It's like art. Hard to define but when a company is making 88 billion dollars and paying a few hundred million in taxes, you know something is wrong.
I hope france nails google hard.
Not because google- but because all the other companies and corporations that are externalizing their costs on host countries and then refusing to pay revenue to the countries.
Absolutely. This is one of the tricky things with both medicine and herbal remedies.
Something may work wonderfully for one person, be ineffective for another, and injurious or even (rarely) deadly to someone else.
For example alcohol is really bad for some people due to their heritage.
The thing about the migraines is- they can last for years (and rarely for the rest of the person's life) so very high cost even if the risk is moderate.
So right. The government should just fine VW a billion dollars and bankrupt the company. Then waste the money on some extra tanks to park in the desert and not use to keep the corporate welfare going to people in states with senior senators and representatives.
Oh wait... that's terrible. The original plan is an awesome plan. It's a great plan. Not as good as charging flame throwers head on but pretty good. I LOVE the original plan.
Oh come on man, every place I ever worked at said, you have to show you can do the job before you can get promoted to the job.
You work as a lead before you are a lead. While a lead, you start doing the work of a manager before you can be a manager. And a lot of the time, you do the work without ever getting the promotion.
I guess you never worked at a place like that. Maybe that behavior is regional.
Your math is WAY off. There is no way $17/hr ends up being $8.15 per hour after state and local taxes.
Perhaps she has a gender discrimination suit without realizing it.
The take away is that Yelp may be a shitty work place with terrible communication skills that takes advantage of their employees. Welcome to 60% of businesses for the last two decades.
A major problem is wealth inequality which allows those in the top 20% to "bid up" nice places like san francisco to the point that the bottom 40% really can't afford to live there any more.
Flipping burgers is only more intensive in the moment.
If you count the 4 to 8 years of training you have to prepare for writing code, the trade off is not so obvious.
You will have to stay up 24-40 straight hours multiple times to meet deadlines for a coding degree. You will have to work nights, weekends, and holidays. When your hands hurt from typing, you will continue to type to meet deadline.
On my last software project we had several divorces and five heart attacks out of a crew of 400. Not counting the "mystery contractor" who was hauled away unconcious from his desk and we never found out what happened to him. The young people from the contracting houses were walking around with double black eyes (not blue under the eyes-- literally purple black) from lack of sleep. Add in the constant pressure of being fired and losing everything if you fail to meet the unreasonable deadlines or.. if you just get unlucky.
Coding can be extremely stressful work. Once you learn to flip burgers, you are set.
Once you learn a software set, you are okay for maybe 6-10 years, then you must self-retrain and successfully get on another back breaking, hand killing project that leaves your arms in pain from tendenitus, screwed up shoulders and frozen muscles in order to jump to the new technology.
Coding *COULD* be easy work, but it frequently isn't. Development projects are always on an unrealistic deadline. Maintenance programming isn't so bad tho.
I'm in complete agreement with her being fired for embarrassing her employer and exposing their substandard wages
And I salute here for exposing Yelps substandard wages for the area. Hopefully, they'll get the reputation they deserve and have trouble finding employment and lose some business.
Your poor life choices was a stupid ad hominem attack and irritated me. It made me want to say angry things at you.
But, I hope when you suffer for your particular poor life choices (which you will), that you get treated with sympathy and grace by those around you who are doing better at the time.
Yes and to break the same code with only 10 tries is considerably more difficult and correspondingly more secure.
Since apple CAN break it, they will and probably should break it eventually.
However- they should make future versions of their operating system which they CANNOT break. And when the government says they must break it, then they can honestly reply, "We can't any more."
Security agencies try after every incident to get back doors into encrypted systems-- even when it later always turns out encryption wasn't used.
For example, in the case of Paris- the author of the attack stated months before in an ENGLISH LANGUAGE magazine that he intended to launch a terrorist attack on Paris. And then they implemented the plan using SMS (encrypted with ROT26... lol). And the security agencies failed.
This is not about finding terrorists. There's too much noise for them to know what's real, what's trolling, what's bullshit, etc. They can't chase every lead.
But it would be excellent for surveilling their own citizens.
Dude, well aware-- the only difference is that you haven't started thinking about what it means that roughly 3 million adult voting citizens out of 250 million adult voting citizens (roughly 1%!) control 10% of the Senate. You know.. the Senate that decides who the supreme court is going to be.
The government was structured the way it was because the founding fathers had no clue that we would allow states like california with roughly 10% of all citizens in it while other states would be mostly unpopulated land.
You need to open your eyes and at least engage your brain for a few seconds instead of walking along in a haze.
Then for bonus points-- realize there is nothing (outside of free staters) that we can do about it. The only way to fix it would be an amendment (not happening), a constitutional convention (dangerously close to happening but would high risk that it would be a runaway convention), or splitting up states in some new way into smaller, more reasonable population blocks.
the main reason nothing is happening is that no one thinks about how the meaning of the senate has changed (they are essentially glorified representatives these days with a few additional powers).
What is a state at the base except a group of citizens inside a defined piece of land? Why does one group of citizens get to be so grossly over represented in the operation of our government? Why do almost 100 million citizens in California, New York, and Texas have so little say?
You misread it... it's not the freestaters who are peeing in their pants. It's the existing statists who are losing power .
The statists want no change from status quo. They are in power now.
the free staters can have a high impact in low population states. As few as 281,000 free staters could gain control of 2 senators and a representative. Then at the very least their senators could gum up the works, or even enhance their power as the 2 deciding swing votes in many cases.
It's a flaw in our system that a state with 586,000 citizens gets to control two senators while a state with 38,000,000 citizens also only gets to control two citizens. Low population states should be combined to some minimum size several high population states should probably be split into several smaller states.
They are right. It's very typical behavior by the u.s. government and really all governments.
The only think Apple could do would be to comply- then make it impossible for them to comply in the future with hardware and software changes.
Then when the government compelled them to comply they could say, it's not possible to comply from the ground up on this new phone.
Otherwise use of the new ability will be used generally in mass murders, then any murders, then child porn and sex trafficing, then in tax fraud cases, then as a general case for any crime including misdemeanors and apple will banned from talking about the tool.
it's the pattern the government has used for other tools.
Look- if the NSA hadn't abused the hell out of this, and if the police hadn't abused the hell out of property seizures, and if the police and FBI hadn't secretly abused the hell out of stingray, and if the police, nsa, and fbi all hadn't been caught lying over and over... we might trust them (the FBI used to be a lot more trustworthy unless you were a commie- in which case they were completely untrustworthy and would even make shit up to destroy your life). Okay, so really they were never trustworthy really.
They'll use this ability and then they'll abuse this ability... massively and secretly.
EVERY SINGLE TIME there is as terrorist incident security agencies all clamor for backdoors to encryption and in almost every case so far it turns out the back door wasn't needed. Heck, the paris attack master piece was on the cover of an english language arabic magazine months saying he was planning a terrorist attack against paris months before and no intelligence agency caught it. And yet they immediately said encryption was a problem.. and then the terrorists turned out to be using open text unencrypted SMS messages.
Exactly and spiking a well qualified moderate hispanic candidate for the supreme court would be a spectacular shot point blank to the foot.
If obama nominates a liberal, it would be foolish.
The republicans will try to paint the moderate that obama elects as a liberal. And they might drag their feet and make lots of informational requests to slow things down. But they'll have to vote on a least one- and maybe two candidates.
It might be smarter on their part to use their power to force a moderate and (especially) if it is a hispanic give a quick vote.
I agree that Lewinski was probably a victim. She's a perfect case why we say people can't have sex with people they hold power over. I'm not sure she was sleeping her way to the top or if she was just like any rock n' roll groupie and naturally wanted to have sex (and babies with) a very powerful male. Genes and all.
I understand the reasons for the 2nd amendment (which are ridiculously outdated when government troops can hit you with fourteen 30mm shells from 12,000 feet away (thru modest cover too! and at night!). And I understand we'll never repeal the 2nd amendment.
That wasn't my point. My point was-- if you are human and have emotions and you own a gun... and especially if you ever ever get even mildly intoxicated... you are at risk of using your gun inappropriately.
And when you do, it's going to screw your life up something fierce.
If you have kids, there is a much greater chance you'll kill them, or they will kill themselves, if you have a gun.
In a study a couple years ago, they found about 25% of children in families with guns had gotten access to the guns without the parents knowledge.
At the very least, you don't want to own one of those remington shotguns with the bad triggers. The story about the lady shooting her son dead when the gun went off without puling the trigger was tragic. And police swat tested and found that yes, it can go off without the trigger being pulled.
I'm not saying ban guns even tho the u.s. has so many gun deaths. I'm saying owning a gun is a balance of protection (if you are in a risky environment) and increased personal risk. The gun deaths of children are low odds but a significant risk and will basically destroy your life.
We pay a terrible price for the illusion we can protect ourself from government tyranny thru gun ownership (that day has passed... decades ago).
30,000 deaths a year. A gun death rate roughly 30x that of most developed european countries.
A lot of gun suicides (a momentary depression... a permanent solution that shatters your kid's lives).
This is just me looking directly at gun owners and saying think about the risk to your kids the guns pose.
One interesting possibility I've seen is a hispanic liberal with awesome credentials (harvard, stanford, whitehouse, federal court judge- unanimous bipartisan approval by california senate).
If the republicans rejected him, they can kiss florida goodbye (and probably arizona too- hell maybe even texas).
Sincerely, We are a nation of 340+ million people.
Every day- dozens of previously reasonable gun owners lose it and use their guns inapproriately.
Like the retired police chief who shot a man to death for throwing popcorn on him in a movie theater.
Like the bystander lady who fired her gun at a fleeing truck with shoplifters (and who lost her license, thousands of dollars, and is on probation).
Like the guy who shot the black teen in the sheltered community.
Like the fathers who get depressed- or angry that their wife is divorcing them and kill the wife, the kids, and themselves.
I'm sure you are a great, calm, well trained, cool headed guy- but you can't be certain you will *always* be a great guy. Anyone can have a bad day and lose emotional control.
If you have kids, your gun increases risk to them much more than it lowers risk (unless maybe you live in a gang area with active shootings all the time).
Because per the federalist papers what it means is "the populace needs guns to keep the state free so the state doesn't turn into a tyranny- like we had under king george."
However- it's a silly concept when government helicopters can hit you with fourteen 30mm shells from 12,000 feet away at night- thru modest cover.
It results in a huge number of civilian deaths in the country. But it's constitutional law, validated by the supreme court over and over and over.
Changing the constitution is hard.
So despite the fact that it's unrealistic and outdated and causes a lot of deaths-- it's going to be exceedingly hard to change.
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It's like art. Hard to define but when a company is making 88 billion dollars and paying a few hundred million in taxes, you know something is wrong.
I hope france nails google hard.
Not because google- but because all the other companies and corporations that are externalizing their costs on host countries and then refusing to pay revenue to the countries.
Absolutely. This is one of the tricky things with both medicine and herbal remedies.
Something may work wonderfully for one person, be ineffective for another, and injurious or even (rarely) deadly to someone else.
For example alcohol is really bad for some people due to their heritage.
The thing about the migraines is- they can last for years (and rarely for the rest of the person's life) so very high cost even if the risk is moderate.
It's wise to avoid going cold turkey on coffee. It's one way to get long term migraines that are tough to clear up.
Doesn't happen if you wean off coffee slowly.
So right. The government should just fine VW a billion dollars and bankrupt the company. Then waste the money on some extra tanks to park in the desert and not use to keep the corporate welfare going to people in states with senior senators and representatives.
Oh wait... that's terrible. The original plan is an awesome plan. It's a great plan. Not as good as charging flame throwers head on but pretty good. I LOVE the original plan.
Oh come on man, every place I ever worked at said, you have to show you can do the job before you can get promoted to the job.
You work as a lead before you are a lead. While a lead, you start doing the work of a manager before you can be a manager. And a lot of the time, you do the work without ever getting the promotion.
I guess you never worked at a place like that. Maybe that behavior is regional.
Your math is WAY off. There is no way $17/hr ends up being $8.15 per hour after state and local taxes.
Perhaps she has a gender discrimination suit without realizing it.
The take away is that Yelp may be a shitty work place with terrible communication skills that takes advantage of their employees. Welcome to 60% of businesses for the last two decades.
A major problem is wealth inequality which allows those in the top 20% to "bid up" nice places like san francisco to the point that the bottom 40% really can't afford to live there any more.
I did. i'm retired now.
I also flipped burgers at a Dairy Queen for 3 years. It was easy, fun work with a zero learning curve.
Flipping burgers is only more intensive in the moment.
If you count the 4 to 8 years of training you have to prepare for writing code, the trade off is not so obvious.
You will have to stay up 24-40 straight hours multiple times to meet deadlines for a coding degree. You will have to work nights, weekends, and holidays. When your hands hurt from typing, you will continue to type to meet deadline.
On my last software project we had several divorces and five heart attacks out of a crew of 400. Not counting the "mystery contractor" who was hauled away unconcious from his desk and we never found out what happened to him. The young people from the contracting houses were walking around with double black eyes (not blue under the eyes-- literally purple black) from lack of sleep. Add in the constant pressure of being fired and losing everything if you fail to meet the unreasonable deadlines or.. if you just get unlucky.
Coding can be extremely stressful work. Once you learn to flip burgers, you are set.
Once you learn a software set, you are okay for maybe 6-10 years, then you must self-retrain and successfully get on another back breaking, hand killing project that leaves your arms in pain from tendenitus, screwed up shoulders and frozen muscles in order to jump to the new technology.
Coding *COULD* be easy work, but it frequently isn't. Development projects are always on an unrealistic deadline. Maintenance programming isn't so bad tho.
I'm in complete agreement with her being fired for embarrassing her employer and exposing their substandard wages
And I salute here for exposing Yelps substandard wages for the area. Hopefully, they'll get the reputation they deserve and have trouble finding employment and lose some business.
Your poor life choices was a stupid ad hominem attack and irritated me. It made me want to say angry things at you.
But, I hope when you suffer for your particular poor life choices (which you will), that you get treated with sympathy and grace by those around you who are doing better at the time.
Yes and to break the same code with only 10 tries is considerably more difficult and correspondingly more secure.
Since apple CAN break it, they will and probably should break it eventually.
However- they should make future versions of their operating system which they CANNOT break. And when the government says they must break it, then they can honestly reply, "We can't any more."
Security agencies try after every incident to get back doors into encrypted systems-- even when it later always turns out encryption wasn't used.
For example, in the case of Paris- the author of the attack stated months before in an ENGLISH LANGUAGE magazine that he intended to launch a terrorist attack on Paris. And then they implemented the plan using SMS (encrypted with ROT26... lol). And the security agencies failed.
This is not about finding terrorists. There's too much noise for them to know what's real, what's trolling, what's bullshit, etc. They can't chase every lead.
But it would be excellent for surveilling their own citizens.
Dude, well aware-- the only difference is that you haven't started thinking about what it means that roughly 3 million adult voting citizens out of 250 million adult voting citizens (roughly 1%!) control 10% of the Senate. You know.. the Senate that decides who the supreme court is going to be.
The government was structured the way it was because the founding fathers had no clue that we would allow states like california with roughly 10% of all citizens in it while other states would be mostly unpopulated land.
You need to open your eyes and at least engage your brain for a few seconds instead of walking along in a haze.
Then for bonus points-- realize there is nothing (outside of free staters) that we can do about it. The only way to fix it would be an amendment (not happening), a constitutional convention (dangerously close to happening but would high risk that it would be a runaway convention), or splitting up states in some new way into smaller, more reasonable population blocks.
the main reason nothing is happening is that no one thinks about how the meaning of the senate has changed (they are essentially glorified representatives these days with a few additional powers).
What is a state at the base except a group of citizens inside a defined piece of land? Why does one group of citizens get to be so grossly over represented in the operation of our government? Why do almost 100 million citizens in California, New York, and Texas have so little say?
Are you really that clueless or do you live under a rug?
This was in the news repeatedly over the last two years AND on the john oliver show.
I'm not going to waste my time citing something that should be that widely known- educate your self.
Google stingray-- read how it was abused, how often, and by how many departments.
Google civil forfeiture-- read how it was abused, how often, and by how many departments.
Google FBI,abuse,communist- for bonus points, FBI, martin luther king.
It's typical. You can't be that clueless.
You misread it... it's not the freestaters who are peeing in their pants. It's the existing statists who are losing power .
The statists want no change from status quo. They are in power now.
the free staters can have a high impact in low population states. As few as 281,000 free staters could gain control of 2 senators and a representative. Then at the very least their senators could gum up the works, or even enhance their power as the 2 deciding swing votes in many cases.
It's a flaw in our system that a state with 586,000 citizens gets to control two senators while a state with 38,000,000 citizens also only gets to control two citizens. Low population states should be combined to some minimum size several high population states should probably be split into several smaller states.
They are right. It's very typical behavior by the u.s. government and really all governments.
The only think Apple could do would be to comply- then make it impossible for them to comply in the future with hardware and software changes.
Then when the government compelled them to comply they could say, it's not possible to comply from the ground up on this new phone.
Otherwise use of the new ability will be used generally in mass murders, then any murders, then child porn and sex trafficing, then in tax fraud cases, then as a general case for any crime including misdemeanors and apple will banned from talking about the tool.
it's the pattern the government has used for other tools.
Look- if the NSA hadn't abused the hell out of this, and if the police hadn't abused the hell out of property seizures, and if the police and FBI hadn't secretly abused the hell out of stingray, and if the police, nsa, and fbi all hadn't been caught lying over and over... we might trust them (the FBI used to be a lot more trustworthy unless you were a commie- in which case they were completely untrustworthy and would even make shit up to destroy your life). Okay, so really they were never trustworthy really.
They'll use this ability and then they'll abuse this ability... massively and secretly.
EVERY SINGLE TIME there is as terrorist incident security agencies all clamor for backdoors to encryption and in almost every case so far it turns out the back door wasn't needed. Heck, the paris attack master piece was on the cover of an english language arabic magazine months saying he was planning a terrorist attack against paris months before and no intelligence agency caught it. And yet they immediately said encryption was a problem.. and then the terrorists turned out to be using open text unencrypted SMS messages.
Exactly- I mean the drives in four of my computers are never used since I don't turn those drives off.
Any data that doesn't give failure rates for drives which are only used a couple times a year is pointless.
Exactly and spiking a well qualified moderate hispanic candidate for the supreme court would be a spectacular shot point blank to the foot.
If obama nominates a liberal, it would be foolish.
The republicans will try to paint the moderate that obama elects as a liberal. And they might drag their feet and make lots of informational requests to slow things down. But they'll have to vote on a least one- and maybe two candidates.
It might be smarter on their part to use their power to force a moderate and (especially) if it is a hispanic give a quick vote.
The genetics are pretty solid and involve twin studies.
Basically some people are comfortable with change and some people are comfortable with stability.
I agree that Lewinski was probably a victim. She's a perfect case why we say people can't have sex with people they hold power over. I'm not sure she was sleeping her way to the top or if she was just like any rock n' roll groupie and naturally wanted to have sex (and babies with) a very powerful male. Genes and all.
I understand where you are coming at but Texas is actually much closer than it looks but has terrible democratic voter turnout.
Texas ranked 48th in turnout in 2012, 47th in 2008 and 49th in 2006.
27% of texas hispanics voted republican in 2014. That's about 950,000 votes.
I'm considering the case where they either
a) stay home.
or
b) switch parties.
Because a qualified hispanic supreme court justice is spiked by the republican party.
But it gets worse. Another 25% of hispanics are independents. That's 920,000 votes.
Romney won texas by 1.2 million votes with only about half of all eligible voters actually casting a vote.
Texas is not locked in-- as the boomers die, it's slowly shifting back to blue.
I'd be interested in any articles you might have giving a deeper discussion of this concept.
Esp. since genetic basis for left-right (liberal/conservative) has been found in multiple studies.
I'm not disputing- i'm genuinely interested. Please give more details.
I understand the reasons for the 2nd amendment (which are ridiculously outdated when government troops can hit you with fourteen 30mm shells from 12,000 feet away (thru modest cover too! and at night!). And I understand we'll never repeal the 2nd amendment.
That wasn't my point. My point was-- if you are human and have emotions and you own a gun... and especially if you ever ever get even mildly intoxicated... you are at risk of using your gun inappropriately.
And when you do, it's going to screw your life up something fierce.
If you have kids, there is a much greater chance you'll kill them, or they will kill themselves, if you have a gun.
In a study a couple years ago, they found about 25% of children in families with guns had gotten access to the guns without the parents knowledge.
At the very least, you don't want to own one of those remington shotguns with the bad triggers. The story about the lady shooting her son dead when the gun went off without puling the trigger was tragic. And police swat tested and found that yes, it can go off without the trigger being pulled.
I'm not saying ban guns even tho the u.s. has so many gun deaths. I'm saying owning a gun is a balance of protection (if you are in a risky environment) and increased personal risk. The gun deaths of children are low odds but a significant risk and will basically destroy your life.
We pay a terrible price for the illusion we can protect ourself from government tyranny thru gun ownership (that day has passed... decades ago).
30,000 deaths a year. A gun death rate roughly 30x that of most developed european countries.
A lot of gun suicides (a momentary depression... a permanent solution that shatters your kid's lives).
This is just me looking directly at gun owners and saying think about the risk to your kids the guns pose.
One interesting possibility I've seen is a hispanic liberal with awesome credentials (harvard, stanford, whitehouse, federal court judge- unanimous bipartisan approval by california senate).
If the republicans rejected him, they can kiss florida goodbye (and probably arizona too- hell maybe even texas).
Sincerely,
We are a nation of 340+ million people.
Every day- dozens of previously reasonable gun owners lose it and use their guns inapproriately.
Like the retired police chief who shot a man to death for throwing popcorn on him in a movie theater.
Like the bystander lady who fired her gun at a fleeing truck with shoplifters (and who lost her license, thousands of dollars, and is on probation).
Like the guy who shot the black teen in the sheltered community.
Like the fathers who get depressed- or angry that their wife is divorcing them and kill the wife, the kids, and themselves.
I'm sure you are a great, calm, well trained, cool headed guy- but you can't be certain you will *always* be a great guy. Anyone can have a bad day and lose emotional control.
If you have kids, your gun increases risk to them much more than it lowers risk (unless maybe you live in a gang area with active shootings all the time).
Because per the federalist papers what it means is "the populace needs guns to keep the state free so the state doesn't turn into a tyranny- like we had under king george."
However- it's a silly concept when government helicopters can hit you with fourteen 30mm shells from 12,000 feet away at night- thru modest cover.
It results in a huge number of civilian deaths in the country. But it's constitutional law, validated by the supreme court over and over and over.
Changing the constitution is hard.
So despite the fact that it's unrealistic and outdated and causes a lot of deaths-- it's going to be exceedingly hard to change.
Here's something to be aware of.
Because of the electoral college system, tiny republican state citizens are grossly over represented compared to large liberal states.
Wyoming has one Senator per 280,000 people.
California has one Senator per 18,000,000 people.
The number of tiny but republican states outnumbers the number of tiny but democratic states.
So any kind of regular revoting is going to favor republican senators and conservative justices.
The founding fathers (per the original 1st amendment- never passed) suggested 1 representative per 40,000 to 60,000 citizens.
Hell- even IRAQ has 1 representative per 100,000 citizens making it more representative than the united states by a huge margin.
As a united states citizen, and a Texan... I ask that you continue to contribute your opinions to discussions here and elsewhere.
They matter and are appreciated.