I hope the next president does away with this BS act! Tax people that don't have health care, and charge the rest an insane amount to have health care. 0.o This act needs to go.
They are not taxing people who don't have healthcare. They are taxing people who don't have insurance. There is a difference. Making people pay for insurance does not guarantee healthcare. It guarantees that the insurance company gets paid. After paying for insurance, people may not be able to afford to go to the doctor.
Only 16 out of 50 states chose to create state health exchanges, even though the law stated that by not doing the citizens of the remaining 34 states would not get federal subsidies (the whole point of the Supreme Court case).
Well, that explains why I am not getting any assistance with Healthcare. I keep seeing commercials touting how "Most people receive assistance with their premium", lies fed to us by the Federal government. When I lost my job, I was expecting that I might get some subsidy to help with my healthcare payments, but no, they healthcare portal said I do not qualify for anything, not even tax credit. I still have to pay my full healthcare premium, plus pay my taxes so that other people can enjoy not having to pay their premiums.
My insurance has gone up over $200 a month in the last two years, and my company has switched insurance providers twice to limit the increase to only $200 a month.
That's nothing, mine went from under $200 a month for a Major Medical Policy to over $950 for the same policy. I then got a new policy on the exchange, the cheapest one possible was about $350 a month, more than double my previous premium, and it doesn't cover my kids, and the deductibles are higher.
How is 3D printing a revolutionary approach to car manufacturing? It is not like they are actually going to use 3D printing to print the cars when they produce them in bulk. If they do, then it truly will be a supercar, because it will cost many times more than traditional manufacturing methods with less strength of materials and quality.
You can't compare having a natural desire to do or not do programming to a state of being rich or poor. The poor don't WANT to be poor. However, people who have no desire to do programming do not WANT to have a desire to do programming.
your freedom of speech is hindered by not having access to telecommunications infrastructure
Nope, your freedom of speech is not dependent upon any particular means of expression. You can stand on the street corner and express your views, but nobody is required to buy you a megaphone, or internet access, or Reuters.
This. Why don't we spend money encouraging people who want to learn a particular trade to learn the trade, rather than spend money on people who are not interested in a trade to learn the trade?
I'm sorry if it is offensive to some people, but women and men are different. I'm all in favor of giving money to women who WANT to be in CS (not to the exclusion of men, though. That would be discriminatory).
I think that using smart pointers and RAII pattern is in all respects better than garbage collection.
I agree. If I am done with a reference, I am done with it right now. If I want to delete() my reference right now, then I want to delete it right now. If I am worried about CPU cycles over memory at the moment, then I can make it put off deleting in my code. I really like Java and do most of my coding in Java, but the two things I wish were in Java is a deconstructor and the ability to recover memory for a particular object at my discretion.
Except the C++ source code navigation, which they destroyed in the C# version (after VS2008 ?). And except that the editor is no longer real-time on my machine. Which is a monster with 20GByte RAM.
I need a plugin(!) to just get proper source code navigation back.
In other words, Dumbing Down To C# has fucked up Visual Studio. I hope the Politically Correct Pussy In Charge will soon be booted into some harmless Government Chair. Get me the real C++ guys back, Microsoft. Visual Studio must be de-pussified !
I code in C++ and Java and I have noticed as well that the supposedly low-level fast code in VS is much slower than the interpreted code in Eclipse. Incredibly slow on VS is the context sensitive help. I have trouble understanding why VS is so slow. The feature set seems to be much more limited than Eclipse, so I can't imagine what it is spending all it's time doing. Heck VS doesn't even have Variable name refactoring out of the box, yet it is slow, slow, slow.
Well, I admit that this was back in the early 2000s, the last time I was looking. Even the job listing would say "Corporates only". Maybe companies are more reasonable now. Or unreasonable in different ways.
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These rates need to be higher, and pegged to cost of living based on location.
Not really. The exemption just needs to be removed. Full stop. If a company would like a person to work more hours, then they can pay for it. If they want to exempt their C level employees or people for whom working extra hours may increase a bonus, stock option, or company stock, then that is fine.
They should go ahead and make the companies have to pay FICA, unemployment, insurance, short and long term disability, calculate longevity with the company, time toward retirement, 401k contributions, company sponsored insurance and whatever else we can think of on all of those free hours. Doesn't the government realize they are missing out on a great amount of taxation because we are giving all of this to the employers for free?
In the real world people work as much as necessary or as much as they want. I'm sure Bill Gates and Warren Buffer work far more than 40 hours/week. It's obvious that, to them, it's worth it. Now, you have to expand you horizons and see that probably a lot of people have decided that their salary is worth the time required even if they aren't billionaires and millionaires. Would they like to work less, hell yeah, but we can't all live in Greece.
Of course it is worth it to them because they own stock in the company. If they work overtime, they probably help to raise the stock price, and therefore, they get compensated for it. You and I don't get compensated for our extra work, unless we have stock in the company.
In 1996,...Congress amended the FLSA to include a specific exemption, at Section 13(a)(17), for “Computer Professionals.”
1. The application of systems analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software or system functional specifications;
2. The design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing or modification of computer systems or programs, including prototypes, based on and related to user or system design specifications; [or]
3. The design, documentation, testing, creation or modification of computer programs related to machine operating systems;
You might note that the Labor Act does not say that the company CANNOT pay you overtime. Just that they aren't FORCED to. A decent company that cares about it's employees and it's own long term viability would pay overtime to it's employees anyway.
I showed companies that they don't own me by incorporating myself and becoming an independent contract laborer. Choosing not to live in the 'luxury' of the money I was making (and it was substantial). With the money I saved I retired before my 40th birthday.
This can backfire on you. If you ever run out of clients and decide to be an employee again, you will find that companies will look for "corporate" workers. In other words, people who have been enslaved to corporations and did not have the balls to actually go out and earn what the deserved.
He'll never get elected and he sure won't get elected for 9 consecutive terms and won't be granted unilateral control over the rest of the world's power consumption.
Apparently google's algorithm thinks that the most relevant stories are the ones that say that he is "feared dead". There are a few on the front page that say he is dead, but most of them say he is feared dead.
Interesting, I've often felt the opposite. That, a good soundtrack should not be noticeable. If you're watching a scene unfold but the music is distracting and takes your attention away from the action, then that's definitely a bad thing.
Castaway had no soundtrack, at least while he was on the island. I have more respect for Tom Hanks being able to bring about the proper emotion without the audience being led by the nose as in a typical movie.
Also, what do you suggest people sign about? Trees? Nature? Happiness? A day at the ranch? Technology? Do you honestly believe any option you can think of would sell more than the very raison d'etre many people (both men and women) struggle to every single day?
Brave by Sarah Bareilles comes to mind as a song that is popular and doesn't have to be about boys. She is encouraging a second party to speak their mind.
On the other hand, Roar by Katy Perry (which sounds almost exactly like Brave) is all about Katy, Katy, Katy and how her boyfriend keeps her down.
She is a pop-country singer that comes up on a regular basis with catchy tunes with clean lyrics, and she did not build a career on dressing like a prostitute or releasing sex tapes
That's true, at least she keeps a clean image, but her songs pretty much carry on the stereotype that a woman's existence is defined by her boyfriend or lack thereof.
I'm not a TS fan, in fact I don't even know what her voice sounds like, but it sounds like she's sticking up for her less successful fellow musicians here.
I am an old grey beard and they were selling this bull and many other FUD stories in the 70's. None of it came to be. Seems to me we are going to get to relive all the paranoia and BS again. Nothing new in this old world.
They will claim that it was due to their warning that those predictions did not come true and that we should pay attention this time, too.
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I'm also inclined to wonder how France plans to handle self-driving cars which will 100% definitely be replacing cab drivers in the next 10-15 years.
They won't, for the simple reason that this 100% likelihood has 0% chance of happening.
I hope the next president does away with this BS act! Tax people that don't have health care, and charge the rest an insane amount to have health care. 0.o This act needs to go.
They are not taxing people who don't have healthcare. They are taxing people who don't have insurance. There is a difference. Making people pay for insurance does not guarantee healthcare. It guarantees that the insurance company gets paid. After paying for insurance, people may not be able to afford to go to the doctor.
Only 16 out of 50 states chose to create state health exchanges, even though the law stated that by not doing the citizens of the remaining 34 states would not get federal subsidies (the whole point of the Supreme Court case).
Well, that explains why I am not getting any assistance with Healthcare. I keep seeing commercials touting how "Most people receive assistance with their premium", lies fed to us by the Federal government. When I lost my job, I was expecting that I might get some subsidy to help with my healthcare payments, but no, they healthcare portal said I do not qualify for anything, not even tax credit. I still have to pay my full healthcare premium, plus pay my taxes so that other people can enjoy not having to pay their premiums.
My insurance has gone up over $200 a month in the last two years, and my company has switched insurance providers twice to limit the increase to only $200 a month.
That's nothing, mine went from under $200 a month for a Major Medical Policy to over $950 for the same policy. I then got a new policy on the exchange, the cheapest one possible was about $350 a month, more than double my previous premium, and it doesn't cover my kids, and the deductibles are higher.
How is 3D printing a revolutionary approach to car manufacturing? It is not like they are actually going to use 3D printing to print the cars when they produce them in bulk. If they do, then it truly will be a supercar, because it will cost many times more than traditional manufacturing methods with less strength of materials and quality.
You can't compare having a natural desire to do or not do programming to a state of being rich or poor. The poor don't WANT to be poor. However, people who have no desire to do programming do not WANT to have a desire to do programming.
your freedom of speech is hindered by not having access to telecommunications infrastructure
Nope, your freedom of speech is not dependent upon any particular means of expression. You can stand on the street corner and express your views, but nobody is required to buy you a megaphone, or internet access, or Reuters.
This. Why don't we spend money encouraging people who want to learn a particular trade to learn the trade, rather than spend money on people who are not interested in a trade to learn the trade?
I'm sorry if it is offensive to some people, but women and men are different. I'm all in favor of giving money to women who WANT to be in CS (not to the exclusion of men, though. That would be discriminatory).
Why don't these poor, hard done by 'youth of color' (LOL) LEAVE and go and live in the country of their ancestors?
They could do one or the other, but not both. The country of their ancestors, for the last 10 or so generations is the United States.
I think that using smart pointers and RAII pattern is in all respects better than garbage collection.
I agree. If I am done with a reference, I am done with it right now. If I want to delete() my reference right now, then I want to delete it right now. If I am worried about CPU cycles over memory at the moment, then I can make it put off deleting in my code. I really like Java and do most of my coding in Java, but the two things I wish were in Java is a deconstructor and the ability to recover memory for a particular object at my discretion.
Except the C++ source code navigation, which they destroyed in the C# version (after VS2008 ?). And except that the editor is no longer real-time on my machine. Which is a monster with 20GByte RAM.
I need a plugin(!) to just get proper source code navigation back.
In other words, Dumbing Down To C# has fucked up Visual Studio. I hope the Politically Correct Pussy In Charge will soon be booted into some harmless Government Chair. Get me the real C++ guys back, Microsoft. Visual Studio must be de-pussified !
I code in C++ and Java and I have noticed as well that the supposedly low-level fast code in VS is much slower than the interpreted code in Eclipse. Incredibly slow on VS is the context sensitive help. I have trouble understanding why VS is so slow. The feature set seems to be much more limited than Eclipse, so I can't imagine what it is spending all it's time doing. Heck VS doesn't even have Variable name refactoring out of the box, yet it is slow, slow, slow.
Well, I admit that this was back in the early 2000s, the last time I was looking. Even the job listing would say "Corporates only". Maybe companies are more reasonable now. Or unreasonable in different ways.
These rates need to be higher, and pegged to cost of living based on location.
Not really. The exemption just needs to be removed. Full stop. If a company would like a person to work more hours, then they can pay for it. If they want to exempt their C level employees or people for whom working extra hours may increase a bonus, stock option, or company stock, then that is fine.
They should go ahead and make the companies have to pay FICA, unemployment, insurance, short and long term disability, calculate longevity with the company, time toward retirement, 401k contributions, company sponsored insurance and whatever else we can think of on all of those free hours. Doesn't the government realize they are missing out on a great amount of taxation because we are giving all of this to the employers for free?
In the real world people work as much as necessary or as much as they want. I'm sure Bill Gates and Warren Buffer work far more than 40 hours/week. It's obvious that, to them, it's worth it. Now, you have to expand you horizons and see that probably a lot of people have decided that their salary is worth the time required even if they aren't billionaires and millionaires. Would they like to work less, hell yeah, but we can't all live in Greece.
Of course it is worth it to them because they own stock in the company. If they work overtime, they probably help to raise the stock price, and therefore, they get compensated for it. You and I don't get compensated for our extra work, unless we have stock in the company.
In 1996, ...Congress amended the FLSA to include a specific exemption, at Section 13(a)(17), for “Computer Professionals.”
1. The application of systems analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software or system functional specifications; 2. The design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing or modification of computer systems or programs, including prototypes, based on and related to user or system design specifications; [or] 3. The design, documentation, testing, creation or modification of computer programs related to machine operating systems;
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FLSA: FUBAR.
You might note that the Labor Act does not say that the company CANNOT pay you overtime. Just that they aren't FORCED to. A decent company that cares about it's employees and it's own long term viability would pay overtime to it's employees anyway.
I showed companies that they don't own me by incorporating myself and becoming an independent contract laborer. Choosing not to live in the 'luxury' of the money I was making (and it was substantial). With the money I saved I retired before my 40th birthday.
This can backfire on you. If you ever run out of clients and decide to be an employee again, you will find that companies will look for "corporate" workers. In other words, people who have been enslaved to corporations and did not have the balls to actually go out and earn what the deserved.
He'll never get elected and he sure won't get elected for 9 consecutive terms and won't be granted unilateral control over the rest of the world's power consumption.
Apparently google's algorithm thinks that the most relevant stories are the ones that say that he is "feared dead". There are a few on the front page that say he is dead, but most of them say he is feared dead.
Interesting, I've often felt the opposite. That, a good soundtrack should not be noticeable. If you're watching a scene unfold but the music is distracting and takes your attention away from the action, then that's definitely a bad thing.
Castaway had no soundtrack, at least while he was on the island. I have more respect for Tom Hanks being able to bring about the proper emotion without the audience being led by the nose as in a typical movie.
Also, what do you suggest people sign about? Trees? Nature? Happiness? A day at the ranch? Technology? Do you honestly believe any option you can think of would sell more than the very raison d'etre many people (both men and women) struggle to every single day?
Brave by Sarah Bareilles comes to mind as a song that is popular and doesn't have to be about boys. She is encouraging a second party to speak their mind.
On the other hand, Roar by Katy Perry (which sounds almost exactly like Brave) is all about Katy, Katy, Katy and how her boyfriend keeps her down.
She is a pop-country singer that comes up on a regular basis with catchy tunes with clean lyrics, and she did not build a career on dressing like a prostitute or releasing sex tapes
That's true, at least she keeps a clean image, but her songs pretty much carry on the stereotype that a woman's existence is defined by her boyfriend or lack thereof.
I'm not a TS fan, in fact I don't even know what her voice sounds like, but it sounds like she's sticking up for her less successful fellow musicians here.
That is certainly one way to look at it.
I am an old grey beard and they were selling this bull and many other FUD stories in the 70's. None of it came to be. Seems to me we are going to get to relive all the paranoia and BS again. Nothing new in this old world.
They will claim that it was due to their warning that those predictions did not come true and that we should pay attention this time, too.
We could all do with fewer niggers. But but they are incapable of developing advanced civilization.
I don't know. They managed to make the current civilization.