So you agree that the majority of McDonald's employees aren't using it as a stepping stone to bigger and better things? And you probably won't disagree that having worked for McDonald's doesn't look great on a resume, unless you're an employer looking for meek workers who are weak willed and easily led. All the more reason to support a living wage for ALL jobs.
Yes, not relevant at all. The USA also has much higher rates of poverty, child poverty, medical bankruptcy, and infant mortality. Are those due to not protecting employees sufficiently in the work place?
Betteridge's law of headlines says no. Sociolinguistics says they are and will remain distinct types although we may get the impression of each becoming more like the other in superficial ways. UK & US cultures are significantly different and so language is used in different ways to perform different functions. In short US English just isn't useful enough in the UK context to be able to take over.
Oh, so McDonald's isn't exploiting its workers for profit, it's doing it to teach precarious workers what it feels like to be exploited and give them valuable experience and skills in that. How generous of them! BTW, the vast majority of McDonald's workers are single parents and college dropouts with crippling debt who can't find a better job. How's this 'experience' supposed to help them find 'a job they can live off of'?
[citation needed] Did Elon learn anything from his BA in physics? There's this thing already called the scientific method that you're supposed to learn. Now he'll get credited with inventing that, like Al Gore did for inventing the internet. The interwebs are definitely living in a post-fact bubble.
...Spain, where they have clearly defined legal definitions of what constitutes work place bullying. They also have industrial tribunals with the power to fine companies and award substantial compensation to victims (tens of thousands of euros) for letting work place bullying going unaddressed. For an employee to pursue a tribunal for bullying against their employer is also free, recognising the fact that things have to get really bad before the vast majority of employees will consider legal action.
"I just setup a Surface 4 & Windows 10 - not sure why I was excited to try a new thing, it's basically XP with a flat design skin." --
Matías Duarte (Google VP of design) https://twitter.com/MatiasDuar...
Windows 10 is flat design. Flat design has substantial productivity costs. There isn't any more to it than that.
Now leave those poor Windows 10 users alone. They have it bad enough already.
Yes, this! And all the other keys that are missing from MBPs. I've got an old 17" MBP that I run Linux on. Decent enough hardware especially after replacing the HDD with SSD, but the damn keyboard is a pain to use, I guess because it was designed for OSX. How do MacUsers live without Delete, page up/down, home, only 1 ctrl, etc.? Why does a luxury, high-end 17" laptop not have a practical, easy to use keyboard?
Gonna get a System76 next. Bet they have better keyboards.
No, it's not delicate, it's slowed down by poor UI design. You lose substantial productivity when you use "flat design," it's that simple, e.g. https://www.nngroup.com/articl...
...that an office system that has evolved around one operating system has difficulty adapting to another one. I bet the biggest difficulty was the city's employees who just didn't like the change. Every little bump in the road adds to a growing sentiment that things just aren't the way they used to be. After 15 years of using Linux, when they switch back to Windows as work, they'll get first-hand reminders of all those annoying things that Windows used to do to them. And then there's Windows 10 updates...
Yes, every nuclear system put into operation is perfectly safe... until it isn't. GE and Hitachi said that the Fukushima reactor design was safe, didn't they? (Even after at least one of their engineers resigned over safety concerns).
...Chernobyl and Fukishima didn't spread nuclear material far and wide enough. We need to rain that stuff down on ourselves from the upper atmosphere when one of those things eventually fails.
Using a dichotomy as an argument, i.e. it's either we have Spock-like rational free choice OR we're automatons, isn't persuasive.
Prof. Bruce Hood is well worth reading; both a talented cognitive psychologist and a clear, concise, accessible writer. He investigates cognitive biases and all the different ways our brains can hi-jack our rational selves, extending the work of Daniel Kahneman (Who won the Nobel prize for Economics by showing that stock market traders are far from rational decision-makers). Bruce Hood on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/result... His book on the self: http://www.harpercollins.ca/97...
...while I appreciate his candor, let's be blunt: we're PEOPLE, not rats in a Skinner box.
We have brains, and it's up to us if we choose to engage them or not. Whether we chase that dopamine hit of 'ooh, someone liked my post' and sit on Facebook for another 5 mins, or if we say 'you know, I should probably play with my kids'.
While certainly FB and other entities take advantage of mammalian psychology as much as they can, we are ultimately responsible for OUR OWN CHOICES. For good or ill.
You clearly either haven't studied or haven't understood human psychology.
Dear Facebook sysAdmin, here's the photos that my ex may try to disseminate as revenge on Facebook. Please don't look at them yourself. Yours sincerely, Goatse.
Are you seriously comparing him to someone or some entity that uses the laws as written to try to save their money from the tax man....?
Yes, I am. The harm done by many global corporations is comparable to the harm done by Kim Jong-Un and arguably worse in terms of sheer scale.
I suppose on your annual forms, you don't take all the deductions available to you? You volunteer to pay more tax than required? There is a place on the forms to do that you know.....
You're assuming I live under the same tax regime as you. I don't. My taxes are calculated by the Inland Revenue Service and any overpayments automatically refunded to my bank account. The Inland Revenue Service does a pretty good job of it too. Why would a government ask its citizens to do mundane, repetitive, collations and calculations and risk prosecution for making errors or false claims when computers already do it much better?
Kim Jong-Un does a lot of heinous things that are perfectly legal too. Kim Jong-Un has a limited domain unto which he can commit such acts and there are a number of nation states that are committed to opposing him. Global corporations have no such limitations.
You know how Mac users have to pay outrageous prices for all kinds of adaptors and dongles to get their gear to work with "normal" stuff like TVs, projectors, chargers, and HiFi docs? Well how about outrageously priced adaptors so Teslas can use other EV chargers and vice versa?
Yes, exactly. How long do think it'll take for the dick-swinging, ego-nursing CEOs of those companies to come around to realising that it's the only effective and feasible way to reduce piracy?
Money isn't the only issue. If you could watch any TV show available and just pay for that, I think a lot of people would do it and not engage in piracy. The problem is, that all the providers want to sell subscriptions and bundles, with exclusive content that you can't get anywhere else so you have to buy several bundles and subscriptions, which just aren't a good deal if you just want to watch a few shows and movies.
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So you agree that the majority of McDonald's employees aren't using it as a stepping stone to bigger and better things? And you probably won't disagree that having worked for McDonald's doesn't look great on a resume, unless you're an employer looking for meek workers who are weak willed and easily led. All the more reason to support a living wage for ALL jobs.
Yes, not relevant at all. The USA also has much higher rates of poverty, child poverty, medical bankruptcy, and infant mortality. Are those due to not protecting employees sufficiently in the work place?
I don't know. It was my girlfriend at the time who was suing her employer. She was shocked to learn how much money she was entitled to.
Betteridge's law of headlines says no. Sociolinguistics says they are and will remain distinct types although we may get the impression of each becoming more like the other in superficial ways. UK & US cultures are significantly different and so language is used in different ways to perform different functions. In short US English just isn't useful enough in the UK context to be able to take over.
Oh, so McDonald's isn't exploiting its workers for profit, it's doing it to teach precarious workers what it feels like to be exploited and give them valuable experience and skills in that. How generous of them! BTW, the vast majority of McDonald's workers are single parents and college dropouts with crippling debt who can't find a better job. How's this 'experience' supposed to help them find 'a job they can live off of'?
[citation needed] Did Elon learn anything from his BA in physics? There's this thing already called the scientific method that you're supposed to learn. Now he'll get credited with inventing that, like Al Gore did for inventing the internet. The interwebs are definitely living in a post-fact bubble.
...Spain, where they have clearly defined legal definitions of what constitutes work place bullying. They also have industrial tribunals with the power to fine companies and award substantial compensation to victims (tens of thousands of euros) for letting work place bullying going unaddressed. For an employee to pursue a tribunal for bullying against their employer is also free, recognising the fact that things have to get really bad before the vast majority of employees will consider legal action.
"I just setup a Surface 4 & Windows 10 - not sure why I was excited to try a new thing, it's basically XP with a flat design skin." -- Matías Duarte (Google VP of design) https://twitter.com/MatiasDuar...
Windows 10 is flat design. Flat design has substantial productivity costs. There isn't any more to it than that.
Now leave those poor Windows 10 users alone. They have it bad enough already.
Yes, this! And all the other keys that are missing from MBPs. I've got an old 17" MBP that I run Linux on. Decent enough hardware especially after replacing the HDD with SSD, but the damn keyboard is a pain to use, I guess because it was designed for OSX. How do MacUsers live without Delete, page up/down, home, only 1 ctrl, etc.? Why does a luxury, high-end 17" laptop not have a practical, easy to use keyboard?
Gonna get a System76 next. Bet they have better keyboards.
No, it's not delicate, it's slowed down by poor UI design. You lose substantial productivity when you use "flat design," it's that simple, e.g. https://www.nngroup.com/articl...
...that an office system that has evolved around one operating system has difficulty adapting to another one. I bet the biggest difficulty was the city's employees who just didn't like the change. Every little bump in the road adds to a growing sentiment that things just aren't the way they used to be. After 15 years of using Linux, when they switch back to Windows as work, they'll get first-hand reminders of all those annoying things that Windows used to do to them. And then there's Windows 10 updates...
Yes, every nuclear system put into operation is perfectly safe... until it isn't. GE and Hitachi said that the Fukushima reactor design was safe, didn't they? (Even after at least one of their engineers resigned over safety concerns).
...Chernobyl and Fukishima didn't spread nuclear material far and wide enough. We need to rain that stuff down on ourselves from the upper atmosphere when one of those things eventually fails.
Uber suffered a blow on Friday to its operations...
That opening line says it all. Uber's business model is treat employees as shitty as it possibly can.
Using a dichotomy as an argument, i.e. it's either we have Spock-like rational free choice OR we're automatons, isn't persuasive.
Prof. Bruce Hood is well worth reading; both a talented cognitive psychologist and a clear, concise, accessible writer. He investigates cognitive biases and all the different ways our brains can hi-jack our rational selves, extending the work of Daniel Kahneman (Who won the Nobel prize for Economics by showing that stock market traders are far from rational decision-makers). Bruce Hood on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/result... His book on the self: http://www.harpercollins.ca/97...
...while I appreciate his candor, let's be blunt: we're PEOPLE, not rats in a Skinner box. We have brains, and it's up to us if we choose to engage them or not. Whether we chase that dopamine hit of 'ooh, someone liked my post' and sit on Facebook for another 5 mins, or if we say 'you know, I should probably play with my kids'. While certainly FB and other entities take advantage of mammalian psychology as much as they can, we are ultimately responsible for OUR OWN CHOICES. For good or ill.
You clearly either haven't studied or haven't understood human psychology.
Dear Facebook sysAdmin, here's the photos that my ex may try to disseminate as revenge on Facebook. Please don't look at them yourself. Yours sincerely, Goatse.
...nowt stranger than folk. Don't let yer kids near the interwebs, parents.
Sales taxes suck.
FTFY
Sales taxes are unnecessarily burdensome as you've pointed out. They're also inherently regressive by favouring the rich.
Are you seriously comparing him to someone or some entity that uses the laws as written to try to save their money from the tax man....?
Yes, I am. The harm done by many global corporations is comparable to the harm done by Kim Jong-Un and arguably worse in terms of sheer scale.
I suppose on your annual forms, you don't take all the deductions available to you? You volunteer to pay more tax than required? There is a place on the forms to do that you know.....
You're assuming I live under the same tax regime as you. I don't. My taxes are calculated by the Inland Revenue Service and any overpayments automatically refunded to my bank account. The Inland Revenue Service does a pretty good job of it too. Why would a government ask its citizens to do mundane, repetitive, collations and calculations and risk prosecution for making errors or false claims when computers already do it much better?
Kim Jong-Un does a lot of heinous things that are perfectly legal too. Kim Jong-Un has a limited domain unto which he can commit such acts and there are a number of nation states that are committed to opposing him. Global corporations have no such limitations.
All your comment proves is that I'm a lousy business innovator. Maybe I should be a startup app developer instead?
You know how Mac users have to pay outrageous prices for all kinds of adaptors and dongles to get their gear to work with "normal" stuff like TVs, projectors, chargers, and HiFi docs? Well how about outrageously priced adaptors so Teslas can use other EV chargers and vice versa?
Yes, exactly. How long do think it'll take for the dick-swinging, ego-nursing CEOs of those companies to come around to realising that it's the only effective and feasible way to reduce piracy?
Money isn't the only issue. If you could watch any TV show available and just pay for that, I think a lot of people would do it and not engage in piracy. The problem is, that all the providers want to sell subscriptions and bundles, with exclusive content that you can't get anywhere else so you have to buy several bundles and subscriptions, which just aren't a good deal if you just want to watch a few shows and movies.