Which comes tied to unemployment insurance, and tops out at what, 60% of your wage? Also, for people who work tip-based jobs, that's not included in the wage calculation (even if you've been honest, declared and paid taxes on those tips for preceding years). It's better than the USA but still not great.
Here's a thing for you: look at the people who tend to have the most kids. I can almost guarantee you they aren't going to be domestic well-off or even middle-class families with a stable financial situation.
So if companies don't give a little "help" that means less people with decent jobs having kids, or people with crappy jobs having kids but not having time. That means less middle-class kids and generally less well-educated kids.
At that point, YOUR life-choice means that the next generation is going to have a lot of poorly-raised, maladjusted kids because the only people that are HAVING kids are those that either are on welfare, or are working-poor who have no time to spend with the kids because they're scraping to make ends meet and get no leave.
Getting asked how my "time off" was is actually quite irritating. It was NOT a vacation. I took mine at the tail-end of things, so my wife had about the first 8mo and I have 12 weeks with a kid who was *very* attached to having mom around all the time.
Lots of crying. Lots of poop. Not much sleeping at night (nap-time was awesome though).
The best part is where apparently every family member who needed something taken care of assumed I was "free" because I wasn't at the day-job. Can I drive my sister's kid home 8h from a visit to her father? Yeahhhh, that's fun with a constipated baby. Can I mow my old man's lawn? What am I supposed to do strap the kid to my back and give her earplugs, or just let her roam the lawn while I run around with a sharp-bladed death-machine?
Yup. I always figure that windows 8 and windows 10 are somewhat missed opportunities. I know a lot of people who migrated from MS Office -> OOO when microsoft changed to that damn ribbon menu. Win8 and win10 with those f***'ing tiles etc would have been a good opportunity to push for a switch as well.
"I've used the same tax program for over a decade, I rely on that"
As much as I sometimes hate the push to "cloud services", a lot of the push to web around here helps that. For example "Turbo Tax", which is a fairly dominant piece of software in many places, is now a browser-based service requiring no application.
But for a lot of the edge cases, yeah lack of drivers or software can still suck for Linux users. One big thing that might be missing for a lot of people: NO ITUNES (not even with wine, or at least not if you want USB support). I've seen some vendors get better at providing Linux drivers (and seen the same drivers break with kernel changes, d'oh). One thing that is also helping is - again ironically - a shrinking market for vendors. As chipsets etc shrink down to a smaller pool, the mainstream hardware gets better support and the edge cases shrink.
Also, consistently IS a virtue. Changing somebody's default DE in the upgraded/newer version, or massively changing the current default DE is not such a good thing.
One of the great things about 'nix is you generally have a choice in such matters, but it seems that lately a lot of that is being eroded or encroached upon
While I hate to pull this angle, another consideration is the possibility of foreign nationals with interests other than pure immigration coming in on an educational visa. Now granted you could theoretically have them coming in to a legitimate institution with similar results, but at least a real University could track "hey, we have student X who came in and hasn't attended a single class" (resulting in the Visa being close and the student deported)
And as somebody who self-services a lot of devices (and has a spouse with a tendency to be hard on devices), this is good information. We actually just replaced an S4 with an Asus Zenfone2 because it was the most reasonable unlocked replacement that still had a swappable battery/SD-card. I hadn't even really looked at the LG phones but it sounds like something that I should keep on the radar.
That far my main experience has been with iDevices and Samsungs. The Samsungs haven't been too bad (replacing things like the USB port connector etc is quite easy), but I've found iPhones got increasingly more painful over item, but the Sammy's were at least reasonable up to the S5.
I don't think it's a case of incompetence, I think it's a case of deliberately f***ing things up so as to make a case for undermining private security. What better case than a big bad terrorist that killed a bunch of people? Maybe next time they'll get lucky and find somebody with an encrypted phone who is an accused terrorist *and* child molester.
Just drop some USB devices with certain key wires crossed... bad things are bound to happen. You don't even need to pick up a random device for this, I've had it happen with store-bought stuff
Actually this is a big one for me. At a security conference I was at, some of the "loot" included a multi-device USB cable (one USB plug, but ends for iDevice, Micro/Mini USB, etc). Where they met, there was enough space to fit a chip.
I always figured that would be a good way to infect either a computer or iDevice/Android. Never used it.
Really? I'm pretty sure there was a case in eastern Canada where this did happen.
That said, I'd be more worried about landlords, business-owners, etc installing some spy-cam in the bathroom than a TG person trying to check me out. The former seem to be much more common.
I remember dealing with those issues. My HP laptop had a PITA broadcomm 802.11b wifi NIC which at the time needed ndiswrapper in Linux. I wanted to install either an Intel or a Atheros 802.11g NIC, but the damn laptop wouldn't take any non-HP cards.
If 22,000 people got off their ass and surrounded the white house it might get interesting there too. (not that I can talk much, we're similar inactive in Canada).
"Switzerland finally began to close the loopholes. And it wouldn't surprise if that's why these tax shelters have become more popular"
Except that you pretty much already noted what will happen. As soon as the current scam-builders get broken down, a new set will rise to take their place.
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Which comes tied to unemployment insurance, and tops out at what, 60% of your wage? Also, for people who work tip-based jobs, that's not included in the wage calculation (even if you've been honest, declared and paid taxes on those tips for preceding years).
It's better than the USA but still not great.
Here's a thing for you: look at the people who tend to have the most kids. I can almost guarantee you they aren't going to be domestic well-off or even middle-class families with a stable financial situation.
So if companies don't give a little "help" that means less people with decent jobs having kids, or people with crappy jobs having kids but not having time. That means less middle-class kids and generally less well-educated kids.
At that point, YOUR life-choice means that the next generation is going to have a lot of poorly-raised, maladjusted kids because the only people that are HAVING kids are those that either are on welfare, or are working-poor who have no time to spend with the kids because they're scraping to make ends meet and get no leave.
Getting asked how my "time off" was is actually quite irritating. It was NOT a vacation. I took mine at the tail-end of things, so my wife had about the first 8mo and I have 12 weeks with a kid who was *very* attached to having mom around all the time.
Lots of crying.
Lots of poop.
Not much sleeping at night (nap-time was awesome though).
The best part is where apparently every family member who needed something taken care of assumed I was "free" because I wasn't at the day-job.
Can I drive my sister's kid home 8h from a visit to her father? Yeahhhh, that's fun with a constipated baby.
Can I mow my old man's lawn? What am I supposed to do strap the kid to my back and give her earplugs, or just let her roam the lawn while I run around with a sharp-bladed death-machine?
Yup. I always figure that windows 8 and windows 10 are somewhat missed opportunities.
I know a lot of people who migrated from MS Office -> OOO when microsoft changed to that damn ribbon menu. Win8 and win10 with those f***'ing tiles etc would have been a good opportunity to push for a switch as well.
As per the article, it was almost impossible given the attitudes to both people of color and women in those industries at the time.
It's not unlikely that she was skilled, but more that it was highly unusual for anyone to recognise such at the time.
"I've used the same tax program for over a decade, I rely on that"
As much as I sometimes hate the push to "cloud services", a lot of the push to web around here helps that. For example "Turbo Tax", which is a fairly dominant piece of software in many places, is now a browser-based service requiring no application.
But for a lot of the edge cases, yeah lack of drivers or software can still suck for Linux users. One big thing that might be missing for a lot of people: NO ITUNES (not even with wine, or at least not if you want USB support). I've seen some vendors get better at providing Linux drivers (and seen the same drivers break with kernel changes, d'oh). One thing that is also helping is - again ironically - a shrinking market for vendors. As chipsets etc shrink down to a smaller pool, the mainstream hardware gets better support and the edge cases shrink.
Also, consistently IS a virtue. Changing somebody's default DE in the upgraded/newer version, or massively changing the current default DE is not such a good thing.
One of the great things about 'nix is you generally have a choice in such matters, but it seems that lately a lot of that is being eroded or encroached upon
While I hate to pull this angle, another consideration is the possibility of foreign nationals with interests other than pure immigration coming in on an educational visa. Now granted you could theoretically have them coming in to a legitimate institution with similar results, but at least a real University could track "hey, we have student X who came in and hasn't attended a single class" (resulting in the Visa being close and the student deported)
And as somebody who self-services a lot of devices (and has a spouse with a tendency to be hard on devices), this is good information. We actually just replaced an S4 with an Asus Zenfone2 because it was the most reasonable unlocked replacement that still had a swappable battery/SD-card. I hadn't even really looked at the LG phones but it sounds like something that I should keep on the radar.
That far my main experience has been with iDevices and Samsungs. The Samsungs haven't been too bad (replacing things like the USB port connector etc is quite easy), but I've found iPhones got increasingly more painful over item, but the Sammy's were at least reasonable up to the S5.
I don't think it's a case of incompetence, I think it's a case of deliberately f***ing things up so as to make a case for undermining private security. What better case than a big bad terrorist that killed a bunch of people? Maybe next time they'll get lucky and find somebody with an encrypted phone who is an accused terrorist *and* child molester.
Just drop some USB devices with certain key wires crossed... bad things are bound to happen.
You don't even need to pick up a random device for this, I've had it happen with store-bought stuff
Actually this is a big one for me. At a security conference I was at, some of the "loot" included a multi-device USB cable (one USB plug, but ends for iDevice, Micro/Mini USB, etc). Where they met, there was enough space to fit a chip.
I always figured that would be a good way to infect either a computer or iDevice/Android. Never used it.
Or various people signed up for some "contest" online, joined a facebook group/app, etc
Really? I'm pretty sure there was a case in eastern Canada where this did happen.
That said, I'd be more worried about landlords, business-owners, etc installing some spy-cam in the bathroom than a TG person trying to check me out. The former seem to be much more common.
I remember dealing with those issues. My HP laptop had a PITA broadcomm 802.11b wifi NIC which at the time needed ndiswrapper in Linux. I wanted to install either an Intel or a Atheros 802.11g NIC, but the damn laptop wouldn't take any non-HP cards.
If 22,000 people got off their ass and surrounded the white house it might get interesting there too.
(not that I can talk much, we're similar inactive in Canada).
"Switzerland finally began to close the loopholes. And it wouldn't surprise if that's why these tax shelters have become more popular"
Except that you pretty much already noted what will happen. As soon as the current scam-builders get broken down, a new set will rise to take their place.
Not you specifically, just the double-standard of the world at large.
In the early days of digital voices, the female ones always seemed to sound more authentic. Perhaps this just carried through?
If I had the choice though, I'd go for Jarvis (Iron Man), Morgan Freeman, or possibly old-school Arnold just for fun.
And who is going to notify the app store that the ownership has changed?
I'm pretty sure someone [potentially] breaking the law is not an excuse for you to also break the law.
At this point, they don't even have solid proof that the person they're infecting broke the law.
In many countries (Germany, for example) registered brothels are still legal. Those who work there pay taxes and undergo regular health examinations.
Indeed. Now lets all sit back and watch some commercials about how men are stupid and inept instead, because apparently that's perfect fine, right-o?
You'd probably get a real hoot out of the article linked from this story (which I'm assuming may be NSFW)
Great. Now how many people at minimum wage get full-time wages at a given employer? How about additional costs?
Quoting a monthly figure is not useful when wage is hourly and highly variable as such.