Obviously, these jobs were cut because there were not enough skilled STEM employees available. This is a clear sign we need more H1Bs.
IBM stands for International Business Machine. International means that it does not call USA home. It means it follows the market and where it can find the lowest of the low salaries.
If you poor down your society (as is happening in the USA and elsewhere) , that society will not have the money to buy your goods and services. I call that aspect, the "Walmarting of America"
Yeah, I like making sweeping generalizations about tens of thousands of people that I've never met to justify horrific and inhumane treatment too.
Oh wait no I don't because I'm not a piece of shit.
== You said it, not me, Piece of Shit applies to the prison guards and staff. One would become a guard if one seeks power, no matter how minimal, and if one enjoys cruelty.
Yes, more prison guards are pieces of shit than are the prisoners.
As an immigrant who started learning English in school, I have no objection to anyone using the language of their choice for whatever private purpose they want to. However, I have an issue with the government (local, state or federal) spending taxpayer's money to make government services available in languages other than English. It seems to be common courtesy that if you want to move in and live in a country, you learn the local language as a courtesy to the locals you are invading as a mark of respect.
Similarly, I am very offended when I call a bank or any other local business and the first thin I am asked is if I speak Spanish, to press '9'.
Now, I also recognize that "speaking English" is not a strict definition. Many natives don't do that very well.
I love languages, and while I was born and raised in English, my wife is from a Spanish speaking family. What a thrill it was to learn and understand a second language, the music and other culture. The family moved to Quebec, because of the similarity to Spanish. I moved to Quebec because of my wife's aged parents. I love speaking and writing French, my second best language. But, I do not like the fact that a) I cannot post in English, I cannot have a bilingual sign unless the French is prominent, and there are biggots and racists amongst the good people who just make living in Quebec a hell hole of racism and prejudice. The French justify these actions on the basis of "protecting the Quebec French".
Bill 22 was written and allowed to persist when the French language was threatened. It is not threatened by we English who live here, but by the exodos of Francophones who move to other provinces. And the French are racest and biggoted. There is a proposed legislation to baan Hijabs, Kippas, Turbins and perhaps visible religious symbols (large crosses) for all public servants. Quebec lost 12000 net net population last year. Mostly francophones who found better living conditions elsewhere.
I won't relocate because I am a grandfather, and my grandchildren are in school in Montreal. Were my own kids portable, I would strongly advise them to leave the province. Discrimination is at an all time high.
There are two population groups that are leaving, the well educated who are engineers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, whose training was in English, but can't pass the French test at 90% level, and the unemployed. Both for opportunities elsewhere.
The result of this outward migration is that the tax base is being eroded. Quebec will not be able to ever clear their tax deficit. Shame..
Its too bad, as I get to my mid to late 70's I will be one of the bilingual English who will remain to close the lights.
LS in Montreal PS. French will definitely disappear from North America. It will take about 250 years, perhaps less. My reasons for so say are as follows:
There are 50 million Latinos in the USA and a very large number in Canada. There are more Spanish speaking in North America than the 6 million 2nd generation French.
The internet is in English. Business in North America, and mostly in the world is in English.
There are 350 million Spanish in Latin and Central America, by all rights, the second language of Canada should be the modern Spanish. Is it worth doing business for 6 million citizens for a population that is ageing? Six million population is not 6 million consumers.
In closing, the French extremists, instead of encouraging an adoption by offering incentives, are using the whip. Don't like it here, then get out.
If you consent to a search what is the point of requiring a warrant anyway?
Anybody in their right mind would just tell the pigs to fuck off and get a warrant but I digress.
=== How do you define occupant? If you are a guest, and you are not the homeowner or renter of the property, will the police ask for proof first? This decision shows that even Supreme court judges need some privacy and advice from practicing lawyers. I consider the decision a stupid one and hope it gets reversed. Just think of this scenario, police knock at the door with a non-uniformed person, he steps inside and tells the person the police are going to search the home. The owner says no, but the NUP says I give consent. Is verbal consent ok.
I would approach the potential company with a proposition, For the reduced salary, can they make up the difference in purchase options? How can they top up your salary difference. I would also look at the salary range for the job you are teasing yourself to take. Are you going in at the bottom of the range (or below?)
You will have expenses, some unexpected. Don't go from the good job (frying pan) to the fire.
Before you know it, well be able to fight a complete war without risking a single soldier.
Since the bar for invasion of another sovereign state is already set fairly low, what future transgression will be enough when no dead heroes need to return home? Iran looked at me funny!
== You are going to have to find employment for all the laid off military personnel. Hopefully, they will leave their weapons behind when they are given the involuntary warm handshake.
Your phone company sucks. I'm in Canada, and I get unlimited messaging included in my plan. Even their cheapest plan of $20 per month includes unlimited texting, and unlimited local calls.
Hi Fellow Canadian Your comment is interesting in that the plan you have may be strictly for your city. Strictly, because your company has two competitors. If you take a plan with data, Canada wide telephoning, and purchase a smartphone from your vendor, you can get unlimited texting.
By the way texting consumes the least resources of any phone service. There is no dialing, no having to wait for a connection, and no monitoring as to when the conversation ended, etc. A text message is like a bullet that can go through the networks without having to send back a confirmation to the originator. Yes, texting is a big profit / low cost to vendor offering
Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's, US used to be the top country in the world in term of broadband competition.
I was one of the many thousands who were pulling cables in order to hook up the communities - and then the government stepped in, and gave the telco / cable operator the rights over others - which leads to what we have today, a scene where competition has been artificially choked off, and the country has suffered for it !
And when will the government privatize the post office?
said the Windows 8.1 update will come with improvements for non-touch devices
What a fantastic strategy -- to put a few afterthoughts into 99% of their market...
Its a reaaction that is too late. Tablets with keyboards are the dominant force in the schools and with home users. Where does 8.1 fit in with business processing?
People can't get past MS's sins because MS never really changed. They still bend the rules until they're warped and often just snap. They are still they same company in many ways.
=== Thank God I have an Android tablet, and an Android smart phone, and I run Linux at home, using Kingsoft office products that are superb and highly compatible with Microsoft Office. This non Microsoft choice frees me from requiring Windows 7 or 8.x and MS Office. And the price for all of this is low, when including the cost of the commercial version of Kingsoft. And Libreoffice gets its use too, and a donation. That is my Microsoft alternative, Microsoft, who are they? Ohh, are they that 1990's era company.
Could someone translate that crappy summary into English for me?
The ISP is not a whistle blower, whose rights to insure the privacy of its clients would be overrulled. If Voltage wants each name, they must go to court. They cannot just threaten the household or business which as recognized URL. Want the name, go to court for each name.
Do not allow threatening to sue for large amounts. Let the courts decide if there is a penalty.
Essentially, if there were 28,000 illegal downloads, then there should be 28000 court cases.
When you have a monopoly, you can hold prices high, and that means that you provide 1 purchase and 5 pirate copies. When the price is reasonable $15.00, users would rather pay, than pirate. It is an affordable rate. Perhaps that will result in a 1 to 2 ration instead of a 1 to 5 ratio.
Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C Programming Language, along with Ken Thompson, co-creators of the UNIX Operating System, Brian Kernighan, and many, many others, laid the groundwork for ALL Operating Systems, and technology that followed. Linux, all flavors of UNIX, Android, etc... lead the world in O/S's, NOT Apple.
Steve Jobs would still be a amateur Geek in his garage if it were not for all the Giants of the industry that came before.
Considering that they only died 6 days apart, where is Dennis's stamp?
I develop data loggers that use mobile data networks and it really isn't easy to set this kind of thing up. You need special hardware like automotive grade SIMs that can withstand extreme temperatures. Getting network support isn't either either because no one provider covers all areas, so a roaming SIM or multiple SIMs are needed. There are companies that can provide that capability but it isn't cheap, especially if someone takes a holiday abroad on a network you don't have a deal with.
I'd be interested to know how Tesla solved all these issues. The fact that their cars are high end helps, as I'm sure it wouldn't be a viable option on cheaper cars.
=== Do you have satellite Radio in the car? Do you think that Tesla could be transmitting the same patch over and over, via satellite Radio? The receiving software could filter and verify the message. For an update, install it. Not for this model, ignore it. Satellite is ubiquitous.
i see nothing wrong with denier labels. it is deliberately ignoring and twisting facts and science to serve a political agenda. i had never heard of aids denier. but another great example is climate change denier.
Um, there MOST DEFINITELY is a limit to specific surgeries in Canada. Sure, for obvious stuff there isn't, like broken arms or heart attacks, but cataract surgery, or pretty much anything that won't result in your short-term death is rate-limited. And lord help you if your arm doesn't set right, it takes years to see the specialist [and of course, your arm is fully bonded] about getting it fixed.
And then it also really depends on the doctor. I broke my thumb playing volleyball, and I had to repeatedly request that it be x-rayed, because I wasn't screaming in pain when he touched it so he just assumed it was sprained.
It's better than the US by miles, but it ain't magic.
=== When you go to the hospital emergency clinic, they do a triage. If it looks like you could come back in a week, you are in queue 3. If it looks like you are going to die on them, you are admitted. If you have fever, or similar problem, like a broken arm, you are in queue 1 or queue2. Queue1 people get in and looked at on a fifo basis in around 15 minutes per person. Queue2 is also fifo, but broken arms take longer to fixup, so your wait may be longer. And of course, there is queue jumping.
Have you forgotten what is a public library? There are also very affordable courses on the internet, from zero to what you are willing to pay.
I have self taught myself C, C++, assembly (multiple), pascal, and a few other languages. My expenses thus far, are two manuals for around $70/ea. Am I too cheap? No, I am anxious to learn and I have bills to pay. If I can't borrow the books or follow the courses online, I do without. I just take an alternate language course.
I suspect it's mostly synchronization issues. Trying to get two independent motors turning at exactly the same speed is likely a major challenge, and if the speeds are even slightly different then the car will pull toward the slower one. A differential meanwhile is a relatively simple and well-understood piece of technology that does the same job (uniform wheel power with slippage compensation) more simply.
Plus the cooling system is no doubt much simpler with only a single motor that's not surrounded by a big spinning wheel.
"In fact, the Toronto fire department says the fire didn't originate in the battery, the charging system, the adapter or electrical receptacle since all of those components weren't touched by the fire"
maybe the fire was cause by something in the garage adjacent to the car?
If it is a Toronto garage, in a resident's home, the garages are not part of the home and have no locks on their front and back doors. So... If in a condo, there is another possibility. But sabotage is always a possibility.
I don't know, but it seems important enough to some people to make the distinction, and it's reasonably easy to accommodate them if they ask, so why not just roll with it?
why not just have gender neutral "human" and that's it. Human Leslie, human George, etc.
So under this new system, why would I ever stop going to college? This is already a problem with some of the higher level institutions.
=== In a way, we have this in Québec. We had so many dropouts after high-school, that the government implemented a CGEP program.
"CEGEP is an acronym for Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel, known officially in English as a "General and Vocational College". It refers to the public post-secondary education collegiate institutions exclusive to the education system in the province of Quebec in Canada...." It is essentially free, except that the student pays his own books. Normally a two year program that covers 1st year university. From here students can go to college or university. Programs are geared to both university or trade preparation.
Want programming, IT, it is available. Want to be a medical doctor, there are preparation courses. Want to be a policeman, its available. Want to goof off for two years, you cannot do that unless you pass the semester. Fail a semester, and you are obliged to wait for one or two other semesters before being allowed to return. Want more courses after graduating (continuing education), a low cost fee is required (in the two to three hundred + dollars). A working stiff can learn java, C, C++ UML, how to do research and prepare reports, PowerPoints, budgets etc. The aim is to create autonomous graduates that can work for a company or for themselves in a private business.
Quebec is rich in educated talent. Out of town students complete studies at local universities or colleges with perhaps 10k of debt, (mainly living expenses). All my kids completed CGEP and followed up with university for a bachelor degree. Since they lived at home, debt upon graduation was zero.
Back to the subject. At some point, the big for profit universities will have to adjust their fees downwards to the "no-money but plenty situation", the Star-Trek Economics lifestyle. 500k+ salaries for tenured administrators will become more down to earth. And lifer's will really be able to attend for low cost for a very short time before being considered abusers of the system.
In line with Star Trek's "Every species except humans has some ludicrously rigid hardcoded trait" style, that is a Ferengi problem; but I suspect that it'd be a major issue for at least some people and some cultures in a hypothetical post-scarcity environment.
In fact, we don't even need to hypothesize: In situations where supply starts to increase, particularly when it increases to the point where everybody who is remotely anybody can have some for pocket change, you virtually always see the creation of additional 'tiers' of artificially scarce versions. The fact that the creator bothers with this is a revenue maximizing move(and so the same incentive wouldn't exist if there were no scarcity generally, and no reason to bother with this 'revenue' nonsense); but the fact that it works... there's the rub. Everyone can have a high quality reproduction of FuzzyFuzzyFungus' masterpeice 'The Hyphae Horror', for the simple cost of printing; but they'll still pay more for the numbered-limited-to-500 edition, more still for print #1 in that edition. Why? All the prints are identical; any you value the one that possesses 'firstness'?
I suspect that people would love to get away from scarcity in whatever areas they feel are out of their grip right now(whether they are super poor and that is food and shelter, middle class and that is healthcare and college, and so on); but, in our perversity, we seem to still crave the exclusive, the unique, the rare, in whatever nonessentials are relevant.
=== This reminds me of George Orwell's animal farm.
All animals are created equal, but... some are more equal than others.
If the builder has a fixed price or not to exceed contract, then he has to deliver the goods at that price, and anything else is out of pocket. Same for contract work for software. But also note the difference between a builder company and an independent contractor. If the building company goes over, it still has to pay its employees.
The submitters analogy sounds like bull poop.
Do I have to give more than a one day(24hr) guarantee&
You don't give them your PIN, you give them the 3 numbers on the back of the card. You only need to have your chip read and PIN entered when using the card at a physical store.
Our gasoline pumps hold the card until the pin is inserted and verified by the bank. It is not at all compared to the pin on the card. In fact, We cannot tell if there is a pin on the card.
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Obviously, these jobs were cut because there were not enough skilled STEM employees available. This is a clear sign we need more H1Bs.
IBM stands for International Business Machine. International means that it does not call USA home. It means it follows the market and where it can find the lowest of the low salaries.
If you poor down your society (as is happening in the USA and elsewhere) , that society will not have the money to buy your goods and services. I call that aspect, the "Walmarting of America"
Yeah, I like making sweeping generalizations about tens of thousands of people that I've never met to justify horrific and inhumane treatment too.
Oh wait no I don't because I'm not a piece of shit.
==
You said it, not me,
Piece of Shit applies to the prison guards and staff. One would become a guard if one seeks power, no matter how minimal, and if one enjoys cruelty.
Yes, more prison guards are pieces of shit than are the prisoners.
As an immigrant who started learning English in school, I have no objection to anyone using the language of their choice for whatever private purpose they want to.
However, I have an issue with the government (local, state or federal) spending taxpayer's money to make government services available in languages other than English. It seems to be common courtesy that if you want to move in and live in a country, you learn the local language as a courtesy to the locals you are invading as a mark of respect.
Similarly, I am very offended when I call a bank or any other local business and the first thin I am asked is if I speak Spanish, to press '9'.
Now, I also recognize that "speaking English" is not a strict definition. Many natives don't do that very well.
I love languages, and while I was born and raised in English, my wife is from a Spanish speaking family. What a thrill it was to learn and understand a second language, the music and other culture.
The family moved to Quebec, because of the similarity to Spanish. I moved to Quebec because of my wife's aged parents.
I love speaking and writing French, my second best language. But, I do not like the fact that a) I cannot post in English, I cannot have a bilingual sign unless the French is prominent, and there are biggots and racists amongst the good people who just make living in Quebec a hell hole of racism and prejudice. The French justify these actions on the basis of "protecting the Quebec French".
Bill 22 was written and allowed to persist when the French language was threatened. It is not threatened by we English who live here, but by the exodos of Francophones who move to other provinces.
And the French are racest and biggoted. There is a proposed legislation to baan Hijabs, Kippas, Turbins and perhaps visible religious symbols (large crosses) for all public servants.
Quebec lost 12000 net net population last year. Mostly francophones who found better living conditions elsewhere.
I won't relocate because I am a grandfather, and my grandchildren are in school in Montreal. Were my own kids portable, I would strongly advise them to leave the province. Discrimination is at an all time high.
There are two population groups that are leaving, the well educated who are engineers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, whose training was in English, but can't pass the French test at 90% level, and the unemployed. Both for opportunities elsewhere.
The result of this outward migration is that the tax base is being eroded. Quebec will not be able to ever clear their tax deficit. Shame..
Its too bad, as I get to my mid to late 70's I will be one of the bilingual English who will remain to close the lights.
LS in Montreal
PS.
French will definitely disappear from North America. It will take about 250 years, perhaps less. My reasons for so say are as follows:
There are 50 million Latinos in the USA and a very large number in Canada. There are more Spanish speaking in North America than the 6 million 2nd generation French.
The internet is in English. Business in North America, and mostly in the world is in English.
There are 350 million Spanish in Latin and Central America, by all rights, the second language of Canada should be the modern Spanish.
Is it worth doing business for 6 million citizens for a population that is ageing? Six million population is not 6 million consumers.
In closing, the French extremists, instead of encouraging an adoption by offering incentives, are using the whip. Don't like it here, then get out.
If you consent to a search what is the point of requiring a warrant anyway?
Anybody in their right mind would just tell the pigs to fuck off and get a warrant but I digress.
===
How do you define occupant? If you are a guest, and you are not the homeowner or renter of the property, will the police ask for proof first?
This decision shows that even Supreme court judges need some privacy and advice from practicing lawyers. I consider the decision a stupid one and hope it gets reversed.
Just think of this scenario, police knock at the door with a non-uniformed person, he steps inside and tells the person the police are going to search the home. The owner says no, but the NUP says I give consent. Is verbal consent ok.
I would approach the potential company with a proposition, For the reduced salary, can they make up the difference in purchase options? How can they top up your salary difference.
I would also look at the salary range for the job you are teasing yourself to take. Are you going in at the bottom of the range (or below?)
You will have expenses, some unexpected. Don't go from the good job (frying pan) to the fire.
Sigh! Mechanization kills another American job.
Before you know it, well be able to fight a complete war without risking a single soldier.
Since the bar for invasion of another sovereign state is already set fairly low, what future transgression will be enough when no dead heroes need to return home? Iran looked at me funny!
==
You are going to have to find employment for all the laid off military personnel. Hopefully, they will leave their weapons behind when they are given the involuntary warm handshake.
Your phone company sucks. I'm in Canada, and I get unlimited messaging included in my plan. Even their cheapest plan of $20 per month includes unlimited texting, and unlimited local calls.
Hi Fellow Canadian
Your comment is interesting in that the plan you have may be strictly for your city. Strictly, because your company has two competitors.
If you take a plan with data, Canada wide telephoning, and purchase a smartphone from your vendor, you can get unlimited texting.
By the way texting consumes the least resources of any phone service. There is no dialing, no having to wait for a connection, and no monitoring as to when the conversation ended, etc. A text message is like a bullet that can go through the networks without having to send back a confirmation to the originator. Yes, texting is a big profit / low cost to vendor offering
It's not competition, it's service
Say what ??
Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's, US used to be the top country in the world in term of broadband competition.
I was one of the many thousands who were pulling cables in order to hook up the communities - and then the government stepped in, and gave the telco / cable operator the rights over others - which leads to what we have today, a scene where competition has been artificially choked off, and the country has suffered for it !
And when will the government privatize the post office?
What a fantastic strategy -- to put a few afterthoughts into 99% of their market...
Its a reaaction that is too late. Tablets with keyboards are the dominant force in the schools and with home users. Where does 8.1 fit in with business processing?
People can't get past MS's sins because MS never really changed. They still bend the rules until they're warped and often just snap. They are still they same company in many ways.
===
Thank God I have an Android tablet, and an Android smart phone, and I run Linux at home, using Kingsoft office products that are superb and highly compatible with Microsoft Office. This non Microsoft choice frees me from requiring Windows 7 or 8.x and MS Office. And the price for all of this is low, when including the cost of the commercial version of Kingsoft. And Libreoffice gets its use too, and a donation.
That is my Microsoft alternative, Microsoft, who are they? Ohh, are they that 1990's era company.
Could someone translate that crappy summary into English for me?
The ISP is not a whistle blower, whose rights to insure the privacy of its clients would be overrulled.
If Voltage wants each name, they must go to court. They cannot just threaten the household or business which as recognized URL. Want the name, go to court for each name.
Do not allow threatening to sue for large amounts. Let the courts decide if there is a penalty.
Essentially, if there were 28,000 illegal downloads, then there should be 28000 court cases.
When you have a monopoly, you can hold prices high, and that means that you provide 1 purchase and 5 pirate copies.
When the price is reasonable $15.00, users would rather pay, than pirate. It is an affordable rate. Perhaps that will result in a 1 to 2 ration instead of a 1 to 5 ratio.
Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C Programming Language, along with Ken Thompson, co-creators of the UNIX Operating System, Brian Kernighan, and many, many others, laid the groundwork for ALL Operating Systems, and technology that followed. Linux, all flavors of UNIX, Android, etc... lead the world in O/S's, NOT Apple.
Steve Jobs would still be a amateur Geek in his garage if it were not for all the Giants of the industry that came before.
Considering that they only died 6 days apart, where is Dennis's stamp?
Dennis's home page: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dm...
===
YES YES YES
I develop data loggers that use mobile data networks and it really isn't easy to set this kind of thing up. You need special hardware like automotive grade SIMs that can withstand extreme temperatures. Getting network support isn't either either because no one provider covers all areas, so a roaming SIM or multiple SIMs are needed. There are companies that can provide that capability but it isn't cheap, especially if someone takes a holiday abroad on a network you don't have a deal with.
I'd be interested to know how Tesla solved all these issues. The fact that their cars are high end helps, as I'm sure it wouldn't be a viable option on cheaper cars.
===
Do you have satellite Radio in the car? Do you think that Tesla could be transmitting the same patch over and over, via satellite Radio? The receiving software could filter and verify the message. For an update, install it. Not for this model, ignore it. Satellite is ubiquitous.
i see nothing wrong with denier labels. it is deliberately ignoring and twisting facts and science to serve a political agenda. i had never heard of aids denier. but another great example is climate change denier.
He denied it to the day he went to his grave.
Um, there MOST DEFINITELY is a limit to specific surgeries in Canada. Sure, for obvious stuff there isn't, like broken arms or heart attacks, but cataract surgery, or pretty much anything that won't result in your short-term death is rate-limited. And lord help you if your arm doesn't set right, it takes years to see the specialist [and of course, your arm is fully bonded] about getting it fixed.
And then it also really depends on the doctor. I broke my thumb playing volleyball, and I had to repeatedly request that it be x-rayed, because I wasn't screaming in pain when he touched it so he just assumed it was sprained.
It's better than the US by miles, but it ain't magic.
===
When you go to the hospital emergency clinic, they do a triage. If it looks like you could come back in a week, you are in queue 3. If it looks like you are going to die on them, you are admitted. If you have fever, or similar problem, like a broken arm, you are in queue 1 or queue2. Queue1 people get in and looked at on a fifo basis in around 15 minutes per person. Queue2 is also fifo, but broken arms take longer to fixup, so your wait may be longer. And of course, there is queue jumping.
Have you forgotten what is a public library? There are also very affordable courses on the internet, from zero to what you are willing to pay.
I have self taught myself C, C++, assembly (multiple), pascal, and a few other languages. My expenses thus far, are two manuals for around $70/ea.
Am I too cheap? No, I am anxious to learn and I have bills to pay. If I can't borrow the books or follow the courses online, I do without. I just take an alternate language course.
I suspect it's mostly synchronization issues. Trying to get two independent motors turning at exactly the same speed is likely a major challenge, and if the speeds are even slightly different then the car will pull toward the slower one. A differential meanwhile is a relatively simple and well-understood piece of technology that does the same job (uniform wheel power with slippage compensation) more simply.
Plus the cooling system is no doubt much simpler with only a single motor that's not surrounded by a big spinning wheel.
=== the car was not running. It was powered off.
Why are they assuming it was started by the car?
"In fact, the Toronto fire department says the fire didn't originate in the battery, the charging system, the adapter or electrical receptacle since all of those components weren't touched by the fire"
maybe the fire was cause by something in the garage adjacent to the car?
If it is a Toronto garage, in a resident's home, the garages are not part of the home and have no locks on their front and back doors. So...
If in a condo, there is another possibility.
But sabotage is always a possibility.
I don't know, but it seems important enough to some people to make the distinction, and it's reasonably easy to accommodate them if they ask, so why not just roll with it?
why not just have gender neutral "human" and that's it. Human Leslie, human George, etc.
So under this new system, why would I ever stop going to college? This is already a problem with some of the higher level institutions.
===
In a way, we have this in Québec. We had so many dropouts after high-school, that the government implemented a CGEP program.
"CEGEP is an acronym for Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel, known officially in English as a "General and Vocational College". It refers to the public post-secondary education collegiate institutions exclusive to the education system in the province of Quebec in Canada. ..."
It is essentially free, except that the student pays his own books. Normally a two year program that covers 1st year university. From here students can go to college or university. Programs are geared to both university or trade preparation.
Want programming, IT, it is available. Want to be a medical doctor, there are preparation courses. Want to be a policeman, its available.
Want to goof off for two years, you cannot do that unless you pass the semester. Fail a semester, and you are obliged to wait for one or two other semesters before being allowed to return. Want more courses after graduating (continuing education), a low cost fee is required (in the two to three hundred + dollars). A working stiff can learn java, C, C++ UML, how to do research and prepare reports, PowerPoints, budgets etc. The aim is to create autonomous graduates that can work for a company or for themselves in a private business.
Quebec is rich in educated talent. Out of town students complete studies at local universities or colleges with perhaps 10k of debt, (mainly living expenses). All my kids completed CGEP and followed up with university for a bachelor degree. Since they lived at home, debt upon graduation was zero.
Back to the subject. At some point, the big for profit universities will have to adjust their fees downwards to the "no-money but plenty situation", the Star-Trek Economics lifestyle. 500k+ salaries for tenured administrators will become more down to earth. And lifer's will really be able to attend for low cost for a very short time before being considered abusers of the system.
A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all.
In line with Star Trek's "Every species except humans has some ludicrously rigid hardcoded trait" style, that is a Ferengi problem; but I suspect that it'd be a major issue for at least some people and some cultures in a hypothetical post-scarcity environment.
In fact, we don't even need to hypothesize: In situations where supply starts to increase, particularly when it increases to the point where everybody who is remotely anybody can have some for pocket change, you virtually always see the creation of additional 'tiers' of artificially scarce versions. The fact that the creator bothers with this is a revenue maximizing move(and so the same incentive wouldn't exist if there were no scarcity generally, and no reason to bother with this 'revenue' nonsense); but the fact that it works... there's the rub. Everyone can have a high quality reproduction of FuzzyFuzzyFungus' masterpeice 'The Hyphae Horror', for the simple cost of printing; but they'll still pay more for the numbered-limited-to-500 edition, more still for print #1 in that edition. Why? All the prints are identical; any you value the one that possesses 'firstness'?
I suspect that people would love to get away from scarcity in whatever areas they feel are out of their grip right now(whether they are super poor and that is food and shelter, middle class and that is healthcare and college, and so on); but, in our perversity, we seem to still crave the exclusive, the unique, the rare, in whatever nonessentials are relevant.
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This reminds me of George Orwell's animal farm.
All animals are created equal, but... some are more equal than others.
I would like to be in the more equal bunch.
If the builder has a fixed price or not to exceed contract, then he has to deliver the goods at that price, and anything else is out of pocket. Same for contract work for software. But also note the difference between a builder company and an independent contractor. If the building company goes over, it still has to pay its employees.
The submitters analogy sounds like bull poop.
Do I have to give more than a one day(24hr) guarantee&
You don't give them your PIN, you give them the 3 numbers on the back of the card. You only need to have your chip read and PIN entered when using the card at a physical store.
Our gasoline pumps hold the card until the pin is inserted and verified by the bank. It is not at all compared to the pin on the card. In fact, We cannot tell if there is a pin on the card.