Restricting your own wage increase in the hope that companies won’t add to inflation is very much like trying to be extra nice to an abusing partner in the hope that they won’t hit you.
I know that you later wrote that you’re in favor of a law restricting their ability to increase prices so please take this as an aside.
Or if you have kids they can’t lose their keys if they just have a pin. And that pin can be changed if they tell it to someone.
I wish that he would try his hand on a lock from Yale. Considering that they are part of Assa Abloy who are very well respected in the lock business. My suspicion is that a company who are mainly makers of mechanical locks at least won’t fall prey for the many of the beginners mistakes lockpicking lawyer points out.
Fighting for seniority can have its downsides but without rules against it what tends to happen is companies firing skilled and experienced workers as a way to wage dump. Since so many in upper management only see wages as an expense without any meaning besides “low good, high bad” they’ll gladly lose out on productivity by firing people who actually know their stuff.
Annoying yes but at least these days there’s one check box in the settings that turns off the connection between likes in YouTube and YouTube music.
Tomorrow is a better day to die
I’m guessing that we are around 1% of the general population 😉
Not enough for a big company to build a community on though. Of course, it would have helped if Google hadn’t restricted sign-up. Just because it worked for Gmail, but a social network is a different beast than email, that already had a critical mass of users.
Many sub contractors live on the mercy of the companies they supply. That forces them to show more goodwill than they want.
I remember a couple years back when Ericsson unilaterally decided that they would stop paying their bills after a month and instead changed it to three months. So, do you want to piss off the biggest company in the region or do you just say “Thank you, sir”?
As an aside, what kind of amoral sod goes around teaching companies what bills they can ignore and how morally bankrupt must you be to listen to them?
Freespace 2 with a force feedback joystick. When you got a bit too close to a capital ship’s beam weapon and the whole joystick started to shake. One of my most immersive experiences in a game.
Agreed. It’s actually a simple choice for them. Either explain every single item on the list, or advertise the real price of their service in all commercials and so on.
I’m guessing that they want to eat their cake and save it. Or maybe more accurately: keep their cake and eat yours…
If most drivers are rolling through stop signs and you’re the only one stopping completely, while you might technically be in the right, your behaviour could lead to accidents due to the unpredictability.
Simply no. If you as a driver aren’t prepared that the car in front of you might actually stop when there’s a sign that says stop, and if you aren’t keeping enough of a distance to be able to break, then it isn’t the car in front that is the problem, or who is the one causing the accident, it’s you and only you.
The same applies to speeding. Driving significantly slower than the flow of traffic might slow down the traffic flow, leading to unsafe overtakings and such.
Again no. If they are driving at the speed of the signage, keeping the speed and driving predictable, then the ones driving “significantly” faster are the ones decreasing road safety. No-one is forcing them to perform “unsafe overtakings and such”. Also, just because you, from your vantage point, can’t see a reason for the car in front of you driving slowly doesn’t mean that there isn’t one.
While a dose of humility is good, a dose of personal responsibility is also great
I still miss Google+, my friends and my sharing is based on the subject not my relation to my friends.
To “hack it” also means to be able to handle something. That there were multiple meanings for the word was never in question and I really do agree with you that language evolve over time and you simply need to learn to live with that.
But also, if you go back and look at my response to op I also wrote that I found it unsuitable to use it in this case exactly due to the risk of being misunderstood.
Earliest I’ve heard was from MIT and the pranks they do. I think that was from the fifties.
Yes, Ikea hacks are much later. Me and my wife were doing it/calling it that around 2005 when we modded a desk. It was intended to be an example of the dual usage of the word hack.
You probably already know but hacking originally meant to modify a machine for instance (or furniture as in ikea hacks) but it really is a word one should avoid when speaking with people who aren’t part of the communities that use it in its original meaning.
I agree with you. So many times in the last decades democratic presidents have started their period with the economy in a downswing after the last republican president. They get the economy in order just in time for the next republican president to step in, take the credit and mess things up again.
The stupidity of that really baffles me. How can you be so low on empathy and understanding that you don’t get that this would be the reaction?
I mean, I understand, even if I don’t like, the drive some people have to greedily gobble up every dime they can get their grubby hands on. But I can’t understand how they could have thought that the people adversely affected by it would applaud it. It’s not like I expect cows to give me a high five when I eat a burger…
An infuriating part of it is that IMF, money lovers that they are, published research on this at least ten years ago.
But you can teach someone something that their job depends on them not knowing.
Ah but when the prices can’t go any higher they can always remove content, paying their suppliers less and getting cheaper hardware. I wish I was joking but these are the options that are left.