Exactly. Layoffs every 2-4 years have been the norm in this industry for the last 20 years. Amazing that people still do not get this.
That's why I prefer contracting.
I mean, if you are going to get the same loyalty from the company as a contractor, and the same job security from a company as a contractor, you might as well get the BILL RATE of a contractor from said company, no?
And if you incorporate yourself, you get to write so much stuff off, if you do something like a "S-corp" you can save how much you have to pay in on SS and medicare (not paid on your full bill rate)....and you are free to negotiate your bill rate. Sure, you have to put on your Big Boy pants and do extra paperwork, think and invest for yourself for retirement, etc.
But really if you're going to be treated as a contractor, why not make the money a contractor gets paid for the risk undertaken?
These days, a W2 employee seems to get the worst of both worlds more and more...
I think this is another (and somewhat troubling to me) example, of how in the US, individualism, and the new mindset to go with the hive-mind is taking over the younger crowd.
A car used to be about independence, it was really the BIG first step in becoming and independent person from your parents, and was a symbol of individual freedom.
Now? I dunno....in the excerpt, it shows a growing number of people, willing to give up private, aggregate data about themselves, for the "greater good"....for some perceived and possibly realistic possibility of greater safety.
My question is, are you really that scared? Are you that scared of your driving ability to avoid wrecks? Are you that worried about people around you?
I just don't see it as "that bad".
I want to be the one in control of my car. I like to drive. Hell, I've never owned anything but 2x seat sports cars since I bought my first one in high school (exception my old '86 911 Turbo technically had 4 seats, but the rear two weren't functional for human usage). I like to be in control. I like to have a car that stops as well as it accelerates and handles. I don't want a computer intervening in my driving.
That sad thing is...that while I really don't have that problem with some folks that do want the aid....is that having your car be in control as described, will soon NOT be a choice and will be mandatory. It already is trending that way as that just the other day I saw a blurb on TV with a federal official saying this cooperative car, inter-vehicle communication would by law start becoming mandatory.
I dunno. It bothers me with this trend towards autos, and more generally, the fact that the individual is being celebrated less and less in our culture, in favor of everyone is equal, everyone MUST cooperate for the greater good. Cooperation and community DO have a place in our US culture, but the balance seems to be tipping to where we're moving more to be a part of the collective on everything.....and that is NOT where boldness, creativeness and greatness comes from.
OH well....I guess while I still can, I should move on buying that old 70's muscle car, and maybe do a resto-mod on it to improve the handling and braking. But then, I'll be able to have a car sans computer control, a 455 4-Speed engine, and open up the old air restrictions and get something in the 500HP range. Something fun to drive, and that isn't part of the hive mind growing today.
I'll try to do it while I'm still able to....legally.
I never thought the Rush song Red Barchetta would be quite so prophetic.
Yeah man, sure, now try shooting the "bad guy" in a packed Chuck-e-cheese without some collateral damage.
So, you think rather than risk some collateral damage, you'd rather let a shooter(s) like the ones in San Bernadino just walk around the place calmly shooting everyone to death in an orderly fashion?
I'd personally rather have someone with a gun try to stop the bastards before the CRIMINAL can succeed killing or maiming most every one in the place.
Yes, I'd rather people try to take out the criminal killer before he can do more harm, even if there is elevated risk. I'd much rather risk a good guy accidentally hitting 1-3 innocents if it prevented the bad guy from killing 20 people.
I had no idea this was a thing, either. In the 1970s my mom was out the door by 6AM, my dad had to drop my brother off at pre-school and then go to work, so I walked a block up to my friend Patrick's house when my dad had to leave and played until the bus came or walked the half block from there to the school and played on the playground until the buses arrived. By first grade walking was not an option - my parents moved and school was 6 miles away. Also that K-6 school closed the next year, so I'd have been bused either way.
Same here..geez, if this is all true, my parents would have been jailed numerous times as I grew up.
My Mom started working again when I was in about 2nd grade I think. I was a latch key kid then, I'd walk home from school, not terribly far, but would come home and let myself in...and usually go back out in the neighborhood to play with my friends.
Later years, I roamed the neighborhood and surrounding areas on foot, bike and skateboard. During the summers, I'd leave in the morning and come back at dark. I did have a loose rule when very young, to call home every couple hours from a friends' house to check in...which relaxed to nothing as I get closer to being a teen.
Geez, I rode bikes without helmets and pads...roamed through neighborhoods, and even the woods near out house (before it was all developed) and needed very little supervision. I knew where the gun in the house was and how to use it from about 5th grade on, but under the fear of God never touched it ONCE, except one day when home and some drifter knocked on the door wanting a glass of water.
I got the gun, racked a bullet into the chamber and had it ready to fire in my hand, till the guy went away, after which, I took the clip out, racked the bullet out and put it all back and THEN, immediately called my mom at work to tell her what I'd done....
It can't be that kids are stupider today....is it that parents just don't teach kids common sense anymore (no candy from strangers, etc)...and the authorities are now taking it upon themselves to say how much unsupervised freedom a child can have??
I knew kids today were pretty sheltered, but I had NO idea it was this bad, and that parents that could and did trust their kids out on their own, could be liable to be arrested and charged with some crime?!!?!
My parents trusted me with a pretty large radius to roam..and we didn't even have cell phones back then....
Apart from paying you and keeping out the competition, you mean?
Pay me?
I'm not on the dole....I work for a living, and PAY THEM. I pay a bit too much IMHO, but I certainly don't get a lot of favors from the feds. But in general, I"d be happy with less regulation, less paperwork I have to fill out to simple run a business, but let me pay some reasonable taxes and then, stay the fuck out of my life.
And not to mention it is already a Federal crime (a felony) to use a firearm while committing a crime (the crime itself being illegal as well). Making something "more" illegal is unlikely to change criminal behavior.
That's the same thing that gets me, when someone kills someone over race/sexual preferance or whatever....
Murder is murder. A person loses their life...but if it is a killing because someone is gay or whatever..makes it worse somehow? Their life is worse than mine if I were killed? Dead is dead....
We've had self-winding watches for decades. Surely we've advanced the tech enough that a holstered weapon would self-charge the minuscule electricity required to scan a fingerprint / palm print.
And that's going to help me how, when I hear a break in, and reach for my gun(s) by my bed or wherever I am in the house to grab one that is loaded with one in the chamber ready to fire, but hasn't been "walked" in quite awhile?
I, personally....will keep my 100% mechanical firearms....and not worry about an extra layer of electronics (what if the battery dies?) as an extra point of failure.
Everyone can pick their job, but not everyone can afford to pick their preferred job.
Err..it has been that way since the dawn of time...
Who said life is fair and that everyone gets to do the job they "want" or would make them happy?
Sounds like the generation of everyone getting a trophy, and having their self esteem constantly propped up by having no losers, is hitting the workforce....?
If you can afford to pick your jobs, good for you.
Say what??
EVERYONE can pick their jobs. I don't know, at least in the US, where anyone is forced to take any particular job, no guns held to heads, etc.
If you don't see jobs you like, then you're not looking hard enough...or you're not flexible enough, you may need to move, etc.
No one is owed a good paying job that is convenient for you. You have to make the efforts to find what is appropriate for you, and if need be...go to the job.
It isn't like Uber is the only game in town...and besides, if someone is so poor they can't get any other job but Uber, I'm guessing they don't have the car quality to drive Uber, if they own a car at all.
I LOVE Uber. Now getting someone to drive you is a reasonable cost.
These days, if I know I"m gonna be out drinking...I just plan to use Uber, and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
I just don't get what people have against the contractor paradigm. I personally LOVE doing it. I'm responsible for myself, I set my hours (for the most part)...I write so many things off to save on taxes, I make sure to set aside enough money for taxes, retirement, etc.
Yes, you have to put on your Big Boy pants, and be responsible...and if you don't want to do it, don't.
But I don't get all the hate on people that DO want to work that model.
And so far, all the Uber drivers I've met, seem to really like the flexible work model.
If you think your ass is hurting, how about the asses of all the developers who invested money to make games for it?
You know, if you can't swing $600 for a very new to the market high end luxury item item such as this, or if a total of $1500 blows your meal budget, perhaps you need to spend a bit more of your time, getting some education or working a bit harder to get a job that pays more so that you can afford luxuries like this, rather than gaming....eh?
Wow....troll?
People can't face the facts that not everyone is entitled to everything, that you need to live within your means....and that if you don't like the means you have, then maybe rather than play games, you might busy yourself trying to correct your vocational errors?
...if all the pressure to unionize and all the headaches that that entails might have at least early on, been part of the PROBLEM, causing more and more jobs to move overseas from the US?
You missed the point entirely. The developers aren't complaining that they can't afford it.
I was talking more to the consumer version price.
If you can't afford this non-necessary item, then you need to either:
1. Wait, save money and then buy.
2. Get a better job, because if dropping $600-$1K from time to time, you need to be doing something other than playing games.
And really, like I posted in another thread. Don't kid yourself, there are PLENTY of folks out there with this kind of disposible income.
In fact...pricing something higher, makes it seem to be something you want more, that it is worth more, etc.....in consumer rings, perception is reality.
I was already ready to purchase one until I saw the price tag. I figured it would be in the $400 range. I just can't justtify spending $600+ on the Rift plus another $300+ on a new graphics card.
So?
Work a few more months, save up, and then buy it.
Nothing wrong with working and saving to get something you want...Everything in life doesn't come "instant gratification".
It had better be targeted to the average PC gamer at least, if they plan to make money. It is *just* a peripheral, and while I'm sure some people are content dropping $800 for a monitor, most gamers (going by the most popular monitors) are only willing to spend $150 for a big 1080p monitor, or $250 for a 144hz big 1080p monitor. The Rift's price point is 50% more than a PS4.
There are a LOT of folks out there that have plenty of disposable income, where dropping a grand here or there isn't really that much of a second thought.
You see them every day, driving higher end cars, living in well to do neighborhoods and nice homes....and not struggling.
Not everyone flips burgers for minimum wage you know.
And if that's all you do, your time might be better spend doing what it takes to get a higher paying job than playing games and worrying about not being able to afford the latest and greatest luxury item toy....
If you think your ass is hurting, how about the asses of all the developers who invested money to make games for it?
You know, if you can't swing $600 for a very new to the market high end luxury item item such as this, or if a total of $1500 blows your meal budget, perhaps you need to spend a bit more of your time, getting some education or working a bit harder to get a job that pays more so that you can afford luxuries like this, rather than gaming....eh?
I wish they'd also sued BBT for letting "Penny" whack off all her beautiful long hair into that crap she's been wearing for a year now...
Ugh, what is the deal with women who have great looking long hair...and they whack it off and it looks like crap?
One of the others that just did this is Megan Kelly...geez, WTF are they thinking? Wait till you get to be elderly and long hair doesn't look good anymore, enjoy it while you're young.
And besides....most men like longer hair on women anyway...I guess Kaley Cuoco having gotten married recently, doesn't care what men think of her anymore, so off with the hair....ugh
Likely what happened...is the management changed, or at least the control did....
BUT, they likely retained almost all of the people and middle management from the previous run...so, you basically had the same exact people causing problems before, still there causing the same problems.
They'd likely need to pretty much "clean house" and start over, however, you'd lose a lot of brain talent that way too...and it often hard to pick out who truly you need and whom you can let go on a contract that large...but clean house is likely the only way to have hope of true reform.
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That's why I prefer contracting.
I mean, if you are going to get the same loyalty from the company as a contractor, and the same job security from a company as a contractor, you might as well get the BILL RATE of a contractor from said company, no?
And if you incorporate yourself, you get to write so much stuff off, if you do something like a "S-corp" you can save how much you have to pay in on SS and medicare (not paid on your full bill rate)....and you are free to negotiate your bill rate. Sure, you have to put on your Big Boy pants and do extra paperwork, think and invest for yourself for retirement, etc.
But really if you're going to be treated as a contractor, why not make the money a contractor gets paid for the risk undertaken?
These days, a W2 employee seems to get the worst of both worlds more and more...
A car used to be about independence, it was really the BIG first step in becoming and independent person from your parents, and was a symbol of individual freedom.
Now? I dunno....in the excerpt, it shows a growing number of people, willing to give up private, aggregate data about themselves, for the "greater good"....for some perceived and possibly realistic possibility of greater safety.
My question is, are you really that scared? Are you that scared of your driving ability to avoid wrecks? Are you that worried about people around you?
I just don't see it as "that bad".
I want to be the one in control of my car. I like to drive. Hell, I've never owned anything but 2x seat sports cars since I bought my first one in high school (exception my old '86 911 Turbo technically had 4 seats, but the rear two weren't functional for human usage). I like to be in control. I like to have a car that stops as well as it accelerates and handles. I don't want a computer intervening in my driving.
That sad thing is...that while I really don't have that problem with some folks that do want the aid....is that having your car be in control as described, will soon NOT be a choice and will be mandatory. It already is trending that way as that just the other day I saw a blurb on TV with a federal official saying this cooperative car, inter-vehicle communication would by law start becoming mandatory.
I dunno. It bothers me with this trend towards autos, and more generally, the fact that the individual is being celebrated less and less in our culture, in favor of everyone is equal, everyone MUST cooperate for the greater good. Cooperation and community DO have a place in our US culture, but the balance seems to be tipping to where we're moving more to be a part of the collective on everything.....and that is NOT where boldness, creativeness and greatness comes from.
OH well....I guess while I still can, I should move on buying that old 70's muscle car, and maybe do a resto-mod on it to improve the handling and braking. But then, I'll be able to have a car sans computer control, a 455 4-Speed engine, and open up the old air restrictions and get something in the 500HP range. Something fun to drive, and that isn't part of the hive mind growing today.
I'll try to do it while I'm still able to....legally.
I never thought the Rush song Red Barchetta would be quite so prophetic.
So, you think rather than risk some collateral damage, you'd rather let a shooter(s) like the ones in San Bernadino just walk around the place calmly shooting everyone to death in an orderly fashion?
I'd personally rather have someone with a gun try to stop the bastards before the CRIMINAL can succeed killing or maiming most every one in the place.
Yes, I'd rather people try to take out the criminal killer before he can do more harm, even if there is elevated risk. I'd much rather risk a good guy accidentally hitting 1-3 innocents if it prevented the bad guy from killing 20 people.
Same here..geez, if this is all true, my parents would have been jailed numerous times as I grew up.
My Mom started working again when I was in about 2nd grade I think. I was a latch key kid then, I'd walk home from school, not terribly far, but would come home and let myself in...and usually go back out in the neighborhood to play with my friends.
Later years, I roamed the neighborhood and surrounding areas on foot, bike and skateboard. During the summers, I'd leave in the morning and come back at dark. I did have a loose rule when very young, to call home every couple hours from a friends' house to check in...which relaxed to nothing as I get closer to being a teen.
Geez, I rode bikes without helmets and pads...roamed through neighborhoods, and even the woods near out house (before it was all developed) and needed very little supervision. I knew where the gun in the house was and how to use it from about 5th grade on, but under the fear of God never touched it ONCE, except one day when home and some drifter knocked on the door wanting a glass of water.
I got the gun, racked a bullet into the chamber and had it ready to fire in my hand, till the guy went away, after which, I took the clip out, racked the bullet out and put it all back and THEN, immediately called my mom at work to tell her what I'd done....
It can't be that kids are stupider today....is it that parents just don't teach kids common sense anymore (no candy from strangers, etc)...and the authorities are now taking it upon themselves to say how much unsupervised freedom a child can have??
I knew kids today were pretty sheltered, but I had NO idea it was this bad, and that parents that could and did trust their kids out on their own, could be liable to be arrested and charged with some crime?!!?!
My parents trusted me with a pretty large radius to roam..and we didn't even have cell phones back then....
Pay me?
I'm not on the dole....I work for a living, and PAY THEM. I pay a bit too much IMHO, but I certainly don't get a lot of favors from the feds. But in general, I"d be happy with less regulation, less paperwork I have to fill out to simple run a business, but let me pay some reasonable taxes and then, stay the fuck out of my life.
That's supposed to be their job....
I want the govt to mostly leave me alone.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes......
That's the same thing that gets me, when someone kills someone over race/sexual preferance or whatever....
Murder is murder. A person loses their life...but if it is a killing because someone is gay or whatever..makes it worse somehow? Their life is worse than mine if I were killed? Dead is dead....
And that's going to help me how, when I hear a break in, and reach for my gun(s) by my bed or wherever I am in the house to grab one that is loaded with one in the chamber ready to fire, but hasn't been "walked" in quite awhile?
I, personally....will keep my 100% mechanical firearms....and not worry about an extra layer of electronics (what if the battery dies?) as an extra point of failure.
Much like we seem to be doing in our schools these days...
Err..it has been that way since the dawn of time...
Who said life is fair and that everyone gets to do the job they "want" or would make them happy?
Sounds like the generation of everyone getting a trophy, and having their self esteem constantly propped up by having no losers, is hitting the workforce....?
Say what??
EVERYONE can pick their jobs. I don't know, at least in the US, where anyone is forced to take any particular job, no guns held to heads, etc.
If you don't see jobs you like, then you're not looking hard enough...or you're not flexible enough, you may need to move, etc.
No one is owed a good paying job that is convenient for you. You have to make the efforts to find what is appropriate for you, and if need be...go to the job.
It isn't like Uber is the only game in town...and besides, if someone is so poor they can't get any other job but Uber, I'm guessing they don't have the car quality to drive Uber, if they own a car at all.
I LOVE Uber. Now getting someone to drive you is a reasonable cost.
These days, if I know I"m gonna be out drinking...I just plan to use Uber, and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
I just don't get what people have against the contractor paradigm. I personally LOVE doing it. I'm responsible for myself, I set my hours (for the most part)...I write so many things off to save on taxes, I make sure to set aside enough money for taxes, retirement, etc.
Yes, you have to put on your Big Boy pants, and be responsible...and if you don't want to do it, don't.
But I don't get all the hate on people that DO want to work that model.
And so far, all the Uber drivers I've met, seem to really like the flexible work model.
You know, if you can't swing $600 for a very new to the market high end luxury item item such as this, or if a total of $1500 blows your meal budget, perhaps you need to spend a bit more of your time, getting some education or working a bit harder to get a job that pays more so that you can afford luxuries like this, rather than gaming....eh?
Wow....troll?
People can't face the facts that not everyone is entitled to everything, that you need to live within your means....and that if you don't like the means you have, then maybe rather than play games, you might busy yourself trying to correct your vocational errors?
...if all the pressure to unionize and all the headaches that that entails might have at least early on, been part of the PROBLEM, causing more and more jobs to move overseas from the US?
I was talking more to the consumer version price.
If you can't afford this non-necessary item, then you need to either:
1. Wait, save money and then buy.
2. Get a better job, because if dropping $600-$1K from time to time, you need to be doing something other than playing games.
And really, like I posted in another thread. Don't kid yourself, there are PLENTY of folks out there with this kind of disposible income.
In fact...pricing something higher, makes it seem to be something you want more, that it is worth more, etc.....in consumer rings, perception is reality.
Oh, no shit, eh? I don't follow much of the celebrity life scene...but that's interesting.
NOt that I have a chance, but nice to know she's on the market again.
Kinda like buying a Powerball ticket....no real chance, but fun to dream about...
So?
Work a few more months, save up, and then buy it.
Nothing wrong with working and saving to get something you want...Everything in life doesn't come "instant gratification".
There are a LOT of folks out there that have plenty of disposable income, where dropping a grand here or there isn't really that much of a second thought.
You see them every day, driving higher end cars, living in well to do neighborhoods and nice homes....and not struggling.
Not everyone flips burgers for minimum wage you know.
And if that's all you do, your time might be better spend doing what it takes to get a higher paying job than playing games and worrying about not being able to afford the latest and greatest luxury item toy....
You know, if you can't swing $600 for a very new to the market high end luxury item item such as this, or if a total of $1500 blows your meal budget, perhaps you need to spend a bit more of your time, getting some education or working a bit harder to get a job that pays more so that you can afford luxuries like this, rather than gaming....eh?
Ugh, what is the deal with women who have great looking long hair...and they whack it off and it looks like crap?
One of the others that just did this is Megan Kelly...geez, WTF are they thinking? Wait till you get to be elderly and long hair doesn't look good anymore, enjoy it while you're young.
And besides....most men like longer hair on women anyway...I guess Kaley Cuoco having gotten married recently, doesn't care what men think of her anymore, so off with the hair....ugh
I'll just stick to cash. Especially for my private individual gun purchases.
I wonder if him and Pops put in a patent on this?
BUT, they likely retained almost all of the people and middle management from the previous run...so, you basically had the same exact people causing problems before, still there causing the same problems.
They'd likely need to pretty much "clean house" and start over, however, you'd lose a lot of brain talent that way too...and it often hard to pick out who truly you need and whom you can let go on a contract that large...but clean house is likely the only way to have hope of true reform.