If those cars weren't taking the side streets the other roads would get more traffic and would probably need to be two or three times as many lanes anyways. If anything Waze or any map application is reducing congestion.
In Texas, the state has been trying to force San Antonio to build toll roads and has deliberately allowed traffic to get worse in main areas (281/1604 comes to mind) since we keep voting against those toll roads every time it comes up.
I love waze/google maps. I use it even on routes I know. It's like having a scout in front of me checking for accidents and making sure all is open for me
Do you have to live in that zipcode, that neighborhood, or just in the city? If the city, I don't think many cities would be helped (some sure - like New York/New Jersey).
If you need to live in the zip code or neighborhood then how does waze enforce it? Do they need to require proof of residence to use their app or to be able to use certain routes?
Same. It must be possible for cities or people to get this done because Waze has stopped reporting some of the shortcuts that it taught me for longer and more congested main roads.
Almost as annoying as when I tell it to avoid freeways and it routes me to the access road (frontage road) for the bulk of my way home.
If your manager is letting them charge you for PTO in a week you've worked at least 40 hours in, then it's time you either say down and had a talk with him about expectations, or started shopping for a new manager
My last job was like this (United Health Group - specifically UMR.) I was salary and even during weeks that I worked 50 hours, I'd be required to use PTO if I had a doctor's appointment. That or mark down the time as unpaid. It sucked working 48 hours and getting paid 38 hours.
Of course, all that did was end up making me not want to ever work more than 40 hours. My previous and current job I can easily work 50 hours a week for a deadline knowing that on a week without a crazy deadline I could work 30-35 hours. I easily end up working more than 40 hours on average but it doesn't bother me because I know my job has my back when I need it.
UMR was a strange experience of working for a corp that made it clear it didn't care about it's employees - even to the point of discussing the greatness of outsourcing during town hall meetings with the people who were getting outsourced.
That's only true in a few states - California being one.
Most companies do not pay out vacation / sick time when you leave. In fact many stop you from even using that time the moment you put your notice to leave in.
How much of a raise do you think the employees would get if we made those 5 people work for free? Do you think dividing it among 100 thousand people would result in more than a few pennies. It doesn't scale the way you want it to.
Regardless, I honestly don't understand why people think the government should be able to restrict how much someone makes.
At the end of the day, a person who can be trained in 20 minutes to do a job is not going to be paid anywhere close to that of someone whose job requires years of education or experience.
Now that I think about it, that's almost identical as it is in the US. With the exception that there is actually a chance that you CAN get fired, unless your boss is on the same "don't give a fuck" level as you are already.
Which kinda explains the quality of work you usually see in the US. Give it 20 more years and you're Russia.
Why so long if that's true? Why does it take us 200+ years to deteriorate and Russia 50 years? Unless you are arguing we had better consumer and employee rights 100 years ago?
Run a town/city/county/etc as a cooperative corporation. In place of UBI you have everyone receive a dividend based on the region's profitability at the end of a specified earning period. This makes people think more not only of the common good, but also how they want regional profit reinvested, whether to improve the 'corporation' which in turn would improve collective infrastructure, or directly into their own pocket at the expense of services or infrastructure.
Well, it would definitely get rid of sanctuary cities and really incite cities to get rid of poor citizens.
That's even less an example of UBI than would Finland did. that's like looking at lottery winners to see if giving people "free" money to live improves their lives long term.
Why on earth does everyone totally equate UBI, Socialism and Communism.
First and foremost UBI never proposes that people who work and people who don't work have the same money....... Both joe and bob pay 1000 a month for rent/mortgage. we'll say 1000ish bills for power/internet/water/phone.
Bob then has 400 a month left over for food, games etc.... It's not a lot, but he's not in danger of going out on the street.
Joe on the other hand, has 1200 each month after bills, for food, entertainment etc... He can easily move to a nicer place if he wants, eat nicer food, live in a better place etc....
Because it won't end there. We will start hearing (probably immediately) how unfair it is that Bob is allowed to get all those things that Joe doesn't have just because he is able to work. The we will start reducing how much people get if they actually work since they "don't need it".
Politically, it's easy to get people to vote for you if they feel resentful. Class warfare is an easy string to pull because it taps into our innate desire to resent those that have more than us and to blame others for our problems.
I don't think it should be taxed the same since the risks are completely different. That said, I don't think losses in investments should give you tax credits either.
Someone else mentioned a good reason why fixed ceiling don't work for wages... the owners would just keep more of the money. I'm not sure why people think putting a ceiling on wages would do anything productive.
It's not like Walmart would give the hundred thousand employees making $11 a raise so that 5 people at the top can make more earned income.
Yep. That's why most lower middle class and poor people spend the 2-6 thousand they get back from their tax return on things you are stating. Or why those that when the lottery are not broke 2 years later.
Wait, they buy junk. Things that make the most sense to spend with free, non earned money is usually disposable pleasures
How well does the Raspberry pi do with 1080 (at least) h265 content? I have an android box that I got because it technically could do this and run Netflix and other apps. Unfortunately, Netflix only allows the TV version of their app on certain devices so it's almost useless (no scrolling on TV shows so I can't select any episode after 10 or 11.)
I have a qnap file server which runs great except that it's able to use hardware transcoding for 265 so I have to access it directly (via Emby).
I have a stronger computer that I think I broke the power supply (hoping that's all it is) but I have not had a chance to work on it yet. It's running windows 10 with a top of the line NVidia card and was more responsive weith almost everything but kept locking up using Kodi. I need to get around to troubleshooting it as well as installing Linux on it.
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It's because we see ourselves as individuals rather than groups. It's a good thing but does have some repercussions.
If those cars weren't taking the side streets the other roads would get more traffic and would probably need to be two or three times as many lanes anyways. If anything Waze or any map application is reducing congestion.
In Texas, the state has been trying to force San Antonio to build toll roads and has deliberately allowed traffic to get worse in main areas (281/1604 comes to mind) since we keep voting against those toll roads every time it comes up.
I love waze/google maps. I use it even on routes I know. It's like having a scout in front of me checking for accidents and making sure all is open for me
How do you define local?
Do you have to live in that zipcode, that neighborhood, or just in the city? If the city, I don't think many cities would be helped (some sure - like New York/New Jersey).
If you need to live in the zip code or neighborhood then how does waze enforce it? Do they need to require proof of residence to use their app or to be able to use certain routes?
Same. It must be possible for cities or people to get this done because Waze has stopped reporting some of the shortcuts that it taught me for longer and more congested main roads.
Almost as annoying as when I tell it to avoid freeways and it routes me to the access road (frontage road) for the bulk of my way home.
It's in the PDF of the lawsuit
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Because they wanted it to fail and blame waze. "We sent it to the PO BOX address we found somewhere on their app or online and they haven't fixed it!"
No, the whole discussion is about an app routing via the faster route (because the main route is congested).
Why not work on expanding the congested routes or building alternate routes?
yeah but that's like saying the sidewalks were paid for by the public too, so you should be allowed to drive on them to eh
No . it's like saying the sidewalks are paid for the public so they should be able to walk on them.
The city needs to adapt it's roads based on current traffic trends not whatever existed back when the roads where first built.
1) I can't see China stopping exporting to the US. That would hurt them as much if not more than hurt us.
2) I doubt China cares about open source
You have to remember the job pool was much smaller in the 70s so people would get paid more.
The fact that most women now work (nothing wrong with that so don't read into this) means that the available employee pool doubled.
That's pretty close to what I get as well.
If your manager is letting them charge you for PTO in a week you've worked at least 40 hours in, then it's time you either say down and had a talk with him about expectations, or started shopping for a new manager
My last job was like this (United Health Group - specifically UMR.) I was salary and even during weeks that I worked 50 hours, I'd be required to use PTO if I had a doctor's appointment. That or mark down the time as unpaid. It sucked working 48 hours and getting paid 38 hours.
Of course, all that did was end up making me not want to ever work more than 40 hours. My previous and current job I can easily work 50 hours a week for a deadline knowing that on a week without a crazy deadline I could work 30-35 hours. I easily end up working more than 40 hours on average but it doesn't bother me because I know my job has my back when I need it.
UMR was a strange experience of working for a corp that made it clear it didn't care about it's employees - even to the point of discussing the greatness of outsourcing during town hall meetings with the people who were getting outsourced.
That's only true in a few states - California being one.
Most companies do not pay out vacation / sick time when you leave. In fact many stop you from even using that time the moment you put your notice to leave in.
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How much of a raise do you think the employees would get if we made those 5 people work for free? Do you think dividing it among 100 thousand people would result in more than a few pennies. It doesn't scale the way you want it to.
Regardless, I honestly don't understand why people think the government should be able to restrict how much someone makes.
At the end of the day, a person who can be trained in 20 minutes to do a job is not going to be paid anywhere close to that of someone whose job requires years of education or experience.
Are you stating that there is no point early in experiment where you can determine something is not working?
Now that I think about it, that's almost identical as it is in the US. With the exception that there is actually a chance that you CAN get fired, unless your boss is on the same "don't give a fuck" level as you are already.
Which kinda explains the quality of work you usually see in the US. Give it 20 more years and you're Russia.
Why so long if that's true? Why does it take us 200+ years to deteriorate and Russia 50 years? Unless you are arguing we had better consumer and employee rights 100 years ago?
Run a town/city/county/etc as a cooperative corporation. In place of UBI you have everyone receive a dividend based on the region's profitability at the end of a specified earning period. This makes people think more not only of the common good, but also how they want regional profit reinvested, whether to improve the 'corporation' which in turn would improve collective infrastructure, or directly into their own pocket at the expense of services or infrastructure.
Well, it would definitely get rid of sanctuary cities and really incite cities to get rid of poor citizens.
That's even less an example of UBI than would Finland did. that's like looking at lottery winners to see if giving people "free" money to live improves their lives long term.
Why on earth does everyone totally equate UBI, Socialism and Communism.
First and foremost UBI never proposes that people who work and people who don't work have the same money. ......
Both joe and bob pay 1000 a month for rent/mortgage. we'll say 1000ish bills for power/internet/water/phone.
Bob then has 400 a month left over for food, games etc.... It's not a lot, but he's not in danger of going out on the street.
Joe on the other hand, has 1200 each month after bills, for food, entertainment etc... He can easily move to a nicer place if he wants, eat nicer food, live in a better place etc....
Because it won't end there. We will start hearing (probably immediately) how unfair it is that Bob is allowed to get all those things that Joe doesn't have just because he is able to work. The we will start reducing how much people get if they actually work since they "don't need it".
Politically, it's easy to get people to vote for you if they feel resentful. Class warfare is an easy string to pull because it taps into our innate desire to resent those that have more than us and to blame others for our problems.
I don't think it should be taxed the same since the risks are completely different. That said, I don't think losses in investments should give you tax credits either.
Someone else mentioned a good reason why fixed ceiling don't work for wages... the owners would just keep more of the money. I'm not sure why people think putting a ceiling on wages would do anything productive.
It's not like Walmart would give the hundred thousand employees making $11 a raise so that 5 people at the top can make more earned income.
Yep. That's why most lower middle class and poor people spend the 2-6 thousand they get back from their tax return on things you are stating. Or why those that when the lottery are not broke 2 years later.
Wait, they buy junk. Things that make the most sense to spend with free, non earned money is usually disposable pleasures
As far as I know there is nothing in the courts against Bill Clinton at the moment, and nothing has ever come of any such claims in the past.
Except for the women destroyed publically that had accused him.
How well does the Raspberry pi do with 1080 (at least) h265 content? I have an android box that I got because it technically could do this and run Netflix and other apps. Unfortunately, Netflix only allows the TV version of their app on certain devices so it's almost useless (no scrolling on TV shows so I can't select any episode after 10 or 11.)
I have a qnap file server which runs great except that it's able to use hardware transcoding for 265 so I have to access it directly (via Emby).
I have a stronger computer that I think I broke the power supply (hoping that's all it is) but I have not had a chance to work on it yet. It's running windows 10 with a top of the line NVidia card and was more responsive weith almost everything but kept locking up using Kodi. I need to get around to troubleshooting it as well as installing Linux on it.
Yeah. Mine doesn't do that which is why I said it works great.