A self-checkout kiosk can already do the same job, and is often better because the lines can be shorter.
Except you still need cashiers to handle age-restricted products like alcohol and cigarettes. I doubt vending machines for these products will become popular again.
So what you're saying is, despite your claim that 2% raises don't add up over time, inflation numbers suggest that the 2% raises HAVE added up over time, increasing the actual value of their salaries faster than inflation has eroded them?
Please educate yourself.
But after adjusting for inflation, today's average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power as it did in 1979, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then. In fact, in real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 has the same purchasing power as $22.41 would today.
Define "high altitudes". Most commercial aircraft fly at 39k feet, I doubt many consumer grade drones can go 7 miles up.
The tallest buildings in San Jose are 27 stories or less and situated on either side of the flight path to the San Jose International Airport. Buildings closest to the flight path are shorter in height. The city tore out a residential neighborhood and put in a park next to the airport because airplanes were coming in above the roof lines. It wouldn't take much for a drone to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A pandemic seems more likely than all the catastrophic events that may yet come, especially with first world countries having an older population throughout the rest of this century.
I'm wondering if we're gonna have to have a major airline accident over a population center from some kid's $500 drone before somebody takes action.
The hobbyists with money are going to be the ones to worry about. If the drone used to pull Casey Neistat on skies flew around an airport, it might cause problems.
I've watched plenty of videos from hobbyist drones that went straight up at high attitudes. I wonder if such attitudes are possible in Silicon Valley, as the whole area is a flight path for multiple airports in the region. I'm thinking about getting a camera drone.
I'm just offering you some advice as to how you might make your life a degree less miserable than it is already.
I graduated from the School of Hard Knocks. Slashdot is nothing in comparison to the miseries that I've suffered in Real Liffe. Shit like this doesn't bother me at all.
Did "sometimes" outweigh a steady income where you don't have to worry about landing clients back to back?
Whenever recruiters and hiring managers ask me why I don't want a "permanent" position, I ask them why the position they're offering isn't "permanent"? I've never got a straight answer on that.
Bosses don't want to train old people so I assume you got this job before you turned 30.
Bosses in the private sector don't want to provide training.
If you want training, you will have to do it yourself. If you work in government IT, you're going to get training each and every year whether you want it or not.
Reruns of Batman and Three Stooges 'Harm Young People's Mental Health'
I heard that back in the early 1970's when I in kindergarten and the early grades. Teachers didn't like kids using their jackets as capes, jumping off high surfaces and screaming "BATMAN!" at the top of their voice, or trying to poke out each other's eyes like the Three Stooges. Fun times.
Don't pretend to be an IT professional when you have only the merest understanding of the topics being discussed, and then act butt-hurt when people who DO understand the topics tell you that you're a semi-literate buffoon.
I spent 20+ years working in IT. I'm not going to let a half-dozen overpaid asshats run me off of Slashdot.
I had a sister-in-law who got bought out after a lifetime at IBM and got rehired as a consultant after the dot com bust. She made more money as a consultant than she did as a regular employee for the same kind of work. She took another buyout and retired ten years later.
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A self-checkout kiosk can already do the same job, and is often better because the lines can be shorter.
Except you still need cashiers to handle age-restricted products like alcohol and cigarettes. I doubt vending machines for these products will become popular again.
So what you're saying is, despite your claim that 2% raises don't add up over time, inflation numbers suggest that the 2% raises HAVE added up over time, increasing the actual value of their salaries faster than inflation has eroded them?
Please educate yourself.
But after adjusting for inflation, today's average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power as it did in 1979, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then. In fact, in real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 has the same purchasing power as $22.41 would today.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/
You mean like during the last decade where inflation has been practically negative?
Last 20+ years.
Does London City refer to the City of London to distinguish it from the rest of London? Or is the London airport a city unto itself?
The fact that you keep making a nuisance of yourself here, trying to get approval?
I'm here to have fun by trolling the trolls.
Define "high altitudes". Most commercial aircraft fly at 39k feet, I doubt many consumer grade drones can go 7 miles up.
The tallest buildings in San Jose are 27 stories or less and situated on either side of the flight path to the San Jose International Airport. Buildings closest to the flight path are shorter in height. The city tore out a residential neighborhood and put in a park next to the airport because airplanes were coming in above the roof lines. It wouldn't take much for a drone to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A pandemic seems more likely than all the catastrophic events that may yet come, especially with first world countries having an older population throughout the rest of this century.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/antibiotics-medicine-dark-ages-overprescribing
Not on 50k per year, that's for sure.
Something like the DJI Phantom P3 would be bought by my side business and written off as a tax expense.
You're whining about asshats, hoping somebody will tell you "hey creimer, feel good about yourself!"
What makes you think I need approval from you or anyone else?
I'm not sure working from home is good for companies.
If you don't have to work at home to outsource your job to China.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169528579/outsourced-employee-sends-own-job-to-china-surfs-web
I'm wondering if we're gonna have to have a major airline accident over a population center from some kid's $500 drone before somebody takes action.
The hobbyists with money are going to be the ones to worry about. If the drone used to pull Casey Neistat on skies flew around an airport, it might cause problems.
http://dronelife.com/2016/12/20/custom-drone-ski-lift-neistat/
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I'm not whining about asshats, I'm laughing at asshats.
I've watched plenty of videos from hobbyist drones that went straight up at high attitudes. I wonder if such attitudes are possible in Silicon Valley, as the whole area is a flight path for multiple airports in the region. I'm thinking about getting a camera drone.
I'm just offering you some advice as to how you might make your life a degree less miserable than it is already.
I graduated from the School of Hard Knocks. Slashdot is nothing in comparison to the miseries that I've suffered in Real Liffe. Shit like this doesn't bother me at all.
https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/865411816704192512
Did "sometimes" outweigh a steady income where you don't have to worry about landing clients back to back?
Whenever recruiters and hiring managers ask me why I don't want a "permanent" position, I ask them why the position they're offering isn't "permanent"? I've never got a straight answer on that.
Bosses don't want to train old people so I assume you got this job before you turned 30.
Bosses in the private sector don't want to provide training. If you want training, you will have to do it yourself. If you work in government IT, you're going to get training each and every year whether you want it or not.
Reruns of Batman and Three Stooges 'Harm Young People's Mental Health'
I heard that back in the early 1970's when I in kindergarten and the early grades. Teachers didn't like kids using their jackets as capes, jumping off high surfaces and screaming "BATMAN!" at the top of their voice, or trying to poke out each other's eyes like the Three Stooges. Fun times.
Don't pretend to be an IT professional when you have only the merest understanding of the topics being discussed, and then act butt-hurt when people who DO understand the topics tell you that you're a semi-literate buffoon.
I spent 20+ years working in IT. I'm not going to let a half-dozen overpaid asshats run me off of Slashdot.
That's a major improvement over posting similar stories twice in 24 hours.
"contractor" = disposable, low quality labor, but cheap
I sometimes made more money than regular employees because I was brought in to do a short-term contract. Those 2% raises don't add up over time.
I had a sister-in-law who got bought out after a lifetime at IBM and got rehired as a consultant after the dot com bust. She made more money as a consultant than she did as a regular employee for the same kind of work. She took another buyout and retired ten years later.
Are you a dirty jew of some kind? You killed Jesus you dumb motherfucker!
Not just an asshat, but an anti-Semite.
I am actually amazed how you can turn a whole website against you and think everyone is an asshat here.
A half dozen asshats don't represent an entire website.
Remove the fucking slash at the end moron.
Sorry, I'm working on my code. I don't have time to fix other people's mistake.
http://www.ptypes.com/cyclothymicpd.html/
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