...and the democrat party is currently trying to make sure we don't go that far down
I honestly don't quite know what the democrat party is trying to promote.
A large faction seems to be really trying to pull the party WAY left (US left) and that bothers me, there are actual candidates there promoting socialism.
I hope that's not the direction they move.
But that aside, I do long for the old days where both sides could actually work together. I remember how Reagan and Tip O'Neil, tho so far apart politically, could still work together and even have a drink or two when the day was over. The debates weren't personal, and both sides were more respectful of the other side's different views.
I don't know when or if we'll ever get to where each side isn't out to punish the other.
It seems to just keep escalating.
I know I'm a bit biased on the conservative side, but wow....when Obama won, I didn't see the violence and widespread protests that fall into riots like we do with the left since Trump won. It seems to be just escalating and I"m concerned.
But if you're just flying around in a field with your unregistered model airplane without having taken a test, this bill does not allow them to seize the equipment.
From my understanding of what was passed, it was so broadly written, that they indeed can interpret it to mean they can confiscate from you on the spot for any reason they deem "dangerous".....and we all know law enforcement will always 'err' on the side of broad powers for them.
Hell, there are still people in New Orleans from Katrina that never got their guns back, and that does directly against Bill of rights violations, you don't think a broadly worded FAA law won't take from you what they want when they want...?
Everyone will have to pass a FAA pilot type test, and you are going to be required to have that license on you at ALL times you are flying, and any law enforcement type can stop you at any time they see you flying, and have an encounter, requiring you to show your license, and if not on you, can confiscate your equipment.
Happens a lot at the beach. But I'm not allowed to bring guns on the public beach. Also it might be upsetting if people were shooting in the air all the time, but it's Santa Cruz so a lot of weird shit goes down and nobody seems to care....
In urban areas people don't have acres of property. So they fly in parks and at beaches....
The examples you are giving are people flying in public areas....ie, open to use BY the public.
That should cause you no harm since it isn't over your private land, but you seem to be arguing that it is...?
The trouble is, there are other provisions in there...that as I understand it, require EVERY drone operator (commercial or private) to pass a FAA test, and essentially be blessed by the FAA as a pilot, along with associated fees, etc.
However, it gets worse than that....the new law also now requires you to carry that license documentation with you at all times flying a drone, and any time any law enforcement (local, state, etc) wants to harass you, and see you flying a drone, they can stop you, require you to show your documentation and if you don't have it on you, can confiscate your drone with no due process and as far as I know, no rules on how to get it returned.
They may be able to just destroy it, I'm not sure.
Again, I may have misread the bill...but even if you have your 'license' on you....local authorities with the broadly worded bill, may be able to almost arbitrarily say your drone, no matter what it is doing....is a danger and force you to surrender it to them, or they can destroy it at will.
Sadly, the bill is so broadly worded, it can give the authorities WAY too much ability to interfere with your life and cause an encounter, and possibly lose you your property.
Of course...that would never be abused....[rolls eyes]
Wake me up when Linux has real pen support and Apple starts caring about users that actually want to get work done again.
Depends I guess on the type of work you want to get done.
I use my Mac devices mostly for photos and videos...and they work great. I love using Affinity Photo on my iPad pro when away from the work station and I can get a LOT done on that....etc.
I couldn't ask for better 'pen' support on the iPad Pro and I use my wacom tablet all the time on my workstation I have set up.....so, lots of pen goodness on Apple.
I've never tried it on linux, but sad to hear it apparently doesn't work there very well?
enable developer mode then install linux subsystem
No, I don't mean running Linux inside windows, I mean like on a normal computer where you can completely wipe windows off the box, and install linux as the primary OS.
es, they can go deeper into debt slavery that way - constant income is a loan magnet. Which is a key way society as it is tends to keep the poor, poor. Back when there was a Bunker-Ramo, I worked there as a high level engineer. Our new hires, mostly making more than they ever had, were going way deep into debt to get that "good life" they always dreamed of and marketing everywhere sells you.
Err...well, it's called "welcome to the real world", where you need to learn to live and act like and adult, and live within your means.
People have been doing it as long as the modern world has been around.
It isn't rocket surgery.
And advertising and marketing aren't magic entities that force you to buy things. Sure it makes things tempting, but again....you are supposed to be an adult and make adult decisions.
However, if you're salaried you might prefer the option for bonuses
Well, if you are salaried, you by definition don't work hourly....minimum wage only apples to hourly workers.
It sounded like this was only the bonuses and all for warehouse hourly workers...they are hourly, so they all are at min. wage of $15/hr, but no more bonuses.
If that isn't the case, then, they are then also robbing incentive money from salaried folks to pay for raises to $15/hr for the hourly folks, which indeed would suck for them.
But it sounded like to me, that the warehouse hourly workers lose the potential bonuses, in exchange for everyone making at least $15/hr.
Jowever if they figure out you are idle and you obviously didn't bother to tell anyone knowing that you were idle, then they will be inclined to ditch you. No amount of playing with definitions will address this tendency.
Well, if you're working from home, like I think at least one example given was doing, how will they know?
also, if you do work in an office, unless it is one of the stupid "open work areas", where you at least have a cube, etc....just turn your monitor away from the opening, and act busy when anyone comes by......Alt-Tab is a great way to change what's showing on your screen when someone comes walking up, etc.
Employment literally assumes a certain amount of time worked per week;
if you are a salaried employee, you are expected to be at their disposal, usually 40 hours a week.
You are expected to get the assigned work done on time.
You are not obligated to ask for more work if you finish early.....if they observe you are idle then they are free to assign you more, but you are not obligated in any way to ask for more if you complete your original assignment early.
What alternative operating systems? They can't produce a MacOS machine, although I'm sure they would if Apple allowed it. I guess there Linux. As good as it is, it's still not ready for your average user.
If they were smart...all the major hardware vendors would get together and form a common group, to pic one distro of Linux and custom comform it to be user friendly and work on their hardware in a very common way.
They could bypass the MS tax and all have this as the alternative OS, and make sales on hardware...cheaper machines since the OS costs them basically nothing, and still make good profits compared to what they sell with MS pre-installed.
I think your premise is wrong. If you take too long to perform a task (for most jobs) your employer doesn't demand you give money back. If your task takes you an hour you're paid for an hour. If that same task takes you two hours, you're paid for two hours. That's considered a cost of doing business.
This is not the case if you are a normal W2 employee, which is salary. You are NOT paid by the hour...you are expected to be at their disposal doing their work for 40 hours a week.
So, you are not getting paid for an hour or 2 hours.
You are not bound to ask for more work...they can assign it if they see you need it and can do more, but you are under no obligation to tell them you can and do need more.
If you are a contractor, then things ARE a bit different...but again, that depends on how the contract is written...is is fixed price? Is it hourly? etc.....if it is fixed price for fixed period of time, then as long as you turn in the deliverables at the end of the time period, doesn't matter if you did them all the first day and coast 12 months...But again, the 1099 contracting world is MUCH different than the more common W2 salaried direct employee job.
Likewise could fill a niche helping people keep track of the books and TV shows their friends recommend
Err....who the fuck needs an APP for this?
Don't people naturally discuss the books and TV shows and other interests their friends have and recommend when they are hanging out, talking and spending time with them??
No one owes you a job. If you've automated one job, simply ask for another. If your employer won't go along with that, go work for someone else with a more intelligent approach. Ultimately, doing nothing is crushing to the human spirit. Why would you want to do that? Time is irreplaceable.
Well, the employer is paying you to get a job done.
You are fulfilling doing that job, they didn't say you had to sweat over it or spend grueling hours doing it...they just want the results.
I'm guessing this is a W2 gig, so they are paying you salary for doing a job and producing the results.
Now...you are doing that.
There's nothing wrong with doing 'nothing', or maybe doing other activities you are interested in (assuming you are working from home)...or, if you are so inclined, maybe do some extra work during the day, and earn some extra money.
But you are not cheating...you are giving them the return other money, and if you can do that and still have "YOU" time to do relaxing things, fun things, or even make more money on the side, there's nothing wrong with that.
Your automation has given you your time back to do with as you see fit....while still meeting your obligations.
Better than sweating your ass off outside in the summer digging a ditch....
I grind my own coffee, and at $11.99 / pound for excellent beans the 15 grams I need for a mug of coffee cost me $0.39. I sometimes buy fairly good (but not super-premium) beans at $4.99 a pound, which means a cup of what you'd get at a typical coffee shop sets me back sixteen cents.
To me, it is all just hot, bitter brown liquid.....
Are you really able to taste a discernible difference between the two different beans you buy and grind?
Is there that much of a difference you can really discern between most any samples of plain old coffee?
The only differences I can tell are between chickory coffee (NOLA style) and non-chickory coffee......either way, I find it just to be a medium for lots of cream, sugar and a bit of booze on the weekends, to make it palatable...
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I honestly don't quite know what the democrat party is trying to promote.
A large faction seems to be really trying to pull the party WAY left (US left) and that bothers me, there are actual candidates there promoting socialism.
I hope that's not the direction they move.
But that aside, I do long for the old days where both sides could actually work together. I remember how Reagan and Tip O'Neil, tho so far apart politically, could still work together and even have a drink or two when the day was over. The debates weren't personal, and both sides were more respectful of the other side's different views.
I don't know when or if we'll ever get to where each side isn't out to punish the other.
It seems to just keep escalating.
I know I'm a bit biased on the conservative side, but wow....when Obama won, I didn't see the violence and widespread protests that fall into riots like we do with the left since Trump won. It seems to be just escalating and I"m concerned.
This is critical to our lives, and I'm a bit concerned with we try to fsck with mother nature a bit too much too FAST.
One really bad mistake using vectors like this and well, it could wipe out the planets food sources potentially.
"Nature finds a way"...as I seem to have heard mentioned before.
From my understanding of what was passed, it was so broadly written, that they indeed can interpret it to mean they can confiscate from you on the spot for any reason they deem "dangerous".....and we all know law enforcement will always 'err' on the side of broad powers for them.
Hell, there are still people in New Orleans from Katrina that never got their guns back, and that does directly against Bill of rights violations, you don't think a broadly worded FAA law won't take from you what they want when they want...?
Well, apparently the legislators and entrenched bureaucracy no longer consider that when draft/passing laws and regulations.
#MeToo is now weaponized.
All it takes against any man, is the mere accusation and *POOF* your life as you know it can be over with nothing more than that accusation.
This is an extremely powerful and dangerous weapon, and now it has been unleashed politically.
That IS a part of this recently passed law.
Everyone will have to pass a FAA pilot type test, and you are going to be required to have that license on you at ALL times you are flying, and any law enforcement type can stop you at any time they see you flying, and have an encounter, requiring you to show your license, and if not on you, can confiscate your equipment.
The examples you are giving are people flying in public areas....ie, open to use BY the public.
That should cause you no harm since it isn't over your private land, but you seem to be arguing that it is...?
What's wrong with flying at a public beach?
However, it gets worse than that....the new law also now requires you to carry that license documentation with you at all times flying a drone, and any time any law enforcement (local, state, etc) wants to harass you, and see you flying a drone, they can stop you, require you to show your documentation and if you don't have it on you, can confiscate your drone with no due process and as far as I know, no rules on how to get it returned.
They may be able to just destroy it, I'm not sure.
Again, I may have misread the bill...but even if you have your 'license' on you....local authorities with the broadly worded bill, may be able to almost arbitrarily say your drone, no matter what it is doing....is a danger and force you to surrender it to them, or they can destroy it at will.
Sadly, the bill is so broadly worded, it can give the authorities WAY too much ability to interfere with your life and cause an encounter, and possibly lose you your property.
Of course...that would never be abused....[rolls eyes]
The illegal alien mexicans go home?
Depends I guess on the type of work you want to get done.
I use my Mac devices mostly for photos and videos...and they work great. I love using Affinity Photo on my iPad pro when away from the work station and I can get a LOT done on that....etc.
I couldn't ask for better 'pen' support on the iPad Pro and I use my wacom tablet all the time on my workstation I have set up.....so, lots of pen goodness on Apple.
I've never tried it on linux, but sad to hear it apparently doesn't work there very well?
No, I don't mean running Linux inside windows, I mean like on a normal computer where you can completely wipe windows off the box, and install linux as the primary OS.
Err...well, it's called "welcome to the real world", where you need to learn to live and act like and adult, and live within your means.
People have been doing it as long as the modern world has been around.
It isn't rocket surgery.
And advertising and marketing aren't magic entities that force you to buy things. Sure it makes things tempting, but again....you are supposed to be an adult and make adult decisions.
You can't live peoples' lives for them.
Well, if you are salaried, you by definition don't work hourly....minimum wage only apples to hourly workers.
It sounded like this was only the bonuses and all for warehouse hourly workers...they are hourly, so they all are at min. wage of $15/hr, but no more bonuses.
If that isn't the case, then, they are then also robbing incentive money from salaried folks to pay for raises to $15/hr for the hourly folks, which indeed would suck for them.
But it sounded like to me, that the warehouse hourly workers lose the potential bonuses, in exchange for everyone making at least $15/hr.
Is it possible to install and run linux on these MS surface machines?
Well, if you're working from home, like I think at least one example given was doing, how will they know?
also, if you do work in an office, unless it is one of the stupid "open work areas", where you at least have a cube, etc....just turn your monitor away from the opening, and act busy when anyone comes by......Alt-Tab is a great way to change what's showing on your screen when someone comes walking up, etc.
if you are a salaried employee, you are expected to be at their disposal, usually 40 hours a week.
You are expected to get the assigned work done on time.
You are not obligated to ask for more work if you finish early.....if they observe you are idle then they are free to assign you more, but you are not obligated in any way to ask for more if you complete your original assignment early.
If they were smart...all the major hardware vendors would get together and form a common group, to pic one distro of Linux and custom comform it to be user friendly and work on their hardware in a very common way.
They could bypass the MS tax and all have this as the alternative OS, and make sales on hardware...cheaper machines since the OS costs them basically nothing, and still make good profits compared to what they sell with MS pre-installed.
The sad thing is, they still run windows....
This is not the case if you are a normal W2 employee, which is salary. You are NOT paid by the hour...you are expected to be at their disposal doing their work for 40 hours a week.
So, you are not getting paid for an hour or 2 hours.
You are not bound to ask for more work...they can assign it if they see you need it and can do more, but you are under no obligation to tell them you can and do need more.
If you are a contractor, then things ARE a bit different...but again, that depends on how the contract is written...is is fixed price? Is it hourly? etc.....if it is fixed price for fixed period of time, then as long as you turn in the deliverables at the end of the time period, doesn't matter if you did them all the first day and coast 12 months...But again, the 1099 contracting world is MUCH different than the more common W2 salaried direct employee job.
Well, this really doesn't apply at all to regular W2 work.
If you are working 1099...depends on the contract, is if fixed price, etc?
I've not really used Yelp that much before, I've occasionally run across it from Google Searches...but that's about it.
What problems does Yelp have that you are referring to?
Err....who the fuck needs an APP for this?
Don't people naturally discuss the books and TV shows and other interests their friends have and recommend when they are hanging out, talking and spending time with them??
If not, WTF do they talk about?
Well, the employer is paying you to get a job done.
You are fulfilling doing that job, they didn't say you had to sweat over it or spend grueling hours doing it...they just want the results.
I'm guessing this is a W2 gig, so they are paying you salary for doing a job and producing the results.
Now...you are doing that.
There's nothing wrong with doing 'nothing', or maybe doing other activities you are interested in (assuming you are working from home)...or, if you are so inclined, maybe do some extra work during the day, and earn some extra money.
But you are not cheating...you are giving them the return other money, and if you can do that and still have "YOU" time to do relaxing things, fun things, or even make more money on the side, there's nothing wrong with that.
Your automation has given you your time back to do with as you see fit....while still meeting your obligations.
Better than sweating your ass off outside in the summer digging a ditch....
You lost me here...care to elaborate a bit more?
TIA....
To me, it is all just hot, bitter brown liquid.....
Are you really able to taste a discernible difference between the two different beans you buy and grind?
Is there that much of a difference you can really discern between most any samples of plain old coffee?
The only differences I can tell are between chickory coffee (NOLA style) and non-chickory coffee......either way, I find it just to be a medium for lots of cream, sugar and a bit of booze on the weekends, to make it palatable...