Legal right != ethical behavior. Uber has shown time and time again that they're evil. They have other means of communicating non-business related messages to their drivers.
"Unlike boring old pensions, 401(k) accounts goes up and down with the market."
Uh, your implication is completely false. Many 401(k)s, (which are transportable and allow the owner to make choices) offer fixed income options (although for most, low fee index funds would be better), and many pension plans (which the beneficiary has no control over) have gone bankrupt due to mismanagement or lack of funding.
Pensions are, however, an excellent way of locking employees into the company store, as they are often structured to offer higher rewards for longer servitude.
"We make only one quarter of what are [sic] forbears [sic] did after you adjust for inflation against the PCI [sic] index."
You're full of illiterate bullshit.The CPI Inflation Calculator shows a 1957-2015 increase of 843%. The Average Wage Indexing Series shows wages went up 1321%. The average person makes over 50% more today than in 1957. In addition, the number of 2 earner families more than doubled, so families as a whole do even better than that.
"This problem has been well known since the Reagan Administration, but politicians found it easy to kick the can down the road."
Not coincidentally, during Reagan's first year in office, the IRS ruled that 401(k)s could be funded through payroll deductions. Also during his first term, the Tax Reform Act of 1984 ensured that if a company offered 401(k)s, they were available to all employees. Rather than "kicking it down the road," they created an incentive for people to take control of their destiny away from the government.
By 1990, shortly after Reagan left office, almost 20 million people had 401(k) accounts. Today, they hold $4.8 trillion in assets.
The real problem is not congress, but the common attitude of "I want it all, and I want it now" ingrained in our entitlement society, and the failure of individuals to save for the future. Sure, congress can be blamed for robbing Peter to pay Paul with SS funds, but it was only ever intended to be a supplement to retirement.
Most people only go 2, 4, or 6, sometimes a couple more. I suppose not supporting people who have gone to college for 1957 years is age discrimination for someone, but even Methuselah only lived to be 969.
"Since our Nation really isn't based on agricultural production anymore maybe it's time we just give it up."
It's got nothing to do with farmers, a similar article points this out:
For some reason, many Americans grew up believing that the practice was adopted for farmers, Downing said.
"That's the complete inverse of what's true," he said. "The farmers were the only organized lobby against daylight saving in the history of the country," he said, explaining that the practice left them with an hour less sunlight to get crops to market.
The rationale was mostly around saving energy by having more natural light, later in the day. Dairy farmers are apparently quite stupid:
Many farmers still don't like DST, including some dairy farmers, who find that cows' natural milking schedules don't adapt easily to a sudden shift.
Acting as if they have to milk cows at a certain clock time, instead of simply keeping to a consistent solar schedule.
That's so old school (really, really, old!). Since then, we've discovered electrons, protons, neutrons, and even more turtles holding them up.
Heck, on a day-to-day basis we transfer info using sub-atomic photons (your TV remote!). The real limit, as far as we know it, would be something at Planck scale.
Editor fail X2 (/. editor changed the headline after the fact). Why do the senators get to modify their work, when all of us proles can't? At least enable Unicode support for proper quotes and apostrophes as a consolation prize.
Illiterate/. editor strikes again. "Cyberfox Developer Proclaims Death of Web Browser" should read "Developer Proclaims Death of Cyberfox Web Browser."
This, but with the knowledge that malware on the PC could potentially turn it back on without your knowledge. If that's still a concern, the wireless card can be removed from many systems - it's often an m.2 or PCI-e card which is plugged into a socket.
"at the time, smooth bore muzzle loader flintlocks were the prevalent weapon."
On both sides, so armed citizens were on an equitable basis with government troops. Private ownership of the big weapons of the day, heavy cannon, wasn't uncommon (privateers).
Now you're arguing that although the weapons available to the government have improved, those available to citizens shouldn't.
Of course, also at the time, there were no electronic communications, no high speed printing presses, no photography, etc. So by your logic, a reasonable interpretation of the 1st Amendment would allow modern government to limit speech to unamplified human speech, handwriting, and the output of Gutenberg presses.
...because of software inefficiency and planned obsolescence. Ever wonder why current Windoze takes about the same time to boot as Win 3.1 running on a 486? It's not because Windoze does 10,000 times more (useful stuff) today. (486DX2 ~25 MIPS, i7 5960X ~240K MIPS).
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Legal right != ethical behavior. Uber has shown time and time again that they're evil. They have other means of communicating non-business related messages to their drivers.
"Unlike boring old pensions, 401(k) accounts goes up and down with the market."
Uh, your implication is completely false. Many 401(k)s, (which are transportable and allow the owner to make choices) offer fixed income options (although for most, low fee index funds would be better), and many pension plans (which the beneficiary has no control over) have gone bankrupt due to mismanagement or lack of funding.
Pensions are, however, an excellent way of locking employees into the company store, as they are often structured to offer higher rewards for longer servitude.
"We make only one quarter of what are [sic] forbears [sic] did after you adjust for inflation against the PCI [sic] index."
You're full of illiterate bullshit.The CPI Inflation Calculator shows a 1957-2015 increase of 843%. The Average Wage Indexing Series shows wages went up 1321%. The average person makes over 50% more today than in 1957. In addition, the number of 2 earner families more than doubled, so families as a whole do even better than that.
... or SIP.
"May I interest you in Esperanto?"
Too much work. I'd prefer a babelfish.
"This problem has been well known since the Reagan Administration, but politicians found it easy to kick the can down the road."
Not coincidentally, during Reagan's first year in office, the IRS ruled that 401(k)s could be funded through payroll deductions. Also during his first term, the Tax Reform Act of 1984 ensured that if a company offered 401(k)s, they were available to all employees. Rather than "kicking it down the road," they created an incentive for people to take control of their destiny away from the government.
By 1990, shortly after Reagan left office, almost 20 million people had 401(k) accounts. Today, they hold $4.8 trillion in assets.
The real problem is not congress, but the common attitude of "I want it all, and I want it now" ingrained in our entitlement society, and the failure of individuals to save for the future. Sure, congress can be blamed for robbing Peter to pay Paul with SS funds, but it was only ever intended to be a supplement to retirement.
Most people only go 2, 4, or 6, sometimes a couple more. I suppose not supporting people who have gone to college for 1957 years is age discrimination for someone, but even Methuselah only lived to be 969.
Ah, you must be related to one of those stupid dairy farmers.
"A typical working day is 9-5. ... It makes a lot more sense to arrange the clocks so that work finishes while the sun is up."
Or, simply change business hours to 8-4.
It's got nothing to do with farmers, a similar article points this out:
The rationale was mostly around saving energy by having more natural light, later in the day. Dairy farmers are apparently quite stupid:
Acting as if they have to milk cows at a certain clock time, instead of simply keeping to a consistent solar schedule.
"It's like a version of the lottery in which you can continuously and instantaneously roll new numbers until you get a result you want."
Or a result you don't want. What could possibly go wrong?
"Please, please, please don't prosecute our execs for obstruction of justice."
"Kinda hard to get below the atomic level."
That's so old school (really, really, old!). Since then, we've discovered electrons, protons, neutrons, and even more turtles holding them up.
Heck, on a day-to-day basis we transfer info using sub-atomic photons (your TV remote!). The real limit, as far as we know it, would be something at Planck scale.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. The Great Oz has spoken.
Editor fail X2 (/. editor changed the headline after the fact). Why do the senators get to modify their work, when all of us proles can't? At least enable Unicode support for proper quotes and apostrophes as a consolation prize.
Illiterate /. editor strikes again. "Cyberfox Developer Proclaims Death of Web Browser" should read "Developer Proclaims Death of Cyberfox Web Browser."
This, but with the knowledge that malware on the PC could potentially turn it back on without your knowledge. If that's still a concern, the wireless card can be removed from many systems - it's often an m.2 or PCI-e card which is plugged into a socket.
In most cases, web apps run on the server. Being agnostic to the browser doesn't mean they can run anywhere.
Lynx. It doesn't have to deal with all those bandwidth intensive graphics.
"at the time, smooth bore muzzle loader flintlocks were the prevalent weapon."
On both sides, so armed citizens were on an equitable basis with government troops. Private ownership of the big weapons of the day, heavy cannon, wasn't uncommon (privateers).
Now you're arguing that although the weapons available to the government have improved, those available to citizens shouldn't.
Of course, also at the time, there were no electronic communications, no high speed printing presses, no photography, etc. So by your logic, a reasonable interpretation of the 1st Amendment would allow modern government to limit speech to unamplified human speech, handwriting, and the output of Gutenberg presses.
Perhaps background checks should be required before armies can buy weapons. Close the international arms trade loophole!
Cores are a foreign concept to you, obviously.
"sounds illegal to me." - GrumpySteen
Must be one of your "alternative facts."
...because of software inefficiency and planned obsolescence. Ever wonder why current Windoze takes about the same time to boot as Win 3.1 running on a 486? It's not because Windoze does 10,000 times more (useful stuff) today. (486DX2 ~25 MIPS, i7 5960X ~240K MIPS).
Before anyone jumps in, I know they're not publicly traded.