Uber. It means super in German. That's misleading. It should be called Rides with Strangers Without Background Checks.
It doesn't. Uber means "I am stupid fucker who tries to impress by using fake German but I'm too stupid to add an umlaut where it belongs". Well, the correct spelling is Ãoeber, but it's anyone guess what slashdot will make of it.
Kind of like the guys who get Chinese tattoos and it turns out actually translates to "Small Lo Mein with Egg Roll"?
Basically, they want to be like Wal-mart. Offer an inferior product at half price. But then the consumer is getting pissed off when the product doesn't perform as well as the full priced product.
In this case, though, this is more like if Wal-mart wanted to sell a radio at half price that uses public frequency bands but doesn't meet the FCC regulations. Which Wal-mart would not be allowed to do.
Per capita, there are 20 times more rape cases in the US than in India. But rapes sell newspapers so thats all you see on the front pages.
You have to take the law into consideration when looking at those statistics. In the U.S., the law allows for rape charges if a wife is forced to have sex with her husband. In India, the law can only be invoked if the husband and wife are separated.
Also, there are social reasons for underreporting of rape in India. If you file rape charges, then you are considered to have been raped. This can be cause for a future arranged marriage to be terminated, a marriage to be terminated and for the woman to be shunned.
It used to be similar in the U.S., but woman were empowered and encouraged to speak out. There are still a lot of rapes not reported, but there are also a lot of false reports as well.
In all, it is difficult to compare rates of a lawbreaking in countries where the law differs as do also the social implications of reporting the charge,
Who said anything about layoffs? It said "An IT worker who is fired because he or she has been replaced by a foreign, visa-holding employee of an offshore outsourcing firm". So AC produced stupid text.
If you read between the lines, this is not even talking about a direct replacement in the company. This is more like when they fire an employee so they can bring on a contractor and the contractor happens to be an H1b working for a contracting company. This happens all the time. I've had the similar happen to me as well. I was a contractor working for a company and I was replaced by several consultants from another company that were all h1bs so they could afford to pay them less. They started out with only two of them to replace me, which was a little more expensive than just paying me. But by the time all was said and done, they had 4 of them in there doing my job at a little over twice what they had been paying me.
A lot of industries account for your time based on hours worked, but account for your pay based on salary. Even the time off is added up based on the hours you work and assumes 40 hours per work. So you don't accumulate any more paid time off from working overtime either. A lot of companies have project management systems in which they require you to log all 40 hours that you worked, and you can't log more than 40 even if you worked more than 40. And if you log under 40 you are penalized, just as you indicate happens in aerospace.
I'm kind of surprised they don't start docking more than 8 hours for a day off of work since they normally expect you to work 12 hour days.
Basically, the industry has become one where the employer gets to have their cake and eat it to. All the rules apply only in their favor and their is nothing in the contract which benefits the employee.
I used to have to travel at a previous company and the banks that I was sent to paid for my time by the day. So if they were paying $2,000 a day they were going to get 24 hours out of me to make it worth their while. However, my company did not pay me for the overtime.
At another company, I was sent out to clients who were billed hourly. If I worked 16 hours, the client was billed for 16 hours, and I was paid for 8 hours.
employers and employees both want to work overtime for normal pay.
The employees have no choice of working the overtime. They don't WANT to do it. They just do it because all of the industry has colluded into not paying for overtime and there is no choice.
Back a while ago, a large consulting / outsourcing firm had faced a lawsuit, that a bunch of their IT employees were mis-classified. The outcome of that suit is that they were all reclassified as hourly, eligible for overtime -- but their pay got slashed by about 30%.
If my pay were slashed by 30% but I got paid even 1-for-1 overtime, I would still come out ahead. If I got time and a half, my pay would be double even with a 30% cut in wage.
As a manager and an employee, I vote No for overtime regulation exemptions. If a business is dependent upon their employees working for free after 40 hours, then their business model is flawed and it is better for everyone if they go under.
Some of us realize that by college age the students are adults and can make their own decisions.
Some of use realize that by college age the students are NOT adults and CANNOT make their own decisions. If they were adults capable of making their own decisions, that would mean they are not completely dependent upon mommy and daddy to pay for all of the education of which they are not partaking. Yes there are some that are responsible and will pay attention in class, but if they are not going to pay attention in class, they ARE at least some distraction for those who do want to pay attention.
I was invited to an event the other day where there were a lot of very wealthy people; Bank presidents and their investors. Open bar, free food, free valet parking and coat check. While in there mostly being a wallflower (because I am not good at this sort of event), I happened to notice that nobody was sitting there staring at a screen. In fact, I heard no alerts, no ringtones, and saw no trusty smartphones strapped sturdily to the hip. Nobody pulled a cell phone out to check the time, or the weather or their messages. During the entire three hour event I saw exactly one of these people look briefly at a cellphone. It was a smartphone, but a very early model with a small screen, and looked well used. She glanced at the time and put it away.
Not drawing conclusions, just something to ponder.
I disagree with uninstalling Candy Crush. Puzzle games are good for brain development. However, if you are playing them when you should be listening to the lecturer, then they are definitely a negative.
I play puzzle games like Candy Crush while walking on my treadmill, because I have at least enough of the distraction disease to feel like I am wasting my time if I am not doing SOMETHING else in addition to tromping on the treadmill.
My brain does something different when I get an e-mail. It actually triggers depression. I haven't gotten an e-mail in a long time that was actually good news. Phone calls are pretty much the same thing. Texts are relatively neutral for me.
ADHD may be a real thing, but I sure wish they would do some study and find out if TV, diet, energy drinks, lack of exercise and smartphones are exacerbating the condition. And I wish we would do some study to see if removing or limiting these would help the condition, rather than simply pumping the kids full of drugs.
They UNcondemned the house after we paid $800 in back trash utilities, established trash service and paid for a city inspection. The city inspector found no issues with the house, other than a missing smoke detector battery, which I replaced. So they condemned the house for no reason related to the house and related only to the fact that the tenants weren't using their preferred sanitation method.
It pissed me off that they condemned the house for this. The house had nothing to do with it. If they want to fine the tenants, that is one thing, but the house was perfectly fine and fit for occupancy.
There wasn't any trash piled up. They were taking it to the dump. The only reason the city even noticed was when the tenant asked for a garage sale permit and the city noticed that they didn't have trash service.
So this can be a legitimate useful technology given two things come true:
1. Cost per kwh goes down by 2/3.
2. Life of battery goes up by multiple of 5.
Oklahoma also has a critical tier that ends up being about 50 cents kwh after taxes. It is definitely cheaper to run a portable generator at those prices, assuming that you already have one. If you need to purchase one just for the purpose the amortization prices would probably cause you to lose money due to the rarity of critical events, however, if the cost of purchasing electricity outpaces the cost of fuel, which it does historically, then you still could up out better in the end generating your own. At some point, if electricity prices continue to rise faster than inflation and fuel costs, it will be cheaper to generate your own period.
Don't worry, they'll almost certainly add being connected to the grid to be a mandatory part of the housing code or something.
The local trash monopoly did something similar. Trash service is about $60 a month, but you can take your trash to the landfill for $15 per ton. Some people were opting to take their trash to the landfill. So the trash company, which works under city contract, got the city to condemn houses which were using the competitive service. This happened to one of my rent houses. I had to pay $800 in back trash payments to get the house uncondemned and the tenants had to pay stiff fines and could have gone to jail for "creating unsanitary conditions". ie, for disposing of their trash through a competing trash service.
It's a shame that an AC had to post the most correct answer to security that I have seen in this thread.
When I implement new systems, logins within one second of each other are not allowed. Three unsuccessful attempts leads to a locked account. Cracking even something as small as an 8 digit password would take millions of years. All passwords are sha-512 hashed and salted.
Changing passwords every XX days is a surefire sign that the person in charge of policy never took a statistics class.
The game doesn't keep stats on men versus women since the game, unlike the Target petition, is pretty gender neutral. However, I would say that playing the storyline would probably have about 98% of the violent acts against men. I've played the game to 100% completion, as well as several earlier editions, and there are very few women that you end up having to kill to progress. I never did the prostitute thing, so I don't know if you get health from having sex or not, but it is not violence if both sides agreed to a set price. It is violence to kill them afterwards, but you could do that to any random person on the street as well.
According to some estimates, about 3 billion people have access to the internet. The stats would indicate that about 2/3 of the people with internet access have viewed this video, or more disturbingly that some people have watched it more than once.
As a man married to a Korean, I will admit to having started to watch it, but finishing it would have been a waste of valuable minutes of my life. Does that still count as a "hit"?
Mobile payments are a bad idea. I can't believe anyone would buy something with their phone. The phone industry is regulated as a common carrier. They are not bound to the same regulations that a Bank or a Credit Card company has and therefore should never be trusted to perform a monetary transaction. There is no consumer protection and whereas Credit Card companies usually get 1 to 2% of a purchase price to perform a transaction, the mobile industry often gets up to 1/3 of a transaction. The more scammy the purchase, the more the cell phone company receives in exchange for looking the other way and always siding with the scam site. For example: the $10 a month joke of the day scams.
Never ever link a credit card or a bank account to a mobile phone. Not until they are subject to the same rules and regulations as the banks and the Credit Card companies.
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Uber. It means super in German. That's misleading. It should be called Rides with Strangers Without Background Checks.
It doesn't. Uber means "I am stupid fucker who tries to impress by using fake German but I'm too stupid to add an umlaut where it belongs". Well, the correct spelling is Ãoeber, but it's anyone guess what slashdot will make of it.
Kind of like the guys who get Chinese tattoos and it turns out actually translates to "Small Lo Mein with Egg Roll"?
Basically, they want to be like Wal-mart. Offer an inferior product at half price. But then the consumer is getting pissed off when the product doesn't perform as well as the full priced product.
In this case, though, this is more like if Wal-mart wanted to sell a radio at half price that uses public frequency bands but doesn't meet the FCC regulations. Which Wal-mart would not be allowed to do.
Per capita, there are 20 times more rape cases in the US than in India. But rapes sell newspapers so thats all you see on the front pages.
You have to take the law into consideration when looking at those statistics. In the U.S., the law allows for rape charges if a wife is forced to have sex with her husband. In India, the law can only be invoked if the husband and wife are separated.
Also, there are social reasons for underreporting of rape in India. If you file rape charges, then you are considered to have been raped. This can be cause for a future arranged marriage to be terminated, a marriage to be terminated and for the woman to be shunned.
It used to be similar in the U.S., but woman were empowered and encouraged to speak out. There are still a lot of rapes not reported, but there are also a lot of false reports as well.
In all, it is difficult to compare rates of a lawbreaking in countries where the law differs as do also the social implications of reporting the charge,
Who said anything about layoffs? It said "An IT worker who is fired because he or she has been replaced by a foreign, visa-holding employee of an offshore outsourcing firm". So AC produced stupid text.
If you read between the lines, this is not even talking about a direct replacement in the company. This is more like when they fire an employee so they can bring on a contractor and the contractor happens to be an H1b working for a contracting company. This happens all the time. I've had the similar happen to me as well. I was a contractor working for a company and I was replaced by several consultants from another company that were all h1bs so they could afford to pay them less. They started out with only two of them to replace me, which was a little more expensive than just paying me. But by the time all was said and done, they had 4 of them in there doing my job at a little over twice what they had been paying me.
A lot of industries account for your time based on hours worked, but account for your pay based on salary. Even the time off is added up based on the hours you work and assumes 40 hours per work. So you don't accumulate any more paid time off from working overtime either. A lot of companies have project management systems in which they require you to log all 40 hours that you worked, and you can't log more than 40 even if you worked more than 40. And if you log under 40 you are penalized, just as you indicate happens in aerospace.
I'm kind of surprised they don't start docking more than 8 hours for a day off of work since they normally expect you to work 12 hour days.
Basically, the industry has become one where the employer gets to have their cake and eat it to. All the rules apply only in their favor and their is nothing in the contract which benefits the employee.
I used to have to travel at a previous company and the banks that I was sent to paid for my time by the day. So if they were paying $2,000 a day they were going to get 24 hours out of me to make it worth their while. However, my company did not pay me for the overtime.
At another company, I was sent out to clients who were billed hourly. If I worked 16 hours, the client was billed for 16 hours, and I was paid for 8 hours.
employers and employees both want to work overtime for normal pay.
The employees have no choice of working the overtime. They don't WANT to do it. They just do it because all of the industry has colluded into not paying for overtime and there is no choice.
Back a while ago, a large consulting / outsourcing firm had faced a lawsuit, that a bunch of their IT employees were mis-classified. The outcome of that suit is that they were all reclassified as hourly, eligible for overtime -- but their pay got slashed by about 30%.
If my pay were slashed by 30% but I got paid even 1-for-1 overtime, I would still come out ahead. If I got time and a half, my pay would be double even with a 30% cut in wage.
As a manager and an employee, I vote No for overtime regulation exemptions. If a business is dependent upon their employees working for free after 40 hours, then their business model is flawed and it is better for everyone if they go under.
Some of us realize that by college age the students are adults and can make their own decisions.
Some of use realize that by college age the students are NOT adults and CANNOT make their own decisions. If they were adults capable of making their own decisions, that would mean they are not completely dependent upon mommy and daddy to pay for all of the education of which they are not partaking. Yes there are some that are responsible and will pay attention in class, but if they are not going to pay attention in class, they ARE at least some distraction for those who do want to pay attention.
OK, how about "Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Invisible Pink Unicorns"? Just as likely, and yet much more cuddly.
I was invited to an event the other day where there were a lot of very wealthy people; Bank presidents and their investors. Open bar, free food, free valet parking and coat check. While in there mostly being a wallflower (because I am not good at this sort of event), I happened to notice that nobody was sitting there staring at a screen. In fact, I heard no alerts, no ringtones, and saw no trusty smartphones strapped sturdily to the hip. Nobody pulled a cell phone out to check the time, or the weather or their messages. During the entire three hour event I saw exactly one of these people look briefly at a cellphone. It was a smartphone, but a very early model with a small screen, and looked well used. She glanced at the time and put it away.
Not drawing conclusions, just something to ponder.
I disagree with uninstalling Candy Crush. Puzzle games are good for brain development. However, if you are playing them when you should be listening to the lecturer, then they are definitely a negative.
I play puzzle games like Candy Crush while walking on my treadmill, because I have at least enough of the distraction disease to feel like I am wasting my time if I am not doing SOMETHING else in addition to tromping on the treadmill.
Lecturers allow phones in class? How do people learn anything?
My brain does something different when I get an e-mail. It actually triggers depression. I haven't gotten an e-mail in a long time that was actually good news. Phone calls are pretty much the same thing. Texts are relatively neutral for me.
ADHD may be a real thing, but I sure wish they would do some study and find out if TV, diet, energy drinks, lack of exercise and smartphones are exacerbating the condition. And I wish we would do some study to see if removing or limiting these would help the condition, rather than simply pumping the kids full of drugs.
They UNcondemned the house after we paid $800 in back trash utilities, established trash service and paid for a city inspection. The city inspector found no issues with the house, other than a missing smoke detector battery, which I replaced. So they condemned the house for no reason related to the house and related only to the fact that the tenants weren't using their preferred sanitation method.
It pissed me off that they condemned the house for this. The house had nothing to do with it. If they want to fine the tenants, that is one thing, but the house was perfectly fine and fit for occupancy.
There wasn't any trash piled up. They were taking it to the dump. The only reason the city even noticed was when the tenant asked for a garage sale permit and the city noticed that they didn't have trash service.
So this can be a legitimate useful technology given two things come true:
1. Cost per kwh goes down by 2/3. 2. Life of battery goes up by multiple of 5.
Oklahoma also has a critical tier that ends up being about 50 cents kwh after taxes. It is definitely cheaper to run a portable generator at those prices, assuming that you already have one. If you need to purchase one just for the purpose the amortization prices would probably cause you to lose money due to the rarity of critical events, however, if the cost of purchasing electricity outpaces the cost of fuel, which it does historically, then you still could up out better in the end generating your own. At some point, if electricity prices continue to rise faster than inflation and fuel costs, it will be cheaper to generate your own period.
won't need to be on the grid here
Don't worry, they'll almost certainly add being connected to the grid to be a mandatory part of the housing code or something.
The local trash monopoly did something similar. Trash service is about $60 a month, but you can take your trash to the landfill for $15 per ton. Some people were opting to take their trash to the landfill. So the trash company, which works under city contract, got the city to condemn houses which were using the competitive service. This happened to one of my rent houses. I had to pay $800 in back trash payments to get the house uncondemned and the tenants had to pay stiff fines and could have gone to jail for "creating unsanitary conditions". ie, for disposing of their trash through a competing trash service.
It's a shame that an AC had to post the most correct answer to security that I have seen in this thread. When I implement new systems, logins within one second of each other are not allowed. Three unsuccessful attempts leads to a locked account. Cracking even something as small as an 8 digit password would take millions of years. All passwords are sha-512 hashed and salted. Changing passwords every XX days is a surefire sign that the person in charge of policy never took a statistics class.
The game doesn't keep stats on men versus women since the game, unlike the Target petition, is pretty gender neutral. However, I would say that playing the storyline would probably have about 98% of the violent acts against men. I've played the game to 100% completion, as well as several earlier editions, and there are very few women that you end up having to kill to progress. I never did the prostitute thing, so I don't know if you get health from having sex or not, but it is not violence if both sides agreed to a set price. It is violence to kill them afterwards, but you could do that to any random person on the street as well.
According to some estimates, about 3 billion people have access to the internet. The stats would indicate that about 2/3 of the people with internet access have viewed this video, or more disturbingly that some people have watched it more than once.
As a man married to a Korean, I will admit to having started to watch it, but finishing it would have been a waste of valuable minutes of my life. Does that still count as a "hit"?
Mobile payments are a bad idea. I can't believe anyone would buy something with their phone. The phone industry is regulated as a common carrier. They are not bound to the same regulations that a Bank or a Credit Card company has and therefore should never be trusted to perform a monetary transaction. There is no consumer protection and whereas Credit Card companies usually get 1 to 2% of a purchase price to perform a transaction, the mobile industry often gets up to 1/3 of a transaction. The more scammy the purchase, the more the cell phone company receives in exchange for looking the other way and always siding with the scam site. For example: the $10 a month joke of the day scams.
Never ever link a credit card or a bank account to a mobile phone. Not until they are subject to the same rules and regulations as the banks and the Credit Card companies.