We know that half the population is not intelligent and we know that modern marketing techniques can subvert intelligent, aware and thoughtful people. Ergo half the population is very vulnerable to exploitation by malicious people and companies that have resources.
You may consider those victims a cash cow. I personally feel that it's appropriate that society provides them with a level of protection, including preventing cunts like Uber from building a massively valuable company by breaking the law and exploiting people that were unfortunate enough to trust them.
Conning people out of money is illegal in most countries. It's fraud or comes under other legislation. Why do you think that conning people out of their labour is perfectly just fine?
Hmm. I grew up in a country with no minimum wage and yet everybody had food, clothing and shelter. Not necessarily regular luxuries but a decent enough standard of living, enough cash for cigarettes, a car, a TV to watch.
Maybe the countries you've been to have other issues, because the lack of a minimum wage does not cause grovelling suck-ups.
hmm. I earned £2.20/hour babysitting, adjusted for inflation, with a bonus for an overnight stay.
That is not well paid. I pay more than that for a friend to feed my cats when I'm away from home and she has a full time job on top of that.
I actually pay well over the national living wage - £7.50/hour from April - unless she sits playing with the cats for fair while. In which case she's not feeding them and she should be paying me for the entertainment.
No, that awful exchange rate was long overdue - the pound had been overvalued for months, as multiple economists and publications had highlighted long before the EU referendum.
Brexit: Causing more fake fucking news than even Donald and Hillary.
software of all industries is one of the industries where strong IP laws are least necessary
You'd probably change your mind if every piece of software you wrote was copied by someone else and sold using a marketing budget you can't afford with none of the revenue coming to you.
The only thing preventing that from happening are the strong IP laws on software.
Of course, women bitch when nobody propositions them, they don't proposition men, and you end up with articles like this: https://ilikemeilikemenot.com/...
Oh no, where are all those attractive single men? Why aren't they propositioning me? And can someone stop this ugly/poor/uneducated guy from harassing me with his raised eyebrow trying to catch my attention, as if he was even remotely good enough for me.
No, I'm not feeling the empathy for these poor abused women.
As someone that looks very male, has no interest or desire in other men and is definitely not physically attractive (let alone amazingly so) I think you're likely to be the anomaly here.
I've been propositioned in a generic city-centre pub in Coventry. This is, trust me, not a gay mecca.
I've been sexually assaulted by a man in Bristol. That was admittedly at a remarkably diverse event.
I've been flirted with a number of times. Had I shown interest, yes, a proposition would've been forthcoming. It's flattering in a way, but it takes more than flattery to get me to shag someone.
However, if I can get that sort of attention with my looks and body shape, I can easily believe that an athletic man will be propositioned in the Bay Area, whatever his personal preferences.
this is the opposite of what every study ever conducted has found
No. http://journals.plos.org/ploso... found that suicide rates increase dramatically a few years after surgery, and reaches a level substantially higher than the general population. Or to use their own words:
Conclusions Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.
There's evidence that this is nonetheless significantly lower than suicide rates amongst pre-op transexuals but sure as shit doesn't suggest that surgery left everybody in a happy place.
Shit, most employment contracts include 'and any other tasks that might be assigned'. Mine does. I do all sorts of shit that wouldn't traditionally be considered part of my role. Being asked to do management tasks? So fucking what? He should be grateful for the chance to gain the experience.
As for filling in a timesheet.. "Please complete a timesheet each day" is a shitty request but it's not bullying. I fucking hate timesheets and if I don't fill one in my manager gets shit from the CIO. I could cause her that grief but it's not going to end well for either of us.
It sounds to me like they treated him like an employee. Welcome to paid fucking employment.
If the security credentials are only 'in your brain' then you've already demonstrated actionable neglect.
Your job is not to have the admin credentials. Your job is to assure that the company has the admin credentials and you're merely using them and/or managing them.
Really? You've never met a woman that's retired? None of your acquaintances have taken maternity leave or opted to spend their child's early years at home? You don't know any students? You don't know any divorcees?
Tough to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can't afford shoes.
Yet somehow my parents managed it. Clearly they fucked up and didn't blame everybody else for their situation, and instead worked to improve it - and assure that their kids also adopted that attitude.
It's a tricky one. You wouldn't have given them money if you didn't know they existed, so they need to engage in at least an element of marketing in some form.
Sponsoring a marathon race is one way they achieve that public awareness. For a cancer charity in the UK (that actually sponsors many many races) it's not (just) a fundraising activity; it's a way for them to engage at risk communities and raise awareness of cancer, how to reduce risk, how to detect it at early stages and how to seek treatment.
This is probably a good use for their money.
On the flip side, many national charities in the UK spend grotesque amounts of their revenue on further marketing and admin, and it's far from uncommon to find out that only 5-10% of money donated actually benefits the people it's intended to help.
Can you guarantee it will only ever alert me to emergency vehicles that I may otherwise obstruct? Because if not it's actually fucking dangerous, causing an unnecessary distraction let alone the incentive to ram the annoying fucking vehicle making all the fucking noise.
An option I always disable. The RDS stream was unfeasibly rarely useful that it's not worth the distraction.
Surely a better answer is to just prosecute drivers that are too fucking stupid to realise that there's an emergency vehicle right behind them, they're in the way and everybody else has already made room.
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Yeah, there's excellent money to be made by people with the physique and looks for it.
Sadly I had to rely on my brain instead.
What the fuck is a nation system?
Countries with greater wealth mobility than the US include France, Japan, Germany, pretty much everywhere in Scandinavia and Australia.
Most of those are nicer to live in than the US too.
We know that half the population is not intelligent and we know that modern marketing techniques can subvert intelligent, aware and thoughtful people. Ergo half the population is very vulnerable to exploitation by malicious people and companies that have resources.
You may consider those victims a cash cow. I personally feel that it's appropriate that society provides them with a level of protection, including preventing cunts like Uber from building a massively valuable company by breaking the law and exploiting people that were unfortunate enough to trust them.
Conning people out of money is illegal in most countries. It's fraud or comes under other legislation. Why do you think that conning people out of their labour is perfectly just fine?
Hmm. I grew up in a country with no minimum wage and yet everybody had food, clothing and shelter. Not necessarily regular luxuries but a decent enough standard of living, enough cash for cigarettes, a car, a TV to watch.
Maybe the countries you've been to have other issues, because the lack of a minimum wage does not cause grovelling suck-ups.
hmm. I earned £2.20/hour babysitting, adjusted for inflation, with a bonus for an overnight stay.
That is not well paid. I pay more than that for a friend to feed my cats when I'm away from home and she has a full time job on top of that.
I actually pay well over the national living wage - £7.50/hour from April - unless she sits playing with the cats for fair while. In which case she's not feeding them and she should be paying me for the entertainment.
This could make an interesting court case.
No, that awful exchange rate was long overdue - the pound had been overvalued for months, as multiple economists and publications had highlighted long before the EU referendum.
Brexit: Causing more fake fucking news than even Donald and Hillary.
I buy my music from Ukraine, for 10c/song.
Globalisation, it has to work for people as well as corporations.
software of all industries is one of the industries where strong IP laws are least necessary
You'd probably change your mind if every piece of software you wrote was copied by someone else and sold using a marketing budget you can't afford with none of the revenue coming to you.
The only thing preventing that from happening are the strong IP laws on software.
Of course, women bitch when nobody propositions them, they don't proposition men, and you end up with articles like this:
https://ilikemeilikemenot.com/...
Oh no, where are all those attractive single men? Why aren't they propositioning me? And can someone stop this ugly/poor/uneducated guy from harassing me with his raised eyebrow trying to catch my attention, as if he was even remotely good enough for me.
No, I'm not feeling the empathy for these poor abused women.
some guy who looked straight out of the village people walked right up to me and said "You're sexy." Sorry -- I consider that a hostile proposition
I consider it a compliment. You sound very insecure.
As someone that looks very male, has no interest or desire in other men and is definitely not physically attractive (let alone amazingly so) I think you're likely to be the anomaly here.
I've been propositioned in a generic city-centre pub in Coventry. This is, trust me, not a gay mecca.
I've been sexually assaulted by a man in Bristol. That was admittedly at a remarkably diverse event.
I've been flirted with a number of times. Had I shown interest, yes, a proposition would've been forthcoming. It's flattering in a way, but it takes more than flattery to get me to shag someone.
However, if I can get that sort of attention with my looks and body shape, I can easily believe that an athletic man will be propositioned in the Bay Area, whatever his personal preferences.
Aspergers, although medical research suggests this arises prior to birth rather than in childhood.
Sure, people have it tough. Don't be expecting sympathy for "oh woe is me" or "I did it because I was poor"
No, very few people have no choices in life.
this is the opposite of what every study ever conducted has found
No. http://journals.plos.org/ploso... found that suicide rates increase dramatically a few years after surgery, and reaches a level substantially higher than the general population. Or to use their own words:
Conclusions
Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.
There's evidence that this is nonetheless significantly lower than suicide rates amongst pre-op transexuals but sure as shit doesn't suggest that surgery left everybody in a happy place.
Shit, most employment contracts include 'and any other tasks that might be assigned'. Mine does. I do all sorts of shit that wouldn't traditionally be considered part of my role. Being asked to do management tasks? So fucking what? He should be grateful for the chance to gain the experience.
As for filling in a timesheet.. "Please complete a timesheet each day" is a shitty request but it's not bullying. I fucking hate timesheets and if I don't fill one in my manager gets shit from the CIO. I could cause her that grief but it's not going to end well for either of us.
It sounds to me like they treated him like an employee. Welcome to paid fucking employment.
Hmm. Fantasising about shit I might do in revenge is one of the ways I stay sane.
Not doing it is the key differentiator, not whether I think about it.
Anyway, designing a undetectable logic bomb is bloody good fun. You don't have to actually implement and deploy it.
turn over all security credentials 'in my brain'
If the security credentials are only 'in your brain' then you've already demonstrated actionable neglect.
Your job is not to have the admin credentials. Your job is to assure that the company has the admin credentials and you're merely using them and/or managing them.
Really? You've never met a woman that's retired? None of your acquaintances have taken maternity leave or opted to spend their child's early years at home? You don't know any students? You don't know any divorcees?
Do you know any women at all?
You must have the luxury of not being an Oracle customer.
Tough to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can't afford shoes.
Yet somehow my parents managed it. Clearly they fucked up and didn't blame everybody else for their situation, and instead worked to improve it - and assure that their kids also adopted that attitude.
Users don't care about "brand experience", they care about product experience.
Apple's marketing team just burst out laughing.
It's a tricky one. You wouldn't have given them money if you didn't know they existed, so they need to engage in at least an element of marketing in some form.
Sponsoring a marathon race is one way they achieve that public awareness. For a cancer charity in the UK (that actually sponsors many many races) it's not (just) a fundraising activity; it's a way for them to engage at risk communities and raise awareness of cancer, how to reduce risk, how to detect it at early stages and how to seek treatment.
This is probably a good use for their money.
On the flip side, many national charities in the UK spend grotesque amounts of their revenue on further marketing and admin, and it's far from uncommon to find out that only 5-10% of money donated actually benefits the people it's intended to help.
Can you guarantee it will only ever alert me to emergency vehicles that I may otherwise obstruct? Because if not it's actually fucking dangerous, causing an unnecessary distraction let alone the incentive to ram the annoying fucking vehicle making all the fucking noise.
I don't like sirens.
An option I always disable. The RDS stream was unfeasibly rarely useful that it's not worth the distraction.
Surely a better answer is to just prosecute drivers that are too fucking stupid to realise that there's an emergency vehicle right behind them, they're in the way and everybody else has already made room.
I had that thought too. 35 years is a sentence for a man, it's far too strict for a woman to cope with.
Note that this is not my view, this is the evidenced view of the US (and UK) "justice" systems.