At $1 per day, it sounds more like you are engaging in drug test theater than actual drug testing.
Blood draw tests would be much more expensive.
Wow. I'd find the idea of being tested daily for drugs to be pretty repellent. Are you in a highly religious area? I'm surprised your employees would accept this unless they believe similarly.
You have some very strong anti-drug beliefs. Where do they come from?
Were your parents police officers or prosecutors or highly religious? Did you lose a loved one or a good friend to drug addiction or overdose?
Are your beliefs the outcome of the D.A.R.E. programs?
I agree, I don't want my pilot flying high. And I don't want my surgeon impaired.
There are millions of jobs where it doesn't matter much if you are "off" 10% from a hangover, lack of sleep, or even being mildly buzzed (by any intoxicant). Are you only bothered by high risk jobs that require high performance or are you against drugs generally?
Since it's so wonderful and safe, you should label it so we will know which foods have it in the supermarket!
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Seriously- if you want to get people to go for GMO, just label it and start selling it for 10% less money. Within 6 months, 99% of the population will be eating it to save money even if it gave them green skin. It's the refusal to label it that is making it an anathema.
I'd say the shortage of females is partially due to bigotry and sexual harassment and partially due to the fact that women don't see the point in working 72+ hour weeks without over time for a "chance" to make good money in a low status job.
So (from my personal experience), abandon the field in droves and go into easier degrees which none the less have higher status and don't have special laws prohibiting them from collecting overtime including for night, weekend, and holiday hours (specifically for computer programmers and engineers damnit) and even prohibiting them from setting up their own small businesses.
So besides not wanting to hang around with a bunch of creepy guys with poor social skills, there is also being smart enough to not be suckers.
For the lack of a mod point, the post was lost. For want of a post a swayed opinion was lost. For want of a rider the house bill was lost. For want of a house bill the drug war was lost. For want of the drug war, the country was lost. And all for the want of a mod point.
And that's in any sense of the word- not just stuff over 28 years old.
Furthermore they make huge amounts of money via advertising off of other artist's copyrighted works without properly licensing the artists and (as far as I have been able to determine) without paying them a dime.
The day after a new song comes out, there are many copies of the song on Youtube. Often entire movies are posted as well. It's so bad that I have to suspect it's a temporary situation.
I strongly disagree with copyright past 28 years (and don't respect it in my actions) but what Youtube is doing is 0 day copyright infringement. Enjoy it while you can, but it's so bad, I can't see how it's going to last. It's clearly illegal. It's clearly a massive pattern of behavior and repeated infringement.
Well of course you would say that but I don't think you are including the extra $150 for an oversize backback and two carry on bags.
Plus, I think you failed to consider the 3 hour delay in getting on to the uber ride including having someone grope your private parts (some people pay good money for that kind of thing).
And having to buy extra water for $3, extra shampoo, and other liquid consumables which had over 3oz bottles.
Nor the $10 for a burger at the Uber Food Court. Nor the $20 cab ride to the uber terminal miles from town.
I think, if you reconsider, you'll realize uber was much more expensive than you realized.
Japan's essential problem is that their GDP caught up with everyone else. Japan's GDP is about $45k (USD) (roughly the same as Germany, France, the U.S., etc. depending on the exchange rate).
Google "Japan bbc recession" for a variety of news articles on japan's various recessions. If you add a year you can get details on a particular recession (like "japan recession 1998".
The same fate awaits china in about 20 years and india in about 40 years.
It may affect parts of india much sooner since the country is so bifurcated.
And right about the time they hit their stride, we'll hit a shortage of almost every industrial metal.
Should be interesting.
I can understand their motivation. It's like it used to be for programmers in the U.S. in the 80s. You could literally work 6 months and earn 2 years worth of pay.
Today, you work 72 hours a week and the company offers you base salary plus a "potential" bonus that never hits 100% while the executives take home millions in pay, have a 2nd better funded pension system, and gold plated health care.
U.S. workers do work hard when they have a realistic potential to earn $200k in less than a year. I've seen them walking around with black eyes from lack of sleep. I've been at companies where they worked themselves til they were taken away unconcious from their desk to an ambulance.
But executives have gotten greedy and taken away... comp time, genuine achievable bonuses, and decent pay (with heavy offshoring).
As china moves from a GDP of $15,000 to a GDP of $45,000 the ability to become 'rich' thru working long hours will fade and with it so will their enthusiasm to work these hours. Their children who enter the work force in 10 to 15 years will not be nearly so enthusiastic ( same pattern as the u.s., then japan, etc.).
There will be a time when the chinese also ask, "Do I live to work or do I work to live?"
Former programmer then manager... retired for 4 years and loving it.
But they have crippled fast forward to where you see the ads.
When Dish started, you could skip 30 seconds forward by pressing the skip forward button. You didn't "fast forward" thru the content unless you pushed the fast forward button.
Since most show are 42 minutes on DVD, they must have 18 minutes of non show / non-credit content.
Yea, there is a big difference between "out at current prices and technology" and "out".
What most people don't consider is that we will be "out" in the second sense sooner than many people realize.
For example, we consumed as much chromium in 2014 as we did from 1900 to 2000 combined.
Short of pulling down an asteroid, the current rate of consumption of many minerals and elemental metals is unsustainably high and can't be solved like the food problem.
That's just daft. We have plentiful wind in Texas and my non wind electricity rate has been steadily dropping over the last 10 years. My electricity BILL is lower than it was 10 years ago.
Electricity rates have been relatively stable since the late 1980s adjusted for inflation.
Cost for solar power generation turned sharply lower in 2007 and hasn't started flattening out yet. It will be cheaper than coal very soon (some bids have been made cheaper than coal already).
Everyone knows the reason for Gulfwar I and Gulfwar II was oil. We ignore every other tiny nation on earth that's doing horrific things to their citizens but we got involved in Iraq because oil.
And that cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives.
And that doesn't even begin to cover the ongoing trillions of dollars for ships and bases in places we wouldn't care about if not for oil.
Oil's subsidies are so deeply embedded into the u.s. military that we think of them as national security interests instead of as the subsidies they are.
We wouldn't even need them if we invested in solar, batteries, wind and a fleet of electric vehicles.
If 10% of the U.S. fleet were electric vehicles, the value and price of oil would collapse to under $30 and stay there. And as a "commodity" it would lose it's geopolitical value. And the u.s. would be able to greatly reduce the urge to be involved with large parts of the globe.
It would also cripple a factory for terrorists who want to kill us and put a severe crimp in Putin's military aspirations.
If you can pay for items with your phone/watch/etc. and it uses a biometric the risk is non-zero.
All they have to do is forcibly drag your finger across the finger reader or drag your handily detached finger.
Criminals do bad things. It's not distopian, it's realistic.
As for the government,
http://www.latimes.com/local/c... "There, authorities obtained a search warrant compelling the girlfriend of an alleged Armenian gang member to press her finger against an iPhone that had been seized from a Glendale home. The phone contained Apple's fingerprint identification system for unlocking, and prosecutors wanted access to the data inside it.
It marked a rare time that prosecutors have demanded a person provide a fingerprint to open a computer, but experts expect such cases to become more common as cracking digital security becomes a larger part of law enforcement work."
We are talking about people happy to waterboard american citizens for information at the same time government officials are telling the Washington Post: âoeThey picked up the wrong people, who had no information. In many, many cases there was only some vague associationâ with terrorism.
My point isn't that people do this. My point is fingerprint locks are security theater.
The states simply require all vendors to send them a list of products, sales amount and customer addresses for sales to customers in their state.
Then bill their own residents at the appropriate tax rate for the products.
Cheap and simple for vendors to implement. One export format for all data.
And then it puts the heat for use taxes on the states when they send a bill.
This may have technically been a tax but in reality- it was so rarely collected that it will essentially be a new tax. That's going to be really popular.
OTH, new revenue and most the people avoiding use tax can probably afford it.
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At $1 per day, it sounds more like you are engaging in drug test theater than actual drug testing.
Blood draw tests would be much more expensive.
Wow. I'd find the idea of being tested daily for drugs to be pretty repellent. Are you in a highly religious area? I'm surprised your employees would accept this unless they believe similarly.
You have some very strong anti-drug beliefs. Where do they come from?
Were your parents police officers or prosecutors or highly religious? Did you lose a loved one or a good friend to drug addiction or overdose?
Are your beliefs the outcome of the D.A.R.E. programs?
I agree, I don't want my pilot flying high. And I don't want my surgeon impaired.
There are millions of jobs where it doesn't matter much if you are "off" 10% from a hangover, lack of sleep, or even being mildly buzzed (by any intoxicant). Are you only bothered by high risk jobs that require high performance or are you against drugs generally?
Since it's so wonderful and safe, you should label it so we will know which foods have it in the supermarket!
---
Seriously- if you want to get people to go for GMO, just label it and start selling it for 10% less money. Within 6 months, 99% of the population will be eating it to save money even if it gave them green skin. It's the refusal to label it that is making it an anathema.
I'd say the shortage of females is partially due to bigotry and sexual harassment and partially due to the fact that women don't see the point in working 72+ hour weeks without over time for a "chance" to make good money in a low status job.
So (from my personal experience), abandon the field in droves and go into easier degrees which none the less have higher status and don't have special laws prohibiting them from collecting overtime including for night, weekend, and holiday hours (specifically for computer programmers and engineers damnit) and even prohibiting them from setting up their own small businesses.
So besides not wanting to hang around with a bunch of creepy guys with poor social skills, there is also being smart enough to not be suckers.
For the lack of a mod point, the post was lost.
For want of a post a swayed opinion was lost.
For want of a rider the house bill was lost.
For want of a house bill the drug war was lost.
For want of the drug war, the country was lost.
And all for the want of a mod point.
Are you continuing to test them monthly or even more often? That must get expensive.
Youtube violates the hell out of copyright.
And that's in any sense of the word- not just stuff over 28 years old.
Furthermore they make huge amounts of money via advertising off of other artist's copyrighted works without properly licensing the artists and (as far as I have been able to determine) without paying them a dime.
The day after a new song comes out, there are many copies of the song on Youtube. Often entire movies are posted as well. It's so bad that I have to suspect it's a temporary situation.
I strongly disagree with copyright past 28 years (and don't respect it in my actions) but what Youtube is doing is 0 day copyright infringement. Enjoy it while you can, but it's so bad, I can't see how it's going to last. It's clearly illegal. It's clearly a massive pattern of behavior and repeated infringement.
Well of course you would say that but I don't think you are including the extra $150 for an oversize backback and two carry on bags.
Plus, I think you failed to consider the 3 hour delay in getting on to the uber ride including having someone grope your private parts (some people pay good money for that kind of thing).
And having to buy extra water for $3, extra shampoo, and other liquid consumables which had over 3oz bottles.
Nor the $10 for a burger at the Uber Food Court. Nor the $20 cab ride to the uber terminal miles from town.
I think, if you reconsider, you'll realize uber was much more expensive than you realized.
Oh wait... uh..
A lot of VB6 programmers got shafted. And now spark.
The ability of vendors to "end of life" development languages is a huge risk.
Or pay the $85 for the preflight check. (or $100 for the global approval).
It's a bargain compared to taking an extra bag, etc.
It's 6 hours minimum wage work in many cities.
It's less than a month's cable tv bill.
Japan has had recessions from
1991-1993
1997-1999
2001-2002
2004-2005
2009-2010
2012-2013
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...
and
2015-2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...
See also.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/bus...
Japan's essential problem is that their GDP caught up with everyone else. Japan's GDP is about $45k (USD) (roughly the same as Germany, France, the U.S., etc. depending on the exchange rate).
Google "Japan bbc recession" for a variety of news articles on japan's various recessions. If you add a year you can get details on a particular recession (like "japan recession 1998".
The same fate awaits china in about 20 years and india in about 40 years.
It may affect parts of india much sooner since the country is so bifurcated.
And right about the time they hit their stride, we'll hit a shortage of almost every industrial metal.
Should be interesting.
I can understand their motivation. It's like it used to be for programmers in the U.S. in the 80s. You could literally work 6 months and earn 2 years worth of pay.
Today, you work 72 hours a week and the company offers you base salary plus a "potential" bonus that never hits 100% while the executives take home millions in pay, have a 2nd better funded pension system, and gold plated health care.
U.S. workers do work hard when they have a realistic potential to earn $200k in less than a year. I've seen them walking around with black eyes from lack of sleep. I've been at companies where they worked themselves til they were taken away unconcious from their desk to an ambulance.
But executives have gotten greedy and taken away... comp time, genuine achievable bonuses, and decent pay (with heavy offshoring).
As china moves from a GDP of $15,000 to a GDP of $45,000 the ability to become 'rich' thru working long hours will fade and with it so will their enthusiasm to work these hours. Their children who enter the work force in 10 to 15 years will not be nearly so enthusiastic ( same pattern as the u.s., then japan, etc.).
There will be a time when the chinese also ask, "Do I live to work or do I work to live?"
Former programmer then manager... retired for 4 years and loving it.
But they have crippled fast forward to where you see the ads.
When Dish started, you could skip 30 seconds forward by pressing the skip forward button.
You didn't "fast forward" thru the content unless you pushed the fast forward button.
Since most show are 42 minutes on DVD, they must have 18 minutes of non show / non-credit content.
Place the child in a public space where they have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Take and post photos to your heart's content.
This is really a ban on posting photos of children.
France just hasn't thought it thru.
Those deaths are tragic but they are not subsidizing the cost of oil for the u.s.
Yea, there is a big difference between "out at current prices and technology" and "out".
What most people don't consider is that we will be "out" in the second sense sooner than many people realize.
For example, we consumed as much chromium in 2014 as we did from 1900 to 2000 combined.
Short of pulling down an asteroid, the current rate of consumption of many minerals and elemental metals is unsustainably high and can't be solved like the food problem.
So judgement day had something to do with romance novels...
Interesting line of thought.
That's just daft. We have plentiful wind in Texas and my non wind electricity rate has been steadily dropping over the last 10 years. My electricity BILL is lower than it was 10 years ago.
Electricity rates have been relatively stable since the late 1980s adjusted for inflation.
Cost for solar power generation turned sharply lower in 2007 and hasn't started flattening out yet. It will be cheaper than coal very soon (some bids have been made cheaper than coal already).
The U.S. has a huge store of rare earths which are not currently mined because they are more expensive to mine than elsewhere.
However, if/when the cost/strategic value of rare earth's rise, they will be waiting to be tapped.
Everyone knows the reason for Gulfwar I and Gulfwar II was oil. We ignore every other tiny nation on earth that's doing horrific things to their citizens but we got involved in Iraq because oil.
And that cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives.
And that doesn't even begin to cover the ongoing trillions of dollars for ships and bases in places we wouldn't care about if not for oil.
Oil's subsidies are so deeply embedded into the u.s. military that we think of them as national security interests instead of as the subsidies they are.
We wouldn't even need them if we invested in solar, batteries, wind and a fleet of electric vehicles.
If 10% of the U.S. fleet were electric vehicles, the value and price of oil would collapse to under $30 and stay there. And as a "commodity" it would lose it's geopolitical value. And the u.s. would be able to greatly reduce the urge to be involved with large parts of the globe.
It would also cripple a factory for terrorists who want to kill us and put a severe crimp in Putin's military aspirations.
If it were a real felony- sure.
But a technical felony and especially with trump as the other candidate ... I disagree.
But I hear what you are saying.
Republicans would be calling for her head on a plate before the ink on the signature dried.
And it would have as much effect as every other call for her head.
They've gone to the well way too many times and failed.
This would effect no democratic votes and likely few independent votes.
You really think people are going to change their vote over some arcane computer geeky technical crime?
yet another failed "ACME" scandal attempt.
When will you coyote's learn?
If you can pay for items with your phone/watch/etc. and it uses a biometric the risk is non-zero.
All they have to do is forcibly drag your finger across the finger reader or drag your handily detached finger.
Criminals do bad things. It's not distopian, it's realistic.
As for the government,
http://www.latimes.com/local/c...
"There, authorities obtained a search warrant compelling the girlfriend of an alleged Armenian gang member to press her finger against an iPhone that had been seized from a Glendale home. The phone contained Apple's fingerprint identification system for unlocking, and prosecutors wanted access to the data inside it.
It marked a rare time that prosecutors have demanded a person provide a fingerprint to open a computer, but experts expect such cases to become more common as cracking digital security becomes a larger part of law enforcement work."
We are talking about people happy to waterboard american citizens for information at the same time government officials are telling the Washington Post: âoeThey picked up the wrong people, who had no information. In many, many cases there was only some vague associationâ with terrorism.
My point isn't that people do this. My point is fingerprint locks are security theater.
The states simply require all vendors to send them a list of products, sales amount and customer addresses for sales to customers in their state.
Then bill their own residents at the appropriate tax rate for the products.
Cheap and simple for vendors to implement. One export format for all data.
And then it puts the heat for use taxes on the states when they send a bill.
This may have technically been a tax but in reality- it was so rarely collected that it will essentially be a new tax. That's going to be really popular.
OTH, new revenue and most the people avoiding use tax can probably afford it.