You should read your own citation. The restrictions it describes only apply to teenagers 15 yo and younger. The Chinese students in TFA are older than that, and what happened to them would have been legal in America.
If the boss says "We have a big order coming in, so everyone has to work 10 extra hours next week so we can ship on time", and you refuse, then you can be fired.
Of course, if you have a valid reason for refusing the extra work, then you can explain that to your boss, and he would likely accommodate your needs. But that is between you and the boss, and not up to the government.
This may not be true in all states, but there is no federal restriction on firing someone for refusing overtime work, nor do most states prohibit it.
Nazi stands for national socialist workers' party.
The Nazis were originally socialist, and had a strong socialist faction up until 1934, when the leader of that faction, Ernst Rohm, was murdered on Hitler's order along with many other "leftists". This consolidated Adolf's authority, and made it easier for him to work with German industrialists. All economies are a mixture of socialist and private enterprise, but after 1934, saying Nazi Germany was "socialist" makes as much sense as saying that China is "communist".
Here is a list of quotes that were removed. I am not sure if this is all of them, or just a sample:
"Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one." -- Adolph Hitler
"I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory." -- Adolph Hitler
"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong." -- Adolph Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
"The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence." -- Adolph Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
"A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work." -- Adolf Hitler
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." -- Adolph Hitler
The last quote (men do not think) is likely a fabrication. There is no record of Hitler ever actually saying or writing it.
I doubt if any of this is voluntary. The job itself is not voluntary. All students in all schools are required to work 3 months in a factory (or on a farm) to instill solidarity with the proletariat. The only other option is a 3 month military training stint. They are paid the same wages as an entry level full time worker/farmer/soldier.
I doubt if the overtime is voluntary either. You can't run an assembly line with half the assemblers missing.
Mandatory overtime is legal in America, and is fairly common, so I don't see what the big deal is here. 11 hours of work isn't going to kill anyone, and the majority likely appreciated the extra pay.
... and the SDC will apply the brakes 1500ms sooner, which will make a huge difference: 130 feet at 60 mph. In these sort of "panic" situations, the SDC will almost always outperform a human. Reaction time is more important than contemplative analysis.
Here is the abstract with a link to buy the paper. After reading the abstract, it still isn't clear to me what is "new" about this. If it is really just more inexpensive catalysts, then why include the "solar" angle, since that would irrelevant to the actual science? It would work just as well with electricity from any source.
Where was the outcry from farm workers when a steam engine could do the same work as a large number of farm hands? Or a steam shovel replacing dozens of guys with shovels?
There was plenty of outrage, and there were plenty of people, including this guy, preaching about how workers were going to spiral into poverty. Of course that didn't happen, because rising productivity leads to prosperity not poverty, but many people thought it would happen, just as many people believe the same today.
I just want to consolidate them all into a basic income guarantee.
Any plausible UBI would be drastically lower than what some people currently receive in transfer payments. These recipients facing benefit cuts, along with all the people seeing their taxes rise, would strenuously oppose UBI. The people that would come out ahead with UBI are those at the bottom of society with the least political organization.
Sure. But staying also comes with costs. The difference is that cost of leaving is borne by the individual, while the cost of staying is paid by the taxpayer in the form of welfare and subsidies. This leads to a permanent underclass of "victims" and a permanent bureaucracy to "help" them.
...folks who need cool music should look into indie artists.
The stock artists are indie artists. If I need theme music or a sound effect, I can search a stock site, click on a few samples, and then pay a few dollars and download what I need, with a total elapsed time of about 5 minutes. There is no frickin way that I am going to waste hours/days trying to contact and negotiate with individual artists.
And it's a spam caller, I set the phone down and wait for the call to end. Make those guys use some of their resources.
I receive more and more calls that are voice-recognition bots. They ask questions, and are programmed to respond to the replies. If I go "off script" and start asking questions or giving nonsensical replies, they will loop a few times and hang up. They will also loop and then hang up if I just stop replying.
If your caller is one of these bots, then they aren't using any human time. If you want to cost them, you need to give a few "right" answers so you can be transferred to a human.
These bots are clearly the future of robo-calls. They will get more sophisticated, and it will get harder and harder to tell that you aren't talking to a human. The obvious countermeasure is to have your own bot answer your phone and screen your calls before passing them on to you.
It seems very naive to believe that tech companies will always back net neutrality. Once Google reaches critical market share providing home Internet service, either by deploying their own solution or buying up existing companies, their position on net neutrality will reverse.
Indeed. Facebook already tried to do this with their "Free Basics" service in India, that would have prioritized their own services. Tech companies support NN when, and only when, it is in their interest to do so. Expecting them to be our saviors and protectors from the evil Telecoms is naive.
I don't think so. I can't find anything about any PA tax break for coal using Google, so I think the above AC is spewing bullcrap. If it was actually true, it would be all over the web, and millions of people would be taking advantage of it, since 50% is a huge discount.
40 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually. That's a lot of trees -- equivalent to growing 30,000 Giant Sequoias
Your math is way off. A sequoia weighs roughly 1000 tonnes, but only 500 tonnes of that is carbon. 40 G-tonnes of CO2 is about 11 G-tonnes of carbon. So that is 1.1e10/500 = 22 million giant sequoias.
So the 'easy' solution to ubiquitous cloud services is to....leave the cloud?
The easy solution is to use generic cloud services, and avoid proprietary features. You can still do anything you need to do. If you do use proprietary features, you should isolate those features from your core code. My company uses AWS Lambda, but we use it because it is cheaper, not for the features, and the interface is in a single stub file. If the cost goes up, we will dump it. We don't do anything in the cloud that we can't do on a smaller scale on our own local server.
How is that not EXACTLY what OP said in trying to leave MS in the 80s/90s?
If you ran a business in the 1990s, you would regularly receive Word and Excel docs from both vendors and customers. So you pretty much had no choice but to run MS Office, which means you also had to run Windows. Cloud services are fundamentally different: I don't have to use AWS just because my customer uses AWS. In fact, I have no idea what (if any) cloud service they use. The "lock-in" is much weaker and avoidable, and there is no infectious viral effect.
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Except for minors and teens. Sorry about that...
You should read your own citation. The restrictions it describes only apply to teenagers 15 yo and younger. The Chinese students in TFA are older than that, and what happened to them would have been legal in America.
Define "mandatory".
If the boss says "We have a big order coming in, so everyone has to work 10 extra hours next week so we can ship on time", and you refuse, then you can be fired.
Of course, if you have a valid reason for refusing the extra work, then you can explain that to your boss, and he would likely accommodate your needs. But that is between you and the boss, and not up to the government.
This may not be true in all states, but there is no federal restriction on firing someone for refusing overtime work, nor do most states prohibit it.
Nazi stands for national socialist workers' party.
The Nazis were originally socialist, and had a strong socialist faction up until 1934, when the leader of that faction, Ernst Rohm, was murdered on Hitler's order along with many other "leftists". This consolidated Adolf's authority, and made it easier for him to work with German industrialists. All economies are a mixture of socialist and private enterprise, but after 1934, saying Nazi Germany was "socialist" makes as much sense as saying that China is "communist".
Here is a list of quotes that were removed. I am not sure if this is all of them, or just a sample:
"Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one." -- Adolph Hitler
"I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory." -- Adolph Hitler
"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong." -- Adolph Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
"The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence." -- Adolph Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
"A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work." -- Adolf Hitler
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." -- Adolph Hitler
The last quote (men do not think) is likely a fabrication. There is no record of Hitler ever actually saying or writing it.
I doubt if any of this is voluntary. The job itself is not voluntary. All students in all schools are required to work 3 months in a factory (or on a farm) to instill solidarity with the proletariat. The only other option is a 3 month military training stint. They are paid the same wages as an entry level full time worker/farmer/soldier.
I doubt if the overtime is voluntary either. You can't run an assembly line with half the assemblers missing.
Mandatory overtime is legal in America, and is fairly common, so I don't see what the big deal is here. 11 hours of work isn't going to kill anyone, and the majority likely appreciated the extra pay.
Why do you think this is going to start in poor countries?
Looser regulations, and far fewer legal expenses.
In the first case, you brake ...
... and the SDC will apply the brakes 1500ms sooner, which will make a huge difference: 130 feet at 60 mph. In these sort of "panic" situations, the SDC will almost always outperform a human. Reaction time is more important than contemplative analysis.
Here is the abstract with a link to buy the paper. After reading the abstract, it still isn't clear to me what is "new" about this. If it is really just more inexpensive catalysts, then why include the "solar" angle, since that would irrelevant to the actual science? It would work just as well with electricity from any source.
We are talking about people getting paid $1/hour.
No. It is $1 per ORDER not per hour.
TFS and TFA both say "per hour" in their headlines, but both are wrong.
Read what Trump has written in the past and you'll see he's against mass-centralization of media.
Since when have Trump's past statements accurately predicted his future actions?
“I know Hillary and I think she’d make a great president" -- Donald Trump, 2008
Where was the outcry from farm workers when a steam engine could do the same work as a large number of farm hands? Or a steam shovel replacing dozens of guys with shovels?
There was plenty of outrage, and there were plenty of people, including this guy, preaching about how workers were going to spiral into poverty. Of course that didn't happen, because rising productivity leads to prosperity not poverty, but many people thought it would happen, just as many people believe the same today.
I just want to consolidate them all into a basic income guarantee.
Any plausible UBI would be drastically lower than what some people currently receive in transfer payments. These recipients facing benefit cuts, along with all the people seeing their taxes rise, would strenuously oppose UBI. The people that would come out ahead with UBI are those at the bottom of society with the least political organization.
Family is the answer.
Many people don't have families. Many more poor people have families that are just as poor as they are.
If US becomes totally communist, I will move immediately.
What makes you think you would be allowed to leave?
leaving comes with costs.
Sure. But staying also comes with costs. The difference is that cost of leaving is borne by the individual, while the cost of staying is paid by the taxpayer in the form of welfare and subsidies. This leads to a permanent underclass of "victims" and a permanent bureaucracy to "help" them.
In many towns, the unemployment rate exceeds 50 percent.
Do any of these town have roads ... which can be used to pack up and leave?
If you don't like what someone is saying, you don't have to listen.
But how do you prevent other people from listening?
Or if you must, offer up a valid counter point.
What if there is no valid counter point?
...folks who need cool music should look into indie artists.
The stock artists are indie artists. If I need theme music or a sound effect, I can search a stock site, click on a few samples, and then pay a few dollars and download what I need, with a total elapsed time of about 5 minutes. There is no frickin way that I am going to waste hours/days trying to contact and negotiate with individual artists.
Also, yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is perfectly acceptable; let the theater owner sue the perpetrator in civil court
Warren Buffet is not going to yell fire in a theater. It is going to be some crazy homeless person. Good luck suing someone with $0 in assets.
And it's a spam caller, I set the phone down and wait for the call to end. Make those guys use some of their resources.
I receive more and more calls that are voice-recognition bots. They ask questions, and are programmed to respond to the replies. If I go "off script" and start asking questions or giving nonsensical replies, they will loop a few times and hang up. They will also loop and then hang up if I just stop replying.
If your caller is one of these bots, then they aren't using any human time. If you want to cost them, you need to give a few "right" answers so you can be transferred to a human.
These bots are clearly the future of robo-calls. They will get more sophisticated, and it will get harder and harder to tell that you aren't talking to a human. The obvious countermeasure is to have your own bot answer your phone and screen your calls before passing them on to you.
I am assuming Torvalds considers not building security into a system is a bug.
By that measure, the code with the most bugs is the program that hasn't been written yet.
That made the recent negative acceleration 15 times 'faster' than usual.
It could be Three Gorges Dam filling up, moving 40 billion tonnes of water 200m further from the earth's center.
It seems very naive to believe that tech companies will always back net neutrality. Once Google reaches critical market share providing home Internet service, either by deploying their own solution or buying up existing companies, their position on net neutrality will reverse.
Indeed. Facebook already tried to do this with their "Free Basics" service in India, that would have prioritized their own services. Tech companies support NN when, and only when, it is in their interest to do so. Expecting them to be our saviors and protectors from the evil Telecoms is naive.
A tax break to convert from natural gas to coal?
I don't think so. I can't find anything about any PA tax break for coal using Google, so I think the above AC is spewing bullcrap. If it was actually true, it would be all over the web, and millions of people would be taking advantage of it, since 50% is a huge discount.
40 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually. That's a lot of trees -- equivalent to growing 30,000 Giant Sequoias
Your math is way off. A sequoia weighs roughly 1000 tonnes, but only 500 tonnes of that is carbon. 40 G-tonnes of CO2 is about 11 G-tonnes of carbon. So that is 1.1e10/500 = 22 million giant sequoias.
So the 'easy' solution to ubiquitous cloud services is to....leave the cloud?
The easy solution is to use generic cloud services, and avoid proprietary features. You can still do anything you need to do. If you do use proprietary features, you should isolate those features from your core code. My company uses AWS Lambda, but we use it because it is cheaper, not for the features, and the interface is in a single stub file. If the cost goes up, we will dump it. We don't do anything in the cloud that we can't do on a smaller scale on our own local server.
How is that not EXACTLY what OP said in trying to leave MS in the 80s/90s?
If you ran a business in the 1990s, you would regularly receive Word and Excel docs from both vendors and customers. So you pretty much had no choice but to run MS Office, which means you also had to run Windows. Cloud services are fundamentally different: I don't have to use AWS just because my customer uses AWS. In fact, I have no idea what (if any) cloud service they use. The "lock-in" is much weaker and avoidable, and there is no infectious viral effect.