If the meals are not reserved strictly for employees only, then it could be argued that the food doesn't even qualify as a fringe benefit to begin with since you don't have to work to get it.
The point is that you aren't forced to pay an arm and a leg to cover licensing costs, and your software is open to an army of proud geeks for improvement and optimization.
Not just that, but passwords allow write access, not just read access.
I'm honestly more worried about my boss using my facebook password to plant something incriminating than I am about him snooping around.
Being able to set me up with a compromising photo and threaten to show the link to my wife would be a great way to try and force me to help him cook the books.
Giving someone your facebook password allows them to change things, and not just to read.
This would allow my boss to outright plant things on me, and not just go snooping around.
If I had someone's facebook password and I wanted to compel them, I'd just post something compromising, change their password, and then threaten them with exposure if they didn't do what I told them.
This will allow bosses to coerce their workers into colluding with corruption.
The double boiler is at will employment, and the lid is you being too piss broke to defy your boss when they demand you fork over your facebook password.
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That's why we still have old fashioned telephones.
I think the cell phone companies have more steal in them than the businesses in question...
I believe that's why they're having new games put in the sandbox until they're voted into the store proper.
Did they use Gamecube quality hardware in the NES?
Give Ouya a break, it's a brand new console and it's only on its first generation.
Give the makers time to soak up some feedback on Ouya's weak points and the next version will probably be beefed up a bit.
There's always time for the next version of the Ouya.
I imagine that they'll pay attention to feedback so they know which areas to beef up.
Do you think they were using Gamecube grade hardware in the NES?
It will be like confederate money.
Ultimately worthless, but until then useful.
The trick is to spend it before it loses value.
Hear hear for mushroom power!
I bet that the special interests will have too much at stake to let this be overturned.
I expect a swift congressional override in such a case.
The rich greedy monopolies are the ones having their lobbyists write the rules.
They're not going to shoot themselves in the foot, and they aren't going to let their political pets do so either.
The law has always and always will mean whatever the elite damn well say it does.
Neither does anyone's political opponent.
Or the corporate elite that play them against each other for campaign dollars, for that matter.
I woinder if someone can lob a pack of malware at NK's missile silos and shut them down not unlike the israeli stuxnet attack on iran's centrifuges.
It does seem to be a bloodless way of defusing things.
You touch on an interesting point.
If the meals are not reserved strictly for employees only, then it could be argued that the food doesn't even qualify as a fringe benefit to begin with since you don't have to work to get it.
Not quite the same.
In the case of a corporate charge card, all of the executive's expenses are still measured in taxable dollars.
The meals at Google, however, are provided gratuitiously, so their taxable value, if any, has to be estimated.
In Soviet Russia, bacon smells like bullshit.
The point is that you aren't forced to pay an arm and a leg to cover licensing costs, and your software is open to an army of proud geeks for improvement and optimization.
And how much of that bad rap is due to FUD from microsoft?
Not just that, but passwords allow write access, not just read access.
I'm honestly more worried about my boss using my facebook password to plant something incriminating than I am about him snooping around.
Being able to set me up with a compromising photo and threaten to show the link to my wife would be a great way to try and force me to help him cook the books.
Giving someone your facebook password allows them to change things, and not just to read.
This would allow my boss to outright plant things on me, and not just go snooping around.
If I had someone's facebook password and I wanted to compel them, I'd just post something compromising, change their password, and then threaten them with exposure if they didn't do what I told them.
This will allow bosses to coerce their workers into colluding with corruption.
They already do.
The double boiler is at will employment, and the lid is you being too piss broke to defy your boss when they demand you fork over your facebook password.
Someone having the guts to shamelessly charge based on a direct factor in costs.
Baggage included too.
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Owww....
That was such a lame prank it hurt.
Intent matters in a criminal case.
Getting fired is another matter and actually requires absolutely no due process whatsoever.
This is better known as "at will" employment where your boss can fire you for any damn reason he wants.
Doesn't matter.
She pissed off her boss and paid the price for it.
Here's some good career advice: If your boss doesn't have a good sense of humor, be careful with your jokes.
Unfortunately, it's whatever your boss says it is.