It really depends on the situation. If you are getting a company started, you will need to work long hours until it's stable. But after this, it shouldn't be your normal schedule.
"but what Trump is doing is something new and very dangerous."
The mainstream press was not just partisan, they colluded with Hillary Clinton to destroy all of her political enemies, which included Bernie Sanders and all of the Republicans. Sanders wasn't willing to do what it took to win, which meant going to social media and using the arrogance of the press against themselves.
Until the press decides not to act like spoiled children and actually start reporting non-partisan news, I'm all for the current behavior of our president.
I actually had hoped his win would get some of these news organizations to admit their faults (and maybe we could all take a step back and get some better candidates next election cycle). I was wrong. The lies and collusion is only getting worse.
"aggressive tech code reviews/debates/arguments/chat where young males love to beat their chest"
You mean passionate engineers and developers discussing ways of getting the job done most efficiently? It's a little crazy to ban this rather than encourage women to get into the discussion. If they aren't as passionate, then maybe they should be in a different career.
I find it funny that many were trying to say men and women were the same. Now it seems those same people are saying not only are men and women different..but the men are doing it the wrong way. I guess we are different after all.
Many people get into the tech industry because of the money..and end up leaving because they don't realize it's many times time consuming, humiliating, and mind-numbing labor. You really have to love it to stick with it. I've been in the industry for 20+ years and I almost never get bored.
"Some flexibility on hours/location when children come."
As long as men can also work remotely and have flexible hours. Nobody wants to live at work. You also have to realize that when you are in the office less, you will be passed up for promotions. This isn't sexism, it's just how things work, regardless of your race or gender.
Drug prices are high because of government regulation. It can take up to a billion dollars and decades to get FDA approval and drug companies only have a limited time to recoup their investment before their patent expires. So they are forced to charge high prices.
This also reduces competition and creates a monopoly in the market. If regulations were reduced, it would bring in more competition and force the prices down.
This could lead to CEOs that make decisions to make people happy and get elected, rather than for the good of the company. These are sometimes two different things.
It's a real problem. I have been buying and selling used products from Amazon to other marketplaces for the last 8 years. I used to get counterfeits once a month. Now, I get them 3 or 4 times a week.
Even when I bring it to Amazon's attention, I only get my money back half the time. When I tried to file a claim with my credit card company, my buying account was temporarily banned until I paid back the money (for counterfeit goods that I actually got inspected by the manufacturer and had the paperwork to prove it). The big problem is that Amazon will only give you your money back if you can prove it. It can sometimes take 5 months to get it actually inspected (if you are lucky) and by that time, you are well past the time to return it.
The worst part is that it nearly destroyed my business. I got two cease-and-desists in 8 months because I wasn't able to catch all of the counterfeits in time. Myself and my staff are well versed in catching these counterfeits, but it's still a very difficult task.
I had to hire an attorney, and I sent all of the sellers' info to the attorney of the manufacturer. I was lucky it ended here.
To this day, I still can't sign up with an Amazon seller account because 5 years ago, a single customer complained about an item I sold them. I returned their money promptly and even paid for a return shipping label. Amazon support didn't care. My account was closed, and I was out $500, because the buyer never sent it back to me. They no longer will even talk to me about it (all emails go into a black hole as if I never sent them) and I can't even manage another person/companies account without getting it permanently banned.
This is why it's so dangerous to allow a few companies to control so much of the Internet. They can potentially ban you from even making a living and there is really no appeals process. At the time, they had a few automated prompts that claim it's an 'appeals process', but I could tell it was just a bot.
I still don't understand how so many of these sellers can sell counterfeits, which is illegal in the US, and make multiple accounts, with almost no issues.
It has to be some sort of collusion with employees. It really doesn't make any other sense.
This is Nintendo's strategy: intentionally have a shortage of Switches, the desire grows exponential because there is something about wanting to have something exclusive. People get on waiting lists and buy other Nintendo products. They also end up getting the switch.
When the Wii first came out, they did this too. All of my coworkers all had to have one. I think they ended up getting an Xbox a few months after they got bored playing boxing and Zelda.
"Killing abortion providers or bombing a clinic explicitly in the name of some version of Christianity are examples of Christian terrorism"
I can think of this happening once or twice in the last 5 years. The volume of Muslim attacks is much higher. Both are wrong.
"You can't be a clinic that provides reproductive health services (even without abortions!) without getting threats, and you definitely can't provide abortions without getting death threats or even getting killed."
Abortion is legal in the United states and murders of clinic workers aren't really common. Try being a vocal Trump supporter in the US. You will get death threats too. However, people aren't actually carrying it out.
"bitter at life, esp. the military or women"
As I said, statistically, the United states has a large percentage of Christians (and people that are white), which means a large percentage of any murders are going to be white and Christian. However, they were not screaming "Jesus is great" during the murders nor trying to create a Christian state where anyone practicing another religion us murdered.
"I do not feel threatened by Sharia."
You don't feel threatened because you don't have to live under the rule of it. If we were under Sharia law, I don't think we would even be having this conversation. The people against it are trying to save everyone else from a terrible life.
"it wasn't Muslims forcing me to make that choice."
I think you need to learn more about Islam. Abortion is completely illegal in all Muslim countries and if you actually talk to someone that is not even that much of a fundamentalist, they are against abortion.
Regardless of the religion, I don't want to be ruled by a mythical person that lived 2000 years ago with little regard to science.
Islam is not a race. Also, an act of terror by someone that just happens to be Christian is completely different than an act by someone doing it in the name of a religion, like Islam.
"plain old racism"
It's not racist to recognize patterns. You can't even draw Muhammad without getting death threats or even killed. The same can't be said about Jesus. The majority of the major terror attacks in the last 10 years have been done in the name of Islam.
I also find it odd that the progressives in the US are all for women and gay rights. Yet, as soon as you have a Muslim majority, these are the first to go.
People like you are the reason it will just continue to happen. A barbaric religion and culture allowed to destroy our way of life because you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
I suspect something similar happened to the Roman empire.
"After months of media hype about what would happen if a xenophobic extremist like Wilders won the election, it’s not surprising that any other outcome was so quickly heralded as a victory"
"Xenophobic" implies that you hate someone or something irrationally. I think all of the violence we see in the name of Islam (and the majority of its leaders not denouncing it, especially in places like Israel) is a pretty rational and logical fear.
It's really not 'no fault of his'. There are ways to stop it from auto-starting. I even have an app that kills my torrent application if it doesn't detect my VPN.
I think the title should be reversed. Apple has always been for consumers with more money. It is only now making segmented phones that everyone can buy.
The only reason many people even have an iphone is because the true cost is hidden through the payment plans you make to your service provider.
I buy my phones out right and use a cheap Tmobile plan and iphones are double the price of the majority of Android phones out there.
Like I said, the downside is that most people are lazy and will just fill out the form and send it in because they don't want to deal with it or think about it. You can't get most people to do simple math.
I've had my business for a few years, but I did my 1040EZ by hand many times. It took at most, 3 hours. Most people have one job and you basically just copy all of the info you have from your W2 (which is provided by your employer).
"The government has all the information about me. Why do I have to gather it all up and tell them again?"
So does the government also have all of the info about the gas you write off or anything else specific about your life? If so, the surveillance state is getting pretty bad.
If not, then I will have to fill out the longer forms anyway.
If they don't and you just fill out a form and send it in, you are giving them more money than you should. The end result will be that poor and uneducated people will give more money to the government and the people that actually pay attention will be giving less.
I'm only looking out for the best interest of everyone. You seem to be fighting for the right to be lazy because you don't want to have to think about it, which never leads to anything good.
The government would actually love this. Most people are ignorant of tax laws and would just sign a piece of paper to get all of their taxes done. It would be an instant pay raise because most people would never even know if they could write something off. It would also allow them to easily remove the ability to write anything off, without too many people complaining.
What many people don't like to talk about is that yes, places like Sweden have much simpler tax code. But they also removed most ways to actually reduce your tax burden and grow your business (this applies to personal taxes too). You are also required to have a special black box on any credit card transactions, which sends everything straight to the government. This smacks of authoritarianism.
Simplicity might seem better, but it gives us less control over our own taxes.
It's also not really that difficult now. Everyone I know has been doing their own 1040-EZ form since they started to work. It's usually only one or two forms to fill out. If this is too complicated for our society, we truly have problems.
Most of the time, people that have more freedom are less happy. I remember stories I heard about people moving from Soviet Russia to the United States back in the early 80s. They were unhappy and stressed out because in the soviet union, they were assigned a job and the government took care of them. Here in the United States, you had to fend for yourself.
Freedom isn't always pleasant and happy, but it's better for the future of humanity. I've been all over the world and don't know anywhere that has as much freedom as the US.