Like making money pretending to be an engineer, those are simply, "illegal."
In the US, 'engineer' is a protected term. Aren't we still talking about the realm of the illegal here?
No, no it's not. Professional Engineer maybe, but it varies from state to state.
I was given the title "Field Design Engineer" back in the early 80s by a Fortune500 company, when I only had an Associate's degree, and was really a computer technician, and doing very little actual design. "Field" just meant that I worked at customer sites.
Depends. I stopped mowing my own lawn about a dozen years ago when I started working on a project that required 6-7 day workweeks. I was getting paid for all of my time, and my time was certainly worth more in the office than the $40 it cost me, and saved me 1.5-2 hrs./week. Anything that I would normally do, that I can pay someone else to do for less than what I'm earning, is generally worth it to me...even if I decide to sit on my ass and watch a football game while Molly Maid cleans my house. That's because your time off is important too...you don't run a marathon, and then start another one without a break.
As someone who started investing with $600 worth of an electric utility stock back in '82, which is now worth over $33k, (not to mention all of the additional funds I invested over that period) I'd beg to differ. It's not rocket science. But it does require you to do some homework, and not pretend to be a day trader...you might as well go to Vegas. I suspect you don't actually know a lot of folks with $100k to invest.
Without that money going to the corporation and shareholders, you wouldn't actually have all of those shops and jobs for those people you "deserve" it.
We used to, but often got grief because people would forget to turn off their machines at the office, which becomes a fire hazard. The up side is that we've now got free K-cups
FTFY...just like the vast majority of people who can't tell the difference between a $10 bottle of wine and something in the $100+ range, but turn their noses up.
"What's more important to you? Your time or your money. For a lot of people it's the former."
And to Mr O'Leary's point, that's the reason that many of those people will continue to live payday to payday, and complain that they don't make a living wage.
If you're there as an escape from kids, the office, etc., that's one thing. If you're there for the coffee, you're a fool.
My kid started going to Starbucks when she was in high school, because all the cool kids were doing it. Then she couldn't figure out why her allowance was covering all the things they were supposed to. It was one of the lessons that I let her figure out, because she wasn't getting more for that from us.
So, who should be blame for it, because we spend more on education than every other OECD country. Note, this reference is a couple years old, but still relevant. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u...
Not here. According to Glassdoor, they're averaging close to $60k. That's above the national average household income, but then, this is a high cost of living area.
That all sounds fine, and I agree that it generally would be double plus good, but the implementation would be hellish...
Define "strictest" Who gets to decide what are the "most modern security measures"? When do they become obsolete? How long do they have to transition when to a new measure before getting in trouble? Who certifies the "independent third party", and how much is an annual review gonna cost my small mom & pop business?
You do realize that MBAs are a dime a dozen. My wife has two of them, and my 26 yr old kid was just accepted into an MBA program. More likely you meant C-Levels.
It's highly doubtful that any "code monkey" (like my former self) will ever do time for any law like this. That usually flys internally when a company wants to lay blame, but any prosecutor isn't going to bite on that.
"Congress can either take action now to pass this long overdue bill or continue to kowtow to special interests who stand in the way of this commonsense proposal."
I'm sorry, but which special interests exactly are opposed to this? Is there some sort of hacker union lobbying against it?
Simple example for you... There's no monopoly in operating systems, and yet Windows seems to suck more with each iteration.
There are plenty of other cases...Yahoo, GMail, Facebook and others, who've made the user interface worse. And, that's exactly what we're talking about here.
There are already regulations requiring financial institutions to report transactions of $10k (or multiple smaller transactions adding up to more) or more. Why should this be any different? So, if your argument is that they should be able to collect that information at all, then you probably don't much care about tax evasion, and money laundering. Otherwise, your only logical argument is with respect to the figure. Too small of a number just isn't worth the IRS's time. $10 - $20k seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Nah, they won't send someone around. They'll send you a letter stating that you owe them $X, unless you can prove to them otherwise, and the burden of proof is on you. Been there, done that...more than once.
"Just because the current incarnation sucks, doesn't mean it will always suck."
It also doesn't mean that it will improve. The only thing that will bring improvement is competition that gives a better customer experience w/o significantly costing more.
As a life long fiscal conservative, I'd suggest you do some reading on UBI before spouting off. I'll admit that I had a similar kneejerk reaction when I first heard about it. I now see it as inevitable with the future of automation and AI. UBI doesn't mean you need to stop working, and testing in various locations has already shown that people generally like to remain active in some kind of work. Typically, UBI doesn't cover enough for much in the way of non-necessities...you couldn't afford a vacation w/o additional income. fivethirtyeight.com did an excellent article if you could be bothered to read up on it.
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Like making money pretending to be an engineer, those are simply, "illegal."
In the US, 'engineer' is a protected term. Aren't we still talking about the realm of the illegal here?
No, no it's not. Professional Engineer maybe, but it varies from state to state.
I was given the title "Field Design Engineer" back in the early 80s by a Fortune500 company, when I only had an Associate's degree, and was really a computer technician, and doing very little actual design. "Field" just meant that I worked at customer sites.
Depends. I stopped mowing my own lawn about a dozen years ago when I started working on a project that required 6-7 day workweeks. I was getting paid for all of my time, and my time was certainly worth more in the office than the $40 it cost me, and saved me 1.5-2 hrs./week. Anything that I would normally do, that I can pay someone else to do for less than what I'm earning, is generally worth it to me...even if I decide to sit on my ass and watch a football game while Molly Maid cleans my house. That's because your time off is important too...you don't run a marathon, and then start another one without a break.
And you wouldn't need glasses.
Right, because taking the advice to its extreme is the lesson here. No, no, no...if that's what you think, then you're not listening.
The coffee shop explosion is one of the great rip-offs of our age
Still not as bad as bottled water when the stuff from your tap is perfectly drinkable.
In general, I'll agree. However, drinkability varies from location to location. That said, I'm perfectly happy with my filtered water.
As someone who started investing with $600 worth of an electric utility stock back in '82, which is now worth over $33k, (not to mention all of the additional funds I invested over that period) I'd beg to differ. It's not rocket science. But it does require you to do some homework, and not pretend to be a day trader...you might as well go to Vegas. I suspect you don't actually know a lot of folks with $100k to invest.
Without that money going to the corporation and shareholders, you wouldn't actually have all of those shops and jobs for those people you "deserve" it.
We used to, but often got grief because people would forget to turn off their machines at the office, which becomes a fire hazard. The up side is that we've now got free K-cups
"Tea snobs who like tea don't use tea bags."
FTFY...just like the vast majority of people who can't tell the difference between a $10 bottle of wine and something in the $100+ range, but turn their noses up.
"What's more important to you? Your time or your money. For a lot of people it's the former."
And to Mr O'Leary's point, that's the reason that many of those people will continue to live payday to payday, and complain that they don't make a living wage.
If you're there as an escape from kids, the office, etc., that's one thing. If you're there for the coffee, you're a fool.
My kid started going to Starbucks when she was in high school, because all the cool kids were doing it. Then she couldn't figure out why her allowance was covering all the things they were supposed to. It was one of the lessons that I let her figure out, because she wasn't getting more for that from us.
So, who should be blame for it, because we spend more on education than every other OECD country. Note, this reference is a couple years old, but still relevant.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u...
I'm going to assume you're talking Canadian dollars, which makes this even worse, since the exchange rate is $.79, making that $42k C$ = $33k US
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"...my pay to basically zero..."...um, no. LMGTFY...
Fairfax County Public Schools Salary
Teacher, Elementary School $58,542
High School Teacher $57,004
English Teacher $59,622
Math Teacher $53,629
Not here. According to Glassdoor, they're averaging close to $60k. That's above the national average household income, but then, this is a high cost of living area.
That all sounds fine, and I agree that it generally would be double plus good, but the implementation would be hellish...
Define "strictest"
Who gets to decide what are the "most modern security measures"?
When do they become obsolete?
How long do they have to transition when to a new measure before getting in trouble?
Who certifies the "independent third party", and how much is an annual review gonna cost my small mom & pop business?
You do realize that MBAs are a dime a dozen. My wife has two of them, and my 26 yr old kid was just accepted into an MBA program. More likely you meant C-Levels.
It's highly doubtful that any "code monkey" (like my former self) will ever do time for any law like this. That usually flys internally when a company wants to lay blame, but any prosecutor isn't going to bite on that.
"Congress can either take action now to pass this long overdue bill or continue to kowtow to special interests who stand in the way of this commonsense proposal."
I'm sorry, but which special interests exactly are opposed to this? Is there some sort of hacker union lobbying against it?
Simple example for you... There's no monopoly in operating systems, and yet Windows seems to suck more with each iteration.
There are plenty of other cases...Yahoo, GMail, Facebook and others, who've made the user interface worse. And, that's exactly what we're talking about here.
There are already regulations requiring financial institutions to report transactions of $10k (or multiple smaller transactions adding up to more) or more. Why should this be any different? So, if your argument is that they should be able to collect that information at all, then you probably don't much care about tax evasion, and money laundering. Otherwise, your only logical argument is with respect to the figure. Too small of a number just isn't worth the IRS's time. $10 - $20k seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Nah, they won't send someone around. They'll send you a letter stating that you owe them $X, unless you can prove to them otherwise, and the burden of proof is on you. Been there, done that...more than once.
Clue: The wealthiest portion of the population doesn't have kids nearly at the rate of the poor.
"Just because the current incarnation sucks, doesn't mean it will always suck."
It also doesn't mean that it will improve. The only thing that will bring improvement is competition that gives a better customer experience w/o significantly costing more.
As a life long fiscal conservative, I'd suggest you do some reading on UBI before spouting off. I'll admit that I had a similar kneejerk reaction when I first heard about it. I now see it as inevitable with the future of automation and AI. UBI doesn't mean you need to stop working, and testing in various locations has already shown that people generally like to remain active in some kind of work. Typically, UBI doesn't cover enough for much in the way of non-necessities...you couldn't afford a vacation w/o additional income. fivethirtyeight.com did an excellent article if you could be bothered to read up on it.
Started with Fortran (around '81), Pascal, C and then C++ Now I sit at a desk and troll ShanghaiBill.
Who knew that that many hookers would be put out of work?!?