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  1. Well, we can also add the countless voices and protestors who demonstrate openly for increased minimum wages at $15/hr. This is a news article that generally only needs a few sources. Notice that Amazon and Whole Foods refused to comment at all?

  2. Excep that more money with increased expectations per hour is a reduction in working conditions. Reduced hours also removes benefits such as vacation and health care. Glad I could educate you.

  3. Well, there's no reason to expect that the Whole Foods operation should have to pay for the opex of the core business. In fact, Amazon is so big and profitable that the should have been able to pay for that wage increas outb of their profit margin.

  4. Re: Objecting to the give-away on Facing Opposition, Amazon Reconsiders NY Headquarters Site: Report (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, people who grew up sheltered, never had to work for a living, and had mommy and daddy around to pay for college?

    You're thinking of richpublicans.

  5. Re: How 1984 of them on Google Urged the US To Limit Protection for Activist Workers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    On my own private email...gorehog@gmail.com...uh huh...

  6. Re:get offended more often ! on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think living in Africa is so bad? Have you visited?

    And seriously, why not just use less loaded terms like Client and Server? Or Active, Backup, and Passive? Certainly there are more technically descriptive words than master and slave.

  7. Primary, secondary, tertiary.

    I noticed this years ago in indutrial controllers. It was an easy change to make in documentation. Just call something a "Primary" if it's top level. "Backup" if it's a primary failover. "Passive" if it can't operate independently. Remember, not everything is a reflection on hjumans working with it.

  8. Re:Making money is not a "moral requirement" on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We always did.

  9. Most of the country by population, not territory.

  10. Re:Former professional Flash/AS developer here ... on End of Flash? Its Usage Among Chrome Users Has Declined From 80% in 2014 to Under 8% as of Early 2018 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I genuinely feel that their big mistake was shoehorning a streaming video codec into the Flash player. As you said it was a great idea to have an interactive, cross-platform, scriptable, vector graphics player with server side support. Adobe screwed up by overreaching the plugin's scope and not focusing on the server.

  11. Re:Former professional Flash/AS developer here ... on End of Flash? Its Usage Among Chrome Users Has Declined From 80% in 2014 to Under 8% as of Early 2018 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you kidding? How does RedHat remain a billion dollar business seeling FOSS software? Adobe would've done fine as the industry leader in Flash tools.

  12. And now we know how many people use ADP for payroll, 8% of Chrome users...

  13. Why is this the employer's problem? on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is sex trafficking the employer's responsibility to fix? This is something to be addressed by policing and international diplomacy efforts. Trade tarrifs against nations that ship out sex slaves for instance.

    See, this won't be stopped because those women won't fall into sex slavery if they have good paying jobs at home.

  14. Re: Imagine If on Amazon Warns Employees About 'Million Mask March' On Seattle HQ Today (geekwire.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If Fox could rise to the standards of TMZ it would represent a sea change for that organization.

  15. Re:Imagine If on Amazon Warns Employees About 'Million Mask March' On Seattle HQ Today (geekwire.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Imagine if Fox News was a credible news source!

  16. In other news water is wet! on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    So ISIS wants to kill US soldiers? Wow! Holy shit! Clearly this is a surprising development!

  17. How many people have this setup to start with? on UHD Spec Stomps on Current Blu-ray Spec, But Will Consumers Notice? · · Score: 2

    Mostly people don't bother with all this stuff to start with, and the manufacturers are so busy trying to sell new TV's that they don't even bother to build good one to begin with.

    For instance, I just set up a Sonos 5.1 surround system. During the process I checked compatibility with my TV and I found this list of televisions that don't pass 5.1 surround data out the TOSLINK port under various conditons: https://sonos.custhelp.com/app... . Some only pass it from specific sources and some don't pass it at all. I'm lucky, my TV works under all conditions. Never mind problems with HDMI/HDCP/CEC/ARC compatibility.

    I don't care about increased resolution because I can't be sure that the next TV I'll buy will meet my minimum specs. Purchasing is a gamble these days and once you engineer a working solution why would you upgrade? I didn't jump on the 3D idiocy and I'll bet you didn't either. Even if you have a 3D TV did you buy extra, or any glasses for it?

    The producers, in a genius move enabled by "vertical integration", will add a new broadcast or regional flag or change an encryption key or some shit and stop making media in the old format. People will run like lemmings to Walget or TarMart to buy new equipment because the old stuff has been artificailly obsoleted. It's enough to make me stop watching altogether. Good luck selling your advertising time when no one gives a shit assholes.

  18. The best reason to stop burning oil on Why We Have To Kiss Off Big Carbon Now · · Score: 1

    The best reason to stop burning oil is because it's so useful for other things. Very little oil is needed to make the dashboard in your car, or the case for your phone, or lubricants, etc.

  19. Re:how is this news on MPAA Bans Google Glass In Theaters · · Score: 1

    Undercooked...popcorn...?

  20. Ridiculous on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 1

    Stop making me develop a separate style sheet for your browser. Toe the fucking line. This is possibly the most visible problem that makes people hate M$. Try writing a website from scratch and then find out that something like the float tag sin't working yet in IE so you can use it but you'll have to write something else for M$ browsers.

  21. Re: Well if HP didn't already have a terrible rep. on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    Generally, this type of enterprise class hardware comes with a support contract good for some period of time. During that time you can expect that the firmware and drivers will stabilize. So, don't buy this sort of hardware used if it doesn't come with a disk containing those files.

    What bugs me is the faint possibility that they'll hold back firmware patches until the bulk of contracts for a given model expire. Holding back on a firmware update that enables more RAM to force people into extending their contracts? Sure!

  22. Re:Well if HP didn't already have a terrible rep.. on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Cisco shriveled up and died.

  23. Re:They're not being assholes! on Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating · · Score: 2
  24. Re:They're not being assholes! on Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating · · Score: 1

    Ha. Ha. I'm serious though. I'm wondering if my obesity is really affecting my cognitive functions.

  25. Re:The blue tits of death. on Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe it's just easiest to detect emotional distress in women's breasts? Maybe it's harder to find a place on a male body that gives the same feedback that is already in contact with a piece of clothing? This might just be the low-hanging fruit.

    Yes. I typed that.