And he still pays his warehouse workers a shit wage. He's a fucking asshole.
Do you understand that his wealth and Amazon's cash flow are totally unrelated? I suppose he could give them some stock, but he's not worth $150B because he received large paychecks.
I made that name in 1999 if I remember correctly. I lived in a trailer from 1990 to 1998. I wired a 10BT network in it with a tiny 5 port hub. Living the redneck dream.
When I was a kid, well, I grew up in a small town that had been an industrial center for brick-making, even when I was young. There were traces of it everywhere, and in a small woods near my house there were a bunch of old tile pipes about a couple feet in diameter and four or five feet long stacked up nicely in a row, about three pipes high. It was there that someone stored his rather extensive porn collection. Did I mention this was on my paper route?
So, my friends and I would go there and look and read. It was amazing, perplexing, etc. to us at 10 years old. I survived it. And learned about Joni's Butterfly earlier than we should have.
Anyway, I knew my kids wouldn't find porn in the woods, but I also knew they would find it online easily. While they were young, they used computers in the common area of the house that we could see when we walked by. It wasn't until they were 17 that they had computers in their rooms, and we had talked about porn off and on by then.
If you try to shield kids from something, they'll find it, anyway. The best thing to do is get it out in the open and let them know the expectations. That's what you do as a parent. You can shield your kids, but some day they won't be in your house any more. I'd rather prepare them for that time.
Yep. Same as being against gay marriage was absolutely fine when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were, then suddenly was a sign of "hate" when they finally came around to Dick Cheney's long-held position on the subject.
Or, ICE was fine separating families at the border 2 years ago but suddenly it's the worst thing that's ever happened since Barack Obama's no longer President.
TL;DR: Trump was very incorrect (or lied, take your pick) about the amount of energy Germany gets from Russia. Germany does get _some_ of their energy from Russia, but it's not the majority of their energy, and despite that Germany has been far more willing to stand up to Russia and impose sanctions against than Trump is.
It is the wrong kind of immigration policies in US that allow for this "cheapest labor exploitation". Speaking as a Canadian, the work permit here, which is equivalent to H1-B in US is bound to the employer, but the permanent resident status, equivalent to green card is not. So you get here on work permit, apply for permanent resident status couple years later and your employer effectively has no leverage except a just pay and a healthy work environment. Sure it costs 2 years before you can apply, however its not like a decade or so in US at the mercy of your employer.
You've pretty much perfectly described the system in the US as well. I have no idea what you think is different, except maybe the green card process is a bit longer here.
[Irvine Company] is putting not only immigrants at risk
No, they're not endangering anybody, which is the implication. They're making it more likely that ILLEGAL immigrants will be caught. There's a choice that they can make, which is not enter the country illegally.
I have friends who are illegal immigrants. It's difficult and I don't blame them for being here. But they know the risk that they take by even being here, and they've decided it's worth it for their kids to grow up here instead of the home country (which is a complete shithole, not the fault of the US).
The left will only continue to hurt themselves by trying to conflate legal immigration with illegal immigration. "Immigrants" don't have anything to worry about unless they're also "illegal".
The win for the 2nd Amendment wasn't making plastic guns, it was the statement that the government also correctly acknowledged that "non-automatic firearms up to.50-caliber -- including modern semi-auto sporting rifles such as the popular AR-15 and similar firearms -- are not inherently military."
I don't agree that it's a win. The 2nd Amendment says nothing about being "inherently military", and, a plain reading of it makes clear that it's talking about military weaponry since we need a militia. I'd rather see the DOJ just say "Yes, we understand what the Founders meant, which is that you can have weaponry even if it's military grade."
This is exactly correct. The main reason for "if not, why?" is that many problems with servers are really problems with the restaurant. In probably 90% of the cases where I've been unsatisfied with my restaurant experience it's not the fault of the waiter, but rather issues that are beyond their control. The most common is short staffing that forces the waiter to have more tables than they can possibly handle effectively.
The problem is that while folks like me understand that, most don't. So if the meal's taking too long, the waiter must be lazy, right? No, it's because the kitchen was unusually busy and got behind. Etc.
I have actually given waiters high marks even when the overall experience sucked simply because I know it's not their fault.
Don't even get me started on "standard service is 5-star!"
> I was correct. Of course, nobody asked me. > It was obviously written by big copyright owners who were writing it for their own purposes, rather than being a general-purpose law
If it were "written by big copyright owners for their own purposes", you wouldn't be able to end it by simply saying "I disagree, I don't think I'm infringing", and have the content stay up.
That doesn't "end it" - that simply means that you go to court if the supposed copyright owner wants to. It was considered a concession at the time to ISPs.
I believe the DMCA is a good law, but an infringement claim should be sworn with specific criminal penalties if the claim isn't upheld by a court. It should be a misdemeanor for some small number of them, with transition to a felony after 10 or 15 of them. The actual copyright owner - if different - should also have a civil claim against the fraudulent claimant. This is actually pretty normal stuff in the legal world.
But since the DMCA was written by big copyright owners for their own purposes, they didn't care to put any of that in.
Secondly, perhaps BECAUSE almost nobody responds to a DMCA notice, some producers started sending out way too many notices, not being sufficiently careful that they are accurate. Nobody anticipated that at the time the law was written.
I did. Of course, I know that every law will be abused, and it's usually trivial to determine how. I was correct. Of course, nobody asked me.
If I had an opportunity to do it over again, I would have suggested adding penalities for recklessly sending noticed, but that possibility never came up in the discussion.
I believe it should be criminalized, and I believed so when the DMCA was written. But it was obviously written by big copyright owners who were writing it for their own purposes, rather than being a general-purpose law.
If Jawbone went out of business, doesn't that make all their confidentiality agreements null and void? If the agreement was with a company that no longer exists, how can anyone sue them for violating it?
Somebody is most likely still trying to get some money from the IP owned by Jawbone to help pay back creditors and stock holders.
I don't know for the UK, but in other countries, the question of self employment or not depends on who is your largest customer, and if this customer demands priority services or other exclusivity, limiting your ability to search for other contracts. If your ability to independently decide which assignment to take is severly limited by your largest customer, and your income strongly depends on his jobs, then you are in fact employed and not a free agent.
Agreed. And that means that Uber drivers cannot be employees because they always have the option to turn off the Uber app on their phone and do something else. They're not compelled to do anything. It's so far from actual employment that it's barely even similar.
They focus on the iPhone, but they seem to forget that people buy the phone for its apps - apps that can only be created on a Mac. They're ignoring a huge market right now. I understand that Mac is probably tiny compared to phones, but with the phone ecosystem depending on Macs, it makes sense to pay attention to the Mac line.
If there's an afterlife, Jobs is kicking himself daily for setting up Tim Cook to be his successor.
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And he still pays his warehouse workers a shit wage. He's a fucking asshole.
Do you understand that his wealth and Amazon's cash flow are totally unrelated? I suppose he could give them some stock, but he's not worth $150B because he received large paychecks.
Your post belies your username. :P
I made that name in 1999 if I remember correctly. I lived in a trailer from 1990 to 1998. I wired a 10BT network in it with a tiny 5 port hub. Living the redneck dream.
When I was a kid, well, I grew up in a small town that had been an industrial center for brick-making, even when I was young. There were traces of it everywhere, and in a small woods near my house there were a bunch of old tile pipes about a couple feet in diameter and four or five feet long stacked up nicely in a row, about three pipes high. It was there that someone stored his rather extensive porn collection. Did I mention this was on my paper route?
So, my friends and I would go there and look and read. It was amazing, perplexing, etc. to us at 10 years old. I survived it. And learned about Joni's Butterfly earlier than we should have.
Anyway, I knew my kids wouldn't find porn in the woods, but I also knew they would find it online easily. While they were young, they used computers in the common area of the house that we could see when we walked by. It wasn't until they were 17 that they had computers in their rooms, and we had talked about porn off and on by then.
If you try to shield kids from something, they'll find it, anyway. The best thing to do is get it out in the open and let them know the expectations. That's what you do as a parent. You can shield your kids, but some day they won't be in your house any more. I'd rather prepare them for that time.
Gotta wonder how much of the ratings are nostalgia:
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...
Yep. Same as being against gay marriage was absolutely fine when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were, then suddenly was a sign of "hate" when they finally came around to Dick Cheney's long-held position on the subject.
Or, ICE was fine separating families at the border 2 years ago but suddenly it's the worst thing that's ever happened since Barack Obama's no longer President.
Yes, I know how it works.
I keep saying this, but when it comes to economics the media has a distinct right wing, pro-corporate bias.
I hate to tell you, but when it comes to economics reality also has a distinct right wing, pro-corporate bias.
"Are you denying that Germany is dependent on Russian energy?"
In general, yes.
Fact Check - Germany Imports Gas From Russia. But Is It a 'Captive'?
TL;DR: Trump was very incorrect (or lied, take your pick) about the amount of energy Germany gets from Russia. Germany does get _some_ of their energy from Russia, but it's not the majority of their energy, and despite that Germany has been far more willing to stand up to Russia and impose sanctions against than Trump is.
So, John Kerry:
https://112.international/ukra...
https://twitter.com/EnergyAtSt...
And Joe Biden:
https://uk.reuters.com/article...
Were wrong?
Next, let's work on getting more men into nursing and teaching. Diversity is always good, right?
Right?
Hello?
It is the wrong kind of immigration policies in US that allow for this "cheapest labor exploitation". Speaking as a Canadian, the work permit here, which is equivalent to H1-B in US is bound to the employer, but the permanent resident status, equivalent to green card is not. So you get here on work permit, apply for permanent resident status couple years later and your employer effectively has no leverage except a just pay and a healthy work environment. Sure it costs 2 years before you can apply, however its not like a decade or so in US at the mercy of your employer.
You've pretty much perfectly described the system in the US as well. I have no idea what you think is different, except maybe the green card process is a bit longer here.
The current administration is trying to foster a climate where if you are Latino you are default not a US citizen.
How?
My wife is an immigrant, is she at risk?
[Irvine Company] is putting not only immigrants at risk
No, they're not endangering anybody, which is the implication. They're making it more likely that ILLEGAL immigrants will be caught. There's a choice that they can make, which is not enter the country illegally.
I have friends who are illegal immigrants. It's difficult and I don't blame them for being here. But they know the risk that they take by even being here, and they've decided it's worth it for their kids to grow up here instead of the home country (which is a complete shithole, not the fault of the US).
The left will only continue to hurt themselves by trying to conflate legal immigration with illegal immigration. "Immigrants" don't have anything to worry about unless they're also "illegal".
Well, bluntly stated, the Constitution doesn't give them that power, so it's not relevant. I'm speaking from a strictly rule-of-law viewpoint.
The win for the 2nd Amendment wasn't making plastic guns, it was the statement that the government also correctly acknowledged that "non-automatic firearms up to .50-caliber -- including modern semi-auto sporting rifles such as the popular AR-15 and similar firearms -- are not inherently military."
I don't agree that it's a win. The 2nd Amendment says nothing about being "inherently military", and, a plain reading of it makes clear that it's talking about military weaponry since we need a militia. I'd rather see the DOJ just say "Yes, we understand what the Founders meant, which is that you can have weaponry even if it's military grade."
I thought they were all programmers.
[ Sigh... (a) Why is this a story and (b) Why is this a story on /. ? ]
*cough*msmash*cough*
I'm also guessing this suddenly became important around November of 2016.
This is exactly correct. The main reason for "if not, why?" is that many problems with servers are really problems with the restaurant. In probably 90% of the cases where I've been unsatisfied with my restaurant experience it's not the fault of the waiter, but rather issues that are beyond their control. The most common is short staffing that forces the waiter to have more tables than they can possibly handle effectively.
The problem is that while folks like me understand that, most don't. So if the meal's taking too long, the waiter must be lazy, right? No, it's because the kitchen was unusually busy and got behind. Etc.
I have actually given waiters high marks even when the overall experience sucked simply because I know it's not their fault.
Don't even get me started on "standard service is 5-star!"
> I was correct. Of course, nobody asked me.
> It was obviously written by big copyright owners who were writing it for their own purposes, rather than being a general-purpose law
If it were "written by big copyright owners for their own purposes", you wouldn't be able to end it by simply saying "I disagree, I don't think I'm infringing", and have the content stay up.
That doesn't "end it" - that simply means that you go to court if the supposed copyright owner wants to. It was considered a concession at the time to ISPs.
I believe the DMCA is a good law, but an infringement claim should be sworn with specific criminal penalties if the claim isn't upheld by a court. It should be a misdemeanor for some small number of them, with transition to a felony after 10 or 15 of them. The actual copyright owner - if different - should also have a civil claim against the fraudulent claimant. This is actually pretty normal stuff in the legal world.
But since the DMCA was written by big copyright owners for their own purposes, they didn't care to put any of that in.
Secondly, perhaps BECAUSE almost nobody responds to a DMCA notice, some producers started sending out way too many notices, not being sufficiently careful that they are accurate. Nobody anticipated that at the time the law was written.
I did. Of course, I know that every law will be abused, and it's usually trivial to determine how. I was correct. Of course, nobody asked me.
If I had an opportunity to do it over again, I would have suggested adding penalities for recklessly sending noticed, but that possibility never came up in the discussion.
I believe it should be criminalized, and I believed so when the DMCA was written. But it was obviously written by big copyright owners who were writing it for their own purposes, rather than being a general-purpose law.
1. Unplug listening devices
2. Set the A/C to something above freezing
3. Open the windows
etc.
Who on earth wants one of these things in their hotel room?
They're not keeping children in "concentration camps" on the southern border. Geeze, you people are self-parody.
If Jawbone went out of business, doesn't that make all their confidentiality agreements null and void? If the agreement was with a company that no longer exists, how can anyone sue them for violating it?
Somebody is most likely still trying to get some money from the IP owned by Jawbone to help pay back creditors and stock holders.
I don't know for the UK, but in other countries, the question of self employment or not depends on who is your largest customer, and if this customer demands priority services or other exclusivity, limiting your ability to search for other contracts. If your ability to independently decide which assignment to take is severly limited by your largest customer, and your income strongly depends on his jobs, then you are in fact employed and not a free agent.
Agreed. And that means that Uber drivers cannot be employees because they always have the option to turn off the Uber app on their phone and do something else. They're not compelled to do anything. It's so far from actual employment that it's barely even similar.
They focus on the iPhone, but they seem to forget that people buy the phone for its apps - apps that can only be created on a Mac. They're ignoring a huge market right now. I understand that Mac is probably tiny compared to phones, but with the phone ecosystem depending on Macs, it makes sense to pay attention to the Mac line.
If there's an afterlife, Jobs is kicking himself daily for setting up Tim Cook to be his successor.
It's 8:55PM CDT on June 11, 2018, and the DEC logo is still up there.