I like to see how these anti-union / fair pay arguments waffle between the offshoring and automation arguments, which are very different things. Offshoring shifts costs and allows old tech to be used a yesterdays prices. It has a place, but it's a crutch for bad companies and bad managers. Automation is happening either way, eating a shit sandwich today will not prevent it, but it might delay it. Why do you want to delay progress? The quicker people don't need to do drudgery, the quicker they can move on to more meaningful work. Nobody should be hanging their hat on easy to automate jobs, but I'm not so certain food prep is one of those. Either way, a fair wage is deserved and should be paid, progress will happen either way. Companies have shown they must be reminded and maybe forced to consider the welfare of their labor investors.
This strike isn't about halting progress, it's about insuring that management makes a commitment to it's workers instead of funneling profits into stock buybacks (to pay stockholders), VP bonuses (to pay mangement), and other shenanigans that usually end up saddling the company with future debt to enrich the current management team.
When someone invests their labor and time in something, they deserve to have a say, and it would be dereliction of duty to ignore warning flags that point to mismanagement.
UAW strikes aren't what crippled Detroit or automakers in general. It had way more to do with lethargy in management and outright mismanagement. There were plenty of deals done today with costs bore tomorrow, all controlled by management. The UAW union had (maybe has) plenty of it's own corruption, but it wasn't anywhere near as responsible as the people at the top. However, the people at the top will be glad to see there are still people who buy their narrative. Why hasn't a strong union crippled UPS? Unions are just a convenient scapegoat for mismanagement or failure to ride the tide of a changing era.
Letting him drink himself to death in peace is probably the best use of our tax dollars.
What if you can work a desk job, bu there are no desk jobs in your rural area, only some specific factory, or general farm labor? Are you disabled since you could work if you moved to a city?
This is why we should move to a UBI, it would save rural America and simplify all this stuff that really isn't so black and white.
Yeah, it's not like there aren't at least a half dozen easy ways to fix things, from reducing benefits (helps the young at the expense of their elders), to means testing (helps the poor at the expense of the rich), to increasing age (helps the wealthy since poor die younger). Take your pick depending on who you want to get the most help and who you want to screw over.
Not if they've been used in a crime. I've heard of illicit handguns going for $50 to $100 in some cities. I can barely get a hi-point for that price, even used.
Interesting.... I switched from Windows to Linux as a system admin, and while there are some excellent Windows admins, there are alot more who would probably be better classified as operators. They only follow very specific instructions. I find that the wheat to chaff ration on the Linux side is much better, but there are still alot of System Admins who don't know anything about networking. In today's world, IMHO, that's as important as writing and reading scripts.
Uverse is always sending me extra equipment. It doesn't seem to go on your account until you activate it. I had a wireless receiver for the longest time until I gave it to a tech who was fixing another problem. Now I'm sitting on a router the sent me for no reason.
I have Uverse TV, but Comcast internet because I qualify for their "internet essentials". hmmm... 10/1.5 from Comcast for $10, or 15/1.5 from Uverse for $49.99. Uverse's upstream blows, the fact that I have TV without internet seems to be driving them crazy.
KVM doesn't support Windows, does it? I was under the impression it was either VMware or Virtual Box if you need a mixed Windows and Linux environment.
I have qbittorrent on a server routed out via a VPN. It's configured so I can access it remotely on the normal network, but all other traffic goes out the VPN and dies if the vpn goes down (router handles all this).
His point was also directed at the decline of music superstars. Why listen to Aerosmith when there is a local band performing great music. Wait, you live in L.A. or New York, right?
Yes, these piles of cash will continue to cause problems. Cash hoards attract the worst kind of people (and dragons), they also destabilize things. These cash hoards are probably what is screwing up our general elections. So far, they have not been able to buy elections on a national scale, but it's been working on smaller elections.
Don't hold your breath on a reply to that. The numbers are obvious. The lower and middle class pay a huge amount in payroll taxes, it's ignored by people writing blurbs about who pays taxes, it's earmarked for SS and medicaid, but always goes into the general budget. This is by design. There is no reason for the gov. to build up huge stockpiles of money.
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I like to see how these anti-union / fair pay arguments waffle between the offshoring and automation arguments, which are very different things. Offshoring shifts costs and allows old tech to be used a yesterdays prices. It has a place, but it's a crutch for bad companies and bad managers. Automation is happening either way, eating a shit sandwich today will not prevent it, but it might delay it. Why do you want to delay progress? The quicker people don't need to do drudgery, the quicker they can move on to more meaningful work. Nobody should be hanging their hat on easy to automate jobs, but I'm not so certain food prep is one of those. Either way, a fair wage is deserved and should be paid, progress will happen either way. Companies have shown they must be reminded and maybe forced to consider the welfare of their labor investors.
This strike isn't about halting progress, it's about insuring that management makes a commitment to it's workers instead of funneling profits into stock buybacks (to pay stockholders), VP bonuses (to pay mangement), and other shenanigans that usually end up saddling the company with future debt to enrich the current management team.
When someone invests their labor and time in something, they deserve to have a say, and it would be dereliction of duty to ignore warning flags that point to mismanagement.
UAW strikes aren't what crippled Detroit or automakers in general. It had way more to do with lethargy in management and outright mismanagement. There were plenty of deals done today with costs bore tomorrow, all controlled by management.
The UAW union had (maybe has) plenty of it's own corruption, but it wasn't anywhere near as responsible as the people at the top. However, the people at the top will be glad to see there are still people who buy their narrative.
Why hasn't a strong union crippled UPS?
Unions are just a convenient scapegoat for mismanagement or failure to ride the tide of a changing era.
Well, to give a gun the utility of a vehicle, which is very useful, I assumed you would be using it frequently.
Letting him drink himself to death in peace is probably the best use of our tax dollars.
What if you can work a desk job, bu there are no desk jobs in your rural area, only some specific factory, or general farm labor? Are you disabled since you could work if you moved to a city?
This is why we should move to a UBI, it would save rural America and simplify all this stuff that really isn't so black and white.
Yeah, but where is this $100k number coming from. I'll bet most of these loans are less then half that, probably more like $10k.
Yeah, it's not like there aren't at least a half dozen easy ways to fix things, from reducing benefits (helps the young at the expense of their elders), to means testing (helps the poor at the expense of the rich), to increasing age (helps the wealthy since poor die younger). Take your pick depending on who you want to get the most help and who you want to screw over.
Not if they've been used in a crime. I've heard of illicit handguns going for $50 to $100 in some cities. I can barely get a hi-point for that price, even used.
Interesting....
I switched from Windows to Linux as a system admin, and while there are some excellent Windows admins, there are alot more who would probably be better classified as operators. They only follow very specific instructions.
I find that the wheat to chaff ration on the Linux side is much better, but there are still alot of System Admins who don't know anything about networking. In today's world, IMHO, that's as important as writing and reading scripts.
ugh.. A single issue voter...?
DVR lockin... Wish I could take my DVR schedule with me.
Uverse is always sending me extra equipment. It doesn't seem to go on your account until you activate it. I had a wireless receiver for the longest time until I gave it to a tech who was fixing another problem. Now I'm sitting on a router the sent me for no reason.
I have Uverse TV, but Comcast internet because I qualify for their "internet essentials".
hmmm... 10/1.5 from Comcast for $10, or 15/1.5 from Uverse for $49.99. Uverse's upstream blows, the fact that I have TV without internet seems to be driving them crazy.
So Lindows isn't finally here?
KVM doesn't support Windows, does it? I was under the impression it was either VMware or Virtual Box if you need a mixed Windows and Linux environment.
I have qbittorrent on a server routed out via a VPN. It's configured so I can access it remotely on the normal network, but all other traffic goes out the VPN and dies if the vpn goes down (router handles all this).
qbittorrent has an integrated search that I find very useful, I'm pretty sure Transmission does not.
Let's not pretend we can do things the majority want. The majority would probably like to expand those programs, but we stuck by the crazy system that equates land with people when it comes to representation.
Yeah, I know. I drew a good one out above though...
How does that contrast with all the welfare people who will just do nothing if we give them a bare subsistence existence?
I'm just posting here so you can see my sig.
His point was also directed at the decline of music superstars. Why listen to Aerosmith when there is a local band performing great music.
Wait, you live in L.A. or New York, right?
OK, this thread is closed. Thank you for explaining to the legion of morons who will continue to pretend this isn't reality.
Yes, these piles of cash will continue to cause problems. Cash hoards attract the worst kind of people (and dragons), they also destabilize things. These cash hoards are probably what is screwing up our general elections. So far, they have not been able to buy elections on a national scale, but it's been working on smaller elections.
Don't hold your breath on a reply to that. The numbers are obvious. The lower and middle class pay a huge amount in payroll taxes, it's ignored by people writing blurbs about who pays taxes, it's earmarked for SS and medicaid, but always goes into the general budget.
This is by design. There is no reason for the gov. to build up huge stockpiles of money.
Yeah, nobody wants to live in New York. It's not like rich people all over the world want to live in New York and California.