In the late 1800's sure. But they were still bloodletting then. And just discovering that keeping germs out of wounds/surgical sites/people would help them heal better/faster. So, I don't know how much Doctors prescribing tobacco in that era means.:-)
My mom had a Dr recommend cigarettes to her. ( 1950's when she was a teen. ) So she would be "cool" and less anxious. So, basically, irrational.
You are assuming rationality on the part of people.
Knock that off.
If people were rational, no one would ever start smoking. Assume it is harmless. ( It's not, but for argument ) The benefit is non-existent to negligible at best, and the cost is too much. Why would anyone start?
They knew. Datapoint, 1944 movie "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo", cigarettes are referred to as coffin nails in carrier deck conversation between Van Johnson and Robert Mitchum.
"All that said, this doesn't mean massive waves of unemployment... instead it means that the displaced folks (or those facing it) cannot afford to sit back and let things stand pat; I suspect that the pace of learning new stuff will quicken, perhaps back to the pace set by the dot-boom era."
If there are fewer jobs, how can it not mean unemployment? Education may make one person more hire-able for an opening, but it will not create additional jobs.
I don't know, I've found my Internet connected pacemaker to be pretty useful, gives me stats, automatically informs my doctor if there's a problem, it's nice. And there is good security with a password and full logging, as anyone browsing to http//172.16.54.138/admin.php?include=/usr/share/www/basic-authentication.php&log=/home/pacemaker/default.log&addlog=2015-02-12%2011:21:00%20Initiated%20login can clearly see.
Best part: the guy who wrote the software apparently used to work for what was, until a yea...
God exists and I believe ( have faith in, seek Him ) in him, I win. ( God exists and I don't believe ), or he doesn't exist, I lose. If he does not exist and I believe, what have I lost I would not have lost anyway?
I own a 2000 BMW 328i, and I can testify to the blink rate differential on that year and model. It is 15 years old ( it's "birthday" is this month! ), so I don't know if it qualifies as "modern" or not.
That would be a lot of circuitry for an edge case that might never occur... And on top of that, most people don't know or notice that this happens.....
If that is true,then the implication is that pedestrians and cyclists are actively keeping from being hit. Which implies that most drivers are doing a poor job of paying consistent attention.
As a driver, cyclist and pedestrian, I quite believe it.
How would the relay ( not that it is exactly a relay ) being in the engine compartment versus in the dashboard change the blink rate when a bulb is out?
I worked on a Token Ring network early in my career. It was a very good, robust system. We had a star topology, twisted pair to the desktops, the Ring was all in our cabling area. We had failures of individual lines to desktops, but that would have happened with Ethernet. Never had a ring failure, IIRC.
A, "loser pays", never heard about this 50/50 apportionment. B, " If Apple is in the right, then they win, and the poor defendant is on hook for the entire bill.". Quite. You don't think that will have a chilling effect? Consider the opposite, you are right, but Apple is big. Being right does not mean you will win. I would consider the potential downside before I launched a lawsuit, no matter how in the right I am. I don't think this would stop harassment lawsuits, it might change how much money they "officially" threw at it ( both for the apportionment and the liability if they lose ).
"The company owes me..." types. They are not everywhere.
"We hired a bunch from...and they sucked". I didn't say that.
"Distribution of talent". Yes, quite. Which is part of why the "Americans cant program" strikes a nerve. We can and do. They can and do.
"Have to offshore". Not totally against it, personally, but the increasing "Americans cant program"/"Cant find programmers here" so "they" can justify offshoring is nonsense. It is about costs. Maybe not for your organization, but in general.
"Business operate for profit". Never said otherwise. But profit on what time scale? When the US middle class is gutted, who will these businesses sell to? At what prices? And is this migration good for everyone? ( I would argue that we are looking at a decrease in worldwide "good" as America gets economically weaker ).
"Punishment and confiscation". Not a good thing, But paying reasonable taxes and reasonable costs is acceptable and necessary.
I am ( and have been ) in a management position, and I have worked with a large number of programmers. Including a good number of people from other cultures, and many here on H1B's.
I don't see a "The Company... owes ME" attitude from US citizens. And most were/are the primary means of support for a family, large or small, right here. They were/are hard working, honest decent people. No different from those abroad. And if they *are* "less complaining", why is that? It looks to me like duress. Why is that a good thing?
I reject the inability to accept other cultures or racism angle, personally. I have not seen it in those who work around me. I have seen lots of acceptance. Comments here, perhaps some are racially motivated. Perhaps they are not. I don't know what is in their hearts and minds. I suspect you don't either.
As to business doing exactly what it should, what exactly is it that you say it should do? Hire only compliant workers? Or cheap? Or workers that get the job done, and provide the revenues to the economic system they depend on?
I advocate that the US should not allow other nations free trade while the other nation limits what trade is allowed. I don't really know where you got your post from what I wrote.
"But perhaps the "enough" that you'd have to pay is simply unreasonable"
The market will decide. Funny how it is good when the market decides when workers are let go, when their wages "have to" fall, etc, but no, cant let the market decide corporate profitability.
Its not a business model failure. Its costs failure. The H1B doesn't have the cost structure a US citizen has, by and large. So, they can work cheaper.
Here is the business model failure. While those "in charge" of the US economy keep chasing cheaper wages, the spending power in the US falls. The more it falls, the worse that economy will do. Prices will have to fall in alignment with this. Those prices are on the items those "in charge" of the US economy are selling in the US. Prices that are higher because people can afford them, having wages in line with those prices. They are slitting their own throats. But they are not the ones experiencing the pain, they just enjoy the fruits the arbitrage, while it lasts.
Haven't seen it, but basically yes. I had not thought about the issue of how the load would distribute across his arms, I just assumed ( bad, I know ) he/they/it/etc would somehow manage that. I guess I figured he would use his body more...
Loved the old "Man of Steel, Woman of kleenex" story....
I also hate the "asteroid about to hit earth, pulverize it with a nuke" scenario. They usually show the asteroid just about to hit, like within a small handful of earth radii, then all that mass being turned into large rocks instead of one rock is somehow supposed to change things from "nothing much will survive" to "oh, look at the pretty light show".
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You don't usually do car repair unless something is not working..
In the late 1800's sure. :-)
But they were still bloodletting then.
And just discovering that keeping germs out of wounds/surgical sites/people would help them heal better/faster.
So, I don't know how much Doctors prescribing tobacco in that era means.
My mom had a Dr recommend cigarettes to her. ( 1950's when she was a teen. )
So she would be "cool" and less anxious.
So, basically, irrational.
You are assuming rationality on the part of people.
Knock that off.
If people were rational, no one would ever start smoking.
Assume it is harmless. ( It's not, but for argument )
The benefit is non-existent to negligible at best, and the cost is too much.
Why would anyone start?
They knew. Datapoint, 1944 movie "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo", cigarettes are referred to as coffin nails in carrier deck conversation between Van Johnson and Robert Mitchum.
It really is too bad that we supposedly rational humans cannot find something that allows things to work without all that pain and suffering.
Things like this really show just how stupid and inconsiderate we can be ( and are ).
"All that said, this doesn't mean massive waves of unemployment... instead it means that the displaced folks (or those facing it) cannot afford to sit back and let things stand pat; I suspect that the pace of learning new stuff will quicken, perhaps back to the pace set by the dot-boom era."
If there are fewer jobs, how can it not mean unemployment?
Education may make one person more hire-able for an opening, but it will not create additional jobs.
I don't know, I've found my Internet connected pacemaker to be pretty useful, gives me stats, automatically informs my doctor if there's a problem, it's nice. And there is good security with a password and full logging, as anyone browsing to http //172.16.54.138/admin.php?include=/usr/share/www/basic-authentication.php&log=/home/pacemaker/default.log&addlog=2015-02-12%2011:21:00%20Initiated%20login can clearly see.
Best part: the guy who wrote the software apparently used to work for what was, until a yea...
FTFY :-)
Ronald Reagan!
No,
God exists and I believe ( have faith in, seek Him ) in him, I win.
( God exists and I don't believe ), or he doesn't exist, I lose.
If he does not exist and I believe, what have I lost I would not have lost anyway?
I own a 2000 BMW 328i, and I can testify to the blink rate differential on that year and model.
It is 15 years old ( it's "birthday" is this month! ), so I don't know if it qualifies as "modern" or not.
That would be a lot of circuitry for an edge case that might never occur...
And on top of that, most people don't know or notice that this happens.....
If that is true,then the implication is that pedestrians and cyclists are actively keeping from being hit.
Which implies that most drivers are doing a poor job of paying consistent attention.
As a driver, cyclist and pedestrian, I quite believe it.
How would the relay ( not that it is exactly a relay ) being in the engine compartment versus in the dashboard change the blink rate when a bulb is out?
If the "tick tick" is fake, then why do the lights blink at different rates when a bulb is out?
I worked on a Token Ring network early in my career.
It was a very good, robust system.
We had a star topology, twisted pair to the desktops, the Ring was all in our cabling area.
We had failures of individual lines to desktops, but that would have happened with Ethernet.
Never had a ring failure, IIRC.
A, "loser pays", never heard about this 50/50 apportionment.
B, " If Apple is in the right, then they win, and the poor defendant is on hook for the entire bill.".
Quite. You don't think that will have a chilling effect? Consider the opposite, you are right, but Apple is big.
Being right does not mean you will win.
I would consider the potential downside before I launched a lawsuit, no matter how in the right I am.
I don't think this would stop harassment lawsuits, it might change how much money they "officially" threw at it ( both for the apportionment and the liability if they lose ).
With "loser pays", those with deep pockets will be the only ones who could afford to bring suit.
Not sure how that fixes anything...
Why would anyone in their right mind go to college for a programming degree under those conditions?
"The company owes me..." types. They are not everywhere.
"We hired a bunch from...and they sucked". I didn't say that.
"Distribution of talent". Yes, quite. Which is part of why the "Americans cant program" strikes a nerve. We can and do. They can and do.
"Have to offshore". Not totally against it, personally, but the increasing "Americans cant program"/"Cant find programmers here" so "they" can justify offshoring is nonsense. It is about costs. Maybe not for your organization, but in general.
"Business operate for profit". Never said otherwise. But profit on what time scale? When the US middle class is gutted, who will these businesses sell to? At what prices?
And is this migration good for everyone?
( I would argue that we are looking at a decrease in worldwide "good" as America gets economically weaker ).
"Punishment and confiscation". Not a good thing, But paying reasonable taxes and reasonable costs is acceptable and necessary.
I am ( and have been ) in a management position, and I have worked with a large number of programmers.
Including a good number of people from other cultures, and many here on H1B's.
I don't see a "The Company... owes ME" attitude from US citizens.
And most were/are the primary means of support for a family, large or small, right here.
They were/are hard working, honest decent people. No different from those abroad.
And if they *are* "less complaining", why is that? It looks to me like duress.
Why is that a good thing?
I reject the inability to accept other cultures or racism angle, personally.
I have not seen it in those who work around me. I have seen lots of acceptance.
Comments here, perhaps some are racially motivated. Perhaps they are not.
I don't know what is in their hearts and minds. I suspect you don't either.
As to business doing exactly what it should, what exactly is it that you say it should do?
Hire only compliant workers? Or cheap?
Or workers that get the job done, and provide the revenues to the economic system they depend on?
I advocate that the US should not allow other nations free trade while the other nation limits what trade is allowed.
I don't really know where you got your post from what I wrote.
If the "other" countries/companies were playing the same way, that would be excellent.
"But perhaps the "enough" that you'd have to pay is simply unreasonable"
The market will decide.
Funny how it is good when the market decides when workers are let go, when their wages "have to" fall, etc, but no, cant let the market decide corporate profitability.
Business model...
Its not a business model failure. Its costs failure. The H1B doesn't have the cost structure a US citizen has, by and large.
So, they can work cheaper.
Here is the business model failure. While those "in charge" of the US economy keep chasing cheaper wages, the spending power in the US falls.
The more it falls, the worse that economy will do. Prices will have to fall in alignment with this.
Those prices are on the items those "in charge" of the US economy are selling in the US.
Prices that are higher because people can afford them, having wages in line with those prices.
They are slitting their own throats. But they are not the ones experiencing the pain, they just enjoy the fruits the arbitrage, while it lasts.
Haven't seen it, but basically yes. I had not thought about the issue of how the load would distribute across his arms, I just assumed ( bad, I know ) he/they/it/etc would somehow manage that. I guess I figured he would use his body more...
Loved the old "Man of Steel, Woman of kleenex" story....
I also hate the "asteroid about to hit earth, pulverize it with a nuke" scenario. They usually show the asteroid just about to hit, like within a small handful of earth radii, then all that mass being turned into large rocks instead of one rock is somehow supposed to change things from "nothing much will survive" to "oh, look at the pretty light show".