Employers don't want to say how many sick days you're allowed because people will treat them as extra vacation days and use them as such.
Not that there is anything wrong with taking a "mental health" day. Some places even... I don't want to say encourage, but they certainly don't have a problem with it.
Aren't in the US sick leaves taken from your holiday ?
Some do, some don't. Where I work, sick days and vacation days are lumped into a single bucket, though it didn't always used to be that way.
Actually, back when we had separate buckets, there was a policy in place that basically encouraged people to not stay home if sick. For every quarter that you did not call out sick, you got an extra vacation day. So you'd have people dutifully going into the office every day for three of the four quarters each year, and then using up all of their sick days in the last quarter in order to maximize their take.
Different service/insurance plans, different terms. Bestbuy's service plans, for example, are (or were back in early 2000 when I last made use of one) based on either replacing the product with an identical product, or if they no longer stock the product, store credit for the amount that you paid for the device. Meanwhile, if my car should end up totaled, my insurance company will only pay me what it is worth now, not how much I paid for it initially.
You mean the first scene in 2012? With Tom Hanks as some author, and he was at a party? Without giving away too much, I thought the other guy was also an author, not a critic.
Not much of a role? Jar-jar is the reason the senate voted emergency powers to the chancellor IIRC.
Back when Episode 1 was released on DVD, one of the behind the scenes things had George Lucas saying that "Jar-jar is the key to all this" or something like that. At the time, me and my friends laughed at that. But after seeing Revenge of the Sith...
If we told you we were sending you to Saturn and then stuffed you into an underground complex and simulated the ride, do you think you'd be able to tell the difference?
I think it's less about the physical journey from Earth to Saturn, and more about the.. life journey, for lack of a better phrase, of humanity as a species that would enable us to go there in the first place.
That's similar to what I've heard, which is that while the not-gasoline items have a higher per-unit profit value, gasoline is still where the majority of their income comes from simply due to the volume of gasoline being sold.
But I don't know if that is true or not, it is simply something I've heard.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by removing the influence of money. As far as I was aware, Steve Jobs simply put himself on multiple lists, he didn't bribe anyone to put himself higher up on a list.
Do you mean you wish to restrict the number of transplant lists a single person may be on at any given time?
You seem to be under the assumption that if we don't test specifically for Drug A, Drug B, Drug C, etc, we are somehow giving people permission to drive while impaired by those drugs. And I cannot see how that is the case. Can't cops still pull you over and charge you with "driving erratically" or whatever they call it when you can't stay in your lane, roll through stop signs, ignore traffic lights, etc?
However, there are lots of people that get PAID on Friday. Think about that.
I don't want to drop Saturday delivery either, but I'm afraid I don't see how this relates. Assuming three methods of being paid, direct deposit is not impacted, picking up your paycheck at your place of work on Friday is not impacted (since it was delivered on or before Friday), and receiving your paycheck in the mail on Friday is not impacted (since it is delivered on Friday). Maybe it's different where you live, but to me, saying that pay day is Friday means that is the day I get my pay.
Or are you thinking about what if there is a volume of mail that not all mail that can go out, does go out, and some paychecks end up not being delivered on time?
Usually just by pulling the plug on whatever machine is keeping them alive, right? Makes me wonder how much hunger (either of air or food) he and others like him are capable of feeling...
Personally, I'm having a hard time coming up with a reason why that would be a bad thing. A cop having an HUD* on his glasses which can pull up a person's info via face recognition (and display a picture on file so the cop knows it isn't a false positive)? Certainly sounds preferable to the current method of a cop relying on fuzzy memory for determining "I thought he looked like a perp I saw at the station".
I suppose one could argue that the face recognition software may be so good at picking out people in disguises, that cops start assuming that all false positives are just the software being better able at looking through disguises than they are.
*Adding an HUD was included with adding face recognition to the glasses, right? Why else would face recognition be added except to be used to provide information to the cop wearing the glasses?
Indeed it is, and for as long as I can remember, it's always been that way in Windows. I don't have such knowledge of Linux or Apple operating systems, but it was my understanding that they too have for a long while used base 2 for displaying file sizes. Only recently did Ubuntu switch to base 10 (actually, I thought it was Apple, but despite googling for a source, the only links I got back involved Ubuntu, which seems to have made the change from base 2 to base 10 with 10.10).
It eliminates the whole pound-of-gold-weighs-less-than-pound-of-feathers nonsense.
As far as I am aware, the only place that nonsense exists is in word play. IE, you are referring to the currency instead of the measurement of weight. And switching to metric wouldn't keep people from coming up with silly word play sentences. You say there is only one kind of metre, but meter is just as valid a spelling, and it is not limited to just one definition. I'll leave it to others to come up with silly word play sentences using meter, or any other unit of measurement in metric.
But that's not how it works with electricity. You're billed by how much electricity crosses the meter attached to your house. The cost of power lost in distribution is certainly passed on to the customers, but it's not passed along as metered usage.
I'm not quite sure about that. I don't know how your power bill reads, but on mine, while I do have a few fixed charges, most are based on my metered usage. One such usage-based charge is listed as a "delivery service" charge, which among all the other charges, seems the most likely place to bill me for the cost of power lost in distribution.
So if ATT wants to directly count the inefficiencies of their network against customer usage, there certainly seems to be precedent for it in gas and electric. They just need to break it out into a "what you used" charge and a "how much we suck" charge.;)
But I think we may be getting off track a little, since the problem isn't so much that ATT is billing its customers for inefficiencies in the system, but rather the problem seems to be that the inefficiencies in the system count towards some cut-you-off number.
Is this anything like all the people who wanted a non-UMD version of the PSP, and eventually got it in the PSPgo, which promptly fell flat on its face due to lack of actual interest?
Isn't that like saying people don't actually want a fuel-efficient vehicle because no one was buying one particular vehicle because of all its other flaws. I can only speak for myself, but while the PSPgo is a non-UMD PSP, the design of it makes it uncomfortable to play PSP games. Plus, I think it'd be more accurate to say that people wanted a PSP where the limitations/flaws of UMDs did not impact using the PSP, which does not necessarily translate into "remove the UMD bay". Thankfully, there is custom firmware to give us what we actually wanted.;)
But to get back on topic, I too am curious about who actually wanted to play PSP games with a touch screen. Maybe such people actually meant "able to play touch-based games on the PSP" instead of "able to play the existing library of games with a touch screen"?
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Anyone happen to know what the first week sales were for the Android and iOS versions? TFA seems to be lacking in this detail.
Employers don't want to say how many sick days you're allowed because people will treat them as extra vacation days and use them as such.
Not that there is anything wrong with taking a "mental health" day. Some places even... I don't want to say encourage, but they certainly don't have a problem with it.
sales people can't sell from home either
I think the fact that telemarketing is still a business (dunno how thriving it is, but it still exists) says otherwise.
Aren't in the US sick leaves taken from your holiday ?
Some do, some don't. Where I work, sick days and vacation days are lumped into a single bucket, though it didn't always used to be that way.
Actually, back when we had separate buckets, there was a policy in place that basically encouraged people to not stay home if sick. For every quarter that you did not call out sick, you got an extra vacation day. So you'd have people dutifully going into the office every day for three of the four quarters each year, and then using up all of their sick days in the last quarter in order to maximize their take.
Which do you want to do that travelling, a 33hp engine or a 500hp engine?
Based on a very cursory google, the 33HP engine actually. 500HP on a motorcycle seems like it'd be rather dangerous.
Hardware can help define an experience, ignoring that is foolish.
And there is more to hardware than just the engine/CPU.
Different service/insurance plans, different terms. Bestbuy's service plans, for example, are (or were back in early 2000 when I last made use of one) based on either replacing the product with an identical product, or if they no longer stock the product, store credit for the amount that you paid for the device. Meanwhile, if my car should end up totaled, my insurance company will only pay me what it is worth now, not how much I paid for it initially.
Um..
Heterosexual == straight.
Homosexual == gay.
You mean the first scene in 2012? With Tom Hanks as some author, and he was at a party? Without giving away too much, I thought the other guy was also an author, not a critic.
Not much of a role? Jar-jar is the reason the senate voted emergency powers to the chancellor IIRC.
Back when Episode 1 was released on DVD, one of the behind the scenes things had George Lucas saying that "Jar-jar is the key to all this" or something like that. At the time, me and my friends laughed at that. But after seeing Revenge of the Sith...
If we told you we were sending you to Saturn and then stuffed you into an underground complex and simulated the ride, do you think you'd be able to tell the difference?
I think it's less about the physical journey from Earth to Saturn, and more about the.. life journey, for lack of a better phrase, of humanity as a species that would enable us to go there in the first place.
That's similar to what I've heard, which is that while the not-gasoline items have a higher per-unit profit value, gasoline is still where the majority of their income comes from simply due to the volume of gasoline being sold.
But I don't know if that is true or not, it is simply something I've heard.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by removing the influence of money. As far as I was aware, Steve Jobs simply put himself on multiple lists, he didn't bribe anyone to put himself higher up on a list.
Do you mean you wish to restrict the number of transplant lists a single person may be on at any given time?
What do brain slugs have to do with removing domain squatters?
Problem solved?
Yes actually.
You seem to be under the assumption that if we don't test specifically for Drug A, Drug B, Drug C, etc, we are somehow giving people permission to drive while impaired by those drugs. And I cannot see how that is the case. Can't cops still pull you over and charge you with "driving erratically" or whatever they call it when you can't stay in your lane, roll through stop signs, ignore traffic lights, etc?
However, there are lots of people that get PAID on Friday. Think about that.
I don't want to drop Saturday delivery either, but I'm afraid I don't see how this relates. Assuming three methods of being paid, direct deposit is not impacted, picking up your paycheck at your place of work on Friday is not impacted (since it was delivered on or before Friday), and receiving your paycheck in the mail on Friday is not impacted (since it is delivered on Friday). Maybe it's different where you live, but to me, saying that pay day is Friday means that is the day I get my pay.
Or are you thinking about what if there is a volume of mail that not all mail that can go out, does go out, and some paychecks end up not being delivered on time?
Drivers buy their own gas
Not always. I don't know if this is on a store-by-store basis or what, but my brother who works for Dominos is reimbursed* for his gas.
*Setting aside the semantics of paying up front vs paying after the fact.
Why are you calling the GP "food"?
Maybe helix2301 is a cannibal?
Usually just by pulling the plug on whatever machine is keeping them alive, right? Makes me wonder how much hunger (either of air or food) he and others like him are capable of feeling...
our system finds the least thinking of our citizens and hires THEM for jury duty.
Personally, I feel the blame lies more with the idiots who find reasons to avoid jury duty simply because they don't want to do it.
Or was that just another way of saying that juries are full of people too stupid to figure out how to avoid jury duty?
Personally, I'm having a hard time coming up with a reason why that would be a bad thing. A cop having an HUD* on his glasses which can pull up a person's info via face recognition (and display a picture on file so the cop knows it isn't a false positive)? Certainly sounds preferable to the current method of a cop relying on fuzzy memory for determining "I thought he looked like a perp I saw at the station".
I suppose one could argue that the face recognition software may be so good at picking out people in disguises, that cops start assuming that all false positives are just the software being better able at looking through disguises than they are.
*Adding an HUD was included with adding face recognition to the glasses, right? Why else would face recognition be added except to be used to provide information to the cop wearing the glasses?
Indeed it is, and for as long as I can remember, it's always been that way in Windows. I don't have such knowledge of Linux or Apple operating systems, but it was my understanding that they too have for a long while used base 2 for displaying file sizes. Only recently did Ubuntu switch to base 10 (actually, I thought it was Apple, but despite googling for a source, the only links I got back involved Ubuntu, which seems to have made the change from base 2 to base 10 with 10.10).
everything else is still powers of 10.
The files stored on said HDD aren't.
It eliminates the whole pound-of-gold-weighs-less-than-pound-of-feathers nonsense.
As far as I am aware, the only place that nonsense exists is in word play. IE, you are referring to the currency instead of the measurement of weight. And switching to metric wouldn't keep people from coming up with silly word play sentences. You say there is only one kind of metre, but meter is just as valid a spelling, and it is not limited to just one definition. I'll leave it to others to come up with silly word play sentences using meter, or any other unit of measurement in metric.
But that's not how it works with electricity. You're billed by how much electricity crosses the meter attached to your house. The cost of power lost in distribution is certainly passed on to the customers, but it's not passed along as metered usage.
I'm not quite sure about that. I don't know how your power bill reads, but on mine, while I do have a few fixed charges, most are based on my metered usage. One such usage-based charge is listed as a "delivery service" charge, which among all the other charges, seems the most likely place to bill me for the cost of power lost in distribution.
;)
So if ATT wants to directly count the inefficiencies of their network against customer usage, there certainly seems to be precedent for it in gas and electric. They just need to break it out into a "what you used" charge and a "how much we suck" charge.
But I think we may be getting off track a little, since the problem isn't so much that ATT is billing its customers for inefficiencies in the system, but rather the problem seems to be that the inefficiencies in the system count towards some cut-you-off number.
Is this anything like all the people who wanted a non-UMD version of the PSP, and eventually got it in the PSPgo, which promptly fell flat on its face due to lack of actual interest?
Isn't that like saying people don't actually want a fuel-efficient vehicle because no one was buying one particular vehicle because of all its other flaws. I can only speak for myself, but while the PSPgo is a non-UMD PSP, the design of it makes it uncomfortable to play PSP games. Plus, I think it'd be more accurate to say that people wanted a PSP where the limitations/flaws of UMDs did not impact using the PSP, which does not necessarily translate into "remove the UMD bay". Thankfully, there is custom firmware to give us what we actually wanted. ;)
But to get back on topic, I too am curious about who actually wanted to play PSP games with a touch screen. Maybe such people actually meant "able to play touch-based games on the PSP" instead of "able to play the existing library of games with a touch screen"?