Sorry, but it is just wrong to expect employees to be available outside of scheduled work hours! My time off of work is MY time, and an employer has no right to expect me to use any of that time for their benefit!
...and here we have the flip side to selfishly unreasonable attitudes of bosses.
No, we don't. The flip side would be some jackass who leaves an hour early whenever he likes, or demands you pay more than you agreed. Someone simply sticking to the deal as written is neither selfish nor unreasonable, especially when they were the weaker party during its writing.
On the flip side, far too many employees think their employers are owed no consideration or loyalty of any kind. This lack of trust and resentment comes from both directions, and is a serious problem whichever direction it comes from.
In short, your human resources have learned to treat you as an income resource, so now it's suddenly a problem.
As a business owner, I expect my employees to by reasonably available, even after hours.
What is reasonable?
Do you pay them extra for being on alert? If not, then expecting anything is unreasonable.
Well, if it's an emergency of some sort, I call or text them, depending on the immediacy. (Emergency being defined as anywhere from "someone's sick, can you cover a shift?" to "something's on fire".)
In other words, you shift the cost of preparing for emergencies from your business to your employees, thus making a higher profit at their expense. And are apparently proud of yourself.
And I hear a stewardess once fell from an airplane flying at 10,000 feet and survived. You can't base policy on outliers.
You will rapidly run into diminishing returns, and spend huge sums on one-on-one training of retards, and even then some of them will never get it.
Whereas having trouble functioning in society for the rest of their lives is free. Also, hiring a specialist teacher hardly costs a "huge sum".
But then again, this isn't really about money, now is it? It's about making yourself feel tough by pseudonymously attacking a suitable target - which, in your case, seems to be developmentally challenged first-graders. So, mission accomplished?
... and the bright kids will be bored out of their minds as the teachers repetitively go over and over the same material.
If only kids were mobile creatures. Then we could sort them into groups - let's call them "classes" - by ability, and give aid to those who need them and challenges to those who can deal with them.
The schools are already busy teaching kids to be wimpy little fucks, and know-nothings. They don't need to be teaching "humanities" IMO.
You do realize that not teaching humanities results in "know-nothings", right? It's an umbrella term for anything that isn't hard science or vocational training, from arts to geography to philosophy to history.
Teach boys to be boys, which includes a little rough and tumble, skinned knees,
And if you're neither Johnny Knoxville nor Leonidas yet have a dick, sucks to be you?
playing with knives,
I was taught how to use knives as well as power tools in school. I was also thaught they're not toys. You don't play with them, you use them to make toys to play with.
and other "boy" things. There's nothing wrong with encouraging little girls to pursue traditionally "masculine" goals, like sports, STEM, etc, but FFS stop emasculating little boys.
How about we stop obsessing over whether people are masculine, feminine or whatever and just let them be whatever works for them? They'll probably end up being both happier and, for what it's worth, more productive.
Life's hard enough without having to put on a show.
Only problem is that even robots can not make a McMuffin that looks remotely like the picture they have in the store of said McMuffin.
It will just cause a system error that the poor mechanical soul will never recover from.
If Skynet decides that human society is beyond saving because Skynet worked a McJob at McDonald's in it's youth, it's... kinda hard to argue, actually.
This is flagrant protectionism, and obviously done in bad faith. They should be kicked out the WTO.
This is protectionism, and obviously done because Indian officials care more about their home country than neoliberal ideology. The rest of us should imitate them, quit the WTO, and start a new trade organization which doesn't require members to sacrifice their independence, future, and the wellbeing of their populations.
The EU has no right to force me to make my papers publicly available. The EU neither respects people's rights nor freedom. Fuck Europe.
The EU have both the right and the duty to ensure that I, Joe Taxpayer, can access the results and will receive the full benefits of research paid by me. You, on the other hand, don't have any right to take my money and then alter the deal. Go EU, fuck AC.
Most universities get at least some government funding, if only 5% of their budget. So figure a school is privately funded 95%, and gets 5% of of it's budget from government grants for providing certain types of education. Is the institution barred from recouping some of the costs of the research? Maybe so, maybe not.
As a taxpayer, I don't see anything gray about that: your research is funded by the public, you deliver your results to the public. If you don't want that, slash your budget to what you can pay by yourself.
No. The reality is that there is a chain of command and that the most spineless lightweights occupy lower offices. They will do whatever they are pressured to do from the next level up, and so on.
No. The reality is that your public officials are doing exactly what people demand from them: being tough on crime. Sure, they end up trampling all over everyone's rights, killing or jailing innocent people, and going way too far with the guilty, but that's what you keep voting for.
Stop living under the delusion that there is democracy in the world.
There's democracy in the world. The problem is that Joe Average is every bit as much of a nasty asshole as King George was.
America isn't the Land of the Free, it's the land of people who want freedom for themselves and everyone who isn't exactly like them to be put in their place like the dirty hippies they are, while those on top loot everyone else's pockets since such divisions make it impossible to band together and stop them. And then comes the salesman Trump who knows just how to use all this carefully cultivated resentment to take power for himself. So I guess he'll be the president US wants and deserves.
The only way you could argue that there is democracy is if 95+% of humans don't count as people. Which is pretty much the argument the top of the hierarchy makes.
95+% of humans don't count as people in most people's opinion. The only disagreement is over who's the 5-% who do.
I don't think there are much commercial uses for it but certainly you could burn it in a facility with the proper equipment to capture or treat the pollutants prior to shoving them up a smoke stack.
Seeing how that equipment typically involves a smoke washer that basically just dissolves pollutants in water, I wonder if you could solve the whole problem by just pushing the engine exhaust out from under the ship? Sulfur and microparticles of soot are only a problem if they get into the air; if they are dissolved in water, they become food for the plankton.
That's pretty much the problem. Sticking to the letter of the law instead of the spirit of the law.
People see other spirits through their own. They can't do that any other way, because spirits are invisible to the physical eyes. The letter of the law, on the other hand, is just as visible as my body. We can thus disagree on the spirit of the law, but not on its letter.
Fairly soon, people will be able to make calls from planes anywhere on the planet, stream video and be online at 35,000 feet - All from the comfort of an $8,000 first-class seat.
And if making calls is enough to get the job done, why are you not simply staying home?
If you want to move from point A to point B, there's presumably some reason you want to get to point B. What ever it is, travel time is holding you from it. Also, just because they're overvalued doesn't mean every businessperson treats their job as a joke; some will pay for a faster journey just because it lets them take more business trips.
Ask yourself: given that they can be far more comfortable than even the best airplane, are people likely to start using cruise ships for business trips?
Software companies will all close shop in the U.S. and move their operations to countries where APIs are legally declared not copyrightable.
Or more likely big companies will gather protection money from smaller ones while having MAD treaties with one another. After all, isn't the whole point of Trans-Atlantic/Pacific trade treaties to "harmonize" various IP laws across the world?
That's the nature of the free market. It interprets stupidity as damage, and routes around it.
When the whole world is a single global market, there's nowhere to route.
Because, of course, the people who form a business and incorporate it... they're couldn't possibly be citizens.
Given that this very article discusses the lengths they go to to avoid their duties as citizens... no. They're parasites who demand things yet use every loophole to avoid giving anything in return.
Don't put on the airs of a citizen if the only loyalty you have is to your wallet.
Language changes. You're 130 or so years behind on English is would seem.
Language changes, but sometimes such changes are purposeful attempts at propaganda, and should be called out for that. And trying to get ignoring Mickey Mouse Protection Act associated with robbery at high seas is definitely such a case.
However, this kind of oculus DRM restriction that is implemented as discussed in the article sure isn't pleasing me, and I would advise anyone to do like I did : determine what your killer-app is before choosing your VR hardware.
Actually, didn't we see this with 3D cards when they came out? We're currently in the Glide phase and will eventually move to OpenGL/Direct3D phase of common interfaces decoupled from hardware (or the whole thing will die off). Combined with the frankly ridiculous price for a niche entertainment product with just a few games or apps, I'd say the best option is to simply wait (or use Google Cardboard if you must).
Being an early adapter is a suckers game unless you're so rich the price is pocket change for you and you enjoy new technology for its own sake.
I might point out that while the article mentions "cognition", it doesn't mention "creativity". It might be possible for humans to compete with AIs in that area, because there are so many ways in which to do something creative (infinite ways?).
The problem is, creativity is optional in the short term. Our ruling class needs someone to work their fields and build their luxury yachts, but can do without more art being produced, for at least the next quarter. That's why the concept of "starving artist" exists, and is exactly what humans trying to compete in that area will get.
It's not like I'd do it again but I don't see anything wrong with other people working like that if they desire to.
The problem is, you either desire to do whatever the company asks of you or you'll be replaced by someone who will. It's not voluntary, any more than kneeling before the kings of old was.
Caps are a mathematical requirement. Without caps, Internet prices would be around what a dedicated line costs, which is about $7000/mo for an OC3 (155 Mbps).
Caps are a business requirement. Without caps, your local monopoly couldn't charge you for going over it and paying the CEO a bonus for it.
It's not an issue of knowing or trusting science, or knowing "all the good that science has done". It's an issue of not believing that life needs to lived as a technocracy,
No, it's a believe that whatever they had around as kids was not made by man. Thus supermarkets are natural formations, food is deposited on their shelves by geological processes, the car you drive there grew on a tree, and the oven you use to cook is magic.
If you aren't sitting naked in a cave and eating raw maggots you live in a technocracy. Choose freely, but don't be a hypocrite.
It's the same delusion that lets libertarians believe their precious private property would exist without the legal institutions that create the concept.
or using rigid scientific principles as the only guide.
Science put an end to plague and famine. What do your principles bring to the table?
Freedom means that people can do things that we don't personally agree with, and that don't always obey strict scientific principles, and even sometimes don't produce the maximum benefit for other people.
Enjoy your cave, but if you try to make your kids live there of course they'll be taken away.
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No, we don't. The flip side would be some jackass who leaves an hour early whenever he likes, or demands you pay more than you agreed. Someone simply sticking to the deal as written is neither selfish nor unreasonable, especially when they were the weaker party during its writing.
In short, your human resources have learned to treat you as an income resource, so now it's suddenly a problem.
Do you pay them extra for being on alert? If not, then expecting anything is unreasonable.
In other words, you shift the cost of preparing for emergencies from your business to your employees, thus making a higher profit at their expense. And are apparently proud of yourself.
And people wonder why people are getting disillusioned with capitalism.
And I hear a stewardess once fell from an airplane flying at 10,000 feet and survived. You can't base policy on outliers.
Whereas having trouble functioning in society for the rest of their lives is free. Also, hiring a specialist teacher hardly costs a "huge sum".
But then again, this isn't really about money, now is it? It's about making yourself feel tough by pseudonymously attacking a suitable target - which, in your case, seems to be developmentally challenged first-graders. So, mission accomplished?
If only kids were mobile creatures. Then we could sort them into groups - let's call them "classes" - by ability, and give aid to those who need them and challenges to those who can deal with them.
You do realize that not teaching humanities results in "know-nothings", right? It's an umbrella term for anything that isn't hard science or vocational training, from arts to geography to philosophy to history.
And if you're neither Johnny Knoxville nor Leonidas yet have a dick, sucks to be you?
I was taught how to use knives as well as power tools in school. I was also thaught they're not toys. You don't play with them, you use them to make toys to play with.
How about we stop obsessing over whether people are masculine, feminine or whatever and just let them be whatever works for them? They'll probably end up being both happier and, for what it's worth, more productive.
Life's hard enough without having to put on a show.
If Skynet decides that human society is beyond saving because Skynet worked a McJob at McDonald's in it's youth, it's... kinda hard to argue, actually.
This is protectionism, and obviously done because Indian officials care more about their home country than neoliberal ideology. The rest of us should imitate them, quit the WTO, and start a new trade organization which doesn't require members to sacrifice their independence, future, and the wellbeing of their populations.
The EU have both the right and the duty to ensure that I, Joe Taxpayer, can access the results and will receive the full benefits of research paid by me. You, on the other hand, don't have any right to take my money and then alter the deal. Go EU, fuck AC.
As a taxpayer, I don't see anything gray about that: your research is funded by the public, you deliver your results to the public. If you don't want that, slash your budget to what you can pay by yourself.
No. The reality is that your public officials are doing exactly what people demand from them: being tough on crime. Sure, they end up trampling all over everyone's rights, killing or jailing innocent people, and going way too far with the guilty, but that's what you keep voting for.
There's democracy in the world. The problem is that Joe Average is every bit as much of a nasty asshole as King George was.
America isn't the Land of the Free, it's the land of people who want freedom for themselves and everyone who isn't exactly like them to be put in their place like the dirty hippies they are, while those on top loot everyone else's pockets since such divisions make it impossible to band together and stop them. And then comes the salesman Trump who knows just how to use all this carefully cultivated resentment to take power for himself. So I guess he'll be the president US wants and deserves.
95+% of humans don't count as people in most people's opinion. The only disagreement is over who's the 5-% who do.
If even Germany can't keep its nuclear plant operators honest, then nobody can. That is a pretty big deal, actually.
Seeing how that equipment typically involves a smoke washer that basically just dissolves pollutants in water, I wonder if you could solve the whole problem by just pushing the engine exhaust out from under the ship? Sulfur and microparticles of soot are only a problem if they get into the air; if they are dissolved in water, they become food for the plankton.
People see other spirits through their own. They can't do that any other way, because spirits are invisible to the physical eyes. The letter of the law, on the other hand, is just as visible as my body. We can thus disagree on the spirit of the law, but not on its letter.
Or he could be a savvy businessman who took a calculated risk: a million missing vs. lots of growth potential.
And if making calls is enough to get the job done, why are you not simply staying home?
If you want to move from point A to point B, there's presumably some reason you want to get to point B. What ever it is, travel time is holding you from it. Also, just because they're overvalued doesn't mean every businessperson treats their job as a joke; some will pay for a faster journey just because it lets them take more business trips.
Ask yourself: given that they can be far more comfortable than even the best airplane, are people likely to start using cruise ships for business trips?
Or more likely big companies will gather protection money from smaller ones while having MAD treaties with one another. After all, isn't the whole point of Trans-Atlantic/Pacific trade treaties to "harmonize" various IP laws across the world?
When the whole world is a single global market, there's nowhere to route.
Given that this very article discusses the lengths they go to to avoid their duties as citizens... no. They're parasites who demand things yet use every loophole to avoid giving anything in return.
Don't put on the airs of a citizen if the only loyalty you have is to your wallet.
Language changes, but sometimes such changes are purposeful attempts at propaganda, and should be called out for that. And trying to get ignoring Mickey Mouse Protection Act associated with robbery at high seas is definitely such a case.
For you, or for the audience to the World's Funniest?
It seems to me that walking around while distracted and blind could easily lead to all kinds of unfortunate consequences.
Actually, didn't we see this with 3D cards when they came out? We're currently in the Glide phase and will eventually move to OpenGL/Direct3D phase of common interfaces decoupled from hardware (or the whole thing will die off). Combined with the frankly ridiculous price for a niche entertainment product with just a few games or apps, I'd say the best option is to simply wait (or use Google Cardboard if you must).
Being an early adapter is a suckers game unless you're so rich the price is pocket change for you and you enjoy new technology for its own sake.
The problem is, creativity is optional in the short term. Our ruling class needs someone to work their fields and build their luxury yachts, but can do without more art being produced, for at least the next quarter. That's why the concept of "starving artist" exists, and is exactly what humans trying to compete in that area will get.
Only a socialist statist would complain about falling wages or Hollywood accounting. Or did you mean something else?
The problem is, you either desire to do whatever the company asks of you or you'll be replaced by someone who will. It's not voluntary, any more than kneeling before the kings of old was.
Caps are a business requirement. Without caps, your local monopoly couldn't charge you for going over it and paying the CEO a bonus for it.
No, it's a believe that whatever they had around as kids was not made by man. Thus supermarkets are natural formations, food is deposited on their shelves by geological processes, the car you drive there grew on a tree, and the oven you use to cook is magic.
If you aren't sitting naked in a cave and eating raw maggots you live in a technocracy. Choose freely, but don't be a hypocrite.
It's the same delusion that lets libertarians believe their precious private property would exist without the legal institutions that create the concept.
Science put an end to plague and famine. What do your principles bring to the table?
Enjoy your cave, but if you try to make your kids live there of course they'll be taken away.
Except the idiots in question will actually benefit too... the needs of everyone outweight the right of delusional people to endanger others?