The funny(?) part of what you sated is that most "union jobs" have employees that do live in poverty. I can't think of a union job that has employees that make six figure salaries (on a regular basis*)
*I happen to know of a particular set of people in a union job that drive Corvettes to work... but they slack off during regular work hours and do all their work on overtime hours so that they get paid more. (And they admitted it to me...) Their homes are not what I would call spectacular and they pretty much squander all the money they get.
"My little Susie is a genius and is not being challenged enough, that's why she fails all her tests and doesn't do her homework."
Actually, when I was a kid I hated doing homework and rarely ever did it. I never failed a test though. I wouldn't consider myself a genius, but I could never understand why I had to do mundane things like that at home when all I needed was in class instruction. It wasn't until I was placed in an extended studies group where we studied things like Shakespeare and computer programming in the 6-7th grades that I started to get really interested in what I was being taught. It showed me the importance of Mathematics, Physics, and other courses. One detriment was that it made me fall back into a hatred of schools when I went to college and found that I had to sit in yet another English/English Literature class where I was bored out of my mind.
Oh please... The number of books in one's home is not a determining factor. You sound like you work for a publishing or printing company. A person can be well educated by simply borrowing the books they need at a particular time in their study and return or sell said book when they are done. It doesn't matter if I've kept all my books from college if I retained the information. To me, you sound like the typical "push blame onto the television" crowd.
That means hiring detectives... oh man, that's more money. We need those warm bodies out generating revenue pulling people over and giving them tickets for every little thing.
I'm not sure you really even have to kill the officers. As much as some of them are bastards, not all of them are. I think the better message is a well placed sticker over the camera while nobody is looking. Most of them are just sitting there on the trunk of the car. Make sure you don't park next to them while you do it though.;)
So your employer can look up your habits (or lack) of religious ceremony on the weekend? How will they treat you if they don't agree? So they can see if you went to the bar the night before work (even if you didn't drink?)
No, I think that your private life should not be open to the eyes of anyone in a position of power over you during any part of your day.
So what happens if they get rid of the TLDs? Could they claim jurisdiction based on the registration point? I personally think it's rather silly to claim jurisdiction over a TLD, but it makes me want them to go away even more.
How would you have him "prevent" someone from voting a particular way? He already speaks in front of an empty room (because nobody is there) and he votes against the bills that he feels should not be Federal affairs or are in violation of what he feels his constituents want.
You can't bring back industry to the US without imposing huge tariffs. People here will not work for wages that they will in China. You have to take away some of the powers of unions and allow companies to actually fire workers that are not working. The only real way to have manufacturing here is to promote robotics (which would make robot repair jobs, but not create the four jobs that one robot replaced) or reduce the amount of acceptable income the employees can take in to stay competitive.
I'm really curious how you'd expect The President to promote industry as well. For one, it's the Executive branch. They don't create laws or set policy (or shouldn't.) The primary goal of said branch is execute the law.
If that's the requirement, then XP wouldn't be considered 10 years old either. We can't just up and change requirements to suit our needs here. It's disingenuous to call XP 10 years old if there was just a patch released for it and not consider Linux 20 years old because it was patched recently.
It's not my "brave new world"... I like a bit of anonymity/privacy. I read something about someone's utopia a while back and one of their requirements was total lack of anonymity. I couldn't figure out why it was a requirement for their utopia, but their only rationality for it was crime.
Makes you wonder though... what would the world be like if people were actually held responsible for their actions and were not able to do things anonymously. Wouldn't that mean that Anonymous should eventually be self exposing?
(I'm not saying it's right/wrong/etc. Just wondering.)
Sure, but it would give you an idea what webpage you could block if you wanted/could. Right now, "Free range internet" means you have no idea where your data is going. With a specified domain you could at least block that one address.
I have a friend who wrote an app that detects if you installed one of the many adblock software packages, tells you to buy the pay version and refuses to run if that's installed. The capability to scan what apps are installed in your phone is part of the API.
No, you are discriminating against a person based on their citizenship. It has nothing to do with race. You could be a white citizen of India and still require the H1B to work here... race is insignificant to this.
Anecdotal, I know... but I worked with a guy from Pakistan a few years back and he was tempted by offers to apply his physics degrees to scientific research at some large laboratories. He said that they posted job offers and listed starting pay as $25-30k/yr. Nobody in the US with a doctorate/masters would take those jobs... especially someone with multiple advanced degrees. After offering the job and having no takers they could then offer the same job outside the US and entice unaware workers and bring them in at a that wage. (After all, that sounds like a ton of money to someone unfamiliar with cost of living here.)
So, I would say it's not about the bar being high, but the salary being low. (At least... in some cases.)
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The funny(?) part of what you sated is that most "union jobs" have employees that do live in poverty. I can't think of a union job that has employees that make six figure salaries (on a regular basis*)
*I happen to know of a particular set of people in a union job that drive Corvettes to work... but they slack off during regular work hours and do all their work on overtime hours so that they get paid more. (And they admitted it to me...) Their homes are not what I would call spectacular and they pretty much squander all the money they get.
"My little Susie is a genius and is not being challenged enough, that's why she fails all her tests and doesn't do her homework."
Actually, when I was a kid I hated doing homework and rarely ever did it. I never failed a test though. I wouldn't consider myself a genius, but I could never understand why I had to do mundane things like that at home when all I needed was in class instruction. It wasn't until I was placed in an extended studies group where we studied things like Shakespeare and computer programming in the 6-7th grades that I started to get really interested in what I was being taught. It showed me the importance of Mathematics, Physics, and other courses. One detriment was that it made me fall back into a hatred of schools when I went to college and found that I had to sit in yet another English/English Literature class where I was bored out of my mind.
Oh please... The number of books in one's home is not a determining factor. You sound like you work for a publishing or printing company. A person can be well educated by simply borrowing the books they need at a particular time in their study and return or sell said book when they are done. It doesn't matter if I've kept all my books from college if I retained the information. To me, you sound like the typical "push blame onto the television" crowd.
That means hiring detectives... oh man, that's more money. We need those warm bodies out generating revenue pulling people over and giving them tickets for every little thing.
I'm not sure you really even have to kill the officers. As much as some of them are bastards, not all of them are. I think the better message is a well placed sticker over the camera while nobody is looking. Most of them are just sitting there on the trunk of the car. Make sure you don't park next to them while you do it though. ;)
So your employer can look up your habits (or lack) of religious ceremony on the weekend? How will they treat you if they don't agree? So they can see if you went to the bar the night before work (even if you didn't drink?)
No, I think that your private life should not be open to the eyes of anyone in a position of power over you during any part of your day.
Never is a strong word. Sites like this also host anime (at the acceptance of the authors) and other programs that would not be available otherwise.
So what happens if they get rid of the TLDs? Could they claim jurisdiction based on the registration point? I personally think it's rather silly to claim jurisdiction over a TLD, but it makes me want them to go away even more.
How would you have him "prevent" someone from voting a particular way? He already speaks in front of an empty room (because nobody is there) and he votes against the bills that he feels should not be Federal affairs or are in violation of what he feels his constituents want.
You can't bring back industry to the US without imposing huge tariffs. People here will not work for wages that they will in China. You have to take away some of the powers of unions and allow companies to actually fire workers that are not working. The only real way to have manufacturing here is to promote robotics (which would make robot repair jobs, but not create the four jobs that one robot replaced) or reduce the amount of acceptable income the employees can take in to stay competitive.
I'm really curious how you'd expect The President to promote industry as well. For one, it's the Executive branch. They don't create laws or set policy (or shouldn't.) The primary goal of said branch is execute the law.
I'm more surprised that someone actually thought about calling Microsoft for support...
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If that's the requirement, then XP wouldn't be considered 10 years old either. We can't just up and change requirements to suit our needs here. It's disingenuous to call XP 10 years old if there was just a patch released for it and not consider Linux 20 years old because it was patched recently.
I run a 20 year old OS... well, a 20 year old kernel. ;)
I imagine it's like mountain climbing: "Because it's there."
It's not my "brave new world" ... I like a bit of anonymity/privacy. I read something about someone's utopia a while back and one of their requirements was total lack of anonymity. I couldn't figure out why it was a requirement for their utopia, but their only rationality for it was crime.
Makes you wonder though... what would the world be like if people were actually held responsible for their actions and were not able to do things anonymously. Wouldn't that mean that Anonymous should eventually be self exposing?
(I'm not saying it's right/wrong/etc. Just wondering.)
Actually Sony has been more open to developers updating their games through their own services than Microsoft has. (see: Portal 2)
Sure, but it would give you an idea what webpage you could block if you wanted/could. Right now, "Free range internet" means you have no idea where your data is going. With a specified domain you could at least block that one address.
Fine then... ask for permission to contact someapplicationpage.com instead of the whole freaking Internet.
This sig? ;)
I have a friend who wrote an app that detects if you installed one of the many adblock software packages, tells you to buy the pay version and refuses to run if that's installed. The capability to scan what apps are installed in your phone is part of the API.
All that planning and he didn't even get it right side up?
No, you are discriminating against a person based on their citizenship. It has nothing to do with race. You could be a white citizen of India and still require the H1B to work here... race is insignificant to this.
Anecdotal, I know... but I worked with a guy from Pakistan a few years back and he was tempted by offers to apply his physics degrees to scientific research at some large laboratories. He said that they posted job offers and listed starting pay as $25-30k/yr. Nobody in the US with a doctorate/masters would take those jobs... especially someone with multiple advanced degrees. After offering the job and having no takers they could then offer the same job outside the US and entice unaware workers and bring them in at a that wage. (After all, that sounds like a ton of money to someone unfamiliar with cost of living here.)
So, I would say it's not about the bar being high, but the salary being low. (At least... in some cases.)
Pastafarianism has existed since the beginning of time. We just didn't know about it until recently.
You got an 8.5"x11" color laser printed certificate for your 10 year anniversary too?