I can only imagine your Phone/GPS telling you "There is an McDonald's in 1 mile on exit 54. The next McDonald's is 38 miles away on exit 92. Also there is a Burger King on exit 54. Next Burger King is 25 miles ahead. You can also get gas from Valero, BP, Mobile and Shell at exit 54. Buy the way, exit 54 was also your exit and you missed it. Recalculating....."
Part of that education used to be preparing you for college and a job where no one is going to hold your hand to get your work done. They shouldn't be watching over them and making sure they do what they are supposed to. That's the student's responsibility.
High Schools are graduating failures. If not failures in High School, then failures in College and the workforce. It would be so much better to prepare students for life. If they are going to fail in College let them find out before College and tens of thousands of dollars of debt.
They hold more data on people than anyone on government computers. and they have proven they can be hacked. (OPM, etc.) They should be required to take just as much care of it than any business. And they should face the same penalties. Maybe even retired Execs on whose watch systems stagnated for 10 or more years.
And for that reason they can never be limited or ethical. At least not all. And it will only take one of the below:
Unethical Programmer
Boundary pusher
Hacker
Government And the cat's out of the bag. We should spend our time planning for the inevitability.
Absolutely right. I personally know dozens of kids that play way more than this. then they got bored of it and moved on to another game. All good kids with good grades and good sports participation. Most of them 2 or more sport players. They are ALL perfectly fine. (Like when i was young and we all sat around and watched TV because there were no games)
This is just another case of chicken little because we can't admit that there are just some people (yes kids are people too) who weren't assembled correctly.
Rather than admit that... It's the games fault!! Just wait... after they are banned from playing video games they will graduate to heroin or something.
Seems we should all be able to agree that the climate changed from 2 mile deep glaciers covering 2/3rds of North America to a relatively glacier free US and Canada by the time Columbus got here in 1492. That's a whopping amount of climate change and dwarfs the few degrees C (or less) were discussing now. Has climate changed? Yes. Is man made climate change statistically significant? I doubt it.
Either way, i'll take warmer days over a return to miles deep ice in the US.
on the flip side, innocent people have been found guilty based on "evidence" that indicated they committed a crime.
it's always a gamble. but prosecutors aren't in the business of not prosecuting people. so saying there's not enough evidence is a pretty good indication of innocence.
better yet, what caused it? and is that really what's causing it now? and no matter what anyone says, i'll take the extra 14 degrees. it's better than 2 mile deep glaciers down to mid USA.
FBI: Hey, we notice you were in these 2 places an these dates and times. Me: So? FBI: We're investigating robberies there. Me: So? Wasn't me. FBI: We'd like to talk to you anyway. And now I'm spending money on lawyers just for being in the wrong area.
They are turning into advertisement delivery services. More readers/viewers means more ads. It's the facebook model. If you've noticed lately content (hell even simple grammar) has gone to hell. First page scandals make way more money than 5th page retractions. To point at any news source as unbiased is laughable. At best, any news from them falls under the opinion column.
We can only combat fake news by removing the weak link. The non-critical thinking reader. Censoring speech and thoughts (or writings) because the person reading it is either stupid, gullible, or too lazy to gather their own facts is a bad idea. Now all you need to do is label something fake news to make it disappear. It's only fake until it isn't. The government spying on all of us was fake. Until Snowden proved it wasn't. The IRS blacklisting groups was fake. Until there was proof. When is fake fake and when is it just inconvenient?
Kind of like the special kind of morons who think HRC was presidential material. We're a 2 party (bipolar) government. Things always swing back and forth. but now we can't even talk to each other. I have 2 or 3 democrat friends (who i completely disagree with) who i can have conversations about policy topics with. we go back and forth we hear everyone's points. we even agree on a large overlap on those points. we disagree on what is most important and maybe what the outcome of action "x" would be. the other dozens and dozens of democrats i interact with at best just tune out of the conversation or start name calling. i.e.- morons
bureaucrat: wow we could really use a cash infusion. who has money?? Google has money!!! Let's fine them! We just need to create a reason and we'll be cash rich in a few months!! if this succeeds in making them money don't worry, they will get around to apple.
Not sure why we're even bringing a topic like that here. That's the stuff you can read on any news site. I'm fairly sure we come here for the stuff we can't find everywhere else. Just saying.
Then Seattle can lose all the taxes that all those high paid people pay through property and sales tax. Amazon probably got a tax break from Seattle to locate/grow there in order to create this new revenue.
On the plus side, there will be a lot of cheap housing for the homeless a year or two after that.
A tax as a solution to any problem isn't a solution. It's a temporary (at best) kicking of the can until it's a problem for someone else.
The Seattle government (like most governments) created the problem.
It is just work. until lawyers get involved. then you have to worry about the costs of potential legal issues.
The real question is if you don't do business in the EU why do any of the work? It's simply cost effective to block access. That way there's no legal question as to whether or not you comply. And there's no work to do. If you do business in the EU then you have something to think about. Your profits then need to be great enough to pay for the compliance overhead as well as the increased risk of litigation.
If i block you to comply to not store your data, I've complied. There's no law saying if i run a website I have to let everyone access it.
Equifax already released all that data on us. That game has been over for a while. It's to the point I can't be sure I'm me even if I vouch for myself.
This is just one more step along the abuse of power trail. Unfortunately the time to stop them was a long time ago. When the changes were less obvious. Any time they need people to give a little of their freedoms or rights in order to "stop the bad guys" we should be concerned.
they probably don't need to exploit people to get them. the government hasn't been doing a stellar job of keeping any secrets these days. they even managed to release their hacking tools accidentally. and they're no more successful at securing their networks than most businesses. Give it a year or two and someone will have the keys. A few years after that, everyone will,
But the UBI will come from somewhere. A lot of people propose a corporate tax to pay for it. So if I'm a business I pay for it either way. Either by a lack of sales or a tax to give people money so they can buy my goods. That's just the beginning of another spiraling system. Government taxes the business so they can tax the UBI recipient (just like social security) and then tax the sale. The business makes "income" so we tax that. Then we add the next round of UBI taxes. All those taxes take value out of the system. Sure, maybe they get a few years/decades. And if business taxes are too high will startups be able to "start"?
Why in the world would you pay more for a job to be done than the workers are wiling to take? My bosses have never come to me out of the blue and said they bumped my wages just because, I'm paid for my skills.
I don't by a gallon of gas and tell them here's 20% more because i don't think you're charging enough. I'll bet no one else does. And I'll bet most people shop where the prices are lowest. Amazon does it as well. The only difference is we're all shopping for gadgets and they are shopping for workers.
I will agree minimum wage isn't enough money for a family of four to life on. Mostly because someone who only makes minimum wage shouldn't be having kids they can't support.
If you keep feelings out of it, answers appear pretty quick.
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I can only imagine your Phone/GPS telling you "There is an McDonald's in 1 mile on exit 54. The next McDonald's is 38 miles away on exit 92. Also there is a Burger King on exit 54. Next Burger King is 25 miles ahead. You can also get gas from Valero, BP, Mobile and Shell at exit 54. Buy the way, exit 54 was also your exit and you missed it. Recalculating....."
Part of that education used to be preparing you for college and a job where no one is going to hold your hand to get your work done. They shouldn't be watching over them and making sure they do what they are supposed to. That's the student's responsibility.
High Schools are graduating failures. If not failures in High School, then failures in College and the workforce. It would be so much better to prepare students for life. If they are going to fail in College let them find out before College and tens of thousands of dollars of debt.
They hold more data on people than anyone on government computers. and they have proven they can be hacked. (OPM, etc.)
They should be required to take just as much care of it than any business. And they should face the same penalties. Maybe even retired Execs on whose watch systems stagnated for 10 or more years.
And for that reason they can never be limited or ethical. At least not all.
And it will only take one of the below:
Unethical Programmer
Boundary pusher
Hacker
Government
And the cat's out of the bag.
We should spend our time planning for the inevitability.
Absolutely right. I personally know dozens of kids that play way more than this. then they got bored of it and moved on to another game. All good kids with good grades and good sports participation. Most of them 2 or more sport players. They are ALL perfectly fine. (Like when i was young and we all sat around and watched TV because there were no games)
This is just another case of chicken little because we can't admit that there are just some people (yes kids are people too) who weren't assembled correctly.
Rather than admit that... It's the games fault!! Just wait... after they are banned from playing video games they will graduate to heroin or something.
Seems we should all be able to agree that the climate changed from 2 mile deep glaciers covering 2/3rds of North America to a relatively glacier free US and Canada by the time Columbus got here in 1492. That's a whopping amount of climate change and dwarfs the few degrees C (or less) were discussing now.
Has climate changed? Yes. Is man made climate change statistically significant? I doubt it.
Either way, i'll take warmer days over a return to miles deep ice in the US.
on the flip side, innocent people have been found guilty based on "evidence" that indicated they committed a crime.
it's always a gamble. but prosecutors aren't in the business of not prosecuting people. so saying there's not enough evidence is a pretty good indication of innocence.
better yet, what caused it? and is that really what's causing it now?
and no matter what anyone says, i'll take the extra 14 degrees. it's better than 2 mile deep glaciers down to mid USA.
if we keep electing people like her she's probably correct.
Agreed. Endless political drivel everywhere.
The robot Umpire just received a Windows Update.
Umpires make mistakes. That's part of the came. You want a computer to call it, play on the console of your choice.
People and players will still disagree with the calls. Just like so many disagree with the radar gun the cop recorded them speeding with.
FBI: Hey, we notice you were in these 2 places an these dates and times.
Me: So?
FBI: We're investigating robberies there.
Me: So? Wasn't me.
FBI: We'd like to talk to you anyway.
And now I'm spending money on lawyers just for being in the wrong area.
They are turning into advertisement delivery services. More readers/viewers means more ads. It's the facebook model. If you've noticed lately content (hell even simple grammar) has gone to hell. First page scandals make way more money than 5th page retractions.
To point at any news source as unbiased is laughable. At best, any news from them falls under the opinion column.
We can only combat fake news by removing the weak link. The non-critical thinking reader. Censoring speech and thoughts (or writings) because the person reading it is either stupid, gullible, or too lazy to gather their own facts is a bad idea. Now all you need to do is label something fake news to make it disappear. It's only fake until it isn't. The government spying on all of us was fake. Until Snowden proved it wasn't. The IRS blacklisting groups was fake. Until there was proof.
When is fake fake and when is it just inconvenient?
Kind of like the special kind of morons who think HRC was presidential material. We're a 2 party (bipolar) government. Things always swing back and forth. but now we can't even talk to each other. I have 2 or 3 democrat friends (who i completely disagree with) who i can have conversations about policy topics with. we go back and forth we hear everyone's points. we even agree on a large overlap on those points. we disagree on what is most important and maybe what the outcome of action "x" would be. the other dozens and dozens of democrats i interact with at best just tune out of the conversation or start name calling. i.e.- morons
bureaucrat: wow we could really use a cash infusion. who has money?? Google has money!!! Let's fine them! We just need to create a reason and we'll be cash rich in a few months!!
if this succeeds in making them money don't worry, they will get around to apple.
Not sure why we're even bringing a topic like that here. That's the stuff you can read on any news site. I'm fairly sure we come here for the stuff we can't find everywhere else. Just saying.
Then Seattle can lose all the taxes that all those high paid people pay through property and sales tax. Amazon probably got a tax break from Seattle to locate/grow there in order to create this new revenue.
On the plus side, there will be a lot of cheap housing for the homeless a year or two after that.
A tax as a solution to any problem isn't a solution. It's a temporary (at best) kicking of the can until it's a problem for someone else.
The Seattle government (like most governments) created the problem.
Well written. Well said. And completely wasted on the "go 'f' yourself and your family" mental giants that seem to grace our world.
I see thousands of kids writing their book reports and essays using this.
It is just work. until lawyers get involved. then you have to worry about the costs of potential legal issues.
The real question is if you don't do business in the EU why do any of the work? It's simply cost effective to block access. That way there's no legal question as to whether or not you comply. And there's no work to do. If you do business in the EU then you have something to think about. Your profits then need to be great enough to pay for the compliance overhead as well as the increased risk of litigation.
If i block you to comply to not store your data, I've complied. There's no law saying if i run a website I have to let everyone access it.
Equifax already released all that data on us. That game has been over for a while. It's to the point I can't be sure I'm me even if I vouch for myself.
This is just one more step along the abuse of power trail. Unfortunately the time to stop them was a long time ago. When the changes were less obvious. Any time they need people to give a little of their freedoms or rights in order to "stop the bad guys" we should be concerned.
they probably don't need to exploit people to get them. the government hasn't been doing a stellar job of keeping any secrets these days. they even managed to release their hacking tools accidentally. and they're no more successful at securing their networks than most businesses. Give it a year or two and someone will have the keys. A few years after that, everyone will,
But the UBI will come from somewhere. A lot of people propose a corporate tax to pay for it. So if I'm a business I pay for it either way. Either by a lack of sales or a tax to give people money so they can buy my goods. That's just the beginning of another spiraling system. Government taxes the business so they can tax the UBI recipient (just like social security) and then tax the sale. The business makes "income" so we tax that. Then we add the next round of UBI taxes. All those taxes take value out of the system. Sure, maybe they get a few years/decades. And if business taxes are too high will startups be able to "start"?
Why in the world would you pay more for a job to be done than the workers are wiling to take? My bosses have never come to me out of the blue and said they bumped my wages just because, I'm paid for my skills.
I don't by a gallon of gas and tell them here's 20% more because i don't think you're charging enough. I'll bet no one else does. And I'll bet most people shop where the prices are lowest. Amazon does it as well. The only difference is we're all shopping for gadgets and they are shopping for workers.
I will agree minimum wage isn't enough money for a family of four to life on. Mostly because someone who only makes minimum wage shouldn't be having kids they can't support.
If you keep feelings out of it, answers appear pretty quick.
exactly.