I'm not sure if it's most Americans, but it definitely feels that way in certain areas of the country.
While being a logical fallacy, an appeal to emotion works on a surprisingly large number of people. Combine that with the fact that quite a few Americans have never used a firearm and don't think they'd ever want to use one and it's easy to convince them we should just get rid of them altogether. How we would actually do that with over 300 million weapons already out there is never addressed.
I live in Chicago and in the last few years we overturned a lot of the gun restrictions here. The local Democrats were up in arms about people being able to defend themselves. They predicted blood in the streets should we be allowed to carry concealed weapons like we used to be able to do and tried to compare lawful gun owners to all of the criminals running wild. As expected, the only people being shot by the CCL holders were the criminals, robbers and car jackers.
Based on my own experience I think it's most likely a socialization problem. My parents were divorced and I was raised by my mother who was a school teacher. She emphasized education, but paid nearly no attention to social skills. There were no other kids my age in the neighborhood and I spent my time at the library, programming computers or playing video games. My father was more about social skills and participation in sports, so I did things like swim, play basketball, baseball and run track, but they were never my main interests and I only saw him for two days every two weeks.
I grew up being constantly praised and while academic achievement was expected, nothing was ever said about getting out of the house and playing with other kids. That sort of thinking works while you're in school, but I had some problems while working my first couple of jobs because I thought the work I produced was everything and didn't understand that I needed to get along and work with others.
My interpersonal skills are much better these days, but I still really struggle with things like meeting new people. I'm a very strong introvert (INTJ) and it's easy for me to stay in and surround myself with productive things to do; I never get lonely. Other people my age are married with multiple kids, but that sort of thing has never appealed to me. I look at how most people in the society live and I just shake my head because I disagree with so much of it. As should probably be expected, the people who don't question society tend to see me as an extremist.
Since President Trump was elected ISIS has been defeated, the stock market is up more than 25% and unemployment is at its lowest level in over 40 years.
Contrast that to President Obama who withdrew troops from Iraq and allowed ISIS to grow in power. Never was able to meet even a 3% annual growth of GDP. National Debt doubled. Stirred up race relations with identity politics, etc.
Yeah, Trump's doing a terrible job! The media may be obsessed him having a potty mouth and not being politically correct, but he's been improving the situation for the average American.
I should look at my Amazon orders from last year and see just how far off their prices are for the items that I can buy locally. I suspect Amazon's total cost is still cheaper. I average more than an order a week and shopping at a local retailer is going to take me between 30 and 60 minutes round-trip, but I'll have to make multiple stops. Then there's the problem of the retailer not carrying something, or it being out of stock; there's no wasted trips with Amazon.
I buy pretty much everything through Amazon except for most food and pet supplies. I haven't tried their Fresh service yet, but Peapod delivers to my new neighborhood so I may go back to them for dry goods and some produce.
In my experience, people that require on the job training are usually hired into junior roles where it works more like an apprenticeship. The apprentice works side by side with the master to learn how to do a particular task and is then expected to be able to complete that task going forward. Over time the apprentice learns more and more skills until he is able to work independently from the master. The apprentice should be doing productive work immediately even if it's relatively simple tasks.
Whether or not someone sticks around is something you can't totally control. The work still needs to be done, so you're going to have to find someone to do it. Ideally that would be someone already fully trained, but if you can't find such a person what are your options?
How exactly do you contractually secure an employee? It's not like you can prevent them from quitting and accepting another position somewhere else.
If the company paid for external training, then you could include a clause that an employee must pay it back if they don't stay around for X amount of time, but there's nothing you can do about experience gained on the job.
If you want employees to stick around you have to offer them a better deal than the guy next door.
It is, it's called "the rhythm method". I wouldn't advise using it if you want to avoid pregnancy, but it is supposed to be slightly less effective than condoms (which isn't saying much).
One of my co-workers is in a local band and has attended a few recording sessions. He mentioned that sometimes they'd do a take a few times and eventually the audio engineer would ask if they wanted to do another, or just fill it in using software. A lot of times they just went with the software because it was easier and they wanted to move on.
Of course, there's also the rampant commercialisation and the problem of rehashing the rehashes (yet again) by large companies trying to part kids with more of their lunch money at bigger margins and even less investment.
You mentioned something I have never understood. Why are these companies targeting poor kids instead of rich adults?
I never had any money to spend on music when I was a kid and I don't remember my friends buying much music. The only money I ever got was either from my birthday or Christmas and that went toward video games; you taped music off of the radio. I never got an allowance and my parents would never have paid for me to attend a concert. Why target a low-income demographic?
The "New Release Friday" on Spotify is easily one of my most hated playlists. Each week it gets me all excited that I'm going to hear something new that I'll like and then I end up skipping 90% of the tracks because they're either generic pop songs from mediocre auto-tuned vocalists or repetitive rap songs with absolutely filthy lyrics from some urban degenerate.
I used to watch MTV for hours every day in the 80's and I seem to recall the artists being a lot more talented back then.
Hell, even the POTUS uses Twitter to get his messages-on-fire out to the masses. Love it or hate it, social media has become the de facto standard to communicate to the masses, so we might as well modify our emergency broadcast systems to accept this fact.
I have seen exactly zero restaurants and businesses that have replaced their televisions with Twitter feeds.
Evolution doesn't necessarily pit people directly against each other, it pits them against the external environment as a whole.
For example, people with more hair might survive colder weather better which allows them to live longer than average and produce more offspring. That doesn't mean the hairy people fight with the others.
“I asked my nan why she used ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and it seemed she thinks that there is someone – a physical person – at Google’s headquarters who looks after the searches.
“She thought that by being polite and using her manners, the search would be quicker,” he said.
I hope you put pants on before answering the door for the delivery person!
Do delivery people currently walk all the way up to your front door? Where I live any buildings like that have fences around the property and an intercom at the front gate. I'm on the 5th floor of my building and I have to meet people at the front entrance; I'm really happy there's an elevator.
If you're lucky the delivery vehicle will be drone equipped and it will just fly up and drop the pizza off.
So you'll be riding through a bad neighborhood at night, someone will throw something in front of the car to get it to stop and then carjack/rob/murder you when it pulls over?
How about red lights and stop signs? Will it be able to run them if a threat is approaching the vehicle?
What if the autonomous cars drive side by side at the speed limit while all the human drivers are stuck behind them losing their minds?
I'm lucky that I don't have to drive on a daily basis on congested expressways. It drives me crazy that people insist on tailgating, merge early across the blend line, or refuse to slow and leave a gap for the onramp traffic. They don't even seem to realize they're the ones creating the stop and go traffic. Everyone can drive a lot faster when people give the cars around them the space they need.
If you read about your industry getting investigated and delete it "just in case we get investigated and we really don't want them to find it", congrats, you're going to jail if you get found out.
Nope, that's legal too. Plenty of places destroy business records so they can't be subpoenaed. Libraries started destroying patrons' borrowing records when the FBI started to come calling for them.
The only time you get into legal trouble for destroying records is _after_ you've been asked for them (legally).
There's a McDonald's with those kiosks just down the street from where I work. The biggest problem I had with it is that some items are not to be found on the menu screen you expect them to be on and there's no way to search for an item by name. It's almost like they did no consumer testing of their UI.
Try to order a bacon cheeseburger, it's not on the burgers menu!
Corporations and their shills, like Mr. Pai, are not individuals. They should _never_ have a say in law or rule-making.
100% incorrect. People don't lose their rights when then decide to organize as a corporation. Multiple U.S. Supreme Court decisions have affirmed this.
If you own a business I can see Facebook being useful for promotion, but I have similar reasons as you for not using the site (much).
At first I felt like I was contributing something by posting pictures and messages about things like the band I saw last night, but over time as the novelty faded I noticed that I was putting a lot more into it than I was getting back in return. The vast majority of my "friends" are people from my past that I never run into in real life any more and they post things about their kids, or their vacation or opinion on some topic. Why the hell do I care about any of that?
It's kind of sad really, I got into computers in the 80's and started accessing the Internet in 1991. I was really excited about the future. Now that it's almost 30 years later I just want to unplug. It wasn't that bad when people still had to use a PC at home to go online, but now with smartphones it's gotten so much worse. It's just a constant electronic assault by people trying to manipulate or spy on you.
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I'm not sure if it's most Americans, but it definitely feels that way in certain areas of the country.
While being a logical fallacy, an appeal to emotion works on a surprisingly large number of people. Combine that with the fact that quite a few Americans have never used a firearm and don't think they'd ever want to use one and it's easy to convince them we should just get rid of them altogether. How we would actually do that with over 300 million weapons already out there is never addressed.
I live in Chicago and in the last few years we overturned a lot of the gun restrictions here. The local Democrats were up in arms about people being able to defend themselves. They predicted blood in the streets should we be allowed to carry concealed weapons like we used to be able to do and tried to compare lawful gun owners to all of the criminals running wild. As expected, the only people being shot by the CCL holders were the criminals, robbers and car jackers.
Based on my own experience I think it's most likely a socialization problem. My parents were divorced and I was raised by my mother who was a school teacher. She emphasized education, but paid nearly no attention to social skills. There were no other kids my age in the neighborhood and I spent my time at the library, programming computers or playing video games. My father was more about social skills and participation in sports, so I did things like swim, play basketball, baseball and run track, but they were never my main interests and I only saw him for two days every two weeks.
I grew up being constantly praised and while academic achievement was expected, nothing was ever said about getting out of the house and playing with other kids. That sort of thinking works while you're in school, but I had some problems while working my first couple of jobs because I thought the work I produced was everything and didn't understand that I needed to get along and work with others.
My interpersonal skills are much better these days, but I still really struggle with things like meeting new people. I'm a very strong introvert (INTJ) and it's easy for me to stay in and surround myself with productive things to do; I never get lonely. Other people my age are married with multiple kids, but that sort of thing has never appealed to me. I look at how most people in the society live and I just shake my head because I disagree with so much of it. As should probably be expected, the people who don't question society tend to see me as an extremist.
Since President Trump was elected ISIS has been defeated, the stock market is up more than 25% and unemployment is at its lowest level in over 40 years.
Contrast that to President Obama who withdrew troops from Iraq and allowed ISIS to grow in power. Never was able to meet even a 3% annual growth of GDP. National Debt doubled. Stirred up race relations with identity politics, etc.
Yeah, Trump's doing a terrible job! The media may be obsessed him having a potty mouth and not being politically correct, but he's been improving the situation for the average American.
I should look at my Amazon orders from last year and see just how far off their prices are for the items that I can buy locally. I suspect Amazon's total cost is still cheaper. I average more than an order a week and shopping at a local retailer is going to take me between 30 and 60 minutes round-trip, but I'll have to make multiple stops. Then there's the problem of the retailer not carrying something, or it being out of stock; there's no wasted trips with Amazon.
I buy pretty much everything through Amazon except for most food and pet supplies. I haven't tried their Fresh service yet, but Peapod delivers to my new neighborhood so I may go back to them for dry goods and some produce.
In my experience, people that require on the job training are usually hired into junior roles where it works more like an apprenticeship. The apprentice works side by side with the master to learn how to do a particular task and is then expected to be able to complete that task going forward. Over time the apprentice learns more and more skills until he is able to work independently from the master. The apprentice should be doing productive work immediately even if it's relatively simple tasks.
Whether or not someone sticks around is something you can't totally control. The work still needs to be done, so you're going to have to find someone to do it. Ideally that would be someone already fully trained, but if you can't find such a person what are your options?
How exactly do you contractually secure an employee? It's not like you can prevent them from quitting and accepting another position somewhere else.
If the company paid for external training, then you could include a clause that an employee must pay it back if they don't stay around for X amount of time, but there's nothing you can do about experience gained on the job.
If you want employees to stick around you have to offer them a better deal than the guy next door.
Pro-Tip: Get the salary range for a position up front. Don't waste your time applying for positions you would never accept.
I can't speak to all certifications, but the Cisco, AWS and RHEL ones are far from worthless.
There are also a lot of subject-specific (generally compliance related) certifications that are important for management roles and contracting.
It is, it's called "the rhythm method". I wouldn't advise using it if you want to avoid pregnancy, but it is supposed to be slightly less effective than condoms (which isn't saying much).
One of my co-workers is in a local band and has attended a few recording sessions. He mentioned that sometimes they'd do a take a few times and eventually the audio engineer would ask if they wanted to do another, or just fill it in using software. A lot of times they just went with the software because it was easier and they wanted to move on.
Of course, there's also the rampant commercialisation and the problem of rehashing the rehashes (yet again) by large companies trying to part kids with more of their lunch money at bigger margins and even less investment.
You mentioned something I have never understood. Why are these companies targeting poor kids instead of rich adults?
I never had any money to spend on music when I was a kid and I don't remember my friends buying much music. The only money I ever got was either from my birthday or Christmas and that went toward video games; you taped music off of the radio. I never got an allowance and my parents would never have paid for me to attend a concert. Why target a low-income demographic?
The "New Release Friday" on Spotify is easily one of my most hated playlists. Each week it gets me all excited that I'm going to hear something new that I'll like and then I end up skipping 90% of the tracks because they're either generic pop songs from mediocre auto-tuned vocalists or repetitive rap songs with absolutely filthy lyrics from some urban degenerate.
I used to watch MTV for hours every day in the 80's and I seem to recall the artists being a lot more talented back then.
Hell, even the POTUS uses Twitter to get his messages-on-fire out to the masses. Love it or hate it, social media has become the de facto standard to communicate to the masses, so we might as well modify our emergency broadcast systems to accept this fact.
I have seen exactly zero restaurants and businesses that have replaced their televisions with Twitter feeds.
Evolution doesn't necessarily pit people directly against each other, it pits them against the external environment as a whole.
For example, people with more hair might survive colder weather better which allows them to live longer than average and produce more offspring. That doesn't mean the hairy people fight with the others.
Manners maketh Nan: Google praises 86-year-old for polite internet searches
I hope you put pants on before answering the door for the delivery person!
Do delivery people currently walk all the way up to your front door? Where I live any buildings like that have fences around the property and an intercom at the front gate. I'm on the 5th floor of my building and I have to meet people at the front entrance; I'm really happy there's an elevator.
If you're lucky the delivery vehicle will be drone equipped and it will just fly up and drop the pizza off.
So you'll be riding through a bad neighborhood at night, someone will throw something in front of the car to get it to stop and then carjack/rob/murder you when it pulls over?
How about red lights and stop signs? Will it be able to run them if a threat is approaching the vehicle?
What if the autonomous cars drive side by side at the speed limit while all the human drivers are stuck behind them losing their minds?
I'm lucky that I don't have to drive on a daily basis on congested expressways. It drives me crazy that people insist on tailgating, merge early across the blend line, or refuse to slow and leave a gap for the onramp traffic. They don't even seem to realize they're the ones creating the stop and go traffic. Everyone can drive a lot faster when people give the cars around them the space they need.
If you read about your industry getting investigated and delete it "just in case we get investigated and we really don't want them to find it", congrats, you're going to jail if you get found out.
Nope, that's legal too. Plenty of places destroy business records so they can't be subpoenaed. Libraries started destroying patrons' borrowing records when the FBI started to come calling for them.
The only time you get into legal trouble for destroying records is _after_ you've been asked for them (legally).
There's a McDonald's with those kiosks just down the street from where I work. The biggest problem I had with it is that some items are not to be found on the menu screen you expect them to be on and there's no way to search for an item by name. It's almost like they did no consumer testing of their UI.
Try to order a bacon cheeseburger, it's not on the burgers menu!
First of all, most of McDonald's locations are franchisee owned. Only 18% are corporate owned, 6,444 stores as of 2015.
Secondly, McDonald's does not employ 1.5 million people. They employed more than 375,000 at the end of 2016.
Corporations and their shills, like Mr. Pai, are not individuals. They should _never_ have a say in law or rule-making.
100% incorrect. People don't lose their rights when then decide to organize as a corporation. Multiple U.S. Supreme Court decisions have affirmed this.
You just failed the test.
The policy talks about personal phones, but what about things like smart watches?
Granted, my Pebble Time would be pretty safe, but an iWatch with cellular access can record and broadcast conversations.
If you own a business I can see Facebook being useful for promotion, but I have similar reasons as you for not using the site (much).
At first I felt like I was contributing something by posting pictures and messages about things like the band I saw last night, but over time as the novelty faded I noticed that I was putting a lot more into it than I was getting back in return. The vast majority of my "friends" are people from my past that I never run into in real life any more and they post things about their kids, or their vacation or opinion on some topic. Why the hell do I care about any of that?
It's kind of sad really, I got into computers in the 80's and started accessing the Internet in 1991. I was really excited about the future. Now that it's almost 30 years later I just want to unplug. It wasn't that bad when people still had to use a PC at home to go online, but now with smartphones it's gotten so much worse. It's just a constant electronic assault by people trying to manipulate or spy on you.