Maybe I'm OK with Uber's terms? Why are all of these other people going to work for them and them bitching? Why aren't they quitting and finding other work?
If enough people quit Uber or just were not available, Uber would have to improve it's contract terms. The market at work. What all of these people are complaining about is that others are willing to accept terms that they are not satisfied with. They got under bid.
But I like being a contractor. Negotiating my own deals with management, setting my own terms and salary. I don't want to work in an industry increasingly dominated by a bunch of whiny bastards who can't do the same for themselves.
If there were two boxes on the Uber application; one that said "Applying as independent contractor", the other that said "Applying as an employee", I'd be OK with that. But the unions fought and died to keep all the jobs to themselves. So this is another industry that they've screwed up with the inevitable politics and organized crime.
Are you sure its the Uber drivers campaigning against their own jobs? I mean real Uber drivers. It wouldn't be too difficult for some union activists to sign up as drivers and then start whining about 'Muh employee benefits'
Germans use lots of cash as well. Not so much an issue of gray markets or tax evasion with them. They had a front row seat when index cards were used to round up the Jews. So when they raise issues of privacy, I'm going to listen.
True. But there is nothing inherently 'slow' about this process either. Change the balance of input and output and the ocean chemistry will respond quickly.
The whole 'thousands of years' talk is just Chicken Little bullshit mean to alarm all the scientific illiterates in the AGW community.
... is unlike most other businesses. Certainly nothing like Internet content and service providers. You not only have to make significant up front capital investments, you have to spend money on operations, maintenance and repair. And that means significant staffs of direct employees plus lots of equipment standing by to do storm recovery or chase backhoe digups. Companies that have tried to contract these things out have failed miserably. Companies like Google will inevitably get tired of spending money on infrastructure that looks like it could last of just another year without attention. So lets go spend money on something fun. The short product life cycle of an Internet business doesn't fit well with a business that has to think about decisions today that will incur costs 10 or 20 years in the future.
Google may have gotten smart and realized that its two lines of business would just end up being a disaster.
Lets say I want a list of all cell phone customers who regularly commute to a certain location in Langley, Virginia. And a list of the numbers that they call. And then I want a list of all of the phones worldwide that call these same numbers. I now have a pretty good list of all of your agents*. And if I am the FSB, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to buy that data from AT&T, Verizon and others than try to collect it myself. Thanks a lot, useful idiots.
*It's a bit more complicated than this. But link analysis tools can dig down through quite a few nodes to recover useful information.
Carbon dioxide can last in the atmosphere for thousands of years without efforts to remove it.
What does that even mean? Besides being a handy quote to invoke panic in math and science illiterates.
Carbon dioxide can remain in the atmosphere until some process removes it. The amount is based upon the difference in production vs consumption. Atmospheric CO2 varies seasonally due to differences in the amount of plant respiration between the northern and southern hemispheres. This is evident in the sawtooth superimposed on the long term trend. This means that CO2 concentrations will respond quickly to changes in production/consumption rates. There is no 'thousand year' lag.
Those fruits and vegetables don't just grow themselves. We need to undertake massive programs of fertilization and insecticide spreading to get enough of the specialized vegetable matter that humans can consume. On the other hand, we can graze cattle and other ruminants on wild grasses*. And then consume the resulting protein.
*Of which we have plenty, artificial shortages aside. As a bonus, we can feed the BLM employees to the pigs.
Or just ask an indian. When asked how he could tell how cold the winters would be, one old chief just said, "I watch how much firewood the white man splits."
People will figure out how to stick a paper clip in the enable solenoid and keep the action unlocked at all times. So we will have spent an extra $1K for something that many gun owners and most certainly the entire arms black market* will have rendered useless.
*Outlaw tampering? Stealing guns and selling them out of the trunk of your car was illegal to begin with. How well did that law work out?
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They dictate all of your terms
Maybe I'm OK with Uber's terms? Why are all of these other people going to work for them and them bitching? Why aren't they quitting and finding other work?
If enough people quit Uber or just were not available, Uber would have to improve it's contract terms. The market at work. What all of these people are complaining about is that others are willing to accept terms that they are not satisfied with. They got under bid.
But I like being a contractor. Negotiating my own deals with management, setting my own terms and salary. I don't want to work in an industry increasingly dominated by a bunch of whiny bastards who can't do the same for themselves.
If there were two boxes on the Uber application; one that said "Applying as independent contractor", the other that said "Applying as an employee", I'd be OK with that. But the unions fought and died to keep all the jobs to themselves. So this is another industry that they've screwed up with the inevitable politics and organized crime.
Are you sure its the Uber drivers campaigning against their own jobs? I mean real Uber drivers. It wouldn't be too difficult for some union activists to sign up as drivers and then start whining about 'Muh employee benefits'
Germans use lots of cash as well. Not so much an issue of gray markets or tax evasion with them. They had a front row seat when index cards were used to round up the Jews. So when they raise issues of privacy, I'm going to listen.
If you have cash,
Illkay allway umanshay.
True. But there is nothing inherently 'slow' about this process either. Change the balance of input and output and the ocean chemistry will respond quickly.
The whole 'thousands of years' talk is just Chicken Little bullshit mean to alarm all the scientific illiterates in the AGW community.
Google may have gotten smart and realized that its two lines of business would just end up being a disaster.
(maniacal laugh)
You need to consider your options carefully. Don't jump at one settlement over the other without careful thought.
If it were me, I'd take some time to think about it, like maybe 10 or 15 years, before I'd make up my mind.
Lets say I want a list of all cell phone customers who regularly commute to a certain location in Langley, Virginia. And a list of the numbers that they call. And then I want a list of all of the phones worldwide that call these same numbers. I now have a pretty good list of all of your agents*. And if I am the FSB, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to buy that data from AT&T, Verizon and others than try to collect it myself. Thanks a lot, useful idiots.
*It's a bit more complicated than this. But link analysis tools can dig down through quite a few nodes to recover useful information.
Then you have nothing to hide, citizen.
Carbon dioxide can last in the atmosphere for thousands of years without efforts to remove it.
What does that even mean? Besides being a handy quote to invoke panic in math and science illiterates.
Carbon dioxide can remain in the atmosphere until some process removes it. The amount is based upon the difference in production vs consumption. Atmospheric CO2 varies seasonally due to differences in the amount of plant respiration between the northern and southern hemispheres. This is evident in the sawtooth superimposed on the long term trend. This means that CO2 concentrations will respond quickly to changes in production/consumption rates. There is no 'thousand year' lag.
Personally, I'm not going to worry until it reaches 2FF parts per F0000.
if you want to grow more cattle on less land
Why would we want to do that? We've got plenty of land.
Whatever the solution is, it has to cost less than 2 cents a liter. Until they run into the next resource limitation.
So, can you finance the purchase of a Glock and a few boxes of ammo for $40 per year?
Those fruits and vegetables don't just grow themselves. We need to undertake massive programs of fertilization and insecticide spreading to get enough of the specialized vegetable matter that humans can consume. On the other hand, we can graze cattle and other ruminants on wild grasses*. And then consume the resulting protein.
*Of which we have plenty, artificial shortages aside. As a bonus, we can feed the BLM employees to the pigs.
AT&T to Comcast: "We'll carry NBC content if you carry Time Warner content."
AT&T and Comcast to Netflix: "I guess you are just fucked, buddy."
Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
Or just ask an indian. When asked how he could tell how cold the winters would be, one old chief just said, "I watch how much firewood the white man splits."
And who does Lessig think should be the judge of this public good through which facts will be filtered? Just publish them and let the voters decide.
Even when it becomes mandated
People will figure out how to stick a paper clip in the enable solenoid and keep the action unlocked at all times. So we will have spent an extra $1K for something that many gun owners and most certainly the entire arms black market* will have rendered useless.
*Outlaw tampering? Stealing guns and selling them out of the trunk of your car was illegal to begin with. How well did that law work out?
And how do you get the grizzly to wear the RFID tag?
every other nation and competitor would be filling US server rooms with "FBI don't touch" hardware
TFS stated that Yahoo was (apparently) requested to install 'custom software'. So, no hardware warning labels to see.
Security in any corporation would usually have a few former gov workers.
An idea promulgated by the Union of Federal Employees Seeking Additional Income Following Retirement (UFESAIFR).