this happens at every call center. They're high stress jobs with low pay. This kind of thing happens. I knew a project where the entire case was 75% ID-10T tickets. You don't usually even get the chance to fire the people. They're doing this stuff because their lives are a mess, they can't reliable get to work on time, and they know they've only got a little time left before they get fired for their next tardy.
A better question is why the hell would anyone care? There is no way in hell this has any bearing on Comcast's merger plans.
There's an Ars Technica article where a guy points out that the cable companies have a 97% profit margin on Internet. Not 100% it's true, but it sounds about right...
and it's no worse than Shrek. No _better_ than Shrek, mind you, but it's not worse than any of the adult reference heavy dreck that passes for children's movies today. The days of Secret of Nimh or even Black Caldron are long gone...
nVidia's been using that for years to keep their mid range from biting into their high end. At those price points I wish I was confident enough in AMD's driver stability to buy an R9 270X. 256 bit interface + 1500 mhz core clock for $210 bucks.
If you're talking about America Healthcare is cheaper in every other 1st world country and they have just as many unhealthy people (dear god, have you seen British food?). Heathcare is expensive in America because Regan gutted the education system 30 years ago and we've got a doctor shortage (esp primary care docs) and because we let a large, completely unnecessary industry skim money off the top.
And before anyone tries to blame malpractice insurance it accounts for about 10% of the cost of health care. I forget how pointed this out but: Would you sign a waiver on any mistakes the doctor might commit for a 10% discount on surgery?
The disruption is not lower rates for drivers it's bigger profits for investors. 10% of 481 Billion is a nice chunk of change. Throw in some data analytics to get rid of high risk drivers (or charge them 3x what they pay today) and now you're really talkin'
Big Data and Expert Systems suck for everybody except the investor class:(.
What did we get out of the last big housing crisis? There's a ever loving economic crash every 10 years like clockwork. The Republicans pull back the regulations, the economy crashes when rampant speculation runs out of control, the gov't bails out the rich and well connected and the Democrats get voted in to clean up the mess. It's been like this since the 70s, probably since before that.
Christ, the things that get modded up on/. these days...
The US Constitution was written by a bunch of wealthy land owners. Our representative gov't was specifically designed to ensure they'd keep that land and that the rabble wouldn't get too uppity. They weren't shy about it either. You can read plenty of documents from the time where they talk about it.
Republicans are in favor of Civil Asset forfeiture laws. It fits in well with their tough anti-crime stance. So it's not much of stretch to see them opposing this. Even Rand Paul pretty quickly dropped his bill banning civil asset forfeiture (or at least quietly let it die, which is the same thing). This is the first real step taken towards ending the practice since it began.
The real question is: after 40 years of non-stop tax cuts (especially for top earners) how are we going to fill the gaping hole in local law enforcement budgets this'll leave?
because I live in America, and our economic system isn't designed to handle a world of expert systems that replace all but the top and bottom 5% of workers; leaving the remaining 90% without the means to secure food, shelter and health care.
We have a dualapoly because of a lack of regulation. at&t and Verizon have been buying up competitors for years. There's a funny video of one of the guys from The Daily Show showing how AT&T undid their breakup through mergers
It's using the phrase "offshoring" to mean Americans losing jobs to cheaper foreign workers in general. Probably because by now everyone understands that "offshoring" == "bad".
It doesn't change the fact that the basic point (the death of American IT) is correct. If you can bring anyone in with an "Advanced STEM" degree then India will just open more schools to rubber stamp 'em. Race to the bottom.
the only reason we do fire drills is their mandated by law. Every business I know of is trying to cut IT costs. There's no way in hell this idea would fly. It's always cheaper to pick up the pieces as long as you don't really care about the damage.
and it still gets rings run around it by an 830M. Heck, the AMD stuff out performs it. It just seems silly to have that much processor and an integrated graphics chip...
Capitalism doesn't require faith to work because it's basically anarchy. The "invisible hand" Is basically a nice way to say you're leaving things to chance...
like most things once it's a large scale business somebody is going to look to cut corners. You don't do it directly. You just cut everybody's budgets until it happens "out of sight, out of mind". Heck, you don't even need to cut their budgets, just don't _raise_ them and wait for inflation to do it for you. At 2-5% every year that's a nice profit margin increase.
So you don't check/change the filtration equipment as much anymore. Your guys are working 16 hour shifts for 20% less than minimum wage 5 years ago thanks to inflation and driving them to work more hours. Suddenly stuff gets into the water that shouldn't. Maybe a few people get sick, maybe a few over 50 die....
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this happens at every call center. They're high stress jobs with low pay. This kind of thing happens. I knew a project where the entire case was 75% ID-10T tickets. You don't usually even get the chance to fire the people. They're doing this stuff because their lives are a mess, they can't reliable get to work on time, and they know they've only got a little time left before they get fired for their next tardy.
A better question is why the hell would anyone care? There is no way in hell this has any bearing on Comcast's merger plans.
There's an Ars Technica article where a guy points out that the cable companies have a 97% profit margin on Internet. Not 100% it's true, but it sounds about right...
as are many people (mostly males). So better color space really doesn't matter to me.
and it's no worse than Shrek. No _better_ than Shrek, mind you, but it's not worse than any of the adult reference heavy dreck that passes for children's movies today. The days of Secret of Nimh or even Black Caldron are long gone...
lets get the Gov't to enforce the law. It's our Government. I never said we trusted it. I don't trust fire, but I use it to cook my food.
since they'll be removing the $5/mo surcharges for building out FiOS right?
nVidia's been using that for years to keep their mid range from biting into their high end. At those price points I wish I was confident enough in AMD's driver stability to buy an R9 270X. 256 bit interface + 1500 mhz core clock for $210 bucks.
is the insurance industry spent half a billion dollars in 1 year on anti-single payer campaigns. They were fighting for their lives, and they won.
If you're talking about America Healthcare is cheaper in every other 1st world country and they have just as many unhealthy people (dear god, have you seen British food?). Heathcare is expensive in America because Regan gutted the education system 30 years ago and we've got a doctor shortage (esp primary care docs) and because we let a large, completely unnecessary industry skim money off the top.
And before anyone tries to blame malpractice insurance it accounts for about 10% of the cost of health care. I forget how pointed this out but: Would you sign a waiver on any mistakes the doctor might commit for a 10% discount on surgery?
The disruption is not lower rates for drivers it's bigger profits for investors. 10% of 481 Billion is a nice chunk of change. Throw in some data analytics to get rid of high risk drivers (or charge them 3x what they pay today) and now you're really talkin'
:(.
Big Data and Expert Systems suck for everybody except the investor class
What did we get out of the last big housing crisis? There's a ever loving economic crash every 10 years like clockwork. The Republicans pull back the regulations, the economy crashes when rampant speculation runs out of control, the gov't bails out the rich and well connected and the Democrats get voted in to clean up the mess. It's been like this since the 70s, probably since before that.
/. these days...
Christ, the things that get modded up on
The US Constitution was written by a bunch of wealthy land owners. Our representative gov't was specifically designed to ensure they'd keep that land and that the rabble wouldn't get too uppity. They weren't shy about it either. You can read plenty of documents from the time where they talk about it.
Republicans are in favor of Civil Asset forfeiture laws. It fits in well with their tough anti-crime stance. So it's not much of stretch to see them opposing this. Even Rand Paul pretty quickly dropped his bill banning civil asset forfeiture (or at least quietly let it die, which is the same thing). This is the first real step taken towards ending the practice since it began.
The real question is: after 40 years of non-stop tax cuts (especially for top earners) how are we going to fill the gaping hole in local law enforcement budgets this'll leave?
because I live in America, and our economic system isn't designed to handle a world of expert systems that replace all but the top and bottom 5% of workers; leaving the remaining 90% without the means to secure food, shelter and health care.
We have a dualapoly because of a lack of regulation. at&t and Verizon have been buying up competitors for years. There's a funny video of one of the guys from The Daily Show showing how AT&T undid their breakup through mergers
to rubber stamp 'em. U of Phoenix got it's start when a guy bought a secretary school so he could use the accreditation.
they're the ruling class. America has one. We just don't like to talk about/acknowledge our social betters.
by definition having them in the country reduces the prevailing wage...
It's using the phrase "offshoring" to mean Americans losing jobs to cheaper foreign workers in general. Probably because by now everyone understands that "offshoring" == "bad".
It doesn't change the fact that the basic point (the death of American IT) is correct. If you can bring anyone in with an "Advanced STEM" degree then India will just open more schools to rubber stamp 'em. Race to the bottom.
the only reason we do fire drills is their mandated by law. Every business I know of is trying to cut IT costs. There's no way in hell this idea would fly. It's always cheaper to pick up the pieces as long as you don't really care about the damage.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"... On my kid's TV a dead channel is blue now.
and it still gets rings run around it by an 830M. Heck, the AMD stuff out performs it. It just seems silly to have that much processor and an integrated graphics chip...
Capitalism doesn't require faith to work because it's basically anarchy. The "invisible hand" Is basically a nice way to say you're leaving things to chance...
and I made the call. It's my account after all.
like most things once it's a large scale business somebody is going to look to cut corners. You don't do it directly. You just cut everybody's budgets until it happens "out of sight, out of mind". Heck, you don't even need to cut their budgets, just don't _raise_ them and wait for inflation to do it for you. At 2-5% every year that's a nice profit margin increase.
So you don't check/change the filtration equipment as much anymore. Your guys are working 16 hour shifts for 20% less than minimum wage 5 years ago thanks to inflation and driving them to work more hours. Suddenly stuff gets into the water that shouldn't. Maybe a few people get sick, maybe a few over 50 die....