I now understand WHY Trump is going to bring back the manufacturing jobs, the average US school leaver will not be qualified to do anything else. All the jobs that will require smart people will be done in Asia, all the work that requires someone who knows which end of a shovel to hold will be in the USA. LOL.....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Look out, Batman, it's the Joker! The best economies are based on manufacturing, not service sector jobs which have been the staple of the US in recent years. That still requires some level of grunt work, since not everything is automated. Our economy has been stagnant because of lack of manufacturing, something I clearly recall democrats (the staunchest of anti-Trumpers) lamenting during W. Bush's administration. Not everything can or should be STEM.
And I was never entirely comfortable with that, but the thing is, there's the pledge and then that's the end of it. No further references are made, certainly not while and where I attended school anyway. There's no subversive religious agenda at public schools, effectively speaking, unless a teacher personally takes it upon themselves to make one. I had *one* teacher mention god once, in 2nd grade, but then that was in 1969, too. And it was not part of the curriculum, it was a personal statement to just me while she was chewing me out for something. Experiences in the bible belt may differ, however.
It's also a totally pointless letter - in English, anyway. Q is almost useless without a following "u", and yet it's sound is the same as "Kw". It's not as if it's a shortcut saving you from writing or typing out more letters. On that note, "C", is pretty pointless too.. it does "S" and it does "K", but we already have those. "C" should just be used for the "Ch" sound, and drop the "h". But I digress.
That they are. Take a look at the race baiting article from ProRepublica they published that was mentioned here a few hours ago. Gizmodo is working it's way up there with Salon, Mother Jones, MIc, and a few others. Ars Technica is getting a bit political these days too.
That's not my logic at all. There's just a point at which businesses will decide they have less expensive options. And we are looking at empirical results, right in this article- 2,500 kiosks, likely to be replacing as many workers. My logic is, with kiosks at fast food joints, counter salespeople can be reduced, and hard to argue for a raise when suddenly you're not as necessary as you used to be.
Companies will weigh the costs of going with Path A : stay with workers and pay more for them, or alternate Path B: automate, pay a little more initially but ultimately reduce costs over the longer term. Next, food cooking and dispensing itself will be automated as well, resulting in fewer fry cooks and drive through window workers. If the purchase and deployment of these machines costs less than the payroll of an employee over x years, that's an ROI a large corporation will probably see as profitable and desirable. Most likely those systems will have an upfront maintenance contract, so even repairs can be factored into the costs. Corporations have options today they didn't in years past, with increasingly sophisticated automation. I'm not personally against raising minimum wage, by at least something, but push too hard and it's not going to end well over the long term for many unskilled workers. That tipping point will vary of course between industries, and corporations, but I think we're already seeing some places pushing back.
Maybe they shouldn't have pushed so hard for a $15 minimum wage, even if it does follow cost of living. Unlikely that this is pure coincidence. Some people may not believe in "trickle down" economics, but you'd better believe in "trickle up" economics... when operational costs at the low end of the totem pole are perceived as too high, cuts or changes get made by the top of the pole.
The hell does Michael Bay have to do with anything? What, Rogue One wasn't chock full of explosions, laser battles, and special effects?? A Michael Bay movie was just what it was most like: shallow characters, thin story, predictability, creepy CGI, plodding plot, and lots of fights and explosions. Not that the prequels were much better, but they didn't drag out so badly. Maybe you're too young to remember when movies were actually good.
That much is true; and to further the analogy, we live better than the Kings of the medieval ages: climate controlled domiciles, instant running water (even hot), refrigerators to keep food longer, plentiful food, microwave ovens to instantly cook, television for entertainment, and so on. However, the one thing that hasn't changed all that much in the past several decades is free time. Office hours and so forth haven't shrunk. We still find ways to necessitate work and duties, it's just that their natures change.
Well apparently quite a few midwest workers want their coal jobs back, maybe it's all they know how to do. They figure it beats watching their family starve, I guess.
Rogue One was the most boring, dragging Star Wars out of all of them. I seriously considered just turning it off about half-way through and the rest of my family didn't care either way. That doesn't bode well for following movies, IMO.
Today's "modern" technology was supposed to do something like that too, right? Washing machines, dishwashers, et al can all do the job faster than hand washing, and databases can cross-reference information much faster than sifting through filing cabinets, and networks allow for almost instantaneous transference of data, but people are working just as much, overall, as they did 70 years ago, it's just the duties have changed. Granted, we don't have have 16 hour days in a coal mine anymore, but that's probably more due to social revolutions than technological ones. New technologies themselves demand constant upkeep, development, deployment, maintenance, upgrade, and expansion. Who fixes the AI when it goes awry?
I just look at it as a "most commonly used" quick list of menu items. If what you want isn't there, then sure, you have to go to the full menu and dig, but more often than not, what you're looking to do will be there. There are far worse inconsistencies... the current split between Control Panel and Settings in Win10 for example, that seems evident of really poor GUI project management.
I never understood his thinking. I don't find context menu's counter-intuitive at all, in fact just the opposite --well, at least, on Windows. Since the main menu bar on a Mac (old Macs anyway) is application/context sensitive and changes depending on which app is open/ has focus, I guess in a way it fulfilled the function of a context menu. Still, a one button mouse feels completely alien to me. I've used a personal iPhone for the past several years, it would be nice sometimes to have a back button, it seems less awkward than the "back" or "done" arrow at the top left. (My tablets are always Android).
Holy cow.. they put all that in the Facebook app? That seems like reinventing the wheel in many of those cases, to me anyway, which would still fit my definition of bloatware, but I guess it depends on how useful or necessary those redundancies are in the eye of the beholder. I wouldn't be surprised if they released the "Facebook OS" in a few years, at that rate. I'm sure the idea has been tossed around.
According to TFA, the Facebook app has increased in size by 1200% (12x) from just 4 years ago. If you're in the know, please list all these new features that I don't know about which contribute to and justify this marked increase in size. And you don't get to list Messenger, because last year it became a separate app, no longer contributing to the size of the main app.
I agree they're both tainted and set up to get people elected, they're basically a financial platform. They both want their party members to toe the line and agree with exactly every tenet they officially profess, it's far too rigid a system.
Don't even try to compare the TEA party marches to the violent crap that happened with BLM, various Trump protesters, even the pussy hat wearers.. you killed your argument right there before it even got off the ground, and then you threw in the race card for good measure too.
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I now understand WHY Trump is going to bring back the manufacturing jobs, the average US school leaver will not be qualified to do anything else. All the jobs that will require smart people will be done in Asia, all the work that requires someone who knows which end of a shovel to hold will be in the USA.
LOL.....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Look out, Batman, it's the Joker!
The best economies are based on manufacturing, not service sector jobs which have been the staple of the US in recent years. That still requires some level of grunt work, since not everything is automated. Our economy has been stagnant because of lack of manufacturing, something I clearly recall democrats (the staunchest of anti-Trumpers) lamenting during W. Bush's administration. Not everything can or should be STEM.
And I was never entirely comfortable with that, but the thing is, there's the pledge and then that's the end of it. No further references are made, certainly not while and where I attended school anyway.
There's no subversive religious agenda at public schools, effectively speaking, unless a teacher personally takes it upon themselves to make one. I had *one* teacher mention god once, in 2nd grade, but then that was in 1969, too. And it was not part of the curriculum, it was a personal statement to just me while she was chewing me out for something.
Experiences in the bible belt may differ, however.
It's also a totally pointless letter - in English, anyway. Q is almost useless without a following "u", and yet it's sound is the same as "Kw". It's not as if it's a shortcut saving you from writing or typing out more letters.
On that note, "C", is pretty pointless too.. it does "S" and it does "K", but we already have those. "C" should just be used for the "Ch" sound, and drop the "h". But I digress.
That they are. Take a look at the race baiting article from ProRepublica they published that was mentioned here a few hours ago.
Gizmodo is working it's way up there with Salon, Mother Jones, MIc, and a few others. Ars Technica is getting a bit political these days too.
Would that be the barbell curl or the dumbbell curl?
Well, that's ProRepublica for you.. and Gizmodo is buying into and passing along their SJW spin.
Right. "Normal" investments grow 40 million into 10 billion. Piece of cake. Ask all the people who've hit the PowerBall or MegaMillions.
That's not my logic at all. There's just a point at which businesses will decide they have less expensive options. And we are looking at empirical results, right in this article- 2,500 kiosks, likely to be replacing as many workers.
My logic is, with kiosks at fast food joints, counter salespeople can be reduced, and hard to argue for a raise when suddenly you're not as necessary as you used to be.
Companies will weigh the costs of going with Path A : stay with workers and pay more for them, or alternate Path B: automate, pay a little more initially but ultimately reduce costs over the longer term.
Next, food cooking and dispensing itself will be automated as well, resulting in fewer fry cooks and drive through window workers. If the purchase and deployment of these machines costs less than the payroll of an employee over x years, that's an ROI a large corporation will probably see as profitable and desirable. Most likely those systems will have an upfront maintenance contract, so even repairs can be factored into the costs.
Corporations have options today they didn't in years past, with increasingly sophisticated automation.
I'm not personally against raising minimum wage, by at least something, but push too hard and it's not going to end well over the long term for many unskilled workers. That tipping point will vary of course between industries, and corporations, but I think we're already seeing some places pushing back.
Maybe they shouldn't have pushed so hard for a $15 minimum wage, even if it does follow cost of living. Unlikely that this is pure coincidence.
Some people may not believe in "trickle down" economics, but you'd better believe in "trickle up" economics... when operational costs at the low end of the totem pole are perceived as too high, cuts or changes get made by the top of the pole.
Same here. It doesn't strike me as accidental, unless they're grossly incompetent across the board.
The hell does Michael Bay have to do with anything? What, Rogue One wasn't chock full of explosions, laser battles, and special effects?? A Michael Bay movie was just what it was most like: shallow characters, thin story, predictability, creepy CGI, plodding plot, and lots of fights and explosions.
Not that the prequels were much better, but they didn't drag out so badly. Maybe you're too young to remember when movies were actually good.
That much is true; and to further the analogy, we live better than the Kings of the medieval ages: climate controlled domiciles, instant running water (even hot), refrigerators to keep food longer, plentiful food, microwave ovens to instantly cook, television for entertainment, and so on.
However, the one thing that hasn't changed all that much in the past several decades is free time. Office hours and so forth haven't shrunk. We still find ways to necessitate work and duties, it's just that their natures change.
Well apparently quite a few midwest workers want their coal jobs back, maybe it's all they know how to do. They figure it beats watching their family starve, I guess.
Rogue One was the most boring, dragging Star Wars out of all of them. I seriously considered just turning it off about half-way through and the rest of my family didn't care either way. That doesn't bode well for following movies, IMO.
Today's "modern" technology was supposed to do something like that too, right? Washing machines, dishwashers, et al can all do the job faster than hand washing, and databases can cross-reference information much faster than sifting through filing cabinets, and networks allow for almost instantaneous transference of data, but people are working just as much, overall, as they did 70 years ago, it's just the duties have changed. Granted, we don't have have 16 hour days in a coal mine anymore, but that's probably more due to social revolutions than technological ones.
New technologies themselves demand constant upkeep, development, deployment, maintenance, upgrade, and expansion. Who fixes the AI when it goes awry?
I just look at it as a "most commonly used" quick list of menu items. If what you want isn't there, then sure, you have to go to the full menu and dig, but more often than not, what you're looking to do will be there.
There are far worse inconsistencies... the current split between Control Panel and Settings in Win10 for example, that seems evident of really poor GUI project management.
And let's not forget they can be both dead and alive at the same time.
Holy crap I'm an idiot. I've had an iPhone since 2013 and I never knew that. *smacks head*. Seems intuitive enough, I can't believe I never tried it.
I never understood his thinking. I don't find context menu's counter-intuitive at all, in fact just the opposite --well, at least, on Windows. Since the main menu bar on a Mac (old Macs anyway) is application/context sensitive and changes depending on which app is open/ has focus, I guess in a way it fulfilled the function of a context menu. Still, a one button mouse feels completely alien to me.
I've used a personal iPhone for the past several years, it would be nice sometimes to have a back button, it seems less awkward than the "back" or "done" arrow at the top left. (My tablets are always Android).
Holy cow.. they put all that in the Facebook app? That seems like reinventing the wheel in many of those cases, to me anyway, which would still fit my definition of bloatware, but I guess it depends on how useful or necessary those redundancies are in the eye of the beholder.
I wouldn't be surprised if they released the "Facebook OS" in a few years, at that rate. I'm sure the idea has been tossed around.
According to TFA, the Facebook app has increased in size by 1200% (12x) from just 4 years ago. If you're in the know, please list all these new features that I don't know about which contribute to and justify this marked increase in size. And you don't get to list Messenger, because last year it became a separate app, no longer contributing to the size of the main app.
If you're getting paid to troll, your benefactor should know they're not getting their money's worth, with lame, half-hearted shots like that.
perfecting art of bloatware and spyware.
I agree they're both tainted and set up to get people elected, they're basically a financial platform. They both want their party members to toe the line and agree with exactly every tenet they officially profess, it's far too rigid a system.
Don't even try to compare the TEA party marches to the violent crap that happened with BLM, various Trump protesters, even the pussy hat wearers.. you killed your argument right there before it even got off the ground, and then you threw in the race card for good measure too.