Comment Just a ploy to justify hiring overseas workers (Score 1) 66
They've received their US taxpayer subsidy, so now it's just a ploy to bring over their overseas workers and leave out as many American workers as possible.
They've received their US taxpayer subsidy, so now it's just a ploy to bring over their overseas workers and leave out as many American workers as possible.
Admittedly, I haven't looked into this specific case, but nowadays you don't actually buy anything anymore, you just license it. Digital 'purchases' aren't a purchase of a product, they are a purchase of a license to use a specified item as per the terms of the license provider. More often than not, these terms are subject to change at any time without recourse of any kind.
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I really, really hate when the ultra wealthy use that excuse and think that it's actually a good argument to appease the lower classes. It's the same as letting the fox make all the laws that govern the hen house; "Hey, killing all of the chickens is legal, don't blame me."
Unfortunately, most people don't have the privilege of buying laws that benefit them like the ultra wealthy do.
Not at all true actually. Cable uses RF just like Airwaves use RF; there is just as much bandwidth over the air as there is over cable, it's just with over the air you are limited by the FCC to the frequencies you are allowed to use. With cable you are allowed to use much more of the spectrum with the understanding that it is not allowed to leak from the system. The FCC routinely flies over areas to measure cable leakage and the cable provider is required to correct any issues found. If you are receiving on your end at the perfect 0 dBmV, you will have the same bandwidth available regardless of OTA Vs. over coaxial cable.
A 6Mhz 'channel' using 256 QAM is able to transfer almost 43Mbps. Now divide up, say, 50Mhz to 800Mhz into 6Mhz channels and that is a whole lot you can transmit, regardless if it is over the air or over a cable, it's all RF. You can also bond multiple channels with the newer DOCSIS specs to allow for much more bandwidth at the cable modem. Admittedly, I got out of the industry just as DOCSIS 2.0 was rolling out, so most of my experience is on single channel DOCSIS 1.0 systems and even older QPSK modems.
A federal government mandated deposit on aluminum cans would probably go a long way towards increasing the recycling rate. I would almost guarantee that a
There is absolutely no reason for general consumers to have soda in plastic bottles, nor is there any reason for plastic straws; use paper straws or learn to drink from the edge of a cup.
This whole thing is also massively exacerbated by the bottled water marketing industry. Tap water in most countries has a standard that the municipal water supply must meet. Most bottled water is nothing more than the municipal tap water run through a large, industrial sized 'Britta'. A friend of mine has an RO unit installed that is connected to a small spigot on the sink as well as his refrigerator ice and water dispensers; his four kids won't even think about drinking it, they MUST have bottled water.
In my company, IT workers have been remote since the middle of the pandemic and have yet to be called back into the office. In fact, the remote work initiative has been so successful that they do not plan on ever having us return to the office.
The only downside I see is that the experiment actually worked too well and they are rapidly outsourcing everything to India. The first to go was our in-house team of around 30 Help Desk employees that supported our employees at our 800 or so remote office locations. After that, our in-house development team went away; the next on the chopping block to India was our in-house database admin team. All that remains now is the main infrastructure team, but thanks to a huge, currently in progress transition into The Cloud, I'm sure we're next.
Though I've been with this company for over 8 years, and as such get paid way, way, way below industry standard salary for my position; my own fault for being lazy and not job hopping, I cannot survive, let alone compete in my country for pay that qualifies as middle class in a 'developing' nation.
First they came for the Help Desk, but I said nothing as I was not a Help Desk employee; then they came for the developers, but again I said nothing as I was not a developer.....
Is there any reason why we can't just ban single use plastics for things like bottled water, sodas, etc?
'Boomer' here, but in my day beverages were in glass bottles with a deposit or aluminum cans. I understand the expense in transporting heavy bottles back and forth, as well as cleaning and sanitizing them, but why not aluminum cans?
I'm by no means up to date on the aluminum recycling process, but from what I understand it is far cheaper to recycle aluminum than to manufacture new aluminum. What is the real sticking point in going all aluminum for beverages currently in plastic bottles and also putting a deposit on them to encourage their return? I know this doesn't solve the problem with all other plastics, but wouldn't this simple measure at least control what may be one of the largest sources we have of plastic waste?
Again, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this just seems like a very simple solution to at least one plastic waste source.
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