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What? They are paid the standard minimum wage if they aren't tipped. It's actually the opposite of what you're saying. Their hourly pay from their employer DOES get adjusted when they are tipped below a rate which satisfies the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

How, exactly, does not tipping result in someone not being paid. A bit hyperbolic.

That is not true at all. Read the law. In a situation where a server's tips do not boost their hourly wage to the federal minimum wage, the employer is obligated to compensate them up to that level. So in a situation where, say, a server was never tipped, the employer would have to pay them $7.25 an hour just like any other food service worker who makes minimum wage.

No they aren't. Read the law. A server's hourly wages with tips will always be at least the federal minimum wage.

Servers are actually never paid that wage. If a server's tips do not elevate them above the standard minimum wage, the restaurant is required to compensate them at the standard minimum wage. This was at least the law when I worked in the service industry.

You can get sports covered if you sign up for Playstation Vue. I have been off cable for several years, but had always missed ESPN/FS. Playstaiton Vue has fixed that for me.

Is disagreeing with the style of someone's rhetoric really the same as an attack on the person? The parent comment is making the point that Stallman uses exclusionary tactics while speaking and that they are a turn off if you aren't already a convert. I think it's a cogent point and I think it applies in a more general sense to a lot of lazy techniques employed by those who seek to be divisive.

It's childish. I don't understand why people try to do this. The organization is called the Democratic party. It is not clever to change the name as some kind of shorthand for your own personal opinion.

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Threatening to kill/harm someone is already illegal if the person on the receiving end of the threat has fear for their safety resulting from the threat. If people are so afraid they should consider the already existing methods we have of deterring criminal behavior.

I see your point and I guess I hadn't thought of it like that. In my case, I pay for Spotify as a replacement for pirating. I probably buy more music now in a physical form now that cassettes and records have become available. I would point out that the reason I pay for Spotify is not due to the access to music (I could get most of it for free online), but for the convenience... I can't store all the music I want to hear on my phone and I don't want to run a Plex server or whatever 24/7 to deal with that problem (let alone buy a bunch of drives and fill them with music!). I also appreciate the curation they provide (the Discover Weekly is a regular source of artists I've never heard of before), so I think there are some intangible benefits to the artists from Spotify beyond the meager pay. I've definitely gone to shows based solely on having heard an artists on Spotify.

I'm not sure how sold I am on the idea that Spotify converts more people away from buying music "the old fashioned way" than it does convert former pirates into now (meager) paying customers, but I can definitely see it as a possibility. Unfortunately buying music sucks. Having to keep track of, discover, and store music (in any medium!) sucks. Especially if you aren't a collector of some kind. Spotify/Google Play/Apple music make that easier and that's why people are going to pay for it.

I don't see how your argument makes sense. Spotify is worse for artists than piracy? Could you elaborate?

This is great. I don't have anything insightful to say, but this makes me so happy.

Google can't put me in a box for the rest of my life. At least not yet.

In the year 2000 or so I got an old C64. That's what got me into computers. It was a lot of fun. I wish I still had it.

Hire him.

Ah yes, prognostication. Such a rare word that it's only uttered multiple times in one of the most popular Bill Murray movies made which is guaranteed to be on TV at least once a year. Seriously, that's not even nearly one of the best words.

I made a comment to this effect as a reply, but I don't understand why the government charges so much interest on these loans (and then only lets you deduct a small portion of it from your taxable income in some cases).

Let's assume you actually do end up bettering your life by taking out student loans and getting a degree. Although it seems almost memetic these days that you'll sink 100k into a school and wind up flipping burgers, in my situation it was actually the opposite. I was a cook for a catering business making very little money such that my federal tax burden was virtually nonexistent. After finishing school I make quite a bit more money, but I'm paying very high student loan payments (not complaining really, I was aware this would be the case) and the interest on my student loans is higher than on my mortgage! These are federal loans as well, not private.

By providing me a loan the government has essentially won! They've turned a tax burden into a source of revenue. My lifetime earning potential is much, much higher than when I did not have a degree and was working as a cook. Why are some of these interests rates as high as 6%? It seems insane!

I did not know this. I guess I will be doing the same or starting an IRA.

You can only deduct 2,500 dollars of student loan interest (Hilariously, even if you're married this doesn't go up. My spouse has no student loans, but I still can only deduct 2,500 filing jointly). When I went back to school to finish my degree I put my loans into deferment, so now I am paying a bunch of interest back.

Seems like a shitty situation. Before I got my degree I was making less than a third of what I make now, even though I worked more and got paid overtime. That was at a job I had worked at for five years and was likely maxed out of earning potential in that industry. I made little enough to have almost no federal tax burden. By providing loans the government has essentially turned a tax burden into a revenue generator. In just two years I am making this much more money, paying a bunch more in taxes, and my lifetime earning potential has increased significantly. But they still try to screw you from both ends, of course.

Kansas is rolling out a website now that shows salaries for different majors at different universities in state.

Usernames are still limited to 8 characters in HP-UX as far as I know.

Reminds me of when I was teaching and we were discussing test design. If 90% of your students fail your exam what have you learned?

I would argue that barring a conspiracy of some kind that the designer has made a mistake in either in the preparation of the exam or the preparation of the students. Others might argue that students may be lazy or aren't maximizing the use of their time. I hear similar arguments about users now that I'm in IT but I've always felt that it is the designer's problem if "no one can use it right."

Because things are made illegal, not the other way around.

Folders. Didn't Gmail kill folders?

You know I hear this all the time, even from my students who I never gave much homework to when I was teaching. I wonder how much of that "time until 1 am" is spent staring at a cell phone. I know a lot of time in class is.

Only my subculture has value and deserves to be preserved.

When I was studying to be an educator I was often branded a heretic for challenging the new modes of teaching as being hypocritical and potentially unfounded. I never became an educator after student teaching. This article really puts into words my issues with group learning, project based learning, and all the other buzzwords flying around schools of education. I remember being a student in school and relishing the moments where I could be by myself and focus on whatever needed doing. Now students are lucky to have a moment of peace as they're prodded into unnatural learning environments meant to mimic a "real world" that frankly doesn't exist.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro is basically the Android version of the new Apple device. I own one, albeit not for enterprise purposes, and it's not very well executed. I could never imagine using such a stripped down interface as my primary work device. People use Surfaces here all the time for whatever that's worth, it's a valid device choice option.

I work for a company that has the same thing. They have, basically, their own version of SQL. Clients can write scripts and import them. Lots of issues supporting it. I wonder how small the world is.