has never been litigated because, well, being tall is such a huge advantage in life. You're generally more respected and looked at more favorably. Men & Women find you more attractive (something like 90% of Women say they want a taller man, not sure what the stats are for the other side) and it's a rare day I see somebody short who gets promoted and when I do they're usually some kind of bad ass engineer.
I'm not trying to throw shade. I think it's an issue that might actually need to be litigated at some point. But I am saying that most of the tall folks I know would just move on to a nicer job if they were put in that situation rather than bothering with a lawsuit. Sort of a reverse survival bias.
it doesn't work that way. Multiple bands have complained that nobody shows up at their shows because the tickets have been scalped like crazy. If I can sell 1000 tickets for $10 or 10 tickets for $2000 I'm going with option b. The reason event promoters can't do that is bands don't get a cut of ticket sales unless they're so huge they can fill arenas. Bands make their money selling merchandise, so if nobody shows up to the show they lose money on the tour even while the scalpers are making bank.
Plus the venue owners don't mind the scalpers one bit. All they care about is selling the tickets in the first place. The system lets the venue owners put the risk of actually putting people in seats in the hands of the scalper and the band, and super-fan "whales" (it's a free to play term that seems to fit here) mean the scalpers aren't taking much risk. They just need 10 guys with more money than they know what to do with to make an extra $10k like I mentioned above. The ones that get screwed are the bands when there's nobody to sell t-shirts & CDs to and when they die on the vine because folks lose interest because they can't afford to see them live.
the folks running major corporations that already get most of the H1-Bs all mostly sit on each other's board of directors. Plus I'm sure they'd take that opportunity to raise the number of visas. Put enough of 'em out there and the auctions won't go that high.
that there were Al Gore presidential election style shenanigans going on in at least Wisconsin. The only real question was why Hilary didn't push for a recount. The theory is she was so shocked by losing that it demoralized her. I could see that. She never for a moment thought she'd lose even with shenanigans. The dumb ass actually believed in that 'blue firewall' and 'Changing demographics' crap. That's not being in a bubble, that's being in a lead lined box at the bottom of the ocean.
Basically if you're even a _little_ tiny bit progressive in this country you have to win by at least 5 points or risk having electronic voting snatch the election from you.
if Uber didn't tightly control working hours by punishing drivers for not accepting unprofitable trips or not accepting enough trips. Uber has been caught doing both and I imagine a subpoena could find lots of other examples of Uber dangling carrots to force certain behavior if we actually had a working labor board anywhere on earth.
I could probably come up with other reasons why Uber drivers are, for all intents and purposes, employees, but I'll give other's a chance to chime in. Also, you probably don't want to break the employee/employer social contract. Maybe in the UK. In the States it's probably a bad idea. Guns we got, mental health services and a safety net, not so much...
who don't take enough rides or who turn down rides that aren't profitable. Uber does lots of stuff to control it's workforce. Sorta like an employer (hmmmm....).
you'll have more snooping. See, you're never really going to get less government because the ruling elite, the billionaires, want it. Your only real hope is to take control of it from them using democracy. If you just try to cut it back all that really happens is they seize control of it while you're busy not participating.
or trolling. Or being paid to spout this nonsense. It really doesn't matter which. And yes, you can still find information using google. Information on studies that are fully sourced.
I remember reading that in the Gilded Age everybody who wasn't destitute had multiple servants because it was so cheap to them. Lots of folks looking for any work they can get their hands on.
Crime is at lows because we took lead out of gasoline. Google it. If you account for all other statistical anomalies that's the only one left. That's the trouble with "Trough on Crime", it passes the gut test. But like so many simple solutions to complex problems it's wrong and makes things worse.
As the saying goes, For every sufficiently complex problem there is a solution that is solution that is simple, elegant and wrong.
Did you even read my post? You lock people up who are an active danger to society or themselves. You then rehabilitate them. If you find you can't rehabilitate them you declare them criminally insane and keep them locked up. You do not torture them while they're locked up, nor do you turn a blind eye while their fellow inmates torture them. If you can't rehabilitate them you give them the best life you can while they're locked up because they're criminally insane.
This also means you can't abandon those you rehabilitate after rehabilitation. You don't get to send them out the door with a cheap suit, a bus ticket and $20 bucks. If you invest in them it will pay back for society. But you are right about one thing. It's cheaper to put a bullet in their heads. It's always cheaper to murder undesirables. So long as you're willing to accept that as the right thing to do it'll work. But if you don't have the balls to shoot them dead then just about anything else you do with them costs more and only serves to line the pockets of folks running private prisons and give you that warm feeling of vengeance you so crave.
I liked sci-fi, but couldn't find any books full of pointless and gratuitous sex and violence. I'm no prude but about the fourth time I picked up a space opera and the entire thing came to a halt for a 3 page torture scene or a 5 page sex scene I got tired of it. If I wanted naughty bits there's the internet and I could do without detailed descriptions of horrific pain in my life. I assume they're doing it because they're trying to do something you can't do in film. But it's still annoying as heck. What I want is more stuff like what Greg Egan writes and less Peter Watts (to be fair to Peter, you know what your getting into).
unless the concept becomes so far out there they can't even get people to begin to take them seriously. And even then in a few decades? Who knows. If you asked me 8 years ago if we'd have a President who'd say about Neo-Nazis and their counter protestors that both sides were bad I'd have told you you were nuts...
multiple studies have shown that it doesn't do any good. Throwing people in jail and doing nothing to address the root causes of crime doesn't solve anything. It's just being punitive for it's own sake. Tough on crime basically means revenge. If you're not trying to rehabilitate and you're not locking up a mentally deranged person to keep them from harming others you're just committing an act of revenge out of anger and fear. Rather than a reasoned, scientific approach to crime it's an emotional one. One that does it's best to ignore that criminals are human beings in order to maintain the goal of revenge.
you have to stop voting the right wing "Tough on Crime" folks into office. I know that's not a popular thing to say, but this stuff all comes from the same folks (you'd not I said Right wing, nothing about "Ds" or "Rs", that's because right wing is a political ideology, not a party, and both sides have plenty of right wingers).
You also need to get your friends and family on board. And for Pete's sake vote in your primary. It doesn't do any good to vote if everyone running is a right wing "Tough on Crime" politician.
Or you can keep reading these stories and hoping for the best. I guess that works too.
the Amendment was written specifically for Amazon, probably after some measure of lobbying. Government contracts are, by and large, a means of wealth redistribution in America. It's the closest we get to socialism. So folks get a little uppity when they see the juiciest contracts just immediately handed out to somebody like Amazon. Especially with how poorly Amazon pays it's rank and file.
Now, if you can get real socialism in America (e.g. Medicare for all, college for everyone, $15 minimum wages, infrastructure spending, etc, etc) folks will stop caring so much about this kind of thing.
at all? I actually have the answer. In my neck of the woods the local power company wanted a law that said they didn't have to pay solar owners for their excess power. This is obviously a ridiculous thing on the face of it, but low and behold it passed. How you say?
They ran commercials everywhere (seriously, I kept seeing them on Youtube) with a bunch of old people sitting around a table talking about something vaguely scary. At the end of the commercial they told you how to vote. No details whatsoever. I only know about it because I looked up the proposition to see what they were up to. They literally used the Old Glory Robot Insurance marketing method and it worked.
The basic problem is that as you get older your brain starts to go. It just does, whether we like to acknowledge it or not. And you become vulnerable to all kinds of scams. This is just one of them.
but if somebody breaks into your house because your door locks were substandard (can happen even if you have nice locks, the more expensive ones are often just that, more expensive) then are you copping-out when blame them?
Mind you, Yahoo probably bought the crappiest locks they could get away with but still, that doesn't excuse the crime. As for Russia, I'm assuming Mayer's got some evidence if she's willing to say that in front of the Senate. And it's not at all surprising. There are a lot of out of work engineers in Russia. They've got great schools and great people but their economy's not the best. And I don't see a lot of immigration from there as compared to say India or even China.
she probably has some actual evidence that the hack originated in Russia. And it probably did. Russia and the old Soviet Block countries are full to the brim with out of work software engineers. Didn't you ever wonder why most hacks and quasi-legal software is made over there? China doesn't have this problem because their big manufacturing base absorbs those engineers (and if all else fails the gov't will do make work to keep them from causing trouble).
they're private jets. And I do not like the idea of our ruling elites getting access to them. For one thing Roads, like most things, are allowed because they suit their needs. Take that away and they'll fight to stop funding them so they can pocket the costs. And then there's the massive amount of resources we're going to devote to getting them around town. Those resources are still finite and if we're spending a huge amount of them on something so trivial it's going to impact the rest of us.
It's another example of our society being built first to service the needs of wealthy elites and then us working slobs being told to eat cake.
AMD could use a new direction. Their hardware's great but I don't know anyone who doesn't have problems with their software unless they only play a few big games (Overwatch / DOTA / COD / CSGO). I'd love to go back to AMD but I don't have time/energy to fiddle with their driver issues. And yeah, I know a lot of that's due to nVidia's shenanigans but knownign that doesn't make my games run better...
You do understand that bookkeeper was how folks who couldn't afford higher education got a start in something besides ditch digging. And I hope you also understand that the world does not, in fact, need ditch diggers. We have machines for that and they do the work of a thousand ditch diggers for less then the cost to feed them just enough to keep digging. Next you're gonna say something about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, somehow completely impervious to the irony of using a phrase that is literally psychically impossible to describe succeeding solely through ones own efforts...
'stable' here means they're still making changes. A lot of the stuff that lets you inspect data streams isn't completely hammered out. Meaning it could (will?) change later on down the line (probably in an effort to make FF feel snappier).
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has never been litigated because, well, being tall is such a huge advantage in life. You're generally more respected and looked at more favorably. Men & Women find you more attractive (something like 90% of Women say they want a taller man, not sure what the stats are for the other side) and it's a rare day I see somebody short who gets promoted and when I do they're usually some kind of bad ass engineer.
I'm not trying to throw shade. I think it's an issue that might actually need to be litigated at some point. But I am saying that most of the tall folks I know would just move on to a nicer job if they were put in that situation rather than bothering with a lawsuit. Sort of a reverse survival bias.
it doesn't work that way. Multiple bands have complained that nobody shows up at their shows because the tickets have been scalped like crazy. If I can sell 1000 tickets for $10 or 10 tickets for $2000 I'm going with option b. The reason event promoters can't do that is bands don't get a cut of ticket sales unless they're so huge they can fill arenas. Bands make their money selling merchandise, so if nobody shows up to the show they lose money on the tour even while the scalpers are making bank.
Plus the venue owners don't mind the scalpers one bit. All they care about is selling the tickets in the first place. The system lets the venue owners put the risk of actually putting people in seats in the hands of the scalper and the band, and super-fan "whales" (it's a free to play term that seems to fit here) mean the scalpers aren't taking much risk. They just need 10 guys with more money than they know what to do with to make an extra $10k like I mentioned above. The ones that get screwed are the bands when there's nobody to sell t-shirts & CDs to and when they die on the vine because folks lose interest because they can't afford to see them live.
the folks running major corporations that already get most of the H1-Bs all mostly sit on each other's board of directors. Plus I'm sure they'd take that opportunity to raise the number of visas. Put enough of 'em out there and the auctions won't go that high.
that there were Al Gore presidential election style shenanigans going on in at least Wisconsin. The only real question was why Hilary didn't push for a recount. The theory is she was so shocked by losing that it demoralized her. I could see that. She never for a moment thought she'd lose even with shenanigans. The dumb ass actually believed in that 'blue firewall' and 'Changing demographics' crap. That's not being in a bubble, that's being in a lead lined box at the bottom of the ocean.
Basically if you're even a _little_ tiny bit progressive in this country you have to win by at least 5 points or risk having electronic voting snatch the election from you.
if Uber didn't tightly control working hours by punishing drivers for not accepting unprofitable trips or not accepting enough trips. Uber has been caught doing both and I imagine a subpoena could find lots of other examples of Uber dangling carrots to force certain behavior if we actually had a working labor board anywhere on earth.
I could probably come up with other reasons why Uber drivers are, for all intents and purposes, employees, but I'll give other's a chance to chime in. Also, you probably don't want to break the employee/employer social contract. Maybe in the UK. In the States it's probably a bad idea. Guns we got, mental health services and a safety net, not so much...
who don't take enough rides or who turn down rides that aren't profitable. Uber does lots of stuff to control it's workforce. Sorta like an employer (hmmmm....).
you'll have more snooping. See, you're never really going to get less government because the ruling elite, the billionaires, want it. Your only real hope is to take control of it from them using democracy. If you just try to cut it back all that really happens is they seize control of it while you're busy not participating.
or trolling. Or being paid to spout this nonsense. It really doesn't matter which. And yes, you can still find information using google. Information on studies that are fully sourced.
I remember reading that in the Gilded Age everybody who wasn't destitute had multiple servants because it was so cheap to them. Lots of folks looking for any work they can get their hands on.
Crime is at lows because we took lead out of gasoline. Google it. If you account for all other statistical anomalies that's the only one left. That's the trouble with "Trough on Crime", it passes the gut test. But like so many simple solutions to complex problems it's wrong and makes things worse.
As the saying goes, For every sufficiently complex problem there is a solution that is solution that is simple, elegant and wrong.
Did you even read my post? You lock people up who are an active danger to society or themselves. You then rehabilitate them. If you find you can't rehabilitate them you declare them criminally insane and keep them locked up. You do not torture them while they're locked up, nor do you turn a blind eye while their fellow inmates torture them. If you can't rehabilitate them you give them the best life you can while they're locked up because they're criminally insane.
This also means you can't abandon those you rehabilitate after rehabilitation. You don't get to send them out the door with a cheap suit, a bus ticket and $20 bucks. If you invest in them it will pay back for society. But you are right about one thing. It's cheaper to put a bullet in their heads. It's always cheaper to murder undesirables. So long as you're willing to accept that as the right thing to do it'll work. But if you don't have the balls to shoot them dead then just about anything else you do with them costs more and only serves to line the pockets of folks running private prisons and give you that warm feeling of vengeance you so crave.
I liked sci-fi, but couldn't find any books full of pointless and gratuitous sex and violence. I'm no prude but about the fourth time I picked up a space opera and the entire thing came to a halt for a 3 page torture scene or a 5 page sex scene I got tired of it. If I wanted naughty bits there's the internet and I could do without detailed descriptions of horrific pain in my life. I assume they're doing it because they're trying to do something you can't do in film. But it's still annoying as heck. What I want is more stuff like what Greg Egan writes and less Peter Watts (to be fair to Peter, you know what your getting into).
unless the concept becomes so far out there they can't even get people to begin to take them seriously. And even then in a few decades? Who knows. If you asked me 8 years ago if we'd have a President who'd say about Neo-Nazis and their counter protestors that both sides were bad I'd have told you you were nuts...
multiple studies have shown that it doesn't do any good. Throwing people in jail and doing nothing to address the root causes of crime doesn't solve anything. It's just being punitive for it's own sake. Tough on crime basically means revenge. If you're not trying to rehabilitate and you're not locking up a mentally deranged person to keep them from harming others you're just committing an act of revenge out of anger and fear. Rather than a reasoned, scientific approach to crime it's an emotional one. One that does it's best to ignore that criminals are human beings in order to maintain the goal of revenge.
you have to stop voting the right wing "Tough on Crime" folks into office. I know that's not a popular thing to say, but this stuff all comes from the same folks (you'd not I said Right wing, nothing about "Ds" or "Rs", that's because right wing is a political ideology, not a party, and both sides have plenty of right wingers).
You also need to get your friends and family on board. And for Pete's sake vote in your primary. It doesn't do any good to vote if everyone running is a right wing "Tough on Crime" politician.
Or you can keep reading these stories and hoping for the best. I guess that works too.
is all the logins belonged to this guy
the Amendment was written specifically for Amazon, probably after some measure of lobbying. Government contracts are, by and large, a means of wealth redistribution in America. It's the closest we get to socialism. So folks get a little uppity when they see the juiciest contracts just immediately handed out to somebody like Amazon. Especially with how poorly Amazon pays it's rank and file.
Now, if you can get real socialism in America (e.g. Medicare for all, college for everyone, $15 minimum wages, infrastructure spending, etc, etc) folks will stop caring so much about this kind of thing.
at all? I actually have the answer. In my neck of the woods the local power company wanted a law that said they didn't have to pay solar owners for their excess power. This is obviously a ridiculous thing on the face of it, but low and behold it passed. How you say?
They ran commercials everywhere (seriously, I kept seeing them on Youtube) with a bunch of old people sitting around a table talking about something vaguely scary. At the end of the commercial they told you how to vote. No details whatsoever. I only know about it because I looked up the proposition to see what they were up to. They literally used the Old Glory Robot Insurance marketing method and it worked.
The basic problem is that as you get older your brain starts to go. It just does, whether we like to acknowledge it or not. And you become vulnerable to all kinds of scams. This is just one of them.
I'd thought the money was in trading them, not owning them. There's a book called "Where are the Customer's Yachts" that talks about all this.
but if somebody breaks into your house because your door locks were substandard (can happen even if you have nice locks, the more expensive ones are often just that, more expensive) then are you copping-out when blame them?
Mind you, Yahoo probably bought the crappiest locks they could get away with but still, that doesn't excuse the crime. As for Russia, I'm assuming Mayer's got some evidence if she's willing to say that in front of the Senate. And it's not at all surprising. There are a lot of out of work engineers in Russia. They've got great schools and great people but their economy's not the best. And I don't see a lot of immigration from there as compared to say India or even China.
she probably has some actual evidence that the hack originated in Russia. And it probably did. Russia and the old Soviet Block countries are full to the brim with out of work software engineers. Didn't you ever wonder why most hacks and quasi-legal software is made over there? China doesn't have this problem because their big manufacturing base absorbs those engineers (and if all else fails the gov't will do make work to keep them from causing trouble).
they're private jets. And I do not like the idea of our ruling elites getting access to them. For one thing Roads, like most things, are allowed because they suit their needs. Take that away and they'll fight to stop funding them so they can pocket the costs. And then there's the massive amount of resources we're going to devote to getting them around town. Those resources are still finite and if we're spending a huge amount of them on something so trivial it's going to impact the rest of us.
It's another example of our society being built first to service the needs of wealthy elites and then us working slobs being told to eat cake.
AMD could use a new direction. Their hardware's great but I don't know anyone who doesn't have problems with their software unless they only play a few big games (Overwatch / DOTA / COD / CSGO). I'd love to go back to AMD but I don't have time/energy to fiddle with their driver issues. And yeah, I know a lot of that's due to nVidia's shenanigans but knownign that doesn't make my games run better...
You do understand that bookkeeper was how folks who couldn't afford higher education got a start in something besides ditch digging. And I hope you also understand that the world does not, in fact, need ditch diggers. We have machines for that and they do the work of a thousand ditch diggers for less then the cost to feed them just enough to keep digging. Next you're gonna say something about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, somehow completely impervious to the irony of using a phrase that is literally psychically impossible to describe succeeding solely through ones own efforts...
'stable' here means they're still making changes. A lot of the stuff that lets you inspect data streams isn't completely hammered out. Meaning it could (will?) change later on down the line (probably in an effort to make FF feel snappier).