I can understand your point about people being marginal and that is the reason that they can't get a raise. But then I wonder why they can leave that employer and get a new job that pays more? And this can consistently happen. So I disagree with your point. Companies value outside talent more than they do in house talent. When working for a company the work experience gained at that company is ignored and not factored into wage. It's strange and backwards. It's almost like they would rather hire someone with 5 years experience(call them person1) than pay the person that has worked there for 3 years with 2 years prior experience(call them person2) the wage they would be willing to offer person1. And since we all know how hard it is to hire good people and you said there are a lot of people are marginal, what are the chances that they replace person2 with someone that is not marginal? Pretty bad. Person2 goes to another company with their resume now showing 5 years, and gets the same wage as person1 was just hired at.
Just some more minor points. If the company was so good at hiring non-marginal people, how did they end up with person2 to begin with? And if person1 is such a rockstar why are they looking for a new job? Wouldn't person1's old employer doing everything they could to keep them? People will put up with a lot of abuse for the sake of stability. The vast majority of people would like to work at 1 job where they are treated right. Job interviews aren't all that fun for most people. It's just that most work places aren't valuing their employees. The modern United States employer work culture is toxic. It's all about short term stock gains at the expense of anything else, which usually means employees. And the main thinking in wages seems to be hire people at the going rate for their experience and keep them at that rate indefinitely.
People deride Apple for having high margins. But that is exactly how a company removes temptation to misuse data.
Tim Cook was asked what he would do in this position, and he said "well I wouldn't put myself in this position". In a lot of ways Tim Cook feels the same about the cross tracking ads and things that most of the people on Slashdot does - he doesn't like them, doesn't participate in things like that, and furthermore has had Apple altering browsers to help block cross site tracking...
Apple has a clear path to making money, when a company doesn't you can be sure there is SOME path to making money from you even if you are not paying directly.
I posted already, saying that Apple sells your data. Based on the idea that all USA companies are greedy bastards that will do anything they can do maximize profits(shareholder earnings).
Convince me that Apple actually doesn't double dip. Charge people more and sell their data. Honestly, if you could, I would literally by an iPhone tomorrow. I just don't see why they aren't.
But that's just it. No company in the USA is about long term. It's about short term. How many people can we lay off to boost this quarters profits? I always assume that companies that charge you, and have access to your, sell your data. At the very least, if the product is free, you know you are the product. With people like Microsoft(win 10) and Apple, you are the sucker and the product.
If you treat the government as an adversary, trying to undermine them, then I would say you are more of a parasite to the country. I see no reason for those types of companies to be dissolved. They want to take advantage of the government infrastructure and exploit its people but not give back their due.
If you disagree with what a government does, you should not interact with them, or you should work to get the laws changed. They are instead just disregarding the portions of the law they do not like, and actively trying to circumvent the government.
If you haven't found good indie music on youtube, you haven't looked very hard.
Isn't that his point though? That you have to look? He complains about a poor signal/noise ratio and you tell him to spend more time looking.
Personally what has worked for me is setting up pandora with a few bands/songs I like and let it play.
Have you considered that maybe you like everything that has a melody to it and have no real idea what good or bad music is?
Not defending anon's post. But if you are going to go that route in this debate...
I came here to post this as an idea. If they are burdened with having to do data entry, hire someone to do it for them. It's easier to talk than to type for most people, especially when it takes mouse movements to go each of the correct textareas I'm sure they have.
Or as another poster pointed out in his office visit, record the conversations and send them off to get transcribed.
One role of government is to provide its citizens with quality of life.
Well, maybe your ideal government does this. Mine protects me, but mostly stays out of my way. The US government was never set up to function like how you want it. It would need an overhaul, and really, it needs one anyway.
The great rallying cry. Not everyone cares if they are fat pieces of shit. Talking about the USA now..When everyone is now forced to be on health care, which means its not longer private, its public. We have a right to tell other people that they are living unhealthy lives. Because I now pay for it.
Also you act like fat people just keep to themselves. They don't. They aren't. They take up 2 seats + seats on airplanes for instance. They also have a fat acceptance movement going on.
if.they have a few pounds on
I'm not talking about a few lbs overweight. But unfortunately, when you say a few lbs, in todays terms, you now mean obese people. Not people that literally have 2-5 lbs to lose.
Double post. Be fat. Lose fucking weight. And listen to all your fat friends bemoan that you are on a diet and that you aren't 'fat' because you now aren't as big of lard ass as they are. "If anyone should be losing weight it should be me." Is what they say to you as you sit there, still grossly overweight but have lost a few lbs.
The fat community does nothing but road block people trying to lose weight. So fuck them. They sit there with a poor me complex and rail against anyone actively doing something about their weight. It shows to them that they too can lose weight and they want nothing to do with it. So no. I took shit for being fat. Then I took shit for losing weight.
Anyone that has actually done this can certainly understand why I hate fat asses.
Then you might want to show some fucking empathy. No one is going to think you used such harsh language because you used to feel that way about yourself, they're going to think you're just a dumb, judgmental prick.
Empathy for the class of people that are fat, know it and make excuses. No fuck that and fuck them. There are so many reasons not to be fat and the majority of them aren't the fact that they are fucking eye sores.
Conversely, maybe we can now take snide, fucking smart-alecks and swap them into the body of a lardass so they can experience the humiliation and despair of being obese, so people like you can have a little more empathy for the human condition.
Implying I haven't lost weight and fought to keep it there.
Maybe now we can have fat people swap into a thin persons body so they can experience what not being a fat piece of shit is like and lose some fucking weight.
"stumbled upon the new rocks on a beach on the Big Island of Hawaii. These stones, which they’ve dubbed “plastiglomerates,”"
I did rtf. It says new type of rock all over it.
Get out of here. We are nature too. Just because we are self aware does not make us different. We evolved just like every other species. Beavers change their habitat too. Just we do it so much better.
Self hating humans are the worst type. If you truly believe this then hopefully you made the choice to NOT have children.(as opposed to the forever alone basement dwellers where everyone else has made that choice for them)
How are these things rocks? We made them, then they melted. The grabbed onto rocks sure. But once you stick to a rock you become a rock? Rock's are minerals. I wasn't aware plastic is now considered a mineral? If I melt glass around a rock, can I call that a new type of rock? Or can I take super glue and glue some pebbles together and call that a new type of rock?
How dare they charge for learning material they create. Hopefully it won't catch on, and the rest of the materials and curriculum's schools use will remain free, as it always has been.
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I can understand your point about people being marginal and that is the reason that they can't get a raise. But then I wonder why they can leave that employer and get a new job that pays more? And this can consistently happen. So I disagree with your point. Companies value outside talent more than they do in house talent. When working for a company the work experience gained at that company is ignored and not factored into wage. It's strange and backwards. It's almost like they would rather hire someone with 5 years experience(call them person1) than pay the person that has worked there for 3 years with 2 years prior experience(call them person2) the wage they would be willing to offer person1. And since we all know how hard it is to hire good people and you said there are a lot of people are marginal, what are the chances that they replace person2 with someone that is not marginal? Pretty bad. Person2 goes to another company with their resume now showing 5 years, and gets the same wage as person1 was just hired at.
Just some more minor points. If the company was so good at hiring non-marginal people, how did they end up with person2 to begin with? And if person1 is such a rockstar why are they looking for a new job? Wouldn't person1's old employer doing everything they could to keep them? People will put up with a lot of abuse for the sake of stability. The vast majority of people would like to work at 1 job where they are treated right. Job interviews aren't all that fun for most people. It's just that most work places aren't valuing their employees. The modern United States employer work culture is toxic. It's all about short term stock gains at the expense of anything else, which usually means employees. And the main thinking in wages seems to be hire people at the going rate for their experience and keep them at that rate indefinitely.
We clearly work in the same company if not on the same team.
Find someone Apple is selling this data to. Get back to us.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
People deride Apple for having high margins. But that is exactly how a company removes temptation to misuse data.
Tim Cook was asked what he would do in this position, and he said "well I wouldn't put myself in this position". In a lot of ways Tim Cook feels the same about the cross tracking ads and things that most of the people on Slashdot does - he doesn't like them, doesn't participate in things like that, and furthermore has had Apple altering browsers to help block cross site tracking...
Apple has a clear path to making money, when a company doesn't you can be sure there is SOME path to making money from you even if you are not paying directly.
I posted already, saying that Apple sells your data. Based on the idea that all USA companies are greedy bastards that will do anything they can do maximize profits(shareholder earnings). Convince me that Apple actually doesn't double dip. Charge people more and sell their data. Honestly, if you could, I would literally by an iPhone tomorrow. I just don't see why they aren't.
But that's just it. No company in the USA is about long term. It's about short term. How many people can we lay off to boost this quarters profits? I always assume that companies that charge you, and have access to your, sell your data. At the very least, if the product is free, you know you are the product. With people like Microsoft(win 10) and Apple, you are the sucker and the product.
No. I live in cow country. Grass stocks are not sprayed. You're ignorant.
Cattle eat other things than grass. Alfalfa, corn, soybeans, ect...
If you treat the government as an adversary, trying to undermine them, then I would say you are more of a parasite to the country. I see no reason for those types of companies to be dissolved. They want to take advantage of the government infrastructure and exploit its people but not give back their due. If you disagree with what a government does, you should not interact with them, or you should work to get the laws changed. They are instead just disregarding the portions of the law they do not like, and actively trying to circumvent the government.
https://casetext.com/case/sham... http://www.lexology.com/librar...
If you haven't found good indie music on youtube, you haven't looked very hard.
Isn't that his point though? That you have to look? He complains about a poor signal/noise ratio and you tell him to spend more time looking. Personally what has worked for me is setting up pandora with a few bands/songs I like and let it play.
Have you considered that maybe you like everything that has a melody to it and have no real idea what good or bad music is? Not defending anon's post. But if you are going to go that route in this debate...
I came here to post this as an idea. If they are burdened with having to do data entry, hire someone to do it for them. It's easier to talk than to type for most people, especially when it takes mouse movements to go each of the correct textareas I'm sure they have. Or as another poster pointed out in his office visit, record the conversations and send them off to get transcribed.
So what you are saying is in order to get prostitution legal you have to jail hundreds maybe thousands of people? Yea, that is a good method.
One role of government is to provide its citizens with quality of life.
Well, maybe your ideal government does this. Mine protects me, but mostly stays out of my way. The US government was never set up to function like how you want it. It would need an overhaul, and really, it needs one anyway.
Also you act like fat people just keep to themselves. They don't. They aren't. They take up 2 seats + seats on airplanes for instance. They also have a fat acceptance movement going on.
if.they have a few pounds on
I'm not talking about a few lbs overweight. But unfortunately, when you say a few lbs, in todays terms, you now mean obese people. Not people that literally have 2-5 lbs to lose.
I've watched
Clearly you know what's going on then. /sarcasm
Driven people will never be stopped by race in America today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Prove otherwise. Calorie in Calorie out. You can't make fat from nothing.
Double post. Be fat. Lose fucking weight. And listen to all your fat friends bemoan that you are on a diet and that you aren't 'fat' because you now aren't as big of lard ass as they are. "If anyone should be losing weight it should be me." Is what they say to you as you sit there, still grossly overweight but have lost a few lbs.
The fat community does nothing but road block people trying to lose weight. So fuck them. They sit there with a poor me complex and rail against anyone actively doing something about their weight. It shows to them that they too can lose weight and they want nothing to do with it. So no. I took shit for being fat. Then I took shit for losing weight.
Anyone that has actually done this can certainly understand why I hate fat asses.
Then you might want to show some fucking empathy. No one is going to think you used such harsh language because you used to feel that way about yourself, they're going to think you're just a dumb, judgmental prick.
Empathy for the class of people that are fat, know it and make excuses. No fuck that and fuck them. There are so many reasons not to be fat and the majority of them aren't the fact that they are fucking eye sores.
Conversely, maybe we can now take snide, fucking smart-alecks and swap them into the body of a lardass so they can experience the humiliation and despair of being obese, so people like you can have a little more empathy for the human condition.
Implying I haven't lost weight and fought to keep it there.
Maybe now we can have fat people swap into a thin persons body so they can experience what not being a fat piece of shit is like and lose some fucking weight.
"stumbled upon the new rocks on a beach on the Big Island of Hawaii. These stones, which they’ve dubbed “plastiglomerates,”"
I did rtf. It says new type of rock all over it.
Get out of here. We are nature too. Just because we are self aware does not make us different. We evolved just like every other species. Beavers change their habitat too. Just we do it so much better. Self hating humans are the worst type. If you truly believe this then hopefully you made the choice to NOT have children.(as opposed to the forever alone basement dwellers where everyone else has made that choice for them)
How are these things rocks? We made them, then they melted. The grabbed onto rocks sure. But once you stick to a rock you become a rock? Rock's are minerals. I wasn't aware plastic is now considered a mineral? If I melt glass around a rock, can I call that a new type of rock? Or can I take super glue and glue some pebbles together and call that a new type of rock?
How dare they charge for learning material they create. Hopefully it won't catch on, and the rest of the materials and curriculum's schools use will remain free, as it always has been.