The concept might make a lot of sense, but the implementation weirds me out.
A Canadian town will subsidise an American corporation to provide a public service. I can appreciate that the costs to provide public transit to such a small town might be prohibitively high but you could have run your own public taxi service instead and get some return on the tax money being spent.
I don't care what the salary is, I care about what my disposable income is. When rent for shitholes in San Fransisco is $3000/month then $70000/year is just not great.
> No, this is the liberal media that thought it would be a good idea to run with a story that a British intelligence agency had leaked a document with several derogatory statements about President Trump, and that several intelligence agencies had suggested that it was trustworthy.
Except that's not what happened. A private investigator, funded by Trump opponents across party lines, made the allegations, and the PI is considered to be reliable. Most major outlets didn't publish the whole report, only saying there are allegations that are salacious in nature. It was BuzzFeed that said "here it all is, verbatim, you figure it out yourselves".
The problem I see here is whether or not the media should report on suspicions. Suspicions are theories, not facts. Suspicions can be supported by other facts mind you, and sometimes those facts can compel someone or some entity to further investigate those suspicions, and some suspicions are outlandish and esoteric and until something more concrete comes around to support it, then we can ignore it.
Trump is certainly a bad person, and he represents the worst of America. But if we keep jumping on every opportunity possible to say he's bad, then the anti-Trump people are just crying wolf. There is already plenty of cannon fodder to use against Trump and the GOP, such as their incredibly amateurish attempt at reforming healthcare. I mean, how can you take any politician seriously when they openly advocate to let their own constituents die to save money?
The real question is, why does a tractor of all things, even require firmware? It's not a complicated machine with fancy dashboards and GPS and mandated speed restrictions and whatever. It's a god damn tractor!
how does that even work? I can at least understand that if you are at your cubicle being paid a salary and you're working on your "next big thing", I can see why a company would claim ownership over it. They paid for it after all.
But what you do outside of that cubicle on your own time is your own business, not theirs. And worse, how can they claim retroactive ownership over something you made before you even joined the company?
Are there seriously no programming jobs available in your country that you feel compelled to sign such an absurd agreement?
meat is really just a collection cells, nutrients and water. Whether they are assembled in a womb or in a machine, if it tastes the same, has the same texture, and can be cooked the same way, then so what?
I feel this question is asked by someone whose parents never tricked their kids into eating something by saying it was something else or didn't contain an ingredient that the child irrationally doesn't like.
So what exactly did the US Government do in that first month to create all those jobs? After all, if you can implement policy on day one and see that translate into an economic boost within a month, that is some good policy that governments would want to imitate all over the world.
I don't know much about this person and I don't care about her, but it should at least be an entertaining thought experiment to work out instead of just "wahh wu is dumb, wahh".
I guess maybe Slashdot got taken over by teenagers or something...
I remember a day when slashdotters would instead ponder the point at hand, then enjoy themselves as they work out the maths and engineering details to accomplish it.
> If something is understandable, it is justified by definition (IMHO).
Entirely and completely wrong. Understanding why things happen do not give those things justification.
> Now, if you're like me, rioting is not a solution for anything. It doesn't solve any problem, it doesn't bring the kind of attention that can solve problems. Rioting is simply a temper tantrum, and I refuse to give power to people having tantrums. Period
I'm not saying you should. I'm saying it helps more to understand why the riots occurred in the first place in order to prevent them from happening again. Not always, but usually, riots are not isolated events, but are the results of an accumulation of issues and problems. Yes, people are angry, and that anger led them to riot. So understanding why they were angry in the first place is a good thing.
Are you sure you're not confusing the word "justifiable" with "understandable"? This is a very common thing to do.
For this UCLA incident, I'm not sure many people would say it's either one, but riots are a different story.
Political/socioeconomic-related riots are rarely a measure of first resort. We only think this way, because the riot itself is what makes the big headlines. But riots are usually triggered in a society that already have problems, and a singular event ended up being the one that broke the camels back which triggered the riots.
Is the violence justifiable in these riots? Is it acceptable to smash and loot local businesses because of a grievance with police or politicians? No. But it's certainly understandable that these things can happen.
I bought Windows 10 to go along with my new gaming PC. It takes a bit of effort to turn off all this data collecting but it's doable.
I can't say if performance is better or not, as this was installed on a brand new PC with SSD drive and 32gb of ram and my Windows 7 is a lenovo laptop without SSDs and only 8gb of ram.
But I can say that I don't see a huge amount of difference between 7 and 10 and if you're happy with 7 then the only reason to upgrade is when MS stops supporting 7 altogether.
well, don't know anything about the jury, but the judge I reckon has really earned respect from communities like this because to better understand the situation, he got quite familiar with Java itself: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/...
I'm not sure I see how deflation can be avoided if income continues to decrease
People with less money, will spend less, encouraging retailers to lower prices, which will encourage those same retailers to cut labor costs, which will decrease further the supply of consumers.
Average incomes are falling. Surely this will lead to unwanted deflation since supply will exceed demand, forcing companies to lower prices to encourage more consumerism, but losing profits as a result, which will result in labor cuts, which will continue to decrease demand.
I'm not sure how sustainability comes into play here...
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The concept might make a lot of sense, but the implementation weirds me out.
A Canadian town will subsidise an American corporation to provide a public service. I can appreciate that the costs to provide public transit to such a small town might be prohibitively high but you could have run your own public taxi service instead and get some return on the tax money being spent.
all this information is irrelevant.
I don't care what the salary is, I care about what my disposable income is. When rent for shitholes in San Fransisco is $3000/month then $70000/year is just not great.
For most people, "guy" has evolved to be gender neutral.
"Hey guys!" is acceptable to say to a group of mixed gendered individuals.
> No, this is the liberal media that thought it would be a good idea to run with a story that a British intelligence agency had leaked a document with several derogatory statements about President Trump, and that several intelligence agencies had suggested that it was trustworthy.
Except that's not what happened. A private investigator, funded by Trump opponents across party lines, made the allegations, and the PI is considered to be reliable. Most major outlets didn't publish the whole report, only saying there are allegations that are salacious in nature. It was BuzzFeed that said "here it all is, verbatim, you figure it out yourselves".
The problem I see here is whether or not the media should report on suspicions. Suspicions are theories, not facts. Suspicions can be supported by other facts mind you, and sometimes those facts can compel someone or some entity to further investigate those suspicions, and some suspicions are outlandish and esoteric and until something more concrete comes around to support it, then we can ignore it.
Trump is certainly a bad person, and he represents the worst of America. But if we keep jumping on every opportunity possible to say he's bad, then the anti-Trump people are just crying wolf. There is already plenty of cannon fodder to use against Trump and the GOP, such as their incredibly amateurish attempt at reforming healthcare. I mean, how can you take any politician seriously when they openly advocate to let their own constituents die to save money?
equating "never has happened" with "impossible that it will happen" is weak logic
The real question is, why does a tractor of all things, even require firmware? It's not a complicated machine with fancy dashboards and GPS and mandated speed restrictions and whatever. It's a god damn tractor!
how does that even work? I can at least understand that if you are at your cubicle being paid a salary and you're working on your "next big thing", I can see why a company would claim ownership over it. They paid for it after all.
But what you do outside of that cubicle on your own time is your own business, not theirs. And worse, how can they claim retroactive ownership over something you made before you even joined the company?
Are there seriously no programming jobs available in your country that you feel compelled to sign such an absurd agreement?
I do like the flat UI
Once economies of scale kick in, I doubt that farming chickens will be cheaper than manufacturing chicken meat.
meat is really just a collection cells, nutrients and water. Whether they are assembled in a womb or in a machine, if it tastes the same, has the same texture, and can be cooked the same way, then so what?
I feel this question is asked by someone whose parents never tricked their kids into eating something by saying it was something else or didn't contain an ingredient that the child irrationally doesn't like.
So what exactly did the US Government do in that first month to create all those jobs? After all, if you can implement policy on day one and see that translate into an economic boost within a month, that is some good policy that governments would want to imitate all over the world.
with win10 home edition, is it even possible to stop this from happening at all? Some obscure registry hack somewhere?
the problem with your code example is formatting. If the code was well formatted, then you would realise what the actual error(s) are.
she also posted this idea on twitter, not a blog.
I don't know much about this person and I don't care about her, but it should at least be an entertaining thought experiment to work out instead of just "wahh wu is dumb, wahh".
I guess maybe Slashdot got taken over by teenagers or something...
I remember a day when slashdotters would instead ponder the point at hand, then enjoy themselves as they work out the maths and engineering details to accomplish it.
Clearly it was Justin Trudeau's fault then, because that's the logic of political parties eh?
> If something is understandable, it is justified by definition (IMHO).
Entirely and completely wrong. Understanding why things happen do not give those things justification.
> Now, if you're like me, rioting is not a solution for anything. It doesn't solve any problem, it doesn't bring the kind of attention that can solve problems. Rioting is simply a temper tantrum, and I refuse to give power to people having tantrums. Period
I'm not saying you should. I'm saying it helps more to understand why the riots occurred in the first place in order to prevent them from happening again. Not always, but usually, riots are not isolated events, but are the results of an accumulation of issues and problems. Yes, people are angry, and that anger led them to riot. So understanding why they were angry in the first place is a good thing.
are you suggesting that Europe is responsible for delayed DVD releases?
Are you sure you're not confusing the word "justifiable" with "understandable"? This is a very common thing to do.
For this UCLA incident, I'm not sure many people would say it's either one, but riots are a different story.
Political/socioeconomic-related riots are rarely a measure of first resort. We only think this way, because the riot itself is what makes the big headlines. But riots are usually triggered in a society that already have problems, and a singular event ended up being the one that broke the camels back which triggered the riots.
Is the violence justifiable in these riots? Is it acceptable to smash and loot local businesses because of a grievance with police or politicians? No. But it's certainly understandable that these things can happen.
I bought Windows 10 to go along with my new gaming PC. It takes a bit of effort to turn off all this data collecting but it's doable.
I can't say if performance is better or not, as this was installed on a brand new PC with SSD drive and 32gb of ram and my Windows 7 is a lenovo laptop without SSDs and only 8gb of ram.
But I can say that I don't see a huge amount of difference between 7 and 10 and if you're happy with 7 then the only reason to upgrade is when MS stops supporting 7 altogether.
well, don't know anything about the jury, but the judge I reckon has really earned respect from communities like this because to better understand the situation, he got quite familiar with Java itself: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/...
I'm not sure I see how deflation can be avoided if income continues to decrease
People with less money, will spend less, encouraging retailers to lower prices, which will encourage those same retailers to cut labor costs, which will decrease further the supply of consumers.
Average incomes are falling. Surely this will lead to unwanted deflation since supply will exceed demand, forcing companies to lower prices to encourage more consumerism, but losing profits as a result, which will result in labor cuts, which will continue to decrease demand.
I'm not sure how sustainability comes into play here...
so a corporation's profits are considered wages now? to whom?
> The Group’s gross profit increased 20% to € 2.304 billion (2014: € 1.918 billion) in the third quarter.
http://www.adidas-group.com/en...
I would love to know why Adidas can't afford to pay decent wages?