Comment Hol up (Score 1) 265
So what youâ(TM)re telling me is that employees might have different political interests than their senior executives?
Wow we ought to write that down or something.
Comment Re: Not only women have those experiences... (Score -1, Troll) 242
Yeah, youâ(TM)re right, the sensible first response to âoehey, sexism is kinda prevalent and also badâ is âoeI bet those females are lyingâ.
Well done. Good job.
Comment Re: Pass.. (Score 1) 118
Lemme guess...you have never seen a comic book.
Comment Re:What about agriculture subsidies? (Score 0) 481
California receives $0.99 in federal expenditures per dollar of taxes paid, which is below the national average return for states of $1.22 per dollar paid
It's a "donor" state, but not by much.
Comment Re:I don't think it matters what you sign (Score 0) 171
And where did the "government agency" get the money from?
That's right, the taxpayers.
Generally, no. The business is fined a multiple of the wages illegally not paid, and the employee is paid from those.
So, the employee is paid by the employer, and the rest of the fine goes towards funding the government agency.
Comment Re:I'd move to Toronto in a heartbeat. (Score 0) 161
How exactly does one "plan on going" private in Ontario with health care when providing private health care is essentially illegal?
Private dental, mental, and prescription coverage, but you can go private for many doctors, too.
I use EQ virtual, but there are other apps that can basically do the same thing. It's illegal to see Ontario doctors for a fee, but it's perfectly fine to see doctors from any other province, and for $50 I can be seen in an hour or two. I also see clinics when I travel to the US - it's cheaper to pay the doctors to prescribe me medication there and fill it there than it is to fill it here. Plus, the clinics are willing to actually prescribe things like migraine medication and ADHD medication without simply telling me that I'll have to see a specialist, where I have to wait 3 months just to get an appointment.
Comment Re: iPad 2 (Score 2) 139
Iâ(TM)d love for you to make that argument for Windows Mobile. Thatâ(TM)d be pretty funny.
Comment In the same boat. Take ownership of the accounts. (Score 1) 565
Comment Re:Henry is right (Score 0) 79
Reimplementation also gives people the option to choose their own license. As developers, it's all too easy to succumb to "not invented here" syndrome, but there are sometimes very legitimate reasons to re-write things, even if they do exactly the same thing as existing solutions.
Comment Re:They're caring and feeling, more than *thinking (Score 1) 263
You say "caring", I say "having integrity". But hey, you've got the only correct value system, right?
Comment Re:fascinatingly crafted reply... (Score 1) 302
Uh. You don't know how to spell "weird". I don't think we should take you very seriously.
Comment Sad no one mentioned the French TGV (Score 2) 189
- Is holding the world record of 574,8 km/h on conventioanl rail since 2007.
- Is linking all major cities in France and some abroad (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, UK).
- Has commercial speeds of 280km/h for the oldest ones, to 320km/h for the current generation.
- Costs a fraction of the price of the maglev.
But, YMMV. And by all means go Japan !
Comment Let's allkeep in mind the penultimate release name (Score 2) 110
To which Ubuntu forum users massively agreed that this would make a great release name !
Comment The Curse of Geolocation Strikes Again! (Score 1) 5
Crazy, isn't it?
Evidently, there is some unwritten law that states that Geolocation by IP address shall override any and all set preferences by the user on their device, and ignore any possibility that barring or redirecting the user makes no sense.
I get a version of this periodically on Spotify, where I'm informed that the particular album or single I'm looking at can't be played because it isn't licensed to my region. And of course there's the small matter of my being IP-blocked from Pandora Radio for the same reason.
I ran into a particularly nasty geolocation issue back in late 2012, when I was informed that I couldn't access my National Lottery account because they no longer believed that I was accessing it from the UK. Went back and forth between them and my ISP (VirginMedia), with each blaming the other for the problem.
I've also heard of situations where people have found the books on their Kindles vanishing because they're holidaying in an area where said books aren't licensed.