Presumably these payment processors won't allow legal marijuana sales either. The realm of socially disapproved behavior grows larger every day.
Interesting thought process you have there. You presume something based on nothing more that hot air, then proceed to form a conclusion based on that presumption that has no basis in reality.?
I used to work in a bank and I can assure that bankers have no morals. Every decision made in a bank is about money or the risks of losing that money. This has nothing do with any perceived moral crusade, it is merely a higher risk of fraud which might coast a bank exec his/her bonus. If porn and marijuana is being targeted it is merely because those markets attract a much higher rate of fraud. Nothing more.
are still pretty low. The odds of her getting knocked up are much higher.
For 50% of the population, getting pregnant is impossible...
anyone who's had an unplanned pregnancy or had one yourself you know it's just as life changingly devastating. Maybe moreso. Blow me away and my life insurance kicks in
This is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read on Slashdot. Having a family member is no big deal because think of the money!
FWIW my wife had an unplanned pregnancy, it turned out to be one the best things that ever happened. Not devastating at all...
It has everything to do with government pressure applied to banks/CC companies to remove the ability to perform financial transactions from certain select legal businesses/individuals without due process
From your link 'companies believed to be at higher risk for fraud and money laundering.'
I'm pretty sure that fraud and money laundering aren't legal business...
The lack of professionalism is from HR departments across the board, not employees.
HR departments seem to be trained to deal with poor people with no skills, and so they treat everyone like an indentured servent. When they finally have to deal with skilled workers who won't take their shit, they get all indignant.
You're forgetting what is probably the most common that started years ago:
0. To fulfill the legal requirement that no qualified American could be found thereby allowing them to legally hire the foreigner they already decided to hire even before the position was advertised:
Take off the tin foil hat. Reality is nothing like this....
Yours is the second post mentioning advertising non existent jobs? Wtf?
Can you explain why they would do this?
There are lots of reasons:
All of which make no sense. Do you think hiring managers or HR people have nothing better to do than screen applications for jobs that don't exist? It's a quiet day in the office, let's post some job adverts then read lots of boring fucking resumes all day....
Google's cloud services are enterprise grade if you pay enterprise prices for them.
If you pay for it on a credit card assigned to the CFO then you are not an enterprise and you are not paying enterprise prices.
They chose a cheap, no-SLA no-support service, probably because it was cheap. Then they get upset that they aren't receiving the support they didn't pay for.
Exactly this. I don't use Google Cloud, but my 'enterprise' AWS service comes with a dedicated account manager and architect who I can call at anytime for help.
Sounds like this guy cheaped out then is bitching because he received cheap service.
But then you're in control, instead of having to rely on some amorphous, anonymous monster that only allows communication via automated email.
What you said just now sounds like my IT dept, so I'll take the cheap and easier 'amorphous, anonymous monster that only allows communication via automated email' over the expensive onsite version.
But from all what you hear from the US, remote areas only have one thing better than a remote are in India: a better road connection. But: in India they have the faster wireless internet:D and paying systems.
Trajectory is just as important (if not more so) than position. An Asian family earning $10/day is happy because every day life is getting better, whereas your poor rural westerner is earning 10x as much but losing ground every day.
Logitech's mice and trackball offerings have always been more comfortable and maintainable.
Comfort is personal preference isn't it? I have a Logi gaming mouse and the 720 but prefer my MS mouse over both even though it's cheaper.
Maintenance for optical mice is non-existent.
Considering that there are no third world countries anymore,
The term '3rd world' is no longer widely used, but the term refers to what we now call 'the developing world' which includes places like Vietnam, India, Brazil and soon to be USA:)
The future's so dark, I gotta wear a headlamp. Retirement can't come soon enough, hope I can make it. Good luck to the younger folks, the lowest common denominator, as in wages, is what seems to be coming.
This is my prediction too. There is nothing you can do that some person from 3rd world used to $10/day can't do. Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers etc are just skills and experience that are transferable, so we are doomed. I got about 10 years to go before retirement but I don't think I'm going to make it
If you're doing more complex, advanced things, you can most likely charge a lot more and still get work...
Such as? India produces more PhD's every year than we have PhD's. No matter how complex, there is someone is Asia is who probably more qualified and a lot cheaper. The best you can go for a a job that requires a local language and accent and bit of personality. This the hardest hurdle for foreigners to get over.
Tariffs are matching what other countries are already doing to us.
So your solution is escalation? We've already done that remember and it didn't turn out well.
Free trade is like socialism,
Oh dear. Free trade is actually capitalism. This is how stupid American politics has become, the far right are backing a leftist agenda then criticising the left for trying to be more right.
. Meanwhile entire cities here in the USA are losing factory after factory and closing down small stores and restaurants which in turn reduces tax payers, etc.
So you solution is to make that worse? Like how Trump said he would drain the swamp when in fact in just made the swap larger?
I don't want lower price tags in the USA, in fact I want the opposite. Higher price tags and more people who can afford those higher price tags.
Which is fine, I agree that paying a higher ticket price to ensure some level of quality is a good thing overall. But this is not a capitalist ideal. It seems with Trump the Republicans have thrown every ideal they had out the window because winning is more important than being sticking with your beliefs
You don't get that by losing jobs to chop shop/kid labor overseas.
Well you can if you play it right. America is in decline because it didn't adapt quickly enough to globalisation. Globalisation means some jobs will no longer be cost effective, while others will be more profitable If you cling to the old way and just expect things to work you'e in for a surprise.
Trumps policies are clinging to the odd way. There is no vision or plan of how this will lead America to a brighter future. Tariffs don't work and everyone knows it
Yet another reason to not waste your money on "virus protection." Use the free Windows Defender if you must, and make sure you have good backups.
I stopped using AV about 10 years ago after numerous performance issues with flaky AV products. 10 years on and no issues! Sensible browsing/downloading/email behaviour is 99% of the battle
I'm perfectly happy if they sell the bikes in Indonesia that they build in Indonesia.
A quick history lesson for you. Thousands of years ago people discovered that trading with people outside their specific group brought benefits to both parties. The trade didn't have to be 50:50 to be a net gain for everyone, all you need is for one side to receive something they want in exchange for something they don't need as much of. 'Hey we have lots of rice that we don't need, those guys over there have lots of coffee, let's trade so we both get some rice and some coffee etc
Fast forward thousands of years, a motorcycle is made of thousands of parts sourced from hundreds or suppliers in dozens of different places. Your Harley dealer in Indiana isn't just selling you a Harley manufactured entirely for Indiana labour.
To use Indiana as an example, if every part of every product available in Indiana had to be made in Indiana, do you think you'd be better off?
The answer is no. You are better off by trading goods with others. That is why global trade is a thing. The bigger and more open the markets the more potential for growth overall. This is a key principle of free market economics that is central to the conservative agenda.
I don't want any country to suffer less employment opportunities. USA dwarfs any other place on the map as far as sales. If you move production away from USA you'll hurt sales in USA. It shouldn't be about saving a % here and there. It should be about supporting the economy.. which is why a lot of people who buy HD also buy "Made in USA."
Made in USA using imported parts. This is why tariffs won't work. If all those components are sourced locally they cost more, meaning the price of your Harley will go up, meaning less people will buy Harleys, meaning Harley makes less money, meaning they hire less people, meaning lees people with income to buy more Harleys. Do you see how that works?
If you want to improve the US economy, there are other ways to achieve this. Tariffs is not one of them.
Australia has gone 26 years without a recession because their economy is based on mining iron and coal for sale to China.
And did that happen because of magic? Or did someone in charge recognise the changing global landscape and respond to it?
If is was magic, then when the magic ran out , surely the growth should have too? Or maybe smart people used smart policy to stay ahead of the game?
5 total in Indonesia. That's how many HD stores that there are within 30 miles of me in Indiana:)
Cool, so you admit that people are buying Harleys in Indonesia now? And that Harley Davidson is better off by having access to international markets? Nearly 40% of HD sales are international. Or do you think HD would be better off with a 40% drop in sales? How about Boeing? Or Apple? Or Caterpillar?
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Yeah, predicting the future is more or less always like that because no one knows the future.
Right so we may as well jump to the stupidest possible guess then. Let me know how that works out for you...
The threat of excess reliance on DNA evidence, remains the same, it can always be obtained from you and then planted where ever they want it, .
Because no defence lawyer has ever thought of this.
I'm pretty sure that murder trials go into a bit more detail than just matching DNA...
Presumably these payment processors won't allow legal marijuana sales either. The realm of socially disapproved behavior grows larger every day.
Interesting thought process you have there. You presume something based on nothing more that hot air, then proceed to form a conclusion based on that presumption that has no basis in reality.?
I used to work in a bank and I can assure that bankers have no morals. Every decision made in a bank is about money or the risks of losing that money. This has nothing do with any perceived moral crusade, it is merely a higher risk of fraud which might coast a bank exec his/her bonus. If porn and marijuana is being targeted it is merely because those markets attract a much higher rate of fraud. Nothing more.
murdered... forgot a word...
are still pretty low. The odds of her getting knocked up are much higher.
For 50% of the population, getting pregnant is impossible...
anyone who's had an unplanned pregnancy or had one yourself you know it's just as life changingly devastating. Maybe moreso. Blow me away and my life insurance kicks in
This is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read on Slashdot. Having a family member is no big deal because think of the money!
FWIW my wife had an unplanned pregnancy, it turned out to be one the best things that ever happened. Not devastating at all...
It has little to do with disputed CC charges.
It has everything to do with government pressure applied to banks/CC companies to remove the ability to perform financial transactions from certain select legal businesses/individuals without due process
From your link 'companies believed to be at higher risk for fraud and money laundering.'
I'm pretty sure that fraud and money laundering aren't legal business...
Aww, do you want me to call the waaaaaambulance, snowflake?
People still use the word snowflake? That's the best you could do?
The lack of professionalism is from HR departments across the board, not employees.
HR departments seem to be trained to deal with poor people with no skills, and so they treat everyone like an indentured servent. When they finally have to deal with skilled workers who won't take their shit, they get all indignant.
Sounds like the Police...
You're forgetting what is probably the most common that started years ago:
0. To fulfill the legal requirement that no qualified American could be found thereby allowing them to legally hire the foreigner they already decided to hire even before the position was advertised:
Take off the tin foil hat. Reality is nothing like this....
Yours is the second post mentioning advertising non existent jobs? Wtf?
Can you explain why they would do this?
There are lots of reasons:
All of which make no sense. Do you think hiring managers or HR people have nothing better to do than screen applications for jobs that don't exist? It's a quiet day in the office, let's post some job adverts then read lots of boring fucking resumes all day....
Google's cloud services are enterprise grade if you pay enterprise prices for them.
If you pay for it on a credit card assigned to the CFO then you are not an enterprise and you are not paying enterprise prices.
They chose a cheap, no-SLA no-support service, probably because it was cheap. Then they get upset that they aren't receiving the support they didn't pay for.
Exactly this. I don't use Google Cloud, but my 'enterprise' AWS service comes with a dedicated account manager and architect who I can call at anytime for help.
Sounds like this guy cheaped out then is bitching because he received cheap service.
But then you're in control, instead of having to rely on some amorphous, anonymous monster that only allows communication via automated email.
What you said just now sounds like my IT dept, so I'll take the cheap and easier 'amorphous, anonymous monster that only allows communication via automated email' over the expensive onsite version.
But from all what you hear from the US, remote areas only have one thing better than a remote are in India: a better road connection. But: in India they have the faster wireless internet :D and paying systems.
Trajectory is just as important (if not more so) than position. An Asian family earning $10/day is happy because every day life is getting better, whereas your poor rural westerner is earning 10x as much but losing ground every day.
Logitech's mice and trackball offerings have always been more comfortable and maintainable.
Comfort is personal preference isn't it? I have a Logi gaming mouse and the 720 but prefer my MS mouse over both even though it's cheaper.
Maintenance for optical mice is non-existent.
People are dumb, don't know what they want, don't appreciate it when you build it for them, and don't want to pay. This is almost universal.
This is my experience too, which is why these sites aren't good for much more that small one-off jobs
Considering that there are no third world countries anymore,
The term '3rd world' is no longer widely used, but the term refers to what we now call 'the developing world' which includes places like Vietnam, India, Brazil and soon to be USA :)
The future's so dark, I gotta wear a headlamp. Retirement can't come soon enough, hope I can make it. Good luck to the younger folks, the lowest common denominator, as in wages, is what seems to be coming.
This is my prediction too. There is nothing you can do that some person from 3rd world used to $10/day can't do. Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers etc are just skills and experience that are transferable, so we are doomed. I got about 10 years to go before retirement but I don't think I'm going to make it
If you're doing more complex, advanced things, you can most likely charge a lot more and still get work...
Such as? India produces more PhD's every year than we have PhD's. No matter how complex, there is someone is Asia is who probably more qualified and a lot cheaper. The best you can go for a a job that requires a local language and accent and bit of personality. This the hardest hurdle for foreigners to get over.
Tariffs are matching what other countries are already doing to us.
So your solution is escalation? We've already done that remember and it didn't turn out well.
Free trade is like socialism,
Oh dear. Free trade is actually capitalism. This is how stupid American politics has become, the far right are backing a leftist agenda then criticising the left for trying to be more right.
. Meanwhile entire cities here in the USA are losing factory after factory and closing down small stores and restaurants which in turn reduces tax payers, etc.
So you solution is to make that worse? Like how Trump said he would drain the swamp when in fact in just made the swap larger?
I don't want lower price tags in the USA, in fact I want the opposite. Higher price tags and more people who can afford those higher price tags.
Which is fine, I agree that paying a higher ticket price to ensure some level of quality is a good thing overall. But this is not a capitalist ideal. It seems with Trump the Republicans have thrown every ideal they had out the window because winning is more important than being sticking with your beliefs
You don't get that by losing jobs to chop shop/kid labor overseas.
Well you can if you play it right. America is in decline because it didn't adapt quickly enough to globalisation. Globalisation means some jobs will no longer be cost effective, while others will be more profitable If you cling to the old way and just expect things to work you'e in for a surprise.
Trumps policies are clinging to the odd way. There is no vision or plan of how this will lead America to a brighter future. Tariffs don't work and everyone knows it
Yet another reason to not waste your money on "virus protection." Use the free Windows Defender if you must, and make sure you have good backups.
I stopped using AV about 10 years ago after numerous performance issues with flaky AV products. 10 years on and no issues! Sensible browsing/downloading/email behaviour is 99% of the battle
I'm perfectly happy if they sell the bikes in Indonesia that they build in Indonesia.
A quick history lesson for you. Thousands of years ago people discovered that trading with people outside their specific group brought benefits to both parties. The trade didn't have to be 50:50 to be a net gain for everyone, all you need is for one side to receive something they want in exchange for something they don't need as much of. 'Hey we have lots of rice that we don't need, those guys over there have lots of coffee, let's trade so we both get some rice and some coffee etc
Fast forward thousands of years, a motorcycle is made of thousands of parts sourced from hundreds or suppliers in dozens of different places. Your Harley dealer in Indiana isn't just selling you a Harley manufactured entirely for Indiana labour.
To use Indiana as an example, if every part of every product available in Indiana had to be made in Indiana, do you think you'd be better off?
The answer is no. You are better off by trading goods with others. That is why global trade is a thing. The bigger and more open the markets the more potential for growth overall. This is a key principle of free market economics that is central to the conservative agenda.
I don't want any country to suffer less employment opportunities. USA dwarfs any other place on the map as far as sales. If you move production away from USA you'll hurt sales in USA. It shouldn't be about saving a % here and there. It should be about supporting the economy.. which is why a lot of people who buy HD also buy "Made in USA."
Made in USA using imported parts. This is why tariffs won't work. If all those components are sourced locally they cost more, meaning the price of your Harley will go up, meaning less people will buy Harleys, meaning Harley makes less money, meaning they hire less people, meaning lees people with income to buy more Harleys. Do you see how that works?
If you want to improve the US economy, there are other ways to achieve this. Tariffs is not one of them.
The "magic" never ended! .
It's all magic. The next US economic rise or fall will be due to magic. Because apparently that is the how success or failure happens...
Australia has gone 26 years without a recession because their economy is based on mining iron and coal for sale to China.
And did that happen because of magic? Or did someone in charge recognise the changing global landscape and respond to it?
If is was magic, then when the magic ran out , surely the growth should have too? Or maybe smart people used smart policy to stay ahead of the game?
5 total in Indonesia. That's how many HD stores that there are within 30 miles of me in Indiana :)
Cool, so you admit that people are buying Harleys in Indonesia now? And that Harley Davidson is better off by having access to international markets?
Nearly 40% of HD sales are international. Or do you think HD would be better off with a 40% drop in sales?
How about Boeing? Or Apple? Or Caterpillar?
How do you resolve an argument with a deranged person? That's a different type of negotiating skill
I believe the NRA has the solution to that one.