LTE Advanced offers speeds over 100 megabits/sec. That is good enough for most people. Sprint and T-Mobile can hang around for a long time with their good enough LTE networks.
Hey, it's the "I'll decide what's enough" asshole. I'll bet you were on board with the "640K is enough memory" bullshit too.
I can't speak to any jurisdiction but my own, but in CA there is absolutely no legal obligation. In fact, there are serious legal ramifications if the employer retaliates in any way.
Employers are only obligated to pay for the days you actually work... So if you don't show up... But yeah, civilized people say "I quit".
You are naive. No company cares about you, they only care about money. If you provide ANYTHING to a company, you should demand payment for it.
How shitty of an employee are you? Most people (80%) are employed by small businesses. That's a statistical fact. I.e Most people aren't employed by someone they've never met. Most people work with their boss, or at least see him/her on a daily basis. i.e. they tend to build positive working relationships with their employer.
If you're going through life thinking that your employer doesn't give a fuck, maybe you're right. Maybe they don't. But have you considered the possibility that you're choosing to work for shit companies or that you're just a shit lousy employee?
What's the common element at the shit companies you've worked for? Is it you?
It sounds to me that you are like the idiot on his 6th marriage complaining about how ALL women are assholes... One common element... YOURSELF.
They won't give you 2 weeks when they quit on you(fire you), so there's really no need to give them 2 weeks when you quit them.
How the hell do you know? Have you worked at at statistically significant sample of the millions of companies on the planet? No.. So you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I've been laid off before and was given months of notice.
Regardless, you're partially right. You don't HAVE to give 2 weeks notice if you cannot due to the constraints of the new employment. But, you should at least let the other party KNOW you have quit by saying the words "I quit".
Exactly. You handled it like an adult. There's absolutely nothing wrong with leaving a job you hate like that. You announced your intentions and you left. Nobody was left in the dark
Who in the recent decade of depression saw numerous companies a) let workers go with little to no warning and no compensation
You're an idiot. Seriously. Because some companies did this all companies deserve to be treated as such? There are over a million small businesses in the United States. Don't you fucking sit there and try to convince us this is because a handful of companies collapsed or laid off employees with no warning. The vast bulk of companies do not fire employees with no warning. A handful of large businesses may have, but it's not the majority.
This has absolutely nothing to do with anything besides the fact that a large percentage of millennials are immature fuckwits who don't have a goddamn spine.
Quitting like an adult is exactly as difficult as this:
1. Pick up phone and dial your employer
2. Hey this is . I got a better job offer. I quit effective immediately.
3. Hang up phone.
That's it. You're done.
If your employer was good to you and treated you right, the honorable thing to do is give them 2 weeks notice IF POSSIBLE. If that's not possible, you give them as much notice as you can, but employers know that sometimes that's not possible.
If your employer was an asshole then you can simply walk, but you still say "I quit".
We produce a lot of it here, but not all of it.. Not even the majority.. Kansas, Iowa... states like that produce huge amounts of the staples.. Wheat, Corn... etc.
California is losing farmland at a scary pace... I've been watching it happen with my own eyes for decades.. When I was much younger one could still call San Diego County a food producer.. Not so much any more... Yes, food is still produced here, but not in the quantities of just 20 years ago.
Just out of curiosity, how many spam texts do you people get in a given month? I get maybe.... 1.. At most.. I got a google voice # and forward that to my cell phone. Google doesn't spam me (I know, they're evil.. etc.. but at least for the moment they aren't spamming me). Maybe Google is spam filtering for me, I don't know.. I just know I don't get any (statistically) spams.. Robocalls yeah, but not SMS messages..
I suppose.. Maybe the phone would download a "block list" every day. The carriers would still have to generate the list, but you could choose to implement or not implement it in whole or in part.
I mean, technically the phone could do it.. But a lot of spam, especially the shit that uses random blocks of text, is hard to detect on one-offs.. I.e. It's hard for our systems to determine a spam is a spam from a single instance.. That's what you'd be asking your phone to do.. Like, at least one spam from each sending is probably going to get in unless you are overly strict.. Having large sample sizes is better.. You could even add a "democracy score". You get a spam, you report it.. and if enough people report a text as a spam, then it's given a larger point value.. At some point the sender is blocked and nobody else gets that spam..
But some are always going to get through unless you're willing to risk blocking legit texts..
Who blocks on keywords? That's lunacy.. You block on keywords being in thousands of texts maybe.. But you don't block a single SMS on a single keyword... SPAM filters (normally) use a score based approach... Maybe a keyword gives you a single point... And location might be another point.. And a URL might be a 3rd point... Time of day a 4th point.. (You get the idea).. If the total points add up to some predetermined amount, then you can be fairly confident you have a spam. But only a total moron would block any message based upon a single data point.
You've never managed a spam filter have you? The first few spams (texts) get through.. But when the system detects that a huge number of texts are identical (or nearly identical) and are originating from a single location.. You block them.. Heck, the texts could be filled with nearly random text, but they'll have to have a common element.. Someone to call or a URL to visit.. Something that tells people where to go for "more information".
One could deploy honeypots as well.. Non-published numbers.. If they get a text, you mark it (in the telco system) as "potential spam". If a whole bunch of honeypots are hit, you know you are dealing with spam... Sender blacklisted..
I don't think this would be a particularly large problem to solve.. If the spammers don't send the texts fast enough to be detected they aren't going to hit a lot of people.. If they do send them fast enough, it becomes fairly trivial to detect them.. Win-Win..
Indeed. This isn't comparable to NN for ISPs. Many people have only a single broadband provider. But switching cellular providers is easy.
B.S. Huge chunks of rural Americans are in areas served by a single cell company. Sometimes it's due to terrain, sometimes it's due to population size. With the telcos slowly abandoning wireline service the issue is becoming more important.
If the telcos weren't granted huge taxpayer subsidies and easement rights not afforded to smaller competition, I'd not have a complaint.. But the fact is that the American taxpayers are directly funding these companies. If you're gonna take taxpayer funds you should have to listen to taxpayer concerns.
And don't pull the whole "you should move" bullshit.. Rural America produces your food. Quit shitting on them.
They are not self powered. They are powered by the telco exchange switch which is also on battery back up should they lose power. If you have even a modest Internet set up you should have the modem, router, and switch on UPS. Put the Ooma on that UPS and your phone works as long as the internet does. Even the telco exchange will eventually go down unless they have a generator.
Do you know what self powered means? I worked for the telcos. They have batteries (you were correct there), LOTS of batteries. They also have generators. Usually quite large generators. (megawatt) The telco generates its own power during a mains outage. That's what I meant when I said self-powered. I suspect you know that...
Cable TV nodes / switches / hardware, in my experience, are NOT self powered. Case in point, down here every time SDG&E has an outage Cox cable will go offline in the same area. I will not profess to know how the cable companies run things, but from what I have experienced they are dependent on mains power. Maybe I'm wrong and something else is happening, but I don't think so. I am more than happy to be educated on the subject though.
Lastly, you say "the telco will go down if they don't have a generator", well what the hell do you think is going to happen to that UPS? It's life is measured in minutes.. maybe hours if you have a really good one..
Ya know, you're a fucking idiot. Equating someone with a different ideological view to a group of people who ACTUALLY killed 6 million Jews, millions of Russians, and uncountable numbers of homos and gypsies paints you as a complete fuckhead.
I get you may have serious disagreements with folks on the right (hell, I have serious disagreements with folks on the left), but you are an asshole and you paint yourself as another lefty liberal twat who doesn't understand that things have DEGREES. If you come across someone who thinks Hilter was awesome, by all means call them a Nazi. But until that happens, how about you act like you have a goddamn brain and can tell the difference between someone with different political views and someone who favors genocide?
It might be close, but it's not the equivalent. During an electrical outage landline phones still work. They're self powered. During an electrical outage your internet isn't going to work.
Of course they had ads. Every single IRCd had/has a MOTD that said who was sponsoring the server. Minor advertisement, but it was advertisement. The fact you didn't see the advertisement was due to shitty programming on the part of the author of the client software. I just hopped on an IRC server and sure enough, the ad is still there. Nearly a paragraph about who is sponsoring the server along with a couple of lines about what services they offer.
You realise that what was practiced in the USSR didn't even remotely resemble the theoretical principle of communism and instead like in many countries resembled a wide mix of different political philosophies right?
What you're describing is fascism. What you're also describing is that you seem to not know that a big part of the practices of the USSR were actually fascist and that raw communism fails due to being an economically unstable form of government incompatible with human tendencies to compete with one another for power which is why despite every intention always will be mixed with another political philosophy.
Homer said it right: "In theory communism works. In theory!"
The USSR was not fascist. The USSR nationalized ALL means of production. Fascist Germany / Italy did not. They directed the general direction the economy was to take but left the companies (for the most part) in the hands of the people who owned them, provided they weren't Jewish of course.
China nationalized ALL of the means of production. Only recently (20-30 years) has it reintroduced private ownership of land and the means of production. Mao is spinning in his grave.
All of the communist countries that were in the Soviet sphere of influence had certain common elements. They were communist countries. It matters not what the theory said. What matters is how the theory was put into practice. The practice is the reality.
Perhaps the poster is a follower of the Church of Satan, the golden rule only applies if you follow it yourself. If you don't like polite and civil discourse, and you want to use derogatory language to degrade others, you're fair game.
Yes, that's a likely scenario.. 6+ billion humans on this planet and we've stumbled upon one of the 100,000?? members of the Church of Satan. A most likely proposition...
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Whoops. You got me.. 80% of businesses are small.. My bad..
LTE Advanced offers speeds over 100 megabits/sec. That is good enough for most people. Sprint and T-Mobile can hang around for a long time with their good enough LTE networks.
Hey, it's the "I'll decide what's enough" asshole. I'll bet you were on board with the "640K is enough memory" bullshit too.
How about you go fuck yourself?
I can't speak to any jurisdiction but my own, but in CA there is absolutely no legal obligation. In fact, there are serious legal ramifications if the employer retaliates in any way.
Employers are only obligated to pay for the days you actually work... So if you don't show up... But yeah, civilized people say "I quit".
You have the obligation to tell them you quit
Nope. "Obligation" means that I have a moral or legal duty to do something, which is entirely irrelevant when it comes to how I choose to quit a job.
No it's not. You do have a moral duty to say the words "I quit". You might not have a legal obligation, but you do have a moral duty.
You're projecting. The people who silently leave are the opposite of whiners. You are the one whining here, junior.
You're spineless. You haven't got enough balls to look another human in the face and say "I quit". You're a coward trying to act like a tough guy.
You are naive. No company cares about you, they only care about money. If you provide ANYTHING to a company, you should demand payment for it.
How shitty of an employee are you? Most people (80%) are employed by small businesses. That's a statistical fact. I.e Most people aren't employed by someone they've never met. Most people work with their boss, or at least see him/her on a daily basis. i.e. they tend to build positive working relationships with their employer.
If you're going through life thinking that your employer doesn't give a fuck, maybe you're right. Maybe they don't. But have you considered the possibility that you're choosing to work for shit companies or that you're just a shit lousy employee?
What's the common element at the shit companies you've worked for? Is it you?
It sounds to me that you are like the idiot on his 6th marriage complaining about how ALL women are assholes... One common element... YOURSELF.
They won't give you 2 weeks when they quit on you(fire you), so there's really no need to give them 2 weeks when you quit them.
How the hell do you know? Have you worked at at statistically significant sample of the millions of companies on the planet? No.. So you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I've been laid off before and was given months of notice.
Regardless, you're partially right. You don't HAVE to give 2 weeks notice if you cannot due to the constraints of the new employment. But, you should at least let the other party KNOW you have quit by saying the words "I quit".
Exactly. You handled it like an adult. There's absolutely nothing wrong with leaving a job you hate like that. You announced your intentions and you left. Nobody was left in the dark
Who in the recent decade of depression saw numerous companies a) let workers go with little to no warning and no compensation
You're an idiot. Seriously. Because some companies did this all companies deserve to be treated as such? There are over a million small businesses in the United States. Don't you fucking sit there and try to convince us this is because a handful of companies collapsed or laid off employees with no warning. The vast bulk of companies do not fire employees with no warning. A handful of large businesses may have, but it's not the majority.
This has absolutely nothing to do with anything besides the fact that a large percentage of millennials are immature fuckwits who don't have a goddamn spine.
Quitting like an adult is exactly as difficult as this:
1. Pick up phone and dial your employer
2. Hey this is . I got a better job offer. I quit effective immediately.
3. Hang up phone.
That's it. You're done.
If your employer was good to you and treated you right, the honorable thing to do is give them 2 weeks notice IF POSSIBLE. If that's not possible, you give them as much notice as you can, but employers know that sometimes that's not possible.
If your employer was an asshole then you can simply walk, but you still say "I quit".
I agree. I'm against all subsidies. They are incompatible with free trade. But.. don't bitch when your food costs more.
CALIFORNIA produces your food, FTFY
We produce a lot of it here, but not all of it.. Not even the majority.. Kansas, Iowa... states like that produce huge amounts of the staples.. Wheat, Corn... etc.
California is losing farmland at a scary pace... I've been watching it happen with my own eyes for decades.. When I was much younger one could still call San Diego County a food producer.. Not so much any more... Yes, food is still produced here, but not in the quantities of just 20 years ago.
Just out of curiosity, how many spam texts do you people get in a given month? I get maybe.... 1.. At most.. I got a google voice # and forward that to my cell phone. Google doesn't spam me (I know, they're evil.. etc.. but at least for the moment they aren't spamming me). Maybe Google is spam filtering for me, I don't know.. I just know I don't get any (statistically) spams.. Robocalls yeah, but not SMS messages..
I suppose.. Maybe the phone would download a "block list" every day. The carriers would still have to generate the list, but you could choose to implement or not implement it in whole or in part.
I mean, technically the phone could do it.. But a lot of spam, especially the shit that uses random blocks of text, is hard to detect on one-offs.. I.e. It's hard for our systems to determine a spam is a spam from a single instance.. That's what you'd be asking your phone to do.. Like, at least one spam from each sending is probably going to get in unless you are overly strict.. Having large sample sizes is better.. You could even add a "democracy score". You get a spam, you report it.. and if enough people report a text as a spam, then it's given a larger point value.. At some point the sender is blocked and nobody else gets that spam..
But some are always going to get through unless you're willing to risk blocking legit texts..
Who blocks on keywords? That's lunacy.. You block on keywords being in thousands of texts maybe.. But you don't block a single SMS on a single keyword... SPAM filters (normally) use a score based approach... Maybe a keyword gives you a single point... And location might be another point.. And a URL might be a 3rd point... Time of day a 4th point.. (You get the idea).. If the total points add up to some predetermined amount, then you can be fairly confident you have a spam. But only a total moron would block any message based upon a single data point.
How would they know what to block?
You've never managed a spam filter have you? The first few spams (texts) get through.. But when the system detects that a huge number of texts are identical (or nearly identical) and are originating from a single location.. You block them.. Heck, the texts could be filled with nearly random text, but they'll have to have a common element.. Someone to call or a URL to visit.. Something that tells people where to go for "more information".
One could deploy honeypots as well.. Non-published numbers.. If they get a text, you mark it (in the telco system) as "potential spam". If a whole bunch of honeypots are hit, you know you are dealing with spam... Sender blacklisted..
I don't think this would be a particularly large problem to solve.. If the spammers don't send the texts fast enough to be detected they aren't going to hit a lot of people.. If they do send them fast enough, it becomes fairly trivial to detect them.. Win-Win..
Indeed. This isn't comparable to NN for ISPs. Many people have only a single broadband provider. But switching cellular providers is easy.
B.S. Huge chunks of rural Americans are in areas served by a single cell company. Sometimes it's due to terrain, sometimes it's due to population size. With the telcos slowly abandoning wireline service the issue is becoming more important.
If the telcos weren't granted huge taxpayer subsidies and easement rights not afforded to smaller competition, I'd not have a complaint.. But the fact is that the American taxpayers are directly funding these companies. If you're gonna take taxpayer funds you should have to listen to taxpayer concerns.
And don't pull the whole "you should move" bullshit.. Rural America produces your food. Quit shitting on them.
They are not self powered. They are powered by the telco exchange switch which is also on battery back up should they lose power. If you have even a modest Internet set up you should have the modem, router, and switch on UPS. Put the Ooma on that UPS and your phone works as long as the internet does. Even the telco exchange will eventually go down unless they have a generator.
Do you know what self powered means? I worked for the telcos. They have batteries (you were correct there), LOTS of batteries. They also have generators. Usually quite large generators. (megawatt) The telco generates its own power during a mains outage. That's what I meant when I said self-powered. I suspect you know that...
Cable TV nodes / switches / hardware, in my experience, are NOT self powered. Case in point, down here every time SDG&E has an outage Cox cable will go offline in the same area. I will not profess to know how the cable companies run things, but from what I have experienced they are dependent on mains power. Maybe I'm wrong and something else is happening, but I don't think so. I am more than happy to be educated on the subject though.
Lastly, you say "the telco will go down if they don't have a generator", well what the hell do you think is going to happen to that UPS? It's life is measured in minutes.. maybe hours if you have a really good one..
Ya know, you're a fucking idiot. Equating someone with a different ideological view to a group of people who ACTUALLY killed 6 million Jews, millions of Russians, and uncountable numbers of homos and gypsies paints you as a complete fuckhead.
I get you may have serious disagreements with folks on the right (hell, I have serious disagreements with folks on the left), but you are an asshole and you paint yourself as another lefty liberal twat who doesn't understand that things have DEGREES. If you come across someone who thinks Hilter was awesome, by all means call them a Nazi. But until that happens, how about you act like you have a goddamn brain and can tell the difference between someone with different political views and someone who favors genocide?
Unless it's preferred stock, they don't have to let you speak about anything. They don't even have to let you attend.
It might be close, but it's not the equivalent. During an electrical outage landline phones still work. They're self powered. During an electrical outage your internet isn't going to work.
or a female gymnast whom is only 13 and by age of 15 too "old" not exactly much of a lifetime there. some aspects of the olypics are pretty sick
Where is this happening? Oh, it's not? So, you're just making shit up? Yeah, you are..
No they didn't. They absolutely did not say that. The range of an EMP is vastly greater than the range of a shock wave.
Either you are lying or you are misremembering... or you never had any military training whatsoever.
Of course they had ads. Every single IRCd had/has a MOTD that said who was sponsoring the server. Minor advertisement, but it was advertisement. The fact you didn't see the advertisement was due to shitty programming on the part of the author of the client software. I just hopped on an IRC server and sure enough, the ad is still there. Nearly a paragraph about who is sponsoring the server along with a couple of lines about what services they offer.
You realise that what was practiced in the USSR didn't even remotely resemble the theoretical principle of communism and instead like in many countries resembled a wide mix of different political philosophies right?
What you're describing is fascism. What you're also describing is that you seem to not know that a big part of the practices of the USSR were actually fascist and that raw communism fails due to being an economically unstable form of government incompatible with human tendencies to compete with one another for power which is why despite every intention always will be mixed with another political philosophy.
Homer said it right: "In theory communism works. In theory!"
The USSR was not fascist. The USSR nationalized ALL means of production. Fascist Germany / Italy did not. They directed the general direction the economy was to take but left the companies (for the most part) in the hands of the people who owned them, provided they weren't Jewish of course.
China nationalized ALL of the means of production. Only recently (20-30 years) has it reintroduced private ownership of land and the means of production. Mao is spinning in his grave.
All of the communist countries that were in the Soviet sphere of influence had certain common elements. They were communist countries. It matters not what the theory said. What matters is how the theory was put into practice. The practice is the reality.
Perhaps the poster is a follower of the Church of Satan, the golden rule only applies if you follow it yourself. If you don't like polite and civil discourse, and you want to use derogatory language to degrade others, you're fair game.
Yes, that's a likely scenario.. 6+ billion humans on this planet and we've stumbled upon one of the 100,000?? members of the Church of Satan. A most likely proposition...