we wouldn't be having this conversation. The drivers would have stopped doing this when they saw it didn't work. It worked because most Uber drivers also drive for Lyft since neither company pays enough to make it to your next rent payment.
Sorry braw, but the free market fails here. That's why we regulated cab companies in the first place.
Canada's far right has learned from the US how to leverage rural communities to get away with this stuff. The interests of city folk and rural folk often don't align. E.g. a rural person with a network connection measured in tens of kilobits probably doesn't care if some city guy gets in trouble for downloading movies. The effect is more pronounced in the US because our political system gives rural voters many, many times more voting power in an effort to be 'fair'.
I'd like to find some way to bridge that gap but I'm not sure anyone can. The lifestyles are too different.
and 'them' here isn't the drivers, they're victims of circumstance being taken advantage of by their employer. I'm not entirely pleased with the way Uber does business. Such things were banned decades ago when minimum wage law went through. And before you can bring it up we didn't put minimum wage in so teenagers could buy swank cars, we did it because people weren't given enough to live. 20 years of weak wage growth has got us back to that again meanwhile companies like Uber dodge the few protections employees have left.
This is what you get. One hell of a race to the bottom. Seriously, we didn't regulate cabbies because we were poo-pooing all over their fun. It was crap like this.
It's a JavaScript runtime. Is anyone using a JavaScript runtime for native client side apps that aren't just running in a browser? I'm not sure I see the point of complaining about server side apps. You trade performance and size for programmer hours.
You couldn't get me back to radio kicking and screaming. I don't need no stinkin' payola fueled music. If all else fails I've got 30 gigs of ripped CDs on a 64gb card in my phone. Plus I've got podcasts for all my hobbies/political leanings.
when run as a non-profit. The trouble is Americans can't stand for anything that isn't profitable and those profits have to be maxed. So the Gov't builds the plant, hands it over to a well connected private citizen for pennies on the dollar and after a few decades of inflation when it's no longer profitable enough they start cutting corners and you get a meltdown. It happened to the Japanese over in Fukushima. They knew damn well the reactor wasn't safe given the current weather patterns and they ignored it. Last I heard nobody was punished. A few committees formed but nothing came of it.
the maximum number of H1-B visas was awarded this year as always. There's no sign of a drop for next year either. Putting a few hoops up doesn't change anything. The program needs to end.
but who's in control when you're selling a physically addicting substance. You'll note that the overwhelming majority of smokers in America are young and low income. There is such a thing as taking advantage of people who are in a bad situation you know?
I worry about my own mistakes. Lots of folks do. But lots of folks have so much on their plate it's all they can do to make it through another day.
But even if you ignore that you still have the problem of a few bad actors breaking ranks. Every ad network has been caught serving up viruses at some point. But without the JavaScript to track the sales with nobody will buy the ads...
it's pretty brutal. So much so she's been taking summer courses to keep up. That wasn't her idea, her consoler advised her to. She's still putting in full time hours to keep up.
To her credit she's keeping up, but it's been pretty tough. I don't envy her the work load. I have a full time job and she works harder than me.
in the swing states. Arrogance and bad data cost her the election, not a lack of lip service to tech workers. We don't vote in blocks and we've got a host of other issues (gun rights, gay rights, abortion, taxes) that motivate us, so we never stand a chance. If you want to end H1-b abuse you need to make it a central issue for a large block of voters; particularly in swing states. Until then you'll get lip service from the parties and nothing more. I'll remind you Trump has done nothing of consequence to reign the program in...
because it's not an issue that brings anyone to the polls. You've got guns, abortion, Obamacare and coal jobs (mostly because it's a swing state issue). But H1-Bs? Nope. Nobody votes on it. If you wanna end H1-B abuses you need to start voting in your primaries and tossing the incumbents out when then vote against it. But good luck, I doubt you could get the herd of cats that is IT people to vote as a block. Besides, we're all convinced we're the irreplaceable guy...
the advertisers pulled their ads because of some alt-righters getting a few ads. Everybody pulled them and then they noticed there was no appreciable drop in business / sales / brand recognition from the lost advertisements. That means google's pretty well boned. It's also why P&G just announced they're dropping $100 mil in digital advertising. They know it doesn't work...
Sad thing is I'm gonna miss the ad supported internet. I'm pretty good about ignoring ads (and will cheerfully click on any ad that annoys me to give 'em a false positive) so it never bothered me.
and not the good kind. For all their posturing they aren't really doing squat to take care of victims of sex trafficking. If you wanted to do that you could provide help and support to the victims so they didn't feel the need to sell their bodies in the first place. But that costs real money and doesn't help out some prosecutors career prospects.
you're going to have to put the sorts of politicians in office that support it. And that means people who believe government (and government regulation, which NN is) can work. Right now the folks in charge of the government don't think government works. They want to tear it all down and NN is just one more regulation on their chopping block.
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right. We're just shy of places like Saudi Arabia and there's folks working hard to get us there. Our VP is one of them...
we wouldn't be having this conversation. The drivers would have stopped doing this when they saw it didn't work. It worked because most Uber drivers also drive for Lyft since neither company pays enough to make it to your next rent payment.
Sorry braw, but the free market fails here. That's why we regulated cab companies in the first place.
it'd be called collective bargaining. Everything's screwed up here because Uber is being allowed to break the law by declaring employees contractors.
Canada's far right has learned from the US how to leverage rural communities to get away with this stuff. The interests of city folk and rural folk often don't align. E.g. a rural person with a network connection measured in tens of kilobits probably doesn't care if some city guy gets in trouble for downloading movies. The effect is more pronounced in the US because our political system gives rural voters many, many times more voting power in an effort to be 'fair'.
I'd like to find some way to bridge that gap but I'm not sure anyone can. The lifestyles are too different.
and 'them' here isn't the drivers, they're victims of circumstance being taken advantage of by their employer. I'm not entirely pleased with the way Uber does business. Such things were banned decades ago when minimum wage law went through. And before you can bring it up we didn't put minimum wage in so teenagers could buy swank cars, we did it because people weren't given enough to live. 20 years of weak wage growth has got us back to that again meanwhile companies like Uber dodge the few protections employees have left.
This is what you get. One hell of a race to the bottom. Seriously, we didn't regulate cabbies because we were poo-pooing all over their fun. It was crap like this.
Well, yeah. I do. Very damn little turns out well when left to chance.
It's a JavaScript runtime. Is anyone using a JavaScript runtime for native client side apps that aren't just running in a browser? I'm not sure I see the point of complaining about server side apps. You trade performance and size for programmer hours.
You couldn't get me back to radio kicking and screaming. I don't need no stinkin' payola fueled music. If all else fails I've got 30 gigs of ripped CDs on a 64gb card in my phone. Plus I've got podcasts for all my hobbies/political leanings.
when run as a non-profit. The trouble is Americans can't stand for anything that isn't profitable and those profits have to be maxed. So the Gov't builds the plant, hands it over to a well connected private citizen for pennies on the dollar and after a few decades of inflation when it's no longer profitable enough they start cutting corners and you get a meltdown. It happened to the Japanese over in Fukushima. They knew damn well the reactor wasn't safe given the current weather patterns and they ignored it. Last I heard nobody was punished. A few committees formed but nothing came of it.
is it posting stories from 1999?
the maximum number of H1-B visas was awarded this year as always. There's no sign of a drop for next year either. Putting a few hoops up doesn't change anything. The program needs to end.
but who's in control when you're selling a physically addicting substance. You'll note that the overwhelming majority of smokers in America are young and low income. There is such a thing as taking advantage of people who are in a bad situation you know?
I worry about my own mistakes. Lots of folks do. But lots of folks have so much on their plate it's all they can do to make it through another day.
But even if you ignore that you still have the problem of a few bad actors breaking ranks. Every ad network has been caught serving up viruses at some point. But without the JavaScript to track the sales with nobody will buy the ads...
it's pretty brutal. So much so she's been taking summer courses to keep up. That wasn't her idea, her consoler advised her to. She's still putting in full time hours to keep up.
To her credit she's keeping up, but it's been pretty tough. I don't envy her the work load. I have a full time job and she works harder than me.
in the swing states. Arrogance and bad data cost her the election, not a lack of lip service to tech workers. We don't vote in blocks and we've got a host of other issues (gun rights, gay rights, abortion, taxes) that motivate us, so we never stand a chance. If you want to end H1-b abuse you need to make it a central issue for a large block of voters; particularly in swing states. Until then you'll get lip service from the parties and nothing more. I'll remind you Trump has done nothing of consequence to reign the program in...
because it's not an issue that brings anyone to the polls. You've got guns, abortion, Obamacare and coal jobs (mostly because it's a swing state issue). But H1-Bs? Nope. Nobody votes on it. If you wanna end H1-B abuses you need to start voting in your primaries and tossing the incumbents out when then vote against it. But good luck, I doubt you could get the herd of cats that is IT people to vote as a block. Besides, we're all convinced we're the irreplaceable guy...
the advertisers pulled their ads because of some alt-righters getting a few ads. Everybody pulled them and then they noticed there was no appreciable drop in business / sales / brand recognition from the lost advertisements. That means google's pretty well boned. It's also why P&G just announced they're dropping $100 mil in digital advertising. They know it doesn't work...
Sad thing is I'm gonna miss the ad supported internet. I'm pretty good about ignoring ads (and will cheerfully click on any ad that annoys me to give 'em a false positive) so it never bothered me.
and not the good kind. For all their posturing they aren't really doing squat to take care of victims of sex trafficking. If you wanted to do that you could provide help and support to the victims so they didn't feel the need to sell their bodies in the first place. But that costs real money and doesn't help out some prosecutors career prospects.
Doesn't this border on Anti-Trust? Maybe not since it's not like Google's the only game in town.
they don't have a lot of options.
better working conditions and pay. So no, you can't have them. See, the people in charge are in it for the long game.
so not sure how this is news except maybe it'll be implemented at the OS level.
you're going to have to put the sorts of politicians in office that support it. And that means people who believe government (and government regulation, which NN is) can work. Right now the folks in charge of the government don't think government works. They want to tear it all down and NN is just one more regulation on their chopping block.
now they want power.