What about diseases like Huntington's chorea? Get a positive on the genetic test and no insurance company will touch you, besides having to deal with the knowledge that you are truly screwed.
You've obviously never worked for the government. Just because the government, in an abstract sense, has a trillion dollars, does not mean that you can spend any of it. You can be working on a billion dollar spy satellite program, and not have any money available for basic office supplies like pens, pencils, notebooks and stamps. I know people who built their own office PCs by scrounging parts from the surplus equipment warehouse. That was the only way for them to get a computer, since their was never any money in the capital equipment budget to provide peons with computers. Giving an employee a computer for working at home? Just thinking about it probably violates some property management regulations. It would be a bureaucratic can of worms.
That is one of the most ridiculous things that I've ever read on slashdot. Neoconservatism is not the same thing as Christian religious fundamentalism. Unfortunately, many are so blinded by their hatred of conservatism and religion that they are unable to distinguish the difference between a political philosophy and theology.
If the manufacturer is willing to counterfeit batteries, they are probably willing to cut many other corners. Counterfeit parts are a major problem in many industries, including those dealing with safety-critical systems. I hope they nuke Shentech and their supplier. It's a dealer's responsibility to know where their parts come from.
Many people have a business and personal cell phone. Some people have a personal cell phone and another that's dedicated to talking to their secret boyfriend/girlfriend.
My experience has been that when asked to put their request in writing, the sleazeballs in management will back off. They aren't going to push the issue if it requires them to incriminate themself. Of course, if they are real jerks, they will fire you for not being a team player or some other nonsense.
The BSA is a useful tool for revenge against companies that treat their employees like shit. These are often the same companies that blatantly pirate business software, since they are willing to do anything, legal or illegal, to screw their employees, customers and suppliers out of a buck.
The IRS also has a tax informant reward program, which is useful if you know that your employer is cheating on their taxes.
I like "space opera", even if it doesn't meet some purist's definition of science fiction. That said, Star Wars decayed into a pile of over-commercialized crap.
The problem with renting research facilities is that the people with the best and most innovative research proposals are often too poor to pay the fees. Cost recovery sounds great on paper. It often doesn't work as intended in the real world.
There is only one party, comrade. The ballot in the last state election reminded me of the USSR. For most offices, the choice was between voting for a Democrat, usually the incumbent, or not voting for anyone.
They also doubled the tobacco tax to $2 per pack of cigarettes, another tax that disproportionately affects low and middle-income residents of Maryland.
Who voted for these weasels? It wasn't me. Of course, the thought of cutting spending never entered their tiny little brains.
Anyone who has to do navigation, the driving force behind many of the improvements in timekeeping, would disagree with you. Units of measurement do not exist in a vacuum. They are invented to solve real problems.
That was done back in the late 1950s, resulting in the "rubber" second. It caused many more problems than it solved. Can you imagine if the length of the meter changed every year? It was abandoned in favor of a fixed second defined as a certain number of oscillations of the cesium atom.
The simple solution is to assign final responsibility to the web site that is delivering the tainted ads. They are the ones who have ultimate control over what content gets delivered to the user. "We contracted it out" should never be accepted as an excuse.
I've been getting these calls on my cell phone, often every day. There is never anyone on the other end, just silence. Some of the calls are coming from numbers associated with Allied Interstate, a sleazy debt collection agency that would pimp their own children on a street corner if there was a nickel to be made.
I used to live in a large housing development in the Washington, D.C. area, composed of many apartment buildings and townhouses, that was connected to a central heating and cooling plant. The federal government uses a similar system for many of their buildings. I would expect a centralized system to be more efficient and less expensive than installing a heating and air conditioning system in every building.
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What about diseases like Huntington's chorea? Get a positive on the genetic test and no insurance company will touch you, besides having to deal with the knowledge that you are truly screwed.
You've obviously never worked for the government. Just because the government, in an abstract sense, has a trillion dollars, does not mean that you can spend any of it. You can be working on a billion dollar spy satellite program, and not have any money available for basic office supplies like pens, pencils, notebooks and stamps. I know people who built their own office PCs by scrounging parts from the surplus equipment warehouse. That was the only way for them to get a computer, since their was never any money in the capital equipment budget to provide peons with computers. Giving an employee a computer for working at home? Just thinking about it probably violates some property management regulations. It would be a bureaucratic can of worms.
That is one of the most ridiculous things that I've ever read on slashdot. Neoconservatism is not the same thing as Christian religious fundamentalism. Unfortunately, many are so blinded by their hatred of conservatism and religion that they are unable to distinguish the difference between a political philosophy and theology.
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Correction, that should be 3 stone per fortnight.
It's about 0.1 slugs of air per day, or 6.6 stone per fortnight. Are you happy now?
If the manufacturer is willing to counterfeit batteries, they are probably willing to cut many other corners. Counterfeit parts are a major problem in many industries, including those dealing with safety-critical systems. I hope they nuke Shentech and their supplier. It's a dealer's responsibility to know where their parts come from.
Many people have a business and personal cell phone. Some people have a personal cell phone and another that's dedicated to talking to their secret boyfriend/girlfriend.
I remember reading many complaints about disk ejection and hard to use controls on the original model. Did they fix it?
I liked it. I have average size hands and never had any problems using it once I figured out the correct way to hold it.
I liked it and never had any ergonomic problems with it. I've never understood why so many people hated it.
My experience has been that when asked to put their request in writing, the sleazeballs in management will back off. They aren't going to push the issue if it requires them to incriminate themself. Of course, if they are real jerks, they will fire you for not being a team player or some other nonsense.
The IRS also has a tax informant reward program, which is useful if you know that your employer is cheating on their taxes.
I like "space opera", even if it doesn't meet some purist's definition of science fiction. That said, Star Wars decayed into a pile of over-commercialized crap.
The problem with renting research facilities is that the people with the best and most innovative research proposals are often too poor to pay the fees. Cost recovery sounds great on paper. It often doesn't work as intended in the real world.
There is only one party, comrade. The ballot in the last state election reminded me of the USSR. For most offices, the choice was between voting for a Democrat, usually the incumbent, or not voting for anyone.
Who voted for these weasels? It wasn't me. Of course, the thought of cutting spending never entered their tiny little brains.
Do they teach people how to read these days?
Leap minutes are way too imprecise if you are using a clock for navigation. The Earth rotates 15 nautical miles at the equator every minute.
Anyone who has to do navigation, the driving force behind many of the improvements in timekeeping, would disagree with you. Units of measurement do not exist in a vacuum. They are invented to solve real problems.
That was done back in the late 1950s, resulting in the "rubber" second. It caused many more problems than it solved. Can you imagine if the length of the meter changed every year? It was abandoned in favor of a fixed second defined as a certain number of oscillations of the cesium atom.
The simple solution is to assign final responsibility to the web site that is delivering the tainted ads. They are the ones who have ultimate control over what content gets delivered to the user. "We contracted it out" should never be accepted as an excuse.
I've been getting these calls on my cell phone, often every day. There is never anyone on the other end, just silence. Some of the calls are coming from numbers associated with Allied Interstate, a sleazy debt collection agency that would pimp their own children on a street corner if there was a nickel to be made.
I used to live in a large housing development in the Washington, D.C. area, composed of many apartment buildings and townhouses, that was connected to a central heating and cooling plant. The federal government uses a similar system for many of their buildings. I would expect a centralized system to be more efficient and less expensive than installing a heating and air conditioning system in every building.