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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

TheAtheistReverend said:
Oh yes.

BUT, the unions have changed. And many have popped up that I swear are fronts for the big companies. They don't do diddly but help the workers get screwed.

Yet, I may not have earned the pay increases i did if we didn't scare our employer with the threat of unionization.

It's all a big mess in my eyes.
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Guess I've never seen that side of unions, although I know it exists. I'm lucky to be a member of a highly skilled, hard working bunch of folks who take a lot of pride in the fact that they are absolutely the BEST at what they do where I am from.
 
You have another problem with unions - a lot of employers are now hiring 2 part time workers or seasonal workers rather than 1 full time.
Since part time doesn't get much, they probably couldn't or wouldn't pay dues.

CO just added a mess of new jobs, almost all are part time.
 
I've seen many companies hire people part-time to avoid paying out benefits... even government entities who would fire and rehire a person every December just to avoid them getting benefits or the alliance of seniority on paper. That's the behavior that I find disgusting.

The unions of today are largely political machines who don't care about the welfare of anyone but the bosses... they will push their agenda at the expense of the company, even if it will ultimately result in loss of revenue and therefore jobs.


Oh, and huh-- if I saw such green eyes in person, I'd be tempted to follow you around, too. ;)
 
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Dngrsone said:
I've seen many companies hire people part-time to avoid paying out benefits... even government entities who would fire and rehire a person every December just to avoid them getting benefits or the alliance of seniority on paper. That's the behavior that I find disgusting.

The unions of today are largely political machines who don't care about the welfare of anyone but the bosses... they will push their agenda at the expense of the company, even if it will ultimately result in loss of revenue and therefore jobs.


Oh, and huh-- if I saw such green eyes in person, I'd be tempted to follow you around, too. ;)
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Seriously? That's dumb.
 
Dngrsone said:
I've seen many companies hire people part-time to avoid paying out benefits... even government entities who would fire and rehire a person every December just to avoid them getting benefits or the alliance of seniority on paper. That's the behavior that I find disgusting.

The unions of today are largely political machines who don't care about the welfare of anyone but the bosses... they will push their agenda at the expense of the company, even if it will ultimately result in loss of revenue and therefore jobs.


Oh, and huh-- if I saw such green eyes in person, I'd be tempted to follow you around, too. ;)
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When you mix unions and public jobs, things generally go bad because of agendas of said leaders... Schools, state employees and the like shouldn't and don't need union representation. There are many other sectors that still benefit greatly from organized Labor. I don't want to turn this into an argument for or against... We can believe different things. Just don't forget where your decent work week, health insurance and wages come from when you talk badly about unions ;)

The one percent would take it all back today for a little bigger profit margin.
 
Dngrsone said:
I've seen many companies hire people part-time to avoid paying out benefits... even government entities who would fire and rehire a person every December just to avoid them getting benefits or the alliance of seniority on paper. That's the behavior that I find disgusting.
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Or layoffs if you want to put it as another term. Companies that practice such "policies" such as this only think it's all one big game to them. I mean, we're talking about people's way of living here.

And sadly, they are often the ones holding all of the cards.
 
Dngrsone said:
I knew a person who liked ME.
...he was an ass.

The problems I have with Vista are same as the ones I have for Win 7 and 8-- Microsoft hiding all the power user tools behind ever-increasing walls of obfuscation.
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That is annoying. Apple does it, too, which is why I prefer Android to iOS.
 
Sadly, the concept of corporate loyalty (in both directions) is decades gone...

I understand and appreciate the things that the early unions accomplished for worker's rights and safety, but those organizations were long ago overcome by corruption.

Much as I don't like the unions of today, I do not advocate eliminating them wholesale... that would be like eliminating all mosquitoes-- they seem like an annoyance to most people, but their existence supports entire ecosystems.

Today's unions, pestilential though they may be, are still necessary to maintain the high standards of employment we enjoy today. Many people need the support provided by the unions, the threat of unions encourage cooperation between the corporations and their employees.
 
Seanette said:
That is annoying. Apple does it, too, which is why I prefer Android to iOS.
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Ticking up on the "Grinds my gears" is Android OS.

Not much better out there, nothing as far as I'm concerned. But with locked bootloaders getting harder to crack and becoming more prevalent, I fear we are witnessing the beginnings of the same fate.

It's for our own good, they'll say.
 
TheAtheistReverend said:
Ticking up on the "Grinds my gears" is Android OS.

Not much better out there, nothing as far as I'm concerned. But with locked bootloaders getting harder to crack and becoming more prevalent, I fear we are witnessing the beginnings of the same fate.

It's for our own good, they'll say.
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I'm not all that worried about that. Figuring out jailbreaking iDevices didn't take that long, I really doubt the Android community will find it any more of a challenge.
 
Seanette said:
I must be confused (not unusual for me :) ), since I'm not clear on the difference. Can some kind person explain, please?
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I wish I could do that.

My understanding is that jailbreaking allows you to install unapproved apps, maybe change other aspects of the "launcher", but it would take "unlocking the bootloader" to properly change how the os communicates with the hardware (overclock, gpu settings, and many tweaks). I've never seen the equivalent of bootloader unlocking with iOS.
Hopefully someone can chime in and shed some real light on the subject.
 
TheAtheistReverend said:
Ticking up on the "Grinds my gears" is Android OS.

Not much better out there, nothing as far as I'm concerned. But with locked bootloaders getting harder to crack and becoming more prevalent, I fear we are witnessing the beginnings of the same fate.

It's for our own good, they'll say.
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I used to root to load custom firmware to fix the problems I had with my phones. As android and it's hardware gets better and better, those problems begin to disappear. I know there are still a ton of folks who want CMxx or whatever ROM is fitting, but for me it's nowhere near as important as it was a couple years ago.

I do agree with the idea that because open source, we should be able to run whatever we want on our hardware though.
 
Seanette said:
I must be confused (not unusual for me :) ), since I'm not clear on the difference. Can some kind person explain, please?
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In both cases you gain more control over your device.

With iOS, the point is to break free of iTunes DRM so you can install apps not approved by Apple and not in their app store. You leave the approved ecosystem.

You don't need to root an Android for that.

Check one box in your settings to install unknown apps. You don't leave the ecosystem, you don't leave the Play Store, you simply get to access more apps in addition to the Play Store offerings.

Android is an embedded real-time Linux, a desktop operating system. Gaining root access is the same exact thing as gaining admin access on your pc.

When you root, you can modify areas that are locked away. You can turn on and control the Linux firewall, free. You can modify your button behavior (depending on the model). You can extend the ability to change the color theme of your device. And more.

You often - not always - need to be able to unlock your bootloader to root. HTC provides a simple facility for it, unless by contract Verizon or AT&T removes your access to that. I believe that the same is true for Motorola. The Google Nexus line requires installing some software on your pc, plugging in your phone, and issuing one command. Many of the Samsungs are rooter friendly.

The rest entail using exploits found by others. Some are easy, some are not.

Rooting and jailbreaking are similar in that you get more access, but they're not the same.

We're not in jail, we don't need to break out.
 
Seanette said:
I must be confused (not unusual for me :) ), since I'm not clear on the difference. Can some kind person explain, please?
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Rooting/jail breaking, once completed, allows you to have administrative privileges on your phone. This allows you to edit all of your file system instead of only your internal SD. By giving apps root, you allow them to do the same.

The bootloader is what tells your device how to start up. If the bootloader is unlocked, it will attempt to boot anything on the device whether it's good or not. If it's locked, it runs signature checks to see if the software on the device is authentic software from the manufacturer or if it has been changed to customized software. If not authentic, it will refuse to boot. Also if locked with stronger security, it can even prevent you all together from flashing the customized software.
 
I wouldnt blame android os for locked bootloaders so much as the north american (maybe only US(?)) carriers. Ive NEVER had a locked bootloader and ive never read anyone outside N America having one. I never even knew what a bootloader was until using international forums lol
 
funkylogik said:
I wouldnt blame android os for locked bootloaders so much as the north american (maybe only US(?)) carriers. Ive NEVER had a locked bootloader and ive never read anyone outside N America having one. I never even knew what a bootloader was until using international forums lol
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Many manufacturers lock the bootloader on every device they sell, though most tend to be much more relaxed regarding unlocking outside of the US. They provide you with dev tools to unlock if you so desired. However since many US carriers despise this, they make the manufacturer disallow the unlocking of it because they have way too much power.
 
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