I expected a mention about causing the death of thousands of people abroad, but apparently there's nothing worse than intoxicating oneself, having sex between consenting adults, and not being a vegetarian.
It's not like they directly caused them, or even had a desire to cause them. If nobody had blown up the Twin Towers, this all could have been avoided.
These days if you tried that they'd be hauling your butt off to jail. This HIPPA thing make this a serious liability and hospitals and doctors have got nuts about it, so much that I cannot even make a doctor's appointment for my wife anymore, unless she's signed their form that says I can....
Yes. Same here, and my wife speaks English pretty well, but she is sensitive about her English and always wants me to talk to the doctors. What pisses me off is that the patients and the low level peons have to obey every jot and tittle of the HIPAA code, while you can hear doctors casually discussing cases and identifying information with one another. Also, in the massively overcrowded hospitals with multiple patients in a room, they don't bother to get all of the other patients and patients families out of the room before discussing details of a patients medical history.
Even if they can't get their shit together to fix the fundamental problem, couldn't they at least kludge in a piece of gateway software that would intercept the USB port data and raise the difficulty level of gaining access and exiting kiosk mode?
Or disable the USB port...at the factory...by not installing it.
first, define "angel" investor.
Now define kickstarter investing.
If you're getting a guaranteed return, it isn't called investing, it is called "buying."
Purchasing a stock certificate in order to hold onto it is called investing. That's different than "playing the market" even tho you buy stocks in companies in both cases.
If we are going to classify Kickstarter Projects as an investment, then we have to understand this: The maximum possible ROI is 0% (value of product equals what you put in ), and it goes down from there.
If the court that wants him is part of the government that blatantly violates the 1st Amendment, he may be justified in questioning if his other rights will be honored should he appear.
Like it or not, once the government starts sliding down the slippery slope, those questions become justifiable.
The government didn't violate the 1st amendment. He has a right to say whatever he wants, but that doesn't mean they have to give him a microphone and speakers to do it. The government also has a duty to protect the citizens. There was concern that if this violent man was allowed to perform, then his encouragement of violence could lead to violence. So the venue and the promoter agreed that he would not perform. And then he performed anyway.
If the venue has to allow violent rappers like this to perform, then they have to also allow nazis, KKK, or whoever else wants to perform.
Being "wanted on warrant" means his crimes are merely alleged at this stage.
The crime he committed was not violent, but his refusal to show up to hearings indicates that he has no respect for society. I was not referring to his alleged crime, but just to the fact that he instigates violence through his music and lyrics. This is not the sort of person you want at a rally against violence.
Honda has the crappiest paint in the entire automotive industry, and the recalls are repainting with the same low grade crap that will fail in another 5 years.
Maybe this is a regional thing, and it could be worse where roads are salted in the winter or near oceans. Neither of these applies to me. I have never really noticed any issues with any Honda factory paint job. Aftermarket paint jobs, on the other hand, I have never seen a good looking aftermarket paintjob on a Honda.
As opposed the american habit of telling anyone who'll listen where their ancestors came from and prepending their nationality with it? italian-american, irish-american etc. The world still thinks of you as american, just because your granny & grandad came from a goat farm in sicilly doesn't make you italian.
That's true, if you have white ancestry from overseas one or two generations back, then you are just a plain old American and expected to behave as such.
Undoubtedly, the free market will ultimately decide these things. However, I'd prefer that someone I care about NOT be the collateral damage that helps determine this. Many corporations lack values beyond profits
If they were truly motivated by profits, they would make a safe product. A safe product does not result in hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits over wrongful deaths.
Unfortunately, they are not JUST motivated by profits, but by profits THIS QUARTER. Who cares what happens the quarter after that. Nevermind that the guy in charge two quarters ago had the same mentality and now there is probably a sword of Damocles hovering above somewhere. We can't even really blame the company for this attitude. It is the company's investors, aka the American public, that demand profits every quarter at the expense of the future. America used to invest their money for long term growth, and this ultimately fed the growth of technology from the 50s through the 70s, but then Americans turned into Traders instead of Investors, and by demanding short term growth, we cripple, if not kill, long term growth. It has resulted in companies having to make poor decisions like eliminating research, outsourcing work to other countries, where it will be performed more cheaply this quarter, but result in huge maintenance costs due to poor quality in the next quarter, and so on and so forth.
To change this attitude, the majority of American public has to change their mindset about investing. We have to decide that we would rather have our money multiply by 10 over a 10 year period, than go up by half a percent this quarter. That a bird in the hand is not necessarily worth more than 1000 in the bush. That "me, me me, now, now now" is not a sustainable or desirable attitude.
What is this them that you talk about? Them, the company with personhood? The ones that need to get fined are the execs who oversaw this. So how are the investors supposed to 'fine' the people managing their company? How is the government going to get the execs as an example to other execs not to do this behavior?
Normally I side with the engineers when management makes stupid decisions, but in this instance, I just don't see how this could possibly be the execs fault. Did they direct the Engineers to design faulty suspension? Did they direct the Engineers to make cars wireless systems vulnerable to hacking? Did they direct engineers to make the gas tank likely to catch on fire?
The execs probably share some blame on the wireless thing because they probably read all about wireless stuff in some stupid management magazine and told the engineers to put in wireless. There are zero reasons for having wireless access to a cars systems.
In my child's middle school they also teach Environmental Science, humanitarianism, HIV/Aids Prevention and various other politically motivated subjects as core curriculum, such that kids are not able to take enriching classes such as music or art.
I seriously doubt your child's school has a year long or even semester long course whose sole purpose is teaching HIV/Aids prevention. Perhaps they have a health class which covers sexually transmitted diseases for a couple weeks, but that is not the same thing as core curriculum.
I can't imagine they could fill up a whole semester with it either, but it is a course listed in the curriculum, not a study point in a health class.
And it is very sad that someone would think teaching children about the environment and humanitarianism is only part of a political agenda, instead of being important topics for any school. I am glad your children are getting another viewpoint other than just what they are hearing at home.
For all you know they get the same viewpoint at home. That doesn't mean it should part of the core curriculum. Should we remove arithmetic altogether and teach tolerance? Should we remove reading and teach conservation? I'm sure those are all fine with the PC crowd. But if they decided to even offer a counter-viewpoint to PC as an ELECTIVE, people would scream and shout. The kids have the rest of their lives to have ideology shoved down their throat. Why don't we teach them to think first, instead of trying to shove ideaology at them?
I agree. It's a shame that companies are willing to put in the effort. They expect people coming out of a CS degree (theory of Computer Science) or MIS (Managing Programmers), and expect them to perform like a 10 year coding veteran.
Companies USED to understand that someone coming fresh out of school was someone who was ripe and ready to be trained on how to do a job. Now they for some reason expect that someone coming fresh out of school ought to be able to hang with 10 year coding veterans.
Microsoft PC systems only? What about Macs, Linux, Android, other systems??? I fear MS has are more concerned about their own agendas, then they are about giving students a proper CS education!
I believe that Microsoft has contracts with some states that ONLY allow Microsoft based PC's to be used in schools.
Well, if it is really Computer Science, then it won't be about any particular hardware or software system, but will be just theory, algorithms, data structures, and the like.
My attitude on any perceived shortage labor is that if you pay enough, there will eventually cease to be a shortage.
Artificially impacting the supply and demand by going outside the national labor pool is a bullshit underhanded tactic.
Exactly. Maybe the market price for skill X is $100k, so a company offers $80k and gets no takers. What a shock! If the market price is $100k, then only unemployed people in that field will be interested in $100k. If there are no unemployed people in that field, then you would have to offer $120k to lure someone away from another company. H1B was not intended to fill positions where there were no unemployed people available. It was intended to fill the situation where there were just no people AT ALL with that skill set.
Raise your offer and you will find your skilled people.
English, reading or language arts, math, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history and geography
In my child's middle school they also teach Environmental Science, humanitarianism, HIV/Aids Prevention and various other politically motivated subjects as core curriculum, such that kids are not able to take enriching classes such as music or art.
$500 for 5 years worth of NICE clothes you can wear anywhere (church, wedding, christmas dinner, etc.) and you are more comfortable than when you wear jeans and a polo.
Very nice research. So does HP pay exactly $500 bonus for this changover, or will they pad it a little and pay everyone $1,000, to help the pill go down a little smoother? Or are they going to go the cheap route and just buy everybody the clothes they want them to wear?
Remember back in the early '90s when women got to wear shorts to work by calling them skorts? It used to annoy me that I had to wear a dress shirt, tie, slacks and dress shoes while the women got to wear skorts, whatever top they wanted and comfortable shoes.
My place of work not only does this, but they shut off the heat/AC at 6pm, then turn it back on at about 6:30am, and off all the time on the weekends. They ignore the fact that some offices get to over 100F on the weekends due to East/West facing windows.
Where I used to work, I had a west facing window. In the summer, the AC could never keep up , so it would be 72 when I came in, but by quitting time it would be 85 in there.
It was worse in certain days in the spring and fall where it was reasonably warm outside in the afternoons, but they were still running the furnace. The furnace couldn't keep up either, so in the morning, it would be 55 degrees in the office, but by quitting time, it would be 85, because the furnace finally caught up and overcompensated.
I finally stopped complaining and just put a large thermostat on the wall so that people could actually see the temperature. It never got fixed, but I don't work there anymore, so let the next guy deal with it.
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I expected a mention about causing the death of thousands of people abroad, but apparently there's nothing worse than intoxicating oneself, having sex between consenting adults, and not being a vegetarian.
It's not like they directly caused them, or even had a desire to cause them. If nobody had blown up the Twin Towers, this all could have been avoided.
These days if you tried that they'd be hauling your butt off to jail. This HIPPA thing make this a serious liability and hospitals and doctors have got nuts about it, so much that I cannot even make a doctor's appointment for my wife anymore, unless she's signed their form that says I can....
Yes. Same here, and my wife speaks English pretty well, but she is sensitive about her English and always wants me to talk to the doctors. What pisses me off is that the patients and the low level peons have to obey every jot and tittle of the HIPAA code, while you can hear doctors casually discussing cases and identifying information with one another. Also, in the massively overcrowded hospitals with multiple patients in a room, they don't bother to get all of the other patients and patients families out of the room before discussing details of a patients medical history.
Even if they can't get their shit together to fix the fundamental problem, couldn't they at least kludge in a piece of gateway software that would intercept the USB port data and raise the difficulty level of gaining access and exiting kiosk mode?
Or disable the USB port...at the factory...by not installing it.
first, define "angel" investor. Now define kickstarter investing. If you're getting a guaranteed return, it isn't called investing, it is called "buying." Purchasing a stock certificate in order to hold onto it is called investing. That's different than "playing the market" even tho you buy stocks in companies in both cases.
If we are going to classify Kickstarter Projects as an investment, then we have to understand this: The maximum possible ROI is 0% (value of product equals what you put in ), and it goes down from there.
If the court that wants him is part of the government that blatantly violates the 1st Amendment, he may be justified in questioning if his other rights will be honored should he appear.
Like it or not, once the government starts sliding down the slippery slope, those questions become justifiable.
The government didn't violate the 1st amendment. He has a right to say whatever he wants, but that doesn't mean they have to give him a microphone and speakers to do it. The government also has a duty to protect the citizens. There was concern that if this violent man was allowed to perform, then his encouragement of violence could lead to violence. So the venue and the promoter agreed that he would not perform. And then he performed anyway.
If the venue has to allow violent rappers like this to perform, then they have to also allow nazis, KKK, or whoever else wants to perform.
Being "wanted on warrant" means his crimes are merely alleged at this stage.
The crime he committed was not violent, but his refusal to show up to hearings indicates that he has no respect for society. I was not referring to his alleged crime, but just to the fact that he instigates violence through his music and lyrics. This is not the sort of person you want at a rally against violence.
Honda has the crappiest paint in the entire automotive industry, and the recalls are repainting with the same low grade crap that will fail in another 5 years.
Maybe this is a regional thing, and it could be worse where roads are salted in the winter or near oceans. Neither of these applies to me. I have never really noticed any issues with any Honda factory paint job. Aftermarket paint jobs, on the other hand, I have never seen a good looking aftermarket paintjob on a Honda.
As opposed the american habit of telling anyone who'll listen where their ancestors came from and prepending their nationality with it? italian-american, irish-american etc. The world still thinks of you as american, just because your granny & grandad came from a goat farm in sicilly doesn't make you italian.
That's true, if you have white ancestry from overseas one or two generations back, then you are just a plain old American and expected to behave as such.
Undoubtedly, the free market will ultimately decide these things. However, I'd prefer that someone I care about NOT be the collateral damage that helps determine this. Many corporations lack values beyond profits
If they were truly motivated by profits, they would make a safe product. A safe product does not result in hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits over wrongful deaths.
Unfortunately, they are not JUST motivated by profits, but by profits THIS QUARTER. Who cares what happens the quarter after that. Nevermind that the guy in charge two quarters ago had the same mentality and now there is probably a sword of Damocles hovering above somewhere. We can't even really blame the company for this attitude. It is the company's investors, aka the American public, that demand profits every quarter at the expense of the future. America used to invest their money for long term growth, and this ultimately fed the growth of technology from the 50s through the 70s, but then Americans turned into Traders instead of Investors, and by demanding short term growth, we cripple, if not kill, long term growth. It has resulted in companies having to make poor decisions like eliminating research, outsourcing work to other countries, where it will be performed more cheaply this quarter, but result in huge maintenance costs due to poor quality in the next quarter, and so on and so forth.
To change this attitude, the majority of American public has to change their mindset about investing. We have to decide that we would rather have our money multiply by 10 over a 10 year period, than go up by half a percent this quarter. That a bird in the hand is not necessarily worth more than 1000 in the bush. That "me, me me, now, now now" is not a sustainable or desirable attitude.
What is this them that you talk about? Them, the company with personhood? The ones that need to get fined are the execs who oversaw this. So how are the investors supposed to 'fine' the people managing their company? How is the government going to get the execs as an example to other execs not to do this behavior?
Normally I side with the engineers when management makes stupid decisions, but in this instance, I just don't see how this could possibly be the execs fault. Did they direct the Engineers to design faulty suspension? Did they direct the Engineers to make cars wireless systems vulnerable to hacking? Did they direct engineers to make the gas tank likely to catch on fire?
The execs probably share some blame on the wireless thing because they probably read all about wireless stuff in some stupid management magazine and told the engineers to put in wireless. There are zero reasons for having wireless access to a cars systems.
How ironic. You invite a known instigator of violence to an anti-violence concert.
In my child's middle school they also teach Environmental Science, humanitarianism, HIV/Aids Prevention and various other politically motivated subjects as core curriculum, such that kids are not able to take enriching classes such as music or art.
I seriously doubt your child's school has a year long or even semester long course whose sole purpose is teaching HIV/Aids prevention. Perhaps they have a health class which covers sexually transmitted diseases for a couple weeks, but that is not the same thing as core curriculum.
I can't imagine they could fill up a whole semester with it either, but it is a course listed in the curriculum, not a study point in a health class.
And it is very sad that someone would think teaching children about the environment and humanitarianism is only part of a political agenda, instead of being important topics for any school. I am glad your children are getting another viewpoint other than just what they are hearing at home.
For all you know they get the same viewpoint at home. That doesn't mean it should part of the core curriculum. Should we remove arithmetic altogether and teach tolerance? Should we remove reading and teach conservation? I'm sure those are all fine with the PC crowd. But if they decided to even offer a counter-viewpoint to PC as an ELECTIVE, people would scream and shout. The kids have the rest of their lives to have ideology shoved down their throat. Why don't we teach them to think first, instead of trying to shove ideaology at them?
Yes, and if one had said that we will go to the moon in 1900, 1920, 1940, and 1960, it would have seemed equally absurd. But then in 1969 it happened.
That's all well and good, but how do you tell when the Boy Who Cried Wolf really saw a wolf?
IT and SW development need better training
I agree. It's a shame that companies are willing to put in the effort. They expect people coming out of a CS degree (theory of Computer Science) or MIS (Managing Programmers), and expect them to perform like a 10 year coding veteran.
Companies USED to understand that someone coming fresh out of school was someone who was ripe and ready to be trained on how to do a job. Now they for some reason expect that someone coming fresh out of school ought to be able to hang with 10 year coding veterans.
Microsoft PC systems only? What about Macs, Linux, Android, other systems??? I fear MS has are more concerned about their own agendas, then they are about giving students a proper CS education! I believe that Microsoft has contracts with some states that ONLY allow Microsoft based PC's to be used in schools.
Well, if it is really Computer Science, then it won't be about any particular hardware or software system, but will be just theory, algorithms, data structures, and the like.
Coding is likely to be obsolete in a few years.
Yep, that's what they said in the 1970s, and the 1980s, and the 1990s, and the 2000s.
My attitude on any perceived shortage labor is that if you pay enough, there will eventually cease to be a shortage.
Artificially impacting the supply and demand by going outside the national labor pool is a bullshit underhanded tactic.
Exactly. Maybe the market price for skill X is $100k, so a company offers $80k and gets no takers. What a shock! If the market price is $100k, then only unemployed people in that field will be interested in $100k. If there are no unemployed people in that field, then you would have to offer $120k to lure someone away from another company. H1B was not intended to fill positions where there were no unemployed people available. It was intended to fill the situation where there were just no people AT ALL with that skill set.
Raise your offer and you will find your skilled people.
In addition the visa holders can switch jobs after 6 months. Otherwise it is borderline indentured servitude.
They can switch jobs at any time, so long as another company is willing to sponsor them.
English, reading or language arts, math, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history and geography
In my child's middle school they also teach Environmental Science, humanitarianism, HIV/Aids Prevention and various other politically motivated subjects as core curriculum, such that kids are not able to take enriching classes such as music or art.
$500 for 5 years worth of NICE clothes you can wear anywhere (church, wedding, christmas dinner, etc.) and you are more comfortable than when you wear jeans and a polo.
Very nice research. So does HP pay exactly $500 bonus for this changover, or will they pad it a little and pay everyone $1,000, to help the pill go down a little smoother? Or are they going to go the cheap route and just buy everybody the clothes they want them to wear?
And guys, sporting bed hair all day, every day, should get your ball caps back.
No need. Just wear your ballcap like you do normally anyway, and then take it off when you enter work. Hat hair is even worse than bed hair.
Wearing a headpiece indoors is excusable only if your head looks really bad - from injury or disease.
That's your opinion. I don't wear a hat, and will not wear a hat, but I have no problem with guys at work wearing hats.
well, apparently that POV is shared by someone in charge so...
So the person in charge should refrain from wearing ballcaps indoors.
Remember back in the early '90s when women got to wear shorts to work by calling them skorts? It used to annoy me that I had to wear a dress shirt, tie, slacks and dress shoes while the women got to wear skorts, whatever top they wanted and comfortable shoes.
My place of work not only does this, but they shut off the heat/AC at 6pm, then turn it back on at about 6:30am, and off all the time on the weekends. They ignore the fact that some offices get to over 100F on the weekends due to East/West facing windows.
Where I used to work, I had a west facing window. In the summer, the AC could never keep up , so it would be 72 when I came in, but by quitting time it would be 85 in there.
It was worse in certain days in the spring and fall where it was reasonably warm outside in the afternoons, but they were still running the furnace. The furnace couldn't keep up either, so in the morning, it would be 55 degrees in the office, but by quitting time, it would be 85, because the furnace finally caught up and overcompensated.
I finally stopped complaining and just put a large thermostat on the wall so that people could actually see the temperature. It never got fixed, but I don't work there anymore, so let the next guy deal with it.