The problem with accepting that gift of a few pennies from the South Korean taxpayers is that it comes at the expense of American workers that Micron employs.
Hynix is a company that shouldn't exist, they've been constantly losing money. The only reason why they haven't gone bankrupt is because they have an infinite funding source, a government. We'd rather see Hynix vaporize and let the price of DRAM go up than end up with Micron being the one that goes bankrupt.
That's the problem here, South Korea got caught giving a subsidy to a failing company which enabled it to continue to operate at a loss when it rightfully should have gone out of business. As a result, Micron got less sales, and that means Micron ends up hiring less Americans. The only fair thing to do is for the USA give Micron a subsidy at the cheater's expense...
Just like the way that the courts award judgment money to the to the winnig plantiffs instead of collecting that ill-gotten gain as tax money... This tariff is going in because Hynix didn't play fairly under the rules of International trade, and that hurt Micron.
And no, this isn't just an American thing, Hynix is getting called for the same foul in the EU too...
This news was not exactly a shocker. In fact, it's actually bad news stock-wise because the tariff wasn't quite as strong as previously affected. The news was already priced-in because the market reacts to the word that the government is starting the to do something rather than when they actually get around to doing it.
I'm not quite sure you can claim Bush brought "integrity" to the office, he did afterall win with a margin of victory so slim it could have been overturned had disputed results in a territory run by his brother gone the other way... there's never going to be a scandal-free president ever again, especially when there's always more than half the nation looking for something to attack.
You can't blame the residents of the White House for everything that goes wrong or assign them credit for everything that goes right. The real world is just a whole lot more complex than that.
Why would a money-losing company cheat any more than a money-making company? Afterall, the money-making company is more likely to have succeded at cheating...
Either you signed a contract with your employer which states that you might have to work 12 hour days 7 days a week or you didn't.
If you did. Shut up.
Not all contracts are worth their face value. If you sign a contract saying you'll work for $4/hour, that pay rate will get tossed out because that's less than the minimum wage that the law requires. The employer has to pay at the state minimum whether you want it or not.
However, that clause doesn't give them permission to break the law. For example, if they were to suddenly fire all of the members of any racial group "without clase" because the contract said they could, lawyers would certainly come knocking.
If this group were to actually quit, there's no way the company the company could advertise several 12 hour a day 7 day a week positions and expect anybody useful to reply. They'd either have to hire an army of consultants quickly, or they would certainly not make the deadline for the client.
Besides, if this company is in such dire financial straights that they can't stand up to this client and say "no way!" or afford to pay their workers respectably for an overload schedule, is this really a company that's going to be offering lasting employment in any circumstance?
Only in certain areas... for example, there are several states where a state law sets the minimum hourly wage higher than the federal minimum. (Because when there are two "not lower than" laws, the higher number ends up pervailing with no conflict.) This might come into play if the number of hours expected of him divided by his weekly pay comes out to less than the state minimum wage...
Just because he is not entited to overtime pay does not mean the employer is entited to demand this schedule with no recourse. In some states, this kind of demand would equate to a sudden change in job responsibility, which would give him "due cause" to quit his job and still recieve unemployment insurance pay.
The more logical thing to do would be to hire some more temorary workers to create the needed man hours, but of course that'd cost the company money....
Depends on what state the original poster is in, but most states have labor laws strictly limit what can be expected of a salary employee... if this isn't an illegal thing to expect from an employee, it should be.
Better doesn't always win in the marketplace. In fact, in rarely does. Especially in communication tools, there is a lot of value in being "the one that everybody else is using" because of compatibility.
Yes, but Microsoft is basically setting up a claim of "You can beat us in the browser wars, you just have to create your own operating system too." IE wins on Windows, Sarfari rules the Mac, and Mozilla is the browser on Linux... other players like Opera and Netscape are doomed to the minor leagues.
The reason why the did away with line numbers is that they became irrelavant. With QBasic sharing its interface with the DOS Editor, it was just much more logical to assume that the lines were already in proper order rather than have to rely on numbers to sort them. (GWBasic lacked any way to move up and down between lines.)
From there, the only lines that actually still needed their numbers were the lines that were called by name in a GOSUB or GOTO line, and there was no reason to limit the "line number" to numerics so the Line Label of any text you wanted was created instead. QBasic still supported numbered lines for nice legacy compatibility.
Coke.la is gonna be a big red flag even of itself. The Coca-Cola Company has been good at buying up every one of its trademarks in all of these TLDs that get sold towards the USA audience defensively so that nobody can try to cybersquat them or further deminish their "Coke" brand with drug references...
No, but I do exepect something that over-paranoid admins are gonna mistake for advice get modded something a little less than a 4... The parent post seems to have attracted a few Flamebait and Troll mod points since I posted.:)
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The problem with accepting that gift of a few pennies from the South Korean taxpayers is that it comes at the expense of American workers that Micron employs.
Hynix is a company that shouldn't exist, they've been constantly losing money. The only reason why they haven't gone bankrupt is because they have an infinite funding source, a government. We'd rather see Hynix vaporize and let the price of DRAM go up than end up with Micron being the one that goes bankrupt.
Because we'd like to keep all of the good AMERICANS who work for Micron employed. We'd rather see Hynix close up operations than Micron...
Would you like a job with that RAM chip?
That's the problem here, South Korea got caught giving a subsidy to a failing company which enabled it to continue to operate at a loss when it rightfully should have gone out of business. As a result, Micron got less sales, and that means Micron ends up hiring less Americans. The only fair thing to do is for the USA give Micron a subsidy at the cheater's expense...
They don't care. It drives the price up for everybody equally. They'll just pass it on to the consumer...
Just like the way that the courts award judgment money to the to the winnig plantiffs instead of collecting that ill-gotten gain as tax money... This tariff is going in because Hynix didn't play fairly under the rules of International trade, and that hurt Micron.
And no, this isn't just an American thing, Hynix is getting called for the same foul in the EU too...
Hope you've owned it for a while.
This news was not exactly a shocker. In fact, it's actually bad news stock-wise because the tariff wasn't quite as strong as previously affected. The news was already priced-in because the market reacts to the word that the government is starting the to do something rather than when they actually get around to doing it.
I'm not quite sure you can claim Bush brought "integrity" to the office, he did afterall win with a margin of victory so slim it could have been overturned had disputed results in a territory run by his brother gone the other way... there's never going to be a scandal-free president ever again, especially when there's always more than half the nation looking for something to attack.
You can't blame the residents of the White House for everything that goes wrong or assign them credit for everything that goes right. The real world is just a whole lot more complex than that.
Why would a money-losing company cheat any more than a money-making company? Afterall, the money-making company is more likely to have succeded at cheating...
...15 workers for a jackhammer...
One to hold it and the other 14 to...
B-6, B-7, B-8, and B-9.
That should sink your battleship.
How do we get RTFA stupidness when it's Ask Slashdot and we don't have an FA to even have to click to?
The project hasn't started yet. They didn't start the work because the client was late in signing the work order...
Either you signed a contract with your employer which states that you might have to work 12 hour days 7 days a week or you didn't.
If you did. Shut up.
Not all contracts are worth their face value. If you sign a contract saying you'll work for $4/hour, that pay rate will get tossed out because that's less than the minimum wage that the law requires. The employer has to pay at the state minimum whether you want it or not.
However, that clause doesn't give them permission to break the law. For example, if they were to suddenly fire all of the members of any racial group "without clase" because the contract said they could, lawyers would certainly come knocking.
Quitting is truely the leverage this group has.
If this group were to actually quit, there's no way the company the company could advertise several 12 hour a day 7 day a week positions and expect anybody useful to reply. They'd either have to hire an army of consultants quickly, or they would certainly not make the deadline for the client.
Besides, if this company is in such dire financial straights that they can't stand up to this client and say "no way!" or afford to pay their workers respectably for an overload schedule, is this really a company that's going to be offering lasting employment in any circumstance?
Only in certain areas... for example, there are several states where a state law sets the minimum hourly wage higher than the federal minimum. (Because when there are two "not lower than" laws, the higher number ends up pervailing with no conflict.) This might come into play if the number of hours expected of him divided by his weekly pay comes out to less than the state minimum wage...
Just because he is not entited to overtime pay does not mean the employer is entited to demand this schedule with no recourse. In some states, this kind of demand would equate to a sudden change in job responsibility, which would give him "due cause" to quit his job and still recieve unemployment insurance pay.
The more logical thing to do would be to hire some more temorary workers to create the needed man hours, but of course that'd cost the company money....
Yeah, but that assumes that the company who reqired this schedule is willing to honor the vacation time...
Depends on what state the original poster is in, but most states have labor laws strictly limit what can be expected of a salary employee... if this isn't an illegal thing to expect from an employee, it should be.
Better doesn't always win in the marketplace. In fact, in rarely does. Especially in communication tools, there is a lot of value in being "the one that everybody else is using" because of compatibility.
Yes, but Microsoft is basically setting up a claim of "You can beat us in the browser wars, you just have to create your own operating system too." IE wins on Windows, Sarfari rules the Mac, and Mozilla is the browser on Linux... other players like Opera and Netscape are doomed to the minor leagues.
QBasic was distributed in a not-installed-by-default placement on Windows 95 and Windows 98... it's there but well-hidden.
The reason why the did away with line numbers is that they became irrelavant. With QBasic sharing its interface with the DOS Editor, it was just much more logical to assume that the lines were already in proper order rather than have to rely on numbers to sort them. (GWBasic lacked any way to move up and down between lines.)
From there, the only lines that actually still needed their numbers were the lines that were called by name in a GOSUB or GOTO line, and there was no reason to limit the "line number" to numerics so the Line Label of any text you wanted was created instead. QBasic still supported numbered lines for nice legacy compatibility.
Coke.la is gonna be a big red flag even of itself. The Coca-Cola Company has been good at buying up every one of its trademarks in all of these TLDs that get sold towards the USA audience defensively so that nobody can try to cybersquat them or further deminish their "Coke" brand with drug references...
No, but I do exepect something that over-paranoid admins are gonna mistake for advice get modded something a little less than a 4... The parent post seems to have attracted a few Flamebait and Troll mod points since I posted. :)
Anybody got a list of them so I can add them to my foe list?