No, that isn't how the FDA works. You can add vitamin C to beer and sell it as "beer with extra vitamin C", and the FDA won't care (unless the addition of vitamin C somehow makes the beer more toxic). What the FDA cares about is when you start marketing it as having health benefits, especially if you start claiming that it cures or prevents some specific disease. Once you start talking about health benefits, you've moved away from selling beer and moved towards selling medicine, and there are strict requirements about proving safety and efficacy of medicines.
Except in the US it won't be State run media, because why would it be?
Corporate interests already run the US government for their own benefit, why would they allow the state to take over?
From what I can find with a quick search online, commercial leases in New York are around $75/month/sqft. If they can rent out a quarter of that building (the article says it's 650k+ square feet), they'll make back the $850 million in under 10 years.
WeWork isn't some cool new startup business, they're just a commercial landlord.
So instead of being a monkey pressing mostly mouse buttons with a GUI, you would prefer that I be a monkey pressing mostly keyboard buttons at a CLI?
If that's the only difference that you see between clicking buttons and systems automation, then I'm not sure that you'll be able to meaningfully participate in the conversation.
Why should I, as an administrator, have to script **anything**?
Because that would be what separates a professional systems engineer/administrator from a monkey pressing buttons. If you aren't doing any kind of scripting and automation, then your job can probably be done for $10/hour by someone with very little training, education, or experience.
I'm a veteran of the software industry (3 decades, now) and regularly screen, interview, and hire software engineers -- mostly college grads, some with a few years of experience in the industry. I can tell you with absolute certainty that Java programmers -- those who primarily learned Java in college -- are easily the worst programmers I encounter while hiring.
Then you aren't trying to hire software engineers, you're trying to hire programmers.
No. It's the fault of the universities that say "This is a great teaching language! We don't have to waste our time on the fundamentals at all! We can just dive right in and start creating classes without understanding niceties like where my variables are actually stored!"
How is that relevant to cryptographic hash algorithms, CSRF, certificate validation, or encrypted communication protocols? One could argue the exact opposite: by spending more time on teaching students exactly how variables are stored in memory, you would have less time to teach students about all of the other security issues involved in writing software.
I like using the term "fair market". That's what people really mean when they talk about the benefits of a free market, even though, as you said, a completely free market will almost never be a fair market.
Is the MOST EXPENSIVE way to do it. Oh, but I only pay x per month...Yeah, and over that time, you pay MORE for the phone if you paid in full.
Not for me with T-Mobile. My monthly payment for the phone * 24 plus $20 up front (plus sales tax on the total price) is exactly equal to what it would have cost to pay in full up front. And it was on sale at the T-Mobile store, so I paid quite a bit less than Newegg was selling it for at the time.
I'm not certain that Uber would be able to get away with it if there was something like a city-wide evacuation during a natural disaster. Amazon probably wouldn't get in trouble for raising prices on chips and dip the week before the Super Bowl. Raising prices on bottled water the week before a hurricane is forecast to hit is a different story.
Also, I'm expecting (fearing) that all the data and computing fire-power will be used for surge pricing, sooner or later. The stockholders would love it.
Even in the US, that won't necessarily be legal. Price gouging, especially for things like food and water during a natural disaster, is generally frowned upon.
Lowes packed up their order and had it delivered to their house! There should be like 3 computer functions that mitigate that risk and oh, a dozen PHYSICAL ACTS that should have stopped it.
How would a warehouse worker or truck driver know that the customer wasn't correctly charged by the website for their purchase?
We were told how GOP government in Wisconsin was going to create this great economic boom by "unleashing" the free market. Now they're just trying to prop up a Potemkin president by using corporate welfare.
We were also told that the Affordable Care Act would result in an average savings of $2500 per family per year
Savings in premiums, or total health care costs?
What would premiums be without the ACA? From what I've read, they'd be considerably higher than they are now. Health care expenses have being increasing dramatically for well over a decade.
If it's total health care costs, I can easily see the average cost going down because of all of the families that now have insurance coverage instead of paying all of their health care costs themselves.
Eliminate corporate taxes on businesses with HQs and/or manufacturing plants located in the US and simply tax any income an individual makes.
I'm generally quite a bit left of center, and I actually agree with this idea, at least in general. I would be fine with eliminating corporate taxes and replacing them with increased taxes on wealthy individuals. There are definitely some loopholes that would need to be closed (such as executives having their company pay for most of their food, housing, travel, etc. and claim them as "business expenses"), but if the math can be worked out so that total tax revenue is the same and the individual increases are only for the upper class, I would be fine with it.
Well, yeah. But some are more concerned with coverage per area.
If you live in a major metro, and never leave, TMo might be great. If you travel and want coverage wherever you go, not so much.
That problem is also helped by T-Mobile supporting calls over a regular Internet connection on newer Android phones (I don't know offhand if iPhones support it). It might not be enough if you do a lot of driving outside of urban areas, but it certainly helps if you're visiting friends or family.
If there's this big rejection of "leftist" ideas, why is it exactly that the ACA is still alive this morning?
Because the ACA isn't really "leftist". If it were, the premium payments for all of the additional insured people wouldn't be going to huge for-profit insurance companies.
ACA is remaining because the majority in Washington are left of center, Republican and Democrat.
Only if you consider the Church of Ayn Rand to be the center. In the rest of the (real) world, the Democratic party is to slightly to somewhat right of center, and the Republican party is moderately to far right.
Designate ALL internal documents as "TRADE SECRETS" and the Contract/NDA/NoCompete is then not only legitimate, but required by law!
You might want to check with a lawyer on this one. If it ever comes to a courtroom, the judge is not going to look kindly on a company that claims trade secret protection for things that clearly are not trade secrets.
"If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city." -- Deuteronomy 22:23-24
Emphasis added. The generally accepted interpretation of these verses is that if a woman were attacked in the middle of a city, someone else would hear the attack and come to stop it. If the woman didn't "cry out", and was therefore a willing participant, then she was guilty of adultery.
Obviously, in the modern world, that assumption isn't valid, but 1000 BCE Israel was a different culture. The Torah also doesn't have nearly the minute detail that current US law has.
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No, that isn't how the FDA works. You can add vitamin C to beer and sell it as "beer with extra vitamin C", and the FDA won't care (unless the addition of vitamin C somehow makes the beer more toxic). What the FDA cares about is when you start marketing it as having health benefits, especially if you start claiming that it cures or prevents some specific disease. Once you start talking about health benefits, you've moved away from selling beer and moved towards selling medicine, and there are strict requirements about proving safety and efficacy of medicines.
There's a lot of things that I consider annoying in people, does that mean I get to forbid talking loudly
As other people have mentioned, yes, there are usually local laws about disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, etc.
people scratching themselves in private places
Okay, probably not that one.
people being obnoxious to the wait staff
It isn't your decision, but the restaurant can ask those obnoxious people to leave. If they don't, they can be arrested for trespassing.
children in general
No, you can't just ban all children, but all the usual laws still apply.
people who are visibly sick but still handle my food, ...
That's not annoying, it's dangerous. You might want to call your local health inspector, because there probably are regulations about it.
Except in the US it won't be State run media, because why would it be? Corporate interests already run the US government for their own benefit, why would they allow the state to take over?
I fail to see the difference.
Ooooh, I member!
People don't want news. They want olds.
(Courtesy of Terry Pratchett)
So, this company, whose service is providing chairs and tables and coffee, just bought a $850 million building? What. The. Fuck??
From what I can find with a quick search online, commercial leases in New York are around $75/month/sqft. If they can rent out a quarter of that building (the article says it's 650k+ square feet), they'll make back the $850 million in under 10 years.
WeWork isn't some cool new startup business, they're just a commercial landlord.
So instead of being a monkey pressing mostly mouse buttons with a GUI, you would prefer that I be a monkey pressing mostly keyboard buttons at a CLI?
If that's the only difference that you see between clicking buttons and systems automation, then I'm not sure that you'll be able to meaningfully participate in the conversation.
Why should I, as an administrator, have to script **anything**?
Because that would be what separates a professional systems engineer/administrator from a monkey pressing buttons. If you aren't doing any kind of scripting and automation, then your job can probably be done for $10/hour by someone with very little training, education, or experience.
I'm a veteran of the software industry (3 decades, now) and regularly screen, interview, and hire software engineers -- mostly college grads, some with a few years of experience in the industry. I can tell you with absolute certainty that Java programmers -- those who primarily learned Java in college -- are easily the worst programmers I encounter while hiring.
Then you aren't trying to hire software engineers, you're trying to hire programmers.
Not really the fault of the language....
No. It's the fault of the universities that say "This is a great teaching language! We don't have to waste our time on the fundamentals at all! We can just dive right in and start creating classes without understanding niceties like where my variables are actually stored!"
How is that relevant to cryptographic hash algorithms, CSRF, certificate validation, or encrypted communication protocols? One could argue the exact opposite: by spending more time on teaching students exactly how variables are stored in memory, you would have less time to teach students about all of the other security issues involved in writing software.
I like using the term "fair market". That's what people really mean when they talk about the benefits of a free market, even though, as you said, a completely free market will almost never be a fair market.
Is the MOST EXPENSIVE way to do it. Oh, but I only pay x per month...Yeah, and over that time, you pay MORE for the phone if you paid in full.
Not for me with T-Mobile. My monthly payment for the phone * 24 plus $20 up front (plus sales tax on the total price) is exactly equal to what it would have cost to pay in full up front. And it was on sale at the T-Mobile store, so I paid quite a bit less than Newegg was selling it for at the time.
I'm not certain that Uber would be able to get away with it if there was something like a city-wide evacuation during a natural disaster. Amazon probably wouldn't get in trouble for raising prices on chips and dip the week before the Super Bowl. Raising prices on bottled water the week before a hurricane is forecast to hit is a different story.
Also, I'm expecting (fearing) that all the data and computing fire-power will be used for surge pricing, sooner or later. The stockholders would love it.
Even in the US, that won't necessarily be legal. Price gouging, especially for things like food and water during a natural disaster, is generally frowned upon.
Lowes packed up their order and had it delivered to their house! There should be like 3 computer functions that mitigate that risk and oh, a dozen PHYSICAL ACTS that should have stopped it.
How would a warehouse worker or truck driver know that the customer wasn't correctly charged by the website for their purchase?
We were told how GOP government in Wisconsin was going to create this great economic boom by "unleashing" the free market. Now they're just trying to prop up a Potemkin president by using corporate welfare.
We were also told that the Affordable Care Act would result in an average savings of $2500 per family per year
Savings in premiums, or total health care costs?
What would premiums be without the ACA? From what I've read, they'd be considerably higher than they are now. Health care expenses have being increasing dramatically for well over a decade.
If it's total health care costs, I can easily see the average cost going down because of all of the families that now have insurance coverage instead of paying all of their health care costs themselves.
The real problem for me, though, is the memory. 128Gb is unacceptably small for a device that you can't slip an SD card into.
Yeah, 16 GB is awfully low for a high-end phone.
That's a good point. I'd also be quite happy for corporations to not be people.
Eliminate corporate taxes on businesses with HQs and/or manufacturing plants located in the US and simply tax any income an individual makes.
I'm generally quite a bit left of center, and I actually agree with this idea, at least in general. I would be fine with eliminating corporate taxes and replacing them with increased taxes on wealthy individuals. There are definitely some loopholes that would need to be closed (such as executives having their company pay for most of their food, housing, travel, etc. and claim them as "business expenses"), but if the math can be worked out so that total tax revenue is the same and the individual increases are only for the upper class, I would be fine with it.
Well, yeah. But some are more concerned with coverage per area. If you live in a major metro, and never leave, TMo might be great. If you travel and want coverage wherever you go, not so much.
That problem is also helped by T-Mobile supporting calls over a regular Internet connection on newer Android phones (I don't know offhand if iPhones support it). It might not be enough if you do a lot of driving outside of urban areas, but it certainly helps if you're visiting friends or family.
William Henry Harrison still has him beat.
If there's this big rejection of "leftist" ideas, why is it exactly that the ACA is still alive this morning?
Because the ACA isn't really "leftist". If it were, the premium payments for all of the additional insured people wouldn't be going to huge for-profit insurance companies.
ACA is remaining because the majority in Washington are left of center, Republican and Democrat.
Only if you consider the Church of Ayn Rand to be the center. In the rest of the (real) world, the Democratic party is to slightly to somewhat right of center, and the Republican party is moderately to far right.
Designate ALL internal documents as "TRADE SECRETS" and the Contract/NDA/NoCompete is then not only legitimate, but required by law!
You might want to check with a lawyer on this one. If it ever comes to a courtroom, the judge is not going to look kindly on a company that claims trade secret protection for things that clearly are not trade secrets.
"If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city." -- Deuteronomy 22:23-24
Emphasis added. The generally accepted interpretation of these verses is that if a woman were attacked in the middle of a city, someone else would hear the attack and come to stop it. If the woman didn't "cry out", and was therefore a willing participant, then she was guilty of adultery.
Obviously, in the modern world, that assumption isn't valid, but 1000 BCE Israel was a different culture. The Torah also doesn't have nearly the minute detail that current US law has.