It forces killers to have to reload more often...unless they can afford preban magazines, which will undoubtedly be more expensive. The market for high capacity mags has already shot sky high. You could have tripled your money in a week if you had the foresight to buy bulk quantities of magazines before the Sandy Hook incident.
the only solution is to wait two weeks or more until after a movie comes out to see it in an almost empty theater
In my neck of the woods, movie theaters have heavily discounted prices on Tuesday nights. You can see a 2D movie for $5. They do this because the theater gets very low traffic on Tuesday nights. I guess you could say that my frugal side has helped me avoid all of the issues people are mentioning. It's not uncommon to have one other couple in the theater with us. Especially if the movie has been out for a couple weeks. Ticket prices are normally $8.50 for an adult here, so saving $7 on a pair of tickets is great.
And you would lose. If a movie theater was doing this, you bet your ass that they would have the law on their side. As long as it's clearly communicated before the movie that the theater is a cell free zone, you'd have no recourse other than to go to a different theater or stay home.
There are several programs that can be set to automate your phone like this. The problem is that location awareness isn't as good inside a movie theater as you might hope. For instance, I live about a half a mile away from the nearest megaplex. I setup a rule on my phone to turn off the ringer and wifi when the phone is at the address of the cinema. However, the rule kept triggering when I was sitting in my living room. Even if I didn't live so close, if I was shopping at the stores next door, my phone would be going to vibrate mode automatically. I've found that doing location based things only works well if your location isn't near anything else. For instance, I work in the middle of nowhere. I set a rule to turn off WiFi & bluetooth from 8am to 4:45pm when I'm at my work location. Works great to save battery. But for the movies, I still set it manually.
Here is my real life experiences. I'm currently working for state government. We get 13 sick days a year (4hrs a pay period), and we can bank those indefinitely. It's not uncommon for people to have +1000 hours of banked sick time, accumulated over +15 years of service. I'm constantly hearing coworkers making sarcastic comments to other coworkers about how they're not feeling well, and they probably wont be in tomorrow. Comments are complete with fake coughs. These same people are getting +4 weeks of vacation a year, but what's the point in having 1000 hours of sick time if you can't use it? So that's my public sector experience. My private sector experience started with getting 4 sick days a year (.333 days a month). Then, after getting a few promotions, my sick time was removed, and I was switched to a system where I had basically unlimited sick days, within reason. There was more or less an unspoken rule that if you used more than 6 days a year, they would start asking questions. Of course, if you had to be out for 2 weeks after a surgery, they would allow that with no questions asked.
In both situations, I don't feel like the company was evil. I feel like the State is waaayyy to giving, and with my private company, sick time (or lack thereof) was never an issue for me in the 7 years I worked there. It wasn't even an issue when I only had 4 sick days a year.
Most workplaces don't have paid sick leave. Honestly, it is what it is, and this what Americans want. Hence this is what America gets.
I call bull. Please provide citation. The first numbers I got when I Googled it show that 75% of full time workers have sick days. Most part time workers don't get sick days, but then I can't say I really disagree with that. Those numbers are from The Center For American Progress, which is a very liberal organization. In other words, if they are reporting that 75% of full time workers get paid sick time, it's very likely that the number is actually significantly higher than that.
At my last job, we didn't get sick days. If we were sick, we didn't go to work, and we still got paid. We just didn't have any given number of days. Of course, if they noticed that you were abusing the system, they may ask you to start bringing in Doctors notes.
I just pictured people robbing banks with those baby carrier things strapped to their chests. They'd be immune to all guns. It would be awesome...for criminals.
That's easy! Just make old style guns illegal. Have a system in place to get them retrofit with the new technology. I'm sure everyone would do it. I mean, if it was illegal not to, who would want to break the law?
Mainstream media has covered it, and they have all concluded that they don't exist. There was one media outlet that claimed they found traces of Barium in a bowl where the condensation had collected, but they later retracted the story because they had just misread their testing equipment. They had mistakenly thought it was parts per million, but it was actually reporting parts per billion.
You're actually suggesting slashdotters should read the article before commenting? What is wrong with you people!
I don't think it's wrong to suggest people read the article. I think it's wrong to expect people have read it. As articles go, this was quite a long one. I was as skeptical as anyone when I saw the article, but after reading it, I'm mildly convinced that the author is right. They did a ton of research, looked at multiple countries (with different timelines), looked at multiple occurrences of lead increases, and it all looks good.
I can tell you that many of the best GPA students at my school were some of the dumbest in the class. They were good at regurgitating data, but their comprehension was horrible. That's why they scored low on tests that required logical analysis. They just couldn't take the leap from one thought to another.
It's like an old co-worker of mine that a week after passing his Network+ certification, he truthfully asked me what a router was. He had no clue. He was just good at memorizing questions, and he spent a few weeks memorizing a ton of practice tests. He gamed the system. I pity any one who hires him thinking that he has any of the skills he's certified for.
So as long as their intent wasn't evil, we shouldn't punish them? What if they had pulled out knives and killed the parents for the same reason. Should we take issue with that? Same intent of the child. If the local homeless shelter is going to shut down because of lack of funding, can I go rob a bank to give them money? If I get caught, will I go free? I mean, my intent was to help the homeless shelter provide beds and food for the homeless! I shouldn't be punished for that.
Apple didn't revolutionize the smartphone world, they refined it. They took what was already there and made it better. If you want to talk about who revolutionized the market, it was RIM with some help from Palm and MS.
I agree. Even a fully mechanized factory requires staff. You need people to fix the machines and to do quality assurance. Unfortunately, you can buy a lot of bowls of rice with the money it would require to replace one worker with a robot...
Sounds like a slippery slope to me. Once we have all of our youth on birth control, they would propbably require a license to have the process reversed. Then, we could put a requirement on getting the license. Maybe it could require a college degree. Maybe it could require having $__X___ in the bank. Maybe it could require land ownsership. Maybe it could require paying a baby tax. Or maybe we could require a couple years of service in the military.
I know that Word changes the formating a lot because it does it's best to display the text as it will print out. Most people don't realize that two different printers will often print slightly different. So a tiny difference in drivers can mean a page will be off from what you wanted it to be. It can be very frustrating if you do much sharing of documents and each team member has a different default printer.
Didn't anyone get the memo? The word processor is basically dead. Corporate America has replaced it with Outlook. Having said that, where I see more differentiation between Office and Google Docs is in the Excel product. I love using Excel. I love to manipulate numbers. Google Docs is very ackward to use in that way. LibreOffice can do a bit more than Google, but it's still nowhere close to Excel in features and power. All three are great for making a personal budget or tracking your expenses. I personally love Excel because I can manipulate it from vbscript. I can write scripts to collect a ton of data, organize it, manipulate it, format it, and then dump it into an excel spreadsheet. I know I can't do that with Google Docs, and I doubt LibreOffice could do it.
I have a feeling that the reason for the increasing tuition is similar to the increasing medical prices. You've got a service that most people can't afford. The people who can afford it have to subsidize the people who can't. Then the prices go up because there are more people who can't afford it, but as the price goes up, more people can't afford it. So then the price goes up again.
If you REALLY want to make yourself sick, check out the list of the largest endowment funds. http://www.statisticbrain.com/college-endowment-rankings/
The highest endowment to student ratio is Princeton University with $1,857,040 per enrolled student. That means, assuming a modest 4% return on your investment, that the college is making $74,000 in interest per student from their endowment fund. Yet the average tuition is $38,650. How stuff like that can continue, I have no clue.
Well, those forest fire towers went away a long time ago, in large part because 100% fire suppression turned out to be a bad idea.
Well, there goes plan B. That's the worst thing I've heard all year. I figured I could get a job watching for fires. Of course, I'd buy a laptop with a WLAN card and play _____. I mean, what percent of your brain does it really take to watch for fires?
There is no such thing as a free college education. Someone has to pay. We could make it cheaper by cutting expenses. Instead of fancy and ornate college campuses, we could build cinderblock boxes. Instead of trying the hire the best and brightest teachers, we could settle for whomever will work for cheap. I'm sure we could cut the costs down from 10k a year to 3-4k a year.
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It forces killers to have to reload more often...unless they can afford preban magazines, which will undoubtedly be more expensive. The market for high capacity mags has already shot sky high. You could have tripled your money in a week if you had the foresight to buy bulk quantities of magazines before the Sandy Hook incident.
the only solution is to wait two weeks or more until after a movie comes out to see it in an almost empty theater
In my neck of the woods, movie theaters have heavily discounted prices on Tuesday nights. You can see a 2D movie for $5. They do this because the theater gets very low traffic on Tuesday nights. I guess you could say that my frugal side has helped me avoid all of the issues people are mentioning. It's not uncommon to have one other couple in the theater with us. Especially if the movie has been out for a couple weeks. Ticket prices are normally $8.50 for an adult here, so saving $7 on a pair of tickets is great.
And you would lose. If a movie theater was doing this, you bet your ass that they would have the law on their side. As long as it's clearly communicated before the movie that the theater is a cell free zone, you'd have no recourse other than to go to a different theater or stay home.
Everyone will have some of THESE
Just when you thought they had already invented every phone accessory possible, the come up with special pants.
There are several programs that can be set to automate your phone like this. The problem is that location awareness isn't as good inside a movie theater as you might hope. For instance, I live about a half a mile away from the nearest megaplex. I setup a rule on my phone to turn off the ringer and wifi when the phone is at the address of the cinema. However, the rule kept triggering when I was sitting in my living room. Even if I didn't live so close, if I was shopping at the stores next door, my phone would be going to vibrate mode automatically. I've found that doing location based things only works well if your location isn't near anything else. For instance, I work in the middle of nowhere. I set a rule to turn off WiFi & bluetooth from 8am to 4:45pm when I'm at my work location. Works great to save battery. But for the movies, I still set it manually.
Here is my real life experiences. I'm currently working for state government. We get 13 sick days a year (4hrs a pay period), and we can bank those indefinitely. It's not uncommon for people to have +1000 hours of banked sick time, accumulated over +15 years of service. I'm constantly hearing coworkers making sarcastic comments to other coworkers about how they're not feeling well, and they probably wont be in tomorrow. Comments are complete with fake coughs. These same people are getting +4 weeks of vacation a year, but what's the point in having 1000 hours of sick time if you can't use it? So that's my public sector experience. My private sector experience started with getting 4 sick days a year (.333 days a month). Then, after getting a few promotions, my sick time was removed, and I was switched to a system where I had basically unlimited sick days, within reason. There was more or less an unspoken rule that if you used more than 6 days a year, they would start asking questions. Of course, if you had to be out for 2 weeks after a surgery, they would allow that with no questions asked.
In both situations, I don't feel like the company was evil. I feel like the State is waaayyy to giving, and with my private company, sick time (or lack thereof) was never an issue for me in the 7 years I worked there. It wasn't even an issue when I only had 4 sick days a year.
Beep wrong answer in America...
Most workplaces don't have paid sick leave. Honestly, it is what it is, and this what Americans want. Hence this is what America gets.
I call bull. Please provide citation. The first numbers I got when I Googled it show that 75% of full time workers have sick days. Most part time workers don't get sick days, but then I can't say I really disagree with that. Those numbers are from The Center For American Progress, which is a very liberal organization. In other words, if they are reporting that 75% of full time workers get paid sick time, it's very likely that the number is actually significantly higher than that.
At my last job, we didn't get sick days. If we were sick, we didn't go to work, and we still got paid. We just didn't have any given number of days. Of course, if they noticed that you were abusing the system, they may ask you to start bringing in Doctors notes.
It's only a problem for people with small pipes and/or bad water pressure in their homes. Most semi-modern homes don't have a problem.
I just pictured people robbing banks with those baby carrier things strapped to their chests. They'd be immune to all guns. It would be awesome...for criminals.
That's easy! Just make old style guns illegal. Have a system in place to get them retrofit with the new technology. I'm sure everyone would do it. I mean, if it was illegal not to, who would want to break the law?
Sometimes just having the guns is enough to let the people in charge know that they don't have supreme power.
Mainstream media has covered it, and they have all concluded that they don't exist. There was one media outlet that claimed they found traces of Barium in a bowl where the condensation had collected, but they later retracted the story because they had just misread their testing equipment. They had mistakenly thought it was parts per million, but it was actually reporting parts per billion.
You're actually suggesting slashdotters should read the article before commenting? What is wrong with you people!
I don't think it's wrong to suggest people read the article. I think it's wrong to expect people have read it. As articles go, this was quite a long one. I was as skeptical as anyone when I saw the article, but after reading it, I'm mildly convinced that the author is right. They did a ton of research, looked at multiple countries (with different timelines), looked at multiple occurrences of lead increases, and it all looks good.
Just cut his internet access off after 10pm...oh wait, he might try to drug you so he can get his internet on.
I can tell you that many of the best GPA students at my school were some of the dumbest in the class. They were good at regurgitating data, but their comprehension was horrible. That's why they scored low on tests that required logical analysis. They just couldn't take the leap from one thought to another.
It's like an old co-worker of mine that a week after passing his Network+ certification, he truthfully asked me what a router was. He had no clue. He was just good at memorizing questions, and he spent a few weeks memorizing a ton of practice tests. He gamed the system. I pity any one who hires him thinking that he has any of the skills he's certified for.
So as long as their intent wasn't evil, we shouldn't punish them? What if they had pulled out knives and killed the parents for the same reason. Should we take issue with that? Same intent of the child. If the local homeless shelter is going to shut down because of lack of funding, can I go rob a bank to give them money? If I get caught, will I go free? I mean, my intent was to help the homeless shelter provide beds and food for the homeless! I shouldn't be punished for that.
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! Sorry, with flying cars, roads would be a waste.
Apple didn't revolutionize the smartphone world, they refined it. They took what was already there and made it better. If you want to talk about who revolutionized the market, it was RIM with some help from Palm and MS.
I agree. Even a fully mechanized factory requires staff. You need people to fix the machines and to do quality assurance. Unfortunately, you can buy a lot of bowls of rice with the money it would require to replace one worker with a robot...
Sounds like a slippery slope to me. Once we have all of our youth on birth control, they would propbably require a license to have the process reversed. Then, we could put a requirement on getting the license. Maybe it could require a college degree. Maybe it could require having $__X___ in the bank. Maybe it could require land ownsership. Maybe it could require paying a baby tax. Or maybe we could require a couple years of service in the military.
I know that Word changes the formating a lot because it does it's best to display the text as it will print out. Most people don't realize that two different printers will often print slightly different. So a tiny difference in drivers can mean a page will be off from what you wanted it to be. It can be very frustrating if you do much sharing of documents and each team member has a different default printer.
Didn't anyone get the memo? The word processor is basically dead. Corporate America has replaced it with Outlook. Having said that, where I see more differentiation between Office and Google Docs is in the Excel product. I love using Excel. I love to manipulate numbers. Google Docs is very ackward to use in that way. LibreOffice can do a bit more than Google, but it's still nowhere close to Excel in features and power. All three are great for making a personal budget or tracking your expenses. I personally love Excel because I can manipulate it from vbscript. I can write scripts to collect a ton of data, organize it, manipulate it, format it, and then dump it into an excel spreadsheet. I know I can't do that with Google Docs, and I doubt LibreOffice could do it.
I have a feeling that the reason for the increasing tuition is similar to the increasing medical prices. You've got a service that most people can't afford. The people who can afford it have to subsidize the people who can't. Then the prices go up because there are more people who can't afford it, but as the price goes up, more people can't afford it. So then the price goes up again.
If you REALLY want to make yourself sick, check out the list of the largest endowment funds. http://www.statisticbrain.com/college-endowment-rankings/
The highest endowment to student ratio is Princeton University with $1,857,040 per enrolled student. That means, assuming a modest 4% return on your investment, that the college is making $74,000 in interest per student from their endowment fund. Yet the average tuition is $38,650. How stuff like that can continue, I have no clue.
Well, those forest fire towers went away a long time ago, in large part because 100% fire suppression turned out to be a bad idea.
Well, there goes plan B. That's the worst thing I've heard all year. I figured I could get a job watching for fires. Of course, I'd buy a laptop with a WLAN card and play _____. I mean, what percent of your brain does it really take to watch for fires?
I know this article is a little old, but it looks like GA is/was having a very hard time continuing the program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/us/07hope.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
There is no such thing as a free college education. Someone has to pay. We could make it cheaper by cutting expenses. Instead of fancy and ornate college campuses, we could build cinderblock boxes. Instead of trying the hire the best and brightest teachers, we could settle for whomever will work for cheap. I'm sure we could cut the costs down from 10k a year to 3-4k a year.