Re: Really ?
"You are the lens through which you see the world" Is close, but lacks the accusative nature.
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What in the ever-loving name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is managers' obsession with scheduling Friday afternoon meetings?!
I had one manager who liked to schedule meetings at 15:30 on Friday (Core hours were 8A-2P, I usually got in around 6A). This was in a city with some of the worst traffic in the country, where leaving at 2P would take an hour to get home, leaving at 4P would take 3.
I mostly agree, but I must quibble with your 5/7ths baseline. We all know that Amazon tries to extract maximum work for minimum expenditure, and I somehow doubt that they are holding their employees to a 40-hour (5-day) work week. That 71% (5/7ths) should probably be 85%, and may well be (on a case-by-case basis) 100%.
I hate to agree with you, but I do agree that attorney-client privilege is one that should well remain sacrosanct. However, I don't see how Disaster policies and procedures could possibly fall under that umbrella. Neither should the post-catastrophic communication between managers, unless they are all lawyers, and each others' clients. It has been laid down in precedent that forwarding communications (letter, email, etc) or sending documents to an attorney does not put the communique or document under privilege.
Amazon may have done everything right pre-disaster (Probably not, but judgment withheld and all that) and obstruction is not a good indicator of guilt; but it sure as hell ain't an indicator of innocence.
It seems to me that the article s less about Congress investigating the fatalities, and more about Amazon withholding documents and obstructing said investigation.
We could have an eternal back-and-forth about weather (sorry) Congress should investigate, but it strikes me as funny how a lot of the commentards defending Amazon on this are members of the "If you have nothing to hide..." group; or at least use the same linguistic style and idiom.
If the CEO's salary were only 500x the shop-floor salary, it could be justified (it would not be an easy justification, but it could be done). The problem is that the CEOs are getting paid 1-4000x the median salary of their workers. Not 4000% - 4000x. That is where the red banner brigade are getting their motivation.
This bill was proposed precisely to stymie a citizen initiative. It was written in the 11th hour before the CI would have been submitted for ballot. The submitter agreed that the bill should do what was needed, and was better formed than their efforts, so they withdrew the CI.
We all called that it would be killed in committee, because it was only proposed to stop the citizenry from taking matters into their own hands.
You do have a point on the downsides of local legislation, but I counter-offer: will the current technological gatekeepers be able to bribe lobby all of them?
It is a though akin to multiple small-claims court actions vs. a class-action suit; some may slip through, beginning a death of a thousand cuts; failing that, it will cost the gatekeepers a fair wad of cash.
a few hundred quid a year for all the electricity you can consume is an amazingly good deal for most consumers.That is "Too cheap to meter".
The promise wasn't free electricity, but rather you pay a subscription and it's "all you can drink".
Perhaps it should have been specified as "Useless to the User". These types of apps are very useful - to the creator, the advertisers, and the publisher, but not so much the user.
And here's the thing, they "Innovate the truth" when describing it, so that it appears useful(to the user) and then fails to deliver. If they are willing to ignore privacy law (as stated in TFA) and the ethics of informed consent, then why would these shovel-ware "developers" pause at truth in advertising?
Please proofread your article, perhaps resorting to a dictionary, and then re-post what you mean.
1) They said "fringe views are typically untrue" you responded as if they had said "all fringe views are untrue"
2) "espoused" means to have adopted or supported so your second line reads: "mainstream media supports fringe views until they become mainstream"
Strawmen and nonsense may well help in politics, but do not do well to advance your argument in these halls.
And do you know why those things are legally mandated? It wasn't from the corporations good will, nor from a politician's altruism. It was from unions banding together to close an industry if those abuses continued.
Ditto for not being paid in company script (yes, there are laws that require a company to pay in actual negotiable currency - because there had to be) and the people arguing for that simple right were frequently demonized and shot for their "socialist" views.
Once upon a time, I was starting a new job. I got my computer, and proceeded to tweak the environment to suit my desires.
The build setup had project B being built, then A, then copying files from A to B and re-building B. I swapped the order of A & B in the build script with a file copy step in between, just to smooth out my workflow.
It seems the team had been struggling with this broken dependency for months, and it was going to be my Major Effort to resolve it.
...Ooops.
"We have found records that Basque Separatists have plans to target your company, if you upgrade to Platinum CYA coverage, we can help mitigate this threat.
With your current Gold coverage, we will help notify your insurance of the data loss and damage to your business.
If you upgrade to Iridium Triple-Bum Coverage, we will make sure your insurance will never hear of this."
Sounds a bit like an accelerated version of my career path. Except that you were actually given time to learn languages. I learned Ruby by debugging someone else's code (Originator had long since left the premises).
It's the kind of thing that makes a CV attractive, I can hear the eagerness in a head-hunters voice when they see PL/SQL & T-SQL, C# & C++ (and Java), and Ruby, PHP, and Perl all on the same sheet. They seem to read that as "Shove him into a hole, and he'll fit".
They Scanned my face.
I needed to get the info off of a letter they sent that got "organized". I had to have the info (Tax season) and, well - My face is now in an IRS database. I guess if they get popped I'll have to make an appointment with a retrophrenologist to change my facial characteristics.
In the interest of complete accuracy: CRT is a course that exists, but it exists at the collegiate level. No-one is teaching CRT in elementary, middle, or high school. That is not a thing that exists.
People calling anything that teaches "The US has a history of abusing/maltreating minorities" CRT IS a thing that exists. And those lessons are Marxist(?!) - somehow.
On another note: If you are lambasting the Democratic party pre-WWII you are calling out the Republican party of today. The US political parties gradually switched platforms between 1918 and the Great Depression. I can understand your confusion, as US history between the Civil War/Reconstruction and the Great Depression is completely untaught. Public School classes may have a day on World War One (I was an adult before I learned about the original name "The Great War"). More likely students get a day of Trail of Tears/WWI/Great Depression with the 1918 Influenza as a footnote and the day ending with "...And then Pearl Harbor".