I have firefox set up to start with the profile manager and my family selects their profile when they launch. it's easier for the livingroom TV that we all use ( especially for little ones ) if we don't need to sign in with a password, but can just click our own profile. Also I have a profile for shitposting and a seperate one for doing stuff as myself.
The only annoying thing is the clickbox that asks if you want to not show the profile manager any more that is periliously close to the ok button.
If anyone clicks that, then firefox doesn't show the profilemanager even if you tell it to on the command line unless you manually edit the profiles.ini
I wish they would get rid of the don't show the profile manager checkbox since the profle manager doesn't show anyway unless you explicitly ask for it on the command line ( or by editing the firefox shortcut )
So they tax you so it's "Their money" and then give it back to you with conditions. Why don't they do that with all money? Tax rate is 100%, then give it back on condition you don't assert any of your rights..
But you will say that these people are paying negative tax, because of credits.
Fair enough, but all these benefits are just subsidies for those who employ cheap labor. Without these, the people would have to move away driving up the price for labor until people could afford to live on what they earned. With a minimum wage high enough that people don't qualify for benefits, you don't have the pernicious loss of rights for the poor. ( and if you import enough cheap labor from abroad to keep wages down, they can make sure as few as possible can afford rights )
If they at some point must pay benefits, the appropriate quid-pro-quo should be sterilization-for-benefits, not drug-testing and umpteen other things. By shrinking the labor pool and driving up wages, ( all with closed borders of course ) people have the dignity of earning a living wage that is theirs free and clear from the control of government petty tyrants.
I would sigh and say whatever happens in Europe is none of my business, except this seems to be not European only but these companies would be following these guidelines everywhere.
People think they are 'safe in the US' but censorship in the globalist world seems to be able to reach even here where money is involved. We have Hollywood movies being censored to meet the requirements of the Chinese market. We have everyone's speech being policed to suit the <del>Soviet</del>European Union.
It's scary.
And we strike down Net Neutrality so only those with money ( and vulnerability to censorship via monetary bullying ) can get their message across at high speed.
Offtopic, but the speed increase was like night and day when I turned on my VPN. I expected it to make my dog slow video get slower and it got FASTER. Makes me think I was being throttled.
Here in the US I didn't think a VPN made sense, since I'd just use TOR if I were really interested in privacy. But sheesh!
well, I am a Trump supporter, and I have a window clingy on my car rather than a Bumper Sticker because I want to be able to remove it when I go into work. IRL there are lots of ways you can be sanctioned.
What about devices where Windows is supported but much of the other hardware is not? You might run Windows, only to run Ubuntu on top of it. I know this is a developer oriented Windows 10 release, but maybe the long term idea is that you would end up buying a Windows phone and running Ubuntu 'Apps' on top of it. Also, if there's Windows in there between the hardware and Linux, maybe DRM stuff could work somehow? From a user perspective, Windows is a pain in the ass to use, always getting in the way. Linux is a pleasure. But sometimes there is a thing, some app or whatever, you need Windows for. From a developer perspective, developers would rather develop for Linux. But often they have to develop for Windows because that is what their users have. This would let developers just develop for Linux, and the users would have it. From Microsoft's perspective, I wonder if this might eventually give them a way to shift focus away from the Windows desktop front-end, where the money isn't, keep collecting their Windows tax, and potentially be compatible with linux based apps that would be developed, ( or I dunno, maybe android apps could be easily made to work with a setup like this )
And it's everywhere, it's not highly populated but backward areas, it's approximately the same everywhere US = 72%.
The thing is, people are also too stupid to realize that outlawing something means only outlaws will have that thing.
Banning encryption ( or banning un-backdoored 'encryption' ) wouldn't stop criminals from using it, it would only mean the darknet still runs, but only for people who are breaking the law. You are never going to keep the ability to apply a one time pad to a message from the hands of criminals. The only thing they can shut down is the friendly clickable visible darknet. But even that has turned into more of a honeypot than anything, with just about everyone who tries to make a living by flouting the law being caught eventually.
Banning encryption would only take the darknet out of the hands of those who aren't breaking the law but would like a little privacy - these are the ones who wouldn't break the law to go dark.
I have never used twitter. The thing that made me completely uninterested in using it was mainly the 140 character limit. I get the impression that is something from the days of flip phones with tiny screens and having to type with a number keypad.
I figured as well that the 140 char limit would just make intelligent conversation impossible. So there would be zero content worth following.
At 10000 chars, maybe I'll sign up for an account - maybe.
The way to protect yourself from data sprongers is to use their spronging against them. Control what they see so they do what you want. If you're smart enough, you won't get caught, and they will never get data that people like you commit crimes because people like you don't get caught. Be the kind of person that doesn't get caught.
This is bullshit. There is always someone qualified to do any job. The problem is incentives. Pay more, provide training for locals to acquire skills and someone will fill the role. Just end H1B. It's the only way.
If the task is something where IT can do that kind of testing, it's probably something that has been or should be fully automated. The rest of the things people do vary from day to day and IT won't have foreseen the users need. Often the needs are in flux.
Not the user's job to try to do things better... Depends on the user. Not all users are doing the same thing over and over. Users might be doing things for the first time, and nobody has foreseen their needs.
Not all employees are assembly line workers. Often there are ad-hoc / one off tasks that nobody has foreseen because nobody understands the need like a user. ( maybe nobody even knows of the need but that one user who needs to do something. )
Overly restrictive policies make it impossible to do things better.
Remember computers are for users, not their admin staff. Locking users out of their machines turns them into paperweights.
But how is this going to make Google forget anything? It's so easy to use a proxy to get out of Europe and search Google from the US. It's just a Chinese Fire Drill.
It's because the market takes care of the punishment for the privacy loss without 'Fighters for Privacy' getting involved. Nobody is going to trust Ashley Madison again for a long time if ever.
The niche doesn't much exist in rural Africa. It does exist in Silicon Valley. Not sure what you mean by a fixed zero sum niche - I never said anything was fixed. Even the carrying capacity of the Earth can change as environments are degraded.
I have been and always will be a small l libertarian, but I am fed up with Rothbardian capital L Libertarians. Non aggression principle/Non-initiation of force is the axiom their whole ideology is built on, and it's wrong. Life is lions and hyenas on the Discovery channel.
You can tear apart these people in a debate like so much paper if you don't buy into NAP.
It's fun.
Property IS theft AND there's nothing wrong with theft.
Yes, this. ( sorry I was going to mod here, but I have to post, even though I signed into hypothesis annotations https://hypothes.is/stream and marked this article up all over ).
There is an *association* between H 1B and hiring because H 1B is granted in areas of relatively high demand for labor, and so total hiring is bound to increase in those areas. This doesn't mean H 1B is causing the hiring, it's merely that those who are hiring are hiring H 1B.
Also, companies put their budgets where it will solve their problems. They hire contractors to get more labor quick. This article says that H 1Bs are paid more than Americans so they can't be replacing them. THEY ARE. By keeping incentives low to be contractors, they are replacing would-be American contractors.
Also they prevent companies from being creative to fill positions by doing things like partnering with local educational institutions, running training programs, and helping financially with prospective employee's education.
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I have firefox set up to start with the profile manager and my family selects their profile when they launch. it's easier for the livingroom TV that we all use ( especially for little ones ) if we don't need to sign in with a password, but can just click our own profile. Also I have a profile for shitposting and a seperate one for doing stuff as myself.
The only annoying thing is the clickbox that asks if you want to not show the profile manager any more that is periliously close to the ok button.
If anyone clicks that, then firefox doesn't show the profilemanager even if you tell it to on the command line unless you manually edit the profiles.ini
I wish they would get rid of the don't show the profile manager checkbox since the profle manager doesn't show anyway unless you explicitly ask for it on the command line ( or by editing the firefox shortcut )
So, the choice is beween having savages in your midst or having rights, and they choose savages!
So they tax you so it's "Their money" and then give it back to you with conditions. Why don't they do that with all money? Tax rate is 100%, then give it back on condition you don't assert any of your rights..
But you will say that these people are paying negative tax, because of credits.
Fair enough, but all these benefits are just subsidies for those who employ cheap labor. Without these, the people would have to move away driving up the price for labor until people could afford to live on what they earned. With a minimum wage high enough that people don't qualify for benefits, you don't have the pernicious loss of rights for the poor. ( and if you import enough cheap labor from abroad to keep wages down, they can make sure as few as possible can afford rights )
If they at some point must pay benefits, the appropriate quid-pro-quo should be sterilization-for-benefits, not drug-testing and umpteen other things. By shrinking the labor pool and driving up wages, ( all with closed borders of course ) people have the dignity of earning a living wage that is theirs free and clear from the control of government petty tyrants.
I would sigh and say whatever happens in Europe is none of my business, except this seems to be not European only but these companies would be following these guidelines everywhere.
People think they are 'safe in the US' but censorship in the globalist world seems to be able to reach even here where money is involved. We have Hollywood movies being censored to meet the requirements of the Chinese market. We have everyone's speech being policed to suit the <del>Soviet</del>European Union.
It's scary.
And we strike down Net Neutrality so only those with money ( and vulnerability to censorship via monetary bullying ) can get their message across at high speed.
Offtopic, but the speed increase was like night and day when I turned on my VPN. I expected it to make my dog slow video get slower and it got FASTER. Makes me think I was being throttled.
Here in the US I didn't think a VPN made sense, since I'd just use TOR if I were really interested in privacy. But sheesh!
well, I am a Trump supporter, and I have a window clingy on my car rather than a Bumper Sticker because I want to be able to remove it when I go into work. IRL there are lots of ways you can be sanctioned.
What about devices where Windows is supported but much of the other hardware is not? You might run Windows, only to run Ubuntu on top of it. I know this is a developer oriented Windows 10 release, but maybe the long term idea is that you would end up buying a Windows phone and running Ubuntu 'Apps' on top of it.
Also, if there's Windows in there between the hardware and Linux, maybe DRM stuff could work somehow?
From a user perspective, Windows is a pain in the ass to use, always getting in the way. Linux is a pleasure. But sometimes there is a thing, some app or whatever, you need Windows for.
From a developer perspective, developers would rather develop for Linux. But often they have to develop for Windows because that is what their users have. This would let developers just develop for Linux, and the users would have it.
From Microsoft's perspective, I wonder if this might eventually give them a way to shift focus away from the Windows desktop front-end, where the money isn't, keep collecting their Windows tax, and potentially be compatible with linux based apps that would be developed, ( or I dunno, maybe android apps could be easily made to work with a setup like this )
And it's everywhere, it's not highly populated but backward areas, it's approximately the same everywhere US = 72%.
The thing is, people are also too stupid to realize that outlawing something means only outlaws will have that thing.
Banning encryption ( or banning un-backdoored 'encryption' ) wouldn't stop criminals from using it, it would only mean the darknet still runs, but only for people who are breaking the law. You are never going to keep the ability to apply a one time pad to a message from the hands of criminals. The only thing they can shut down is the friendly clickable visible darknet. But even that has turned into more of a honeypot than anything, with just about everyone who tries to make a living by flouting the law being caught eventually.
Banning encryption would only take the darknet out of the hands of those who aren't breaking the law but would like a little privacy - these are the ones who wouldn't break the law to go dark.
I have never used twitter. The thing that made me completely uninterested in using it was mainly the 140 character limit. I get the impression that is something from the days of flip phones with tiny screens and having to type with a number keypad.
I figured as well that the 140 char limit would just make intelligent conversation impossible. So there would be zero content worth following.
At 10000 chars, maybe I'll sign up for an account - maybe.
The way to protect yourself from data sprongers is to use their spronging against them. Control what they see so they do what you want. If you're smart enough, you won't get caught, and they will never get data that people like you commit crimes because people like you don't get caught. Be the kind of person that doesn't get caught.
This is bullshit. There is always someone qualified to do any job. The problem is incentives. Pay more, provide training for locals to acquire skills and someone will fill the role. Just end H1B. It's the only way.
If the task is something where IT can do that kind of testing, it's probably something that has been or should be fully automated. The rest of the things people do vary from day to day and IT won't have foreseen the users need. Often the needs are in flux.
Not the user's job to try to do things better... Depends on the user. Not all users are doing the same thing over and over. Users might be doing things for the first time, and nobody has foreseen their needs.
Not all employees are assembly line workers. Often there are ad-hoc / one off tasks that nobody has foreseen because nobody understands the need like a user. ( maybe nobody even knows of the need but that one user who needs to do something. )
Overly restrictive policies make it impossible to do things better.
Remember computers are for users, not their admin staff. Locking users out of their machines turns them into paperweights.
What if a user wants to do their job better and is searching the internet for a better tool? They find it and install it.
Except they can't because their machine was locked down.
But how is this going to make Google forget anything? It's so easy to use a proxy to get out of Europe and search Google from the US. It's just a Chinese Fire Drill.
Thought of another cool name: Petunia
As in the Bowl of Petunias from Hitchhikers Guide: "Oh no.. Not again!"
We're basically another meatbag like lions and hyenas or apes or whatever noodling around. And humans have been to the moon.
Being outwardly violent does not always inflict the maximum violence, and usually the most underhanded thing to do is socially acceptable.
Communism is for families. and anarchy is always the state of affairs no matter what the regime.
It's because the market takes care of the punishment for the privacy loss without 'Fighters for Privacy' getting involved. Nobody is going to trust Ashley Madison again for a long time if ever.
The niche doesn't much exist in rural Africa. It does exist in Silicon Valley. Not sure what you mean by a fixed zero sum niche - I never said anything was fixed. Even the carrying capacity of the Earth can change as environments are degraded.
You fill your niche, but the niches filled by others denies your offspring the chance to someday fill them.
If opportunity is your bag, you want to be Adam or Eve.
And while almost nothing has been fully explored, the Earth is one of those things that has been.
Most people don't want to bring salaries down to below the median income, because the effect of that is merely to lower the median income...
Most people want to bring salaries to above the median, so as to raise the median income.
I'm an animal. I live like that.
Everything on a finite ball of Earth that has been fully explored is zero sum. Opportunity is zero sum.
I have been and always will be a small l libertarian, but I am fed up with Rothbardian capital L Libertarians. Non aggression principle/Non-initiation of force is the axiom their whole ideology is built on, and it's wrong. Life is lions and hyenas on the Discovery channel.
You can tear apart these people in a debate like so much paper if you don't buy into NAP.
It's fun.
Property IS theft AND there's nothing wrong with theft.
It blows their minds.
Yes, this. ( sorry I was going to mod here, but I have to post, even though I signed into hypothesis annotations https://hypothes.is/stream and marked this article up all over ).
There is an *association* between H 1B and hiring because H 1B is granted in areas of relatively high demand for labor, and so total hiring is bound to increase in those areas. This doesn't mean H 1B is causing the hiring, it's merely that those who are hiring are hiring H 1B.
Also, companies put their budgets where it will solve their problems. They hire contractors to get more labor quick. This article says that H 1Bs are paid more than Americans so they can't be replacing them. THEY ARE. By keeping incentives low to be contractors, they are replacing would-be American contractors.
Also they prevent companies from being creative to fill positions by doing things like partnering with local educational institutions, running training programs, and helping financially with prospective employee's education.