"10% of lawsuits against employers were won by the employee"
As one of the AC's replied, this could very well be because 90% of those cases are completely frivolous. Also, does that 10% include cases that were settled? The EEOC reported that 9% were settled in 2012. That would leave just 1% that were won in favor of the plantiff: http://smallbusiness.chron.com...
"These are the kinds of people who decide cases - morons"
I've been on quite a few juries. My anecdotal experience has been the complete opposite.
"but it's idiotic to just assume the jury got it right"
It's also idiotic to assume that the jury consisted of idiots.
AC brings up a good question. If I'm selling for Mary Kay, Avon, or god forbid AmWay, I'm not employed by those companies (?)....but they do set the guidelines on the price of their products and the guidelines. How does Uber differ in this situation according to California law?
"-American workers are simply too expensive compared with the rest of the world." I think you mean "too expensive for my expensive taste/budget" * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"-American education is simply too expensive compared with the rest of the world" Maybe there is a reason for that? Take a look at the top 20: ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* The U.S. is third, and some of the countries you mentioned in other parts of your post do in fact make it into the top 10. ** I admit that some of these schools are private and have very high admission standards, but you should take notice that quite a few of them are State-funded universities. Besides, the State I lived in provided a free college-education. Most people I know that have student loans got them because they didn't want to work part-time while in college. *** This one is hard to quantify, but if you're going to make a blanket statement like you did, at least try to back it up in some fashion.
Soviet Union has lagged behind Western countries in terms of mortality and life expectancy since the late 1960s "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#Life_expectancy"
Looks like you're correct, although z/architecture does share some of the same components (in the same way all CPU's share some of the same technologies).
"Yet the mainframe is by far the most reliable and secure environment where to run production software"
Maybe, but I always felt it was more like "security through obscurity". There aren't many z/OS exploits because of it's low usage footprint, not because it's anymore inherently secure than a modern UNIX/Linux.
Yep, it was originally all barley, but wheat/rye is becoming more and more common (and I was trying to make a joke more than anything).
You're right that there's also no GMO wheat being grown commercially, but there is triticale, which is a wheat/rye hybrid (and technically a GMO). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's a bit of a stretch.....Iraq is a country that invaded both Iran and Kuwait within a 10 year period. It may not be a direct provocation to the U.S., but it is provocation no less.
"have overthrown countless democratically elected governments (including the one in Iran)."
This one always bothered me, but I feel the outcome would have been the same regardless. Iran would be a "democratically elected" Islamic caliphate.
Well these guys certainly don't have nukes or make their own missiles, and they seem to have done a pretty decent job at fighting off the U.S. government.
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"10% of lawsuits against employers were won by the employee"
As one of the AC's replied, this could very well be because 90% of those cases are completely frivolous. Also, does that 10% include cases that were settled? The EEOC reported that 9% were settled in 2012. That would leave just 1% that were won in favor of the plantiff:
http://smallbusiness.chron.com...
"These are the kinds of people who decide cases - morons"
I've been on quite a few juries. My anecdotal experience has been the complete opposite.
"but it's idiotic to just assume the jury got it right"
It's also idiotic to assume that the jury consisted of idiots.
Is Mars massive enough to have the gravitational pull to keep all of those greenhouse gases from escaping into space?
AC brings up a good question. If I'm selling for Mary Kay, Avon, or god forbid AmWay, I'm not employed by those companies (?)....but they do set the guidelines on the price of their products and the guidelines. How does Uber differ in this situation according to California law?
"-American workers are simply too expensive compared with the rest of the world."
I think you mean "too expensive for my expensive taste/budget" *
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"-American education is simply too expensive compared with the rest of the world"
Maybe there is a reason for that? Take a look at the top 20: **
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"-America used to lead in science in technology, but the rest of the world catches up quickly"
http://www.realclearscience.co... ***
Or, if you like, the locations of the big revenue technology companies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* The U.S. is third, and some of the countries you mentioned in other parts of your post do in fact make it into the top 10.
** I admit that some of these schools are private and have very high admission standards, but you should take notice that quite a few of them are State-funded universities. Besides, the State I lived in provided a free college-education. Most people I know that have student loans got them because they didn't want to work part-time while in college.
*** This one is hard to quantify, but if you're going to make a blanket statement like you did, at least try to back it up in some fashion.
"What Linux-only apps would you like to see available on Windows?"
systemd.....err, wait.....
But this sort of thing happens at the State and Federal level as well.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.gao.gov/products/GA...
Just to name a few....
Nintendo makes the 3DS, and also Wario Land, so wouldn't they just have to license it from themselves?
I remember the first time I played one of these. After 10 minutes I had a headache and my back hurt.
Just what every kid wanted to spend their hard-earned allowance on.....a 10 minute headache/back pain inducer.
"The economy as implemented in the U.S.S.R. choked on the stranglehold of bureaucracy and the corruption enabled by it."
Exactly, which is why using the U.S.S.R. as an example of socialism is a bad choice. Are you trying to disagree with that?
"The economy as implemented in the U.S.S.R. choked on the stranglehold of bureaucracy and the corruption enabled by it."
Exactly....which makes the U.S.S.R a poor example of socialism. I'm not sure if you're trying to disagree?
"artists would do art"
If it fit within The Party Lines.
"the sick would work to get healthy"
Soviet Union has lagged behind Western countries in terms of mortality and life expectancy since the late 1960s
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#Life_expectancy"
And yet the GDP per capita in the USSR for 1982 was $5,000, compared to $14,400 for the U.S.A.
http://countryeconomy.com/gdp/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you're going to make an argument for Socialism, using the U.S.S.R. as an example is a poor choice.
Looks like you're correct, although z/architecture does share some of the same components (in the same way all CPU's share some of the same technologies).
http://speleotrove.com/decimal...
It makes sense considering POWER is RISC whereas z/Series is CISC. I should have been able to put two-in-two together.
I know AIX is a holdover from RS/6000, but isn't the zSeries based on a highly modified POWER core?
"Yet the mainframe is by far the most reliable and secure environment where to run production software"
Maybe, but I always felt it was more like "security through obscurity". There aren't many z/OS exploits because of it's low usage footprint, not because it's anymore inherently secure than a modern UNIX/Linux.
If I understand this correctly, the original Beluga's were rescued from a theme park in Mexico, and they had calves within the Georgia Aquarium:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yep, it was originally all barley, but wheat/rye is becoming more and more common (and I was trying to make a joke more than anything).
You're right that there's also no GMO wheat being grown commercially, but there is triticale, which is a wheat/rye hybrid (and technically a GMO).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I guess Scotch made from organic wheat will be better for my liver?
"Back then- an older person's insurance could be 12x the cost of a younger person's insurance (now it's 3x)."
Can you provide the source for that? I'm not trying to nitpick, I'm genuinely interested.
You mean the same civilians that chose to keep the same government in power that authorized Pearl Harbor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Good point, I forgot that erosion is caused by wind on Mars.
What besides meteor impacts would cause the surface to look old? I doubt there is erosion caused by liquid on Pluto (?)
"U.S.: Invaded Iraq with no provocation"
That's a bit of a stretch.....Iraq is a country that invaded both Iran and Kuwait within a 10 year period. It may not be a direct provocation to the U.S., but it is provocation no less.
"have overthrown countless democratically elected governments (including the one in Iran)."
This one always bothered me, but I feel the outcome would have been the same regardless. Iran would be a "democratically elected" Islamic caliphate.
Who knows. Given a long enough time, the outcome could be similar.
"The Iraqi army in the first gulf war was far better equipped, trained and experienced and they lasted about 45mins."
So that explains why the present situation in Iraq has been a cakewalk for the past 10 years?
Well these guys certainly don't have nukes or make their own missiles, and they seem to have done a pretty decent job at fighting off the U.S. government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...