When you ask people what they would do if they win sevral million, many will say that they will keep working, because they could not sit arround all day and do nothing. If thta will happen or not over a longer period is something different.
What it shows is that many believe that ot working means not doing anything. I have been unemployed over a longer period and if it payed better I could easily do that all the time.
What happens now if there are 5 people; 1 owner, 1 manager and 3 workers who make a decent living. Everybody is happy. Worker earns 4 units; Manager 6 and the owner 10. See, no communism and everybody can make a living. Now the owner buys a machine (assuming no cost for the machine) that replaces 1 worker. So he fires that worker (who happend to be married to worker 2). So instead of earning 10, they get 5. Mmm. Not enough to make a living. Who gets the extra 5? Most likely the owner who now gets 15 instead of 10. And he also could ask 1 worker and 1 manager to work 60 hours and fire the extra worker. They will be happy to do so, so they do not become that person being fired. Owner now gets 20, 2 get 5 and 2 get nothing. That means most likely 3 poor people, 1 rich one.
What would happen in an ideal situation is that the machine reduces the working hours of all. They now work 40x5 hours=200 hours. The machine replaces 40 hours (again at no cost as this is an example). That means that there is 160 hours left of human work. 160/5=32 hours. So instead of coming in 40 hours, they come in 32 hours.
Now they have still a job, are productive, have not only money to spend it, but time to do so as well. You could spend moretime with family, more time travelling, longer luchbreaks with your cow orkers or whatever. How you fill that time is up to you.
So it is not so much that nobody has work, it is about having a ballance between work and play that is important.
And how I filled my time when I was unemployed? I traveled, was busy with open source for free and spend more time with friends and family.
Yes, some will feel utterly useless for whaever reason. They will have time to work on that instead of feeling useless in a 9-17 job where they are forced to work from 5 till 21 or get fired.
I have realized a long time ago that money is only usefull if you spend it and for that you need time to spend it, as buying stuff is rather unfullfilling.
If you are able to pay a lawyer as a defendant to go that route, you will most likely get away free anyway, even when guilty. Otherwise you will go to prison.
Define 'little lag'. With something that is flying around with 'a little lag' is not really a good thing. Try driving a car where your steering wheel has 'a little lag'.
I never cancel anything over the phone. The least I will do is send an email. If needed, I walk into a brick and mortar store where they will have to hand over proof of my request.
I want to have proof in the once case where they say it was not done. And I am even giving them the advantage of the doubt that I did not explain it clearly.
Having proof will be so much easier. Even if they do not receive my proof, they will be much more likely to correct any error and refund if needed.
I just hope that the terrorist do not think of other ways to cause harm to people on an airport.Like at the queue to get a boarding pass LIKE THEY DID IN BRUSSELS. You do not even need to buy a ticket.
When I arrived at JFK from Belgium a few months ago, it took about 2 hours to get into the country. It all reminded me of the time I went to West-Berlin through the corridor (road through East Berlin. There were 3). Same look on their face while inspecting the papers of each and every individual, while trying not to show they were bored and feeling superior, because they knew they could screw your day or you for no reason.
It is security theater and everybody know is. The thing is that most people (myself included) have no idea what really can be done about it. I could start writing politicians, but that is more about my ego and feeling good than it is about actually changing anything. And write to the wrong people and you get on 'the list';
it is very easy to blindly trust what is written in German as it always appears logical and fool proof.
Hence not only the letter, but the spirit of the law. When you know that the spirit of the law is important, you will also know that the written law is NOT fool proof and never will be. Understanding this is good.
I started blocking them when they were called banners. I would block them anywhere if I had the chance. Be it on websites, on the front of my screen, in magazines, on the street, as a logo or on my underwear. To quote Banksy:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Itâ(TM)s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially donâ(TM)t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, donâ(TM)t even start asking for theirs.
It is a joke. The card number is fake. The rest is also fake. However by randomly entering a number, I got a valid card by accident and sheer luck (stupidity). At least a valid number. That does not mean it is a valid card. It just means the number passes the first basic checks concerning BIN and control number.
Has your credit card number been stolen? Enter it here to find out!
This is why AC gets lower points. They are too stupid to provide a URL. So how do I know if it is stolen or not? Can anybody help? My number is 5468 3548 4856 4588 and the csv code is 246. (Valid tru 02/19) All on name of Mathew Bedding. Can anybody PLEASE tell me?
Many years ago a newspaper asked me about a child porn case where the city was giving out webhosting. This was in 1997 or 1998. One of their questions was if it was OK for the city to hand out a place to host child porn for free at the cost of the citizens.
It was obvious to me that they were trying to set me up to say that it was terrible that a city gives out places to host child porn. My reaction was to separate the hosting of child porn and the giving away of webspace. I praised the city to give people the opportunity to get a website (not evident then where I lived) and the fact that it is up to the police, whom I had informed about the child porn and they had done nothing, to go after illegal usage.
I am well aware many people will not see what the intend of the questions is (besides from getting an answer)
In the end the police tried to bully me by saying I was distributing childporn (I had send the URL to them, after I saw it in a Usenet group that fights Internet abuse), identity falsification (because I used face info to activate a free email account) and found me by calling my company telling my manager that they wanted to talk to me concerning a child porn case. Luckily my boss wasn't stupid and even offered to pay for a lawyer if anything ever came of it.
Somehow after that I NEVER saw anything illegal anywhere ever again. Not online, not offline.
Or some people think "I understand that it is unrealistic, but I would like there would be no need for it, so I would want it gone."
I mean, I would really like there would be no laws against murder either, because that would mean there would be no murders. Unrealistic? Absolutely, but you asked what I WANTED. (I also want a pony!)
About No 2. So we now know that they lied. So what? We also know that the CIA lied and that policeofficers lie and military investigators and politicians.
It means nothing. If a todler steals a cookie and he is only told 'you are not allowed to do that' he will again and again till he dies of diabetis. Just before that is is the parents who blame the other for not taking action. As long as there are no consequences, the toddler will steal cookies and why not? What would for the todler be the reason to NOT steal it.
You could explain he will get diabetis and he will not understand and it is thus not an issue in its mind. He will be told that he is not allowed to get a cookie, but that is just noise he just does not listen to.
You could not have cookies in the house and that would mean punish yourself. That does not mean he will not start eating sugar or stealing cookies elsewhere.
We all know what the answer is. You punish them. That can mean a timeout or whatever and then the kid will understand that if he takes a cookie, there will be consequences.
I often hear when a simple hack happens is that is was very easy to do and not a chalange at all. To me that does not make it less scary, it makes it more scary.
It does not matter if they all quit. If there is even 1 that does it, it is all for naught. This may be a new person who is brought in for this purpose, a person threatened by blackmail or a young parent who needs the job to pay food for the kids.
What I do in these cases is point first to the law that we need a order from a judge. Next I will point to my managers and the companies lawyers and that will either mean my manager tells me to do it or he does not.
I will take no orders from anybody else. And yes, I have seen police officers escorted from the office because they did not have a search warrant or a court order.
It isn't so much that minimum wage mattersKeep lying to yourself.  improved accuracy/quality  better throughput  more consistent process - Could all be achived with more or better trained people; thus more cost
There are several things you could do with the money you make by replacing workers with machines and especially the money you make of that: 1) Let workers work less for the same amount of money 2) Lower prices for the customer 3) Take all this extra money and put it in your bank account
1 is socialis, so evil, 2 is not needed as people love to pay the price, so the only option is 3.
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When you ask people what they would do if they win sevral million, many will say that they will keep working, because they could not sit arround all day and do nothing.
If thta will happen or not over a longer period is something different.
What it shows is that many believe that ot working means not doing anything. I have been unemployed over a longer period and if it payed better I could easily do that all the time.
What happens now if there are 5 people; 1 owner, 1 manager and 3 workers who make a decent living. Everybody is happy. Worker earns 4 units; Manager 6 and the owner 10. See, no communism and everybody can make a living.
Now the owner buys a machine (assuming no cost for the machine) that replaces 1 worker. So he fires that worker (who happend to be married to worker 2). So instead of earning 10, they get 5. Mmm. Not enough to make a living. Who gets the extra 5? Most likely the owner who now gets 15 instead of 10.
And he also could ask 1 worker and 1 manager to work 60 hours and fire the extra worker. They will be happy to do so, so they do not become that person being fired.
Owner now gets 20, 2 get 5 and 2 get nothing. That means most likely 3 poor people, 1 rich one.
What would happen in an ideal situation is that the machine reduces the working hours of all. They now work 40x5 hours=200 hours. The machine replaces 40 hours (again at no cost as this is an example). That means that there is 160 hours left of human work. 160/5=32 hours. So instead of coming in 40 hours, they come in 32 hours.
Now they have still a job, are productive, have not only money to spend it, but time to do so as well. You could spend moretime with family, more time travelling, longer luchbreaks with your cow orkers or whatever. How you fill that time is up to you.
So it is not so much that nobody has work, it is about having a ballance between work and play that is important.
And how I filled my time when I was unemployed? I traveled, was busy with open source for free and spend more time with friends and family.
Yes, some will feel utterly useless for whaever reason. They will have time to work on that instead of feeling useless in a 9-17 job where they are forced to work from 5 till 21 or get fired.
I have realized a long time ago that money is only usefull if you spend it and for that you need time to spend it, as buying stuff is rather unfullfilling.
If you are able to pay a lawyer as a defendant to go that route, you will most likely get away free anyway, even when guilty. Otherwise you will go to prison.
Define 'little lag'. With something that is flying around with 'a little lag' is not really a good thing. Try driving a car where your steering wheel has 'a little lag'.
If the companies were all about money AND cheat, would they not hire female Indians? I heard you only need to pay them 70%.
I never cancel anything over the phone. The least I will do is send an email. If needed, I walk into a brick and mortar store where they will have to hand over proof of my request.
I want to have proof in the once case where they say it was not done. And I am even giving them the advantage of the doubt that I did not explain it clearly.
Having proof will be so much easier. Even if they do not receive my proof, they will be much more likely to correct any error and refund if needed.
Make it identical to how it is done when activating whatever it is you activate online.
You don't want someone who gets the password for a business to be able to enable the ISP service of a heavy-traffic ecommerce site with one click.
And what about the banks in Denmark?
They missed to put the time in Unix time.
It supports "Internet economy" for "Internet companies". Or did you think they were talking about you?
I just hope that the terrorist do not think of other ways to cause harm to people on an airport.Like at the queue to get a boarding pass LIKE THEY DID IN BRUSSELS.
You do not even need to buy a ticket.
When I arrived at JFK from Belgium a few months ago, it took about 2 hours to get into the country. It all reminded me of the time I went to West-Berlin through the corridor (road through East Berlin. There were 3). Same look on their face while inspecting the papers of each and every individual, while trying not to show they were bored and feeling superior, because they knew they could screw your day or you for no reason.
It is security theater and everybody know is. The thing is that most people (myself included) have no idea what really can be done about it. I could start writing politicians, but that is more about my ego and feeling good than it is about actually changing anything. And write to the wrong people and you get on 'the list';
We could, but we would need to reboot the copyright and trademark process.
Hence not only the letter, but the spirit of the law.
When you know that the spirit of the law is important, you will also know that the written law is NOT fool proof and never will be. Understanding this is good.
I started blocking them when they were called banners. I would block them anywhere if I had the chance. Be it on websites, on the front of my screen, in magazines, on the street, as a logo or on my underwear.
To quote Banksy:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Itâ(TM)s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially donâ(TM)t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, donâ(TM)t even start asking for theirs.
-- Banksy
It is a joke. The card number is fake. The rest is also fake. However by randomly entering a number, I got a valid card by accident and sheer luck (stupidity). At least a valid number. That does not mean it is a valid card. It just means the number passes the first basic checks concerning BIN and control number.
This is why AC gets lower points. They are too stupid to provide a URL. So how do I know if it is stolen or not? Can anybody help? My number is 5468 3548 4856 4588 and the csv code is 246. (Valid tru 02/19) All on name of Mathew Bedding.
Can anybody PLEASE tell me?
They wanted to partner with Linux as well when they still owned openSUSE and SUSE. Only way less serious than this.
Let's see if people drop Ubuntu like a brick as well over this.
(and queue the replies why Ubuntu is good and Novell was bad working together with Microsoft)
Why exclude parts of the numbers? Are they somehow undead or irrelevant to you?
Many years ago a newspaper asked me about a child porn case where the city was giving out webhosting. This was in 1997 or 1998.
One of their questions was if it was OK for the city to hand out a place to host child porn for free at the cost of the citizens.
It was obvious to me that they were trying to set me up to say that it was terrible that a city gives out places to host child porn.
My reaction was to separate the hosting of child porn and the giving away of webspace. I praised the city to give people the opportunity to get a website (not evident then where I lived) and the fact that it is up to the police, whom I had informed about the child porn and they had done nothing, to go after illegal usage.
I am well aware many people will not see what the intend of the questions is (besides from getting an answer)
In the end the police tried to bully me by saying I was distributing childporn (I had send the URL to them, after I saw it in a Usenet group that fights Internet abuse), identity falsification (because I used face info to activate a free email account) and found me by calling my company telling my manager that they wanted to talk to me concerning a child porn case. Luckily my boss wasn't stupid and even offered to pay for a lawyer if anything ever came of it.
Somehow after that I NEVER saw anything illegal anywhere ever again. Not online, not offline.
Or some people think "I understand that it is unrealistic, but I would like there would be no need for it, so I would want it gone."
I mean, I would really like there would be no laws against murder either, because that would mean there would be no murders. Unrealistic? Absolutely, but you asked what I WANTED. (I also want a pony!)
So either I am black, because we all are descendants from Africa or Aboriginals are not black. Got it.
About No 2. So we now know that they lied. So what? We also know that the CIA lied and that policeofficers lie and military investigators and politicians.
It means nothing. If a todler steals a cookie and he is only told 'you are not allowed to do that' he will again and again till he dies of diabetis.
Just before that is is the parents who blame the other for not taking action. As long as there are no consequences, the toddler will steal cookies and why not? What would for the todler be the reason to NOT steal it.
You could explain he will get diabetis and he will not understand and it is thus not an issue in its mind. He will be told that he is not allowed to get a cookie, but that is just noise he just does not listen to.
You could not have cookies in the house and that would mean punish yourself. That does not mean he will not start eating sugar or stealing cookies elsewhere.
We all know what the answer is. You punish them. That can mean a timeout or whatever and then the kid will understand that if he takes a cookie, there will be consequences.
So for now it means nothing.
I often hear when a simple hack happens is that is was very easy to do and not a chalange at all. To me that does not make it less scary, it makes it more scary.
OTOH, if your father is 1/1 white and your mother is 1/2 white and half black, you are still called black (Or African American)
I never figured that one out.
It does not matter if they all quit. If there is even 1 that does it, it is all for naught. This may be a new person who is brought in for this purpose, a person threatened by blackmail or a young parent who needs the job to pay food for the kids.
What I do in these cases is point first to the law that we need a order from a judge. Next I will point to my managers and the companies lawyers and that will either mean my manager tells me to do it or he does not.
I will take no orders from anybody else. And yes, I have seen police officers escorted from the office because they did not have a search warrant or a court order.
Disclaimer: I live in Belgium, Europe, so YMMV.