What isn't fair? If they're driving farther, they're adding more wear. Thus, they should pay more taxes to maintain the roads. Whether the mileage tax is actually used to maintain the roads in your location is orthogonal to your original complaint.
It was a choice to live out in the suburbs and drive 40+ miles to work, usually based in no small part on cost of living. Increasing taxes on those who do this simply shifts the balance a little. It would also add indirect pressure to spread out business locations a little and/or provide telecommuting options.
Even more interesting, I've read about examples like the vampire bats that share blood who will remember and punish other bats that don't share in return.
That would make the bats better at enforcing basic civility than we are. We've regressed to championing those who can maximize what they get out of the system while minimizing (or eliminating) what they put back in.
Obviously, nobody gets fired for "right leaning views". But you can find a cause to fire anybody if you look just hard enough. Academia is generally a pretty hostile environment to either social or fiscal conservatives. Most conservatives I know just don't talk about their political views in such environments at all, but sadly still have to listen to the endless left-wing chatter of their colleagues.
I'm still not seeing any examples. Unfortunately, all of this comes across as playing the victim, much like all the conservative pundits go on about how there's a war on Christmas every year, despite all the decorated trees, colored lights, and light-up santas all over the place.
Point out even one example of someone who was severely and provably impacted as a result of right-leaning views. If it's such a big problem that it's worth drawing a parallel to the blasphemy laws in other countries, there should be more than a few easily accessible stories of people being fired or jailed for their right-wing views, and not just some sideways "they fired him for incompetence, but what it really was..." story.
If you want your point to be taken very seriously, it would be useful to point out someone who has suffered serious consequences for simply being right-leaning and not for corruption and/or using their doctorate in one field as credentials for their press releases in a different, completely unrelated field.
The subterfuge fails when you are carrying around a crowbar. You would have to be pretty creative to pass yourself off as hotel staff or a guest while carrying one.
You're quire obviously trolling, but I'll explain anyways. He didn't say he took a shitty job. He said he took a job whose compensation package traded immediate income for a stellar retirement package. It's no different than taking a slightly lower paying job anywhere else for alternate benefits (like free gym memberships, free snacks at work, extra vacation, flex time, etc.).
If the state doesn't want to foot the bill for the extra benefits, they will be stuck paying the increased income required to attract anyone decent. It's on the state that they chose not to bank the income difference to pay for the pensions. Quit making this out like the teachers are to blame.
It is the market price, because enough people still purchase the phone and service so that the provider is not forced to reduce its price. The market failure here lies not with the provider but with the customers who fail to assert a downward pressure on the price by refusing to buy and would rather bitch after the fact.
Unfortunately, it failed miserably at its intended purpose, thanks to our political parties. There's plenty of stuff shoved through that is contrary to the public good (copyright extensions, DMCA, PATRIOT act, etc.). The Democrats and Republicans play a lot of good cop, bad cop, but they both have pretty similar agendas on things that matter.
To be fair, you can install an untrusted, self-signed certificate to your machine. This will eliminate future prompts and provides the same notifications when the certificate suddenly changes its fingerprint. Unfortunately, you have to click through a link and several dialogs to do it.
"If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG."
Jack Nicholson
What's particularly disturbing is that the prudism is getting worse over time. A good example is the original Andromeda Strain. It has a G rating on it, but features (briefly) a naked woman in it. Were it to come out today, it would get an instant R rating for that scene alone.
There's a simple answer. Employers have more lobbyists than you do. If you want to affect change (i.e. get laws passed to strengthen individual rights), you would need to form a group of some kind. Additionally, you would have to maintain that group over time to defend against the constant lobby from industry to remove those rights.
That's not to say I like the current state of unions, but they're unfortunately a necessary evil in an environment when industry has so much greater power than the individual. That reality isn't going to change anytime soon.
They allow themselves to be abused like this, so as far as the market is concerned, they want to be abused like this. As long as a significant enough fraction of developers submit and H1B visas/outsourcing can make up the difference, nothing will change.
Hooking industrial control hardware to the internet to centralize monitoring is the security hole. The industry chose to sacrifice security (by providing for external control) to save a few dollars in management costs. A simple business decision was made that the savings were worth it because the risk of being compromised was small and the costs were great enough that the government would step in and bail them out if anything happened anyways.
Usually law enforcement has to read you your miranda rights beforehand for your speech to be admissible in court, though I admit I'm a little bit light on information as to how it works post mortem like this.
It's nearly impossible to make a law that applies equally to everyone, because we're all different, in different situations. Companies, even more s
You say this, but you provide zero evidence that it is so....and the expense of making a bogus patent claim uncompromisingly huge.
You inadvertently touched upon the GP's point.
What is uncompromisingly huge? How do you make your "uncompromisingly huge" law equally apply to Apple versus Jim Bob's Software? How do you make it apply equally between Apple and Exxon? How about Apple versus Bank of America?
When people feel the absence of consequence, they reveal who they truly are. Most people are complete assholes. Is anyone surprised? After all, there is a pretty strong, positive selection pressure among our society for sociopathy.
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What isn't fair? If they're driving farther, they're adding more wear. Thus, they should pay more taxes to maintain the roads. Whether the mileage tax is actually used to maintain the roads in your location is orthogonal to your original complaint.
It was a choice to live out in the suburbs and drive 40+ miles to work, usually based in no small part on cost of living. Increasing taxes on those who do this simply shifts the balance a little. It would also add indirect pressure to spread out business locations a little and/or provide telecommuting options.
Like NASA or DARPA?
And when that company is sued out of existence then, hopefully, we'll all learn that not everything needs access to Facebook.
But what better way to monitor vial signs than through tweets?
Even more interesting, I've read about examples like the vampire bats that share blood who will remember and punish other bats that don't share in return.
That would make the bats better at enforcing basic civility than we are. We've regressed to championing those who can maximize what they get out of the system while minimizing (or eliminating) what they put back in.
Obviously, nobody gets fired for "right leaning views". But you can find a cause to fire anybody if you look just hard enough. Academia is generally a pretty hostile environment to either social or fiscal conservatives. Most conservatives I know just don't talk about their political views in such environments at all, but sadly still have to listen to the endless left-wing chatter of their colleagues.
I'm still not seeing any examples. Unfortunately, all of this comes across as playing the victim, much like all the conservative pundits go on about how there's a war on Christmas every year, despite all the decorated trees, colored lights, and light-up santas all over the place.
Point out even one example of someone who was severely and provably impacted as a result of right-leaning views. If it's such a big problem that it's worth drawing a parallel to the blasphemy laws in other countries, there should be more than a few easily accessible stories of people being fired or jailed for their right-wing views, and not just some sideways "they fired him for incompetence, but what it really was..." story.
If you want your point to be taken very seriously, it would be useful to point out someone who has suffered serious consequences for simply being right-leaning and not for corruption and/or using their doctorate in one field as credentials for their press releases in a different, completely unrelated field.
The majority of what trickles down is yellow, not green :|
The subterfuge fails when you are carrying around a crowbar. You would have to be pretty creative to pass yourself off as hotel staff or a guest while carrying one.
You're quire obviously trolling, but I'll explain anyways. He didn't say he took a shitty job. He said he took a job whose compensation package traded immediate income for a stellar retirement package. It's no different than taking a slightly lower paying job anywhere else for alternate benefits (like free gym memberships, free snacks at work, extra vacation, flex time, etc.).
If the state doesn't want to foot the bill for the extra benefits, they will be stuck paying the increased income required to attract anyone decent. It's on the state that they chose not to bank the income difference to pay for the pensions. Quit making this out like the teachers are to blame.
It is the market price, because enough people still purchase the phone and service so that the provider is not forced to reduce its price. The market failure here lies not with the provider but with the customers who fail to assert a downward pressure on the price by refusing to buy and would rather bitch after the fact.
Unfortunately, it failed miserably at its intended purpose, thanks to our political parties. There's plenty of stuff shoved through that is contrary to the public good (copyright extensions, DMCA, PATRIOT act, etc.). The Democrats and Republicans play a lot of good cop, bad cop, but they both have pretty similar agendas on things that matter.
To be fair, you can install an untrusted, self-signed certificate to your machine. This will eliminate future prompts and provides the same notifications when the certificate suddenly changes its fingerprint. Unfortunately, you have to click through a link and several dialogs to do it.
"If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG." Jack Nicholson
What's particularly disturbing is that the prudism is getting worse over time. A good example is the original Andromeda Strain. It has a G rating on it, but features (briefly) a naked woman in it. Were it to come out today, it would get an instant R rating for that scene alone.
The problem with that idea is that it also gives clear expiration criteria for any extended powers granted to solve the problem.
There's a simple answer. Employers have more lobbyists than you do. If you want to affect change (i.e. get laws passed to strengthen individual rights), you would need to form a group of some kind. Additionally, you would have to maintain that group over time to defend against the constant lobby from industry to remove those rights.
That's not to say I like the current state of unions, but they're unfortunately a necessary evil in an environment when industry has so much greater power than the individual. That reality isn't going to change anytime soon.
They allow themselves to be abused like this, so as far as the market is concerned, they want to be abused like this. As long as a significant enough fraction of developers submit and H1B visas/outsourcing can make up the difference, nothing will change.
Hooking industrial control hardware to the internet to centralize monitoring is the security hole. The industry chose to sacrifice security (by providing for external control) to save a few dollars in management costs. A simple business decision was made that the savings were worth it because the risk of being compromised was small and the costs were great enough that the government would step in and bail them out if anything happened anyways.
$99/yr plus the cost of a mac to program it on.
Usually law enforcement has to read you your miranda rights beforehand for your speech to be admissible in court, though I admit I'm a little bit light on information as to how it works post mortem like this.
You say this, but you provide zero evidence that it is so. ...and the expense of making a bogus patent claim uncompromisingly huge.
You inadvertently touched upon the GP's point.
What is uncompromisingly huge? How do you make your "uncompromisingly huge" law equally apply to Apple versus Jim Bob's Software? How do you make it apply equally between Apple and Exxon? How about Apple versus Bank of America?
That's not completely true. Tell me - how many criminal convictions occurred as a result of the Sony rootkit debacle?
With zero penalty for bad takedown notices, even those sent in bad faith, I'm amazed this hasn't happened sooner and on a much larger scale.
Citation needed.
And no, the Bible is no more evidence of a creator than the Harry Potter books are evidence of magic.
Why bother when you can purchase it online by sending data through your NIC card?
When people feel the absence of consequence, they reveal who they truly are. Most people are complete assholes. Is anyone surprised? After all, there is a pretty strong, positive selection pressure among our society for sociopathy.