"Countries are scrambling to limit the rise in the earth's temperature to just two degrees by the end of this century."
Really? Which countries are doing this? Germany? Shutting down clean nuclear plants and burning dirty coal in its place? Seriously - I don't see anybody doing too much of anything about it.
You would have still made $1200/month, but the university would have had to kick in more money to make it up to you. People who are bad with econ 101 (sorry) look at this and assume that nothing will change. Obviously you can't live on $600/month or whatever. In reality, your pay would go up to cover the difference.
The point of this particular tax - besides properly taxing someone for income - is to force some of the big money that large universities are hoarding to be paid out. Universities like to donate to Democrats, so Republicans are coming for their money. That's, unfortunately, how it works.
While I don't disagree with the sentiment, Gates' wealth is wealth that was created as Microsoft grew and gained value; only a small part of that is attributable to actual profits.
I see this all the time from people who are so against torture that they try to make the case that it doesn't work. It works in a narrow set of cases.
Where it doesn't work is the whole "are you guilty?" scenario where the victim will confess guilt simply because the short term effect of stopping the torture is worth whatever is coming next. You can beat a confession out of anybody.
Torture works well to gain verifiable information. I'm not going to link to the stories, but you can find plenty of actual incidents where someone was tortured for information and gave it up.
This is different than the open-ended "we'll quit beating you when you tell us something interesting" - which is pretty much in line with the whole "confession of guilt" scenario. What we're talking about here is "tell us the combination to the safe and we'll quit beating you". "Tell us the PIN to your ATM card and we'll quit beating you". "Tell us where you hid the drugs and we'll quit beating you". Etc. Verifiable information is the one place where torture works and works well.
Again, I'm not speculating, I know of multiple actual incidents that have been in the news where this has happened.
Now, even though torture does work in a narrow set of circumstances, I'm against torture. Even if you ignore the ethical issues, the practical problem you run in to is "what if he actually doesn't know the combination to the safe?" I don't want to live in a place where torture is used.
Plea bargaining should be abolished. Nobody should be punished for exercising their right to a fair trial.
How much extra are you willing to pay in taxes to ensure that happens? That's basically what it comes down to.
The actual question is "which crimes are you willing to legalize to get our criminal justice workload back to a reasonable level?" The reason we have so much work for prosecutors and courts is because we're so worried that someone may be smoking a joint in their living room.
Costco pays a living wage, but they also employ 90% of the unskilled people who are worth that kind of money in the area. There aren't enough workers who are that good for other stores to do the same. Sam's Club/Walmart's strategy is to employ lower-level workers, pay a little less (although still better than Target) and have better procedures in place to deal with lower level workers and more turnover.
Of course, these "1 percenters" have changed over the last decade and a half. According to Matei, roughly 40 percent of the top 1 percent of editors bow out about every five weeks.
So there's a tremendous turnover in this 1%. This is *exactly* what one would expect - someone comes in, writes an article on something they know about, make it nice, and then drop out.
They also don't seem to say what "70% of content" means since they are talking about edits. Are people writing 70% of the actual words by count, or are they making 70% of the edits? I actually have an account, but I rarely log in to make edits. The edits that I make nowadays are usually fixing a typo or grammatical error and not worth logging in. If I'm actually adding content I'll log in.
The other question is "where is the money going to?" Frankly, it looks to me that rather than actually do something within their company they're paying penance to various "anti-violence" organizations.
This is the Jesse Jackson playbook in reverse. If you're not aware of his shakedown scam, he targets an organization claiming they have a racism problem. The "solution" is simple - a donation to his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition group fixes everything and he moves on to the next target.
It really smells like Uber has decided that rather fix problems within their organization they'll throw money at a few outside organizations so that they can point to it whenever this topic comes up.
The fact that the Republicans just buttfucked all of America (again) is not worth mentioning?
No, they screwed over the Democrat-voting trial lawyers association, who are the only people who actually make money off class-action suits. But, even if it were a bad thing, it's not relevant to the current discussion. Obama and the Democrats screwed over a huge part of the population with Obamacare but this isn't the time to bring that up.
That's not the same web devs making those same mistakes. Developers with some experience do not write code that fails against easy sql-injection.
Oh, I could introduce you to a few. I spent many, many years cleaning up other people's messes, and it's amazing how prolific bad developers can be with their coding.
I have a different view. Ever notice how every single time Apple releases a big new product there's a controversy? Remember when some Apple employee forgot their prototype iPhone in a bar?
I think he was going to leave, anyway, and the PR folks put together a cool scenario where he got fired because of his daughter's video. And now people on Slashdot are talking about Apple and iPhone X. Or, go fully cynical with me - she's not his daughter, he never worked at Apple and they're both simply paid actors.
I don't believe the story, frankly. Had they canned him they would almost certainly have demanded some sort of "gag order" in the final terms. I just think it's a publicity stunt that worked wonderfully.
Trying to tie forced arbitration as part of a contract, to lawsuits against Equifax, where no contract exists, is quite ridiculous. I doubt many of the 140M people impacted by the Equifax breach have a previously accepted contract with a mandatory arbitration clause, or any clause for that matter.
Yes, it's irrelevant. However, it's a way to tie evil Republicans to the Equifax breach. There is no other reason to even mention it here as it has no relationship to the breach and subsequent lawsuits.
When I was a kid, you'd give them the house key and they would show up while you at work and put stuff in your refrigerator and freezer. It looks like they don't do that anymore.
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"Countries are scrambling to limit the rise in the earth's temperature to just two degrees by the end of this century."
Really? Which countries are doing this? Germany? Shutting down clean nuclear plants and burning dirty coal in its place? Seriously - I don't see anybody doing too much of anything about it.
You would have still made $1200/month, but the university would have had to kick in more money to make it up to you. People who are bad with econ 101 (sorry) look at this and assume that nothing will change. Obviously you can't live on $600/month or whatever. In reality, your pay would go up to cover the difference.
The point of this particular tax - besides properly taxing someone for income - is to force some of the big money that large universities are hoarding to be paid out. Universities like to donate to Democrats, so Republicans are coming for their money. That's, unfortunately, how it works.
But but but.. they SAID all the right things and virtue signaled in the prescribed manner!
It's great they completely dumped nuclear power though, because OMG RADEYAYSHUNS!!
They're still in the Paris Accord, so their actions are now meaningless.
While I don't disagree with the sentiment, Gates' wealth is wealth that was created as Microsoft grew and gained value; only a small part of that is attributable to actual profits.
Plus, we're talking about $80,000,000 here, which is 1/1000th his fortune. It would be like me throwing a few hundred bucks at something.
I just checked, Arizona is landlocked. If desalination was the plan, surely it would make sense to move the project closer to the ocean?
Dude, remember the rising oceans? Gates bought beach front property, just 100 years from now.
Uh, no, we're not their "customers". Used to be "product", now we're simply known as the "victims".
You might not be aware, but "every town research" is a looney leftist anti-gun organization. You can ignore what they say as it's bullshit.
Just came here to point this out. If you want to engage in debate about such issues, using factual sources is helpful.
(In case you're wondering, they're defining "mass shooting" far differently than anybody else so that they can manipulate the statistics easier)
I see this all the time from people who are so against torture that they try to make the case that it doesn't work. It works in a narrow set of cases.
Where it doesn't work is the whole "are you guilty?" scenario where the victim will confess guilt simply because the short term effect of stopping the torture is worth whatever is coming next. You can beat a confession out of anybody.
Torture works well to gain verifiable information. I'm not going to link to the stories, but you can find plenty of actual incidents where someone was tortured for information and gave it up.
This is different than the open-ended "we'll quit beating you when you tell us something interesting" - which is pretty much in line with the whole "confession of guilt" scenario. What we're talking about here is "tell us the combination to the safe and we'll quit beating you". "Tell us the PIN to your ATM card and we'll quit beating you". "Tell us where you hid the drugs and we'll quit beating you". Etc. Verifiable information is the one place where torture works and works well.
Again, I'm not speculating, I know of multiple actual incidents that have been in the news where this has happened.
Now, even though torture does work in a narrow set of circumstances, I'm against torture. Even if you ignore the ethical issues, the practical problem you run in to is "what if he actually doesn't know the combination to the safe?" I don't want to live in a place where torture is used.
Plea bargaining should be abolished. Nobody should be punished for exercising their right to a fair trial.
How much extra are you willing to pay in taxes to ensure that happens? That's basically what it comes down to.
The actual question is "which crimes are you willing to legalize to get our criminal justice workload back to a reasonable level?" The reason we have so much work for prosecutors and courts is because we're so worried that someone may be smoking a joint in their living room.
Costco pays a living wage, but they also employ 90% of the unskilled people who are worth that kind of money in the area. There aren't enough workers who are that good for other stores to do the same. Sam's Club/Walmart's strategy is to employ lower-level workers, pay a little less (although still better than Target) and have better procedures in place to deal with lower level workers and more turnover.
" I want to sincerely apologize to each and every one of our users,"
Both of them.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. A phone call would have been quicker.
"Irrelevant person figures out way to get her name in news headlines again"
I'm personally thinking of "saving Hotmail" again - I suppose I ought to issue a press release.
Of course, these "1 percenters" have changed over the last decade and a half. According to Matei, roughly 40 percent of the top 1 percent of editors bow out about every five weeks.
So there's a tremendous turnover in this 1%. This is *exactly* what one would expect - someone comes in, writes an article on something they know about, make it nice, and then drop out.
They also don't seem to say what "70% of content" means since they are talking about edits. Are people writing 70% of the actual words by count, or are they making 70% of the edits? I actually have an account, but I rarely log in to make edits. The edits that I make nowadays are usually fixing a typo or grammatical error and not worth logging in. If I'm actually adding content I'll log in.
This means that ubiquitous fusion energy is 50 years away again!
Even better yet, we'll have 8 times as much fusion energy in 50 years!
The other question is "where is the money going to?" Frankly, it looks to me that rather than actually do something within their company they're paying penance to various "anti-violence" organizations.
This is the Jesse Jackson playbook in reverse. If you're not aware of his shakedown scam, he targets an organization claiming they have a racism problem. The "solution" is simple - a donation to his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition group fixes everything and he moves on to the next target.
It really smells like Uber has decided that rather fix problems within their organization they'll throw money at a few outside organizations so that they can point to it whenever this topic comes up.
"Highly", "secure", "windows". I've heard those words before but never in the same sentence.
Just think "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
If governments wrote tax-laws properly, they wouldn't be losing out on such tax, no matter what arrangement Apple tried to use.
Governments don't write tax laws - corporate lawyers at companies like Apple do. You see the problem now, right?
This is just click-bait alarmist bullshit.
Isn't that about the only reason to hit /. these days?
The fact that the Republicans just buttfucked all of America (again) is not worth mentioning?
No, they screwed over the Democrat-voting trial lawyers association, who are the only people who actually make money off class-action suits. But, even if it were a bad thing, it's not relevant to the current discussion. Obama and the Democrats screwed over a huge part of the population with Obamacare but this isn't the time to bring that up.
That's not the same web devs making those same mistakes. Developers with some experience do not write code that fails against easy sql-injection.
Oh, I could introduce you to a few. I spent many, many years cleaning up other people's messes, and it's amazing how prolific bad developers can be with their coding.
I have a different view. Ever notice how every single time Apple releases a big new product there's a controversy? Remember when some Apple employee forgot their prototype iPhone in a bar?
I think he was going to leave, anyway, and the PR folks put together a cool scenario where he got fired because of his daughter's video. And now people on Slashdot are talking about Apple and iPhone X. Or, go fully cynical with me - she's not his daughter, he never worked at Apple and they're both simply paid actors.
I don't believe the story, frankly. Had they canned him they would almost certainly have demanded some sort of "gag order" in the final terms. I just think it's a publicity stunt that worked wonderfully.
Trying to tie forced arbitration as part of a contract, to lawsuits against Equifax, where no contract exists, is quite ridiculous. I doubt many of the 140M people impacted by the Equifax breach have a previously accepted contract with a mandatory arbitration clause, or any clause for that matter.
Yes, it's irrelevant. However, it's a way to tie evil Republicans to the Equifax breach. There is no other reason to even mention it here as it has no relationship to the breach and subsequent lawsuits.
Their old business model was similar, but without the cameras:
https://www.schwans.com/
When I was a kid, you'd give them the house key and they would show up while you at work and put stuff in your refrigerator and freezer. It looks like they don't do that anymore.
Huh? Cook arrived in 1998.
You know he worked for Steve, right?
Yes, I should have worded that better. I meant since he took over as CEO.