The thing is that instead of have 2 people working 40 hours each and replacing 1 person means 1 person still works 40 and get standard pay, while the other gets nothing and the owner of the robot take the other pay that was lost. Ideal would be to have both work 20 hours and keep their pay. (Yes, I know that I have put the cost of the robot at 0 in this example)
So how much time do you spend doing that and get paid for it. So say that it amounts to one person doing it all the time. They will not need that one person anymore. You can be that one person. See if you like unemployment better than doing that PIA restock stuff that took such a long time.
And if you say "But it is only 1 hour a day" then they will cut one hour of your day, so you earn less.
There is a reason that I never use the self checkout. It is my idea of helping the people hold on to their jobs.
I somehow think that we are missing serious opportunities with electronic voting.First of all, it is not free, so perhaps we could start with sponsorship. That way you know who gets the money directly. No shady, behind the curtains deals with politicians. YOU see who get what. First this could be to have "The vote for Candidate X is endorced by company Y and the candidate will receive W amount for your vote". Next we could do things like "Vote this one and you get a free burger." "vote for that one, get a coucher of 10% off with your next purchase at BigCompany"
Ministry of truth. Remember:"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" And listen to me. I tell the truth. All others are lies and fake news. My news is the true news. It is the best news. You'll see.
It is also a fact that as older you get, as harder it will be to drive and to react in a timely manner. So things like automatic breaking and lane departure will be an increase in safety as the person gets older. Especially at night.
And it is both the car AND the drivers (yourself included) that you need to keep an eye out for. You can be the best driver in the world, but if your brakes suddenly don't work anymore, you will plow into things.
And 19 years without an accident could just be an anomaly. It is when my great aunt became the oldest person in the world and was asked who she had done that. Her answer was:Keep breathing and luck. Somebody has to be the oldest and now it is me. Note that when she was born the doctors thought she would not live beyond 6 weeks and was plenty sick in her childhood.
In Belgium every adult has that right. Doesn't even matter if you work or where. And you can join one the day you got fired if you so desire and think that they can help. They are unions, not guilds (most of them) so it does not matter what profession you have. Some will be more specialiwed than others, but you can still join a generic one, or more than one.
Being in a union does not give you any special rights (unless you are a voted union representative). Just yesterday some people where I work got fired for not performing as the company would like. That can happen regardless if you are a union member or not. They all got about 1 month pay per year worked, so one got around 10 months pay. He was not in a union. If he has a job tomorrow, he just received a lot of extra cash. If not, he will start receiving unemployment benefits n 10 months.
That said, there is also no Union that can force me to join them before I get a job. I will always have the right to join one or not and that choice is mine and mine alone.
In all my job interviews I have taken AND given the question about being in a union was never brought up as it is never relevant to the job and the situation can change the next day. I am pretty sure IF some idiot asked it and you lied about it, they could not fire you over it (like you can lie about being pregnant.)
Nobody really cares. All get the advantages or disadvantages.
The justice system, ANY justice system relies on accountability. As this is not the case, as we have known since at least the OJ trial, it means that it is a joke.
I am sure we could make a long list of people, companies, agencies and institutions where we KNOW they are guilty and many of them even admit it, yet nothing happens.
The argument to this would be that at 15 you are not an adult. So it would be better to use the age of 19, because it clearly asks the question about the rights of an adult.
The reason they do it is because they want to make more money. If you only sell 1 product, there is only X amount to be sold. e.g. say you only sell No.2 Pencils. You are the best in the world. You try everything, but you are unable to sell more. So you start selling other pencils and you see that you still sell the same amount of No2 + a lot of others, so you make more money. You expand to all kinds of pencils. After that you add paper and the rulers and paperclips and pencil holders and perforators and paperclips and...
This because you want to make money, not because you want to be the best pencil No2 seller.
If you have both the guts and the financial ability, you are able to go back to your core business. But that place could be take by others already. Dropping products means initial dropping income and profit and all that without guarantee that it will make you more money in the long run.
If you follow through on their argument, employers would not have access to company phones they provided to employees, parents would not have access to phones they bought for their kids, you could not authorize police to pull GPS data from a phone you lent to a friend when they went hiking and got lost. It's an argument which weakens the concept of ownership (right of the owner to know what their property is being used for, vs the user's right to privacy).
In no way does it weaken the concept of ownership. There are two things here. The first is the ownership of the device itself. It is clear who owns it. That would be the employer or the kids or yourself. The second is the ownership of the data. That is the employees, the kids or your friends. See? No weakening of the concept.
The right to privacy should trump all others, because without it, all the other rights become meaningless.
Can it be hold in front of your face while you are contained by 4 people? Would "holding a phone in your face" be thought of as illegal entry or anything else?
They could take the phone, hold it in front of you and the things opens. Not only do they now have access to everything, they have confirmation that it is your phone.
It is not as if they are trying to not let you know they want and get access.
Why would I want an ugly pot in my house? Or a frame that is way to expensive and won't fit when I move. And if there are families where both kids want it, do both get half a parent? What happens after several generations?
Both my parents died this year. What my sister and myself did was a cremation and then a burial at sea. That basically means trowing the urn overboard in a dignified way. To me it was extremely beautiful and nice and serene. Better than a burial.
How this can be done where you live and if it is even possible depends from country to country. What people do with my body after I die I do not care. Just put the ashes in a dustbin for al I care. I won't be there to see it and it is more for THEM to process the loss of a loved one.
Graveyards are a waste of space. They cost also a lot and, at least in most places in Europe, you will rent it for 30 years and then after that you need to pay extra. Not even talking about the issues between siblings if one wants to keep it; the second one does not have the money and the third one wants to pay less, because they did the maintenance in the last 10 years.
My wish since I was a kid was to be fed to the lions in a zoo. That way my body would still be useful somewhat. I doubt that is legal.
What my great aunt did was give her body to science. She opensourced her body https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... They found some interesting stuff about getting old as well as being the inspiration to ask,ore people who are older than 100 to donate their body for science.
So that is a route I am now looking into, although I am not even close to that age.
Also: Do not forget to get a donor card. You body can be used by others. Let your closest family know that you are a donor and ask them to see to it that will be done when you die. To often it happens that the person is a donor, yet the family objects, because they did not know. To avoid legal struggles, these people, who wanted to be donors, won't be.
In Belgium locked phones are forbidden. Many people will buy phones with a provider, but the phone can not be locked and so many providers will just sell the phone. Yet many will just buy them somewhere else and just change the chip.
It is also easy to switch providers and keep your number. This will be done in the same day and takes just a few hours. New SIM, Get an SMS. Change the SIM. I have not changed my number in 10 years and I have had 5 providers. Once a year I look if others are cheaper for me.
At this moment there is no roaming cost anymore in Europe, so now I am waiting that the international calling prices in Europe are gone and I will look for a country where the calls are cheaper. I would love to have e.g. a Polish or Spanish number if it is cheaper for me as well as not more expensive for people to contact me.
Everybody here seems to be falling how they still can't trust them, because they can't build the code. Although that is true, they still do more than Norton and others.
How do you know they are not infiltrated by the Russians? Perhaps they are and they are also infiltrated by the NSA. Do you think the NSA would tell you not to use it?
The only thing I am sure about is that Kasperski is not infiltrated by the NSA as they seem to be making such a fuzz about it.
Indeed we can't be sure about any of the software that we use if we are not able to build it ourselves. Windows. MacOS. Not trustworthy. Things in the cloud? Not trustworthy. So if you condemn Kasperski, don't forget to condemn the rest as well. Because if the NSA has the info, the rest will as well.
So to me Kasperski is the safest as ONLY the Russians can read everything in the worst case. In the same worst case, with the rest, the Russians can read it, together with the Americans.
The thing with a keycard is that I would need to walk around with several hundreds of them. One for each place I want access. Using a password manager would mean that if that is hacked, all the rest is hacked.
In the meantime, the law is what it is, and whether it's inconvenient, or whether somebody really really doesn't want/doesn't feel like following the law doesn't make breaking the law acceptable.
To me it does. If there are that many people who are breaking the law, there is an issue with the law. And this is not just something from the last 5 years. This has been going on long enough that the first ones have grand kids that where born in the US. The current law clearly does not work, so it needs to change.
The law should follow the people, not the other way arround, wo yes, breaking the maw should be acceptable. No, this is not a slippery slope where I can go and do whatever I like.
The reason they don't do it is because people do not want an ID. In Belgium we have an ID with a chip. We have a national number (yyyymmdd-aaa-bb) and an ID. The National number by itself does not do much. You need an ID. On https://www.checkdoc.be/ everybody can verify if the card is valid or not. If your card is lost or stolen, you call that in (24/7 on a free number) and the card will be blocked. You will need to go to the police for a temporary card that will have some serious limitations. e.g. no credit. For a job it would mean you would need to show a new card within a reasonable time (e.g. a month or so) or you have issues with your job or even no job till you show an offical ID.
On top of that we have the National Bank that has all the loans and credits when ONLY banks and credit institutions can get (limited) information and that is used to see e.g. if you can buy that new iPhone on credit or not.
So this has nothing to do with just illegals. It could go much further, like credit scores and what not. But that would mean people would be required to have an ID. And many people will be against that.
Stay positive. That was what saved me from going mad. And every person will do things differently. What I did was just call up the HR department when I saw a job and started with "I saw your job and I know I could be an interesting party, I am looking for X amount to make. Is that what you are looking for?" Sometimes I would get "That is way more than we are willing to pay." I would thank them and say it is good we both saved time. Most of the times they would already ask a few questions and often it would end with "ok, send your CV, so I can look at it. That would often result in an interview. The reason, I think, is because they already know you a little bit. They know you better than the 500 other people who just send in a letter. That means you have a better chance of being one of the three they talk to.
This will most likely not work in large companies. They will have way too many job applications going on at the same time.
And spreading the cheer: so true. I was in a special program because of age. They do that in Belgium. Most other where middle to higher management. I stopped going there, even though it was interesting, because the others where SOOO negative. It was no wonder they where fired after 30 years. I would not want to work with them either.
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The thing is that instead of have 2 people working 40 hours each and replacing 1 person means 1 person still works 40 and get standard pay, while the other gets nothing and the owner of the robot take the other pay that was lost.
Ideal would be to have both work 20 hours and keep their pay.
(Yes, I know that I have put the cost of the robot at 0 in this example)
So how much time do you spend doing that and get paid for it. So say that it amounts to one person doing it all the time. They will not need that one person anymore. You can be that one person. See if you like unemployment better than doing that PIA restock stuff that took such a long time.
And if you say "But it is only 1 hour a day" then they will cut one hour of your day, so you earn less.
There is a reason that I never use the self checkout. It is my idea of helping the people hold on to their jobs.
I somehow think that we are missing serious opportunities with electronic voting.First of all, it is not free, so perhaps we could start with sponsorship. That way you know who gets the money directly. No shady, behind the curtains deals with politicians. YOU see who get what.
First this could be to have "The vote for Candidate X is endorced by company Y and the candidate will receive W amount for your vote".
Next we could do things like "Vote this one and you get a free burger." "vote for that one, get a coucher of 10% off with your next purchase at BigCompany"
It is what is going on now, but more transparent.
Q: How do you know a voting machine os insecure?
A; It exists.
The year of the Linux Desktop is now. Linux is just called Android.
Ministry of truth. Remember:"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength"
And listen to me. I tell the truth. All others are lies and fake news. My news is the true news. It is the best news. You'll see.
It is also a fact that as older you get, as harder it will be to drive and to react in a timely manner.
So things like automatic breaking and lane departure will be an increase in safety as the person gets older. Especially at night.
And it is both the car AND the drivers (yourself included) that you need to keep an eye out for. You can be the best driver in the world, but if your brakes suddenly don't work anymore, you will plow into things.
And 19 years without an accident could just be an anomaly. It is when my great aunt became the oldest person in the world and was asked who she had done that. Her answer was:Keep breathing and luck. Somebody has to be the oldest and now it is me. Note that when she was born the doctors thought she would not live beyond 6 weeks and was plenty sick in her childhood.
In Belgium every adult has that right. Doesn't even matter if you work or where. And you can join one the day you got fired if you so desire and think that they can help.
They are unions, not guilds (most of them) so it does not matter what profession you have. Some will be more specialiwed than others, but you can still join a generic one, or more than one.
Being in a union does not give you any special rights (unless you are a voted union representative). Just yesterday some people where I work got fired for not performing as the company would like. That can happen regardless if you are a union member or not.
They all got about 1 month pay per year worked, so one got around 10 months pay. He was not in a union. If he has a job tomorrow, he just received a lot of extra cash. If not, he will start receiving unemployment benefits n 10 months.
That said, there is also no Union that can force me to join them before I get a job. I will always have the right to join one or not and that choice is mine and mine alone.
In all my job interviews I have taken AND given the question about being in a union was never brought up as it is never relevant to the job and the situation can change the next day. I am pretty sure IF some idiot asked it and you lied about it, they could not fire you over it (like you can lie about being pregnant.)
Nobody really cares. All get the advantages or disadvantages.
One word : Turing
Two moe words : Da Vinci
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The justice system, ANY justice system relies on accountability. As this is not the case, as we have known since at least the OJ trial, it means that it is a joke.
I am sure we could make a long list of people, companies, agencies and institutions where we KNOW they are guilty and many of them even admit it, yet nothing happens.
The argument to this would be that at 15 you are not an adult. So it would be better to use the age of 19, because it clearly asks the question about the rights of an adult.
The reason they do it is because they want to make more money. If you only sell 1 product, there is only X amount to be sold. e.g. say you only sell No.2 Pencils. You are the best in the world. You try everything, but you are unable to sell more. ...
So you start selling other pencils and you see that you still sell the same amount of No2 + a lot of others, so you make more money. You expand to all kinds of pencils. After that you add paper and the rulers and paperclips and pencil holders and perforators and paperclips and
This because you want to make money, not because you want to be the best pencil No2 seller.
If you have both the guts and the financial ability, you are able to go back to your core business. But that place could be take by others already. Dropping products means initial dropping income and profit and all that without guarantee that it will make you more money in the long run.
In no way does it weaken the concept of ownership. There are two things here. The first is the ownership of the device itself. It is clear who owns it. That would be the employer or the kids or yourself. The second is the ownership of the data. That is the employees, the kids or your friends. See? No weakening of the concept.
The right to privacy should trump all others, because without it, all the other rights become meaningless.
Can it be hold in front of your face while you are contained by 4 people? Would "holding a phone in your face" be thought of as illegal entry or anything else?
They could take the phone, hold it in front of you and the things opens. Not only do they now have access to everything, they have confirmation that it is your phone.
It is not as if they are trying to not let you know they want and get access.
Why would I want an ugly pot in my house? Or a frame that is way to expensive and won't fit when I move. And if there are families where both kids want it, do both get half a parent?
What happens after several generations?
Both my parents died this year. What my sister and myself did was a cremation and then a burial at sea. That basically means trowing the urn overboard in a dignified way. To me it was extremely beautiful and nice and serene. Better than a burial.
How this can be done where you live and if it is even possible depends from country to country. What people do with my body after I die I do not care. Just put the ashes in a dustbin for al I care. I won't be there to see it and it is more for THEM to process the loss of a loved one.
Graveyards are a waste of space. They cost also a lot and, at least in most places in Europe, you will rent it for 30 years and then after that you need to pay extra. Not even talking about the issues between siblings if one wants to keep it; the second one does not have the money and the third one wants to pay less, because they did the maintenance in the last 10 years.
My wish since I was a kid was to be fed to the lions in a zoo. That way my body would still be useful somewhat. I doubt that is legal.
What my great aunt did was give her body to science. She opensourced her body https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ,ore people who are older than 100 to donate their body for science.
They found some interesting stuff about getting old as well as being the inspiration to ask
So that is a route I am now looking into, although I am not even close to that age.
Also: Do not forget to get a donor card. You body can be used by others. Let your closest family know that you are a donor and ask them to see to it that will be done when you die. To often it happens that the person is a donor, yet the family objects, because they did not know. To avoid legal struggles, these people, who wanted to be donors, won't be.
I did that once and the result was "Mostly harmless".
In Belgium locked phones are forbidden. Many people will buy phones with a provider, but the phone can not be locked and so many providers will just sell the phone.
Yet many will just buy them somewhere else and just change the chip.
It is also easy to switch providers and keep your number. This will be done in the same day and takes just a few hours. New SIM, Get an SMS. Change the SIM. I have not changed my number in 10 years and I have had 5 providers. Once a year I look if others are cheaper for me.
At this moment there is no roaming cost anymore in Europe, so now I am waiting that the international calling prices in Europe are gone and I will look for a country where the calls are cheaper. I would love to have e.g. a Polish or Spanish number if it is cheaper for me as well as not more expensive for people to contact me.
Everybody here seems to be falling how they still can't trust them, because they can't build the code. Although that is true, they still do more than Norton and others.
How do you know they are not infiltrated by the Russians? Perhaps they are and they are also infiltrated by the NSA. Do you think the NSA would tell you not to use it?
The only thing I am sure about is that Kasperski is not infiltrated by the NSA as they seem to be making such a fuzz about it.
Indeed we can't be sure about any of the software that we use if we are not able to build it ourselves. Windows. MacOS. Not trustworthy. Things in the cloud? Not trustworthy. So if you condemn Kasperski, don't forget to condemn the rest as well. Because if the NSA has the info, the rest will as well.
So to me Kasperski is the safest as ONLY the Russians can read everything in the worst case. In the same worst case, with the rest, the Russians can read it, together with the Americans.
The thing with a keycard is that I would need to walk around with several hundreds of them. One for each place I want access. Using a password manager would mean that if that is hacked, all the rest is hacked.
To me it does. If there are that many people who are breaking the law, there is an issue with the law.
And this is not just something from the last 5 years. This has been going on long enough that the first ones have grand kids that where born in the US.
The current law clearly does not work, so it needs to change.
The law should follow the people, not the other way arround, wo yes, breaking the maw should be acceptable. No, this is not a slippery slope where I can go and do whatever I like.
The reason they don't do it is because people do not want an ID.
In Belgium we have an ID with a chip. We have a national number (yyyymmdd-aaa-bb) and an ID. The National number by itself does not do much. You need an ID. On https://www.checkdoc.be/ everybody can verify if the card is valid or not.
If your card is lost or stolen, you call that in (24/7 on a free number) and the card will be blocked. You will need to go to the police for a temporary card that will have some serious limitations. e.g. no credit.
For a job it would mean you would need to show a new card within a reasonable time (e.g. a month or so) or you have issues with your job or even no job till you show an offical ID.
On top of that we have the National Bank that has all the loans and credits when ONLY banks and credit institutions can get (limited) information and that is used to see e.g. if you can buy that new iPhone on credit or not.
So this has nothing to do with just illegals. It could go much further, like credit scores and what not. But that would mean people would be required to have an ID. And many people will be against that.
You can't be hacked if you have nothing hidden and everything is public. PointsHead.gif
Stay positive. That was what saved me from going mad. And every person will do things differently. What I did was just call up the HR department when I saw a job and started with "I saw your job and I know I could be an interesting party, I am looking for X amount to make. Is that what you are looking for?"
Sometimes I would get "That is way more than we are willing to pay." I would thank them and say it is good we both saved time. Most of the times they would already ask a few questions and often it would end with "ok, send your CV, so I can look at it. That would often result in an interview. The reason, I think, is because they already know you a little bit. They know you better than the 500 other people who just send in a letter.
That means you have a better chance of being one of the three they talk to.
This will most likely not work in large companies. They will have way too many job applications going on at the same time.
And spreading the cheer: so true. I was in a special program because of age. They do that in Belgium. Most other where middle to higher management. I stopped going there, even though it was interesting, because the others where SOOO negative. It was no wonder they where fired after 30 years. I would not want to work with them either.