"I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can't afford to live here anymore."
Ha... cause and effect is a bitch sometimes, isn't it? No doubt she thought all those things would be paid for by other people. If she thought at all.
They're gaining access to high-cost cities like New York or San Francisco that offer so much more than good jobs: more restaurants, better schools, less crime, even cleaner air.
There's more restaurants because there are more high-income college grads to spend money there. There's less street crime because Johnny the Finance Douchebag isn't likely to do anything worse than public urination. (white collar crime is another matter)
As for better schools, hasn't happened yet at least in NYC -- the system is very uneven and the lengths parents will go through to get their kid in a better elementary school are legendary. Lose the battle, and welcome to the suburbs. If it does happen, it'll again be because the well-educated wealthy college students are there.
Cleaner air is mostly because there's little polluting industry left. Which means fewer blue-collar jobs.
The implied narrative that those rich overeducated scum are hogging all the good places and leaving the poor in high-crime areas with bad schools, dirty air, and no amenities gets cause and effect completely wrong.
Most of it is empty business-speak; I especially like "Today I want to synthesize the strategic direction" for pure meaningless noise. However, there is one meaningful part: "We'll use the month of July to have a dialogue about this bold ambition and our core focus. [...]Over the course of July, the Senior Leadership Team and I will share more on the engineering and organization changes we believe are needed."
Meaning? They'll take July to make up the lists, then layoffs in early August.
NRT, the parent company doesn't procure the footage in the first place. The individual agents do. They don't process it either; I'm not sure what that's all about. They didn't tell the local operating companies they'd be penalized by NRT for using drone footage, they just said of the operating companies "they may be held responsible for all fines, penalties, costs and fees related to the use of that photography". NRT just wants to be on the record as saying they don't encourage use of drones for real estate photography, that's all.
No real estate agent is going to stop using drone footage if it sells houses.
Yeah, but that was a more innocent time. We already have to talk to a pharmacist, show ID, and get in a government DB to buy decongestant. That's because you can use it to make meth.
Interestingly, the decongestant is made by yeast. Now all we need is for someone to come up with a yeast which makes the meth directly; no more need for the current sort of meth labs.
So the FAA has no intent of developing regulations or considering their need, but they have created a UAS study program including six regional test sites. Interesting.
Seriously? That's one of the classic bureaucratic ways to block something, to form a program to "study" it.
What's often left off of these reports is amount that student aid has also grown over time. Few people pay the full sticker price. The college board trends does have a chart of this, but unfortunately it wasn't adjusted for inflation.
The College Board charts are adjusted for inflation. Even with student aid increases, net college costs have increased over time. They are much higher than they were 30 years ago. And if your family makes more than median income, at public institutions that student aid increase doesn't amount to much.
Yes, but 13yo actors and athletes need special work permits and still need to attend to school whilst working.
These are summer internships; school is not an issue.
In many localities, they must have part of their earnings put directly into trust funds (e.g., a Coogan account in California) so neither they or their parents will blow all the money on something, or up something...
Four states, but the Coogan requirements in California and New York at least are specific to child performers, not all minors.
I doubt any of these internet companies are doing any of these even minimal best-practices/policies for these 13yo nerds (and these minimal things don't even prevent the Lindsey Lohans and Tracy Austins of the world)...
$18,000/year doesn't get you to Lindsey Lohan levels; she probably blows that in a night.
Yup - there are some criteria that we've explicitly decided NOT to let people use (i.e. even if you could show that race and auto insurance costs were correlated, and that the relationship was statistically significant, you still couldn't charge people more for being black/white/Asian/whatever), but credit score isn't one of those.
Actuaries are pretty clever, they can typically find a benign-sounding proxy for the forbidden criteria.
In 1999, my company offered an 18 year old summer intern a programming job. He turned us down to attend college. Spending 4 years doing calculus and reading The Count of Monte Cristo was not going to improve his earnings potential. Spending 4 years in a real office doing real programming would have improved his earnings potential.
Short term. But when he tried to change jobs, he'd find a lot of opportunities closed to him because just about every company wants a degree. I've known a number of non-degreed programmers who have gone back to get one for that reason.
Quitting school to found a startup might make sense; at least it's honest gambling. Quitting school to take a regular job doesn't; the job or one like it will still be there when you graduate.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. It's those unions. Those ones whose membership has been steadily and measurably been decreasing for 30 years(almost exactly at the same rate as wage stagnation occurs, as a complete coincidence).
Public service unions are the major exception; the general decline is irrelevant when US mass transit is still almost completely union.
Turns out that a lot of people, if you hit them on the point of their chin they lose consciousness. Most will lose consciousness with a simple tap to the temple. Seems like an easier off-switch to me.
You can get heart rate monitors from sporting goods stores; these aren't FDA regulated either. As long as they don't make medical claims (like being suitable to diagnose or monitor a medical condition) it's not illegal to measure pulse or blood pressure.
The subsidies for fossil fuels by first-world western nations (and China) (those in a position to fund green energy technologies) are a small percentage of the total. Most fossil fuel subsidies are done by oil producing nations as a form of population pacification. The idea that these funds are available for redirection is ludicrous.
Sure, but that's only half the problem. The other half is the idea that throwing money at renewables will actually reduce CO2 production.
I've seen managers cry because they had to fire people. I'm inclined to agree though, but more in terms of "take care of yourself first".
Sure, your boss might be a decent guy who wouldn't kick you to the curb if it was his choice, but it won't be. Worst I've seen was a company where the location director was laying people off in waves; he was a decent guy, and worst of all, he had to know that when he laid off all his subordinates he'd be gone too (which he was).
Exactly. It's almost always easier to move up significantly in salary and position by changing companies than by staying where you are. Going for a new job when you already have one, you're an applicant with at least some negotiating power, asking for a raise/promotion you're a supplicant.
You really have a warped sense of the law here. Note, you aren't filing a countersuit here, you are filing a counter-notice and expecting them to file a formal lawsuit against you if they want to continue. They, the guys who filed the original DMCA notice, need to spend their money filing the lawsuit and going before a federal judge to explain why they want to see you in court.
Those guys either ARE lawyers (in the case of these "IP Protection" firms or have lawyers on staff. Suing you is just a cost of doing business for them. You talked about hiring a lawyer "for 100% of the award". For you to do that would require that you file a countersuit, and that some lawyer would have confidence such a suit would succeed (when, as far as I know, only one ever has, against Diebold). And you'd still have to defend, with your own cash money, the original lawsuit.
Where do you get this notion that the law doesn't apply to you, me, or anybody else other than some special elite?
They apply to the non-elite, in that we are restricted by it.
Are you really serious about this belief that laws don't matter and don't actually protect anybody but somebody with seven+ figures in their bank account?
When I say that I think it is a stupid thing to have each possible copyright infringement go to a judge for review, I think it is not only a waste of time for that judge but also for me as well.
You are making the accusation. Why should the burden not be on you?
I am simply asserting that in my case the DMCA is my friend in terms of even giving me a tool to enforce my copyright claims.
Sure, the DMCA gives you and any copyright owner the ability to issue what amounts to an ex-parte temporary restraining order to any ISP without involving a court. That's pretty fucked up.
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Ha... cause and effect is a bitch sometimes, isn't it? No doubt she thought all those things would be paid for by other people. If she thought at all.
There's more restaurants because there are more high-income college grads to spend money there. There's less street crime because Johnny the Finance Douchebag isn't likely to do anything worse than public urination. (white collar crime is another matter)
As for better schools, hasn't happened yet at least in NYC -- the system is very uneven and the lengths parents will go through to get their kid in a better elementary school are legendary. Lose the battle, and welcome to the suburbs. If it does happen, it'll again be because the well-educated wealthy college students are there.
Cleaner air is mostly because there's little polluting industry left. Which means fewer blue-collar jobs.
The implied narrative that those rich overeducated scum are hogging all the good places and leaving the poor in high-crime areas with bad schools, dirty air, and no amenities gets cause and effect completely wrong.
Most of it is empty business-speak; I especially like "Today I want to synthesize the strategic direction" for pure meaningless noise. However, there is one meaningful part: "We'll use the month of July to have a dialogue about this bold ambition and our core focus. [...]Over the course of July, the Senior Leadership Team and I will share more on the engineering and organization changes we believe are needed."
Meaning? They'll take July to make up the lists, then layoffs in early August.
NRT, the parent company doesn't procure the footage in the first place. The individual agents do. They don't process it either; I'm not sure what that's all about. They didn't tell the local operating companies they'd be penalized by NRT for using drone footage, they just said of the operating companies "they may be held responsible for all fines, penalties, costs and fees related to the use of that photography". NRT just wants to be on the record as saying they don't encourage use of drones for real estate photography, that's all.
No real estate agent is going to stop using drone footage if it sells houses.
Interestingly, the decongestant is made by yeast. Now all we need is for someone to come up with a yeast which makes the meth directly; no more need for the current sort of meth labs.
Seriously? That's one of the classic bureaucratic ways to block something, to form a program to "study" it.
The College Board charts are adjusted for inflation. Even with student aid increases, net college costs have increased over time. They are much higher than they were 30 years ago. And if your family makes more than median income, at public institutions that student aid increase doesn't amount to much.
Oh please, that's an obvious falsehood.
These are summer internships; school is not an issue.
Four states, but the Coogan requirements in California and New York at least are specific to child performers, not all minors.
$18,000/year doesn't get you to Lindsey Lohan levels; she probably blows that in a night.
When I said send it to Maryland, I meant Fort Detrick, not NIH.
Actuaries are pretty clever, they can typically find a benign-sounding proxy for the forbidden criteria.
In extremis, if you set the premiums perfectly accurately you don't need insurance.
Short term. But when he tried to change jobs, he'd find a lot of opportunities closed to him because just about every company wants a degree. I've known a number of non-degreed programmers who have gone back to get one for that reason.
Quitting school to found a startup might make sense; at least it's honest gambling. Quitting school to take a regular job doesn't; the job or one like it will still be there when you graduate.
Public service unions are the major exception; the general decline is irrelevant when US mass transit is still almost completely union.
Turns out that a lot of people, if you hit them on the point of their chin they lose consciousness. Most will lose consciousness with a simple tap to the temple. Seems like an easier off-switch to me.
You can get heart rate monitors from sporting goods stores; these aren't FDA regulated either. As long as they don't make medical claims (like being suitable to diagnose or monitor a medical condition) it's not illegal to measure pulse or blood pressure.
No, no, they're combat engineers, like dolphins. Don't ask me where they get the explosives.
Sure, but that's only half the problem. The other half is the idea that throwing money at renewables will actually reduce CO2 production.
"Responsible hobbyists" fly planes in a circle over and over again with a group of other retired guys doing the same thing. What's to ruin?
Sure, your boss might be a decent guy who wouldn't kick you to the curb if it was his choice, but it won't be. Worst I've seen was a company where the location director was laying people off in waves; he was a decent guy, and worst of all, he had to know that when he laid off all his subordinates he'd be gone too (which he was).
Exactly. It's almost always easier to move up significantly in salary and position by changing companies than by staying where you are. Going for a new job when you already have one, you're an applicant with at least some negotiating power, asking for a raise/promotion you're a supplicant.
Sure, and trip over some procedural hurdle and lose before even getting to the substance of the matter.
Those guys either ARE lawyers (in the case of these "IP Protection" firms or have lawyers on staff. Suing you is just a cost of doing business for them. You talked about hiring a lawyer "for 100% of the award". For you to do that would require that you file a countersuit, and that some lawyer would have confidence such a suit would succeed (when, as far as I know, only one ever has, against Diebold). And you'd still have to defend, with your own cash money, the original lawsuit.
You are making the accusation. Why should the burden not be on you?
Sure, the DMCA gives you and any copyright owner the ability to issue what amounts to an ex-parte temporary restraining order to any ISP without involving a court. That's pretty fucked up.