The obvious answer should be: "Because Walmart is able to leverage a better deal on item X then Best Buy".
I once toured the headquarters of Welsh's (they make grape and other fruit beverages). The management explained that not only could Walmart tell them "Your selling item X to us at Z price, but you'll make this new blend we want and sell it for Y price." To many of their customers had no other way to buy their products than through Walmart for them to refuse.
I think that should worry people. This was about 5 years ago as well, I'm sure it's gotten worse since then.
You also forget that sometimes 'item X' is in fact 'type of item X' for people. Walmart may sell a TV that has features D, E, F, and G and Best Buy have a TV with those same features, but the brands are different as is the price. This doesn't matter to some people... But if Best Buy product is of higher quality (and so has a higher price) than Walmart item of equal features (with a lower price), guess were the average person will go? This puts superior and somewhat more costly items at a disadvantage.
Countering sources of factual information is probably the stupidest idea I've ever heard. And if true is probably why law is fucked up.
Those on the jury already bring in their own library of previous information 'sources' and their own opinions. While US courts seem to specifically try to find the dumbest asshats that have the least opinion on something possible, is a horrible way of doing things. It does make it easier for those lawyers to present their skewed view of the world on a jury though...
I think you don't understand why they made it so people coming to the emergency room couldn't be turned away... Their had been cases before that where people died right outside the hospital because the hospital refused to treat them. We as a people didn't want random person Z to die when they didn't have to because a hospital refused treatment.
In particular I recall a few cases of foreign visitors being refused treatment due to not carrying US health insurance. Those made the press nationally in a couple cases.
Though I also don't think you understand that if at all possible the hospitals will do everything in their power to get their money out of you after being in the emergency room. If your a US citizen and don't want a astronomical bill that the hospital will hound you to the ends of the earth to extort from you. Then you still need insurance.
The original reason for 'universal health care' in the present was to do away with those who didn't have insurance clogging up emergency rooms with things that should never make it to an emergency room condition. IE getting rid of that thing you seem to hate so much. They failed utterly and reversed the statement you are trying to make.
I'm not a programmer by trade, I'm a network 'engineer'/'administrator'. What I learned in programming stopped at Java/C++ (C++ being taught within a Java environment actually). So the latest wizz bang language are thinks outside my scope.
However 10 years ago OO was a key factor in 'modernizing' COBOL. Saying that those things didn't make COBOL 'catch up with the times' by matching what was then easily the most popular coding language (remember Java was very new then) of the time... Well that sure seems 'caught up' to me.
Frankly, that is just a great way to have the judge (and whatever potentially lame ideas he has on issue X) pushed on a ignorant jury.
What if the judge thinks that 'rape trauma syndrome' is some made up condition? Or as tends to happen one side will put a 'expert' on the stand who may be full of crap about it and say whatever helps side X? Not allowing outside sources means only the aspect presented within the courtroom ever gets heard. That's like asking for bias.
I'm not saying wikipedia is a great source for this, but frankly I'd rather see the court not rule every aspect of what a term means.
I think you have that reversed... The government seems intent on making every person buy health insurance form private entities whether they have the money to pay or not...
Really COBOL, in the last iteration I worked with it in at least, had 'caught up' with the times in alot of ways. 10 years ago I learned OO COBOL, which really made COBOL alot like C++. Though COBOL was sort of limited in IO: files, text to screen, and at most pixel switching for primitive graphics. No fancy GUI's here. Most of COBOL though was about file interaction, bring stuff in, work on it, and output once more. Sometimes with user input, though often not.
I have produced both books, magazine articles, and music at various times in my life. I however wish someone could take 'Intellectual property' at back and shoot it. Now some make obscene money form the current system and so they fight tooth and nail for it, but those industries will get along just fine without copyright around.
When I ran my own one person consulting business I looked into it, at the time it was near $400/month. Yet at the time I was having trouble prying the money from the hands of my clients... Who in general where small businesses. $400/month was the best rate I could find anywhere in the state for a single person. And while opening up the interstate sale of insurance may help fix it... I don't think it will, things like inane malpractice costs that make only lawyers rich is a large part of the financial cost in health care. Opening up the system to insurance companies from all states would not fix that.
Moving requires money, and lucky me the state 'helped' me with financial aid so I now owe them 'work' in this state. I really don't need to owe more money... Oddly enough they still say my job is 'in demand' and will pay for two years of training in it...
With zero work that isn't 'bus boy' or 'clerk' available to me right now. Of course the governments welfare looks better, all the sweeter when I don't have to pay back 120k in college loans while on it. But would if I was working. That is the sole reason I won't take a crap job just to earn a living, because in effect I can't... My loans would eat me alive and I would never have any money for anything else. Well their is a second reason to, which is that it's much harder to get a new tech job if my very last job was 'shelf stocker' for Walmart... That effects what I will or won't do for a living as well, after more than a decade in technology I'm not so quick to leave...
P.S. my original UID is actually 4 digit, but I lost the email account to my first one after a year or so and so made this one... Hence the _1 in the name... god only knows what my first password was...
I cannot recall bestiality in any of his works... But I think he wrote about any and all means of sexual relations between people, with the exception that none of his characters actually performed rape (though it was occasionally mentioned as something sub-human people do).
Yes there is, fucking hold a gun to the head of the top 1% of all income earners in the US and make them pay taxes like everyone else! And As much as they don't want to pay taxes, it probably will take placing a gun to their heads. Or at least seizing their bloody assets. We regularly do that at a local level in my area whenever some mayor gets a good kickback arrangement with a companies that 'just needs a bit of land'. Kinda hard for them to run if we seize their assets. If they are so god damned good at making money then taking a little bit shouldn't hurt them at all. They can just make more, right?
The top 1% earns nearly 50% of all income per year, while the bottom 80% make 7%. Which part is paying most of the taxes? The 50% starting at the bottom of the top 10% down into the top of the 80%. The lowest 40% earn less than 2% of income and can't afford taxes.
But see the top 5% are the good old boys who most of our fucking politicians come from and the CEO's of the corporations who use crazy means to give themselves multi-million dollar raises every year while reducing jobs within their companies. These are the ones the government has given tax breaks to time and time again. And every year the make a few more percent of the overall income that year and the bottom 80% makes that much less.
If they wanted to the top 1% could give every single person in the country free medical coverage rivaling anywhere in the world. And they wouldn't even go broke.
I live in PA, their is a state welfare program... Which is fundamentally underfunded... How do I know? I ended up being unemployed a year ago and with unemployment running out I opted for filing the forms to try to get welfare. Today it just so happens I get the letter about state funded health insurance, which I qualify for... But they have no money with which to put me n the program. They then offered to let me pay $612/month to 'let' me get the same coverage I'm supposed to qualify for, for free... Oh and PA does not have a none welfare medical/health insurance plan just as an FYI...
Note I'd love to work, but working minimum wage won't help me. My Ex went through nursing college on welfare and since being off of it has actually had problems maintaining the same quality of life. That alone shows you how messed up working can be. It's worse if it's underemployment, I have a degree and college loans. If I'm working they damn well want their money. If I'm on welfare they aren't to uppity about it. So make minimum wage and pay half of anything I make to my college loans that are doing diddly and squat for me now and not having the money to live on... Or welfare and manage a minimum existence... The choice isn't rocket science.
Really I'll be one of the first 'tax' victims of this. It's much easier t pay the $750 or whatever amount it is 'fine' for not having insurance than the $615/month 'fine' to have insurance... In fact the later is downright insane (i was just quoted it today to btw).
Btw having been uninsured and needing to simply visit the doctor, I can tell you you absolutely cannot get out of paying it... They will literally hunt you down and try to try to extract money from your corpse if they need to. In fact I'm still paying on it 4 years later...Oh and unlike the couple hundred (form bills in the same period ~$230 with insurance) for a normal visit if you aren't insured it becomes over $1400... To see a doctor. You'll note that meant I paid 7 times that rate for an insured person.
The later case was when I ran my own 1 person business and wasn't making enough to pay the then $412/month for private health insurance... Especially when a roof, electricity, and a phone were required for me to ever make money and so had to come out of the first part of whatever I made. Their was never $412/month left over for insurance.
The first case is me now, 1 year into unemployment after I left my own business and went back to work.... And then was discarded as being 'to expensive' while making 1/5th what anyone who fired me makes... Which of course means no insurance... again. Lucky I haven't needed any in the last year. But I got news for them, I don't make enough $612/month while on unemployment. Heck I get about $612 per 2 weeks... In that money I have to pay rent, maintain a phone, electricity, food on the table, and being in IT a working PC is kinda required to keep the skills sharp... For whenever the powers that be decide to start hiring IT in my area again.
As a person who only visits a hospital once or twice a year... Yet insurance companies want to charge me $612/month for (that's bare minimum coverage as a single person or split between my employer and me under a group plan)... That's a load of shit. The insurance companies pay less than the uninsured do from doctors and hospitals. I should know I suddenly got ill between jobs once, 4 years ago and I'm still paying on the damn bill. Sans insurance a doctor's visit was $1,400. On my former insurance the same thing is $170 paid form the insurance company and $30 paid by me. I'll let you do the math comparing which is the worse deal when the rates are (again) $612/month.
I'll tell you where what could be profits go, right into the pockets of the lobbyists and the CEOs of these companies! I don't for a second believe they are poor and hell I've known people in health insurance (used to live in a city full of health insurance companies). The guys on the bottom didn't make much, but those execs sure as hell made fortunes! That did grow on trees you know...
1% of people (in the US) take home half the nations earnings every year, with 80% of the population left with ~7% of it. This number actually gets worse each year (1% increases how much it gets, 80% lose it).
So um yes... if 1% of the population would stop actually hording the fucking money then they could easily pay for 40% of the people. By themselves. This doesn't even need to bother the other 19% in between the extremes.
I think the US has proved that they aren't very good at 'educating' anything. Should I point you to the wackos who want to make that even worse by teaching things like 'intelligent design' in schools?
We'd be better off if we leaned a little more socialist and offered free money to pay for 4 years of college to kids from families below 100k/year in income. Though mostly due to the fact that companies like to demand Bachelor's degrees for everything these days. Only health care seems to work on an associates degree level anymore, and on the other end of the scale most upper management jobs are starting to 'require' a masters degree... But that would never happen, because 'socialism' is evil...
It took months because they most likely fired their only IT person. Then had to find the absolute cheapest person to replace her possible, figuring no one had a nephew or niece in need of a job and able to use a computer. Having worked for some place similar, I can say they probably treated her like crap under their shoe to... So this isn't really any surprise to me.
It's a federal crime because it's 'hacking', of course that's the business variant of the word 'hacking' in which they just didn't bother or know how to remove her credentials.
Same reason as #1 for #2... it's 'hacking' and therefore evil beyond monetary damage.
'getting fired' isn't something you may happen to expect, but in a modern company it's usually a process of unintentionally pissing off the wrong person who decides to hold a grudge. I was a network admin for a company where most people liked me, but I became 'old blood' having outlived a particularly bad CAO the company had... The new HR person and the new business manager resented me for it and played politics behind my back to eventually get me fired. This wasn't helped by the HR manager having his mom on the board of directors (it's how he got the job).
I didn't 'do' anything to get fired, my 'crime' was not having any strong relationship with the board who pressured the new CAO who was my former direct supervisor.
The ironic thing is I talked to a former boss from the place I worked at before my last job and he was the vengeful type. Saying quite clearly that if it had been him, he'd have shut the system down when he left. Some of us are a bit vengeful about mistreatment from an employer.
I love that line 'Choose to live'... I live in a small town outside a big one not because I choose to live there, but it's the only place I can afford to live. The costs in the city are higher than my wage allows for. Moving to a higher 'density' area is frankly a overly expensive and downright stupid move. And in our current era information is power. I know I have to constantly keep my skills up our I'd be out a job...
The funny thing about the Taiwanese is that they are, as a people, mostly willing to return to China. The government is very much not and alot of businesses aren't either. And for us in IT since Taiwanese motherboard makers make up nearly all the retail board makers in the world... Is probably best it not scoot back to China right now...
The people though generally support China, and not Hong Kong style China, but the mainland originally CCP government.
But taiwan is strange in general... Historically when they were the pirate port for Chinese goods over the seas, the Chinese government hunted them down and cut off their heads. Around a hundred years later when Manchuria invaded China and took over, the taiwanese sided with the Chinese government against the Manchurians... Only to have the Manchurians take a huge disliking to them to the point of harsh treatment including a scorched earth tactic on the mainland for around 15 years as they built a navy to sail to Taiwan to put them down. Then China looses Taiwan to Japan before the start of the 20th century as they fail to modernize. And after WW2 Taiwan plays a role again as the former dictatorship of China flees from the CCP and ends up in Taiwan as their new home.
Obviously just some highlights, but it's been an... interesting place...
There have been many third party attempts to change our system from many different groups that have felt strongly in a need to change our government in the last 70 years. Exactly how many of them have gotten anywhere?
George Carlin has been outspoken about the position of the common man for decades before he passed away, and even through his comedy had a means of reaching people. Has anything ever changed because of it? I'll answer that myself, the answer is no.
To many unthinking drones exist who don't care to ever effect change from within. And out voice is only heard in our governments when the ones in charge feel they can use our voices to help keep them elected. My hope for the future is far more radical then yours, like moving enough like minded people into one state that it could actually have a strong consistent voice contrary to the existing federal agenda.
Though I have a feeling mysterious plane crashes and false charges would be brought on anyone who got that far...
You mean whichever of them is the "HR managers's uncles nephew's best friend of their college roommate" when you say "best" right? That's the way it is here in the US at least...
lol, I love that line about 'if the government requires vacation then domestic productivity as a whole will fall and unemployment would probably increase'. That's the biggest pile of shit I've heard in a day at least. Employees in the US take sick days off for personal reasons because we get the shaft compared to basically all of Europe in paid time off! Hell, most of the world gets more time off then we do when averaged out. And this it getting worse, not better!
European paid time off hasn't hurt alot of very large companies from equaling or bettering those in the US. In fact most European companies are _more_ productive then we are. I don't know where the fuck you get that crap about US productivity being higher than 'most of the world', we routinely show up on the bottom... Which because the brain dead guys in charge see that, they try to fuck us over even more by doing shit like this!
Stop being a corporate troll and look at some real information.
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The obvious answer should be: "Because Walmart is able to leverage a better deal on item X then Best Buy".
I once toured the headquarters of Welsh's (they make grape and other fruit beverages). The management explained that not only could Walmart tell them "Your selling item X to us at Z price, but you'll make this new blend we want and sell it for Y price." To many of their customers had no other way to buy their products than through Walmart for them to refuse.
I think that should worry people. This was about 5 years ago as well, I'm sure it's gotten worse since then.
You also forget that sometimes 'item X' is in fact 'type of item X' for people. Walmart may sell a TV that has features D, E, F, and G and Best Buy have a TV with those same features, but the brands are different as is the price. This doesn't matter to some people... But if Best Buy product is of higher quality (and so has a higher price) than Walmart item of equal features (with a lower price), guess were the average person will go? This puts superior and somewhat more costly items at a disadvantage.
Countering sources of factual information is probably the stupidest idea I've ever heard. And if true is probably why law is fucked up.
Those on the jury already bring in their own library of previous information 'sources' and their own opinions. While US courts seem to specifically try to find the dumbest asshats that have the least opinion on something possible, is a horrible way of doing things. It does make it easier for those lawyers to present their skewed view of the world on a jury though...
I think you don't understand why they made it so people coming to the emergency room couldn't be turned away... Their had been cases before that where people died right outside the hospital because the hospital refused to treat them. We as a people didn't want random person Z to die when they didn't have to because a hospital refused treatment.
In particular I recall a few cases of foreign visitors being refused treatment due to not carrying US health insurance. Those made the press nationally in a couple cases.
Though I also don't think you understand that if at all possible the hospitals will do everything in their power to get their money out of you after being in the emergency room. If your a US citizen and don't want a astronomical bill that the hospital will hound you to the ends of the earth to extort from you. Then you still need insurance.
The original reason for 'universal health care' in the present was to do away with those who didn't have insurance clogging up emergency rooms with things that should never make it to an emergency room condition. IE getting rid of that thing you seem to hate so much. They failed utterly and reversed the statement you are trying to make.
I'm not a programmer by trade, I'm a network 'engineer'/'administrator'. What I learned in programming stopped at Java/C++ (C++ being taught within a Java environment actually). So the latest wizz bang language are thinks outside my scope.
However 10 years ago OO was a key factor in 'modernizing' COBOL. Saying that those things didn't make COBOL 'catch up with the times' by matching what was then easily the most popular coding language (remember Java was very new then) of the time... Well that sure seems 'caught up' to me.
Frankly, that is just a great way to have the judge (and whatever potentially lame ideas he has on issue X) pushed on a ignorant jury.
What if the judge thinks that 'rape trauma syndrome' is some made up condition? Or as tends to happen one side will put a 'expert' on the stand who may be full of crap about it and say whatever helps side X? Not allowing outside sources means only the aspect presented within the courtroom ever gets heard. That's like asking for bias.
I'm not saying wikipedia is a great source for this, but frankly I'd rather see the court not rule every aspect of what a term means.
I think you have that reversed... The government seems intent on making every person buy health insurance form private entities whether they have the money to pay or not...
Really COBOL, in the last iteration I worked with it in at least, had 'caught up' with the times in alot of ways. 10 years ago I learned OO COBOL, which really made COBOL alot like C++. Though COBOL was sort of limited in IO: files, text to screen, and at most pixel switching for primitive graphics. No fancy GUI's here. Most of COBOL though was about file interaction, bring stuff in, work on it, and output once more. Sometimes with user input, though often not.
I have produced both books, magazine articles, and music at various times in my life. I however wish someone could take 'Intellectual property' at back and shoot it. Now some make obscene money form the current system and so they fight tooth and nail for it, but those industries will get along just fine without copyright around.
When I ran my own one person consulting business I looked into it, at the time it was near $400/month. Yet at the time I was having trouble prying the money from the hands of my clients... Who in general where small businesses. $400/month was the best rate I could find anywhere in the state for a single person. And while opening up the interstate sale of insurance may help fix it... I don't think it will, things like inane malpractice costs that make only lawyers rich is a large part of the financial cost in health care. Opening up the system to insurance companies from all states would not fix that.
Moving requires money, and lucky me the state 'helped' me with financial aid so I now owe them 'work' in this state. I really don't need to owe more money... Oddly enough they still say my job is 'in demand' and will pay for two years of training in it...
With zero work that isn't 'bus boy' or 'clerk' available to me right now. Of course the governments welfare looks better, all the sweeter when I don't have to pay back 120k in college loans while on it. But would if I was working. That is the sole reason I won't take a crap job just to earn a living, because in effect I can't... My loans would eat me alive and I would never have any money for anything else. Well their is a second reason to, which is that it's much harder to get a new tech job if my very last job was 'shelf stocker' for Walmart... That effects what I will or won't do for a living as well, after more than a decade in technology I'm not so quick to leave...
P.S. my original UID is actually 4 digit, but I lost the email account to my first one after a year or so and so made this one... Hence the _1 in the name... god only knows what my first password was...
Could be worse, my last company let me go on my birthday... Try to get happy about that... Total waste of party...
I cannot recall bestiality in any of his works... But I think he wrote about any and all means of sexual relations between people, with the exception that none of his characters actually performed rape (though it was occasionally mentioned as something sub-human people do).
Yes there is, fucking hold a gun to the head of the top 1% of all income earners in the US and make them pay taxes like everyone else! And As much as they don't want to pay taxes, it probably will take placing a gun to their heads. Or at least seizing their bloody assets. We regularly do that at a local level in my area whenever some mayor gets a good kickback arrangement with a companies that 'just needs a bit of land'. Kinda hard for them to run if we seize their assets. If they are so god damned good at making money then taking a little bit shouldn't hurt them at all. They can just make more, right?
The top 1% earns nearly 50% of all income per year, while the bottom 80% make 7%. Which part is paying most of the taxes? The 50% starting at the bottom of the top 10% down into the top of the 80%. The lowest 40% earn less than 2% of income and can't afford taxes.
But see the top 5% are the good old boys who most of our fucking politicians come from and the CEO's of the corporations who use crazy means to give themselves multi-million dollar raises every year while reducing jobs within their companies. These are the ones the government has given tax breaks to time and time again. And every year the make a few more percent of the overall income that year and the bottom 80% makes that much less.
If they wanted to the top 1% could give every single person in the country free medical coverage rivaling anywhere in the world. And they wouldn't even go broke.
I live in PA, their is a state welfare program... Which is fundamentally underfunded... How do I know? I ended up being unemployed a year ago and with unemployment running out I opted for filing the forms to try to get welfare. Today it just so happens I get the letter about state funded health insurance, which I qualify for... But they have no money with which to put me n the program. They then offered to let me pay $612/month to 'let' me get the same coverage I'm supposed to qualify for, for free... Oh and PA does not have a none welfare medical/health insurance plan just as an FYI...
Note I'd love to work, but working minimum wage won't help me. My Ex went through nursing college on welfare and since being off of it has actually had problems maintaining the same quality of life. That alone shows you how messed up working can be. It's worse if it's underemployment, I have a degree and college loans. If I'm working they damn well want their money. If I'm on welfare they aren't to uppity about it. So make minimum wage and pay half of anything I make to my college loans that are doing diddly and squat for me now and not having the money to live on... Or welfare and manage a minimum existence... The choice isn't rocket science.
Really I'll be one of the first 'tax' victims of this. It's much easier t pay the $750 or whatever amount it is 'fine' for not having insurance than the $615/month 'fine' to have insurance... In fact the later is downright insane (i was just quoted it today to btw).
Btw having been uninsured and needing to simply visit the doctor, I can tell you you absolutely cannot get out of paying it... They will literally hunt you down and try to try to extract money from your corpse if they need to. In fact I'm still paying on it 4 years later...Oh and unlike the couple hundred (form bills in the same period ~$230 with insurance) for a normal visit if you aren't insured it becomes over $1400... To see a doctor. You'll note that meant I paid 7 times that rate for an insured person.
The later case was when I ran my own 1 person business and wasn't making enough to pay the then $412/month for private health insurance... Especially when a roof, electricity, and a phone were required for me to ever make money and so had to come out of the first part of whatever I made. Their was never $412/month left over for insurance.
The first case is me now, 1 year into unemployment after I left my own business and went back to work.... And then was discarded as being 'to expensive' while making 1/5th what anyone who fired me makes... Which of course means no insurance... again. Lucky I haven't needed any in the last year. But I got news for them, I don't make enough $612/month while on unemployment. Heck I get about $612 per 2 weeks... In that money I have to pay rent, maintain a phone, electricity, food on the table, and being in IT a working PC is kinda required to keep the skills sharp... For whenever the powers that be decide to start hiring IT in my area again.
As a person who only visits a hospital once or twice a year... Yet insurance companies want to charge me $612/month for (that's bare minimum coverage as a single person or split between my employer and me under a group plan)... That's a load of shit. The insurance companies pay less than the uninsured do from doctors and hospitals. I should know I suddenly got ill between jobs once, 4 years ago and I'm still paying on the damn bill. Sans insurance a doctor's visit was $1,400. On my former insurance the same thing is $170 paid form the insurance company and $30 paid by me. I'll let you do the math comparing which is the worse deal when the rates are (again) $612/month.
I'll tell you where what could be profits go, right into the pockets of the lobbyists and the CEOs of these companies! I don't for a second believe they are poor and hell I've known people in health insurance (used to live in a city full of health insurance companies). The guys on the bottom didn't make much, but those execs sure as hell made fortunes! That did grow on trees you know...
1% of people (in the US) take home half the nations earnings every year, with 80% of the population left with ~7% of it. This number actually gets worse each year (1% increases how much it gets, 80% lose it).
So um yes... if 1% of the population would stop actually hording the fucking money then they could easily pay for 40% of the people. By themselves. This doesn't even need to bother the other 19% in between the extremes.
I think the US has proved that they aren't very good at 'educating' anything. Should I point you to the wackos who want to make that even worse by teaching things like 'intelligent design' in schools?
We'd be better off if we leaned a little more socialist and offered free money to pay for 4 years of college to kids from families below 100k/year in income. Though mostly due to the fact that companies like to demand Bachelor's degrees for everything these days. Only health care seems to work on an associates degree level anymore, and on the other end of the scale most upper management jobs are starting to 'require' a masters degree... But that would never happen, because 'socialism' is evil...
It took months because they most likely fired their only IT person. Then had to find the absolute cheapest person to replace her possible, figuring no one had a nephew or niece in need of a job and able to use a computer. Having worked for some place similar, I can say they probably treated her like crap under their shoe to... So this isn't really any surprise to me.
It's a federal crime because it's 'hacking', of course that's the business variant of the word 'hacking' in which they just didn't bother or know how to remove her credentials.
Same reason as #1 for #2... it's 'hacking' and therefore evil beyond monetary damage.
'getting fired' isn't something you may happen to expect, but in a modern company it's usually a process of unintentionally pissing off the wrong person who decides to hold a grudge. I was a network admin for a company where most people liked me, but I became 'old blood' having outlived a particularly bad CAO the company had... The new HR person and the new business manager resented me for it and played politics behind my back to eventually get me fired. This wasn't helped by the HR manager having his mom on the board of directors (it's how he got the job).
I didn't 'do' anything to get fired, my 'crime' was not having any strong relationship with the board who pressured the new CAO who was my former direct supervisor.
The ironic thing is I talked to a former boss from the place I worked at before my last job and he was the vengeful type. Saying quite clearly that if it had been him, he'd have shut the system down when he left. Some of us are a bit vengeful about mistreatment from an employer.
I love that line 'Choose to live'... I live in a small town outside a big one not because I choose to live there, but it's the only place I can afford to live. The costs in the city are higher than my wage allows for. Moving to a higher 'density' area is frankly a overly expensive and downright stupid move. And in our current era information is power. I know I have to constantly keep my skills up our I'd be out a job...
The funny thing about the Taiwanese is that they are, as a people, mostly willing to return to China. The government is very much not and alot of businesses aren't either. And for us in IT since Taiwanese motherboard makers make up nearly all the retail board makers in the world... Is probably best it not scoot back to China right now...
The people though generally support China, and not Hong Kong style China, but the mainland originally CCP government.
But taiwan is strange in general... Historically when they were the pirate port for Chinese goods over the seas, the Chinese government hunted them down and cut off their heads. Around a hundred years later when Manchuria invaded China and took over, the taiwanese sided with the Chinese government against the Manchurians... Only to have the Manchurians take a huge disliking to them to the point of harsh treatment including a scorched earth tactic on the mainland for around 15 years as they built a navy to sail to Taiwan to put them down. Then China looses Taiwan to Japan before the start of the 20th century as they fail to modernize. And after WW2 Taiwan plays a role again as the former dictatorship of China flees from the CCP and ends up in Taiwan as their new home.
Obviously just some highlights, but it's been an... interesting place...
Didn't say it would, was just a comment on the 'best' person winning and how 'best' is often perverted into some subset of who your related to.
There have been many third party attempts to change our system from many different groups that have felt strongly in a need to change our government in the last 70 years. Exactly how many of them have gotten anywhere?
George Carlin has been outspoken about the position of the common man for decades before he passed away, and even through his comedy had a means of reaching people. Has anything ever changed because of it? I'll answer that myself, the answer is no.
To many unthinking drones exist who don't care to ever effect change from within. And out voice is only heard in our governments when the ones in charge feel they can use our voices to help keep them elected. My hope for the future is far more radical then yours, like moving enough like minded people into one state that it could actually have a strong consistent voice contrary to the existing federal agenda.
Though I have a feeling mysterious plane crashes and false charges would be brought on anyone who got that far...
You mean whichever of them is the "HR managers's uncles nephew's best friend of their college roommate" when you say "best" right? That's the way it is here in the US at least...
lol, I love that line about 'if the government requires vacation then domestic productivity as a whole will fall and unemployment would probably increase'. That's the biggest pile of shit I've heard in a day at least. Employees in the US take sick days off for personal reasons because we get the shaft compared to basically all of Europe in paid time off! Hell, most of the world gets more time off then we do when averaged out. And this it getting worse, not better!
European paid time off hasn't hurt alot of very large companies from equaling or bettering those in the US. In fact most European companies are _more_ productive then we are. I don't know where the fuck you get that crap about US productivity being higher than 'most of the world', we routinely show up on the bottom... Which because the brain dead guys in charge see that, they try to fuck us over even more by doing shit like this!
Stop being a corporate troll and look at some real information.