Sorry, but that's bull. I know what I get paid, working for a federal contractor, and I know what they pay for my benefits. ALL THE REST of the loading is for corporate managers, and ROI.
If he's been maintaining it for more that 2 years, they should have just hired him.
And *someone's* got to nurse it along, until the City springs a few tens of mill to replace the system, including the new hardware to run it on.
Here's another point for y'all: when I drove for Yellow in the mid-seventies, we got first 46% of the meter, NOT COUNTING the flag throw. Then (don't ask) we got shafted, and it was down to 42% of the meter.
We *really* depended on tips.
But I suppose most of you didn't realize that tips made up a good part of driver income. Adding a minimum wage would do a great deal to making sure that the drivers could actually have a reasonable (I didn't say well-off) living.
But there's too many of you who only think of how cheap you can get away with, and don't give a flyin' fuck about the drivers for whom this is how they pay their bills.
I won't use the "ride sharing", on the rare occasions I take a cab.
Which we knew all along. They, just like Trumpolini, accuse everyone else of doing what they're doing. They're the ones purging voter roles, even though multiple studies show that actual voter fraud is a fraction of 1%.
It's Jim Crow, updated.
With a paper ballot, even if they're scanned, the physical record of your vote is still there, and a recount really is a recount. For all-electronic voting machines, a "recount" isn't - you press the button, and get exactly the same total, and there's no way to prove it wrong or right.
Years ago, the study led by Prof. Avi Rubin,and reported here on/., showed that Deibold was using FRIGGIN' M$ ACCESS, a bloody spreadsheet, NOT a real database, with records of every transaction.
No one should be seated from Georgia until they have a valid election that's verifiable.
Example 1: I saw a couple waiting for the Metro, sitting on a stone bench, she was leaning on him... and both were oblivious to anything but their phones.
Example 2: my son tells me for thirtysomethings and younger, if you go somewhere, and you see someone you'd like to meet/talk to, you can't: you have to pull out your phone, pull up tinder, set it to super local, and scroll through to see if you can find them....
Freakin' addicts. At least junkies go off in a private corner....
Y'know, I understand there are criminal laws against pump & dump. You read about them when people talk about penny stocks (and all the freakin' spam we get to pump).
Wonder when someone's going to hit the traders with those charges?
How many of you have had title inflations? Oh, you're not a programmer, you're a developer, a designer, a fill_in_the_blank. I mean, really, to janitors get paid more by having a title of "sanitary engineer"? Do they get more respect?
Of course not. And do you *really* think that upper management gives a flyin' fart about you, as long as you're willing to do "whatever it takes"? And even then, how much are they going to show you that it matters, in terms of *MONEY*?
Horse hockey. As a datapoint, I think it was in Studs Terkel's book from the late 70's, Working, that he mentioned a study showing that 80% of EVERYONE wasn't just unhappy in their job, but actively hated it. You - are you all wild and enthused when you come back to work Monday morning? Is it as important to you as the weekend, or the holiday, and how you spent that?
No matter how much we find, it won't be enough. Maybe it's just because I read sf, but if we want to terraform Mars, we need to go to the asteroid belt, and/or Jupiter's ring system, and start shoving ice asteroids into collision orbits with Mars. Large ice asteroids. A few thousand klick-long ones might be a good start.
We read, over and over and over, how the workforce needs more and more education.[1] Meanwhile, the GOP keep cutting taxes.[2,3] Where is this "highly educated workforce" going to come from in the US, if this goes on? Asia? Eastern Europe?
1. I personally know that Philly Community College, in the early eighties, got 90% of its funding from Pell Grants, which have been hacked and slashed. 2. Check out the results of this in Kansas, where the GOP lege finally told Gov Brownback where to shove it. 3. When I was a kid, teachers did NOT have to put money out of their pocket for school supplies.
In the WH. No, no, nothing here, nothing to do with a national healthcare system (which means corporate benefit costs are vastly less, and don't go up 5%, 10%, 30% every year, as they do here.
And Toronto just completely banned handguns. I suppose Canadians aren't that afraid of either their government, or of each other.
So, are they saying the electronic voting machines, the scanner machines... or are they talking about the systems that the votes are uploaded *to*?
The last would make the most sense... and why change individual votes, when you can change the uploaded vote data files, and thus change the totals, via that one system?
Of course, what he says is almost identical to what I was thinking when I walked out after having seen it when it was released in '69: "he's become the starchild, and he's looking at the Earth, and thinking that he didn't yet know what, but he was going to do something with it."
Of course, I'd been seriously reading sf for about 8 or 9 years at the time, so it was obvious what he was saying.
The reviewers said exactly what I expected of them, because they didn't have a f*ckin' clue, and wouldn't ever be seen actually, y'know, reading *genre fiction* like sf....
I have *never* seen a case where the lost tax revenue is made up. Not once.
And a lot of us DO NOT WANT Amazon in Mongomery Co, MD: traffic's bad enough, and by tax subsidies, the county and state will have less to fund public transit, and improve roads, just to start out.
For that matter, show me ONE case where the company's going to guarantee that some majority of their employees will live in the county the company's located in, and so improve the tax base? Hell, no, the better paid ones will live a good distance away, where there's lower housing costs, and make the commute worse.
I have literally been trying to get people to talk about what happens when automation takes over, and you no longer have to "earn your living by the sweat of your brow" for something like 25 years.
And until the last year or two, I got "not gonna happen", "not worried".
Come on - there was just a big story that something like > 40% of all jobs are bs. How many levels of managers do you really need? And when most of the production is automated, where the *hell* are folks going to get jobs that provide decent wages? They, or rather we, should all go die under a bridge?
For that matter, I think it was in the preface to Studs Terkel's book from '78, Working, that he mentions that a survey showed that 90% of everyone isn't just unhappy at their job, but actively hates it. (ObDisclosure: I like my job, and what I do.)
It's stupid. Yes, a guaranteed minimum income would be a good start. Right, I can hear the libertarian/idiots going on about how you can start a business... but *why*? How about finding something to do that actually interests you? Maybe you could find ways to actually contribute to society, instead of doing bs to make the CEO richer, while leaving you with no life?
Given that it is a proven fact that job insecurity and lack of a job directly relates to family violence, what would be the result of offering people JOBS that paid enough to live on (as opposed to ones that required you to work two or three jobs, 18 or more hours a day, just to get by)?
And libertarian idiots, how can you afford bootstraps, when the multinationals undercut your businesses and drive you under (can you say Walmart)?
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Sorry, but that's bull. I know what I get paid, working for a federal contractor, and I know what they pay for my benefits. ALL THE REST of the loading is for corporate managers, and ROI.
If he's been maintaining it for more that 2 years, they should have just hired him.
And *someone's* got to nurse it along, until the City springs a few tens of mill to replace the system, including the new hardware to run it on.
but the Blue Screen of Blindness?
Hey, maybe that starts in the mind, which explains the Zombie Apocalypse of Mobile Addiction....
Here's another point for y'all: when I drove for Yellow in the mid-seventies, we got first 46% of the meter, NOT COUNTING the flag throw. Then (don't ask) we got shafted, and it was down to 42% of the meter.
We *really* depended on tips.
But I suppose most of you didn't realize that tips made up a good part of driver income. Adding a minimum wage would do a great deal to making sure that the drivers could actually have a reasonable (I didn't say well-off) living.
But there's too many of you who only think of how cheap you can get away with, and don't give a flyin' fuck about the drivers for whom this is how they pay their bills.
I won't use the "ride sharing", on the rare occasions I take a cab.
Which we knew all along. They, just like Trumpolini, accuse everyone else of doing what they're doing. They're the ones purging voter roles, even though multiple studies show that actual voter fraud is a fraction of 1%.
It's Jim Crow, updated.
With a paper ballot, even if they're scanned, the physical record of your vote is still there, and a recount really is a recount. For all-electronic voting machines, a "recount" isn't - you press the button, and get exactly the same total, and there's no way to prove it wrong or right.
Years ago, the study led by Prof. Avi Rubin,and reported here on /., showed that Deibold was using FRIGGIN' M$ ACCESS, a bloody spreadsheet, NOT a real database, with records of every transaction.
No one should be seated from Georgia until they have a valid election that's verifiable.
Sure has.
Example 1: I saw a couple waiting for the Metro, sitting on a stone bench, she was leaning on him... and both were oblivious to anything but their phones.
Example 2: my son tells me for thirtysomethings and younger, if you go somewhere, and you see someone you'd like to meet/talk to, you can't: you have to pull out your phone, pull up tinder, set it to super local, and scroll through to see if you can find them....
Freakin' addicts. At least junkies go off in a private corner....
Y'know, I understand there are criminal laws against pump & dump. You read about them when people talk about penny stocks (and all the freakin' spam we get to pump).
Wonder when someone's going to hit the traders with those charges?
How many of you have had title inflations? Oh, you're not a programmer, you're a developer, a designer, a fill_in_the_blank. I mean, really, to janitors get paid more by having a title of "sanitary engineer"? Do they get more respect?
Of course not. And do you *really* think that upper management gives a flyin' fart about you, as long as you're willing to do "whatever it takes"? And even then, how much are they going to show you that it matters, in terms of *MONEY*?
Horse hockey. As a datapoint, I think it was in Studs Terkel's book from the late 70's, Working, that he mentioned a study showing that 80% of EVERYONE wasn't just unhappy in their job, but actively hated it. You - are you all wild and enthused when you come back to work Monday morning? Is it as important to you as the weekend, or the holiday, and how you spent that?
Well, that, and the right-wing activist judges working to break unions, like the case that resulted in last week's refund of union dues.
No matter how much we find, it won't be enough. Maybe it's just because I read sf, but if we want to terraform Mars, we need to go to the asteroid belt, and/or Jupiter's ring system, and start shoving ice asteroids into collision orbits with Mars. Large ice asteroids. A few thousand klick-long ones might be a good start.
We read, over and over and over, how the workforce needs more and more education.[1] Meanwhile, the GOP keep cutting taxes.[2,3] Where is this "highly educated workforce" going to come from in the US, if this goes on? Asia? Eastern Europe?
1. I personally know that Philly Community College, in the early eighties, got 90% of its funding from Pell Grants, which have been hacked and slashed.
2. Check out the results of this in Kansas, where the GOP lege finally told Gov Brownback where to shove it.
3. When I was a kid, teachers did NOT have to put money out of their pocket for school supplies.
Yes. Why do you *think* they're banning them?
Don't be silly! In America, every company does their best to spy on you.
In the WH. No, no, nothing here, nothing to do with a national healthcare system (which means corporate benefit costs are vastly less, and don't go up 5%, 10%, 30% every year, as they do here.
And Toronto just completely banned handguns. I suppose Canadians aren't that afraid of either their government, or of each other.
Nah, there are no good reasons....
Has the idiot had security check the firmware on the chip, to see whether it's *only* broadcasting what it's supposed to?
I can just see it now, Putin visits the WH, and puts a collar and leash on Trumpolini, and walks him around the WH.
Where the Great River of Barsoom falls deep below the surface, from the canals.....
I suggest you look up the computer-industry definition of the word "thrashing".
I'll bet you wouldn't even look up from your zombiephone for donuts....
What more do I need to say?
And calling something a pizza when it has no tomato for the tomato pie is also false advertising.
So, are they saying the electronic voting machines, the scanner machines... or are they talking about the systems that the votes are uploaded *to*?
The last would make the most sense... and why change individual votes, when you can change the uploaded vote data files, and thus change the totals, via that one system?
This damn well ought to be jail time for the CEO.
We all know the Trump crash is coming - I'd say this is a sign of the End Times...
Someone(s) need to be fired. ftp has been on the TURN IT OFF LAST YEAR list for something like 10 years. (And I'm speaking as a sr. Linux sysadmin).
Of course, what he says is almost identical to what I was thinking when I walked out after having seen it when it was released in '69: "he's become the starchild, and he's looking at the Earth, and thinking that he didn't yet know what, but he was going to do something with it."
Of course, I'd been seriously reading sf for about 8 or 9 years at the time, so it was obvious what he was saying.
The reviewers said exactly what I expected of them, because they didn't have a f*ckin' clue, and wouldn't ever be seen actually, y'know, reading *genre fiction* like sf....
I have *never* seen a case where the lost tax revenue is made up. Not once.
And a lot of us DO NOT WANT Amazon in Mongomery Co, MD: traffic's bad enough, and by tax subsidies, the county and state will have less to fund public transit, and improve roads, just to start out.
For that matter, show me ONE case where the company's going to guarantee that some majority of their employees will live in the county the company's located in, and so improve the tax base? Hell, no, the better paid ones will live a good distance away, where there's lower housing costs, and make the commute worse.
You mean, like, with STRANGERS?!
Ok, so explain to me how this is different that (horrors!) taking public transit.
I have literally been trying to get people to talk about what happens when automation takes over, and you no longer have to "earn your living by the sweat of your brow" for something like 25 years.
And until the last year or two, I got "not gonna happen", "not worried".
Come on - there was just a big story that something like > 40% of all jobs are bs. How many levels of managers do you really need? And when most of the production is automated, where the *hell* are folks going to get jobs that provide decent wages? They, or rather we, should all go die under a bridge?
For that matter, I think it was in the preface to Studs Terkel's book from '78, Working, that he mentions that a survey showed that 90% of everyone isn't just unhappy at their job, but actively hates it. (ObDisclosure: I like my job, and what I do.)
It's stupid. Yes, a guaranteed minimum income would be a good start. Right, I can hear the libertarian/idiots going on about how you can start a business... but *why*? How about finding something to do that actually interests you? Maybe you could find ways to actually contribute to society, instead of doing bs to make the CEO richer, while leaving you with no life?
At least the conversation has been started.
Given that it is a proven fact that job insecurity and lack of a job directly relates to family violence, what would be the result of offering people JOBS that paid enough to live on (as opposed to ones that required you to work two or three jobs, 18 or more hours a day, just to get by)?
And libertarian idiots, how can you afford bootstraps, when the multinationals undercut your businesses and drive you under (can you say Walmart)?