I have to plan between 2 and 3 hours each time I attempt to fly into the US.
This is true even if you're a couple from the UK with two kids going to Disney World. I always assumed that the "watch list" just meant "anyone foreign".
But they can't just say "no one would be stupid enough to act like a drug smuggler if they were actually smuggling drugs, so we won't bother stopping him". They'd end up in an infinite bluff/double-bluff/ loop.
If the police see someone dressed in black clothes with a mask on carrying a large sack at 4 o'clock in the morning with the word "swag" written on it they can't just assume it's a joke.
Happened to me once... Was heading to Vermont to pick up my daughter from college. For various reasons, it was easier to split it up into two one-way flights (mostly to guarantee adjoining seats on the return flight).
Anyways, I couldn't check in online. I go to the counter to check in, and was asked a bunch of leading questions ("You're going to Logan, right?" "No, Burlington Vermont!") over and over. Eventually I checked in.
While waiting for the gate, I realized... I hit all the flags... Male, travelling alone, no bags, one way.... DING DING DING DING!!
And probably being called "John Terrorist" didn't help.
WTF is "virtue signaling"? Am I already behind by another new term?
It's a meaningless right wing distractionary smear phrase like "SJW".
If I say something like "racism is a bad thing" then the reactionaries know they can't actually disagree and say that racism is a good thing, so instead I get accused of showing off how right-on and non-racist I am.
There is not an infinite supply of homes or services, there has to be a limit on the # of people.
The US has an incredibly low population density in many parts compared to Europe. There is more than enough room for a few million refugees from Syria and Libya.
If immigrants are granted asylum as refugees, how are they "by definition criminals"?
I assume OP meant that, if you enter a country illegally, you have committed a crime. So even if you are a genuine refugee you are a criminal. This seems unhelpful, and is not even technically correct, as it is perfectly possible to enter a country on holiday and then claim asylum there.
Homeless people were not allowed to marry. People without a profession were not allowed to marry. People without their own business or without an estate were not allowed to marry etc.pp.
This is sheer nonsense. You seem to be mixing it up with the right to vote or something.
Read the terms of the lease, they are usually distance-limited.
This would make them useless for even a part-time taxi-style service.
And the distance limitation is usually something pretty low like 5000 miles a year (in the UK). They're not even that useful for regular commuting unless you live in London and do ten miles a day.
On the other hand, making them treat all drivers as full-time employees will exclude the people who really want to do part-time, own-schedule work. I've gotten a couple of Uber rides from stay-at-home moms who are just making a few extra bucks while the kiddos are in school. They like that they can work when they have time, and simply not bother to log in on days they have stuff to get done.
Trying to force all jobs into one mold screws those who don't want a job that fits the mold.
You can work part time as a taxi driver too, you know. There is nothing new in what Uber offers.
"Replace the minimum wage with a minimum income of $15/hr for every man/woman/child in the US with no requirements or limitations save citizenship."
What would that serve for? Say you can live *now* on 15x8x5=600$/week. Now, give everybody 600$/week for free. Next week prices will be adjusted so you now need 1200$/week as a minimum. Economists usually don't know that much for a prediction, but that, they can guarantee you and be true.
You seem to think that (a) almost everybody will stop working, (b) the banks will print twice the current amount of cash in circulation and (c) you won't increase taxes significantly for companies and higher earners.
What will happen is the CEO will do even less work, and reap in more money than before. Fired? Lmafo! I've heard straight from the lips of more than one CEO that the goal is to set everything up so they have absolutely nothing to do.
No, the best boss I ever had also said on his first day that he wanted to arrange things so that he had nothing to do.
You hire other people to do all the planned, day to day work, because there's always a load of unforeseen stuff that comes along.
Socialism means that the government owns the means of production.
It's irrelevant who actually owns the means of production if the state taxes it all at 99.99 something % anyway.
You can have a system where capitalists make a modest profit, limited private property exists and so on but you still have universal health care, state pensions, affordable housing and the rest. It might not technically fit some definition of socialism, but who cares?
in many revolutions they put the rich up against the wall and took their stuff. However, invariably, those countries just ended up with different rich people.
The alternative is gradual revolution. For instance, Britain in 1945 democratically elected a socialist government that, by consent, created the National Health Service. Did the rich have to pay a lot more tax? Yes. But they weren't strung up from lampposts.
"Without hard work, humans become listless and unhappy."
Yes. Ancient Athens' agora probes your point.
Oh, wait!
Most people here would consider actual Ancient Greek democracy as evil communism.
The only problem is that the economy depended on slavery, but as Oscar Wilde pointed out in The Soul of Man under Socialism, once machines do all the work this will no longer apply.
Yeah, simulated accomplishment is something. And it may be enough for some, particularly since the simulations are getting more and more convincing.
I think that sooner or later they'll snap out of their virtual farms and the meaninglessness of their life will hit them. Then they'll need a dose of Soma to stave away the despair.
Much of what makes life meaningless (or at least tedious and pointless) is having to spend half your waking hours at work. Most people derive meaning from things external to their work, something I know is heresy on slashdot where the asshats who live on site at Google are held up as role models.
Friends, family, supporting a football team, going to church, playing computer games, reading books, engaging in politics, gardening, marathon running or whatever gives meaning to their lives has no connection to most people's work.
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I have to plan between 2 and 3 hours each time I attempt to fly into the US.
This is true even if you're a couple from the UK with two kids going to Disney World. I always assumed that the "watch list" just meant "anyone foreign".
But they can't just say "no one would be stupid enough to act like a drug smuggler if they were actually smuggling drugs, so we won't bother stopping him". They'd end up in an infinite bluff/double-bluff/ loop.
If the police see someone dressed in black clothes with a mask on carrying a large sack at 4 o'clock in the morning with the word "swag" written on it they can't just assume it's a joke.
Happened to me once... Was heading to Vermont to pick up my daughter from college. For various reasons, it was easier to split it up into two one-way flights (mostly to guarantee adjoining seats on the return flight).
Anyways, I couldn't check in online. I go to the counter to check in, and was asked a bunch of leading questions ("You're going to Logan, right?" "No, Burlington Vermont!") over and over. Eventually I checked in.
While waiting for the gate, I realized... I hit all the flags... Male, travelling alone, no bags, one way.... DING DING DING DING!!
And probably being called "John Terrorist" didn't help.
I'm putting mine on before even reading any comments.
WTF is "virtue signaling"? Am I already behind by another new term?
It's a meaningless right wing distractionary smear phrase like "SJW".
If I say something like "racism is a bad thing" then the reactionaries know they can't actually disagree and say that racism is a good thing, so instead I get accused of showing off how right-on and non-racist I am.
Chewing bubblegum is illegal in Singapore. Doesn't mean someone caught doing it there is a criminal
Yes, it does.
You're confusing legality with morality.
There is not an infinite supply of homes or services, there has to be a limit on the # of people.
The US has an incredibly low population density in many parts compared to Europe. There is more than enough room for a few million refugees from Syria and Libya.
If immigrants are granted asylum as refugees, how are they "by definition criminals"?
I assume OP meant that, if you enter a country illegally, you have committed a crime. So even if you are a genuine refugee you are a criminal. This seems unhelpful, and is not even technically correct, as it is perfectly possible to enter a country on holiday and then claim asylum there.
Homeless people were not allowed to marry. People without a profession were not allowed to marry. People without their own business or without an estate were not allowed to marry etc.pp.
This is sheer nonsense. You seem to be mixing it up with the right to vote or something.
Read the terms of the lease, they are usually distance-limited.
This would make them useless for even a part-time taxi-style service.
And the distance limitation is usually something pretty low like 5000 miles a year (in the UK). They're not even that useful for regular commuting unless you live in London and do ten miles a day.
On the other hand, making them treat all drivers as full-time employees will exclude the people who really want to do part-time, own-schedule work. I've gotten a couple of Uber rides from stay-at-home moms who are just making a few extra bucks while the kiddos are in school. They like that they can work when they have time, and simply not bother to log in on days they have stuff to get done.
Trying to force all jobs into one mold screws those who don't want a job that fits the mold.
You can work part time as a taxi driver too, you know. There is nothing new in what Uber offers.
"Taxi hailing platform Uber"?! At least we know this wasn't written by Uber's PR company, unlike most Uber stories.
editors either refuse to, or are banned from, putting a disclaimer that Dice.com is owned by Dice Holdings, Inc.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't that pretty self evident because of the names? If Dice Holding Inc was called Randomnoun Inc, then fair enough.
My work-life balance was to work 70 hours a week for fourteenteen years then retire. YMMV. Work is for suckers.
When I was younger I preferred to work as little as possible and enjoy myself as much as possible.
Working's much easier when you get a bit older and more settled, there is no longer the opportunity or desire to be partying four or five days a week.
Who wants to retire at forty with no memories or experience of anything much except working?
If your company has a "first to leave is a slacker" culture, don't expect me to show up before noon.
I don't think you understand how it works. Anywhere with that attitude will also have a "last to arrive is a slacker" culture too.
I doubt there is anyone visiting /. who hasn't any idea what MST3K is... or at least how to google it
We're not all Americans, and it is simply rude to require google for an understanding of a fucking slashdot headline.
"Replace the minimum wage with a minimum income of $15/hr for every man/woman/child in the US with no requirements or limitations save citizenship."
What would that serve for? Say you can live *now* on 15x8x5=600$/week. Now, give everybody 600$/week for free. Next week prices will be adjusted so you now need 1200$/week as a minimum. Economists usually don't know that much for a prediction, but that, they can guarantee you and be true.
You seem to think that (a) almost everybody will stop working, (b) the banks will print twice the current amount of cash in circulation and (c) you won't increase taxes significantly for companies and higher earners.
What will happen is the CEO will do even less work, and reap in more money than before. Fired? Lmafo! I've heard straight from the lips of more than one CEO that the goal is to set everything up so they have absolutely nothing to do.
No, the best boss I ever had also said on his first day that he wanted to arrange things so that he had nothing to do.
You hire other people to do all the planned, day to day work, because there's always a load of unforeseen stuff that comes along.
>> management consultants McKinsey and Company said that many of the tasks that a CEO performs could be taken over by machines
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. "I think we should hire some management consultants," said no one other than top executives ever.
Management consultants are there to make or save the company money, they don't care about the individuals involved, even if they're the CEO.
Actually, given our current crop of sociopathic CEOs, the humanity would actually probably be higher.
Yes, that is indeed the obvious joke. Well played.
*golfclap*
Socialism means that the government owns the means of production.
It's irrelevant who actually owns the means of production if the state taxes it all at 99.99 something % anyway.
You can have a system where capitalists make a modest profit, limited private property exists and so on but you still have universal health care, state pensions, affordable housing and the rest. It might not technically fit some definition of socialism, but who cares?
in many revolutions they put the rich up against the wall and took their stuff. However, invariably, those countries just ended up with different rich people.
The alternative is gradual revolution. For instance, Britain in 1945 democratically elected a socialist government that, by consent, created the National Health Service. Did the rich have to pay a lot more tax? Yes. But they weren't strung up from lampposts.
"Without hard work, humans become listless and unhappy."
Yes. Ancient Athens' agora probes your point.
Oh, wait!
Most people here would consider actual Ancient Greek democracy as evil communism.
The only problem is that the economy depended on slavery, but as Oscar Wilde pointed out in The Soul of Man under Socialism, once machines do all the work this will no longer apply.
Yeah, simulated accomplishment is something. And it may be enough for some, particularly since the simulations are getting more and more convincing.
I think that sooner or later they'll snap out of their virtual farms and the meaninglessness of their life will hit them. Then they'll need a dose of Soma to stave away the despair.
Much of what makes life meaningless (or at least tedious and pointless) is having to spend half your waking hours at work. Most people derive meaning from things external to their work, something I know is heresy on slashdot where the asshats who live on site at Google are held up as role models.
Friends, family, supporting a football team, going to church, playing computer games, reading books, engaging in politics, gardening, marathon running or whatever gives meaning to their lives has no connection to most people's work.
Have you met any humans? Try it some time. They're a strange bunch.
And the strangest ones are those who actually believe in the brain-washing of their masters.