Re: i.e. he confesses there is evidence
I think I stole "Talibangelicals" from the very pages.
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To be honest, both parties are authoritarian. Even US Libertarians are authoritarian. Not that the parties have authoritarian elements, or leanings, they are straight up authoritarian. The main difference is flavor of authoritarianism: Corporate or Government.
There is no non-authoritarian element in US politics; Bernie is as close as we get, and he's not that close.
Approved, or Unapproved, It's my time, not the company's. If I use their IP in my personal project, that is my misdeed; if I create a competing product, using knowledge of what the company is doing, then If one developer an make a better product than the whole corporate, they deserve to lose business.
My time is My time. My employer has no more room to tell me what personal or hobby projects I can work on than they can tell me who to date. I see no difference between the employer claiming IP on personal project and them claiming my children. I didn't make either on company time, or using company resources, so they have no claim. The company is my employer not my owner.
Pay may be based on assumptions, but the employer is assuming the risk of assuming.
If I assume that I'll be working a 40 hour week and the contract did not state hours, and then my employer tells me I need to do an extra 5 hours of "business development", I am on the hook because of my assumptions.
If an employer assumes that 10% of my paycheck is for commuting, but it doesn't specify that in the contract, then they don't get to claim that 10% back if I telework.
"With many businesses struggling it is unsurprising that they will be looking for ways to cut costs." - What the Hell?!
The only way businesses are struggling right now is the lack of people willing to work customer-facing jobs for shite pay. Google is NOT one of those. Although, if they put this into effect, they may well become one.
I wonder if a well-placed VPN could report your tele-working place as Fisher Island (average income in 2018 of $2.2 million) and get a commensurate pay hike?
wouldn't the "beaming power to earth via RF" almost have to be a MASER?
The main advantage to collecting in space is that you don't have to worry about atmospheric attenuation. "Beaming" the power to ground stations will have to go through atmosphere, so you need an intensity/frequency that renders that attenuation significantly less significant, so MASER.
The point being made is less "the hardware/software is racist" and more "the development and testing were not conducted using subjects of varying skin tones, and as such are optimized to a fairly narrow band, and falls down when analyzing people of color." With the implication that Systemic Racism is the reason why the system was not sufficiently tested/developed against darker skintones.
"The broadband industry is committed to appearing to be working with state and federal policymakers on sustainable solutions that will serve the needs of all low-income Americans. While well-intended, the state's law ignored the $50 monthly broadband discount subsidy Congress enacted already gives us, as well as the many commitments, programs and offerings that broadband providers have made promised for low-income consumers."
I was cheering for them at first. A home automation that respects privacy, I can dig that. I read the article to figure out how they did voice commands while ensuring it didn't record/leak anything else. Imagine Experience my disappointment when I read that it doesn't do voice command, it also doesn't not-spy. This is some shit the cops would pull: "It's not recording voices, so we don't need a warrant".
Sure, it won't record your political opinions, or record the phone calls of an affair; but it will know that there are two people brushing their teeth whist one partner is out (it heard the garage door and the car leave).
We all know the road that's paved with good intentions, and now these drones don't even need a road.
But I'm sure it's fine. These technologies will not come back to hunt, err, haunt us - at all. Nope. It's all good.
I just hope there's no SNIFFDRONE near-by, it would be able to find me after reading that article
Ah, there's the disconnect. You are looking at "Income earners." The individuals that are drawing the ire here do not earn an income, thus pay no income tax. Dividends or profit generated by stocks are not income, they are "Capital Gains" and taxed at a much lower rate. Alternatively, they take out loans with their "paper" wealth as collateral. The loans are not taxed (not income), and by defaulting on the loan, the transfer of collateral is not taxed, as it wasn't sold, it was repossessed.
I have said it before, if you are getting a paycheck you are getting screwed.
An analogy I saw once:
If you have an "Inclusive" petting zoo with wolves and lambs, soon you will have a petting zoo of only wolves.
Or to quote Heinlein: "We lived like that 'Happy Family' you sometimes see in traveling zoos: a lion caged with a lamb. It is a startling exhibit but the lamb has to be replaced frequently."