they do this. I seem to remember a judge ruling it was legal too. Maybe the exact specific practice of hiding the reviews wasn't proven though, but they were definitely promoting good reviews if you gave them money and bad reviews if you didn't. The entire thing felt sketchy, like a mob shake down or something. It's why I don't bother with yelp reviews.
they went along with the Gerrymandering because the R's carved out some safe districts for them. If this keeps up (and if we don't let voter suppression happen) it'll change the political landscape drastically. The part that worries me is the Rs just got out from under that court order that lets them send poll watchers. I some how doubt the reason for that order (voter intimidation) really went away. I know in the last two presidential elections there were armed police stationed outside predominately black precincts... OTOH there's been motions to force paper trails nationwide.
England 4.5%. Germany 3.6%. Norway 4.2%. Heck, Czechoslovakia has 3.6%.
Did it ever occur to you that youth unemployment rate is by design? You keep your youth out of the job market and in schools. They don't flood the job market and drop wages. Everyone has a better quality of life and you get an educated workforce who makes intelligent decisions. The only people who 'lose' are the Uber wealthy who can't monopolize all the money for themselves.
in the gig economy. It takes time to cook and clean (and if you don't clean you get bugs and get evicted from your rental). I can get in/out of Micky D's in 5 minutes with 2000 calories for $9 bucks. $6 if I eat off the dollar menu.
or the economic equivalent. There are companies like Costco & Quick Trip that treat their employees pretty well, and policies like Single Payer health care and basic income are gaining in popularity (with Single Payer being supported by a majority of voters).
Costco's doing just fine. So is Quick Trip. Both pay their employees well and treat them well. You don't have to be an ass to be successful. Sure, it helps, but it's not a requirement.
they're already campaigning to cut those social programs. That tax cut bill wasn't even signed into law before the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was talking about entitlement 'reform' being needed to stave off the $1.5 trillion hole in the budget it made.
See, that's the option folks always forget: You can just let these people starve. It's what they do in most of the world, and it's what we did for thousands of years. There's no reason we can't go back to it. Sure, there'll be some terrorism and banditry, but if you're rich enough you don't have to live around it, anymore than we do now.
I think our Senators have much, much better things to worry about. How about Net Neutrality? Work Visa Abuse? Our endless wars? Jeff Session's push to enforce federal marijuana laws in states where it is legal? Heck, I'd rather they weigh in on the loot box controversy than this.
Because they don't have to come to work, making them very unreliable. Ever been to a Walmart and wondered why they hired someone in their 70s to cashier instead of a young person who could do it 3x as fast? It's because of that 70 year old doesn't show up to work they don't eat.
I've heard we can't raise minimum wage because doing so would be devastating to our economy. But then I hear that only teenagers and bored old people work for minimum wage.
So which is it? Are minimum wage employees the bedrock of our economy or a completely superfluous bunch of kids and seniors. They can't be both.
the theory goes that if the rich don't pay people there will be no one to buy things. It ignores what it means to be truly rich. Like, member of the Aristocracy kind of rich. You control all of civilizations wealth. You don't need people to buy things to get more money because you already have all the money. Everybody is falling over themselves to do your bidding because if they don't they starve to death. And the few who rebel get beaten down by your knights (or militarized police if you want to modernize it).
What I'm saying is, don't kid yourself. The rich don't need us. On the other hand, we don't need them either.
You'll go to these restaurants because their prices will be lower. You'll need the lower prices because your wages aren't keeping pace with your productivity, meaning your labor is worth less every year. So to keep your head above water you'll shop at anti worker businesses because they'll treat their people like crap and pass a portion (a small one) onto you.
You're not destroying the working class and following your fellow men and women to a new gilded age like lambs to the slaughter, you're saving money, living better...
outside of $100 a plate high end restaurants it's all very, very regimented and repeatable. Got to any cheaper restaurant and you'll find the core of the menu is slabs of meat. That's because any fool can cook it acceptably. And if a fool can do it, so can a machine.
A $30 a plate place would need a few specialized robots and a few dozen programmers to run the chain (and they'll all be chains, since any restaurant with these resources will put the mom & pops out of business). And a $20/plate place? They won't even need the special robots.
A few of these chains might keep one guy around for a bit of custom stuff to spice up the menu. Maybe too. And that guy'll never make more than minimum wage. Heck, he might not even make that if we keep up with this 'gig economy' thing. Because put even 70% of the cooks out of work and the 1% will have so much leverage they can pay subsistence wages. Just like they do in massively overpopulated countries like India & China...
reliability. That's why everyone ignores. Open source means cheap, super reliable software. Tech advancements means the same for hardware. LCDs last for decades now. You can run these off a $20 64 gig compact flash and unlike a hard drive they last decades. Modern touch screens just work, they don't need to be recalibrated as the display ages. And the screens don't fade in a few years as long as you keep 'em out of direct sunlight.
They had these kiosks in the 90s and early 2000s. 80% of the time they were dumped to a BSOD or a command prompt because the software crashed or the hardware failed.
you could pay them.99 cents/hr and the machine would still be a better deal. The reason it's happening now is cheap, reliable microcontrollers and big, high res touch screens are finally widely available. Software is also a lot better. Most of these run some kind of unix (android/linux/etc). They'll have uptime measured in decades.
10 years ago these systems were too unreliable to replace humans. They ran XP and crashed all the time. Business is all about reliability, repeatably, and low risk. A living wage didn't doom the jobs, better tech did.
to veto it. As for Trump, this is mostly an issue that matters to east/west coasters. Middle America and the rust belt don't really care. Politically speaking that is, e.g. there's not enough people who will vote against Trump over this in those regions.
California Repubs are gonna hurt a little, but they'll manage. Meanwhile Trump's message of economic populism will catapult him to another win unless the Dems follow suit, but with Trump nobody really expected him to do anything, so he can get away with it. The if the Dems make promises like Trump did (health care for all, jobs for all, school for all) they'll be called to task if they don't make it happen. And there are lots of right wing Dems who's donors don't want that stuff happening.
This pisses me off for two reasons. First, it's incredibly dangerous. Second, I've been sold the idea that the insane profits from the stock market are warranted because the people running it are making tough decisions and that it's their leadership and brains that drive it (and all of modern business) forward. This shoots all kinds of holes in that.
because they look nice in the shop (even though they cause eye strain). First impressions matter in sales. It only takes hours to make a sale for a product you're going to have for years.
because of the backglass, which is there for exactly that purpose. The added weight is also why it shatters when it hits the ground. To be fair to the 4, it was the most durable of the iPhones I've bought for my kid.
When AES-256 is a crime only criminals will have AES-256. Make using it a crime and it won't matter that you can't crack it since you can just lock anyone using it up. Problem solved.
just wondering if the mechanism that makes this work could be used elsewhere. Not that you could just prescribe a tone of ibuprofen, it's got as ton more (and worse) side effects than this in high doses. But I don't think there's been nearly enough research on a male pill.
then it does with people taking excessive amounts of OTC drugs to cope with pain instead of seeing a doctor about that pain. In America unless you're in the top 5% you don't just go see a doctor. You weigh the cost in terms of co-pay, deductibles, time off work (we don't get very much of it) etc, etc. With all those costs you just pop another Advil and hope for the best.
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they do this. I seem to remember a judge ruling it was legal too. Maybe the exact specific practice of hiding the reviews wasn't proven though, but they were definitely promoting good reviews if you gave them money and bad reviews if you didn't. The entire thing felt sketchy, like a mob shake down or something. It's why I don't bother with yelp reviews.
they went along with the Gerrymandering because the R's carved out some safe districts for them. If this keeps up (and if we don't let voter suppression happen) it'll change the political landscape drastically. The part that worries me is the Rs just got out from under that court order that lets them send poll watchers. I some how doubt the reason for that order (voter intimidation) really went away. I know in the last two presidential elections there were armed police stationed outside predominately black precincts... OTOH there's been motions to force paper trails nationwide.
England 4.5%. Germany 3.6%. Norway 4.2%. Heck, Czechoslovakia has 3.6%.
Did it ever occur to you that youth unemployment rate is by design? You keep your youth out of the job market and in schools. They don't flood the job market and drop wages. Everyone has a better quality of life and you get an educated workforce who makes intelligent decisions. The only people who 'lose' are the Uber wealthy who can't monopolize all the money for themselves.
in the gig economy. It takes time to cook and clean (and if you don't clean you get bugs and get evicted from your rental). I can get in/out of Micky D's in 5 minutes with 2000 calories for $9 bucks. $6 if I eat off the dollar menu.
or the economic equivalent. There are companies like Costco & Quick Trip that treat their employees pretty well, and policies like Single Payer health care and basic income are gaining in popularity (with Single Payer being supported by a majority of voters).
Costco's doing just fine. So is Quick Trip. Both pay their employees well and treat them well. You don't have to be an ass to be successful. Sure, it helps, but it's not a requirement.
they're already campaigning to cut those social programs. That tax cut bill wasn't even signed into law before the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was talking about entitlement 'reform' being needed to stave off the $1.5 trillion hole in the budget it made.
See, that's the option folks always forget: You can just let these people starve. It's what they do in most of the world, and it's what we did for thousands of years. There's no reason we can't go back to it. Sure, there'll be some terrorism and banditry, but if you're rich enough you don't have to live around it, anymore than we do now.
I think our Senators have much, much better things to worry about. How about Net Neutrality? Work Visa Abuse? Our endless wars? Jeff Session's push to enforce federal marijuana laws in states where it is legal? Heck, I'd rather they weigh in on the loot box controversy than this.
Because they don't have to come to work, making them very unreliable. Ever been to a Walmart and wondered why they hired someone in their 70s to cashier instead of a young person who could do it 3x as fast? It's because of that 70 year old doesn't show up to work they don't eat.
I've heard we can't raise minimum wage because doing so would be devastating to our economy. But then I hear that only teenagers and bored old people work for minimum wage.
So which is it? Are minimum wage employees the bedrock of our economy or a completely superfluous bunch of kids and seniors. They can't be both.
the theory goes that if the rich don't pay people there will be no one to buy things. It ignores what it means to be truly rich. Like, member of the Aristocracy kind of rich. You control all of civilizations wealth. You don't need people to buy things to get more money because you already have all the money. Everybody is falling over themselves to do your bidding because if they don't they starve to death. And the few who rebel get beaten down by your knights (or militarized police if you want to modernize it).
What I'm saying is, don't kid yourself. The rich don't need us. On the other hand, we don't need them either.
You'll go to these restaurants because their prices will be lower. You'll need the lower prices because your wages aren't keeping pace with your productivity, meaning your labor is worth less every year. So to keep your head above water you'll shop at anti worker businesses because they'll treat their people like crap and pass a portion (a small one) onto you.
You're not destroying the working class and following your fellow men and women to a new gilded age like lambs to the slaughter, you're saving money, living better...
outside of $100 a plate high end restaurants it's all very, very regimented and repeatable. Got to any cheaper restaurant and you'll find the core of the menu is slabs of meat. That's because any fool can cook it acceptably. And if a fool can do it, so can a machine.
A $30 a plate place would need a few specialized robots and a few dozen programmers to run the chain (and they'll all be chains, since any restaurant with these resources will put the mom & pops out of business). And a $20/plate place? They won't even need the special robots.
A few of these chains might keep one guy around for a bit of custom stuff to spice up the menu. Maybe too. And that guy'll never make more than minimum wage. Heck, he might not even make that if we keep up with this 'gig economy' thing. Because put even 70% of the cooks out of work and the 1% will have so much leverage they can pay subsistence wages. Just like they do in massively overpopulated countries like India & China...
reliability. That's why everyone ignores. Open source means cheap, super reliable software. Tech advancements means the same for hardware. LCDs last for decades now. You can run these off a $20 64 gig compact flash and unlike a hard drive they last decades. Modern touch screens just work, they don't need to be recalibrated as the display ages. And the screens don't fade in a few years as long as you keep 'em out of direct sunlight.
They had these kiosks in the 90s and early 2000s. 80% of the time they were dumped to a BSOD or a command prompt because the software crashed or the hardware failed.
Automated killbots.
you could pay them .99 cents/hr and the machine would still be a better deal. The reason it's happening now is cheap, reliable microcontrollers and big, high res touch screens are finally widely available. Software is also a lot better. Most of these run some kind of unix (android/linux/etc). They'll have uptime measured in decades.
10 years ago these systems were too unreliable to replace humans. They ran XP and crashed all the time. Business is all about reliability, repeatably, and low risk. A living wage didn't doom the jobs, better tech did.
to veto it. As for Trump, this is mostly an issue that matters to east/west coasters. Middle America and the rust belt don't really care. Politically speaking that is, e.g. there's not enough people who will vote against Trump over this in those regions.
California Repubs are gonna hurt a little, but they'll manage. Meanwhile Trump's message of economic populism will catapult him to another win unless the Dems follow suit, but with Trump nobody really expected him to do anything, so he can get away with it. The if the Dems make promises like Trump did (health care for all, jobs for all, school for all) they'll be called to task if they don't make it happen. And there are lots of right wing Dems who's donors don't want that stuff happening.
This pisses me off for two reasons. First, it's incredibly dangerous. Second, I've been sold the idea that the insane profits from the stock market are warranted because the people running it are making tough decisions and that it's their leadership and brains that drive it (and all of modern business) forward. This shoots all kinds of holes in that.
as Intel has long since proven, it's easy-peasy to cheat benchmarks.
And the answer is none. None more black.
because they look nice in the shop (even though they cause eye strain). First impressions matter in sales. It only takes hours to make a sale for a product you're going to have for years.
because of the backglass, which is there for exactly that purpose. The added weight is also why it shatters when it hits the ground. To be fair to the 4, it was the most durable of the iPhones I've bought for my kid.
When AES-256 is a crime only criminals will have AES-256. Make using it a crime and it won't matter that you can't crack it since you can just lock anyone using it up. Problem solved.
just wondering if the mechanism that makes this work could be used elsewhere. Not that you could just prescribe a tone of ibuprofen, it's got as ton more (and worse) side effects than this in high doses. But I don't think there's been nearly enough research on a male pill.
then it does with people taking excessive amounts of OTC drugs to cope with pain instead of seeing a doctor about that pain. In America unless you're in the top 5% you don't just go see a doctor. You weigh the cost in terms of co-pay, deductibles, time off work (we don't get very much of it) etc, etc. With all those costs you just pop another Advil and hope for the best.