Current or modern politics in the United States

[Dr Pepper]

Originally Posted by leinad27

The way I see it. Rome had their Nero I guess we were due.

Can Trump play the fiddle.....?

[bowlinggreen]

Originally Posted by diamelsx

I wonder if that love would stand if you had to be there for say 36 - 48 hours or even longer. I would not even be surprised if it was the workers on the sly that were trying to fight for this to happen. if I want to work like that I go offshore in work on a rig they have computer jobs that pay real world out there too.

would I trade the free food not to have to be on campus working for a week straight yes without blinking. situations like that makes you think of the gingerbread house in Hansel and Gretel.

I think you are looking at this the wrong way.

Software companies set project deadlines, and as the deadline approaches it is common for the dev team to put in some VERY long hours as crunch time approaches. This is part of the work ethos, especially for game developers:

https://kotaku.com/crunch-time-why-g...urs-1704744577

It's either get it done, or slide into obscurity and possibly get downsized for repeated nonperformance, if you "slack". If you are developing a major game, and it has to be ready by Christmas shopping season, you just have to get it done, if you want to meet the sales projections that make it a viable proposition. If you don't some other company will happily fill the slots with more of their games where your title was going to go.

If there is no free food, you will be eating out of vending machines, or maybe having the time to gobble some crappy delivered food. Which option is healthier for the employee?

The same goes for on-campus sleeping cubicles. If you are working 16 hour days, are you going to drive for maybe an hour back to your condo, sleep for 4-5 hours, and then drive back in a half-coma? Or maybe grab 6-7 hours in a comfy cubicle which is just down the hall a ways? Again, which is healthier? If you are running this work cycle for weeks, it's a no-brainer.

You can argue that the whole work ethic is screwed, but it's the market that drives it. Anyone with a programming degree who really needs stable 8 hour shifts can always get a job at a nearby McDonalds - for like 1/10 the pay.

It is what it is.

And it's a young person's game. I doubt there are many 50 year olds working for those companies and putting in those kinds of hours.

[edgarcasey]

That the U.S. is frightened today by the presence of an additional 2,000 or so children and parents from Central America is laughable and appalling.

- Ex-Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzmann explaining why she stepped down from the Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Council.

[edgarcasey]

If the NRA goes bankrupt because of the state of New York, they'll be in my thoughts and prayers.

- Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, reacting to a National Rifle Association claim that it has lost millions since the state urged businesses to cut ties with it.

[Rogerbh]

I doubt the taxpayers of New York will be happy when the lawsuit is over.

[diamelsx]

Originally Posted by bowlinggreen

I think you are looking at this the wrong way.

Software companies set project deadlines, and as the deadline approaches it is common for the dev team to put in some VERY long hours as crunch time approaches. This is part of the work ethos, especially for game developers:

I totally understand the nature of that endeavor.

Originally Posted by bowlinggreen

If there is no free food, you will be eating out of vending machines, or maybe having the time to gobble some crappy delivered food. Which option is healthier for the employee?

The same goes for on-campus sleeping cubicles. If you are working 16 hour days, are you going to drive for maybe an hour back to your condo, sleep for 4-5 hours, and then drive back in a half-coma? Or maybe grab 6-7 hours in a comfy cubicle which is just down the hall a ways? Again, which is healthier? If you are running this work cycle for weeks, it's a no-brainer.

question do you really want to have to do everything in front of your employer sleep eat shower for a week or so at a time especially within the tech industry who loves to take all the information that they can about your habits this that and the other hey I can I have a friend drop a meal off or even drive me home and if not that Uber and Lyft can easily put on my phone if some of this stuff on these projects can be done remotely I still see a possible gingerbread house in this situation

[diamelsx]

Originally Posted by edgarcasey

If the NRA goes bankrupt because of the state of New York, they'll be in my thoughts and prayers.

- Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, reacting to a National Rifle Association claim that it has lost millions since the state urged businesses to cut ties with it.

Originally Posted by Rogerbh

I doubt the taxpayers of New York will be happy when the lawsuit is over.

took the NRA can get away with this then Colin Kaepernick should have a hell of a lawsuit against Donald Trump.

[Rogerbh]

Have you actually read the lawsuit? NY didn't urge businesses to cut ties, they threatened - kinda like charging a poll tax on only Democrats. Financial pressure on exercising a right?

Trump doesn't have direct pressure in the kneeling crap protests. The comparison is apples and oranges.

[diamelsx]

Originally Posted by Rogerbh

Have you actually read the lawsuit? NY didn't urge businesses to cut ties, they threatened - kinda like charging a poll tax on only Democrats. Financial pressure on exercising a right?

Trump doesn't have direct pressure in the kneeling crap protests. The comparison is apples and oranges.

maybe I'm reading this wrong, but how does New York not have the right to regulate the carry guard product being that it has regulatory Authority over Insurance like all states do? the insurance probably overstepped his bounds when it promised to cover the legal fees in criminal cases incurred by using a gun the state believes that the insurance is insuring against criminal Acts Which is probably illegal in and of itself.

[Rogerbh]

It is not specifically over the carry guard insurance - but just access to banking services.

"At issue is whether New York regulators violated the constitutional rights of the N.R.A. by preventing financial institutions and insurers in the state from doing business with the organization." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/n...l-lawsuit.html

What is funny to me, is that although some people have complained that gun owners should have insurance to own their firearms, New York State is fining insurance companies for providing such insurance. A catch 22 situation.

So fuck New York State.