The reason is that President Trump (Well, or any other one, for that matter, regardless of what party they are from) will give all power to the companies. There is also the issue of this Mexican Mouse...
Why, because they are told it is a good idea. Or at least they are not told that it is a bad idea.
No matter how bad your idea is for whatever, it can be packaged in such a way that people will want it.
DrunkXYZ, now with even more success in increasing your sugarlevels. Drink DrunkXYZ for the highest blood sugarlevels possible in nature. Packaging also increates the number of jobs in the waste industry. Almost no deterogation of the waste product with the advantage of not usable for a second time.
What I do not get is the gilde aproach of Unions in the US. In Belgium I go to a Union, ANY Union and become a member, regardless of where I work, if I work, what my profession is, my age or whatever.
When I start working and I am not a member, I can become a member at any momenet. I can switch and what not.
When I start looking for a job, they are not allowed to ask and I am allowed to lie if they ask if I am a member (same with pregnancy), but actually nobody cares if you are a member or not. You will be treated the same. For the average person there is no differece in being a member and not being one.
The reason I am one is because when I got unemplyod, they saw to it I got my unemployment benefit imediately instead of waiting for it for 9 months. They are the people who do the negotiations for general advantages.
In Belgium, when a company has morev than 50 people a Union respresentative is required by law. So in reality, all medium and large companies are unionized.
Yes, sometimes they do stupid things, like going on strike for no real reason. However they also saw to it that the discussion between companies and employees is an an equal basis. This means they can not fire me, because the boss was in a bad mood. They can fire me for urgent reasons, like theft (if they have proof) without pay or for any other reason with payment of a severance pay of 3 or more months (depending on the time you worked there)
Also if they fire more than 8% of the workforce, they need to do an official announcement several months in advance. With reorganisations it is not uncommon to pay several months extra n severance pay. I got 7 months for 2 years working, 5 months for 1 year and 5.5 months for 2 years. Of those two times taking the money and starting a new job immediately.
Obviously there is the well known holidays and insurance.
The main difference is that the CxO does not have 2nd house, 5 cars and a yacht most of the time.
Biassed much? This has jack shit to do with the "remorseless competition of the US tech industry and the locals' respect for tradition and deference to established interests".
It has to do by following the rules. They keep saying that they are not a taxi company, while they are. They try to get around all different kinds of laws, especially labour laws and that is not a good thing to do in Europe.
The thing I see is that when they follow the rules, they are NOT cheaper than the traditonal taxi companies.
So what "remorseless competition" means is actually "illegal operation of a business". It is like calling Corleones way of selling insurance "remorseless competition of European family businesses".
Uber is welcome if they play by the rules. They tried and did not make any money.
Do understand that in many places you can just become a taxi-driver by getting the correct papers. Not everywhere there are fixed limits or medaillions.
What the taxi companies should take away from this (and other places as well) is that people like the ease of use, especially in payment. People like the cashless society. There are options for taxi-drivers. I pay with my bank card if possible and that is something that is widely accepted.
The App is also a nice thing and I could see a role for Uber (or others) there. Set up a system where multiple companies can join so you can get a taxi easily. e.g. something like http://www.pizza.be/en/ where people can order from many different places in Belgium.
Do that on a European or even worldwide manner and you are golden.
I have sending and receiving MMS turned of at my provider. As well as paid services, except helpdesk numbers that are fixed priced and have a restricted duration.
So no drunk call to sex lines by 'accident'. No sending sms to paid services. No SMS.
I can even turn on and off roaming for in and outcoming calls seperately.
My phone makes calls that cost money, so I DO need security.I would not want it to make calls that cost money (or send messages) without my knowledge.
And even if that were not the case, I do not like people being able to snoop around on it. Just because I do not have anything to hide does not mean I do not vallue my privacy.
Not only that. Companies LOVE limited resources. Want a fixed IP? That will cost you extra. No matter that no extra adresses are used. No matter that the price for fixed IPs is not higher then that of non-fixed IPs.
This is not the time of the dialup anymore where they would have 30% or 50% of their users online at the same time max. They have 100% of their users + some extra for new users available.
To be able to say 'it is expensive, becquse it is rare' is just a way to cross sell their fixed IP. So why should an ISP start using IPv6, because those are the real customers of IP adresses (Plus some larger companies)
On the downside 1) Cost for extra infrastructure 2) Loss of revenue due to not being able to sell fixed IPs
On the plus side 1) Minority of geeks who are happy
If I were a provider I would add some layers in my pricing structure. 1) 10.x.x.x adresses as a base price 2) Non-fixed IP 3) Fixed IP
And I would fight IPv6 for as long as, possible and when it comes, change over, as the hardware is able to do it anyway.
The robot-lawyer-producing industry will just buy some politicians. And at first this will be used by the lawer companies, so they can use less people investigating.
The law will be something like: you can use them, but they still need a human behind them. That way the law companies can be the size of the 4 names on the door. Nothing else. They can do a LOT more work with better results, shutting down the smaller ones.
And then when the majority of people is already gone, the few companies left will want to have this automation. Obviously all because of terrorist children.
The reqson that many think privitazation is a solution is the same as many think (IT) outsourcing is a good idea. Because the companies telling them it will be cheaper (and sometimes are right.) It also fails for the same reason. In those cases where they ARE cheaper, they fail because of loyalty to the wrong group. People are loyal to those who pay them. If they work inhouse, that is who they are loyal to. If theu work for the outsources, that is who they are loyal to. (In general) These two parties might not have the same goals. One wants to make money, the other wants to have good and cheap code. Here one wants to make money, the other wants to help children learn.
Sure, solving poverty alone will not help. It will make some things possible. A better enviroment to do homework due to less stress at home because there is less stress of not having money. The ability to DO budgetting; planning and good meals.
In the early 1900s my Great Aunt was a teacher learning girls to sow. Due to the law at that time, the children (many who still lived insod houses were not allowed to learn on real clothes. The clothes had to be hald size, so they would not be competition for the professional sowers. These families did not have the money to do that. My great aunt said 'sod it' (see what I did there?) and let them repair their own clothes over and over again, because they did not have money:
Did she solve poverty? Nope, not at all. She perhaps just let them eat a potato more per week, so they did not die.
I applaud you for being able to get out of poverty. If traditional welfare adds just a few a bit more, why not? If it would reduce your,any years to some years, why not.
There is no simple single solution. It will be a combination of things. I do know that doing nothing is certainly worse. If you see somebody drowning, you TRY to help. And even if it does not work for every person that is drowning, more are save than by doing nothing.
And yes, you need to teach people and kids on how to budget, plan and cook. To teach that to the children is what schools are for. Taking a bit of poverty away will help that long process of,any years. This is not something that happens overnight. If you start now, the next generation will be able to learn that from their parents.
That is an investment of 25 years at least. And that is another reason privitazation would be bad. Companies think 5 years ahead. Governements _should_ be thinking a generation ahead.
In Belgium, there are people living paycheck to paycheck as well and not all by choice. Even here it happens that rents go up. This is even indicated by law how much, so it will stay the same relatively.
The issue here is that some people did not get back their deposit. That is the ONLY issue. If they got back their deposit, than they could use that to pay the new deposit.
So the news is that people did not get back their deposit; All the rest is wallpaper.
This is not about the currency. This is about the method of payment. There is a difference. I work in Belgium and where I work, the ONLY method of payment is via bank order. No other method of payment is possible towards us. If you get to our front desk with a pile of money or gold or even a slip from the bank; we will not accept it.
Stores in general will accept pament in cash, but there are sometimes lanes in supermarkets that are card only. No cash, so in principle; you are unable to pay with legal tender.
In some shops you are unable to pay with 500EUR or 200EYR bills and sometimes not even 100EUR. So if that is all you have, you are unable to pay with legal tender.
The law in many countries also is more about if it is reasonable than that it is principle. This will differ from country to country and what the legal system is based on. e.g. Napoleonic Code or English Common Law or others.
That means where I work and others to only accept payment by bankorder. In a pub that would not be the case, Obviously things change and I can imagine that stores do not accept payment in cash, if they do not want to.
The erasonable part also means that they can send you away if you have only 1 cents to pay, because that would be unreasonable.
This might first be high end places, like a jeweler, but the more established it becomes, the more generic it will become. And even that at a certain moment it can be first up to the sales point to accept cash or not.
Next will be the cancelation of cash altogether. The main issue at this moment is small payments. e.g. buying a candy or a newspaper.
With the new payment systems, this will be solved as well. We got rid of checks as well; so why not?
Sure, some people will not like it. There will ALWAYS be a percentage that will not be happy. I know people who are still not happy about cellphones. The thing is that you must see when you are going to ignore them.
Just because it is a minority of people is not enough, because 49.999 is a minority. getting it to 0 is also unrealistic. Also remove those that want it for nostalgic reasons.
And you need to have reasonable alternatives. e.g. banks not charging extra for each transfer, as they gain by not using cash. Usable and available for all, including elderly and homeless people.
What rests is people who are subburn and never will want any change, regardless of the i,provement and for them: sorry,you ware not holding back the rest.
People wonder why we get so little new movies. This is the reason. Because they make money.
Their marketing departments understand something that e.g. banks also understand: getting new customers is hard. They also now understand how they can use social marketing to up the hype.
I expect to see more repackeged material with Newer/Faster/Better on it. Oh well, as long as the massses are happy, who cares. At least Disney now has a bit more money to invest copyright laws.
This feels as if it was a directed attack. This could mean that the cards read were the cards used, not so much cards that where stored by them.
Obviously still an issue if that is the case, but if it happened that way, not blatently so. It also could be that it is just the web reservation. That would be worse than the terminals, because website will include cvv code and thus can be used much easier.
He is going in and out of the country without any papers. They are able to track him. To me it is clear that they are just a waste of money. If they can not stop a single person on a sledge, how do they think they can stop bombs coming in from the Soviet Union.
And to people telling he is no danger: he is clearly devastating for the US toy industry as the majority he brings in is made by underpaid elves in (as indicate don the toys) in China. The reason nothing is done is because he favors the rich more than the poor and those are the people in charge.
The fact that they are or are not Asian-American should make a difference. e.g. many think that the band name N.W.A. could be a slur, where the band members themselves obviously think differently.
If you start with what you can or can not say because of your race, you are doing the thing you try to prevent. Remember that 'positive discrimination' is also discrimination with an adjective added to it.
Well, in some countries drivers at least have to have some knowledge of their car and need a license. Some countries ask fliers to be skilled to use the flying apparatus.
So even though they do not need tie be mechanics or engineers, they need to have basic to advanced knowledge of the things they operate.
So I do not think that if you want to protect your brand and image, having some knowledge is too far fetched. Especially when this is not the first time something like this happened. They ARE aware that this happens and yet they choose not to do anything about it.
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And in Europe you will get the 'welcome to a lawsuit' if they try that. Ironically in Europe only higher management buys that bullshit.
I work my 40 hours and by boss does not DARE to ask for unpaid overtime, regardless if I am in a union or not, because it is illegal.
So it would be bye bye boss.
The reason is that President Trump (Well, or any other one, for that matter, regardless of what party they are from) will give all power to the companies. There is also the issue of this Mexican Mouse ...
Why, because they are told it is a good idea. Or at least they are not told that it is a bad idea.
No matter how bad your idea is for whatever, it can be packaged in such a way that people will want it.
DrunkXYZ, now with even more success in increasing your sugarlevels. Drink DrunkXYZ for the highest blood sugarlevels possible in nature. Packaging also increates the number of jobs in the waste industry. Almost no deterogation of the waste product with the advantage of not usable for a second time.
What I do not get is the gilde aproach of Unions in the US. In Belgium I go to a Union, ANY Union and become a member, regardless of where I work, if I work, what my profession is, my age or whatever.
When I start working and I am not a member, I can become a member at any momenet. I can switch and what not.
When I start looking for a job, they are not allowed to ask and I am allowed to lie if they ask if I am a member (same with pregnancy), but actually nobody cares if you are a member or not. You will be treated the same. For the average person there is no differece in being a member and not being one.
The reason I am one is because when I got unemplyod, they saw to it I got my unemployment benefit imediately instead of waiting for it for 9 months. They are the people who do the negotiations for general advantages.
In Belgium, when a company has morev than 50 people a Union respresentative is required by law. So in reality, all medium and large companies are unionized.
Yes, sometimes they do stupid things, like going on strike for no real reason. However they also saw to it that the discussion between companies and employees is an an equal basis. This means they can not fire me, because the boss was in a bad mood. They can fire me for urgent reasons, like theft (if they have proof) without pay or for any other reason with payment of a severance pay of 3 or more months (depending on the time you worked there)
Also if they fire more than 8% of the workforce, they need to do an official announcement several months in advance. With reorganisations it is not uncommon to pay several months extra n severance pay. I got 7 months for 2 years working, 5 months for 1 year and 5.5 months for 2 years. Of those two times taking the money and starting a new job immediately.
Obviously there is the well known holidays and insurance.
The main difference is that the CxO does not have 2nd house, 5 cars and a yacht most of the time.
Biassed much? This has jack shit to do with the "remorseless competition of the US tech industry and the locals' respect for tradition and deference to established interests".
It has to do by following the rules. They keep saying that they are not a taxi company, while they are. They try to get around all different kinds of laws, especially labour laws and that is not a good thing to do in Europe.
The thing I see is that when they follow the rules, they are NOT cheaper than the traditonal taxi companies.
So what "remorseless competition" means is actually "illegal operation of a business". It is like calling Corleones way of selling insurance "remorseless competition of European family businesses".
Uber is welcome if they play by the rules. They tried and did not make any money.
Do understand that in many places you can just become a taxi-driver by getting the correct papers. Not everywhere there are fixed limits or medaillions.
What the taxi companies should take away from this (and other places as well) is that people like the ease of use, especially in payment. People like the cashless society. There are options for taxi-drivers. I pay with my bank card if possible and that is something that is widely accepted.
The App is also a nice thing and I could see a role for Uber (or others) there. Set up a system where multiple companies can join so you can get a taxi easily. e.g. something like http://www.pizza.be/en/ where people can order from many different places in Belgium.
Do that on a European or even worldwide manner and you are golden.
I have sending and receiving MMS turned of at my provider. As well as paid services, except helpdesk numbers that are fixed priced and have a restricted duration.
So no drunk call to sex lines by 'accident'. No sending sms to paid services. No SMS.
I can even turn on and off roaming for in and outcoming calls seperately.
My phone makes calls that cost money, so I DO need security.I would not want it to make calls that cost money (or send messages) without my knowledge.
And even if that were not the case, I do not like people being able to snoop around on it. Just because I do not have anything to hide does not mean I do not vallue my privacy.
Not only that. Companies LOVE limited resources. Want a fixed IP? That will cost you extra. No matter that no extra adresses are used. No matter that the price for fixed IPs is not higher then that of non-fixed IPs.
This is not the time of the dialup anymore where they would have 30% or 50% of their users online at the same time max. They have 100% of their users + some extra for new users available.
To be able to say 'it is expensive, becquse it is rare' is just a way to cross sell their fixed IP. So why should an ISP start using IPv6, because those are the real customers of IP adresses (Plus some larger companies)
On the downside
1) Cost for extra infrastructure
2) Loss of revenue due to not being able to sell fixed IPs
On the plus side
1) Minority of geeks who are happy
If I were a provider I would add some layers in my pricing structure.
1) 10.x.x.x adresses as a base price
2) Non-fixed IP
3) Fixed IP
And I would fight IPv6 for as long as, possible and when it comes, change over, as the hardware is able to do it anyway.
And that is why there is e.g. Gorrila tape.
That would put it in copyright forever.
I for one welcome our lying overlords. Wait, they are already here and we vote for them.
The robot-lawyer-producing industry will just buy some politicians.
And at first this will be used by the lawer companies, so they can use less people investigating.
The law will be something like: you can use them, but they still need a human behind them. That way the law companies can be the size of the 4 names on the door. Nothing else. They can do a LOT more work with better results, shutting down the smaller ones.
And then when the majority of people is already gone, the few companies left will want to have this automation. Obviously all because of terrorist children.
"Let us go to the moon, if there is a postitive ROI before the end of this century" Somehow that is less inspireing that what was actually said.
Also standing on the shoulders of giants is a LOT harder due to the legal minefield of copyright and patents.
The reqson that many think privitazation is a solution is the same as many think (IT) outsourcing is a good idea. Because the companies telling them it will be cheaper (and sometimes are right.) It also fails for the same reason. In those cases where they ARE cheaper, they fail because of loyalty to the wrong group. People are loyal to those who pay them. If they work inhouse, that is who they are loyal to. If theu work for the outsources, that is who they are loyal to. (In general)
These two parties might not have the same goals. One wants to make money, the other wants to have good and cheap code.
Here one wants to make money, the other wants to help children learn.
Sure, solving poverty alone will not help. It will make some things possible. A better enviroment to do homework due to less stress at home because there is less stress of not having money. The ability to DO budgetting; planning and good meals.
In the early 1900s my Great Aunt was a teacher learning girls to sow. Due to the law at that time, the children (many who still lived insod houses were not allowed to learn on real clothes. The clothes had to be hald size, so they would not be competition for the professional sowers.
These families did not have the money to do that. My great aunt said 'sod it' (see what I did there?) and let them repair their own clothes over and over again, because they did not have money:
Did she solve poverty? Nope, not at all. She perhaps just let them eat a potato more per week, so they did not die.
I applaud you for being able to get out of poverty. If traditional welfare adds just a few a bit more, why not? If it would reduce your ,any years to some years, why not.
There is no simple single solution. It will be a combination of things. I do know that doing nothing is certainly worse.
If you see somebody drowning, you TRY to help. And even if it does not work for every person that is drowning, more are save than by doing nothing.
And yes, you need to teach people and kids on how to budget, plan and cook. To teach that to the children is what schools are for. Taking a bit of poverty away will help that long process of ,any years. This is not something that happens overnight. If you start now, the next generation will be able to learn that from their parents.
That is an investment of 25 years at least. And that is another reason privitazation would be bad. Companies think 5 years ahead. Governements _should_ be thinking a generation ahead.
That they do not do that is a whole other issue.
In Belgium, there are people living paycheck to paycheck as well and not all by choice. Even here it happens that rents go up. This is even indicated by law how much, so it will stay the same relatively.
The issue here is that some people did not get back their deposit. That is the ONLY issue. If they got back their deposit, than they could use that to pay the new deposit.
So the news is that people did not get back their deposit; All the rest is wallpaper.
This is not about the currency. This is about the method of payment. There is a difference. I work in Belgium and where I work, the ONLY method of payment is via bank order. No other method of payment is possible towards us. If you get to our front desk with a pile of money or gold or even a slip from the bank; we will not accept it.
Stores in general will accept pament in cash, but there are sometimes lanes in supermarkets that are card only. No cash, so in principle; you are unable to pay with legal tender.
In some shops you are unable to pay with 500EUR or 200EYR bills and sometimes not even 100EUR. So if that is all you have, you are unable to pay with legal tender.
The law in many countries also is more about if it is reasonable than that it is principle. This will differ from country to country and what the legal system is based on. e.g. Napoleonic Code or English Common Law or others.
That means where I work and others to only accept payment by bankorder. In a pub that would not be the case, Obviously things change and I can imagine that stores do not accept payment in cash, if they do not want to.
The erasonable part also means that they can send you away if you have only 1 cents to pay, because that would be unreasonable.
This might first be high end places, like a jeweler, but the more established it becomes, the more generic it will become. And even that at a certain moment it can be first up to the sales point to accept cash or not.
Next will be the cancelation of cash altogether. The main issue at this moment is small payments. e.g. buying a candy or a newspaper.
With the new payment systems, this will be solved as well. We got rid of checks as well; so why not?
Sure, some people will not like it. There will ALWAYS be a percentage that will not be happy. I know people who are still not happy about cellphones. The thing is that you must see when you are going to ignore them.
Just because it is a minority of people is not enough, because 49.999 is a minority. getting it to 0 is also unrealistic. Also remove those that want it for nostalgic reasons.
And you need to have reasonable alternatives. e.g. banks not charging extra for each transfer, as they gain by not using cash. Usable and available for all, including elderly and homeless people.
What rests is people who are subburn and never will want any change, regardless of the i,provement and for them: sorry,you ware not holding back the rest.
People wonder why we get so little new movies. This is the reason. Because they make money.
Their marketing departments understand something that e.g. banks also understand: getting new customers is hard. They also now understand how they can use social marketing to up the hype.
I expect to see more repackeged material with Newer/Faster/Better on it. Oh well, as long as the massses are happy, who cares. At least Disney now has a bit more money to invest copyright laws.
This feels as if it was a directed attack. This could mean that the cards read were the cards used, not so much cards that where stored by them.
Obviously still an issue if that is the case, but if it happened that way, not blatently so. It also could be that it is just the web reservation. That would be worse than the terminals, because website will include cvv code and thus can be used much easier.
He is going in and out of the country without any papers. They are able to track him.
To me it is clear that they are just a waste of money. If they can not stop a single person on a sledge, how do they think they can stop bombs coming in from the Soviet Union.
And to people telling he is no danger: he is clearly devastating for the US toy industry as the majority he brings in is made by underpaid elves in (as indicate don the toys) in China.
The reason nothing is done is because he favors the rich more than the poor and those are the people in charge.
Wake up sheeple!
The fact that they are or are not Asian-American should make a difference. e.g. many think that the band name N.W.A. could be a slur, where the band members themselves obviously think differently.
If you start with what you can or can not say because of your race, you are doing the thing you try to prevent. Remember that 'positive discrimination' is also discrimination with an adjective added to it.
I knew some higher officers in the German army ad they told me the life expectancy in case of the different types of was.
Basically it mend that if there was a war, Europe would have been a wasteland to protect our allies, the USofA and Russia.
Depending on the type of war (ABC) the survival time would be days to hours.
I am sure they are willing to do so, but not allowed. You know things are fucked up when the people with the tin foil hats are right.
So by not giving money to the schools, they can create more imbeciles. I think we just found step 2.
They probably saven money and just bought a book in a second hand store that contains a series of random numbers.
Well, in some countries drivers at least have to have some knowledge of their car and need a license. Some countries ask fliers to be skilled to use the flying apparatus.
So even though they do not need tie be mechanics or engineers, they need to have basic to advanced knowledge of the things they operate.
So I do not think that if you want to protect your brand and image, having some knowledge is too far fetched. Especially when this is not the first time something like this happened. They ARE aware that this happens and yet they choose not to do anything about it.