Exactly. The "covering your costs" is done either with social programs or from your pockets, then they make a profit. The original point was about "not charging a cent" when they get robbed. How profit got into this, I have no idea, but derailing discussions and tossing in irrelevant subjects that no one brought up isn't helpful.
Either way, the bank either charges you higher service fees and lower interest, or it gets private insurance, or it goes crying, Oliver Twist-style, to the government with its hands out. The bank loses nothing. Ever. But they sure tell YOU to take risks!
I have no doubt that some people, like myself, end up as "member of technical staff" and are even sometimes presented as engineering to clients since I work at a desk, but I've never signed a spec or a drawing. If I did, I'd be in deep trouble. I don't call myself an engineer. I'm not one. But I tell people I meet that I work "in" engineering which is easier than saying I didn't go to university (social stigma!) but somehow managed to avoid the repercussions of that bad life choice.
No, is someone who is great at putting on bandages a doctor? "Engineer" is a legally protected term, you need a bachelor's degree and to be a member of a professional association/order. You can be terrible at everything but as long as you have your degree, your ring and paid your dues, you're an engineer.
You can be really good at what you do, be very well paid and not be an engineer, but if you call yourself an engineer, or just let it be thought you are one you may one day get a visit from the said association/order...
Simple test: can you sign off on drawings or specifications? No? You're not an engineer. End of story.
Stupid if you think this is about people. It's about protecting corporations or powerful people that may be upset by photographs and then invoking this law to make embarrassing pictures either go away or become very expensive.
There's a BBC doc somewhere about the factories in China that make the "real" branded sunglasses. It's a bunch of Chinese workers in a nondescript white room operating injection molding machines. Some guy calls out "Switch!" in Cantonese, the workers swap out the dies, and it's Guccis for the next two hours.
Oops, I should have said my inspiration for this comes from the annoying stores selling electric scooters that are legal to ride on a bike path because they have pedals. Non-functional, turned inwards, and connected by the flimsiest drive train, but legally, it makes the scooter an assisted bicycle. Much to my chagrin.
Take the law to its logical conclusion: find out what the legal definition of a car is, remove the one part from the car that legally doesn't make it a car anymore. Sell the not-a-car for 5$. Across the street, open a store that sells the simple part for car price-5$, and there you go.
I feel the same about realtors and opticians (or whatever title in your area for the incredibly skilled people that put a thin metal frame on your face and charge 400$ for 5$ worth of plastic lenses that could be CNC fitted in-store in half an hour by a monkey.).
I just want the benefits of technology because *we* deserve it, not one or two people on top who either came from the right uterus or have silly papers in their name.
My parents had a washing machine, television, radio, a car, a house, heating, food from a supermarket, paved roads, clean drinking water, municipal waste collection, etc... All this with one salary for a blue collar job with decent job security, benefits and a pension plan. That's what I'm talking about.
I'd gladly trade your "instant communications" (of mostly trivial garbage) for that. I walked to the library then, I can still do it now. I just don't understand why we accept diminishing returns for all these technologies except for a few people on top. Because they deserve it. Sure.
The reason is quite simple: we have all the technology and resources required so that people DON'T need to work, that was the whole concept behind the leisure society.
But instead we choose to continue with this outdated mentality of "40 hours a week for everyone" otherwise you're not a worthy human being.
So, what do you do with all these people? Well, you make them spend exorbitant amounts of time in meetings and generating data and reports to make them look productive.
We are squandering the most glorious time in history in terms of energy resources, technology and machinery in order to maintain a social order that comes from the caves.
Everyone is *so* productive in today's world! Oh my yes! That's why it takes two people working in a household today to barely maintain the lifestyle my single-income parents had 40 years ago!
We're so productive, but *what* are we producing and for *who*?
I used to work in an industrial park with a FAG outlet in it, with the company name in HUGE letters. I laughed every time I passed by. Yes, I'm immature...
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That seems to be a luxury for the 1% these days. If you have nothing to be afraid of, you should have nothing to hide, right?
Exactly. The "covering your costs" is done either with social programs or from your pockets, then they make a profit. The original point was about "not charging a cent" when they get robbed. How profit got into this, I have no idea, but derailing discussions and tossing in irrelevant subjects that no one brought up isn't helpful.
That isn't a profit. That's "covering your costs", dumbfuck.
Where did I talk about a profit? Do you profit when you get robbed and your insurance pays your claim?
Who talked about profit? The original point was that banks don't charge a "cent" to customers for theft... You people are as dense as neutronium.
You don't say?
Either way, the bank either charges you higher service fees and lower interest, or it gets private insurance, or it goes crying, Oliver Twist-style, to the government with its hands out. The bank loses nothing. Ever. But they sure tell YOU to take risks!
No, they socialize that to the government insurance, which you pay for with your taxes. Banks take zero risk here.
Wow, looks good, but whatever that page does it just froze my Firefox solid.
If your espresso maker sits unused, you're doing it wrong!
Sounds like something you get prescribed...
There are quantities somewhere in there that represent rates of change of something.
I have no doubt that some people, like myself, end up as "member of technical staff" and are even sometimes presented as engineering to clients since I work at a desk, but I've never signed a spec or a drawing. If I did, I'd be in deep trouble. I don't call myself an engineer. I'm not one. But I tell people I meet that I work "in" engineering which is easier than saying I didn't go to university (social stigma!) but somehow managed to avoid the repercussions of that bad life choice.
You can be really good at what you do, be very well paid and not be an engineer, but if you call yourself an engineer, or just let it be thought you are one you may one day get a visit from the said association/order...
Simple test: can you sign off on drawings or specifications? No? You're not an engineer. End of story.
Wow, hold on to that. It's gonna get valuable! Sometimes I regret selling my A3000 with the 386SX bridgeboard.
Still think it's stupid?
Heh, too right.
There's a BBC doc somewhere about the factories in China that make the "real" branded sunglasses. It's a bunch of Chinese workers in a nondescript white room operating injection molding machines. Some guy calls out "Switch!" in Cantonese, the workers swap out the dies, and it's Guccis for the next two hours.
Oops, I should have said my inspiration for this comes from the annoying stores selling electric scooters that are legal to ride on a bike path because they have pedals. Non-functional, turned inwards, and connected by the flimsiest drive train, but legally, it makes the scooter an assisted bicycle. Much to my chagrin.
No one's selling a car here.
I feel the same about realtors and opticians (or whatever title in your area for the incredibly skilled people that put a thin metal frame on your face and charge 400$ for 5$ worth of plastic lenses that could be CNC fitted in-store in half an hour by a monkey.).
I just want the benefits of technology because *we* deserve it, not one or two people on top who either came from the right uterus or have silly papers in their name.
I'd gladly trade your "instant communications" (of mostly trivial garbage) for that. I walked to the library then, I can still do it now. I just don't understand why we accept diminishing returns for all these technologies except for a few people on top. Because they deserve it. Sure.
But I'm talking nonsense.
But instead we choose to continue with this outdated mentality of "40 hours a week for everyone" otherwise you're not a worthy human being.
So, what do you do with all these people? Well, you make them spend exorbitant amounts of time in meetings and generating data and reports to make them look productive.
We are squandering the most glorious time in history in terms of energy resources, technology and machinery in order to maintain a social order that comes from the caves.
Everyone is *so* productive in today's world! Oh my yes! That's why it takes two people working in a household today to barely maintain the lifestyle my single-income parents had 40 years ago!
We're so productive, but *what* are we producing and for *who*?
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I used to work in an industrial park with a FAG outlet in it, with the company name in HUGE letters. I laughed every time I passed by. Yes, I'm immature...