
And there's one more thing you're overlooking when saying: "for many large companies pay withing a level is pretty much withing a defined band" - you forgot to add "and within the same state/country". Having me as an example, my 3rd world country salary for a level 3 in a global corp is about 1/8th of the salary for the same level in the USA. So what should I do? Demand equal payment? Because we ARE doing the same thing, with arguably the same success.
Companies pay what local markets demand, not what the highest does. Often, that's why the work is there because it is cheaper.
Paying everyone the same amount for the same job reeks of communism. One person could be a better "Level 4 Software Engineer" than another. I've seen this time and again.
While that is a nice idea, for many large companies pay withing a level is pretty much withing a defined band; bonuses and promotions are often the way to recognize higher perfromance. It may be that Google discovered a wide enough gap on individual compensation within the band to decide to close the gap; i.e. for simialr years of service or ratings some clustered near the top and i\otehr near the bottom. It's quite possible that the difference is do to workers being in different departments and thus having bosses that are more or less generous with salary bumps..
Make your point on a thread where it's relevant. There are other places in this story where people made that same point.
You said
MySQL is the obvious example here, since that's what the story is about. They took the source, added some nice clustering mods, and didn't give it back. Now the CEO of MySQL is upset about that.
and I pointed out in reply he has no leg to stand on based on the GPL terms. It seems my reply is relevant to thread if your comment is as well
Which of Amazon's components are GPL licensed that Amazon does not publish source code for?
MySQL is the obvious example here, since that's what the story is about. They took the source, added some nice clustering mods, and didn't give it back. Now the CEO of MySQL is upset about that.
Unless Amazon distributed the code they are under no obligation to provide their code and its modifications. Even if they did they are only obligated to provide it to whomever they distributed the code; not the broader community. MySQL may not lie Amazon modifying code, running it on their own servers and selling a service based on it but they are out of luck when it comes to getting the code base.
The city of Corpus Christi wanted at last check, a dollar of day PER UNIT. That's murder on any operation, large or small.
People oppose an outright ban, so an onerous tax is as close as they got. Nobody (majority anyway) wants these things around. They clutter up the neighborhood, ruin accessibility, and have plenty of bad riders. The sooner they run out of VC money the better. Their business model is probably not that much more viable than MoviePass anyway.
Yea. You quickly grow tired of hearing someone yell excuse me as they try to zip past you or having one whip right by you a few inches away while you are walking on the sidewalk. The faster they disappear the better, and it seems like Adam Smith's invisible hand will smack them down at some point; probably after an IPO. I wonder if the scooter companies asked Louisville to strip ID data to prevent analysis such as in TFA which shows how fast they are burning cash and the steep hill to just become profitable, let alone grow fast enough to warrant a high stock valuation?
I am a volunteer at a local electronics museum. We use tesla coils and van de graf generators for demonstrations. We learned long time ago that you don't use consumer hobby grade stuff for public demonstrations. During my three year (so far) tenure there, we went through three cheap van de graf generators before settling on one that is more institutional grade; costing about twice as much. That unit is still going strong.
It generally pays to buy quality. My blender is much more expensive than many you see in stores but blends stuff that would strip a cheaper one's gears in a second. That doesn't necessarily mean buying the absolute best when a high quality less expensive item will work, it's a cost tradeoff and at some point the added value is less than the added costs.
Same goes with tools. Please don't get me going on Harbor Freight. Put it this way. A jewelry maker told me that he will not be caught dead inside a Harbor Freight store.
While I am in wholehearted agreement with you in tools and have had a "Buy quality once or cheap forever" mentality ingrained by my mechanic father; Harbor Freight has its place. It's perfect for when you need a cheap one time use item. For example, I built a fence using a HF nail gun. I ran quality nails through it and it lasted throughout the project, in fact it still works but is basically relegated to hanging on the wall. For about $60 it was cheaper than a rental and way cheaper than a quality nailer that would drive nails long after the HF tool died. I would not use a HF tool for something I made my living on and needed to run reliably and the cost of lost productivity exceeded the tool's cost.
1-4 number of screens at the same time, depending on how much you pay (you also get higher res the more you pay).
At least in Sweden.
They are supposed to be used in the same household though, which is the thing which is generally seen as mooching when families whom have moved apart still use only one login.
Fair enough. The choice for the consumer is to lower their costs by dropping to fewer screens and letting the family member get their own subscription. Philosophically, I see no differences between buying access to multiple streams and viewing them at home, my beach house, private jet and or in my mom's basement. You have paid for x quantity to use as you say fit; although the T&C's may disagree. They could limit them based on IP address but that will cause other issues, such as I may stream on from my fibre but another from a hotspot at the same location.
I can see where 4 separate non-related people buying one subscription and sharing it is stretching things, but a family sharing one is not unreasonable nor unexpected. It's not just Netflix. My cable subscription gives access to the corresponding app so I can watch tuff independent of cable such as when I travel; and family members can log in to the app as well. For ad based providers I'd guess they really don't care if it delivers eyeballs for the ads; Netflix however i pure subscription.
Yes as I stated Dogs make better companions. However they are more work. Sure you cat is plotting against you, but most never have the means to complete the tasks. So they fall back and become warm fuzzy vibrating blankets.
Struve, but once devices on the IoT learn to understand meows they’ll have an appliance army on their side; plus god help us if Amazon every gets cat meow recognition and they can order their own food and litter. Just ask Hans Solo what happened when dogs could and they’re on your side.
They fire them, but in a different way than you think.
> "The living will be required to pay [a $250 processing fee] for this invasion of their privacy, butany dead body that comes through a county medical examiner's office would also be fair game to be entered into the database."
So, if one refuses to pay $250, they kill him, and then they send the body to the medical examiner's office.
I see how you got your/. name; you clearly are a visionary. Seriously, while I doubt staff overall might take such actions their unions would probably intercede on their behalf, along with groups such as the ACLU. One would thnk cops would liek such a database but when all the cops I know sound like ACLU lawyers when they feel their rights are violated, and offer advice such as "never talk to a cop if he asks what you did; all they want to do is get you to confess." and have their union rep on speed dial.
On a lighter note, I wonder if the database will be subject to FOIA requests?
Fire them? If entire staff at schools, police departments, etc. refuse to take the test and pay it won't turn out well if they try to fire them. Between lawsuits, union fights and politicians trying to explain why school is canceled and the police/fire are not answering calls things will get sorted out quickly. My guess the bill dies quietly in committee...
So I decided I would rather keep the story intact,” he said. “Nobody really wants a watered-down, one-size-fits-none version of this story, so they graciously agreed to let me have it back We also want a publisher who can get it to fans in the near future, so we hope to be able to announce a new home as soon as possible.”
It looks like the story will get out, just that DC didn’t want the controversy.
CitizenGo claimed the decision as a victory, telling Syfy Wire that Second Coming “portrays a false view” of Jesus, who is “not a failure”. It added: “Most children grow up reading about iconic DC superheroes like Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman. It would be a shame to market this false view of Jesus as an equal read to these figures.”
Let me get his straight. Stories about mythical persons who die, come back, have evil twins, cavort with God figures and can have multiple conflicting story lines are iconic but don’t you dare touch Jesus because someone my think your version is the one true story? I wonder if Wonder Woman would be so iconic to CitizenGo if she were gay. Maybe, just don’t put her likeness on a bus.
It's pretty rare to see "critical thinker/debunker and academic types" even bother addressing flat earth claims, let alone get "pissed off" about it. Some things are just too stupid to be taken seriously.
And as Ron White say's "you can fix a lot of things, but you can't fix stupid, so don't even try."
A lot of the flat earthers I've met are really just trolling other people.
If the number of "believers" is going up then it might be that the number of critical thinkers is going up.
On the other hand it could also be that I don't hang round with the other end of the spectrum and it really is the number of idiots that's going online to confirm their beliefs that's going up.
Of course flat earthers are wrong. Flat is a two dimensional concept and we clearly do not live in Flatland. Flat Earthers need to change their name to Square Earthers.
I mean, Ikea sells pizza. I don't know why anyone would expect a furniture store to sell pizza but... here we are.
The problem with IKEA’s pizza is the damn instructions for making it. By the time you figure out how to attach the cheese, the special pepperoni connectors, etc., you’ll have starved to death.
I thought this was America, where people have choice and freedom to choose what they want to eat. If they are choosing unhealthy shit, that's their choice. There will still be some supermarket if there is a demand.
There’s another dynamic at play as well. For some people, buying at the dollar store is a budget issue. They cannot afford to buy things like detergent at a grocery store because, even if it is cheaper on a per unit basis, the $5 spent on it means not enough left over for gas or even food. The dollar store is a better match to their cash flow than a grocery store, even if it a worse long run choice. In other cases, the dollar store is near where they live and the nearest grocery store is miles away, making the dollar store the store of choice.
While I agree many bury them, you have agreed to the terms. Expediaâ(TM)s notice is visible when you scroll down to go to pay so it is in plain sight, for example, and is pretty explicit in your acknowledgement that you have read them and accepted them, even if you actually do not do that. Youâ(TM)ve still entered into a valid contract and are bound by its terms. Just because you didnâ(TM)t read it before you agreed to it doesnâ(TM)t mean it is not binding.
No, I did not engage into a "valid contract".
I bought a ticket. Or in case of expedia booked a hotel. That is all.
Had you bought an airline ticket you would have had a valid contract which included your explicit agreement to be bound by the T&Cs as stated on the site before you purchased it. Had you not entered into a binding contract the airline could simply refuse to honor the ticket and you would have no recourse since, as you claim, there was not valid contract requiring the provide transportation in exchange for money. At any rate, you first claimed the T&Cs were not on the booking site and when I pointed them out to you still insist there was no valid contract. Whatever. I’m just going to follow the sage wisdom of Ron White from here on out.
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"In such cases, companies often give across the board raises to keep staff happy."
ROFL. You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.
Perhaps, but every company I've worked for or has been a client has done that.
"Damn car manufacturers telling me what to Do... For who exactly, is 112 mph not fast enough?
In fact, unless you're the Madison Avenue stalwart professional driver on a closed course, why should you be able to drive that recklessly on the public highways and put the rest of us at risk of getting caught up in a vehicular altercation with you?
Mah rights!
Well, some of us do drive road cars on a track, so a track mode that disables the limiter would be useful in such situations. As for on the street, I agree; however there are roads in the Western US that are long, straight, and you can very well be the only one on the road. In such cases, driving fast in a well maintained car on a well maintained road doesn't endanger other drivers. Not the smartest idea, but the only idiot being endangered is behind the wheel. Not every road in the world is heavily trafficked.
You can be working as a Level 4 Software Engineer for a year or for 10 years. Surely there's a difference.
I would expect when doing salary comparisons time of service would be a consideration; although in some cases new hires start at a higher salary due to market cases. In such cases, companies often give across the board raises to keep staff happy.
And there's one more thing you're overlooking when saying: "for many large companies pay withing a level is pretty much withing a defined band" - you forgot to add "and within the same state/country". Having me as an example, my 3rd world country salary for a level 3 in a global corp is about 1/8th of the salary for the same level in the USA. So what should I do? Demand equal payment? Because we ARE doing the same thing, with arguably the same success.
Companies pay what local markets demand, not what the highest does. Often, that's why the work is there because it is cheaper.
Paying everyone the same amount for the same job reeks of communism. One person could be a better "Level 4 Software Engineer" than another. I've seen this time and again.
While that is a nice idea, for many large companies pay withing a level is pretty much withing a defined band; bonuses and promotions are often the way to recognize higher perfromance. It may be that Google discovered a wide enough gap on individual compensation within the band to decide to close the gap; i.e. for simialr years of service or ratings some clustered near the top and i\otehr near the bottom. It's quite possible that the difference is do to workers being in different departments and thus having bosses that are more or less generous with salary bumps..
Make your point on a thread where it's relevant. There are other places in this story where people made that same point.
You said
MySQL is the obvious example here, since that's what the story is about. They took the source, added some nice clustering mods, and didn't give it back. Now the CEO of MySQL is upset about that.
and I pointed out in reply he has no leg to stand on based on the GPL terms. It seems my reply is relevant to thread if your comment is as well
They took the source, added some nice clustering mods, and didn't give it back. Now the CEO of MySQL is upset about that.
But is the point. Unless Amazon distributes the code they can do what they want with it and not provide any source, MySQL CEO be damned.
Which of Amazon's components are GPL licensed that Amazon does not publish source code for?
MySQL is the obvious example here, since that's what the story is about. They took the source, added some nice clustering mods, and didn't give it back. Now the CEO of MySQL is upset about that.
Unless Amazon distributed the code they are under no obligation to provide their code and its modifications. Even if they did they are only obligated to provide it to whomever they distributed the code; not the broader community. MySQL may not lie Amazon modifying code, running it on their own servers and selling a service based on it but they are out of luck when it comes to getting the code base.
The city of Corpus Christi wanted at last check, a dollar of day PER UNIT. That's murder on any operation, large or small.
People oppose an outright ban, so an onerous tax is as close as they got. Nobody (majority anyway) wants these things around. They clutter up the neighborhood, ruin accessibility, and have plenty of bad riders. The sooner they run out of VC money the better. Their business model is probably not that much more viable than MoviePass anyway.
Yea. You quickly grow tired of hearing someone yell excuse me as they try to zip past you or having one whip right by you a few inches away while you are walking on the sidewalk. The faster they disappear the better, and it seems like Adam Smith's invisible hand will smack them down at some point; probably after an IPO. I wonder if the scooter companies asked Louisville to strip ID data to prevent analysis such as in TFA which shows how fast they are burning cash and the steep hill to just become profitable, let alone grow fast enough to warrant a high stock valuation?
Rental cars share a common feature with M1A1 tanks: both can do 60 mph over a plowed field.
I am a volunteer at a local electronics museum. We use tesla coils and van de graf generators for demonstrations. We learned long time ago that you don't use consumer hobby grade stuff for public demonstrations. During my three year (so far) tenure there, we went through three cheap van de graf generators before settling on one that is more institutional grade; costing about twice as much. That unit is still going strong.
It generally pays to buy quality. My blender is much more expensive than many you see in stores but blends stuff that would strip a cheaper one's gears in a second. That doesn't necessarily mean buying the absolute best when a high quality less expensive item will work, it's a cost tradeoff and at some point the added value is less than the added costs.
Same goes with tools. Please don't get me going on Harbor Freight. Put it this way. A jewelry maker told me that he will not be caught dead inside a Harbor Freight store.
While I am in wholehearted agreement with you in tools and have had a "Buy quality once or cheap forever" mentality ingrained by my mechanic father; Harbor Freight has its place. It's perfect for when you need a cheap one time use item. For example, I built a fence using a HF nail gun. I ran quality nails through it and it lasted throughout the project, in fact it still works but is basically relegated to hanging on the wall. For about $60 it was cheaper than a rental and way cheaper than a quality nailer that would drive nails long after the HF tool died. I would not use a HF tool for something I made my living on and needed to run reliably and the cost of lost productivity exceeded the tool's cost.
Is it then considered theft that my wife purchased her pain ticket with my Visa?
You're lucky. Mine buys my pain ticket with my card...
I wonder how much money they are losing because family members watch a movie together, instead of each streaming to their own account ?
That will be fixed once cameras in TVs can determine the number of viewers and auto charge your account for additional eyeballs.
1-4 number of screens at the same time, depending on how much you pay (you also get higher res the more you pay). At least in Sweden.
They are supposed to be used in the same household though, which is the thing which is generally seen as mooching when families whom have moved apart still use only one login.
Fair enough. The choice for the consumer is to lower their costs by dropping to fewer screens and letting the family member get their own subscription. Philosophically, I see no differences between buying access to multiple streams and viewing them at home, my beach house, private jet and or in my mom's basement. You have paid for x quantity to use as you say fit; although the T&C's may disagree. They could limit them based on IP address but that will cause other issues, such as I may stream on from my fibre but another from a hotspot at the same location.
I can see where 4 separate non-related people buying one subscription and sharing it is stretching things, but a family sharing one is not unreasonable nor unexpected. It's not just Netflix. My cable subscription gives access to the corresponding app so I can watch tuff independent of cable such as when I travel; and family members can log in to the app as well. For ad based providers I'd guess they really don't care if it delivers eyeballs for the ads; Netflix however i pure subscription.
If we can't get you to sign up we'll get friends to do it for you so we can spam you.
Yes as I stated Dogs make better companions. However they are more work. Sure you cat is plotting against you, but most never have the means to complete the tasks. So they fall back and become warm fuzzy vibrating blankets.
Struve, but once devices on the IoT learn to understand meows they’ll have an appliance army on their side; plus god help us if Amazon every gets cat meow recognition and they can order their own food and litter. Just ask Hans Solo what happened when dogs could and they’re on your side.
There are even controllers for farming equipment sims.
Of course. How else could city folk qualify to join farmersonly?
They have a high companion rating with a low maintenance needs. They are the balanced pets.
However, unlike dogs that are constantly trying to protect you cats are plotting against you.
They fire them, but in a different way than you think. > "The living will be required to pay [a $250 processing fee] for this invasion of their privacy, butany dead body that comes through a county medical examiner's office would also be fair game to be entered into the database." So, if one refuses to pay $250, they kill him, and then they send the body to the medical examiner's office.
I see how you got your /. name; you clearly are a visionary. Seriously, while I doubt staff overall might take such actions their unions would probably intercede on their behalf, along with groups such as the ACLU. One would thnk cops would liek such a database but when all the cops I know sound like ACLU lawyers when they feel their rights are violated, and offer advice such as "never talk to a cop if he asks what you did; all they want to do is get you to confess." and have their union rep on speed dial.
On a lighter note, I wonder if the database will be subject to FOIA requests?
Fire them? If entire staff at schools, police departments, etc. refuse to take the test and pay it won't turn out well if they try to fire them. Between lawsuits, union fights and politicians trying to explain why school is canceled and the police/fire are not answering calls things will get sorted out quickly. My guess the bill dies quietly in committee...
It looks like the story will get out, just that DC didn’t want the controversy.
CitizenGo claimed the decision as a victory, telling Syfy Wire that Second Coming “portrays a false view” of Jesus, who is “not a failure”. It added: “Most children grow up reading about iconic DC superheroes like Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman. It would be a shame to market this false view of Jesus as an equal read to these figures.”
Let me get his straight. Stories about mythical persons who die, come back, have evil twins, cavort with God figures and can have multiple conflicting story lines are iconic but don’t you dare touch Jesus because someone my think your version is the one true story? I wonder if Wonder Woman would be so iconic to CitizenGo if she were gay. Maybe, just don’t put her likeness on a bus.
It's pretty rare to see "critical thinker/debunker and academic types" even bother addressing flat earth claims, let alone get "pissed off" about it. Some things are just too stupid to be taken seriously.
And as Ron White say's "you can fix a lot of things, but you can't fix stupid, so don't even try."
A lot of the flat earthers I've met are really just trolling other people.
If the number of "believers" is going up then it might be that the number of critical thinkers is going up.
On the other hand it could also be that I don't hang round with the other end of the spectrum and it really is the number of idiots that's going online to confirm their beliefs that's going up.
Of course flat earthers are wrong. Flat is a two dimensional concept and we clearly do not live in Flatland. Flat Earthers need to change their name to Square Earthers.
I mean, Ikea sells pizza. I don't know why anyone would expect a furniture store to sell pizza but... here we are.
The problem with IKEA’s pizza is the damn instructions for making it. By the time you figure out how to attach the cheese, the special pepperoni connectors, etc., you’ll have starved to death.
I thought this was America, where people have choice and freedom to choose what they want to eat. If they are choosing unhealthy shit, that's their choice. There will still be some supermarket if there is a demand.
There’s another dynamic at play as well. For some people, buying at the dollar store is a budget issue. They cannot afford to buy things like detergent at a grocery store because, even if it is cheaper on a per unit basis, the $5 spent on it means not enough left over for gas or even food. The dollar store is a better match to their cash flow than a grocery store, even if it a worse long run choice. In other cases, the dollar store is near where they live and the nearest grocery store is miles away, making the dollar store the store of choice.
While I agree many bury them, you have agreed to the terms. Expediaâ(TM)s notice is visible when you scroll down to go to pay so it is in plain sight, for example, and is pretty explicit in your acknowledgement that you have read them and accepted them, even if you actually do not do that. Youâ(TM)ve still entered into a valid contract and are bound by its terms. Just because you didnâ(TM)t read it before you agreed to it doesnâ(TM)t mean it is not binding. No, I did not engage into a "valid contract". I bought a ticket. Or in case of expedia booked a hotel. That is all.
Had you bought an airline ticket you would have had a valid contract which included your explicit agreement to be bound by the T&Cs as stated on the site before you purchased it. Had you not entered into a binding contract the airline could simply refuse to honor the ticket and you would have no recourse since, as you claim, there was not valid contract requiring the provide transportation in exchange for money. At any rate, you first claimed the T&Cs were not on the booking site and when I pointed them out to you still insist there was no valid contract. Whatever. I’m just going to follow the sage wisdom of Ron White from here on out.