This happened to my girlfriend. They cut all the full time employees to working 25 hours and under. They went on a mass hiring spree to compensate. It's something Walmart has been doing for years and years. The problem is, it's not 2014 yet, so the affordable exchanges are not available to everyone yet. At that point all those people will be able to get health care for basically nothing, as their pay scale will determine how much in assisted aid they get. If they get paid $15k a year pumping gas, their health care will basically be entirely covered. Companies are using this as a method to push expenses from their pocket to the tax payers pocket.
Not that I don't have any problem with this. It's speeding up the process to get everything straight up nationalized. By the end of 2014, I am guessing most of the workforce will be covered by the government. At which point they will just say there is no point in having companies pay for it, and just move everyone to it. Then we can get all the providers under control with cost requirements.
The problem is, you wouldn't be admitted to shop around. You would probably be denied. I have had several friends who left their jobs to strike out on their own, and they cannot get insurance at all. Everyone has denied them. One had a parent who died from cancer. Another had a head XRay for sinus blockage in his past. They were afraid he might want to get surgery to fix it in the future under their plan. If you have any bad medical history in your family, you will be denied. Even insanely high deducible fly by night policies wont take you.
People just want full insurance without having to fill out forms, switching providers, doctors or anything else. The only people crying about money are the Tea Party weirdos who cry about dropping a penny in their couches. The fact is, the Administration should have just simply took over the entire health care industry. When you have an industry that can only make money off healthy people, then you simply cannot expect to make money unless you let the sick and dying go. Which is the opposite of what is SUPPOSED to happen. Much like the military, it needs to be socialized. All of it. The industry was in shambles before this act, and it will more than likely be in shambles after. Everyone should be allowed to receive health care for free. It's 2013, we have the means, we have the wealth, and we have the regulatory power to make it all work.
I have had Tivo since the day it came out, was one of the first to have mcard and the cable tuner when that came as well. I never had an issue with it. The Charter guy showed up, plugged the card in, called a number, read off a string of numbers and letters, worked just fine. That was almost 10 years ago. When the cable tuner came out, same thing, guy shows up, plugs it in, doesn't even need to call anyone. Leaves literally 2 minutes later. Everything has worked fine since.
Not sure why you're having any issues. While they might have different area techs, we all connect to the same provider at the other end. Just my 2 cents and experiences.
In this sort of position, if you are using contractors because "they are easier to fire", then you're using the wrong people. Period. Contractors have no loyalty other than to make sure their parent company is getting enough out of them to pay their bills. These are also the people you do NOT want in this type of position. Contractors fill temporary (contracted) roles. They are never meant to be used for permanent positions. I'm not trying to bash contractors here too much, as I was one for many years. But they fill certain roles, and being anywhere near classified government data, is not one of them!
Am I the only one with their jaw on the ground that the NSA and CIA are hiring contractors as full time employees in top secret positions with access to everything, instead of doing actual short term janitorial type of work that contractors are supposed to be used for? If they need a printer installs, sure, use the contractor. Need to have a recorded wire tap scanned and sent over to secret building #2, use a contractor? REALLY??
Not so in the EU. The main case that formed this new law was Autocad and DRM Dongles restricting the sale to a single owner without the owner able to resell it. The law makes it so that when any sort of software is bought, it must be able to be resold with full working access as if it were originally a new sale. Autocad had to allow their DRM/Dongles to transfer to the new machines.
ebooks, games, and itunes are also effected, they can be resold in the EU. Until these companies put in the ability themselves, people like redigi are already letting users resell basically everything.
I don't think you understand. In the EU, software you buy is yours. You are not able to "rent" anything. Even if the EULA says so, it is still void and null. You outright OWN it if it is sold anywhere in the EU. It is why when you buy a machine with an OS on it, that OS can no longer be "tied" to the system or motherboard. You are able to resell it to anyone else, as you own it outright. You have expensive CAD software with hardware dongles that tie the software your machine only? No longer, you can resell it and the publisher MUST allow for that dongle to now be tied to the new owner. They have NO say after the software is sold. It is treated as resellable property for eternity.
The same will be for the XBox One and any other console vendor. If they intend on selling any sort of software in the EU, they must allow it to be resold by the original purchaser, on their own terms, at their own prices, with zero restrictions from anyone. It is the law. Period.
This sounds like it might run counter to the new EU law that mandates all software can be resold, regardless of licensing, agreements, and dongles. Didn't they make it specifically clear that when you buy software, it is yours, and yours alone, and you are free to resell it, and it then becomes theirs, and theirs alone. The actual publishers have no say in what you want to do with it.
Correct, but the loan came in 2010, which was stamped and approved by the Obama Administration. Unlike the previous GM and Chrysler loans that were stamped and approved by the Bush Administration.
If you read that link, it is very eye opening. They will only admit to paying worldwide taxes, which can be taxes from Africa for all we know. They wont admit how much they paid the USA other than payroll taxes for stuff like Social Security and such. Something companies can't really avoid.
Why even hold on to this idea of working hard and getting paid anymore? Our technology and automation will be displacing every "job" in the next century anyways. Farming, construction, food industry, etc - It will all be automated entirely. You may have managers making sure everything is working like clock work, but they will be automated as well as time marches on. I don't think people realize that we are on the robotics cusp of automation becoming the norm that there simply will not be ANY JOBS for the population of this planet. Economies will disappear entirely. This notion of "wake up work hard go to be repeat" will be replaced with "wake up live with family go to bed repeat" with maybe some hobbies and education thrown in.
I can only think of Cuba, and Venezuela as the only Socialist economies that exist today. A lot of people like to call Europe Socialist, only because they have social services like free health care and such. But that has absolutely NOTHING to do with a Socialism economy. All economies can have free and amazing social services - it is not tied to one particular brand.
You're going to piss off a whole lot of Scandinavians. They view themselves as Capitalist because private enterprise rules their economy still. You're mistaking excellent social services as Socialism, when the two are not related at all.
Way to miss the entire point of the news story. Those who provide and actually work will never refuse to give those who are lazy and do nothing the fruits of their labor. Why? Because robots don't care about "bootstraps". You turn them on, they do work. You and I sit around enjoying life the way we see fit.
You are right. It is now 2013, and those fears have been realized. Look at the job market, and manufacturing business. Look at where the military is at. You're blind if you don't think large swathes of people haven't been replaced by robotics.
What does "bi" Partisan have to do with this? You mean "tri" partisan, or are you saying Libertarians are the same thing as Republicans who don't want to be associated with Bush?
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Senator John Chafee wrote it in 1993. He was a Republican.
This happened to my girlfriend. They cut all the full time employees to working 25 hours and under. They went on a mass hiring spree to compensate. It's something Walmart has been doing for years and years. The problem is, it's not 2014 yet, so the affordable exchanges are not available to everyone yet. At that point all those people will be able to get health care for basically nothing, as their pay scale will determine how much in assisted aid they get. If they get paid $15k a year pumping gas, their health care will basically be entirely covered. Companies are using this as a method to push expenses from their pocket to the tax payers pocket.
Not that I don't have any problem with this. It's speeding up the process to get everything straight up nationalized. By the end of 2014, I am guessing most of the workforce will be covered by the government. At which point they will just say there is no point in having companies pay for it, and just move everyone to it. Then we can get all the providers under control with cost requirements.
The problem is, you wouldn't be admitted to shop around. You would probably be denied. I have had several friends who left their jobs to strike out on their own, and they cannot get insurance at all. Everyone has denied them. One had a parent who died from cancer. Another had a head XRay for sinus blockage in his past. They were afraid he might want to get surgery to fix it in the future under their plan. If you have any bad medical history in your family, you will be denied. Even insanely high deducible fly by night policies wont take you.
People just want full insurance without having to fill out forms, switching providers, doctors or anything else. The only people crying about money are the Tea Party weirdos who cry about dropping a penny in their couches. The fact is, the Administration should have just simply took over the entire health care industry. When you have an industry that can only make money off healthy people, then you simply cannot expect to make money unless you let the sick and dying go. Which is the opposite of what is SUPPOSED to happen. Much like the military, it needs to be socialized. All of it. The industry was in shambles before this act, and it will more than likely be in shambles after. Everyone should be allowed to receive health care for free. It's 2013, we have the means, we have the wealth, and we have the regulatory power to make it all work.
Compared to Apple?
No, it is not.
I have had Tivo since the day it came out, was one of the first to have mcard and the cable tuner when that came as well. I never had an issue with it. The Charter guy showed up, plugged the card in, called a number, read off a string of numbers and letters, worked just fine. That was almost 10 years ago. When the cable tuner came out, same thing, guy shows up, plugs it in, doesn't even need to call anyone. Leaves literally 2 minutes later. Everything has worked fine since.
Not sure why you're having any issues. While they might have different area techs, we all connect to the same provider at the other end. Just my 2 cents and experiences.
They have sold more copies than most major games, have an operating budget larger than most major studios, and employ more than five people.
Mojang was indie back when it was just Notch almost 5 years ago, but not today, not tomorrow. They are a major studio these days.
In this sort of position, if you are using contractors because "they are easier to fire", then you're using the wrong people. Period. Contractors have no loyalty other than to make sure their parent company is getting enough out of them to pay their bills. These are also the people you do NOT want in this type of position. Contractors fill temporary (contracted) roles. They are never meant to be used for permanent positions. I'm not trying to bash contractors here too much, as I was one for many years. But they fill certain roles, and being anywhere near classified government data, is not one of them!
Am I the only one with their jaw on the ground that the NSA and CIA are hiring contractors as full time employees in top secret positions with access to everything, instead of doing actual short term janitorial type of work that contractors are supposed to be used for? If they need a printer installs, sure, use the contractor. Need to have a recorded wire tap scanned and sent over to secret building #2, use a contractor? REALLY??
Not so in the EU. The main case that formed this new law was Autocad and DRM Dongles restricting the sale to a single owner without the owner able to resell it. The law makes it so that when any sort of software is bought, it must be able to be resold with full working access as if it were originally a new sale. Autocad had to allow their DRM/Dongles to transfer to the new machines.
ebooks, games, and itunes are also effected, they can be resold in the EU. Until these companies put in the ability themselves, people like redigi are already letting users resell basically everything.
I don't think you understand. In the EU, software you buy is yours. You are not able to "rent" anything. Even if the EULA says so, it is still void and null. You outright OWN it if it is sold anywhere in the EU. It is why when you buy a machine with an OS on it, that OS can no longer be "tied" to the system or motherboard. You are able to resell it to anyone else, as you own it outright. You have expensive CAD software with hardware dongles that tie the software your machine only? No longer, you can resell it and the publisher MUST allow for that dongle to now be tied to the new owner. They have NO say after the software is sold. It is treated as resellable property for eternity.
The same will be for the XBox One and any other console vendor. If they intend on selling any sort of software in the EU, they must allow it to be resold by the original purchaser, on their own terms, at their own prices, with zero restrictions from anyone. It is the law. Period.
This sounds like it might run counter to the new EU law that mandates all software can be resold, regardless of licensing, agreements, and dongles. Didn't they make it specifically clear that when you buy software, it is yours, and yours alone, and you are free to resell it, and it then becomes theirs, and theirs alone. The actual publishers have no say in what you want to do with it.
Correct, but the loan came in 2010, which was stamped and approved by the Obama Administration. Unlike the previous GM and Chrysler loans that were stamped and approved by the Bush Administration.
If you read that link, it is very eye opening. They will only admit to paying worldwide taxes, which can be taxes from Africa for all we know. They wont admit how much they paid the USA other than payroll taxes for stuff like Social Security and such. Something companies can't really avoid.
Semantics. It's the same thing. I pay in more taxes than someone with a kid. The short and long of it is that I am being taxed for not having a kid.
While this may happen, it is against the spirit of the law. So they will be forced to pay anyways.
Why even hold on to this idea of working hard and getting paid anymore? Our technology and automation will be displacing every "job" in the next century anyways. Farming, construction, food industry, etc - It will all be automated entirely. You may have managers making sure everything is working like clock work, but they will be automated as well as time marches on. I don't think people realize that we are on the robotics cusp of automation becoming the norm that there simply will not be ANY JOBS for the population of this planet. Economies will disappear entirely. This notion of "wake up work hard go to be repeat" will be replaced with "wake up live with family go to bed repeat" with maybe some hobbies and education thrown in.
I can only think of Cuba, and Venezuela as the only Socialist economies that exist today. A lot of people like to call Europe Socialist, only because they have social services like free health care and such. But that has absolutely NOTHING to do with a Socialism economy. All economies can have free and amazing social services - it is not tied to one particular brand.
Impossible. Which is why this exists in the first place.
Hyperbole! Guess what, don't wear gloves. No more lives lost.
Goal posts. Lets just move them waaaaaaaaay over there. See? Now you win! Yay!
You're going to piss off a whole lot of Scandinavians. They view themselves as Capitalist because private enterprise rules their economy still. You're mistaking excellent social services as Socialism, when the two are not related at all.
Way to miss the entire point of the news story. Those who provide and actually work will never refuse to give those who are lazy and do nothing the fruits of their labor. Why? Because robots don't care about "bootstraps". You turn them on, they do work. You and I sit around enjoying life the way we see fit.
You are right. It is now 2013, and those fears have been realized. Look at the job market, and manufacturing business. Look at where the military is at. You're blind if you don't think large swathes of people haven't been replaced by robotics.
What does "bi" Partisan have to do with this? You mean "tri" partisan, or are you saying Libertarians are the same thing as Republicans who don't want to be associated with Bush?