No bees means no pollination. Farmers recognizing this will voluntarily reduce their use of these pesticides once they consider what manual pollination would entail.
+1 Funny
You were making a joke at Libertarians' expense, right?
The difference is that Google claims to be a free speech zone - hence the town hall meeting that was ironically cancelled because people there don't really want to hear anything that they don't agree with.
That's all well and good. But again, once you have been around the block a few times, you come to be able to recognize corporate bullshit. There is plenty of company happy-talk at my job too. It gives the HR and People Operations drones something to do. Most of use smile and shake our heads and then get back to work. Because, at the end of the day, the company wants to make money. Don't get in the way of that and you're generally good.
I know a few people at Google and heard about this dust up before it hit the news. What happened with this town hall is that someone or someones at the company were sharing the names and addresses of people who pushed back on Damore's essay with some unsavory alt-right characters. The people whose names were shared online started getting death threats. This was going on in advance of the all hands meeting. That's partly why it got cancelled. Unsurprisingly, it turns out many people don't like free speech, regardless of what end of the political spectrum we are talking about.
She is a big time arms dealer (smuggler actually, that's what they're trying to hide about Benghazi, the weapons shipments to terrorists in Syria).
That was a CIA operation, more accurately. Maybe Clinton knew, maybe she didn't. It's always hard to tell with the CIA. But don't make it sound like it was her own personal operation.
you're an idiot conspiracy theorist who knows nothing about economics.
If you don't know fraud goes unpunished at the highest levels of finance, you really haven't been paying attention. No conspiracy here, just the power of wealth and connections.
This Damore fellow seems naive. You don't have free speech at work. Anyone who has been around the block a few times should know that.
I hold some controversial views about politics and society. I don't talk about them at work. I keep conversation with my colleagues limited to the work we are doing and maybe the weather and what I did over the weekend. Even then, they get a sanitized version of my weekend. Management is going to do what they're going to do, and likely don't give a fuck what I think. Sure, I'll make suggestions in the proper setting if I think something can be done better. But as a Systems Admin I'm not going to weigh in, uninvited, on the company's hiring policies; especially about something as contentious and politically charged as women's aptitude for engineering.
I'm not sure this guy should have been fired. But the fact is he stuck his head up and it got lopped off. Companies have cultures. Not everyone if a fit for every culture, and the culture is likely not going to change just for you. Don't like it? Don't work for Google. I have refused job offers because the people at the company seemed like dicks. Damore should just move on. He won't have free speech ant his next job either.
Yes, because "odumba" could have predicted something that would happen two years after relations with Cuba were re-opened and they would be using a "sonic device" the likes of which are unproven to exist. If Obama was actually that powerful, you really should be afraid of him like you're pretending to be.
The US government has has sonic weapons since the 60's. Obama was a terrorist infiltrator, no other reason every single policy he implemented would be made to harm the US, even the libtards get things right on occasion if only by chance.
If the commies are harming our diplomats, why did Odumba normalize relations with them? As usual, Odumba had no clue about foreign policy. Castro may be dead, but the antics haven't changed. I expect the Democrats to attack me for asking this, but the question needs an answer.
Yeah, you seem like you're up for a reasoned, civil debate...
Social security was gutted since inception. If anything the 401k was a response to the failure of government to provide any sort of incentive for people to actually save money.
You understand, do you not, that many people don't make enough money to adequately save for retirement? That Social Security was created in response to massive poverty among older people?
Public healthcare is inefficient, tyrannical, and anti-moral. It punishes through taxation those who work hard and take care of themselves; It rewards those who abuse their bodies.
Insurance is also immoral, by promoting and pandering to cowardice, but at least it isn't forced on people by gun-wielding thugs in police uniforms.
You're kind of proving Poe's Law with this post. You seem to think that "taking car of yourself" precludes you from needing healthcare. It doesn't. People fall ill and get injured. It's part of the human condition and not necessarily a result of poor choices or lack of character.
I also can't understand how people are not approving of him. Got the economy going way up just by removing regulations Obama put in, drasticly reduced illegal immigration without even building the wall yet, talking legal immigration that most approve of, not gotten Health care, but that is not his fault.
Then they wouldn't have to resort to such questionable tactics.
True, but I don't really understand how anyone expects to make any real money working for a company that loses money on every sale. Stuffing your pockets with VC money is something only the guys at the top get to do.
The thing is, Uber's fares are already artificially low. As I understand it, the company loses money on every fare. It's also my understanding that the drivers are not very well compensated.
In any market, the demand side decides at what price it is willing to buy a product and the supply side decides at what price it is willing to sell. When those two overlap, a transaction can be made. These drivers are reacting to an artificially low supply price. The riders are understandably upset that their fares are going up because they are used to be subsidized by Uber to use Uber. People blame the drivers when really this is Uber's fault for setting up unrealistic expectations based on a short-term business model.
Also, given that Uber has been in the news lately for allegedly having a culture of harassment of female employees, and the feminist bent of modern academia, it wouldn't surprise me if some academics were looking to run a hit piece or two.
ObamaCare is the worst thing to ever happen to the American people.
Do you remember the "Let's go ahead and pass this so we can see what is in it." Who is so dumb that they pass a bill without reading it?
Really, the worst thing? Do you have an argument or is this just more assertion? I do remember "Let's go ahead and pass this so we can see what is in it." and I didn't like that one bit. I also remember that it was Nancy Pelosi who said that, so I'm not sure how it's germane.
A reality TV show is one step up from the previous Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Seriously, what did Obama do that was so terrible? I disagreed with him on foreign policy (he basically continued what Bush started), the use of drones and his war on whistle blowers. I never voted for him. But really he wasn't too bad considering what one can reasonably expect from a President. People act like the country is so much worse off after his term, but I just don't see it.
I like to keep my guns loaded, chambered and hidden throughout the house...where I'm never but a few steps away from any weapon that I can grab, and pull the trigger on (some do have safety on, but the glocks do not).
5) End results: Union workers WIN BIG. They can't be fired, they have two paths to power (within the Company and within the Union), they get to be lazy, they get to decide elections, write protectionist laws, etc that drive up prices of the Unionized goods. Everyone else LOSES. We pay higher taxes, we pay more for products, we lose control of our government, we bail out failing Unionized companies (i.e. the "Company" is just an arm of the Union, not the other way around), no justice for criminal Union workers, no innovation, no entrepreneurial activity. The key here is the government subsidies (paid for by non-union workers) given to Union businesses so that they can survive paying lazy Union workers.
I've got news for you, kid. You just described our current situation, except you'd replace "union workers" with "business owners". It seems you'd just rather have the owners take all that advantage instead of the workers. Fair enough, I suppose.
"Between 2009 and 2012, according to updated data from Emmanuel Saez, overall income per family grew 6.9 percent. The gains weren’t shared evenly, however. The top 1 percent saw their real income grow by 34.7 percent while the bottom 99 percent only saw a 0.8 percent gain, meaning that the 1 percent captured 91 percent of all real income."
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No bees means no pollination. Farmers recognizing this will voluntarily reduce their use of these pesticides once they consider what manual pollination would entail.
+1 Funny
You were making a joke at Libertarians' expense, right?
The difference is that Google claims to be a free speech zone - hence the town hall meeting that was ironically cancelled because people there don't really want to hear anything that they don't agree with.
That's all well and good. But again, once you have been around the block a few times, you come to be able to recognize corporate bullshit. There is plenty of company happy-talk at my job too. It gives the HR and People Operations drones something to do. Most of use smile and shake our heads and then get back to work. Because, at the end of the day, the company wants to make money. Don't get in the way of that and you're generally good.
I know a few people at Google and heard about this dust up before it hit the news. What happened with this town hall is that someone or someones at the company were sharing the names and addresses of people who pushed back on Damore's essay with some unsavory alt-right characters. The people whose names were shared online started getting death threats. This was going on in advance of the all hands meeting. That's partly why it got cancelled. Unsurprisingly, it turns out many people don't like free speech, regardless of what end of the political spectrum we are talking about.
She is a big time arms dealer (smuggler actually, that's what they're trying to hide about Benghazi, the weapons shipments to terrorists in Syria).
That was a CIA operation, more accurately. Maybe Clinton knew, maybe she didn't. It's always hard to tell with the CIA. But don't make it sound like it was her own personal operation.
you're an idiot conspiracy theorist who knows nothing about economics.
If you don't know fraud goes unpunished at the highest levels of finance, you really haven't been paying attention. No conspiracy here, just the power of wealth and connections.
This Damore fellow seems naive. You don't have free speech at work. Anyone who has been around the block a few times should know that.
I hold some controversial views about politics and society. I don't talk about them at work. I keep conversation with my colleagues limited to the work we are doing and maybe the weather and what I did over the weekend. Even then, they get a sanitized version of my weekend. Management is going to do what they're going to do, and likely don't give a fuck what I think. Sure, I'll make suggestions in the proper setting if I think something can be done better. But as a Systems Admin I'm not going to weigh in, uninvited, on the company's hiring policies; especially about something as contentious and politically charged as women's aptitude for engineering.
I'm not sure this guy should have been fired. But the fact is he stuck his head up and it got lopped off. Companies have cultures. Not everyone if a fit for every culture, and the culture is likely not going to change just for you. Don't like it? Don't work for Google. I have refused job offers because the people at the company seemed like dicks. Damore should just move on. He won't have free speech ant his next job either.
Yes, because "odumba" could have predicted something that would happen two years after relations with Cuba were re-opened and they would be using a "sonic device" the likes of which are unproven to exist. If Obama was actually that powerful, you really should be afraid of him like you're pretending to be.
The US government has has sonic weapons since the 60's. Obama was a terrorist infiltrator, no other reason every single policy he implemented would be made to harm the US, even the libtards get things right on occasion if only by chance.
LOL, where do you guys get this stuff?
If the commies are harming our diplomats, why did Odumba normalize relations with them? As usual, Odumba had no clue about foreign policy. Castro may be dead, but the antics haven't changed. I expect the Democrats to attack me for asking this, but the question needs an answer.
Yeah, you seem like you're up for a reasoned, civil debate...
Social security was gutted since inception. If anything the 401k was a response to the failure of government to provide any sort of incentive for people to actually save money.
You understand, do you not, that many people don't make enough money to adequately save for retirement? That Social Security was created in response to massive poverty among older people?
Public healthcare is inefficient, tyrannical, and anti-moral. It punishes through taxation those who work hard and take care of themselves; It rewards those who abuse their bodies.
Insurance is also immoral, by promoting and pandering to cowardice, but at least it isn't forced on people by gun-wielding thugs in police uniforms.
You're kind of proving Poe's Law with this post. You seem to think that "taking car of yourself" precludes you from needing healthcare. It doesn't. People fall ill and get injured. It's part of the human condition and not necessarily a result of poor choices or lack of character.
You lost me at cigarettes are cheap. I look around and see the average price for a pack of cigs near 15 bucks.
Look who doesn't live in West Virginia!
Lying is not a bad thing any more, it's just normal.
Things can be bad and normal at the same time.
I also can't understand how people are not approving of him. Got the economy going way up just by removing regulations Obama put in, drasticly reduced illegal immigration without even building the wall yet, talking legal immigration that most approve of, not gotten Health care, but that is not his fault.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Gotta love the bigotry coming from people living in those supposedly 'tolerant' and 'progressive' nations.
Do you work at Google?
Surely the Slashdot editors wouldn't publish this piece of drivel? Must be a slow news day...
Why do you consider it drivel?
I am surprised it took this long to game this system or the news to come out.
Wonder what would happen if a company develops a passengers cooperation platform that allows users to gang up against providers.
Uber already subsidizes every ride and pays their drivers shit. Uber is a passenger cooperation platform.
Then they wouldn't have to resort to such questionable tactics.
True, but I don't really understand how anyone expects to make any real money working for a company that loses money on every sale. Stuffing your pockets with VC money is something only the guys at the top get to do.
The thing is, Uber's fares are already artificially low. As I understand it, the company loses money on every fare. It's also my understanding that the drivers are not very well compensated.
In any market, the demand side decides at what price it is willing to buy a product and the supply side decides at what price it is willing to sell. When those two overlap, a transaction can be made. These drivers are reacting to an artificially low supply price. The riders are understandably upset that their fares are going up because they are used to be subsidized by Uber to use Uber. People blame the drivers when really this is Uber's fault for setting up unrealistic expectations based on a short-term business model.
Also, given that Uber has been in the news lately for allegedly having a culture of harassment of female employees, and the feminist bent of modern academia, it wouldn't surprise me if some academics were looking to run a hit piece or two.
Academics run hit pieces now?
ObamaCare is the worst thing to ever happen to the American people.
Do you remember the "Let's go ahead and pass this so we can see what is in it." Who is so dumb that they pass a bill without reading it?
Really, the worst thing? Do you have an argument or is this just more assertion? I do remember "Let's go ahead and pass this so we can see what is in it." and I didn't like that one bit. I also remember that it was Nancy Pelosi who said that, so I'm not sure how it's germane.
A reality TV show is one step up from the previous Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Seriously, what did Obama do that was so terrible? I disagreed with him on foreign policy (he basically continued what Bush started), the use of drones and his war on whistle blowers. I never voted for him. But really he wasn't too bad considering what one can reasonably expect from a President. People act like the country is so much worse off after his term, but I just don't see it.
Fucking Think Progress.
Cocksuckers...you too.
Always the fucking victims...POOR ME!!!
Fuck and die.
So, no challenge to the data, I see.
I like to keep my guns loaded, chambered and hidden throughout the house...where I'm never but a few steps away from any weapon that I can grab, and pull the trigger on (some do have safety on, but the glocks do not).
Yikes, do you live in Detroit or something?
5) End results: Union workers WIN BIG. They can't be fired, they have two paths to power (within the Company and within the Union), they get to be lazy, they get to decide elections, write protectionist laws, etc that drive up prices of the Unionized goods. Everyone else LOSES. We pay higher taxes, we pay more for products, we lose control of our government, we bail out failing Unionized companies (i.e. the "Company" is just an arm of the Union, not the other way around), no justice for criminal Union workers, no innovation, no entrepreneurial activity. The key here is the government subsidies (paid for by non-union workers) given to Union businesses so that they can survive paying lazy Union workers.
I've got news for you, kid. You just described our current situation, except you'd replace "union workers" with "business owners". It seems you'd just rather have the owners take all that advantage instead of the workers. Fair enough, I suppose.
owners of capital
Oh, dear God...
Let me guess: now you think I'm a Marxist.
The economic Pie is not fixed in size.
At any given time, it most certainly is. Yes, it changes in size over time, but at any instant it is a certain size.
Plus, this so-called "larger share" is largely an illusion. Unless you actually believe that Zuk has a couple billion dollars in his checking account.
I understand that he doesn't have it in his checking account. What I'm talking about is this:
https://thinkprogress.org/the-1-percent-have-gotten-all-the-income-gains-from-the-recovery-6bee14aab1
"Between 2009 and 2012, according to updated data from Emmanuel Saez, overall income per family grew 6.9 percent. The gains weren’t shared evenly, however. The top 1 percent saw their real income grow by 34.7 percent while the bottom 99 percent only saw a 0.8 percent gain, meaning that the 1 percent captured 91 percent of all real income."