Want to cover your car (sans windshield) in Christmas lights? There's no law against it.
[Pedant-ism warning] Most places have strict regulations on the color, placement, and quantity of lights on a vehicle. Generally though, I support your point.
Yup, if records are open to inspection then I'd normally 100% agree, but this article is pretty scant on details. I didn't buy my UAV from a vendor, I put it together with COTS parts. Will this require me to purchase, install, and support a "Government Interface" that will allow them to track and take over my UAV at their will? Or does it just authorize them to use one of their fancy "drone cannons" (as pictured in the article) to overwhelm my device causing it to crash? One of those things I am perfectly OK with, the other I would need a bit more detail on. Either way, they shouldn't be able to do it in secret.
people come to the internet to argue. That is what the really want, and what real Reddit (and Slashdot and every other popular forum) delivers.
There is a fine line between an argument, trolling, and taking things too far.. I've been around Slashdot for a while, I come here for the (sometimes) intelligent conversations where people are free to disagree with one another, do so regularly, and are generally not dickheads about it. There is nothing wrong with that, and I can look past the "frosty piss" and "appity app" trolls and such. Usually things stay pretty calm here, some name calling, some profanity, but we're mostly adults here.
Then you delve into Reddit, especially some of the "off the beaten path" areas. Holy shit. I understand the whole "free speech" blah blah blah, but some of that stuff just has no place. Again, there's a healthy argument, there's trolls, and there's things that take it way too far.
Also a difference in Unemployment Insurance claims. You get fired you get no unemployment (rationale being it was something you did that caused you to get fired.) If you get laid off (indicating it was an outside force that caused you to lose your job) you get unemployment insurance payments.
Even your example is an obvious 'always round down' scam.
Google "quarter hour rounding rules FLA". Employers are permitted to round to 15 minute increments. As long as the rounding is consistent, 7 minutes gets rounded down, 8 minutes gets rounded up. Not sure how this is an "always round down scam" If I clock in at 8:08 it gets rounded to 8:15, 8:07 gets rounded to 8:00, same thing leading up to the hour. Maybe a better example would have been the worker clocking in at 7 minutes before the hour.
but do you advise young people to spot check their hours or not?
To answer your question directly, yes, I would advise people to check their time. Not because all employers are assholes, but because all employers generally employ humans and humans make mistakes.
You can mock someone for complaining about losing quarter hour, but can you also mock them for losing a quarter hour/day?
Absolutely. The deal isn't that hard to follow, show up to work on time, leave work on time. The system, when adhered to, is fair, and I have no sympathy for people that try to game it and lose. If it's actually the employer knowingly cheating and fucking their employees, then yeah, I have sympathy and I hope the labor department steps in to fix it.
Or just assume you took your hour lunch.
You mean the employer assumed you took your federally mandated lunch break? The one that every employee handbook I have ever seen requires you to take?
, but somehow always catch any long lunches you took
Why is that your employers fault? Again, the deal isn't that hard to follow.
And all of that that is precisely why I'm 100% in favor of electronic time keeping. It fairly enforces the system, gets rid of all the fuckery. The system knows when you clocked in, when you clocked out, who changed what. It keeps the both the employees and employers honest.
Most? You must have had a hard work upbringing. Granted yes, you are right, SOME bosses will screw you. Saying MOST will is a little unfair. The only examples I can think of where people claimed "their bosses were fucking them" was the people that tried to game the quarter-hour rounding rules on time clocks. They'd clock in 8 minutes past the hour, or clock out 8 minutes before quitting time and lose the full 15 minutes, then bitch because "they got fucked out of 15 minutes pay".
especially if it blows up in the media with wide press coverage.
So, what your saying is nobody is going to lose their job over this? To the unwashed masses, privacy is dead. People are paying for devices with cameras and microphones in them, that literally listen to every word spoken around them. Do you think the public cares that some obscure driver on a laptop is even going to be a blip on the radar? Half of the US population probably couldn't tell you who Conexant is, or what a driver even does. Quick, without looking, does your current device use a Conexant audio chipset?
It's a fairly decent algorithm but by no means complete
Their algorithm is smoke and mirrors.
I bought my house in 2013 for $235k. I would get an e-mail from them every other month or so, saying "your zestimate increased/decreased, here is the new one". I have a few of those e-mails still hanging around my inbox, the latest was from February of this year, saying my Zestimate was now at $315. A month ago my neighbor listed his house, for about $279, my Zestimate mysteriously dropped to 289, and the history never comes anywhere near the $315.
Now, I know they have the right to change their Zestimate, it is their site after all, but why the unabashed altering of their own historical data? That part doesn't make sense.
Amazing that 98% of users buy glass back phones and cover them with ugly cases. So what was the point of glass back? $5 plastic cover was too durable?
Spot on. My S6 is "gorgeous", glass back, aluminum frame, looks awesome. Too bad I'm scared to death of breaking it and keep it in an "ugly" otterbox. On the plus side, when by case gets ratty I can spend another $30 for a new one. Even if the phone didn't have the fancy glass back or thin bezel I'd still probably have it in a case, just for the piece of mind.
Good thing your anatomically equipped to prevent viewing such material. You have these two flaps of skin capable of obscuring your vision in [wait for it] a blink of eye.
Not a fair comparison. I have the option of 2 ISPs (3 if you count satellite). I have dozens of options for "social media" and search capabilities. If I don't like what one of those is doing with my data I can choose not to participate. If I'm being tracked by my ISP there isn't a whole lot I can do about it.
$100M? Seems like someone got greedy. Wouldn't it make more sense to keep the amounts smaller, maybe fly under the radar? To quote Hans Gurber "Well, when you steal $600, you can just disappear. When you steal 600 million, they will find you..."
How much would it take to live comfortably for the rest of your life in Lithuania? Given that the median annual income is $5,000, $100M seems a bit overkill.
A million is plenty, if someone is in a position to retire today. 25-30 years from now, when I'm targeting retirement, a million isn't going to cut it. Especially when SS disappears.
comparing $360/year with $360/month is fucking stupid.
Yeah, you're right, I'll try something simpler. $360 will cover my water bill for the year. That sounds pretty substantial to me. (Is that easier for you to process, dick?)
anyway, coffee is enjoyable and that's worth something.
Couldn't agree more. If you like your $5 coffee, go drink your $5 coffee. More power to you. My point was that people are bad at comprehending how much money is spent in agregate when it is spent in small increments. But I feel as though you are smart enough to understand that, and are just here to argue, so good day to you.
"US Bank" gets 28,000 (without the quotes about 220,000, but that's not really fair)
"Wells Fargo" gets 78,700
"Chase bank" gets 24,900
"bank of america", 232,000
"citi bank", 435,000
I realize googling "bank"+ripoff isn't really a fair judge of character, but was still a little fun. Seems BoA and Citi are the biggest assholes here...
They must have found an optimistic bunch of millennials. (or a delusional bunch of them) I'm 35 and on track for retirement, assuming at 62-ish years old, but that plan assumes there will be some semblance of social security. When that collapses in 20 years that's going to seriously screw up my plans.
If you would have asked me 5 or 10 years ago, there's no way I would have said I planned on retiring before 60. But 10 years ago I barely had 6 month's pay saved up, 5 years ago wasn't much better...
The only way I retire on that schedule is by carefully managing my expenses - something I'm working very hard to do. I'm not sure what others are expecting, but saving enough money to retire early is hard.
I'm really not sure what you were getting at in your post. Basically what I gleaned from it is: I'm 35. I pull in around $1M/year. Math Math Math. I plan on retiring in 5 years. You can't retire on a million dollars any more. Saving money is hard.
I don't mean to be a dick, but "carefully managing your expenses" is a little easier when making "literally close to 10x the average income" in my area. Not knocking what you've accomplished. You're either exceptionally smart, exceptionally lucky, mostly likely both. But saying "saving enough money to retire early is hard" when making a million dollars a year makes you come across as a prick.
"The average Starbucks customer visits the store 6 times per month while a loyal 20% of customers go to the stores 16 times per month" source So the "average" people are spending $360/year, the "loyal customers" are spending $960. At what point does it become a substantial amount of money? $360 covers my car and its insurance for a month, that sounds pretty substantial to me.
people were spending 6 months to a year at a job and then looking for something else
Are you talking a McDonalds job, or an actual job? My personal experience doesn't support that view, if you are talking about actual jobs. I've been within the same group of companies for 10 years, prior to that it was about 4 years. The majority of my colleagues at both places tended to hover at the 5+ year mark. Yes, some people left after short stints, but those were the minority.
Prior to starting my career, I worked a multitude of "McDonalds Jobs", where my longest tenure was probably a year and a half. But that was more of a function of life situations, transitioning from High School to College, College back to the Home Town, then realizing the home town didn't have shit for career work.
I should note, I fall at the end of the Gen-X scale, depending on which scale you use.
Ding ding ding. We have the winning answer. People, in general, are bad with math like this. To a lot of people, spending five bucks isn't a budget impacting decision. But when you add it up over the weeks and months, it's a very substantial amount of money. It's exactly why the app and micro-payment model took off so well. Nobody in their right mind would spend $50 to play Farmville or Pokemon Go, but spending 5$ to buy seeds or a box of poke-balls? People usually don't think twice.
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Want to cover your car (sans windshield) in Christmas lights? There's no law against it.
[Pedant-ism warning] Most places have strict regulations on the color, placement, and quantity of lights on a vehicle. Generally though, I support your point.
Drones are useful to militias, so they are protected under the 2nd Amendment.
Holy shit! That's some good stuff there, actually made me lol.
Yup, if records are open to inspection then I'd normally 100% agree, but this article is pretty scant on details. I didn't buy my UAV from a vendor, I put it together with COTS parts. Will this require me to purchase, install, and support a "Government Interface" that will allow them to track and take over my UAV at their will? Or does it just authorize them to use one of their fancy "drone cannons" (as pictured in the article) to overwhelm my device causing it to crash? One of those things I am perfectly OK with, the other I would need a bit more detail on. Either way, they shouldn't be able to do it in secret.
people come to the internet to argue. That is what the really want, and what real Reddit (and Slashdot and every other popular forum) delivers.
There is a fine line between an argument, trolling, and taking things too far.. I've been around Slashdot for a while, I come here for the (sometimes) intelligent conversations where people are free to disagree with one another, do so regularly, and are generally not dickheads about it. There is nothing wrong with that, and I can look past the "frosty piss" and "appity app" trolls and such. Usually things stay pretty calm here, some name calling, some profanity, but we're mostly adults here.
Then you delve into Reddit, especially some of the "off the beaten path" areas. Holy shit. I understand the whole "free speech" blah blah blah, but some of that stuff just has no place. Again, there's a healthy argument, there's trolls, and there's things that take it way too far.
Also a difference in Unemployment Insurance claims. You get fired you get no unemployment (rationale being it was something you did that caused you to get fired.) If you get laid off (indicating it was an outside force that caused you to lose your job) you get unemployment insurance payments.
My portfolio has gone up nearly $690k since Trump was elected
Smells a little like bullshit to me. I wonder how many people with $10M portfolios slum around on Slashdot?
Even your example is an obvious 'always round down' scam.
Google "quarter hour rounding rules FLA". Employers are permitted to round to 15 minute increments. As long as the rounding is consistent, 7 minutes gets rounded down, 8 minutes gets rounded up. Not sure how this is an "always round down scam" If I clock in at 8:08 it gets rounded to 8:15, 8:07 gets rounded to 8:00, same thing leading up to the hour. Maybe a better example would have been the worker clocking in at 7 minutes before the hour.
but do you advise young people to spot check their hours or not?
To answer your question directly, yes, I would advise people to check their time. Not because all employers are assholes, but because all employers generally employ humans and humans make mistakes.
You can mock someone for complaining about losing quarter hour, but can you also mock them for losing a quarter hour/day?
Absolutely. The deal isn't that hard to follow, show up to work on time, leave work on time. The system, when adhered to, is fair, and I have no sympathy for people that try to game it and lose. If it's actually the employer knowingly cheating and fucking their employees, then yeah, I have sympathy and I hope the labor department steps in to fix it.
Or just assume you took your hour lunch.
You mean the employer assumed you took your federally mandated lunch break? The one that every employee handbook I have ever seen requires you to take?
, but somehow always catch any long lunches you took
Why is that your employers fault? Again, the deal isn't that hard to follow.
And all of that that is precisely why I'm 100% in favor of electronic time keeping. It fairly enforces the system, gets rid of all the fuckery. The system knows when you clocked in, when you clocked out, who changed what. It keeps the both the employees and employers honest.
Most bosses _will_ try to fuck you on hours
Most? You must have had a hard work upbringing. Granted yes, you are right, SOME bosses will screw you. Saying MOST will is a little unfair. The only examples I can think of where people claimed "their bosses were fucking them" was the people that tried to game the quarter-hour rounding rules on time clocks. They'd clock in 8 minutes past the hour, or clock out 8 minutes before quitting time and lose the full 15 minutes, then bitch because "they got fucked out of 15 minutes pay".
especially if it blows up in the media with wide press coverage.
So, what your saying is nobody is going to lose their job over this? To the unwashed masses, privacy is dead. People are paying for devices with cameras and microphones in them, that literally listen to every word spoken around them. Do you think the public cares that some obscure driver on a laptop is even going to be a blip on the radar? Half of the US population probably couldn't tell you who Conexant is, or what a driver even does. Quick, without looking, does your current device use a Conexant audio chipset?
It's a fairly decent algorithm but by no means complete
Their algorithm is smoke and mirrors.
I bought my house in 2013 for $235k. I would get an e-mail from them every other month or so, saying "your zestimate increased/decreased, here is the new one". I have a few of those e-mails still hanging around my inbox, the latest was from February of this year, saying my Zestimate was now at $315. A month ago my neighbor listed his house, for about $279, my Zestimate mysteriously dropped to 289, and the history never comes anywhere near the $315.
Now, I know they have the right to change their Zestimate, it is their site after all, but why the unabashed altering of their own historical data? That part doesn't make sense.
Amazing that 98% of users buy glass back phones and cover them with ugly cases. So what was the point of glass back? $5 plastic cover was too durable?
Spot on. My S6 is "gorgeous", glass back, aluminum frame, looks awesome. Too bad I'm scared to death of breaking it and keep it in an "ugly" otterbox. On the plus side, when by case gets ratty I can spend another $30 for a new one. Even if the phone didn't have the fancy glass back or thin bezel I'd still probably have it in a case, just for the piece of mind.
Actually it sounds like what I call "work."
That's kind of what I was thinking. It's not what I do for a living, but if it was I think I'd be charging more than $55,000 to do it.
Good thing your anatomically equipped to prevent viewing such material. You have these two flaps of skin capable of obscuring your vision in [wait for it] a blink of eye.
Not a fair comparison. I have the option of 2 ISPs (3 if you count satellite). I have dozens of options for "social media" and search capabilities. If I don't like what one of those is doing with my data I can choose not to participate. If I'm being tracked by my ISP there isn't a whole lot I can do about it.
$100M? Seems like someone got greedy. Wouldn't it make more sense to keep the amounts smaller, maybe fly under the radar? To quote Hans Gurber "Well, when you steal $600, you can just disappear. When you steal 600 million, they will find you..."
How much would it take to live comfortably for the rest of your life in Lithuania? Given that the median annual income is $5,000, $100M seems a bit overkill.
A million is plenty, if someone is in a position to retire today. 25-30 years from now, when I'm targeting retirement, a million isn't going to cut it. Especially when SS disappears.
comparing $360/year with $360/month is fucking stupid.
Yeah, you're right, I'll try something simpler. $360 will cover my water bill for the year. That sounds pretty substantial to me. (Is that easier for you to process, dick?)
anyway, coffee is enjoyable and that's worth something.
Couldn't agree more. If you like your $5 coffee, go drink your $5 coffee. More power to you. My point was that people are bad at comprehending how much money is spent in agregate when it is spent in small increments. But I feel as though you are smart enough to understand that, and are just here to argue, so good day to you.
I did a couple more, for shits and giggles:
I realize googling "bank"+ripoff isn't really a fair judge of character, but was still a little fun. Seems BoA and Citi are the biggest assholes here...
They must have found an optimistic bunch of millennials. (or a delusional bunch of them) I'm 35 and on track for retirement, assuming at 62-ish years old, but that plan assumes there will be some semblance of social security. When that collapses in 20 years that's going to seriously screw up my plans.
If you would have asked me 5 or 10 years ago, there's no way I would have said I planned on retiring before 60. But 10 years ago I barely had 6 month's pay saved up, 5 years ago wasn't much better...
The only way I retire on that schedule is by carefully managing my expenses - something I'm working very hard to do. I'm not sure what others are expecting, but saving enough money to retire early is hard.
I'm really not sure what you were getting at in your post. Basically what I gleaned from it is: I'm 35. I pull in around $1M/year. Math Math Math. I plan on retiring in 5 years. You can't retire on a million dollars any more. Saving money is hard.
I don't mean to be a dick, but "carefully managing your expenses" is a little easier when making "literally close to 10x the average income" in my area. Not knocking what you've accomplished. You're either exceptionally smart, exceptionally lucky, mostly likely both. But saying "saving enough money to retire early is hard" when making a million dollars a year makes you come across as a prick.
"The average Starbucks customer visits the store 6 times per month while a loyal 20% of customers go to the stores 16 times per month" source So the "average" people are spending $360/year, the "loyal customers" are spending $960. At what point does it become a substantial amount of money? $360 covers my car and its insurance for a month, that sounds pretty substantial to me.
Fair point. In that respect, I'm glad I don't follow the cutting edge. Shit moves too fast, literally no way to keep up.
people were spending 6 months to a year at a job and then looking for something else
Are you talking a McDonalds job, or an actual job? My personal experience doesn't support that view, if you are talking about actual jobs. I've been within the same group of companies for 10 years, prior to that it was about 4 years. The majority of my colleagues at both places tended to hover at the 5+ year mark. Yes, some people left after short stints, but those were the minority.
Prior to starting my career, I worked a multitude of "McDonalds Jobs", where my longest tenure was probably a year and a half. But that was more of a function of life situations, transitioning from High School to College, College back to the Home Town, then realizing the home town didn't have shit for career work.
I should note, I fall at the end of the Gen-X scale, depending on which scale you use.
people go to Starbucks
Ding ding ding. We have the winning answer. People, in general, are bad with math like this. To a lot of people, spending five bucks isn't a budget impacting decision. But when you add it up over the weeks and months, it's a very substantial amount of money. It's exactly why the app and micro-payment model took off so well. Nobody in their right mind would spend $50 to play Farmville or Pokemon Go, but spending 5$ to buy seeds or a box of poke-balls? People usually don't think twice.
Somebody need to gather up all these marketing morons and hang them from the nearest tree
As long as they use a natural fiber rope, I'm fine with that. Nylon is bad for the environment.