Dosage is a smoke screen. The therapeutic index is high enough that a wild guess results in safe and effective treatment. That is actually true of a lot of drugs. There are only a few (like Warfarin) where exact dosing is critical.
Actually, there aren't many good treatments for pain that don't carry some serious risks. Would you prefer they use opiates? Or they can risk liver failure with long term high dose analgesics.
I have no doubt some people are using thin excuses. It's only natural since otherwise they face outrageously long jail sentences. I also have no doubt a lot of people exaggerate a bit when they take tax deductions too.
Some get arrested by stop and frisk. In many other cases, it's the consolation prize when cops search a home for more serious offenses and come up empty. In still more cases, it in connection with a moving violation or a busted tail light.
Where I live, I have seen police helicopters flying around with a spotlight looking for plants growing in fields or people's back yards. Those things are quite expensive to fly.
Enjoy your cool aid slaveboy. Do try this tonight when you're working late again, look around and ask yourself who's there to notice. Especially look around and see how many people who already got ahead of where you are are still there with you.
Now consider all the productivity studies that demonstrate diminishing returns after 6 hours in a day.
this is what starting a successful career in a competitive field has always been like.
Incorrect. If it's not too late, spit that cool aid out now. You are talking of the "new reality". This is actually a good illustration. If you were old enough to be discriminated against, you might actually remember a time when people were expected to be productive while at work and then go home at 5 P.M. unless there was a truly exceptional circumstance (not the emergency excuse of the week). For those few jobs where crunch times were intrinsic, the employees were likely to be free to leave early or take a day off between the crunch times.
If management is competent and the compensation is adequate, crunch times will be few and far between.
If you find yourself stranded on a desert island with an iPhone and no bars, you're screwed. If you have the superior Samsung phone, just activate the signal flare feature when a plane goes by.
The sad part is that lmr is an option and is far less touchy. Enough so that they don't need continuous management. They don't use it because it is a little more bulky and then you couldn't use your phone as a chefs knife.
So what's the need for age discrimination? Let the company make the offer it intended to make and leave it up to the applicant to accept or not.
Of course, the real answer is that they don't want to hire the senior guy even if he finds the offer acceptable because they intend to boil the frog. They intend to have routine "emergencies" and a never ending "need" to all pull together for the team to meet a tight deadline (which will be promptly replaced with a new tight deadline). Effectively they want to silently alter the deal after the fact by demanding a job and a half or two jobs worth of work for one job's pay.
They fear that the older worker will have seen it all before and insist on the deal that was freely offered and accepted.
So if you're in your 20s and considering an employer, look around. If you see signs of age discrimination, you can expect to be scammed once you've settled in. Mentally divide that pay they're offering by 1.5-2 to see what they're really offering you for the standard salaried position then kiss that work-life balance goodby.
If a 40 year old french chef actually wants the job even at an hourly rate that McDs is willing to pay, why not? It's not as if the employee gets to decide the pay after being hired.
Here's a hint. HUMANS wrote the software. However, unlike the flawed humans making the decision openly where they might be vaguely accountable and where some may be willing to do the right thing, the bad human thinking that writes the software gets to hide behind the machine and never even has to see the consequences of it's flaws.
Actually, this is a great time to vote independent. I'm noty saying an independent is at all likely to win, but with the total screw up on both sides this time around, a strong showing of independents might wake them up enough to at least try next time.
Let's not forget how we got here. Once upon a time, phones didn't encrypt and nobody cared. Then we got secret courts with no working knowledge of the word no, an NSA that decided to ignore the bit about only spying on foreigners, an FBI that decided to get into the spy business, LEOs all the way down to the local yokels thinking it's OK to go fishing and read everyone's papers and effects based on less than probable cause as long as it's electronic, and judges bending over backwards to avoid addressing 4th and 5th amendment issues with all of the above.
Now nobody trusts any of them (and with ample good reason) and wants strong encryption on their phones. Address all of the above and we can perhaps talk about finding them some way to get in, but only with a great deal more oversight than they have seen in the last 2 decades. No more taking their word for it, we know that's not worth a damn.
Considering the cost to get a patent, and the extreme cost to fight a patent battle, it never protects the little guy. Big Corp can just infringe at will and remind the little guy that he'll be bankrupt well before he could win in court.
At the same time, the little guy can have his hard work and invested life savings go down the rat hole in an instant if the other little guy beats him to the patent office (so to speak) by 5 minutes.
There is nothing at all recent about patents covering only a physical device. In fact, from the beginning and for decades after, the patent application had to be accompanied by a model of the device to be patented. That was rescinded only because the USPTO ran out of room to store the models. That's why so many early software patents described a "machine" that carries out the algorithm (In other words, they knew damned well they were pulling a fast one on USPTO).
That depends on the Atheist. Some simply don't believe in a god. Others firmly believe there is no god. A percentage of the latter feel a need to proselytize and share the meh news with everyone they see. Some of those also actively seek out and read un-inspirational works and harbor unreligeous hatred for those who believe differently.
The weak agnostic (don't know, don't care) is arguably the one that has no religion.
Wow, you are truly determined to miss the point, aren't you? The air force should apply your point evasion technology against missiles. Our planes will be invincible!
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If aspirin tablets cost as much as marinol does, you would.
Dosage is a smoke screen. The therapeutic index is high enough that a wild guess results in safe and effective treatment. That is actually true of a lot of drugs. There are only a few (like Warfarin) where exact dosing is critical.
Actually, there aren't many good treatments for pain that don't carry some serious risks. Would you prefer they use opiates? Or they can risk liver failure with long term high dose analgesics.
I have no doubt some people are using thin excuses. It's only natural since otherwise they face outrageously long jail sentences. I also have no doubt a lot of people exaggerate a bit when they take tax deductions too.
Some get arrested by stop and frisk. In many other cases, it's the consolation prize when cops search a home for more serious offenses and come up empty. In still more cases, it in connection with a moving violation or a busted tail light.
Where I live, I have seen police helicopters flying around with a spotlight looking for plants growing in fields or people's back yards. Those things are quite expensive to fly.
Do you buy food at the grocery store? Even though it's perfectly legal to grow at home? How many smokers do you know who grow their own tobacco?
The states that have already legalized are enjoying significant tax revenue from people who prefer to buy retail.
Same here. Coffee was distinctly for adults, all the other caffeines were just fine for kids.
Enjoy your cool aid slaveboy. Do try this tonight when you're working late again, look around and ask yourself who's there to notice. Especially look around and see how many people who already got ahead of where you are are still there with you.
Now consider all the productivity studies that demonstrate diminishing returns after 6 hours in a day.
You were probably holding it wrong.
this is what starting a successful career in a competitive field has always been like.
Incorrect. If it's not too late, spit that cool aid out now. You are talking of the "new reality". This is actually a good illustration. If you were old enough to be discriminated against, you might actually remember a time when people were expected to be productive while at work and then go home at 5 P.M. unless there was a truly exceptional circumstance (not the emergency excuse of the week). For those few jobs where crunch times were intrinsic, the employees were likely to be free to leave early or take a day off between the crunch times.
If management is competent and the compensation is adequate, crunch times will be few and far between.
If you find yourself stranded on a desert island with an iPhone and no bars, you're screwed. If you have the superior Samsung phone, just activate the signal flare feature when a plane goes by.
The sad part is that lmr is an option and is far less touchy. Enough so that they don't need continuous management. They don't use it because it is a little more bulky and then you couldn't use your phone as a chefs knife.
So what's the need for age discrimination? Let the company make the offer it intended to make and leave it up to the applicant to accept or not.
Of course, the real answer is that they don't want to hire the senior guy even if he finds the offer acceptable because they intend to boil the frog. They intend to have routine "emergencies" and a never ending "need" to all pull together for the team to meet a tight deadline (which will be promptly replaced with a new tight deadline). Effectively they want to silently alter the deal after the fact by demanding a job and a half or two jobs worth of work for one job's pay.
They fear that the older worker will have seen it all before and insist on the deal that was freely offered and accepted.
So if you're in your 20s and considering an employer, look around. If you see signs of age discrimination, you can expect to be scammed once you've settled in. Mentally divide that pay they're offering by 1.5-2 to see what they're really offering you for the standard salaried position then kiss that work-life balance goodby.
If a 40 year old french chef actually wants the job even at an hourly rate that McDs is willing to pay, why not? It's not as if the employee gets to decide the pay after being hired.
Here's a hint. HUMANS wrote the software. However, unlike the flawed humans making the decision openly where they might be vaguely accountable and where some may be willing to do the right thing, the bad human thinking that writes the software gets to hide behind the machine and never even has to see the consequences of it's flaws.
Actually, this is a great time to vote independent. I'm noty saying an independent is at all likely to win, but with the total screw up on both sides this time around, a strong showing of independents might wake them up enough to at least try next time.
Kafka covered this well.
Let's not forget how we got here. Once upon a time, phones didn't encrypt and nobody cared. Then we got secret courts with no working knowledge of the word no, an NSA that decided to ignore the bit about only spying on foreigners, an FBI that decided to get into the spy business, LEOs all the way down to the local yokels thinking it's OK to go fishing and read everyone's papers and effects based on less than probable cause as long as it's electronic, and judges bending over backwards to avoid addressing 4th and 5th amendment issues with all of the above.
Now nobody trusts any of them (and with ample good reason) and wants strong encryption on their phones. Address all of the above and we can perhaps talk about finding them some way to get in, but only with a great deal more oversight than they have seen in the last 2 decades. No more taking their word for it, we know that's not worth a damn.
Considering the cost to get a patent, and the extreme cost to fight a patent battle, it never protects the little guy. Big Corp can just infringe at will and remind the little guy that he'll be bankrupt well before he could win in court.
At the same time, the little guy can have his hard work and invested life savings go down the rat hole in an instant if the other little guy beats him to the patent office (so to speak) by 5 minutes.
There is nothing at all recent about patents covering only a physical device. In fact, from the beginning and for decades after, the patent application had to be accompanied by a model of the device to be patented. That was rescinded only because the USPTO ran out of room to store the models. That's why so many early software patents described a "machine" that carries out the algorithm (In other words, they knew damned well they were pulling a fast one on USPTO).
That depends on the Atheist. Some simply don't believe in a god. Others firmly believe there is no god. A percentage of the latter feel a need to proselytize and share the meh news with everyone they see. Some of those also actively seek out and read un-inspirational works and harbor unreligeous hatred for those who believe differently.
The weak agnostic (don't know, don't care) is arguably the one that has no religion.
Ever put something somewhere never to see it again? What is the simpler explaination:
Who says that the universe we see (supposedly simulated) is anywhere near the size and complexity of the real (or possibly also simulated) universe.
The mere expansion of space is no big deal, it's just shifting the decimal points.
Perhaps so he could learn about banking.
Wow, you are truly determined to miss the point, aren't you? The air force should apply your point evasion technology against missiles. Our planes will be invincible!