That describes a lot of northern European metal. Off the top of my head Nightwish (especially their older stuff), Leaves Eyes, and Opeth (although they can get really heavy, they tend to break it up with a capella minor harmonies, a trickle of piano, etc.).
For a real trip try Mago de Oz. They're Spanish Jethro Tull meets metal. Accordions, flutes, upbeat folk music done with a metal undertone.
If you’re computer is running Linux, and you want to run the Dropbox app, you need to use:
*Operating system Ubuntu 14.04 or higher, Fedora 21 or higher *Glibc 2.19 or higher *The latest Dropbox app for Linux *A Dropbox folder on an ext4-formatted hard drive or partition **Note: ecryptfs is not supported, but Dropbox will continue to sync with supported file systems that are encrypted via full disk encryption (e.g. LUKS)
Their limitations are asinine. In particular, not being able to use an encrypted FS is ridiculous.
Man, this thread is great! I need to revisit Soilwork. I listened to the hell out of them up through Natural Born Chaos. I wasn't as much of a fan of Living Infinite, but I'm realizing now that I've missed like a half dozen albums on either side of that one. What should I absolutely pick up?
I personally think that everyone likes metal, and if they don't they just haven't found the right band yet. Metal spans everything from screaming thrash metal to melodic bands with opera singers as the lead to bands with piano playing and multi-part minor-key harmonies.
What do you like and what don't you like? I bet someone can recommend a metal band that might tickle your fancy.
I haven't listened to Type O Negative in years. I really should go back and jam to that a bit. Such a great band. Wish they could have gone on forever.
Dig up Andy Rehfeldt. His specialty is dubbing over music videos with very-well-done incorrect styles. If you can find his Taylor Swift Signs Polka Metal, it's fucking legendary. Swift's lawyers have been on a crusade to crush it, despite it being clearly parody. If you get desperate, give him $1 on his patreon account, and dig through there for it. Mary Poppins sings Death Metal is likewise amazing, and still on his youtube channel last I knew.
I don't know if he's done Death Disco, but if anyone would, it would be him. If he hasn't, ask him to. He will, and he will likely crush it.
I think the wonderful thing about metal is that it's generally far more risky and experimental than most other genres. That's what makes it so damn hard to categorize. Unlike you, I can't and don't care to try to parse death metal from black metal. I really have stopped trying to categorize, especially with bands who put more than one album of styles out, or who shift between styles within an album or even a song. It's either good or it's not. If it's good, it goes on rotation.
And I find what makes me smile has no rhyme or reason, and spans far more musical territory than any non-metal fan could ever imagine. I've loved the use of vocals as a rhythm component in Lamb of God, (Vigil always gives me chills) but I also love the gothic-black-anti-church-pop-metal of Powerwolf. ("All we need is Blood" always puts a grin on my face. It's such a catchy dumb song, like most of theirs.) The old Nightwish albums with vocals that soar over a rough metal sea are amazing, as is the incredibly quirky, non-genera Opeth. (Take 20 minutes and listen to Black Rose Immortal in its entirety, if you're not familiar. It's a roller-coaster of styles.) I've run into Zephaniah at a couple of regional metal shows now, and they are also great. Happy speed metal - try Judgement Day - it's great.
I'm pretty psyched to get some new stuff recommended in this thread!
Best part of any visit home is rolling out of bed late, wandering down for a cup of extra-strong coffee, and mom making me a couple of runny eggs and some buttery wheat toast to dunk in them. Those amazing nearly orange yolks are just so good.
I try not to think about the fucking dinosaurs who made them, however. One running around with a live mouse in its beak, with the rest of the flock chasing after it trying to get a piece as well. The flock going crazy over a snake and pecking and kicking it to death, then eating it. Free-range chickens are no joke. They will eat just about anything. If they were bigger, like back in the old days, humans would definitely be on the menu rather than the other way around.
I can't wrap my head around thinking that $6.5m would be worth it to get your kid into a school. Most people would realize that that's more than a lifetime of earnings for 95% of the population or more.
If they set that up in a trust fund, that poor kid would have to live like a peasant, subsisting on only about $110,000/year (tax-free) to make sure that he doesn't run out of money by the time he's 90. That's twice the median household income. It puts them in the upper-middle-class without lifting a finger. And it could be more than that if they invested it and it could grow over time, or got a job. Or married someone with a similar financial situation or who had a job.
What's the point of trying to get them into a college that they're too stupid to do well in if you're spending that sort of money to do it? I'm sure that kid would rather have the money and go to a party school. And a good college isn't going to make a god damn difference in their life, given that sort of wealth already.
I find it handy. I even remap it on linux. Win-c opens the calculator, Win-t opens a text editor, etc.
The more harm than good label belongs squarely on the asshole decision to make ctrl-q quit web browsers, and ctrl-w close a window. For years I fought to disable fucking ctrl-q in all my browsers, but lately it's gotten so hard to do that I've given up. Tab restore helps mitigate this evil, but it doesn't save half-written posts in other windows.
If they fuck with alt-tab at all, I'm not sure I could use that operating system. That's like 20+ years of muscle memory to overcome, and I don't see that happening as long as I'm using a standard keyboard.
It's baffling enough that they haven't every adopted Alt-` to cycle through windows of an application. I use that on linux all of the time.
I know, right? I've been backing up/dev/random for years now, and I'm not sure when I'll be done. I think part of the problem is running the checksum, but I'm not sure.
False, I cannot do this math, nor does it seem intuitive (even ignoring mining costs) that mining anything on the moon could come close to breaking even.
I concur.
People always seem to ignore the massive infrastructure work that's been done on earth which is necessary to do any sort of large-scale anything. People always seem to ignore maintenance. The need for spare parts. Power. Scale.
And by scale I mean we've explored a couple inches down in a few feet of space on the moon. That's it. Here on earth it's only economical to mine already discovered veins of minerals. On the moon, we don't have any of those. What are we planning to do, just stick hundreds of robotic mining machines on the moon and have them dig around until they find something? And hope they do before we run out of money?
All these problems, and SpaceX is knocking a zero off the cost of getting shit into orbit. Once they hit their stride and a few copy-cats pop up, it's just going to be so much easier and cheaper to throw shit into space than set up a mining base on the moon. We're a long way from even a temporary base on the moon, let alone a mining operation. Let alone a smelting operation, which would be the only way to come close to break-even. You can't spend energy to heave useless slag into orbit and expect to turn a profit.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, I once worked at a small shop where the dev team numbered under 20 where management had instituted a break policy after too many of the staff were having migraine and RSI issues. 20 minute walks one mid-morning and one mid-afternoon was the requirement. That became the culture, and twice a day someone would get to a good stopping point and ask if anyone wanted to take a walk. Generally everyone else would get to a stopping point in the next 5 minutes, and the whole office then got up and walked 5 minutes down the road to a pond, hung out there for 5-10 minutes, and then walked back.
The two hours following a walk were the most productive hours in everyone's day.
Some fresh air, sunshine, staring off into the distance, and small talk were all everyone needed. That loosened up stiff muscles, got the blood moving, and let everyone's minds subconsciously wrestle with the issue of the day, while relaxing enough to let it happen. Sometimes work got talked about, but most of the time it was random shit or nothing at all.
That's what made me realize how misguided the hyper-focus on hours-at-the-desk really is. It's quality of hours-at-the-desk, not quantity. It's just easier to measure quantity, so that's what everyone does.
What is the objective of calling them and treating them like SCUM?
Uh, because they are?
Not vaccinating your child is child abuse, if they can be safely vaccinated. You are setting them up to potentially get very sick, and possibly be maimed and die. That is not ok. Back in the day, about 50% of children died before they were 5. To skip vaccinating your kids because you're scared of the vaccines is both illogical and dangerous.
Did you catch the news this week of the kid who spent almost 3 months in the hospital racking up a $700,000 bill because his parents didn't get him a tetanus shot? The same parents who are still refusing to get him one?
$100 worth of shots at the most and that kid wouldn't have almost died, and wouldn't have taken up the time of a bunch of people who had legitimately sick people they could have been taking care of instead. And that life lesson wasn't apparently enough to bring home to them how damn important vaccines are.
That's fucking child abuse by any other name. And child abusers are scum.
For most vaccines to work, we need herd immunity. If you don't want to play your part in that immune herd, you need to get fuck out of it, and go live by yourself. You have no right to put others at risk of getting sick and possibly dying because you think you're smarter than everyone.
And it's not ok for people to be propagating diseases that we could finally rid humanity of. I would go so far as to say that that is a crime against humanity. Polio in particular is a horrific disease, and there is no reason for it to exit in the world at this point in time. Yet it remains, and continues to maim and kill people because of anti-vaxers.
There is so much we could be spending our time and energy on instead of fighting dangerous, stupid people who don't want to vaccinate their kids, and paying for the results of that madness. How many kids have been hospitalized with the measles at this point? From January 1 to February 28, 2019, 206 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 11 states. We're on track to have the highest number of measles cases in a decade. And given that one in a thousand people get potentially fatal brain swelling from the measles, maybe a fatality or two as well.
All from a disease that should be relatively noncontagious in the US due to herd immunity, because of a bunch of fucking scum who refuse to get their kids vaccinated.
Fake login screens! That brings me back a couple of decades. I made one of those when I was in college before we switched to windows. It was risky, since it had to run from my account at first, and if someone tried to break out of it they'd be logged in. But once I had a couple accounts compromised, I just used those.
It emulated the login perfectly, and after the password was entered it emulated the "incorrect password" message perfectly, stored the password, and logged out of my account and returned to the real login screen. It was pretty genius, and worked flawlessly. I never did anything really malicious with it, but definitely could have. Especially if I could have gotten access to a system that staff used regularly.
I do wonder how many students really caused havoc on that system. It was really easy to do back in the day.
What are you talking about? I did all my clinical rotations online, and am now a heart surgeon! Youtube is amazing! I'm also an architect specializing in high-rises, bridge engineer, and highly qualified EOD technician. Never could have done any of that without wikipedia and Kahn Academy.
Wasting your time on bad customers drives away good customers. I am not going to wait 20 minutes while you deal with some entitled asshole before you deal with me. I am in the service industry and I will not deal with companies that waste their time trying to make happy those customers who are always whining in hopes of getting more stuff for free. If you want to waste time on the 5% of customers who will take up 95% of your time, if allowed, feel free. I just want a cashier who can ring me through.
Wish you hadn't posted AC so this was more visible.
Neglecting good customers to deal with bad ones is bad customer service. Letting a shitty customer make your good ones feel uncomfortable or irritated is bad customer service. Asking your good customers to oblige a bad one is bad customer service.
Some people are just toxic, and will poison everything they touch. Good customer service is understanding that and not letting them touch your business.
A pub I frequent occasionally has a homeless guy come in and have a few drinks. He smells a little, but is quiet and his money is as good as anyone else's. Dude never gets asked to leave until he starts falling asleep on the bar. But the bachelorette party pre-gaming their night out? After they cleared half the bar with their yelling and screeching, they got asked to leave. Sure, they were going to spend a lot more money than that homeless guy, but it wasn't going to make up for the people who couldn't stand being in the same room as them. It also wouldn't be worth losing potential customers coming in for the first time and getting the impression that it's always a deafening madhouse and deciding not to come back.
Firing customers occasionally often is the best business decision to make.
I've noticed that people who like DST don't care about how inconvenienced everyone else is having to adjust their clocks twice a year. That disrupts everyone's day twice a year, and they don't even get a choice in it. They don't care how much trouble others have, as long as they get their way.
In other words, everyone can adjust their schedules as needed, and not force people to do it if they don't want to.
Or band together with your fellow employees and demand summer and winter hours for everyone.
I really don't get how people think that they're so special that they can't be bothered to adjust their life, but expect everyone else to fuck with the clocks twice a year.
Agreed. Your local issue does not rise to the importance such that half the world needs to fuck with it's clocks twice a year, and be confused about what time it is around the world because of this. Half of businesses already do summer and winter hours anyway, due to the change in customer visits. There's no reason everyone else can't do likewise for fear of the dark.
Capitalism is also fine until you run out of other people's money. The top 1% now have wealth equivalent to the bottom 50%. A retail worker may not be worth $30k/year in a lot of businesses, but they're worth $0/year if their customers don't have any money to spend at that establishment. 1% of the population is never going to be able to prop up the economy by visiting enough retailers to make up for 50% of the population.
Neither unfettered capitalism nor socialism are the correct answer. There's a middle ground, but 90% of the population doesn't seem to be able to grasp that concept. Progressive taxation isn't socialism - it's an economic pump to prevent things the like the French revolution.
I don't disagree, but at the same time, higher wages for workers will mean that they have more money to spend. And that, in turn, means they need more goods and services, which will require more workers.
I'm not sure anyone can forecast the economics of this, but it's more complicated than you make it out to be. So Whole Foods hires less but more competent workers at a higher wage. Those workers now can afford to go out to eat more, buy nicer stuff for their house, and afford a daycare so their partner can find a job. All those things represent places where new jobs can pop up, potentially making up for some of the ones lost.
If it's just one place doing this, the impact is minor. If it's a lot of places doing this, then it might end up as a net gain for the economy and most of the people in it.
Ubi is economically impossible....What is needed is to bring executive compensation down to merely 500 times minimum wage from the 5-10,000 it currently is.
You say it's impossible, but hint at one thing which would help.
What's not talked about much in UBI calculations is the potential economic growth that would happen under it. If everyone suddenly has financial stability, a lot of deferred or luxury purchases are going to occur that currently are not happening. And a lot of parasitic businesses that extract money from the economy will start to dry up.
One of the compounding factors of poverty is that wages are often uncertain. You're making ends meet for a month or two, then you stop getting shifts. During that time you might have made some purchases that are suddenly unaffordable. This is in part why predatory businesses like rent-to-own, pawn shops, and payday loan places set up shop in the poor parts of town. They capitalize on the uncertainty of poverty.
Those businesses right there represent another place where we can squeeze out more money for UBI.
Back to the executive paychecks, the top 1% now have wealth equivalent to the bottom 50%. That represents an economic anchor of epic proportions, as that's money that's not circulating in communities. That's money that's not changing hands daily, subject to sales tax, property tax, and income tax. At best it gets dinged a little with capital gains taxes, but given the tax accountants the 1% can afford, even that is unlikely. We've steadily chipped away at estate taxes too, so even in death this money won't go back into economic circulation.
We literally are not taxing 50% of the money anymore.
And this is all without dismantling some of the military industrial complex, and a military which is larger than the next 6 combined, which includes allies.
We've got enough money for UBI. It just requires a rather significant war on the rich and and the military. Unfortunately, they're much better equipped to fight that battle than the population as a whole.
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That describes a lot of northern European metal. Off the top of my head Nightwish (especially their older stuff), Leaves Eyes, and Opeth (although they can get really heavy, they tend to break it up with a capella minor harmonies, a trickle of piano, etc.).
For a real trip try Mago de Oz. They're Spanish Jethro Tull meets metal. Accordions, flutes, upbeat folk music done with a metal undertone.
No, not for GNU/Linux. From their website:
If you’re computer is running Linux, and you want to run the Dropbox app, you need to use:
*Operating system Ubuntu 14.04 or higher, Fedora 21 or higher
*Glibc 2.19 or higher
*The latest Dropbox app for Linux
*A Dropbox folder on an ext4-formatted hard drive or partition
**Note: ecryptfs is not supported, but Dropbox will continue to sync with supported file systems that are encrypted via full disk encryption (e.g. LUKS)
Their limitations are asinine. In particular, not being able to use an encrypted FS is ridiculous.
Man, this thread is great! I need to revisit Soilwork. I listened to the hell out of them up through Natural Born Chaos. I wasn't as much of a fan of Living Infinite, but I'm realizing now that I've missed like a half dozen albums on either side of that one. What should I absolutely pick up?
I personally think that everyone likes metal, and if they don't they just haven't found the right band yet. Metal spans everything from screaming thrash metal to melodic bands with opera singers as the lead to bands with piano playing and multi-part minor-key harmonies.
What do you like and what don't you like? I bet someone can recommend a metal band that might tickle your fancy.
I haven't listened to Type O Negative in years. I really should go back and jam to that a bit. Such a great band. Wish they could have gone on forever.
Dig up Andy Rehfeldt. His specialty is dubbing over music videos with very-well-done incorrect styles. If you can find his Taylor Swift Signs Polka Metal, it's fucking legendary. Swift's lawyers have been on a crusade to crush it, despite it being clearly parody. If you get desperate, give him $1 on his patreon account, and dig through there for it. Mary Poppins sings Death Metal is likewise amazing, and still on his youtube channel last I knew.
I don't know if he's done Death Disco, but if anyone would, it would be him. If he hasn't, ask him to. He will, and he will likely crush it.
I think the wonderful thing about metal is that it's generally far more risky and experimental than most other genres. That's what makes it so damn hard to categorize. Unlike you, I can't and don't care to try to parse death metal from black metal. I really have stopped trying to categorize, especially with bands who put more than one album of styles out, or who shift between styles within an album or even a song. It's either good or it's not. If it's good, it goes on rotation.
And I find what makes me smile has no rhyme or reason, and spans far more musical territory than any non-metal fan could ever imagine. I've loved the use of vocals as a rhythm component in Lamb of God, (Vigil always gives me chills) but I also love the gothic-black-anti-church-pop-metal of Powerwolf. ("All we need is Blood" always puts a grin on my face. It's such a catchy dumb song, like most of theirs.) The old Nightwish albums with vocals that soar over a rough metal sea are amazing, as is the incredibly quirky, non-genera Opeth. (Take 20 minutes and listen to Black Rose Immortal in its entirety, if you're not familiar. It's a roller-coaster of styles.) I've run into Zephaniah at a couple of regional metal shows now, and they are also great. Happy speed metal - try Judgement Day - it's great.
I'm pretty psyched to get some new stuff recommended in this thread!
Best part of any visit home is rolling out of bed late, wandering down for a cup of extra-strong coffee, and mom making me a couple of runny eggs and some buttery wheat toast to dunk in them. Those amazing nearly orange yolks are just so good.
I try not to think about the fucking dinosaurs who made them, however. One running around with a live mouse in its beak, with the rest of the flock chasing after it trying to get a piece as well. The flock going crazy over a snake and pecking and kicking it to death, then eating it. Free-range chickens are no joke. They will eat just about anything. If they were bigger, like back in the old days, humans would definitely be on the menu rather than the other way around.
I can't wrap my head around thinking that $6.5m would be worth it to get your kid into a school. Most people would realize that that's more than a lifetime of earnings for 95% of the population or more.
If they set that up in a trust fund, that poor kid would have to live like a peasant, subsisting on only about $110,000/year (tax-free) to make sure that he doesn't run out of money by the time he's 90. That's twice the median household income. It puts them in the upper-middle-class without lifting a finger. And it could be more than that if they invested it and it could grow over time, or got a job. Or married someone with a similar financial situation or who had a job.
What's the point of trying to get them into a college that they're too stupid to do well in if you're spending that sort of money to do it? I'm sure that kid would rather have the money and go to a party school. And a good college isn't going to make a god damn difference in their life, given that sort of wealth already.
I find it handy. I even remap it on linux. Win-c opens the calculator, Win-t opens a text editor, etc.
The more harm than good label belongs squarely on the asshole decision to make ctrl-q quit web browsers, and ctrl-w close a window. For years I fought to disable fucking ctrl-q in all my browsers, but lately it's gotten so hard to do that I've given up. Tab restore helps mitigate this evil, but it doesn't save half-written posts in other windows.
If they fuck with alt-tab at all, I'm not sure I could use that operating system. That's like 20+ years of muscle memory to overcome, and I don't see that happening as long as I'm using a standard keyboard.
It's baffling enough that they haven't every adopted Alt-` to cycle through windows of an application. I use that on linux all of the time.
To be fair, the article doesn't say they're getting rid of it, just that they want an understanding of how it's used.
Well, something is bullshit, and it's either this statement or their justification for all the telemetry and related spyware they install.
Which do you think it is?
I know, right? I've been backing up /dev/random for years now, and I'm not sure when I'll be done. I think part of the problem is running the checksum, but I'm not sure.
False, I cannot do this math, nor does it seem intuitive (even ignoring mining costs) that mining anything on the moon could come close to breaking even.
I concur.
People always seem to ignore the massive infrastructure work that's been done on earth which is necessary to do any sort of large-scale anything. People always seem to ignore maintenance. The need for spare parts. Power. Scale.
And by scale I mean we've explored a couple inches down in a few feet of space on the moon. That's it. Here on earth it's only economical to mine already discovered veins of minerals. On the moon, we don't have any of those. What are we planning to do, just stick hundreds of robotic mining machines on the moon and have them dig around until they find something? And hope they do before we run out of money?
All these problems, and SpaceX is knocking a zero off the cost of getting shit into orbit. Once they hit their stride and a few copy-cats pop up, it's just going to be so much easier and cheaper to throw shit into space than set up a mining base on the moon. We're a long way from even a temporary base on the moon, let alone a mining operation. Let alone a smelting operation, which would be the only way to come close to break-even. You can't spend energy to heave useless slag into orbit and expect to turn a profit.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, I once worked at a small shop where the dev team numbered under 20 where management had instituted a break policy after too many of the staff were having migraine and RSI issues. 20 minute walks one mid-morning and one mid-afternoon was the requirement. That became the culture, and twice a day someone would get to a good stopping point and ask if anyone wanted to take a walk. Generally everyone else would get to a stopping point in the next 5 minutes, and the whole office then got up and walked 5 minutes down the road to a pond, hung out there for 5-10 minutes, and then walked back.
The two hours following a walk were the most productive hours in everyone's day.
Some fresh air, sunshine, staring off into the distance, and small talk were all everyone needed. That loosened up stiff muscles, got the blood moving, and let everyone's minds subconsciously wrestle with the issue of the day, while relaxing enough to let it happen. Sometimes work got talked about, but most of the time it was random shit or nothing at all.
That's what made me realize how misguided the hyper-focus on hours-at-the-desk really is. It's quality of hours-at-the-desk, not quantity. It's just easier to measure quantity, so that's what everyone does.
What is the objective of calling them and treating them like SCUM?
Uh, because they are?
Not vaccinating your child is child abuse, if they can be safely vaccinated. You are setting them up to potentially get very sick, and possibly be maimed and die. That is not ok. Back in the day, about 50% of children died before they were 5. To skip vaccinating your kids because you're scared of the vaccines is both illogical and dangerous.
Did you catch the news this week of the kid who spent almost 3 months in the hospital racking up a $700,000 bill because his parents didn't get him a tetanus shot? The same parents who are still refusing to get him one?
$100 worth of shots at the most and that kid wouldn't have almost died, and wouldn't have taken up the time of a bunch of people who had legitimately sick people they could have been taking care of instead. And that life lesson wasn't apparently enough to bring home to them how damn important vaccines are.
That's fucking child abuse by any other name. And child abusers are scum.
For most vaccines to work, we need herd immunity. If you don't want to play your part in that immune herd, you need to get fuck out of it, and go live by yourself. You have no right to put others at risk of getting sick and possibly dying because you think you're smarter than everyone.
And it's not ok for people to be propagating diseases that we could finally rid humanity of. I would go so far as to say that that is a crime against humanity. Polio in particular is a horrific disease, and there is no reason for it to exit in the world at this point in time. Yet it remains, and continues to maim and kill people because of anti-vaxers.
There is so much we could be spending our time and energy on instead of fighting dangerous, stupid people who don't want to vaccinate their kids, and paying for the results of that madness. How many kids have been hospitalized with the measles at this point? From January 1 to February 28, 2019, 206 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 11 states. We're on track to have the highest number of measles cases in a decade. And given that one in a thousand people get potentially fatal brain swelling from the measles, maybe a fatality or two as well.
All from a disease that should be relatively noncontagious in the US due to herd immunity, because of a bunch of fucking scum who refuse to get their kids vaccinated.
Fake login screens! That brings me back a couple of decades. I made one of those when I was in college before we switched to windows. It was risky, since it had to run from my account at first, and if someone tried to break out of it they'd be logged in. But once I had a couple accounts compromised, I just used those.
It emulated the login perfectly, and after the password was entered it emulated the "incorrect password" message perfectly, stored the password, and logged out of my account and returned to the real login screen. It was pretty genius, and worked flawlessly. I never did anything really malicious with it, but definitely could have. Especially if I could have gotten access to a system that staff used regularly.
I do wonder how many students really caused havoc on that system. It was really easy to do back in the day.
What are you talking about? I did all my clinical rotations online, and am now a heart surgeon! Youtube is amazing! I'm also an architect specializing in high-rises, bridge engineer, and highly qualified EOD technician. Never could have done any of that without wikipedia and Kahn Academy.
Wasting your time on bad customers drives away good customers. I am not going to wait 20 minutes while you deal with some entitled asshole before you deal with me. I am in the service industry and I will not deal with companies that waste their time trying to make happy those customers who are always whining in hopes of getting more stuff for free. If you want to waste time on the 5% of customers who will take up 95% of your time, if allowed, feel free. I just want a cashier who can ring me through.
Wish you hadn't posted AC so this was more visible.
Neglecting good customers to deal with bad ones is bad customer service. Letting a shitty customer make your good ones feel uncomfortable or irritated is bad customer service. Asking your good customers to oblige a bad one is bad customer service.
Some people are just toxic, and will poison everything they touch. Good customer service is understanding that and not letting them touch your business.
A pub I frequent occasionally has a homeless guy come in and have a few drinks. He smells a little, but is quiet and his money is as good as anyone else's. Dude never gets asked to leave until he starts falling asleep on the bar. But the bachelorette party pre-gaming their night out? After they cleared half the bar with their yelling and screeching, they got asked to leave. Sure, they were going to spend a lot more money than that homeless guy, but it wasn't going to make up for the people who couldn't stand being in the same room as them. It also wouldn't be worth losing potential customers coming in for the first time and getting the impression that it's always a deafening madhouse and deciding not to come back.
Firing customers occasionally often is the best business decision to make.
You've got it backwards.
I've noticed that people who like DST don't care about how inconvenienced everyone else is having to adjust their clocks twice a year. That disrupts everyone's day twice a year, and they don't even get a choice in it. They don't care how much trouble others have, as long as they get their way.
In other words, everyone can adjust their schedules as needed, and not force people to do it if they don't want to.
Or band together with your fellow employees and demand summer and winter hours for everyone.
I really don't get how people think that they're so special that they can't be bothered to adjust their life, but expect everyone else to fuck with the clocks twice a year.
Agreed. Your local issue does not rise to the importance such that half the world needs to fuck with it's clocks twice a year, and be confused about what time it is around the world because of this. Half of businesses already do summer and winter hours anyway, due to the change in customer visits. There's no reason everyone else can't do likewise for fear of the dark.
Capitalism is also fine until you run out of other people's money. The top 1% now have wealth equivalent to the bottom 50%. A retail worker may not be worth $30k/year in a lot of businesses, but they're worth $0/year if their customers don't have any money to spend at that establishment. 1% of the population is never going to be able to prop up the economy by visiting enough retailers to make up for 50% of the population.
Neither unfettered capitalism nor socialism are the correct answer. There's a middle ground, but 90% of the population doesn't seem to be able to grasp that concept. Progressive taxation isn't socialism - it's an economic pump to prevent things the like the French revolution.
I don't disagree, but at the same time, higher wages for workers will mean that they have more money to spend. And that, in turn, means they need more goods and services, which will require more workers.
I'm not sure anyone can forecast the economics of this, but it's more complicated than you make it out to be. So Whole Foods hires less but more competent workers at a higher wage. Those workers now can afford to go out to eat more, buy nicer stuff for their house, and afford a daycare so their partner can find a job. All those things represent places where new jobs can pop up, potentially making up for some of the ones lost.
If it's just one place doing this, the impact is minor. If it's a lot of places doing this, then it might end up as a net gain for the economy and most of the people in it.
Ubi is economically impossible....What is needed is to bring executive compensation down to merely 500 times minimum wage from the 5-10,000 it currently is.
You say it's impossible, but hint at one thing which would help.
What's not talked about much in UBI calculations is the potential economic growth that would happen under it. If everyone suddenly has financial stability, a lot of deferred or luxury purchases are going to occur that currently are not happening. And a lot of parasitic businesses that extract money from the economy will start to dry up.
One of the compounding factors of poverty is that wages are often uncertain. You're making ends meet for a month or two, then you stop getting shifts. During that time you might have made some purchases that are suddenly unaffordable. This is in part why predatory businesses like rent-to-own, pawn shops, and payday loan places set up shop in the poor parts of town. They capitalize on the uncertainty of poverty.
Those businesses right there represent another place where we can squeeze out more money for UBI.
Back to the executive paychecks, the top 1% now have wealth equivalent to the bottom 50%. That represents an economic anchor of epic proportions, as that's money that's not circulating in communities. That's money that's not changing hands daily, subject to sales tax, property tax, and income tax. At best it gets dinged a little with capital gains taxes, but given the tax accountants the 1% can afford, even that is unlikely. We've steadily chipped away at estate taxes too, so even in death this money won't go back into economic circulation.
We literally are not taxing 50% of the money anymore.
And this is all without dismantling some of the military industrial complex, and a military which is larger than the next 6 combined, which includes allies.
We've got enough money for UBI. It just requires a rather significant war on the rich and and the military. Unfortunately, they're much better equipped to fight that battle than the population as a whole.