So they are guilty. The NSA are guilty. The FBI are guilty. The whole government is guilty. And all I see is a lot of people discussing it and no action taken.
If I as a kid stole a cookie and my mom told me of and I stole another one and still nothing happened, why would I stop stealing the cookies? They are great tasting cookies.
As long as there are no consequences, except for some whining, why would they NOT do it? You can discuss it among yourselves, but they do not care.
99% of the music is utter garbage to everybody. You like 1%of the music out there. It is just that your 1% is not the same as my 1%. So what you think is great, others hate.
There are people who like it. You don't.That does not mean that it IS garbage. It just means that you do not like it. There are people who HATE Back or Mozart. Does not mean it is garbage.
As most people dislike most music it is easier to say that ALL music is garbadge.
That means that the prices they get for the shareware are dropping. Because that is the main reason companies do it. For them it would make no difference to put on a Windows Image, Linux Image or DR Dos or tripple boot image on the machine. It will be the identical same process in production.
Fiix prefers to deal with customers over the phone so they can accurately diagnose the issue.
If you work in IT, you know how difficult it is to find out an issue over the phone and you can ask people to do certain things and you have remote access.
And isn't this what you local AAA is for? I had my car not start, called them and they fixed it. Was a broken belt and they did not even ask me to do their diagnosis and I would not have known anyway.
Luckily we do not live in the EUSSR. If I want to work 80 hours a week, that's my problem. If I don't, I can work somewhere else (H1-Bs can do that too).
Great for you. What about the person that is 'asked' to do so and if he doesn't gets, in the best case, overlooked for promotion?
And the vacation one. It has been discussed on/. several times that taking vacation in many companies is discourages. Working at the weekend is normal and you should be available for the company if they call you.
No, you deny that yourself when you accept the contract. You don't have to. You entered the agreement to use binding arbitration.
I could sign a contract and it would not eb worth the paper it was written on. I followed a course of social rights in Belgium and it is basically this: you can put ANYTHING in a contract, but as a company you need to know what is actually legal and what the consequences are if you don't and you better hope the other party doesn't do anything. The law will, when in doubt, decide in favour of the employee. So what if I signed that I wanted to work extra hours for free, because I was a manager? They will need to pay that overtime. So why did I sign the contract? "Because I was afraid they would deny the job if I didn't." Case closed.
And why is paid sick time still a discussion? I go to the docter when I am sick and I get paid. Regardless if I am sick for 2 days or for 2 years. They are not some sort of oliday that they can say I get 1 or 10 or 100 per year, because they do not know.
Obviously you have been very lucky to have been working at companies where all this stuff never was an issue, but do not assume there are no people like that.
This world is closer, but not realistic as we start with the idea that we must work 40 hours.
Say you have 10 workers, 2 manager and 1 owner. They all work 40 hours. A total of 520 hours. They buy a machine that replaces half of the workers. So 6 people are fired (5+1 manager). And the owner takes that extra money as profit. Working hours now is 5 workers, 1 manager and 1 owner or 280 hours at 40 hours. What would have been nice would have been to divide the 280 hours over those 13 people. Or almost 22 hours per week per person.
Yes, this is a simplified example where there is no cost for the machine. Now imagine that the machine costs 1 FTE and needs 1 FTE, so instead of 6, 4 people get fired, but the reduction in cost is 3. Divide the extra free hours over the rest and people will need to work less as well, but will also need to 'pay' for the extra time by dividing the cost of the machine. So people would work 30 instead of 40, but get paid for 28. And that is a problem for many as we are used to be paid by the hour. They forget that they get 10 hours off extra per week. and what they need to pay is 8% (The machine), not 25% as they hourly wage will go up.
And this is what you see in countries like Germany and France and Scandinavia where people work less hours. There is a downside. You will not be able to pay the CEO 100X what others make. He will not be able to pocket the money he would have used for the rest of the people.
But what you need for that is a government that is by the people and works for the people. Oh well.
Comer on. This has nothing to do with Trump or any other president. This has to do with how policing worksa. They want to have as high numbers as possible and this is not just for the FBI.
I live in Belgium and I saw some childporn. I reported it to both the provider and the police. After a few weeks, nothing had happened, so I informed a newspaper. That day the childporn was gone. So good, so far,
Well, that is what I thought. I had done this at work. So suddenly the COO stands at my desk and asks me why the police wants to have my details concerning a chgildporn investigation. I explained it and luckily he was a smart person and understood. I then went to the police. They wanted me for distribution of childporn, obstruction of the law and falsification of writing as I had used a free email addres and my info was not correct.
The reason they left the account open was so they could get more people to watch it and go after more people. They already had the kid who had done it. They already had all that they needed, yet they decided to let the child porn spread more, even though they knew this was just a stupid kid doing a stupid thing.
Obviously I have never ever seen anything illegal anywhere.
So yeah, this has absolutely zero to do with politics unfortunately, because that would make it easier to fix. This has to do with catching as much criminals as possible (which is good) and that means the more there are, the better (which is bad).
I don't tip the delivery guy, but then I live in a country where tipping is not done.
Regardless, the delivery driver will be without a job and the store can pocket a bit more. I am guessing we will start to see more and more people that are unemployed.
That does not only work for IT. I have interviewed people and I wanted to see how they would react in a certain situation. I told them what they could expect. I told them also that I was not interested in correct procedures,
Most people started with "I do not know the procedures" and I explained again that I was not interested in the procedures. Just to give me an answer how they THOUGHT it COULD go.
This would mean you need to lie about having a job. Otherwise it will look very suspicious that you can just walk out.
The adult thing to do is own up. I had an employee who asked me if there was a way to not do his time and there was. We just agreed upon cancelation of the contract at that moment. Both parties signed of on it, just like both parties signed to start the contract.
No. That would be grave negligence and will result in being fired immediately and no rights on unemployment money. It will also influence later jobs if they want references.
Same here in Belgium. I have been in a situation where they told me I needed to come in earlier. I was fired from my old company (together with 50% of the rest of the company) and was getting a pay-out of 7 months if I stayed till a specific day.
I told the new company that if they where willing to give me a payment of those 7 months, I would gladly come in earlier. Suddenly the need was not that urgent. Yes I still got the job.
I have been on the other side as well and had no issues if people said they can come in 3 months, I even had an employee who wanted to start at an other company a week before new years, because they needed her. I told het that if she left, she would miss the 3 month bonus and if that company could not wait 1 week, they where not serious.
She took the job, missed the 3 months bonus she would have gotten from us and was fired after the new-years rush was over. So that was 3 months pay down the drain.
In Belgium the time the company gives you is twice of what you have to do. This wil also depend on how long you work somewhere.
So a standard will be that if you have to do 6 weeks when you leave, the company will have to give you 3 months notice If you have to give 6 months, the company will have to give you a year. That would mean that you probably work there for 15 years or so.
Most companies will just let you go and pay out, but by law they can require you to come that period.
As this is something that is all over Belgium, it also means that if you get a new job, nobody will be surprised if you say you will be available in 3 months. When they start looking, they will be aware that this will happen and fire you before they fire the old guy,
e.g. You do the last job interview in December. You sign the contract to start 1st of April. You give your letter of resignation and you do your three months. From the side of the new company, they start looking for somebody in November, they find you in December. They sign the contract you start the first of April. They can fire the guy you are replacing any time they want, but say they want somebody there till you come without overlapping. They call him into the HR office and tell him he is fired. He gets his box and leaves. He will get a payout of 6 months.
What they can do is do this in January and ask to stay 3 months and get the three months. Stay 6 months or do it at the end of March and stay 6 months.
"But this is of disadvantage of the company" people will say. "Yes it is, so?" I will say.
and our nation still stands for a lot of very important principles,
Could you please elaborate what those principles are? It can't be democracy, because people always say that the US isn't a democracy, but a Republic. It also can't be freedom of speech, as POTUS banned the press. Guns are allowed in many countries, so that can't be it either.
Same here. I follow about 200 channels. That said, many of them will have had no content or might be dead. I might also not watch each and every video on each channel I follow.
I do follow via RSS feed, because it is way easier to follow what is new and what not.
The hard thing is to find new channels that are of interest as I will get the same ones offered time and time again and I am either already subscribed to it, or I have already decided I do not want to subscribe to it.
Same for other random content. Finetuning the search is not helping much.
If you have a corporate account, they'll happily just bill the company rather than the rider.
It is my experience that they rather bill the company and not do it via the driver. The reason is that they only need to do it once per month. That makes things easier and that cheaper (or more profit). It also means they know they get the money and not have a driver pocket it. There are drivers who will drive with the meter off and you will pay less. They will pocket the money and the company is left with the costs. Sure, these drivers will be fired, but they still have the loss.
Uber and AirBnB are succesfull because they are cheaper. All the rest is nice. The reason they are cheaper is because they undercut prices. Take AirBNB. It is not much harder to use than e.g. booking.com. That fact that you would not mind paying 5% more makes you the exception, not the rule. And if you frequent 3 countries, you will need those 3 currencies as well for other things. Sure it is nicer to have all in one app, but I would rather pay 5% less and have 5 apps. So what do I do? I take public transport as much as possible. No app needed. I use my Debit card to take out a small amount at the airport to cover transport to the hotel and some small expenses. Not only taxi or bus, but also some coffee and/or food as not all places will accept a credit card.
Booking a hotel I do via booking.com or via the hotel directly. Most of the time it is the same price. If I take a taxi, I show them the address if they don't understand the way I talk.
It depends on your milage. I already do not awn a car and use car sharing http://www.cambio.be/ They say that if you drive less than 15.000KM (+-10.000 miles) it would become financially interesting. Obviously the more people, the cheaper it will get. I do not need a car, because I use public transport to and from work paid for by my employer. Disadvantages 1) It is not 'your car', so no bragging about your car 2) You need to plan ahead and pick up your car. 3) You need to be close to a pick up point.
Advantages 1) Cheaper (if you run less than 15.000KM) 2) No worry about maintenance 3) Take the car you need. Small to large is available.
With self driving cars, the disadvantage 3 will become much less closer. That means more people will be able to use it and that will bring down everything. It this moment I would say you need to drive less than 10.000, because above that, even if cheaper, the advantage of having your car in front of your house or apartment is greater than the money you make. (Obviously YMMV)
That said, it will reduce the amount of parked cars, not the amount of driving cars on the road, because people will still move around the same amount, but added to that you need to add the empty trips to pick up somebody. Once all cars are automated, it will become more efficient.
Cars will also do more miles per year, but with lesser amount of cars. So in the beginning thgis means fewer cars, but they need to be replaces earlier due to more usage. This would mean that higher quality cars need to be made, because replace cheap cars every year will become very expensive. I think it will be about 5-10 years to see this happen as many people still want to own a car and like to drive.
What they want to do is transport (people) and make money by undercutting the taxi companies. They do this by cutting out as much of the costs as possible. This can be by not needing to pay coin fees, employee fees or whatever costs they can cut. (If this is either legal or moral is another discussion) So if they find a way to cut out even more, they will do it. In this case the human cost. Next step will be to cut out the car dealers and the car companies.
So no, the self-driving car focus is not that weird if only for just their own fleet.
I would love if the companies get an app. Even one per company would be great. But many taxi companies are small companies and then there are also many independent taxi drivers that are not linked to a company.
A company like Uber could do this. Even taking into account the different prices per meter per city and time of day and what not. But then you need to do two things: 1) See that you have enough customers that use it to make it interesting for the companies 2) See that you have enough companies that use it to make it interesting for the customers
Next you need to decide who will pay the fee. The companies? But that would mean that independent drivers might be reluctant to join as you cut into their profit. The customers? That might open a new issue.
So the best you could do is develop software, sell it to the individual companies. Due to scale this can become expensive.
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So they are guilty. The NSA are guilty. The FBI are guilty. The whole government is guilty. And all I see is a lot of people discussing it and no action taken.
If I as a kid stole a cookie and my mom told me of and I stole another one and still nothing happened, why would I stop stealing the cookies? They are great tasting cookies.
As long as there are no consequences, except for some whining, why would they NOT do it? You can discuss it among yourselves, but they do not care.
99% of the music is utter garbage to everybody. You like 1%of the music out there. It is just that your 1% is not the same as my 1%. So what you think is great, others hate.
There are people who like it. You don't.That does not mean that it IS garbage. It just means that you do not like it. There are people who HATE Back or Mozart. Does not mean it is garbage.
As most people dislike most music it is easier to say that ALL music is garbadge.
That means that the prices they get for the shareware are dropping. Because that is the main reason companies do it.
For them it would make no difference to put on a Windows Image, Linux Image or DR Dos or tripple boot image on the machine. It will be the identical same process in production.
If you work in IT, you know how difficult it is to find out an issue over the phone and you can ask people to do certain things and you have remote access.
And isn't this what you local AAA is for? I had my car not start, called them and they fixed it. Was a broken belt and they did not even ask me to do their diagnosis and I would not have known anyway.
Great for you. What about the person that is 'asked' to do so and if he doesn't gets, in the best case, overlooked for promotion?
And the vacation one. It has been discussed on /. several times that taking vacation in many companies is discourages. Working at the weekend is normal and you should be available for the company if they call you.
I could sign a contract and it would not eb worth the paper it was written on.
I followed a course of social rights in Belgium and it is basically this: you can put ANYTHING in a contract, but as a company you need to know what is actually legal and what the consequences are if you don't and you better hope the other party doesn't do anything.
The law will, when in doubt, decide in favour of the employee. So what if I signed that I wanted to work extra hours for free, because I was a manager? They will need to pay that overtime. So why did I sign the contract? "Because I was afraid they would deny the job if I didn't." Case closed.
And why is paid sick time still a discussion? I go to the docter when I am sick and I get paid. Regardless if I am sick for 2 days or for 2 years. They are not some sort of oliday that they can say I get 1 or 10 or 100 per year, because they do not know.
Obviously you have been very lucky to have been working at companies where all this stuff never was an issue, but do not assume there are no people like that.
This world is closer, but not realistic as we start with the idea that we must work 40 hours.
Say you have 10 workers, 2 manager and 1 owner. They all work 40 hours. A total of 520 hours. They buy a machine that replaces half of the workers. So 6 people are fired (5+1 manager). And the owner takes that extra money as profit.
Working hours now is 5 workers, 1 manager and 1 owner or 280 hours at 40 hours. What would have been nice would have been to divide the 280 hours over those 13 people. Or almost 22 hours per week per person.
Yes, this is a simplified example where there is no cost for the machine. Now imagine that the machine costs 1 FTE and needs 1 FTE, so instead of 6, 4 people get fired, but the reduction in cost is 3.
Divide the extra free hours over the rest and people will need to work less as well, but will also need to 'pay' for the extra time by dividing the cost of the machine.
So people would work 30 instead of 40, but get paid for 28. And that is a problem for many as we are used to be paid by the hour. They forget that they get 10 hours off extra per week. and what they need to pay is 8% (The machine), not 25% as they hourly wage will go up.
And this is what you see in countries like Germany and France and Scandinavia where people work less hours. There is a downside. You will not be able to pay the CEO 100X what others make. He will not be able to pocket the money he would have used for the rest of the people.
But what you need for that is a government that is by the people and works for the people. Oh well.
Comer on. This has nothing to do with Trump or any other president. This has to do with how policing worksa. They want to have as high numbers as possible and this is not just for the FBI.
I live in Belgium and I saw some childporn. I reported it to both the provider and the police.
After a few weeks, nothing had happened, so I informed a newspaper. That day the childporn was gone. So good, so far,
Well, that is what I thought. I had done this at work. So suddenly the COO stands at my desk and asks me why the police wants to have my details concerning a chgildporn investigation. I explained it and luckily he was a smart person and understood.
I then went to the police. They wanted me for distribution of childporn, obstruction of the law and falsification of writing as I had used a free email addres and my info was not correct.
The reason they left the account open was so they could get more people to watch it and go after more people. They already had the kid who had done it. They already had all that they needed, yet they decided to let the child porn spread more, even though they knew this was just a stupid kid doing a stupid thing.
Obviously I have never ever seen anything illegal anywhere.
So yeah, this has absolutely zero to do with politics unfortunately, because that would make it easier to fix. This has to do with catching as much criminals as possible (which is good) and that means the more there are, the better (which is bad).
I don't tip the delivery guy, but then I live in a country where tipping is not done.
Regardless, the delivery driver will be without a job and the store can pocket a bit more. I am guessing we will start to see more and more people that are unemployed.
It is just so no Scots are able to work in London.
This is not a "Ride-hailing company". It is a taxi company.
That does not only work for IT. I have interviewed people and I wanted to see how they would react in a certain situation. I told them what they could expect. I told them also that I was not interested in correct procedures,
Most people started with "I do not know the procedures" and I explained again that I was not interested in the procedures. Just to give me an answer how they THOUGHT it COULD go.
Perhaps the TSA agent wanted somebody to do his homework.
This would mean you need to lie about having a job. Otherwise it will look very suspicious that you can just walk out.
The adult thing to do is own up. I had an employee who asked me if there was a way to not do his time and there was. We just agreed upon cancelation of the contract at that moment. Both parties signed of on it, just like both parties signed to start the contract.
Not if we are talking about my ex.
Or they can make the cars thinner so it has a 50 miles range. If only the car companies are courageous enough.
No. That would be grave negligence and will result in being fired immediately and no rights on unemployment money. It will also influence later jobs if they want references.
Same here in Belgium. I have been in a situation where they told me I needed to come in earlier. I was fired from my old company (together with 50% of the rest of the company) and was getting a pay-out of 7 months if I stayed till a specific day.
I told the new company that if they where willing to give me a payment of those 7 months, I would gladly come in earlier. Suddenly the need was not that urgent. Yes I still got the job.
I have been on the other side as well and had no issues if people said they can come in 3 months, I even had an employee who wanted to start at an other company a week before new years, because they needed her. I told het that if she left, she would miss the 3 month bonus and if that company could not wait 1 week, they where not serious.
She took the job, missed the 3 months bonus she would have gotten from us and was fired after the new-years rush was over. So that was 3 months pay down the drain.
In Belgium the time the company gives you is twice of what you have to do. This wil also depend on how long you work somewhere.
So a standard will be that if you have to do 6 weeks when you leave, the company will have to give you 3 months notice If you have to give 6 months, the company will have to give you a year. That would mean that you probably work there for 15 years or so.
Most companies will just let you go and pay out, but by law they can require you to come that period.
As this is something that is all over Belgium, it also means that if you get a new job, nobody will be surprised if you say you will be available in 3 months. When they start looking, they will be aware that this will happen and fire you before they fire the old guy,
e.g. You do the last job interview in December. You sign the contract to start 1st of April. You give your letter of resignation and you do your three months.
From the side of the new company, they start looking for somebody in November, they find you in December. They sign the contract you start the first of April. They can fire the guy you are replacing any time they want, but say they want somebody there till you come without overlapping. They call him into the HR office and tell him he is fired. He gets his box and leaves. He will get a payout of 6 months.
What they can do is do this in January and ask to stay 3 months and get the three months. Stay 6 months or do it at the end of March and stay 6 months.
"But this is of disadvantage of the company" people will say. "Yes it is, so?" I will say.
Could you please elaborate what those principles are?
It can't be democracy, because people always say that the US isn't a democracy, but a Republic. It also can't be freedom of speech, as POTUS banned the press. Guns are allowed in many countries, so that can't be it either.
So what are these principles you talk about?
Same here. I follow about 200 channels. That said, many of them will have had no content or might be dead. I might also not watch each and every video on each channel I follow.
I do follow via RSS feed, because it is way easier to follow what is new and what not.
The hard thing is to find new channels that are of interest as I will get the same ones offered time and time again and I am either already subscribed to it, or I have already decided I do not want to subscribe to it.
Same for other random content. Finetuning the search is not helping much.
It is my experience that they rather bill the company and not do it via the driver. The reason is that they only need to do it once per month. That makes things easier and that cheaper (or more profit). It also means they know they get the money and not have a driver pocket it.
There are drivers who will drive with the meter off and you will pay less. They will pocket the money and the company is left with the costs. Sure, these drivers will be fired, but they still have the loss.
Uber and AirBnB are succesfull because they are cheaper. All the rest is nice. The reason they are cheaper is because they undercut prices. Take AirBNB. It is not much harder to use than e.g. booking.com.
That fact that you would not mind paying 5% more makes you the exception, not the rule.
And if you frequent 3 countries, you will need those 3 currencies as well for other things.
Sure it is nicer to have all in one app, but I would rather pay 5% less and have 5 apps.
So what do I do? I take public transport as much as possible. No app needed. I use my Debit card to take out a small amount at the airport to cover transport to the hotel and some small expenses. Not only taxi or bus, but also some coffee and/or food as not all places will accept a credit card.
Booking a hotel I do via booking.com or via the hotel directly. Most of the time it is the same price. If I take a taxi, I show them the address if they don't understand the way I talk.
It depends on your milage. I already do not awn a car and use car sharing http://www.cambio.be/ They say that if you drive less than 15.000KM (+-10.000 miles) it would become financially interesting. Obviously the more people, the cheaper it will get.
I do not need a car, because I use public transport to and from work paid for by my employer.
Disadvantages
1) It is not 'your car', so no bragging about your car
2) You need to plan ahead and pick up your car.
3) You need to be close to a pick up point.
Advantages
1) Cheaper (if you run less than 15.000KM)
2) No worry about maintenance
3) Take the car you need. Small to large is available.
With self driving cars, the disadvantage 3 will become much less closer. That means more people will be able to use it and that will bring down everything. It this moment I would say you need to drive less than 10.000, because above that, even if cheaper, the advantage of having your car in front of your house or apartment is greater than the money you make. (Obviously YMMV)
That said, it will reduce the amount of parked cars, not the amount of driving cars on the road, because people will still move around the same amount, but added to that you need to add the empty trips to pick up somebody.
Once all cars are automated, it will become more efficient.
Cars will also do more miles per year, but with lesser amount of cars. So in the beginning thgis means fewer cars, but they need to be replaces earlier due to more usage. This would mean that higher quality cars need to be made, because replace cheap cars every year will become very expensive.
I think it will be about 5-10 years to see this happen as many people still want to own a car and like to drive.
The problem with this is the word "eventually". They want it NOW.
What they want to do is transport (people) and make money by undercutting the taxi companies.
They do this by cutting out as much of the costs as possible. This can be by not needing to pay coin fees, employee fees or whatever costs they can cut. (If this is either legal or moral is another discussion)
So if they find a way to cut out even more, they will do it. In this case the human cost. Next step will be to cut out the car dealers and the car companies.
So no, the self-driving car focus is not that weird if only for just their own fleet.
I would love if the companies get an app. Even one per company would be great. But many taxi companies are small companies and then there are also many independent taxi drivers that are not linked to a company.
A company like Uber could do this. Even taking into account the different prices per meter per city and time of day and what not. But then you need to do two things:
1) See that you have enough customers that use it to make it interesting for the companies
2) See that you have enough companies that use it to make it interesting for the customers
Next you need to decide who will pay the fee. The companies? But that would mean that independent drivers might be reluctant to join as you cut into their profit.
The customers? That might open a new issue.
So the best you could do is develop software, sell it to the individual companies. Due to scale this can become expensive.