...in 2008 we were in a drastic economic condition that allowed regulators to look away from business subcontracting employees to shed their responsibility in paying their fair share of taxes and benefits.
As our condition improved, regulators started to take a hard look at how employers were classifying their employees and a large amount of these employers saw the writing on the wall and hired their "contractors". The ones that didn't are currently taking their lumps with the AGs of many states.
So, companies got off not paying their fair share of comp, FICA, retirement, UI, and benefit packages for 4 or 5 years. You know, just like the banks. As usual, those "contactors" took it in the rectum and were held responsible to cover the full cost of taxes and insurance.
"Taking advantage of people who do not have the knowledge or ability to take care of themselves is just plain evil.'
Only when there's a diagnostic misrepresentation or a fraudulent representation of the diagnostic recommending unnecessary services or product without proper disclosure. Otherwise it's how 99% of all service providers earn income.
Likewise creating a product that is able to properly and accurately decide what installed extension, BHO, executable, or what have you snippet of code or script, isn't malevolent is significantly more costly than a checkbox that says "My I7 computer now runs like a 386dx40 running Win98". And as fraudulent as that checkbox is, I'd venture to say 90% of the time it's checked, Joe Sixpack has granted or installed code to execute processes he really didn't want or need, that would be easily resolved by a reinstall of whatever flavor Windows the user has installed.
I have to agree, placing a wager against a company like Toyota is a fools bet. Remember how they managed the failed GM plant in Freemont, produced an excellent product and made money with the same workers? We do know what that plant is today (Telsa) don't we?
The last naturally aspirated Camry was in 1989, past that the aspiration (fuel flow) wasn't mechanically managed. If they could only figure out how to make a strut bumper as durable as their drivelines, they'd never have maintance aside from corrosion.
Millennials can't buy everything they want without cash and I doubt that the intolerance precludes those purchases will leave as quickly as the availability to be 100% cashless arrives.
If I own a business, pay to design an environment, pay to educate employees company standards of service, I also have the right to license music to play in that environment.
There's a simple solution for employees that no longer care to operate per the environment I created, find somewhere else to work. Simple solution, your employment is at will and if you find conditions intolerable, move on.
"Interestingly enough, a credit to your bank account can take up to an order of magnitude more time to post than an instantaneous purchase."
But your banker settles receipt of funds before the banking day is done. The longer they float funds they say are "in transit" the more cost free liquidity they have. They make a large percentage of their earnings from float.
"(and no, none of the things which probably have popped into your head there can explain this one)."
Leverage/dirt or she's built an isolated fiefdom that would be harder for a replacement (or management) to figure out, then it is to tolerate her ineffectiveness.
Quite possibly a slow poisoning might expedite a solution.
Absolutely correct.
But we do need a little clarity here, not responding doesn't mean the email was ignored. It means that the receiver didn't think it warranted a response (for whatever reason).
"Thursday's court filing, however, demonstrates that cold wallets are by no means a surefire way to secure digital coins."
Time will tell, but this seems pretty good way to assure they are secure. Probably guaranteed. If that address records transfers, then we have an issue. The security issue is the idiots that allow transfers to be made by a third party (and allow them to stagnate there).
Excuse my ignorance but isn't elimination of a third party to facilitate transfer a major reason to record your own transfers on the blockchain? Why trust others to verify trust, because you're too lazy? Short resources? Stupid?
If you're trading on someone's market there's absolutely no reason not to be fully settled ASAP. Or find a better market.
USRobitics snob I was. Thumbing my nose at the various supposed 56k6 "soft modems" (but admittedly they did provide a significant amount of "beer money" via support work). USR's just worked, all the time, regardless of what you were connecting to.
I do remember how most consumer level communication devices were R232/serial connections. If you didn't have an STB 4com capable of shared IRQs, and had more than a mouse and a modem, you would spend hours between configuring memory management, changing address and/or IRQ assignment jumpers in order to effectively utilize the limited resources available at the time.
Who could have imagined the incredible amount of resources provided as cheap as it is today, only to be straddled with underperforming, bloated, non-configurable, invasive, OSs that rob the incredible performance of even entry level hardware.
Even worse than that, who would have ever imagined that today you can take a 5 year SOHO computer that's followed the update and upgrade instructions for the machine, and install any current or equally aged distro and have a device that performs significantly better than most new equally priced device, not even considering how that "old underpowered" device really wasn't underpowered, it is just saddled with an incredibly inefficient OS (or hidden/undocumented remains of user installed software/BHO/"features").
Even, even, even more worse (worserer?)... Who would have imagined that there's basically no work that you can't do (as efficiently) on a 5 year old machine (with available software capable of effectively utilizing the abundance of resources available), and that machine wouldn't have a significantly poorer user experience than the equivalent new machine purchased today?
It used to be our software development necessitated hardware changes just to get the job done. And today, most consumers have excessive hardware resources being wasted by poor software.
It all depends upon perspective. My school had a lightning fast T1 connection. But I don't remember a web browser on our PDP11s. I do seem to remember some experimental work on gopher being done.
I have to disagree. Many of us swim in more bandwidth than we ever expected to be as cheaply available. Especially those of us who thought 3kbps V.42bis brought us was the cats meow!
Sorry but I believe your time would have been more effectively used the following year as such:
a) researched improved property on a beach outside
of the US. b) assured sufficient beer supply and resources to
maintain at proper drinking temperature. c) threw a hook in the ocean and worried about
making sure you had sufficient hydration (see
above)
as soon as legislators wake up to the reality that connectivity is a pipe and is treated the same as any other public utility. Let them sell users features users care to purchase, but don't touch the pipes contents. Treat packets like water, gas or electricity, without the owner of the pipe able to modify content carried.
No, it's not for criminals. It's for "enemy combatants ". Enemy combatants aren't afforded civil rights by the Constitution, their rights are afforded by conventions of war.
That's because unless the driver was uninsured, the driver isn't the responsible party, neither is Uber. The responsible party is the one that ultimately created the accident by failing to operate their vehicle in a controlled manner (even if the Uber driver slammed on brakes due to a hallucination).
"When the bills for the oil changes, tires, timing belts, etc"... which is a drop in the bucket once you explain to them what depreciation is, and how much the money to finance this loss really costs.
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...in 2008 we were in a drastic economic condition that allowed regulators to look away from business subcontracting employees to shed their responsibility in paying their fair share of taxes and benefits.
As our condition improved, regulators started to take a hard look at how employers were classifying their employees and a large amount of these employers saw the writing on the wall and hired their "contractors". The ones that didn't are currently taking their lumps with the AGs of many states.
So, companies got off not paying their fair share of comp, FICA, retirement, UI, and benefit packages for 4 or 5 years. You know, just like the banks. As usual, those "contactors" took it in the rectum and were held responsible to cover the full cost of taxes and insurance.
Merely incarcerating this guy isn't sufficient. Incarceration and castration seems more equitable.
"Taking advantage of people who do not have the knowledge or ability to take care of themselves is just plain evil.'
Only when there's a diagnostic misrepresentation or a fraudulent representation of the diagnostic recommending unnecessary services or product without proper disclosure. Otherwise it's how 99% of all service providers earn income.
Likewise creating a product that is able to properly and accurately decide what installed extension, BHO, executable, or what have you snippet of code or script, isn't malevolent is significantly more costly than a checkbox that says "My I7 computer now runs like a 386dx40 running Win98". And as fraudulent as that checkbox is, I'd venture to say 90% of the time it's checked, Joe Sixpack has granted or installed code to execute processes he really didn't want or need, that would be easily resolved by a reinstall of whatever flavor Windows the user has installed.
"BRZ uses an engine developed by Subaru"
Developed yes, but the engine was designed by Ferdinand Porsche. Who btw also designed the first hybrid in 1900.
I have to agree, placing a wager against a company like Toyota is a fools bet. Remember how they managed the failed GM plant in Freemont, produced an excellent product and made money with the same workers? We do know what that plant is today (Telsa) don't we?
The last naturally aspirated Camry was in 1989, past that the aspiration (fuel flow) wasn't mechanically managed. If they could only figure out how to make a strut bumper as durable as their drivelines, they'd never have maintance aside from corrosion.
Millennials can't buy everything they want without cash and I doubt that the intolerance precludes those purchases will leave as quickly as the availability to be 100% cashless arrives.
Volvo died in 99 when the were bastardized by Ford. Ford then sold their stepchild to the Chinese. A similar fate happened to Saab.
If I own a business, pay to design an environment, pay to educate employees company standards of service, I also have the right to license music to play in that environment.
There's a simple solution for employees that no longer care to operate per the environment I created, find somewhere else to work. Simple solution, your employment is at will and if you find conditions intolerable, move on.
"Interestingly enough, a credit to your bank account can take up to an order of magnitude more time to post than an instantaneous purchase."
But your banker settles receipt of funds before the banking day is done. The longer they float funds they say are "in transit" the more cost free liquidity they have. They make a large percentage of their earnings from float.
"(and no, none of the things which probably have popped into your head there can explain this one)."
Leverage/dirt or she's built an isolated fiefdom that would be harder for a replacement (or management) to figure out, then it is to tolerate her ineffectiveness.
Quite possibly a slow poisoning might expedite a solution.
Absolutely correct.
But we do need a little clarity here, not responding doesn't mean the email was ignored. It means that the receiver didn't think it warranted a response (for whatever reason).
Vibrators.
"Thursday's court filing, however, demonstrates that cold wallets are by no means a surefire way to secure digital coins."
Time will tell, but this seems pretty good way to assure they are secure. Probably guaranteed. If that address records transfers, then we have an issue. The security issue is the idiots that allow transfers to be made by a third party (and allow them to stagnate there).
Excuse my ignorance but isn't elimination of a third party to facilitate transfer a major reason to record your own transfers on the blockchain? Why trust others to verify trust, because you're too lazy? Short resources? Stupid?
If you're trading on someone's market there's absolutely no reason not to be fully settled ASAP. Or find a better market.
You forgot "rude", remember this is in France.
USRobitics snob I was. Thumbing my nose at the various supposed 56k6 "soft modems" (but admittedly they did provide a significant amount of "beer money" via support work). USR's just worked, all the time, regardless of what you were connecting to.
I do remember how most consumer level communication devices were R232/serial connections. If you didn't have an STB 4com capable of shared IRQs, and had more than a mouse and a modem, you would spend hours between configuring memory management, changing address and/or IRQ assignment jumpers in order to effectively utilize the limited resources available at the time.
Who could have imagined the incredible amount of resources provided as cheap as it is today, only to be straddled with underperforming, bloated, non-configurable, invasive, OSs that rob the incredible performance of even entry level hardware.
Even worse than that, who would have ever imagined that today you can take a 5 year SOHO computer that's followed the update and upgrade instructions for the machine, and install any current or equally aged distro and have a device that performs significantly better than most new equally priced device, not even considering how that "old underpowered" device really wasn't underpowered, it is just saddled with an incredibly inefficient OS (or hidden/undocumented remains of user installed software/BHO/"features").
Even, even, even more worse (worserer?)... Who would have imagined that there's basically no work that you can't do (as efficiently) on a 5 year old machine (with available software capable of effectively utilizing the abundance of resources available), and that machine wouldn't have a significantly poorer user experience than the equivalent new machine purchased today?
It used to be our software development necessitated hardware changes just to get the job done. And today, most consumers have excessive hardware resources being wasted by poor software.
It all depends upon perspective. My school had a lightning fast T1 connection. But I don't remember a web browser on our PDP11s. I do seem to remember some experimental work on gopher being done.
I have to disagree. Many of us swim in more bandwidth than we ever expected to be as cheaply available. Especially those of us who thought 3kbps V.42bis brought us was the cats meow!
What could possibly go wrong?
Sorry but I believe your time would have been more effectively used the following year as such:
a) researched improved property on a beach outside
of the US.
b) assured sufficient beer supply and resources to
maintain at proper drinking temperature.
c) threw a hook in the ocean and worried about
making sure you had sufficient hydration (see
above)
If you get bored, audition young native girls.
as soon as legislators wake up to the reality that connectivity is a pipe and is treated the same as any other public utility. Let them sell users features users care to purchase, but don't touch the pipes contents. Treat packets like water, gas or electricity, without the owner of the pipe able to modify content carried.
How hard is that to understand?
No, it's not for criminals. It's for "enemy combatants ". Enemy combatants aren't afforded civil rights by the Constitution, their rights are afforded by conventions of war.
"Are less intelligent people fair game for anyone smart enough to trick them?"
Apparently, and we tax them legally. We just call it The Lottery. I don't think we need any more taxes on stupidity.
"riding in back of Uber when rear ended".
That's because unless the driver was uninsured, the driver isn't the responsible party, neither is Uber. The responsible party is the one that ultimately created the accident by failing to operate their vehicle in a controlled manner (even if the Uber driver slammed on brakes due to a hallucination).
"When the bills for the oil changes, tires, timing belts, etc"... which is a drop in the bucket once you explain to them what depreciation is, and how much the money to finance this loss really costs.
" yogurt or banana with no delay would be fantastic."
Until you realize you paid $37 for a $3 product.