Yes, they do. They think we are lazy and our way is wrong. They believe our media distorts the truth and unfairly critisizes them. They believe people in those crap jobs deserve it because they aren't smart or were too lazy in school. They think they are more free and we pay wayyy to much for stuff. They want us to buy more stuff for more money.
We aren't exactly a lot different. We believe their media distorts the truth. We think they are ideologically mistaken. We "know" we are free and they make wayyyy to little money. We want them to stop working for nothing and stealing our jobs, but still sell us stuff dirt cheap.
"In the 1980s, when auto manufacturing was shifted from US workers making $15 to hour, to offshore workers making $0.35 an hour"
Not quite accurate. This (http://midwest.chicagofedblogs.org/AvgHrlyWages-thumb.jpg)shows the average auto assembly worker made over $30/hour in the 1970s. That was $62k/year. The average household income for the US in 2009 was only $46k.
I'm not pro tax, but Amazon's argument is weak. They could provide that info adn just list the items as book or DVD and satisfy the requirement. Then the only privacy violated is that someone orders books or DVDs or some other general merchandise type.
Also, people who say it will be a burden to implement tax code for 50+ states into their store also have a weak argument. If that were q requirement, there would both be services providing daily updates for tax code by zip code, and there will be services you could send those tax revenues to with generalized sales data who would distribute that $$ for a small percentage. Neither of these would break the bank for even the smallest retailer. Anyway, if you were that small, NC or whoever won't care to collect the $17/year you sell to their residents.
The article says the plane averages 44mph (70kph). At that rate it will take about 24 days to circle the earth if they tried it in a single flight. Hopefully they will be able to get a little more speed before they try that.
" just make the airlines responsible for their own security, then they could decide whether they want the scanners and what types of searches to preform"
If this were to happen, I doubt most people would be ok with it if some airline decided to perform body cavity searches. And rather than vote with their $$, they would sue the airline for being unfair with their invasive security practices.
"Every companies website lists job offerings, 99% of the time they have no real intention of filling them."
This is wrong. Most large companies have a large burocracy surroundign job postings and won't spend the time and money posting jobs if they didn't have a position to be filled. Think of it like this, HR is like everyone else, i.e. mostly lazy. They don't want extra work for no reason and won't list jobs just for fun.
"I assure you the only people that care about your resume is HR."
Also not true. I am not in HR and I was looking at a stack of resumes last week for a position that WILL be filled. IF your resume has obvious typos or doesn't list the skills we need then you aren't getting a call. On the flip side, if you list that you can program in every language known to man, have 5 years experience managing Windows 7, brag about having experience with SnagIt or puty, then you are also going into the no call pile.
"If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you."
Last I heard, MSFT is a pubically traded company. You CAN buy it and have them change whatever you like in the code. While impractible, so would hiring a coder to custom modify any other OS be to most individuals.
"You want me to get a ficken netbook just cus Team America are going to save the ficken day by taken peoples laptops?"
No, I want you to get a netbook because you have a laptop with data that is so valuable you can't afford to lose or recreate it. Laptops get lost/stolen/dropped every day. It doesn't make sense to carry inportant unreplacable information around if you don't have to. A $300 netbook is a nominal expense compared with the costs of travel.
Really though, what software is impossible to backup? At the least you could make a DD copy of your drive and leave that at home. Then you can do a full restore to a new identical laptop if encessary and it won't ever know the difference.
This has nothing to do with weiners. The DRM in the plane uses a chromosone detector to ensure only men can drive it. I'm not sure how this works out when the man is wearing a lady wig though.
If you have a laptop with data that valuable, then leave it at home. Bring a $300 netbook and get a phone that lets you tether. You can remote into your DRMed, $10k, laptop with unmovable data if it is necessary.
What a great way to get fired. Companies spend thousands or millions of $$ to implement security. When you punch holes through it to goto sites not relevent to your job, don't be surprised when they are walking you out the door.
He was interviewed by law enforcement and no charges were filed according to the summary.
Just because no charges were filed doesn't mean he didn't do anything wrong. It just means he didn't confess or possibly leave enough evidence to get charged and goto jail.
Stop usign that Gmail account. Then people won't assume it is you. I have a gmail account that is my name. i.e. johndoe@gmail.com. There is also a johndoe1@gmail.com, johndoe2@gmail.com, johnnydoe@gmail.com, and more. If one of them goes postal and kills 100 people I'm not too worried about being associated with that. Most people understand that there are many people with the same name. For a while I even made a joke of it and was friends with 4 people with my name on Facebook and 3 people with my wife's name.
I was there in teh summer touring the bay in a boat and it was freezing. Still, there were dozens of people wind surfing around and under the Golden Gate. I don't know how they didn't freeze, but I wonder if they were aware of the shark population under them.
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Yes, they do. They think we are lazy and our way is wrong. They believe our media distorts the truth and unfairly critisizes them. They believe people in those crap jobs deserve it because they aren't smart or were too lazy in school. They think they are more free and we pay wayyy to much for stuff. They want us to buy more stuff for more money.
We aren't exactly a lot different. We believe their media distorts the truth. We think they are ideologically mistaken. We "know" we are free and they make wayyyy to little money. We want them to stop working for nothing and stealing our jobs, but still sell us stuff dirt cheap.
"In the 1980s, when auto manufacturing was shifted from US workers making $15 to hour, to offshore workers making $0.35 an hour"
Not quite accurate. This (http://midwest.chicagofedblogs.org/AvgHrlyWages-thumb.jpg)shows the average auto assembly worker made over $30/hour in the 1970s. That was $62k/year. The average household income for the US in 2009 was only $46k.
I'm not pro tax, but Amazon's argument is weak. They could provide that info adn just list the items as book or DVD and satisfy the requirement. Then the only privacy violated is that someone orders books or DVDs or some other general merchandise type.
Also, people who say it will be a burden to implement tax code for 50+ states into their store also have a weak argument. If that were q requirement, there would both be services providing daily updates for tax code by zip code, and there will be services you could send those tax revenues to with generalized sales data who would distribute that $$ for a small percentage. Neither of these would break the bank for even the smallest retailer. Anyway, if you were that small, NC or whoever won't care to collect the $17/year you sell to their residents.
The article says the plane averages 44mph (70kph). At that rate it will take about 24 days to circle the earth if they tried it in a single flight. Hopefully they will be able to get a little more speed before they try that.
What a cromulent observation!
" just make the airlines responsible for their own security, then they could decide whether they want the scanners and what types of searches to preform"
If this were to happen, I doubt most people would be ok with it if some airline decided to perform body cavity searches. And rather than vote with their $$, they would sue the airline for being unfair with their invasive security practices.
That's Topeka Wave to you!
"Every companies website lists job offerings, 99% of the time they have no real intention of filling them."
This is wrong. Most large companies have a large burocracy surroundign job postings and won't spend the time and money posting jobs if they didn't have a position to be filled. Think of it like this, HR is like everyone else, i.e. mostly lazy. They don't want extra work for no reason and won't list jobs just for fun.
"I assure you the only people that care about your resume is HR."
Also not true. I am not in HR and I was looking at a stack of resumes last week for a position that WILL be filled. IF your resume has obvious typos or doesn't list the skills we need then you aren't getting a call. On the flip side, if you list that you can program in every language known to man, have 5 years experience managing Windows 7, brag about having experience with SnagIt or puty, then you are also going into the no call pile.
"If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you."
Last I heard, MSFT is a pubically traded company. You CAN buy it and have them change whatever you like in the code. While impractible, so would hiring a coder to custom modify any other OS be to most individuals.
People love to complain/talk about it, but who exactly isn't on a "fixed income"?
Go surf the internet. That should cheer you up.
The more I read about this, the worse it makes me feel.
"'internet addicts' spent proportionately more time browsing sexually gratifying websites"
Think how depressed they would be if they went to websites that weren't "sexually gratifying"!
If I were this guy, this would be my defense...
The Simpsons have existed for 20+ years. Yes, they may have childlike features, but they are all past the age of consent, even Maggie.
"You want me to get a ficken netbook just cus Team America are going to save the ficken day by taken peoples laptops?"
No, I want you to get a netbook because you have a laptop with data that is so valuable you can't afford to lose or recreate it. Laptops get lost/stolen/dropped every day. It doesn't make sense to carry inportant unreplacable information around if you don't have to. A $300 netbook is a nominal expense compared with the costs of travel.
Really though, what software is impossible to backup? At the least you could make a DD copy of your drive and leave that at home. Then you can do a full restore to a new identical laptop if encessary and it won't ever know the difference.
This has nothing to do with weiners. The DRM in the plane uses a chromosone detector to ensure only men can drive it. I'm not sure how this works out when the man is wearing a lady wig though.
If you have a laptop with data that valuable, then leave it at home. Bring a $300 netbook and get a phone that lets you tether. You can remote into your DRMed, $10k, laptop with unmovable data if it is necessary.
I'm ok with Wi-Fi signals as long as they are in the clear and open. When you start using WEP keys or some sort of encryption it makes me ill though.
What a great way to get fired. Companies spend thousands or millions of $$ to implement security. When you punch holes through it to goto sites not relevent to your job, don't be surprised when they are walking you out the door.
"On the contrary, I'd be happy to see my tax dollars used to support and improve software that I can then access and use for free."
Bad mindset from the start. If your tax dollars are paying for it, then its not free. You are just pre-paying for software you MAY use some day.
He was interviewed by law enforcement and no charges were filed according to the summary.
Just because no charges were filed doesn't mean he didn't do anything wrong. It just means he didn't confess or possibly leave enough evidence to get charged and goto jail.
Stop usign that Gmail account. Then people won't assume it is you. I have a gmail account that is my name. i.e. johndoe@gmail.com. There is also a johndoe1@gmail.com, johndoe2@gmail.com, johnnydoe@gmail.com, and more. If one of them goes postal and kills 100 people I'm not too worried about being associated with that. Most people understand that there are many people with the same name. For a while I even made a joke of it and was friends with 4 people with my name on Facebook and 3 people with my wife's name.
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or just walls that block or confuse it
I was there in teh summer touring the bay in a boat and it was freezing. Still, there were dozens of people wind surfing around and under the Golden Gate. I don't know how they didn't freeze, but I wonder if they were aware of the shark population under them.