Some, maybe even most, of the Vivaldi developers' experiments will fail miserably. What counts is that they're shaking things up slightly, and that's a good thing. With Firefox and Chrome increasingly becoming a mutual admiration society and MS Edge looking like it'll end up just as shitty as its predecessor, another player in this horse-race might effect some positive changes.
I think the axe should be taken to all of these 'reality' shows. Sure it's cheap for the networks because they don't have to pay professional actors or writers. But is society really served by watching a bunch of housewives sitting around debating what shade of polish to paint their toenails when they get their next pedi?
[sarcasm]Yeah, because when sodomy and cohabitation laws were on the books, people always complied with them.[/sarcasm] People have always cheated on their spouses, had children out of wedlock, engaged in covert homosexual flings, &c. You just didn't hear about it as much because people didn't have 24/7 media. or the ease of discovery that we have today in an always-connected world. Don't for one second delude yourself that people today are hornier than our ancestors were. Placing these atavistic laws back on the books would only force such behaviour back underground. Sex is one of the most powerful forces in existence; legislating it away is futile and counterproductive. A little bit of trivia for you: guess what region of the United States experiences the greatest rates of out-of-wedlock births, STD's, pornography viewing, and other phenomena? That's right, the Deep South (one such citation here), which is the most socially conservative part of the country, with the highest levels of religious observance. What we need in order to stem the tide of children born into less than optimal conditions is more access to contraception and non-abstinence-based sex education, not chastity belts. Abstinence-only approaches are an unqualified disaster, and I suspect are advocated by either hypocrites or people who just plain don't enjoy sex and want company in their misery.
You're talking about a war where the 20% are outnumbered by billions.
If the 20% are armed with nukes, or an engineered virus the antidote to which only they possess, they can make short work of the remaining 80%. Sure, in the case of tactical nuclear strikes the bombed areas may be a no-man's land for several decades, but after that all those pesky proles are no more of a nuisance.
I needed some work done for a kitchen. They standard rate was between $100hr - $150 an hour.
The owner of a plumbing business may be making six figures. A plumber who is an employee of such a business is most certainly not making that much. And for the owner, that six figures is gross. After paying labour (most plumbers seldom work solo and have at least one apprentice on staff), insurance, taxes, &c., his net is probably significantly lower.
In America at least, electric vehicles have the stigma of lacking in acceleration and power -- and historically this was true. Americans like their vehicles to be Bad Ass(tm), mighty machines whose roar you can hear from miles away. Despite the fact that Tesla vehicles, for example, have plenty of 'get up and go', it will take a while for the reality to displace the conventional wisdom.
It is precisely because the wealthy have a disproportionate say in public affairs that our country is so badly governed and largely deaf to the needs of the many. Being wealthy doesn't make you a superior human being -- it just means you know to make money, or you were born lucky, or you're a sociopath. I have a quotation to rebut yours: 'Love of money is the root of all evil.' How do you like them apples?
Yes, this means, that people with more money will have an advantage. No, I don't see, how this is automatically a bad thing.Let me guess: you're Roman Mir under another sock-puppet account. You think that being rich is a virtue in and of itself and so is selfishness. Why don't you pull your head out of Ayn Rand's arse?
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The answer to that is extraction/mining taxes. Internalise the very real costs of mining, forestry, et cetera -- disruption/displacement of communities, noise, pollution.
Reminds me of the old saying: 'Steal a thousand dollars, go to prison. Steal a million dollars, get probation and community service. Steal a billion dollars, get put on the cover of TIME Magazine as the next great business innovator.'
Like Reagan started out as a democrat, presumably because he cared about people and favored social reforms.
His being a Democrat had nothing to do with caring about social reform. Reagan was a Democrat because Hollywood actors have historically pledged allegiance to that party. His switch to the Republicans came about because Nancy's stepfather, Loyal Davis, was a prominent arch-conservative, and Reagan wanted to curry favour with the man.
...by conservatives that charities are necessarily more efficiently at allocating resources than government. Diseconomies of scale are inherent to any firm of sufficient size. The major problem with any organisation is scope creep: straying from the core mission/purpose and taking on more tasks, doing them all poorly.
First-level help desk certainly. Up to 50% of the calls involve password resets. And many companies have been implementing solutions like Specops and Verismic to eliminate this class of incident. The added advantage is that with fewer reps needing password reset privileges, security is increased.
The POS terminal should be a single-purpose device, with nothing but the POS software suite running on it and that's it. If employees want to check email or play LatestGreatestGame, they can do it on their own fucking devices. Or maybe, just maybe, they can clean or do other work around the business. There's always some work that can be done at a retail establishment. 'If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.'
Petro-Tech,
I'll echo others: please do a small write-up and let us know how you end up solving this. This project sounds cool. Pictures would also be nice.:)
The problem with Repubs vs Dems is that it's akin to choosing between Coke or Pepsi: one is slightly sweeter and the other is slightly more bitter, but they're both essentially fizzy sugar-water. That is to say, when it comes to how they actually vote on bills (as opposed to what they promise on the campaign trail), there's little substantive difference between most members of the two parties. Any time there is a little difference, it's due to outliers like Bernie Sanders, or political theatre (like how the Dems blocked debate on the TPP fast-track one day, and then voted in favour of it a couple of days later).
Also, the EPA was created under Nixon's watch. Just about every modern Republican wants to abolish the EPA, as well as any statutes protecting the environment and wildlife. Hell, a Tea Party wet dream is to sell off all federal lands to private interests.
I'm sorry, but if you believe the American intelligence apparatus doesn't engage in industrial espionage, I can only say that you're rather...innocent, to be diplomatic.
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Some, maybe even most, of the Vivaldi developers' experiments will fail miserably. What counts is that they're shaking things up slightly, and that's a good thing. With Firefox and Chrome increasingly becoming a mutual admiration society and MS Edge looking like it'll end up just as shitty as its predecessor, another player in this horse-race might effect some positive changes.
Why should anyone listen to this Brownshirt-in-Chief, who finally reveals he has no evidence to support his ludicrous assertion?
And you're quoting a Koch Brothers-funded think-tank. Congratulations, you just won the Biggest Douche in the Known Universe Award for 2015.
I think the axe should be taken to all of these 'reality' shows. Sure it's cheap for the networks because they don't have to pay professional actors or writers. But is society really served by watching a bunch of housewives sitting around debating what shade of polish to paint their toenails when they get their next pedi?
[sarcasm]Yeah, because when sodomy and cohabitation laws were on the books, people always complied with them.[/sarcasm] People have always cheated on their spouses, had children out of wedlock, engaged in covert homosexual flings, &c. You just didn't hear about it as much because people didn't have 24/7 media. or the ease of discovery that we have today in an always-connected world. Don't for one second delude yourself that people today are hornier than our ancestors were. Placing these atavistic laws back on the books would only force such behaviour back underground. Sex is one of the most powerful forces in existence; legislating it away is futile and counterproductive. A little bit of trivia for you: guess what region of the United States experiences the greatest rates of out-of-wedlock births, STD's, pornography viewing, and other phenomena? That's right, the Deep South (one such citation here), which is the most socially conservative part of the country, with the highest levels of religious observance. What we need in order to stem the tide of children born into less than optimal conditions is more access to contraception and non-abstinence-based sex education, not chastity belts. Abstinence-only approaches are an unqualified disaster, and I suspect are advocated by either hypocrites or people who just plain don't enjoy sex and want company in their misery.
You're talking about a war where the 20% are outnumbered by billions.
If the 20% are armed with nukes, or an engineered virus the antidote to which only they possess, they can make short work of the remaining 80%. Sure, in the case of tactical nuclear strikes the bombed areas may be a no-man's land for several decades, but after that all those pesky proles are no more of a nuisance.
I needed some work done for a kitchen. They standard rate was between $100hr - $150 an hour.
The owner of a plumbing business may be making six figures. A plumber who is an employee of such a business is most certainly not making that much. And for the owner, that six figures is gross. After paying labour (most plumbers seldom work solo and have at least one apprentice on staff), insurance, taxes, &c., his net is probably significantly lower.
In America at least, electric vehicles have the stigma of lacking in acceleration and power -- and historically this was true. Americans like their vehicles to be Bad Ass(tm), mighty machines whose roar you can hear from miles away. Despite the fact that Tesla vehicles, for example, have plenty of 'get up and go', it will take a while for the reality to displace the conventional wisdom.
It is precisely because the wealthy have a disproportionate say in public affairs that our country is so badly governed and largely deaf to the needs of the many. Being wealthy doesn't make you a superior human being -- it just means you know to make money, or you were born lucky, or you're a sociopath. I have a quotation to rebut yours: 'Love of money is the root of all evil.' How do you like them apples?
Yes, this means, that people with more money will have an advantage. No, I don't see, how this is automatically a bad thing.Let me guess: you're Roman Mir under another sock-puppet account. You think that being rich is a virtue in and of itself and so is selfishness. Why don't you pull your head out of Ayn Rand's arse?
The answer to that is extraction/mining taxes. Internalise the very real costs of mining, forestry, et cetera -- disruption/displacement of communities, noise, pollution.
Reminds me of the old saying: 'Steal a thousand dollars, go to prison. Steal a million dollars, get probation and community service. Steal a billion dollars, get put on the cover of TIME Magazine as the next great business innovator.'
Like Reagan started out as a democrat, presumably because he cared about people and favored social reforms.
His being a Democrat had nothing to do with caring about social reform. Reagan was a Democrat because Hollywood actors have historically pledged allegiance to that party. His switch to the Republicans came about because Nancy's stepfather, Loyal Davis, was a prominent arch-conservative, and Reagan wanted to curry favour with the man.
...by conservatives that charities are necessarily more efficiently at allocating resources than government. Diseconomies of scale are inherent to any firm of sufficient size. The major problem with any organisation is scope creep: straying from the core mission/purpose and taking on more tasks, doing them all poorly.
First-level help desk certainly. Up to 50% of the calls involve password resets. And many companies have been implementing solutions like Specops and Verismic to eliminate this class of incident. The added advantage is that with fewer reps needing password reset privileges, security is increased.
2. You seem to misunderstand the small business employee mindset, especially in retail. Seems like you would be a lot of fun to work for.
That's why it's called work and not 'happy fun time'.
Quoted for truth.
The POS terminal should be a single-purpose device, with nothing but the POS software suite running on it and that's it. If employees want to check email or play LatestGreatestGame, they can do it on their own fucking devices. Or maybe, just maybe, they can clean or do other work around the business. There's always some work that can be done at a retail establishment. 'If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.'
Petro-Tech, I'll echo others: please do a small write-up and let us know how you end up solving this. This project sounds cool. Pictures would also be nice. :)
The problem with Repubs vs Dems is that it's akin to choosing between Coke or Pepsi: one is slightly sweeter and the other is slightly more bitter, but they're both essentially fizzy sugar-water. That is to say, when it comes to how they actually vote on bills (as opposed to what they promise on the campaign trail), there's little substantive difference between most members of the two parties. Any time there is a little difference, it's due to outliers like Bernie Sanders, or political theatre (like how the Dems blocked debate on the TPP fast-track one day, and then voted in favour of it a couple of days later).
Also, the EPA was created under Nixon's watch. Just about every modern Republican wants to abolish the EPA, as well as any statutes protecting the environment and wildlife. Hell, a Tea Party wet dream is to sell off all federal lands to private interests.
It goes without saying (although I am reminding people) that frequent checkpointing should be done as standard operating procedure.
Are their noses that far up Uncle Sam's arse? They seem to be stealing every page from the GOP's playbook.
I'm sorry, but if you believe the American intelligence apparatus doesn't engage in industrial espionage, I can only say that you're rather...innocent, to be diplomatic.
Or, shippers will return to using railways, which is an environmentally superior solution anyway.