I am over 18 years of age or an AI of equivalent maturity as determined by Turing-Diaz Questionaire [sic] 7B
It's probably a lot worse if you don't disclose it on the application and they find out later.Yeah, I had a friend who got really drunk and decided to solve the world's problems by trying to burn down the courthouse and a church.
We haven't seen May and Momo interact since May's return to the strip. If May does end up going an activist route because of her treatment during her job hunt, the two of them could be natural allies and complement each other quite well; Momo seems well-versed in AI law and civil rights, with a natural tact that May lacks, while May is more assertive and may have a level of street smarts that Momo doesn't have. It could temper May's rough edges while giving Momo more confidence to assert herself. That, I think, is where things could get interesting.
On one hand, I'm not sure that Jeph's looking to take the strip in a direction that would be simultaneously that involved and a bit heavy; on the other, it'd lend some complexity to the plot, and add a bit of believeability given that even a town as chill as the fictional Northampton is likely to have some people who haven't yet gotten with the program, same as everywhere else.
Just a thought.
Dumping someone without assistance immediately after jailtime must come pretty close to being the least useful thing to do under any circumstances.Unless you're a member of the prison industry who wants to encourage recidivism.... At least May has a parole officer, which is more than those released after mandatory "no-parole" sentences do.
However, some employers may ask you this anyway. The employer may not know that this is an illegal question.
The strip is based in Massa......Massacult......Massachusetts, right? JJ might've wanted to do a little research first.... (http://www.legalmomentum.org/sites/default/files/reports/answeringcrquestions.pdf)
cesariojpn is right, though his link has nothing to do with the actual Massachusetts law. In 2010, Massachusetts legislated a "ban the box" provision that prohibits employers from asking about criminal history on an initial job application. They may legally ask for criminal history later in the application process and run background checks, but they may not do so on your standard first paper application.The strip is based in Massa......Massacult......Massachusetts, right? JJ might've wanted to do a little research first.... (http://www.legalmomentum.org/sites/default/files/reports/answeringcrquestions.pdf)
I'm not sure I see the issue, it's illegal to ask about arrests, but she's being asked about convictions. Unless I missed something.
I once asked a guy who had been convicted and was job hunting after he got out what happens when you check the yes box. Apparently they just ask you some questions during the interview about what you did as part of determining your character, if they bother to mention it at all, and a lot of employers apparently never even bring it up.
But many people think once an ex-con...doesn't help that so many ex-cons are repeat offenders. And few law-abiding people ever bother to wonder why.One of the reasons for recidivism is precisely that people won't employ ex-cons. It is a vicious spiral.
cesariojpn is right, though his link has nothing to do with the actual Massachusetts law. In 2010, Massachusetts legislated a "ban the box" provision that prohibits employers from asking about criminal history on an initial job application. They may legally ask for criminal history later in the application process and run background checks, but they may not do so on your standard first paper application.
http://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/massachusetts-becomes-second-state-ban-box-all-employment-applications
All of those applications May has picked up are definitely illegal.
[...] see those kids who were convicted at age 15 for having oral sex with a partner of the same age. In many places, that puts them on a list of sex offenders for life. Not allowed near a school, can't live within a mile of a bus stop, stuff like that.Uh-hu. Replace "In many places" with "In the USA" and even then I would assume bible belt.
[...] see those kids who were convicted at age 15 for having oral sex with a partner of the same age. In many places, that puts them on a list of sex offenders for life. Not allowed near a school, can't live within a mile of a bus stop, stuff like that.Uh-hu. Replace "In many places" with "In the USA" and even then I would assume bible belt.
AFAICS my country, Germany, doesn't have "sex offender" lists in the first place.
There is no Romeo and Juliet law as such, but the criminal code applies only to people over 15 years of age, which is also the age of consent, so there is no age where two kids would both be commiting a crime by having sex with each other.This seems contradictory, because it seems under this law a 15-year-old could get arrested for having sex with a 14-year-old? Unless you're saying a 15-year-old isn't a kid, which is a fairly absurd statement.
cesariojpn is right, though his link has nothing to do with the actual Massachusetts law. In 2010, Massachusetts legislated a "ban the box" provision that prohibits employers from asking about criminal history on an initial job application. They may legally ask for criminal history later in the application process and run background checks, but they may not do so on your standard first paper application.The strip is based in Massa......Massacult......Massachusetts, right? JJ might've wanted to do a little research first.... (http://www.legalmomentum.org/sites/default/files/reports/answeringcrquestions.pdf)
I'm not sure I see the issue, it's illegal to ask about arrests, but she's being asked about convictions. Unless I missed something.
http://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/massachusetts-becomes-second-state-ban-box-all-employment-applications
All of those applications May has picked up are definitely illegal.
I figured cash-heavy businesses would be less of a worry, since her theft was electronic-based.
In the UK, women (or more accurately, people with vaginas) cannot commit rape - the offence specifies that it involves penile penetration. The equivalent offence of non-consensual sex carries the same maximum penalties but not the same name.
We don't know what year it was when the comic started. It could all take place in the not too distant future.
I view QC time as paradoxical; the comic remains in the present (in an alternate universe, though), even while time passes at a different rate.Probably like in shows like Phineas and Ferb and Yotsubato where the days pass but they are eternally stuck in a summer day.
I view QC time as paradoxical; the comic remains in the present (in an alternate universe, though), even while time passes at a different rate.Probably like in shows like Phineas and Ferb and Yotsubato where the days pass but they are eternally stuck in a summer day.
Luckily this is the QCverse, where a convenience store job probably pays enough for your own apartment.
What I was hoping the poll would be about is what kind of job the 4th application was for.
Webcomic economics, of course. Where jobs like barista, office bitch, college library assistant and the like actually pay enough for a halfway-decent apartment in a decent neighborhood. Even then, for Faye and Marten to afford an actual 2-bedroom apartment required them to pool their incomes.Depends. With a gf, I was able to afford a rather large one bedroom flat in SF on barista wages. Even after she left, since I was rent-controlled, my boss paid me enough to cover rent, and I could live entirely off tips… And I mean shopping for real food instead of ramen, and being able to drink and smoke. 'Course that was before the price for everything there essentially doubled 'cos of the mini tech boom which has driven most people I know over to Oakland.
In real life they'd both still be at home with their parents or living in a neighborhood with a high crime rate.
So wait, if a Transwoman that hasn't undergone the operation rapes someone, are they tried under the sex they are officially registered as at the time of the crime, or does CPS have to chose? It's something that makes you think from a legal perspective.
Webcomic economics, of course. Where jobs like barista, office bitch, college library assistant and the like actually pay enough for a halfway-decent apartment in a decent neighborhood. Even then, for Faye and Marten to afford an actual 2-bedroom apartment required them to pool their incomes.Depends. With a gf, I was able to afford a rather large one bedroom flat in SF on barista wages. Even after she left, since I was rent-controlled, my boss paid me enough to cover rent, and I could live entirely off tips… And I mean shopping for real food instead of ramen, and being able to drink and smoke. 'Course that was before the price for everything there essentially doubled 'cos of the mini tech boom which has driven most people I know over to Oakland.
In real life they'd both still be at home with their parents or living in a neighborhood with a high crime rate.
Coffee seems to have about the same price there as here, ditto guitars. A good restaurant meal is forty dollars. AI automation wouldn't help with rent prices, which are set by physical scarcity of land near employment.But maybe the money value is not the same.
This is fascinating to think about.
Although in all seriousness, she just got out of jail for embezzling millions, what does she expect?She paid her debt to society and expects that to mean something.
Well she probably wanted to just be a fighter jet and be able to fly around all day without any of the responsibilities a fighter jet usually has.
Coffee seems to have about the same price there as here, ditto guitars. A good restaurant meal is forty dollars. AI automation wouldn't help with rent prices, which are set by physical scarcity of land near employment.But maybe the money value is not the same.
This is fascinating to think about.
I mean, like if everything is the same price but everyones salary is 10 times higher than if they had the same jobs in our world?
What was his job back them?Coffee seems to have about the same price there as here, ditto guitars. A good restaurant meal is forty dollars. AI automation wouldn't help with rent prices, which are set by physical scarcity of land near employment.But maybe the money value is not the same.
This is fascinating to think about.
I mean, like if everything is the same price but everyones salary is 10 times higher than if they had the same jobs in our world?
Economics could definitely work that way. On the other hand, near the start of the comic Marten said he was making barely USD20K/yr.
What was his job back them?Coffee seems to have about the same price there as here, ditto guitars. A good restaurant meal is forty dollars. AI automation wouldn't help with rent prices, which are set by physical scarcity of land near employment.But maybe the money value is not the same.
This is fascinating to think about.
I mean, like if everything is the same price but everyones salary is 10 times higher than if they had the same jobs in our world?
Economics could definitely work that way. On the other hand, near the start of the comic Marten said he was making barely USD20K/yr.
Yes, I also thought Emily looked a bit different. Something in the shape of her face, I think. I'm not sure I like it.
So Dale no longer works at the convenience store. When applying to Dora, he only mentioned wanting to quit the pizza job. That was also the one job we have seen him quit, and the only one we have seen him tell anyone that he has quit.
Just as people in the real world tend to look different when you haven't seen them in a while. Hmmm... I think we're on to something here.Yes, I also thought Emily looked a bit different. Something in the shape of her face, I think. I'm not sure I like it.
Everybody tends to come back looking different when they haven't been drawn in a while.
Although in all seriousness, she just got out of jail for embezzling millions, what does she expect?She paid her debt to society and expects that to mean something.
She didn't steal something for a shop, or even steal a car. She embezzled millions of dollars. You don't get to do that and just expect everything to be fine once you're out of jail.
She didn't steal something for a shop, or even steal a car. She embezzled millions of dollars. You don't get to do that and just expect everything to be fine once you're out of jail.
So how hard a life are the former Executives from Enron, MF Global, Tyco, or any one of hundreds on Wall Street having now?(click to show/hide)
So maybe he was doing A job that already was dominated by AIs? AIs would do 100 times more than him but he would still get the same salary as the AIs.What was his job back them?Coffee seems to have about the same price there as here, ditto guitars. A good restaurant meal is forty dollars. AI automation wouldn't help with rent prices, which are set by physical scarcity of land near employment.But maybe the money value is not the same.
This is fascinating to think about.
I mean, like if everything is the same price but everyones salary is 10 times higher than if they had the same jobs in our world?
Economics could definitely work that way. On the other hand, near the start of the comic Marten said he was making barely USD20K/yr.
Office drone.
20K USD/year [back then]
Who wants to bet that Emily will try to drink it anyway? :P
Her hair also appears to have grown back out a bit.
Does Emily look different now?I think it's the two bangs she has hanging above her eyes. Interesting how such a minor detail changes the overall aspect of a face.
It's the humidity.
It should have been.It's the humidity.It took me a moment to realise that this is not actually a response to the last panel of today's comic.
The hair (and the fact that Emily's the only one we've seen order smoothies at COD) suggests it's Emily.
mr popo blue.I was going to respond to this with "wait, what?" but then I googled it and...apparently they recolored him for a new series? Interesting.
So Dale no longer works at the convenience store. When applying to Dora, he only mentioned wanting to quit the pizza job. That was also the one job we have seen him quit, and the only one we have seen him tell anyone that he has quit.
There's a comedy gold mine in showing May trying to adjust her attitude to suit the job.
hobby builders.Especially them. This must be the golden age of robotics in the QCverse….
You won't see a LEGO AnthroPC in Jeph's comic for one very obvious reason.
Lincoln Logs? (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2587)
I still don't get why you'd do a Jameson type prosthetic when you can get the full package like the Major. Each to their own I suppose.Dirt poor or recently paroled prisonner?
You won't see a LEGO AnthroPC in Jeph's comic for one very obvious reason.
I still don't get why you'd do a Jameson type prosthetic when you can get the full package like the Major. Each to their own I suppose.From memory, I think he did it out of some strange fascination with the Jameson model, putting it bluntly. Being an eccentric billionaire pretty much lets you do what you want with your own body, even when it comes to prosthetics.
It is also worth noting that the glimpses we get of the major's childhood indicate that she has had a high quality or at least comparatively high quality you compared to a Jameson prosthetic, set up since her accident as a child.I don't really remember too much detail about the Major's past, besides the accident and
I would spoiler it but I'm on my phone.