Sure, but I also pay for content (the vast majority of bits streamed to my endpoint are Netflix, followed by game-related stuff), and surely blogs could still make money from non-tracking ads, right? It's only the likes of Facebook that would vanish, so nothing of value would be lost.
Timothy's fans don't like it when people point out that most of what he posts is clickbait.
"Liberals" could mean just about anyone, but the very vocal SJW crowd are famous for being humorless, prudish buzzkills. What used to be the case for the right wing religious whackos is now true of the left wing SJWs: they lay awake at night worrying that someone, somewhere might be having a good time. No more representative of the mainstream left than the televangelists were of the mainstream right, but boy are they vocal. Heck, some of them are probably the same people, just with a new excuse for moral scolding and finger wagging.
I didn't complain but I found some of the pictures it unearthed to be painful reminders, the early part of the year was lousy for me individually which evolved to be generally fantastic. Nevertheless, I think it's legit to complain and remind them that we upload pictures for a number of reasons, and the emotions attached to them change a lot over a year. Complaining in the form of feedback is perfectly acceptable. It's the incessant lawsuits and mass media editorials that wear on our nerves.
I think the reasonable solution is to make this an optional feature that they advertise for instead of just dump on your page. Even allow you to choose the photos to show and save for posterity.
APK's host files as interpreted by Bennett Haselton would have been a better bet.
The answer from the Facebook guy is pretty good:
"It's valuable feedback," Gheller said. "We can do better -- I'm very grateful he took the time in his grief to write the blog post."
It's like when the clerk at the convenience store looks at the nudie mags and large bag of cheetos that you are buying and tells you "have a nice evening" on your way out. You know there's more to it than a polite goodbye but you can't prove it.
I am looking at pictures of dead babies now.
this would make a nice t-shirt or bumper sticker.
Newer fridges are much more energy-efficient and cheaper compared to those old models. If you bought an expensive one marked as reliable instead of the cheapest one out there then it would last more than 5 years. The stuff that wasn't as over engineered from the past hasn't survived so we only see the stuff that was.
Sure, energy efficent is about all the newer models boil down to. As for "reliable" and "expensive" yeah...just keep telling yourself that. It's just like at one point there was one company in north america making all fridges, and dishwashers. There's around 5 now. Said "quality" is "buying brand name."
A swing and a miss.
Still you can't deny that lefties have all the sense of humour of an average lake trout. The best yuks anyone's ever gotten out of them have been at their expense, and so the circle is complete.
Oh I'm not a righty.
... either people that don't like slapstick comedy or people that don't like the political message of the movie.
Actually read the bad reviews. They're like reading bad Amazon reviews... "This 20 dollar jack is no where near as good as my 400 dollar jacket... 1 star!" Or "I can't recharge my computer with this USB cable... 1 star!"... They're fucking stupid.
They keep saying stuff like "the humor is crude"... really, you complete waste of human life? That is fucking shocking. It is a stupid screw ball comedy, fuckwit.
Anyway, you just need to filter the idiot reviewers from the ones that understand what genre they're reviewing. And my god there are a lot of fucking idiots working for the mainstream newspapers. I read these reviews and can see very clearly why these newspapers are having circulation issues. They are staffed almost entirely with morons.
Require that students work during their summer break and I'll compromise. As a further sign of my willingness to compromise... simply require that they do something constructive. Anything. Sitting on their asses eating potato chips is not acceptable. Change nothing and I'll assume a lot of students do not do anything productive during their summer break and maintain my position unchanged.
Deal?
I thought my point was self evident, but perhaps not.
[quote]As far as I know, or at least in my area, the contracts with the individual teachers are for the term of the school year. Roughly 9 months. 3 months not.
Unless you are suggesting a massive pay cut, the cure is simple. Extend the contract to year round, and make the pay reflect that period. This would not be unlike a regular 32 hour, or 40 hour contract with an employee. Where I worked we had a type of employee who was essentially full time part time. Every year, they signed a contract for a specific number of hours.[/quote]
Maintaining the same pay per hour is fine so long as the annual pay is comparable to what we pay similiarly skilled people in the labor force for the same number of hours.
You might get a pay cut in some cases because your pay effectively covers your summer break as if you were working in some cases. Where as other jobs have people working through that time.
I don't think it is unreasonable to have teachers paid the same amount as other people in the labor force that are are difficult to find and have the same amount of education.
If you do get a pay cut and don't like it, this means I can replace you without a lot of trouble. If you are not getting a pay cut then I don't see the problem.
I have no problem with extending the contracts. I do have a problem if the final annual number is non-competitive.
[quote]I doubt even in your anti-union fervor, you would support a 25 percent increase in working hours without a commensurate increase in pay, especially since many (most, all?) contracts are already written in that way.[/quote]
I wouldn't expect you to work for wages that were unreasonable. But are you claiming that all current contracts are reasonable? We've seen a massive increase in some teacher compensation packages over the last couple decades. I will not assume your current contract is competitive and just increase it sight unseen by 25 percent.
Rather, I agree you should be paid what you are worth per hour and I want those hours worked. That is the best you'll get out of me on that issue. Your wages must be subject to market conditions. Just like everyone else.
Tyrants of any stripe fear nothing so much as laughter.
That's why lefties have no sense of humour.
Vocational shops (metal, wood, electrical, auto, etc) were never available in the private schools (Choate, Andover, Exiter, Milton, Tabor, etc). Even back in the 1960's. The only shop class that Tabor Academy (the prep school that I went to) was repairing the sailboats that are used by the sailing team. Now, I have heard that was eliminated and they have a hired crew do it.
And how weird - to the way I think. It's the concept that certain types of knowledge somehow makes you inferior. And that somehow if say, you know how to repair an alternator on a car, it will be blocking more important knowledge?
Which brings me to a Simpson's reference
Homer: "And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?"
Marge: "That's because you were drunk!"
Homer (smiles) "And How!"
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
