Uber has a mandatory arbitration clause in their contracts disallowing you from taking your case to court.
Err...that does NOT apply to criminal charges.
Now, unless you are only looking to win $$ in a settlement and not have justice served, well, I think that speaks more about the alleged victim, doesn't it?
Unfortunately, you represent a mere fraction of consumer mentality out there, so SaaS infections will continue and be inevitable.
True....
But then again, it ain't over, till it's over, you know?
Often, people don't know better, and every time you make a comment, well, someone might hear it and change their mind...and then change someone else's mind, etc.
And, look at the case with Adobe....
Sure, they are the monster winner now, BUT, there are a LOT of very viable alternatives springing up now. And I think some will really challenge Adobe, in that in many cases, like with Affinity Photo, they're creating from ground up, so there isn't all the legacy code underneath the covers, and they are faster and quicker....and I'm starting to see innovation on the new guys, as that with Adobe getting monthly payments, their incentive to really keep working for new breakthroughs really isn't as high as it might have been in past years.
So, while it is a tough fight now...it is worth fighting, it takes time, but even Tsunamis start out as small waves....
PLEASE folks.....vote for this subscription BS with you wallets.
Don't buy in....
So far, I'm not going with Adobe's rental model, for example. I can do just fine with the CS6 suite for example I bought....and there are now competitors for many of those tools (Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, OnOne....etc)......
Don't give into this bullshit of renting your software....vote with your wallet, keep it closed.
I'm not a member of either the republicans or democrats but I live in a gerrymandered district and so my right to vote is de-facto disenfranchised if I happen to not like the ruling party's candidate.
But, no matter how you draw the district, no one's vote is locked in stone.
If you or other influences (say, even the candidates message) is good enough to sway the opinion of the district, then no one is losing their vote.
People can and will change their minds on how to vote if persuaded.
"Earning" anything means jack shit. Do you think anyone could "earn" a couple millions a year? Explain to me what makes the "work" of someone like Paris Hilton "worth" about a million times more than the work of the average nurse and we can talk about "earning" money.
Well, there are a couple other variables out there too....two them would be "some people get lucky in life" and the other is "there's a sucker born every minute".
Think also about the pro football player...do they really do something that is worth millions of dollars a year?
On a societal level, not really....BUT, they did get lucky in the genetic gene pool AND well, there are people out there that pay that kind of money. You may think it is stupid, but it is a free country and you are free to be stupid enough to pay for and support the NFL or NBA...or whatever.
The same type analogy goes for Paris Hilton and other celebrities that are famous for nothing else but being famous.
Hey, if I could find a group of stupid people out there wiling to pay me for doing nothing but just having fun, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I certainly don't begrudge those that got lucky one way or another and hit the jackpot.
The thing is, to realize that isn't going to happen to most folks and you'd better get an education / skill to support you as a plan "B" in case you don't hit the jackpot.
Why should society tolerate anyone paying less than a living wage? If it's not worth paying someone a living wage to do, it's not worth doing, since it depends on the exploitation of the laborers.
Well, it is NOT worh paying a living wage for mowing my lawn, or babysitting the kids....those are neighborhood kids jobs, and they don't need living wage because kids jobs are for kids living at home being supported, this is side money...and experience jobs for working in the real world.
I put burger flippers in that same category.
There are plenty of jobs to there worth getting done, it is just that EVERY job is not worth paying a living wage.
This concept that every job should pay a living wage is very new....it does not work and it hasn't been a thing for most years up to recently.
No, not everyone deserves a trophy, and no, you cannot support a family on every job that is out there.
Well, isn't that why rich people vote Republican; to get their lifetimes of tax cuts and elimination of regulations that cost them money to comply with?
You act like it is a blessing and give out from the Govt to let people KEEP more of their own hard earned money, rather than give it to the govt???
You do realize that that money belongs to the PEOPLE first, not the Govt.
Taxes are given to the govt, but the money belongs first to the people, letting them keep more of their own is they way it should be.
As far as regulations coming down...that too is usually a good thing, as that the more govt stays out of business, the more business can thrive and guess what, more business means more jobs for the populace.
And is it wrong for the more wealthy to get a bit more break on their taxes? Well, considering that half the populace pays no net federal taxes, its no surprise that if you don't pay fucking taxes, you don't get a break on them.
In the cases you listed, the more wealthy are NOT getting anything from the govt, they are having the govt TAKE LESS...that is not the same as giving.
If the NSA gets their way, we won't be able to do banking online, because it won't be possible to secure the transactions. We won't be able to use credit cards at stores, because it won't be possible to secure the transactions.
Well, to be fair....
There was a LOT of banking going on before it was online, I mean, online banking is a very new concept and implementation relatively speaking.
And with regard to credit cards....again, there was a LONG history of credit card usage before the internet.
Perhaps moving many of these things back to analog and more low tech methods might be a good thing in some ways?
But that's a different argument, but a secure internet certainly isn't necessary for banking and CC usage, as that that worked quite well in the many, many years before the internet.
Hell, on the other hand, they may already actually really have it all broken, and the TLA's are doing a very smart thing...bitching that they can't get into devices to give everyone a false sense of security.
Do people at your work get upset when someone says "Hey, lets stop sexually harassing"?
Well, due to the fact that the #MeToo thing has gone WAAAY overboard.....if you are a man with a penis, you are pretty much now already under suspicion for sexual harassment, or worse.....now or possibly for future actions.
Because kids got kidnapped or harmed all the time back then. It didnt happen to you so it seems like it wasnt so bad. Just because you didnt know about it doesnt mean it wasnt happening. The word kidnap wasnt invented recently. In fact it has been happening for centuries, for example people used to get kidnapped and forced to work on board ships.
Well, I'm sure it happened then, but I believe it likely was as RARE of an occurrence as it is today....and not something to worry about that much.
I mean, I was schooled to be cautious and not talk to strangers, etc. I wasn't "stupid" as a 12yr old, I had a sense of what was going on around me, etc.
Or because giving the 12 y/o a locked down phone that I can use to find her in an emergency is a way for me to start to give the kid some freedom.
Hmm....funny, when I was 12yrs, there were no such things as cell phones, and yet, I had FULL roam of my neighborhood and part of the next one to us, no problem.
It is just too much helicopter parenting today that is the problem?
Hell when I was 12, my parents both worked and I stayed home summer days....and I took off in the morning and ran all over the neighborhood to friend's houses, or the neighborhood pool...etc. and didn't generally show back up home till about 4-5pm. I would call from a friends house a couple times a day to maybe check in with mom at her office, but that was about it.
Why can't kids have the same freedom we had as kids before there WERE any cell phones?
I have actually been seeing of late, YouTube rants of people actually arguing that if you are of any non-white color they you by definition can NOT be a racist.
Seriously?
Geez....common sense has gone 101% out the door in the US.
It works because alcohol had always been something akin to a legal right for all classes before tea-totalers came along.
Well, to be fair....pot was 100% legal up until basically Anslinger went on a rampage to try to make it illegal.
One of his methods to try to scare people about pot and to give it a bad rap...was associating it with mexicans, and also saying it caused blacks to rape white women. But prior to his antics, I don't believe it was thought upon one way or another.
You also had the Hearst interests in going against hemp as an industrial product that was a competitor for him.
Pot was demonized, but only in somewhat recent history....but again, it is really no different than alcohol, so, if we had to go through constitutional amendments to prohibit and then re-legalize booze, why should it not require an amendment to prohibit pot (or most anything else for that matter) on a federal level.
This definitely should be a states rights level legal decision.
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Err...that does NOT apply to criminal charges.
Now, unless you are only looking to win $$ in a settlement and not have justice served, well, I think that speaks more about the alleged victim, doesn't it?
True....
But then again, it ain't over, till it's over, you know?
Often, people don't know better, and every time you make a comment, well, someone might hear it and change their mind...and then change someone else's mind, etc.
And, look at the case with Adobe....
Sure, they are the monster winner now, BUT, there are a LOT of very viable alternatives springing up now. And I think some will really challenge Adobe, in that in many cases, like with Affinity Photo, they're creating from ground up, so there isn't all the legacy code underneath the covers, and they are faster and quicker....and I'm starting to see innovation on the new guys, as that with Adobe getting monthly payments, their incentive to really keep working for new breakthroughs really isn't as high as it might have been in past years.
So, while it is a tough fight now...it is worth fighting, it takes time, but even Tsunamis start out as small waves....
As the OLD song goes...
"...teach your children well....."
Don't buy in....
So far, I'm not going with Adobe's rental model, for example. I can do just fine with the CS6 suite for example I bought....and there are now competitors for many of those tools (Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, OnOne....etc)......
Don't give into this bullshit of renting your software....vote with your wallet, keep it closed.
Was anyone ever taken to court, charged and convicted of Sexual Harassment, or is this just another case of accusation and the label sticking?
You left out one...how about that upper level education (college) is for the qualified??
But, no matter how you draw the district, no one's vote is locked in stone.
If you or other influences (say, even the candidates message) is good enough to sway the opinion of the district, then no one is losing their vote.
People can and will change their minds on how to vote if persuaded.
Just trying to play devil's devil's advocate....
Well, there are a couple other variables out there too....two them would be "some people get lucky in life" and the other is "there's a sucker born every minute".
Think also about the pro football player...do they really do something that is worth millions of dollars a year?
On a societal level, not really....BUT, they did get lucky in the genetic gene pool AND well, there are people out there that pay that kind of money. You may think it is stupid, but it is a free country and you are free to be stupid enough to pay for and support the NFL or NBA...or whatever.
The same type analogy goes for Paris Hilton and other celebrities that are famous for nothing else but being famous.
Hey, if I could find a group of stupid people out there wiling to pay me for doing nothing but just having fun, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I certainly don't begrudge those that got lucky one way or another and hit the jackpot.
The thing is, to realize that isn't going to happen to most folks and you'd better get an education / skill to support you as a plan "B" in case you don't hit the jackpot.
Well, it is NOT worh paying a living wage for mowing my lawn, or babysitting the kids....those are neighborhood kids jobs, and they don't need living wage because kids jobs are for kids living at home being supported, this is side money...and experience jobs for working in the real world.
I put burger flippers in that same category.
There are plenty of jobs to there worth getting done, it is just that EVERY job is not worth paying a living wage.
This concept that every job should pay a living wage is very new....it does not work and it hasn't been a thing for most years up to recently.
No, not everyone deserves a trophy, and no, you cannot support a family on every job that is out there.
You act like it is a blessing and give out from the Govt to let people KEEP more of their own hard earned money, rather than give it to the govt???
You do realize that that money belongs to the PEOPLE first, not the Govt.
Taxes are given to the govt, but the money belongs first to the people, letting them keep more of their own is they way it should be.
As far as regulations coming down...that too is usually a good thing, as that the more govt stays out of business, the more business can thrive and guess what, more business means more jobs for the populace.
And is it wrong for the more wealthy to get a bit more break on their taxes? Well, considering that half the populace pays no net federal taxes, its no surprise that if you don't pay fucking taxes, you don't get a break on them.
In the cases you listed, the more wealthy are NOT getting anything from the govt, they are having the govt TAKE LESS...that is not the same as giving.
Black Birds Matter?
Well, to be fair....
There was a LOT of banking going on before it was online, I mean, online banking is a very new concept and implementation relatively speaking.
And with regard to credit cards....again, there was a LONG history of credit card usage before the internet.
Perhaps moving many of these things back to analog and more low tech methods might be a good thing in some ways?
But that's a different argument, but a secure internet certainly isn't necessary for banking and CC usage, as that that worked quite well in the many, many years before the internet.
Or...am I giving them too much credit?
Well, due to the fact that the #MeToo thing has gone WAAAY overboard.....if you are a man with a penis, you are pretty much now already under suspicion for sexual harassment, or worse.....now or possibly for future actions.
Well, until they've matured enough, sure, why not?
I mean, many folks lived like this in 1998, and BEFORE there were even cell phones, and go along just fine.
Well, I'm sure it happened then, but I believe it likely was as RARE of an occurrence as it is today....and not something to worry about that much.
I mean, I was schooled to be cautious and not talk to strangers, etc. I wasn't "stupid" as a 12yr old, I had a sense of what was going on around me, etc.
Hmm....funny, when I was 12yrs, there were no such things as cell phones, and yet, I had FULL roam of my neighborhood and part of the next one to us, no problem.
It is just too much helicopter parenting today that is the problem?
Hell when I was 12, my parents both worked and I stayed home summer days....and I took off in the morning and ran all over the neighborhood to friend's houses, or the neighborhood pool...etc. and didn't generally show back up home till about 4-5pm. I would call from a friends house a couple times a day to maybe check in with mom at her office, but that was about it.
Why can't kids have the same freedom we had as kids before there WERE any cell phones?
Funny...I had a VERY social life before there were such things as cell phones (much less smart phones) and consoles.
I think I'd rather my kids work more on socializing skills that required actual human interaction.
What happened to the good old "Turn the damned phone off"....or even better..."Give me that phone".
No need for Apple to get involved there.
Hell, why would parents buy children (less than teens at least) a phone in the first place?
Sounds like he could get a modern tablet and be happy with that as a replacement for the netbook.
Thank you for the review/info!!
I know..go figure, right?
I have actually been seeing of late, YouTube rants of people actually arguing that if you are of any non-white color they you by definition can NOT be a racist.
Seriously?
Geez....common sense has gone 101% out the door in the US.
There's plenty of hate and violence on the left these days to match those on the far, far right.
Well, to be fair....pot was 100% legal up until basically Anslinger went on a rampage to try to make it illegal.
One of his methods to try to scare people about pot and to give it a bad rap...was associating it with mexicans, and also saying it caused blacks to rape white women. But prior to his antics, I don't believe it was thought upon one way or another.
You also had the Hearst interests in going against hemp as an industrial product that was a competitor for him.
Pot was demonized, but only in somewhat recent history....but again, it is really no different than alcohol, so, if we had to go through constitutional amendments to prohibit and then re-legalize booze, why should it not require an amendment to prohibit pot (or most anything else for that matter) on a federal level.
This definitely should be a states rights level legal decision.
I think BT is better than it was at the beginning.
I have some Grado wired over ear headphones I"ve had for awhile, and I like them.
However, I don't want to carry wired cans on the plane with me, just one more thing to get tangled in backpack and in the way in flight, etc.
Also, I believe most of your wired over the ear headphones are not noise canceling, which is a plus on a plane.