I never knew him, but I know the effects he had on my world.
I'm a IT professional who cut his teeth on Windows 3.11. Everyone has their issues with how windows work, but you have to admit he along with Bill Gates had a huge influence on the tech industry.
As a sports fan in Washington, he was a person who brought a SuperBowl win to the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks have been run very well and you can see it in the product. You never needed to worry about the franchise in his hands.
I know these might seem like simple statements, but this is how I knew him. And he will be missed.
Socialized medicine? You are correct. The government will f you over, but harder and with much more gusto. And who will you complain to? Right, the government? SOL at that point.
Really it's a very interesting statement. I'm not saying we shouldn't use wind, because it "warms" up an area. But if any energy is taken out of a system, in this case wind, there is a result. Same if we were talking about solar. Energy is being removed from the system. There will be an effect. Is it worse than using coal, most likely not, but there is an effect.
There is no free lunch when it comes to energy. There is always a cost. What it might be, now that would be the right question...
This has nothing to do with a giveaway to any telecom. Stupid title. It's fixing the price of new cell deployments. Oh I get it. Since some cities have been milking this for fat coin, of course they will sue. Wonder why you don't have so many towers? Annual license fees $3k in Portland per small cell? And the FCC wants to limit that to $270?
Sounds like a win for who? The consumer. Thanks for the lawsuit, Seattle. Again, more tax money wasted.
Also, 60 to 90 days to act to a new application? Let me guess, it take longer than 90 days, say a lot longer. Cities, how about you speed things up a bit.
Lets look at this from a logical perspective, and not the fu Pia and over regulation that.
A large number of Telecom companies have file a lawsuit to stop what California is calling Net Neutrality. This will go to court, and if it's in the state of California, it will most likely lose. Home court advantage, and a lot of political sway.
Appeal!! This will surely rise to the state supreme court, which again I believe this will be shot down. Same reasons as before.
The real question is whether or not the US supreme court will take up the case. This is where this could turn.
Ok, hope this seems reasonable. Of course we will have all of the press and social media outrage for months, most likely a year or 2. Personally, I love living in facts. A lot less stress.
I worked a job for 11 years. The entire time my team and I are were automating everything we could. We were very good at it and our manager(s) encouraged us. Why? So we could automate something else and move to something else, etc. The value in the employee is the constant improvement, and it appears my team was lucky to have management which saw the value.
If you get rid of someone who automates their job, who will maintain it? Improve it? Update it? Very short sighted on the management to just fire them. In 6 months when a password changes, some data being used in the process moves, or a person who doesn't think this is automated job is doing anything and deletes it, what will you do then? Make someone else try and reverse engineer it and figure it out, if they didn't get rid of all the workers who could do this.
Why lead and suggest other companies go to $15 for their minimum pay? At this time they will be paying a premium for workers. This is just good business. They will retain workers better, and attract better workers. Turns out if you pay more you get to pick from more applicants with better skills.
So why would you want your competition to meet the same pay? I suppose this is simply a political move. Looks good if you go first. Unfortunately, in the business world this will be forgotten by next Monday.
Not sure what the impact will be about the stock grants their losing. Maybe they will give a discounted stock purchase plan, which might compensate the lost income. Also, you don't need to hold the stock grants till they mature, usually like 4 years for all of the grant.
Easy. She is not "qualified" as you want. Mainly, you're blinded by your views, not her actual qualifications. I will agree, she has an agenda. By your response, I'm assuming you don't agree with it. I'm ok with that, and what I would like to hear is your opinion on what is good. Please don't same more of the same thing. That's not working well.
By the way, you're not an "asshole" if you state the obvious, which was the US public education system has (is) being run by leftists and needs to be improved. Calling anyone a name just takes away from your argument.
I agree the federal government could lose this, but they can win also. Usually whoever has the deepest pockets wins. The state of California is big, but not federal government plus ISPs big. It will be an interesting battle.
Totally wrong on marijuana. The federal government has chosen not to act. If they wanted to, they could show up at stores in Washington, Colorado, etc and take the weed and put people in jail. Their actions suggest this is not a fish they wish to fry at the moment.
Lets sort one thing out. Sexual harassment is not included in any job... or shouldn't be. That has nothing to do if a person is an employee or a contractor.
Ever done any contract work? 1099 work? You get what you're paid. It's one reason why people see bigger dollars, but they have to pay all the taxes normally taken out of a employees paycheck.
Also, contract work is done by the job, not the hour. So plan accordingly. Thus a contract. Do stuff, get paid on agreed price.
For example, real estate agents are not employees of the company they work with. They don't get a minimum wage, workers comp, overtime, and yes etc. They get what contracts they fulfill and nothing more. It can seem scary to some and liberating to others. Work more, get paid more.
All I hear about is how the EU goes after companies, fines them, and then the appeal, and of course the appeal goes down in flames. So in the end, the EU gets to take a bunch of money, company XYZ is frustrated, and life goes on.
Sooo, is there ever times when the EU antitrust commission investigates and finds out, hey these guys are ok! Does this happen or is this just the money printing machine it appears to be?
I was curious of what was going on here. Had the FCC in the last 2 years suddenly gave the shaft to tribal lands? Here is an quote from the article:
"As of December 2016, only 64.6 percent of tribal areas had access to home Internet services with speeds of at least 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up, for example. Those speeds were available in 69.3 percent of rural areas and 97.9 percent of urban areas."
First, who was in control of the FCC on December 2016? Not who's controlling it now. Where was the outcry then!!! Second, the data from tribal areas compared to rural areas is nearly the same. The comparison to urban areas doesn't make sense. Most of the tribal land is not urbanized. (and i believe a lot of Native Americans would prefer it that way)
So the article proves the following: When President Obama was in office this "horrific" FCC mentality was firmly in place. How dare he, and his corrupt FCC!!
I wrote this not to put down the former president, or elevate the current president and his FCC. I believe people need to be able to look at facts and make informed decisions. Please people, don't allow anyone to hijack your thoughts by pandering to your "political lean". Do some quick research and be a better person for it.
"For over 20 years, everyone at Google has been able to freely express their opinions at these meetings"
Right!! What a laugh. I'm sure if someone walked up there and said "I'm so happy, Donald Trump will be our President" they might not have walked out of there alive.
No way in that meeting could you freely express your opinions.
Wait, I don't think you're an exception since you have a disorder. You found out something about yourself. By going out and forcing yourself to take the classes and give speeches, you discovered that it not only didn't help, but you wouldn't do it again.
You would never know if you could work yourself out of it till you tried. BUT you tried, and you're a better person for it. It helped you on the road to get some treatment as you say at 40.
But, if you hadn't gone through that trial, would you have had the insight to get help? Who knows. I think what is important is people need to push through some discomfort to find out who they really are.
It sounds good, but who defines "extremist content" or worse "incites acts of terrorism". It might be clear to you and me what this would be, but how about if you don't agree with what people say who are in control of this definition? You don't think a huge government entity will use it's power to remove content against it's view or agenda? Especially since in their point of view it could "incite acts of terrorism". How about the term "hate speach"? Say something someone doesn't like and it's "hate".
I hope people wake up soon. Rarely do rights get given back by a government body. They usually have to be ripped from their cold dead hands.
Let's not overlook the fact a senator is having an issue with a single company (Amazon). Bernie, you're not the CEO of the company (nor could he handle it), so don't tell them how to run their business. Last time I checked you can't keep your budget in order.
Here is the real issue: The push for businesses to be able to regulate their own pay and finances. Who says these people qualify for these programs listed above? The government. So, you know what you're seen? Huge expansions in the people who qualify for the program. Now, since the government can't keep paying for it and the programs are failing (everyone wants free stuff, buy them votes) they do the usual next step to blame the businesses. It's their fault! They don't pay enough! So let's force them to pay more. But, this isn't just for Amazon, please look at all who would be snared by this.
Example of this: Seattle city council tried the "Amazon Tax" earlier this year. Again, a socialist pushed this as they need to pay their fair share. Ignore the 40k's job they pay in Seattle which are mostly development jobs, not low paying jobs. The tax was a per head cost per year for businesses at a certain number of employees (sound familiar?) What they didn't think was how it impacted others besides Amazon. Dick's drive in burgers was a prime example. A main stay for many years, they work on a razors edge with profits. By the way, tax them suckers like Amazon, and don't forget, this place provides benefits and college tuition funding for employees who flip burgers. That will show that business.
The more we regulate and control business, the harder and more costly it is to run. And since government can't run itself correct, why would they know what to do best. Right, they don't.
You think this was "different" during Net Neutrality? Service throttling has been happening for a long time, and is needed for certain applications to functions properly. Traffic is being shaped all the time.
"Scared by a seemingly treacherous labor market, since the downturn college students have turned away from the humanities and towards job-oriented degrees. It's not clear they are making the right decision."
Um, seemingly scared by a treacherous labor market? This is like saying hey after looking at the evidence I'm not sure the evidence is right. The market only needs so many humanity degrees and it appears before 2008 we had a glut. Seems like a simple market check. In this case the market is education. If there was a great demand of good paying jobs in say teaching history, guess what would happen.
Also, a college education costs a lot of money. One can only hope people are looking at what kind of jobs and what they can earn, before choosing a major. Happiness isn't only dollars and cents, but blindly taking out 100k in loans without thinking of how to pay it back is not smart. As a number of people have found out.
Exactly. Follow the money. Climate change, while I believe human have an effect, has spawned the REAL big business. Notice I'm not talking about oil companies, or tech companies. Nope, it's called the business of "studies and research". Because so many people want to forward the agenda of climate change, they will fund anything, which has created a wealth of people who will do studies on anything related to climate. Quick, what will happen to concrete if there is more CO2 in the air!!! Quick, how much CO2 is expelled by people who eat beef!!! On and on... I'm being a bit over the top, but there are so many studies. It's all about the money.
I'm not blaming the "researchers", since you should strike while the irons hot, but really.
Also, I'm ready for all the peeps who want to call me something for being logical on just an aspect of climate change. If you can't look at and understand yourself, please don't point fingers.
Different strands of virus mutate in different parts of the world. China could have found a strand of virus and is not sharing. Hopefully they don't "share" it with us in an unfortunate way. I don't think they're doing this, I just think it's a "I'm getting back at you" kinda thing.
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I never knew him, but I know the effects he had on my world.
I'm a IT professional who cut his teeth on Windows 3.11. Everyone has their issues with how windows work, but you have to admit he along with Bill Gates had a huge influence on the tech industry.
As a sports fan in Washington, he was a person who brought a SuperBowl win to the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks have been run very well and you can see it in the product. You never needed to worry about the franchise in his hands.
I know these might seem like simple statements, but this is how I knew him. And he will be missed.
Socialized medicine? You are correct. The government will f you over, but harder and with much more gusto. And who will you complain to? Right, the government? SOL at that point.
Really it's a very interesting statement. I'm not saying we shouldn't use wind, because it "warms" up an area. But if any energy is taken out of a system, in this case wind, there is a result. Same if we were talking about solar. Energy is being removed from the system. There will be an effect. Is it worse than using coal, most likely not, but there is an effect.
There is no free lunch when it comes to energy. There is always a cost. What it might be, now that would be the right question...
This has nothing to do with a giveaway to any telecom. Stupid title. It's fixing the price of new cell deployments. Oh I get it. Since some cities have been milking this for fat coin, of course they will sue. Wonder why you don't have so many towers? Annual license fees $3k in Portland per small cell? And the FCC wants to limit that to $270?
Sounds like a win for who? The consumer. Thanks for the lawsuit, Seattle. Again, more tax money wasted.
Also, 60 to 90 days to act to a new application? Let me guess, it take longer than 90 days, say a lot longer. Cities, how about you speed things up a bit.
Just a look from the other side.
Lets look at this from a logical perspective, and not the fu Pia and over regulation that.
A large number of Telecom companies have file a lawsuit to stop what California is calling Net Neutrality. This will go to court, and if it's in the state of California, it will most likely lose. Home court advantage, and a lot of political sway.
Appeal!! This will surely rise to the state supreme court, which again I believe this will be shot down. Same reasons as before.
The real question is whether or not the US supreme court will take up the case. This is where this could turn.
Ok, hope this seems reasonable. Of course we will have all of the press and social media outrage for months, most likely a year or 2. Personally, I love living in facts. A lot less stress.
Well that disproves your comment.
I worked a job for 11 years. The entire time my team and I are were automating everything we could. We were very good at it and our manager(s) encouraged us. Why? So we could automate something else and move to something else, etc. The value in the employee is the constant improvement, and it appears my team was lucky to have management which saw the value.
If you get rid of someone who automates their job, who will maintain it? Improve it? Update it? Very short sighted on the management to just fire them. In 6 months when a password changes, some data being used in the process moves, or a person who doesn't think this is automated job is doing anything and deletes it, what will you do then? Make someone else try and reverse engineer it and figure it out, if they didn't get rid of all the workers who could do this.
Why lead and suggest other companies go to $15 for their minimum pay? At this time they will be paying a premium for workers. This is just good business. They will retain workers better, and attract better workers. Turns out if you pay more you get to pick from more applicants with better skills.
So why would you want your competition to meet the same pay? I suppose this is simply a political move. Looks good if you go first. Unfortunately, in the business world this will be forgotten by next Monday.
Not sure what the impact will be about the stock grants their losing. Maybe they will give a discounted stock purchase plan, which might compensate the lost income. Also, you don't need to hold the stock grants till they mature, usually like 4 years for all of the grant.
Easy. She is not "qualified" as you want. Mainly, you're blinded by your views, not her actual qualifications. I will agree, she has an agenda. By your response, I'm assuming you don't agree with it. I'm ok with that, and what I would like to hear is your opinion on what is good. Please don't same more of the same thing. That's not working well.
By the way, you're not an "asshole" if you state the obvious, which was the US public education system has (is) being run by leftists and needs to be improved. Calling anyone a name just takes away from your argument.
I agree the federal government could lose this, but they can win also. Usually whoever has the deepest pockets wins. The state of California is big, but not federal government plus ISPs big. It will be an interesting battle.
Totally wrong on marijuana. The federal government has chosen not to act. If they wanted to, they could show up at stores in Washington, Colorado, etc and take the weed and put people in jail. Their actions suggest this is not a fish they wish to fry at the moment.
Just setup a vpn to the address you supply and proxy the connection out there. Everyone is happy!!
Lets sort one thing out. Sexual harassment is not included in any job... or shouldn't be. That has nothing to do if a person is an employee or a contractor.
Ever done any contract work? 1099 work? You get what you're paid. It's one reason why people see bigger dollars, but they have to pay all the taxes normally taken out of a employees paycheck.
Also, contract work is done by the job, not the hour. So plan accordingly. Thus a contract. Do stuff, get paid on agreed price.
For example, real estate agents are not employees of the company they work with. They don't get a minimum wage, workers comp, overtime, and yes etc. They get what contracts they fulfill and nothing more. It can seem scary to some and liberating to others. Work more, get paid more.
All of our needs met by Amazon. I wonder if they have BIG ASS fries...
All I hear about is how the EU goes after companies, fines them, and then the appeal, and of course the appeal goes down in flames. So in the end, the EU gets to take a bunch of money, company XYZ is frustrated, and life goes on.
Sooo, is there ever times when the EU antitrust commission investigates and finds out, hey these guys are ok! Does this happen or is this just the money printing machine it appears to be?
Please robots, come and take my job! Heaven knows I don't want it.
I'll sit back and get fat (well maybe fatter) and happy!
You could have made good points, but after using a fairly offensive word in first sentence you lost me.
I was curious of what was going on here. Had the FCC in the last 2 years suddenly gave the shaft to tribal lands? Here is an quote from the article:
"As of December 2016, only 64.6 percent of tribal areas had access to home Internet services with speeds of at least 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up, for example. Those speeds were available in 69.3 percent of rural areas and 97.9 percent of urban areas."
First, who was in control of the FCC on December 2016? Not who's controlling it now. Where was the outcry then!!!
Second, the data from tribal areas compared to rural areas is nearly the same. The comparison to urban areas doesn't make sense. Most of the tribal land is not urbanized. (and i believe a lot of Native Americans would prefer it that way)
So the article proves the following:
When President Obama was in office this "horrific" FCC mentality was firmly in place. How dare he, and his corrupt FCC!!
I wrote this not to put down the former president, or elevate the current president and his FCC. I believe people need to be able to look at facts and make informed decisions. Please people, don't allow anyone to hijack your thoughts by pandering to your "political lean". Do some quick research and be a better person for it.
"For over 20 years, everyone at Google has been able to freely express their opinions at these meetings"
Right!! What a laugh. I'm sure if someone walked up there and said "I'm so happy, Donald Trump will be our President" they might not have walked out of there alive.
No way in that meeting could you freely express your opinions.
Wait, I don't think you're an exception since you have a disorder. You found out something about yourself. By going out and forcing yourself to take the classes and give speeches, you discovered that it not only didn't help, but you wouldn't do it again.
You would never know if you could work yourself out of it till you tried. BUT you tried, and you're a better person for it. It helped you on the road to get some treatment as you say at 40.
But, if you hadn't gone through that trial, would you have had the insight to get help? Who knows. I think what is important is people need to push through some discomfort to find out who they really are.
It sounds good, but who defines "extremist content" or worse "incites acts of terrorism". It might be clear to you and me what this would be, but how about if you don't agree with what people say who are in control of this definition? You don't think a huge government entity will use it's power to remove content against it's view or agenda? Especially since in their point of view it could "incite acts of terrorism". How about the term "hate speach"? Say something someone doesn't like and it's "hate".
I hope people wake up soon. Rarely do rights get given back by a government body. They usually have to be ripped from their cold dead hands.
Let's not overlook the fact a senator is having an issue with a single company (Amazon). Bernie, you're not the CEO of the company (nor could he handle it), so don't tell them how to run their business. Last time I checked you can't keep your budget in order.
Here is the real issue:
The push for businesses to be able to regulate their own pay and finances. Who says these people qualify for these programs listed above? The government. So, you know what you're seen? Huge expansions in the people who qualify for the program. Now, since the government can't keep paying for it and the programs are failing (everyone wants free stuff, buy them votes) they do the usual next step to blame the businesses. It's their fault! They don't pay enough! So let's force them to pay more. But, this isn't just for Amazon, please look at all who would be snared by this.
Example of this:
Seattle city council tried the "Amazon Tax" earlier this year. Again, a socialist pushed this as they need to pay their fair share. Ignore the 40k's job they pay in Seattle which are mostly development jobs, not low paying jobs. The tax was a per head cost per year for businesses at a certain number of employees (sound familiar?) What they didn't think was how it impacted others besides Amazon. Dick's drive in burgers was a prime example. A main stay for many years, they work on a razors edge with profits. By the way, tax them suckers like Amazon, and don't forget, this place provides benefits and college tuition funding for employees who flip burgers. That will show that business.
The more we regulate and control business, the harder and more costly it is to run. And since government can't run itself correct, why would they know what to do best. Right, they don't.
You think this was "different" during Net Neutrality? Service throttling has been happening for a long time, and is needed for certain applications to functions properly. Traffic is being shaped all the time.
"Scared by a seemingly treacherous labor market, since the downturn college students have turned away from the humanities and towards job-oriented degrees. It's not clear they are making the right decision."
Um, seemingly scared by a treacherous labor market? This is like saying hey after looking at the evidence I'm not sure the evidence is right. The market only needs so many humanity degrees and it appears before 2008 we had a glut. Seems like a simple market check. In this case the market is education. If there was a great demand of good paying jobs in say teaching history, guess what would happen.
Also, a college education costs a lot of money. One can only hope people are looking at what kind of jobs and what they can earn, before choosing a major. Happiness isn't only dollars and cents, but blindly taking out 100k in loans without thinking of how to pay it back is not smart. As a number of people have found out.
Exactly. Follow the money. Climate change, while I believe human have an effect, has spawned the REAL big business. Notice I'm not talking about oil companies, or tech companies. Nope, it's called the business of "studies and research". Because so many people want to forward the agenda of climate change, they will fund anything, which has created a wealth of people who will do studies on anything related to climate. Quick, what will happen to concrete if there is more CO2 in the air!!! Quick, how much CO2 is expelled by people who eat beef!!! On and on... I'm being a bit over the top, but there are so many studies. It's all about the money.
I'm not blaming the "researchers", since you should strike while the irons hot, but really.
Also, I'm ready for all the peeps who want to call me something for being logical on just an aspect of climate change. If you can't look at and understand yourself, please don't point fingers.
Different strands of virus mutate in different parts of the world. China could have found a strand of virus and is not sharing. Hopefully they don't "share" it with us in an unfortunate way. I don't think they're doing this, I just think it's a "I'm getting back at you" kinda thing.