We were forced to move out after the city implemented a three trash can limit per household
Solution: Take your trash with you to work. Throw it in the company dumpster. Make sure you clear this with that management, but they shouldn't object to one or two bags per week. I did this for years when I moved to the valley, since I was living in my van.
Surely by now with cloud computing & remoting Silicon valley is just massively expensive piece of real-estate that nobody actually that bothered about anymore.
I have worked for several companies where everyone worked from home. They were all dysfunctional and ultimately failed. Letting workers telecommute one or two days a week can work okay if it is managed carefully. But go for weeks or months at a time without meeting face-to-face, and you will have major miscommunications, people working toward different objectives, and high turnover. If you propose a major change using a whiteboard in a meeting room, you can see the lead programmer cross his arms and furrow his brow, and know that he needs more convincing, or maybe the proposal is flawed. You can't see that if he is at the other end of a chat session.
It makes me rather angry with the assholes that pushed for all the intellectual property crap
Indeed. Many people in Asia are frustrated because Americans are turning against TPP because it contains so much crap that was included at the insistence of... America. So Asians caved in to America on nearly every issue, and then America turns its back on the agreement anyway. Maybe the next time we are negotiated one of these agreements, the politicians should listen to the American people rather than just the corporations.
People are rational in not doing negative/uncertain return activities. Offer something more than blind faith and most will learn.
The wage gap between the educated and the uneducated is wider than ever before, and is growing even wider. It doesn't require "blind faith" to believe that you should study and do your homework, rather than cut class and watch TV.
Get ready for much bigger changes that make production automation look like nothing.
Maybe, but so far the actual evidence says the opposite. Productivity gains have been declining. So it appears that the low-hanging fruit of easily automated tasks have been exploited, and future gains may be slower. That also helps explain why interest rates are at record lows: There aren't many good opportunities for investment.
I should add that there may be lots of opposition to the TPP on both sides of the Pacific, but I haven't heard as much about complaints from the Pacific member states as I have from Europe about TTIP.
TTIP is seen in Europe as purely an economic issue. But TPP is seen by many Asians as also a security arrangement, binding them into an American led world order, as opposed to the alternative of a Chinese dominated system. It is really too bad that TPP has so many flaws, because in principle it could have been good for both America and Asia.
If Clinton's assault weapon ban been in force, 50 Pulse patrons and many police would be alive right now.
Maybe. Maybe not. Norway has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, yet Anders Breivik was able to kill 77 people. Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people with a pair of handguns. Timothy McVeigh killed 168 with a truck full of fertilizer. Assault weapons are responsible for less than 1% of gun deaths in America.
The US needs to join Australia and Venezuela in stricter gun laws if the country is to actually have an actual future.
Perhaps, but that has very little to do with police-on-civilian killings. Trying to change the subject from excessive force by police, to disarming civilians, is misleading and unproductive.
As it stands now, the US is in the world's top five countries when it comes to people being killed by guns.
but those cigarettes were taxed, Eric Garner paid taxes when he bought a pack of cigarettes
Eric Garner had multiple arrests for selling untaxed cigarettes, and the cigarettes he was selling the day he was killed did not have a tax stamp, as required by NY law. It is highly unlikely he paid tax on them, and selling "loosies" is illegal in itself. NYC has very high tobacco taxes, and smuggling cigarettes from low tax states (mostly in the South) is big business for organized crime.
i think the IRS should be abolished and a flat tax implemented that is fair and not too burdensome on the working class
Please define "fair". If a rich person and a poor person buy a gallon of milk, they pay exactly the same. Most people consider that "fair". But very few people would consider a flat head tax of ~$10k on every citizen to be "fair". Most people would not even consider a flat percentage of income to be "fair" (even if they could agree on a definition of "income"). Some people think government services should be paid for by the people that use them. Since poor people use police and prisons much more than rich people, should they be taxed proportionally more? Other people think it is "fair" to tax activities that incur expensive externalities, which is why we have... cigarette taxes.
Michael Brown was attacking the officer trying to take his firearm away, i would have shot him too in that situation
Sure. Michael Brown was a violent thug, and the preponderance of the evidence is that the shooting was justified. But he was unarmed when he was killed, and his death had little to do with "gun violence".
i have to agree too that Eric Garner should not have been shot
He wasn't shot. He was wrestled to the ground and died of a heart attack. He was unarmed, and the police never drew their weapons. "Reflecting on gun violence" would have done nothing to prevent his death.
if i was a cop i would have ignored Eric Garner and let him sell his cigarettes
If the police ignore people selling untaxed cigarettes, then all cigarettes will be sold untaxed.
A bigger problem is Uber's clumsy one-dimensional approach. Michael Brown, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, etc. were unarmed and the police knew they were unarmed at the time that they killed them. So suggesting that the solution is to "reflect on gun violence", as if armed citizens are the root of the problem, is silly. If Uber is not willing to be balanced and constructive, then they should just stay out of this.
If Mr. Pishevar really wants to help, perhaps he should seek some advice from people and organisations who have a good grasp of the issues before offering solutions.
Maybe because the people in the trenches are least like to think over the horizon. Status quo incumbents tend to resist change, rather than initiate it. Most police departments haven't even adopted bodycams, and many don't even have dashcams, despite big documented advantages at reducing violence.
Society has failed structurally to provide many with the opportunities and tools to keep a viable career path open for their working lifetime.
Why is it society's responsibility to teach you job skills? Society (by which you obviously mean the government) already gives everyone 13 years of education (K-12), and if you walk away from that with no job skill that can't be better done with a servo motor, that is your own fault. I don't think there will be a big revolutionary change if we change the schools to teach for, say, 13 and a half years. People that are willing to learn will continue to do well, and the rest won't.
I do not suppose that the current employees earn 18 times what the old employees earned.
Of course not. Productivity gains don't stay concentrated in one company, they are spread through society. Overall, American productivity has improved by a factor of 20 since the late 1800s. So has the average worker seen their standard of living improved by that much? Yes, mostly they have. Improvements in productivity not only improve living standards, they are the ONLY thing that improves living standards.
If you really feel otherwise, then you can go live in a country that has not seen productivity improvements. Somalia, Ethiopia, Congo, and Afghanistan are good choices. None of those have greedy rich people suppressing the workers by investing in capital to make them more productive.
If they tried 10 different CEOs, and none of them were able to fix the problem, then that would indicate that the CEO wasn't the issue. Then they got rid of the union (via Chapter 11), and now they are profitable.
So who is to blame here? Management should have been thrown into the fire instead. They're the ones who ran the company into the ground, not the people who did the actual work every day.
The people that ran the company into the ground were.. the people who did the actual work every day. Or, more precisely, the union that represented them.
So these agents, paid with my tax dollars, recruited, trained, encouraged, and entrapped a teenager in a make believe crime when he would have otherwise been studying for his midterms. It is so wonderful to see how my government is keeping me safe.
If patents did not exist, then why would they ever be illegal (outside of safety violations)?
Counterfeiting is not about patents, it is about trademarked brands. Brands are an indicator of quality, and it is, and should be, illegal for one manufacturer to impersonate another.
Note: TFA does not claim that either trademarks or patents are being infringed. Just that competitors are making similar products and selling them for less. But (and this is the important part) they are Chinese, so therefore we should be outraged.
Maybe YOU should RTFA....this is all about counterfeit products.
Nonsense. TFA doesn't refer to a single case of "counterfeiting". Her competitors are not using her brand, and there is no evidence that they are infringing her patent. They are not "copying" her product any more than she is copying earlier versions of elastic sheet tighteners. The basic product has been around for at least a half century.
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We were forced to move out after the city implemented a three trash can limit per household
Solution: Take your trash with you to work. Throw it in the company dumpster. Make sure you clear this with that management, but they shouldn't object to one or two bags per week. I did this for years when I moved to the valley, since I was living in my van.
Surely by now with cloud computing & remoting Silicon valley is just massively expensive piece of real-estate that nobody actually that bothered about anymore.
I have worked for several companies where everyone worked from home. They were all dysfunctional and ultimately failed. Letting workers telecommute one or two days a week can work okay if it is managed carefully. But go for weeks or months at a time without meeting face-to-face, and you will have major miscommunications, people working toward different objectives, and high turnover. If you propose a major change using a whiteboard in a meeting room, you can see the lead programmer cross his arms and furrow his brow, and know that he needs more convincing, or maybe the proposal is flawed. You can't see that if he is at the other end of a chat session.
they also want people to dumb to know that they are being ripped off with the 60-80 hour work weeks with no OT.
They are not doing it because they are "dumb". They are doing it because they are making $125k/yr plus stock options.
It makes me rather angry with the assholes that pushed for all the intellectual property crap
Indeed. Many people in Asia are frustrated because Americans are turning against TPP because it contains so much crap that was included at the insistence of ... America. So Asians caved in to America on nearly every issue, and then America turns its back on the agreement anyway. Maybe the next time we are negotiated one of these agreements, the politicians should listen to the American people rather than just the corporations.
People are rational in not doing negative/uncertain return activities. Offer something more than blind faith and most will learn.
The wage gap between the educated and the uneducated is wider than ever before, and is growing even wider. It doesn't require "blind faith" to believe that you should study and do your homework, rather than cut class and watch TV.
Get ready for much bigger changes that make production automation look like nothing.
Maybe, but so far the actual evidence says the opposite. Productivity gains have been declining. So it appears that the low-hanging fruit of easily automated tasks have been exploited, and future gains may be slower. That also helps explain why interest rates are at record lows: There aren't many good opportunities for investment.
I should add that there may be lots of opposition to the TPP on both sides of the Pacific, but I haven't heard as much about complaints from the Pacific member states as I have from Europe about TTIP.
TTIP is seen in Europe as purely an economic issue. But TPP is seen by many Asians as also a security arrangement, binding them into an American led world order, as opposed to the alternative of a Chinese dominated system. It is really too bad that TPP has so many flaws, because in principle it could have been good for both America and Asia.
Just go vote.
Both Donald and Hillary oppose TPP. Gary and Jill also oppose it. Nobody running is for it.
If Clinton's assault weapon ban been in force, 50 Pulse patrons and many police would be alive right now.
Maybe. Maybe not. Norway has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, yet Anders Breivik was able to kill 77 people. Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people with a pair of handguns. Timothy McVeigh killed 168 with a truck full of fertilizer. Assault weapons are responsible for less than 1% of gun deaths in America.
The US needs to join Australia and Venezuela in stricter gun laws if the country is to actually have an actual future.
Perhaps, but that has very little to do with police-on-civilian killings. Trying to change the subject from excessive force by police, to disarming civilians, is misleading and unproductive.
As it stands now, the US is in the world's top five countries when it comes to people being killed by guns.
Wrong. The US is #11.
but those cigarettes were taxed, Eric Garner paid taxes when he bought a pack of cigarettes
Eric Garner had multiple arrests for selling untaxed cigarettes, and the cigarettes he was selling the day he was killed did not have a tax stamp, as required by NY law. It is highly unlikely he paid tax on them, and selling "loosies" is illegal in itself. NYC has very high tobacco taxes, and smuggling cigarettes from low tax states (mostly in the South) is big business for organized crime.
i think the IRS should be abolished and a flat tax implemented that is fair and not too burdensome on the working class
Please define "fair". If a rich person and a poor person buy a gallon of milk, they pay exactly the same. Most people consider that "fair". But very few people would consider a flat head tax of ~$10k on every citizen to be "fair". Most people would not even consider a flat percentage of income to be "fair" (even if they could agree on a definition of "income"). Some people think government services should be paid for by the people that use them. Since poor people use police and prisons much more than rich people, should they be taxed proportionally more? Other people think it is "fair" to tax activities that incur expensive externalities, which is why we have ... cigarette taxes.
Michael Brown was attacking the officer trying to take his firearm away, i would have shot him too in that situation
Sure. Michael Brown was a violent thug, and the preponderance of the evidence is that the shooting was justified. But he was unarmed when he was killed, and his death had little to do with "gun violence".
i have to agree too that Eric Garner should not have been shot
He wasn't shot. He was wrestled to the ground and died of a heart attack. He was unarmed, and the police never drew their weapons. "Reflecting on gun violence" would have done nothing to prevent his death.
if i was a cop i would have ignored Eric Garner and let him sell his cigarettes
If the police ignore people selling untaxed cigarettes, then all cigarettes will be sold untaxed.
A bigger problem is Uber's clumsy one-dimensional approach. Michael Brown, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, etc. were unarmed and the police knew they were unarmed at the time that they killed them. So suggesting that the solution is to "reflect on gun violence", as if armed citizens are the root of the problem, is silly. If Uber is not willing to be balanced and constructive, then they should just stay out of this.
If Mr. Pishevar really wants to help, perhaps he should seek some advice from people and organisations who have a good grasp of the issues before offering solutions.
Maybe because the people in the trenches are least like to think over the horizon. Status quo incumbents tend to resist change, rather than initiate it. Most police departments haven't even adopted bodycams, and many don't even have dashcams, despite big documented advantages at reducing violence.
When Obama took office, 66+% of the US population worked.
Now, almost 8 years later, 62+% of the US population has a job.
So it is Obama's fault that the baby boomers are retiring?
Society has failed structurally to provide many with the opportunities and tools to keep a viable career path open for their working lifetime.
Why is it society's responsibility to teach you job skills? Society (by which you obviously mean the government) already gives everyone 13 years of education (K-12), and if you walk away from that with no job skill that can't be better done with a servo motor, that is your own fault. I don't think there will be a big revolutionary change if we change the schools to teach for, say, 13 and a half years. People that are willing to learn will continue to do well, and the rest won't.
I do not suppose that the current employees earn 18 times what the old employees earned.
Of course not. Productivity gains don't stay concentrated in one company, they are spread through society. Overall, American productivity has improved by a factor of 20 since the late 1800s. So has the average worker seen their standard of living improved by that much? Yes, mostly they have. Improvements in productivity not only improve living standards, they are the ONLY thing that improves living standards.
If you really feel otherwise, then you can go live in a country that has not seen productivity improvements. Somalia, Ethiopia, Congo, and Afghanistan are good choices. None of those have greedy rich people suppressing the workers by investing in capital to make them more productive.
The company went through 10 CEO's in 10 years!
If they tried 10 different CEOs, and none of them were able to fix the problem, then that would indicate that the CEO wasn't the issue. Then they got rid of the union (via Chapter 11), and now they are profitable.
So who is to blame here? Management should have been thrown into the fire instead. They're the ones who ran the company into the ground, not the people who did the actual work every day.
The people that ran the company into the ground were .. the people who did the actual work every day. Or, more precisely, the union that represented them.
Who's going to buy twinkies when everyone is unemployed?
The government can pay the unemployed to read about economic fallacies.
Nah, British police aren't anywhere close to that trigger happy.
Jean Charles de Menezes might disagree.
Try finding an embedded systems job in the Miami area (without the knee-jerk reaction of: MOVE!)
If you reject the obvious solution as "knee-jerk", then I think the problem is you, not the job market.
So, the obvious answer here is to prosecute both him and the LE officers that broke the law.
Is it breaking the law to not detonate a bomb that doesn't exist?
Youssef and Hussein were undercover FBI agents."
So these agents, paid with my tax dollars, recruited, trained, encouraged, and entrapped a teenager in a make believe crime when he would have otherwise been studying for his midterms. It is so wonderful to see how my government is keeping me safe.
If patents did not exist, then why would they ever be illegal (outside of safety violations)?
Counterfeiting is not about patents, it is about trademarked brands. Brands are an indicator of quality, and it is, and should be, illegal for one manufacturer to impersonate another.
Note: TFA does not claim that either trademarks or patents are being infringed. Just that competitors are making similar products and selling them for less. But (and this is the important part) they are Chinese, so therefore we should be outraged.
Maybe YOU should RTFA....this is all about counterfeit products.
Nonsense. TFA doesn't refer to a single case of "counterfeiting". Her competitors are not using her brand, and there is no evidence that they are infringing her patent. They are not "copying" her product any more than she is copying earlier versions of elastic sheet tighteners. The basic product has been around for at least a half century.