If a pedestrian pops out in front of me, I'm going to hit him. At least with my current vehicle the car will be able to hit the brakes faster than I can.
Let's use a real scenario if you prefer. I work in the western suburbs, my wife considerably to the east. My workplace doesn't get good bus service. My wife's does, but that would make her commute about twice as long. We also don't live in an apartment, and selling one house and buying another is pretty expensive.
No matter what we did, given our workplaces (and we both have very good reasons not to leave where we work), we'd need at least one car.
Were you planning to give away your $35K car after six years? You could buy new every six years (I don't), but in that case the trade-in or resale price on your used car will still be considerable.
You can get other interesting figures from Wikipedia, such as the energy density of gasoline being 34.2 MJ/l, while the best battery they list (lithium, non-rechargeable) comes in at 4.32. It's 46.4 to 1.8 by weight. With a dedicated megawatt, it would take half an hour to supply the equivalent of a quick stop at a gas station, and I can't run a megawatt through my house circuitry.
In other words, if you need to have long range, the size and weight of the batteries are going to be prohibitive. 254mi is way more than you'd need for around the town, but if you're driving cross-country you'll find yourself having to take fairly long breaks fairly frequently. My car's range is about 400mi and I can completely recharge the energy reserves in a few minutes.
I wouldn't be surprised if most new vehicles sold in 2025 were electric, but nowhere near all. Hydrocarbons are really good at storing energy compactly and allowing it to be transferred really fast.
The cost of living in the bay area is demonstrably bananas ( that's the technical term ).
That price is paid by a whole lot of people for reasons of their own. Therefore, the bay area offers living conditions that people value very highly.
Fundamentally, the price paid for something in a reasonably free market is not likely to be bananas, because it's a price that two parties agree on because each thinks it benefits themselves.
The impression I got from GP is that he thought writing software was relatively easy, which leads me to believe GP doesn't know what he's talking about. Most people calling field X "easy" have too little experience with or knowledge of X to know its difficulties.
Why is it Ok to share intelligence with Israel but not with Russia?
That's nowhere near being the right question. Trump openly passed on information from Israel that could identify an agent and get that agent killed. That's not OK, and it wouldn't be OK to pass on information the other way.
There's lots of things Trump could do to ease tensions with Russia. Doing something that drastically erodes our current allies' trust in us, and makes sure they're not going to share information like that again with us, is not a good idea.
Because the user got in the way of getting the job done.
Exactly which job are you talking about? Typically, IT is a support function, there to support users in doing their jobs. Your user is almost certainly doing a job of more direct benefit to the company. When your user calls you, it's because said user is having difficulties doing his or her job, so it's your responsibility to assist the user, so the user's job gets done. Instead, you waste the user's time, which interferes with getting the job done, and likely offend the user or get the user in trouble, You are being a liability, not an asset.
What you described sounded like an internal help desk. If it's external, you're offending customers while wasting their time.
Almost all the developed world does have free healthcare. All of it is less expensive than ours, and it isn't close, and many have superior public health. It's free or at least low-cost to the individual using it, and using public funds makes it more efficient.
Ever noticed that people often need capital to start businesses? If an entrepeneur can get a low-interest government loan, said person is taking free crap from the government to be more productive.
There's cases where the vendor used something like XP as an OS in a really expensive computer-controlled device, and it's not possible to upgrade without replacing a lot of stuff that later versions don't have drivers for, and changing the OS would require expensive recertification.
I'd consider using MS Windows as an embedded OS as a bad thing about the product when buying it, but I might not have a good alternative.
I can't reference the article here at work, but IIRC this was more than one person making a complaint, and there would be verifiable evidence of such things.
That said, I don't have to judge this stuff. I can wait and see what comes out next. I am certain that, if the company is really as described, it's in really big trouble now.
You do have an idea what a reasonable person would do in many situations. You've observed other people's behavior. I'd bet you can act like a reasonable person if you want to, much like the rest of us.
If you're tolerant of other people's behavior, that's great. A female coworker once told me an extremely dirty joke that I though very funny, in a semi-private situation. That doesn't mean it isn't going to disrupt the workplace if everybody tells dirty jokes as a matter of course.
Being an introverted nerd doesn't mean you can't turn into an aggressive asshole if properly encouraged. I'd suspect a fair amount of nerds have picked up some anger towards women because their dating lives sucked, and will be misogynist assholes if reassured that it's OK.
Passing laws against assault and murder doesn't turn criminals into nice people. It simply means that they go from being overtly violent to having to be covert about it. How is that better?
The way a free society deals with behavior is by bullying the weak and taking advantage of the helpless, apparently. Voting with your feet works well when you can easily get another job comparable to what you've got, and there's a variety of office environments. In the real world, leaving a job where people bully you and humiliate you and pressure you into illegal acts might cause serious hardship.
As always, you consider your ideology to be more important than the people involved.
Feminism offers nothing that isn't already covered by the laws of the west. Can't discriminate based on gender or race...etc.
How do you think the laws got to be that way? They weren't when I was a kid. Feminism had something to do with it.
The pay gap has been debunked,
The pay gap is real, but more complicated than just paying women less on a general basis. Typically, women in a specific job make very little less than equally qualified men in that job, but there's a lot of other factors involved.
Otherwise, I can't see any heterosexual sexual assault, I mean, a chick can't rape a man.
Wrong. There's all sorts of coercion a woman can use on an unwilling man to force sex. Penises don't automatically go flaccid under stress. There's also sex stuff that doesn't require an erection, such as forced oral sex.
LSD is seriously illegal in the US. Any company that puts up with its use is taking a grave risk. Anybody that pressures someone into using it is also subject to serious criminal penalties. Any company that pressures its employees into illegal activities is reprehensible. Any company that tries to make the use of mind-altering substances necessary for normal workplace interaction is despicable, since there are people who absolutely should not use them, and their situation is usually not apparent.
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If a pedestrian pops out in front of me, I'm going to hit him. At least with my current vehicle the car will be able to hit the brakes faster than I can.
I see a lot of vehicles that cost more than $20K new. If most American families can't afford those cars, who's driving them?
Let's use a real scenario if you prefer. I work in the western suburbs, my wife considerably to the east. My workplace doesn't get good bus service. My wife's does, but that would make her commute about twice as long. We also don't live in an apartment, and selling one house and buying another is pretty expensive.
No matter what we did, given our workplaces (and we both have very good reasons not to leave where we work), we'd need at least one car.
Were you planning to give away your $35K car after six years? You could buy new every six years (I don't), but in that case the trade-in or resale price on your used car will still be considerable.
You can get other interesting figures from Wikipedia, such as the energy density of gasoline being 34.2 MJ/l, while the best battery they list (lithium, non-rechargeable) comes in at 4.32. It's 46.4 to 1.8 by weight. With a dedicated megawatt, it would take half an hour to supply the equivalent of a quick stop at a gas station, and I can't run a megawatt through my house circuitry.
In other words, if you need to have long range, the size and weight of the batteries are going to be prohibitive. 254mi is way more than you'd need for around the town, but if you're driving cross-country you'll find yourself having to take fairly long breaks fairly frequently. My car's range is about 400mi and I can completely recharge the energy reserves in a few minutes.
I wouldn't be surprised if most new vehicles sold in 2025 were electric, but nowhere near all. Hydrocarbons are really good at storing energy compactly and allowing it to be transferred really fast.
And then we get the automated boat which goes poking around the lake and deploying fishing lines while you stay at home.
That price is paid by a whole lot of people for reasons of their own. Therefore, the bay area offers living conditions that people value very highly.
Fundamentally, the price paid for something in a reasonably free market is not likely to be bananas, because it's a price that two parties agree on because each thinks it benefits themselves.
The impression I got from GP is that he thought writing software was relatively easy, which leads me to believe GP doesn't know what he's talking about. Most people calling field X "easy" have too little experience with or knowledge of X to know its difficulties.
That's nowhere near being the right question. Trump openly passed on information from Israel that could identify an agent and get that agent killed. That's not OK, and it wouldn't be OK to pass on information the other way.
There's lots of things Trump could do to ease tensions with Russia. Doing something that drastically erodes our current allies' trust in us, and makes sure they're not going to share information like that again with us, is not a good idea.
Exactly which job are you talking about? Typically, IT is a support function, there to support users in doing their jobs. Your user is almost certainly doing a job of more direct benefit to the company. When your user calls you, it's because said user is having difficulties doing his or her job, so it's your responsibility to assist the user, so the user's job gets done. Instead, you waste the user's time, which interferes with getting the job done, and likely offend the user or get the user in trouble, You are being a liability, not an asset.
What you described sounded like an internal help desk. If it's external, you're offending customers while wasting their time.
Almost all the developed world does have free healthcare. All of it is less expensive than ours, and it isn't close, and many have superior public health. It's free or at least low-cost to the individual using it, and using public funds makes it more efficient.
Ever noticed that people often need capital to start businesses? If an entrepeneur can get a low-interest government loan, said person is taking free crap from the government to be more productive.
My apologies. I realized that sometime after posting.
You like abusing people, don't you? Abusing is the process of not teaching someone while giving them good reasons to avoid you.
There's cases where the vendor used something like XP as an OS in a really expensive computer-controlled device, and it's not possible to upgrade without replacing a lot of stuff that later versions don't have drivers for, and changing the OS would require expensive recertification.
I'd consider using MS Windows as an embedded OS as a bad thing about the product when buying it, but I might not have a good alternative.
I can't reference the article here at work, but IIRC this was more than one person making a complaint, and there would be verifiable evidence of such things.
That said, I don't have to judge this stuff. I can wait and see what comes out next. I am certain that, if the company is really as described, it's in really big trouble now.
You do have an idea what a reasonable person would do in many situations. You've observed other people's behavior. I'd bet you can act like a reasonable person if you want to, much like the rest of us.
If you're tolerant of other people's behavior, that's great. A female coworker once told me an extremely dirty joke that I though very funny, in a semi-private situation. That doesn't mean it isn't going to disrupt the workplace if everybody tells dirty jokes as a matter of course.
Being an introverted nerd doesn't mean you can't turn into an aggressive asshole if properly encouraged. I'd suspect a fair amount of nerds have picked up some anger towards women because their dating lives sucked, and will be misogynist assholes if reassured that it's OK.
Folks anywhere will think you're not worth listening to if you make such generalizations about feminism and personify it to that degree.
Passing laws against assault and murder doesn't turn criminals into nice people. It simply means that they go from being overtly violent to having to be covert about it. How is that better?
The way a free society deals with behavior is by bullying the weak and taking advantage of the helpless, apparently. Voting with your feet works well when you can easily get another job comparable to what you've got, and there's a variety of office environments. In the real world, leaving a job where people bully you and humiliate you and pressure you into illegal acts might cause serious hardship.
As always, you consider your ideology to be more important than the people involved.
How do you think the laws got to be that way? They weren't when I was a kid. Feminism had something to do with it.
The pay gap is real, but more complicated than just paying women less on a general basis. Typically, women in a specific job make very little less than equally qualified men in that job, but there's a lot of other factors involved.
That's what weapons and other threats are for.
Wrong. There's all sorts of coercion a woman can use on an unwilling man to force sex. Penises don't automatically go flaccid under stress. There's also sex stuff that doesn't require an erection, such as forced oral sex.
LSD is seriously illegal in the US. Any company that puts up with its use is taking a grave risk. Anybody that pressures someone into using it is also subject to serious criminal penalties. Any company that pressures its employees into illegal activities is reprehensible. Any company that tries to make the use of mind-altering substances necessary for normal workplace interaction is despicable, since there are people who absolutely should not use them, and their situation is usually not apparent.
I'm from the US, have worked at several companies, and I agree with Ambassador Kosh. I'd be appalled at that sort of behavior in the workplace.