That's only true during high school and college, strangely enough when the 6 digit salary starts rolling in your average geeks attractiveness coefficient increases by 2 orders of magnitude.....
Obviously I'm not suggesting correlation implies causation but never the less.
To be honest, I think at some point geeks are put in a situation where they want to become social around that salary level. They enter the work force with jobs that accept them for who they are and a sort of Peterson Principle thing happens when they get promoted to senior guy. Their incompetent at the interfacing and mentoring thing, except they actually want to do them since they actually respect the more technical project managers, and care about showing the young-ins the ropes, so they learn to be competent at them. As a side effect of this, and also being older and more confidant because they care less about being awkward. As a nice side effect of all this, the ladies that are initially attracted to geeks for their money find their personalities worth sticking around for.
We... already have a treatment for HIV after you get it. The cocktails are now such that HIV has very little effect on life expectancy.
Even if money were no object (with socialized medicine it still comes from somewhere), There is a big difference between "take this drug forever" and take it for a short period of time. If you have aids, you can't go living someplace where you can't get your medicine, so that makes climbing a mountain, or living in space or a submarine harder. Most people don't want to go to that extreme, but how about disappearing for a few days?
Hopefully, once these things hatch some teenagers will make it to the mountains and then save as all
John Conner and his wife were both adults in T3L Rise of the Machines.
I think it's called Comcast 4u or something like that. If there's a large que of calls you get the option to have the company call you back when it's your turn. I can't imagine why more companies don't do this.
This will give the companies incentives to do this.A really smart company would let you request a call from their website though.
Robots still require more than a few relatively high-skilled jobs, even if they don't require the hundreds of drones normal manufacturing requires.
Also, if these plants already closed and laid off all their workers, they will only hire back those that they actually need. No unnecessary excess personnel due union politics.
So this could be a good thing, freeing up more people for more interesting and varied jobs.
Not everyone wants a more interesting/varied job. I know a retired cop whose two favorite details were to work on the barrier truck (a flatbed full of horse saws that said "police line do not cross") and janitorial duty at the precinct. People have different levels of desire for stability and variety. Some people want to work the same assembly line for 20 years.
You know what makes me laugh? People who spout the benefits of open source, but then laugh when people try to improve a closed system by making parts of it open source.
Purists make the worst evangelists.
Awesome, open source code that requires you to use a closed source system to run it. That always makes me laugh.
Are you running on pure open hardware? is all the microcode on all your firmware devices open source?
You have a piece of software that can be integrated in a
Should it ever go to court, it would be unlikely to hold up, but I doub't an outfit like Yelp would resist a formal letter with some attached photocopies of some signed legal-sounding agreements. They'd probably yank the criticism from the site and then offer to sell some ads to the doctor in the same conversation. Don't forget, Yelp isn't selling anything to the users. Yelp's customer is the doctor.
You are absolutely right, but the customers are the vendors that supply the content, and the eyeballs that view the ads. They cannot completely alienate their users, especially with so much competition out there.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
