If nothing else, it makes a better launch point for larger scale missions because it requires less fuel to take off from the moon than it does from Earth.
Of course, this does presume that it is possible to process the raw resources already available on the moon to create more rocket fuel, and I'm not sure if that's workable.
We know how to get back... It's just (still) bloody expensive, and for little to no objectively measurable gain in the short term. Certainly not within any time span short enough to fit within a single presidential term.
The magnetic docking would be a nice-to-have for when the earpiece is not being used, but it is conveniently available whenever needed, and by virtue of its physical contact would be less likely to get lost,
... make one that magnetically docks onto the phone (ergonomically, not like the Apple Pencil shit that sticks out of the device by several inches), and which charges whenever the phone itself is being charged so that I never have to worry about charging the earpiece separately.
...as big a deal to me as removing the ability to charge and listen at the same time without needing another dongle or special splitter. I have an iphone6+ at the moment, but it is the last iPhone I will ever own because of Apples decision to remove the jack entirely from their later phones. My next phone, which I will probably get in a few months or so, will definitely be an android, but hearing this news, I guess it won't be one made by Google
Or you can always open search result clicks in a new tab or window, and never worry about what the destination site will do to your history.
I don't contest that it's bad, but you can still mitigate it easily. Personally, I generally prefer opening things in a new window when I know i am going to another website.
I think the idea would be that nobody would control them... they would deterministically respond to any situations that warranted action occurring in the immediate vicinity.
The question really would be who controls the placement of these guns.
I'm just curious why the hardware needs to be open source for you to tinker with it. If you aren't planning on making contributions to the hardware design (which doesn't sound like "tinkering" to me), and if you aren't going to base products on it that you are going to sell or distribute, then I don't see why it needs to be open source
This is just a guess, but offhand, I'd say it's because being open source suggests the details of its design are readily available to anyone who wants to see them, which is ideal for learning something from scratch.
The problem is that your solution only works for strict protected rights, not for contract disputes which don't fall under the cover of "breaking the law"
I never once attempted to suggest that it could. I even explicitly said precisely what I was talking about.
Noting that what you think is a problem with my solution being that it only works for the what I said it would solve in the first place isn't really noticing any problem at all. All of the rights that were mentioned above are those that *are* protected by law, so that's why I brought the matter up. Obviously if there were issues that don't have strict legal protection, an employee is on their own in that regard, but that wouldn't be the case with any of the above mentioned matters.
Such a contract could at most only prohibit you from suing them directly, it does not (and can not) prohibit you from reporting a complaint to a government authority for violations of regional labour standards. Presumably, the (not small) fines they would receive for doing so will be a disincentive for them to do it in the first place. If you are legitimately owed money because of unpaid overtime, for example, then you would receive it, because the company will have the employment standards agency on their case until they do.
As far as signing away your rights, Mandatory Binding Arbitration does allow for some very bad things IF you directly try to sue for stuff like unpaid wages
Which is why you don't bother trying to sue them at all... as I said, you would file a complaint against them with labour services branch of the government, and *THEY* would take them to court, requiring the employer to pay out *ALL* of their employees for any unpaid wages (in addition to the nasty fine they would incur for breaking the law in the first place).
My point is that for a dispute with your employer when they are breaking the law, you don't bother going to court at all, you just file the complaint with the employment services office, provide whatever documentation you can provide as evidence (which they may or may not actually need, but every bit of proof helps), and let them do all of the legwork. You don't even have to quit or leave your job or anything, and the employer is never told who field the complaint (although depending on the circumstances, they may be able to deduce it). If the employer is found to be actually breaking the law, and the employer *does* figure out which employee filed the complaint, they could find it to be exceptionally difficult to get away with firing that person in retaliation. There are laws that prohibit employers from dismissing an employee for reporting unfair business practices, so an employer that tries this would get hit with an additional penalty.
Once signed, the agreement strips the employee of the right to take her employer to court for unfairly low pay, termination because of pregnancy, race-based discrimination, loss of paternity or maternity leave, and much more.
I was unaware that you could sign anything that would allow somebody else to break the law.
Don't bother going to court... just file a complaint with regional employment services and let them do all of that for you.
One of my kids did this once, when an employer he had at the time wasn't paying fair wages (he was effectively making people work for about half to three-quarters of what minimum wage was). It took my son a while to get up the courage to do this, and a fair amount of prodding from my wife and myself, because he was really afraid of losing his job, but after he did, things improved a lot where he worked within just a couple of months. Additionally, he received a whole ton of back pay that he was entitled to from the previous year and a half, going back to when he started working there. Also, it's my understanding that the employer did not know which employee had field the complaint with the government.
While it's true that Ikea sells a lot of particle board stuff, it's not remotely difficult to find actual wood furniture at Ikea as well. It usually costs more than the particle board or metal stuff, but even that is still often cheaper than buying something from elsewhere that looks just as good.
I can count on exactly one finger the number of times a piece of Ikea furniture has broken on me... it was years after I had bought it, and it got damaged during a move. I was able to get the necessary parts to replace it from Ikea for just a few bucks.
I have several Leksvik pieces as well... they are some of the nicest furniture elements that I own. I was very upset to discovery that Ikea has apparently dscontinued the line.
I'm somewhat surprised by this article, as every Ikea store I've shopped at (4 stores, all different cities) has a service that you can pay for to get someone to come to your home and assemble the furniture. I had no idea it was not a standard thing that was done everywhere, and must apparently just be a service offered by the Ikea stores that I happen to have shopped at.
I've never paid for the service, but it's my understanding that if they fail to build it correctly, or damage it during assembly, they will replace it.
Given that Ikea instructions don't typically have any words (other than the name of the product, and maybe some boilerplate text at the beginning), but the instructions themselves are usually just numbered diagrams, I'm wondering if what you got was not actually Ikea furniture at all.
If you can't (even temporarily) spare the no more than 40 square feet or so of cleared floor space to build it, you probably don't have room for it when its finished anyways.
I've assembled a few pieces of Ikea furniture in my lifetime and I've never found the task to be particularly difficult. Time consuming, yes... but not hard.
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If nothing else, it makes a better launch point for larger scale missions because it requires less fuel to take off from the moon than it does from Earth.
Of course, this does presume that it is possible to process the raw resources already available on the moon to create more rocket fuel, and I'm not sure if that's workable.
We know how to get back... It's just (still) bloody expensive, and for little to no objectively measurable gain in the short term. Certainly not within any time span short enough to fit within a single presidential term.
Not so much below the limit that is safe for the bees, hmm?
The magnetic docking would be a nice-to-have for when the earpiece is not being used, but it is conveniently available whenever needed, and by virtue of its physical contact would be less likely to get lost,
... make one that magnetically docks onto the phone (ergonomically, not like the Apple Pencil shit that sticks out of the device by several inches), and which charges whenever the phone itself is being charged so that I never have to worry about charging the earpiece separately.
Sure, but then that's another device you have to charge up in order to use.
Also, with earbuds especially, that "leash" comes in handy at saving them from getting lost if one should fall out of your ear.
...as big a deal to me as removing the ability to charge and listen at the same time without needing another dongle or special splitter. I have an iphone6+ at the moment, but it is the last iPhone I will ever own because of Apples decision to remove the jack entirely from their later phones. My next phone, which I will probably get in a few months or so, will definitely be an android, but hearing this news, I guess it won't be one made by Google
Or you can always open search result clicks in a new tab or window, and never worry about what the destination site will do to your history.
I don't contest that it's bad, but you can still mitigate it easily. Personally, I generally prefer opening things in a new window when I know i am going to another website.
Heh... I was looking to say something similar when I saw the above comment. Looks like I'm not the only one who feels that way.
Don't be ridiculous.... they'd run out of ammunition.
I think the idea would be that nobody would control them... they would deterministically respond to any situations that warranted action occurring in the immediate vicinity.
The question really would be who controls the placement of these guns.
This is just a guess, but offhand, I'd say it's because being open source suggests the details of its design are readily available to anyone who wants to see them, which is ideal for learning something from scratch.
Two words:
Confirmation bias.
I never once attempted to suggest that it could. I even explicitly said precisely what I was talking about.
Noting that what you think is a problem with my solution being that it only works for the what I said it would solve in the first place isn't really noticing any problem at all. All of the rights that were mentioned above are those that *are* protected by law, so that's why I brought the matter up. Obviously if there were issues that don't have strict legal protection, an employee is on their own in that regard, but that wouldn't be the case with any of the above mentioned matters.
Such a contract could at most only prohibit you from suing them directly, it does not (and can not) prohibit you from reporting a complaint to a government authority for violations of regional labour standards. Presumably, the (not small) fines they would receive for doing so will be a disincentive for them to do it in the first place. If you are legitimately owed money because of unpaid overtime, for example, then you would receive it, because the company will have the employment standards agency on their case until they do.
Which is why you don't bother trying to sue them at all... as I said, you would file a complaint against them with labour services branch of the government, and *THEY* would take them to court, requiring the employer to pay out *ALL* of their employees for any unpaid wages (in addition to the nasty fine they would incur for breaking the law in the first place).
My point is that for a dispute with your employer when they are breaking the law, you don't bother going to court at all, you just file the complaint with the employment services office, provide whatever documentation you can provide as evidence (which they may or may not actually need, but every bit of proof helps), and let them do all of the legwork. You don't even have to quit or leave your job or anything, and the employer is never told who field the complaint (although depending on the circumstances, they may be able to deduce it). If the employer is found to be actually breaking the law, and the employer *does* figure out which employee filed the complaint, they could find it to be exceptionally difficult to get away with firing that person in retaliation. There are laws that prohibit employers from dismissing an employee for reporting unfair business practices, so an employer that tries this would get hit with an additional penalty.
Perhaps I should have been more specific.
I was unaware that you could sign anything that allow somebody to exploit you illegally.
I was unaware that you could sign anything that would allow somebody else to break the law.
Don't bother going to court... just file a complaint with regional employment services and let them do all of that for you.
One of my kids did this once, when an employer he had at the time wasn't paying fair wages (he was effectively making people work for about half to three-quarters of what minimum wage was). It took my son a while to get up the courage to do this, and a fair amount of prodding from my wife and myself, because he was really afraid of losing his job, but after he did, things improved a lot where he worked within just a couple of months. Additionally, he received a whole ton of back pay that he was entitled to from the previous year and a half, going back to when he started working there. Also, it's my understanding that the employer did not know which employee had field the complaint with the government.
While it's true that Ikea sells a lot of particle board stuff, it's not remotely difficult to find actual wood furniture at Ikea as well. It usually costs more than the particle board or metal stuff, but even that is still often cheaper than buying something from elsewhere that looks just as good.
I can count on exactly one finger the number of times a piece of Ikea furniture has broken on me... it was years after I had bought it, and it got damaged during a move. I was able to get the necessary parts to replace it from Ikea for just a few bucks.
I have several Leksvik pieces as well... they are some of the nicest furniture elements that I own. I was very upset to discovery that Ikea has apparently dscontinued the line.
I'm somewhat surprised by this article, as every Ikea store I've shopped at (4 stores, all different cities) has a service that you can pay for to get someone to come to your home and assemble the furniture. I had no idea it was not a standard thing that was done everywhere, and must apparently just be a service offered by the Ikea stores that I happen to have shopped at.
I've never paid for the service, but it's my understanding that if they fail to build it correctly, or damage it during assembly, they will replace it.
Given that Ikea instructions don't typically have any words (other than the name of the product, and maybe some boilerplate text at the beginning), but the instructions themselves are usually just numbered diagrams, I'm wondering if what you got was not actually Ikea furniture at all.
If you can't (even temporarily) spare the no more than 40 square feet or so of cleared floor space to build it, you probably don't have room for it when its finished anyways.
I've assembled a few pieces of Ikea furniture in my lifetime and I've never found the task to be particularly difficult. Time consuming, yes... but not hard.
Ikea offers this service already, by the way.