The problem is that once the "gig" path becomes commonplace, companies will expect it and we will gradually shift to a mostly gig economy. Those of us with real jobs paying actual salaries with real benefits stand to lose because of your shortsightedness.
Don't think this won't happen. The city where I grew up had a very large auto manufacturing plant. At the height it was running 3 shifts a day, 7 days a week. But it was bought out and downsized.
All those sweet union jobs got slashed and suddenly people were scrambling for any work they could get. Employers soon realized they could hire 2 part time people without benefits for far less than 1 full time person with benefits. Since people were taking ANY job this became the model for most businesses that could support it.
It took at least a decade for things to settle out into a more 'normal' situation where full time jobs were prevalent or at least more common.
Is anyone going to remind the President that the taxpayers OWN that data since we paid for the research? As such it's not something that should be subject to the whims of government as to what gets released and what doesn't.
Ironically, the bigger assholes here are Zuckerberg's attorneys, and they're being assholes to Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg doesn't need to sue anyone, nor does he need to track down the owners, nor does he need any fucking attorneys to acquire ownership of that land, and he doesn't even need to buy it.. All he needs to do is pay the back taxes on it, continue paying the taxes on it, and live there 20 years while improving the property, and ownership of the land passes to him via Hawaiian adverse possession laws. [findlaw.com]
Mr. Zuckerberg, your attorneys are fucking you. I hope you can enjoy it as much as everyone else is.
So his attorneys are being assholes for doing due diligence and working to track down the lawful owners of property they may not even know they had. Then MZ is being an asshole for offering to purchase the land that probably is not livable and would put some money in their pockets. While I might add creating a clear deed to who does own it.
Had he said and done nothing then most likely nothing would have happened. Instead they're working to let people know about their property then working through the legal system to get a resolution.
Overly complicated explanation. Poor people can't afford top colleges.
Not true. Top schools have huge endowments, and way more alumni donations, so they can offer more aid for poor students. Most do not consider ability to pay during the admissions process. If you are talented but poor, a top school is likely more affordable than a second tier school because of the more generous financial aid offered.
You missed the part where they may have the money but they don't increase the number of seats. So even though they set up programs to help low income students they don't necessarily have the space. When the kids applying have the same last name as some of those grants and a building on campus you know which one is going to get preference.
They're preventing third party messaging apps from running on company devices. It's no different than not allowing someone to run Google Hangouts on their work computer. It's a non-story.
They more than likely have an in-house IM product which is compliant. So company communication is done using company tools.
This whole BYOD craze still has me shaking my head. Why would I want to be connected to work 24/7/365.25? When I leave work I leave work. My cell phone number is on my public contact card if people need to reach me after hours.
They could easily do fixed pricing, limit bulk purchases, and could require positive ID at the door of the purchaser. If the purchaser can't make it (ex. season passes, or something happens), they get their money back and the tickets go back on sale at the same price (or current market price if the cost had gone up since then).
So your idea is that a ticket that I purchased can only be used by me? I can't give tickets as gifts? I can't let someone use my season pass ticket if I can't go or don't want to go? You're saying that an event ticket isn't really my property but only a license to a particular seat?
One Parisian above claims that it takes an hour and a half to cross the city to get from one suburb to another, while it takes 20 minutes by car. That, to me, is a sign that there aren't enough buses filling in the gaps. Here in Martin County, Florida the "bus system" appears to be designed to turn tax money into jobs, rather than provide a useful service, with buses spaced an hour apart, taking an inordinate length of time to cross the county, only offered during daylight hours, and providing no effective county to county service. If they ran every ten minutes, with express buses linking to nearby county systems, I'd probably use it, because I hate driving.
You're thinking of your specific situation. Now think about all the stops those buses serve while they're inconveniencing you. Public transportation runs where the public is. Unless you're a civil engineer with a specialty in public transportation logistics you can't know how they routed and scheduled the buses.
I need to drive to the light rail station that takes me into downtown to my office. I would love to be able to step on a bus that takes me right to the station but there isn't one. Because they're needed to transport people in other places. I could take a bus if I wanted to add 45 minutes to my commute each way.
Yes my commute is longer because I take light rail. I'm lucky I can take light rail. I don't have to deal with traffic, the downtown stop is katty corner from my office building, my company pays for my pass, and parking downtown would be a significant expense. So I'm trading time for money and personally I'm OK with the trade.
There are two relatively easy potential things that could be done to 'fix' the electoral college disconnect.
One - Require that the electors follow the popular vote in their state. So if a state goes with Candidate A then all the votes go to Candidate A. That cuts out any form of lobbying and puts them in line with the popular vote.
Two - Apportion electoral votes according to the percentages of the popular vote. Candidate A gets X% of the popular vote and therefore X% of the electors.
Regardless the electoral college needs to be brought into line with the popular vote somehow. Being able to ignore the state's voting result is a throwback to the founding fathers' distrust of the people in general and their idea that they need some kind of way to control the outcome of elections.
I have been thinking about whether the distinction between "consumer" (eg IdeaPad) and "business" (eg ThinkPad) machines even makes sense. This is not even limited to Lenovo of course.
Mind you my knowledge is from some years ago but there was a very important reason for the difference. Consistency. When a company produced a busines line they committed to using the same parts in every machine. The consumer line can be a mixup of components since they're standalone machines. But having a thousand of the same model laptop in a business means they expect that they'll all work the same.
This may have changed but I doubt it. Businesses don't have time to deal with multiple types of components that may or may not work in their environment. What they test is what they expect every time they buy one.
None of my contractors give a shit if my company succeeds beyond their next invoice. None of them really seem to care to understand why we are doing what we are doing, they are only focused on their silo of work. And OMG if you don't give them EXACT to the letter specs, the work wont get done. Likely because of the other two things I mentioned, but also I think it might be a culture thing where they are taught both at home and in school to never question, and just memorize and regurgitate to succeed. Yeah they are kinda like human robots in some cases.
Of course your contractors don't care beyond the next invoice nor do they do work that's not specifically spelled out in the requirements. You're paying them for a product. They deliver the product you specified. No contractor is going to do 'creative changes to improve your business' because that's not THEIR business. If you want someone to be invested in your business then return the favor. Hire people instead of contracting out work.
I just know that back then when I was in school, the lessons suddenly became hugely unproductive the moment the computers were turned on. Essentially everybody ended up surfing facebook or youtube or something, not doing anything the teacher told them to.
We didn't get calculators in school until I was in 8th grade. So whining about attention spans of students when the school can't set up a decent firewall doesn't address the issue.
Sure it's a game. Sure it simplifies the historical process. But if it gets them learning and wanting to learn then it might be a good teaching aid. Not a replacement - but another teaching aid.
I think the downfall here is that it has nothing to do with the standardized testing required to get school funding.
I would be interested in the as-unbiased-as-possible opinions of history teachers that are in the target demographic.
Reading the summary it seems like this might be a valuable aid to teaching HOW history works and how X impacts Y. The 'how' is the most important part of learning and what is most difficult to teach.
The price point, the minimum necessary hardware, the time investment, and the quality of everything will determine if there's any integration of this into school curriculum.
If it gets kids interested in learning then it's good. If they use it in place of teaching then it's bad.
The result was very narrow. The turn-out was relatively low for such an important decision. A lot of people are expressing regret, the victorious side instantly reneged on a number of promises and the predicted economic meltdown that people didn't believe would happen happened.
Given all that, a second opportunity to vote, especially now that young people are realizing that if they had bothered to turn out they could have overcome the baby boomer vote stealing their future away, seems like a reasonable request.
Wah. Those who didn't vote gave away their chances to change the outcome and those who don't like the result get to learn that sometimes they lose. Those young people have figured out too late that not voting has consequences. There's no need for a do over since everyone had their chance when it happened.
The Leave campaign has reneged on many of their key promises and been proven wrong on any of their predictions. Buyer's remorse is completely understandable.
So there was no way for people to do their own research on the issues without the political rhetoric? I think not. They knew what they were voting ON and if they couldn't be bothered to do their own research then they live with the results.
If a large enough fraction of any electorate wants a do-over on a referendum, then why not? Why does this have to be a winner-take-all scenario?
Because it opens the door to unending referendums because one side or the other didn't like the result. Everyone had their chance to research and vote. They voted (or didn't) and now they live with the result.
Their only possible hope now is that because it was a non-binding referendum the legislators could ignore the popular vote and do whatever the heck they want.
Given the current status of things the least worst solution may be to have divided lanes (think express lanes on freeways) just for AI vehicles. When all of them are 'thinking' the same thing then the chances of problems decreases exponentially. Most of these issues seem to come up when there's a mix of AI and meat sacks.
Sure this will limit their use but that's what you do when new behaviour is introduced into an established system. Continue doing testing in a mixed environment but create the programs for a controlled environment to get things started.
You're not correct that the use of the extremely stupid 'No Fly List' is an acceptable method of preventing gun ownership. When a six month old child gets on the list due to having a name that's similar to someone they're profiling then it proves the list is useless. There's no accountability for that list, no methodology for how someone gets on the list, no transparency, nothing. So you're saying there's majority support for using it as a guide for denying Constitutional rights?
Second reply: Yes, a determined killer will kill. But easy access to guns makes it much more likely that an unhinged person will take down a whole bunch of others. It's exceedingly unlikely that a guy with a glass bottle or a knife would kill 49 people before being stopped
So you would rather he hit up the building supply store, make a couple of dozen pipe bombs, and toss those into a crowded building? If someone is determined to cause mass death they're going to cause mass death. The method is irrelevant.
Sure, let's do everything except what will actually help, which is to restrict assault rifles.
So tell me what an assault rifle is? It's already illegal for a private citizen to own a gun that fires more than one bullet at a time.
Is an assault rifle one that's all scary black? The same rifle with a woodgrain stock does the exact same thing.
Big scary scope? Same thing on a hunting rifle. Heck the red dot scope on my.22 target pistol would probably make you grab your teddy bear for comfort.
Folding stock? Makes it easier to store and haul around. Nothing at all to do with functionality.
Forward pistol grip? That's what gun control is - being able to stay on target.
Stop trying to say anything that's legally available is an assault anything. It isn't. Everything fires a single bullet on a trigger pull.
The definition of an 'assault rifle' is a rifle with a high capacity magazine capable of firing multiple bullets designed for military use. Since there's no legal rifle that fires more than one bullet at a time STOP CALLING A RIFLE AN ASSAULT WEAPON.
The problem is that there are people who will do terrible things. When they're determined to do terrible things they will find a way to do them.
For all those blaming gun laws would you feel better if he had bought them illegally or stolen them? Would that vindicate your disdain for existing working gun laws because criminals always follow the laws. He legally owned firearms and that discussion is settled.
Would any of the rabid anti-gun people feel better had he made a dozen or so pipe bombs and threw those around the club instead? And then would you be screaming for background checks before buying home repair supplies?
If he truly was unstable enough to hook his actions to DAESH then of course they're going to jump on and take credit. It keeps them as a newsworthy 'viable threat' and only furthers their agenda. Whether or not they actually had any direct involvement will probably never be proved.
The problem is nutjobs. AKA people. When they're weak and broken enough to buy into a belief system of hate and then decide they're a holy warrior it's already too late to stop them. Single people acting alone are almost impossible to find before they do things like this. Hindsight is going to find things - all sorts of things - but at the time those same things wouldn't set off warning bells.
So stop trying to find a way to vilify inanimate objects for what happened, stop using blanket statements about any particular religion because all of them create people like this, and put the blame where it belongs. On the nutjob.
Except for having to pay for the privilege it sounds a lot like my weekly gaming groups. We get together in a room, we solve puzzles together, we have fun, then we leave.
If the customer wishes to continue with their upgrade at the designated time, they can click 'OK' or close the notifications with no further action needed.
The surface reading is OK to update, close and nothing happens.
Read it again. Closing the box means no further actions are needed. Does it say that the upgrade isn't going to be scheduled? That it's not going to make it go away? Or just that no further user actions are needed?
Didn't they try this stunt with IE - stating that it was required for the OS to run properly? And weren't they shot down hard by the European courts?
Access to an application store should not be required for an operating system to run. Actually access to the internet shouldn't be required at all. If your OS can't run without checking home then your OS doesn't belong in the enterprise much less in the wild.
I agree with other posters that they will attempt to quietly roll back this change when enterprise customers tell them that they're not going to upgrade and start looking for alternatives. I can see the US government putting out a statement that they won't be upgrading due to security concerns and that will start the ball rolling.
If they put out a special edition for 'secure installations' then they'll have invalidated their whole spiel for making it necessary in the first place.
It goes beyond the arrogance of trying to force the upgrade down the user's throats now. They've done something that will enrage their core business - the enterprise. Really great marketing move there.
Please. There's been so many things that were invented since the dawn of time that it's an irrelevant question.
The most enduring important invention, in my opinion, was the printing press. When information could be mass produced and distributed the world got a lot smaller. Of course there's been problems with information control for as long as people have communicated but this was the huge step.
We asked a group of elderly relatives what they considered the invention that created the biggest change in their lives and their answer was the telephone. Being able to communicate over distance was an incredible change. To be able to contact someone immediately is something we take for granted.
Electronics are nifty but it all seems to come down to the ability to communicate in better ways.
Ah. But people are forgetting that phone sales are flat and this makes manufacturers sad.
Their answer? Do away with the robust and simple audio jack and move to the fragile and critical USB jack. This way people have to use it much more and wear it out/break it. And then make it so they can't replace the battery for the new power sucking standard.
Won't anyone think of the billion dollar companies that need this to stay profitable?
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Don't think this won't happen. The city where I grew up had a very large auto manufacturing plant. At the height it was running 3 shifts a day, 7 days a week. But it was bought out and downsized.
All those sweet union jobs got slashed and suddenly people were scrambling for any work they could get. Employers soon realized they could hire 2 part time people without benefits for far less than 1 full time person with benefits. Since people were taking ANY job this became the model for most businesses that could support it.
It took at least a decade for things to settle out into a more 'normal' situation where full time jobs were prevalent or at least more common.
Is anyone going to remind the President that the taxpayers OWN that data since we paid for the research? As such it's not something that should be subject to the whims of government as to what gets released and what doesn't.
So his attorneys are being assholes for doing due diligence and working to track down the lawful owners of property they may not even know they had. Then MZ is being an asshole for offering to purchase the land that probably is not livable and would put some money in their pockets. While I might add creating a clear deed to who does own it.
Had he said and done nothing then most likely nothing would have happened. Instead they're working to let people know about their property then working through the legal system to get a resolution.
How is this being an asshole?
You missed the part where they may have the money but they don't increase the number of seats. So even though they set up programs to help low income students they don't necessarily have the space. When the kids applying have the same last name as some of those grants and a building on campus you know which one is going to get preference.
They're preventing third party messaging apps from running on company devices. It's no different than not allowing someone to run Google Hangouts on their work computer. It's a non-story.
They more than likely have an in-house IM product which is compliant. So company communication is done using company tools.
This whole BYOD craze still has me shaking my head. Why would I want to be connected to work 24/7/365.25? When I leave work I leave work. My cell phone number is on my public contact card if people need to reach me after hours.
So your idea is that a ticket that I purchased can only be used by me? I can't give tickets as gifts? I can't let someone use my season pass ticket if I can't go or don't want to go? You're saying that an event ticket isn't really my property but only a license to a particular seat?
You're thinking of your specific situation. Now think about all the stops those buses serve while they're inconveniencing you. Public transportation runs where the public is. Unless you're a civil engineer with a specialty in public transportation logistics you can't know how they routed and scheduled the buses.
I need to drive to the light rail station that takes me into downtown to my office. I would love to be able to step on a bus that takes me right to the station but there isn't one. Because they're needed to transport people in other places. I could take a bus if I wanted to add 45 minutes to my commute each way.
Yes my commute is longer because I take light rail. I'm lucky I can take light rail. I don't have to deal with traffic, the downtown stop is katty corner from my office building, my company pays for my pass, and parking downtown would be a significant expense. So I'm trading time for money and personally I'm OK with the trade.
There are two relatively easy potential things that could be done to 'fix' the electoral college disconnect.
One - Require that the electors follow the popular vote in their state. So if a state goes with Candidate A then all the votes go to Candidate A. That cuts out any form of lobbying and puts them in line with the popular vote.
Two - Apportion electoral votes according to the percentages of the popular vote. Candidate A gets X% of the popular vote and therefore X% of the electors.
Regardless the electoral college needs to be brought into line with the popular vote somehow. Being able to ignore the state's voting result is a throwback to the founding fathers' distrust of the people in general and their idea that they need some kind of way to control the outcome of elections.
Mind you my knowledge is from some years ago but there was a very important reason for the difference. Consistency. When a company produced a busines line they committed to using the same parts in every machine. The consumer line can be a mixup of components since they're standalone machines. But having a thousand of the same model laptop in a business means they expect that they'll all work the same.
This may have changed but I doubt it. Businesses don't have time to deal with multiple types of components that may or may not work in their environment. What they test is what they expect every time they buy one.
Of course your contractors don't care beyond the next invoice nor do they do work that's not specifically spelled out in the requirements. You're paying them for a product. They deliver the product you specified. No contractor is going to do 'creative changes to improve your business' because that's not THEIR business. If you want someone to be invested in your business then return the favor. Hire people instead of contracting out work.
We didn't get calculators in school until I was in 8th grade. So whining about attention spans of students when the school can't set up a decent firewall doesn't address the issue.
Sure it's a game. Sure it simplifies the historical process. But if it gets them learning and wanting to learn then it might be a good teaching aid. Not a replacement - but another teaching aid.
I think the downfall here is that it has nothing to do with the standardized testing required to get school funding.
I would be interested in the as-unbiased-as-possible opinions of history teachers that are in the target demographic.
Reading the summary it seems like this might be a valuable aid to teaching HOW history works and how X impacts Y. The 'how' is the most important part of learning and what is most difficult to teach.
The price point, the minimum necessary hardware, the time investment, and the quality of everything will determine if there's any integration of this into school curriculum.
If it gets kids interested in learning then it's good. If they use it in place of teaching then it's bad.
Wah. Those who didn't vote gave away their chances to change the outcome and those who don't like the result get to learn that sometimes they lose. Those young people have figured out too late that not voting has consequences. There's no need for a do over since everyone had their chance when it happened.
So there was no way for people to do their own research on the issues without the political rhetoric? I think not. They knew what they were voting ON and if they couldn't be bothered to do their own research then they live with the results.
Because it opens the door to unending referendums because one side or the other didn't like the result. Everyone had their chance to research and vote. They voted (or didn't) and now they live with the result.
Their only possible hope now is that because it was a non-binding referendum the legislators could ignore the popular vote and do whatever the heck they want.
Given the current status of things the least worst solution may be to have divided lanes (think express lanes on freeways) just for AI vehicles. When all of them are 'thinking' the same thing then the chances of problems decreases exponentially. Most of these issues seem to come up when there's a mix of AI and meat sacks.
Sure this will limit their use but that's what you do when new behaviour is introduced into an established system. Continue doing testing in a mixed environment but create the programs for a controlled environment to get things started.
You're not correct that the use of the extremely stupid 'No Fly List' is an acceptable method of preventing gun ownership. When a six month old child gets on the list due to having a name that's similar to someone they're profiling then it proves the list is useless. There's no accountability for that list, no methodology for how someone gets on the list, no transparency, nothing. So you're saying there's majority support for using it as a guide for denying Constitutional rights?
So you would rather he hit up the building supply store, make a couple of dozen pipe bombs, and toss those into a crowded building? If someone is determined to cause mass death they're going to cause mass death. The method is irrelevant.
So tell me what an assault rifle is? It's already illegal for a private citizen to own a gun that fires more than one bullet at a time.
Is an assault rifle one that's all scary black? The same rifle with a woodgrain stock does the exact same thing.
Big scary scope? Same thing on a hunting rifle. Heck the red dot scope on my .22 target pistol would probably make you grab your teddy bear for comfort.
Folding stock? Makes it easier to store and haul around. Nothing at all to do with functionality.
Forward pistol grip? That's what gun control is - being able to stay on target.
Stop trying to say anything that's legally available is an assault anything. It isn't. Everything fires a single bullet on a trigger pull.
The definition of an 'assault rifle' is a rifle with a high capacity magazine capable of firing multiple bullets designed for military use. Since there's no legal rifle that fires more than one bullet at a time STOP CALLING A RIFLE AN ASSAULT WEAPON.
The problem is that there are people who will do terrible things. When they're determined to do terrible things they will find a way to do them.
For all those blaming gun laws would you feel better if he had bought them illegally or stolen them? Would that vindicate your disdain for existing working gun laws because criminals always follow the laws. He legally owned firearms and that discussion is settled.
Would any of the rabid anti-gun people feel better had he made a dozen or so pipe bombs and threw those around the club instead? And then would you be screaming for background checks before buying home repair supplies?
If he truly was unstable enough to hook his actions to DAESH then of course they're going to jump on and take credit. It keeps them as a newsworthy 'viable threat' and only furthers their agenda. Whether or not they actually had any direct involvement will probably never be proved.
The problem is nutjobs. AKA people. When they're weak and broken enough to buy into a belief system of hate and then decide they're a holy warrior it's already too late to stop them. Single people acting alone are almost impossible to find before they do things like this. Hindsight is going to find things - all sorts of things - but at the time those same things wouldn't set off warning bells.
So stop trying to find a way to vilify inanimate objects for what happened, stop using blanket statements about any particular religion because all of them create people like this, and put the blame where it belongs. On the nutjob.
Except for having to pay for the privilege it sounds a lot like my weekly gaming groups. We get together in a room, we solve puzzles together, we have fun, then we leave.
From the article:
If the customer wishes to continue with their upgrade at the designated time, they can click 'OK' or close the notifications with no further action needed.
The surface reading is OK to update, close and nothing happens.
Read it again. Closing the box means no further actions are needed. Does it say that the upgrade isn't going to be scheduled? That it's not going to make it go away? Or just that no further user actions are needed?
Didn't they try this stunt with IE - stating that it was required for the OS to run properly? And weren't they shot down hard by the European courts?
Access to an application store should not be required for an operating system to run. Actually access to the internet shouldn't be required at all. If your OS can't run without checking home then your OS doesn't belong in the enterprise much less in the wild.
I agree with other posters that they will attempt to quietly roll back this change when enterprise customers tell them that they're not going to upgrade and start looking for alternatives. I can see the US government putting out a statement that they won't be upgrading due to security concerns and that will start the ball rolling.
If they put out a special edition for 'secure installations' then they'll have invalidated their whole spiel for making it necessary in the first place.
It goes beyond the arrogance of trying to force the upgrade down the user's throats now. They've done something that will enrage their core business - the enterprise. Really great marketing move there.
Please. There's been so many things that were invented since the dawn of time that it's an irrelevant question.
The most enduring important invention, in my opinion, was the printing press. When information could be mass produced and distributed the world got a lot smaller. Of course there's been problems with information control for as long as people have communicated but this was the huge step.
We asked a group of elderly relatives what they considered the invention that created the biggest change in their lives and their answer was the telephone. Being able to communicate over distance was an incredible change. To be able to contact someone immediately is something we take for granted.
Electronics are nifty but it all seems to come down to the ability to communicate in better ways.
Ah. But people are forgetting that phone sales are flat and this makes manufacturers sad.
Their answer? Do away with the robust and simple audio jack and move to the fragile and critical USB jack. This way people have to use it much more and wear it out/break it. And then make it so they can't replace the battery for the new power sucking standard.
Won't anyone think of the billion dollar companies that need this to stay profitable?