Please let me know when a full size plane is planning on flying at an altitude of 100 feet with a velocity of a few meters per second like a Multiplex Cularis UAV can, a fully foam airframe with a mass of a few kilograms with full gear. I'd like to be a long ways away.
GIS data collection such as aerial surveying like the "Bird's Eye View" on Bing or 7cm or smaller resolution for overhead views, high resolutions that satellites can't achieve. They also would have the ability to collect when their is cloud cover as drones can fly under the cloud cover. Throw the GPS coordinates on to an SD card with something like Ardupilot and have it fly the route taking images that can then be stitched together. GE as a huge defense contractor would primarily just want to sell them for spying on citizens.
Why we need full size UAVs when radio control UAVs can accomplish anything you'd sanely want accomplish without a human at the controls is beyond me. I could see drones being used to fertilize crops but you'd be nuts to let large tanks of anhydrous ammonia fly around on their own.
State law in Montana forbids waiving your right to a lawsuit and forcing you in to arbitration. I only know this because I was assisting my mom, a lawyer, with finding a phone
at Verizon to take to Europe and when they had her sign their agreement she pointedly told the person behind the counter, "You know this isn't legal in Montana!"
I assume other states have similar provisions on the books.
I hope all of their terminals run Linux because their history with mixed systems is horrible. If the number of packages I've lost after FedEx hands my SmartPost packages over to USPS is any indication I'd hate to see what happens if they run their software the same way.
I'm unionized (Communication Workers of America) and my employer doesn't have a manual other than a really horribly written harassment policy and a cell phone policy. It would be great to have a manual so workers weren't being harassed for rules that are essentially made up on the fly. At my previous employer where we were not union there was a huge thick manual and rules on exactly how much time you could spend in the bathroom and a pregnant woman fired for spending too much time. Union or not union, manual or no manual, employers will be bastards to employees if that is the type of employer they are. Japan just makes it an acceptable part of their culture.
These state laws will likely (they damn well better) be appealed in to oblivion as they are in violation of the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause. These laws are intentionally and un-Constitutionally vague and should disappear the same way vagrancy laws did.
Reg:
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?
That might work when there are enough similarly minded people in the union. In my case, there were six of us in the shop, and oh....a couple hundred linemen who liked things the way they were. It would have taken an act of God to change things there.
Thats why there are job classifications and selectives (or even letters of agreement specific to a single person) that modify contracts. We have these in our contract (120 staff, an IT staff of 5). The Qwest and ATT contracts have similar provisions.
Since then, I have found that things are better when I negotiate my own terms of employment than when a union does it "on my behalf".
This is great. I'm not one of those people that believes everywhere should be union. Unfortunately very few places are like this, regardless of talent. If you work for a tech company you are likely to work under these sorts of conditions. If you are a tech person at a non-tech company then that is very often not the case. Unions though often bring benefits to non union positions. FedEx workers receive excellent pay and benefits because they have to remaind competitive with UPS which is union or else employees will leave for better wages and healthcare. When companies choose to do the right thing without a union (which unfortunately is rare) it has a similar impact without a union. An example is Costco and the impact their pay and benefits have on other retail stores. I hope Costco never becomes union because places like that I hope show to other employers that you can be profitable without being complete bastards and pay decent wages and benefits without the force of a union.
Or the TV unions in which you have your job and if you even touch a piece of equipment that's not on your list---even outside of work hours to lean how to use it---instant union grievance.
You obviously don't understand how union grievances work and what they are. It would be an instant union grievance because the union was fighting the employer for trying to reprimand the employee for doing this.
*disclosure: I'm a Communications Workers of America local vice president at a non-profit and formerly worked unrepresented at a mostly non-union cable television company (those bastards!)
I work for a 45k-50k member non-profit. We have a staff of around 100 and a 4 person IT department. We use CiviCRM for event registrations. Our main member database is MS SQL with VB.NET apps and horrid Filemaker applications held over from when this was an all Apple shop. I've tried to push for migration to CiviCRM and making contributions to the project to get CiviCanvas. We currently use GetActive for email contact. We currently have our main website contracted out hosted with an ASP based CMS. Drupal with CiviCRM could eliminate several of our internal and contracted applications. My only complaint with CiviCRM is that getting templates to work nicely with both Drupal and the CiviCRM portion seems to be difficult.
but the Western world is too scared to do what needs to be done in order to win.
Killing civilians and creating further death and violence in order to end a war isn't really winning.
In WWII there was an immediate and serious threat. In Iraq there isn't a clear immediate threat and debate over if Iraq was ever a threat.
I know I'm replying to something completely off topic (and I have mod points!) but
Portland, OR, US has been doing lawn mower sharing for awhile. http://www.northportlandtoollibrary.org/
When there's an interest in an area it's also not that difficult to put together a share group for more obscure tools like CNC machines and lasers.
http://www.portlandtechshop.com/
Poor food, poor seats, poor video quality, and most of all poor company.
I've found the solution to this to be to view movies at IMAX or in 3D. They cost a bit more
but they absolutely have to have the film in focus and the additional cost keeps out the trash
who put their bare feet up on the tables or seats in front of them. For everything else I rent
from a DVD kiosk, borrow, or torrent (in that order). If I really like a movie I'll buy it, and
then download the torrent. I like having a good safe physical copy but it's a hassle to rip it and I
prefer the convenience of keeping it archived on my Xbox disk for XBMC.
couldn't pass and would try and turn it around on the judges. "I suspect... *dramatically removes sunglasses that he's been wearing indoors for no particular reason other than to remove them dramatically*... that you sir... are the one that is a machine"
GNR isn't bringing out a new album, Chinese Democracy is the new government they are bringing to the US through their law suits. You don't honestly believe it could take over a decade to produce some crusty hair rock tracks?
Anything requiring some sort of advanced knowledge was contracted out and for good reason, the
military structure is not designed to facilitate such personnel. Anyone with such advanced skills
cannot be retrained in the military.
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Please let me know when a full size plane is planning on flying at an altitude of 100 feet with a velocity of a few meters per second like a Multiplex Cularis UAV can, a fully foam airframe with a mass of a few kilograms with full gear. I'd like to be a long ways away.
GIS data collection such as aerial surveying like the "Bird's Eye View" on Bing or 7cm or smaller resolution for overhead views, high resolutions that satellites can't achieve. They also would have the ability to collect when their is cloud cover as drones can fly under the cloud cover. Throw the GPS coordinates on to an SD card with something like Ardupilot and have it fly the route taking images that can then be stitched together. GE as a huge defense contractor would primarily just want to sell them for spying on citizens. Why we need full size UAVs when radio control UAVs can accomplish anything you'd sanely want accomplish without a human at the controls is beyond me. I could see drones being used to fertilize crops but you'd be nuts to let large tanks of anhydrous ammonia fly around on their own.
I'm at a complete loss as to why they still exist let alone are in day to day use.
Lack of an established better system, issues with carrying large amounts of cash, and the high cost of credit card processing fees.
State law in Montana forbids waiving your right to a lawsuit and forcing you in to arbitration. I only know this because I was assisting my mom, a lawyer, with finding a phone at Verizon to take to Europe and when they had her sign their agreement she pointedly told the person behind the counter, "You know this isn't legal in Montana!" I assume other states have similar provisions on the books.
You're one of the Dixie Chicks aren't you.
One of the two was a supervisor and could not be a union member under US labor law.
I hope all of their terminals run Linux because their history with mixed systems is horrible. If the number of packages I've lost after FedEx hands my SmartPost packages over to USPS is any indication I'd hate to see what happens if they run their software the same way.
'It's better to out-smart an orc than to fight one.'
If you take it further, the same general principles that also works in business also works with women...
You must know my ex-girlfriend.
I'm unionized (Communication Workers of America) and my employer doesn't have a manual other than a really horribly written harassment policy and a cell phone policy. It would be great to have a manual so workers weren't being harassed for rules that are essentially made up on the fly. At my previous employer where we were not union there was a huge thick manual and rules on exactly how much time you could spend in the bathroom and a pregnant woman fired for spending too much time. Union or not union, manual or no manual, employers will be bastards to employees if that is the type of employer they are. Japan just makes it an acceptable part of their culture.
These state laws will likely (they damn well better) be appealed in to oblivion as they are in violation of the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause. These laws are intentionally and un-Constitutionally vague and should disappear the same way vagrancy laws did.
Reg: All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?
That might work when there are enough similarly minded people in the union. In my case, there were six of us in the shop, and oh....a couple hundred linemen who liked things the way they were. It would have taken an act of God to change things there.
Thats why there are job classifications and selectives (or even letters of agreement specific to a single person) that modify contracts. We have these in our contract (120 staff, an IT staff of 5). The Qwest and ATT contracts have similar provisions.
Since then, I have found that things are better when I negotiate my own terms of employment than when a union does it "on my behalf".
This is great. I'm not one of those people that believes everywhere should be union. Unfortunately very few places are like this, regardless of talent. If you work for a tech company you are likely to work under these sorts of conditions. If you are a tech person at a non-tech company then that is very often not the case. Unions though often bring benefits to non union positions. FedEx workers receive excellent pay and benefits because they have to remaind competitive with UPS which is union or else employees will leave for better wages and healthcare. When companies choose to do the right thing without a union (which unfortunately is rare) it has a similar impact without a union. An example is Costco and the impact their pay and benefits have on other retail stores. I hope Costco never becomes union because places like that I hope show to other employers that you can be profitable without being complete bastards and pay decent wages and benefits without the force of a union.
Or the TV unions in which you have your job and if you even touch a piece of equipment that's not on your list---even outside of work hours to lean how to use it---instant union grievance.
You obviously don't understand how union grievances work and what they are. It would be an instant union grievance because the union was fighting the employer for trying to reprimand the employee for doing this. *disclosure: I'm a Communications Workers of America local vice president at a non-profit and formerly worked unrepresented at a mostly non-union cable television company (those bastards!)
have they got monkeys in the patent office just blindly punching approve/disapprove buttons?
They couldn't afford the licensing fees as they had already approved a patent on monkeys that punch buttons.
hes been hard at work on a new iPancreas, which will not only produce insulin but will transmit blood sugar levels to his iPhone via bluetooth
If that is what it takes to get full bluetooth support on my iPhone I hope that Steve's other organs fail also.
I work for a 45k-50k member non-profit. We have a staff of around 100 and a 4 person IT department. We use CiviCRM for event registrations. Our main member database is MS SQL with VB.NET apps and horrid Filemaker applications held over from when this was an all Apple shop. I've tried to push for migration to CiviCRM and making contributions to the project to get CiviCanvas. We currently use GetActive for email contact. We currently have our main website contracted out hosted with an ASP based CMS. Drupal with CiviCRM could eliminate several of our internal and contracted applications. My only complaint with CiviCRM is that getting templates to work nicely with both Drupal and the CiviCRM portion seems to be difficult.
They saw it in a movie. If they'd seen his screen saver he would have been arrested for Hacking the Gibson
but the Western world is too scared to do what needs to be done in order to win.
Killing civilians and creating further death and violence in order to end a war isn't really winning. In WWII there was an immediate and serious threat. In Iraq there isn't a clear immediate threat and debate over if Iraq was ever a threat.
I know I'm replying to something completely off topic (and I have mod points!) but Portland, OR, US has been doing lawn mower sharing for awhile. http://www.northportlandtoollibrary.org/
When there's an interest in an area it's also not that difficult to put together a share group for more obscure tools like CNC machines and lasers. http://www.portlandtechshop.com/
Poor food, poor seats, poor video quality, and most of all poor company.
I've found the solution to this to be to view movies at IMAX or in 3D. They cost a bit more but they absolutely have to have the film in focus and the additional cost keeps out the trash who put their bare feet up on the tables or seats in front of them. For everything else I rent from a DVD kiosk, borrow, or torrent (in that order). If I really like a movie I'll buy it, and then download the torrent. I like having a good safe physical copy but it's a hassle to rip it and I prefer the convenience of keeping it archived on my Xbox disk for XBMC.
couldn't pass and would try and turn it around on the judges. "I suspect... *dramatically removes sunglasses that he's been wearing indoors for no particular reason other than to remove them dramatically*... that you sir... are the one that is a machine"
Deanna Troi.. nude.. commenting on Vista... RULE 35 someone!!!
North Dakota isn't part of Canada... yet.
GNR isn't bringing out a new album, Chinese Democracy is the new government they are bringing to the US through their law suits. You don't honestly believe it could take over a decade to produce some crusty hair rock tracks?