The original definition of "middle class" was small business owners, and professionals in private practice. It's the current *lie* that middle income - that's around median income - is "middle class.
If your business isn't paying you a salary, and your income is a paycheck, then you're *not* middle class. I'm in the op 10%, easily... and I know I'm a workin' stiff, and my money comes from my paycheck.
Adjust for inflation, and compare to your parents or grandparents' income, and you'll be shocked.
And since they're saying "we don't think a union is in anyone's interest, our customers (why?), our shareholders (we can pay lower wages and benefits), or our "associates" (that is, employees), this is not a distinction without a difference, it's bullshit.
I'd say a $10B unfair labor practices lawsuit against Amazon is overdue.
Oh, yeah, all the k3wl tools in the latest language...
Right. Perhaps most of you missed "it works just fine, and does the right thing" in the story. Explain why it should all be tossed, preferably without running in parallel for a year or so, and replaced with RubyOnRails, er, I mean, whatever Goggle's latest language is, or M$'s.... most of which will be forgotten in 10 years.
Got a standards committee for your favorite language? (I've got one, but my fav's C).
Oh, and about mainframes... how many VM's can you run on your system? Back around 2000, some nuts at IBM, using IBM's VM (which dates back to the seventies) maxed out a then-current mainframe... with 48,000 VMs running Linux, and the mainframe ran comfortably with 32k VMs.
Would I go back to writing COBOL, Hell, no. because I like pointers, and more control structures. All the rest is excess... and before you try to argue that, why, wasn't that story on slashdot the other day, that the new versions of apps for the latest i-droid phones running *slower*, becuase what they're pushing out the door is crap alpha software?
Let's see *your* software running 15 years from now. And do you *really* think financial services should be constantly rewriting software into new languages, becuase. they're new? So they can charge you more, because they're constantly hiring new develpers, rather than paying you more, or letting you learn a new language?
It's already that people prefer to text rather than chat. Let's make *sure* that every single person, except some of us old farts, are TERRIFIED to interact with anyone else in the real world.
Let's see, if this person goes public, then a) he's out, b) the Orange Cheetoh will have DoJ jail him, and c) he will have zero power to protect and defend the Constitution of the US.
Meanwhile, I read Trevor Noah's cmts: if this is a curbed Trump, that we thought was off the rails, the uncurbed Trump is horrifying beyond words.
ANY contact outside of work hours - email, text, calls, outside of your eight hours should be billable, at least as a quarter hour, if not half an hour per each.
Or do you believe your upper management, that you exist solely for their use, and have no life (nor deserve one) of your own?
I've been online since some of you were barely in kindergarden, and I have two email addresses: a personal one, and a "professional" one, and never the twain shall meet.
Supporting an application on various distros of Linux? At most, some environment variables, like PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
The rest is pure bs. Unless, say, you're M$* Maybe it's just they can't charge as much.
* True story, from Macaholic friends: when the Mac went from, I think it was Moto chips to PPC, Word for Mac broke. That turned out to be because it was such a dog that M$ had committed a Cardinal Sin: they were not making operation system calls, they were talking directly to the hardware.
In reality, there have always been a very large number of non-readers. People came to realize that it improved a lot of things... and then, since the eighties, there's been the attack on public education, which is where a lot of people whose parents don't read learned to read.
I mean, if you read, you might get ideas that conflict with your parents, or other authorities, like, I dunno, *belinving* in the US Constitution, or the Rights of Man, and expect elected and appointed officials to actually *do* what they say.
But, that's ok, go back to your emojis and (not) influence anyone, much less the world.
You can lie all you want, and claim no one on the right (who are *certainly* not conservative of anything but rich people's money) never did anything bad.
And nobody but your buds and other suckers believe you. Fascism is extreme RIGHT-WING, not socialism. There's no social control in fascism, it's all top down control.
Just as I said, you don't know anything about it, and all you do is parrot what people making good money, who are working for billionaires, want you to say.
Let's see, in the US, 80% of the wealth is owned by the top 0.1%, and 400 families own over 60% of that wealth. In fact, the top 20 people own more wealth than HALF THE US POPULATION.
Where's the good jobs these "job creators" are creating with their tax breaks?
Of course, there's the std. troll line, about how socialists want HALF OF WHAT YOU OWN!!!! EEEK. That, of course, is stupid - why would we want half of what *you* own (and if you're posting to slashdot, you're not in the 1%).
A more correct who do we want to take from would be the famous quote of Willie Sutton, who, when asked why he robbed banks, said, "That's where the money is".
How 'bout we take 90% of Bill Gates, M$, Apple, the Walton family (That's Walmart, where they tell their employees how to apply for food stamps), etc, and use that money for a UBI?
You know, like a reverse income tax for the rest of us... the way they do using oil and gas revenues in Alaska?
We *are* talking about the guy who had to fight to get a speakerphone working, so he could talk to the President of Mexico, right? And he knows how to specify search terms?
Or, as the WaPo article that looked into this claim put it, he seems to be repeating a right-wing site's assertion that it was 96%.
Of course, there's no possibility that he's a sexual predator, contract-breaking crook, who's destroying the US because the people he's been laundering billions for have a hold on him.
Nope. Nahh...... Oh, and I've got a bridge for sale....
Hi, troll. Fascism is *right* wing, and denying it all you want make it be left wing.
You also don't know anything about the difference between communism, USSR/China Communism, and varieties of socialism.
About command economies - Paul Krugman, Nobel prize winner in economics, might know a little more than you, and he wrote, recently, that the old argument against a command economy was that you couldn't computer predictions... except that now we *can*, and if you don't believe that, you must not believe that Walmart, scum as they are, are not a going concern.
*sigh* I really need to write my political book....
Don't you just adore idiots who want to read about aliens... but can't get past heroes who aren't wASPs, or stories written by folks who aren't libertarian idiots (but I repeat myself) who are WASPs.
Actually, I should ask Eric (that's ESR, to them, and a very old aquaintance) his opinion of the winners.....
We rolled up our Hugo ballots and whacked Vox and all his puppies on their noses. They were a bunch of obnoxious idiots who didn't actually care about sf, or fandom.
"So drinking and eating and loving you see, Are bound to destroy Spi-ri-tu-al-i-ty. Our tastes are austere and our virtue is sure. We don't have much fun, but our honor is pure."
- Away With Rum, By Gum/The Temperance Union Song
And turnover is incredibly high there... which makes it MANAGEMENT's fault. They treat the employees like shit. They don't adequately train them. And then blame the person on the bottom.
Poor sleep - all the calls and texts from your bosses are disturbing your sleep habits, interfering with your life *outside* work, leaving you stressed out while you do sleep.
Tell your bosses that you can't answer after hours, because it's making you fat. (And how fat are your bosses, anyway?)
I mean, some idiot HR deps - sorry, I repeat myself - use DATABASE SEARCHES to find "qualified" candidates. NONE of them have any idea of what the requirements are, or what translates.
And no, this isn't new: the last time I was looking, in '09, Grumman was doing just that. You may be wonderful, but if you don't have the right acronyms in the right order, they're not going to even look at you.
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Just what I was going to say.
The original definition of "middle class" was small business owners, and professionals in private practice. It's the current *lie* that middle income - that's around median income - is "middle class.
If your business isn't paying you a salary, and your income is a paycheck, then you're *not* middle class. I'm in the op 10%, easily... and I know I'm a workin' stiff, and my money comes from my paycheck.
Adjust for inflation, and compare to your parents or grandparents' income, and you'll be shocked.
And since they're saying "we don't think a union is in anyone's interest, our customers (why?), our shareholders (we can pay lower wages and benefits), or our "associates" (that is, employees), this is not a distinction without a difference, it's bullshit.
I'd say a $10B unfair labor practices lawsuit against Amazon is overdue.
Oh, yeah, all the k3wl tools in the latest language...
Right. Perhaps most of you missed "it works just fine, and does the right thing" in the story. Explain why it should all be tossed, preferably without running in parallel for a year or so, and replaced with RubyOnRails, er, I mean, whatever Goggle's latest language is, or M$'s.... most of which will be forgotten in 10 years.
Got a standards committee for your favorite language? (I've got one, but my fav's C).
Oh, and about mainframes... how many VM's can you run on your system? Back around 2000, some nuts at IBM, using IBM's VM (which dates back to the seventies) maxed out a then-current mainframe... with 48,000 VMs running Linux, and the mainframe ran comfortably with 32k VMs.
Would I go back to writing COBOL, Hell, no. because I like pointers, and more control structures. All the rest is excess... and before you try to argue that, why, wasn't that story on slashdot the other day, that the new versions of apps for the latest i-droid phones running *slower*, becuase what they're pushing out the door is crap alpha software?
Let's see *your* software running 15 years from now. And do you *really* think financial services should be constantly rewriting software into new languages, becuase. they're new? So they can charge you more, because they're constantly hiring new develpers, rather than paying you more, or letting you learn a new language?
It's already that people prefer to text rather than chat. Let's make *sure* that every single person, except some of us old farts, are TERRIFIED to interact with anyone else in the real world.
I really want this tax. Walmart is vastly larger, and even more scum than Amazon.
It's documented *FACT* that Walmart tells their employees how to apply for food stamps and welfare.
Why the *hell* should taxpayers be subsidizing sociopathically greedy multinational company owners?
Let's see, if this person goes public, then a) he's out, b) the Orange Cheetoh will have DoJ jail him, and c) he will have zero power to protect and defend the Constitution of the US.
Meanwhile, I read Trevor Noah's cmts: if this is a curbed Trump, that we thought was off the rails, the uncurbed Trump is horrifying beyond words.
But that would be against free choice, and against smaller businesses, and unfunded government mandates, and against disruptive innovation, and....
ANY contact outside of work hours - email, text, calls, outside of your eight hours should be billable, at least as a quarter hour, if not half an hour per each.
Or do you believe your upper management, that you exist solely for their use, and have no life (nor deserve one) of your own?
I've been online since some of you were barely in kindergarden, and I have two email addresses: a personal one, and a "professional" one, and never the twain shall meet.
Supporting an application on various distros of Linux? At most, some environment variables, like PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
The rest is pure bs. Unless, say, you're M$* Maybe it's just they can't charge as much.
* True story, from Macaholic friends: when the Mac went from, I think it was Moto chips to PPC, Word for Mac broke. That turned out to be because it was such a dog that M$ had committed a Cardinal Sin: they were not making operation system calls, they were talking directly to the hardware.
In reality, there have always been a very large number of non-readers. People came to realize that it improved a lot of things... and then, since the eighties, there's been the attack on public education, which is where a lot of people whose parents don't read learned to read.
I mean, if you read, you might get ideas that conflict with your parents, or other authorities, like, I dunno, *belinving* in the US Constitution, or the Rights of Man, and expect elected and appointed officials to actually *do* what they say.
But, that's ok, go back to your emojis and (not) influence anyone, much less the world.
You can lie all you want, and claim no one on the right (who are *certainly* not conservative of anything but rich people's money) never did anything bad.
And nobody but your buds and other suckers believe you. Fascism is extreme RIGHT-WING, not socialism. There's no social control in fascism, it's all top down control.
Just as I said, you don't know anything about it, and all you do is parrot what people making good money, who are working for billionaires, want you to say.
So, Walmart, which is a command economy, and the biggest employer, I think, in the US, doesn't work?
Let's see, in the US, 80% of the wealth is owned by the top 0.1%, and 400 families own over 60% of that wealth. In fact, the top 20 people own more wealth than HALF THE US POPULATION.
Where's the good jobs these "job creators" are creating with their tax breaks?
Of course, there's the std. troll line, about how socialists want HALF OF WHAT YOU OWN!!!! EEEK. That, of course, is stupid - why would we want half of what *you* own (and if you're posting to slashdot, you're not in the 1%).
A more correct who do we want to take from would be the famous quote of Willie Sutton, who, when asked why he robbed banks, said, "That's where the money is".
How 'bout we take 90% of Bill Gates, M$, Apple, the Walton family (That's Walmart, where they tell their employees how to apply for food stamps), etc, and use that money for a UBI?
You know, like a reverse income tax for the rest of us... the way they do using oil and gas revenues in Alaska?
We *are* talking about the guy who had to fight to get a speakerphone working, so he could talk to the President of Mexico, right? And he knows how to specify search terms?
Or, as the WaPo article that looked into this claim put it, he seems to be repeating a right-wing site's assertion that it was 96%.
Of course, there's no possibility that he's a sexual predator, contract-breaking crook, who's destroying the US because the people he's been laundering billions for have a hold on him.
Nope. Nahh...... Oh, and I've got a bridge for sale....
Hi, troll. Fascism is *right* wing, and denying it all you want make it be left wing.
You also don't know anything about the difference between communism, USSR/China Communism, and varieties of socialism.
About command economies - Paul Krugman, Nobel prize winner in economics, might know a little more than you, and he wrote, recently, that the old argument against a command economy was that you couldn't computer predictions... except that now we *can*, and if you don't believe that, you must not believe that Walmart, scum as they are, are not a going concern.
*sigh* I really need to write my political book....
Don't you just adore idiots who want to read about aliens... but can't get past heroes who aren't wASPs, or stories written by folks who aren't libertarian idiots (but I repeat myself) who are WASPs.
Actually, I should ask Eric (that's ESR, to them, and a very old aquaintance) his opinion of the winners.....
ROTFLMAO!!!
We rolled up our Hugo ballots and whacked Vox and all his puppies on their noses. They were a bunch of obnoxious idiots who didn't actually care about sf, or fandom.
I'd say you fit in that category, too.
Yup. Most of these wannabees have never actually, you know, like *read* any sf,, and think it's all movies and tv, and novelizations.
That kind doesn't think reading more than 280 characters is "k3wl", and that's not counting the "edgy" 16 yr olds using naughty words.
And it will be far too long.
"So drinking and eating and loving you see,
Are bound to destroy Spi-ri-tu-al-i-ty.
Our tastes are austere and our virtue is sure.
We don't have much fun, but our honor is pure."
- Away With Rum, By Gum/The Temperance Union Song
Dear Trump supporter,
Fuck off. By you, it's *never* business' fault. Nobody good works for or with the government, and everyone in business is wonderful.
I've *worked* for telcos. Dilbert's PHB is upper management. You, on the other hand, are a sucker or a troll.
Maybe you should get a real job, in the real world.
And turnover is incredibly high there... which makes it MANAGEMENT's fault. They treat the employees like shit. They don't adequately train them. And then blame the person on the bottom.
Reregulate the telcos. And indict, try, convict, and put the CEOs in jail for this reckless endangerment of lives.
Poor sleep - all the calls and texts from your bosses are disturbing your sleep habits, interfering with your life *outside* work, leaving you stressed out while you do sleep.
Tell your bosses that you can't answer after hours, because it's making you fat. (And how fat are your bosses, anyway?)
I mean, some idiot HR deps - sorry, I repeat myself - use DATABASE SEARCHES to find "qualified" candidates. NONE of them have any idea of what the requirements are, or what translates.
And no, this isn't new: the last time I was looking, in '09, Grumman was doing just that. You may be wonderful, but if you don't have the right acronyms in the right order, they're not going to even look at you.