In a community of six million people, how many people do you think share the same name? I can just imagine someone in my community reading my name on this Twitter page and thinking it was me rather than one of the three other people I know about with the same name. What a mess.
I live in the Greater Pittsburgh area. There are much fewer than 6 million people here. Other than my father, there is at least one other person who shares my exact same first and last names. This guy is, unfortunately, a piss-poor criminal. He has been arrested for numerous petty crimes over the course of the past 16 or so years. He lives less than 5 miles from me. He's also exactly 10 years older than me, so when he get arrested for something it looks like it was me, but there was a typo in regards to the age. The last time he was in the paper, he was 41 and I was 31. He was living in a municipality that bordered the one that I lived in.
As bad as all of that is, I still think it's a bad idea to publish people's names who have just been charged. They should only be able to put you up before public scrutiny when you've been convicted. This has too much potential for abuse.
I have experience in heavy industry. They buy a lot of power. They are in may ways the bread and butter of a power company. The world is a bit different now, but in this part of the US, electric utilities were once run to an area because there was heavy industry there that would be buying the power. Communities were build up around the industry and those people had electricity, sewage, running water, etc. because it was all provided nearby for the industrial user. Now, power is run to every inhabited place, but heavy industry still buys a lot of power. They have contractual agreements with utilities. They have a maximum power allotment for the contractually determined period of time, let's just work with months in this case, if they go over that allotment they have to pay a much higher rate for all of the power they bought during the month. It can sometimes double the electric bill. You think a $150 monthly power bill is bad? What if you're using $200k worth of electricity in a month? There are computer systems dedicated to continuous computation of how much it costs to operate for an hour, how much money is being generated by operating that hour, how much power is being used, the number of dollars per kwh, commodity prices, how much it would cost to locally generate power and myriad other variables. At some points it's a better business decision to shut down operations, at other points it's better to keep operating and pay the higher electric rate and lastly there are situations where it's most profitable to operate but generate electricity locally using another resource, like natural gas.
I highly doubt that the utility companies will provide home users with the most beneficial data for power management. If you want to save money, you'll have to have your own system.
Wow, going over your boss's head for something as trivial as this?
Principle is never trivial. If an employer can force you to compromise on a small issue, it's only a matter of time until they're pressuring you to compromise on a big issue.
Going over your bosses' head on any signficant matter is pretty much the nuclear option and generally results in either you or him losing a job.
I'm quick to go over a boss's head. If the boss is wrong, his boss needs to know. I do not have a need to be liked by my boss. As long as I'm acceptable to myself, I'm content.
I guess you forgot about the indiscriminate bombing in Yugoslavia. The Clinton administration killed civilians, clergy and even friendly foreign nationals in their attempt to move grand jury testimony off of the front page.
Basically, you have to be willing to walk. I was willing to leave the Verizon store if I didn't get the phone I wanted, a plan that I wanted and a 1 year contract. I got the phone for free, a discount on my calling plan and a one year contract. The phone turned out to be a piece of shit, I didn't know at the time that Verizon crippled the RAZR. I finished my year and left. I went to another carrier and left Verizon behind. I'll never go back to them.
Yeah, those stupid liberal groups are just out to hodgepodge the truth again. All we did was violate 2 federal laws by not keeping records of our communications, and had insanely incompetent I.T. staff at this, the richest and most powerful country in the world. What a bunch of baloney. Just an honest mistake. Tens of millions of e-mails, big whoop. Wanna fight about it?
I'm sorry, but medication does nothing for mental illness.
Either you're drinking the Tom Cruise Kool-Aid or you've never known anyone who has taken psych meds. I have witnessed, first hand, how someone can be helped with medication.
Okay, I understand that it's possible for three-year-olds to be bipolar, but how on Earth do you reliably test for that?
If they diagnosed a three year old child as bipolar, I can just about guarantee you that it was patently obvious to anyone that the kid had some kind of problem. I don't work in that field, but I have friends and loved ones who have had to deal with mental illness. I suppose that it's possible that this kid just happened to run into a quack, but it's more likely that he was violent with others and possibly even himself. Lawsuit potential is so high if they misdiagnose a child that young, that I'd be willing to bet that the doctor that prescribed this medication consulted many other doctors first.
I agree. Several years ago I saw a child who had some emotional problems come around relatively quickly with psychotropic drugs. Pumping an 11 year old full of these medications isn't the best solution but this kid was going to end up hurting someone or himself and his mother didn't have the money for the best therapists. It took about a year to get the combination of medicines and counseling right but it caused an amazing turn around in this little boy.
If they weren't so quick to medicate poor children, we'd be asking why so many poor kids are going without adequate treatment for mental illness.
You sir, are misinformed. Try searching for cases of ADA abuse. You'll find people being forced to pay money because their wheelchair ramps are too far from their front doors, or they don't have enough handicapped parking spaces. I remember one case of a paraplegic business owner being successfully sued because his business didn't have wide enough doors. HIS wheelchair fit through just fine, but apparently some manufacturer somewhere made a wheelchair that was too wide.
I would avoid making any ultimatums. The problem with ultimatums is that you have to follow through, and that puts the other party in charge of your actions.
I kind of agree with this, but at the same time if you are looking to leave your job because of an assholeish decision on the part of management, some other party is in charge of your actions too. I'm currently seeking new employment because the owner where I work is all about doing it her way without any consideration of how it affects the little people that work for her. I haven't made an ultimatum, but nonetheless my actions are influenced by someone else's decisions.
When I get a job offer that I decide to take, I'll put in my notice and if they care enough to ask why I'll explain.
As Joe Rogan allegedly said trying to get something off of the internet is like trying to get the pee out of a pool.
I have personally mirrored textfiles.com and I can tell you right now that I'm not going to remove you from my archive. You will never be able to clean it off.
Funny, that even though I said nothing about your secret desire to gratify Obama, your mind went right there.
Since you've already expressed your belief in the living document nonsense about the Constitution, you should understand this; What was considered "liberal" in the 1700s is not liberal by any standard today. Politics and political movements do change with time. The fact that you would try to confuse the two only proves me right.
No, it isn't, and neither is an NDA. If I tell you I'll give you ten bucks to keep your mouth shut, you're not blackmailing me. If you tell me you'll keep your mouth shut if I give you ten dollars, that's blackmail.
If I tell you that I want money to keep my mouth shut, that's "blackmail". If I have my lawyer tell your lawyer that we need to structure a deal, that's an out of court settlement. Logically the same thing has happened, but one is illegal and the other isn't.
Even slander and lible?
Slander and Libel don't apply to truthful statements.
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In a community of six million people, how many people do you think share the same name? I can just imagine someone in my community reading my name on this Twitter page and thinking it was me rather than one of the three other people I know about with the same name. What a mess.
I live in the Greater Pittsburgh area. There are much fewer than 6 million people here. Other than my father, there is at least one other person who shares my exact same first and last names. This guy is, unfortunately, a piss-poor criminal. He has been arrested for numerous petty crimes over the course of the past 16 or so years. He lives less than 5 miles from me. He's also exactly 10 years older than me, so when he get arrested for something it looks like it was me, but there was a typo in regards to the age. The last time he was in the paper, he was 41 and I was 31. He was living in a municipality that bordered the one that I lived in.
As bad as all of that is, I still think it's a bad idea to publish people's names who have just been charged. They should only be able to put you up before public scrutiny when you've been convicted. This has too much potential for abuse.
LK
I have experience in heavy industry. They buy a lot of power. They are in may ways the bread and butter of a power company. The world is a bit different now, but in this part of the US, electric utilities were once run to an area because there was heavy industry there that would be buying the power. Communities were build up around the industry and those people had electricity, sewage, running water, etc. because it was all provided nearby for the industrial user. Now, power is run to every inhabited place, but heavy industry still buys a lot of power. They have contractual agreements with utilities. They have a maximum power allotment for the contractually determined period of time, let's just work with months in this case, if they go over that allotment they have to pay a much higher rate for all of the power they bought during the month. It can sometimes double the electric bill. You think a $150 monthly power bill is bad? What if you're using $200k worth of electricity in a month? There are computer systems dedicated to continuous computation of how much it costs to operate for an hour, how much money is being generated by operating that hour, how much power is being used, the number of dollars per kwh, commodity prices, how much it would cost to locally generate power and myriad other variables. At some points it's a better business decision to shut down operations, at other points it's better to keep operating and pay the higher electric rate and lastly there are situations where it's most profitable to operate but generate electricity locally using another resource, like natural gas.
I highly doubt that the utility companies will provide home users with the most beneficial data for power management. If you want to save money, you'll have to have your own system.
LK
It's stable, it works, it uses Fuse so you don't have to worry about Kernel support.
Just go get it.
LK
Not too much to make her do it, just to guess that she does.
LK
Wow, going over your boss's head for something as trivial as this?
Principle is never trivial. If an employer can force you to compromise on a small issue, it's only a matter of time until they're pressuring you to compromise on a big issue.
Bad, bad career move.
It's just a job, you can find another one.
LK
Get bad performance reviews much?
Occasionally.
Going over your bosses' head on any signficant matter is pretty much the nuclear option and generally results in either you or him losing a job.
I'm quick to go over a boss's head. If the boss is wrong, his boss needs to know. I do not have a need to be liked by my boss. As long as I'm acceptable to myself, I'm content.
LK
That's a sure way to piss off a person uniquely able to make your life miserable.
Only if you let him. We are not indentured servants. If your boss sucks, find a new job. It's what I do.
LK
Bart PE is a good way to do this. You create a cd on a different computer and use it to scan your suspect PC.
LK
First, if your manager says don't put up a web page, then don't. End of discussion.
Not quite. If you believe that your manager is wrong, go to his boss.
LK
When did Clinton/Gore invade another country?
I guess you forgot about the indiscriminate bombing in Yugoslavia. The Clinton administration killed civilians, clergy and even friendly foreign nationals in their attempt to move grand jury testimony off of the front page.
LK
Except of course that .NET isn't a "language".
LK
Basically, you have to be willing to walk. I was willing to leave the Verizon store if I didn't get the phone I wanted, a plan that I wanted and a 1 year contract. I got the phone for free, a discount on my calling plan and a one year contract. The phone turned out to be a piece of shit, I didn't know at the time that Verizon crippled the RAZR. I finished my year and left. I went to another carrier and left Verizon behind. I'll never go back to them.
LK
Yeah, those stupid liberal groups are just out to hodgepodge the truth again. All we did was violate 2 federal laws by not keeping records of our communications, and had insanely incompetent I.T. staff at this, the richest and most powerful country in the world. What a bunch of baloney. Just an honest mistake. Tens of millions of e-mails, big whoop. Wanna fight about it?
If this wasn't purely about politics, where were their fucking lawsuits when the Clinton-Gore administration lost emails?
LK
I'm sorry, but medication does nothing for mental illness.
Either you're drinking the Tom Cruise Kool-Aid or you've never known anyone who has taken psych meds. I have witnessed, first hand, how someone can be helped with medication.
LK
He's 15 now. He's still medicated. It'll probably be for life, bi-polar disorder runs in his family.
LK
Okay, I understand that it's possible for three-year-olds to be bipolar, but how on Earth do you reliably test for that?
If they diagnosed a three year old child as bipolar, I can just about guarantee you that it was patently obvious to anyone that the kid had some kind of problem. I don't work in that field, but I have friends and loved ones who have had to deal with mental illness. I suppose that it's possible that this kid just happened to run into a quack, but it's more likely that he was violent with others and possibly even himself. Lawsuit potential is so high if they misdiagnose a child that young, that I'd be willing to bet that the doctor that prescribed this medication consulted many other doctors first.
LK
I agree. Several years ago I saw a child who had some emotional problems come around relatively quickly with psychotropic drugs. Pumping an 11 year old full of these medications isn't the best solution but this kid was going to end up hurting someone or himself and his mother didn't have the money for the best therapists. It took about a year to get the combination of medicines and counseling right but it caused an amazing turn around in this little boy.
If they weren't so quick to medicate poor children, we'd be asking why so many poor kids are going without adequate treatment for mental illness.
LK
the ADA does not mean "get whatever you want"
You sir, are misinformed. Try searching for cases of ADA abuse. You'll find people being forced to pay money because their wheelchair ramps are too far from their front doors, or they don't have enough handicapped parking spaces. I remember one case of a paraplegic business owner being successfully sued because his business didn't have wide enough doors. HIS wheelchair fit through just fine, but apparently some manufacturer somewhere made a wheelchair that was too wide.
LK
And if your boss is the company's owner, then you'll have to go to his wife to complain.
The problem is the boss that's fucking up morale in my workplace IS the wife.
And I don't know who her mother is.
LK
I would avoid making any ultimatums. The problem with ultimatums is that you have to follow through, and that puts the other party in charge of your actions.
I kind of agree with this, but at the same time if you are looking to leave your job because of an assholeish decision on the part of management, some other party is in charge of your actions too. I'm currently seeking new employment because the owner where I work is all about doing it her way without any consideration of how it affects the little people that work for her. I haven't made an ultimatum, but nonetheless my actions are influenced by someone else's decisions.
When I get a job offer that I decide to take, I'll put in my notice and if they care enough to ask why I'll explain.
LK
As Joe Rogan allegedly said trying to get something off of the internet is like trying to get the pee out of a pool.
I have personally mirrored textfiles.com and I can tell you right now that I'm not going to remove you from my archive. You will never be able to clean it off.
LK
That's far too short. "yourmomdrinksassmilk" would take longer brute force.
Funny, that even though I said nothing about your secret desire to gratify Obama, your mind went right there.
Since you've already expressed your belief in the living document nonsense about the Constitution, you should understand this; What was considered "liberal" in the 1700s is not liberal by any standard today. Politics and political movements do change with time. The fact that you would try to confuse the two only proves me right.
Ever finish that movie?
LK
No, it isn't, and neither is an NDA. If I tell you I'll give you ten bucks to keep your mouth shut, you're not blackmailing me. If you tell me you'll keep your mouth shut if I give you ten dollars, that's blackmail.
If I tell you that I want money to keep my mouth shut, that's "blackmail". If I have my lawyer tell your lawyer that we need to structure a deal, that's an out of court settlement. Logically the same thing has happened, but one is illegal and the other isn't.
Even slander and lible?
Slander and Libel don't apply to truthful statements.
LK
Grasping at straws? Hardly. I'm describing you perfectly.
You do not care for the ideals of the men who envisioned and wrote the constitution. You view it as an means to control other people.
Of course other people must be controlled, by you because in your liberal elitist douchbag brain no one is capable of handling the burden of freedom.
So, did you finish that movie yet?
LK