Sure, if they're paid hourly, then you can talk about company and personal time.
But if they're paid a salary, they're paid for performance, not time. Does the employer ever expect them to work outside of office hours? Why should that be any different than someone doing personal work during office hours, if it doesn't impact their job performance?
"No, the 5G network will be what the The Next Generation..."
Oh, bullshit. You've fallen for marketing. No one voted them in charge of the dictionary, and what "generation" means. They're like the advertisers who decided "synthetic" oil doesn't have to be synthetic, that it can be whatever suits their purposes.
First, "G" means generation, so what some industry marketing group says it means, it doesn't.
In the US, 1G=AMPS 2G=CDMA/TDMA 3G=CDMA2000/HSDPA 4G=LTE(IMS) 5G=what's next.
XLTE seems to be a marketing term used to indicate an increase in available channels (spectrum), not a fundamental increase in speed due to a change of modulation. Any speed increase is due to less sharing of spectrum. It seems that's what ATT is doing here. OTOH, VZW seems to be increasing throughput with their LTE-A, which uses wider channels. So I believe that VZW has a more correct claim for 5G (although I haven't seen them make that claim), since their tech allows more potential bandwidth for individual devices.
I never did APL. But I did have a Centronics 761 KSR with an APL keyboard and character set (in addition to ASCII, which I used all the time). It was cool as hell, even though I had no need for the APL capability.
Unless the summary is very wrong (and it may well be), "offshore outsourcing" and "plan to move work offshore" in no way implies the workers are coming to the US to do their work. Quite the opposite.
It's quite obvious that the reason was to lower costs, not because they specifically wanted younger workers from some foreign land. That's not age or national origin discrimination.
The only argument to make it so would be if they failed to offer the previous employees an opportunity to keep their jobs, but at pay competitive with the new employees.
And they almost certainly didn't make that offer, so here's a sincere wish of good luck with the lawsuit.
It's widely taught in the US that human flight was first done by the Montgolfliers, in France (unless you believe in Icarus). Americans only claim the first sustained, controlled, powered heavier-than-air manned flight (and the Federation Aeronautique Internationale agrees). You know, like the vast majority of modern day flights.
Thanks for (unintentionally, I'm sure) proving the GP's point. One merely has to adjust for inflation to see that. Inflation 1995-2005, 28.1%, so tuition rose 2.2% more than inflation. 2005-2015, inflation was 21.4%, so tuition rose 6.2% more than inflation.
Your figures prove that real tuition costs increased at a greater rate after the change which no longer allowed bankruptcy, not the reverse as you claim.
If you paid for college, especially with student loans, it was a bad investment, because you didn't learn squat about history.
The "boomer" gen was the one with a significant number who fought against wars, starting with Viet Nam. Not always successfully, but there's the military-industrial complex to put up with, and political reality. The draft was eliminated after Viet Nam; without later gens voluntarily signing up (mostly for the benefits), later wars wouldn't have been possible.
"Sane housing costs?" You're making things up. Boomers (middle birth year = 1955) lived through and were buying first houses in the '80's, when mortgage rates were above 10%, approaching 20% at times, the highest rates in US history. Enjoy the current <5% rates, they're below long term historical averages. If you feel entitled to a costly McMansion, that's a choice, but interest rates are not.
Outsourcing? FU. Things change. There have been many industries which have moved overseas in substantial amount over generations - autos, steel, consumer electronics, to name some big ones. The US response has been to create new industries to replace them. So, get going. Simply by taking personal responsibility, you can move on - no one owes anyone a job. If you're truly competent, you can compete with anyone, anywhere in the world. And if you can't find a job, create one - the most successful people got there through hard work, innovation, and entrepreneurship, not working for someone else. But if you feel entitled and are unwilling to give up $5 Starbucks coffees and put up with some hardship, that obviously won't work.
Near-free education? It's absolutely free to the individual, and still is, now more than ever. Taxes pay for your learning the basics. Beyond that, it used involve going to a library, but now you can educate yourself by simply having an Internet connection.
Those old age "entitlements?" They've already been paid for with years of payroll deductions for both SS and Medicare, it's a simple look at any paystub to understand that. No one I know expects to get back even what they've already paid in, and I've personally planned for 30 years with the expectation that it would be much less. That means skipping the $5 Starbucks, brown-bagging your lunch, and doing cheap vacations. And none of that is a hardship.
The US still enjoys a top-tier standard of living, people from other countries want in. Stop whining like a spoiled brat and get to work, no one owes you anything.
It's the ready availability of grants and below market student loans which drove the above market increases in tuition. Unintended consequences and all that...
It sounds like you're part of the Entitlement Generation (the proper name). You clearly want to blame all of your problems on externalities, instead of taking responsibility for your own damn self. Really, complaining about the national debt AND student debt in the same breath, as if all you've received should be paid for by others. I don't see any widespread support in younger generations for reducing government expenditures and balancing the budget let alone paying down the debt, just more "gimme" - make tuition free, provide a guaranteed wage, provide free healthcare, etc. No concept of personal responsibility at all. If you'd been told "Westward, ho!" 150 years ago, you would have died before crossing the Appalachians.
Except for the regulations (OSHA has them) which require UL (technically, NRTL) approvals, placing government mandated standards into the hands of unelected, answerable-to-nobody, private organizations.
Even worse are the regulations, such as vehicle and electrical ones, which require compliance with privately created standards which are incorporated only by reference, and which cost big bucks to actually obtain (NEC and SAE), in which case "ignorance of the law" should definitely be an excuse.
...the choice made in this Directive... should not affect existing recharging points deployed before the entry into force of this Directive....require compliance of the infrastructures to be deployed or renewed with the technical specifications...
It says the Directive only applies to new or "renewed" stations. I don't see anything which would require Tesla to retrofit existing stations. But, feel free to point out where it says that, if you think otherwise.
That's just an argument for artificial mechanisms. Here's your "evidence to the contrary": human manipulation of genes (e.g. crop selection, animal domestication and husbandry) has advanced evolution faster and with more productive consequence than nature alone ever did.
...and, you've said nothing to support your claim, either. Nowadays we have even more methods of processing - freeze drying, refrigeration, canning, etc. So it's much more common to pull a steak out of the freezer than to pull some salt-pork from the root cellar. You've provided nothing to support your claim that "natural" is somehow better.
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Sure, if they're paid hourly, then you can talk about company and personal time.
But if they're paid a salary, they're paid for performance, not time. Does the employer ever expect them to work outside of office hours? Why should that be any different than someone doing personal work during office hours, if it doesn't impact their job performance?
If you're logic impaired, you make false equivalences.
Solar power proponents beg to differ.
"No, the 5G network will be what the The Next Generation..."
Oh, bullshit. You've fallen for marketing. No one voted them in charge of the dictionary, and what "generation" means. They're like the advertisers who decided "synthetic" oil doesn't have to be synthetic, that it can be whatever suits their purposes.
First, "G" means generation, so what some industry marketing group says it means, it doesn't.
In the US,
1G=AMPS
2G=CDMA/TDMA
3G=CDMA2000/HSDPA
4G=LTE(IMS)
5G=what's next.
XLTE seems to be a marketing term used to indicate an increase in available channels (spectrum), not a fundamental increase in speed due to a change of modulation. Any speed increase is due to less sharing of spectrum. It seems that's what ATT is doing here. OTOH, VZW seems to be increasing throughput with their LTE-A, which uses wider channels. So I believe that VZW has a more correct claim for 5G (although I haven't seen them make that claim), since their tech allows more potential bandwidth for individual devices.
Someone feel free to jump in if that's incorrect.
" because they're too expensive"
Citation of case law needed.
I never did APL. But I did have a Centronics 761 KSR with an APL keyboard and character set (in addition to ASCII, which I used all the time). It was cool as hell, even though I had no need for the APL capability.
Unless the summary is very wrong (and it may well be), "offshore outsourcing" and "plan to move work offshore" in no way implies the workers are coming to the US to do their work. Quite the opposite.
It's quite obvious that the reason was to lower costs, not because they specifically wanted younger workers from some foreign land. That's not age or national origin discrimination. The only argument to make it so would be if they failed to offer the previous employees an opportunity to keep their jobs, but at pay competitive with the new employees.
And they almost certainly didn't make that offer, so here's a sincere wish of good luck with the lawsuit.
What's obviously needed is a COBOL -> APL translator to convert all those programs into a newer language.
Anyone worried about getting outsourced, here's a opportunity - learn COBOL.
Thank you for so perfectly proving my point, with your whiny, unapologetic "it's everybody's responsibility but mine" attitude.
It's widely taught in the US that human flight was first done by the Montgolfliers, in France (unless you believe in Icarus). Americans only claim the first sustained, controlled, powered heavier-than-air manned flight (and the Federation Aeronautique Internationale agrees). You know, like the vast majority of modern day flights.
Why are you so insecure?
Haven't you been following the news? "Totally fucking bonkers" IS the new reality.
Never mind. I'll admit I neglected that you quoted inflation adjusted figures.
Thanks for (unintentionally, I'm sure) proving the GP's point. One merely has to adjust for inflation to see that. Inflation 1995-2005, 28.1%, so tuition rose 2.2% more than inflation. 2005-2015, inflation was 21.4%, so tuition rose 6.2% more than inflation.
Your figures prove that real tuition costs increased at a greater rate after the change which no longer allowed bankruptcy, not the reverse as you claim.
If you paid for college, especially with student loans, it was a bad investment, because you didn't learn squat about history.
The "boomer" gen was the one with a significant number who fought against wars, starting with Viet Nam. Not always successfully, but there's the military-industrial complex to put up with, and political reality. The draft was eliminated after Viet Nam; without later gens voluntarily signing up (mostly for the benefits), later wars wouldn't have been possible.
"Sane housing costs?" You're making things up. Boomers (middle birth year = 1955) lived through and were buying first houses in the '80's, when mortgage rates were above 10%, approaching 20% at times, the highest rates in US history. Enjoy the current <5% rates, they're below long term historical averages. If you feel entitled to a costly McMansion, that's a choice, but interest rates are not.
Outsourcing? FU. Things change. There have been many industries which have moved overseas in substantial amount over generations - autos, steel, consumer electronics, to name some big ones. The US response has been to create new industries to replace them. So, get going. Simply by taking personal responsibility, you can move on - no one owes anyone a job. If you're truly competent, you can compete with anyone, anywhere in the world. And if you can't find a job, create one - the most successful people got there through hard work, innovation, and entrepreneurship, not working for someone else. But if you feel entitled and are unwilling to give up $5 Starbucks coffees and put up with some hardship, that obviously won't work.
Near-free education? It's absolutely free to the individual, and still is, now more than ever. Taxes pay for your learning the basics. Beyond that, it used involve going to a library, but now you can educate yourself by simply having an Internet connection.
Those old age "entitlements?" They've already been paid for with years of payroll deductions for both SS and Medicare, it's a simple look at any paystub to understand that. No one I know expects to get back even what they've already paid in, and I've personally planned for 30 years with the expectation that it would be much less. That means skipping the $5 Starbucks, brown-bagging your lunch, and doing cheap vacations. And none of that is a hardship.
The US still enjoys a top-tier standard of living, people from other countries want in. Stop whining like a spoiled brat and get to work, no one owes you anything.
It's the ready availability of grants and below market student loans which drove the above market increases in tuition. Unintended consequences and all that...
It sounds like you're part of the Entitlement Generation (the proper name). You clearly want to blame all of your problems on externalities, instead of taking responsibility for your own damn self. Really, complaining about the national debt AND student debt in the same breath, as if all you've received should be paid for by others. I don't see any widespread support in younger generations for reducing government expenditures and balancing the budget let alone paying down the debt, just more "gimme" - make tuition free, provide a guaranteed wage, provide free healthcare, etc. No concept of personal responsibility at all. If you'd been told "Westward, ho!" 150 years ago, you would have died before crossing the Appalachians.
Except for the regulations (OSHA has them) which require UL (technically, NRTL) approvals, placing government mandated standards into the hands of unelected, answerable-to-nobody, private organizations.
Even worse are the regulations, such as vehicle and electrical ones, which require compliance with privately created standards which are incorporated only by reference, and which cost big bucks to actually obtain (NEC and SAE), in which case "ignorance of the law" should definitely be an excuse.
Your point? How would a federal labeling program (vs a private one) fix that?
It says the Directive only applies to new or "renewed" stations. I don't see anything which would require Tesla to retrofit existing stations. But, feel free to point out where it says that, if you think otherwise.
Exercise? I work at home, you insensitive clod. Biking to work isn't exercise.
That's just an argument for artificial mechanisms. Here's your "evidence to the contrary": human manipulation of genes (e.g. crop selection, animal domestication and husbandry) has advanced evolution faster and with more productive consequence than nature alone ever did.
...and, you've said nothing to support your claim, either. Nowadays we have even more methods of processing - freeze drying, refrigeration, canning, etc. So it's much more common to pull a steak out of the freezer than to pull some salt-pork from the root cellar. You've provided nothing to support your claim that "natural" is somehow better.