It's not getting a job that is the issue, it's keeping your seniority. Pilot jobs are easy to get if you have the necessary hours and ratings. What you cannot do though is retain your seniority. Seniority is how you get the routes you would like to fly. Without seniority you get the routes nobody else will take.
I'm not an airline pilot, but what's the difference on what route you take? You're just a big flying bus anyway, who cares?
It would be trivial for a manager to camp out at the Coffee Club across the road from a job site one day and observe that Mr Colella never turned up on that day despite having logged an 8 hour time sheet for it.
I suppose you could run your business so that the employee was 100% physically monitored during work hours by a manager, and then a senior manager 100% physically monitored the manager and so on up to the CEO who would be shadowed by a non-executive member of the Board, who would be shadowed by the Secret Service or something.
I think productivity might take a bit of a hit though.
The main advantage of a dishwasher is that your unwashed dishes, cups and cutlery are hidden away rather than sitting in the sink. The actual time saved is minimal, bearing in mind you still have to rinse off any plates with food on, wash pots and pans and wooden spoons separately, , etc.
The ball is bowled at around 140-160kph from about 20 yards away from you. That gives you less than 0.4s to respond to the trajectory. It's a bit longer than baseball, for example, but that is somewhat mitigated by the increased area that the ball can reach you, with deliberately attempting to make it bounce into your body or face completely legitimate (and actively encouraged in some situations).
A close catcher in cricket has approximately half that time to catch the ball, which borders on the limits of human reactions.
Test matches are five day long competitions the results of which depend on a couple of thousand actions that all happen in the blink of an eye.
But bowlers don't switch hands as they're running up, the batsman knows what's coming just like he knows whether it's a spin or pace bowler at the other end.
Just because racism is part of the underlying reason that Black neighborhoods are poor does not mean that economic decisions based on the reality are, in turn, racist.
If in the Seventeenth Century you were a shipbuilder who sold your boats to people involved in the slave trade (or a brewery supplying beer for the crew of the ships), were you supporting slavery?
In theory, if he grew up poor, shouldn't he still be poor?
No, there are always exceptions. Even in a class and wealth divided society like Victorian England you could make your way out of poverty if you were truly exceptional. Most people aren't exceptional.
You can blame the banker for writing a junk mortgage but that still doesn't get the consumer off the hook for their own stupidity.
Yes, it does.
But you're probably one of those people who think economics is based on scientifically proven rational self interest and that the Invisible Hand creates the best of all possible worlds.
You want to get rid of the nuclear power subsidies? So do I. The subsidies largely just pay for the costs imposed by the government anyway. Take away some
of the government costs and nuclear won't be so expensive.
Bollocks. Here in the UK the government underwrite the cost of insurance, decommissioning, long term storage etc because no private company would risk or be able to afford it.
Until you've got a gun in your hand. Try getting help if you're or your loved one isn't actively trying to commit suicide. Bottom line mental health care is expensive and nobody wants to pay for it. Especially when it's so easy to tell somebody to get over it, it's all in your head.
Yup. It's part of why people self harm with blades. Visible, blood and everything, but controllable and safe. The hospital has proof that you did actually hurt yourself and you get the help you need.
Whereas you can't shoot yourself in the head or hang yourself a little bit unless you really know what you're doing.
"The difference here is that instead of a ruling family you have 'the government'. "
Except that in this instance "The Government" does *not* own the building. The building is owned privately by one or more of the people living there.
In right wing nut job speak you use "the government" to mean "anything I don't like".
Utter BS. Google spread like fire in a tinder forest because it was so much better that anything else at finding the relevant search results that people suddenly started talking about it.
Maybe you discovered it on Yahoo!'s page, but most people found about it from someone else who was raving about it.
Young people nowadays don't realise how absolutely shit search engines were before google. You could try all the tricks you liked, but something like AltaVista just returned page after page of links to pages with links to pages with ads for penis enlargement or life insurance.
There was a good reason why you could buy magazines/books full of useful web links, you'd got almost zero chance of finding them otherwise.
Is the person who walked in and stole everything a criminal? Yes.
Am I liable for my negligence? Almost certainly.
Exactly. The correct answer to the question is "both."
In the minds of most Slashdotters there are only binary alternatives. If the warehouse owner is negligent, therefore the criminal hasn't committed a crime.
I don't even read replies on slashdot, because i really don't care to argue with people on the internet.
I often have interesting replies to my/. comments. My FB comments too. If every reply you get is an argument, maybe you're doing it wrong.
I think the subtext is "I am so fucking brilliant that I merely cast my pearls before you swine and do not expect any cheeky bugger to disagree with me".
The issue is that all the free trade neo-liberal/capitalist types on slashdot think that The Market magically provides the consumer with the best of everything at the cheapest price.
So they get all confused that Apple can get away with over-pricing their product and still sell a load, when according to the laws of rational economic self interest everyone should be buying Samsung instead.
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It's not getting a job that is the issue, it's keeping your seniority. Pilot jobs are easy to get if you have the necessary hours and ratings. What you cannot do though is retain your seniority. Seniority is how you get the routes you would like to fly. Without seniority you get the routes nobody else will take.
I'm not an airline pilot, but what's the difference on what route you take? You're just a big flying bus anyway, who cares?
I'm a former software engineer, now airline pilot.
Was the software engineer gig before or after your service as a Navy SEAL?
It would be trivial for a manager to camp out at the Coffee Club across the road from a job site one day and observe that Mr Colella never turned up on that day despite having logged an 8 hour time sheet for it.
I suppose you could run your business so that the employee was 100% physically monitored during work hours by a manager, and then a senior manager 100% physically monitored the manager and so on up to the CEO who would be shadowed by a non-executive member of the Board, who would be shadowed by the Secret Service or something.
I think productivity might take a bit of a hit though.
Or that your time is more valuable than the aesthetic demands of some random person on the internet?
If its an internal-only document, who cares how it looks? Functionality is the important part.
Unless you are a one man band, someone else will be seeing the document. Presentation matters.
Yes, and error-prone, hard to debug, and requires heroic efforts to do something truly complicated.
Getting a report of how many people you have working at your company is really, really, really not something truly complicated.
The main advantage of a dishwasher is that your unwashed dishes, cups and cutlery are hidden away rather than sitting in the sink. The actual time saved is minimal, bearing in mind you still have to rinse off any plates with food on, wash pots and pans and wooden spoons separately, , etc.
Ice hockey is a bit weird
You could just stop there you know.
And I drink with my left hand. Nothing I can do to alter it.
That is entirely natural: it leaves your sword hand free.
The ball is bowled at around 140-160kph from about 20 yards away from you. That gives you less than 0.4s to respond to the trajectory. It's a bit longer than baseball, for example, but that is somewhat mitigated by the increased area that the ball can reach you, with deliberately attempting to make it bounce into your body or face completely legitimate (and actively encouraged in some situations).
A close catcher in cricket has approximately half that time to catch the ball, which borders on the limits of human reactions.
Test matches are five day long competitions the results of which depend on a couple of thousand actions that all happen in the blink of an eye.
But bowlers don't switch hands as they're running up, the batsman knows what's coming just like he knows whether it's a spin or pace bowler at the other end.
I know far too many members of the black middle class to be impressed by nonsense like this.
Ah yes, the "we elected a black President, therefore there is no racism in the US" argument.
Just because racism is part of the underlying reason that Black neighborhoods are poor does not mean that economic decisions based on the reality are, in turn, racist.
If in the Seventeenth Century you were a shipbuilder who sold your boats to people involved in the slave trade (or a brewery supplying beer for the crew of the ships), were you supporting slavery?
In theory, if he grew up poor, shouldn't he still be poor?
No, there are always exceptions. Even in a class and wealth divided society like Victorian England you could make your way out of poverty if you were truly exceptional. Most people aren't exceptional.
You can blame the banker for writing a junk mortgage but that still doesn't get the consumer off the hook for their own stupidity.
Yes, it does.
But you're probably one of those people who think economics is based on scientifically proven rational self interest and that the Invisible Hand creates the best of all possible worlds.
I'm not sure how to answer your "why". We are comparing two completely different things.
Case 1: a guy with a gun says I have to pay you $10 an hour if you work for me. I offer you $8. You accept, and we don't tell the guy with the gun.
Case 2: I point a gun at you and make you give me your money.
Do you seriously see those as in any way equivalent? Where does your "why" come in?
Ah yes, the classic libertarian/RWNJ line that "the government" is basically a big bully with a gun taking away your freedom.
Clue: the majority of non-business owners support things like a minimum wage, health and safety protection, etc.
Its the choices in life we get to make that more often than not, define our lot in life.
Yes, having to decide whether to ask daddy for a Ferrari or Lamborghini for your 18th birthday is a life-changer.
You want to get rid of the nuclear power subsidies? So do I. The subsidies largely just pay for the costs imposed by the government anyway. Take away some of the government costs and nuclear won't be so expensive.
Bollocks. Here in the UK the government underwrite the cost of insurance, decommissioning, long term storage etc because no private company would risk or be able to afford it.
Until you've got a gun in your hand. Try getting help if you're or your loved one isn't actively trying to commit suicide. Bottom line mental health care is expensive and nobody wants to pay for it. Especially when it's so easy to tell somebody to get over it, it's all in your head.
Yup. It's part of why people self harm with blades. Visible, blood and everything, but controllable and safe. The hospital has proof that you did actually hurt yourself and you get the help you need.
Whereas you can't shoot yourself in the head or hang yourself a little bit unless you really know what you're doing.
I mean, obviously it's cool and impressive, but does it have any real life benefit?
Pricing I've seen is $200k base price for the Roadster, with a $50k reservation fee. The founder edition is $250k.
Not cheap but not expensive for a car with that kind of performance.
0-100 mph in 4.2 seconds and "at least" 250 mph top speed is pretty much Formula 1 racing car performance or as fast as a $2million+ Bugati.
So, yeah, relatively inexpensive.
"The difference here is that instead of a ruling family you have 'the government'. " Except that in this instance "The Government" does *not* own the building. The building is owned privately by one or more of the people living there.
In right wing nut job speak you use "the government" to mean "anything I don't like".
Utter BS. Google spread like fire in a tinder forest because it was so much better that anything else at finding the relevant search results that people suddenly started talking about it.
Maybe you discovered it on Yahoo!'s page, but most people found about it from someone else who was raving about it.
Young people nowadays don't realise how absolutely shit search engines were before google. You could try all the tricks you liked, but something like AltaVista just returned page after page of links to pages with links to pages with ads for penis enlargement or life insurance.
There was a good reason why you could buy magazines/books full of useful web links, you'd got almost zero chance of finding them otherwise.
Is the person who walked in and stole everything a criminal? Yes. Am I liable for my negligence? Almost certainly.
Exactly. The correct answer to the question is "both."
In the minds of most Slashdotters there are only binary alternatives. If the warehouse owner is negligent, therefore the criminal hasn't committed a crime.
I don't even read replies on slashdot, because i really don't care to argue with people on the internet.
I often have interesting replies to my /. comments. My FB comments too. If every reply you get is an argument, maybe you're doing it wrong.
I think the subtext is "I am so fucking brilliant that I merely cast my pearls before you swine and do not expect any cheeky bugger to disagree with me".
Yup. Nobody complains that a bag of socks is marked up 3x over wholesale.
What is the cost of the ingredients for a pint of beer? Pennies. It's mostly water. And they dare to charge five quid for it in a pub!
So they get all confused that Apple can get away with over-pricing their product and still sell a load, when according to the laws of rational economic self interest everyone should be buying Samsung instead.